1977: It all started with a wrong love

Chapter 8: Apologies are useful, so what are the police for?
"What about the four of you?"

"Why don't you show us your answers?"

“You can’t even write it, right?”

"But I have clearly warned you and given you a chance to come together and give a unified confession. I said this in front of the entire village. You can't deny it even if you want to!"

"I gave you a chance to discuss it in advance, but you couldn't even come up with a consistent answer..."

"Why is this?"

"Is there anyone among you willing to speak up?"

"Ha, you guys are unwilling to stand up and tell the truth, right?"

"Very good, since you guys won't tell me, I'll tell it for you!"

"Zhang Yan'e, Li Shuang, you two loved to order Zhong Xiuping around when you were in the educated youth center. The same applies to you four grown men. You all treated Zhong Xiuping like a little girl. After Zhong Xiuping married me three years ago, she cut off all contact with your educated youth center and we haven't had any contact since then..."

"The relationship between you and Zhong Xiuping was completely severed three years ago, and you have become complete strangers..."

Lu Yifan simply ignored the incompetence and madness of Zhang Yan'e and Li Shuang.

He suddenly turned around and stared at the four male educated youth, and began to reveal old stories and expose the past of the two female educated youth.

The four male educated youth were all panicked.

Their answer sheets were blank and they were unable to write any answers.

Aunt Tieying and others who were watching them didn't care about that.

Grab the paper and show it in public.

"These four guys know nothing at all. They can't answer any of the three questions. Public Security Luo, they are clearly working together to frame my nephew Yifan. Including these two female educated youth, none of them are good people. Arrest them all!"

Aunt Tieying urged Luo Gongan to make a conclusion.

She herself is ready to make a move and arrest someone at any time.

Luo Gongan shouted coldly: "Why don't you write down your answers? You don't have the same reason as Zhang Yan'e and Li Shuang, because it's been too long and you can't remember anything, right?"

"Yes, yes, Luo Gongan, it's just been too long since we last met, and I can't remember any details..."

A male educated youth immediately took advantage of the situation.

He made up stories and gave reasons that he himself did not believe.

"You three, do you have the same reason?"

Luo, the police officer, stared at the male educated youth with a glare of lightning. "How dare you fabricate facts in front of the police? Once verified, you will all be charged with a more serious crime. Why don't you tell the truth quickly? Did Zhong Xiuping steal a copy of the college entrance examination review materials three years ago?"

"Can not remember……"

"We all heard Zhang Yan'e and Li Shuang say this, so we followed them and asked for it..."

"Yes, yes, yes. We heard them mention this. They also said that Lu Yifan, a farmer who graduated from a junior high school, could actually get the provincial top scorer. There must be something wrong. Li Shuang also said that it is very likely that Lu Yifan got the real college entrance examination questions in advance..."

The male educated youth who couldn't stand the pressure.

They began to shirk responsibility.

"Li Shuang, did you ever say that Lu Yifan obtained the real college entrance examination questions in advance? Or, the anonymous report letter received by the Provincial Education Commission's recruitment department was actually your doing?" Luo Gongan was asking the four male educated youths aggressively, and suddenly threw a question to the female educated youth Li Shuang.

The female educated youth Li Shuang's face turned pale instantly.

But the man still said stubbornly:
"Yes, I wrote the anonymous report letter, but Lu Yifan is a farmer who graduated from junior high school. If he didn't prepare in advance, how could he get the provincial top score? There is obviously something fishy about this matter. In order to defend justice, what's wrong with us questioning it rationally? Is there anything wrong with that?"

The female educated youth Zhang Yan'e also followed suit,

"We really couldn't find any evidence that the test questions were leaked in advance, but there is something wrong with the fact that his name, Lu Yifan, is a farmer who graduated from a primary school and took the provincial exam. Now that the people from the Provincial Education Commission have come, we can know whether this provincial exam is fake or not. We can give him a new set of test papers and test him again. Wouldn't we know the truth after a try?"

Luo Gongan, "So your accusation that Lu Yifan and Zhong Xiuping stole the review materials is completely fabricated, right?"

"Anyway, none of us remember what happened three years ago so clearly. If we really wrongly accuse someone, can't we apologize in public?"

"That's right, we apologize in public now!"

"Lu Yifan, I'm sorry. We can't remember whether you and Zhong Xiuping stole the college entrance examination review materials three years ago. If you really didn't, then the six of us apologize to you in public. We wrongly accused a good person!" "Lu Yifan, I'm sorry..."

"Lu Yifan, I'm sorry..."

"Lu Yifan, I'm sorry..."

"Lu Yifan, I'm sorry..."

Lu Yifan sneered,
"If an apology is useful, what else do we need the police for?"

"I don't accept any apologies!"

"Besides, you guys don't have a clear memory of what happened three years ago!"

"Three years ago, the incident in which Zhong Xiuping stole your college entrance examination review materials was simply a fabricated statement made up by me..."

"You exposed facts that didn't exist and asked me to prove my innocence first..."

"I added a few details such as the specific time, whether the review materials were printed or hand-copied, etc. to the false facts you made up, and you can't remember them all?"

"You come here to do these things to frame people who are innocent."

"You have said it before. First, you want to master the so-called secrets of college entrance examination preparation. Second, you look down on us farmers' children and want to deprive us of the right to take the college entrance examination and go to university."

"You guys, do you really look down on farmers?!"

"If you count three generations back, and look across the country, ask yourself, whose ancestors weren't farmers? How dare you look down on farmers?!"

"Eight hundred million farmers, the glorious production and labor tasks that their ancestors have shouldered for generations, the vigorous movement of going to the countryside and mountains and making great contributions to the rural world called for by D and the great leader, in your perception, is just a place of suffering and evil that is too hard and tiring to endure, and they are eager to escape by taking the college entrance examination?!"

"Longyan Forest Farm, that's the place with the best working conditions in our Longyan Commune!"

"You live in a big red brick and tile house built by the production team, eat rationed white flour buns, and your daily work is just weeding, turning the soil, fertilizing, watering, and picking fruits in the forest farm orchard. The intensity of your work is not even as good as that of any 13 or 14-year-old girl in our Renhe Village..."

"Look at you all, you have been sent to the countryside to work in the fields for many years, but you still have fair skin and tender flesh..."

"Compare that to what we, the real rural working people, are like..."

"You complain about the hardship and fatigue, and in order to return to the city, you don't hesitate to spread rumors and slander others, trying to deprive us rural youth of the freedom to go to college! In your eyes, do we, the rural working people, deserve to live in such hardship and fatigue for the rest of our lives?!"

"Pooh!!!"

"You are ungrateful, dirty-minded, despicable, reactionary and shameless scum, brainless social parasites, and disgusting rotten maggots crawling out of the cesspool!!"

"You have disgraced the honor of the educated youth community!!"

"How dare you to live in this world with such dignity?!"

The scene was quiet.

Truly, the long burst of accusations that Lu Yifan had suppressed for so long were too shocking.

The people at the scene, whether they were ordinary villagers, the six educated youth, Public Security Officer Luo and the militiamen, or the cadres and comrades from the Provincial Education Commission, were all deeply touched by these words.

The four words "pen and mouth are as sharp as knives" emerged in the minds of many people.

Several cadres from the Provincial Education Commission looked at each other and quickly understood each other's thoughts: This young man has a really broad vision and experience. His state of mind is not what an ordinary rural youth could have...

In the crowd, the old secretary, Aunt Tieying and others all looked as if they had just met Lu Yifan the day before: He is worthy of being the top scholar in the province, his eloquence is really murderous and heartbreaking.

Luo Gongan was also amazed.

At the same time, he also understood more clearly that this long speech by Lu Yifan in public was not just a momentary rant, but it was as if he had completely branded the six educated youths of Longyan Forest Farm with heavy stains with his words.

It's really his own fault!

The educated youth had collapsed on the spot. They wanted to cry but had no tears. They were unable to defend themselves. They also knew clearly that they were finished.

"Keep these six of them under guard, and then bring them back to the county revolutionary committee to be dealt with by their superiors!"

Public Security Luo gave an order to the militiamen, telling them to keep the good people under guard, to prevent them from being attacked by angry villagers, or else they might not be able to leave Renhe Village...

(End of this chapter)