Transferring the family fortune?!
The Revolutionary Committee and the 13th Bureau were fully mobilized!
“Secretary Wang, it’s completely empty!”
Several Red Guards ran out from Pei family’s small Western-style villa.
Xie Li, as the informant, had also accompanied them to the Pei house. The three-story villa was already completely empty.
Real leather sofas, solid wood beds, enamel vases, rosewood chests everything was gone. Not a single thing remained!
Wang Dechang, deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee, clenched his fists.
This was outrageous! The Pei family was utterly outrageous!
To be so brazen at such a critical time truly a blatant disregard for the state and the organization!
“These bloodsucking capitalist vampires, at a time like this, still thinking about pocketing money and running off, yet refusing to repent?! Still clinging to their decadent, bloodsucking bourgeois lifestyle?!”
Wang Dechang adjusted the black-rimmed glasses on his nose and turned to Xie Li:
“Comrade Xiao Xie, your ideological awareness is very high. You lived in the Pei family for three years and were not corrupted by these capitalists. Your spirit is highly commendable!”
Then he shifted his tone:
“Comrade Xiao Xie, as a daughter of the Xie family, you must also understand your own family’s current situation. The bourgeoisie must be completely eradicated. Do not even think about escaping, and do not hold any hope that you can get away. The Party’s eyes are keen!”
This was a warning to Xie Li: she had done well in reporting the Pei family, but her own family was the number-one capitalist family in Shanghai, top of the list.
No escaping!
Xie Li immediately stood at attention and saluted:
“Secretary Wang! I have never thought of escaping! Though I am a child of the Xie family, I was raised by foster parents three generations of poor farmers! I was born and raised under the Red Flag. I will draw a clear line between myself and the Xie family and Xie Qingsong! Down with capitalism!!!”
Xie Li raised her arm and shouted passionately.
Wang Dechang was pleased with her attitude; he knew that Xie Li had only been found by the Xie family three years ago, having lived in the countryside before that.
“Comrade Xiao Xie, we hope you can keep an eye on the Xie family. Report to us immediately if there’s the slightest movement! Draw a clear line with the capitalists; that way, you will have a longer road ahead!”
Wang Dechang patted her shoulder and left with his people.
Watching the Red Guards walk away, Xie Li smiled broadly.
The Pei family was finished!
These people couldn’t find the Pei family’s assets they would surely vent their anger on Pei Jianmin, Pei Shuchen, and Qi Yuehua!
Xie Li closed her eyes and briefly scanned her space. She had already moved the Pei family’s furniture into her space in advance. Now, aside from the three-story villa itself, nothing remained not even the large iron pot in the kitchen.
The Pei family was trapped.
The news spread across all of Shanghai.
The Revolutionary Committee and the 13th Bureau tightened their watch, even patrolling at night around these families, fearing that they would sneak off to transfer assets before receiving orders to be arrested.
Suddenly, everyone on the asset list was like a bird startled by a bowstring sleeping lightly, afraid that they would be next.
The Revolutionary Committee was a place where even the emperor himself would be stripped bare!
Everyone cursed the Pei family.
A corrupt horse, a stirring stick.
Who dares to transfer assets so openly, and so greedily, leaving not a single thing behind? They were deliberately provoking the Red Guards’ wrath!
Now it was perfect the Revolutionary Committee and the 13th Bureau were watching even more closely.
Five days after the Pei family was arrested, the authorities paraded the three of them through the streets.
People knew that these three were meant to serve as a warning the fate of monkeys, shown as an example!
Pei Jianmin, Qi Yuehua, and Pei Shuchen were twisted by their arms, wearing tall paper hats, heavy iron plates around their necks labeled: “Vampire! Capitalist!”
The three had lost all their former pride, pushed onto the street like three quails!
Crowds lined the streets, and Xie Li was among them.
She wore a dark blue headscarf and carried a basket, which contained eggs she had pre-poked and left to rot a few days earlier.
The three were pushed forward, while people on either side threw rotten vegetable leaves and clumps of dirt at them!
Pei Jianmin glared hatefully at Qi Yuehua.
This damned wretch, even in this situation, still wouldn’t confess. Not to mention where she had moved the assets how much suffering had he endured because of it!
Qi Yuehua had long been terrified, her legs weak, relying on two Red Guards to move forward.
She should have seen through Pei Jianmin, the playboy, by now. Yet he still accused her of transferring all the property!
Slap! Slap! Slap! Slap!
People on the street began throwing rotten vegetable leaves and dirt at them.
“Hahahahaha!”
Pei Shuchen suddenly laughed like a madman, looking up at the sky.
How had his family come to this point? Ever since divorcing Xie Li, nothing had gone smoothly!
He, a prominent young master of Shanghai, was usually bowed to and flattered by everyone, yet today, people dared to throw rotten vegetable leaves at him?!
He spotted Xie Li in the crowd, stealthily handing out eggs while saying:
“Auntie, auntie! Throw this one! It’s rotten hits the face, won’t wash off! Better than rotten vegetables!”
Bastard!!
“Xie Li!! You wretch!! I’ll kill you!!”
Pei Shuchen broke free from the Red Guards and lunged at Xie Li in the crowd.
“Let’s die together!”
He didn’t want to live. Rather than suffer labor reform, he might as well die.
The Red Guards didn’t have time to react; Pei Shuchen leapt like a rabid dog.
Xie Li was startled.
She raised the basket and hurled it at him.
Bang!
“Ugh, ugh, ugh!!”
The rotten eggs splattered all over Pei Shuchen’s face, some even entering his open mouth. He knelt, gagging uncontrollably.
It was unbearably stinky!
Worse than feces!
Xie Li had pre-poked holes in the eggs. In the heat, they had rotted into dark brown slime.
The stench burned throats, stung eyes, made people want to die.
People clutched their noses and stepped back; some even gagged audibly.
Even the Red Guards rushing to stop Pei Shuchen slowed their pace.
So damn stinky!!
Xie Li looked at her now-empty basket with a tinge of regret she had planned to throw more. Instead, it was all gone at once.
Pei Shuchen knelt, nearly vomiting bile:
“Ugh… Xie Li!! I… ugh… kill… ugh…”
The Red Guards kicked him twice:
“Behave!!”
Pei Shuchen resisted.
The Red Guards kicked him two more times.
Pei Shuchen finally submitted.
He glared hatefully at Xie Li:
“Wretch, you’ll die an awful death!”
Xie Li sneered inwardly.
The original owner was already dead not a good death, but you’ll die of rage! That bastard still had the nerve to curse her?!
Xie Li stepped forward, standing beside Pei Shuchen, and raised her arm, shouting:
“Everyone, come see! This is the ugly face of the exploiting class! They oppressed us before and now they still want to ride on our heads! Do you accept it?!”
Her shout stirred the hearts of many workers!
Some youths, young women, even some older women, raised their hands and shouted:
“No! No! Smash his dog head!”
Xie Li crooked her mouth in a smile.
Pei Shuchen was so angry he could barely breathe, collapsed flat on the ground!
You bitch…