She won't clear her name; she'll throw away all the scum.

"Xiang Hong's mom, can you really earn fifty yuan?"

"Is it really that easy to make money in the city? Even an old lady can earn fifty?"

"Are you kidding me?"

“Those old ladies in our village sit at the village entrance all day long, bragging and joking. Hahaha, fifty yuan? They're practically living in the sky.”

Chen Xianghong explained, "My mother is a level six worker in a textile factory, how could she be bragging..."

"My goodness, this old lady is actually a worker!"

"That's incredible!"

"Chen Zhiqing's parents were both workers, and her older brother and sister-in-law were also workers. With such good conditions, why did she fall for Li Zhuang?"

"I guess she wasn't loved by her family, otherwise, look at her compared to other educated youth, she's even more frugal than the people in our village."

“But her mother got into a fight with someone, and her brother helped her too. How can that not be considered love?”

“If she really cared, she wouldn’t have been sent to the countryside. Even if she had, she would have received packages from her family like other educated youth, right? Chen has been here for so many years, and she’s only ever sending things out, never receiving anything back.”

"Then isn't it all just an act?"

"They probably came to our brigade because they wanted to take away Chen Zhiqing's bride price. I haven't seen them come here in the past few years."

The crowd looked at Old Lady Xia and her husband with disdain. They thought, "You only care about your daughter now that she's getting married, but it's all for that little bit of money."

He's a worker himself, yet he still covets his daughter's meager work points. How shameless!

Grandma Xia felt a little guilty. In her previous life, she was the kind of person who was indifferent to her daughter. However, in her previous life, she really hadn't thought about asking for a bride price from Xiang Hong, since her family certainly didn't lack 50 yuan.

If it weren't for the accident, Xiang Hong would have received two hundred yuan as a dowry from them.

However, the money was never delivered to Xiang Hong even after she died.

Aunt Li Wu hates it when people belittle her son, and she started arguing with someone again.

The brigade leader loudly ordered everyone to be quiet, "Chen Zhiqing, you're saying you didn't receive any betrothal gifts from Li Zhuang?"

Chen Xianghong: "Yes, I didn't take it."

Li Zhuangchao shouted, "I clearly gave it to you. You often send things to your parents, so did you send money to them?"

After being wrongly accused, Chen Xianghong said with red eyes, "I didn't. The money I sent to my parents was all distributed by the village, and every single transaction was recorded. The educated youth who lived with me can testify that apart from the grain distributed by the village and the wild vegetables picked from the mountain, I never spent any other money."

Grandma Xia's heart ached terribly. Her Xiang Hong was so frugal, never eating or dressing well, giving away all the good things she had to them; she had become so thin.

That damned Li Zhuang, he actually tried to frame her.

The battalion commander was pretty sure Li Zhuang was the culprit. But having someone like this in the battalion would damage their reputation, so he could only try to smooth things over by saying:

"The people at the educated youth affairs office will definitely favor Chen, so having them testify would be unfair. Anyway, Chen and Li Zhuang's relationship is pretty much settled, so let's just leave it at that. The bride price will ultimately be spent on the two of them anyway."

Li Zhuang chimed in, "That's right, that's right. Anyway, we'll all be family from now on. If Chen Zhiqing says he didn't receive it, then so be it."

Grandma Xia: "If they gave it, they gave it; if they didn't give it, they didn't give it. If the brigade leader insists on saying that, I'll go to the commune and find someone who can make that decision!"

Seeing the captain's fierce expression, as if he intended to harm them, she said loudly, "I'm from the textile factory. I came here with a certificate. If you don't want to let us go, there are plenty of people coming to me. You'd better think it over."

Captain: ...I didn't...I didn't...

The situation became a dilemma.

At this moment, a villager said, "I saw Li Zhuang gambling with them before, in a dilapidated house down the mountain behind us."

The battalion commander was annoyed. What was wrong with this guy? He kept bringing up the shortcomings of his own battalion members. But since the man had already said it, he still turned to Li Zhuang and asked, "Li Zhuang, did you go gambling? Did you take the bride price to gamble?"