Chapter 472 Sun Penghai's Illusion
"Ok?"

The four of them were confused about what Su Mingzhe meant for a moment.

Only Xu Kai, who was born in a high-ranking official family, saw Su Mingzhe's smiling eyes and had some vague guesses:

"Su Mingzhe, do you have any idea about what we should do here next?"

"I do have some ideas, but they are not mature yet. I would like to perfect them with you guys."

Su Mingzhe knew that even if he had a comprehensive plan, he couldn't say it directly.

Because, in this era, "unity is strength" is important and we cannot be separated from the masses.

If you have considered everything by yourself, what else can others do?
Therefore, even if you have detailed plans for the future, you must lead everyone forward step by step and never make the mistake of personal heroism.

After chewing the meat in his hand clean in a few bites, Su Mingzhe put down the bone in his hand and said seriously:
"I think this way. The government sent educated youth to the countryside, saying it was for 're-education', but in fact it was also meant to help each other with the farmers. So, when we come here to receive re-education, we should also work hard to make the villagers here live like city dwellers."

This time, Wang Yafang couldn't help but laughed out loud:
"Su Mingzhe, did you fall into a trance after sleeping? This is a remote mountain village. How dare you think that the people here can live a city life?"

"I'm not sleepy!"

Su Mingzhe laughed. He was not disgusted by Wang Yafang's words, because the other three people, like Wang Yafang, would definitely question what he said.

"Last night, I thought about it carefully. If I want to achieve the goal I mentioned, I can make breakthroughs in several aspects. First, solve the basic problems of food, clothing, housing and transportation. Second, improve the living environment. Third, carry out modernization construction. Fourth, strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization..."

Su Mingzhe was about to explain his ideas in detail to everyone when he suddenly heard a group of footsteps outside the door. He stood up and looked outside.

Although Wang Quan, Wang Yafang, Xu Kai and Yu Hong did not hear any footsteps, they saw Su Mingzhe standing up and looked outside.

Not long after, we saw Sun Penghai, the old village chief, and a large group of villagers surrounding the school gate.

"Village chief, they are inside. Smell the air. Is there still the aroma of stewed meat in the air? Am I lying?"

This time, Sun Penghai also wants to completely turn against Su Mingzhe.

After the inner struggle just now, he ran to find the old village chief and "reported" that Su Mingzhe had killed the villagers' livestock and stewed their meat for food.

The old village chief had no idea that Sun Penghai was slandering him without any reason, so he didn't think much about it and ran over with some villagers who had heard the news to ask for an explanation.

Su Mingzhe and the other four heard the noise and came out, just in time to hear Sun Penghai slandering Su Mingzhe with a mean face.

This time, Su Mingzhe didn't need to say anything. The expressions of the other four people, including Wang Quan, suddenly changed and they glared at Sun Penghai fiercely.

At the same time, everyone was determined to kick Sun Penghai, the bad apple, out of the Baiyashan Village Youth League Center.

"Old village chief, you brought the villagers here so early in the morning, is there something going on?"

As the 'team leader', Su Mingzhe walked in front of the other four people and started talking to the old village chief, as if he had not heard the slanderous words that Sun Penghai had just said against him.

The old village chief looked at Su Mingzhe, whose eyes were still calm and clear. He felt that he had only listened to Sun Penghai's one-sided words before running over. He was a little confused and lost.

Therefore, after the old village chief calmed down, he did not directly explain his purpose. Instead, he chuckled and asked with concern:

"Student Su, we came back late yesterday, and I was thinking about what you said, so I forgot to arrange meals for you today. So I came to see if you need anything."

Su Mingzhe saw that the old village chief was quite cunning, so he didn't expose his true colors and just smiled innocently:
"Thank you for your concern, old village chief. I went out hunting before daybreak and caught two silly roe deer. I stewed a pot of meat for everyone. We were just eating it. Now that everyone is here, why don't you come in and eat together?"

"No, no. Since you are eating, we will come back later."

When the old village chief heard Su Mingzhe's orderly answers, he also wanted to calm the situation down.

After all, in the eyes of an old man like the village chief, the law does not hold everyone responsible, and it is obvious that five of the six educated youth had eaten meat.

Let’s not talk about the situation where Su Mingzhe did not lie.

Even if Su Mingzhe lied and killed the village's livestock, the old village chief couldn't drive away all five educated youth, right?
Baiyashan Village is too remote, and few people are willing to come here.

In the past, the county had assigned some educated youth to stay there, but these people could not stay for long and would find ways to leave.

In order to retain these educated youth, the old village chief finally decided to turn a blind eye and cover up today's incident.

Sun Penghai did not expect that by finding the old village chief and calling so many villagers over, he had already offended the other five people. Yet, the old village chief was actually prepared to favor Su Mingzhe and the other five.

It's not fair!

Sun Penghai suddenly felt a chill rising to his head. He turned around and saw Su Mingzhe, Wang Quan, Wang Yafang, Xu Kai and Yu Hong all looking at him with cold and hostile eyes.

Suddenly, Sun Penghai figured it out. When he went to find the old village chief, he would not be able to stay here unless he could force the old village chief to bring people to punish Su Mingzhe.

After realizing the consequences of this matter, Sun Penghai gritted his teeth, his eyes becoming fierce:

"Old village chief, you can't protect Su Mingzhe! This man just came to Baiyashan Village and he dared to kill the villagers' livestock. It shows that he has a bad character. If he stays here for a few more days, who knows what illegal things he will do? So, I think we must make him confess honestly and then give him a punishment to set an example!"

Su Mingzhe didn't expect that Sun Penghai would go all the way to the end, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth:
"Sun Penghai, you are a scum among the educated youth. Don't you see that the old village chief and I are giving you face and a chance to repent? Now you refuse to repent and continue to be stubborn and want to slander me. Do you really think that we have forgotten your hooligan behavior yesterday?"

People carry people in sedan chairs.

The old village chief gave Su Mingzhe face and did not intend to get to the bottom of the matter.

When Su Mingzhe spoke, he naturally gave the old village chief some face.

"You're talking nonsense!"

Sun Penghai didn't expect that Su Mingzhe was so "cunning" as to "confuse the public" and use what happened yesterday to cover up the mistakes he made today.

This Su Mingzhe is so shameless and despicable!

At this moment, Sun Penghai discovered that the villagers who had followed the old village chief and wanted to seek justice from the educated youth were looking at him with deep contempt. He couldn't help but panic: "Everyone, don't listen to his nonsense. He stole and killed the livestock in your village. I'm telling you that I'm in the same group with you."

"Wang Quan, go get the roe deer skin."

Su Mingzhe told Wang Quan about the place where he hung the roe deer skins to dry.

The location is not far away, just next to the ravine outside the school.

Wang Quan ran out quickly and came back with two roe deer skins.

Several villagers walked over to take a look and found that it was indeed the skin of a freshly slaughtered roe deer.

When Sun Penghai saw the roe deer skin, he wanted to identify whether it was dog skin or sheepskin. But when he saw the villagers looking at him with cold eyes, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have angered everyone.

Gossip can melt metal, and constant criticism can destroy a person; being pointed at by thousands of people can lead to death without any illness.

A group of villagers were angry with Sun Penghai, and they almost wrongly accused a good person. Although they did not accuse him, the contempt and anger in their eyes made Sun Penghai's whole body go limp. He fell to the ground, speechless and unable to utter a word.

At this point, Su Mingzhe stepped forward and made the final move:

"Old village chief, I'm really sorry. We didn't expect Sun Penghai to be such a scoundrel. How about I take him to the educated youth center with you guys later?"

"Okay then, send him back to the educated youth center!"

The old village chief now looked at Sun Penghai with disgust.

Thinking about how this guy was fawning, cunning and cunning yesterday, I should have taken him back to the educated youth point when he started acting like a hooligan.

In this way, we can save ourselves the trouble today.

With the old village chief's words, several villagers picked up Sun Penghai, who was slumped on the ground, and dragged him back to the village.

Su Mingzhe, Wang Quan and three other girls went back to the air-raid shelter to eat.

After dinner, Su Mingzhe asked the four people to stay in the school and clean the school yard. After all, everyone would be staying here for quite a while.

Su Mingzhe asked Wang Quan to pack Sun Penghai's luggage as he was going to see Sun Penghai off.

When we arrived at the village, the old village chief had already harnessed the carriage.

Sun Penghai sat in the carriage with a dejected look on his face.

Two villagers were watching nearby.

Su Mingzhe first gave Sun Penghai's luggage to him, and then asked the old village chief to accompany him to send Sun Penghai back to the educated youth site.

The old village chief naturally would not refuse.

He also guessed that Su Mingzhe was going to give the fallen dog a beating.

The old village chief had experienced the war, so he would not be so pedantic as to let Su Mingzhe become the "most virtuous person".

(I remember someone saying: The greatest virtue in life is forgiveness. I feel like vomiting).

After all, it was Sun Penghai who framed Su Mingzhe first.

Even if Su Mingzhe was taking advantage of someone's misfortune, it could only be considered as an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and it could not be considered as bullying Sun Penghai.

At this point, Sun Penghai still didn't realize the seriousness of the problem.

On the way back to the city, the boy pretended to be calm and hummed a little tune.

The old village chief and Su Mingzhe ignored him and they had a safe journey.

Arrived at the educated youth center in the county town.

It was the same person in charge from yesterday who received the three people.

The person in charge's surname is Yang, and everyone calls him Director Yang. He is also an old soldier who once participated in the Anti-Japanese United Army.

Su Mingzhe and the old village chief successively talked about Sun Penghai's problem.

Director Yang's face suddenly turned dark.

He behaved like a hooligan to girls on the first day and framed his companions on the second day.

If it were in the past, if he met a guy like Sun Penghai, he would have shot him directly.

Now, Director Yang suppressed his anger, and with a serious and responsible attitude, he came to Sun Penghai and asked word by word:

"Sun Penghai, tell me the truth. Is what Village Chief Liu and Su Mingzhe said true?"

"Director Yang, this is all a misunderstanding. I fell asleep yesterday and forgot I was on the road, so I lay back and didn't run into Yu Hong. What happened today... was also a personal subjective mistake on my part. I admit that I wronged Su Mingzhe, but my original intention was to protect the people's material safety!"

After thinking about everything along the way, Sun Penghai had already thought of a reason.

In his mind, as long as no one suffered any substantial harm at school, the worst that could happen was for him to bow and apologize, and that was the only way the teacher could punish him.

Could Director Yang actually shoot himself?

Ha ha!

There is a high probability that Director Yang will ask me to write a self-criticism of several hundred words, and then transfer me to another educated youth point so that I can continue to stay there.

(End of this chapter)