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Chapter 139: Zhongping's Three Moves

Although Xie Hushan often talks about "having an affair", a group of young men often follow Lao Zhang's example and say "rub the back", and some widows were born near Zhongping Village due to the earthquake, but the atmosphere in Zhongping Village has always been good.

Apart from the sweet talk of those damned educated young people back then, there has never been such a thing that harmed girls.

Because the brigade is strict.

Although Xie Hushan and his men always joked that Wu Shuanzi must have peeked at young girls and wives when they went to the fish pond to take a bath, they were just bragging to each other. If Wu Shuanzi really did this and a woman went to the brigade to complain, the brigade would break all three of Wu Shuanzi's legs if they found out the truth.

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"The two guys are definitely not from our neighborhood. Old Feng might have to go to the county town to get them, so he called us back." Han Hongbing squatted beside the flower wall of the commune and said to Xie Hushan.

In the past, when there was something going on, Lao Feng would often ask them for help. With so much experience, even if he had not encountered a similar situation, Han Hongbing could guess the general idea from Lao Feng's decision.

If they are the children of workers from a large factory, I'm afraid they won't be able to be brought back if there are not enough people there.

Dealing with those big factories is much more difficult than causing trouble at the county government.

The factory has its own security department and armed militia, and their firepower is even stronger than those country folks. They are really anxious. One side is carrying a Type 38 rifle, while the other side is holding a Type 50 rifle or a Type 6 rifle. How can they catch this guy?
Xie Hushan sat on the flower wall and thought for a while, then looked at Han Laoer: "I am more concerned about who the woman is who sent the manuscript to my sister Daxiu."

"Maybe he was dragged into this by those two guys." Da Xi said from the side, "Or he could find a woman who doesn't know the truth and use her to give it to Da Xiu."

Xie Hushan looked at Daxi, who was frightened by Xie Hushan's gaze and changed his words:
"I just said that. I definitely won't pity such people. I'll deal with them as I should."

After waiting for about an hour, Ge Baosheng and a dozen armed militiamen rode their bicycles back to the commune. Ge Baosheng didn't bother to greet Xie Hushan and the others, and went into Zhang Cheng's office first. The dozen or so dusty militiamen ran to the well in the compound and lined up to get a drink of water.

Ge Baosheng stayed in the office with Zhang Cheng and Han Laogou for more than ten minutes before coming out. He shook his head slightly at Xie Hushan and others who were looking at him, and said unwillingly:

"I led my men to inquire along the way all the way to Bingyang County, and no one has seen the two boys. If they can still run back to Bingyang County, they must have learned Tuxingsun's earth-drilling technique."

"Either he ran towards the city, or he didn't run far and hid himself." Xie Hushan looked at Ge Baosheng:
"Captain, what do the woman and the two men who delivered the books look like?"

"Daxiu and the granddaughter of the Third Master both said that she looked very fair, about 20 years old, with a nice and friendly voice, just like an older sister." Ge Baosheng walked to Xie Hushan and lowered his voice:

"As for the two men, according to the recollections of the third uncle's granddaughter, they were about 18 or 19 years old. She was terrified, but she only remembered that they were both big and didn't look fierce. They were wearing sweaters and work clothes and looked quite energetic. She didn't expect them to be so bad."

"Master said you left at noon. Go home to eat something and rest. We will wait here." Xie Hushan said to Ge Baosheng.

Ge Baosheng had been riding his bicycle for the whole afternoon to inquire along the way. He was already extremely hungry and thirsty, so he did not bother to be polite to Xie Hushan and the new recruits who had returned:

"You guys wait for Lao Feng. I'll go home with them to eat something first. Call me if you need anything."

Then he invited the militiamen who had worked hard with him all afternoon to go home and rest and have lunch.

It was not until dark and the commune was about to get off work that Han Laogou and Zhang Cheng took everyone back to the brigade headquarters. Only then did special envoy Feng Chunlai arrive late, riding a bicycle like a farmer going to the city to do some shopping.

Han Laogou, Xie Hushan and others looked at Feng Chunlai. Han Laogou spit on the ground with a "huh" sound and said without further ado: "Chunlai, where is he?"

"Three men and one woman. The woman must be the one who delivered the book. She is staying at Sunzhuangzi, seven miles away, tonight. Enter the village from the main road in the north. The fourth house in the fifth row on the west side has a black spot on the lower left side of the door panel that I made with a cigarette butt." Feng Chunlai looked at Han Laogou, hesitated, and said:
"But the three men with her don't seem to have the two who committed the crime. Those two are still missing. I have been keeping an eye on them until now, but I haven't spotted the two men looking for the woman, so I came back to let you know."

Han Laogou put his pipe in his mouth and waved to Feng Chunlai: "Chunlai, you have worked hard. There is nothing for you to do now. Go back and rest early. I won't see you off."

Feng Chunlai is different from Zhang Cheng. Zhang Cheng is a native of Zhongping, while Feng Chunlai was sent by the County Public Security Bureau. Even if Feng Chunlai is not very perceptive, he can see that Han Laogou does not want to go through the government for the follow-up matters, and the people of Zhongping are going to resolve it privately.

"Secretary Han, this isn't going to work. I'll take Baosheng, Husan and the others to get the person..." Feng Chunlai said to Han Laogou.

"You go back and have a rest first. We can bring the person back even if you don't go. Don't worry, we are reasonable. The person will be handed over to the government in the end." Han Laogou forced a smile towards Feng Chunlai.

Zhang Cheng pointed at himself and waved his hand behind Han Laogou, indicating that he was there and told Feng Chunlai to leave quickly. Don't argue with Han Laogou at this time. If you really provoke him, don't blame the Zhongping Brigade for not cooperating with the public security work in all aspects.

"Then I'll go back and have a drink of water. Secretary Han, the county bureau knows about this. They can't get here today, but they will definitely come to the commune tomorrow morning." Feng Chunlai was not prepared to sympathize with the criminals. He pushed his bicycle towards the commune and gave Han Laogou some instructions before leaving.

The county bureau will send people down tomorrow. If Han Laogou and the other people from Zhongping try to arrest people on their own, it will be a failure. So Feng Chunlai is giving Han Laogou a reminder, just for one night.

After Feng Chunlai left, Han Laogou turned around and looked at Xie Hushan, Han Hongbing and others:
"Who among you will go and call Baosheng over..."

"Second uncle, let the company commander and the others go later, we will go first." Xie Hushan said to Han Laogou, then turned to look at his brothers:

"Go to the duty room, grab your weapons, and attach your bayonets."

Zhang Cheng frowned and looked at Han Laogou. Han Laogou was not in the commune at the moment, so there were no outsiders. Zhang Cheng simply pointed it out and told Xie Hushan in straightforward words:

"Try not to use bayonets. If you use bayonets to kill someone, it's hard to explain. Bring them back alive and deal with them slowly, leaving them with a breath of air. Even if they die, we have to hand them over to the county bureau at dawn before they die, so that the brigade doesn't have to write a report. The county bureau is the professional one to write this kind of report."

"The person didn't die in our hands, so the militia's arrest was considered assistance. If he died, the county bureau wouldn't be in a hurry to close the case, and they would have to ask us for an explanation."...

Under the moonlight, Xie Hushan slowly poked his head out from the wall of a bungalow and looked inside for a while. After making sure that there were no cats, dogs or other creatures in the yard, he slowly climbed over the wall and entered the small yard.

He slowly drew out his bayonet and moved silently along the wall, hiding his figure with shadows. He stared at the three bungalows for a long time before he moved slightly again until he reached the gate of the courtyard.

He opened the bolt of the gate with almost silent movements, opened the gate a crack, and stretched out a hand to wave towards the shadow opposite.

Soon, Han Hongbing, Chen Daxi, Ma Yougen, Zhang Shengli and several others holding pickaxe handles squeezed into the yard through the gap in the gate. After entering, they closed the door and propped it up with bricks to ensure that it could not be opened again. Then they each found a shady corner to hide.

Xie Hushan walked along the adobe wall to the windows of the three bungalows, and listened and observed the east room, the main room, and the west room in turn. Finally, he returned to Han Hongbing and whispered:

"Just like what Lao Feng told us, there were four people, three men and one woman. The man and the woman slept in the east room, and the two men set up a small table on the kang in the west room to copy books. They covered the windows with newspapers and curtains, and didn't turn on the lights, but used oil lamps."

"You can't confirm it with your eyes, so how do you know that there is a man and a woman sleeping in the east room?" Han Hongbing asked.

Xie Hushan said with certainty, "There is an enamel wash basin outside the east room. The water stains are not yet dry. I just smelled it and there is a scent of shampoo in the water. The young girls and wives in our production team basically use alkaline noodles to wash their hair. If they are more extravagant, they just rub some soap bubbles. No one has ever used shampoo. I conclude that the one who washed her hair should be the woman who sent the book that Lao Feng mentioned, and she should not be a rural woman."

"Give the order, what should we do?" Han Hongbing looked at Xie Hushan.

Including Xie Hushan, there are nine of them this time. Two people against one, and there is still one person left. Two against one, they have an absolute advantage.

"Da Xi, come with me to break the door of the west room. Leave two people outside the window to prevent them from jumping out of the window. You can take care of the east room." Xie Hushan said, "Remember this: you can use arms and legs, but you are not allowed to hit the head. We have to rely on them to find out where the two men are hiding."

Han Hongbing conveyed Xie Hushan's arrangements, and then the nine people were divided into four groups, one group outside the windows of the east and west houses in the courtyard, responsible for breaking down the doors, and the remaining person was in the main room, ready to provide additional support at any time if any accident occurred in any room.

Four militiamen squatted under the window in the yard holding pickaxe handles to prevent anyone from jumping out of the window. The other five people filed into the middle hall. Xie Hushan and Chen Daxixi, holding pickaxe handles, stood against the wall on the left and right outside the closed door of the west room. Han Hongbing and Zhang Shengli stood on the left and right outside the closed door of the east room.

Xie Hushan raised three fingers, then stood opposite the door of the west room, slowly retracted his three fingers, and when all three fingers were retracted, Xie Hushan and Han Hongbing kicked the doors of the east and west rooms open at the same time!

"Hold your head and squat down!" Xie Hushan shouted as he rushed in first and jumped onto the kang in one step.

He swung the handle of the pickaxe at one of the men who was copying a pornographic manuscript at the table on the kang, and hit the other man's arm as he was working at the table!
With a crisp "crack" sound, the arm broke in a strange position!

Before the other party could scream, Xie Hushan had already raised his fist and hit him hard on the back, stifling his screams and making a muffled sound in his chest! He fell flat on the table!
The other party turned around reluctantly and wanted to see who it was, but the handle of the pickaxe in Xie Hushan's hand had already hit his nose hard!
Then he knelt on his chest, grabbed the ink bottle on the table, unscrewed the lid, stuffed the bottle and the ink into his mouth, and used a pickaxe to nail the bottle body again and again, pushing it into the man's mouth to make sure that the ink bottle was stuck in his mouth and he could never spit it out again. Then he stood up.

Another guy was facing the door, and when he saw the militia breaking in to arrest people, he reacted quickly and tried to break open the window barefoot to escape. Chen Daxi, who was behind Xie Hushan, chased after him, and at the moment when the other party used his body to break open the window and jumped out, Chen Daxi hit him hard on the face bone with the pickaxe handle!

The other party screamed and fell in the yard. He thought he had a chance to escape and struggled to stand up and continue running. Unexpectedly, there were two people squatting outside the window waiting for him. When they saw him jump out, he just stood up and his legs were hit hard on the kneecaps by two pickaxes, one on the left and one on the right!
With a "thump", the other party knelt on the ground!

Two militiamen stepped forward, pinched his chin, stuffed a corn cob dipped in feces and urine into his mouth, blocking his mouth so that he could not make any sound, and then let him go, leaving him kneeling on the ground, trying to retch but unable to vomit, and twitching on the ground like a fish.

Xie Hushan signaled Chen Daxi to take the militia to keep an eye on the two, and he turned and went into the east room.

When Xie Hushan entered the room, the man and woman sleeping on the kang in the east room had been subdued by Han Hongbing and Ma Yougen, with their legs broken. His right calf was twisted and lying on the ground, with a rag stuffed in his mouth.

Only one woman was left. She was standing on the kang with disheveled hair, shouting and screaming. Her legs were bare. She had deliberately lifted up her vest and was shouting with her upper body naked, "Catch the hooligans."

Han Hongbing and Ma Yougen were young after all, and they didn't know how to deal with such a wild and exposed woman. They even turned their heads away embarrassedly.

Xie Hushan walked in at this time, pulled the light cord, looked at the pretty woman yelling on the kang with an expressionless face, put down the pickaxe handle, turned around and walked out, came back from the main room with half a bucket of water, and poured it into the urine bucket on the ground which already had half a bucket of urine in it.

He picked up the pickaxe handle and swung it fiercely on the woman's knee!

He beat the woman and threw her down on the kang. Before she could react, Xie Hushan had already grabbed her hair! He dragged the woman off the kang roughly and pressed her head directly into the urine bucket on the ground!
Xie Hushan let the woman dig and kick for dozens of seconds before he pulled her head out of the urine bucket.

As the woman gasped for air, Xie Hushan turned her head towards him, his face numb, staring at her with eyes that looked at someone dead:
"Zhongping only has three methods to deal with women who do this kind of thing. Don't worry, they are all minor injuries. The wounds are small and won't kill anyone. It's not against the law either."

"Pull out the front teeth, cut the penis, cut the penis."

"Come on, let's go over it first. I didn't bring any pliers, so I have to use this thing to slowly cut it out."

"I'll tell you! I'll tell you!" The woman's voice trembled when she heard the three things Xie Hushan said:
"The people are not here. They ran away! Someone was seriously ill and sent to the county hospital. They changed their clothes, pretended to be a good helper and ran away with the car! They live in..."

The woman gave the address of a county town, but Xie Hushan did not let her go. Instead, he pressed her head to the ground, pulled out his bayonet, and focused on picking at the woman's teeth. The tip of the knife hit her front teeth, making a tooth-grinding sound.
"You have to stay with me for now, until we catch those two people. What if you are lying, right?"

While picking his teeth, he looked up at Han Hongbing:

"Go and inform the company commander to go to the address she gave us and take those two guys out overnight. It's in the factory staff quarters, so bring more people."

(End of this chapter)