area51novel Chapter 241 Who are you?
Chapter 241 Who are you?
In the dim light, Xiao Li could vaguely see a few sacks. "Pull them up!"
Several people wearing red armbands hurriedly pulled out the sacks. When they opened them, everyone was stunned - they were full of moldy potatoes and sweet potatoes, and half a bag of stale rice infested with worms.
"This..." Xu Damao's face turned pale, "It's impossible..."
Xiao Li's face was so gloomy that water could drip out of it. He turned around and grabbed Mrs. Zhao by the collar: "Old man! Tell me! Where is the Lou family's gold and silver treasure hidden?"
Zhao the chef's wife collapsed on the ground, tears streaming down her face: "Leader, our family relies on this little food ration to survive... Where can we get the gold and silver..."
"Keep searching!" Xiao Li was furious. "We must dig deep to find it!"
Just as the quarrel was getting out of hand, a burst of hurried footsteps suddenly sounded at the entrance of the alley.
A young man of about 17 or 18 suddenly pushed open the door and rushed in. Behind him, a dozen strong young men holding shovels and sticks rushed in with murderous intent. His eyes were red and veins on his neck were bulging: "Who are you? How dare you raid my house?!"
When Chef Zhao's wife saw her son coming, she cried out, "My old man, these bastards came from nowhere and started smashing things as soon as they entered the house. Look at what they have done to our family..."
Xu Damao was squatting in the corner, checking a broken clay pot. He shuddered at the sound, and the pot fell to pieces with a "bang". He looked up and saw the shiny hatchet in Zhao Tieshuan's hand. His calves were cramped: "Brother, brother, this is a misunderstanding..."
"Fuck your mother!" Zhao Tieshuan rushed over, grabbed Xu Damao by the collar and dragged him out. Xu Damao's leather shoes scraped two deep grooves on the mud, and his newly made Zhongshan suit cracked with a "sizzling" sound.
When Xiao Li was about to draw his gun, he was pinned to the ground by the three guys. His belt was torn off, and his Type 54 pistol fell to the side.
“Comrades! Revolutionary comrades!” Xu Damao shouted at the top of his lungs. “This is a counterattack by the class enemy!”
Zhao Tieshuan swung his arm and slapped him: "I'll teach you a lesson!" Xu Damao's left cheek immediately swelled up and his teeth flew out.
The courtyard was in chaos. The red armbands fled in panic. Two of them were pulled down while climbing over the wall, their cotton pants hung on the broken glass on the top of the wall, revealing their white buttocks. Xiao Li tried to run away in the chaos, but Zhao Tieshuan knocked him down with a sweeping kick, knocking his front teeth on the stone steps, and blood foam spurted out far away.
"Tie them up!" Zhao Tieshuan ordered, and the hemp rope quickly tied Xu Damao and Xiao Li like dumplings. Xu Damao's crotch was wet, and the smell of stench mixed with blood filled the yard.
When Zhao the chef’s wife saw this scene, she slapped her thigh and cried, “What a sin! This is going to cause a big disaster…”
"Mom! Don't be afraid!" Zhao Tieshuan stabbed the axe into the ground. "It's a new society now. They can't bully people like this!" He turned around and kicked Xu Damao: "Tell me! What are you doing here?"
"What did he mean by the Lou family's gold, silver and treasures?" Chef Zhao's wife answered for Xu Damao.
"Why are you coming to our house instead of looking for the Lou family's gold, silver and treasures?" Zhao Tieshuan asked, grabbing Xu Damao's collar.
Xu Damao was grabbed by the collar by Zhao Tieshuan and dragged up, his feet kicked off the ground like a rooster with its neck strangled. He stammered in defense: "Zhao, Zhao brother... I really saw your father go into the abandoned brick kiln in Erligou with my own eyes, and we also dug out a box of gold bars there..."
"Bullshit!" Zhao Tieshuan's eyes widened with anger, his fists clenched and cracked. "Why would my father go to the abandoned brick kiln? It's true that my father has cooked for the Lou family for more than ten years, but he has never taken a needle from them!"
During the standoff, footsteps were heard outside the courtyard gate. Chef Zhao stepped into the doorway carrying a basket of vegetables, followed by a middle-aged man in a Mao suit and black-framed glasses - none other than Director Zhou of the Maweigou Subdistrict Revolutionary Committee.
"What's going on?" Director Zhou frowned as he looked at the mess in the yard. His eyes lingered on the tied-up Xu Damao for a moment. "Who is this person?"
Zhao Tieshuan ignored Director Zhou, but having worked as a servant for many years, he knew the ways of the world. "Director Zhou, I just came back, so I'm not sure yet. Would you mind asking me?"
When Xu Damao heard the words "Director Zhou", he grasped at a life-saving straw and struggled to shout, "Director Zhou! I am the deputy section chief of the steel mill. I brought the security officers to search. They are resisting the law violently!"
Chef Zhao slowly put down the basket and took out a piece of paper from his arms: "Director Zhou, I just got a certificate from the street. This is the innocence document issued to me by the organization, proving that I have no improper dealings with the Lou family except for the employment relationship."
Director Zhou took the document and looked at it carefully. Xu Damao was so anxious that he was sweating: "How do you explain the gold bars in the abandoned kiln in Erligou? It's clearly..."
"What gold bars?" Chef Zhao suddenly raised his voice, "Xu Damao, you are slandering me! I went to the abandoned kiln to avoid the wind that day. It was too windy to light a cigarette."
Director Zhou continued: "Even if you are a steel mill, how can you come to our place to search without informing us? This doesn't seem appropriate, does it?"
Xu Damao was choked by this and didn't know how to answer: "Well, it's mainly because the situation is urgent and we forgot."
"Forgot?" Director Zhou repeated, then pondered for a moment, and suddenly stared at Xu Damao and asked, "You said you dug up gold bars. Do you have any witnesses?"
Xu Damao hesitated: "Yes... Director Li and others..."
"Nonsense!" A shout suddenly came from outside the courtyard. Zhao Tiezhu, the eldest son of Chef Zhao, came in from outside. "Someone did go to the abandoned brick kiln in Erligou a few nights ago, but I heard that someone buried something in the brick kiln."
"Burying something? How did you know?" Director Zhou was puzzled.
"I heard about it, too. My uncle's home is in Erligou. I went to his house the day before yesterday and heard what he said."
"Oh..." Director Zhou nodded and said to Xu Damao, "Do you have any more evidence?"
When Xu Damao heard what Zhao Tiezhu said, he jumped up as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw. "Director Zhou, Chef Zhao was originally the chef of the Lou family, and he has been doing this for more than ten years. The Lou family is one of the most prominent families in Beijing. A few days ago, their entire family defected, and we didn't find any valuables in their home. We suspect that the Lou family hid their property in the homes of their former servants. This is completely reasonable!" He hurriedly picked up the dirty search warrant from the ground and shook off the mud and water on it. "Look, this is a formal document with the official seal of the Revolutionary Committee!"
Director Zhou took the crumpled document and squinted his eyes to examine it carefully. The sunlight shone through the back of the paper, revealing the blurred red mark. He sighed, "The document is real... You came to Zhao's house and searched it, but you didn't find anything. But you turned the house upside down like this..."
Xu Damao hesitated: "This...maybe it has been transferred..."
"How dare you talk nonsense!" Zhao Tiezhu retorted indignantly, "You said you want to transfer it, so do you have any evidence? Are you trying to frame the revolutionary masses?"