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

Chapter 227, Episode 0235: Harsh words wound like a chill in June.

Leng Xingran and the others couldn't watch the movie anymore, so they immediately split up to find out what Wan Zhiqing and the others were up to.

To be honest, they were indeed quite harmful. The three girls' methods were really despicable. Anyone who fell into their trap was basically doomed to ruin.

But they didn't expect that Wan Zhiqing and her group would act so quickly.

While watching a movie, Wan Zhiqing pretended to be pregnant in front of everyone, whether it was true or not. The village aunties and grandmas could tell what was going on at a glance. Then, Xiao Zhang and Xiao Kong, the two educated youths, said some ambiguous things, trying to link Wan Zhiqing's pregnancy to Xu Zhichuan.

What? You're just soft-hearted, you don't want to hurt him, but what about him? If he cared about you at all, he wouldn't have known you were pregnant and still dated someone else.

"What?! I told you long ago you couldn't trust this kind of person. He's from Beijing, and we're just from a small town. He just said he cared about you and you believed him. Now look, he's found someone from Beijing too."

Etc., etc.

Without explicitly mentioning Xu Zhichuan, the person was clearly referring to him.

Putting everything else aside, among the educated youth from Beijing, the only one who currently has a partner is Xu Zhichuan, and his partner is also from Beijing. Isn't that already an open secret?

Leng Xingran and the others went to investigate Wan Zhiqing and her group's motives, and Ren Yan lost interest in continuing to look at the phone. As a result, none of the four of them were present when the three were talking nonsense, so no one involved came forward to give a strong rebuttal.

Li Bin and others did speak up for them, but they weren't close to Leng Deran and his group, so their rebuttals had little effect on the villagers.

Moreover, when it comes to gossip with tainted connotations, people tend to believe what they want to believe.

This must have been intentional on the part of those three, or rather, a carefully planned scheme.

As a result, before the movie even ended, rumors that Xu Zhichuan was a heartless man had spread like wildfire, and even when the captain talked to Xu Zhichuan, he looked at him with suspicion.

Another reason is that Wan Zhiqing had a good impression among the villagers. She usually acted like a very honest person, so honest that she seemed a bit dull. She didn't seem like the kind of person who would do something wrong, but rather the kind of person who was easily bullied.

Xu Zhichuan was the opposite. He was good-looking, had a good temperament, and came from a good family. Many of the girls in the village had designs on him, but they all knew in their hearts that such a person was not someone they, as village girls, could dream of. That's why no one took any action. But admiration is hard to hide, so naturally, many men were jealous of him, and some elders felt that he had bewitched their daughters and disliked him.

Compared to the other side, many people sided with Wan Zhiqing, as if as long as Xu Zhichuan was vilified, they would have hope, or their daughters would be won back.

As a result, various claims emerged. Some said they saw Xu Zhichuan and Wan Zhiqing getting close, some said they saw Xu Zhichuan give Wan Zhiqing food, and some even said they saw Xu Zhichuan and Wan Zhiqing crawling through small trees together.

This is also why the captain suspected Xu Zhichuan. So many people said they saw it with their own eyes, they can't all say it's fake, can they?
Zhang Ze said with a gloomy expression, "That's not all. The next day, Wan Zhiqing took abortion pills. Xiao Zhang and Xiao Kong went to see Dr. Gao in a big way, saying that Wan Zhiqing didn't want to ruin Zhichuan and Ren Yan's relationship, and that the past was the past."

It's disgusting that its mother opened the door to disgusting things; it's utterly disgusting.

Wan Zhiqing and her group's actions put Xu Zhichuan and Ren Yan in the spotlight, and Leng Xingran and Zhang Ze were also significantly affected.

Xu Zhichuan and Ren Yan were spat on by people as they walked down the street, and sometimes children even threw clods of dirt at them. Zhang Ze fared a little better; people avoided him, pointing and whispering about him from a distance as if he were something dirty.

Leng Xingran's situation was the best, because Lin Yuexi was his sister, so the villagers didn't say anything to him, they just avoided him.

Zhang Hongying's face was already cold and sullen. She was the only one who could bully her son. Why did these people have the right to bully her son?

Besides, her daughter had done a great service to the entire brigade.

They're a bunch of ingrates.

Lin Yuexi's expression was also not good. She didn't expect the people in the group to remember that she had helped them and to repay her, but at least they shouldn't have completely forgotten about bullying her brother and friends after she had only been gone for a year.

Seemingly sensing her mother and sister's thoughts, Leng Xingran pursed her lips, suppressing the surging grievances within her, but still couldn't go against her conscience and said:
“The brigade leader, Secretary Chen, Aunt Wu, and Aunt Zheng still believe in us. It’s just that Wan Zhiqing and the others are too ruthless. They are the kind of people who would rather ruin themselves than let Zhichuan and the others get away with it. Those rumors spread not only in the commune but also throughout the county in just a few days.”

After Leng Xingran and the others told him what had happened, the brigade leader immediately summoned all the villagers who claimed to have witnessed it to the village committee building for questioning. The answer was self-evident: Xu Zhichuan didn't even know who Wan Zhiqing was, so how could he claim to have seen it with his own eyes?!

The brigade leader and Party Secretary Chen knew that the sooner these rumors were clarified, the better. In particular, Party Secretary Chen deeply abhorred them, as his daughter's experience served as a cautionary tale. As the village party secretary, even if the rumors that were detrimental to his daughter were clarified and even if his in-laws no longer cared, his daughter would still have to go to the island to join the military and hide there first.

Harsh words can be as chilling as a summer's day!

If an educated youth has such a stain, the nature of the stain is more serious than that of a local. Just take the educated youth's most anticipated goal of returning to the city as an example, the stain directly cuts off that hope.

So after the brigade leader and Party Secretary Chen found out the truth, they immediately called the whole village to the square for a meeting. They cleared Xu Zhichuan's name, punished Wan Zhiqing and the other two, as well as the villagers who spread rumors.

To everyone's surprise, while the rumors in the village were suppressed, they spread like wildfire in the commune and surrounding brigades, becoming increasingly exaggerated.

The brigade leader and his team can control things within the village, but they can't control things outside the village.

Just then, Liu Laowu wanted to take revenge on the Leng family. He ordered his men to find a crime against Leng Xingran and send her to the Northwest to suffer. He also sent those who were on good terms with Leng Xingran. In this way, the Xu family, the Zhang family, and the Liu family would all blame the Leng family because Leng Xingran had implicated them.

Regardless of whether Liu Laowu's thought process was normal or not, his actions actually helped Xu Zhichuan and Ren Yan.

The rumors are out of control, and further explanation is pointless. It's better to leave and go to the Northwest where nobody knows them, and start over.

Of course, they will not let those who harmed them get away with it.

Previously, Xu Zhichuan and the others only thought of avoiding Wan Zhiqing because they saw her as a pitiful person. But now that Wan Zhiqing and the others are practically trying to kill Xu Zhichuan, they naturally won't be soft-hearted anymore.

Don't underestimate these young people who were sent to the countryside in the mountains of Northeast China; each of them possesses considerable influence.

Wan Zhiqing and her companions never imagined that what they thought would force Xu Zhichuan to back down would instead plunge them into an abyss of no return.