Chapter 68 "Section Chief Cheng, Section Chief Cheng..."
"Section Chief Cheng, Section Chief Cheng!" Pan Hongying called out excitedly from the doorway. "Zhigang came back from his night shift and ran into Zhu Jingsong, that enemy agent chief, being paraded through the streets on Tuanjie Road! The procession will be at Dazhai Road soon, let's hurry and get a good spot. I've saved up a whole bucket of rotten vegetable leaves at home, just waiting to use them during the parade."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Xiuying immediately said, "Let's go!"
As for rotten vegetable leaves, the Yu family had accumulated quite a lot. They couldn't bear to throw them away, so they left them at the door. In this hot weather, they've all gone bad.
Yu Jiajia and the others quickly followed. Yu Songqing went back into the house again, carrying a few rotten eggs, which he had specially asked someone to exchange for them!
Pan Hongying shouted again in the courtyard, "Zhu Jinsong is about to be paraded through the streets, he's almost at Dazhai Road, everyone hurry up!"
After she finished shouting, she picked up the swill bucket and ran outside with Cheng Xiuying's family.
Many people had received the news and were rushing to Dazhai Road. Almost everyone was carrying buckets of swill or vegetable baskets, which were filled with 'generous gifts' prepared for Zhu Jinsong and his group.
Regardless of whether they had any past conflicts with him, once they heard that he was a dog-like enemy agent, a traitor who worked for the Japanese and had harmed many capable comrades in Qingshan County, they knew he was a spy.
This is no longer a personal grudge, but a national and familial hatred weighing on the hearts of generations.
When Cheng Xiuying and her family arrived, it was already quite late. The streets were packed with people. Cheng Xiuying pulled Yu Jiajia and squeezed her way in. She was strong and easily pushed and shoved Yu Jiajia into the crowd. Yu Songqing and the others quickly followed suit and squeezed in as well.
After about ten minutes, the parade could be seen in the distance.
The leader was Zhu Jingsong. He had completely lost his former imposing manner. His head was shaved half-bald and half-grown, his hands were tied behind his back, and his feet were shackled. Every step he took made a harsh scraping sound on the stone pavement.
A heavy wooden plaque hung around his neck, but the charges written on it were illegible. His entire body, from head to toe, was covered in a thick layer of filth—rotten vegetable leaves, rotten egg yolk, swill, and excrement—emitting a nauseating stench. His forehead was also broken by a hard object, and blood mixed with mud flowed down, leaving several shocking red marks on his filthy face.
Behind him, strung together like a string of grasshoppers, were his henchmen: his right-hand men Chen Siwei and Xiao Lixin, and several relatives of the Zhu family who abused Zhu Jinsong's power. At the end of the line were Wang Liren and Lu Xiaoqing, trembling like leaves.
As for Grandpa Hu and Fang Yong, they were not among them; their little rascals who were jumping around were not qualified to participate in such a 'parade'.
Yu Jiajia spotted the female beggar who had pushed her into the river at a glance. Now she was a prisoner, worse off than a beggar! Because she was positioned slightly further back, most of the firepower was drawn to Zhu Jingsong and his group in front of her. Although she was in a sorry state, with a half-shaved head and some dirt on her body, her face was still clearly visible.
Yu Jiajia took two rotten eggs from Yu Songqing's pocket and threw them at her face.
I told you to pretend to be a beggar, and now, as you wished, you're worse than a beggar!
Two rotten eggs landed squarely on her face. She flinched, turned to look at Yu Jiajia, and her eyes flashed with endless malice, as if she wanted to tear Yu Jiajia apart alive.
Their current predicament is all because of the Yu family!
"You dare glare at me again!" Yu Jiajia grabbed two more rotten eggs and threw them at the woman. The two rotten eggs hit the woman's head accurately, and the rotten egg liquid ran down her hair and covered her eyes. She could no longer glare at Yu Jiajia.
Cheng Xiuying never expected Yu Jiajia to have such good aim; even from several meters away, she didn't waste a single rotten egg.
Yu Songqing quickly grabbed two rotten eggs and threw them at Lu Xiaoqing. If he didn't throw them, Jiajia would use them all up. They had only exchanged eight eggs in total.
In those days, eggs were very precious. Who would be willing to let eggs go bad? It was not easy for him to get these few rotten eggs.
Two rotten eggs hit Lu Xiaoqing on the head. She turned her head and saw Yu Songqing. She desperately rushed towards Yu Songqing and cried out, "Songqing, Songqing, please save me."
She never imagined that Yu Songqing was the one who smashed the rotten eggs. In her mind, Yu Songqing was a love-struck fool who could be easily fooled by her.
Yu Songqing can definitely save her! Yes, he can definitely save her!
The scene was so noisy that her voice was completely inaudible, but she was pretending to be weak and seductive while covered in rotten eggs and leaves. It was truly disgusting. Yu Songqing threw another rotten egg at Lu Xiaoqing's head.
Lu Xiaoqing was incredulous that Yu Songqing had actually thrown rotten eggs at her. She charged at him even more desperately, but after being whipped by the Revolutionary Committee, she finally calmed down.
Cheng Xiuying also threw various things at Zhu Jingsong and his group, venting her anger.
Some people wanted to throw stones at them, but the soldiers of the military control committee stopped them. Zhu Jinsong and his group were definitely going to die, but not from being stoned to death. Killing them now would be a relief for them.
The parade gradually moved away, leaving behind a mess.
There's no need for everyone to clean up; those who aren't qualified to parade through the streets will take care of it, such as Grandpa Wang's family, Grandpa Hu's family, Fang Yong's family, Lu Xiaoqing's family, and the family of the former Revolutionary Committee cadre.
Lu Xiaoqing's family members were also dragged into the mess because of her pro-American and anti-China remarks. After the incident, the Lu family failed to distance themselves from her in time, and instead claimed that the Yu family had framed them and had protected them. They even found dozens of Yuan Shikai silver dollars in their home.
The whole family was ruined. The best place for them was to be sent down to a farm with slightly better conditions to undergo proper reformation.
As for Zhu Jinsong and Shen Siwei, their identities as enemy agents are undeniable. Nowadays, it's believed that if one person betrays the country, the whole family is guilty. Their families won't even have the chance to clean up the garbage on the streets. They will be labeled as the most heinous "black five categories," stripped of their urban household registration, jobs, and property, and forcibly sent to the most difficult places for labor reform, with no chance of ever turning their lives around.
No one will pity their families. They enjoyed the power and status brought by Zhu Jinsong and others, and now it's time for them to suffer together.
In fact, Zhu Jinsong never admitted that he was an enemy agent. He didn't understand why there was a wireless telegraph machine in his ancestral grave. He only thought that gold and silver treasures were hidden in the ancestral grave.
He wasn't stupid; he quickly realized that all of this was the result of careful consideration and action.
Chen Siwei was an enemy agent lurking in his presence, who instigated him to commit countless evil deeds and even buried a wireless telegraph machine in his ancestral grave.
He confessed, he was guilty, but his crime did not warrant death; he was not an enemy spy! He was innocent!
Other places are still shutting down and halting production, but he didn't do this. He doesn't deserve to die!
Whether Zhu Jinsong confesses or not is no longer up to him. The label of "enemy agent chief" has been firmly placed on his head, and he can never take it off.
He personally killed those innocent people who had devoted themselves to Qingshan County, and he precisely carried out the enemy's orders, attempting to cut off the future of Qingshan County.
These blood debts cannot be denied by his sophistry!
Everyone continued walking forward with the procession. The military control committee organized discipline along the way, telling everyone to disperse so as not to miss work or school. There would be more parades in the coming days.
Upon hearing this, everyone was immediately delighted and gradually dispersed.
Cheng Xiuying also took Yu Jiajia home to change clothes. They were all in the front row, and the people in the back threw their clothes to the front, so they all got some on their bodies. Luckily, her brothers' jackets covered her hair, otherwise she would have had to wash her hair too.
After getting ready, Cheng Xiuying rode her little green bike, carrying Yu Jiajia, happily to work.
Cheng Xiuying specifically walked along Dazhai Road. The middle of the road was dirty, but the roadside was clean. The Wang and Lu families had already arrived to clean up the street. First, they used shovels to remove large areas of garbage, then they mopped it, and wiped away any remaining trash in the nooks and crannies with rags.
The Revolutionary Committee was short-staffed, so the street office staff supervised them, and there were militia battalions guarding the intersections, so they weren't afraid anyone would dare to run away.
Cheng Xiuying stopped the car and watched for a while, feeling quite pleased. She then said to Yu Jiajia, "Jiajia, you can't sympathize with them. If those two bitches, Lu Xiaoqing and Wang Liren, had succeeded in framing us, our whole family would have been the ones marching just now."
They didn't even have the chance to sweep the streets; in the end, they all died.
Yu Jiajia whispered, "Mom, I know."
When Grandpa Wang's two sons came over, Cheng Xiuying said, "Xuejun, Zhenjun, you must accept reform and become good people. You can't follow your father's example."
Both Wang Zhenjun and [unnamed individuals] wore bitter expressions. [Unnamed individual] bowed and said, "We were foolish. We will definitely reform ourselves and completely sever ties with Wang Liren! Please let the organization see how we perform!"
Wang Zhenjun: "We will completely sever ties with Wang Liren and will definitely reform ourselves properly."
When Aunt Wang got into trouble, they quickly distanced themselves from her; now that Uncle Wang is in trouble, they're quickly distancing themselves from him as well.
These two put on a pitiful act, but in reality they are both heartless and rotten.
When Grandpa Wang was a cadre, the two of them were extremely filial. They didn't even go to the factory; instead, they followed Grandpa Wang to retrieve people from the moat. Fortunately, they got some exposure in front of Zhu Jingsong, hoping that they could also do great things with Zhu Jingsong in the future.
The two of them hadn't even had a chance to do anything significant before they stepped down along with Zhu Jinsong.
The other people in the compound were also there, mocking the Wang family. Su Man's mother said, "Oh, it's a good thing you're not as capable as your father, otherwise you would be in the parade at the front."
In the first few days after Wang Liren started to show off, he was so arrogant that he was practically wagging his tail in the air! He was always either sneaking around their house or eavesdropping on their walls, trying to find gold to curry favor with Zhu Jingsong.
During that time, the Su family lived in constant fear. They were restless during the day and dared not sleep at night, afraid that they would talk in their sleep and have nightmares. They were terrified that one day a catastrophic disaster would befall them.
Now I can finally get a good night's sleep.
Pan Hongying: "A person can't lack virtue, otherwise they'll suffer retribution! Not a single member of their family will escape it."
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