Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 81

Chapter 81: Chapter 70: Detention

After dinner, Mr. Lin took Mr. Zhang and a few officials to the kang (a traditional heated bed platform) and sat down. Over there, the two sisters-in-law tidied up, and the two brothers along with Xiao Zhou and others cleared away the large table and left with their people.

Zhang Guoqing returned to the west wing bedroom and discussed with Zhou Jiao about the visitors and their thoughts. After the couple agreed, he took some treasured tea leaves to the main room, brewed the tea, and placed it on the small kang table in front of everyone.

Li Aiguo watched him finish his work and invited him to sit down. He looked at the old man, who also nodded, so he sat down to listen to what they had to say.

Seated in the room were Mr. Lin, Mr. Zhang, Lin Lishan, Zhang Guoqing, and five members of the leadership team. Everyone knew it was time to discuss serious matters, so Mr. Lin and his daughter also spoke up, and everyone was waiting.

Li Aiguo and the others exchanged uneasy glances, wondering if the old man would get angry after they told him the details of the matter?

It was Li Aiguo who cleared his throat, straightened his attitude, and said, "Mr. Lin, now I represent the leadership team to apologize to you all for mismanaging some staff and village officials, which caused harm to Comrade Zhou Jiao.

After today’s incident occurred, upon hearing the news, Township Chief Zhang Zhifeng immediately detained Zhou Xue and began investigating the course of events. Comrade Li Dawei from the township police station led people to inquire with the people and collect evidence. The results confirmed that the situation described by Comrade Zhou Jiao indeed existed.

Before Comrade Zhou Jiao turned 10 years old, the recipient of the parcels was the old comrade Zhou Jianren, so it couldn’t be determined whether the items were Zhou Jiao’s personal belongings. After Zhou Jiao turned 12, that is, after 1949, the recipient’s name on the parcels was changed to Comrade Zhou Jiao, and all signatures for receiving them belonged to Zhou Jiao’s uncle Zhou Xiaocun. From 1949 to present, for six years, a total of 119 parcels were mailed to Zhou Jiao from various places, including 113 military parcels and 6 civilian parcels.

The money involved is incalculable. If further investigation is required, you must provide strong evidence. However, the detained person Zhou Xue has already confessed that some belongings of the Zhou Family and Huang Family, and the two sisters-in-law’s families, as well as part of the Wang Family’s items, all belong to Comrade Zhou Jiao.

In this case, Zhou Family Village production team leader Zhou Xiaoshan and Zhou Xiaocun’s wife Huang Zhaodi conspired to deliberately conceal the truth from Comrade Zhou Jiao and have confirmed wrongful possession of other people’s property. Production team leader Zhou Xiaoshan received a large number of items and has been detained. Based on Huang Zhaodi’s testimony, the evidence has been returned.

Huang Zhaodi also confessed and is detained. Her husband, Zhou Xiaocun, claimed in his testimony that he was unaware of the details and only collected parcels from the village with the written authorization, then handed them over to his father Zhou Jianren and his wife Huang Zhaodi, without knowing their final destiny. However, because Zhou Xiaocun is currently under suspicion of concealing information from Zhou Jiao without her consent and arbitrarily claiming others’ property, he is also detained.

The Huang Family returned most of the evidence based on the testimony of the villagers and Zhou Xue, and Huang Damao has also been detained. Zhou Xue’s husband’s family, the Wang family, had Wang Shifu removed from his position as production team leader due to embezzlement of village finances, and the Wang family voluntarily returned Zhou Xue’s personal belongings. The postal administration staff’s laxity in management is being dealt with currently.

Apart from the Zhou Family, most of the illegally possessed items have been confiscated based on public reports and are all currently placed in the township government courtyard, and this is the progress of the case so far.

Old comrade Zhou Jianren from the Zhou family went to the township office several times, insisting on hearing Comrade Zhou Jiao’s opinion before processing the case. We came this time to hear Comrade Zhou Jiao’s requests and suggestions, and to let her reclaim those things from the township courtyard."

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