Chapter 127: Watching the Fun
Chapter 127: Watching the Fun
The next day, An Xueyan did not go out to play. She prepared all the necessary medicinal materials at home and started making medicine. She didn't give Uncle Gu much last time, so she planned to make more this time.
So there are quite a few medicinal materials that need to be processed. She has stockpiled quite a few of them in her small pharmacy. After counting, she found that the quantity is enough.
"Brother, Brother Jinbao, grind these herbs into powder."
"Auntie, Sister Dongmei, weigh all these according to the kilograms listed here."
Knowing that she was going to start making medicine, others came to help, and An Xueyan did not hesitate to let everyone work together.
"Yan Yan, what should I do?" An Qiuxiang asked.
An Xueyan looked around and saw that there didn't seem to be anything she could do, so she said, "I need to go get a medicinal herb from Doctor Huang. I don't have enough here. Sister Qiuxiang, please come with me."
"Okay, let's go!" An Qiuxiang was also happy to go out with her cousin.
"Sister, be careful on the road." The brother who is obsessed with his sister warned.
"Yeah, we'll be back soon." After saying that, An Xueyan followed her cousin to the health center.
On the road, I met Aunt Mancang who was walking hurriedly with a gossipy look on her face.
"Auntie, where are you going?" An Xueyan asked.
Aunt Mancang saw that it was An Xueyan, who had followed her to watch the fun. She thought she was now a teammate. She smiled and said, "It's Yan girl. I heard that your Aunt Lanhua brought people to the educated youth station and asked Wang Zhiqing to give an explanation."
"What explanation do you want?" Could it be that he was secretly having a baby with An Cuihua?
She thought so in her heart but she was still a child and couldn't say it out loud.
"I don't know either. We should go and see it quickly. Do you want to go?" Aunt Mancang was anxious to watch the fun, and she also invited An Xueyan and the others before leaving.
"Go!" An Xueyan said without hesitation.
"Let's go!" An Qiuxiang also likes to watch the fun and will not miss it.
So the three of them trotted over to the educated youth site, and when they arrived there, there was a crowd of people watching.
As soon as Aunt Mancang arrived, she found someone she knew to inquire about the situation. An Xueyan saw Sister Huahua, so she went to Zhou Huahua with her cousin.
"Sister Huahua, what's going on?" Zhou Huahua, who had first-hand information, asked curiously.
"Aunt Lanhua suddenly brought her family to find Wang Zhiqing and told him that he had ruined Cuihua's reputation and that he had to take responsibility, otherwise they would sue him for being a hooligan."
"Did they kiss?" asked the innocent An Qiuxiang.
Zhou Huahua blushed. She was a grown-up girl who knew a little bit, but she still felt embarrassed when she heard this.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, she whispered, "I haven't heard anything about it. It's just that Wang Zhiqing was injured a while ago. Cuihua came to take care of him during the day. Now someone in the brigade spread the rumor that Cuihua wiped Wang Zhiqing's body. If she doesn't marry Wang Zhiqing in the future, no one will marry her."
An Xueyan understood that An Cuihua's reputation in the brigade was ruined. Her family probably thought it would be better to tie up Wang Daodong, an educated youth from the city, so that they could maybe become city dwellers in the future.
In the yard of the educated youth center, Wang Daodong looked at An Cuihua's family with a grim face.
He clenched his fists and said in a firm voice, "I repeat, I have never had any close contact with Comrade An Cuihua. I will never marry her just because of unfounded rumors.
If you don’t want to, go ahead and sue me. At worst, you can just arrest me.”
An Cuihua looked heartbroken behind her mother. She probably didn't expect that even after doing so much, Wang Zhiqing was still unwilling to marry her.
Seeing that this man didn't want to take responsibility, Aunt Lanhua's two sons went up to beat Wang Zhiqing.
Wang Zhiqing wasn't a quick-witted person. Seeing someone was about to hit him, he immediately shouted, "If you dare to lay a finger on me, I'll report you to the police station. Hitting someone is also illegal, and you'll have to spend a few days in jail."
Aunt Lanhua's two daughters-in-law were frightened by these words and hurried out to hold their husbands. If they were taken to the police station, what would happen to their family in the future?
"Will you get arrested for hitting someone?" An Qiuxiang asked in confusion.
An Xueyan didn't know much about the criminal law of that era, so she said uncertainly, "No way. As long as it's not serious, the main thing is to mediate. Wang Zhiqing should be scaring them."
Regardless of whether it is true or not, Aunt Lanhua's family is now afraid to fight, and Wang Zhiqing is just a piece of shit when they try to reason with him.
Today the team leader went to the commune for a meeting. Finally, the team secretary came over slowly and asked the reason.
Said: "Cuihua, do you have any relationship with this Wang Zhiqing? Tell me yourself."
An Cuihua, who was suddenly called out, hesitated: "I..."
He raised his head to look at his family, then looked at Wang Zhiqing, who had a cold face across from him, and the light in his eyes dimmed.
Aunt Lanhua winked at her daughter and said, "What do you mean by 'you'? You don't even know whether there is one or not. Just tell the truth."
The branch secretary directly said that there was a connection here, and he didn't believe that Mr. Wang would dare to object.
An Cuihua saw the look in her mother's eyes and said with red eyes: "It's okay, I felt sorry for him because he was injured, so I helped him by bringing him some food and pouring some water."
Aunt Lanhua couldn't help but pinch her daughter's lower back. Isn't this stupid? How could she give birth to such a stupid daughter?
Wang Zhiqing secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said to Secretary Li, "Secretary, you heard it too. There's really nothing between her and me. If someone like that were to marry me, then I'd have so many people to marry."
Secretary Li nodded and said to Aunt Lanhua and the others, "Since it's just a misunderstanding, just talk it out. An Gui's family, you guys didn't ask for details and just believed everything you heard. If you take everything you hear seriously, you won't be able to live like this in the future. Think carefully before you act."
Aunt Lanhua wanted to speak: "Secretary..."
But the branch secretary interrupted him directly, saying, "Alright, you guys go back now and don't cause trouble at the educated youth camp. If you continue to cause trouble, I'll dig a canal for you."
Aunt Lanhua shut up now. She didn't want to send her sons to dig canals. It was cold and tiring and could kill people.
"And Wang Zhiqing, you're also wrong. Since you have no relationship with Comrade An Cuihua, you should have taken the initiative to refuse and keep your distance.
You educated youth who have come from the city to the countryside have to adapt to rural customs. A girl's reputation is very important in the countryside.
It's different from your city. Rumors can cost someone's life if you're not careful, so you have to be careful. I don't want this to happen again."
Then he said to the person in charge of the educated youth center: "Zhang Zhiqing, you are the person in charge of the educated youth center. You must also be responsible for controlling the people in the educated youth center. Don't provoke or care about the young men and women in the village.
If you want to date someone, be honest and open. If you don't want to date someone, don't try to flirt with me. We in Hulin Brigade don't bully educated youth, but we won't let anyone mistreat us either."
After saying this, he looked around at the people at the educated youth site before looking away.
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