Chapter Five: The Proud Swan

  Teacher Chen, although crippled and suffering from chronic bronchitis, often coughing incessantly. In fact, this "illness" also had a component of self-protection; the real him was not only skilled in free combat and northern leg southern fist, but he was also a renowned qigong coach in the early 1960s. His foundation in martial arts was solid, with a stubborn personality that disliked showing off.

  He was stuffed into a sack and thrown from the fourth floor, leaving him with a lifelong disability and chronic internal injuries.

  The political leader of the sixth squad in Yujiacun is named Zhou Kun. When he was young, he was a notorious hooligan in the village, a typical rogue who loved to eat and sleep, was extremely poor, and especially liked to take advantage of women. He often got beaten half to death for things like touching a woman's breasts, pinching a woman's buttocks, or reaching into a woman's crotch.

  Teacher Chen's lover, Wang Feng, and Professor Yu's daughter-in-law, Yu Yue, were both born into prominent families in big cities and were all in their thirties. Although they took off their finery and put on the coarse clothes of rural women, Yu Yue's stunning beauty, pride, and boldness, as well as Wang Feng's gentle beauty, elegance, and warmth, still gave the people of Yu Village a glimpse of the charm of Jiangnan water town girls.

  It is said that a natural beauty cannot be abandoned, with noble temperament and delicate charm, it shines brightly, unstoppable. Such excellent goods are all objects of transformation, looking down on others, of course, they can be bullied, men with low taste naturally fix their eyes on them like flies smelling blood.

  Zhou Kun is just such a fly.

  He often took advantage of his power to flirt with the village's young and beautiful women, especially the two young wives. As the most powerful "cadre" in the village, he naturally had a strong desire for them and was always thinking of ways to get close to them.

  Yu Yuetao was too reckless and impulsive, daring to do whatever she wanted, although being an orphan with a widowed mother made it difficult for her to be obedient in a short period of time. Therefore, he first set his sights on the gentle and virtuous Wang Feng.

  Although Wang Feng was a middle school Chinese teacher before being sent down, after being sent down as a family member of the "four kinds of elements", he naturally could only do manual labor and did not qualify to be a teacher again. So, Zhou Kun first recommended Wang Feng to his fellow villager and brigade secretary Zhou Jianguo to work as a substitute Chinese teacher at the village primary school.

  Zhou Jianguo is a grassroots cadre with strong organizational skills, who has made significant contributions to the production and development of Yujiacun Brigade. However, he also has a weakness for women, which is a common affliction among men. Whenever he encounters a young woman with exceptional beauty, he becomes like a hungry ghost rushing to be reborn.

  The nine production teams in the big team, as he joked, were "new grooms" every night, and each team had a "mother-in-law". Zhou Jianguo had been deeply infatuated with these two delicate and tender young daughters-in-law since they first arrived. As a result, the two naturally clicked immediately.

  That day, Teacher Chen and his son Chen Lan were shoveling pig dung in the pigpen. The political instructor strode into Teacher Chen's thatched cottage, wearing a windbreaker, with his hands behind his back and a cigarette dangling from his mouth, looking mighty and arrogant. Wang Feng was at home mending clothes for the kids, while Chen Jing, Yu Xiao Hui, and Yu Ya were jumping rope in front of the door.

  As soon as Zhou Kun entered, Wang Feng immediately asked him to sit down and got up to pour a bowl of boiling water for him. Looking at Wang Feng's slender figure with a round and jade-like face, especially her thin waist and tight buttocks, which kept floating in front of him, Zhou Kun felt like his whole body was being scratched by hundreds of claws, itching unbearably, blood rushing to his head, and quickly set up a large tent below.

  Zhou Kun coughed, cleared his throat, and then said seriously, "Since your release, you have been actively reforming, respecting cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants, and performing relatively well. Especially since you are highly educated, I have already recommended to the production team that you be assigned to teach at the production team school as a substitute teacher, and you will report next week." After finishing speaking, he looked at Wang Feng expectantly.

  He was waiting for Wang Feng with joy and gratitude, even taking the initiative to hug her. Unexpectedly, Wang Feng carefully sewed up her clothes, calmly and composedly saying: "Thank you, village elder, I will follow the arrangement of the village."

  Is that it? No wonder they say Southerners are stingy and petty.

  Zhou Kun felt disappointed, so he simply sat down beside her, sniffing the pleasant smell on her body while stretching out his hand to touch her round shoulders. "This is the organization's trust in you, and you must cherish the opportunity given by the organization to accept re-education from poor and lower-middle-class peasants, striving to cultivate revolutionary successors for the socialist cause."

  Wang Feng solemnly said, "A La will not betray the trust of the organization." As he spoke, he turned to Chen Jing and the other three little maids who were standing at the door, vigilantly and angrily staring at Zhou Kun, and said, "You three little girls, go out and play now."

  Three girls were driven out of the house, Zhou Kun was overjoyed, and his blood rushed to his head. His head leaned close to Wang Feng, smelling the fragrance and sweetness of her body, and he was immediately drunk, his mind went blank, and he said with a flattering face, "Teacher Wang, how are you going to thank me?"

  Wang Feng withdrew his hand and smiled with a thousand charms, "Captain Zhou please sit down, how do you want me to thank you? Treat you to dinner or send gifts?"

  "Fairy, I... want to eat you..." Zhou Kun closed his eyes, his mind already a complete blank.

  "Hehe, my man is just outside shoveling pig dung, do you want to...in this..."

  Afraid of what he does, as long as you are willing... Zhou Kun posted it.

  Unexpectedly, Wang Feng suddenly pushed him away calmly and said with a slightly playful tone: "Captain Zhou, it seems that you are indeed a master of ruining flowers. The big girls and young wives in this village, I'm afraid you've ruined quite a few, haven't you?"

  Zhou Kun heard these chilling words and hastily explained, "Absolutely not. Besides, compared to you, they are all inferior, you and Yu Yueyue are the golden phoenix flying in the sky. You don't know, since you two arrived at Yu's village, I, the captain, can't eat well, can't sleep well, day and night thinking..."

  Wang Feng looked at his yellow teeth and endured the strong smell of garlic, suddenly speaking seriously:

  "If you were a real man, sit up straight and listen! I advise you to tighten your belt, do more good deeds and less evil, causing trouble for other people's daughters and wives will bring retribution. You'd better remember that there are some women you can't mess with, like me and Yu Yueyue, or the women of the Yu family. Do you want to try?"

  Zhou Kun was so angry that he wanted to scold her for being ungrateful, but he was momentarily speechless. Wang Fengzhuang's dignified and beautiful appearance made him feel ashamed of his own vulgarity, yet he couldn't help himself. Especially with Wang Feng's crippled husband and son shoveling pig dung in the nearby pen, he didn't dare to be too presumptuous.

  "But I helped you out, you can't..."

  "You helped me out, so I should sleep with you? Excuse me, Captain Zhou, as a political leader, is everything you do really just about women's lower bodies?"

  "Your husband is a 'four-category element', aren't you afraid I'll kill him?" Zhou Kun started gritting his teeth.

  Wang Feng calmly but proudly said, "What's there to fear about death? People are born and will eventually die. There's a saying that goes 'it's better to be shattered jade than intact tile'. And there's a poem that says 'emerge from the muddy water without being stained, wash in the clear stream without being polluted'. You may not understand what it means, but I advise you to leave, I and Yu Yueyue are people from different worlds. You don't have any chance, don't waste your efforts."

  The delicate Wang Feng, although still speaking in a soft and gentle tone, yet the words that came out of her mouth were like thunder.

  For the first time, Zhou Kun was directly and bluntly ridiculed and rejected by a woman, without leaving any room for sentiment. This was his first experience. He was furious to the extreme, blurting out: "You're stubbornly guarding a cripple, putting fresh flowers in cow dung, don't you feel suffocated? Is it worth it?"

  This remark enraged Wang Feng, who immediately flew into a rage, pointing at Zhou Kun and blurting out a string of Suzhou dialect: "Hmph! You're not even worth a single hair on my body! Wait until you've cultivated to the point where you're half as good as me before you come back and try to be the master, spouting nonsense and causing trouble!"

  Scolded, directly send guests: "Please, please, no need to see off!"

  Who would have thought that this seemingly weak woman is actually so tough inside.

  It's really a case of trying to steal a chicken but ending up losing the rice, getting assigned work by others, not even getting a chance to touch it, and still getting scolded and chased out. Zhou Kun walked out of the house with his tail between his legs, at which point Teacher Chen and his son had already finished shoveling pig manure and were standing under the big pagoda tree in front of the door washing their hands.

  Jian Zhou Kun's gray head and dusty face walked out of the house, but Teacher Chen didn't even lift his head. However, as if unintentionally, he lifted that crippled leg and lightly stepped on the two green bricks stacked together beside the tree. The two green bricks suddenly cracked and split into four or five pieces, all turning into fragments.

  Zhou Kun was stunned for a moment, although he didn't stop in his tracks, but his heart still skipped a beat, and he felt a strong shock, instantly turning pale and fleeing in disarray.

  "My god, is this guy even human? No wonder that slut was so fearless and didn't care about herself. A man with such a wicked skill, yet hiding it so deeply, what kind of mind does he have? Is he just an ordinary guy? Can I even afford to mess with him? Forget it, forget it, I admit defeat."