The 60s Island: The Daily Life of a Capitalist Young Lady with the Army - Chapter 94: I Did Hit Her with a Brick

Chapter 94: I Did Hit Her with a Brick

In the office, everyone was once again rendered speechless.

Xu Xiangsi’s words were, damn it, completely faultless!

All eyes instinctively avoided the couple.

Xu Xiangsi seemed to have exhausted herself from speaking. She leaned gently into Long Peiye’s embrace, caught her breath, and then continued.

“As for the injury on Comrade Li Hong’s head…” she paused, then admitted frankly, “I did hit her with a brick.”

“But that was only because Comrade Li Hong was emotionally agitated and attempted to attack me. I acted in self-defense.”

Bai Rumeng seized upon what she perceived as a flaw in Xu Xiangsi’s statement and immediately retorted sharply, “You’re lying! Comrade Li Hong never had any intention of attacking you!”

Pointing at Xu Xiangsi, her hand trembling, she accused, “It was clearly you who started the fight without any explanation!”

“No intention to attack?”

Xu Xiangsi sounded as if she had heard the most ridiculous joke, asking incredulously, “She was shouting about wanting a ‘physical fight’ with me, lunging at me, her hands almost grabbing my collar!”

Her voice suddenly rose, filled with a sense of wrongful accusation and anger.

“And you’re telling me she had no intention of attacking?”

Xu Xiangsi took a step forward, staring down Bai Rumeng with a gaze as sharp as a blade. “Comrade Bai Rumeng, I just want to ask you!”

“Do I have to wait until her slap lands squarely on my face to realize, oh, she really is going to hit me?”

“I…”

Bai Rumeng felt a tightness in her chest from this rebuttal, unable to utter a single word.

Her face flushed red, her mind racing until she finally found a new point of attack.

“Fine! Even if Comrade Li Hong had the tendency to attack!”

She threw caution to the wind, shouting loudly, “Then why did you hit me? Why attack me?!”

At these words, all eyes focused on Xu Xiangsi.

Yes, that was the crux of the matter.

What about the injury on Bai Rumeng’s arm?

Xu Xiangsi, however, wore an expression of utter shock and disbelief.

She looked at Bai Rumeng as if seeing a stranger. “Comrade Bai Rumeng, you…”

She hesitated, frowning deeply as if trying hard to recall something.

“This really is… the privileged tend to forget.”

She tossed out these words lightly. “Have you forgotten?”

Her gaze suddenly turned sharp.

“Aside from Comrade Li Hong here, weren’t you the one… who cursed at me the most fiercely when you stormed into my yard?”

Wang Zhengwei’s hand, holding the teacup, jolted abruptly.

His sharp gaze shifted instantly from Xu Xiangsi’s face to Bai Rumeng, who had already turned deathly pale.

Wang Zhengwei’s hawk-like eyes remained fixed intently on Bai Rumeng’s face.

Bai Rumeng felt as if that gaze had tangible weight, pressing down on her until she could barely breathe.

The color drained from her face at a visible rate.

In the deathly silence that followed, Xu Xiangsi let out a light laugh.

The laughter was soft and cold, like a shard of ice striking everyone’s hearts.

“Oh my,” she drawled, her tone laced with three parts mockery and seven parts teasing, “Comrade Bai Rumeng, after all this righteous lecturing, surely you don’t… actually see yourself as some innocent hero who draws their sword to help the oppressed?”

At these words, Bai Rumeng’s body swayed violently.

But Xu Xiangsi didn’t look at her. Instead, she slowly turned her head, her clear eyes sweeping over the female soldiers who had been keeping their heads bowed the entire time, wishing they could shrink into nothingness.

Her voice wasn’t loud, yet it carried clearly to every corner of the office.

“Let me ask you one question.”

“Earlier today in my courtyard, every single one of you.”

“Was there anyone who cursed at me more viciously, more foully than this Comrade Bai Rumeng here?”

The moment these words were spoken, the entire room was stunned!

The female soldiers buried their heads even lower, their shoulders trembling uncontrollably.

Almost imperceptibly, so subtly it was barely noticeable, they shook their heads in unison.

No, truly no one had.

The one who had led the shouting today, who had cursed the most obscenely, who had used the most malicious language, was none other than the Arts Troupe cadre, Comrade Bai Rumeng.

Standing behind Xu Xiangsi, a flicker of unconcealable surprise flashed through Long Peiye’s profound eyes.

Immediately, that surprise transformed into profound admiration.

His little wife…

Was truly too clever.

Long Peiye clicked his tongue in silent amazement.

He realized Xu Xiangsi’s question was exquisitely cunning and highly suggestive.

If she had asked earlier—”Tell me, has Comrade Bai Rumeng been cursing at me all along?”

Those female soldiers who followed Bai Rumeng’s lead would, to protect themselves and avoid offending their superior, most likely have gritted their teeth and spoken in Bai Rumeng’s defense.

But she deliberately didn’t.

She deliberately rephrased the question, directing it at the female soldiers themselves.

“Which of you cursed more viciously than her?”

This completely changed the nature of the inquiry!

This was essentially making them compare among themselves, rather than directly accusing Bai Rumeng.

And the fact was, Bai Rumeng had cursed the most viciously.

By simply telling the truth, they inadvertently became the most powerful witnesses for Xu Xiangsi!

And the most brilliant part?

The most brilliant part was that these witnesses were essentially the very people Bai Rumeng had brought with her!

Using your own people to prove your guilt.

This directly eliminated all need for Xu Xiangsi to prove her own innocence.

Cutting the ground from under their feet—a single strike to finish it!

Meanwhile, Wang Zhengwei, seated behind the office desk, lightly tapped his fingers against his teacup.

His thoughts unexpectedly aligned with Long Peiye’s.

Impressive!

This Comrade Xu Xiangsi was truly too impressive!

Having worked half his life on ideological matters in the military, what kind of person hadn’t Wang Zhengwei encountered?

He saw things with perfect clarity—when two groups resorted to using Bricks and drawing blood, it could never be solely one side’s fault.

It takes two to tango.

But now, with these few sentences and maneuvers, Xu Xiangsi had masterfully extricated herself from this muddy situation!

Every word she spoke left no room for criticism.

Every action she took positioned her firmly on the moral high ground of “self-defense and counterattack.”

Wang Zhengwei even entertained an absurd yet genuine thought.

Perhaps…

They should recruit this Xu Xiangsi into their ranks, specifically to handle his own political commissar duties?

With that silver tongue and sharp mind of hers,

Even the most stubborn, uncooperative soldiers in the unit—those who never showed any ideological progress and remained completely unreceptive—would surely be so thoroughly confused by her that they wouldn’t even recognize their own mothers!

By then, forget about ideological education.

Heck, if Xu Xiangsi claimed the Earth was flat, those lads would probably nod vigorously in agreement and even turn around to ask others, “When was the Earth ever round?!”