Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 286 - 285: Truly Worthy of Him

Chapter 286: Chapter 285: Truly Worthy of Him

The Educated Youth Corps was breached by intruders for the first time, and everyone was terrified. They feared losing their innocence, they feared bad influences, they feared losing their advanced status, they feared losing neighbors.

The Educated Youth Corps was breached by intruders for the second time, and everyone was again terrified. They feared the thieves might get crushed to death, they feared the thieves being beaten to death, they feared the Public Security arriving too late, they feared the educated youths becoming accomplices.

The incident took place in the backyard of the Educated Youth Corps, naturally, the first group to arrive was the backyard trio, followed by the front yard group, and then a large number of villagers in the fourth batch.

Li Dahe was among the first of the villagers to arrive. Awakened by the barking of dogs, he rolled off the Kang bed, donned his clothes and sprinted a hundred meters, outpacing several dogs.

Uncle Team Leader arrived with the village’s entire group of dogs as the third batch.

The voice of the great Team Leader arrived before he did: "Stop everyone! Let me see who it is first!"

He shouted as he rushed into the Educated Youth Corps.

Then he and the dogs just froze on the spot.

After a moment, Uncle Team Leader asked: "What are you all looking at?"

Hearing Li Dahe’s voice, the crowd at the Educated Youth Corps who were brutally fixating on the figures covered in rat traps lying on the ground, immediately began reporting in chatter:

"Uncle Team Leader, look, there are hooligans climbing over the wall!"

"Team Leader, these people are not from our Team!"

"Team Leader, with the autumn harvest coming soon, they wouldn’t be planning anything against our cornfields, would they?"

"Uncle, you must stand up for me—those damn bastards broke my little bamboo pole! I can’t live like this anymore!"

The noise from the crowd was so loud that even the dogs dared not bark.

Just as their squabbling ended, the townspeople also arrived.

"What’s going on? Is there a thief?"

"Did anyone get hurt? What about the girls? Let’s hear from them!"

"Everyone, stay away from the wall, there are rat traps."

"It wasn’t me this time! I’ve been at home all night!"

Caught in the midst of the crowd, Li Dahe was overwhelmed.

"Enough, enough, enough!"

Li Dahe, on his tiptoes and waving the pipe pot he had instinctively grabbed when he was startled awake, had to shout several times to drown out the voices of the others.

He first counted the number of educated youths present, seeing no one was missing or crying;

Then, he glanced at the villagers behind him and saw Zhao Zhuangshi among them;

Finally, he looked at the few dogs by his feet, which were the most well-behaved.

"Stop the senseless clamor," Li Dahe casually grabbed a flashlight from someone, gathered a few strong young men, and walked with them toward the foot of the wall, "Let’s see which worthless kid hasn’t been behaving!"

Actually, Li Dahe already had some suspicions deep down, but he didn’t want to believe them, and subconsciously didn’t want to think of complications.

However, reality again proved that the more you fear something, the more it comes.

With the light from the flashlight revealing their faces, Li Dahe gritted his teeth fiercely.

With the aid of the flashlight’s beam, some people among the townsfolk recognized who it was.

"Isn’t that Qian Sanbao from the Victory Team? What are they doing here in the dead of night?"

"They must be up to no good! Coming all the way here to climb over the wall of the Educated Youth Corps, they couldn’t have good intentions."

"Are these guys all from the Victory Team? It’s not like their swine flu killed their pigs and they’ve come to poison ours, right?"

"Why would they need to poison pigs by coming to the Educated Youth Corps?"

"Then it must be they’re lost and out of their minds?"

Li Dahe, looking down at the four guys lying on the ground, his face darkened with anger.

These worthless rascals, each more restless than the last, had just caught a glimpse of Lin Nianhe during the day, and couldn’t contain themselves so they came over to climb over the wall at night...

Lin Nianhe stood under the eaves, leisurely sipping hot water from a cup.

The autumn in the Northeast is really cold at night.

She tugged at her collar to block the cold wind.

"So that’s why you’ve been busy since you returned this afternoon, all for this?" Wang Xue moved next to Lin Nianhe at some point and asked softly.

After Lin Nianhe came back, she rummaged through the house for a while, then dragged out a big sack and set up a circle of mousetraps along the walls of the Educated Youth Corps.

She even specifically brought others to inspect the defense layout to prevent them from groggily walking into the traps while sleeping.

Wang Xue looked at the wall base, still puzzled, "But how did you know they were going to climb over the wall?"

Holding an enamel jar, Lin Nianhe replied slowly, "I didn’t know for sure, I just thought of it and took some precautions casually; I didn’t expect there would actually be people plotting together to come over. It’s just a pity."

As Lin Nianhe spoke, she glanced at two animal traps hidden in the most inconspicuous dark spots.

Those were the two places she had carefully studied and picked as most likely to be used as climbing points on the wall. Unexpectedly, this unprofessional group didn’t choose those two places.

Lin Nianhe felt a mix of heartache and helplessness, but she could only sigh silently.

This was a case of different wavelengths of thinking due to unequal strength.

Their whisperings were drowned out by the squealing and wailing.

Li Dahe had several young men remove the mousetraps from Qian Sanbao and his companions, binding them tightly with hemp rope; only then did Li Dahe ask, "What are you here for?"

All four of them hung their heads, none speaking.

Li Dahe glared, his voice going up eight notches, "Speak!"

"..."

Silence was the only response.

This was the moment when having a village tyrant came in handy.

Zhao Zhuangshi parted the crowd, rolled up his sleeves, and stepped forward: "Uncle Li, let me handle this!"

Li Dahe turned to glance at him, then looked at the deflated group and stepped aside.

Lin Nianhe kindly reminded, "Zhao Zhuangshi, put the axe aside first, don’t bump into anyone."

Wen Lan also remembered the urgency, "Right, right, move over there, don’t crush the vegetable garden!"

Not sure if the word "axe" triggered some painful memories for them, or it was Wen Lan’s voice, but they all shivered in unison and before Zhao Zhuangshi could get close, they quickly confessed:

"They said there’s a good-looking female educated youth at Ten Miles Team!"

"We just came to see!"

"We wanted to befriend her!"

"We really didn’t do anything!"

Seeing the young men confess so readily even before being hit, Zhao Zhuangshi was momentarily stunned, then he lifted his chin.

That’s expected of him, such an intimidating presence!

Zhao Zhuangshi turned back toward Li Dahe and said, "Uncle, they came to be hooligans!"

This response made Li Dahe roll his eyes in exasperation.

Didn’t he already know what these boys were up to?

But since they came with that intention, presumably...

Li Dahe furrowed his brows, turned to look at the female educated youths and then at the village girls.

After a moment, he instructed, "Zhuangshi, Xiao Hai, Xiao Shan, you guys stay; everyone else go back to your houses. Time to sleep, and keep your mouths shut tightly."

The villagers, full of curiosity, all wanted to know how this would be handled, but seeing Li Dahe’s stern brow-knitting and glaring, they all closed their mouths and hesitantly headed out.

Wang Hong was a step slower, saying, "Let the girls stay at my place tonight, no need to frighten them with your commotion."

"Hmm, that works, then you guys..."

Li Dahe turned his head and looked at the Educated Youth Corps’ Eight Flowers, and once again lost his words.