Chapter 8: Beating the Villain and Vixen Down
Pan Yongsheng did want to avoid, but he didn't react quickly enough. A porcelain cup was thrown heavily at his forehead. Although it didn't shatter, his forehead immediately swelled and turned red.
Even if the teacup was indeed broken, Su Xiaoxiao felt an immense sense of satisfaction. She scolded angrily, "Get lost! Whom I choose to marry has nothing to do with you two. Stop making a fuss here, calling others rube! Think about it, every family here has roots in the village, going back three generations. Our great leader has said that farmers work the hardest, and laborers are the most honorable. You eat much and work little, yet you dare to look down on the hardworking comrades who provide food for everyone. Your thoughts are massively wrong. I suggest you go to the farm for reeducation; otherwise, you will only disrupt the unity of the people."
Su Xiaoxiao stood tall, sternly reprimanding them. While what she said was correct, the crowd watched in shock as she spoke. They all seemed to think she had gone mad.
Who didn't know that among the more than a dozen educated youths in the dormitory, Su Xiaoxiao looked down the most on the people from the production team? But now, she had turned into a wild card, seemingly possessed.
She had even fallen out with two childhood neighbors over someone like Jiang Yexun, who was nothing more than a country bumpkin.
"Xiaoxiao, how could you hit Brother Yongsheng? He's doing it for your own good," Dong Jiaxuan said anxiously, her eyes turning red.
"For my own good? Spare me! Your little schemes are so transparent that even a fool could see through them. One pretends not to understand the words I’m saying and tries to sow discord between me and Jiang Yexun. The other, who has nothing to do with me despite barely exchanging ten sentences with me from childhood to now, ignores my warnings every day and insists on pretending to have a close relationship with me. And now you want to come and tell me who I should marry? Who do you think you are?" Su Xiaoxiao mercilessly tore down the facade of this despicable pair right in front of her.
This made the educated youths who had initially thought Su Xiaoxiao was speaking harshly suddenly understand everything. Some of the young men even glared at Pan Yongsheng, wishing they could pin him down and give him a good beating.
"Educated Youth Pan, didn't you say you and Educated Youth Su are engaged? So, you've been lying to us all the time!" one of the young men couldn't help but question.
Pan Yongsheng couldn't have imagined that the rumors he spread behind Su Xiaoxiao's back would be exposed in such a shameful way. His face instantly lost all color.
Before he could think of a plausible excuse, Su Xiaoxiao's hand had already reached his face. "Pan Yongsheng, how dare you spread such rumors about me behind my back?!”
While this was just an excuse to hit this shameless scoundrel in the face, Su Xiaoxiao had indeed just discovered that Pan Yongsheng had spread such rumors. She had never been so fierce in her entire life. Pan Yongsheng screamed in pain, wanting to strike back, but the male educated youths who were holding him back prevented him from doing so.
"Scum! Shameless! Rumor-monger!" With someone supporting her back, Su Xiaoxiao scratched and slapped him even harder. She made sure to hit Pan Yongsheng's head.
She couldn't explain to hundreds of people one by one that she had no relationship with this scumbag. So, let everyone know about this commotion and come to ask her. Anyway, someone like Pan Yongsheng deserved any beating she gave him.
However, Dong Jiaxuan, standing half a meter away, was becoming increasingly frantic. "Su Xiaoxiao, stop! How can you hit Brother Yongsheng!" She struggled to protect Pan Yongsheng but was blocked by the female educated youths.
Someone sneered and scrutinized Dong Jiaxuan, "Aren't you Educated Youth Su's good friend? You've been eating and taking so much from her. How many good things have you stolen from her? But now, Educated Youth Su is being bullied by Pan Yongsheng, yet you refuse to help her but go to help him, the man who just slapped you. Are you shameless or what?"
"Tao Junlan, stop talking nonsense! I'm afraid that if something happens to Brother Yongsheng, Xiaoxiao will be punished too," Dong Jiaxuan retorted with a flushed face.
"Phew! Do you think we're all fools? Scum like Pan Yongsheng, who slanders the innocence of female educated youths, deserves to be beaten to death. Why should Educated Youth Su be punished?" Tao Junlan spat at Dong Jiaxuan's face.
"How can you be so vulgar?" Dong Jiaxuan felt disgusted and dry heaved.
But among the onlookers, none of the educated youths spoke up for her or Pan Yongsheng. The male educated youths despised Pan Yongsheng even more. Who didn't like Educated Youth Su, who was beautiful and came from a good family? But due to Pan Yongsheng intentionally revealing that he and Educated Youth Su were not only childhood sweethearts but also had got engaged with him, no one dared to play the villain and break up their relationship.
As for the female educated youths, they were even less inclined to defend Pan Yongsheng, who spread rumors about relationships, and Dong Jiaxuan, who was eating from others while contributing nothing. They had long looked down upon people like them.
Su Xiaoxiao continued to beat Pan Yongsheng mercilessly for two or three minutes without any interference. If her body hadn't been so weak and powerless, she could have kept beating him for longer. She took a step back, gasping for breath, and glared at Pan Yongsheng and Dong Jiaxuan with a vicious expression.
"I'll warn you one last time, don't get close to me anymore. We're not familiar, and we have no relationship. Otherwise, I'll beat you up every time you mess with me. I don’t care how many times it takes, but I will beat you until you understand," Su Xiaoxiao threatened through gritted teeth.
Pan Yongsheng and Dong Jiaxuan flashed mocking glances in their eyes and didn't take her threat seriously. Su Xiaoxiao was exhausted from doing her daily quota of 60 catties of work, and after work, she could barely lift her hands. Even though she was quite arrogant for now, earlier today she had fallen into the water after less than two hours of work. Next time they wouldn’t put up with her again. They had yet to see who would hit whom!
"How can you say that? Aren't we good friends?" Dong Jiaxuan looked at Su Xiaoxiao pitifully, as if she had suffered a great injustice.
"I can't be friends with someone as two-faced, calculating, and devious as you. Otherwise, one day, I'll end up being kidnapped by you and yet still counting money for you. By the way, return the things you took from me quickly, and don't force me to make you. If something gets damaged, I won't be responsible," Su Xiaoxiao replied sarcastically, completely unimpressed by Dong Jiaxuan's act.
"Weren't those things a gift from you?" Dong Jiaxuan was stunned, and then her eyes widened with anger. Why was Su Xiaoxiao suddenly a different person after her fall?
"When did I ever say that? Every time, it was you who complained about lacking something, and I just said I had it, and you could borrow it for now. You should ask around, everyone knows it was a loan, with the intention of having it returned later. Besides, we've only been in this team for twenty days, and you've taken from me two sets of clothes, a pair of liberation shoes, two hairbands, two pairs of cotton gloves, two pounds of meat tickets, ten pounds of grain tickets, and three yuan. You even ate my canned fruit, four spoons of malted milk, half a pound of brown sugar, and five eggs. Oh, and you even used a roll of toilet paper. Even if I were your mother, I wouldn't spend this much on raising a daughter for twenty days. How dare you claim it was a gift from me and shamelessly say that?"
Su Xiaoxiao rattled off a long list, making it abundantly clear. Even in her previous life, she had never thought about giving so many things to Dong Jiaxuan. She might have been a bit naive back then, but she wasn't stupid.
How could she generously give away items that her family had worked hard to prepare for her? It was just that she had been too concerned about her reputation and didn't know how to ask Dong Jiaxuan, who was always acting pitiful, to return her money and belongings.
However, things were different this time. Since Dong Jiaxuan had taken so much from her, she wanted it all back, and she wouldn't let Dong Jiaxuan take advantage of her.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone