Chapter 4228
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Auntie Qiu took the hundred yuan and pointed out a bunch of "red plum blossoms". She even mentioned the "red plum blossoms" in the neighboring village and spoke a bunch of local Mandarin. She even brought the two of them to the two "red plum blossoms" in Shuikou Village.
When she sent the two strangers away, Auntie Qiu even smiled and said, "Come often when you're free."
After spending almost half a day in the village, they didn't find anything. Instead, they paid a hundred yuan and didn't even drink tea. The two of them didn't look as good as when they first arrived.
They had spent money and they did see the red plum blossoms, but … it wasn't the red plum they were looking for.
The middle-aged woman didn't have any hope. "We've already gone to three villages. If we still can't find anything, we'll have to go back to the capital."
"The old man has high hopes. If we can't find anything, we won't be able to report back to the old man." The middle-aged man held the blurry photo in his hand. It was a black-and-white group photo from the sixties. It was taken in 1979, and it had been twenty-four or five years. The photo itself was blurry and the faces were blurred. Even if the people in the photo appeared, they wouldn't be able to recognize who was who.
After leaving Shuikou Village, the two of them continued to ask around in the surrounding villages. Auntie Qiu, who took the money but didn't do anything, ran to Zhang Defu's house, who was still sitting in the village chief's seat. She quickly told the village chief, who had just returned home from farming, that strangers had entered the village and asked about a female soldier named "red plum".
"There aren't many female soldiers in the village. Ye girl is one, and Ye girl's mother is another. But the names don't match. I thought it would be a waste not to take the hundred yuan, so I took the two of them to the first two households in the village and let them see "red plum blossoms". "
Village chief Zhang Defu's expression changed when he heard that Auntie Qiu took a hundred yuan from someone else. But in any case, Auntie Qiu had pointed out the main point, so he didn't flare up.
Although Auntie Qiu had never left the village, she was a shrewd person who knew which words to say first and which to say later. Otherwise, how could she have made Sun Dongqing stomp her feet in anger back then? She had a sharp tongue.
"There's a problem if anyone dares to say anything about Ye girl and her mother. I won't say anything about you taking advantage of her. You're just a woman. But if you mess things up, I won't recognize anyone from the same village. "
Treason was such a big crime that the entire village would not be able to raise their heads for generations. Wherever they went, they would be pointed at and gossiped about.
"I need to call the army and let the higher-ups know that someone has entered the village again."
With the army's propaganda work in place, the villagers of Shuikou Village, which was closest to the army, knew that something was wrong and immediately informed the army. Needless to say, with the cooperation of the villagers, they caught several groups of people who wanted to enter the mountains to take military photos.
Commander-in-Chief Xia already knew about this even before the two strangers who inquired about "Hong Mei" left Fujun Town. All information about Martyr Hong Mei had already been erased, and the village where she lived only knew "Sun Xueqing", not "Hong Mei". Even if they went to Martyr Hong Mei's maternal home with a group photo, no one knew that "Hong Mei" was Sun Xueqing.
As for Martyr's Park, the photo had already been taken down. The name engraved on the tombstone was "Martyr Hong Mei's Grave". Even if they went to Martyr's Park, they wouldn't find anything.
Although everything had been arranged, they still couldn't let their guard down. Since they had already investigated Shuikou Village, it was hard to guarantee that they would find more information.
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