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Chapter 211: Delaying Things

When Xie Hushan drove back to Zhongping Commune, it was already dark. Taozi had been waiting at the commune with a pale face.

Yang Liming didn't know how he managed to bring Lv Yuan over, and Lv Yuan came even faster than Xie Hushan. At this moment, she was comforting Taozi in Yang Liming's office.

"The other party wants to make a fuss about the receipt from Zhongping Grain Station in Song Tiesheng's hand." This was the first question Yang Liming asked after seeing Xie Hushan coming back.

Xie Hushan was stunned when he heard this. Taozi told him on the phone that Song Tiesheng thought she was bullied by hooligans in the Railway Workers' Club, so he led people to fight and beat the other party into a cripple. Unexpectedly, the other party was the son of a senior official in the city. The other people who started the fight had already run away at Song Tiesheng's urging. Song Tiesheng now insisted that he was the only one who beat her. Before leaving with the police, he asked Dongzi, who was not involved, to call Zhongping Commune to find Xie Hushan through Yang Liming.

Xie Hushan ignored Yang Limin's words, walked up to Taozi, pinched her face, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'm here. Tiesheng will be fine. If anything happens, Third Brother will find a way to help him get it back."

When Taozi saw Xie Hushan coming back, she couldn't hold back any longer and tears started to flow down her cheeks: "Third brother, it's all my fault..."

"It has nothing to do with you. Just stay here quietly. I'll let Lao Yang talk to me. He's a good talker. Let's go to the car to smoke and talk. Don't choke Taozi and Lu Yuan." After Xie Hushan finished talking to Taozi, he turned around and walked out of Yang Liming's office, opened the car door and returned to the driver's seat.

Yang Limin sighed, followed Xie Hushan into the jeep, and sat in the passenger seat: "Did you know that Song Tiesheng has the receipt for Zhangzhongping Grain Station?"

"I know." Xie Hushan fumbled for a cigarette from his pocket and said expressionlessly.

Xie Hushan certainly knew that Taozi asked Ertao to give Song Tiesheng food coupons. Taozi would discuss everything with him in advance.

When Yang Limin heard Xie Hushan's admission, he lowered his head and exhaled, "The difficulty lies in this bill that can be redeemed on sight."

"If you want to fight, just fight. Why is it related to food? You can even talk about the hip axle and the city gate tower together. Tiesheng's fight has nothing to do with me giving him food?" Xie Hushan took out a cigarette, bit into it, lit it, looked up at Yang Limin, and handed him the cigarette box in his hand:
"You're being so stubborn now. Why does it sound like you're trying to play a trick on me?"

Yang Limin reached out and took a cigarette: "You are right. The young man who was beaten to a cripple by Song Tiesheng, his father is the ancestor of Yaoshan's persecution, the second in command of the Yaoshan Revolutionary Committee, Xu..."

"As for Xu Lao Er, let alone his name, everyone in Yaoshan knows his great name. This old Deng is not dead yet, so how come the country hasn't collapsed because of him?" Xie Hushan felt a chill in his heart when he heard Yang Liming's introduction.

Damn it, Song Tiesheng has finally hit a big wall. Even though the Yaoshan Gewei Association has lost its ability to make any moves in the past two years after the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee, its status is still there.

Now the leaders of the Prefectural Party Committee are still trembling with fear when they see this. Although even the common people know that this group of people cannot grow a long tail, they can forget about cutting off the tail unless a replacement is made.

In other words, even if it is really cut off in the end, it will only mean the cancellation of the unit. As for the people inside, it may not be easy to deal with them. After all, they are all very smart and they will not leave without a promise.

Today, the newly appointed leaders of the Prefectural Committee, including Zuo Jing, whom Xie Hushan had just met at the meeting, were all defeated generals. As long as the other party did not show their nameplate, they would not dare to speak loudly in front of others.

Although he was a little nervous, Xie Hushan still had a nonchalant expression on his face and said jokingly:

"That's right. We can't let him die. How can he face people after he dies? He found out that among the more than 200 martyrs who died during the Anti-Japanese War, more than 40 of them were spies and traitors under Chiang Kai-shek. The rest were marked as unknown. He is really unvirtuous. If we live in the same underworld with him after his death, I'm afraid he will not be able to sleep well and he will resurrect in the middle of the night."

"You can put accusations on dead martyrs. You are indeed the ancestor of Yaoshan's bullying. I..."

Xie Hushan had heard of the name Yang Limin had mentioned for a long time. He used a witty remark to describe it: It's like putting a piece of shit on a cart and pushing it - it's a piece of shit.

The most inhumane thing they did was to implicate the dead martyrs.

The dead martyrs are no longer martyrs. They may not be affected underground, but their living families will be greatly affected. Their families have always been proud of them, but overnight, they couldn’t understand why their dead relatives who died on the battlefield like other martyrs suddenly became traitors.

Many relatives cannot accept it...

Yang Limin interrupted Xie Hushan irritably: "Why didn't you tell me that you beat up Xiaoyuan's uncle on the way back from my wedding?"

"Hmm?" Xie Hushan was a little confused. He recalled for a long time before he remembered: "It's fate. Is it that grandson? I did beat him. If I had known that he was Xu Laoer's son, I should not have let him live to this day. I should have buried him on the same day. There are two martyrs who died gloriously in Zhongping and they are still labeled as traitors. I don't know when they can be reconciled..." "Okay, stop talking nonsense!" Yang Limin waved his hand and said very quickly:

"The current situation is that the railway wants to protect its own children. It just so happens that Song Tiesheng himself admitted that he did it and it had nothing to do with others. Song Tiesheng's family conditions are there. Now the country is unlikely to take the opportunity to frame someone and make things bigger and finally cause trouble for the railway. The railway's attitude is that Song Tiesheng has to bear everything. If he can't bear it, he can't give out other people. Someone in the railway even deliberately revealed your relationship with Song Tiesheng to the other party, hoping to bring trouble to you and relieve the pressure on their side."

"The other party was unwilling to see his son disabled, but he couldn't get any benefits from Song Tiesheng, so he could only make something else happen. The bill was the motive, and you just happened to have had a conflict with the other party before. The reason the other party told the police now is that you are the mastermind behind the conflict. Because of the last conflict, he has always been dissatisfied. This time he found that the other party appeared in the Bingyang Railway Workers Club, so he used food to hire Song Tiesheng to kill people deliberately. If he doesn't take this little bit of money from you, how can he vent his anger? In other words, if he doesn't do something in the end, the other party is also afraid that the leaders of the prefectural committee will think that his revolutionary committee is really going to close down and become a soft persimmon that anyone can bully."

Yang Liming had a headache. This matter was very delicate. All the cadres, big and small, in Yaoshan knew what kind of person the Revolutionary Committee was and what immoral things it had done. The country also knew it.

But there is no other way but to be lenient. If a one-size-fits-all approach is adopted and the accounts are settled later, the members of the Revolutionary Committees all over the country will be forced into a panic. In the newly stabilized social environment, the people who will be most affected will probably be those who have only been settled for two years.

At this critical moment, the son of the second-in-command of the Revolutionary Committee was beaten and disabled. Yang Liming felt that if he were the other party, he would be like the hedgehog. Even if he was reluctant, he would have to hold on and make a big deal out of it.

To put it bluntly, he knew that he would leave sooner or later, but before leaving he had to hold back the fire of the Revolutionary Committee. This was also equivalent to warning those Yaoshan cadres, both big and small, who were angry about what he had done. As long as the Revolutionary Committee was still there, Yaoshan would not be able to turn the tables.

"Oh, so you think you can squeeze the essence out of me? You're trying to trick me, a poor peasant from a poor family?" Xie Hushan took the cigarette out of his mouth and flicked the ash.
"To catch a whore, you have to catch her on the kang. Can a receipt prove that I hired someone to kill someone in revenge?"

"Do you know how many cadres in the various government agencies in Yaoshan are his people? After you go in, they will not use the same tactics on you as you did on others?" Yang Limin exhaled a puff of smoke and said irritably:
"You should be thankful for your friend Song Tiesheng. He understood what was going on here. He was afraid that he would not be able to handle it after entering and would be forced to implicate others including you. So before the other party could do anything to him, he found an opportunity to smash his head against the glass window and used the glass shards to cut a bloody wound on his head that required hospitalization and surgery. He was able to get into the hospital and buy at least two days of precious time. Otherwise, the police would be waiting for you here now!"

Xie Hushan closed his eyes and chuckled, "Tie Sheng is such a fucking beast, it hurts so much, where is he?"

"County hospital..." Yang Liming said weakly.

"I'm asking where the son named Xu is." Xie Hushan opened the armrest box of the jeep, took out a Type 54 pistol and tucked it behind his waist, then took out his passport that he had obtained using his Hong Kong identity and put it in his arms.

Yang Limin grabbed Xie Hushan's arm and said, "What are you doing? Are you crazy?"

"What? There is no way to settle this peacefully. If I don't kill their whole family, he will kill my whole family. I'll take Tiesheng to Hong Kong to be a businessman. When we get to Hong Kong Island, I'll send Han Laoer back to pick up my family." Xie Hushan said to Yang Limin with a nonchalant smile:

"Fuck you, he still wants to do something to me. Tonight I will make his whole family die first."

Yang Limin grabbed Xie Hushan's arm and refused to let go: "No! You can't do this! Let me think about it, there must be another way!"

"This is a good idea. No one else can do this. I am the most suitable person. I have a way out. You cadres are scared by them and your livers tremble when you see them. What do I, a simple poor peasant, have to fear?" Xie Hushan said to Yang Limin:

"If you think this is too cruel, I will leave a member of his family alive and save the disabled man's life. Let him watch his family die. This can also be regarded as my care for the disabled."

After Xie Hushan finished speaking, he opened the passenger door and motioned Yang Liming to get out. Yang Liming stared at Xie Hushan fiercely, grabbed Xie Hushan's arm, and sat in his seat, refusing to move.

Xie Hushan seemed to remember something and asked Yang Limin:

"By the way, where does your aunt live? This incident was caused by her. It's better to send her family away at the same time. You can visit fewer families during the New Year. Forget it, I'll ask Lu Yuan's uncle. Yaoshan Automobile Factory Technical School."

"Xie Hushan... believe me, I will be able to figure it out within two days..." Yang Liming closed his eyes and assured Xie Hushan.

"You are a Communist Youth League secretary, and you can't come up with a shitty solution to the problem of Yaoshan's boss. The best of your solutions is to get Song Tiesheng shot. Although my method is barbaric and brutal, and he will never return home, it can guarantee that he won't get shot." Xie Hushan heard that Yang Limin was still not giving up, and said with a smile:

"Get out of the car, don't force me to get violent with you. If you really miss me, go back to Hong Kong Island for investigation. Don't bring Lu Yuan with you. I will take you to see the romantic life of Hong Kong Island then."

Just as the two were in a stalemate, a jeep roared into Zhongping Commune. The two looked in the direction of the sound and saw four uniformed and armed police officers and Da Qiao jumping out of the car. Da Qiao saw Xie Hushan sticking his head out and pointed with her hand, and the four police officers pounced on Xie Hushan like wolves and tigers!
"It's over. If you hadn't delayed things just now, this would have been done. This time, I have to go in and have a taste of your tricks. It's retribution." Xie Hushan looked at Taozi and Lu Yuan who rushed out after hearing the noise, and complained to Yang Limin with a smile. Then he opened the car door and got out, raised his hands and smiled as he greeted the four people who rushed over:
"Government, please don't shoot. It's me, it's me! I forgot, I was an outstanding brigade cadre this morning, attending a meeting in Yaoshan."

(End of this chapter)