Siheyuan: Since 1962

Chapter 198 Punishment
“This, this, this… this is bad!”

Seeing Quan Fengzhen's attitude, Yan Bugui pounded his hand hard, his face full of annoyance.

He shouldn't have thought of hiding the matter just now, and now he has gotten himself into trouble.

The two street office officials didn't care what Yan Bugui thought. As soon as they entered the middle courtyard, they walked towards Jia Zhang, who was sitting at the door of her house sewing shoe soles.

"You are Jia Zhang, right? We are the staff of the neighborhood office. We have received reports from the masses that your family has serious ideological problems and has destroyed the unity among comrades. Now we have to punish your family."

Quan Fengzhen spoke clearly and directly stated the punishment notice.

Jia Zhang cursed, then defended with a fake smile, "It was that black-hearted guy! This little comrade, someone must have said something bad about our family. I have been in the yard the whole time, how could I destroy our unity? You must have made a mistake."

She thought what happened yesterday was over, but she didn't expect that it would be reported to the street office. Now she can only struggle desperately, hoping to get away with it.

Quan Fengzhen was unmoved. She flipped through the notebook and continued in a deep voice, "We have already conducted inquiries. The facts are clear and there is no dispute. Jia Zhang, it is useless for you to deny. If you continue to deny, we will consider increasing the punishment. In view of your family's prejudice against farmers, you will come to our street office to receive 15 days of ideological education and 30 days of labor reform. You will clean the public toilet at the entrance of the alley once in the morning and once in the evening."

"What? You want me to clean the public toilets? You guys are going to kill me! I'm so old, what do you think? If anything happens to me, it's all your fault! Lao Jia, Dong Xu, come back and take a look. There are people here who want to kill our family. Take those who are bullying our family away!"

When Jia Zhang heard that she had to clean the toilet, she immediately sat down on the ground and started crying.

Out of habit, he began to call out to the souls of Lao Jia and Jia Dongxu.

But she forgot that the person standing in front of her was not someone from the yard, but an official from the street office.

Zeng Zhenggang's mouth twitched and he looked constipated. It was unfortunate for him to have such a family in the area he was in charge of.

Quan Fengzhen added another sentence to the notebook, then closed it and smiled coldly.

Then he looked at Jia Zhang and said word by word: "Propagating feudal superstition, it seems that there is a big problem with your family's thinking! Zhenggang, let's go, the next thing is not our business."

After saying this, Fengzhen turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Zeng Zhenggang.

"Sister Quan, are you planning to catch a typical example?"

"Can't you?"

"Okay, okay, sister, just pretend I didn't ask."

Zeng Zhenggang saw Quan Fengzhen's cold face, shrank his neck and let go of his hand.

It seems that Jia Zhang really made Quan Fengzhen angry. If he dares to say another word, he will have a hard time when he returns.

With some pity, Zeng Zhenggang glanced at Jia Zhang, who had suddenly stopped crying, and trotted to catch up with Quan Fengzhen.

"Officer Quan, Officer Zeng, has the matter been resolved?"

Yan Bugui was still looking around curiously, but he didn't expect that after a while, the two men came out after finishing their work.

Judging from the way they acted, it seemed that they didn't do anything about Jia Zhang, which was a bit strange.

Could it be that these two young officials were unable to deal with Jia Zhang's tantrum? It doesn't seem likely.

"It hasn't been handled properly. Someone will come to deal with it soon. There are really many hidden talents in your hospital!" Quan Fengzhen replied with a sneer, and left with Zeng Zhenggang without looking back.

She has to report this matter to Director Wang. Recently, there is a lack of a negative example, so it is time to publicize it.

Yan Bugui could tell that Quan Fengzhen was speaking in a sarcastic way, and he didn't even think about sending them off. He hurried to the backyard to find Liu Haizhong to discuss countermeasures.

Thinking of the crying and wailing of Jia Zhang that he had just heard, he understood what taboo Jia Zhang had violated.

Calling for the soul in front of the street office staff, isn't that just making things uncomfortable for yourself?

Jia Zhang had already reacted when Quan Fengzhen left. Frightened, she got up from the ground and ran back to the house and lowered the bolt.

Now, the only way for her to feel safe is to stay at home.

Half an hour later, Quan Fengzhen and the armed minister of the street office entered the yard again with five or six militiamen.

At this time, everyone in the yard had already gathered in the middle courtyard. Jia Zhang held on to the door frame desperately and refused to come out of the house no matter how Qin Huairu persuaded her.

As soon as Quan Fengzhen stepped into the middle courtyard, she pointed at Jia Zhang and said, "She is Jia Zhang, take her away!"

Several militiamen heard the noise and quickly pinned down Jia Zhang and took her out of the yard.

The people in the yard were in an uproar.

"What a sin! Jia Zhang was living a good life, but she had to torture Xiao Liang. Now she is going to jail."

"It's over, it's over. This year's advanced award is gone. What's the point of making such a fuss?"

"That old hag, Jia Zhang, should just get out of here. Why did she drag him into our yard? How can she hold her head up in front of the neighbors when she goes out?"

No one thought that the neighborhood office had gone too far. Everyone was blaming Jia Zhang, and many people were also pointing fingers at Qin Huairu.

When their interests were not affected, everyone would say nice things, but now that their interests have been affected, none of them can sit still.

Quan Fengzhen ignored the reactions of the people in the yard. After announcing the punishment, she turned around and hurriedly left the yard.

Liu Haizhong clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention to himself, and said loudly to everyone: "Everyone be quiet, the comrades from the street office should all take this punishment on the Jia family as a warning, and don't make the same mistake in the future. Although it is impossible for us to be the advanced this year, we still have to stay united, and tomorrow's advanced will still be our courtyard."

"Uncle, you are a seventh-level fitter, you don't care about the trivial things of being rated as advanced. We are different from you. Every year we look forward to having a good year with these things issued by the advanced workers. Don't talk nonsense."

"That's right. The Jia family must give us an explanation for this matter. We can't let everyone suffer for the trouble caused by their family!"

"That's right, I think they should give us the reward for being advanced!"

Instead of being calmed down by Liu Haizhong, the people in the yard became even more agitated. They all argued with each other, demanding that Qin Huairu pay compensation.

In fact, not so many people thought this way, but after being coaxed by a few leading people, they started to say it together.

Some people who felt that Qin Huairu had a hard time did not dare to speak out in this situation, for fear of bringing trouble upon themselves.

(End of this chapter)