Chapter 12: There is still a tough battle to fight!
The plan was set, and the three of them immediately went their separate ways.
Zhou Huaian was responsible for contacting his old subordinates, those old men who used to be in charge of the halls, docks, and shops. He passed on the news in a way that only they understood, reminding everyone to keep a low profile and behave themselves.
Zhou Huaiquan went straight to the bank and withdrew cash.
The "sincerity" they decided to hand over was all the current deposits in the bank - this was the "cleanest" and most easily detected floating wealth.
Fortunately, people who have lived through troubled times habitually hide the real hard goods - those yellow little yellow croakers - in places known only to them.
Even if you hand over most of your visible assets, you won't starve to death.
It's just a pity for the two old men who were used to a good life. They will have to tighten their belts and live a tight life for a while.
As for Ruan Anan? She still has a tough battle to fight!
She wanted to go to the military compound and let the mother and son of the Xu family and Su Qingyue experience what it meant to be trapped in one's own web and what it meant to be ruined!
An hour later, Ruan Anan secretly put on corduroy pants and a thick wool knee pad a few meters away from the military compound.
He took out half of the precious onion from the space and smoked it under his eyes.
The pungent smell rushed into my nose, and tears instantly burst out.
She carefully put the onion away. "Hiss...it's a good thing. It can be used as a prop and also goes well with rice. It can prevent diseases and maintain health. It can't be wasted."
These days, wasting food, even half an onion, is a sin.
With tears in her eyes and ready, she held the carefully "aged" marriage certificate in both hands, and moved towards the majestic gate of the First Military District of Hai City with a swaying step and a withering willow in the wind.
Her little face was as pale as paper, her lips were cracked, and her whole body exuded a sense of fragility that came from being pushed into a desperate situation, which made people tremble with fear.
With every step he took, teardrops as big as beans fell "plop" on the cold ground.
The young soldier standing guard at the door with a gun looked at the beautiful girl who seemed to have lost her soul. His voice was soft and light, with a hint of bewilderment: "Comrade! Who... who are you looking for?"
Ruan Anan turned her head blankly, and a hot tear just happened to slide down.
Her lips trembled, and her voice was thin and floating, with a sobbing tone: "I... I want to find a place where I can reason... find... justice..."
Before she finished speaking, she seemed to have used up her last bit of strength, and with a "thump", she fell heavily to her knees in the middle of the military district gate!
Holding the marriage certificate high above her head with both hands, her voice was soft but with a penetrating force of desperation:
"Please... please, military district leaders! Give me, a poor soul... some justice!"
The ending tone was filled with tears, and every word was so heartbreaking that it seemed to echo even when it hit the ground.
Humiliation, despair, unwillingness, and a hint of stubbornness intertwined on her face.
It looked as if it would completely shatter with the slightest touch.
"Oh my! That won't work! Get up! Get up, comrade!"
The soldier was so anxious that his face turned red. He was only eighteen or nineteen, how could he have seen such a scene?
He reached out to help, but suddenly pulled his hand back - there are differences between men and women, and if he touched a girl, he would never be able to explain himself!
"If you have something to say, let's talk it out. Stand up and talk! What's the point of kneeling?"
The onion's lingering power made Ruan Anan burst into tears. "My fiancé... he... he was a martyr who died for his country! But his heartless stepmother forced me to marry his good-for-nothing brother before his body was even cold! And... she even embezzled all the family fortune my parents left me! They're really trying to drive me to death!"
She cried until she was out of breath and her shoulders shook like leaves in the autumn wind.
"What?!" The soldier's eyes nearly popped out of his head, a surge of anger rising to his head. "How dare they treat a martyr's wife like this?! Do they still have any law?!"
He was so angry that his voice cracked. "Get up! I'll report it to you right away! The leaders will definitely take care of it!"
"I can't get up!" Ruan Anan shook her head vigorously, tears falling. "I want to kneel down! Let my short-lived fiancé watch carefully in heaven! See how his kind stepmother tortures his unmarried daughter-in-law! See how his Xu family... has been wiped out!"
"Stepmother?! Wiping out the entire family?!" The soldier was struck by lightning, his worldview was shattered and trampled on.
The martyr's fiancée was bullied by her stepmother-in-law and her husband's family. She was forced to go to the military area and kneel down to protest her injustice...
What a great injustice this is! What a great despair!
He didn't dare delay any longer and shouted to his comrades beside him, "Watch out! I'll report!"
He turned around and ran inside, almost losing the soles of his shoes.
Ruan Anan looked at his anxious figure and lowered her head, unable to suppress the faint curve at the corner of her lips.
"It's done."
The scale in her heart fell steadily.
The experience of a tenth-level palace fighting player tells her: when filing a complaint to the emperor, three parts are based on reason and seven parts are based on acting.
People in this world, what they hate most is the “weak” being bullied.
What's more, Xu Yancheng is a real combat hero!
The hero's fiancée was bullied like this, it was simply jumping on the honor of the entire military region!
Less than ten minutes later, the soldier came running back panting, his attitude so respectful that it was almost panic-stricken: "Comrade! Please stand up! Our political commissar invites you in! The political commissar said he will make the decision for you!"
Ruan Anan then stood up "weakly" and tremblingly, supporting herself on her knees, and followed the soldier inside, limping step by step.
The woolen knee pads I found in this space are great, soft and warm. It feels like kneeling with cotton pads, so comfortable.
The person who received her was Li Jianguo, the political commissar of the military region, who had a standard square face and was intimidating without even getting angry.
He carefully checked Xu Yancheng's identity information, and listened to Ruan Anan's tearful and detailed "tears" again.
How cruel and calculating Xu's mother was, how she forced her to marry for money; how Su Qingyue pretended to be a good person but was actually in cahoots with the Xu family; how Xu Yanli was so arrogant that he thought she still loved him and mocked her; how she was isolated and helpless, only asking for justice and to escape from the sea of suffering...
Li Jianguo's face became darker and darker as Ruan Anan spoke.
When he heard that Xu's mother had seized the martyr's fiancée's property and dowry and forced her to marry her brother-in-law, he slammed his fist on the table!
The lid of the enamel teacup on the table jumped up and the tea splashed everywhere.
"You bastards! You're completely lawless!" Li Jianguo's roar made the window frames buzz. "This is a disgrace to the revolutionary soldiers! This is undermining socialism! This is a completely reactionary act!"
"Political Commissar Li..."
Ruan Anan was so frightened that she shivered like a frightened little rabbit, her voice as thin as a mosquito. "I... I just want to ask, in my situation... can I... can I completely sever ties with the Xu family? The family property... the dowry... I don't want it! I have a job. I'm a Chinese teacher at Hai City No. 2 Middle School. It's winter vacation now. This is my work permit... I can support myself..."
She trembled as she pulled out her ID, as if it were her only hope. "I just beg you... don't let these dirty things tarnish my fiancé's... posthumous reputation..."
She choked up again at the right moment.
Seeing her being humiliated to the extreme but still wanting to defend the honor of the martyr, the fire of justice in Li Jianguo's heart was completely ignited.
"Comrade Ruan Anan! Don't worry! The organization will never let heroes bleed and cry, and certainly won't let the heroes' families suffer such humiliation!"
He said firmly, "They are having an affair! They are having an affair without a matchmaker! They are destroying a military marriage! Not a cent of your property or your dowry can be lost! They must give it back with interest! And they must pay the price!"
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