The house was quiet; everyone was either at work, at school, or in the fields. Apart from Li Jin and his son Li Xiangdong, there was no one else around.

The big yellow dog that the family had kept for seven or eight years lay down at Li Jin's feet, panting and sticking its tongue out at Li Xiangdong.

Li Xiangdong felt that to prevent the tragedy that happened to Sister Guoling in his previous life from happening again, they still had to rely on the power of the masses.

"Dad, the other day, Guoqing and I came back from watching a movie one night, and guess what we saw? At the bridge in our village, we saw Pan Jiwen leading a bunch of local thugs blocking Guoling's way. That short, stinky scoundrel Pan Jiwen insists on dating Guoling!"

"Is that so? Why didn't you say so sooner! Did Guoling tell her parents?" Li Jin suddenly opened his eyes and said angrily.

Li Jin, Li Guoling, and Li Guoqing's father, Li Chang, grew up together. They were childhood friends who played together, climbed on roofs, and fished in the river. Li Chang was an honest man and Li Jin's little follower. Later, Li Guoqing became Li Xiangdong's little follower for decades.

Later, however, he was won over by Zhou Yuyu, Wang Shuli, and Song Deyi, and thus became somewhat distant from Guoqing.

"Please don't worry, listen to me!"

Li Xiangdong pulled up a stool and sat down opposite Li Jin. "Of course, Sister Guoling disagreed. We told Pan Jiwen and his gang to get lost, but that lackey Pan Gazi pushed Guoqing over the head. Later, everyone was so angry that they fought with them. We thought they would behave themselves, but these past two days, they've been loitering around Guoqing's house. What if Sister Guoling gets bullied by them in our village? Where will you, the village head, put your face? How will you face Uncle Chang and Aunt Chang?"

"Pan Jiwen's mother still dares to come to you to complain? Tell me about beating Pan Jiwen, weren't we acting bravely and punishing evil?"

"She even dared to take our eggs!" Li Xiangdong was furious at the thought.

Having eaten chicken, duck, fish, meat, abalone, shark fin, and seafood for so many years in his previous life, Li Xiangdong never thought eggs were delicious. He was reborn back to this era for only three days, and for those three days he ate sorghum cakes and pickled vegetables every day, and his mouth was so bland that he almost felt like a bird was coming out of its shell.

After much pleading, his mother finally agreed to cook him a special egg, but she ended up taking all the eggs she had saved up in the egg basket for half a month.

"Dad, you know, Pan Jiwen and his gang of hooligans always said the girls in the village were so unsophisticated, with mud on their legs and sorghum-covered hair. They used to go to the county to harass the city girls, so why are they now eating the grass near their own burrow?"

Li Jin took a deep drag on his cigarette and squinted his eyes.

The second son didn't know about this; he had only heard rumors about it.

Recently, for some reason, there have been many more auxiliary police officers and police officers in the city, arresting hooligans and thieves everywhere.

In the past, every time I went to a meeting in the county, I would see hooligans whistling at young women on the street, but now it's rare to see that.

Could it be that a high-ranking leader is coming to inspect the county?

Li Jin's thoughts went far ahead.

If his villagers were bullied and insulted by hooligans, and things escalated, he would be in jeopardy as the brigade leader, not to mention his transfer to the pumping station.

Li Jin was a retired soldier who was assigned to work as the director of a liquor factory in Yongxing County. He thought he would settle down in Yongxing County for the rest of his life, and his children and wife also moved there to settle down.

Two years ago, he returned to his hometown of Huichuan County for some reason. However, no liquor factory in Huichuan County offered him a position as factory director. It was a one-person-one-job situation.

After waiting and waiting for a suitable position, they decided to stay in the village. At the prime of his life and having seen much of the world, the team members unanimously elected him as the team leader.

Li Jin originally thought he would be a brigade leader who toiled in the fields for the rest of his life, but then his life took a turn for the better. His old comrade-in-arms, Tang Yunping, who had enlisted with him and carried a gun, was promoted to executive deputy director of the Huichuan County Water Resources Bureau. He was just waiting for the old director to retire in six months so he could become the director.

Legend has it that the four most important bonds in life are "fighting alongside each other, studying together, visiting prostitutes together, and sharing the spoils together."

In Li Xiangdong's opinion, the last two sentences were simply far-fetched and superfluous additions.

Having fought side-by-side, sharing life and death on the battlefield, forging a deep friendship where one truly entrusts their life to another. The bond formed between comrades in the desperate situation of fighting for the country and for life is incomparable to things like prostitution or dividing spoils!

Li Jin and Tang Yunping share this kind of camaraderie that allows them to entrust each other with their lives!

The two hadn't seen each other for many years since their demobilization, and they never expected to meet again in Huichuan County. After learning about Li Jin's situation, Tang Yunping took his work to heart. Just a few days ago, he learned that the old station chief of the pumping station in Wudahe Commune was about to retire, so he immediately asked his old comrade to make preparations and do some lobbying to get him transferred there.

Of course, this is based on Tang Yunping's full understanding and trust in Li Jin's work ability.

...

This is no simple matter!

Did Pan Jiwen come to Lijiapo to harass girls on his own initiative, or was it instigated by his father, Pan Dachun?

snort!

Pan Dachun became the brigade leader by virtue of his brother-in-law, who was the head of the Wudahe Commune. He may well have had his eye on the position of head of the pumping station this time.

What does Pan Dachun have to compare himself to?

They can't even recognize all two hundred characters!

He listens to his wife when it comes to family matters, and to his wife and brother-in-law when it comes to village matters. He has no big ideas and all he does is smile when he sees people!

But he has a brother-in-law who is the president of the company!

A local official is more powerful than a distant one; this is something Li Jin can't compare to!

Li Jin snorted heavily, stood up and was about to leave when he turned to Li Xiangdong at the door and said, "Xiao Erzi, you and your friends keep a close eye on things. If anyone comes to our village to cause trouble again, beat them up if you can, and if you can't, come back and call the adults right away."

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