Chapter 148: Chapter 148

"Xiao Xue, what are we going to do?" Wang Cuihua was at a loss. "Even though we’ve bought all our eggs and haven’t taken advantage of the community, the rules say a family can only raise three chickens! So... what are we going to do with these thirty or forty chicks?"

"Mom, don’t worry! I have my plans! Just let her prattle on!" Bai Ruxue calmly placed the chicks without a care.

At this point, Dong Sihan, who was sitting on the kang, spoke up.

"Auntie, why don’t we just say that these chicks are hatched for families who don’t have chickens?"

Upon hearing Dong Sihan’s suggestion, Bai Ruxue nodded in approval.

Her original plan was to give three chicks to a few families she had good relations with, so Dong Sihan’s suggestion spared her the trouble of explaining to her mom.

"Oh... Sihan’s plan works! I’ll go tell them right now!" Wang Cuihua didn’t bother finishing breakfast and hurriedly got up.

"Mom, no need to rush, just look after the children! Don’t worry about this matter!" Bai Ruxue stopped her mom.

Then she went outside herself.

But she wasn’t going to talk about the matter; she just did her usual rounds at the chicken farm. Hearing Third Granny say everything was normal, she was relieved.

Someone like Zhao Hongmei was just a clown, unable to bite her, only to annoy.

By noon, the team leader indeed sent someone to fetch her.

Bai Ruxue scratched her head, helplessly heading in that direction.

As she entered, Mayor Guo was being flanked by Secretary Li and Wang Jianjun, speaking well of her.

"Mayor Guo!" Bai Ruxue said as she walked in.

"Mayor Guo, Comrade Xiao Xue is here!" followed up by the secretary walking in and announcing.

"I see!" Mayor Guo responded grumpily.

He really didn’t want to come; he trusted Comrade Xiao Xue’s character. He personally appointed her; if he didn’t trust her integrity, how could he appoint.

"Xiao Xue, have a seat! Let’s talk!" Mayor Guo’s attitude towards Bai Ruxue was much more cordial.

This made Zhao Hongmei, standing at the side, look displeased.

"Alright!" Bai Ruxue didn’t fuss, she sat as invited.

"Mayor Guo, why did the team leader have someone bring me here?" Bai Ruxue opened up, confused after sitting down.

By this time, with Zhao Hongmei shouting, quite a few people had come to the brigade office to watch.

Wang Cuihua wasn’t at ease leaving her child with Dong Sihan, so she anxiously waited at home.

Her eyes swollen from crying.

"It’s , Comrade Zhao Hongmei reported that you took advantage of the community, saying you hatch chicks at home, and quite a number!" Mayor Guo diplomatically filtered Zhao Hongmei’s words.

"This matter! I think it doesn’t even need explaining!" Bai Ruxue looked at Zhao Hongmei amusingly and then spoke to Mayor Guo.

"Bai Ruxue, don’t try to argue! Of course, it needs no explanation! You outright took advantage of the community, using your position to secretly raise chicken farm eggs! You..." Zhao Hongmei shouted loudly.

"Comrade Zhao Hongmei! This is the brigade office, not a place for you to quarrel!" Team leader Wang Jianjun sternly warned.

This educated youth kept stirring up trouble. Their brigade’s reputation was always tarnished by this young woman.

Today she even stirred up Secretary Li and Mayor Guo to come over.

"Team leader! You can’t protect her, she’s a bane to our brigade, she needs to be eradicated!" Zhao Hongmei’s face turned red with anger from the team leader’s reprimand, her voice growing louder.

"Don’t make false accusations! Xiao Xue has done so much for our brigade, if not for her, this chicken farm wouldn’t have even been set up, we couldn’t even get the tractor approved!" spoke up Wang Xuehua’s mother, the wife of the team leader, who could no longer watch.

"Isn’t that right! How can an educated youth smear a contributor to our brigade ?" another woman chimed in.

"What do you know? If you don’t believe me, go check her home, her kang is hatching quite a few chicks, they’re breaking their shells! I saw it with my own eyes!" Zhao Hongmei, cornered by these women, angrily sought evidence, "Bai Ruxue, I saw it with my own eyes this morning, you can’t deny it, right?"

Then she looked at Bai Ruxue, ready to take people to catch her in action if she dared deny it.

Because she had Liu Lili keeping watch near Bai Ruxue’s house, and Liu Lili said those chicks hadn’t been sent away.

She was convinced that Bai Ruxue’s house still had those chicks.

"Yes! We have chicks, indeed just starting to hatch!" Bai Ruxue nodded, her face still carrying a calm smile.

"What’s going on?" The team leader couldn’t hold back and asked.

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"Also, think about it, when did the chicken farm start? Our chicks were already starting to hatch! Anyone who knows about hatching chicks knows it takes 21 days! 21 days ago, I hadn’t even applied for the chicken farm yet! The team leader can testify to this!" Bai Ruxue looked at team leader Wang Jianjun, "That day I accompanied the team leader to see Mayor Guo."

"Yes! I can testify! It was indeed with me when we went to see Mayor Guo!" Wang Jianjun confirmed immediately.

"So what?" Zhao Hongmei stubbornly insisted, convinced the eggs were taken advantage of from the chicken farm.

"That depends on what Mayor Guo says!" Bai Ruxue smiled looking at Mayor Guo.

"More than twenty days ago, the chicken farm was not yet approved, and the funds for its establishment hadn’t even been allocated! So the claim of taking advantage of the chicken farm is unfounded!" Mayor Guo declared loudly.

Bai Ruxue shrugged at Zhao Hongmei! The meaning was clear, almost as if saying, see? You’ve fussed for nothing again.

Zhao Hongmei was frustrated, but then she sneered with ill intent.

"But Mayor Guo, isn’t there a rule that each household can only raise three chickens? Comrade Bai Ruxue’s family has no less than thirty! How shall we handle this?"

Zhao Hongmei intentionally spoke louder, ensuring everyone around could hear.

"Zhao Hongmei, if you’re a mad dog, don’t run around biting people! What has our No. 5 brigade ever done to you to deserve this?" As soon as Zhao Hongmei finished, Bai Ruxue unceremoniously berated her, disregarding the presence of Mayor Guo and Secretary Li.

The onlookers were all caught off guard by the scolding.

"What did you say? How dare you insult me? I’ll tear you apart..." Zhao Hongmei, being the thoughtless type, couldn’t handle provocation.

"Hold her down!" Mayor Guo waved his hand, then turned to Bai Ruxue.

"Comrade Xiao Xue! You shouldn’t resort to insults! Now tell us, what’s with all those chickens?"

"Mayor Guo! This educated youth is too much, drinking up the resources of our No. 5 brigade, yet she hasn’t done a single decent thing!" Bai Ruxue first pointed to Zhao Hongmei, who was being restrained by several women, and then began to explain.

"It’s because our brigade has many families without chickens! I thought, if I could hatch some chicks for them, at least the kids could have some eggs for nutrition, right? Yet this educated youth accuses me of taking advantage. Advantage of whom? Isn’t contributing to the country recognized as an advantage now? Who would dare do good deeds if that’s the case?" Bai Ruxue elevated the matter to a national level.