His eyes swept over the people involved in the fight who were being questioned by the police station officers not far away. "What's more, this is really not a trivial matter."

He looked away and looked at the village cadres headed by Gu Daqiang. "This may seem like just a simple fight, but it shows that everyone takes this matter seriously. If we don't take it seriously and make a big deal about it, more things may happen in the future. After all, it is difficult for us to be absolutely fair in the division of resources."

The good old man Gu Chengde was a little surprised, "Not really?"

"As for that." Deputy Mayor Xiao Yao, who had hurried over and listened to half of the talk, said sullenly, "In essence, this is a dispute over interests. The fact that a dispensable bamboo forest can be fought over like this shows that everyone has high expectations for the future of the base and no one wants to suffer losses. Similar things are likely to happen again during the next large-scale construction."

"It's not very likely, it's definitely possible!" The person who answered was Gu Daqiang. He understood and agreed with Huo Qianli and Xiao Yao's concerns immediately. His bald face became serious. "In the past, everyone in our village fought over land, houses, and bamboo forests. In the end, it was all about profit. But later, these things didn't bring profit, so everyone stopped fighting. But now that they are worth money, do you think people will fight over them like they did back then?"

Everyone looked at each other, their eyes were somewhat solemn.

Because Gu Daqiang's words were easy to understand, they understood and were convinced;

Moreover, because I recalled some things that happened in the past, I couldn't help but feel a little worried.

The countryside has always been a complicated place. There are people who are simple, honest, strong and hardworking, but there are also people who are petty, aggressive, treacherous and cruel.

In the legal fringe of those days, the social relations built on clan and blood ties were extremely fragile in the face of life and death interests.

In those days, it was not uncommon for people to lose their lives over a piece of land or an irrigation ditch, but it was definitely not extremely rare.

After hearing what Gu Daqiang said, Huo Qianli's eyes turned, "Let's leave this to the comrades at the police station. Director Jiang, go and tell them not to expand the matter and just handle it according to the usual practice."

Jiang Hengyu nodded and left. Huo Qianli said, "Let's go back to the village committee and discuss it first."

Naturally, everyone had no objection and surrounded Huo Qianli and Xiao Yao to go to the village committee.

After returning to the reception room of the village committee and sitting down, Huo Qianli said with a smile: "Everyone, tell me and Mayor Xiao about the disputes in the village in the past."

Everyone started talking at once. It seemed that those stories were vividly engraved in their memories. Even today when they have no worries about food and clothing and live a prosperous life, they can still easily recall them in their entirety.

Huo Qianli and Xiao Yao listened in silence for a while. The more they listened, the more frightened and shocked they became.

Huo Qianli grew up in an orphanage, and Xiao Yao came from an ordinary citizen family. They were naturally very familiar with today's rural areas, but they still had little knowledge of the more difficult rural times in the early years.

After frowning and thinking for a while, Huo Qianli said to Gu Daqiang: "Director Gu, please help me invite Mr. Gu Chengrong over."

Gu Daqiang did as he was told without hesitation. Just as he was about to call someone to go, Huo Qianli said, "Wait, why not invite all four members of the Red and White Council together."

More than ten minutes later, accompanied by the roar of motorcycles, the four old men came to the reception room of the village committee.

The village cadres quickly made room for the four elderly people to sit down.

Gu Chengrong looked a bit old now, but these rural elderly people were still strong and healthy. He forced a smile on his skinny face, "Officer Huo, what do you want us old guys to do?"

Huo Qianli smiled slightly and said, "I would like to invite the four of you to give a lecture."