Perhaps Tang Yaoyao is destined for good fortune; that district head hasn't left yet.
As the district chief drove up, he stood on the roof of the car, picked up a megaphone, and shouted, "Put down your weapons! Put down your weapons!"
Police followed behind, sirens blaring as they passed by.
A row of police cars were parked here.
The locals, who had been cold and unapproachable just moments before, were now panicking, clutching their sticks and unsure of what to do.
The smarter ones would drop the stick and run away.
They hurriedly ran away.
The police arrived in time, apprehended several key criminals, and pinned them to the ground, unable to move.
If we were to truly pursue the responsibility of those two hundred-plus people, there probably wouldn't be enough prisons to hold them all.
The locals, who had been indifferent to Tang Yaoyao, changed their attitude after being arrested by the police.
"Why are you pinning me to the ground? I'm a good citizen, I haven't done anything immoral."
The man was in his forties, with dark, rough skin, and looked like someone who had worked in the fields for a long time.
"I have elderly parents to support and young children to raise. What will they do if I go to jail?"
He began to complain to the police officers.
More than a dozen people were caught.
They all changed their expressions extremely quickly.
He recounted how wronged he felt.
"I haven't done anything illegal, how can you arrest me? You're randomly arresting good people, you're trying to drive me to my death! Is there no law anymore?!"
The policeman said, "Shut up. What kind of self-inflicted injury act are you putting on now? You're the ones with the sticks, aren't you? You're the ones who gathered to cause trouble, aren't you? What do you know about the law?"
"I don't know! I don't know anything! Don't wrong me!"
They absolutely refuse to admit it, they absolutely refuse to admit that they caused trouble.
A dozen or so people lined up, shirking responsibility, their faces turning pale.
Moreover, they looked very honest and simple, not at all like roughnecks who wanted to fight.
"Ms. Tang, what do you want to do?" the policeman asked.
The district chief stood next to Tang Yaoyao and said kindly, "Miss Tang, they are honest people who don't know any rules. They probably thought you would offend them and acted in self-defense. It's nothing serious, so let it go. They also have families to support, and they are from the countryside. They are quite pitiful."
The district head seemed quite sympathetic towards them.
Tang Yaoyao didn't want to make things difficult for them, so she asked, "How many years have you been working here?"
This time they told the truth.
“I’ve been working here for five years.”
"I'll stay for three years."
"I just arrived."
The longest it's been is five years, and the shortest it's been is at least ten days or half a month.
"Why are you stopping us?" Tang Yaoyao asked.
Those people looked at each other, seemingly completely bewildered.
It seemed like they didn't know what Tang Yaoyao was talking about.
Finally, the middle-aged man who had been there for five years said, "We are all ordinary people here, and the people who come here are also ordinary people. Judging from your clothes and appearance, you are obviously rich."
In the past, some nouveau riche came to our area wanting to buy this land. They urged the factory owner to move the factory and sign contracts, acting arrogantly and completely disregarding our feelings. We were used to living here, so naturally we didn't want to, and the owner didn't want to either. When the nouveau riche couldn't be persuaded by gentle persuasion, they resorted to force.
He resorted to force, so we resorted to force too. Relying on our numbers, we finally drove them out. Out of self-preservation, we had no choice but to drive you out. You're disrupting our lives and forcing me to leave.
They spoke very pitifully.
They just felt that Tang Yaoyao and her group were bad people, businessmen, capitalists who didn't care about their livelihoods for profit.
That's why they would take action against them.
To prevent them from being unable to survive if this place is demolished.
The others chimed in, saying, "That's right. We're just ordinary folks. We can't fight you capitalists, so we have no choice but to band together and take action."
Looking at these people, Tang Yaoyao was only half-believing them: "Why don't you call the police?"
"Call the police?" He was surprised and chuckled. "If calling the police were effective, would we need to band together?"
"They completely ignored us!" he said, somewhat resentfully. "But they came at the crucial moment and handcuffed us here."
They mean they don't trust others.
They don't even trust the police.
That's really strange.
Tang Yaoyao asked again, "Are you telling the truth, or did someone teach you to say it like that?"
This possibility cannot be ruled out.
The scenes they just witnessed were real.
If they really are sticking together, then why don't we see them communicating at all, and why don't they seem to have a very warm relationship?
She had seen some news reports on television.
It's not that I'm talking about such remote places.
Instead, some are in more remote rural areas, where people live far away.
Those who traffic women buy them.
People in rural areas are very united, but they do some bad things that ruin a girl's life.
That's too tragic.
Although the nature of the two events is quite different, Tang Yaoyao suddenly thought of this scene.
They are not the type of people who would band together for warmth when trouble comes.
They paused for a moment, perhaps not expecting Tang Yaoyao to suddenly say such a thing.
The connection was abruptly severed.
“We are honest people, why would we lie? We are telling the truth. We have to be aware of our own safety.”
The district chief also said, "I don't think they were lying. This place is practically a slum. Who would spend so much time and effort to lie to you without knowing you were coming? It must have been premeditated."
The district head trusted them a lot.
Speak well of Tang Yaoyao.
She also spoke well of Fu Ziyi.
Fu Ziyi observed them for a while and said to Tang Yaoyao, "They are just ordinary people and pose no threat to us. What the district chief said is not without reason."
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