After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 135, Episode 0140: Eating Melon from Secretary Chen's House (Part 1)

For someone whose only responsibility is to eat, cooking is the most important thing.

Chef Ren Yan was still the same as always, while Lin Yuexi sat there watching the fire.

While kneading the dough, Ren Yan talked to Lin Yuexi about the melons they had eaten in the field, "Xi Bao, you don't know, Secretary Chen is completely different from what I used to see."

Lin Yuexi's eyes flickered. Could it be that someone had told Ren Yan about Secretary Chen's great achievements?
"I always thought that Secretary Chen was the mild-mannered type, the kind of person who was always nice."

Lin Yuexi: I understand. Secretary Chen really does give people the impression of being a nice guy. Usually, the village head plays the good cop and he plays the bad cop.

"Xi Bao, do you know Chen Xiaoxiao?" Ren Yan asked with a hint of mystery in her voice.

Lin Yuexi shook her head, saying she didn't know or not, she had never even heard of it.

However, with the surname Chen and the given name Xiaoxiao, could she be Secretary Chen's daughter or granddaughter?

"When we first arrived, didn't we hear from the educated youth settlement that one of the earliest male educated youths had cheated on many girls in the village, and was later reported to the educated youth office by the brigade leader and sent to a farm?!"

Lin Yuexi just stared at her without responding.

But her eyes said it all. What nonsense! Who told her about herself?
Ren Yan: "..."

Okay, it seems she really didn't say that.

But it doesn't matter, it's the same whether she says it now or not.

"That male educated youth was named Huang Zhong, from Shanghai. I heard he was handsome, could recite a few good poems, played the harmonica well, and was very smooth-talking. Back then, he had all the young girls in the village flocking to him."

"Chen Xiaoxiao is the youngest daughter of Party Secretary Chen. She was born after his wife risked her life, so Party Secretary Chen dotes on her. All his sons are born after this youngest daughter. He gives her whatever she wants. She's a country girl, but she's never worked in the fields."

"After Huang Zhong came to the brigade, he got together with Chen Xiaoxiao at some point. Chen Xiaoxiao was also seriously mentally ill. She often saw Huang Zhong meeting with other girls in private, and even arrested a few female gangsters, but she didn't blame Huang Zhong at all. She was always causing trouble for the other girls."

Neither of them had any official status, but Chen Xiaoxiao, relying on the power of Secretary Chen, acted as Huang Zhong's legal wife. She would either smash up the girl's house today or stop the girl from getting out of bed tomorrow.

At first, everyone was wary of Chen's position as Party Secretary, and also because they thought it would be bad for their own reputation if their daughter's affairs got out, so no one went to Chen's house to cause trouble.

Because of this, Secretary Chen never knew what Chen Xiaoxiao was doing outside, only that she was troubled by her constant, irrational pursuit of a male educated youth.

One day, Huang Zhong got involved with Yang Meimei, the daughter of a butcher in Zhongyang Brigade. Huang Zhong didn't know anything about Yang Meimei's family situation and thought that Yang Meimei was just like the other village girls he thought she was being bullied, so he could bully her for no reason. After the two of them had sex, he lied to Yang Meimei and said that he would marry her. Then he stopped contacting her.

Yang Meimei waited at home for almost a month, but Huang Zhong did not appear. Instead, a friend from the same brigade told her that she saw Huang Zhong with other girls, and the two seemed very close. Huang Zhong even ate two boiled eggs from one of the girls.

That's terrible! Yang Meimei is a confident person. She's her father's only daughter, and he's always doted on her like the apple of his eye.

She immediately told Butcher Yang what had happened. Although Butcher Yang was angry that his daughter didn't respect herself, there was no point in blaming her anymore, so he could only try to find a solution.

“杨屠夫带了一大帮的兄弟来咱们村找黄中，先是把黄中揍了一顿，之后的事路大婶她们都听到看到，是关起知青点的门自个解决，她们猜杨屠夫应该是想让黄中娶杨美美，只是最终没谈妥，没几天杨美美就去公社把黄中举&报了。”

It's said that the brigade leader drove Huang Zhong away, but that's not actually the case. Huang Zhong was arrested precisely because of Yang Meimei's report.

At that time, the brigade leader was dealing with Huang Zhong's matter and sent several other educated youths with character problems back to the educated youth settlement. The educated youth settlement of Hongqi Commune wanted to set an example to deter the educated youths who had been misbehaving lately, and the educated youths of Hongxing Brigade just happened to run into them.

Fortunately, after only a brief inspection, they were all sent to farms or military units.

There are two types of educated youth in the Production and Construction Corps: ordinary educated youth who went to the countryside and educated youth who were reformed after making mistakes.

For ordinary educated youth, being an educated youth in the Production and Construction Corps was generally more arduous and tiring than being an educated youth in the countryside. They were basically never free throughout the year, and their work and rest schedules were the same as those of soldiers. However, their food was not necessarily as good as that of soldiers, because food and drink were not provided and they had to rely on themselves. Nevertheless, they received a salary and received money and ration coupons every month.

The situation was different for the re-educated youth. They were sent to labor reform after making mistakes, and the labor was much harder and more tiring than that of ordinary educated youth. They also had to make self-criticisms and write reports from time to time, and they couldn't even guarantee that they would have enough to eat. Money and ration coupons were out of the question.

Of course, going to the Production and Construction Corps is much better than going to a farm. After all, the educated youth in the Production and Construction Corps are also under the jurisdiction of the army, and the army will not let the educated youth starve or freeze to death, even if you are there for reform. But the farm may not be like that.

So when Huang Zhong learned that he was going to be sent to the farm, he found a way to contact Chen Xiaoxiao and asked Chen Xiaoxiao to ask Secretary Chen for help to get him to the Production and Construction Corps for reform.

Ren Yan kneaded the dough into a snake shape, then cut it into even pieces with a cleaver and placed them one by one into the steamer.

"Chen Xiaoxiao told Secretary Chen that she was pregnant with Huang Zhong's child, and that if Secretary Chen did not help Huang Zhong, she would kill herself in front of him."

The threat failed, and Secretary Chen came to help. Instead, Secretary Chen was so angry that he suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized.

Ren Yan rolled her eyes. "She angered her own father to the point of collapse. Instead of taking Secretary Chen to the hospital with the family, Chen Xiaoxiao took advantage of the fact that the adults in the Chen family were not paying attention to the house, stole all the valuables, and then ran away overnight."

He glanced at the kitchen doorway and lowered his voice, saying, "Aunt Wu said that someone saw Chen Xiaoxiao at the Northwest Farm."

What a coincidence! Huang Zhong was sent to the Northwest Farm back then.

"After being discharged from the hospital, Secretary Chen had his eldest son remove Chen Xiaoxiao from the family's household registration and report her as dead."

“Chen Xiaoxiao came back once a few years ago. She looked terrible. Aunt Wu said she looked even older than her. Most of her hair had turned white. She knelt at the door of Secretary Chen’s house for more than half an hour. Chen’s eldest son and the others were soft-hearted, but Secretary Chen refused to let them open the door.”

It was also because Chen Xiaoxiao's intentions were not sincere enough. Before she ran away from home, in addition to the money and tickets of Secretary Chen and the other families, she even took the rings and other dowry items from the rooms of her sisters-in-law. She only knelt for less than an hour before getting up and kicking the door a few times while cursing, and then left without looking back.

Since then, Chen Xiaoxiao has never been seen returning to the village. It is estimated that Secretary Chen has lost heart over his daughter, and he has not only stopped looking for her, but has also never mentioned her again.

The villagers were either grateful to Secretary Chen or afraid of him, so no one ever mentioned Chen Xiaoxiao's matter.

The reason Ren Yan knows today is...