Chapter 98: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 98

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

The arrival of the Funeral Enforcement Team broke the originally harmonious atmosphere.

The Enforcement Captain's expressionless, arrogant face made everyone present feel extreme fear.

Everyone present was an honest farmer; burial in the earth for peace was a custom passed down from their ancestors, so how had it become illegal at this time?

They were uneducated and did not understand.

They dared to be angry but not to speak out.

They could only look at the Enforcement Squad in their bright, clean uniforms with resentful eyes.

"Comrade, let's talk things over nicely..."

As the eldest son of the family, Li Yaozu had to step forward to resolve this kind of situation.

He bent his waist slightly and walked forward with a humble expression.

"Comrade, this is all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding..."

"Misunderstanding? The feast is all set up, and you call it a misunderstanding? Where is the burial? Take us to the scene immediately!"

The Enforcement Captain looked cold and unfeeling.

"There is no burial, no... no dead person, we're just having a meal, just having a meal..."

Li Yaozu's voice trembled and quivered as he spoke.

He was afraid of these enforcement personnel too.

They would fine people at the drop of a hat, and beat people at the drop of a hat.

Farmers at the very bottom of society—who could afford to offend them?

"Everyone, say something: is it just a meal, no dead person, right...?"

Li Yaozu looked back at everyone present, his eyes filled with pleading.

He hoped everyone could help him make this lie work.

"Right, right, right, just a meal, no dead person, no earth burial..."

Li Jiahao hurried over to echo him.

Other villagers, men, women, old and young, all hurried to echo:

"It's just a banquet!"

"No one is being buried!"

"Exactly, exactly..."

Li Xiulan looked at these people resentfully; these people reminded her of those who, years ago when she was pregnant with Wang Xiaohua, came and moved all the valuables out of her home.

They all wore uniforms, shouted loud slogans, and cried out that they served the people, yet all they did was harm the people...

"Mom, what are they going to do?"

Wang Xiaohua behind her, with a bewildered look, not understanding what was happening at the scene, asked Li Xiulan in a low voice.

"Xiaohua, remember these people; they are all enemies of us ordinary people, their hearts have been eaten by dogs."

Li Xiulan replied slowly.

Wang Xiaohua was confused and didn't understand, but she could also feel that they were very frightening.

Because everyone present was afraid of them.

They seemed to hold an invisible sharp sword, swinging it toward everyone's heads.

Many years later, after Wang Xiaohua grew up, he looked back at this scene and suddenly realized that this invisible sharp sword was actually out-of-control power, a bloody sword that could arbitrarily butcher ordinary people and trample them underfoot.

"Do you think we enforcement personnel are fools? You've all hung white silk, and every one of you is wearing mourning clothes, yet you open your mouths and say no one is being buried? Who would believe that!"

Facing the lies woven by everyone present speaking in unison, our clever Enforcement Squad Captain saw through everything at once.

He immediately shouted loudly:

"If you don't confess honestly right now, everything at the scene will be confiscated, and all of you will be arrested and locked up!"

Once these words were spoken, regardless of whether they were true or false, and regardless of whether the country had legal provisions to imprison everyone, they really did scare everyone.

Because everyone knew that they really dared to do this to ordinary people!

Before the collective farming system, whoever privately hid grain was arrested!

When handing over public grain, those who didn't hand it over were arrested!

During family planning, those who had over-quota births were arrested!

Now that cremation is being vigorously promoted, those who practice earth burial are arrested!

They did this in the past, they do it now, and in the future, they will probably keep doing it!

Farmers can endure hardship and beatings; they don't resist, they are honest, they submit to fate—as long as they have a meal to survive! So those bad people make things difficult for farmers everywhere, using every method to make things difficult for farmers!

Everyone says the times have changed, but actually, from ancient times to now, nothing has changed!

"No, Comrade, I'll confess honestly, don't be impulsive!"

When Li Yaozu heard they were going to arrest everyone at the scene, he was immediately scared silly.

He didn't want his own family's matter to implicate other villagers and other relatives!

"Then hurry up and take us to the scene?"

The Enforcement Squad Captain looked coldly and urged coldly.

Li Yaozu really had no choice; in the end, he could only bring these heartless beasts who are born of mothers but not raised by them to the burial scene.

Li Jiahao did not dare to interfere either, and could only silently allow everything to happen.

Li Xiulan, however, could no longer bear to watch at this moment.

"Don't you have any humanity left! Were you raised by beasts! We are burying our own mother, giving our mother her final dignity—what law have we broken! You will face retribution! You will be struck by heaven and thunder!"

Li Xiulan rushed forward, pointing at the Enforcement Captain's nose and cursing him out:

"The day your parents die, you'd best take them to be burned too, let their bones be crushed and ashes scattered, so they can never be reborn!"

The Enforcement Squad Captain's face twitched; Li Xiulan's words were like a sharp blade, piercing straight into the depths of his heart.

Yet he felt not a shred of guilt because of it.

Instead, he flew into a rage out of embarrassment:

"Try saying another word! See if I don't drag you off! Truly ignorant of the law—don't you know the country strictly forbids earth burial? Breaking the law and still claiming to be in the right!"

"So what if I'm ignorant of the law? So what if I don't understand the law? I only know that any law that isn't good for us ordinary people isn't a good law—it's a damnable crime, and you'll all go to the eighteenth level of hell when you die!"

Li Xiulan was extremely agitated.

An uneducated ordinary person like her had only simple values; whatever the law, anything that harmed ordinary people was nonsense even if it was the law!

Most importantly, Shenpo had told her that her mother would go to Heaven after death.

But if her mother's corpse were dug up and cremated, their bones crushed and ashes scattered, could she still go to Heaven?

Wasn't that sending her mother to hell?

She was not willing to let such a thing happen!

"Sister, stop talking quickly, think of your three children—what will happen to the children if you're arrested!"

Li Jiahao hurried over and covered Li Xiulan's mouth.

Li Xiulan's body trembled violently, and she had nothing more to say.

Indeed, if she were arrested, what would become of her three children?

Li Yaozu kept saying good things to the Enforcement Captain:

"Excuse me, truly sorry, my sister doesn't understand things, please don't take it to heart—I'll take you to the scene right now……"

In the end, Li Yaozu obediently led these Funeral Enforcement personnel to the mountain.

Under everyone's indignant but silent gazes, this group of beasts dug open the grave on the spot and pulled up the coffin that had just been buried.

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