Chapter 231
At the door of Zhong Linfang's ward, Huang Baohua sat on the ground, slapping her thighs and crying.
All kinds of dirty words kept coming into Zhong Linfang's mind in the room.
Zhong Linfang hugged Lu Jingzhi in panic, trembling.
Liu Siqing was blocking the door and just as he was about to drag Huang Baohua away, Huang Baohua immediately shouted loudly that she was being molested.
He was so embarrassed that his face turned red and his eyes were about to spit fire, but he was helpless.
Su Qingci rushed over after receiving the news and was about to tie up Huang Baohua on the charge of gathering a crowd to cause trouble and disrupt social order.
Xie Qunfu, however, hurried over with several other members and protected the man behind him, apologizing and making amends.
It was said that Huang Baohua was also upset because of the matter between her daughter and son-in-law.
Are the people not allowed to express their dissatisfaction?
Aren't the Zhong family's grandparents and grandchildren fine? How can you just randomly arrest people for a few curse words?
Su Qingci had many dissatisfactions in her heart, all of which were bound by the new rules and regulations set by her superiors.
She felt so guilty and had no place to vent her anger that she even thought about secretly going to Xie's house at night and setting a fire.
In the darkness of the night, Zhong Linfang looked out the window.
"Grandma, I don't like Liu Siqing. Please don't put me and him together anymore."
"I went on a blind date with Mr. Bai when I was 19. All my girlish feelings and all my dreams for the future were for him."
"How can you just break off this kind of relationship that has built up over time? How can you just replace it?"
"Grandma, you understand me and I understand you, so don't do anything stupid!"
"Grandma, let's go. Let's leave Taohua Town, okay? Let's go somewhere else, to a place where no one knows us!"
Zhong Linfang was a sensitive girl. She sensed something from her grandmother's words that sounded like her last words.
Grandma said that Liu Siqing was a good person and someone she could entrust her life to. Grandma said she would calm everything down for her.
Liu Siqing is a good person, but she may not be able to enter into a new relationship in the next few years.
The environment and everything here scared her, especially her grandmother's words.
Lu Jingzhi's lips trembled, and he wanted to say something but couldn't.
“Grandma, do you want to go and see the place where you studied when you were young?”
"Do you want to walk the same path you walked with Grandpa Wen again?"
"You and Grandpa Wen agreed to visit the prairie. Wouldn't you regret it if you didn't go there?"
"Grandma, you're all I have."
After dawn, Lu Jingzhi went to the security point to find Su Qingci.
As soon as Lu Jingzhi opened the door, he asked about the new security system from above.
Su Qingci looked at her in confusion, her face calm, as if the previous hostility had been wiped out overnight.
Lu Jingzhi did not hide it from Su Qingci.
"Actually, before last night, my thoughts were all about dragging Huang Baohua and her family down with me to hell."
"I think a bloody lesson will always silence those unpleasant words out there."
"I don't want their apology, I just want them to die."
"However, Linfang rejected the arrangement I made for her. She wanted a different life, and I didn't want to leave with a lifetime of regret."
"I want to take Linfang out for a walk. The new environment and time will heal everything."
"So I need your explanation. Of course, I won't let Huang Baohua and her family go either."
"How do you want me to help you?"
"I need a letter of introduction to go out, and I also need money."
"Don't worry, I'm not asking you for money."
"You may not know my origins."
"My family used to be a big merchant family in Lanzhou. They even donated airplanes to the country during the war. My dowry when I got married was very generous."
"This is what I planned to leave for Linfang as her dowry. It's also the only thing I kept."
"I think you have more channels than me."
Su Qingci picked up the two large ingots handed to her by Lu Jingzhi and took a look at them. There were "Qing Dynasty Gold Ingots" engraved on them in traditional Chinese characters.
Each one weighs ten taels.
The two of them talked for a long time in the office away from others, studying the new law.
An hour later, Lu Jingzhi returned with ease.
That afternoon, Lu Jingzhi came to Xie Dapeng's house crying, and in front of a crowd of onlookers, she hit her head against the stone wall of Xie's gate.
Lu Jingzhi was bleeding from the head and was rushed to the hospital.
Huang Baohua, Xie Dapeng, Xie Hongjun and Xie Yunping, a family of four, were detained on the same day.
He was also sent to the county on a series of charges including intentionally fabricating and spreading false facts, openly slandering and damaging the reputation of others, serious insult and defamation, and forcing others to near death.
After seeing the documents submitted from below, the county authorities, taking into account the particularity of the case, increased the charges against Huang Baohua and her group by three points.
The significance of this incident is different. Zhong Linfang is one of the few women who stood up when faced with hooliganism and crime.
Now both the grandfather and grandson are almost driven to death.
If you are treated unequally for bravely standing up, women who encounter similar incidents in the future will be even more afraid to speak out, and hooliganism and crime will become more rampant.
This will become a vicious cycle in society.
In the end, Huang Baohua and her family were sentenced to four and two years of detention and education reform respectively according to the severity of the circumstances.
Zhou Sui hated this case so much that he resorted to some trickery to send the whole family to reunite with their good son-in-law.
It's obvious that this family is not easy to deal with, so let Liu Xiaomei worry about what happens next.
The verdict on Huang Baohua's family soon reached Taohua Town, causing an uproar in the town.
The ignorant masses only then realized that they could be arrested and sentenced to prison for just talking nonsense and spreading rumors.
For a time, the atmosphere in Taohua Town was better than ever before.
The women in Zhongjiawan who had spread the rumors were even more terrified, fearing that they would be the next to be arrested.
On February 16, Su Qingci, Song Jingzhou and Liu Siqing bid farewell to Lu Jingzhi and his grandson in a low-key manner.
Su Qingci gave Lu Jingzhi two ten-liang gold ingots from the Qing Dynasty, a total of 500 yuan, 300 kilograms of national grain coupons, some other miscellaneous coupons, and a large bag of preserved fruits and dried meat.
The total weight of the two large gold ingots exceeded 1,000 grams. According to Su Qingci's own calculation, what she gave was not much, because the current price in the gold shop is about seven or eight yuan per gram.
But Lu Jingzhi knew that he had taken great advantage of the little girl.
Not to mention the full luggage bag of food, even the 300 kilograms of national food coupons are not something that ordinary people can get.
If she had gone to the black market herself, she would have been lucky to get one-third.
But since the two of them were going out, they really needed the money, so she had no choice but to accept it with profuse gratitude.
Liu Siqing has been in an extremely low mood these days and didn't say much along the way.
When the two were about to get in the car, he murmured and asked.
"Sister Linfang, when will you be back?"
Zhong Linfang didn't know if it was because she was about to leave this place, but she smiled with a relaxed look, her eyes full of longing for the future.
"First, I'll accompany grandma to look for an old friend, and then go to grandma's hometown, where my two uncles are. They have been writing letters to invite us over the years."
"If nothing unexpected happens, we may rarely come back."
"Sister Linfang, now the bad guys have been brought to justice, and the rumors have died down..."
Zhong Linfang understood what Liu Siqing meant.
Why leave?
Because this place has never treated her and grandma well!
"Comrade Siqing, please take care of yourself!"
The car started moving, and the grandparents smiled and waved to Su Qingci and the others, without a trace of nostalgia for their homeland in their eyes.
(The author wanted to write about the difficulties faced by women in that era, without exaggeration, and even more so. Unfortunately, the writing was not good, and she was severely criticized... The original setting: Lu Jingzhi hated Zhong Dagui. All her male relatives disliked her behavior because Zhong Dagui was considered a good person by everyone. Zhong Linfang's biological mother died young, and her stepmother and father disliked her. Growing up with Lu Jingzhi was also disliked by relatives. Not to mention staying for Liu Siqing's ethereal love, the rumors were impossible to control even in a modern society ruled by law, let alone in that era when killing was not bloodless.)
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