CH 10

The team leader of the third team, Li JianYe, was dragged back by a tall, dark, thin man in a military uniform. Followed by their team’s female educated youth Qin LingLing, but Team Leader Li, who had always been haughty, had a bloody nose and a swollen face, and covered in dirt as if he rolled in the mud and got dragged back.

Qin LingLing, herself, wondered whether Li JianYe had just rolled in the mud because he was coated in mud and had a bloody nose and a swollen face.

The banana plantation has always been relatively moist. There was sporadic light rain last night, and the ground was already soft. In order to avoid Gu Zheng’s punches and kicks, he kept rolling, thinking he’d be able to dodge the fists coming over.

Seeing that the swollen face was more puffed than a steamed bun, Qin LingLing felt bad for him. But seeing him like this, she couldn’t help but laugh.

He deserves this!

Always have these nasty and dirty thoughts in his mind, thinking that he is the team leader of the team, and thinks he is really capable. He is not even the captain, let alone the secretary, and thinks he can cover the sky with one hand.

It seemed that her laugh was a bit loud. Gu Zheng, who walked ahead and dragged Li JianYe, stopped slightly and looked back at Qin LingLing.

Qin LingLing was secretly delighted that Li JianYe got beaten, so when Gu Zheng glanced back, she quickly covered her mouth and did not dare to let him see the smile on her face. She looked at Gu Zheng with a loveable and obedient look.

“What’s wrong?” Gu Zheng asked.

Qin LingLing shook her head hurriedly, “No, no, nothing.”

Gu Zheng stared at her warily, but saw that there was nothing wrong, so he didn’t say anything or ask any questions, and continued walking.

The more they neared the team leader headquarters, the more people look at them. It was noon, and it was time for everyone to get off work and have their lunch. Seeing such a man dragging Li JianYe, they couldn’t help but feel suspicious.

“What exactly is going on here? How did the third team’s Team Leader Li get dragged back? He appears to have been beaten?”

“It seems so, his nose and face are all swollen. Hey, how come I feel inexplicably relieved when I look at him like this?” The person who spoke was a middle-aged female educated youth from the third team, surnamed Liu, usually Li JianYe used his power to demand this and that, relying on his title as the team leader, and they also didn’t dare to say anything. Now someone had beat him up, for whatever reason, she just felt relieved!

Zhang, a female educated youth who was about the same age as her, hurriedly pulled her, “Liu Nan, don’t say it too loudly, he will hear it. If he finds out what we’ve said about him, we’re done.”

“I’ll say it from a far, he won’t hear me.” Educated Youth Liu said, squinting to meet the sun and looking at the man dragging Li JianYe, “Who is this guy dragging Team Leader Li? He looks unfamiliar. Unlike the people in our brigade!”

Educated Youth Zhang didn’t really see it either, “He’s not from our brigade, can it be from the nearby village?”

“I’m not sure, I’ve never seen him before, but isn’t that the military uniform that was left behind by the Production and Construction Corps?”

In the early years, their farming team was under the jurisdiction of the Production and Construction Corps. All life, work and rest were managed under militarization. In January last year, the Corps was revoked, and they established the General Administration of Land Reclamation. The farm is then put under the supervision of the General Administration of Land Reclamation. Only some retired veterans and a few active soldiers that stayed here.

When Educated Youth Liu said this, Educated Youth Zhang added: “Maybe it is.” Then, she looked at Qin LingLing who was behind the man, “But I know the one who followed them. That’s our team, Educate Youth Qin, but I’m not sure what’s going on.”

“Whatever is going on, don’t you know if you go and ask?”

The crowd has been chattered nonstop, only to see the tall man dragged Li JianYe straight to the direction of the team leader headquarters. He continued to struggle, but it was unfortunate that his entire body was in anguish. His body isn’t accustomed to lugging weapons like guns and cannons. Even though his work as a team leader was excellent, they were not particularly busy, so his strength paled in comparison to the thin but slender man in front of him. Many others stopped to watch the three as they moved along the path.

After arriving at the team leader headquarters, Gu Zheng threw the person to the ground. And Li JianYe finally managed to break free from Gu Zheng’s grip, hurriedly rolled aside two times, and immediately shouted for the accountant from the team headquarters, trying to hide behind Accountant Fan to protect himself.

When Accountant Fan heard the disturbance, he rushed out as well. He couldn’t have imagined meeting Team Leader Li with a swollen face. “Team Leader Li, what’s the matter with you?” he exclaimed.

“Quick, Accountant Fan, find someone and beat this person out, he hits me, ouch…” Li JianYe screamed in panic. Li JianYe was in excruciating anguish and couldn’t wait to tear the man in front of him to shreds.

When Accountant Fan looked up, he noticed a man standing in front of him. The man’s eyes were piercing and bloodthirsty, like those of a wolf in the night. He immediately felt a queasy stomach. The man’s demeanor was frightening, as if he was about to devour people.

Li JianYe was anxious, “Hurry up and get someone, this man came to our farm to cause troubles, I will make him pay for his blunder and swallow all the consequences.”

Even as Li JianYe bellowed threats, the person in front of him remained indifferent, with a ferocious face staring directly at him, and his tone was a little carelessly saying, “Look for it then!”

Li JianYe felt that he could hear the meaning of the other party’s words: Go get them, I’ll beat you up again, and see if you dare to find people?

He was fairly sober at this point, at least more sober than he was at the Banana plantation, so he cowered behind Accountant Fan, who took a step back as well. Thankfully, two additional people emerged from the team leader’s headquarters. Li JianYe instructed them to rush to the front and teach this outsider a good lesson.

He still doesn’t know who this man is. Just look at his filthy military uniform, as if he hadn’t taken a bath for half a year. With so many people here, he figured this man wouldn’t dare to mess around, so he craned his neck and yelled, “Do you have any idea where this is? You dare to cause havoc here; you’re dead!”

“Who are dead?” Gu Zheng remarked, taking two steps forward, and raised his foot, intending to kick him, but a terrified Li JianYe screamed and hurriedly dodged, hiding behind Accountant Fan and two young male educated youths who were pulled in front by him, whose fear is no less than his.

Li JianYe clutched Accountant Fan’s arm tightly and whispered to him, ” Accountant Fan, Weren’t you a former soldier? Go ahead and beat him.”

Accountant Fan couldn’t laugh or cry, “Team Leader Li, I’m just a logistics soldier, I can’t even use knives or guns!”

“You are really useless, if it hadn’t been for me who recommended you to my uncle at the beginning, do you think you can be here today? So, hurry up and beat him for me!”

Fan Accounting was pushed out and stood directly in front of Gu Zheng. He forced a smile, looking at the man in front of him who was half a head taller than himself, his height of 1.65 meters indicating that he was simply a person from the Lilliputian Nation who had crossed over to the Giant Nation.

With a look from Gu Zheng’s eyes, he was terribly scared, immediately backed away from him. Li JianYe hatefully exclaimed, “You’re really useless!”

As he was talking, someone in the crowd approached upon hearing the news “What’s going on here?”

Li JianYe looked at the person and hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the other’s hand, “Uncle, Uncle, you are finally here, I’m almost beaten to death.”

The man who Team Leader Li called as uncle, looked at his swollen face and startled. If he hadn’t called him, uncle, he wouldn’t know who he was.

“What’s wrong with you?”

Li JianYe appeared to have discovered a lifeline and hurriedly pointed to Gu Zheng, who was not far away, and exclaimed, “He is the one who beat me, uncle. I was in the banana plantation talking to someone when I was beaten by this person. Uncle, you have to seek justice for me.”

While Li JianYe was talking, Gu Zheng gave Qin LingLing a puzzled look. Qin LingLing thought he wanted to ask who this person was, and quickly replied: “This is the captain. The surname is Li, Li JianYe’s uncle.”

Their team was divided into three teams due to different work. Each of the three teams appointed a team leader, just like Li JianYe. The leader of the three teams is the middle-aged man Captain Li. He is also Li JianYe’s uncle. Gu Zheng nodded, indicating that he knew.

Captain Li followed Li JianYe’s words and looked at the other party in a simple military uniform, with a female educated youth behind him. Looking at Li JianYe again, Captain Li’s heart suddenly faltered. He smiled and asked, “Comrade, what’s going on?”

Gu Zheng looked at the cowardly goon being guarded behind him, and raised his thick black eyebrows, “Captain Li, right? You can ask him yourself what he did.

Captain Li looked at his nephew with a swollen face. He felt distressed and worried. He lowered his voice and rebuked, “What have you done?”

Li JianYe felt wronged, “Uncle, I didn’t do anything, it was him who came up and hit me.”

“Are you sure you really didn’t do anything?” Gu Zheng’s voice trailed, with a fierce expression on his face, and Li JianYe hurriedly rushed towards Captain Li in fright.

“Uncle, look at him, look at him, he wants to beat me again. He hit me on my face and kicks my body, uncle, this man who doesn’t know where he comes from, he’s crazy!”

The captain looked at the soldier in front of him, and then at Qin LingLing who was standing beside him. He recognizes Qin LingLing as an educated youth in the team. Seeing this, Captain Li somewhat understood.

He knows that his nephew is usually lecherous, and he usually molested the female educated youth in the team. If it weren’t for him being his nephew, he would not give him the position of the third team leader.

However, he felt that no matter how lustful Li JianYe was, he wouldn’t dare to mess around casually, so he would ask the other educated youth to go along with him.

However, he did not expect that Li JianYe’s bullying female educated youths would be seen by comrades in military uniforms. Now they are still in the brigade. Isn’t this harming him?

The people watching from afar had no idea what was going on, but Captain Li knew exactly what was going on in his heart. Captain Li immediately stared at Li JianYe sharply, and shouted: “You bastard, I always told you to restrain yourself. Why are you being stubborn?”

Li JianYe is still aggrieved, “Uncle, I really didn’t do anything. It was him, they did it on purpose. They performed the fairy jump [1] on me. This Qin LingLing colludes with him, they commit adultery. Yes, adultery, uncle, this Qin LingLing recently married a month ago. But I heard that the man just died, so they hooked up. Yes, that’s it. They were concerned that things would be revealed if I found out, so they beat me. Uncle, you must pursue justice on my behalf…”

Li JianYe pointed at the two, the more he talks, the more felt that he was right. Isn’t this the same as adultery? The female educated youth husband is just dead, but she already hooked up with other men.

[1] 仙人跳 / xiān rén tiào – a popular scheme that uses sex to seduce victims. A typical case is that a man (the victim) encounters an attractive woman, who shows strong interests in him and offers sex. Here by sex, it means either a paid sex service or a romantic relationship.

The victim then proceeds to have sex with the woman, but before / after / in the middle of the sex activities, one or more strong guys break in and claim to be the husband of the woman or police officers or other related parties. The victim is tortured and threatened, and thus has to pay them a lot of money.