I Led the Entire Village out of Poverty and to Prosperity

Tiger Mountain Village, a provincial-level poverty-stricken village, had worn out three successive poverty alleviation cadres, yet it still maintained a stagnant attitude.

After a continuous ...

Chapter 117: The Road Next Door

The two village chiefs, one tall and thin, the other short and fat, just like the Fat Monk and the Thin Monk in Jin Yong's novels.

But at this moment, they all acted as if they had suffered a great injustice, shouting that it was Huo Qianli who had harmed them.

Huo Qianli was confused and was about to try to comfort them gently, but Gu Daqiang, who was standing beside him, holding a cigarette in his mouth, said coldly, "Everyone, put away those tricks! If you guys stick your hooks in my mouth, I'll know what you're up to! If you don't talk nicely, I'll just serve you tea and send you off!"

Apart from anything else, Gu Daqiang is really scary when he puts on a stern face and pretends to be fierce.

The two of them immediately got scared and looked at each other. The short and fat "thin monk" said, "Didn't the county leaders come to your place yesterday? Then in the afternoon, Secretary Zheng called the two of us over and pointed at our noses and started to scold us, saying that you, Hushan Village, could build the road, but we couldn't. Don't you think we were wronged?"

Huo Qianli sneered in his heart when he heard this. So this is what he meant.

It seems that my good work has turned out to be a mistake!

However, he also understood that when everyone was lazy and negligent in their work, his diligence would be the "rotten apple" that spoiled the whole barrel in their mouths.

Gu Daqiang's attitude was in front of him, and he also understood the scale, and said lightly: "Just tell me, what do you want to do?"

Now it was the turn of the tall and thin "Fat Monk" to speak. He smiled and said, "The secretary said that if we allocate funds according to your construction cost, we must build the road like yours. How can we build it? So, we came to ask Officer Huo for some advice. You are a college student, and now you are a favorite of the secretary. A few words of advice from you will be more effective than what we think for a long time!"

"That's right!" The thin monk also echoed, "Now which village in the town doesn't envy Hushan Village for having such a powerful person like Cadre Huo? We also hope that Cadre Huo can give us some advice."

Huo Qianli smiled faintly, "I am just an ordinary village cadre. Any achievements are all due to everyone. As for road construction, I don't have any good advice. Just ask any villager and they will know how the road was built."

The two exchanged glances quietly, and the thin monk looked embarrassed. "Officer Huo doesn't know that the young people in our two villages have gone out to work, and the village is full of old, weak and disabled people. We are wondering if we can ask the villagers of Hushan Village for advice."

Fat Monk said proudly: "Don't worry, we can pay you. We will still pay you according to your previous price, ten yuan a day!"

"Please get out!" Huo Qianli's face suddenly turned cold, and he looked at the two people in shock with cold eyes, "What? Didn't you understand? Do you want me to tell you to get out?"

Are you kidding? Ten dollars a day. You think you are beautiful when you look like this!

The villagers of Hushan Village are building roads, which is their own business. Huo Qianli can give them ten yuan on behalf of the village, which is called a subsidy.

Your neighboring village wants to ask our villagers to do hard labor, paying them ten yuan a day, and pretending to be granting them a gift. Where is your shame?

Do you really think Huo Qianli is so easy to fool, and that he would agree to such a stupid thing just by flattering you?

The good-tempered Huo Qianli lost interest in continuing to deal with this kind of person and directly asked him to leave.

Who would have thought that the two of them hadn't moved, and at the same time, the thin monk leaned back, his attitude suddenly becoming a little more arrogant, "Officer Huo, we are negotiating with you in a friendly way, don't refuse a toast and then drink a penalty!"

The fat monk next to him also snorted, "Just to remind you, we don't have much experience, so we are slow in building the road. It will take us three to five months to build it. If it delays your transportation, don't blame us!"

"Wow! Liu Siwa, Zhang Pingwa, you have become so powerful! How dare you come to my Hushan Village to threaten us!"

Gu Daqiang sneered, "You think I'm in a good mood now and I have to deal with people, right?"

Bang!

The door was kicked open and Zhan Baoxing rushed in angrily, "You son of a bitch! You dare to come to our village to cause trouble? Do you believe that I will tear down your son of a bitch village committee?"

Beside him, the good old man Gu Chengde also had an angry look on his face and silently raised the brick in his hand.

"Everyone! Everyone! Let's talk it over nicely!"

"That's right, let's talk it over nicely!"

The two men jumped up immediately, stretched out their hands to block and stepped back.

The thin monk shouted at Huo Qianli: "Cadre Huo, Cadre Huo, you are a college student, you have a bright future, don't mess around!"

Gu Daqiang rolled up his sleeves and said, "What does it have to do with Officer Huo? I'm not happy with you and I want to beat you up. Anyway, you've been beaten up by me since you were a child. I'm helping you relive your youthful memories. You should thank me!"

The thin monk trembled with fear, "Officer Huo, tell them to stop, and we will tell you the truth!"

Huo Qianli winked at everyone and they stopped, then Zhan Baoxing and Gu Chengde also sat in the meeting room.

The two sighed and said honestly, "It's true that Secretary Zheng called us to the town yesterday and told us to go to An Yi. It's also true that he called us to repair the road. It's said that the county leader's car chassis was damaged. Then he asked why Hushan Village could repair the road, but these villages couldn't?"

Huo Qianli remained calm. On the surface, this was indeed a case of them sitting at home while the pot came from the sky.

But essentially, it is because they are lazy in governance and do not take the interests of the villagers into consideration. Otherwise, with such a good opportunity as the neighboring Hushan Village, couldn't they have done it by copying others?

If they had paid more attention, this bad road would have been repaired long ago.

Fat Monk sighed, "We actually know that building a road is a good thing, but the problem is that the people in the village don't listen to us at all!"

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