Siheyuan: Starting from Building a Village

Snow stopped.

The wind picks up again.

The accumulated snow was carried away by the wind, drifting away reluctantly, and then thrown into the corners of the walls and into the ditches.

Yao Qing'an, like a slave, bent his waist and told something to the visitor, while pointing in the direction of Liu Guozheng.

The group soon came to the campfire, and Liu Guozheng also saw the person coming. He was wearing a dark blue cotton coat, had a slicked-back hair, a long face, black-framed glasses, and had a serious expression.

"Team Leader Zhang, this is Liu Guozheng, the reckless Liu Guozheng."

Yao Qing'an acted like a lackey, and with just a simple introduction he labeled Liu Guozheng as someone who acted recklessly. At the same time, he had no intention of introducing the visitor to Liu Guozheng.

"Liu Guozheng, thank you for your efforts to stabilize the situation and resolve the dispute. On behalf of the Cultural Revolution Leading Group, I would like to express my gratitude to you."

Serious expression, stern tone, not a hint of genuine gratitude.

Liu Guozheng looked at the group of people with interest with his usual smile, and said directly: "The following questions are left to you. I will go back first."

Liu Guozheng didn't like this group of people from the bottom of his heart, especially Team Leader Zhang, who had a condescending look on his face and made people feel uncomfortable just looking at him.

"I'm afraid you can't leave."

Seeing Liu Guozheng's casual look, Team Leader Zhang's anger was rising. As the leader of the Central Movement Leading Group, everyone who saw him should be respectful. But Liu Guozheng's fearless look was so annoying.

Liu Guozheng looked at Team Leader Zhang and said with a smile: "So the words of thanks you just said were all bullshit?"

Team leader Zhang said sternly: "Liu Guozheng, you are so presumptuous. Your merits are your merits, but your faults are your faults."

Liu Guozheng looked at Team Leader Zhang with a burning gaze and asked, "What have I done wrong?"

"Director Yao has already reported to me. Judging from your various actions, you used the banner of the movement to do things that opposed the movement, tried to suppress the enthusiasm of the masses who participated in the movement, and tried to suppress the masses with force, causing a large number of casualties. These are all wrongs."

"Team Leader Zhang, this is a typical case of you being partial to one side and believing in others. This kind of thinking is unacceptable."

Team leader Zhang was furious: "You, Liu Guozheng, why did I just listen to you and believe you?"

"Why don't you ask Captain He, Director Jiang and the others about the situation, and find out the truth from the people trapped in the department store?"

"I don't trust them, and I also suspect that they have been bought off by your sugar-coated bullets. Yao Qing'an has reported everything very clearly. I have also heard that you, Liu Guozheng, are used to buying people's hearts with small favors. You are the capitalist-roader hidden in the group."

"Oh, so you only trust Yao Qing'an?"

"Director Yao Qing'an is a good comrade who is worthy of trust."

"Team Leader Zhang, you now have one more reason to be nepotistic."

"It's outrageous. Liu Guo is just a sharp-tongued person."

"You are rebelling against the heaven? Whose heaven are you rebelling against? Yao Qingan's heaven, or your team leader Zhang's heaven? What do you, team leader Zhang, want to do?"

"I...you...someone come and take down Liu Guozheng."

Team leader Zhang was furious and a little frustrated. He didn't expect Liu Guozheng to be so difficult to deal with.

"stop."

Seeing that the situation here was not right, Captain He and his men hurried over. He did not want to watch Liu Guozheng being captured while he did nothing.

"This is Captain He from a certain unit. Liu Guozheng's men are very good at fighting. If we want to take down Liu Guozheng, we need the help of Captain He and his men."

Yao Qing'an whispered the introduction into Team Leader Zhang's ear, and also introduced Team Leader Zhang to Battalion Commander He.

"Team Leader Zhang, what did Director Liu do wrong?"

Captain He saw everything Liu Guozheng did from beginning to end, except that his action was a little ruthless. However, considering the situation at the time, this was necessary. There was basically nothing wrong with his other methods of handling the situation.

"Captain He, all you have to do now is obey orders. Right or wrong is not your concern."

After being questioned again and again, Team Leader Zhang looked unhappy and spoke in a very unfriendly tone.

"I am a soldier. Although it is my duty to obey orders, I will not carry out orders that I know are wrong."

Soldiers of this era don't just blindly follow orders, they have a strong sense of right and wrong. Besides, he doesn't like those who engage in sports from the bottom of his heart, and most people in the army don't like them.

The mission of Captain He and his battalion was to help quell this incident, which has now been accomplished. He has also consulted with his superiors, and once the Cultural Revolution group takes over, they can return directly to the military camp.

Team Leader Zhang was neither a military member nor his direct superior, so Captain He naturally ignored him.

"Lawless, lawless."

Since the movement began, Team Leader Zhang has never felt as aggrieved as he does today. He can neither argue nor win.

"Team Leader Zhang, you are not God, and you cannot represent the law."

Liu Guozheng didn't want to give face to Team Leader Zhang at all and started to argue with him on the spot.

"Liu Guozheng, I can't represent the law, but what you did was against the law. You used force and caused many people to be disabled. How many years should you be sentenced to?"

Unable to convince him, Team Leader Zhang tried to use legal means to bring down Liu Guozheng.

"Director Zhang, you said they besieged the department store, trapped ordinary people, set up roadblocks to hinder traffic, and tried to attack the People's Army. What would you do if you met such people?"

"Then let them taste the iron fist of justice."

"Well said, that's what I did."

"You, you are dissatisfied with the movement, hindering the masses' movement, and dampening their enthusiasm for the movement. You have bad intentions."

Team leader Zhang had nothing to say, so he said some irrelevant words and brought the topic back to sports.

"Team Leader Zhang, you said they were a mass movement? Why do I see them as a group of saboteurs and hostile elements who are using the banner of a movement to carry out looting, smashing and robbing, destroying our hard-earned peaceful life, trying to stir up people's dissatisfaction with the country in order to hinder social construction and economic development? They are traitors, spies and thieves."

Liu Guozheng looked at Team Leader Zhang, whose face had turned pale, and continued, "And you, the so-called Team Leader Zhang of the leadership group, are trying to shield hostile elements and whitewash them. What do you think is your intention?"

"what!"

Yao Qing'an screamed and collapsed to the ground.

"You, you are talking nonsense. You are making groundless accusations."

There was panic on Team Leader Zhang's pale face, his voice was trembling, and his body was shaking uncontrollably.

Captain He looked at Liu Guozheng excitedly. He knew that not only had he passed this hurdle, but he might also be able to bring down Team Leader Zhang.

Director Jiang and others were also slightly stunned. They understood that Liu Guozheng had won again, and this so-called Team Leader Zhang could not do anything to him.

If the occasion wasn't wrong, Xu Damao would have been so excited that he would have wanted to shout loudly.

Liu Guozheng's words would have had little effect in normal years. However, the movement is now in an abnormal stage, and at this stage, to say someone is guilty is all based on one's words.

If you say you are not guilty, then you have to find evidence to prove it yourself.

Team leader Zhang was scared because there were many people sitting in his position who wanted to pull him down.

If Team Leader Zhang doesn't know what's best for him, a nightmare will be waiting for him. In fact, no matter whether he knows what's best for him or not, a nightmare will be waiting for him.

It is an indisputable fact that this group of people besieged the department store under the banner of movement, causing a large number of casualties. It is a fact that Team Leader Zhang cannot avoid.

"Captain He, remember to owe me a drink."

After waving to Battalion Commander He and the soldiers, Liu Guozheng left in a graceful manner.

The wind began to howl, waking up the snowflakes sleeping in the clouds.

The snowflakes began to fly again.