Chapter 45 Malice, Falling
Aunt Zhou said, "I'll follow you too, and I'll tell you where you can collect firewood."
"That's right. We have to make things clear, otherwise you will wrongly accuse others for no reason." Aunt Zhou San snorted. Yu Zhiqing was by her side at the time, and they would say a few words to each other from time to time. She was sure that Yu Zhiqing did not leave the place where he was collecting firewood.
No one knew what this female police officer was thinking, but she seemed to have deep ill intentions towards Yu Zhiqing.
Aunt Zhou looked at the aunts and sisters-in-law and said, "We can just follow them. You should go back to work as soon as possible."
It took half a day to go back and forth. In fact, they were also reluctant to lose their work points, but seeing Yu Zhiqing, a little girl, coming to their place, unfamiliar with the place and being bullied, they could not just stand by and watch.
Others may be afraid of the police, but the Zhou family is not.
Secretary Zhou's uncle is a leader in the city. Aunt Zhou and Aunt Zhou San both have a son in the army. Both brothers are very hardworking and have become small cadres in the army.
Therefore, as long as the Zhou family has not committed any crime, no one will dare to attack them, and they can justifiably protect the members of their team who have not made any mistakes.
It took twenty minutes to walk from the brigade headquarters to the foot of the mountain. The female police officer looked at the towering mountain in front of her and her face changed slightly. It's so high?
How long will it take?
Yu Wanqing and the others acted as if they saw nothing and walked forward.
The mountain road was difficult to walk on, with bugs jumping around everywhere. The female police officer was frightened by the bugs. Huo Lanci raised the corners of his lips and revealed a wicked smile: "Yu Zhiqing, you must pay attention to the road under your feet."
Aunt Zhou nodded: "That's right, it's so hot now, there must be snakes, everyone should pay attention to the road and don't step on them."
The female police officer was so frightened that her teeth were chattering. It would have been fine if it were just a small insect, but also a snake?
This was undoubtedly a huge shock to a female comrade who came to the countryside for the first time. She really regretted it now, but looking at the members walking in front of her and the arrogant woman, she could only grit her teeth and follow carefully behind them.
The thin policeman felt a bit gloating when he saw this scene. He should let this guy experience a real beating in the world.
After walking for more than ten minutes, we finally arrived at Pingshanling. Aunt Zhou pointed to a place and said, "Yesterday I was collecting firewood here, and Yu Zhiqing was on the other side."
The thin policeman strode towards where Aunt Zhou pointed. He looked around and then said to the captain, "Please take us to the slope of Niangzi'ao."
The team leader nodded and said, "The road from here to Niangzi'ao is not easy to walk on. You must keep up." After that, he looked at the Zhou family sisters-in-law and said, "You should go back to work first."
The place where they would collect firewood had already been determined, so they would not need these two people to accompany them from now on.
The Zhou family sisters-in-law nodded. They glanced at Yu Wanqing and saw the little girl smiling and saying, "Auntie and daughter-in-law, you two should go back first. I will come to talk to you in the evening."
Aunt Zhou clapped her hands and said, "You didn't do it. Don't be afraid. We in the Five-Star Brigade will not let anyone wrongly accuse our members."
The group walked forward along the path ahead, passing a straight mountain. The captain pointed to the peak and said, "Niangzi'ao is on the other side of the mountain top. There is a slope over there, and further down is the mountain field that our Five Star Team reclaimed. Niu Erzhuang was found in the mountain field."
The female police officer looked at the mountain in front of her and felt her legs go weak. How far would it be?
The thin policeman was stunned for a moment when he looked at the mountain, and then thought about how it took Yu Zhiqing only about two hours from the time he entered the mountain to the time he returned. It was impossible for him to push people down from Niangzi'ao and then return to Pingshanling. So Yu Zhiqing and the members of the Five-Star Brigade did not lie, but Niu Erzhuang did. He said that he was pushed down by Yu Zhiqing, which was a complete slander.
"No need to go, Niu Erzhuang is lying." The thin policeman said slowly, "It's impossible to go from the foot of the mountain to Pingshanling in two hours, pick up two bundles of firewood, go to Niangzi'ao to push the people down, and then go back to Pingshanling."
Upon hearing this, the female police officer immediately said, "No, we must verify it on the spot."
She looked at the thin policeman and said, "We shouldn't miss any opportunity to find out the truth."
The thin policeman was so angry that he laughed, and secretly cursed in his heart: Idiot.
He smiled and said, "Okay, whatever Comrade Zhang says." If she likes walking so much, then let's go, as long as she doesn't cry.
The captain didn't mind, because they had walked these roads often and were used to them.
Huo Lanci and Yu Wanqing didn't care at all. They were in good health and walking these roads was no problem for them.
After walking for more than ten minutes, Yu Wanqing moved her fingers, and the female police officer following behind her was suddenly tripped by a vine and fell to the ground, screaming miserably.
Yu Wanqing, Huo Lanci and the captain turned around and found the female police officer lying on the ground in a wolf's nest, her hands were rubbed by the stones, and she looked a bit scary.
The thin policeman stepped forward and said, "Stop crying and get up quickly. Crying like this will easily attract wild boars."
"There are also wild boars?" Zhang Shuman was shocked: "How could there be wild boars?"
The thin policeman Chen Jian said helplessly to the three people: "Comrade Zhang was transferred from the city only last month, so he doesn't know much about the situation here."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Shuman and said, "There are groups of wild boars in the mountains. Every year, one month before the harvest, the commune will organize militiamen to start hunting in each brigade. In early May this year, more than 20 wild boars were killed in the mountains of the Five-Star Brigade."
"We went into the mountains to look for people last night and killed four wild boars." The captain glanced at Zhang Shuman and said, "So, Public Security Officer Zhang, don't think that the mountains are safe. It's normal to encounter poisonous snakes and wild boars."
Zhang Shuman wanted to say she couldn't go, but Chen Jian had just said he couldn't go, and he was the one who insisted on verifying it on the spot. So she could only follow everyone angrily and continue walking.
The burning pain in the palm of her hand reminded Zhang Shuman that all the humiliation was brought by Yu Wanqing.
If she hadn't caused the trouble, he wouldn't have to come to the Five-Star Brigade to investigate, and if he hadn't come to investigate, he wouldn't have fallen.
She thought to herself: Just wait, if I find out there's something wrong with you, you're dead.
She followed the others, cursing in her heart. She didn’t know how long she had walked until she finally reached the top of the mountain. The team leader pointed to the middle of the mountain and said, “That’s Niangzi’ao. That’s where Niu Erzhuang fell.”
Officer Chen Jian looked at the time and then said to the captain, "You guys stay here. I'll go down and take a look."
Twenty minutes later, he came back, looked at Zhang Shuman and said, "It took us a total of fifty-five minutes to walk from Pingshanling to Niangzi'ao."
"If you add the time it takes to get from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, it takes three hours to go back and forth. If you add the time it takes to pick up two bundles of firewood, it will take at least four hours."
He looked at Zhang Shuman who had been nagging Yu Zhiqing: "Do you think Yu Zhiqing can walk from the foot of the mountain to Niangzi'ao and back in two and a half hours? And pick up two bundles of firewood on the way?"
Seeing Chen Jian approaching her step by step, Zhang Shuman felt very embarrassed. She gritted her teeth and said, "She, she has been doing farm work, so she must be walking fast."
"You can't rely on your time."