The two groups faced off, and An Moxue stood quietly, watching them with a half-smile. She wasn't wearing her glasses tonight, which gave her an invisible sense of pressure.

Hong Xiaobing and the others were thinking, who is this person? That damned whistleblower! He's set us up! We have to get revenge on him.

Several people stood facing An Moxue for a while, but they couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere any longer. The leader of the Red Guards shouted, "Comrades, An Moxue is refusing to cooperate. Go! Arrest her!"

As soon as the leader finished speaking, several people rushed forward. An Moxue didn't even move her feet. Holding a kerosene lamp in one hand and an elm stick in the other, she started wielding it. With a sweeping attack, she took down three people in one go. They fell to the ground, clutching their stomachs and yelling. The remaining four people surrounded An Moxue.

An Moxue glanced at them and said, "Oh, is that all you've got? How did you manage to get this far? It must be tough!"

The group grew even angrier, and the four of them charged forward. An Moxue picked them off one by one, striking them with a stick and then kicking them, one kick after another. All seven of them fell to the ground, groaning in pain.

Seeing that they were lying on the ground unable to get up, An Moxue gently placed the kerosene lamp she was holding on the ground beside her. Then, she took a wooden stick and walked slowly to their side, saying, "Don't worry, I will be very careful."

Then he picked up a stick and started beating people mercilessly, making them scream and howl in pain, unable to dodge, cursing as they tried to escape.

Later, he kept dodging and begging for mercy, saying "Please let us go" intermittently. An Moxue pretended not to hear and kept hitting him until even the begging stopped.

At first, several neighbors were worried about An Moxue's safety, but they didn't dare to come out and stop her. Later, they realized that something was wrong with the sound.

But no one dared to come out and see, and from the sound of the voices, it seemed that those few Red Guards were not doing well.

"They won't kill anyone, will they?" the eavesdropping neighbor worriedly said. "Please don't, it's not worth it, those scoundrels."

The village chief and his militia arrived late, running all the way. He was already in his fifties and was panting heavily, unable to catch his breath.

When the village chief and the militia arrived at An Moxue's courtyard, they saw An Moxue standing there, with several half-dead people lying on the ground, their identities unrecognizable, their breathing barely perceptible.

With a heavy heart, the village chief approached An Moxue and asked, "Moxue, are you alright?"

"Uncle Guo, I'm fine, don't worry."

"That's good! That's good!" The fatherly heart could finally return to its body; as for the rest, who cares?

Seeing that Village Chief Guo was panting heavily, An Moxue was really worried and said to him, "Uncle Guo, come inside and sit for a while to catch your breath!"

"No need," she said, waving her hand and placing a hand on her waist. She thought to herself, 'In the middle of the night, for an old man like me to enter a young girl's room alone—to put it bluntly, even though there are other people around, I can't do something so shameless.'

Seeing that Village Chief Guo wouldn't come into the house, An Moxue went inside herself to get a stool for him to sit down, and poured him a cup of hot sugar water to drink while it was hot.

Village Chief Guo took a sip of water, which tasted sweet, and then drank several more sips. An Moxue was relieved when she saw that his breathing had become more even.

One was standing, the other was sitting. Village Chief Guo asked An Moxue, "Moxue, what's going on?"

An Moxue said, "Uncle Guo, I don't understand either! I was reading in the room when I heard someone knocking on the door. The knocking was so loud that anyone who didn't know better would think they were banging on the door! Look, the door is all broken now and it's lying on the ground."

"These inhuman bastards are definitely up to no good."

“That’s what I thought too. I asked them for a search warrant, but they didn’t have one. I asked them for a tip-off letter, but they didn’t have that either. They were just focused on barging in, looking like they had ill intentions.”

"What do you plan to do now? Do you have any strategies?"

"Yes, just cooperate with me in a bit, and then we'll send them to the police station tomorrow. We'll make sure these guys don't dare come to our village again. If we back down this time, they'll think our village is easy to bully, and once they get used to it, it'll never end. If these guys are from the town, I'll send them to the county; if they're from the county, I'll send them to the city. I'll cripple them all. I'll investigate thoroughly and send them where they belong. From now on, they'll want to avoid our village whenever they hear it's our village."

"Fine." A bunch of idiots who're courting death.

After a while, he asked again, "These people won't die, will they?"

"No, don't worry, Uncle Guo, I know what I'm doing. It's just some minor pain, it looks serious but it's nothing serious."

Guo Xiwang sat on the stool, inwardly cursing. He was terrified; he was always on edge. Were these kids really that easy to deal with?!

But what he said was, "You must keep your life. Their lives are cheap, but yours are precious! Our porcelain can't be compared to those few broken tiles, you know?"

"Don't worry, old man, there's no fracture. He'll recover in no time. A bunch of weaklings who are just taking advantage of others."

After a while, the militiamen saw that the people who had been lying on the ground struggling to breathe when they arrived were now able to stand up and speak in a short time.

"Are you the village militia? Quick, seize this disobedient educated youth."

The militiamen stood in a circle around them, but no one responded to what he said.

The soldiers slowly stood up, baring their teeth and helping each other. They felt their authority had been challenged. How dare a small village provoke them? They should be taught a lesson.

He pointed at one of the militiamen and said, "Hey, I'm asking you, who's in charge among you? Find someone who can answer." Still, no one paid him any attention.

At this moment, An Moxue spoke up: "Village chief, it was these people who, in the middle of the night, impersonated the Revolutionary Committee, smashed down the gate, and broke into my house to rob me. I suspect they were maliciously vandalizing the families of martyrs and soldiers."

When the Red Guards heard that An Moxue was a family member of a martyr, they panicked a little, but what they said was, "We were just conducting a routine inspection after receiving a report. Your refusal to be inspected is already a violation of the law."

An Moxue said, "You're conducting inspections in the middle of the night, you're not even going to the village committee, you're just forcibly breaking into people's homes. I'm an orphan of a martyr, and an outstanding educated youth. I'm not hesitant to arrest enemy agents or criminals. You say you're from the Revolutionary Committee, how can you prove that? You just said you were going to inspect, but it doesn't seem like an inspection to me, it seems more like you're here to ransack homes and rob people. Even if someone reported you, did you investigate? Leaders say that you have no right to speak without investigation. Village chief, I'm now begging you, as an orphan of a martyr, to arrest them and report it to the police tomorrow."

The leader of the small group said, "We are from the town's Revolutionary Committee. You can't arrest us; the person you should arrest is An Moxue."

At this moment, Village Chief Guo, who had been keeping a low profile, said to the militiamen, "Arrest them all, lock them up in the empty village committee building, and send them to the police tomorrow."

The Red Guards shouted that they had arrested the wrong person, but no one paid them any attention.