"Mayor Li, some of the people on this list have a lot of criminal records and have repeatedly refused to reform. The police station has been preparing for this, and these people can be dealt with at any time." Duan Jun took out a pen and circled some people.

Li Xiuyuan presented a list of fifteen people, but Duan Jun circled only six in the end. The town police station had already collected evidence of these six people's illegal activities.

These petty thugs are usually bullies who prey on the weak and fear the strong. They cause trouble on the streets, and usually no one pays attention to them or deals with them. They're like a persistent leech, posing some social harm, but not a major one.

But if the higher-ups decide to take action against them, the evidence is still very easy to collect.

Li Xiuyuan looked at the remaining ten or so people after the circle was drawn. This was basically the same as what they had gathered. Apart from these six people who were actually street thugs, the rest were just idle scoundrels from the village. They could steal chickens and dogs, but they wouldn't dare to do anything else.

They're just surrounding Tian Zhen and his gang of thugs, trying to get more compensation.

"Alright, Chief Duan, thank you for your trouble. Find a suitable opportunity and take care of these people." Li Xiuyuan nodded, not paying any attention to these thugs. With the town police station taking action, it would be a warning to others. These fifteen households should be the easiest to deal with.

To ordinary people, these petty thugs seem much more difficult to deal with than those with connections, but in Li Xiuyuan's eyes, they are actually the easiest to handle.

They have a ton of dirt on them, yet they still dare to jump around like that, oblivious to their own mortality.

After seeing Duan Jun off, Li Xiuyuan, despite having drunk alcohol that night, still planned to return to Meilin Village to rest. Su Ziying was in Meilin Village; she had something to do that morning, so the two of them didn't exercise together, but they should exercise together tomorrow morning—this habit should be maintained.

When Li Xiuyuan returned to Meilin Village, it was past nine o'clock at night. Before going to bed, Li Xiuyuan and Su Ziying sent a message to each other and agreed to go for a run together the next morning. Li Xiuyuan had also chosen a place to exercise.

Right on the banks of the Xingfu River, after this dredging, both sides of the river have been cleared, creating a beautiful scene, perfect for exercise.

However, not long after Li Xiuyuan fell asleep, two people climbed over the wall of the village committee compound.

Two thugs sent by Tian Zhen came to scare Li Xiuyuan. They were in a hurry to come over at night, but they couldn't find a dead rat, so they simply found a small dog, killed it, and brought it over.

After finding Li Xiuyuan's office, the two men grabbed bricks and started smashing them up there.

Whoosh!

The sound of breaking glass startled Li Xiuyuan awake, and he reached out to turn on the light.

Two bricks were thrown on the ground, and glass shattered everywhere. Before Li Xiuyuan could react, the carcass of a dead dog was thrown in through the window.

Li Xiuyuan watched this scene without saying a word, his eyes filled with cold light.

Meanwhile, two thugs throwing bricks in the yard were whispering to each other about why the lights in the house were on but there was no movement.

In their minds, once the lights in the house were turned on, the person who saw the broken glass and the dead dog's body on the ground should have shouted.

But there was no sound at all. Looking at the eerily quiet house, the two men felt a little scared. For small-time thugs like them, bullying ordinary honest people and seeing them scream and scream in terror only made them more unscrupulous.

But now, facing a house with smashed windows and a dead dog thrown away, yet no sound from it, they became somewhat frightened. After a brief discussion, the two hurriedly left; they had already completed the task Tian Zhen had given them.

Inside the room, Li Xiuyuan had already started making phone calls on his phone.