Courtyard House: Passing through the Silly Pillar, Activating the Blessed Cave Heaven

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To raise funds to support the front lines, He Yuzhu announced to his underlings in his newly rented courtyard house: "We have a very good supply of goods now. We can sell 150 catties of eggs every day. Go ahead and sell them with confidence, but be sure to pay attention to safety." He also contacted several pastry shops and cleared out 2000 catties of their inventory. He also sold 150 pigs at the market, raising nearly 10,000 yuan in total, all of which was used to support the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

Before we knew it, it was 1951.

After New Year's Eve, Widow Bai and He Daqing returned to their hometown of Baoding, planning to return to the capital after the Lantern Festival.

That day, He Daqing was chopping vegetables in the kitchen when he suddenly heard two female kitchen helpers whispering behind him.

"Have you heard? A few days ago, someone in our area was arrested."

He usually seemed quite honest, but who would have thought that when the monk Guizi came, he actually worked for Wang Jingwei?

He thought that after so many years, no one would remember this, but it turned out that he was still exposed.

Once the relevant departments investigated, the evidence was conclusive, and his entire family was arrested.

He himself was sentenced to more than ten years in prison, and his children were directly exiled to the west. I heard that conditions there are extremely harsh, and going there is practically like sending them to their deaths.

"Well done! These scoundrels hiding among the masses should all be brought to justice."

In my opinion, even putting him in jail is too lenient; he should be executed on the spot! How many Chinese people did that traitor harm back then? These accomplices and collaborators deserve to die too!

He Daqing was chopping vegetables when he heard the conversation between the two women, and his knife suddenly stopped.

He recalled that when the Wang Jingwei regime occupied Beiping, he had worked as a cook in the home of an official of the Wang Jingwei regime in Beiping.

Back then, he was just trying to make a living; his whole family depended on his meager wages.

Later, the prince surrendered, the official was captured and executed by the bald-headed lord, and the people working in the mansion all fled.

Although he knew that not many people knew about this, what if...

He Daqing's face remained calm and composed, but his mind was in turmoil.

He worried that one day someone might suddenly break into his home and take him away, and then his two children would be branded as the family members of traitors, and would never be able to hold their heads high again.

After getting off work, He Daqing went to pick up He Yushui from school and saw a group of soldiers escorting a man through the streets from afar.

The man had a sign around his neck and was being pushed forward by the soldiers.

Because of the distance, He Daqing couldn't see what was written on the sign, so he asked a passerby, "Brother, what did this person do wrong?"

"Hmph, he used to be a traitor who worked for the 'Weizi'! He bullied ordinary people back then, thinking he could get away with it by hiding? But he was still reported, and the relevant departments investigated and arrested him."

After being paraded through the streets, they'll be publicly executed! Bah! What a traitorous dog!

"Traitorous dogs should be shot!" He Daqing echoed, but his heart sank suddenly.

Seeing this, his already anxious heart became even more flustered.

On the way home after picking up He Yushui, He Daqing was preoccupied with how to prevent others from discovering his past secret.

On the other side, He Yuzhu, as usual, first returned to the small courtyard in Qudeng Hutong, took out the eggs he had collected in the past few days from Fudi Dongtian, and put them into the south-facing back room.