On the day they arrived in Sichuan, Cao Jingheng and his comrades from the Youth League Office moved directly into the local armed forces department.
All the educated youth who settled in the area had household registration certificates. Fearing that someone in the local educated youth office might know someone from the Li family, they didn't dare to investigate the files directly at the office. Instead, they contacted the police station chief and secretly retrieved the files of all the educated youth who had moved to ?? Village since the disaster three years ago. (Because using the actual village name earlier was inappropriate, ?? is used here instead.)
After the disaster, the villagers in the village were very mobile, and the educated youth were mainly concentrated after 1966. Cao Jingheng looked at the existing files and found that there were a total of 36 educated youth who came to the village during the ten years. So far, two of them returned to the city due to illness, four died in accidents, and four were admitted to universities.
Cao Jingheng's face was solemn. According to what An Ning told him on the phone, among the educated youth in the village, only one boy had received an admission letter and he was currently missing. There were still eleven people living in the educated youth center in the village. Including those who retired due to illness and returned to the city, and Li Lei who was admitted to university, half of the people had married or gotten married locally.
This is no longer a simple matter. Among the educated youth who died in the accident were three girls and one boy. Is it really a coincidence?
The original addresses of these four people are all Gansu Province. Although they have urban household registration, they all have many children and their parents are just ordinary workers. In a family with many children, if the child is the favored one, they will never let the children move to the countryside. These people probably calculated this.
This is like picking on the weak!
It would have been fine if there hadn't been an investigation. But after this investigation, before the files were even finished, several people were already furious. There was no doubt that the Youth League Office was absolutely responsible for negligence. According to the procedures and rules, if someone died among the educated youth, an investigation and report must be made. However, the files of these people had already obtained the opinions of the parents of the parties involved, and the cases were closed so hastily.
In the first few years when the educated youth went to the countryside, workers and farmers were like one family, and nothing happened in many places across the country. But in the following years, seeing that these educated youth had no hope of returning to the city, many second-rate people in the villages and some small cadres with some official positions became hostile to them.
Later, there was news that some educated youth committed suicide at the gate of the government compound. Rumors spread everywhere and all places were strictly investigated. The situation became much more restrained. No one expected that Li Dazhu and his gang were so bold.
After Cao Jingheng finished looking through the files, he found that not only people from the Youth League General Office came with him this time, but also several staff members of the Revolutionary Committee. There were rumors that the Revolutionary Committee was going to be abolished, and this group of people needed to make meritorious deeds and find a new unit, so they took this opportunity to squeeze several useful people into the investigation team.
Cao Jingheng looked at one of the younger guys - Liu Yu. Liu Yu's father was also a soldier. After retiring, he transferred to the security department of the Beijing Steel Rolling Mill. He had some friendship with Fang Zhigang, the director of the Public Security Bureau, and this time he relied on his relationship.
"Xiao Liu, I've finished looking through the files on the educated youth in the village. Can you retrieve all the files on the educated youth in the entire town and bring them to me? Have you also found the origin information for Li Dazhu and the others?"
Liu Yu carried a stack of files to Cao Jingheng's desk. "Director Cao, we've already found information about Li Dazhu. They're from the famous bandit village in Sichuan Province, about four or five hundred kilometers away. Currently, they're mainly concentrated in ?? Village and Liujiawan. Although the majority of the surnames in Liujiawan are still the Liu family, the Li family seems to have more say in the village. Most of the village committee cadres are Li family members, while the Liu family only has two production team leaders and an accountant."
"This household registration information went through several twists and turns. We called the armed forces over there and used their connections. Li Dazhu's parents died during the war, and he grew up with his uncle. His father's generation had one full brother and eight cousins. The wealthy Lius in Liujiawan are Li Dazhu's uncles, and the rest are just more distant relatives."
It took a whole day to sort out all the files. Name after name was written on the blackboard. There were as many as forty or fifty people radiating from Li Dazhuo. These people were considered veterans in the Li family. During the three-year disaster period, no one had food. Even if they wanted to go back to their old business, the local armed government would not let them go. So they decided to go all out and united the entire clan to escape the famine. In the 1960s when information was not well developed, they could easily settle down in the corners of Yaocong Mountain.
After spending three full days and making countless phone calls, the investigation team finally got the information of all the personnel and the situation of the educated youth.
The first one is Li Lei. Although he was admitted to the university and reported to the school normally, he did not go home. The notification letter was sent directly to the village. To date, his family members do not know his true situation.
There were three other people who were admitted to the school, Xie Yue, Yang Lingling, and Liu Zitao. They also reported to the school normally. So who were the three people living in the educated youth site? The result is self-evident.
Because Xie Yue's family lives in Beijing and is a friend of Shen Anning, her parents are easy to communicate with. As soon as the police arrived, they took out the letters that their daughter had sent home over the years. The trace department checked and found that the first three letters should have been sent by Xie Yue herself, and the rest were imitations. Although the handwriting was different, they were almost exactly the same. Non-professionals could not tell the trick at all.
All the evidence is complete. In order to prevent any further complications, Cao Jingheng, after discussing with the Minister of Armed Forces, decided to enter the village tomorrow night. Tonight, he will take a few skilled soldiers with him to the mountains to take a look. They have to know the enemy's retreat and trump cards so that they can wipe them out completely, right?
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