Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Chapter 574: Retaliation is inevitable

After hearing this, Aunt Zhang was stunned. It took her a long time to close her mouth and mutter, "This bastard is so unlucky! He really brings trouble upon himself! This time he is probably going to be in big trouble! He really deserves it!"

When Old Liu thought of Lu Mingjian's current fate, he was so happy that he burst into laughter and said, "You're right, he deserves it! I guess he did too many bad things and God can't stand it anymore!

I suspect that it was his driver or guard who couldn't stand his perverse behavior and reported him. Otherwise, how could the person who reported him know so much about his evil deeds?"

Lin Geng listened from the side but smiled without saying anything, because no one knew better than him why Lu Mingjian was so unlucky. However, he certainly would not tell Lao Liu and Aunt Zhang about this, so he could only let this matter rot in his stomach forever.

In any case, he had reaped a lot of benefits this time. Not only did he punish Lu Mingjian, but he also made a fortune. He had already seen the property he had obtained from Lu Jianming. There were not only a lot of yellow croakers of different sizes, but also a large number of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and of course some jade and gemstones, but mainly some antiques.

These things are still worth a lot of money even now. Some of the calligraphy and paintings are by famous artists from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there are also several paintings by Qi Baishi and Xu Beihong.

Without mentioning anything else, just these paintings by Qi Baishi and Xu Beihong will be priceless treasures in the future. Selling any one of them will be enough to ensure that his descendants will never have to worry about food and drink for the rest of their lives.

All in all, he has made a fortune this time, and from now on he can just lie back and wait for the reform and opening up, and live his life as a rich man.

This is not because Lin Geng is greedy for money, but it would be fine if he didn't take the wealth, but once he took it, he had to swallow it, because at this time, even if he wanted to hand it over, it would not be appropriate. Once he handed it over, Lu Mingjian's affairs might be implicated in him, which would attract the attention of many upper-level officials, and he might be investigated in depth.

No matter what, he could not exercise power on behalf of the state's violent organs. He killed Lu Mingjian's driver, guard, and Lu Mingjian's nephew. No matter how many evil things these three people had done, as a private person, he could not exercise public power on behalf of the state. Killing is killing. Once suspected, he would not be able to explain the whereabouts of these three people.

Besides, in the current environment, even if so many good things were handed over, except for gold and some silver dollars, which might end up in the national treasury, the rest of the antiques, calligraphy and paintings would most likely be scattered. Some of the precious cultural relics or calligraphy and paintings might even be destroyed in this era.

These are the treasures left by Chinese civilization. Lin would never want to see them divided up by others or destroyed in this era.

Even if he was asked to donate them to the National Museum in the future, he could not let these cultural relics and calligraphy and paintings be destroyed.

So now he can only eat up this huge fortune himself.

However, after taking in this fortune, Lin Geng suddenly had a new idea. It seemed that it should be feasible, but he needed to think about it carefully again.

In short, Lu Mingjian's conspiracy against Lao Liu and his wife ended in a weird way. Not long after, Lin Geng heard from Aunt Zhang that Lu Mingjian was sentenced to death by the central government. Regardless of whether he was paralyzed or not, he was directly fed a peanut and executed.

Moreover, this time, because of Lu Mingjian, many people were implicated. Not only were his subordinates arrested, but even some of his superiors were unlucky because of him. They were overthrown, dismissed from their posts, some were sent to farms, and some were locked up in cow sheds.

Even those people in the district committee who were bribed by Lu Mingjian through a combination of soft and hard tactics to frame Aunt Zhang were not spared this time. They were all fired from their public posts and sent to farms for labor reform.

As for Aunt Zhang, she followed Lin Geng's advice. Seeing that the storm was getting bigger and bigger and many normal work could no longer be carried out, she had only mentioned at the meeting that she hoped the comrades in their district committee would focus on their current normal work. Lu Mingjian seized on this sentence and made a big fuss about it, wanting to put her and her husband Lao Liu to death.

So Lin Geng suggested that Aunt Zhang should just use the excuse of this incident, saying that she was not feeling well and could not continue to work, and apply for sick leave. Anyway, at her age, it was time for her to retire, and sick leave was the most appropriate time. Wouldn't it be much more comfortable to stay away from the storm and grow flowers and vegetables at home than to watch a group of people fooling around at the company every day? It could also avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.

So after thinking about it, Aunt Zhang adopted Lin Geng's suggestion and wrote a report to the district party committee leaders, using the excuse that this incident had caused serious harm to her physically and mentally, and that she was now in poor health and could no longer continue to work, so she applied for retirement due to illness.

The district leaders also knew that Aunt Zhang had suffered a lot this time because of Lu Mingjian's false accusation and was arrested by the Revolutionary Committee, so they agreed to her application. Aunt Zhang officially rested at home and didn't have to go to work. Old Liu also thought that Lin Geng's suggestion was good, so he wouldn't have to worry about Aunt Zhang.

However, Lin Geng did not completely let go of the three guys who helped Lu Mingjian torture Aunt Zhang. Although they have now been arrested and dealt with, one of them had done a lot of evil things for Lu Mingjian and had the blood of a lot of innocent comrades on his hands. An old comrade was even beaten to death by him, so he immediately ate peanuts with Lu Mingjian.

The other two were sent to a remote farm on the outskirts of Beijing for labor reform. After a while, the two suddenly disappeared inexplicably one night. The farm managers did not care about their disappearances and simply judged them as fleeing for fear of crime, and the matter was left unresolved.

But in reality, these two people were buried by Lin Geng in the medicinal field of his small world and turned into two piles of fertilizers. Moreover, after being captured by Lin Geng and brought into the small world, Lin Geng let them taste the pain they had inflicted on Aunt Zhang and other innocent people.

Lin used all sorts of tricks and made them experience all ten cruel tortures of the Qing Dynasty. He finally tortured the two guys to death and buried them alive in the medicine field. Lin could not feel the slightest bit of pity for these guys who had no bottom line and assisted the tyrant in their efforts to curry favor with their superiors.