Reborn in 1977, starting with severing ties with family.

One by one, the lights in the villagers' homes came on.

A short while later, Zhao Dahu arrived first, accompanied by Party Secretary Sun Wenge.

"What happened?" Sun Wenge asked as soon as he entered, glancing at Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang. "Is it a burglary in the middle of the night?"

This matter was very serious, and Zhao Guangming didn't have time to argue with him. He got up, pulled him outside, and muttered to himself for a long time, glancing back every now and then.

Wang Haiyang looked at Jiang Sen questioningly, but Jiang Sen shook his head at him.

Five minutes later, almost all the men in the village had arrived, each carrying a hoe, a ditching tool, and a shovel.

Many people were also carrying torches.

Erhu was followed by Erluzi and Heizi, whose gazes toward Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang were somewhat unfocused.

Jiang Sen didn't have time to argue with them; he just needed to avoid causing trouble.

After Zhao Guangming and Sun Wenge finished speaking, they stood together at the door.

Zhao Guangming said, "Da Hu, organize the militia and distribute the guns!"

Zhao Dahu didn't say anything, turned around and went into the inner room of the village committee, followed by someone else.

In no time, they brought out several guns.

"Come and get the gun!" Zhao Dahu shouted.

Six or seven people, all seemingly strong men in their twenties or thirties, came out from the villagers, took the gun, received two bullets, and went to the side.

The village militia was disorganized and lax, which made Wang Haiyang click his tongue in disapproval.

"Alright, everyone, quiet down!" Zhao Guangming began to speak to the villagers, with Sun Wenge standing beside him.

"Today, we discovered spies in our village! Now, the people at the brigade headquarters have been misled by them and are causing trouble at the educated youth settlement, trying to arrest people. Note that they are not arresting spies, but rather the brigade headquarters has been misled by spies and wants to arrest people. Although we are managed separately from them, we are still considered part of the same village. We must not let the bad guys succeed! Do you all understand?"

Although the villagers didn't have much contact with the educated youth settlement, they were all very capable when it came to catching spies.

Someone shouted, "Who cares who they are? If they dare to come to Jiazigou to arrest people, let them never come back!"

"Yes! Kill them!"

"Fuck him, fuck him!"

"Follow orders and don't panic. Wait for my and the secretary's signals before acting, understand?"

"Understood! Village Chief, hurry up! Don't let them get away!"

Seeing the villagers' enthusiastic reaction, Jiang Sen realized he had misunderstood them before.

They're all good comrades!

Zhao Guangming turned to look at Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang, "Alright, shall we go now?"

Jiang Sen quickly said, "Thank you, village chief, secretary, and everyone! We'll go there now. We absolutely cannot let the enemy succeed and undermine our unity!"

"Well said!" a villager cheered.

"Let's go!" Jiang Sen waved his hand, displaying the demeanor of a great general, and strode aggressively toward the educated youth settlement.

Zhao Erhu approached us without us even noticing.

He smiled ingratiatingly at Jiang Sen, "Um, I'm sorry about that before! If you need anything later, just let me know, and I'll take care of it!"

Jiang Sen laughed and turned to look at him, "Okay! Don't mess things up."

"Whoever messes up is a virgin!"

The distance from the village to the educated youth settlement was only one or two miles, so it was a fast journey and quite a commotion.

Before we even arrived at our destination, we could hear a commotion coming from the other side.

Hu Zhiqing stood in front of the group of educated youth, his face turning ashen with anger.

He angrily rebuked Officer Zhao, "Officer Zhao, you're a cadre in the team, how can you just arbitrarily frame innocent people?"

Officer Zhao was very arrogant and said, "Wrong an innocent person? Then hand over the person and explain yourself to me."

"I already said, they're not here!"

"Not here? Not at the educated youth settlement this late at night, did you run away?"

"nonsense!"

"Then let us search. If we find anything, you'll all be their accomplices and will be executed!"

"Who are you trying to scare? You say they're enemy agents? Where's the evidence?" someone protested loudly.

Immediately afterwards, others also began to question him.

The scene was chaotic, but no one dared to make a move.

"Show me the evidence!"

"Exactly! We all came to support the Great Northern Wilderness in response to the nation's call. You're saying they're enemy spies? Where's the evidence?"

"Produce the evidence!"

"take it out!"

"If you don't produce it, you're just making baseless accusations! We're going to sue you, we're going to file a complaint in Kyoto! We'll say you're persecuting intellectuals who went to the countryside!"

"Yes! It's persecution!"

Although there were many people talking at once and it was impossible to make out the exact number, Jiang Sen understood that they were all protecting him and Wang Haiyang.

"Do you want to rebel?" Officer Zhao asked anxiously.

After arriving, they intended to find Hu Zhiqing and quietly arrest Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang.

Unexpectedly, this provoked strong dissatisfaction and resistance from Hu Zhiqing.

I don't know who notified the others, but in the blink of an eye, we were surrounded.

What's the point of searching?!

Even if they searched, the two people who received the news would have already run into the mountains.

As soon as Officer Zhao asked, "Do you want to rebel?", the men behind him with guns immediately raised their weapons.

He sneered, "Your resistance to arresting people is tantamount to rebellion. We can simply shoot and execute the diehards on the spot, hand them over, and I'll pretend today's events never happened. But if you don't hand them over..."

He took a step back and stood behind the men holding guns.

"Then don't blame me!"

"You dare? We're not afraid of you! I think you're the enemy agents!" Sun Guohong stepped forward. "Comrades, they want to persecute our good comrades, will we let them succeed?"

"cannot!"

"Can we allow good comrades to suffer injustice?"

"cannot!"

"But they don't use their guns to kill the enemy, they use them to point at us educated youth. Tell me, can we tolerate that?"

"No! No!"

The educated youth were filled with enthusiasm and pressed forward step by step.

Officer Zhao panicked and pointed at them, yelling, "What are you doing? Trying to cause trouble? I'm telling you, if you don't back down, I'll shoot!"

"Let's see who dares!" With a roar, everyone turned to look.

Zhao Guangming strode over with his men, and they all stood in front of the educated youth, facing Zhao, the cadre.

He felt that he was a great hero with a strong presence.

But Jiang Sen thought that this show of bravado was...not bad!

"Village Chief Zhao, Secretary Sun?" Officer Zhao, seeing it was them, calmed down. "You've come at the right time! I was just about to ask you, didn't you discover that there are enemy agents hiding in the village?"

Zhao Guangming sneered, "Do you think I don't know whether there are any or not? But you, you keep saying there are enemy agents, who are they? Where's the evidence?"

Zhao, the clerk, dared not act recklessly when dealing with the original inhabitants of the village. If things went wrong, they wouldn't even be able to leave the village, and having guns wouldn't be of any use.

The opposing team has more guns than them.

"Alright! Since that's the case, then I'll tell you! Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang are enemy spies!"

"Where's the evidence?"

"Yes! Where's the evidence? Produce it!"

The educated youth started walking forward again.

"Then I'll have to ask you something: Where are they?" Officer Zhao looked around. "Let me tell you, they went to the team headquarters to make a phone call tonight. Our communications officer discovered that he was sending Morse code while on the phone! Can anyone explain to me why they were making a phone call in the middle of the night and sending Morse code when there was nothing important going on? Huh? Why? Hand them over and ask them clearly, see if we've wronged them!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an uproar erupted. Everyone understood what Morse code meant; it was either the military or enemy agents.

Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang emerged from behind the villagers.

"Clap clap clap!" Jiang Sen clapped his hands. "Brilliant, brilliant, absolutely brilliant! Keep going!"