Director Wang's voice was cold and hard, every word sounding like it was laced with ice shards as it crashed down upon everyone present: "Look, open your eyes and take a good look!" She pointed to the half-dead old woman on the kang, "A Wubaohu old woman, right here in the back courtyard of our Compound No. 95, has been lying here for two solid days. If Comrade Chen Guihua hadn't noticed something was wrong and reported it in time, she would have been gone just like that!"
She paused, the pent-up fury making her voice crack slightly. "Neighbors living in the same courtyard, revolutionary comrades seeing each other day in and day out—" Her gaze abruptly shifted, locking precisely onto two people who had squeezed forward near the front of the crowd upon her arrival: Yan Bugui, the Front Courtyard Liaison, and Liu Haizhong, the Back Courtyard Liaison.
"Comrade Liu Haizhong, Comrade Yan Bugui!" Director Wang's voice suddenly rose sharply, demanding an answer.
Chapter 53