Chapter 194 Killing Two Birds with One Stone—A Brilliant Move!
"Director! Director!!"
That excited, voice-breaking shout was like a spark, instantly igniting the ecstasy in the middle-aged man's eyes! He no longer cared about Qin Haifeng, and like a hyena smelling blood, he rushed towards the kitchen!
Lin Baozhu helped her worried mother and followed closely behind. In the kitchen, the place where the large water vat used to be had been moved, revealing a dark entrance.
Lin's mother gripped Lin Baozhu's hand tightly, her nails almost digging into her flesh, her voice trembling: "Baozhu...this..."
"Mother, don't be afraid."
Lin Baozhu patted her mother's hand calmly, her voice not loud but carrying a strange soothing power: "Trust me, there are only vegetables and coarse grains inside, nothing else."
Lin's mother's eyes were filled with surprise and doubt—only a few days? Those weapons... But at this moment, under the watchful eyes of everyone, she could only swallow her many questions.
"Hmph! You still say you didn't keep anything secret?!"
The Revolutionary Committee Director pointed at the cellar entrance, his eyes blazing with malice, his voice barely audible as he forced out through clenched teeth: "Such a secluded place! What else could it be but hiding something shady?!"
"What the director said is really interesting!"
Lin Baozhu immediately retorted, her tone icy and sarcastic: "Who doesn't have a cellar for storing vegetables? You convicted us without even taking a look? Is this how the Revolutionary Committee handles cases... so hastily?" She deliberately drew out the last syllable.
Seeing this, Zhao Xiaoyu rushed forward, her face full of "heartache and indignation":
"Baozhu! Possessing weapons is a capital offense! You've come this far, what are you still stubborn about?! Confess now! Try to get some leniency!"
Her words were tantamount to sentencing the Lin family to death in public, and the eager gloating in her eyes was almost overflowing.
"Zhao Xiaoyu! Shut the hell up!"
The captain flew into a rage and shouted, "Without any evidence, what are you spouting nonsense about here?"
The captain was so angry that his eyes turned bloodshot, mainly because he didn't really understand what was going on.
Zhao Xiaoyu shrank back at the shout, then straightened her neck and said sarcastically, "Captain, I'm only thinking of the Lin family! Why are you so agitated... could it be that you already knew they were hiding something and were deliberately covering it up?"
She was secretly delighted, finally seizing the opportunity to drag the captain into the mess!
"Bullshit!"
The captain was furious, his face turning red with rage. "What the hell am I protecting?! You see a cellar and you assume there are weapons inside? Did you leave your brains in there when you were born?!"
At this moment, he wished he could drive this troublemaker's family out of the village, but then the higher-ups gave the order... Damn it, being the brigade leader was really frustrating.
"Whether it's there or not—wouldn't it be clear if we went down and took a look?"
Zhao Xiaoyu raised her chin triumphantly, as if she could already foresee the Lin family's utter destruction.
A man in a red armband, carrying a flashlight, cautiously jumped down into the cellar. The blinding beam of light swept across the cramped space—neatly stacked cabbages, potatoes, and radishes in the corner, and piles of unhulled grains in the other corner…weapons? Not even a nail in sight!
At the cellar entrance, everyone held their breath, tense and on edge. Only Lin Baozhu stood calmly to the side, arms crossed, a faint, almost imperceptible sneer playing on her lips. If the occasion weren't so inappropriate, she'd love to sit back, munching on sunflower seeds, and watch these people jump around. Stop them from searching? If they didn't search, how could they so brazenly…extort money?
"Director, what's next..." A hesitant voice came from the cellar.
"Baozhu! See! I told you so!"
Zhao Xiaoyu couldn't wait to scream, her voice rising eight octaves to drown out the sounds from the cellar. Her face was filled with exaggerated "regret": "I told you to confess sooner, but you wouldn't listen! Now the Revolutionary Committee comrades have caught you red-handed, haven't they? Now your whole family will have to go to the Northwest to starve and eat sand! Poor you two children... If you leave, won't they starve to death?"
She laughed so hard that everyone present frowned in annoyance!
"Zhao Xiaoyu, you bitch, I'll tear your filthy mouth apart!"
Lin's mother's pent-up anger finally erupted. Pointing at Zhao Xiaoyu, she cursed, "I think it was you, you little slut, who reported my family for hiding weapons! Ever since you came to the countryside, you've been harboring evil intentions! Back when you were seducing Bi Yuntao, you were so shameless, pulling down your pants and crawling between a man's legs. Everyone in the village could see it! Now you're slandering my family for hiding weapons. You knew my family's situation perfectly well, yet you still went and reported it. Aren't you treating the Revolutionary Committee comrades like dogs?"
These words were so vicious and scathing, they even insulted the Revolutionary Committee, calling them "dogs"! The middle-aged man's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot, yet he couldn't refute them, feeling a tightness in his chest—
Damn it! When have they ever suffered such humiliation?!
At this moment, the red armband-wearing person who had gone down into the cellar finally climbed up, his face contorted with grief and his voice weak:
"Director...down here...besides vegetables and grain...there's nothing at all! Not even a single weapon! We...we've probably been tricked by the whistleblower!"
He glanced at the Lin family home, which was in complete disarray and almost completely demolished, his eyes filled with guilt and panic.
The furniture is smashed, people are injured, what kind of mess are we going to clean up? Especially those Lin brothers, none of them are easy to mess with!
The young man's thoughts were naturally considered more deeply and thoroughly by the Revolutionary Committee Director, whose back was already soaked with cold sweat.
"Cough cough..."
He forced a smile that looked more like a grimace, and addressed Lin Baozhu with an unprecedentedly "kind" tone:
"Comrade Lin... it's a misunderstanding, all a misunderstanding! We only came here after receiving a tip from a concerned citizen! During the investigation, your mother and third brother... were quite agitated and obstructed law enforcement. Well... our staff was a bit too heavy-handed, it was purely accidental! How about this? Go to the hospital for a check-up if you need to, we'll cover all the expenses! As for the damaged items, make a list, and we'll compensate you for whatever amount is due! Not a penny less!"
He tried to settle things with money.
Upon hearing this, the villagers who had been watching all gasped in astonishment! Had the sun risen in the west? The domineering Revolutionary Committee had actually bowed its head and admitted defeat? This was absolutely unprecedented!
"hehe……"
Lin Baozhu let out a short, cold laugh. The sound wasn't loud, but it made the director's heart tremble: "Director, do you think... if I let my mother and brother go to the hospital to get their injuries checked, and then pay for some broken pots and pans, this matter can be settled?"
The Revolutionary Committee Director looked up abruptly, a cold glint in his eyes: This woman is trying to make an exorbitant demand.
"Don't be nervous..."
Lin Baozhu seemed to see through his murderous intent and said slowly, "I just want to know—who wrote that letter of denunciation?"
Her sharp gaze swept over the crowd:
"That's a brilliant two-birds-with-one-stone move! If my family really had weapons hidden there, and you sent us to the Northwest, would my elder brother on the frontier just sit idly by? He'd use all his connections to find the people who harmed us. Would your Revolutionary Committee comrades be able to withstand the investigation then? After all, he was the previous director of the Revolutionary Committee..."
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