"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?"
Ding Man slammed his fist on the table in frustration again. "Those two young revolutionaries you dragged into this mess have already been sent to labor camps! Ten years! Now you believe you can get involved, right?"
"Reform through labor?! Ten years?!"
Suddenly, Officer Zheng felt himself falling backward.
Dingman grabbed her hand, then let go of her hand with disgust.
When Officer Zheng saw the look of disgust in his eyes, tears instantly welled up in her eyes.
She stubbornly wiped it off.
Actually, these two people weren't exactly clean before.
When Zheng was young and beautiful, Ding Man was also in his prime.
At that time, both of them worked in the neighborhood, and they cooperated well at work and were also very compatible in life.
Later, when the Down to the Countryside Movement began, Ding Man was promoted and transferred her from the street office to the powerful department of the educated youth office.
He personally fabricated her seniority and wages.
However, after getting married, Zheng suffered a premature birth and severe bleeding, and later the child was weak and sickly.
She quickly faded away, like a withered flower, becoming utterly uninteresting.
Timon had a new goal, and their relationship ended.
However, Ding Man was sentimental and still gave Zheng the benefits he was entitled to.
This is also why Officer Zheng dared to openly persecute Su Yin.
Right now, Ding Man also noticed the hurt look in Zheng's eyes and sighed, "The suggestion from above was to send you directly to a labor camp for a twenty-year sentence. I stopped them, saying that you were too sick to get out of bed."
“Then I…” Officer Zheng’s eyes filled with tears again, this time from emotion.
"Wait a minute! I'll write a note to my brother. Take this to the hospital—remember, someone will be checking on you at the hospital in the next couple of days. Don't get out of bed to eat, drink, or use the toilet! Hold on for at least a month! Once things calm down, I'll figure out a way to change your identity!"
Ding Man said, "Whether you can dodge it or not depends on your luck!"
"But……"
Zheng, completely bewildered, said, "There's no one in my family who can take care of me. My daughter-in-law can't even look after our grandson properly by herself..."
"Then I won't bother!"
Timon angrily threw the pen down.
Their relationship cooled after Zheng gave birth. Every time Ding Man suggested a date, Zheng would be distracted, worried that her son might fall or get hurt...
This woman is a respectable lady!
I'm always awkward and hesitant to let go.
But isn't it precisely this awkwardness of hers that I like?
In his rage, Timon's past began to replay in his mind.
"Brother, don't be angry!"
In his haste, Officer Zheng even used his old titles.
Seeing that Ding Man's expression had softened slightly, she quickly picked up the pen and presented it with both hands, saying, "I'll listen to you! I'll listen to everything you say! I'll send a telegram to my son to come back right away!"
Ding Man took the pen and scribbled away haphazardly, his writing flowing like dragons and phoenixes.
When he finished writing and handed it to Secretary Zheng, he didn't forget to remind him, "Have my brother read this and then burn it! Remember that!"
"Hey!"
Officer Zheng wiped away his tears, "Brother, thank you!"
"Let's go, let's go!"
Ding Man pinched the bridge of his nose, looking exhausted. "Be smarter! What illness are you given? Ask about the symptoms and make it look convincing! Memorize what medicine to take and what injections to get!"
"Okay, I understand, brother."
Just as Officer Zheng was about to leave, he suddenly turned back and lowered his voice: "Regarding the Su family's rural assignment, there's another woman named Su Zhenzhu who can't go because of her disability. Her subsidy of 200 yuan hasn't been returned by the Su family yet! Remember to send someone to find Su Dazhi to ask for it..."
"Zheng Yinjuan! Are you fucking a pig brain?"
Timon flew into a rage, sweeping everything off the table. "What more money do you want? Haven't you angered them enough? Pay up yourself!"
"I……"
Zheng was embarrassed to say that he didn't even have ten yuan left and was just waiting for his son's remittance to arrive so he could buy rice to cook.
"Forget it, get lost." Ding Man shook his head.
He knew about her situation:
The man died in a workplace accident a few years after his marriage, and his son was frail and sickly. He had to beg someone to get him admitted to the school. The school didn't send him back; they only did it out of pity.
—My daughter-in-law is from a rural area near Haicheng. Her family made a fortune off her dowry and then ignored her completely. They haven't had any contact with her for years.
—When my grandson was born, my daughter-in-law had a difficult childbirth and almost died.
From then on, the daughter-in-law could only stay at home sickly, and even cooking had to wait for Officer Zheng to come home from get off work to do it.
As Officer Zheng wiped away his tears and left the room, he heard Ding Man calling after him, "Come back!"
She walked back and saw Ding Man count out one hundred yuan for her: "Take this money to your daughter-in-law first, then go to the hospital—don't let yourself get away while your daughter-in-law and grandson starve to death!"
"Thump!" Officer Zheng knelt down on the ground and kowtowed three times to Ding Man.
Ding Man wiped his face: "Get lost!"
Officer Zheng got up and staggered away.
...
On the morning of the 19th, Su Dazhi had no choice but to get up early to go to work.
His three-day leave of absence has expired.
The Su family courtyard has not been cleaned up yet, but at least the gate has been reinstalled.
Things are still going missing from my house these past few days.
While he was out for a meal, the eight-immortal table and the two mahogany chairs in the main room were actually moved away.
He called the police, and two junior officers came. When they saw the mess in the yard and the broken gate, they just said, "Fix the gate first. Come back after get off work, and we'll handle the case together. You can also look for it yourself," and then left.
Because of the Su family's case, the two junior police officers have been working overtime for several days in a row writing case files.
They were holding their breath in resentment.
Su Dazhi didn't argue with them anymore, and just silently fixed the door.
The entire Su family was destroyed in an instant, but what pained him the most was the 400 jin of grain.
He heard from his neighbors that after the fight broke out, an oxcart seemed to have run away with a lot of stuff.
Those who arrived by oxcart could only be the stewards, because they didn't care about spending Su Dazhi's money.
My father and his group arrived without me even asking.
So, Guan Yumei ultimately gave all the grain to her third brother.
These past few days he's started to give up entirely, going to state-run restaurants at mealtimes to order two stir-fried dishes and eat two large bowls of white rice.
In the evening, they even drink a little alcohol.
He felt he had never been so free and happy in his life.
For the first time in his life, he experienced what it felt like to spend money lavishly.
Moreover, there are no annoying little brats chattering in my ear, and no nagging wife.
The thought that he worked hard every day, sweating profusely, while Guan Yumei gave all the money in the house, and even the four hundred catties of grain that he had tricked back, to her third brother's family, made Su Dazhi feel that if Guan Yumei were standing in front of him now, he would kick her away without hesitation.
Thinking this, he hastily ate a few mouthfuls of the food he had brought back from the state-run restaurant last night, then gulped down half a teacup of cold water. He wiped his mouth with his sleeve and was about to leave when he heard footsteps.
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