The male supporting character was actually myself.

"I heard the other day that a kid found a porcelain bowl in the mountains, which a traveling merchant took a liking to and sold for eighty yuan..."

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Amidst the clamor and differing opinions, Wu Jiande stared at Liao Yuzhou, his face twitching as he revealed a forced, insincere smile. "Holding a banquet doesn't count as a wedding. Liao, if you want to register your household registration, you'll need..."

"Marriage certificate." Jiang Chen took it out of his bag, waved it, and laughed, "Director Wu, we got the certificate first and then had the banquet, so our marital relationship is absolutely legal."

Having been rebuffed, he could only swallow the rest of his unspoken words, his eyes darting around as he tried to figure out how to turn the tables. Ideally, he'd break them up. He didn't mind that Liao Yuzhou was divorced, as long as she wasn't pregnant—no, even if she were pregnant in the last couple of days, she could go to the hospital for an abortion!

Anyway, Liao Yuzhou was the one he took a liking to first, so she had to be his wife.

Thinking of this, Wu Jiande frowned and said sarcastically, "Classmate Liao, this is where you went wrong. Educated youths sent to the countryside have to submit a report before getting married. Even if they are willing to marry, the organization has to vet them for you."

Do you know that He Jiangchen's maternal grandmother's family has a problematic social background?

If you're going to marry, marry a poor peasant from a good family; that's the kind of awareness a sent-down youth should have…

Jiang Chen had no patience to listen to his nonsense and interrupted him, asking, "Director Wu, are you saying that my poor peasant background, which is acknowledged by the government, is fake? Are you questioning the country or the organization's judgment?"

What are your true intentions in deliberately distorting the facts and intensifying the conflict?

Our marriage is legal and legitimate, all the formalities are complete, and even the village secretaries of both villages have signed and stamped their approval. But when it comes to you, you keep making excuses and delaying things.

Tell me! Are you a spy infiltrating the organization?

By deliberately obstructing educated youth from settling down in the countryside, who would dare to enthusiastically sign up for rural assignments? Who would be willing to come to the vast rural areas?

Chapter 41 The wicked will be punished by the wicked.

"Hey, hey, no, you..." Wu Jiande was thinking about how to subtly pin a label on Liao Yuzhou and ruin the marriage.

Before I could even say anything, how come the other party has already thrown the blame on me?

If this gets out, I'll likely be investigated!

Liao Yuzhou covered her mouth and chuckled, feeling even more secure leaning against her husband.

She looked up at the other person's serious, spirited, and high-spirited appearance, and thought to herself that Wu Jiande, who was best at controlling his tone, had finally met his match. She would follow his path and leave him with nowhere to go. My husband was really good at taking the initiative!

"You, you're talking nonsense!" Wu Jiande was clearly agitated, jumping up and down and pointing at Jiang Chen, his face flushed red as he shouted, "Don't try to label me! I'm a legitimate government official!"

“State cadres should do practical things for the people.” Jiang Chen immediately chimed in, “The Party Secretary called you over twice to go through the procedures and get the documents stamped, but you didn’t even bother to look at the documents. You just stood there with your hands behind your back, acting all high and mighty.”

You are a director in charge of managing the educated youth sent to the countryside, and you are responsible for the educated youth under your jurisdiction.

My wife told me that she used to live in a bad place with bad food, and she was even afraid to sleep at night because there were always shadowy figures in the yard.

Director Wu, if you still have the awareness of a state cadre, then do something worthwhile.

"Find out exactly who was hiding under the female educated youth's window in the middle of the night, so as not to ruin the reputation of our village and prevent any more educated youths from wanting to come here."

Wu Jiande felt a pang of guilt. Personal conduct issues were being strictly investigated and dealt with. If Liao Yuzhou exposed this, wouldn't he be investigated by higher authorities?

And then there's the old widow's mouth, which always causes trouble...

"I... I helped out in the fields today, and I didn't bring my seal with me." He decided to use a feigned retreat to stall the other party before figuring out a better strategy, so he stammered, "You can come to the county's educated youth office another day, oh no, tomorrow. My seal is in the office."

Making up an excuse, Wu Jiande turned around and wanted to leave the place of trouble.

Seeing that he was unwilling to cooperate with the stamping, Jiang Chen raised her eyebrows and twitched her fingers slightly.

Some of the villagers watching couldn't stand him. Seeing that Wu Jiande had already lost face by not even giving the village secretary a letter, they mocked him, "Oh, Director Wu is really busy! Helping out in the fields to work."

Why do I see you hanging around that young lady?

You don't do any work, you just eat and drink for free and tell your young wife dirty jokes. You're really busy, aren't you?"

"Keep a close eye on any young women or wives in your family, lest they go astray!"

"Oh dear, Director Wu, you have relatives on the estate, don't you? Have some self-respect..."

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Amidst the mockery of a group of people, Wu Jiande pushed through the crowd and prepared to leave.

"Stab!"

A sudden soft sound was followed by his exclamation, and Jiang Chen turned away to cover his wife's eyes.

"boom!"

The crowd erupted in shouts and laughter.

"Director Wu's pants fell down, hahaha..."

"These pants are so clever, they're falling down by themselves! What's holding them up?"

"Director Wu, that's not fair of you! With so many women here, you're being indecent!"

Wu Jiande, his face flushed, hurriedly scratched at his trousers, which had somehow broken off the belt and fallen to his ankles. He tried to pull them up, but in his panic, a round cloth bag slipped off the belt and rolled far away.

"Hey, what's that tied to your belt?" The village secretary was already annoyed at being humiliated, and seeing this, he sneered and said, "Gouzi, bring me that cloth bag and let me take a look."

The little brat named Gouzi rushed forward, grabbed it, squeezed it, and chuckled, "Grandpa, it looks like a carrot stamp!"

Upon hearing the word "Zhang," a disheveled Wu Jiande instinctively reached for his belt but found nothing. Looking up, he saw a quick-moving little boy had already run over and handed the cloth bag containing the seal to the village secretary.

He panicked, and the embarrassment of his belt breaking and his pants falling down was instantly forgotten.

What to do? There's no escaping it now. Once that stamp is applied, Liao Yuzhou's household registration will be transferred to He Jiangchen's family! She won't be under my control anymore, and she'll have nothing to do with me anymore!

"Ha, isn't this tied to his belt, and even put in a cloth bag?" The village secretary pulled out the bag and squinted at it. "Such a lame excuse!"

He Jiangchen is absolutely right: Director Wu, you're not doing your job properly.

Your deliberate obstruction of educated youth settling in will tarnish the reputation of our Wanjiazhuang village. If other educated youth knew this, who would still want to come and work in the countryside?

As he spoke, he breathed on the stamp, dabbed some red ink, and stamped a large red stamp directly onto the household registration application.

"Alright, take this back to the village and get it done. It won't be long before your household registration is transferred from the collective to your home." The village secretary handed the stamped document to Liao Yuzhou.

She gave a sweet smile, bowed, and said, "Thank you, Party Secretary! Next time you pass by our house, please be sure to come in and sit down."

"Of course, since we're married so close, we'll all be family..." The other person smiled and said a few polite words, then ignored Wu Jiande and prepared to say goodbye to the young couple.

Wu Jiande was furious, gripping his waistband and staring intently at his "love rival" He Jiangchen, who was beaming with joy.

Thinking that tripping you up with the stamp was out of the question, I decided to trip you up and make you look bad in public so you could stop being so cocky!

Just you wait and see. Tonight I'll sneak up to your window. If I can't have Liao Yuzhou's heart, I'll have her body. I'll give you a good cuckold's horns!

As Jiang Chen was leading his newlywed wife out, he caught a glimpse of Wu Jiande's unfriendly gaze and immediately guessed that Wu Jiande was plotting something sinister.

How dare you make a move on my wife?

Dealing with this kind of person...

He thought for a moment, a slight smile playing on his lips. He slowed his pace slightly, took out an item from his spatial storage with his right hand, and threw it at the other person when no one was looking.

One-time D-grade item - Evil people will be punished by other evil people.

The effectiveness of this item depends entirely on the target's character. If the target is kind-hearted and of good character, it will have no effect; the worse the character and the more wicked the person, the stronger the effect. Note: It may shatter the target's established image and surprise them greatly.

A cloud of gray mist rose from Wu Jiande's body, and he couldn't help but shiver.

In an instant, something evil seemed to come alive in his heart. Wu Jiande turned around with bloodshot eyes, holding up his pants with his left hand and pointing at the widow, Old Mrs. Wan, in the crowd with his right hand, cursing angrily: "You old hag, you took my rice and my flour and did not do a single practical thing for me!"

Didn't you say that if you opened the door at night and let me into the yard, I could sneak into the house and rape Liao Yuzhou?

Didn't you suggest putting some kind of sleeping potion in her bowl so she couldn't resist?

"After all that talk, all you've got is money to take from me. I haven't even touched a hair on Liao Yuzhou's head, and now she's married to someone else. Give me back what you took from me!"

His words shocked everyone.

The villagers all turned to look at the elderly widow who was chatting and laughing with someone in the crowd. She clearly hadn't expected Wu Jiande to suddenly say such a thing in public, and immediately turned pale with fright, waving her hands and stammering, "I didn't... Director Wu, please don't talk nonsense, this old woman wouldn't dare..."

Wu Jiande didn't want to either, but he was completely out of control, like a gourd.

After cursing the widow and old lady, he turned his head and pointed at the village party secretary and continued to curse, "You old man, don't be so smug. If it weren't for the fact that I took revenge on the party secretary during the campaign back then and locked him in the cowshed and strangled him in the middle of the night to make it look like he hanged himself, do you think someone like you could have become the party secretary?"

Pooh!

None of you are any good!

The old Party Secretary caught me stealing potatoes and even tried to report me, but in the end, he died because of me.

You won't be able to keep jumping around for much longer!

If you dare to use my seal to stamp Liao Yuzhou's passport and let her run off with that bastard, you wait until I get back to the county and file a complaint against you. You'll be charged with embezzlement and favoritism, and if you don't get executed, you'll be in jail.

I have connections in the county; you bunch of worthless peasants can't even get a word in edgewise!

And you two, neither of you will escape my grasp, especially you—Liao Yuzhou.

Tonight I'm going to crawl into your bed and have my way with you, making you pregnant with my child and cuckolding He Jiangchen. You just wait and see, in a few days I'll have someone investigate your entire family history. If I don't pull strings to get you classified as a landlord, I'm not a Wu!

"If I don't kill you, I'll lock you in a cowshed and beat you every day, make you eat cow dung and drink horse urine, make you wish you were dead! You dare sleep with the girl I've set my sights on? You'll never have a good life!"

Wu Jiande jumped up and down cursing, not even bothering to pull up his pants.

His loose, coarse cloth trousers had fallen all the way down. He had reacted quickly earlier and pulled them up before most people had even seen anything. This time, however, he was so engrossed in venting his frustrations that he blurted out everything on his mind and didn't even think about pulling up his trousers.

"Hey! You pervert!"

"Wu Jiande is a beast in human form!"

"Damn it, has he suddenly gone mad?"

"That was quite a shock, wasn't it? You dare say that? The old Party Secretary... he really strangled him to death? That's terrifying!"

Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes slightly upon hearing the foul language in Wu Jiande's mouth. Protecting his wife, he turned around and kicked Wu Jiande, sending him flying to the ground. Wu Jiande clutched his groin and struggled for a long time, unable to get up. Naturally, the filthy fantasies in his mouth stopped.

In any case, given what he has revealed so far, a death sentence is more than enough. And who knows, the police might even uncover more secrets during their interrogation.

Amidst the chaos, the village secretary remained relatively calm. Quickly regaining his composure, he waved his hand with a dark expression, signaling, "Everyone, get him! Tie Wu Jiande up and take him to the police station. Murder, instigation, attempted rape, and public indecent exposure—any one of these charges would be enough to warrant execution!"

Chapter 42 Is it really haunted?

Liao Yuzhou was shielded by Jiang Chen from the beginning, so he didn't get to see such a shocking scene.

Among the villagers watching, there were women screaming, men shouting, and children jeering. She vaguely understood what was going on—Wu Jiande's belt had ripped, and he was naked with nothing underneath, jumping up and down and cursing. His gray and black clothes were completely exposed.

The women blushed with embarrassment and cursed him as a filthy scoundrel.