Educated Youth in the Countryside: She is the Village's Embroidery Queen!-Chapter 135: Don’t Be a Loser

"There’s no pesticide."

Yi Chichi was concise; with pesticide, any problem can be solved.

Without it, we can only pull weeds and catch bugs manually, which is exhausting.

But still, you can’t avoid doing it.

If weeds run rampant, they’ll compete with crops for nutrients, leading to malnutrition in crops.

If bugs proliferate, it’s not just about malnutrition, it directly reduces yield.

That’s even scarier. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

So, you have no choice but to work.

"Can we make pesticide ourselves?"

Zhang Yunhao said something shocking.

Yi Chichi and the others were stunned; it was really a good idea.

However—

"Do you know the formula for pesticide?"

"Nope."

"Did you study chemical or biological pest control?"

"...No."

Yi Chichi sighed, "Finish eating and wash up, then sleep."

She patted Zhang Yunhao on the shoulder and turned back to the house.

Zhang Yunhao was dazed for a moment before he looked at Bai Chen and the others, "What did Old Yi mean by that?"

Why is she telling him to wash up and sleep?

He isn’t tired yet.

"She’s telling you to sleep because anything is possible in dreams."

Too naive, naive enough that Bai Chen and the others couldn’t help but point it out.

This time Zhang Yunhao understood; he shouted towards Yi Chichi’s room, "Old Yi, do you know how annoying it is when you talk like this."

Yi Chichi rolled her eyes; she didn’t care if people found her annoying, she wasn’t like money that everyone loves.

At the dinner table in the evening, Guan Mingyue was absent.

Bai Chen looked at the food Wu Yongfei set aside for her and was worried, "Old Guan didn’t really go to report to the police, did he?!"

Yi Chichi and the others exchanged glances and then bowed their heads, focusing on their meal.

"Why aren’t you guys talking?"

The biggest principle is eating.

If Guan Mingyue wants to report to the police, it’s like rain falling or someone wanting to get married; it’s out of their control.

And they couldn’t control it.

Nor did they have the right to control it.

"Eat your meal, don’t worry like an old fool all day long."

Seeing him about to speak again, Wu Yongfei stuffed a piece of squid into his mouth.

Bai Chen chewed and swallowed, frowning, "I’m not worrying aimlessly, I’m sincerely concerned."

Does this never end?!

Yi Chichi looked at him, "Don’t worry about whether Guan Mingyue will report to the police, the team leader will take care of it."

Most likely, Guan Mingyue went out to borrow a bicycle.

She didn’t think with Guan Mingyue’s personality, she could walk to the commune.

Especially since it was dark now.

"Just wait, she’ll definitely be brought back."

Unless it’s a matter of life and death, the team leader won’t agree to lend Guan Mingyue a bicycle to report to the police.

The team leader wouldn’t abandon the honorary title of the excellent production team.

Unless Guan Mingyue could offer them greater benefits, which based on her understanding of Guan Mingyue, she couldn’t provide.

So being brought back became inevitable.

But Bai Chen and the others couldn’t see this; they were still like clueless deer asking questions after hearing her words.

Yi Chichi helplessly had to explain things clearly to them.

"The honorary title of the excellent production team is important to the team leader, and important to the villagers of Kao Shan Village. Without enough interest as a substitute, the team leader won’t agree to Old Guan undermining the team’s honor."

They realized suddenly.

Yi Chichi just laughed, "Not worried now, right?!"

"Does that mean if something happens to us in the future, we’ll have no way to report to the police?"

A new problem arose, and Yi Chichi was genuinely impressed by this.

She sighed, "That depends on the seriousness of the matter."

"What do you mean?"

"For instance, if it’s about human lives or significant harm, even if you want to suppress it, the team leader won’t be able to."

Because you might suppress it for a moment, but not forever.

Besides, where there are good people, there are bad people, unless everyone in the production team is extremely vicious and willing to collude, otherwise it’s hard to keep everyone’s mouth shut.

If even one person doesn’t keep quiet, the consequences of the leak are uncertain.

Undeniably, there have been cases where educated youth died due to ’accidents’ during their time with the team.

But those were the minority.

The Kao Shan Village production team has a decent folk culture, and their dislike for the educated youth is limited to verbal expression; it won’t go beyond that.

So as long as things aren’t too serious, the team’s approach is to value harmony.

If it’s about human lives or significant cases, they can’t value harmony over justice.

There’s Grandpa Liu, a strong-willed revolutionary veteran, holding the fort.

"The case with Guan Mingyue and Yan Wanwan doesn’t count as a major incident."

In other words, this matter will definitely be suppressed.

"Then she won’t get her money back, right?!"

Yi Chichi just smiled and softly said, "Reporting to the police won’t be helpful for her in this case."

"Why?"

"Because she got her stuff back, sold what she could, and Yan Wanwan and the others wrote an IOU promising to repay her. Legally, it counts as a normal borrowing relationship."

"Then she’s doomed, she definitely won’t get it back."

Yi Chichi said nothing, because she wouldn’t get it back.

If the positions were reversed and she was in Guan Mingyue’s shoes, she wouldn’t even consider collecting this debt.

Instead, she’d go straight to the roots, targeting their family members, cutting off Yan Wanwan and Ning Haitao’s support.

At that point, without family backing them, they would be easy to manipulate.

If she found them an eyesore, she could be ruthless and bait them into a trap.

If she was lenient, she’d take a roundabout approach, using petty means to make them continuously make mistakes.

Once they infuriated the masses, she wouldn’t need to do anything. There’d be plenty of people causing trouble for them.

Money is important, but often it’s not that crucial.

Feeling at ease was most important for her.

But Guan Mingyue wasn’t her, so how it would proceed was still an unknown.

"Let’s eat."

If the squid isn’t eaten while hot, it’ll smell too fishy, and Yi Chichi couldn’t stand that taste.

She thought of swapping some eggs from Aunt Ma, wondering if they had gathered any eggs yet.

At this moment, a loud thud came.

Yi Chichi and the others looked out through the window and door, seeing that Guan Mingyue had returned.

This girl was visibly furious, clearly enraged.

She walked in and wiped her tears, "The team leader won’t let me report to the police!"

Bai Chen and the others looked at Yi Chichi, clearly seeing she was brought back.

Yi Chichi smirked internally but didn’t show it, offering her some chopsticks, "How did you explain to the team leader?"

"I said I wanted Yan Wanwan and the others in jail."

Yi Chichi nodded, indeed something she would say.

"And then?"

"Then the team leader asked me why, and I explained what happened, but they said reporting to the police won’t help."

No fault in what they said, if there was no IOU, and possessions weren’t returned, action could be taken based on receipts.

Now, it’s tough.

"So, what did you say?"

"I don’t want to be a pushover, boo hoo hoo..."

Now overwhelmed with tears, she started sobbing.

Yi Chichi and the others were dumbfounded.

They were stunned by her focus.

Wu Yongfei couldn’t help but tease, "Shouldn’t your focus be on not getting your money back?"

Guan Mingyue raised her tearful eyes, hesitating to speak.