Away from the big book, the educated youth became the village favorite by running errands

The villagers were also puzzled. Was it Cao Zhiqing who was scolding Old Wu? Wasn't it Song Zhiqing? Why was Song Zhiqing called over?

"Song girl, if I stand up for you, you won't be angry with me, right?"

Song Shuangshuang's eyes turned, and she understood what Uncle Wu meant. He wanted the village chief to come forward and make Gao Wenyuan and Cao Qi apologize for wrongly accusing her. The other educated youth would definitely not ask the village chief to come forward. It was almost handled internally, and even if they did, there would not be any results. Everyone knew that the village was unwilling to intervene in the affairs of the educated youth.

If the village chief and others didn't come forward, given Cao Qi's personality, he would definitely not apologize to her, and he might even say a few sarcastic words for no reason.

Uncle Wu was afraid that she would be wronged in the Youth League Home, so he wanted to stand up for her and let the village chief and team leader deal with Cao Qi.

When Song Shuangshuang figured out what Grandpa Wu meant, her eyes turned red. She didn't expect Grandpa Wu to treat her like this. It was as if his own granddaughter had been wronged and he was standing up for her in the village.

Song Shuangshuang sniffed hard and said, "How could I be angry with you, Grandpa? I should thank you for standing up for me. How about I be your granddaughter?"

Uncle Wu coughed a few times because of the choking, and rolled his eyes at Song Shuangshuang. "Just stand aside and watch me stand up for you."

Song Shuangshuang let out an "ah" and stood obediently beside the donkey cart. She looked up at the sky and held back her tears, thinking that she couldn't let anyone see her like this, it was so embarrassing.

Song Youlin noticed Song Shuangshuang's actions, walked over and saw that his sister's eyes were red and her nose was sniffling. He wanted to ask her what was wrong, but Song Shuangshuang glared at him and told him not to speak.

Old Wu knocked his pipe against the donkey cart twice before looking at the village chief. "Da Hai, I am not looking for trouble. I saw Song girl was wrongly accused of being a thief. I stood up for her and said a few fair words. She was cursed to death. If this happened to you, would you be willing to do it?"

The village chief was speechless. How could he say yes? Who wants to be cursed to death?

"Uncle Wu, some things are not allowed to be said." In the crackdown on feudal superstition, some things can be said privately by villagers. We are all from the same village, and no one can report others. But this is not appropriate to say it out loud with the educated youth.

Uncle Wu frowned and said, "Okay, okay, do you want someone to curse the village chief?"

The village chief felt his temples throbbing. "Let Wu Zhiqing apologize to you. How about that?" Don't even mention whether he will die or not. He is not young anymore. It is so unlucky.

"Old man, what did I miss from him that reluctant apology? He is a man with a bad character. If I hadn't heard it, I wouldn't have known that there were people stealing food at the educated youth camp."

The villagers were immediately shocked. There was a thief stealing food in the village! They had to go home to check if their food was missing.

The team leader quickly asked the villagers to calm down and asked Uncle Wu what was going on and how he knew that someone was stealing food at the educated youth site.

Uncle Wu pointed at Cao Qi with his pipe, and then at Gao Wenyuan, whose face turned pale, and said that he had heard from these two people that Song Shuangshuang had stolen their food.

The educated youths had different expressions. They always thought that this was an internal problem of the educated youths. They never thought of reporting it to the village chief or the captain, and they never thought that Uncle Wu would tell it to the villagers. Especially the male educated youths, they have realized that it is not only Gao Wenyuan and Cao Qi who are at fault, but they are also at fault. They dare not think about how the villagers will look at them if they know the truth of this matter.

For a moment, he didn't know whether to blame Gao Wenyuan and Cao Qi for instigating this matter, or blame Uncle Wu for telling the villagers about this matter. Cao Qi, who was pointed out, resented Song Shuangshuang even more, thinking that Song Shuangshuang must have said something to Old Wu, so that Old Wu stood up for her.

Song Youlin was also surprised. He didn't expect that Uncle Wu was standing up for his sister. No wonder his sister's eyes were red. It turned out that she was moved.

The team leader felt that the newly arrived educated youth were not at ease, so how could they steal food again? But he felt that it was impossible for Song Zhiqing to steal food, and she did not look like someone who could do such a thing. He quickly asked Uncle Wu what was going on.

Uncle Wu took a puff of his cigarette and said, "I heard the two male educated youths outside the educated youth compound say that the grains that educated youth Song had ground could not last that long, and that he must have stolen their grains. Girl Song said that she ground the grains on the day she went to work, but they didn't believe it, so I proved for Girl Song that I helped to grind the grains that day. I don't know what happened after that guy got mad and left."

Among the onlookers happened to be an auntie who was present that day, and she also said that it was Old Wu who ground the grain for Song Shuangshuang that day.

After saying this, the villagers looked at the educated youth with strange eyes. Although food was precious, they didn't want to wrongly accuse the female educated youth of stealing food just because of such a small matter.

"I think some of the male educated youths are really shameless. They think that the female educated youths are stealing their food because they have too much food. Why don't they say that they earn too few work points and don't have enough food to eat?"

"More nagging than an old woman."

Listening to the villagers talking about him, Cao Qi angrily pointed at his aunt who was talking, and said "you, you, you" for a long time but didn't say anything else.

If the village chief and the captain still can't understand what Old Wu means, he has lived all these years in vain.

"Song Zhiqing, this matter involves you. Do you have anything to say?" After the captain said this, he glanced at Old Wu. Seeing that he had no other reaction, he knew that this was what he wanted.

Song Shuangshuang first looked at the reactions of the educated youths and saw that the female ones did not want to make a big deal out of it, and the male ones also looked at her with some desire in their eyes.

She decided not to involve other educated youth. After all, she still had to stay here for several more years, and she couldn't afford to offend all of them.

"Gao Zhiqing and Cao Zhiqing's accusation that I stole their food rations is pure nonsense. I don't have any other requests. I just want them to admit in front of everyone that they wronged me and apologize to me."

The captain's heart was instantly at ease.

He was afraid that Song Shuangshuang would make unreasonable demands by relying on someone's support, but fortunately she only asked the two to apologize.

The educated youth were relieved, and Gao Wenyuan also breathed a sigh of relief.

"You two have heard me, right? You two should apologize to Song Zhiqing right away. And, Cao Zhiqing, you have to apologize to Uncle Wu. If you don't apologize properly, you will have to apologize to Uncle Wu in front of the whole village at the threshing ground tomorrow. You decide."

The captain just wanted to resolve the matter quickly. Didn’t he see that the village chief didn’t say anything?

Gao Wenyuan felt relieved and apologized to Song Shuangshuang, saying that it was all his fault and that he had wrongly accused her without understanding the situation clearly. He would not do that again in the future and hoped that Song Shuangshuang could forgive him.

Song Shuangshuang just said "yeah" and said nothing else. And forgave him? Nonsense!

Cao Qi was not so happy. He gritted his teeth and apologized to Song Shuangshuang and Uncle Wu.

They all knew what kind of person Cao Qi was, and since he wasn't apologizing sincerely, neither of them cared.