Quick Wear: I am the shopkeeper at the Merit Pawn Shop

"I can have someone send Comrade Zhou to the hospital, but I hope Comrade Zhou wouldn't say anything nonsense. The collective honor is above all else."

Fan Fugen looked at Cai Aimin seriously.

"Captain, it is our educated youth who is being bullied. She has been seriously hurt. How can you stop talking nonsense? Are you just going to let Zhao Heigou go? Has Zhou Zhiqing been hurt in vain?"

Cai Aimin looked at the captain seriously.

"She came to the cabin in the middle of the night. It's self-evident what she did, right? I asked Zhao Heigou about the whole thing. It was Zhou Juan who took the initiative. She turned her back on her afterward. If the matter really gets out of hand, it won't do Zhou Juan any good."

Seeing that Cai Aimin was about to be defeated by Fan Fugen with just two sentences, Shen Mo hurried forward.

"Captain, a murderer will not admit to murder. If this matter is left unresolved, those villagers who can't find wives will follow suit and sneak into the female educated youth dormitory in the dark. What will the atmosphere in the village become then? Captain, are you going to use such means to suppress them every time?"

Shen Mo's words made Cai Aimin and Fan Fugen shudder at the same time.

Before they could break free from the atmosphere of the topic created by Shen Mo, they heard him say: "If the matter gets out of hand, the captain will be the first to bear the main responsibility. It is inevitable that a village will have one or two scumbags, but if everyone from top to bottom thinks that this village has the bad habit of harboring scumbags, then will other villages feel at ease to marry girls to the village? Who will the villagers blame if they can't get married? Will they think that if the culprit was caught and brought to justice when the incident happened, there would be no future? Will they think that this is caused by the decision of the management?"

Fan Fugen seemed to see in front of his eyes the scene of his entire family being surrounded, scolded, grabbed and beaten by the villagers.

Compared with the safety of Xianjin Village and my family, it is nothing to mention.

He knew the bastards in the village best. If Zhao Heigou was not punished, some idle old bachelors would really set their sights on the female educated youth.

"Come here, take Zhao Heigou to the militia. Send him to the commune at dawn." Fan Fugen no longer hesitated at this time.

Then he asked someone to call the village ox cart to take Zhou Juan to the town hospital.

"You can leave a female comrade in the hospital to take care of Zhou Zhiqing. The villagers will be given a five-centimeter-a-day penalty. Let's see who is willing to go."

The team leader had his considerations as to why he only gave five centimeters. Many of these female educated youth could not even get five centimeters, and taking care of patients in the hospital was much easier than working in the fields.

As expected, after the team leader said this, many female educated youth became eager to take action. As soon as the team leader left, they couldn't wait to come to Cai Aimin and volunteer.

He Xi, who had caused trouble for Shen Mo before, danced especially happily.

"The captain chose me. Of course, I have to find someone who has a good relationship with Zhou Zhiqing to take care of the patient. Although I can get six work points for my work, I am willing to suffer a little for the sake of my friend."

"He Xi, you'd better not suffer a loss. Go to the fields and earn six centimeters, otherwise Zhou Zhiqing will never be able to repay this centimeter in his lifetime."

When this person finished speaking, all the educated youth burst into laughter because what she said was the absolute truth.

It was Cai Aimin who smoothed things over and asked a few people who were willing to go to draw lots with tree branches.

In the end, the lucky winner was Xu Man, the youngest female educated youth.

Zhou Juan was helped out of the cabin and put on the ox cart.

Only then did Shen Mo see Zhou Juan's miserable appearance.

Both sides of his face were swollen beyond recognition, and his neck and exposed chest were bruised and purple, which showed that Zhao Heigou had killed him.

Shen Mo glanced at Zhou Juan and it was no exaggeration to say that if he had called people over later, Zhou Juan would have been beaten to death by Zhao Heigou.

Shen Mo originally thought that the team leader had already decided to send Zhao Heigou to the commune, and his three-day death countdown should have disappeared, but it was still hanging in the balance.

This was a bit puzzling to him.

As for something he couldn't figure out, Shen Mo decided to take it one step at a time.

After returning to the Youth League Home, Shen Mo took a shower. It was early spring now and it was still a bit cold to take a shower with cold water.

Shen Mo didn't care about all that and ran up and down the mountain, his body covered in sticky stuff.

Fortunately, there was a well in the Youth League compound, so he didn't have to go outside to fetch water late at night.

Just as Shen Mo was taking a shower, Cai Aimin came over.

"Shen Mo, thank you for what happened today. If you hadn't told the captain, I'm afraid this matter would have been reduced to nothing."

"Captain, to the villagers, we educated youth are outsiders. No matter how well we do, we will not be recognized by them."

Shen Mo's words made Cai Aimin nod unconsciously.

Shen Mo's lips curled up slightly: "So I think the interests of us educated youth are the same. Once this matter is over in such a muddle, the villagers will not respect us at all. In the future, they will only become more and more aggressive, thinking that we are easy to bully.

Don’t say that the villagers are simple and honest. If everyone was simple and kind, there wouldn’t be fighting every spring when people were fighting for water.”

"Yes, you are absolutely right. Shen Mo, I used to see you being silent, but I didn't expect you to have such profound insights." Cai Aimin clapped his hands, agreeing very much with what Shen Mo said.

I feel that Shen Mo is worthy of being a high school student. When Shen Mo first came to the village, I saw that he was fooled by Zhou Juan and became dull. I thought that high school students were just like that and very stupid.

Now it seems that he still has some knowledge.

"I don't deserve it. It's enough if Zhou Juan, one of the female educated youth, gets into trouble. If all the female educated youth get into trouble, how will we male educated youth be viewed by the villagers? They will think we are a bunch of losers who can't even protect the female educated youth."

Shen Mo sighed and heard Cai Aimin nodding repeatedly. He almost forgot the purpose of coming here.

It was only when Shen Mo saw that he had been standing there that he spoke up: "Captain Cai, do you have anything else to say? I need to go to bed early after I finish my shower."

Cai Aimin suddenly woke up and coughed awkwardly: "Shen Mo, I still have something to clarify. How could you think of going to the mountains to pick mushrooms so late at night?"

Shen Mo's perception was so sharp that he knew someone nearby was eavesdropping on his conversation with Cai Aimin.

"I heard about it from some kids in the village during the day, so I wanted to try my luck."

"Why didn't you ask anyone to come with you when you went mushroom picking? Aren't you afraid of an accident happening so late at night?" Cai Aimin pretended to be casual.

Shen Mo naturally also felt the other party's tentative tone.

"How embarrassing would it be if it wasn't that? Captain, I really didn't expect to encounter something like that. At the time, I didn't know that the person in the cabin was Zhou Juan. If I knew it was her, I would have rushed in and beat that bastard up the first time."

Shen Mo punched a tree nearby in pain.

His face was twisted in pain.

"It was really not you who asked Zhou Juan out?" Cai Aimin still didn't give up.

"What? Captain, don't you believe me? There is nothing between Zhou Juan and me. We are just high school classmates and we are from the same place. It's okay to take better care of her, right?"

"Besides, if I had made an appointment with her, I wouldn't have gone mushroom picking, right? Captain, who told you that I made an appointment with Zhou Juan?" Shen Mo looked directly into Cai Aimin's eyes.