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Listening to the murmurs of the crowd, Feng Qingqing knew that if she didn't explain things clearly, who knew how the rumors would spread in the future.

Feng Qingqing glanced at Lü Yulan with a cold look in her eyes. Since you want to cause trouble, I wonder if you can bear the consequences.

The captain then realized that there was a problem with Lü Yulan's apology, but the words had already been spoken, and he could only wait and see if he could make amends.

Feng Qingqing stepped forward to the front of the crowd and spoke righteously:

"Fellow villagers, I think Comrade Lü Yulan is right. I think we don't need to apologize."

After speaking, he ignored Lu Yulan's somewhat surprised look and continued to look at the members present.

"I shouldn't have brought the only cured meat left in my family after my parents passed away. And even if I had, I should have eaten it all at once, instead of being reluctant to eat it and only cutting off a little bit each time. That was wrong of me and caused trouble for the other educated youth living with me."

Upon hearing her words, Lü Yulan sensed something was wrong, and her expression changed slightly.

Everyone present looked disapproving. Before they could react, Feng Qingqing quickly finished speaking:

“I think the problem raised by Lü Zhiqing is very correct. I think we should support Lü Zhiqing’s proposal to form a group in the brigade to regularly visit each household to supervise and check whether each family eats meat. If a family eats meat for two consecutive meals, according to Lü Zhiqing’s proposal, that would be the behavior of a bourgeois element and a landlord, and that would be criticized and struggled against. I respect Lü Zhiqing’s proposal.”

Seeing that Lü Yulan's face had become even paler and more embarrassed after hearing her words, Feng Qingqing turned away without saying anything more.

At this point, the members present, especially the older women, could no longer contain themselves and spoke out indignantly:

“Feng Zhiqing, I think you did the right thing. What kind of family would squander every little bit of meat? That’s not what a landlord would do.”

After speaking, he gave Lü Yulan a meaningful look, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Even more direct were the older women who had worked with Feng Qingqing:

“Feng, I think those people are just jealous that you eat meat. They can’t stand to see you doing well. What’s wrong with eating meat? Everyone eats meat. I want to ask the other educated youths, does eating meat make you break the law?”

"Yeah, what kind of group is this? I think she's trying to undermine the hard-working, simple, and positive lifestyle of our Lanshan Brigade. She has ulterior motives."

"Pah! I think she's a bad element, probably a spy. Captain, I think we should arrest her and interrogate her properly. We can't let a bad guy get away with this."

The crowd kept talking, and Lü Yulan couldn't take it anymore. Large beads of sweat rolled down her forehead, and she trembled like a leaf, almost losing her balance.

She knew that what Feng Qingqing had just said would displease the members, but she didn't expect the team members to react so strongly. She was about to offend the entire Blue Mountain Brigade.

This is something Lu Yulan can't afford, since she'll be living here for a long time to come.

Lu Yulan guessed correctly. At first, the commune members didn't react much when the educated youth went on stage to apologize. But when they heard that Feng Qingqing's remarks would affect their future meat consumption, that was truly intolerable. For rural people, they looked forward to eating a couple of pieces of meat all year round, and now they couldn't even eat meat for two meals in a row. This was simply outrageous, like pulling the lion's hair out of a lion's head or cutting a tiger's head.

Amidst the chatter of the crowd, the captain stepped forward, coughed lightly, glanced at Lü Yulan's unpleasant face, and thought to himself, "You deserve it. Even at a time like this, you're still making those underhanded moves. Do you think no one knows?"

Feng Qingqing is not someone to be trifled with.

The captain glanced at Feng Qingqing, who was leisurely watching the show from the side. He sighed, "None of them are any good."

The captain suddenly shouted:

"Quiet down and let Lü Zhiqing finish speaking."

Lü Yulan knew that the brigade leader had asked her to clarify things if she wanted to continue living peacefully in the Lanshan Brigade.

Knowing the stakes involved, Lü Yulan was much more sensible this time, and even her attitude seemed incredibly sincere:

"I'm sorry for taking up everyone's time. I sincerely repent here and apologize for my irresponsible words before. I want to clarify that I did not suggest forming an inspection team, and I will not do so now or in the future. I was just a little envious of Feng Zhiqing's life and said the wrong thing in a moment of impulse. Please forgive me this time, considering that this is my first mistake. I will definitely correct myself next time and will not make the same mistake again."

After speaking, he bowed ninety degrees to everyone present to show his sincerity.

Upon seeing this, Feng Qingqing's lips twitched slightly. See, she still apologizes; isn't that good enough?

The onlookers, seeing the girl's sincere apology, didn't know what to say, but their expressions were still not very pleasant.

Seeing that the crowd neither accepted nor opposed it, he knew that this meant tacit agreement.

Feng Qingqing knew that although Lü Yulan had barely passed this test today, she still had a long way to go to restore her image in the hearts of the commune members.

He twitched his lips. "I told you to apologize properly, but you had to cause trouble. Serves you right."

Seeing that the matter was almost over and that it was getting late, the captain waved his hand, signaling everyone to go home.

As usual, Feng Qingqing walked with Hu Fangming. Hu Fangming was very impressed with Feng Qingqing's bravery today. After all, given Lü Yulan's personality, very few educated youth liked her.

Even though Lü Yulan was in the wrong today, seeing Feng Qingqing direct the anger at Lü Yulan and subject her to all sorts of harassment from the commune members, it wouldn't be entirely true that the educated youth had no thoughts.

That's how people are; they sympathize with the weak without considering that if he didn't refute her and let Lü Yulan falsely accuse him, how would he face himself in the future, and how much trouble would he cause?

After the educated youth returned to the educated youth compound, perhaps influenced by the fierce rebuttals from the commune members earlier, no one was willing to speak, and the entire educated youth compound remained quiet until mealtime.

After discussing it, Feng Qingqing and Hu Fangming decided to eat the pancakes that Feng Qingqing had made for Doctor Wang at noon, for convenience.

For their own consumption, Feng Qingqing added some cornmeal and mixed grain flour, pure white flour, which was really too much to handle.

They made four pancakes, two for each of them, with chili sauce inside, and poured in some hot water—it was another simple dinner.

After finishing her meal, it was still early, but Feng Qingqing still washed up, changed into some clean clothes, and went to bed early.

Feng Qingqing lay on the kang with her eyes closed, pretending to sleep. She wasn't sleepy, but mainly because she was eager to know the details of yesterday's space upgrade, to see if it had upgraded to level two as she had hoped, including all the functions.