Damn it, he wanted to hide it as much as possible to avoid making everyone look bad. If the Zhou family had to make a fuss this week, then it would be unreasonable for him not to charge some shame money.
"Yes, in this matter, Xu Erlong has to be compensated for the loss. What a shame."
"I feel aggrieved for Xu Erlong after hearing this. He hasn't said a word behind his back for so long. Just now I was just trying to settle the matter. Now, I can't give up until I compensate him."
Everyone supported Xu Erlong one after another.
Zhou Guofu acted rogue: "We have no money now, and our family has no money either."
Xu Erlong raised the letter in his hand: "You have no money, right? You won't compensate me for the damage to my reputation, right? Well, I'll post all these letters to the commune to let everyone in the commune know about it."
He further threatened: "I will also send these letters to the universities where Xu Damin and Zhou Ya study, so that their glorious deeds will become a household name."
Mother Zhou's face turned red and pale.
If this is really the case, how will my daughter see anyone in the future?
After finally getting admitted to a university, it can be regarded as flying up a branch and becoming a golden phoenix. What should I do if I am affected by such a mess?
"Okay, tell me, how much money do you want, we will pay, we will pay, is this okay?" Mother Zhou softened her tone.
Xu Erlong turned his head and said to Huang Zhengnong: "Captain Huang, I am a young man and don't know much about these things. Can you help me deal with the compensation and so on?"
"I'm so humiliated, I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it anymore and do something drastic..."
Xu Erlong cleverly found an excuse.
He didn't want to be known as a blackmailer in the future, so he could leave this matter to Huang Zhengnong.
As for compensation, that is definitely required.
"Okay, we'll handle this for you." Huang Zhengnong looked at Xu Erlong with sympathy.
Not only Huang Zhengnong sympathized with him, but also other people in the village sympathized with him.
As much as everyone sympathized with him, they despised Xu Damin in their hearts.
Damn it, the rabbit didn't even eat the grass on the edge of the nest, but ended up getting together with his cousin's partner?
Fortunately, he is still a scholar, so why should he be a college student? Damn it, the book has gone to the dog's belly?
He talks about propriety, justice and integrity, but turns out to be a male thief and a female prostitute?
Xu Damin's image is crumbling bit by bit, and he is no longer a college student that everyone looks up to.
After negotiations between the two village chiefs, and a crowd of villagers watching and booing, Zhou Guofu agreed to compensate Xu Erlong one hundred yuan as compensation for his reputation.
"I don't have any money with me right now," Zhou Guofu stammered.
"Then write an IOU. When the time comes, I can use the IOU to come to you to collect money." Xu Erlong said.
"I, I can't write, I can't write an IOU."
"I can write." Huang Zhengnong said.
He wrote the IOU in a few strokes, and Zhou Guofu pressed it with his fingers.
Zhou Guofu's heart was weeping.
If only there was a regret medicine in the world, he would never be so stubborn today and come to Xu Erlong to ask for money.
Now that the shame has been thrown to grandma's house, the person has also been lost, and the money has also been lost.
****
Xu Damin stayed outside for a long time.
The sky darkened, the surrounding villages were quiet, and the surrounding mountains looked like lurking beasts in the night, ready to pounce out and devour him at any time.
He squatted alone under the tree, his feet numb for a while.
He doesn't want to go home, and he doesn't know how to face his family when he goes back.
Over there in the woods, someone was coming with a torch.
The person who came was actually his uncle Xu Dongsheng.
"Damin." Xu Dongsheng called him.
Xu Damin was cold, scared and hungry at the moment. When he saw Xu Dongsheng, he burst into tears immediately, like a lost child who finally found his home.
He didn't expect that the person running to him would be Xu Dongsheng.
This uncle treats him better than his parents.
Xu Dongsheng waited until he had cried enough, then said: "Let's go home with me, your grandma is worried about you."
Xu Damin stopped crying and asked Xu Dongsheng in a low voice: "Uncle, are you still angry with me? Do you think I have embarrassed the Xu family? I am actually dating my brother's partner?"
Xu Dongsheng was silent for a while, and his voice was bitter: "Damin, no one blames you for this."
Xu Damin looked at him, not quite understanding.
"Let's go, Damin, come back with me. It's too late, so your mother and grandma won't worry about you." Xu Dongsheng advised Xu Damin.
On the way back with Xu Dongsheng, Xu Damin was in a complicated mood.
Mrs. Xu had already woken up. When she saw Xu Damin coming back, her eyes were red and swollen, and she almost shed tears.
"Damin, you are so confused." Mrs. Xu said.
Xu Damin lowered his head, his eyes red.
"Tell grandma, is it Zhou Ya who seduced you? We will take you to her house tomorrow to ask for an explanation." Mrs. Xu said.
"Grandma..." Xu Damin was extremely embarrassed.
"Damin, are you really fascinated by that vixen?" Mr. Xu was angry, raised his hand, and slapped Xu Damin.
"You're a loser... Our whole family has tightened our belts to support your studies and college entrance exams, but you're so confused by a broken shoe. Are you worthy of me? Are you worthy of the whole family?"
Xu Damin covered his face. He has never been treated so harshly in his life.
Zhou Fengru pulled him: "Damin, please apologize to grandma, admit your mistake, and promise us that you will never have contact with Zhou Ya again."
Facing the crying and pleading of everyone, Xu Damin wavered: "Okay, I promise you..."
His ability to study is based on the whole family tightening their belts to send him to school.
If the family cuts off his source of income, he will end up like the uneducated young people in the village, planting crops in the fields with his trouser legs rolled up, his face facing the loess and his back turned to the sky.
At that time, it was not he who had broken off contact with Zhou Ya, but Zhou Ya who had broken off contact with him.
Mrs. Xu finally calmed down: "Okay, just promise not to interact with her in the future."
Zhou Fengru thought for a while: "Mom, why don't I take Damin back to my parents' house to stay for a few days, so I don't have to listen to other people's rumors in the village."
"That's a good idea." Mrs. Xu thought for a while. She was embarrassed in front of the whole village today. Maybe the villagers would talk about it behind their backs.
It's better to go out and avoid the limelight.
"By the way, didn't Director Li come to thank Damin two days ago for saving his daughter?" Mrs. Xu thought of this incident: "Why don't you go find him and be a guest at their home?"
It would be nice to take this opportunity to let Xu Damin and Li Yingtong develop a little relationship.
Xu Damin was silent.
He hasn't saved anyone, and he doesn't have the guts to be a guest in someone else's house. He's just afraid that he'll betray someone the moment he sees them.
Zhou Fengru said: "Mom, your idea is really brilliant."
She was tired of doing farm work here, cooking, washing and feeding the pigs every day.
But when she goes back to her parents' house, she may not look good.
It's a good idea to go to Factory Director Li's house to enjoy the autumn breeze as a way of saving his life.
"Well, you guys pack up and go early tomorrow so you don't run into the villagers." Old Mrs. Xu warned.