Reporting is rewarding. Who did Sun Guizhi report?
Xia Juhua and Liu Liqun looked at each other, and saw surprise in each other's eyes. The leader of the Red Team was also looking at them, with a playful smile on his face: "Yes, there is still the account of your report that has not been settled."
How can it be a matter of settling scores? It should be a matter of making meritorious contributions. Sun Guizhi was anxious and tried to pull the sleeve of the leader of the Red Team, but was avoided with disgust. She quickly said, "Captain Xia, are you mistaken? I reported Xia Juhua. She was engaged in speculation and profiteering. You will know the truth after you arrest her and interrogate her. I did not engage in speculation and profiteering. If you want to settle a score, you should find Xia Juhua."
Sun Guizhi had seen how the Red Team interrogated people. Why did only their family members suffer? Xia Juhua should also have a taste of being beaten.
Liu Liqun couldn't stand it anymore and yelled, "Sun Guizhi, shut your stinky mouth."
"Captain Liu?" Sun Guizhi heard someone calling her name. She turned around and saw that it was the captain of the militia. Just as she was about to smile ingratiatingly, she saw the person standing next to Liu Liqun.
Summer chrysanthemum!
The person standing next to Liu Liqun was actually Xia Juhua. It must be that the Red Team asked the Brigade to bring her over, otherwise why would the Red Team ask them to come over as soon as Xia Juhua arrived?
Sun Guizhi thought that she had misunderstood the words of the Red Team Captain just now. What he wanted to do was to make her confront Xia Juhua!
Her eyes were shining with excitement, and she gestured to the leader of the Red Team: "Captain Xia, she is Xia Juhua. She is the one who is engaged in speculation and profiteering. If you interrogate her like you interrogate us, she will confess."
The leader of the Red Team took a step back in disdain and looked at Liu Sizhuang, who had been silent since entering the house: "Liu Sizhuang, is what your wife said true?"
Liu Sizhuang, who has always been good at hiding behind his mother and wife to gain benefits, of course also saw Xia Juhua and Liu Liqun like Sun Guizhi.
Let's not talk about the couple. His thinking was the same as Sun Guizhi's. He didn't even question why the Red Team didn't tie up Xia Juhua and let her stand there in a proper manner. Instead, he believed that Xia Juhua was also taken to the Red Team by Liu Liqun. He nodded and said, "My wife is right. Xia Juhua is a speculator. All the members of our production team know it, and many people want to learn from her."
In order to make Xia Juhua's crime more serious, Liu Sizhuang exaggerated it more than Sun Guizhi. Liu Liqun was so angry that he wanted to slap Liu Sizhuang. He was his brother-in-law. Instead of taking care of his widowed sister-in-law after his brother died, he reported her to absolve himself! Besides, how did the villagers offend you? You said someone wanted to learn speculation from Xia Juhua?
He fell into the water and tried to pull others up, is he still a human being?!
The leader of the Red Team gave Xia Juhua a meaningful look and asked with a smile, "Captain Xia, is what they said true?"
"Captain Xia?" Liu Sizhuang and his wife couldn't understand what was going on. Why did the captain of the Red Team call Xia Juhua the captain, when he was obviously the captain Xia.
Liu Liqun was even more anxious. Xia Juhua had just become the production team leader yesterday. He heard from Li Changshun that she seemed to be quite capable when he returned to the brigade headquarters today. He couldn't let these two inhuman things report her. He forced a smile at the leader of the Red Team: "Captain Xia, is this..."
"No, let Captain Xia speak." The captain of the Red Team waved his hands at Liu Liqun, but his eyes were fixed on Xia Juhua, insisting that Xia Juhua speak.
Xia Juhua's smile was not as forced as Liu Liqun's, and she still spoke in a soft voice: "Captain Xia, I guess when Sun Guizhi said that I was engaged in speculation, she was referring to the fact that I fried peanuts for the supply and marketing cooperative, right?" No wonder the Red Team said that someone had reported them as soon as they entered the door yesterday. They thought they were just trying to scare them, but it turned out that there really was someone who reported them.
The person who reported it seemed to be shooting himself in the foot. Xia Juhua smiled more kindly: "Didn't someone at the supply and marketing cooperative prove this yesterday? Didn't they make it clear yesterday? It just so happens that we are in the commune now. If you are worried that yesterday's proof is not credible, we can go to the supply and marketing cooperative together to ask the director."
Liu Sizhuang and his wife were dumbfounded. If everything had been explained clearly yesterday, why didn't the Red Team tell them, making them look like a fool in front of Liu Liqun, the brigade cadre?
Sun Guizhi was not someone who was willing to admit defeat. She shouted to the leader of the Red Team anxiously, "Captain Xia, don't be fooled by her. She has been engaged in speculation and profiteering for many years. How could a widow with two children live such a good life?"
Liu Liqun wanted to cover Sun Guizhi's mouth. Even if he couldn't cover it in front of the Red Team, he had to minimize the impact of her words: "What nonsense are you talking about. Xia Juhua is well-known in the whole team for her ability. She earns ten work points a day just like men. Her two sons also earn ten work points. If the eldest daughter-in-law hadn't gotten pregnant, it would have been the same. If a family like this can't live well, then what other family can live well?!"
"Haha," the leader of the Red Team sneered twice, and finally moved his eyes away from Xia Juhua, whose expression had not changed since entering the room, and turned to look at Liu Sizhuang and his wife: "I said that you two are not honest. One of you cut open your own brother's head, and the other slandered your own sister-in-law."
"That's called a broken pot with a rotten lid." A member of the Red Team said something clever, but the captain looked at him and he shut up. However, another member laughed out loud, not caring at all about the Red Team captain's dissatisfied look.
Liu Sizhuang and Sun Guizhi were stunned: "Captain Xia, we didn't lie, she was just speculating. By the way, this Liu Liqun used to have a good relationship with my eldest brother, and he has always been on Xia Juhua's side. He must be protecting Xia Juhua, you can't be fooled by them."
"You two!" Liu Liqun's temper could no longer be suppressed. As an old soldier who had participated in the Korean War, it was already frustrating for him to come to the commune and smile at a little kid. It would be strange if he didn't explode when he heard Liu Sizhuang and his wife spitting shit at him:
"I knew you two were no good, but I didn't expect you to be so bad. Captain Xia, I think you two haven't realized your mistakes yet. You should let them continue to study hard in the training class, and after they have truly transformed their thoughts, you can bring them back to the production team to supervise labor."
The leader of the Red Team tilted his mouth and smiled again: "Captain Liu, this is different from your usual style. In the past, when someone from your team went to the training class, didn't you always think of ways to bring them back early? Why are you so supportive of our work today?"
Liu Liqun said righteously: "The members who attended the study class before were able to deeply recognize their own problems subjectively, so I wanted to take them back as soon as possible to transform their souls through labor. But Liu Sizhuang and his wife did not transform their thoughts subjectively, and only wanted to drag revolutionary members into the water. They should be taught by the Red Team how to explode the revolution from the depths of their souls."
The leader of the Red Team was very satisfied with Liu Liqun's answer, and then looked at Xia Juhua: "Captain Xia, what do you think? After all, they are your brother-in-law and sister-in-law. Do you want to speak up for them?"
When Liu Sizhuang was arrested and sent to the Red Team, Liu Erzhuang followed him. Xia Juhua didn't believe that he didn't plead for mercy. But did pleading work? The two were still detained in the Red Team for three or four days.
So Xia Juhua just shook her head and said: "I am determined to draw a clear line between myself and the bad elements who framed the revolutionary members."
Why not draw a clear line? The couple was not obedient even after being locked up in the study class. If the people from the supply and marketing cooperative had not arrived in time yesterday, Xia Juhua would have had a place in the study class. Seeing Liu Sizhuang and his wife stay in the Red Team study class for a few more days, Xia Juhua did not think she was cruel.
If possible, she hoped that the couple could stay together in the Red Team's study class for the rest of their lives. Otherwise, when they returned to Ping'an Village, she, as the production team leader, would have to deal with them.
"Yes. No wonder Captain Xia can become the production captain of Pingan Village. His ideological awareness is very advanced." The Red Team Leader said seriously: "Then our Red Team will continue to help you educate them for two more days, but your production team must deliver their rations."
Liu Liqun nodded and said, "Okay, I'll send someone to Old Liu's house to deliver food for them. Captain Xia, how many days do you think is appropriate?"
"Auntie." Liu Zhiliang, who had been standing there blankly since entering the house, suddenly called Xia Juhua and knelt down in front of her: "Auntie, please take Hongjuan and me back home. It's too cold this night and we can't eat. If we continue to be educated, Hongjuan and I will starve to death."
Hearing her brother pleading with Xia Juhua, Liu Hongjuan finally turned her eyes away. She glanced at Xia Juhua and then looked at her brother again, her face still with a dull expression.
Xia Juhua really covered Liu Zhiliang's mouth this time. What truth was he telling? He dared to say in front of the Red Team that they were going to starve to death. He didn't want to go back with them.
Didn't you hear Liu Liqun just say that he was only sending food for two people? That was actually a keepsake to create an opportunity for bringing the two of them back to the production team.
Although the leader of the Red Team was young, he was very obedient: "Captain Liu, how can you only send food for two people? There are clearly four people studying here."
Before Xia Juhua let go of Liu Zhiliang's mouth, she looked at him deeply. Liu Zhiliang shuddered and dared not say a word. Xia Juhua then stood up and looked at the leader of the Red Team and said:
"Captain Xia, I will have someone deliver the food for these two children while they study here for three days along with Liu Sizhuang and his wife."
Sun Guizhi couldn't stand seeing Xia Juhua doing well, and always wanted to step on her to be happy. Unexpectedly, she failed to step on her, and she could have returned to the production team but ended up staying in the study class. Her son even knelt down to Xia Juhua, and Xia Juhua covered his mouth to prevent him from speaking. Sun Guizhi jumped up:
“不行，憑啥投機倒把的人不抓，還讓我這個舉報的人接着學習呀，你這個紅小隊隊長不講理，不公平。我要去舉報你。”
作死真不是這麽作的。夏菊花服氣的看着孫桂芝竟然在紅小隊面前要講理、要公平，還威脅要舉報人，重新把頭低下了。
紅小隊隊長歪着嘴角沖隊員一努，一個人就到了孫桂芝的背後，一腳踹到她腿窩上，孫桂芝撲通一聲跪到地上了。
“夏隊長，”夏菊花無奈的又開口了：“這個孫桂芝一向嘴沒把門的，想到啥就說啥……”
孫桂芝：你是想勸還是上眼藥呢？
紅小隊隊長聽了夏菊花的話竟難得的沒反駁，話卻是沖着劉力群說的：“劉隊長，這個女人嚣張成啥樣不用我說了吧。所以真不是我不給平安莊大隊面子，而是這樣的人在我們這兒都不教育好，恐怕回了生産隊更難認識到自己的錯誤。劉四壯兩口子，少說也得在這兒學習半個月二十天的，到時候你再來接人吧。”
劉力群快煩死孫桂芝了，聽了只點了點頭沒說別的。劉四壯不知咋聽的，竟然報着一絲希望說：“那話不是我先說的，都是孫桂芝非得讓我這麽說。她一直跟我嫂子有矛盾，她這個污蔑犯，我不能跟她同流合污留在學習班。夏隊長，我是不是可以跟我嫂子他們回去了。”
為了能回平安莊，劉四壯說瞎話一點都不帶眨巴眼的，還希望別人跟他一樣健忘，不記得剛才他給夏菊花安的罪名比孫桂芝有過之無不及。
另一個紅小隊隊員沒用隊長示意，如法炮制的把劉四壯也給踢跪下，嘴裏罵罵咧咧的說：“你們兩口子沒一個好玩意。”
屋裏終于清靜了一下，劉力群趁機說：“那夏隊長我們就先回去了，明天就把他們兩人的口糧送來。這兩孩子跟着這樣的爹娘也學不出好來，還是我們帶回去，讓他們在勞動中成長吧。”
紅小隊隊長沒說話，劉力群就示意夏菊花一起出門，夏菊花一手拉了一個孩子，替人關上門後才算松了口氣。屋裏傳來接連不斷的慘叫聲，還有人罵：“娘的，敢說老子不講理，老子就講給你聽聽。”
夏菊花覺得拉着劉志亮的手一緊，側臉看時劉志亮正回頭看着房門，眼睛裏全是仇恨的光。
“走吧，先回家。”恨有啥用，上輩子夏菊花心裏對孫氏和劉四壯兩口子有時也恨的不行，耽誤人家吃喝啦？
劉志亮似乎也知道自己現在除了跟夏菊花二人回平安莊，做不了任何事，一句話都沒說的跟着就走。出了公社的院子，一直木呆呆的劉紅娟卻停住了，臉繃的緊緊的，眼睛死死看着夏菊花問：
“大娘，我爹娘是你的小叔子和妯娌，你咋這麽狠心，在裏頭一句也不替他們講情呢？”
夏菊花松開拉着兩人的手，認真的看了劉志亮和劉紅娟一眼，才問：“他們誣陷我投機倒把，如果不是紅小隊隊長明察秋毫，現在我也得留在紅小隊。你們自己想想，我為啥要替他們講情呢？”
八歲的劉紅娟，執拗的說：“可你是我爹娘的嫂子，應該照顧我爹娘。”
“那你爹娘這幾天照顧你們了嗎？”夏菊花已經開始往前走了——時候不早了，從公社走到平安莊天早該黑了，她可沒時間陪着這兄妹兩個探讨人心換人心的道理。
明知講不通的道理，還是給自己省省力氣好了，反正夏菊花從來也沒期望得到這兄妹兩人的感激。劉志亮兄妹見夏菊花說走就走，有些茫然的看向爹娘還被關着的院子，似乎不知道該留下還是跟着走。
劉力群就那麽看着他們，心想老話說的還是的道理的，龍生龍鳳生鳳，老鼠的兒子只能打地洞。
“劉隊長，你也不管我爹娘了嗎？”劉紅娟好象比她哥話多，讓人想不明白為什麽在屋裏求夏菊花帶自己回平安莊的，是劉志亮而不是她。
劉力群也不想明白，搖了搖頭說：“你爹娘打傷了人，在學習班還不老實誣陷你大娘，誰也管不了他們。”說完又看了那兄妹兩個一眼，跟夏菊花一樣頭也一回的走了。
劉志亮咬着下嘴唇，拉起劉紅娟的手跟在劉力群的身後頭。夏菊花聽到了身後的腳步聲，并沒有回頭或是放慢腳步，走的還快了點兒。
她是真的餓了，想回家喝一碗熱熱的粥。
可劉紅娟走到飯店門口就拉着劉志亮不動窩了，嘴裏叫着：“哥，我餓。”
劉力群皺着眉頭回身看了看那兄妹倆，又看看已經走出幾步的夏菊花，不得不說：“餓了就快走兩步，等到家了你奶奶就給你們做好飯了。”
“嘤嘤嘤，劉隊長我也想走快點兒，可是這兩天在學習班，我和哥哥一天只吃一個餅子，實在餓的走不動了。”
你可真會挑走不動的地方。劉力群再看夏菊花的時候，發現她已經站住了，還回過身來問那兄妹倆：“要不我先送你們回學習班去，在他們那兒再吃一個餅子住一晚上，讓明天給你爹娘送糧食的人接你們兩個回去？”
劉紅娟憤怒了：“你咋這麽狠心呢，我還是你親侄女呢，走不動了你都不給我買點兒吃的。我紅梅姐都說了，上次你到飯店買了好幾個大肉包子呢，可香了。”說完又嘤嘤嘤的哭了起來。
劉志亮又跑到夏菊花跟前，想跪下的時候被早有準備的夏菊花一把拉住了，對他說：“劉志亮，我不跟你說什麽男兒膝下有黃金的老話，因為你有個膝蓋軟的爹，你聽不懂。”
“我只告訴你，你要是真跪下，那我就送你回學習班給紅小隊跪去，省得回平安莊之後你奶奶又說我欺負她的寶貝孫子。”
劉志亮的身體僵住了，劉紅娟也傻眼了。她都學着娘和奶奶先聲奪人又哭着賣慘了，這個夏菊花咋一點兒都不上勾呢？
劉力群已經帶着劉紅娟走到了兩人跟前，對夏菊花說：“走吧。”夏菊花又一次頭也不回的打頭走開了。這回兄妹兩個沒再鬧妖，乖乖的跟着劉力群。從他們不時看向夏菊花背影的眼神裏，不難看到憤怒、痛恨等情緒，可是夏菊花感覺到了嗎？
夏菊花表示自己皮糙肉厚感覺不到。直到拍打老劉家的院門，夏菊花的臉色才變了變，在更加黑暗的天色下，同樣沒有人看到。
劉二壯開門見是夏菊花和劉力群，不由驚奇的問：“嫂子，收工的時候你沒到渠上去，咱們生産隊比小莊頭完成的還快，大隊長都表揚咱們了呢。”
“二大爺。”劉紅娟聽到劉二壯竟然先跟夏菊花說話，有些不滿的叫了一聲，從劉力群身後探出腦袋。
“志亮，紅娟，你們回來了，你爹娘呢？”劉二壯看到侄子侄女出現了，往劉力群身後看了看，沒看到劉四壯兩口子，問了一句。
劉紅娟一下子哭了起來：“嘤嘤嘤，二大爺，我爹娘還在學習班呢。本來今天紅小隊讓大娘接我們回家，可是大娘說我爹娘誣陷她了，讓紅小隊再關我爹娘二十天。二大爺，你快去紅小隊給我爹娘講講情，讓他們把我爹娘放回來吧。”
上輩子知道劉紅娟歪成什麽樣的夏菊花，與劉紅娟朝夕相處的劉二壯都沒覺得意外，劉力群卻被震的身子一趔趄——這丫頭也太會颠倒黑白了吧，說話的語氣和腔調裏竟然同時有孫氏和孫桂芝兩人的影子。
“夏菊花，你這個掃把星，我就知道讓你當上生産隊長準沒好事。虧得當初你還裝樣子說知道我不容易來看我，我還以為你總算有點兒人味了。你就是這麽知道我不容易的？”孫氏不知道什麽時候也來到院門口，聽劉紅娟一說完，人就炸了，沖着夏菊花罵了起來。
夏菊花跟沒聽到孫氏的謾罵一樣，平靜的繼續向劉二壯說：“因為孫桂芝污蔑我，劉四壯給她做假證，所以他們兩個還得在學習班學習二十天。”
“紅小隊不會白管他們的飯，你們家明天得把他們兩口子的口糧給紅小隊送去，另外還得加上前三天他們四口子在紅小隊吃的糧食。”
一直謾罵的孫氏，竟然神奇的把夏菊花的話都聽全了，一蹦三尺高：“我們家沒糧食，他們抓了人還不管飯，講不講理了。要是不想管飯，那就讓四壯他們兩口子回來。”他們不回來，她的心總不落體兒，不知道讓劉四壯帶走的錢還在不在。
“行。”夏菊花痛快的點頭：“那明天娘你自己去跟紅小隊的人說吧。”
這還是那個罵不還口的夏菊花嗎？孫氏狐疑的看着眼前熟悉的人，覺得自從那次夏菊花來看過她以後，她就越來越看不懂夏菊花了。
Liu Liqun thought what Xia Juhua said made sense, and said to Sun: "Xia Juhua is right. If you have the ability, don't send food. See if the Red Team dares to starve them to death."
It would be strange if they didn't dare. Anyone who entered the Red Team would be punished. Sun didn't dare to gamble, so she just slapped her thighs and sat on the ground and howled, saying that Xia Juhua was the production team leader and couldn't just watch the members being locked up in the Red Team. She also said that she had no food at home because it was all taken away by Liu Erzhuang and An Baoling, two ruthless people, and she couldn't get any food.
Finally, Sun came up with a bizarre idea and said that Liu Sizhuang was a member of the production team, and that the couple were imprisoned in the Red Team's study class, and that the production team should provide them with food. If the production team did not provide it, it would be indifferent to the lives of its members and would be acting without help.
The old woman is going to go to the brigade to sue Xia Juhua so that she won't be able to be the production team leader!