The crowd began to discuss the matter, saying, "This educated youth, Li, is so pitiful. I never expected the village secretary to be this kind of person."
Someone chimed in, "You don't know, I once saw him sneaking through the cornfield with Widow Liu from our village."
This statement caused a stir, and everyone looked surprised. Someone pressed, "Are you serious?"
The man nodded firmly; "Of course, if you ask me, the police should investigate whether the village secretary is embezzling village grain. Otherwise, how come he's so fat? Look at the brigade leader, he's also a village cadre, but he's so thin."
“If you put it that way, it’s quite possible. Zhang Cuilan in their family only does four or five work points a day, and Niu Tieguang can’t work for three days at a time, but their family still eats a lot of meat. I don’t believe it if you say he didn’t embezzle.”
The police heard this as well, and they asked the captain to check the accounts.
Unexpectedly, they actually found out some things; the village party secretary had embezzled a lot of work points from the villagers over the years.
His nephew was in charge of recording the work points. The two families colluded to deduct one or two work points from the work points of those in the village with bad class backgrounds or those with honest personalities. Over time, this happened.
They had a lot of extra work points, and they shamelessly distributed these work points among their own family members.
After the police investigated, they arrested the two men that same day, and Li Yanmei was identified as a victim by the police.
She wasn't arrested, but her reputation in the village was completely ruined.
The brigade leader had been in the village for so long, he understood things very well. Back then, those educated youths who tried to bribe him were refused, so they probably went to the village party secretary instead.
It's quite obvious that Li Yanmei was the one who actively pursued him.
But since it was ultimately the village secretary's place to avoid any underhanded dealings, he didn't bother to expose him.
But these educated youth have been too restless for the past six months or so, and thinking about this gives him a headache.
I plan to give these educated youth a good talking-to this afternoon, to prevent them from causing any more trouble.
He used the loudspeaker to announce that everyone should come to the brigade headquarters for a meeting after lunch.
After Su Li finished lunch and arrived at the brigade headquarters, Su Mu came over.
"Sis, have you eaten?"
Su Li walked towards Chen Shengnan, completely ignoring him and treating him like air.
Su Mu chased after her; "Sis, I can't stay here for long, can you please stop being angry with me?"
He came under the pretext of visiting Su Jiaojiao; otherwise, Su Guoqiang would never have been willing to ask the county revolutionary committee for a letter of introduction.
Even so, Su Guoqiang only gave him ten days off, and the train journey would take seven days, so he has to leave the day after tomorrow.
But he and Su Li haven't broken the ice yet, and he's getting a little anxious.
Chen Shengnan glanced at Su Mu. The boy did look somewhat like Su Li, but she could clearly sense Su Li's dislike, even disgust, towards him.
"Then leave. Who cares if you stay here?"
Su Mu walked to Su Li's side, grabbed her sleeve, and shook her arm, saying, "Sister, I was wrong. We've been siblings for so many years, please forgive me just this once."
Su Li shook off his hand as if it were something dirty; "Don't get in my way."
Su Mu's eyes showed grievance, and the corners of his eyes were red. His sister really didn't want to acknowledge him anymore.
Before Su Mu could say anything more, the captain's voice came.
"The reason we've urgently called this meeting today is because so much has happened in our village lately. I'll just say a few words. As the village head, I will do everything I can to help the village."
I assure everyone here that during my tenure, whether it was the Workers', Peasants', and Soldiers' University before or after, I will be fair, impartial, and transparent, and will not engage in any underhanded dealings. Please refrain from offering gifts or doing anything unnecessary. If you have any questions, please come directly to me for clarification. I hope you will all cooperate fully with my work in the future.”
Hearing this, Zhang Xia felt a pang of sadness. She shouldn't have listened to Zhao Meilan's instigation and gone to the village secretary; now she had lost both her wife and her money.
Zhao Meilan is the kind of person who won't do anything without a reason. If it were really that good, why wouldn't she go herself?
At the time, she couldn't see these things clearly.
I must stay away from such despicable people in the future.
After the captain finished speaking, Su Li turned to Chen Shengnan and said, "Would you like to come to my place and read a book for a while?"
Chen Shengnan shook her head; "I'll go there tomorrow. I have some things to take care of at the educated youth settlement today."
"Okay, I'll head back now."
Just as Su Li was about to leave, she heard Gou Sheng's voice: "Sister, wait!"
Su Li turned around and saw Gou Sheng wearing his old tattered cotton-padded jacket, which offered no protection against the wind and made her feel cold just looking at it.
In the instant she looked down, she also noticed that his shoes were torn, and his toes were almost sticking out.
"What's wrong?"
"Sister, I have a name now. I will be called Chen Xizhi from now on."
Who got it for you?
Gou Sheng hesitated and didn't speak. The name was given by Su Mu, who said that the name had a great origin, taking the two characters "Xi Zhi" from the ancient Wang Xizhi.
He said that Wang Xizhi was a very capable person, and he named him this in the hope that he could become even more capable in the future.
He himself thought the name sounded great, a hundred times better than Gou Sheng.
Su Li felt that the name Chen Xizhi sounded familiar. Since she transmigrated into the book, many plot points were different from the original novel.
She thought about the name Chen Xizhi carefully and suddenly remembered that he was the future richest man in China. He made his first fortune in the early 1980s by reselling radios and televisions, and then began to venture into real estate, catering and other businesses.
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