Chapter 6: Private

At two o’clock in the afternoon, Bai Zhengqian took the helm of the village meeting.  

“Dear folks and comrades, I’ve summoned everyone here today for two reasons. The first is the establishment of modern philosophical construction in our village.There has recently been some exhaustion. This is not sufficient. Everyone, don’t expect our village to be slack after it is designated as Wenming Village (civilized village). “

The original intention of Bai Zhengqian was to criticize “certain people” without naming them.

Jia Xiaohong, the female educated youth sitting in the audience, was furious. She couldn’t understand Jiang Hongzhi’s bias towards Yan Naqian, devising a method of sharing work points that was equivalent to allowing all the educated youths in the station to support the lazy and squeamish Yan Naqian, but her protest at the educated youth station today failed to reach a consensus.

After all, male-educated youth outnumber female-educated youth in Ruyi Village. Almost all of the young men have a favorable impression of the lovely Yan Naqian. They believe Yan Naqian, who is both attractive and coquettish, works no more than ten days per month, which is not a big deal at all.  

After all, there are more male-educated youths. Almost all of the young men have a favorable impression of the lovely Yan Naqian. They believe Yan Naqian, who is both attractive and coquettish, works no more than ten days per month, which is not a big deal at all.  

At this point, Jia Xiaohong couldn’t hold her breath, so she stared at Song Zhi for a long time and spoke enthusiastically, “Uncle Party Secretary, I believe our village has always been pretty good, except today… a new educated youth arrived in the village today and didn’t say anything. He beat us up. Can we ask this new comrade why you’re beating us? “

This is a knowing question.

Yan Naqian sat in the corner, biting her lower lip and glaring angrily at Jia Xiaohong.

Song Zhi had everyone’s attention.

Song Zhi stated truthfully, “Today I came to the village to report. When I arrived at the educated youth station, I heard a female comrade pleading for help, and then I saw an old man doing bad things. I dragged the old man out of the house, and he started beating me. I couldn’t avoid it, so I fought back. The educated youths who returned from work attacked me, claiming that I had hit the old man. “

“Then, what is the old man doing badly?” Jia Xiaohong asked loudly, looking at Yan Naqian, who was shrinking in the crowd. “He is bullying a young woman,” Song Zhi said after a long silence.

“Wow” —  

The scene instantly exploded!  

“The old man who bullied young girls?”  

“If it’s not Bai Shi Keng, then who? ”  

“Capture him! Otherwise, the women in the village will suffer! ”  

“Who did he bully this time?”  

“Since he is bullying people at the educated youth station, I’m afraid it’s one of those female educated youths!”  

Jia Xiaohong asked loudly, “Comrade, may I ask… which girl was he bullying?”

Song Zhi stated, “I don’t know who she was. I couldn’t see what she looked like because the light inside was quite dim.

Bai Taotao approached Yan Naqian at this point, took her hand, and dragged her forward.

 
Yan Naqian was taken aback, desperately pleading, “Taotao! Bai Taotao, what are you doing?”

Bai Taotao dragged Yan Naqian to Bai Zhengqian without responding.

Bai Zhengqian added, “Don’t cause trouble, Taotao, just have fun! “

Yan Naqian became aware of something, her face paled, and she said anxiously to Bai Taotao, “Taotao, Taotao, let’s go back, let’s not be here…”

“Dad, my eldest sister taught me that if someone asked me where I went, let me say that I went to the educatedyouth station!” Bai Taotao said word by word. ” If you asked me what Bai Shi Keng was doing, let me tell you, Bai Shi Keng offered me a candy, wanted to kiss me, and asked me to say that I agreed!”

The whole audience was silent.

Everyone’s eyes focused on Yan Naqian.

Everyone in the village knows that Taotao is a little fool who doesn’t know what a lie is. So Yan Naqian was the one who taught Taotao to say that? Yan Naqian is the girl who was bullied by the old man.

Yan Naqian was too embarrassed, her face flushed, and she was on the verge of crying.

Someone yelled, “Fart! I’m not that kind of person!”

This person is Bai Shi Keng.

The surname Bai is used by the majority of people in Ruyi Village, and Bai Shikeng is also surnamed Bai, whose given name is Shikeng. Bai Shikeng is Bai Taotao’s grandfather, according to seniority.

This person is constantly sneaking around and harassing women, but he never moves his family.

Bai Shikeng exclaimed loudly, “I, Bai Shikeng, have a few words for you. I went to the educated youth station today. I wanted to see if I could get along with them at first. As a result, something didn’t happen, instead, I saw that in the men’s dormitory, the little girl, Yan Naqian, was lying barely dressed on the bed. I went over and touched her forehead because I was afraid she would be uncomfortable. So I went over and touched her. I only touched her forehead. Don’t laugh! Don’t laugh! I’m afraid she has a fever! Really? ” 

The men and women had already burst into laughter.

Yan Naqian was shaky.

Bai Shi Keng went on to say: “… and then there was a child who appeared out of nowhere. He dragged me out of the house like a chicken and threw me on the concrete floor outside. My old man’s waist is broken! I tell you that you must serve and compensate me. I won’t be able to stand up from now on. Every day, I have to lie in bed and eat chicken soup…”

The rogue phase appeared out of nowhere.

Bai Dongsheng’s eyes were red, his big fan-like hands clenched into fists the size of a casserole, and he asked Bai Shiken viciously, “…Did you touch my Taotao?”

Bai Shikeng was terrified and trembled all over, desperately shaking his head, “I’m not a beast! Taotao is my granddaughter’s generation, and no matter how bad my character is, I will not be like this, not at all.”

The woman sitting next to him persuaded him,

“Don’t worry, Dongsheng, Taotao did not leave the house in the morning, because we can testify! “

“You’ve heard of Shi Keng. You don’t care about him. No matter how bad he is, he will not dare touch our Bai family. “

“Dongsheng, don’t get caught up in other people’s schemes. Taotao is a child. She has no idea who Shi Keng is. Only foreigners are capable of teaching her in this way. Our family members address people based on their seniority! “

Bai Taotao had no idea before, but now she does. But, still staring with her incomparable clear eyes, she shook her head, thought for a moment, and asked, “Auntie, what do you mean by kissing?”

The pan was blown up yet again!

Despite the fact that Bai Taotao is seventeen, she is regarded as a four-or five-year-old child in the village. When the women saw such a clear and pure child saying such a thing, they became enraged and rushed to coax Bai Taotao one after the other.

“Taotao, be good, we don’t listen to those vile words, it’s bad to hear them. “

“You are also not allowed to talk about it in the future. It’s a bad mouth.”

“Taotao, don’t play with Yan Naqian in the future, she is not a good thing!”

“Come on, Taotao, we eat peanuts and ignore those self-centered people!”

Bai Shi Keng, over there, was terrified of the enraged Bai Dongsheng. He knelt and swore to the heavens, “Dongsheng, trust me when I say I didn’t see Taotao this morning. If I see her in the morning, no, if I touch her, I’ll be struck by lightning and no one will come to collect my body! “

For the longest time, Bai Shi Keng  has had no father, mother, brothers, sisters, wife, or children. His birth, old age, sickness, and death are all dependent on the Bai clan’s support, so even if bad things were absolutely done, he would never harm his family.

Furthermore, his grandparents and parents would rather be tortured aliveby the Japanese than open their mouths to protect the villagers and food before liberation. As a result of his orphanage, the villagers of Ruyi Village had a particularly high tolerance for him.

Most villagers believed him after hearing him swear such a heavy oath, and they persuaded— 

“Oh, that’s right! He’s old, he can’t bepunished! Let him serve his time in prison and pay for it. It’s cheaper for him!” 

Yes! I’d like to inform you that Yan Zhiqing herself has a problem. Even if she doesn’t go to work and spends the day sleeping in the home of a male educated youth, why not dress up? Didn’t she realize the “educated youth station” was a dormitory? How dare she come and go? “

“The point is, she sleeps naked on the bed of a male educated youth! Shikang just touched her to see if she was sick. It’s excusable!”

“That’s right! Anyway, as a vent for the educated Yan, the new educated youth also beat Shi Kang! “

“In your eyes, a girl’s reputation is just that worthless”, Yan Naqian sobbed, her tears pouring.

Aunt Taotao gave Yan Naqian a blank stare. “What reputation do you have? Is it the reputation for sleeping naked in a male-educated youth dormitory Planting and framing the Taotao’s reputation? You’re lucky that Mom Tao isn’t here today! If Mom Tao was here and knew you had harmed her little Taotao in this way, I tell you, you’d be dead!”

Yan Naqian bit her lower lip, her face pale.

The village chief and Bai Zhengqian talked quietly for a while before reaching an agreement.

“Everyone is quiet!” exclaimed the village chief.

The people who had been fried like a pot of porridge gradually calmed down.

“Let us vote, comrades! There are two approaches: one is to deal with it publicly, while the other is to deal with it privately. According to the first approach, we will take Bai Shi Keng to the police station and let the police investigate; after all, we cannot let Yan Zhiqing be wronged! Then, Yan Zhiqing influenced Taotao to make false testimony; we must also conduct a thorough investigation to the end!”

“The second approach is reduced to dealing privately, which means that this matter is a contradiction among our people, we solve it ourselves. Let Bai Shi Kang apologize to Yan Naqian, let Yan Naqian apologize to Bai Taotao. The new educated youth Song Zhi and the other educated youth who participated in the fight apologize to each other, and we understand and respect each other. Everyone can think about it. We will express our position in half an hour!”

“It would be fine to send Sikang to prison and let him eat in prison. Let him go, we can save five catties of rice a year!”

“I agree with you. It’s the public approach! When Bai Shi kang is imprisoned, I’ll be curious to hear how Yan Naqian explains how she tried to manipulate Taotao to Taotao’s mother! “

“There are educated young people fighting as well. They came to the countryside to learn and ended up fighting. Let them all go to jail together. “

“It would be far too harsh to sentence the educated youth for fighting. They are intellectuals. “

“Eh, it has nothing to do with us, Whether they solve it in public or in private, let’s just watch the fun! “

Yan Naqian wass also without a master.

She felt that because she was already known to have been assaulted by Bai Shi Keng, it was better to be public. It makes no difference to her whether the educated youth fighting for her violated discipline or went to jail. The important thing is that she regains her innocence so that everyone knows she is the victim.

If she instigated Bai Taotao to give false testimony, she should be able to avoid it because Bai Taotao was a fool and no one else was present at the time. She believed the little fool had no evidence as long as she insisted she did not instigate Bai Taotao.

“Naqian, we’ve chosen a private one!” Jiang Hongzhi said as he squeezed over to her and pulled her aside.

Yan Naqian was taken aback and wept as she looked at Jiang Hongzhi “Why? You also believe that anyone can attack me?”

“Hmph, I’m not afraid of being implicated!” she grumbled in her heart.

 “No, it’s not,” Jiang Hongzhi said anxiously, “Naqian, listen to me…”

It turned out that two years ago, a foreign daughter-in-law went to the police station to report the incident, alleging that Bai Shi Keng assaulted her. The police arrested him for questioning, but he was quickly released. He is said to be in poor health, to have heart problems, and to have other serious illnesses.

The sickness and pain of Bai Shi Keng did not meet the conditions for detention and custody at all.

Yan Naqian’s heart went cold for a while.

“Then I…” She was sobbing.

Jiang Hongzhi said softly: “Solve it in private, according to my experience, you can ask the village a little, as long as it is not too much, they will agree.”

    Yan Naqian cried, “But…”

    Jiang Hongzhi, “Na Qian, I believe you, and I won’t have any thoughts about you because of this…”

    Yan Naqian rolled her eyes and sobbed twice, “Hongzhi, I’m so much scared! Everyone looked at me, I, I was so nervous and scared that I couldn’t even speak.”

Jiang Hongzhi felt pity, and said softly: “It’s okay, I will help you. If you feel bad facing them, You can tell me your request, and I’ll help you negotiate.”

Yan Naqian breathed a sigh of relief, after thinking for a while, she raised her head and said shyly, “Hongzhi, then please. It’s okay to be private… Then I need fifty yuan and cloth tickets and pastry tickets.”

Jiang Hongzhi fixed his gaze on her and nodded, “leave it on me.”

“Thank you very much, Hongzhi, then please.” Yan Naqian murmured.

Jiang Hongzhi, “Then you rest first, and I’ll come back to you after I finish this here.”

Yan Naqian cried as she smiled at him, and after a few steps, her gaze was drawn involuntarily to Song Zhi, who was standing on the raised platform. She looked at Song Zhi for a moment before lowering her head and hurrying away.

As soon as Yan Naqian left, Jia Xiaohong approached Jiang Hongzhi and said leisurely, “This is your goddess? She was sleeping naked in the men’s dormitory when she was noticed by Bai Shikeng, who insulted her. Is she sleeping in your bed?”

Jiang Hongzhi’s expression was ashen.

Obviously not.

His bed is neat and clean. What it looked like when he left for work in the morning was exactly the same when he returned at noon.

Jia Xiaohong went on: “She was aboutto be assaulted, but her solution was to instigate a little fool to make a foolof herself. When the truth was revealed, she simply asked the publicto restore her innocence. She’s asking for money now that she’s realized she’s hopeless. Jiang Hongzhi, your goddess is very pragmatic!”

“I honestly don’t know. Did she think about you, the people who fight for her, when she made her decision? Is it possible to be sentenced, go to jail, and have your future ruined?” Jia Xiaohong inquired.

Jiang Hongzhi frowned, “Everyone is an educated youth, and we have a destiny to meet each other thousands of miles away from home. We must always understand each other, respect each other, and help each other!”

Jia Xiaohong said with a smile, “When it comes to helping each other, you don’t mind, but I’m very curious. Hey, you’ve helped her numerous times. Did she ever help you?”

Jiang Hongzhi: …

Jia Xiaohong cast a mocking glance at Jiang Hongzhi and smiled contemptuously “Jiang Hongzhi, don’t you think it’s always been your lone contribution? She has never promised you anything, and everything is yours willingly! “

“What nonsense are you talking about!” Jiang Hongzhi said impatiently.

Jia Xiaohong laughed “Jiang Hongzhi, you are a smart man, otherwise, you would not be our leader. You also know in your heart that I’m not talking nonsense. Oh, and don’t forget about Song Zhi, the new educated youth. He is very attractive and has a pleasant personality. He is ten thousand times more powerful than you!” She left after she finished speaking.

Jiang Hongzhi looked up and stared at Song Zhi.

He wasn’t blind. How could he have missed the fact that Yan Naqian was fixated on Song Zhi, the man who had saved her? She had no idea how many times she had peeked at Song Zhi throughout the afternoon!

Jiang Hongzhi clenched his fist angrily.  

What Jia Xiaohong means in and out of words is that Yan Naqian is too selfish and only thinks about herself, never about others.

It’s not that Jiang Hongzhi doesn’t know Yan Naqian’s character.


However, Yan Naqian is very beautiful and very good at acting like a baby. Seeing her beautiful face and talking to her will make people feel extra comfortable. Moreover, her family background is very strong. As long as he marries Yan Naqian, he will be able to leave the countryside with her and return to the city in the future.

It has been more than a year since Jiang Hongzhi chased Yan Naqian. He thought he would be able to confess to her in the next year and then report to the organization that he was married to her. Who knew that Cheng Yaojin would be killed halfway through [1] ?

Heh, he won’t give this Song Zhi any chance!

Note:

[1] Kill Cheng Yaojin halfway –  a common saying, referring to the occurrence of unexpected things. It is similar in meaning to the idioms such as being caught off guard and coming suddenly 

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