The next morning, Li Feng didn't go to work. He rode his bicycle to the towel factory and waited for Zhang Xiaoya at the factory gate.
After waiting for about ten minutes, I saw Zhang Xiaoya arrive for work.
As soon as she saw Li Feng, she walked shyly to his side, lowered her head, and asked, "Brother Feng, did you come to see me?"
"Yes, Xiaoya, I was thinking that if we got married, we could see each other every day, and I wouldn't have to miss you so much."
"What? Getting married? So soon?" Zhang Xiaoya asked in surprise.
"Don't you want to? I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon. If you think it's going to happen soon, then I'm just too eager to marry you."
If that's the case, then pretend I didn't say anything.
"No, I don't mind if it's sooner. When are we going to meet our parents?"
"Anytime is fine, whatever you say."
Hearing Li Feng's sweet words, Zhang Xiaoya felt so ashamed she had nowhere to hide her embarrassment.
The two discussed meeting each other's parents for quite a while, until it was time for Zhang Xiaoya to go to work, at which point she reluctantly entered the factory.
Li Feng watched Zhang Xiaoya go inside, and his smiling face immediately turned gloomy.
Hmph, what a stupid, pig-like woman. She'll cling to him and never leave him after just a few sweet words.
The first thing Li's father did after going to work was to call someone again.
"Are you free today? If you are, do me one more thing."
A hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone, "What is it?"
"Help me get some banned books and hide them in the house of the man surnamed Chen at No. 70 Xiguan Street."
You are writing a letter to the Revolutionary Committee, reporting their family.
"Okay, I'll get it done for you in the next couple of days."
After hearing the other party hang up the phone, Mr. Li sat in his chair and thought for a long time.
If you dare to replace a child from the Li family, this is what will happen. Still want to be a worker? Dream on.
After hanging up the phone, the man immediately followed Li's father's instructions.
They secretly smuggled the prohibited books over the wall when no one was home and placed them in a place where they could be easily discovered.
He anonymously wrote a letter of denunciation and sent it to the Revolutionary Committee. Sure enough, the next day at noon, people from the Revolutionary Committee came to the Chen family's house to search it.
At that moment, no one from the Chen family was home, but they ignored everything and immediately rushed in to search.
They searched carefully and, sure enough, found the prohibited books.
Just then, the Chen father and son, who had just returned home from get off work at noon, arrived at their doorstep.
Seeing the front door open, they assumed Chen Gang had returned.
"Third brother, have you cooked yet?"
Hearing the noise, the people inside the house immediately looked towards the front door.
"Who are you? What are you doing in my house?"
When Chen Jin saw that there were several more people in the house, he quickly shouted loudly.
"Hmph, you two people who came to arrest you, you're from this family, aren't you?"
"We are not, we've gone to the wrong place."
As soon as Chen Jin finished speaking, he was about to run away when he was grabbed by the sleeve by the Revolutionary Committee members.
"Trying to run away? Take them away. They were caught illegally possessing prohibited books. Trying to escape after being caught by us is an even more serious offense."
"Hey, you can't just arrest people like that! We don't have any books hidden in our house!"
"Open your dog eyes and look! What are these books?"
Chen's father and Chen Jin took a closer look. The cover was covered with chicken claw-like characters. They couldn't understand these foreign words, so how could they keep it?
“These books don’t belong to us. Our family can’t read these words, so how could we possibly keep them?”
Mr. Chen hurriedly explained, bowing and scraping repeatedly.
“We got the evidence and every company we searched said the same thing. Hmph, take them away and don’t say another word.”
"Dad, have we been framed? It must be the third son, it must be the third son who framed us."
"Boss, stop talking, it's no use saying anything more, just accept your fate."
"No, let's find Li Feng. He'll definitely have a way to get us out of here."
"Yes, find Feng'er, he will save us."
The Chen family was taken away for questioning, and the surrounding neighbors pointed and whispered among themselves.
Even Chen's mother, who was sweeping the streets outside, was arrested.
The three were locked in a room, living in fear and complaining. The one who cursed Chen Gang the most and the harshest was Chen's mother.
The Revolutionary Committee began interrogating the Chen family members. Chen's father kept protesting his innocence, saying that his family had been honest and law-abiding for generations and that they would never do such a thing.
Chen Jin kept insisting on seeing Li Feng, firmly believing that he could prove his innocence.
Chen's mother insisted that the books belonged to her third son, Chen Gang, and called on the Revolutionary Committee to arrest him.
The members of the Revolutionary Committee exchanged glances and then sent someone to investigate.
When they arrived at the Li family's house, Chen Gang opened the door and let them in. Old Master Li was also sitting in the main room.
“We are from the Revolutionary Committee. Your mother says the prohibited books hidden in your house are yours? Do you admit it?”
"Impossible, she's talking nonsense. I'm the son of the Li family, not the Chen family. It's none of my business if they have prohibited books."
"Yes, that's right. Gang'er is our Li family's son. He's a young man who went to the countryside and just returned home not long ago. How could he possibly have any prohibited books?" Old Master Li said quietly.
"Okay, we got it. What about Li Feng? They said they'd call for Li Feng to save them."
“Our Feng’er doesn’t have that ability. Since he committed a crime, he should receive a proper education.”
"Alright, Mr. Li is right. We'll be going now. Sorry to bother you."
"Okay, take care."
The members of the Revolutionary Committee asked their leader, puzzled, "Why don't you arrest Chen Gang?"
"Why arrest him? Old Master Li has already spoken. This is their child. We should let him go for his sake."
"Didn't we arrest those three? Those three are enough."
Chen Gang watched those people leave, his face turning red with anger.
His good mother, she's so good to him, framing him, humph, and he's still unharmed.
The Chen family can just wait to be sent to the farm for reform.
"Gang'er, don't overthink it. Those people aren't worth getting angry over."
Now that you're in the Li family, everything about the Chen family is none of your business.
"Okay, Grandpa, do you want to rest? Let me help you."
"Okay, help me inside."
Chen Gang escorted Old Master Li back to his room and then went into his own room.
He sat in the chair, thinking that the Chen family had raised him for at least twenty years, and there was at least some affection between them.
Who knew that after they were arrested, they would try to drag me down with them and frame me.
"Brother Chen Gang, what's wrong?"
He Hua noticed that Chen Gang was acting strangely and immediately stood up to ask him.
"Hmph, the Chen family has fallen today; they've been arrested by the Revolutionary Committee."
"What? Is it that serious?"
"Yes, they want to pin the crime on me for collecting prohibited books, saying that I kept them in secret."
"So ruthless? Hmph, serves them right. They should all be shot."
What good people could the Chen family have? Even Li Feng wasn't a good person. It's a pity we couldn't kick him out of the Li family.
"That's right, they're shamelessly staying in our Li family, just trying to take our family property," Chen Gang continued, picking up where He Hua left off.
"Brother Chen Gang, let's think of a way to get rid of those fake Li family members."
"I find it difficult; I can't think of any good solutions."
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