Chapter 46 Chapter 46 Fu Zhiqing is the most difficult to deal with

Shi Wei was quickly controlled. He was shocked at first, then his face turned pale. He struggled and shouted "injustice". The people of the Revolutionary Committee had seen this kind of scene many times, so they simply pressed his head and beat him. He soon became "obedient" as the people of the Revolutionary Committee had expected.

The other educated youth were all frightened, but when the Revolutionary Committee asked them to follow them to the brigade headquarters, they immediately followed obediently.

Yang Qingqing walked at the back with a pale face.

The people from the Revolutionary Committee also took away a letter from Shi Wei that he had not yet sent. By comparing the two, although it was not 100% confirmed that the notes in the old notebook and Fu Mingze's textbook were Shi Wei's, it was at least 80% certain.

Shi Wei certainly didn't recognize it, especially the old notebook. He had never even seen it before, so how could it be his? But the weird thing was that the handwriting on the notebook really looked like his handwriting, even more like the one on Fu Mingze's textbook.

He secretly wrote the words on Fu Mingze's textbook, but in order to clear himself, he paid special attention when writing and even tried his best to imitate Fu Mingze's handwriting.

Unfortunately, it is easy to write badly but very difficult to write well. Fu Mingze's handwriting is too good and he really can't imitate it.

So the final result is that it neither looks like Fu Mingze's handwriting nor very much like his handwriting.

But the problem is that the content of one page in the old notebook is exactly the same as that in Fu Mingze's textbook. With this confirmation, the people in the Revolutionary Committee naturally concluded that both were written by him!

It is possible to eat peanuts if you spread reactionary remarks.

Shi Wei felt terrified at this moment. He collapsed and shouted, "It's not me. I didn't write any of this. I am a proletarian with a red bloodline. Someone must have deliberately framed me. Yes, someone must have deliberately framed me!"

He looked at Fu Mingze who was standing beside him and pointed at him angrily: "It's you, did you frame me?! Fu Mingze, you want to kill me, don't you? How can you be so vicious?!"

He turned to the people in the Revolutionary Committee and said, "It's him, it must be him. He wrote all these words. It has nothing to do with me. He is the one who framed me!"

Fu Mingze calmly asked back: "I have no grudge against you, why would I frame you?"

Shi Wei's mind was probably in a mess after the collapse. He turned around and yelled at Fu Mingze: "What do you mean there was no festival? How could there be no festival? Yang Qingqing wanted to blackmail you in the stream, and I promised to help her. I almost pushed you in, but you kicked me and kicked me in instead. You must have found out at the time. You found out that I wanted to push you, so you kicked me on purpose. You did it on purpose. I knew you did it on purpose a long time ago. You bastard, you made me entangled with a woman like Yang Qingqing..."

He was beaten black and blue by the Revolutionary Committee members and looked even more hideous, which frightened the educated youth standing nearby and made them step back.

Fu Mingze's expression remained unchanged as he asked calmly, "So this is your motive for framing me. You thought I kicked you that time, so you hold a grudge against me and wrote reactionary slogans on my textbook to frame me?"

Shi Wei looked like he had gone crazy. He raised his voice and yelled, "It was Yang Qingqing. If you want revenge, why don't you go find Yang Qingqing? She was the one who stole your soap, she was the one who blackmailed you in the creek, and she was the one who wrote the report! She is mentally ill. She said that when she first came here, she saw you carrying a stack of bills, and she said that you must not be really poor and were just pretending. When I told her that she was sick, she didn't believe me. She stared at you all day long and said that no matter what, she would date you first. But you didn't take the bait at all. Hahahaha, she hated you and wanted to kill you!"

The educated youth standing next to Yang Qingqing took several steps back.

He stole soap and deliberately went to the creek to extort money from people. If that doesn't work, write a letter of complaint to report him... This person is too scary!

The issues of male and female conduct and petty-bourgeois conduct are enough to make people suffer, but they even have to write reactionary remarks in people's textbooks. This is really aimed at getting people killed!

Yes, originally with the old textbook as evidence, everyone thought that the reactionary remarks in Fu Mingze’s textbook were most likely written by Shi Wei. Now that Shi Wei has exposed himself, everyone is 100% sure.

It’s them, that’s them!

The two of them teamed up to blackmail Fu Mingze but failed, and they held a grudge and wanted to kill him!

Oh my god, the reason was simply that Yang Qingqing thought Fu Mingze had hidden a stack of tickets.

This is either mentally ill or something. Fu Mingze is so poor that if he really had a stack of bills, he should have exchanged them for money and spent them. But the fact is, he doesn't have any!

Everyone lived together and actually knew each other a little bit. Fu Mingze just liked to be clean and bought soap more frequently. The soap coupons were all exchanged for him by Zheng Jiamin, and sometimes it seemed that they were given to him directly. Otherwise, he almost never spent money, and his family had never sent him money. It was obvious to the naked eye that he was the poorest among all the educated youths.

Yang Qingqing must have something wrong with her brain, absolutely!

Several years later, when the educated youth present recalled what happened that day, they could not help but beat their chests and sighed that Yang Qingqing was really quite cunning. But at this moment, no one believed this outrageous speculation.

As the educated youths all stepped back, Yang Qingqing was suddenly surrounded by an empty circle. She glared at Shi Wei with a sullen face, "You are talking nonsense, you bastard. You did it. All of this is your fault. It has nothing to do with me. Don't try to frame me!"

Deputy Director Wu looked at her and asked, "Are you Yang Qingqing?"

She glanced at the clerk behind her: "Check her handwriting."

Not long after, the young clerk found Yang Qingqing's letter from the educated youth site. Needless to say, the letter of denunciation was written by her.

However, Yang Qingqing's psychological quality is still very good. Now that things have come to this, she does not deny that she wrote the report letter: "As an educated youth, what's wrong with me reporting suspicious elements around me to the Revolutionary Committee? Fu Mingze flirts with Wang Qiutong all day long, so what's wrong with me suspecting that they have an unhealthy relationship? Fu Mingze buys soap from time to time and washes clothes all day, wasting production materials. What's wrong with me reporting his petty-bourgeois style? There are reactionary remarks in his textbooks, and I actively reported them to the organization, which is even more correct!"

Wang Qiutong immediately stood up and scolded her: "If you have a mental illness, go to the hospital. That's why you keep flirting with Fu Mingze all day long, uh..."

After being glared at by Fu Mingze, Wang Qiutong immediately changed her words with great insight: "No, it's you who have bad intentions and stare at Fu Zhiqing all day long, and you want to frame me. Fu Zhiqing and I have the purest relationship of revolutionary comrades, just like every other educated youth. You are slandering me!"

Zhang Zhiqiang felt that as the head of the educated youth camp, he had to speak out when such a major incident happened in the educated youth camp, so he cleared his throat and said, "Reporting to Deputy Director Wu and Deputy Director Sun, I am the head of the educated youth camp, Zhang Zhiqiang. I can testify that there is no bad relationship between Wang Zhiqing and Fu Zhiqing. We usually eat and live together, and we know this. They have never said a word to each other."

In terms of relationship, Wang Qiutong is obviously closer to Zheng Jiamin.

Of course, Zhang Zhiqiang is not stupid, and he will definitely not say anything unnecessary at this time.

The other educated youths looked at each other, hesitated, and weakly echoed: "Yes, we can testify. Wang Zhiqing and Fu Zhiqing don't have much contact with each other."

Zhou Mancang glanced at Shi Wei, who was still saying, "It was Yang Qingqing, it was all Yang Qingqing's fault. Damn it, this woman said she would give me money if I helped her, but she still hasn't given me any." He then glanced at Yang Qingqing, who was shouting that she was not wrong. He threw his cigarette, which was only a little bit left, on the ground, stepped on it, and said, "Deputy Director Wu, Deputy Director Sun, the matter is almost clear now. Fu Zhiqing was wronged in this matter. The issue of male and female behavior was a rumor, and the reactionary remarks were also framed. As for the soap, buying an extra bar of soap should not be considered a petty-bourgeois behavior, right? How about this matter?"

Before Deputy Director Wu could speak, Deputy Director Sun raised his glasses and spoke first: "Captain Zhou, I don't agree with what you said. To build socialism, we must start from one stitch and one thread, one brick and one tile. This year you use one more bar of soap, and tomorrow I use one more bar of soap. If no one cares about saving and everyone wastes recklessly, when will we be able to build socialism? This is not a problem of a bar of soap, it is a problem of work style!"

Zhou Mancang wanted to say bullshit, a piece of soap is just a piece of soap. Without this piece of soap, we can’t build socialism well?

But he also knew that these people in the Revolutionary Committee would not reason with you. They would find faults in you. As Deputy Director Sun said, even a needle or a thread would be exaggerated to the point of being a problem, let alone a piece of soap.

Zhou Mancang frowned and sighed secretly.

At least the issues of male and female conduct and reactionary speech have been clarified. Compared with these two, the problem of petty-bourgeois conduct is relatively minor.

"How about that, let's hold a meeting in our brigade and let Fu Zhiqing make a self-criticism at the meeting," Zhou Mancang said.

Deputy Director Sun shook his head: "Since someone has reported it, we can't just take it lightly. Take it back to the commune first."

Fu Mingze looked at him and said, "Deputy Director Sun, I bought that soap for..."

Shen Moer, who was standing with the educated youth, suddenly interrupted: "Fu Zhiqing, you bought that piece of soap for me, why didn't you bring it to me?"

Fu Mingze, who had been very calm, suddenly turned his head to look at Shen Moer, frowned deeply, and used his eyes to signal Shen Moer not to say anything. Shen Moer looked at him, stood up and said, "Deputy Director Wu, Deputy Director Sun, I am a member of the Yangliu Brigade and a teacher in the brigade's primary school. My name is Shen Moer. I asked Fu Zhiqing to buy me a bar of soap before. I guess he forgot to give it to me after buying it. He was just trying to help others. Saying that he has a petty-bourgeois style is obviously a rumor and slander."

Deputy Director Wu looked at Shen Moer, smiled, and asked an unexpected question: "Are you the art teacher of Yangliu Brigade Primary School?"

Shen Moer was stunned and nodded: “Yes, I am the art teacher of the brigade primary school.”

Deputy Director Wu nodded and said nothing more.

Deputy Director Sun stared at Shen Moer coldly for a while, and asked: “The commune is not far away, a bar of soap, why don’t you buy it yourself?”

Shen Moer looked back calmly: "You also said that it's just a piece of soap, why is it worth going to the commune? I don't know if you have heard that two children in our brigade are going to the province to participate in a painting competition. This matter is related to the honor of the brigade, the commune and even the county. I am their teacher. In order to concentrate on tutoring the children and improving their painting skills, I haven't been to the commune during this period. If there is anything I need, I will ask for help."

Deputy Director Sun narrowed his eyes, glanced at Fu Mingze, and asked, "Why didn't Fu Zhiqing say it at the beginning?"

Shen Moer smiled and said, "Today, it's about bad relationships between men and women, petty-bourgeois style, and spreading reactionary remarks. These crimes are bigger than each other. Fu Zhiqing is an honest man. He probably doesn't want to involve me."

After a pause, she said, "But as a people's teacher, I must set an example and seek truth from facts. Otherwise, I would be embarrassed to stand on the podium and teach people, right?"

Deputy Director Sun was obviously unwilling to give up and wanted to ask more questions. Deputy Director Wu, who had not expressed his opinion, suddenly said, "Deputy Director Sun, the commune and the county attach great importance to the painting competition. It is indeed necessary to create a good educational environment for Comrade Shen Moer. Since Fu Zhiqing is just helping to carry things, there is no problem of petty-bourgeois style. Let's stop here!"

Deputy Director Sun hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, what about these educated youth...?" He wanted to take all the educated youth back and interrogate them thoroughly.

Deputy Director Wu: "The educated youth went to the countryside to support rural construction. I believe that most of the educated youth are good people. We just need to deal with the few pests mixed in."

Deputy Director Sun looked at her and understood what she meant.

This matter involves educated youth, and it has become a big deal. Once the educated youth start making trouble, it will be difficult to deal with.

"Take them both away." Finally, he pointed at Shi Wei and Yang Qingqing.

Shi Wei immediately jumped up and ran out of the brigade headquarters. He hadn't taken a few steps when he was held down by someone from the Revolutionary Committee. The person slapped him several times, and together with another person, they twisted his arm back to control him, and shouted, "Behave yourself."

Yang Qingqing was so scared that she was shaking all over. "I'm not wrong. You can't arrest me. I'm an educated youth supporting rural construction. I've been to the capital to see the leader. I'm the leader's most loyal revolutionary. Ah, you can't arrest me. Let me go—"

"You are the leader's most loyal revolutionary, so what are we?!" The people from the Revolutionary Committee grabbed her hair and dragged her out.

Deputy Director Sun walked out with his chin raised, while Deputy Director Wu nodded to Zhou Mancang before slowly walking out.

It was not until all the members of the Revolutionary Committee had left and the insults from Shi Wei and Yang Qingqing could no longer be heard that everyone slowly let out the anger they had been holding back.

It’s so scary! Many people were shouting in their hearts.

The most frightening thing these days is being targeted by the Revolutionary Committee. If Deputy Director Wu hadn't spoken, Deputy Director Sun would have obviously wanted to take all of them away.

Suddenly, I felt like I had survived a disaster.

Zheng Jiamin had been hiding in the corner. At this moment, he jumped to Fu Mingze's side and patted him on the shoulder: "You scared me to death."

Fu Mingze was too lazy to pay attention to him. He frowned and looked at Shen Moer. He wanted to say something, but when he saw many people looking at them curiously, he said, “Comrade Shen Moer, Zheng Jiamin, um, and Wang Zhiqing, let’s go to your house to talk.”

Zhou Mancang waved his hand and said, "Go, go, go, hand over the things you brought with you, and settle the money. And you all, go back and pack up. Those who need to go to work should go to work quickly."

A group of people walked out of the brigade office in a line.

The road was already crowded with members who had heard the news and rushed over to watch the excitement. Seeing Zhou Qingguo walking in front with his little girl in his arms, they asked, "Qingguo, what's going on? Why did the people from the Revolutionary Committee take Yang Zhiqing and Shi Zhiqing away?"

"They were cuddling in the stream before, but they haven't gotten married in such a long time. Did the Revolutionary Committee know about this? I told you before that if they don't get married, something bad will happen."

"But why do I hear Shi Zhiqing yelling that it's all her, it's all her, she wants to kill Fu Mingze, and Yang Zhiqing yelling that rebellion is justified and reporting is right, it doesn't sound like a marriage?"

…

When Shen Moer saw this situation, she quickly winked at Fu Mingze and the others, then turned around and walked towards the backyard of the brigade headquarters.

You can avoid it by going around her back door from the backyard and then going around to the gate from the other side, and you won't be caught by the villagers and questioned.

Soon they arrived outside the house where the small landlord and his son lived. Shen Moer glimpsed that the door of the house was ajar and a figure was vaguely visible lying on the crack.

Shen Moer thought about it, walked over and whispered, "This is the educated youth's business, it has nothing to do with other people." After that, she walked away quickly.

Soon, there was the sound of a wooden door closing gently behind me.

Shen Moer sighed secretly.

It has been better in the past two years. When the movement was intense in the past few years, they had no idea how much suffering they had endured. When they heard that people from the Revolutionary Committee were coming, they must have been scared.

Although Chen Moer and the mother and son were neighbors, she seldom saw them, and she had hardly ever seen them fetching water. She probably thought they would wait until late at night when everyone was asleep before fetching water.

I did see the small landlord carrying manure when I was at work, and a few times I saw the naughty kids in the village throwing dirt and clods of earth at him and calling him the small landlord's son of a bitch.

She scolded those naughty kids, and they casually promised not to throw dirt and clods of dirt at him, but turned around and threw weeds at him.

Shen Moer really didn't understand. Even if the cost was bad, even if his father and grandfather had oppressed poor farmers, what could a 14 or 15-year-old child do wrong? When his family became landlords, he was not even born yet.

When they got around to the other side, they passed by a cowshed with weeds and a dilapidated door. The broken wooden door of the cowshed, which was almost useless but usually closed, was now open a crack like that of a small landlord's house. A white-haired old man was looking at them from behind the broken door.

"Zheng Zhiqing and Yang Zhiqing made malicious reports, and Shi Zhiqing made malicious accusations. How do you think the Revolutionary Committee will deal with them?" Shen Moli suddenly said.

Zheng Jiamin, who was called out by name, looked bewildered: "It's hard to say about the Revolutionary Committee. It depends on whether they are happy."

Shen Moer nodded: "Then this matter should have nothing to do with the other people in our team, right?"

Fu Mingze had been walking beside her. Hearing this, he glanced at the door of the cowshed, which was left a crack, and said, "These things have been made clear just now. Deputy Director Wu also said that we just need to clean up the few pests. They won't come to the village again."

Shen Moer glanced at him, smiled, and said, "That's good."

The broken wooden door of the cowshed slowly closed.

It was not until they entered the courtyard of the Shen family that Zheng Jiamin realized belatedly: "Comrade Shen Moer, you just wanted to tell Old Wang in the cowshed that the Revolutionary Committee would not cause trouble for others, nor for him, right?"

Old Wang is the old man who lives in the cowshed.

Wang Qiutong said, "Oh, you finally understand."

Zheng Jiamin scratched his head: "I just didn't react for a moment."

Since he said so himself, Wang Qiutong suddenly didn't know what to say. She muttered "idiot" and ran to sit on the chair under the eaves.

It was really scary. She was almost accused of having an affair. Thinking about the scene of being paraded through the streets with Fu Mingze and being escorted by a young general with a worn-out shoe hanging on her neck, Wang Qiutong felt the chills run down her spine and her legs went weak.

"Please sit down. I'll get you some water."

Shen Moer said as she went into the kitchen to get a bowl of water. Fu Mingze followed her into the kitchen, picked up the thermos and poured water, saying, "It was too risky for you to stand up like this before. What if they come to search your soap? Then they might accuse you of petty-bourgeois behavior."

"Or maybe they know your father works in the commune, so your excuse doesn't hold true. Your father can buy the soap."

Shen Moer looked at him: "My family has been poor farmers for three generations, and we are also members of the village. Generally speaking, they dare not really search without evidence. If there is a real commotion, those few people can't deal with so many people in the village. Besides, even if they really want to search, they won't find anything."

Her father disliked the smell of soap, so he bought a bar of it specially. In order to maintain the appearance of a poor family, he kept the soap well hidden.

"As for my father, he works in the commune. He is so busy at work that it is normal for him to have no time to buy things."

"It's still too risky. Deputy Director Sun is obviously not easy to talk to. If he gets serious, it won't be so easy to fool him." Fu Mingze frowned. When she stood up to speak, he was really scared.

"What are you going to say if I don't stand up?" Shen Moer asked curiously.

"That piece of soap was bought to kill insects in the vegetable garden. Spraying the pests with soapy water at a ratio of 1:100 can kill aphids, whiteflies and many other pests." Fu Mingze looked at her and said calmly.

Shen Moer: “…”

It turned out that she knew too little about the world. She didn't know that soap could be used to kill insects.

Fu Mingze's reason was not perfect, but at least it seemed reasonable on the surface. After all, they seemed to be doing some kind of experimental field recently. Moreover, this reason sounded like a good thing for the country and the people. It was impossible for the people of the Revolutionary Committee to stop them from killing insects on the crops, right?

However, thinking back carefully, this person seemed to be very calm throughout the whole process. He responded to the accusations in the report one by one without any panic, as if he had been prepared.

Shen Moer stared at Fu Mingze for a few seconds, and an idea flashed in her mind. She lowered her voice, moved closer and asked, "The reactionary remarks in Shi Wei's broken notebook, weren't they written by you? You had already discovered that there were those extra words in the textbook, so... you just took advantage of the situation?"

Fu Mingze's eyes flickered slightly, and he couldn't help but smile as he saw her curious and nervous look.

"What? That old notebook isn't Shi Wei's?!" Wang Qiutong screamed as she stood at the kitchen door. "You, you, you deliberately wrote that and put it under Fu Zhiqing's bed?!"

As expected, she knew it long ago that none of the educated youth were easy to mess with, and Fu Zhiqing was the most difficult to mess with.

Oh, no, we have to rule out the fool Zheng Jiamin first.