Chen Haoran was an educated youth from X Island. He was not tall and had an ordinary appearance, but he was eloquent with words and was especially good at coaxing others. It was said that he used to jump the queues in a neighbouring County, but transferred to their village for some reason and caused trouble as soon as he came. Although he didn’t admit it, many people believed that he was responsible for many situations.
When he transferred here at the end of last year, he was once in charge of leading the animals when suddenly, a donkey ran away in shock.
He went to chase after the donkey, but he didn’t know how to do it properly. Therefore, he chased the animal down a high slope and accidentally killed the first donkey.
Although donkeys didn’t do much work and couldn’t pull carts nor plough the land, donkeys were best at pulling mills and were indispensable animals for the Production Team.
Let alone mention the fact that Han Yongfang and the others would get particularly saddened when an animal like that dies.
Chen Haoran wasn’t sad at all. Instead, he was cheerful as he privately told his peers, “It’s good that it’s dead, would we be able to eat its meat had it not died?”
Later, there were rumours circulating that he jumped the ranks in other places and had harmed the animals in this way. Some members of the Commune were even tricked or coerced by him to kill the animals in order to make sure that they could eat meat.
Some members were deceived by him as they listened to him all the time and even covered his mistakes up. Later, there was no evidence and no sentence presented, but in order to protect his reputation, he was transferred here through some form of coordination.
Since the death of the donkey, Han Yongfang had been very concerned about this matter. As a conclusion, the youngsters were no longer assigned important tasks and they were allowed to work with everyone. However, important and special tasks could not be assigned to them.
With precautions in place, Chen Haoran never made a big mistake— if being lazy and greedy for food was not considered a large mistake. After all, the youngsters these days were spoiled to the core, so laziness, greed, glutton and so on, were all traits that the youth would have, albeit the slightest.
But now, he actually made the Security Director’s daughter preg… Lin Lan felt that if he didn’t get married to her, she would have to cripple his legs!
“Have you spoken to the Security Director?”
Han Qingsong, “He’s not at home as he took someone to the north to see the sweet potatoes.”
Lin Lan, “Then I’ll talk to the Women’s Director and ask her to talk to Xiu Yun’s mother.”
It’s not easy for too many people to know about this kind of thing, but Dong Huaihua had a sense of proportion and she was the Women’s Director. When the time came to mediate with Chen Haoran, she must be asked to come forward.
Lin Lan called Dong Huaihua aside and raised her head politely. She only said that she saw Liu Xiuyun in the County Hospital, but she didn’t elaborate.
Dong Huaihua slapped her own thigh, “Damn, okay, I got it. I was just thinking that something was up with her recently, so I see that her relationship is…in that state.”
Lin Lan looked at her.
Dong Huaihua whispered, “Lin Lan, don’t tell anyone about this.”
Lin Lan nodded, “I told no one but you.”
Dong Huaihua, “AIya, you really hit the spot. We really have to carry out some kind of popularisation and publicity towards those issues. Otherwise, there will be many troubles ahead. These youths are really horrible brats— they are all just lazy and restless all day long. All they do is think about relationships and idle, useless thoughts.”
She hurried to find Liu Xiuyun’s mother and Liu Xiuyun.
Lin Lan went back to continue peeling the corn.