"I...I'm going out for a bit, Lao Wu. Thank you this time."
Qian Liulin stood up, lost his balance, and landed on the table, knocking over his chair with a loud thud.
Qian Liulin's hands were trembling, and he instinctively tried to help her up, but Wu Yi quickly stopped him, saying, "I'll take care of these. You go find someone."
"Okay, okay, I'll go find someone." Qian Liulin muttered to himself, a stern face on his face, and staggered out the door.
His mind was a complete mess at that moment, and he couldn't think straight at all; he just mechanically walked forward.
Upon seeing Xiao Yue arrive with a group of people, he snapped out of his daze and quickly regained his composure.
He absolutely cannot lose his composure, otherwise... he won't be able to do anything.
"Director Qian? Didn't Director Wu say..." Xiao Yue was still a little confused when she saw Qian Liulin. Wasn't Director Wu looking for Director Qian to discuss something? Why was Director Qian here?
"Oh, Director Qian already told me. You did a good job this time. Director Wu will take you there in a bit. Keep up the good work."
Qian Liulin remained gentle and refined, his eyes even more tender, a stark contrast to his earlier demeanor.
However, the hands hanging down below the sleeves had already been pinched raw by fingernails, and the smell of blood could be smelled.
"I will, Director Qian." Xiao Yue was so excited by Qian Liulin's encouragement that she almost saluted.
"Alright, you guys go ahead, I have other things to do."
"Okay, Director Qian."
As Qian Liulin watched Xiao Yue walk inside, his eyes were like an unyielding iceberg, chilling to the bone; getting close would cause frostbite.
Finally, take one last look, then firmly and quickly walk out.
He originally wanted to find Wang Daming and ask him to make a trip to Hongqi Village to inform Song Lili.
Once Song Lili finds out, she will surely be able to come up with a solution and get through this safely.
However, things just didn't go as planned. Yang Da was not there, and he left just five minutes before Qian Liulin arrived.
This caused Qian Liulin to lose his balance and almost kneel on the ground. His legs went weak and his face turned pale.
What should we do? What should we do now?
Wang Daming isn't here, so he can't go to Hongqi Village. Who else is there? Who else can help?
Qian Liulin stood in the supply and marketing cooperative in despair, suddenly feeling surrounded by three thousand feet of snow, the cold penetrating to his bones. He couldn't see a ray of sunshine, nor could he feel any warmth.
In this bustling place, who can help him?
Looking at the people with different expressions and busy with their own things, Qian Liulin felt desperate; he couldn't find anyone.
So many people, yet not one of them could sense his despair.
He could even hear people asking, "Could you lend me some of this fabric? I'm just making a shirt for my child, it won't take much."
"My baby is only a month old, so we really won't need much."
Qian Liulin walked out blankly, and finally, with a heavy heart, he thought that if all else failed, he would go to Hongqi Village himself.
No matter what, we must not let Wu Yi and his group find evidence that the people of Hongqi Village are outwardly compliant but inwardly defiant.
He only just found out that this is how Hongqi Village operates.
In the past, he might have praised him, but now he was too weak.
After leaving the supply and marketing cooperative, I looked for a bicycle to get to Hongqi Village faster.
The first thing that came to his mind was the post office and the mail carriers.
Those people do own bicycles.
He ran to the post office as fast as he could, but stopped abruptly just as he rushed inside, looking somewhat puzzled.
He thought he saw someone, someone from Hongqi Village, but he wasn't sure.
But there was no other way now, so he rushed over and grabbed the man's shoulder.
Qian Liulin's actions startled the man, who instinctively blocked her way, asking, "What...what are you doing?"
"Are you from Hongqi Village?" Qian Liulin had been to Hongqi Village twice and seemed to have seen this person before.
Wang Gui nodded hesitantly, "Yes, I'm from Hongqi Village." He seemed to recognize the man as an official who had visited the village before.
"That's good." Qian Liulin gave an awkward smile, his mood like a rollercoaster, soaring wildly and then plummeting, now jumping erratically.
“Go back to the village quickly and tell Song… tell the person who doesn’t want to live that there was a surprise inspection today. They know it was told by an educated youth.”
He didn't explain it very clearly, after all, there are people coming and going here, and it wouldn't be good to be too explicit.
He believed that as long as Song Lili heard it, she would understand what it meant.
Later, he remembered that Wang Daming seemed to have said that Song Lili's family lived close to the Heji family after she got married, so he simply said, "You should go find the Party Secretary."
"I...you, what did you say? I...I don't understand." Wang Gui was confused and somewhat frightened.
Qian Liulin didn't have time to explain anything to him right now. She practically ruthlessly pushed Wang Gui out of the post office.
He lowered his voice and roared, like an enraged leopard, "I didn't tell you. Go back now and tell them, and they'll understand."
"Otherwise, the entire Red Flag Village will suffer, remember that?" The last sentence was chilling and sinister.
Wang Gui was startled again; the whole village was in trouble?
This...isn't this scary?
"Hurry up, or Kai will be too late." Qian Liulin's eyes were bloodshot.
"Okay...okay..." Wang Gui was so frightened that he left the post office.
Later, the more I thought about it, the more uneasy I felt, and the more afraid that what that person said was true. I didn't dare to delay, so I ran to Hongqi Village without thinking about anything else.
That person just said that otherwise it would be too late, and we had to run, we had to run fast.
And so, Wang Gui raced along the dirt road that was also the same as Hongqi Town in Hongqi Village until he arrived at Hongqi Village.
When he reached the village entrance, he felt as if a huge stone had been placed in his chest, making his lungs feel suffocated and about to explode.
But he couldn't afford to delay, so he insisted on continuing to run, his mouth agape, like a stranded fish about to die from lack of oxygen.
Finally, just when he felt dizzy and his vision blurred, and he could barely see the road ahead, he arrived at the entrance of Daqing's house in the brigade.
He stumbled inside and collapsed in the yard.
"Wang Gui? What happened to you?" Li Weiguo asked in surprise, and quickly came over to help Wang Gui up.
Seeing his face covered in sweat, pale, and panting heavily with his mouth open, I found it even stranger.
"You ran here? But that shouldn't be the case. You shouldn't have ended up like this, going from the Fourth Brigade to the First Brigade."
Like this. It's like I've run several kilometers; I'm almost completely dehydrated.
"The...the...the...the...the...the...the...the...the...something...something happened." Wang Gui couldn't remember clearly, but he was panting and his words were broken.
Upon hearing that something had happened, Li Weiguo's expression changed, and he shouted to Yang Mei, "Quickly pour out a bowl of water first."
If it weren't something urgent, Wang Gui wouldn't be here half-dead; it seems something really has happened.
"Have a sip of water first, then you can talk." Otherwise, there's no way to explain what happened.
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