"And who is this...?"
Gu Zuozuo pointed with his chin at the woman who was jumping around like a monkey from Wudang Mountain, his eyes full of doubt.
Duan Jianhua gave a bitter smile and sighed helplessly.
"The newly arrived educated youth, I heard, used to be a member of the Red Guards, but she caused too much trouble and someone died. Her family forced her to come here, saying that they wanted her to receive re-education in the countryside. So she was sent here to become an educated youth sent to the countryside."
"And the result is what you see when you come back."
This new female educated youth has no other skills, but her methods of tormenting people are endless and vicious.
There were originally seven or eight elderly people who had been sent down to the countryside in the cowshed. They were honest and dutiful, doing their own work and never causing trouble.
Who knew that when this woman arrived, she immediately shouted that they were all "stinking intellectuals" and parasites, and that they should be subjected to "re-education" by the masses every day.
In just seven days, two of the eight people were killed by this female educated youth named Wu Wenli. He and the village cadres secretly provided a lot of assistance, but they still couldn't protect them.
Gu Zuozuo glanced at the woman who was still spitting and trembling.
Looking again at the several elderly people kneeling on the ground with signs around their necks and blank, vacant expressions, Xie Changzheng was surprisingly not among them.
"Uncle Duan, what about Xie Changzheng?"
Hu Jianhua sighed, his brows furrowed so deeply they could almost trap a fly, and a look of pain flashed in his eyes.
"Old Xie...didn't make it."
He was originally the one with the worst health in the cowshed, and it was only thanks to Gu Zuozuo's acupuncture treatments that his health improved. If his life had continued smoothly without any setbacks, he could have lived for a few more years.
But no one expected that an extremist would appear among the educated youth this time. He would drag people out to criticize and struggle every day, not only depriving them of food but also trying to kill them.
"You didn't stop it? Wasn't anyone going to do anything about it? Does Xie Jinyu know about this?"
"Why didn't I stop her? I almost got into a fight with her, but that woman went straight to the county's Revolutionary Committee and I almost got detained there for re-education! It was the director who brought me back!"
At this point, Duan Jianhua glanced at the woman on the stage who was still speaking passionately, and subconsciously lowered his voice.
"I heard that her uncle is the director there."
Gu Zuozuo understood; it turned out to be a family whose property had been confiscated.
"Xie Jinyu doesn't know about Elder Xie's situation yet. He heard that he went to the border, where things are a bit unstable. His family didn't dare tell him. It was Li Yuze who hurriedly came back, collected the remains, and left again in a hurry."
Mr. Xie was a very good person, but unfortunately good people don't live long. He worked hard for half his life, but didn't have a good ending.
Gu Zuozuo glanced at the crazed woman on the stage and curled her lip in disgust.
She had heard of the Red Guards, one of the defining characteristics of this era. They were a group of madmen who did crazy things under the guise of justice, and also a tool for those people to manipulate others.
He glanced at the pebble at his feet, then at the woman on the stage whose face was almost contorted with rage, and with a flick of his toe, the pebble flew out.
The female educated youth, who was in the midst of her excitement, suddenly felt a sharp pain in her tooth. When she reached out to touch it, her hand was covered in blood. Realizing something was wrong, she vomited out the strange substance in her mouth with a "whoosh," expelling four or five teeth mixed with blood.
"Who! Who did this!"
No one answered. The members all looked at her innocently, not understanding what was wrong with her this time.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
With a series of whooshing sounds, the female educated youth felt a sharp pain in her knees and knelt down, her chest feeling as if she had just performed a dramatic act of breaking a boulder.
Duan Jianhua narrowed his eyes and smiled like a benevolent version of Zhong Kui, which was incredibly creepy.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
