Chapter 195 Hot Potato
"Zhou Yong, two pigs died in the farm..."
The pigs were fine in the morning, but not long after they finished eating, two of them started foaming at the mouth and stopped breathing.
After listening to Zhao Chunhua's statement, Li Caiyun said, "Sister-in-law, it's not swine fever, is it?"
Zhao Chunhua shook her head: "I don't know if it's swine fever. Now I can only ask Zhou Yong to go over and take a look..."
Zhou Yong left home with Zhao Chunhua without saying a word. When they arrived at the farm, the first thing he did was to disinfect the pigpen, in order to prevent the spread of swine fever.
Nothing could be seen from the appearance of the two dead pigs, so Zhou Yong rode his bicycle to Hongqi Commune.
He called the Animal Husbandry Bureau and explained what happened to his leader, hoping that he would send a veterinarian to take a look at the situation.
The Animal Husbandry Bureau takes this matter very seriously. If it is swine fever, it would be a terrible thing if it spreads.
That afternoon, people from the Animal Husbandry Bureau drove over and, after inspection, confirmed that it was swine fever.
Fortunately, Zhou Yong disinfected the pigsty in advance, and the veterinarian arrived in time, so the swine fever was prevented from spreading.
The people from the Animal Husbandry Bureau stayed at the Huaixi Village farm for three days and returned on the fourth day.
During these three days Zhou Yong accompanied the people from the Animal Husbandry Bureau at the breeding farm. When he returned home he found out that someone had died in the village because of the family planning policy.
In a family, the young wife was pregnant with her second child. The people from the family planning office advised her to have an abortion, but she was unwilling to go. During the struggle, the wife hit her forehead on the door frame and died.
"Where are the people from the Family Planning Office?"
"They're all gone."
Someone died, and the people from the Family Planning Office returned to the county feeling guilty, while the family of the deceased went to the police station.
Even if this matter were brought to court, the deceased would not be in the right. After all, the policy was there and it was the consequence of her resistance.
Li Hongjun said without thinking: "It's really a sin."
Whether it is evil or not is not something they can decide, but the source of this matter lies with Qi Shurong.
"Where's Qi Shurong?"
Li Hongjun curled his lips: "She didn't come to the team yesterday. I guess she hid herself..."
It was Qi Shurong who brought people from the Family Planning Office to the deceased's home. Although this was Qi Shurong's job, she shouldn't have done it so ruthlessly.
After all, there is no sterilization in the village, and there are many pregnant women. It is obvious that Qi Shurong is picking on the weak.
Zhou Yong narrowed his eyes and said, "Qi Shurong's career as the women's director has come to an end."
Li Hongjun looked at Zhou Yong: "How do you think we can get her off?"
Qi Shurong had no regard for the friendship of her fellow townsmen and had no humanity at all. She used chicken feathers as a token of authority and did not think about what would become of her once the family planning trend was over.
Zhou Yong smiled, and the two of them whispered to each other. Li Hongjun's eyes lit up and he nodded continuously.
In the afternoon, the deceased's maternal family went to Qi Shurong's house and made a scene, which alarmed the public security brigade. Li Hongjun reluctantly took people over.
Qi Shurong was beaten to the point where she was barely breathing, but the deceased's family still refused to let it go.
The incident had a very bad impact and Qi Shurong was sent to the hospital for treatment. During that time, the family of the deceased went to the hospital and beat her again.
The police station intervened, but for this kind of situation, they could do nothing about the deceased's family except detaining the deceased's family for a few days.
After all, it was Qi Shurong who brought people and opened the door, and it was also a corpse and two lives lost. It is normal for the deceased's family to feel resentful and make a fuss.
Qi Shurong's old injuries had not yet healed and she suffered new ones. Finally, she took the initiative to resign.
She can't do this job because if she continues, it will bring trouble to her whole family.
Qi Shurong resigned and the position of director of women's affairs became vacant. No one wanted this hot potato.
Xu Jianmin was in a dilemma. He was working on family planning, and the work could not be carried out in Huaixi Village without a women's director.
"Zhou Yong, are you deliberately trying to make things difficult for me?"
It has been more than ten days since Qi Shurong left her job, but Huaixi Village has yet to elect a women's director.
Xu Jianmin had no choice but to call Zhou Yong for a talk.
"Brother, what are you talking about? How could I be so mean to you?"
Xu Jianmin glared at Zhou Yong and handed him a cigarette: "Don't tell me that Qi Shurong's resignation has nothing to do with you."
Zhou Yong didn't feel guilty at all. He held the cigarette under his nose and sniffed it: "Brother, what are you talking about? Qi Shurong resigned because she was not qualified for the job. What does it have to do with me?"
Xu Jianmin puffed out smoke and said, "Don't come here."
Zhou Yong shrugged his shoulders, picked up the matchbox on the desk and lit the cigarette in his hand.
"Tell me, who will take over as the director of women's affairs? If there is no one, choose between your wife and your mother-in-law..."
Zhou Yong's mouth twitched, and he took a puff of cigarette: "Brother, do you want to kill me?"
Who doesn’t know nowadays that being a woman leader is an offensive job?
No matter whether Li Caiyun or Zhang Guifang serves as the women's director, the Li family will never have a peaceful life again.
Xu Jianmin smiled faintly: "You forced me to do this."
Zhou Yong took a deep breath and said, "Brother, to be honest, I can't do anything that would destroy someone's descendants..."
Family planning is now strictly enforced. In the future, anyone who has anything to do with family planning will be in big trouble.
Following Zhou Yong's words, Xu Jianmin couldn't help but sigh.
"I understand what you said, but you have to understand me. Do you think I am willing to do something that will destroy other people's descendants? I am forced to do this because of work..."
Zhou Yong certainly understands Xu Jianmin, but he also has his own difficulties.
The brothers looked at each other, with helplessness in their eyes.
"Brother, the New Year is coming soon, let's talk about this after the New Year!"
Xu Jianmin nodded: "That's the only way."
It was the same thing the year before last. As for how to solve this problem after the New Year, we can only take it one step at a time.
Zhou Yong left Xu Jianmin and went to the vegetable market to buy a few pounds of meat.
On the way home, Zhou Yong met Zhao Min and Zhou Ling.
"Brother, wait a minute."
Zhou Yong stopped his bicycle and Zhao Min stopped his bicycle next to his brother-in-law.
Zhou Ling got off the bicycle, opened the triangular bag hanging on the handlebars, and took out some candies and fruits.
Zhou Yong looked at the snacks that Zhou Ling handed to him but did not reach out to take them.
“The children have enough to eat.”
Zhou Ling knew that her eldest brother's family had everything they needed, so she said, "Brother, why are you like this? This is what I bought for Niuniu and the others, not for you..."
Ever since Zhou Ling married Zhao Min, she would buy food for Zhou Kexin and her brother every time she went to the supply and marketing cooperative. If she saw any of her siblings while shopping at the village grocery store, she would buy some snacks for the children.
Although not much is bought each time, it is a token of Zhou Ling’s thoughtfulness.
Zhou Yong thought about it and took the snacks, and also said thank you. Zhou Ling smiled and turned back to Zhao Min.
He glanced at his sister and brother-in-law, then got on his bike and left.
Zhao Min looked at his brother-in-law and said, "My brother always has a cold face when he sees you. I have never seen him smile at you..."
Zhao Min knew all the grievances between Zhou Yong and the Zhou family. He believed that it was the right thing for his brother-in-law to sever ties with the Zhou family.
The idea that Zhou Yong had to become a live-in son-in-law because of poverty was a joke to Zhao Min.
Whose family in Huaixi Village was not poor a few years ago?
But it was only the Zhou family that forced Zhou Yong to become the son-in-law of the Li family.
When this incident happened, although Zhao Min was still a teenager, he sympathized with Zhou Yong's situation at that time.
Zhou Ling glared at Zhao Min and said in a choking tone: "Don't meddle in the affairs between us siblings..."
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