Siheyuan: Struggle in the Red Era

There were two enemy spies in the Chen family, and they were reported by their daughter. For a while, everyone avoided the two children of the Chen family like the plague.

After the police withdrew, Secretary Wang from the Street Office came to accommodate the two children. Before Secretary Wang could even open his mouth, the three old men all refused, fearing that they would be contaminated in the slightest.

Chen Zhaodi was not surprised at all. Given the personalities of the three uncles, it would be strange if they didn't do this. Anyway, she could do everything and was impatient with other people telling her what to do. After discussing with Secretary Wang, the two of them would take care of themselves for the time being. If there were any major matters, they would go to the Street Office. The Street Office would be responsible for the money and food during this period.

With this treatment, Officer Wang also breathed a sigh of relief. If someone is contaminated by enemy spies, it will be difficult to deal with them. This is the right way to deal with them.

After seeing off Secretary Wang, Chen Zhaodi, with a sullen face, took a rolling pin and tidied up the house.

There was nothing much to clean up. After the police searched, they restored everything that could be restored, except for a big hole in the bedroom that needed to be filled in.

Suddenly, Chen Guangzong, who had been sitting in the corner, stood up abruptly, clenched his fists, and hit Chen Zhaodi without saying a word.

Chen Zhaodi had been waiting for a long time.

Given Chen Guangzong's personality, there was no way he would just let it go after being kicked by Xiao Li. He would definitely want to get it back from himself.

Unfortunately, she is no longer the same person she was half a year ago.

She turned slightly, swung the rolling pin, and hit back at Chen Guangzong's arm.

Chen Guangzong screamed, hugged his arms and took two steps back.

Chen Zhaodi strode forward with a stern face, and began to beat Chen Guangzong's thighs fiercely, making him jump around the room like a monkey, crying and shouting, "Stop, stop, it hurts so much."

Chen Zhaodi said nothing and continued to hit him hard on the fleshy parts of his body.

If I don't beat him into submission today, who knows when he will attack me. Children have no sense of propriety when doing things. It would be a joke if one day I am not paying attention and he stabs me to death.

In the east wing, the second aunt stood at the door, listening to the crying and shouting of Chen Guangzong next door. Her eyes rolled around and she wanted to go and see what was going on, but was stopped by Liu Haizhong.

"Don't go and watch it. Zhaodi is a very evil girl. She even reported Chen Datouliang. She is not a good person."

The second aunt regretted: "That's because Chen Datou is not a human being. There were many times when I thought Zhaodi would not survive."

Neither the couple remembered that Chen Zhaodi reported Chen Datou and his wife as enemy spies. With such awareness, they still wanted to be officials.

The second uncle didn't care, and the other people in the backyard didn't come out to check. Chen Guangzong's cries became quieter and quieter. He retreated while being beaten, and retreated to the corner of the wall. He simply hugged his head, squatted down and didn't move.

Chen Zhaodi had never known that beating someone could be so tiring. Seeing that Chen Guangzong had huddled in the corner and stopped running around, she stopped, put her hands on her hips, took a deep breath, stared at him, and didn't say anything for a long time.

The brother and sister stared at each other, neither of them willing to speak first.

Chen Guangzong couldn't help himself: "Zhao Di, I don't dare to do it anymore. Don't hit me anymore."

Chen Zhaodi was too lazy to correct his address. It wouldn't be long before they had any relationship anyway.

She nodded, picked up the rolling pin, turned around and walked away with her whole body alert.

In the following days, Chen Guangzong launched several more sneak attacks, but each time he was beaten to death with a rolling pin by Chen Zhaodi who was prepared. After several such incidents, Chen Guangzong finally stopped.

After that, the two of them got along like this. Chen Guangzong went out early every day and came back when it was time to eat. Every time he came back, he looked like he had been rolling around somewhere, and sometimes there were scars on his face. Chen Zhaodi saw it but didn't ask.

Chen Zhaodi did not withhold his food, but replaced it all with the same steamed bread as her own, and also changed, washed and mended his clothes as usual. She felt that what she did was worthy of the country's cultivation in the future.

During this period, the second aunt came to see me several times, but each time she went back without saying a word.

At the end of March, Chen Zhaodi and Chen Guangzong were taken to the police station.

Chen Datou and Hu Meihua have confessed that they were indeed spies lurking under the Kuomintang, but they were only minor characters. Because they were suddenly exposed, the police arrested and interrogated them quickly, and they followed the clues and arrested their superiors. By the way, they also implicated more than a dozen well-hidden spies.

Chen Zhaodi’s contribution this time can be said to be quite great.

This time, they were called over not only to inform them of the trial results of Chen Datou and his wife and the placement of their two children, but also to inform Chen Zhaodi about her background.

Public Security Wang, who was in charge of the case, looked at Chen Zhaodi.

"We interrogated Hu Meihua, and she confessed that she had a difficult labor and went to the hospital to give birth, but the baby died shortly after birth. She was afraid of having to explain to her family, so she stole the baby from the pregnant woman next door, and that baby is you."

Chen Zhaodi was silent for a while and then said, "They are enemy spies. There are no elderly people in their family for a long time."

Public Security Wang nodded in appreciation, "This is indeed a suspicious point, but she bit it to death. We also checked the hospital files, but unfortunately, due to the chaos in those years, the files have been destroyed. We also looked for their neighbors who lived there at the time, and found one. We only know that Hu Meihua did go to the hospital to give birth when she was pregnant, so the clues are cut off here."

Chen Zhaodi didn't believe that Hu Meihua was the kind of person who would raise a child for someone else, but the public security investigation was already very detailed.

Recalling the novel about the real and fake daughter in her previous life, she asked tentatively: "Where did they live back then? Were there any pregnant women around like her?"

Wang Gongan said: "We have also looked for this. The people who lived there at that time died or scattered. We searched for a long time before we found one. She did say there was a pregnant woman nearby, but that pregnant woman had moved away a long time ago, and we don't even know her name or occupation."

Chen Zhaodi was not giving up and asked again: "Then, was there any murder case there in the past, the kind where the whole family was wiped out?"

Public Security Wang remained calm: "We need to look up the files for this."

"I don't think Hu Meihua would raise a child for nothing. By the way, where did they get all that money from? When did they start working as spies? Hu Meihua can read, where did she learn it? Is it possible that the baby she replaced was not the one born by the pregnant woman in the hospital, but her neighbor's? And it was her neighbor who taught her to read?"

Wang Gongan pondered over it. There was indeed nothing wrong with Chen Zhaodi's idea. They had interrogated the source of the money, but Hu Meihua and his wife insisted that they stole it during the chaos when the Kuomintang high-level officials were retreating. They learned to read during the training after becoming spies. As for why one could read and the other could not since they were both trained, it was because Chen was stupid.

If we change our thinking to this, everything can be explained.

Chen Zhaodi looked at Wang Gongan and felt nervous.

If she was just a child stolen from the hospital, then there is no doubt that she would not be able to get the Chen family's current house, but would most likely be given a separate room.

Knowing how tight the housing supply in Beijing would be in the future, she absolutely did not want to miss this opportunity to acquire a property. Moreover, now she was just providing ideas to the public security department. If this idea didn't work, she could provide a few more. Anyway, online novels in later generations would be more imaginative and contain all kinds of bizarre plots, which would surely open the eyes of these predecessors.