Chapter 44 Public Confession
After giving the instructions, Ning Xuan calmly ate breakfast with Jiang Xiaohong's family.
Jiang's mother specially gave the noodles with eggs to Ning Xuan and Jiang Xiaohong. Ning Xuan didn't like polite formalities and didn't refuse.
Everyone else thought that Xiao Hong must have suffered a lot because she was so thin, and since Grandma Liu was her benefactor, they thought it was normal for Jiang's mother to do this.
However, Wu Meili was not happy. She was the great contributor to the birth of the Jiang family's eldest grandson, and she still had to breastfeed the baby. The old woman didn't even remember to give her a bowl of egg noodles.
Thinking this way, Wu Meili felt that her sister-in-law's return was bad luck for her. The house was already so crowded, and with her sister-in-law coming in, how would she live?
However, no one noticed Wu Meili's unhappiness at this time, and everyone was happily eating breakfast.
After finishing breakfast, Ning Xuan was about to say goodbye to the Jiang family. At this moment, Jiang's mother took Ning Xuan's hand, stuffed a red envelope into her hand, and then handed her a cloth bag filled with many things.
She couldn't accept it so easily now; there was just too much, and she didn't need anything else, so she pushed it back.
Jiang Xiaohong felt that although it wasn't the girl herself who brought her back, this grandmother must know the girl and be her benefactor, so she also helped to stuff the things into Ning Xuan's hands.
Just as Ning Xuan was struggling with how to refuse, a commotion suddenly broke out downstairs.
Jiang Xiaodi quickly ran to the window to look, and soon ran back to tell everyone, "It seems like something happened at the department store, but I couldn't hear clearly."
Jiang's mother slapped her thigh, "Could there be something cheap here? We have to hurry and grab it!"
So, while everyone was looking forward to going to the department store to see what was going on, Ning Xuan put the things Jiang's mother had given her back, and quietly put the red envelope back into Jiang Xiaohong's pocket.
Jiang Xiaohong remembered what the girl had told her that night about picking rotten vegetable leaves, and on a whim, she picked up the small basket that was kept at home.
In the chaos, no one noticed that Ning Xuan had quietly slipped away.
Ning Xuan first ran towards the department store with the crowd for a while, then found an opportunity to run into a secluded corner and quickly cast an invisibility talisman on herself.
Then she continued walking towards the department store, mainly because she was afraid of running into the Jiang family again and having to get into another fight, which would be too troublesome.
As they approached the department store, they could hear Zhang Youde confessing his crimes in public through a loudspeaker from afar.
Zhang Youde and Zhang Qiang were seen wearing large posters with the words "I am a beast" and "I am an animal" hanging on their bodies respectively.
Then the two took turns using megaphones to recount their crimes over the years, confessing their sins in public.
“I am Zhang Youde, the director of the G Committee of Xiangyang Commune. Over the years, I have committed many heinous and inhuman crimes.”
I have now come to my senses and have decided to confess my sins in public to atone for them.
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Last year, in order to seize a family's house, I falsely accused them of having problematic family backgrounds and planned to send them to the countryside for re-education. Unexpectedly, this family was strong-willed and actually tried to report me, so I staged an accident that led to their destruction and death..."
"I am Zhang Qiang, son of Zhang Youde, and a member of the G Committee. My crimes are as follows:"
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In 1972, I took a liking to a girl who already had someone she was planning to marry. To force her into marriage, I threatened her family members with their jobs…
Some of these incidents, one by one, were remembered at specific times, while others were forgotten by the individuals themselves.
Ning Xuan instructed the two to bring a big-character poster to the entrance of the department store to confess in public, but not to reveal the specific names of the women who were assaulted, in order to protect the privacy of the victims. They were also instructed not to disclose where they had hidden their valuables, except for the place where the Zhang family was currently living.
The reason for choosing a department store is that there is always a large flow of people there. Also, if someone tries to stop them from confessing in public, it will take some time for them to arrive after receiving the news. This gives them a certain time difference to make a big fuss about the matter.
With so many people witnessing their confessions, it's impossible for them to back out, and Ning Xuan won't give them a chance to change their minds.
Zhang Youde's wife and Zhang Xiuying were still asleep when they were woken up by Aunt Zhang, who was claimed to be a relative but was actually their nanny:
"Oh no! Madam, Miss, oh no! Master and Young Master are in trouble!"
The two were woken up by the noise and were about to scold the family when they heard that the breadwinner of the family had been in trouble. They quickly got up, learned what had happened from Aunt Zhang, and ran to the department store.
Mrs. Zhang and Zhang Xiuying tried to drag Zhang Youde and his wife home, but instead, they were slapped by the two men and then lectured for abusing their positions at work.
Mrs. Zhang and Zhang Xiuying were stunned by the beating, wondering what had gotten into them that made them say such things in public.
Zhang Xiuying was sweating profusely, feeling both embarrassed and frightened. She tried to run away with her mother, but there were many people around, and everyone had clearly heard that this family was not good people. Then, someone started throwing rotten vegetable leaves and clods of mud at the family from the crowd.
In fact, the person who started it was one of the victims persecuted by Zhang Qiang and his son. Seeing how many crimes the two had committed, he hated them even more. Remembering his own experience, he could no longer hold back his resentment and took advantage of the chaos to smash things at the two.
Jiang Xiaohong did the same. Seeing that the two of them really didn't say the specific victim's name, her trembling hands finally regained their composure, and then she took the things in the basket and threw them at Zhang Qiang and his son one by one!
Although she couldn't bring herself to slash with a knife or pour oil on her, she knew she couldn't, otherwise she would become the perpetrator again. So she could only vent her anger by throwing away garbage.
As the scene grew increasingly chaotic, some young people were already rushing over to beat up the two beasts.
Then people in the crowd started cursing, calling him "scum," "beast," and saying things like, "This kind of person should be shot!"
Zhang Xiuying and her daughter were also affected; their clothes and hair were torn and messy, and they had scratches on their faces and hands.
Screams and shouts of cursing and hitting filled the air, and the scene became extremely chaotic.
Uncle Hat arrived before Zhang Qiang and his son were knocked unconscious.
Zhang Qiang and his entire family have been arrested.
But the crowd lingered for a long time...
Some people wanted to go to the police station, but were dispersed by the man in the hat.
Ning Xuan saw Zhang Qiang's family being taken away. Her puppet potion still had a month left to work, which should be enough. She hoped that the two would be sentenced soon.
Ning Xuan didn't go to the police station. Since the puppet potion had no distance limit, she kept herself invisible and rushed back to the brigade.
You can't ride a bike in broad daylight; walking will be much more strenuous.
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