Shen Zhiyan sent Song Yunlan home, then turned back toward the Shen family residence.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to stay longer, but his parents would soon be coming to formally propose marriage, and he needed to go back and tidy himself up to appear more proper and sincere.
However, just as he reached a fork in the road, Shen Zhiyan faintly heard a suggestive, breathy sound.
Following the sound, he looked toward the small grove of trees not far away.
“Brother Liang… don’t… Lian’er can’t take it anymore…”
Taking a few steps closer, he heard Bai Ruolian’s tearful, pleading voice, and his face instantly darkened.
‘Great. I’m unclean now. Those shameless dogs!’
Shen Zhiyan clenched his jaw, a flash of hostility appearing in his eyes.
Since those two were so impatient, why shouldn’t he “help” them?
He might as well bind this pair of shameless people together for good especially since that scumbag Liang Bo had the nerve to try to seduce his future wife.
Shen Zhiyan turned and quickly headed toward the brigade captain’s house.
Within two minutes, the brigade captain arrived with a dark expression, leading a group of militia members as they rushed over.
By then, the two people had already been completely drowned in desire and no longer knew east from west.
“What are you doing?! In broad daylight, you dare commit such indecent acts this is absolutely outrageous!”
The brigade captain’s furious shout instantly jolted them awake.
Opening his eyes, Liang Bo felt as though the sky had fallen. Even his “little brother” immediately went limp.
But at this moment, he had no time to care about that. He hurriedly grabbed the clothes he had thrown on the ground and panickedly started dressing.
“Captain, let me explain…”
He tried to defend himself, but before he could finish, he was ruthlessly interrupted.
“What is there to explain?! What exactly can you explain?!”
Bai Ruolian, now fully conscious, had turned deathly pale. She never expected to be caught red-handed like this.
Shaking, she quickly put on her clothes, on the verge of collapse, now pinning all her hopes on Liang Bo.
“Captain…”
Liang Bo tried again, but the captain waved his hand, and militia members immediately stepped forward to restrain both of them.
At this point, both of them panicked completely.
“Captain, please show mercy. Bai Ruolian and I are already a couple we’ve already agreed to get married.”
“Today we just… couldn’t control ourselves. Please let us off this time. We’ll immediately go to the commune and register our marriage!”
At this point, getting married was the best way to cover up everything.
Liang Bo believed the captain wouldn’t want to escalate this either after all, it would damage the reputation of the production brigade and affect year-end evaluations.
Captain Niu Dazhi looked at Liang Bo with a hint of amusement.
“Is that so? You two are getting married? Going to register immediately?”
Seeing the captain’s tone soften slightly, Liang Bo quickly nodded.
“Yes, yes! We were supposed to register today, but we got carried away and delayed it. Captain, please issue us a certificate. Tomorrow morning, I guarantee we’ll go to the commune and register!”
Hearing this, Niu Dazhi nodded in satisfaction.
“In that case, I won’t pursue it for now. Later, come to the brigade office with your documents and I’ll issue you a certificate.”
With that, he turned and left with the militia.
Seeing how easily the captain let them off, Liang Bo couldn’t help but frown, sensing something was off.
Bai Ruolian, though longing to marry Liang Bo, didn’t want it to happen under these circumstances either.
But now that things had come to this, what choice did she have?
“Brother Liang… what should we do…”
Looking at the fragile girl beside him, Liang Bo forced himself to stay calm and patted her shoulder.
“Don’t worry. We’ll go get the certificate later. Once we’re married, everything will be fine. The captain won’t pursue it.”
Bai Ruolian nodded hesitantly, but her heart only grew heavier, a sense of foreboding rising.
For some reason, she suddenly thought of the pendant Song Yunlan had taken earlier, and felt even more uneasy.
Even though she had gotten what she wanted marrying Liang Bo something still felt terribly wrong.
“Brother Liang, after we register, will we move out of the educated youth compound? And what about the wedding banquet?”
Hearing this, Liang Bo frowned even deeper.
“Let me think about the housing… As for the banquet, let’s skip it. We don’t really have connections with anyone in the brigade anyway. We’ll just give out some candies at the compound.”
“It would be better to save the money for buying you some clothes.”
Bai Ruolian blinked, confused.
“But… wouldn’t it be bad not to hold a banquet?”
Liang Bo insisted, “What’s wrong with that? Life is for us to live. As long as we feel it’s good, that’s enough.”
In truth, he only had about ten yuan left in his pocket and wanted to save wherever possible.
After all, unlike Song Yunlan, Bai Ruolian had no family support, and their future would rely entirely on his small income.
At this moment, neither of them remembered the huge debt hanging over them like a death sentence waiting to fall at any time.
After sending Shen Zhiyan away, Song Yunlan busied herself at home. Fortunately, she was already quite tidy, so there wasn’t much cleaning to do.
She simply changed her clothes and prepared peanuts and sunflower seeds for guests.
She was waiting for Shen’s parents to come propose marriage, completely unaware that rumors about Liang Bo and Bai Ruolian had already spread everywhere.
The militia members had no obligation to keep their secret. As they returned home, news of the two’s indecent act in the grove quickly spread.
Shen Zhiyan got the information he wanted from Niu Dazhi and returned home smiling broadly.
The reason Niu Dazhi was so willing to help him was simple.
Back then, Niu Dazhi’s son, Niu Jinbao, had an accident while hunting on the mountain, and it was Shen Zhiyan then only eighteen years old who personally saved him.
Because of that, in the entire brigade, as long as no one was killed, Niu Dazhi would always stand on Shen Zhiyan’s side.
Let alone handling something as small as dealing with Liang Bo.