What?
A new county party secretary is coming to Huichuan County, and he's even supporting us in running collective enterprises?
These words immediately reassured the anxious people. If there's no support from above, I'm afraid we'll make money but won't have a chance to spend it!
Although everyone present was decades older than Li Xiangdong, they all subtly seemed to regard him as their leader.
At this point, no one should bring up seniority or age; whoever has the ability is the leader.
Looking at his calm and composed second son, Li Jin felt a mix of emotions. His second son had been mischievous since childhood, so he hadn't placed much hope on him. Instead, he had high hopes for his eldest son.
But when he thought about Li Weijun, who left without looking back, and then looked at Li Xiangdong, who was now surrounded by people, he realized that he was not only blind and mindless, but also had problems with his parenting methods.
Regardless of how devastated Li Jin felt, there was a sudden knock on the door.
The group exchanged glances. Liu Yuliang, who was closest to the door, got up and opened it. Standing outside was Xiao Wang, a staff member of the investigation team. He wore the same forced smile as Sun Zhiqing. "Captain Li, Team Leader Sun said that if you've rested enough, you should go to the brigade headquarters!"
“Let’s go, Dad. Our brigade headquarters in Lijiapo has been taken over by a group of outsiders.”
Li Xiangdong knew this Xiao Wang very well. In his previous life, Xiao Wang rose through the ranks and eventually became the mayor of Wudaohe Town. Mayor Wang didn't know how to do anything else but sell land, so he was known as "Land Seller Wang".
When Xiao Wang heard Li Xiangdong's sarcastic remark, he chuckled coldly, "Let's go! Let's see if you can still be so sharp-tongued in a bit!"
A large group of people walked towards the brigade headquarters. When they met someone on the way, Liu Changhai and Li Kang greeted each other loudly, "Are we going to the brigade headquarters? The work group is going to interrogate us!"
The news spread like wildfire, and before Li Xiangdong and the others even arrived, the commune members who lived near the brigade headquarters were already waiting for them in the brigade headquarters' courtyard.
Xiao Wang told Li Jin to go inside and talk to him alone. Before Li Jin even stepped through the door, someone in the crowd shouted, "Captain, you're only getting into trouble because you wanted everyone to have enough to eat. If someone's targeting you, they're targeting us!"
"Yes! Don't worry, Captain. If anyone tries to arrest you and put you in jail, I'll go in your place!"
"I'll do it for you too!"
...
The crowd shouted, some old and some young. Li Jin felt a surge of warmth in his heart. He suppressed the tears welling up in his eyes, and without turning around, he simply stretched out his right hand and waved behind him.
The door closed.
A sobbing sound came from the crowd, which moved Li Xiangdong...
With everyone crying like that, he felt like his father wouldn't come out alive once he entered the house.
It really can't be that bad...
Sun Zhiqing sat at the table against the light, and when Li Jin entered the room, he politely gestured for him to sit down.
Li Jin glanced at Sun Zhiqing, who was sitting in his usual spot, but said nothing and sat down on his own.
Neither of them spoke, staring at each other intently. After a few minutes, Sun Zhiqing coughed and said, "Brother Li Jin, I heard that our brigade has finished harvesting wheat this year?"
"Yes!" Li Jin replied succinctly.
"Your brigade has really had a bumper harvest! All the other brigades in our county of over three hundred suffered disasters except for yours!"
"Mmm!"
Where did you buy your combine harvester?
"Dongfang City".
"How much?"
"Five hundred per unit."
"Your brigade is quite wealthy! This is a thousand yuan!"
"My son borrowed it from someone else."
"Borrowed?" Sun Zhiqing raised an eyebrow. "I doubt it! A thousand yuan, not a dollar, not even a dime, who has that? And who would lend it to a child for no reason?"
“Captain Li, you must be familiar with the trick of ‘openly repairing the plank road while secretly crossing the Chencang’, right?” Sun Zhiqing approached Li Jin and, even though there was no one else in the room, he whispered, “Let’s not beat around the bush. Did you secretly embezzle the brigade’s money and buy the harvester under your son’s name?”
Li Jin glared at him angrily, "Do you think our Lijiapo brigade has a thousand yuan? Besides, if I had a thousand yuan, why wouldn't I just buy it in the name of the brigade headquarters?"
“Oh dear, accounts can be made real or fake. As for why you didn’t buy them in the name of the brigade headquarters?” Sun Zhiqing patted Li Jin’s shoulder with his fan, “If these two harvesters were collective property of the brigade, how could you have accepted the three thousand yuan from Deputy Director Zhang?”
"How did you divide it? Oh, I heard from your brigade members that Li Xiangdong took one thousand, and the rest went to the brigade, right?"
“One thousand, just like that, it went from being collective property to your Li Jin family’s private property.”
"Not only did you create a reputation for your son as a child prodigy, but you also successfully laundered the 1,000 yuan. Captain Li, that was a brilliant move of yours!"
Li Jinzhen never expected that Sun Zhiqing could fabricate such a story out of thin air. If he hadn't been the protagonist, he would have believed it!
"Even if what you're saying isn't true, please tell me, where did I get this thousand yuan from?"
"Speaking of this thousand yuan, I have to mention another secret of yours, Captain Li, that you can't reveal to others."
Sun Zhiqing pressed his advantage, "You're making canned fish now, claiming it's for your own commune members, but that's probably not true!"
"Actually, you don't need to lie anymore. Some commune members and work teams have already confessed that your canned goods were meant to be sold!"
"You, as the team leader, surely understand the policies of our county?"
"You knowingly committed this wrong! You're compounding your mistake!"
Listening to Sun Zhiqing's passionate speech, Li Jin felt relieved. It seemed that the working group was only targeting these two points and hadn't pinned any indelible accusations of romantic entanglements on him.
Li Jin breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Sun Zhiqing, who was spitting as he spoke, and asked, "So, what do you think I should do?"
My guess was right!
Sun Zhiqing was overjoyed. He really hadn't expected Li Jin to admit defeat in the first round, which saved him a lot of trouble.
He slowly walked up to Li Jin, his face showing an expression of camaraderie. "Brother, do as I say, and I guarantee you'll still be able to hold onto your position as captain."
"Oh? I'll listen to you?"
"Yes, if you don't listen to me now, who else can you listen to?"
“Listen to me, first return the three thousand yuan to Chairman Hu, hand over the two combine harvesters to the county, and keep 20% of this year’s wheat harvest for you, the rest will be handed over to the county as public grain for unified allocation.”
Sun Zhiqing was too smug, thinking that Li Jin had easily given in, and revealed all his demands.
"This is blatant robbery! I'd like to agree, but I'm afraid the people of Lijiapo won't!"
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