50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 23 Legacy
The incident was widely reported at the time. It was a tragic case of a whole family being wiped out. They had heard about it several times, so how could they not remember it?

"I told you, the higher-ups won't arrest anyone arbitrarily."

"Someone came to our house to ask about the situation those days."

"Oh my, so many families in this alley are involved. It's true that you can only judge a person by their appearance but not by their heart. From now on, everyone should avoid associating with the people in this alley."

"They really deserve it. They're trying to wipe out a whole family, and ended up eating the home of a martyr. This is like kicking a rock. Serves them right!"

After the comrades explained, the masses spoke out in support of their work and cursed the people in that alley.

They themselves have also become more vigilant. It seems that the higher-ups will not tolerate such things and will take them seriously.

When they were about to go back, they warned their families not to get involved in such situations in the future, otherwise they might not get any benefits but get into trouble instead.

Most of those arrested were ordinary people. If they were asked to commit a serious crime, they would not have the courage to do so.

This time, they were just trying to take advantage of the fact that the law doesn't punish everyone, and just take a small cut. In the past, when patrolmen handled cases like this, the patrolmen would take the lion's share, and the neighbors would take the smaller share.

The situation this time was special and the patrolmen were unable to pay attention, so the neighbors took advantage of them.

Not to mention anything else, just buying a full set of furniture for the whole house would cost a huge sum of money. Other daily necessities, clothes and shoes were also taken away by them without leaving anything behind. This is not a small amount of money. It would take an average family at least seven or eight years to buy all of these.

Now all these people were arrested. The timid ones died on the spot, and then they began to expose each other and provide evidence. Before nightfall, the whole matter was clear, and even the items taken from each family were recorded clearly.

The rest is simple. First, the stolen goods are recovered, registered, and temporarily placed in a street warehouse. The offenders are given reasonable and justifiable penalties based on the severity of the offense.

When the case was finally closed, the entire case was filed as a case file and soon published in the daily newspaper.

This is the first time we have published the handling process of a typical case in the newspaper.

The entire case had conclusive and sufficient evidence, detailed information, and a reasonable and well-founded verdict, which became a benchmark for future verdicts. This case also became the true first case of Nut.

After the case was over, Lao Zhang first went to the household registration office to change Sun Zhiwei as the head of the household, and then went to the Housing Authority in person to change the property information and registered the yard under Sun Zhiwei's name.

Finally, he took the certificate issued by his superior, opened a bank account for Sun Zhiwei, and transferred all the money in the certificates of deposit into the passbook.

By the time everything was done, it was already the fifth day after Lao Zhang left, and Sun Zhiwei almost suspected that he had absconded with the money.

When Old Zhang appeared at Sun Zhiwei's house again, he looked much older. This incident was a big blow to him.

Although there was no adverse impact on him because he corrected his mistake in time, he was instead commended for his meritorious service in handling the case.

But this did not change his previous stupid behavior, and he felt extremely guilty towards Sun Zhiwei and his sister. This time, in addition to delivering a new household registration, new property certificate and passbook, he came to apologize.

Sun Zhiwei was also surprised when he saw the new household registration and new real estate certificate. He had originally planned to handle these things slowly in the future, but this time, thanks to Lingdao's reminder, they were all done at once, which saved him a lot of trouble.

When he heard the whole story, he couldn't help but admire Lingdao's vision and courage.

This kind of situation of wiping out a family is definitely not an isolated case. It happens everywhere and will never stop in the future.

If this case can really become a benchmark for sentencing in such cases, I believe it will help many people in the future.

What was particularly surprising was that Lao Zhang had actually brought him his parents' two pistols, claiming they were relics and that they had a certificate allowing the family to keep them. Sun Zhiwei was also a little stunned. Was the current policy so open? Even if the guns were relics, where did the two boxes of 100 brand new bullets come from?

"This is a special order from Lingdao. There is a high possibility that the families of martyrs will be attacked in retaliation, so these two weapons have been specially approved for you to defend yourself." At this time, Sun Zhiwei wanted to shout "Long live Lingdao" twice.

Through this incident, Sun Zhiwei saved time and energy, and Lao Zhang grew.

Sun Zhiwei also saw clearly the behavior style of the older generation of revolutionary fighters. They really could not tolerate any injustice and were very clear about right and wrong, black and white.

This may be the characteristic of this era.

Time quickly came to July, and Beihai Kindergarten was completed. All the preschool children in Aunt Wang's yard in Xiangshan Family Quarters would be enrolled in Beihai Kindergarten.

Sun Zhiwei plans to sell his family's yard and then buy a small yard near Beihai for his sister to live in.

After he revealed this idea to Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang expressed his firm opposition.

"Zhiwei, you're still young after all. It's not safe for you to live alone. If you don't mind, you can live with me from now on. How about that?"

Sun Zhiwei was a little tempted by Lao Zhang's proposal. After such a long time, he had a good understanding of Lao Zhang's character. He knew that he was a decent man, and living with Lao Zhang shouldn't be too troublesome.

Originally he was planning to live outside, so when he was at the Oriental Hotel, he won over Daxiang's uncle and nephew and gave Daxiang 200 taels of silver to settle down.

As a result, he was trapped in Xiangshan for 4 or 5 months. Now it is still unknown whether Daxiang has found another job. It will be very troublesome if he needs to find new subordinates.

But he was very worried about Lao Zhang's family. Lao Zhang had a wife and children, but they had always been in their hometown and had not come with him.

But they had to come and reunite with Lao Zhang, and before he knew the personalities of his wife and children, he really didn't want to get involved in their lives. And he couldn't say the reason directly.

"Are we moving?"

"Hey, how did you know?"

"I can tell from your tone. Where are you moving to?"

"East Chang'an Avenue. They've reclaimed some houses there, and they're perfect for our department. Your parents and we were comrades in the same trench, so as family members, you're entitled to live with us."

Sun Zhiwei listened and shook his head. "How is that possible? There are probably not many houses now. There are not enough for the families of the official staff. How can we brothers and sisters get a house?"

"Are you planning to give the house that was allocated to you to us brothers and sisters to live in? What about your wife and children? Don't care?"

"You are going to roast us, brother and sister, on the fire."

"Don't talk nonsense, I don't have such an idea."

"Forget it, you, Old Zhang, are just stubborn. You can't figure out any of the twists and turns."

Thinking that he was only in junior high school, it would take three years for him to graduate from high school and start working, even if he skipped grades every year. During these three years, if he and his sister wanted to live outside, Lao Zhang would definitely not agree.

(End of this chapter)