Crossing 70: Fish in the Pond Have Good News

Chapter 471: Blocking people

Zhuang Mingde's house collapsed, and the rumors in the team could not be stopped.

The new secretary waved his hand and gathered strong laborers to move all the blue bricks to the open space of the brigade headquarters in half a day, leaving not even a broken piece for Zhuang Mingde.

Although Yi Chi didn't want to appear too aggressive, with Jiang Yu leading the way, he simply followed him to Zhuang Mingde's house and took a look around. After making sure that the team had not fooled him, he signed the handover form with the secretary.

The blue bricks are available, but we have to wait for the red bricks we ordered. Normally, if someone in the village wants to repair their house, they can contribute some money and work points, and there will be plenty of people in the brigade to help with the work.

However, Yi Chi was completely unable to integrate into the construction team. Not to mention hiring people to do work for him, even several newly appointed village cadres were very cold to him.

Jiang Yu saw it and said to him calmly, "Let's do it ourselves and take our time. Anyway, we don't have to work."

Yi Chi readily agreed.

Time passed quickly. Jiang Yu dismantled several of the original warehouses of the brigade. She reused the earth walls and straw on the fence, and asked Yi Chi to move and throw away the unusable ones. Before Yi Chi went to the commune to confirm his school status, the blue bricks were used to cover the residential land again.

Yi Chi walked around the low wall twice, and kept telling Jiang Yu that this place used to be planted with plants, and that place was the kitchen...

Jiang Yu listened and tried to recreate the scene he described in his mind. Although it might not be exactly the same, it was definitely very beautiful. It was probably the most beautiful part of Yi Chi's memory.

Yi Chi stopped and said, "I didn't expect that I could get this homestead back."

"Why wouldn't you dare think of that? You're too timid." Jiang Yu said, then waved at him, "Let's go, Wu Aiqing said this morning that he would make dumplings stuffed with shepherd's purse and meat for lunch, let's go and have a meal with him."

"Then should I bring some return gift?" Yi Chi hurriedly followed.

Jiang Yu strode forward, "You sent the meat, what gift do you want in return? Are you sending yourself to Comrade Wu Aiqing for drug testing?"

Yi Chi chuckled, "The more gifts you give, the less blame you will get!"

"That's too much. We are all friends. You always act like you want to settle accounts with everyone. That doesn't mean you want to be friends."

A few days later, Yi Chi said goodbye to Jiang Yu and went to the commune to complete his school registration.

When he came back and told Jiang Yu about it, they both realized that they had become classmates.

At the same time, the verdict came down.

Those who were to be sent to the farm could also meet their families before leaving. After hearing the news, the prisoners' families immediately began to pack up.

Originally, not many people could go, but the relatives of the prisoners who were not notified were very nervous and also shouted that they wanted to go to the commune police station to check it out.

The secretary was so annoyed by those people that he started to fire, "Look, they are all damn debt collectors who got shot. Go and take a closer look. Did he get off the hook or what? When they were being naughty and not doing their job, you mothers and wives tried to persuade and stop them. Now you are anxious and are asking for leave to go to the commune? You don't even have to work in the fields, right? We have already wasted half a month investigating the incident caused by that group of suicidal ghosts. Now you are not anxious about the food in the fields, but you still want to ask for leave from me? I see that you have had too many good days and have forgotten the feeling of being hungry, right? Come, let me see who wants to ask for leave. I will settle accounts with you when the autumn harvest and food distribution comes!"

The group of complaining women shrank their necks due to being choked, but still refused to give up. They stood at the door of the secretary's house with red eyes, looking so pitiful.

The secretary made a "Pooh" sound and went back to the house angrily.

The secretary's wife leaned on the window to take a look at the situation outside, and said to her husband who was holding a pipe, "What's the point of being so mean to them? They are still standing at our door and refusing to leave."

"Not leaving? When the work announcement starts later, I will deduct work points from anyone who is late! They could deduct work points from the educated youth before, but now that they are not cooperating with the work of the brigade and are causing trouble for me, of course I can deduct work points as well!" The secretary took a deep puff of his tobacco, then leaned back on the quilt and sighed.

The secretary's wife went to look at the women outside and sighed, "What's going on? They were a good family, but now the head of the family is dead, leaving only the women and children. How can they live like this?"

"What you said is wrong. Are you doubting the leadership's decision? You are being too soft-hearted. None of those arrested are good people. They are all parasites in the construction team. The police comrades have worked hard to help us eradicate this cancer. Now you are questioning their work because you feel sorry for those women? Your idea is too problematic. I tell you, you are wrong..."

"Okay, stop talking. You've become a party secretary and you've become so capable. You open your mouth and the leader questions you. I just said something casually, but you're making a big deal out of it!"

Those women were not done blocking the door of the secretary's house. Some of the grandmothers among them took advantage of their age to block the Yi Chi gate.

Jiang Yu waited for a long time but Yi Chi didn't come to him to do his homework, so he impatiently went out to look for him. As a result, as soon as he went out, he saw several people standing halfway up the mountain and pulling Yi Chi.

Yi Chi's drooping eyelids concealed the malice in his eyes. He remained silent. No matter what the old ladies said, he remained indifferent.

"Young man from the Yi family, please be kind and let my old man go since half of his neck is buried in the ground..."

"Please, I'll kowtow to you, can you please spare my husband's life? He doesn't have many days left to live!"

Three women make a play, there are six old ladies here, and the stage is so big that it almost crushes Yi Chi to death.

Yi Chi listened to their repetitive chatter, curled his lips in a very bad mood, and then sneered, "My grandfather was about the same age as your husband back then, why didn't you persuade them to let my grandfather go? Oh, you all turned a blind eye when it had nothing to do with you, but now that the knife is cutting your own family, you can't sit still, right? Don't worry, even if you kill me, I won't change a word!"

"Ah, you heartless bastard, you shall not die well! Your family is a landlord, you should have been overthrown. We have done nothing wrong, why should we sentence them to death now? Why?"

"Just because you are a bunch of ungrateful and black-hearted beasts, you still want to threaten Yi Chi to let your men go? I think you should be sent in together!" Jiang Yu's voice came from the bottom of the hill.