Siheyuan: Starting from Building a Village

The Jia family's funeral banquet was held the next day. It was too late when they returned from the funeral that day, and it was too late to do anything. Moreover, the funeral banquet could not be skipped. The neighbors who helped and the neighbors who gave gifts were all social interactions and could not be skipped.

Sha Zhu is the chef, Xu Damao is the buyer, and Yan Bugui is the guest of honor.

People have always sympathized with the weak. Neighbors in the compound rushed to help, and the funeral banquet went smoothly. Some of the dishes were quite exquisite. It couldn't be said to be sumptuous, but at least it was much better than home-cooked meals. It won Qin Huairu back some reputation, and at the same time, the relationship with the neighbors was apparently improved.

Of course, those who are inhumane are excluded, such as Yi Zhonghai who has started to give up everything.

Qin Huairu's reputation has improved, but Yi Zhonghai and his wife's reputation has become worse. In the past, people would greet them and say hello when they met them on the road, but now Yi Zhonghai would observe the yard through the glass before going out. He would only go out after most people had left. Yi Zhonghai has become completely hated by everyone.

In the afternoon, clerks from the police station and the street office began to investigate door to door regarding the siege of the department store the day before. After learning that Jia Zhang and Bang Geng had died, they asked how they died.

Qin Huairu said that she froze to death, and there were also neighbors who testified to this. The people from the street office just comforted her casually and warned other people in the alley, saying that they must respond to the call and that people must be cremated after death.

In fact, in the 1960s, the city began to encourage cremation of residents. Except for civil servants, most ordinary people choose burial. Many people have only moved to the city in the past ten years or so. They still keep in touch with the village. The ancestral graves of their families are in the village, and they are basically transported back to the countryside for burial. This is a tradition for thousands of years, and it emphasizes resting in peace.

Besides, it is only advocated and not enforced, so most people just follow the old traditions.

The police station's investigation focused on the cause of death of Hao Xinren and Zhang Zhanling. After identification, it was determined that both were murdered with unknown motives. There was no evidence left at the scene, and there were no witnesses. The only thing known was that a lock-picking expert named Bang disappeared afterwards.

No one doubted that the man with the surname Bang would be Bang Geng. Even if there was any doubt, it would be of no use now because Bang Geng was already dead and this case was destined to remain an unsolved case.

Another one is the mysterious man who took advantage of the chaos to shoot and injure two soldiers that day. After two days of investigation and visits, there is still no clue. Considering the weather and the situation at the scene that day, there is a high possibility that this case will remain an unsolved case unless a miracle happens.

As for investigating from the aspect of ballistics and bullets, the possibility is not great either. In the 1960s, the gun management in Xia country was chaotic. It was said that there were as many as two million guns and cannons scattered among the people. It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack to investigate.

To put it bluntly, checking every household is just doing one's best and leaving the rest to fate. The people who visit the houses know that these two things are doomed to be fruitless.

All the courtyards in the alley are under investigation, and I hope the Xincun Office is no exception.

When Zhang Xia, director of the subdistrict office, came to the office, Liu Guozheng had already returned to the village. The Chinese New Year was less than a month away. As there was nothing particularly important during the period before the New Year, Liu Guozheng would stay in the village. He didn't want to run back and forth because it was cold.

Besides, after the department store incident, there will surely be no foolish people causing trouble for the office.

Xu Damao was a witness to the incident, so he wanted to know how Yao Qingan and Team Leader Zhang handled it.

As the director of a street office, Zhang Xia also knew some information.

Both Zhang, the leader of the Cultural Revolution Leading Group, and Yao Qing'an, the leader of the Revolutionary Committee of Sijiucheng, were sent down to the countryside.

Wang Dabing of the Riot Committee and Zhang Shili of the Workers Liaison Committee bear the main responsibility. Each of them ate a peanut. Just because many people died that day, someone must take the responsibility. Severe punishment will not be enough to appease the public anger.

Some leaders of the department store were also punished accordingly.

According to statistics, the losses caused on that day amounted to more than 100,000 yuan, which is the largest loss since the movement.

As for whether there will be more mass incidents like the one in the department store in the future, no one can say for sure. After all, this is the first large-scale conflict. Through this incident, the higher authorities will make corresponding adjustments to the movement or make plans to deal with large-scale conflicts.

Since Liu Guozheng was not there, Xu Damao was in charge of handling the banner and thank-you letter brought by Zhang Xia.

Xu Damao also had a share. He was the one who drove the car and risked his life to take the two soldiers to the hospital that day. For everything Liu Guozheng and Xu Damao had done, the troops that Captain He was in could only express their gratitude in this way.

After Zhang Xia left, Xu Damao looked at the banner and the letter of thanks happily. He felt very happy. The factory would surely hold a commendation meeting for him. With this honor, as long as he didn't cause trouble, no one in the factory would bother him.

Sure enough, he received a call from the factory not long after, asking him to prepare well because he would be giving a report on stage the next day to share his thoughts, and the factory wanted to promote him as a role model.

Xu Damao handed the child to his mother and went into the room to write the manuscript for tomorrow's speech.

Liu Guozheng in the village was not idle either, mainly because he was too idle and wanted to find something to do, so he brought four robots to start clearing the snow along the roads, mainly the main roads that food factories often take to deliver goods.

The old people in the village all laughed at Liu Guozheng and said that this was a typical case of looking for something to do.

People are so strange. When they are free, they want to find something to do, but when they are busy, they complain that they are too busy.

I miss winter in summer and I miss summer in winter.

Time passed quietly in the contradiction, and soon it was spring again.