novelraw Chapter 66 I'm innocent! I really didn't do it!
Chapter 66 I'm innocent! I really didn't do it!
Before spring plowing, the county public security bureau received a mission to arrest Qian Wenyi, the director of the G committee who had been corrupted by enemy agents. Liu Fengyi, as the person who provided evidence and took charge of the case, apprehended Qian Wenyi with the stolen goods and brought him to justice as quickly as possible!
He was involved in multiple crimes, including framing state officials, murder for money, and trafficking in cultural relics. After his arrest, he was directly handed over to the provincial public security department for further investigation into the enemy agents he was linked to. In the end, he could not escape the fate of being executed.
From then on, this troublemaker who had caused unrest throughout Qingshi County hadn't even gotten started here before he ruined himself within six months. The Tong family was overjoyed when they heard the news, thinking he deserved it! Who told him to be so ruthless and unscrupulous in persecuting others?
That Red Guard who didn't even deserve a name offended many people because of his arrogant behavior. He used his money to act as an accomplice to evildoers, and was then retaliated against by someone who beat him up! Haha, both of his legs were broken, comminuted fractures, the kind that can't be put back together!
His family reported it to the police, but the police were investigating matters related to enemy agents and wouldn't pay much attention to this kind of personal grudge that was clearly intended as revenge. After investigating the suspicious persons they mentioned without finding anything, they stopped caring about it.
Tong Jiaming and his wife Yang Guiping were also among those investigated. They had no way of leaving Chenjiatun. Like the other suspects, they had alibis and were questioned once, after which the matter was dropped.
Later, Tong Jiaming quietly asked Tong Yuheng if she had helped him get revenge. Tong Yuheng laughed and said, "Uncle, do I look like someone who would be ambushed? I'm a law-abiding, exemplary young person. I'm a proud educated youth sent to the countryside. There's absolutely no way I would do something like that!"
Tong Jiaming: "It looks like it, very much like it. You say you didn't do it, but I just can't believe it."
Tong Yuheng: "I'm innocent! I really didn't do it!"
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By mid-March, the first month of the lunar calendar had passed, and the weather was no longer so cold; the temperature had already reached above zero. Tong Yuheng was just about to find some villagers to start building the courtyard wall when Li Chengsong suddenly arrived.
"Comrade Li Chengsong, did you want to see me? What's up?" Tong Yuheng asked.
"I came here to see Aunt Tong. I want to ask her for a favor..." Li Chengsong looked at the small storage room and stacks of bricks in the yard and knew that their family was going to repair their house. He was a little embarrassed to ask.
"Mom, Comrade Li is looking for you!" Tong Yuheng ushered Li Chengsong into the courtyard and led him into the east room.
During this time, they had already paved the floor of the east room with red bricks, making it clean and smooth. A section of about three meters at the east end was partitioned off to make two bedrooms, but they weren't finished yet and couldn't be lived in. Because the back room didn't have a window, she was going to add one to the back wall, planning to do so when the weather got warmer.
The remaining space is a large living room of about 30 square meters. A large round table has been moved in, and four large desks for the sisters are placed by the window for reading and studying. When guests come, they sit around the round table to drink tea and eat melon seeds.
Everyone still lives in the west wing, but unless you're a very close friend, you won't be invited inside. After all, the family consists mostly of girls, and the bedrooms aren't really suitable for entertaining guests.
"Are you cleaning out the house?"
"Yes, I'm not used to it here. I still prefer having my own room, so I just made some simple alterations." Tong Yuheng entered the room with him, and Tong Jiahui also came over to greet him: "Comrade Li, what brings you here?"
"Aunt Tong, we know you're a top student from Yenching University and you speak English. We have some important documents that need to be translated, and we'd like to ask you and Comrade Tong Yuheng to come and help with the translation. We're wondering if you're available?" Li Chensong asked directly.
"You still need me?" Tong Yuheng asked, puzzled. The original owner of this body wasn't a college student, nor had she systematically studied English.
"I know you have some knowledge of machinery, so I recommended you to the leadership..." Li Chengsong had investigated their backgrounds and, of course, knew about her design of the threshing machine.
"Is it important information?" Tong Yuheng asked.
Li Chengsong nodded. They had hired a translator from the provincial capital, but enemy agents sabotaged his car on the way, and he was now seriously injured and unconscious, still in critical condition and unable to do anything. That's why he remembered Tong Yuheng and her mother; one spoke English and the other was knowledgeable in mechanics, so he recommended them.
"Can I recommend two people to you?" Tong Yuheng immediately thought of her aunt and uncle: "My aunt and uncle are also top students from Yenching University. They not only speak English but are also mechanical experts. They used to research train manufacturing. It's just that their background is a bit problematic..."
Tong Jiahui's face immediately lit up with hope as she looked at the young officer.
"I can't make a decision on this; I need to go back and ask my superiors," Li Chengsong said.
"Okay, I'll go with you then. Yuheng can stay here for now. Otherwise, I'm worried about leaving the kids at home who are too young!" How could Tong Jiahui possibly leave home with her eldest daughter, leaving a bunch of little brats to be cared for by her underage second daughter? Absolutely not!
"Let Yuyao go with you! She also understands mechanics, and her theoretical knowledge is better than mine. She has also done some practical work with our Professor Zhong and his wife."
Tong Yuheng enthusiastically recommended her younger sister, and the two sisters had been trying to build a plow machine, tinkering with the scrap metal they had collected. It could be said that aside from digging holes, she devoted most of her energy to this.
She learned some basic mechanical drawing skills from her older sister and also secretly studied a lot of knowledge with her uncle and aunt at night.
"Yuling, go and call your second sister back!" Tong Yuheng ordered.
The three younger ones have already gone to school, but the four educated youth and their mother haven't started working yet. Those who don't want to work can still slack off throughout March, while the diligent ones can ask the brigade leader to assign them some work to earn more work points.
Next month we'll be preparing for spring plowing, which involves raising seedlings, clearing ditches, and sometimes collective tasks assigned by the county and commune. There's no way we can relax!
"Yuyao went to help maintain the tractors at the brick factory. In return, she can give us some defective bricks, which are quite good for building walls..." Tong Yuheng explained, indicating that they were not taking advantage of the public.
"How high is the wall you're going to build? You've bought so many bricks!" Li Chengsong asked.
"It should be at least 2.2 meters high. People who are used to high walls and large courtyards in the city should build it higher if possible. Besides, my family has children, and they wear less clothing in the summer, so such a low wall would be inconvenient."
"Then I'll bring some people to help you build the walls tomorrow, and the roof, I see you haven't finished it yet. But will you provide meals?" Li Chengsong glanced outside and asked her.