"I don't know. Just go in and ask and you'll find out." Su Miaomiao said slowly.
"Yeah." Tang Chunlan nodded.
The group continued walking towards the village. After less than five minutes, they saw a group of people moving forward around something, waving hoes in their hands, and some even picked up stones from the roadside and threw them forward.
But because of the crowd, Su Miaomiao and the others couldn't see what was happening in front of them.
"What are they doing?" Huo Bo frowned.
"It seems like... a parade." Su Miaomiao said after a moment of silence.
Huo Jianguo didn't know what he was thinking, but his pace immediately quickened and he ran quickly towards the crowd.
Su Miaomiao and others hurriedly chased after him.
At the front of the crowd were six or seven men and women with their hands tied behind their backs and several colorful signs hanging on their bodies. There were also elderly people and children among them.
They supported each other, huddled together tightly, and were pushed forward by the crowd behind them with bamboo sticks.
Passersby on both sides would pick up stones from the roadside and throw them at them, causing several people to have blood on their foreheads.
But they were extremely numb and just moved forward passively. They did not avoid or dodge when stones fell on them, as if they were used to it.
When Huo Jianguo saw this scene, he felt as if a big hole had been opened in his heart. After he came to his senses, he rushed into the crowd regardless of anything, stood in front of those people, and shouted at the group of crazy villagers.
"What are you doing? Stop it!"
"Who are you?" An old man in his sixties, who was standing at the front, looked at Huo Jianguo with cold eyes.
"Tell me what you are doing first?!" Huo Jianguo's eyes were red.
Su Miaomiao and others also left Huo Jianguo by their side. Five or six people went to that station. Especially the murderous aura emanating from Lu Xiuyuan made these skinny villagers in front of them dare not move forward.
"We are parading them through the streets. They stole things from the village and are now receiving our punishment!" The old man's eyes swept over them. From their clothes and demeanor, he could tell that these people were not ordinary people. So he answered Huo Jianguo's question first.
"Stealing? Do you have any evidence? Have you been caught in the act? Even if it's stealing, you should call the police. How can you punish them privately?" Huo Jianguo gritted his teeth.
"They are reformed elements. Who else would do such a shameless thing?" The old man snorted coldly.
"So you have no evidence!" Huo Jianguo heard the hidden meaning in his words.
"What evidence do we need? This is our own village's business. Who are you? If you are just passing by, please leave here immediately." The old man had already ordered them to leave.
"I'm the director of Mo County Pharmaceutical Factory. My name is Su Miaomiao." Su Miaomiao stepped forward.
"I am Lu Xiuyuan, an active-duty soldier with the rank of colonel." Lu Xiuyuan also stepped forward.
The old man was a little shocked by their identities.
One of them is the factory director, and the other is a colonel. It's rare for an official to come to their village every ten years, so how come there are two of them today?
"What... do you want to do in our village?" The old man's tone softened a lot.
"We are here to visit relatives." Su Miaomiao said firmly.
"Visiting relatives? So we are a family. I am the village chief of this mountain village. My name is Huang Fengmao. You can call me Village Chief Huang." Huang Fengmao said as he stretched out his hand to Lu Xiuyuan.
Lu Xiuyuan just glanced at him indifferently and did not shake hands with him.
Although Huang Fengmao felt a little embarrassed, he put it back with a smile when he remembered their identities.
"Since you are here to visit relatives, then you are one of our family. What is the name of the family you want to visit? I will take you there." Huang Fengmao said again.
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