Chapter 33 Award Certificate
Lin Shu was very puzzled. What was going on? Didn’t they visit the martyr’s widow before? Why did they come again?
The brigade secretary and the brigade leader came with Director Qin of the commune, several other police officers in white and blue uniforms, and several militiamen in green military uniforms. They were
followed by a group of old people and children. Aunt Qiu, Aunt Li, Huahua, etc. also came over.
My father-in-law said that someone from the commune went to Lu Shaotang’s tomb to pay tribute the day before yesterday, but they went quietly and didn’t disturb the family. Then these people came in a big way... They shouldn’t be here for Lu Shaotang, right?
What were they here for?
The brigade leader and the brigade secretary led everyone in. Before they saw the owner, they were attracted by the bright vegetable garden.
Wow! What a delightful vegetable garden!
Everyone knows that the Lu family has a big yard, but in the past, there were only a few vegetable plots scattered around, and there were a lot of haystacks and debris around, which looked messy.
Now it has changed a lot, clean, fresh, and full of... beauty?
This vegetable plot is divided into areas according to height and color. Beans, cucumbers, loofahs and other climbing vegetables are arranged at a farther distance. The racks are neatly built, and those short leafy vegetables are arranged near the path.
A small vegetable pond is built with stones on the side of the vegetable plot close to the path.
There are seasonal flowers and plants planted in the open spaces around the yard, such as daisies, chrysanthemums, and hibiscus. There is a row of sunflowers and cotton at the base of the wall, and there are also clusters of roses of various colors. It is estimated that they are adult plants that were directly transplanted and have already budded.
They are obviously common plants, but they look particularly beautiful in this yard. Each plant stays in the most suitable position, adding more beauty to this vegetable garden. Everything is just right.
Blue sky, white clouds, loess walls, mud and thatched houses, beautiful farmyards!
Wow, it's really exquisite and beautiful!
And at the end of the vegetable garden, the bright and charming young wife and her two beautiful children are more attractive than the garden. She and the children standing there are the most beautiful scenery line.
Several young men couldn't help blushing when they peeked at Lin Shu. She was so pretty. They had never seen such a pretty young wife in the gray countryside.
When Lin Shu looked back, they seemed to be burned by something. They quickly looked away and looked seriously at the flowers and plants under her feet.
Everyone strode towards Lin Shu and the others.
Lin Aidi's first reaction was: Oh my God, what did Lin Shu do to be arrested?
She immediately protected Lin Shu behind her and asked the person with a smile: "What, what are you doing?"
Lin Shu's arm was hurt by her pulling, "Sister Aidi, it's okay, she is a cadre of our brigade." The
brigade leader had been laughing all the time, but suddenly realized that the woman's husband was gone and quickly put away his smile. His movements were so stiff that he almost sprained his chin.
"My third daughter-in-law, thanks to you and the two children's reminder, our branch secretary went to the commune and asked Director Qin to call the county public security bureau, and the county contacted the Huang County Public Security Bureau. With everyone's concerted efforts, the bad guys were quickly arrested."
The brigade branch secretary glanced at him, and asked, "Will you report to the leader? Can she give you a promotion or something?
" Lin Shu happily said yes, "Thank you, leader, we have worked hard and didn't let the children suffer too much."
If we waited a few months to find them, I'm afraid that even someone like Hu Zi would change his temperament.
Of course, if she didn't know the plot, it is estimated that the two children would not be found for a year or so.
Lin Aidi looked at Lin Shu in surprise, "Sister, what's going on?"
Lin Shu didn't have time to explain to her, so she asked her to help pour water for everyone, and asked Aunt Li to help call Fang Dihua and Old Man Lu back.
The captain said loudly, "Don't worry, Director Qin is here with the comrades from the Public Security Bureau and the militia company to talk to you and interview you."
Lin Shu was very careful and showed a little shyness on her face, but she was not as timid as before, but responded generously.
Everyone looked at Lin Shu, and they were secretly surprised.
Director Qin was the most surprised. The last time she came, she was still drooping and didn't dare to see anyone. She hid in the door frame, lowered her head and grabbed the hem of her shirt. She greeted him with a step and a step, and her voice was like the hum of a mosquito. Her timid look made him dare not breathe, for fear of blowing her away.
Now she seemed to be a different person. Not only was she radiant, beautiful and bright, but her temperament was... You could say she was a university teacher or even a pillar of the art troupe.
This... was completely transformed.
Several police officers also exchanged looks with Director Qin. Before coming, Director Qin reminded them to be careful when speaking, because Lin Shu was very timid and not to scare her. If she cried on the spot, it would be a bad ending.
The result... was just like this?
She was obviously neither humble nor arrogant, right?
She looked very tactful in dealing with people.
Director Qin glanced at the brigade secretary. Was this a rehearsal for her or something? Why has she changed so much?
He used the vegetable garden as an introduction to start the conversation. "It must have taken a lot of effort to take care of this vegetable garden. It's well taken care of, and it's thriving. One can tell at a glance that the owner is also very positive and progressive."
Everyone followed Director Qin's topic and visited the garden openly again. It was indeed so!
The leaders are still educated and can speak.
Lin Aidi also whispered, "Sister, you've worked hard, taking care of such a big vegetable garden."
Not to mention the difficulty of removing insects and weeds every day, just watering the vegetable garden every day, such a large area can be exhausting.
Alas, Lin Shu is so thin and weak, it's not easy.
Lin Shu was already replying to Director Qin, "My parents-in-law and the whole family took care of this. My parents-in-law are hardworking and never idle. My eldest sister-in-law and second brother love to work. I am only responsible for picking vegetables and cooking."
Lin Aidi: I don't believe it.
After praising the vegetable garden, Director Qin praised Lin Shu and her two children, and then asked the comrades from the Public Security Bureau and the militia company to talk about the general situation.
Lin Shu was also surprised. Why did they have to come here to talk to her? She was not an important person. Couldn't she just talk to the victims and leaders?
Did the captain bring people here on purpose?
Was he trying to make her look good?
Lin Shu didn't understand for a while, but she didn't show it. She just listened quietly.
According to the police, the brazer didn't seem to have any background. He was just an ordinary brazer, but his life was a bit tragic.
A few years ago, the commune organized workers to repair the canal, and he went to participate. His wife was pregnant and took care of four children at home.
His wife went to work in the production team with a big belly. As a result, she was overworked and gave birth to a premature baby at night, killing one and two.
Later, there was a flood, and the school where the sons studied was destroyed by a mudslide. Three of the four children died, and the remaining one jumped into the river and died.
Several elderly people were weeping when they heard this, "Alas, the hemp rope will break at the thinnest part, and it is unfortunate that the poor person was chosen."
Seeing that they actually sympathized with the brazier, Lin Shu reminded them, "Poorness is not a reason for him to harm others. There are so many poor people in this world, and not every poor person has to harm others."
Just hearing about the brazier's experience, she also sympathized with him. If he was tenacious and unyielding, everyone would admire him, or even if he was simply miserable, everyone would pity him.
But he turned his own pity into a reason to hurt others, which is wrong.
If she didn't know the original plot, these women and children would not be found quickly, and after a few months, they would either be tortured to death by him or tortured to insanity and unable to live a normal life.
In the original book, the miserable situation of Lu Pan, the misery and madness of the prisoners, don't they explain the problem?
It doesn't make sense that a poor person will eventually become a hateful person and bring misfortune to other innocent people.
After she said this, Director Qin and others nodded, "That's the truth."
They felt that although Lin Shu was a country woman who had not received many years of education and had no knowledge, her mind was clear.
Lin Shu immediately praised her father-in-law, "My father-in-law studied Mao's Selected Works and Marxism-Leninism every day. My mother-in-law, my children and I followed suit after listening to them, and his mind seemed to be more brilliant."
Panpan and Tiantian chattered and immediately told Director Qin and others what books Grandpa read and what stories he told them. Director Qin and others were stunned.
This Second Master Lu has changed a lot.
No wonder the vegetable garden is so prosperous.
Well, he is a progressive thinker, good!
Two of the public security comrades are responsible for writing articles. They wrote quickly and recorded everything they saw and heard about this case.
This case of a brazer kidnapping and imprisoning women and children is too typical, so the public security department requires detailed records to be published in the police report.
Other newspapers also want to publish this kind of curious news case, but they have to be blurred.
Lin Shu was afraid that the brazer had accomplices, so she asked more questions to prevent them from harming children in the future.
"Comrades from the public security, is the brazer a member of a gang of human traffickers?"
She knew that human traffickers were very arrogant after the reform and opening up in the 1980s and 1990s, and she didn't know what it was like in this era.
When the other old ladies and men heard this, they became anxious, "Yes, arrest them all."
The police officer from Huang County quickly clarified, "Don't be afraid, comrade. He is just a brazer. He is mentally unstable due to the stimulation. He is not a member of a gang."
If people thought that there was a gang of human traffickers in their county, wouldn't it affect the reputation of their county?
The public security of the county also said to the members who were watching the excitement: "Yes, don't be afraid, this is not a gang, this is an individual behavior. We have always been very strict in cracking down on bad elements. We have to check the introduction letter before leaving the commune, and we also need the introduction letter when taking a car or a boat. It is not so easy for outsiders to come and cause trouble."
Director Qin: "They don't have so many food coupons and money to go far away. If they want to make trouble in a group nearby, it will easily attract attention, so they dare not."
At that time, there was no identity card, and going out depended on the introduction letter to take a car and stay in a hotel. However, there was no photo on the introduction letter, only the official seal, which could be forged by someone.
The introduction letter can only restrain law-abiding people, but not those who are really capable or deliberately break the law and make trouble. It is easy for them to find someone to get the introduction letter.
The two biggest factors that can really restrain people from running around in this era are poverty and collective labor.
You need food coupons to eat, and food coupons need to be exchanged for food. No one has enough food, let alone money.
If you want to commit a crime in a group, the expenses of introduction letters, food coupons, money, etc. are not small. It is still unclear whether having a child can make a profit. After all, the current buyers are also poor and cannot afford to pay too much.
In addition, whether in the countryside or in the city, there is collective labor. Whoever takes leave and what he does is recorded. If you are absent from work without reason, you will be reported to the police. It is really not easy for a person to do something alone.
If a stranger comes to the village without reason, he will definitely be questioned.
Another reason is that family planning is not yet universal. Families
can have as many children as they want. Unless a child is sick, there is basically no shortage of children, so there is no need to steal from others. Those who really can't have children usually ask someone else to adopt a child that someone else doesn't want.
Some families have too many children to raise, so they give away their baby girls.
There are also young men and women who secretly taste the forbidden fruit and get pregnant but cannot get married, so they can only secretly give birth to the child and give it away, especially some female educated youth.
As for stealing children, most of them are foolish actions by individuals or revenge for personal grudges.
After hearing the police's explanation, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."
Mrs. Qiu muttered, "I heard from an old sister that her daughter's eldest sister-in-law works in the provincial hospital. There was a nurse who stole children and sold them. She is so evil."
The police immediately said, "Auntie, this is not true. No nurse dares to steal children."
Mrs. Qiu was a little dissatisfied, but she didn't dare to argue with the police, so she whispered to Aunt Li, "She said There was a nurse who stole a child for her infertile sister.
Aunt Li immediately became interested, "Then what? Was he caught? Did they get divorced? Was it the man who was infertile in the end?"
Aunt Qiu: "...The woman was really infertile, and the man got divorced and remarried and had two children."
Lin Shu listened to them mumbling there, and couldn't help but pay attention to it. As a result, she didn't hear the police comrades asking her about the process of the brazer breaking the braid.
But she didn't need to waste her breath with Tiantian and Panpan, they were good at talking.
Huahua was also brave, she dared to come to the front to listen and even said a word along with Panpan, Honghong, Yuanyuan and others were shy and scared, hiding under the old man's lapels and peeking at the police comrades through the seams of his clothes.
The police were particularly happy to see Tiantian and Panpan.
"These two kids are good-looking, smart, and eloquent. They are really good kids and well-educated."
"Children like these must not be lost."
Meeting Huahua's expectant eyes, he complimented her, "This girl is not bad, she is brave and not afraid of strangers."
Huahua immediately smiled proudly at Panpan.
Hearing that there was an interview, Hu Zi ran over and shouted, "Interview me! Interview me!"
He got behind Tian Tian and Pan Pan, his two big eyes rolling around, "I'm the one who lost it! And Chang Xiaogang behind us, we were locked up in the big well together."
Everyone: "..."
This kid is too...
The public security comrade in charge of writing the article interviewed him as well. At first, they took into consideration the child's young mind and didn't ask too many questions or dig too deep. As a result, Hu Zi kept talking about whatever he wanted, "Xiaogang has a hard life, he can't even have one meal a day, but I can eat two meals a day."
He also talked about what the brazers were doing in the big well.
Seeing that he was getting more and more uncoordinated, the brigade secretary quickly interrupted him, "Okay, that's enough."
Hu Zi approached Tian Tian and laughed, "Tian Tian, do you think what I said is good?"
Tian Tian whispered, "Tell us quietly later, I'll write it down."
Hu Zi nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay."
Pan Pan immediately pushed him away with her buttocks, letting him stay away from Tian Tian.
After the interview, the public security comrade said that there was a commendation certificate to be issued to the Lu family, commending them for their courageous actions.
The brigade leader wanted to shout through the loudspeaker and let the members go to the brigade to issue it there, which would appear formal and glorious.
The brigade secretary stopped him and told them not to be too high-profile and just give it directly to the Lu family.
If Lu Shaotang had not been in trouble, it would be good to go to the brigade to praise him and liven things up. Now the Lu family is all shrouded in grief, so it is not appropriate to be too high-profile.
The brigade leader agreed.
The public security comrades presented certificates of merit, which Tiantian and Panpan accepted.
Director Qin gave Lin Shu a prize, two white porcelain teacups, a kettle, and pencil notebooks for the children.
This made the onlookers very envious. The snow-white teacup and the bright red iron kettle were made of rattan. Most people have rattan shells.
The iron ones are two yuan more expensive and are still not available!
Old Mrs. Chang did not go to work today. She was sick and was cooking and resting at home.
She stepped on the stones and saw the brand new iron kettle and snow-white enamel pot on the table in the main hall from the back window of the Lu family. She looked at the police and cadres in uniform and her eyes were red with jealousy.
Oh my God, is there no justice in the world?
It was her grandson who was lost and had his leg broken by someone. These cadres did not come to comfort her family or send gifts to her family. Why did they send gifts to the Lu family?
She really wanted to ask the cadres of the brigade, what was the basis for this?
However, she had a brain and some sense. She could make trouble in the production team at ordinary times, but she didn't dare to make trouble in the brigade, let alone in front of the commune cadres and the police.
She didn't think she was so shameless, not to mention that she had just lost face in the brigade a few days ago because of her daughter-in-law.
She planned to ask the old man to go back and ask the captain.
Usually the old man often said nice things to the captain and drank with him, and the two of them had a good relationship.
After handing out the certificates and prizes, the public security comrades
took their leave, politely declining the suggestion of the brigade secretary to keep them for dinner. Director Qin did not stay any longer, and left with the public security comrades and the militia.
Lin Shu and the children saw the guests off to the intersection, waving their hands and watching them drive away or ride their bikes.
The brigade secretary turned around and said to Lin Shu, "These two children are smart and clever, let them go to school early."
The captain: "Ah, that's right!"
The brigade secretary gave Lin Shu a few instructions and left with his hands behind his back.
At this time, Lu Shaocai came back on his bicycle and shouted, "Where is Director Qin? Where are the police comrades? Hurry up and have dinner at my house!"
He rode too fast and almost rushed into the drainage ditch on the side of the road. It was the captain who stopped him.