Huo Qianli nodded and said, "Thank you, Village Chief Xu."
"Not busy!" The leather jacket looked at him, "I have a condition. If the industrial park expands in the future, can you give priority to our village?"
Huo Qianli smiled bitterly, "I really have no say in this matter. I can only say that if the situation really arises, I will help you to the best of my ability!"
"I've had enough of your words. Who doesn't know that Officer Huo always keeps his word?"
Huo Qianli:......
Chen Tianming laughed, "Right, that's the right attitude to talk about things! In this case, let's wait for the test results from the hospital, and then we..."
As he was talking, the phone in his pocket rang. He smiled and said, "Speak of the devil, here comes the fight!"
He picked up the phone and talked to the other end. A villager ran in from outside and whispered something to the man in the leather jacket.
Chen Tianming put down the phone and looked at the leather jacket. "Have you received the news?"
The man in the leather jacket hummed and looked at Huo Qianli. "Officer Huo, the current situation is that the medical expenses at the hospital are 17,000 to 18,000 yuan. 20,000 yuan should be enough. Fortunately, he won't be disabled. Add in the cost of recuperation, rest, and the disfigurement on his forehead, and you can give me 26,000 yuan."
Chen Tianming also nodded, "Indeed, the injury is quite serious. This is the number reported by the hospital."
Huo Qianli nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go and talk to them."
Huo Qianli went to discuss with Gu Gang and his son, and the man in the leather jacket also went back to him and told everyone about the situation.
One man couldn't help but question: "Why don't you order more?"
The man who followed Leather Jacket in explained on his behalf, "You also need them to have money! Look at the families in Hushan Village. If this family hadn't made some money last year, they might not even be able to come up with 2,600 yuan if you asked them to!"
"Nick! He has nothing to borrow from. So many families in Hushan Village made money last year. He could just borrow from two or three families. Doesn't he have many relatives at home?"
"That's enough!" Leather Jacket held a cigarette in his mouth and looked at the injured man's parents. "Fourth brother, fourth sister-in-law, I have just explained it to you, and now I will tell you again. You should know what kind of background this cadre Huo has now. Not to mention the officials in the town, even the officials in the county have to help him. If we really ask for too much and make them angry, we will release him without paying a penny. Then we will fight!"
He took a puff of cigarette, and two streams of white mist came out of his nostrils. "The medical expenses are 17,000 to 18,000, plus 7,000 to 8,000 yuan for nutrition. It's not a loss. What do you think?"
The old couple had no choice but to nod.
Everything was finally agreed upon, but unexpectedly, the problem occurred on the side of old man Gu Gang.
When he heard that he still had to pay 26,000, the old man howled, "26,000, why didn't he just go rob a bank? You bastard, you want to pay tens of thousands for a fight, don't you have any conscience? I don't have money, but I have my life! Come on, kill me!"
Gu Daqiang had a blank expression on his face. "They don't want your life, they want Gu Gang's. It's easy if you don't want to pay the money. Let's meet in the classroom!"
The old man's lifelong dream was to have his son taken care of. He could no longer hold back his temper. His heart was bleeding. He looked at Huo Qianli with a face full of resentment, "Officer Huo, have you seriously talked to the others? Be honest. If the negotiation doesn't work, talk to someone else! Don't pretend to be generous and harm us poor people!"
Gu Daqiang's face darkened, and he could not help but yelled angrily, "Is it your turn to comment on what Officer Huo did? If you don't agree, go and do it yourself!"
The old man choked, his face wrinkled into a ball, and he looked at Gu Daqiang and Huo Qianli with sorrow, "But I really don't have any money at home! How about this, village chief, you help us out first, and I'll pay you back next year when the cooperative makes money again! Aren't you worried that we'll default on the debt?"
Gu Daqiang snorted coldly, "You are so good at calculating, why can't you raise a good son? This year your family just distributed more than 20,000 yuan, and you tell me you don't have money? Just now my son had money to go out to whore and drink, and you tell me you don't have money? I am a big bald man, not a sucker!"
The old man looked at Huo Qianli again, but before he could speak, Gu Daqiang stopped him from thinking, "If you dare to cheat Huo, do you believe that the people in the village will make sure you can't stay in Hushan Village tomorrow?"
The old man's plan failed, so he had to go in and discuss with Gu Gang again, and then invited Huo Qianli and Gu Daqiang in. Gu Gang pleaded, "Officer Huo, Village Chief, we really don't have that much money. I used the money we divided before to buy a mobile phone, and spent a few thousand extra. Now all my belongings add up to less than 20,000 yuan. I have a family to live and a baby to raise. It's not that I don't want to pay, but I really can't afford it!"
After these words came out, not to mention Gu Daqiang and Huo Qianli, even Gu Haitao who came along to broaden his horizons probably knew that it should be true.
The child is only two years old and he really can’t suffer from hunger and cold.
Gu Daqiang turned his head and looked at Huo Qianli with some inquiry, how about doing as we said before, helping them out with 10,000 or 15,000, and then deducting the money after this year's harvest?
What puzzled him was that Huo Qianli had a calm expression, as if he was thinking about something.
The old man was really anxious, and he bent his legs towards Huo Qianli, "Officer Huo, please have pity on us! We really don't have that much money! The child is still young, he can't go hungry every day! I beg you!"
Huo Qianli helped him up and said with embarrassment: "It's not that I don't want to help you, but this matter can easily set a bad example. No one is rich. If you are like this today, what will happen if others come to the village to ask for help tomorrow? If the village doesn't agree, there will be a conflict. If it agrees, the village only has that much funding, and it can't afford a few people to borrow! By then, the cooperative will be ruined!"
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