Qian Shulan felt so tired. In order to clear Deng Xingming's name, she actually did that.
Xiao Min stayed beside her grandmother, watching her coughing. She stared at her closely and asked, "Grandma, what's wrong with you?"
There was worry in the child's soft voice, but Qian Shulan was immersed in her own pain.
Xiao Min was frightened and immediately climbed out of bed and ran out.
She ran next door to find her seventh uncle, and soon Deng Xingming opened the door.
"Uncle Qi, my grandma is sick."
Deng Xingming was startled. Mom is sick? He immediately ran to the next room and saw Qian Shulan lying on the bed with droopy eyelids and a pale face. She looked as if she had aged ten years overnight and looked listless.
His heart tightened, and an overwhelming feeling of panic swept over his body. He patted his mother's hand, worried and afraid, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
Unfortunately, his mother didn't react at all.
Deng Xingming was really scared at this moment. He wondered if his mother had Alzheimer's disease. He held his mother's shoulders and shook her hard, "Mom, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me."
Still no response, Deng Xingming immediately picked up his mother and urged Xiao Min beside him, "Go call your cousin!"
Xiao Min ran out immediately.
When Deng Xingming was carrying Qian Shulan out of the hospital, Qian Minghua was called over by Xiao Min.
The two went to the health station together.
Only then did Qian Shulan react.
Zhengjun stepped forward and touched her forehead, "Grandma, you are sick."
Qian Shulan hadn't been sick for many years, so this illness gave everyone a big shock.
When Sun Daqin heard Xiao Min say that her mother was sick, she ran over immediately.
But she didn't expect that when she arrived, the health station was in chaos.
There were a lot of people gathered outside, and militiamen with guns were guarding the door on both sides.
Director Ma's slightly stern voice came, "Comrade Qian, I'm here to investigate the disappearance of Comrade Du Lanqiu."
Qian Shulan covered her mouth and kept coughing. Her voice was very nasal. She must have caught a cold. "I want to report a case, too. I don't know what happened to Lan Qiu the day before yesterday. She disappeared after the IV drip."
Director Ma stared at her and asked, "You don't know why she disappeared?"
Qian Shulan shook her head. "I noticed that she was not in a good mood and was worried that she would commit suicide, so I asked someone to watch her. But who would have thought that she disappeared."
Director Ma snorted, "If you hadn't asked for a favor, how could she have disappeared?"
Qian Shulan sighed, "I don't know what you are talking about. Anyway, my son did not kill anyone. When Du Lanqiu disappeared, my son was working in the brigade warehouse. Comrade Qian Yuetao can prove it."
Director Ma glanced at Deng Xingming and said, "Don't think I don't know the relationship between Qian Yuetao and your son. They are relatives."
Qian Shulan coughed twice and looked at him weakly, "The people in our production team are all relatives of my family."
Deng Xingming patted her on the back, "Mom, if you are so upset, don't tell me, I will do it myself." He straightened his body, "Director Ma, Du Lanqiu's disappearance really has nothing to do with me." He walked to the door and said to everyone, "I saw Du Lanqiu around nine o'clock yesterday morning. May I ask if anyone else has seen her?"
The onlookers started talking about it. One of them was an auntie, "I met her at the entrance of the village yesterday."
Deng Xingming hurriedly invited the person over, "Auntie, please come over and give me proof."
The lady looked around at the armed militiamen and was still a little hesitant, but she seemed to have thought of something, looked in the crowd, and pointed at a woman of her age, "Da Zhuang Niang, I saw it with you yesterday. Let's go together to testify."
Seeing that everyone's eyes were on her, Da Zhuang's mother gritted her teeth and walked in with the aunt.
Director Ma heard what the two said, "You mean, she went out of the village?"
"Yes. After we met her, we went straight home. Later, the people from the chicken farm looked for her everywhere, and I told them that the girl had left the village long ago."
Director Ma's face darkened and he left the village
The two aunts saw that there was something wrong with his expression and quickly slipped away.
At this moment, a militiaman in green clothes came in with a letter and whispered a few words in Director Ma's ear.
Director Ma was surprised at first, and then a little delighted, "Really?"
The green militia nodded and handed him the letter.
Director Ma opened the letter directly. It was an anonymous report letter.
"I want to report Comrade Qian Shulan for taking in the bad element Du Damei, changing her name to Du Lanqiu and letting her stay in the Wangjia Village production team."
Director Ma patted the letter and looked at Qian Shulan with some pride, "You took in Du Damei?"
Qian Shulan covered her mouth and raised her eyebrows in surprise, "What did you say?"
Her expression was very innocent. Director Ma showed her the letter and pointed at the name on it. "Did you see it? Her real name is Du Damei, and she's a bad guy."
Qian Shulan seemed to be irritated and coughed even more violently. She frowned and scolded, "You are talking nonsense. How could she be a bad element? She has lived in our production team for several years. She has always made a fool of herself and has no style at all. How could she be a bad element? I get it. You must have used this fictitious thing to fool me because I disrupted your thinking on the case. But you can't accuse people like this. I am over sixty years old. I just don't want my son to become a rapist. Am I wrong?" She became more and more excited as she spoke, and her hands, which were full of wrinkles like old tree bark, covered her weather-beaten face.
She sobbed, as if venting her grievances, "I don't believe she is a bad person unless you show me the evidence."
Everyone else glared at him. Director Ma felt very aggrieved and walked around the room a few times. "Okay, okay, okay, you asked me to show you the evidence. I'll go check it out. I still don't believe it. I can't find it with a name and surname."
As he said this, his face turned pale and he strode out of the health station.
After all these people left, Qian Shulan leaned against the head of the bed, stroked her chest, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Sun Daqin finally had a chance to squeeze in from outside. Seeing her mother-in-law gasping for breath, she immediately panicked, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
The others gathered around as well.
Qian Shulan felt a little stuffy and dizzy, so she waved her hands weakly, "I'm tired, let me sleep for a while."
Deng Xingming hurriedly said, "You all go back, I'll stay here to look after mother."
Sun Daqin shook her head, "Seventh brother, you still have to go to work, let me watch over you."
Deng Xingming felt guilty. It was all his fault that his mother became like this. Others thought he was unlucky to have this happen. Only he knew the truth. He immediately shook his head and said, "Sister-in-law, how can I have the energy to work when mother is so sick? Let me do it. You still have to take care of Xiaomin. Our mother loves her the most. If she loses weight, our mother will definitely be distressed."
Sun Daqin turned her head to look at Xiao Min and saw tears in her eyes. She was obviously very worried.
Zhengjun said to Sun Daqin, "Mom, please send Xiaomin to school. She still needs to go to school. Uncle Qi and I will just look after grandma."
Sun Daqin thought for a moment and said to the two of them, "Then you just watch first. When I get home, make breakfast, and send Xiaomin to school, I'll come over and bring you food."
They both nodded in agreement.
But Xiao Min refused to leave and kept crying while holding onto the bed frame.
Sun Daqin whispered in her ear, "Your grandma needs to rest. If you disturb her like this, her condition will get worse."
Xiao Min paused as she wiped her eyes, "Really?"
Sun Daqin nodded affirmatively, "Really." Then she took Xiao Min's hand and walked out.
This time, Xiao Min did not break free, but followed her obediently. However, Xiao Min still looked back at Qian Shulan on the bed every few steps.
As Director Ma left the health station, the green-clad militia came over and asked, "Brother-in-law, where are we going?"
Shouldn't he go left when going back to town? Why did he go forward
Director Ma snorted and looked back in the direction of Wangjia Village. "She actually said that I slandered her. I will make her pay this time."
"Brother-in-law, do you mean to say that she harmed Du Lanqiu?"
Director Ma patted his head and scolded him, "You have a pig brain. Those two aunts said that she left the village on her own. Who would harm her? I think she probably ran away again."
The green-clad militiaman was a little confused. "But isn't she a bad person? Is there anyone who dares to take her in?"
Director Ma is not a pervert, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know the term "bold as a lecher". He said without thinking, "That girl is so beautiful, who knows, someone might take her in."
The green-clad militiaman said "Oh", and thought that the girl was indeed very beautiful, and he felt itchy in his heart, "Then where should we go?"
"Go to the county town."
The green-clad militiaman thought his brother-in-law must be crazy. "Brother-in-law, she is a bad guy. How could she fall into their trap?"
Director Ma waved his hand and said, "I have asked the higher-ups to help keep an eye out for her. I believe there will be news soon."
The green-clad militiaman scratched his head, even more confused by his actions, "Then why do we still need to go to the county town?"
Director Ma thought about how arrogant that old woman was and snorted, "I'll go find evidence for that old woman. That way she won't say I slandered her!"
The green-clad militiaman felt that his brother-in-law was a little bit stupid. As a good brother-in-law, he thought he should reason with his brother-in-law, "Brother-in-law, why do you care about an old lady? Even if you can prove that the old lady has helped bad guys, at most you would just ask her to write a letter of apology. It's not like she intentionally took in bad guys. It was an unintentional mistake. You mobilized so many troops just for her letter of apology. Is it worth..."
Before he finished speaking, his brother-in-law, who was walking aggressively in front of him, stopped and turned back to glare at him, "What do you know? This is called fighting for face instead of bread. She was so arrogant in the commune, hindering my handling of the case, and even took the criminal away. I haven't started this second fire yet, how can I carry out my work in the future? Who can obey me? Who can follow my command? One by one, they all told me not to offend her! Isn't she the relative of County Magistrate Jiang? What's so great about her. Humph!"
Although the green-clad militiamen disagreed with what he said, they did not dare to talk back and could only follow him obediently.
When they arrived in the county town, they quickly found Du Damei's home, mainly because the report letter clearly stated that Du Damei was a middle school teacher.
There are only two middle schools in the county, both of which are well-known and beautiful. You can tell by asking.
Director Ma arrived at Du Damei's home and first confirmed the photo.
How could a girl who loves beauty as much as Du Damei not have photos
But his parents were more patriarchal, and after she was beaten, her family sold all her things, so it was impossible for her to keep any photos.
Director Ma was a little disappointed, but he finally got the photos. The street office had photos of the criticism and struggle against various bad elements.
These were kept to deal with the inspection of the Revolutionary Committee. These are all evidence that they acted in accordance with the rules.
Director Ma asked for her photo, so the street office naturally dared not refuse.
Director Ma asked the other party to write another certificate.
By the time he returned to town with the letter, it was already dark.
The green-clad militia had been busy with him all day and was already so tired that his legs and feet ached. Worried that he would go to the countryside right away, they advised him, "Brother-in-law, let's go tomorrow. It's dark here, and there won't be many people watching the fun. We're not in a hurry."
Director Ma nodded, "Okay!"
Early the next morning, Director Ma arrived at the commune and was preparing to lead the militiamen to set off.
But he received another package, and when he opened it, it turned out to be a diary.
The green-clad militiaman opened the diary and exclaimed, "Brother-in-law, this is the diary of Du Damei's man. Look at the first page. It seems that these two people were in a relationship."
Director Ma took it and saw three words "Xue Zhijun" written on the cover of the diary.
He opened it and found Du Damei's name on it. He immediately sat down and read it carefully.
It took him two hours to finish reading it all. In order not to miss any details, he read all the contents carefully.
The green-clad militia stood behind him and watched with him.
The green-clad militiaman was a little bit unbelievable, "Brother-in-law, it clearly says here that he raped Du Damei?"
Director Ma crossed his hands and rubbed his brows, "He Zhe, that man is really not a criminal."
The green-clad militiaman looked at him sideways, "Brother-in-law, are we still going to Wangjia Village to settle accounts with the old lady?"
Director Ma was getting angry. "What are you looking for? Of course, we should look for the criminal first!"
He tapped the diary. "This guy is childhood sweethearts with Du Damei, and he's also a battalion commander. A while ago, he came back to train new recruits here."
The green-clad militiaman thought for a moment and said with a bitter face, "Brother-in-law, this prisoner is a soldier, it's not easy to deal with him. We are not in the same system as them."
Director Ma was also in a dilemma. It would not sound good if it were made public that a soldier raped a bad element.
"Brother-in-law, you don't get along with that old lady, so why are you trying to overturn the verdict for her son? Are you so bored?"
Director Ma glared at him. What he wanted now was prestige. Although everyone knew that the old lady was taking advantage of him, others would also say that he was not doing his job well and could not even investigate a case. His prestige had been greatly reduced. If he did not establish it, he would sooner or later become someone else's puppet.
Just then, Director Zhou came in with a basket of eggs. "This is this month's welfare. You're welcome."
The green-clad militiaman took it quickly and thanked him. Then he looked at the basket of eggs with envy, thinking that if he was also a director, he would have so many eggs to eat.
President Zhou was about to leave when Director Ma came to his senses. His eyes lit up immediately when he saw him and he stopped him, "President Zhou, I was just about to ask you something."
President Zhou was stunned for a moment, then turned around and smiled kindly, "What do you want to ask me? You are the director of the Revolutionary Committee."
Director Ma waved his hands and said, "I'm new here too, and I'm not familiar with this place at all. I'd like to ask, is there anyone in our commune who knows the military?"
President Zhou came over and sat down opposite him. "Then you really asked the right person. The old lady you met that day, her in-laws, our County Magistrate Jiang, his two brothers are both in the military."
The smile on Director Ma's face gradually froze.
The author has something to say: When there was no Revolutionary Committee, the police handled it. Now that there is a Revolutionary Committee, it is the Revolutionary Committee that is responsible. . .
Why did the heroine write a letter of denunciation? Because she wanted to prove to her son that the other party would find out Du Damei's identity sooner or later. She revealed it herself first. It was also to prevent the other party from catching her mistake.
Why didn't the heroine let the army investigate? Because in order to protect the image of the soldiers, the army would not make the truth public even if they knew it, and would only deal with it internally. The heroine's first task was to clear her son's grievances, and the second was to make Du's fiancé's reputation public!