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

Chapter 157, Episode 0164: The Aftermath of the Educated Youth Settlement Farce (Part 1)

Ren Yan didn't return until after 7 p.m.

Xu Zhichuan hurriedly went to get the dinner that his girlfriend had specially saved for her. As he placed a large bowl of dumplings and a bowl of chicken soup in front of her, he asked, "Why are you so late?"

Ren Yan was starving and didn't answer him immediately. She first ate a few dumplings, then drank a large gulp of chicken soup to fill her stomach, before weakly waving her hand and saying:

"I'm starving, you wouldn't believe it, there was another commotion over there just now."

Xu Zhichuan tenderly stuffed another dumpling into her mouth, saying, "Eat first, we'll talk slowly later."

Lin Yuexi and the others nodded silently, not in a hurry to watch the drama unfold.

Ren Yan didn't insist and picked up the bowl to start eating.

Everyone patiently waited for her to finish eating, some munching on sunflower seeds, others leisurely sipping tea, listening to her tell her story.

After Lin Yuexi left, the educated youth settlement was not just a little lively, it was extremely lively, with wave after wave of sentimentality.

Not long after Lin Yuexi left, the women's director, Aunt Taohua, also arrived. The brigade leader asked his wife, Aunt Guihua, to represent him, and together with Aunt Taohua, they went to find Wang Qin [the female educated youth's room, which the brigade never entered].

Ren Yan didn't know what they said to Wang Qin; at that time, she was in Yu Mengmeng's room with Yu Mengmeng.

After a while, the two aunts went to Yu Mengmeng's room again. As Lin Yuexi expected, Aunt Taohua told them that Wang Qin had promised not to sue Yu Mengmeng, but Yu Mengmeng had to compensate her with ten yuan and twenty eggs.

Originally, Yu Mengmeng was supposed to help her with work while she was recovering from her injury, but somehow the two aunts persuaded her to change it to adding ten more eggs.

In other words, Yu Mengmeng will compensate Wang Qin with ten yuan and thirty eggs, and that will be the end of the matter of her injuring Wang Qin today. Neither of them should mention it again.

Ren Yan grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds from Xu Zhichuan's hand and said while cracking them, "This matter was originally supposed to end here. The brigade leader, Aunt Guihua, and Aunt Taohua were all about to leave when suddenly Kong Zhiqing overturned all the dinner that Song Zhiqing and the others had prepared."

The two aunties spent a lot of time persuading people. When the brigade leader and his entourage were about to leave, the two Song educated youths had already prepared dinner.

After Li Bin and Yu Mengmeng got married, they started eating separately from everyone else. However, seeing that Yu Mengmeng was unlikely to cook dinner today, Song Zhiqing cooked dinner for her as well.

These people are really generous. They not only took care of Yu Mengmeng and Ren Yan who came to help, but also prepared dinner for the captain and the others. How could they not prepare a meal for them when they came to help?

The situation was that Shen Mengmeng and Shen Jiajia went to Yu Mengmeng's house to call Ren Yan and the others, while Song Tingyu went to stop the captain and others who were about to leave.

Song Tingfeng was left alone in the small kitchen.

Kong Zhijie, the male educated youth who was pushed to the ground by Qian Duoduo, and his group also ate together. Their kitchen was next to Song Tingfeng's small kitchen.

[There were many people and even more houses in the educated youth settlement. After the educated youths got along and ate separately, there were a lot of troubles because it was inconvenient to cook. The brigade leader simply allocated a row of houses in the southwest corner that were so dilapidated that they could not be lived in, and let them use them as kitchens. Whoever wanted them could repair them and build a stove themselves.]

Song Tingfeng and others pooled their money to set up a kitchen, because the kitchen they used before was originally a place for the educated youth to store miscellaneous items. Whenever there was a conflict, that kitchen alone put them in a very passive position.

With Song Tingfeng and his group starting, and seeing that they hadn't spent much money, everyone divided the space among themselves, one room for each person, since the rooms were too small and it wasn't convenient for anyone to cook alone.

Song Tingfeng and his men prepared a good meal for the brigade leader and his men, including meat.

Whether it was the irresistible aroma of the meat or Kong Zhiqing's needless motives, he suddenly rushed into the kitchen and overturned the table before Song Tingfeng could even react.

[Seriously, even a human wouldn't be able to react like that. Who the hell could have known that someone would barge in and overturn the table for no reason?] "Overturning the table wasn't the end of it; he also started cursing at Song Zhiqing."

Kong Zhijie was a cultured man. When he cursed, he made it seem like he was very knowledgeable. He would use idioms one after another, quote classics, or use ancient people as metaphors.

Without a certain level of cultural literacy, one might not even realize that he's insulting you.

Ren Yan stared helplessly with dead fish eyes, "You know what a mess this is. We said we'd treat the captain and the others to dinner, but when we brought them to the kitchen, this is what we saw."

Alright, what's the point of eating? They're all lying on the ground. Let's continue mediating.

Then something even more... happened. He couldn't reason with Kong Zhiqing about anything.

He had his own set of beliefs, and he was more eloquent and had a deeper cultural background. No matter what the brigade leader and Aunt Peach Blossom said, he seemed to have a logical and well-founded way of refuting them.

The captain and his men were so angry that they probably could skip a meal that night.

Leng Xingran and the others couldn't help but suppress their laughter.

Kong Zhijie has been in the countryside for five or six years; he's a veteran educated youth, and they all know him.

Kong Zhijie wasn't usually very noticeable at the educated youth settlement, but his lack of presence was different from the others who shrank back because of inferiority; he simply didn't want to pay attention to anyone else.

Kong Zhijie was from Shanxi Province and was born into a scholarly family. It is said that several generations of his ancestors had served as high-ranking officials.

While others were still wearing open-crotch pants, he was already studying with his books. In other words, he certainly had the right to look down on others.

That's just his personality; he's not very likable. He not only looks down on everyone equally, but he also likes to educate others in a teacher-like manner.

Therefore, the people in the educated youth settlement were all 'afraid' of him and would try to avoid him as much as possible, which is one of the reasons why he had a low profile.

When Leng Xingran and the other two first arrived, they were unaware of the situation and had all taken the initiative to approach and be 'educated'.

Ren Yan continued, "The brigade leader and the others couldn't argue with Kong Zhiqing, but fortunately Kong Zhiqing wasn't completely unreasonable, and later they compensated for the lost grain."

Leng Xingran and Xu Zhichuan exchanged a glance, and they both almost burst out laughing.

It's probably because Ren Yan didn't see the scene that she said that. Don't be fooled by Kong Zhijie's usual upright and arrogant demeanor; he's actually quite cowardly at heart. If you try to reason with him, the brigade leader will definitely lose, but as long as the brigade leader uses his authority, he won't dare to utter a single word.

And indeed, just as they suspected, the team leader was fed up with arguing with Kong Zhijie. After a long day of work, he still had to deal with these trivial matters. They might not be hungry, but he was.

Pointing to the mess on the ground, he asked, "Did you do this?"

Kong Zhijie replied, "Yes."

He wanted to give some reasons, but the brigade leader didn't want to listen anymore and said, "Just admit it. We ordinary people regard grain as our heaven and earth. Grain is our life. No matter what your reasons are, they are not reasons for you to overturn this whole table to the ground. What's the difference between this and taking their lives?"

Kong Zhijie wanted to object again, but the brigade leader still wouldn't let him, and directly waved his hand to announce the decision: "Stop arguing, Song Zhiqing, you calculate how much these things on the ground cost. Kong Zhiqing, pay them back. If you don't pay, then deduct it from your work points."

The last sentence is brilliant!
Although Kong Zhijie looked humiliated, he stopped arguing and took out money to compensate Song Tingfeng.