"Be careful with how you address people." Su Nan's face turned cold and she looked at him with her arms folded.

Xiao Fuqiang thought of the gossipy women who were taken away by the police not long ago. He knew that the woman in front of him was not easy to mess with. He curled his lips and decided not to bother with her, so he turned his attention back to Xiao Heguo.

"Today, you must give us an agreement. If you really don't want to, you must write a letter of guarantee. If those two guys can't get fertilizer and seeds, you will step down and give your position to someone who is capable and has big guys in mind."

"You're not talking about yourself, are you?" Gao Zhongbin said indifferently, directly pointing out Xiao Fuqiang's little thoughts.

Xiao Fuqiang did not hesitate and nodded in acknowledgement, and said firmly: "Hiding the truth from the masses, is this what a cadre should do? Now that we have discovered the truth and it can no longer be concealed, they have told us. It is really laughable."

"If I were the captain, I would definitely not do such a thing. I would definitely tell everyone and then we would work together to find a solution."

Once this was said, it received support from a large number of people, because no one wants to be kept in the dark, but hopes to know the truth from the beginning.

"It's not that I didn't tell you, this is an order issued by the emperor to avoid causing panic and to prevent some people from desperately trying to find some folk remedies to solve the problem. This is not right."

Xiao Heguo and Xiao Hejun tried to persuade them earnestly for a long time, but no one was willing to listen.

"Even though I'm an illiterate person, I know that we must respect the interests of the masses and care about every little thing. We ordinary people have lived for most of our lives just to have enough food and clothing, right? Now the rice seedlings have become like this during your term of office. No matter what, you can't shirk your responsibility."

Xiao Fuqiang ignored everything else and just grabbed onto one point and refused to let go, as if he would not give up until he brought Xiao Heguo down.

"The masses' freedom is important, but why do cadres and leaders exist in every country, company or village? It is so that when something big or small happens, there will be people who understand reason and science to help make decisions, so that things don't become a mess."

Su Nan couldn't bear it anymore, so he stood up and spoke loudly.

Seeing no one responded, Su Nan continued, "None of us wanted the rice seedlings to be like this, but since something has happened, we have to find a way to solve it instead of arguing here about whose fault it is and why the higher-ups are hiding it from everyone."

Still silence.

"Uncle, you are the most emotional so far. Do you have any good ideas to solve the rice seedling problem? If you do, I believe no one will compete with you for the position of captain."

Su Nan looked at Xiao Fuqiang, who was keeping his head down and not speaking, and without warning threw the conversation to him.

"I……"

Before Xiao Fuqiang could finish his words, Xiao Heguo interrupted him: "Su Zhiqing is right. As long as you can find a way to restore the rice seedlings, I will give you my position as the team leader."

Hearing this, Xiao Fuqiang's eyes lit up and his eyeballs rolled rapidly in his sockets, but as a farmer he had never encountered such a situation in his life, how would he know any way to save the rice seedlings?

After thinking for a while, Xiao Fuqiang hesitated and said, "Are you serious?"

"Don't take it seriously. The villagers are watching here. How can I lie to you?" Xiao Heguo patted his chest with a serious face.

"That's right, we all testify for you."

"Give Xiao Heguo a hundred guts, he wouldn't dare to break his promise."

"Fuqiang, if you have a solution, please tell me now."

The villagers kept urging.

Seeing Xiao Fuqiang like this, Village Chief Xiao was a little unsure whether he really had a solution, so he also said: "Fuqiang, do you have a solution?"

"I don't think so." Xiao Fuqiang said with a stiff face, thinking to himself: If I miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I don't know if I can become the team leader next time.

"That is, we can pull out all the rice seedlings in the field and then plant new ones."

As soon as he finished speaking, he was sneered at by Xiao Fangchi.

"Uncle Fuqiang said that lightly. Don't you think about how long it would take to pull out this batch of seedlings, how long it would take to cultivate a new batch of seedlings, and how long it would take to arrange for people to plant them? Not to mention the time and effort, can you guarantee that the new rice seedlings will not have the same problem as now?"

"Then tell me, what can we do?" Xiao Fuqiang's face turned red and he raised his neck to retort.

"The father has already given a scientific method, and now we just have to wait for its implementation." Xiao Heguo's expression had changed from its original gentleness to expressionless, even a little angry, and his hands were clenched tightly.

"The company chose to conceal the information because it did not want to cause panic and make everyone live in fear every day. Moreover, they had already invited experts to look at the rice seedlings and arranged for people to go to the county town to buy fertilizer and seeds.

What we ordinary people need to do is to trust the public, the country and the party, and wait quietly for news. Even if we fail in the end, the higher-ups will not watch us starve to death."

Su Nan then expressed her own views. After she finished speaking, many educated youth nodded in agreement, and many villagers also chattered, saying that they were right.

Seeing that the wind was turning to one side, Xiao Fuqiang and Village Chief Xiao could no longer sit still. The atmosphere they had worked so hard to stir up could not be ruined by just a few words.

"These are two different things. What we are talking about is who will bear this responsibility? It costs money to buy fertilizers and seeds, but that has to come from us ordinary people." Xiao Fuqiang was relentless, and the muscles on his face trembled up and down with his excitement.

"Natural disasters and man-made disasters, who could have predicted that this would happen? Don't make a fuss here, Sima Zhao's intentions are known to everyone." Su Nan's charming face was now filled with disgust for the man that was difficult to conceal.

"Little girl, you are the only one stirring up trouble here all day, right? Let me tell you, it is not the turn of a newly arrived educated youth like you to meddle in the affairs of our Xiaojia Village." Village Chief Xiao was so angry that he was shaking all over, and he almost choked on his breath as he pointed at Su Nan.

The people around him immediately surrounded him, fearing that something might happen to him.

"I didn't interfere. I just told the truth. Why don't the educated youth have the right to speak?" Su Nan curled his lips and waited until Village Chief Xiao had recovered and realized that nothing serious had happened before he started to retort.

Before they could think of anything to say in response, they heard a deafening sound coming from the road not far away, and at the same time two beams of dazzling light shone over them.

It's a big truck!

A child immediately ran over with curiosity, exclaiming: "Wow, a big car, a big car."

The most luxurious car the villagers had ever seen was the tractor that they had bought at great expense, so when they saw this huge truck that they had never seen before, their faces were filled with surprise and curiosity.

"Let's go take a look first."

"What a great guy! What are you doing in our village?"

"Just ask and you'll know."

Everyone now just wants to go to the village entrance to watch the excitement and no one cares about anything else.

Liu Yu and Xiao Fangyun helped Su Nan up and ran towards the village entrance. Along the way, Su Nan felt that his feet never touched the ground and he was completely carried.