Huaguo Town. The current Huaguo Commune was indeed small. The entire town consisted of one main road and a three-way intersection. One side of the three-way intersection led to the commune health center, and the other side led to the county seat.
Someone didn't mind the big deal and went to call the commune leaders. In less than ten minutes, several commune leaders came running over.
After all, they had just responded to the national call and established the commune office a month ago. If something happened to a group of martyrs' orphans today, they would have nothing to do.
Seeing several middle-aged men wearing Zhongshan suits and holding pens in their pockets, Xiao Yu instinctively felt something was wrong.
Maybe he doesn't know how to judge people. After all, you can't judge a person by his appearance, Xiao Yu thought.
Unfortunately, he was slapped in the face the next second.
Of the five people who came, three of them had their eyes light up after hearing the uncle's identity, and in the subsequent conversation, they all tried to please the other party as if he were their ancestor.
Afterwards, thanks to their eloquent speeches, Zhou Yan and the child soldiers, who had already occupied an advantageous position, did not even have the chance to speak.
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"Everyone gets anxious when a child is missing, and that anxiety can easily lead to irrational behavior," said a middle-aged man called Director Liu, pulling the uncle Qiantang into the house. "We're just going in to take a look, it's not considered an offense."
When Zhou Heng saw his uncle enter the house, he glanced at Zhou Yan and others provocatively and followed him into the house.
The two police officers looked at each other, stunned by the outrageous actions of these commune leaders.
"This isn't something that needs to be checked, actually." The uncle continued chatting, but his eyes never missed anything in the room.
Although there are three rooms in this house, each room is simply decorated with a large bunk bed, some worn quilts and clothes, and even the cabinets are low cabinets less than one meter high.
"Look, look, it's nothing special. This room was allocated by our commune," the director said, pulling open a low cabinet. The contents of the cabinet were clearly visible.
However, the director still pulled out the bowls and cans, as well as several worn military bags and kettles from the low cabinet.
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The uncle looked as if he couldn't refuse the hospitality, but in reality, his eyes were filled with pride. However, just as he was about to take the opportunity to do something, a sound similar to a baby's babbling suddenly rang in his ears.
The director had obviously heard it too, and the two of them immediately looked around, but even after they took all the pots off the stove, they still couldn't find the child.
The crowd of onlookers had already climbed from outside the yard to the window.
When several children saw their folded quilts and clothes, and the jars of pickled vegetables that were not opened and they were still rummaging through them, they burst into tears.
"What a sin!" sighed an older woman. "Look at what's happening. If anyone loses something in the future, they'll think it's these kids who did it."
“That’s right…”
"This is bullying. Isn't it obvious whether there are children in this room?"
"Who says he's an official?"
"well!"
"No, didn't you hear the child's voice just now?" Director Liu looked at the crowd.
The onlookers watched in silence. Director Liu looked at the mess he had made in the house, and for a moment he felt embarrassed. But if he gave up like that, it would be a slap in the face.
Director Liu became angry, turned around, picked up a kitchen knife, and with a few bangs, he tore down the kang built with yellow mud bricks.
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"Wow, I don't know how many people have plotted against us along the way. I thought everything would be fine once the war was over. Wow..." Gangzi said this and started crying loudly.
His skinny body and dark face made people feel distressed. As Gangzi cried, several children also cried with him.
Some of the commune leaders who had just thought it didn't matter and felt, like Director Liu, that the house was allocated to these children by the commune and didn't care about it, were dumbfounded for a moment.
Their initial thought was to build good relations with the bearing factory's management, so that if they ever had the opportunity to establish a branch factory in their commune, they would definitely give their children a great reward. Now, seeing the house turned upside down because they hadn't intervened, they wanted to stop but couldn't bring themselves to do so.
Looking at the three rooms, three large kangs were pushed to a corner, and several commune leaders were suddenly startled.
They are afraid that their own careers are coming to an end.
There was naturally no child on the big kang, no matter whether Director Liu, Zhou Heng and his uncle Qiantang believed it or not.
The whole house was strangely quiet. Director Liu and a group of commune leaders finally realized that they had demolished the martyr's home for a trumped-up legend!
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"Well, Captain Zhou, Captain Zhou..." Secretary Wang of the commune was confused and had to look to Zhou Yan for help.
"Secretary Wang, there's no need to say more. The search has already been conducted, and there's no point in saying anything more. I, Zhou Yan, joined the guerrillas at the age of six, became a full-fledged soldier at the age of twelve, and retired at the age of twenty, following my adoptive parents' wishes. I believe I have done my best. But today, because of a rumor, my house was searched. I betrayed D's trust, I was too self-righteous, and I failed to protect my younger brothers and sisters, causing them to be falsely accused. It's all my fault. Today, we are moving out of here."
"Well, Captain Zhou, that's serious. This house, as stated above, has already been allocated to you."
"No, this isn't ours," Gangzi said. "This is yours. We don't have a home."
"Yes, we don't have a home. You just said that this place was allocated to us by the commune. You can search and rescue us if you want, but this is not our home."
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