"You still dare to deny it!"
A man with a red armband stepped forward and kicked the two old men crawling on the ground. Ji Xia picked up a ball of solid snow in his hand and smashed it on the man's legs. There was a sound of broken bones, and the man with the red armband sat down in the snow, hugging his legs and wailing.
Ji Fang jumped up and shouted, "Ji Xia, you dare to defend them, you really are a bad element."
"No, no, it's not her, we don't know her!" The two old men on the ground had their white hair blown messy in the cold wind. They didn't dare to look up and just buried their faces in the ground.
Ji Xia couldn't stand this.
She grabbed Ji Fang's hair, dragged her across the snow, and threw her into a cow dung pit, angrily saying, "If you have the guts, come at me. If you don't have the guts, why are you talking nonsense here?"
"Ji Xia, do you dare to recognize them as your relatives?" Jia Xuezhen pointed at the white-haired old couple on the ground.
Ji Xia didn't know this person, but she could guess his identity. Her eyes were full of murderous intent. If it weren't for these people, the world wouldn't be so chaotic.
"Who the hell are you? What does it have to do with you whether I admit it or not?"
Ji Xia kicked Ji Fang into the cow dung pit. She struggled in pain. Jia Xuezhen's face showed a ferocious look. He raised his arm and said, "Go ahead, catch her! She is one of the five black categories. Take her to the county. We will parade her through the streets so that the glorious poor and lower-middle peasants can recognize her true face and judge her crimes!"
Ji Xia kicked Ji Fang away and faced several people with red embroidery seals who were rushing towards him. He punched each of them and swept them with his legs. A group of people fell to the ground wailing. Seeing that the situation was not good, Jia Xuezhen hurried to escape.
Ji Xia punched him in the face, pulled him over, stepped on him and asked, "Tell me, who sent you here?"
"Yes, yes, I came here on my own!" Jia Xuezhen knelt on the ground, realizing how cold it was. It was icy cold, and he shivered. "Yes, yes, it was Ji Fang who said that these people had hidden some books and asked us to search for them. She also said that you, you have connections with them, that you are a bad element sent by them to cause trouble."
"What is your relationship with Ji Fang? Do you just listen to what she says?" Ji Xia looked at Ji Fang with sharp eyes and tangible murderous intent.
"She, she, she said that if I arrested you and locked you up, she would marry me!" Jia Xuezhen didn't dare to tell a lie and told almost everything he knew.
There were many people watching the excitement, and the incident caused a huge sensation. Even people from the fifth production team came over, including the second-rate guy Luo Chungou.
Hearing Jia Xuezhen's words, a sinister light flashed in Luo Chungou's eyes. Ji Xia saw it and waved at him, "Come here!"
Ji Xia put one foot on Jia Xuezhen's neck, and Jia Xuezhen crawled on the ground, not daring to move.
Luo Chungou was terrified. He came over trembling and said with a flattering smile, "Ji Xia, what do you want from me? Ji Fang and I have nothing to do with each other. Her affairs have nothing to do with me!"
"Really? Could it be that what I saw in the woods at the foot of the mountain last time was just an illusion? Didn't you two almost become husband and wife there?"
Luo Chungou screamed, "No, it wasn't me who initiated it. It was her who seduced me. She said if I gave her money, she would sleep with me. She's a slut. Ugh, I'd rather sleep with a sow than with her!"
No matter how disgusted Ji Fang felt, she buried her head in the pit and didn't dare to lift it up.
The team members were pointing and talking at her so loudly that it was hard for her not to hear them.
"What a slut! What did Liu Jingui say about people in the past? I wonder if she would slap herself if she were alive and saw her daughter like this!"
"She's still too old. She's still unmarried. She's been dreaming all night and still doesn't have a man. Tsk tsk, how pitiful!"
"Before, you had such high standards, picking this and that. I thought you were going to marry a rich man, but it turns out you're just a slut!"
"Wow, wow, wow!" Ji Fang burst into tears. She suddenly stood up and rushed outside, crying as she ran.
Ji Changgeng hurriedly called a few men to pull her away. "Tie her up and throw her to the production team headquarters. Hand her over to the commune tomorrow. Our Seventh Production Team can't tolerate someone like her."
Ji Xia personally removed the arms and legs of the red-rusted seals and handed them to Ji Changgeng. "Send them to the police station and tell them that these people have been smashing, looting, and burning in the village, committing all sorts of evil deeds and destroying the property of the working people. They are suspected of colluding with enemy spies. Have them conduct a thorough trial and give a fair judgment!"
Yang Muchun had already told Ji Changgeng about Ji Xia's plan to build roads and set up schools on the way here. Ji Changgeng was eager to support Ji Xia, so naturally he agreed.
"Jin Hai, you guys send the people over. The rest of you can disperse and go back." Ji Changgeng took this opportunity to say, "Have a good rest these few days. Once the snow melts, there will be work to do. You won't have to wait until spring plowing!"
"Ah? Secretary, what kind of work can't wait until spring plowing?"
Sure enough, Ji Changgeng's words quickly attracted everyone's attention. After a while, someone exclaimed, "Build a road? Build a primary school? No way, our team is going to build a road and a great primary school?"
"Did Xia Xia fight for it for us? Was it supported by a large factory in the county? Oh, Xia Xia is such a good girl. Fortunately, she is in our team."
"Yes, that's right. Ji Jianguo really raised a good daughter. The couple went to the city, but Xia Xia still thought about us and thought of us when she had something good."
Shang Zhikun picked up his mother, walked to Ji Xia, and said with tears in his eyes, "Ji Xia, thank you!"
If it weren’t for Ji Xia, who knows if his mother would be alive today?
On the ground, a man with gray hair who looked like an old man but was actually only middle-aged stood up. His previously numb eyes were now flashing with tears, and he nodded to Ji Xia with gratitude.
Ji Xia returned the glance, walked over, and picked up the two old men on the ground.
She held two people, one in each hand, as if she were holding two leaves, and her body was so light that it was heart-wrenching.
There was nothing left in the cowshed, it was empty.
These people came today with no intention of giving the people in the cowshed a chance to survive.
The cowshed has a sloping roof, with the highest point only two meters and the lowest point only one meter. There are no doors or windows, and the roof is covered with thatch. Some places are so rotten that you can see the night sky outside, and snowflakes fall from time to time.
Fortunately, there were two kangs inside. Ji Xia asked Shang Zhikun to light the kangs, and she said she wanted to go back and get some clothes.
Just as she was about to leave, her grandmother Su Jianqing pulled her back. She turned around and saw Su Jianqing raising his head with difficulty and slowly shaking his head at her, "Child, leave us alone!"
Ji Xia felt bitter, not because of their blood connection, but because she really couldn't stand seeing such behavior that trampled on human dignity.
People can't die without their heads touching the ground.
She also knew that in this era, the more people lived in the cowshed, the more extraordinary they were.
The Ji family was once a capitalist family, but history cannot ignore the Ji family’s contributions.
How much supplies did they send out back then? Ji Jianguo even had a brother who was tortured to death by the enemy because of it.
"If I hadn't seen it, it would be fine. But now that I've seen it, I can't just stand by and watch!" Ji Xia gently brushed her hand away and walked into the wind and snow.
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