After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 57, Episode 0057, has finally arrived!
Even though everyone already knew that the former checkpoint leader was not a good person, Qian Zhiqing still associated with him. As for what happened afterward, it can only be said that Qian Zhiqing brought it upon himself.

But the child is innocent.

“Qian Zhiqing was unlucky. She could only have one child in her life. Not going to see her and never seeing her at all are not the same thing.”

Not acknowledging one's child for life doesn't mean not caring; it means ensuring that the child can live a good life in this world, even better than if they were with her.

It's not that she doesn't want to see the child, but rather that her adoptive parents and the child can't see her. She often secretly hides in a corner to look at the child and listen to their voice.

But now that's gone, the pillar that kept her going has also disappeared.

Qian Zhiqing couldn't go on living, but before she died, she was determined to avenge her child.

For many years after giving birth, she remained "hidden" in the educated youth settlement. No one paid attention to her or guarded against her, which allowed her to learn many secrets. She also knew that Sun Hua was pimping for Li Bing.

"At first, Qian Zhiqing thought that the child was killed by the child's adoptive parents. She got Sun Hua and Li Bing hooked up, hoping to use Li Bing to get rid of the child's adoptive parents."

"Qian Zhiqing was handsome and knew how to please Li Bing. For a while, he was more popular with Li Bing than the young widow in the commune. Li Bing personally escorted Qian Zhiqing back to the village several times and shamelessly asked the brigade leader and others to take care of Qian Zhiqing, acting like he was Qian Zhiqing's man."

There was a lot of gossip going around in the village back then.

Li Bing doesn't only have Qian Zhiqing as a woman. Besides the young widow who was arrested yesterday, he also has another woman he's keeping, who has given birth to his six-year-old son.

After Qian Zhiqing gained favor, the child's mother could no longer hide it and would seize any opportunity to cause trouble for him, sometimes even bringing the matter to the village.

It was because the two of them had a lot of arguments that Qian, the educated youth, accidentally learned during a fight that her son had been pushed into the river and drowned by Li Bing and that woman's youngest son. The reason was simply that Li Bing's youngest son saw that her son had two boiled eggs in his pocket while he only had one, and he was unhappy about it. So, when the two of them were crossing the bridge together, he pushed her into the river.

When the child was discovered, he was already dead. There were no witnesses around. Only a few children said they saw two children going up the bridge one after the other, but no one had actually seen the scene of Qian Zhiqing's son being pushed.

Aunt Wu whispered in Ren Yan's ear, "Qian, the educated youth, knew a lot about Li Bing. She bypassed the commune and reported him directly to the city. She also reported Sun Hua along with him."

Qian Zhiqing deserves some credit for Li Binghui's arrest, but not all of it.

There were quite a few people involved; a single educated youth couldn't possibly remove the director of a committee.

Even with Aunt Wu right in front of us, all three of her men got involved.

Ren Yan didn't care about anything else; she just listened for fun, since it wasn't her business anyway.

What she cared about most about this whole affair was: "Where is Qian Zhiqing?"

Aunt Wu shook her head with a sigh, then let out a heavy sigh. "She was arrested too. Yesterday morning, she was hiding outside the police station when the city officials took Li Bing to the police station. She took a brick and smashed Li Bing's head open. The brigade leader said she might be sent to a farm."

It seems we'll never have the chance to meet again.

The gossip these past few days has left everyone feeling uneasy. After Aunt Wu finished speaking, she didn't stay long, and Leng Xingran and the others lost interest in gossiping after returning home.

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After Sun Hua and Qian Zhiqing were arrested, the village seemed to fall silent.

Every household was racing against time to go into the mountains to gather wild produce and firewood, so there was hardly anything lively to see in the village. That is, until two large trucks drove into the Hongxing Brigade.

"Captain, Captain, Hai, Hai City Department Store, people from Hai City Department Store are here! They've come in big trucks, two really big trucks!"

Da Niu ran so excitedly that he lost one of his shoes.

Upon hearing the shout, the people in the village committee office all stood up abruptly, causing a series of clattering sounds as chairs were dragged on the floor.

None of them paid any attention to the piercing noise at the moment. The captain grinned, his face flushed, and slapped his thigh, "They've finally arrived."

He's been worried these past few days that things will fall through, and he can't sleep at night. He often gets so upset that his wife gives him a good scolding.

The old Party Secretary was so excited that his eyes reddened, and his hand holding the newspaper trembled as he kept saying, "Good, good, good!"

The story goes that after Lin Yuexi finished her last mission, she had some free time and remembered the waste of mountain products in the village. She then contacted Liu Huai and Wen Wenbin, an old comrade of her father and the head of a department store in Beijing.

Department stores have precedents for directly purchasing mountain products from the countryside. However, Beijing has already pre-ordered mountain products from other places this year. In this era, there are many people who stick to the old ways, but the Red Star Brigade is not the only one with the courage and brains. As long as you have the ability to get the permit.

Beijing is not accepting any fees this year, but Wen Wenbin helped contact department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives in Shanghai. Shanghai said they have everything they need and will take as much as you have, as long as the price is right.

In its first year, Hongxing Commune had the opportunity to sell its mountain products outside the area. They were already secretly happy that they could get a slightly higher price than what the commune's purchasing station offered. If Liu Huai hadn't stopped them, Li Dayou and his group might have sold them at a bargain price.

With Liu Huai overseeing things, the two sides quickly negotiated a price. The head of the Haishi Supply and Marketing Cooperative also contacted several factories, and those factories also ordered a batch of employee New Year's benefits.

However, the main negotiations were conducted by Liu Huai and the people in Haishi [Wen Wenbin was just an intermediary]. Although the captain and the others knew the details, they were still uncertain until they actually received the money and tickets.

With snow expected in about ten days, and still no news from Haishi, the village officials were so anxious they couldn't eat or sleep. They were afraid of Liu Huai and had already gone to look for him several times.

Today has finally arrived.

The old men, who were not young, moved faster than the young men. Da Niu, a young man in his early twenties, couldn't outrun the brigade leader and the old party secretary.

When the two old men ran out, two large trucks had already parked one after the other on the side of the road. A young man wearing a white shirt and black pants jumped out of the front of the truck, carrying a briefcase.

Actually, four people jumped down: two drivers and a burly man who looked like a bodyguard or something similar.

But since this guy looked like the person in charge, the team leader and the old Party Secretary only saw him.

The young man lacked the arrogance of city dwellers. Upon seeing the brigade leader, he immediately greeted him with a smile and quickly walked over to shake hands with him.

"You must be the captain of the Hongxing Brigade. Hello, hello. My name is Huang Li, and I am the person in charge of the Haishi Supply and Marketing Cooperative's purchase of mountain products from the Hongxing Brigade."

The captain grasped Huang Li's hands tightly and shook them vigorously, saying, "Welcome, welcome, Manager Huang, you must be tired from your journey."

“No hard work, just serve the people.”

After exchanging pleasantries, the brigade leader asked the old Party Secretary to take some people to invite him into the office to rest. He, full of energy, wiggled his old legs to notify the villagers to quickly bring over the prepared mountain goods.