The office set up by the Red Guards in the county town had one director and one deputy director.

The only remaining individuals with names and identities are the three squad leaders.

As for the others, they are probably members of various squads.

Most of these people were radicals in the early stages of the Red Letter Revolution, or those who had cultivated relationships with those in power.

People like Cao Jin are not considered official members of the Red Letter Soldiers; they can only run errands for others on the periphery.

Only when the squad leaders took a liking to them would they be allowed to have a sip of soup.

In reality, he was just a slightly more sophisticated hoodlum.

Based on Cao Jin's description, Shen Mu Ning identified a squad leader—Xu Wen Jie.

Nowadays, the Red Guards either loot or just loaf around in the office.

So what Shen Mu Ning saw was Xu Wen Jie and his men happily playing cards.

Shen Mu Ning carefully used her mental power to search the offices of several squad leaders and the director.

Only the deputy director's office contained ledgers and similar items.

The offices of the other people mostly contain information about people they have previously dealt with.

Also, the amount of their assets, and their subsequent punishment decisions.

Only in the director's office were the locations of the people being sent down still clearly marked.

Shen Mu Ning knew that now was not a good time to enter the building, so she went to the state-run restaurant for a meal first.

It's been a long time since I've had food from a state-run restaurant.

She often ate the food she had packed before, as she often had it as an extra meal in the evenings after moving to the countryside.

After that, I cooked all the dishes and made meat sauce myself, but I could never cook as well as a real chef.

Shen Mu Ning carried the two meals with satisfaction and went straight from the state-run restaurant to the Red Soldier's office.

It was lunchtime, and the Red Guards were not in their offices.

Shen Mu Ning watched the occasional crowds passing by on the street and then went around to the back of the building.

There's a small alley behind this, usually deserted, which made it convenient for her to enter the office building.

Shen Mu Ning found Xu Wenjie's office; the room was piled high with trash.

The cards they had been playing with were lying haphazardly on the table, and the room still smelled strongly of smoke.

After entering the room, Shen Mu Ning went straight to the desk, opened the drawer, and found his work log.

Shen Mu Ning looked at the list of people he had persecuted, and saw that the dates were all from four years ago.

As for the past few years, his job has become to occasionally plunder the homes of the "Five Black Categories" who are staying in the county.

Shen Mu Ning rummaged through the items for a moment, then put them into her spatial storage.

She then went to other people and took their work logs.

Of course, the most important thing is the deputy director's account book.

Shen Mu Ning looked at the ledger in her hand, which detailed the money they obtained from confiscating property in the county town and how it was distributed.

After obtaining these items, Shen Mu Ning quickly fled.

She then checked these records in the space and discovered that the Red Letter Soldier had handled many investigations.

These people were all prominent and well-known families at the time, and their best fate was to have their property confiscated.

Many of them died after being criticized and denounced.

Shen Mu Ning discovered in Deputy Director Zhou Lin's ledger that the small Red Army office in Anbei County was truly a place where hidden talents resided.

Of the profits Zhou Lin received, 60% had to be handed over to the director of the Chunshi Public Security Bureau.

The ledger also recorded the names of several directors and team leaders in the office, and their powerful backers.

Director Xu Yuan has the backing of the Municipal Party Committee Secretary-General, so he is the real boss here.

Zhou Lin is a relative of the director of the Chunshi Public Security Bureau, and there are also benefits he has offered.

That's why he became the director of the Abe Prefecture Red Soldier Office.

The three squad leaders below, Xu Wenjie, is the nephew of Director Xu Yuan.

The remaining two have some connections in the county town.

Shen Mu Ning was furious when she saw these ledgers.

Let's not even talk about handing over all the money they confiscated to the state, but at least most of it should be given to them.

As a result, according to the records in these ledgers, they concealed 50% of the confiscated property.

This only includes cash, savings, or gold—items that can be traded on the market—in those households.

As for other items, such as antiques, calligraphy and paintings, jade and jewelry, they were all secretly confiscated by them.

They said they would smash everything and then take it to a scrap yard for disposal.

However, there are still discerning individuals who keep these items privately.

As for the items that were taken to the scrap yard, there was no clear record of them in the ledger.

After learning this information, Shen Mu Ning immediately returned the items.

She went into the space again to consider things carefully. At first, she just wanted Xu Wenjie to step down, so that Cao Jin would have no backer.

Now that Cao Jin has lost his support, he will likely have to think twice before doing anything.

Although I intimidated him yesterday, I have nothing to worry about for the time being.

But the fear is that Cao Jin will remain obstinate and want to use the Red Letter Soldiers to retaliate against him.

In retrospect, Cao Jin's previous schemes against him didn't cause him much harm.

If you say Cao Jin is bad, he's not that bad. At most, he just hurt a few people while working as a deliveryman.

As for doing errands for the Red Guards, those were all minor tasks.

If there were any particularly lucrative jobs, he wouldn't get a chance.

Even when the Red Army soldiers were oppressing the Black Five Categories, he just watched from the sidelines.

So Shen Mu Ning didn't just kill him outright; she simply killed him and that was it.

But who knows when, if he can't figure things out, he might turn on the Red-Letter Soldiers to deal with him.

That's why she didn't change her mind about taking down Xu Wenjie.