Yuan Jing and his two companions, along with a dozen people wearing red armbands, arrived at the gate of Jiang's house almost at the same time. Many villagers followed them, but they kept some distance from these people and lowered their usual loud voices, talking among themselves.
"Why did you come to the Jiang family? The Jiang family only has mother and son. There is no one more innocent than them. Jiang Qingshan was injured and retired from the army. The Jiang family is also of good family background."
"Shh, keep your voice down. Don't let them hear you. Have you forgotten that two educated youths have moved into the Jiang family?"
"You mean Ji Zhiqing and Chen Zhiqing? That's impossible. Among all the educated youth in our team, except for the old educated youth Lin Dong, they are the two who work the most efficiently. They never complained from beginning to end. What problems could they have?"
The villagers in the team said that these two educated youth were much more popular than the other ones. Although they were worried at first that Ji Yuanjing was too handsome and the girls in the village would be attracted to him, they found that Ji Yuanjing kept a distance from the girls in the team and never gave them any chance for ambiguity. As a result, over time, the wives and aunts in the team all had a good impression of Ji Yuanjing.
"Open the door, open the door, open the door quickly, we need to go in and search!"
Niu Guozhu rushed over, sweating profusely: "Comrade, I am the branch secretary of the team. I wonder what you are doing..."
The person who knocked on the door was a small leader. Yuan Jing looked over and saw that the man was quite thin and had a pair of triangular eyes. His appearance alone made people feel uncomfortable, especially when he saw the female educated youth coming over. His eyes lingered on them for a while.
The little leader said arrogantly, "Are you the party secretary of the team? Our commune revolutionary committee received a report from the masses that the educated youth here show signs of promoting reactionary ideas. Whether it is true or not will be clear after we search. Hurry and open the door, or we will kick it down."
"Educated youth?" There was a cry of surprise from the crowd, and then they all cast their eyes on Ji Yuanjing and Chen Jianhua. They were the only two living in Jiang's house.
Lin Dong came out and said, "This is impossible. Can you tell me who reported it? This is destroying the unity among the educated youth."
"Whether it's true or not, we can prove their innocence by checking. We will never wrongly accuse a good person, but we will never let a bad person go either."
Yuan Jing came out and said, "What if they prove their innocence? Does that mean the whistleblower deliberately created trouble, destroyed the unity among the people, and framed people?"
"Who are you?" The thin man with triangular eyes was very unhappy when he saw Yuan Jing's appearance. He was not good-looking, and before he became a small leader of the Revolutionary Committee, he couldn't even get a blind date. It was only with his current status that women took the initiative to throw themselves into his arms. But this does not mean that he has forgotten the humiliation of the past. These good-looking pretty boys are especially thorns in his eyes.
"I am the educated youth living here. You can go in and search, but I want to go in with you, to avoid..." Yuan Jing didn't say the rest, but everyone present could hear what he meant.
Lin Dong stood firmly on his side and agreed, "Yes, let's go in together and witness it."
"I'm the team secretary, I'll go in too."
"I'm the owner of this house. I'll go open the door." Jiang Qingshan kept squinting at the man. It would be better if this guy didn't do anything tricky.
The skinny man's original name was Yu Duoqian, but after joining the Revolutionary Committee he changed his name to Yu Revolution, to show that he was devoted to the revolution. Of course, only he knew whose life he was trying to revolutionize.
Before Yu Geming could stop anything, Jiang Qingshan opened the door and everyone rushed in.
In order to prevent these people from coming today and scaring Niu Guilan, Jiang Qingshan sent his mother to his uncle's house when he went to work. Fortunately, he sent her away, otherwise his mother would definitely be frightened by this situation.
"Where is your room?"
"This way."
"Walk."
Yu Geming and his men rushed into Ji Yuanjing and Chen Jianhua's room. Soon, there was a lot of noise in the room. The mosquito net was torn down, the quilts on the bed were scattered on the ground, the box containing clothes was opened, and all the clothes inside were spilled out and stepped on by people when they fell to the ground.
The people who came over were all filled with anger. What was the difference between this and bandits? But they couldn't say anything. Nowadays, the people the common people least wanted to provoke were these people.
Just to prevent these people from searching, Yuan Jing wrapped the medical books he had read and other miscellaneous books he had collected in oilcloth and hid them in a cave in the mountains overnight, ensuring that the things left on the surface were clean and innocent and there was no way to frame him.
"No? Nothing?"
"That's impossible."
Those people were talking in a low voice, and people outside could not hear them, but Yuan Jing and Jiang Qingshan had very good hearing. They looked at each other and realized that these people really came here to search with a purpose. Didn’t they realize that the main point was to search Yuan Jing’s bed? They were just short of dismantling the bed.
With a "crash", the aluminum lunch box where Yuan Jing put his money and tickets was knocked to the ground, and the money and various tickets inside were scattered. A villager happened to look over from the window and exclaimed "Wow". After a quick look, he saw that there were more than ten or twenty Great Unity banknotes on the ground, not to mention the loose change. He didn't expect that Yuan Jing, who had been silent, had so much money with him.
Even those who wore red sleeves couldn't help but breathe heavily when they saw the money and tickets. They couldn't help but reach out, but they knew that they had no chance with so many people watching them. In addition to Niu Guozhu, several other cadres in the team came and crowded into the room.
Yuan Jing walked over slowly and picked up the banknotes and tickets one by one. Yu Geming was jealous. Although he didn't need this little money now, who would complain about having too much money? Even if he didn't want it, his subordinates also needed it, but they couldn't ask for it.
Yuan Jing picked up the money and bills and put them back into the aluminum lunch box, closed the lid, and asked them, "Are these okay?"
"No problem, just keep it."
These people searched every corner, even the small holes on the ground and the wall, but they didn't find what they wanted. Yu Geming put his hands on his waist and got angry. Suddenly he saw another room and stretched out his hand and said, "What about over there? We have to search that room too."
Jiang Qingshan slowly turned to them and said, "That's my room. Are you sure you want to search it?"
"How can we not search? You are hindering our revolutionary work, do you know that?"
Jiang Qingshan pushed through the crowd and walked into his room. He came out after a while with a small notebook in his hand. He showed it and asked again: "You can search if you want, but I will go to the armed forces department to ask afterwards."
This was the certificate of a disabled veteran. Yu Geming's pupils shrank when he saw it. This was trouble. But he was unwilling to make a wasted trip without any results. It would also be difficult for him to explain to Director Ma when he returned.
Yu Geming was just a small leader in the Revolutionary Committee. He had no idea whether Jiang Qingshan had any backers in the Armed Forces Department. They couldn't afford to offend the people in the Armed Forces Department. Looking back at Yuan Jing and Chen Jianhua's room, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and wave their hands, saying, "Pack up, let's go back." He forced a smile and said, "We will seriously investigate the report when we go back, and we will never let innocent people be wronged."
"I hope so." Jiang Qingshan said lightly.
Yu Geming led his men away, and Niu Guozhu also spoke up: "It's all right, everyone go home, Ji Zhiqing, you don't have to go to work, just stay home and clean up. There's nothing wrong, so don't go out and spread gossip and make trouble out of nothing."
"I know, Secretary. Those people didn't find anything. I don't know who was so blind and reckless as to report someone in our team. We told us that we would never let them go if we found out. They didn't want to live a peaceful life, but had to provoke these people."
Although the villagers loved to watch the fun, they didn't want to have anything to do with the Revolutionary Committee. They hated those who reported behind their backs. It was good that nothing happened now. If something was really found out, the team would be in chaos and everyone would be worried, fearing that the next one would break into their homes to search.
"Thank you, Party Secretary, and thank you, Captain." Yuan Jing and Chen Jianhua thanked the team leaders and saw them off.
Lin Dong, Ma Lili and other educated youth came to comfort Yuan Jing and Chen Jianhua. It was obvious that they were being targeted, otherwise these people would not go anywhere else and came to the Jiang family with a clear goal. Ji Yuanjing and Chen Jianhua were low-key enough, but they were not let off even so.
Ma Lili saw the messy room and the muddy footprints on the clothes and quilts. She was so angry that she cursed: "Don't let me know who reported it, or I will tear him to pieces!"
Wang Ling, who had been hiding behind the crowd to watch the fun, felt it was not convenient for her to leave first now that the others had left. When she heard this, she shrank her neck and gritted her teeth in her heart. Didn’t Weiguo say that he had prepared everything? How come he didn’t find anything?
But she couldn't say that she knew about it and ran over just to watch Ji Yuanjing being taken away by the Revolutionary Committee, because she knew that once she told the truth, she would definitely be ostracized by the other educated youths in the Youth House. Now she was not sure whether Du Weiguo could transfer her.
Wang Ling gritted her teeth and said, "Fortunately, nothing happened. However, Ji Yuanjing, Chen Jianhua, did you really not offend anyone?"
He also wanted to turn the gun towards Ji Yuanjing and Chen Jianhua.
Chen Jianhua now looked at this woman and didn't think she was kind and gentle anymore. Instead, she looked hateful. Hearing this, he sneered, "Yuan Jing and I have never offended anyone for no reason. If you have to say we have enemies, it's that Du Weiguo has been displeased with Yuan Jing recently. I heard that Du Weiguo has a great background."
Wang Ling was startled. How could the conversation be directed to Du Weiguo? Looking at Chen Jianhua's cold eyes, could he have known the truth?
"Du Weiguo? Did he do it?" Ma Lili exclaimed.
"No, that's not possible. Brother Weiguo would never do such a thing." Wang Ling quickly denied.
Now Ma Lili sneered at Wang Ling, and the other educated youth also looked at her suspiciously. Today's incident was too suspicious. Even if these people really found something, they would think that Ji Yuanjing was framed. Besides having some dealings with Lin Dong, the only people Ji Yuanjing came into contact with in the team were Chen Jianhua and Jiang Qingshan, who lived with him. What kind of enemies could he have made?
"I, I still have to go to work, you guys go ahead." Wang Ling couldn't stand their gazes and ran away quickly.
Ma Lili snorted, "I think it has something to do with her and Du Weiguo. Not only Yuan Jing and Jianhua should be careful in the future, but we, the educated youth in the educated youth courtyard, should also be careful to avoid being broken into and searched like today."
If the Youth League Home is also searched today, there is no way to guarantee that it will be as clean as this place. Who knows, they might find something. Thinking of this, I hated Du Weiguo and Wang Ling again.
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