Qingshiling Bandit Suppression Story

During the critical stage of land reform in the late period of the Liberation War, there was a hidden crisis in the Qingshiling area. The remnants of the bandit leader Li Maocai were wiped out by the Seventh Company of the Third Battalion of the People's Liberation Army in Wild Wolf Valley, but he and his confidant Zhao Husheng disappeared mysteriously. Previously, Li Maocai brutally burned villager Zhou Laoshuan's family of four to death for delivering food to the People's Liberation Army. His vicious methods left a lingering shadow in the hearts of local people, and also brought the land reform work in Qingshiling Township to a standstill - the neighboring village of Baiyang Township successfully progressed the work after executing hidden bullies. It can be seen that capturing Li Mao is the key to awakening the people and promoting land reform. Zhao Weiguo, commander of the Seventh Company, made rapid arrangements. While sending clerks and health workers to assist activists in publicizing policies and preparing for farmers' meetings, he also asked the township armed committee members to organize militiamen to set up defenses. And the clues quietly emerged from a pair of cracked straw sandals. The new straw sandals of militiaman Wu Shuanzhu were extremely poor in durability. Zhang Lan, the township women's committee member, inspected them and found that the brown ropes and grain grass of the straw sandals were both rubbed backwards. This was completely different from the craftsmanship of the maker Lu Cuihua whom she knew. What made Zhang Lan even more suspicious was that Lu Cuihua's husband, Zhao Husheng, had been working as a gangster with Li Maocai for nearly a year, but she was suspected of being pregnant. In order to find out the truth, Zhang Lan visited Lu Cuihua on the pretext of borrowing a brown film. Not only did she confirm her signs of pregnancy, but she also discovered that she had a habit of rubbing back when weaving straw sandals, which was consistent with the craft of broken straw sandals. While everyone was analyzing the clues, Lu Cuihua's son Xiao Shitou suddenly fainted and was found to have died of arsenic poisoning. Later, Zhou Tieshan found anti-rubbed straw sandals stained with arsenic powder in the firewood pile in the backyard of Lu Cuihua's house. All suspicions pointed to the person hiding in the dark. Under Zhang Lan's patient persuasion, Lu Cuihua finally revealed the truth.