PFC Chapter 407: Mountains
Chapter 407: Mountains
"What educated youth? What's wrong with educated youth?" Zhuang Shouren's heart skipped a beat, and then he spoke as if he knew nothing.
"You're pretending, right? I just asked you where the educated youth are, and you're still pretending. What do you call this? This is called confessing without being asked!" The policeman laughed at him for overestimating his own abilities and said with a click of the tongue. "Where did you take the educated youth, Zhuang Shouren? I advise you to tell the truth. There are so many educated youth. If you really did something irreparable, then all of you will be shot!"
"I'm not pretending. I really don't know where the educated youth have gone. Yes, I was indeed very close to them at the beginning. But later when the reporters were arrested, I ran away with them. I really don't know where the educated youth have gone. Maybe they are still on the other side of the river. They usually don't get involved in the affairs of the brigade. Why don't you go over there and take a look first?" Zhuang Shouren still remembered the incident of dragging the police.
But now the reporters can no longer be stopped. Even if they kill all the educated youth, it will be useless and will only make the consequences even more dire.
The middle-aged policeman looked at Zhuang Shouren with a serious look, "Okay, that's what you said, come on, take Captain Zhuang and go to the river with us to take a look!"
"Eh? No, why are you dragging me along? My mom is like this, I have to send her home first." Zhuang Shouren was lifted up by his arms, and he was completely panicked. What is this for! Are you holding me hostage?
"I believe other villagers will not just sit there and watch. As for you, you are the captain of the construction team. You have the responsibility and obligation to accompany us to find the educated youth, no matter when we can find them." The middle-aged policeman didn't even look at Old Lady Zhuang who lost her support and fell to the ground. He led his subordinates directly to the river.
This old woman is scolding people with such enthusiasm, but you can tell at a glance that there is nothing wrong and she is just pretending.
In the mountains, Old Man Wang, who was already very old, led such a large group of people around in the mountains. The young people could not even tell the directions, but he was still walking briskly. He could be said to be in good health.
Wu Aiqing followed and met Yi Chi and the others. He had a sleeping pill in his hand and was frightened by the sudden appearance of several people. He almost spilled the pills on their faces. Fortunately, he held the oil paper bag tightly at the last moment.
"Yi Chi? When did you come back?" Wu Aiqing rewrapped the oil paper bag and put it back in his pocket.
Yi Chi and Wang Yu had actually discovered Wu Aiqing a long time ago, but they didn't dare to reveal their movements, so they didn't call him. Now that they met him, it was a good opportunity for them to stay together and lend a hand later.
"I just came back today. When I was about to go home, I found that the villagers were catching someone. There was quite a lot of noise, so we followed to see what was going on. When I went home to put my things down, I ran into this group of people again. They looked like educated youth. I didn't know what had happened, and I was worried that the villagers would do something bad to them, so we followed them all the way." Yi Chi is still confused now and hasn't figured out what was going on.
When the three soldiers were chasing the villagers, they happened to see the police rescuing people. Realizing that they were not needed, they hurried back to find Wang Yu. Therefore, they never found out what had happened in the team.
Wu Aiqing sighed, "The situation in the brigade has been getting more and more outrageous recently. You were away for a while, so you didn't know. Captain Zhuang asked the educated youth to clean up the river. If they do a good job, not only will they get few work points, but if they don't do a good job, they will lose points if they take a break."
"Why are they suddenly targeting the educated youth?" Yi Chi was puzzled. What was the fuss about for no reason?
"It can't be said that he started targeting us all of a sudden. Captain Zhuang has always had something against us. We didn't go to work yet, Jiang Yu and Fu Biao were away on a long trip, and then we just happened to send Zhang Ming, that psychopath, directly to the team headquarters because we didn't want to live with him anymore because he stole things and spoke rudely. That gave Captain Zhuang the opportunity. He probably wants to take advantage of this moment to teach all the educated youth a lesson, so that when Jiang Yu comes back, she won't be able to cause much trouble on her own, so she will have to obey and go to work, and won't have to endure the provocation of us every day." Wu Aiqing felt that Zhuang Shouren's idea was probably the same. He wanted to suppress Jiang Yu and prevent him from showing off his power, which would make him, the team leader, seem extremely incompetent.
Yi Chi unconsciously let out a cry, "Jiang Yu went on a long journey?"
"Yes, this trip may take her more than a month. What a good opportunity." Without Jiang Yu, the educated youth without support will be at the mercy of the team.
"Forget it, let's talk about the current situation first. Zhuang Shouren wants to deal with you educated youth and make you work as laborers to clean the river. This is all understandable, but what is he going to do now?" Yi Chi pointed at the crowd in the distance. Those educated youth were tied up like a string of dumplings and taken into the mountains under the supervision of the villagers...
"Then I don't know, but I heard from Zhao Chunjiang that in the early years, several educated youth in the brigade disappeared in the mountains. Have you heard about it?" What Wu Aiqing was worried about was that the brigade would destroy the bodies and traces. These were human lives at stake. How could it not make people scared?
"What!? The educated youth disappeared?" It was Wang Yu's turn to speak. Has such a thing happened in the construction brigade? Why didn't they hear any news about it in their army?
"They were the educated youth who came around the same time as Zhao Chunjiang and his team, as well as those who came earlier. Because they didn't obey orders, went against the team and were disobedient, they were finally thrown into the mountains to be dealt with." Wu Aiqing looked at their shocked expressions. That was really unexpected. The local people in Yichi didn't even know about this. Was it necessary to hide it so secretly?
Yi Chi and Wang Yu looked at each other. If this was true, then the people in the construction team would be in big trouble.
"You don't even know about this. This is really strange. Oh, by the way, I remember that there should be reporters coming today. However, whether the reporters come or not will not have a negative impact on the team. On the contrary, it is a good thing..." Then what is going on? Wu Aiqing was really confused. How did it get to the point where all the educated youth were forced to go into the mountains?
"No, wait a minute, Brother Wu, you just said that a few years ago, some educated youth who went to the countryside disappeared in the mountains. Have you heard of this before?" Yi Chi felt something was wrong. If no one had mentioned it in the past, then what happened now? Why would they talk about things that had been kept secret before?
Wu Aiqing cried out, "Zhao Chunjiang was frightened by Captain Zhuang. If Zhang Ming hadn't had his leg broken at the brigade headquarters that day, he wouldn't have suddenly become alert."