Liu Gang understood what he meant and was immediately surprised. "You want to save him? Do you know how much favors this will cost you?"
Li Xu sighed and said slowly, "No matter how much favors it costs, we can save him."
"Did he save your family's life?"
"About the same."
"Does he live in the city or in the country?"
"countryside."
"Then you don't have to worry. This time we're only targeting the city, and we won't arrest too many. Just three or five will be enough to deal with them."
Li Xu breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good. The stone in my heart can finally fall."
Liu Ganghao said with a smile, "Look how scared you are. To tell you the truth, even if he is caught, you won't need many favors to save him."
Li Xu understood without much thought, "Grandpa Liu is responsible for this?"
"Um."
Li Xu smacked his lips and sighed, "This is not an easy job."
Nowadays, there are basically no scammers who dare to pretend to be a Feng Shui master.
On the one hand, it is because of the high risk, and on the other hand, people's range of activities is limited, making it difficult to move around freely, and they can't set up stalls openly like before. This leads to most of Mr. Feng Shui's clients relying on referrals from others.
In this situation, if he doesn't have some real skills, the news will spread quickly. By then, who will introduce clients to him?
Therefore, most Feng Shui masters nowadays are genuine. If you make them angry, they might take revenge.
This is not a good thing for the Liu family.
"Everyone knows this is not an easy job, but there's nothing we can do about it. It's the old man's fault." Liu Gang's face was full of helplessness.
"Did Grandpa Liu say how he would treat them?"
"Educate them ideologically and make them conduct a profound self-examination."
After saying this, Liu Gang shut up. Li Xu thought he had forgotten the words, so he asked, "Did you forget the rest?"
"There's nothing else to do. There are only these two penalties."
Li Xu's mouth twitched, "You are not kidding me, are you?"
Although he really hoped that those Feng Shui masters who suffered misfortunes due to his influence would receive less punishment, he did not expect it to be so little.
Is this the punishment for engaging in feudal superstitious activities?
If this were reported to the higher-ups, they would probably wonder if there was something wrong with the thinking of the Tang County leaders, otherwise why would they be so biased towards them?
You should know that these two punishments usually exist as additional charges these days. For example, when someone is paraded through the streets or criticized, these two charges will be added as well.
If you single them out, it will only have a slight impact on the person being punished, or even completely resolve after a while.
To put it simply, it's no different from being punished by drinking three cups of wine...
"No kidding, that's what the old man told us."
"Should I write this in the report to the higher-ups?"
"Of course not. This is our internal punishment. The report to the higher-ups is a different version."
Li Xu was puzzled. "If that's the case, why arrest people? Can't we just report two names?"
"If it's possible, why would you tell me?" Liu Gang glanced at him and explained, "When reporting to the higher-ups, you have to clearly describe the family situation of the person being punished. If you make it up, you'll have to invent a whole family, which will easily lead to loopholes. So this person must be real.
Moreover, even if the story could be perfectly fabricated, it's impossible that the offenders were all from the city, right? If it were country folk, their punishment would surely include an increase in agricultural taxes. Without this person, who would provide the food?
Li Xu was stunned. "If some farmers are arrested, do the county leaders really intend to let them provide the grain themselves?"
Life is already hard for people in the countryside. Many families work hard in the fields for a year and only get enough food to barely fill their stomachs. If the agricultural tax is increased, their situation can be imagined.
"Of course. The county has sent people to notify them. If they don't change, they will naturally have to bear the punishment themselves. Besides, other than this, other punishments will not be implemented. What else is there to be dissatisfied with?"
Li Xu was silent. For the country people, any punishment was too heavy to bear. It was really good that the county could do this.
He then chatted with Liu Gang for a few more words before leaving.
When he returned home, he saw that Hu Cuifen was not in the main room. Li Chen and Li Ju were playing nearby, and Sun Xiu and the other two were listening to the radio. Without waiting for them to ask, Li Xu went up to them and turned up the volume of the radio. Then he whispered, "I've asked, and this matter will not affect Mr. Wu."
As soon as these words came out, the three of them instantly showed joy on their faces. Sun Xiu even said repeatedly, "That's good, that's good. Our efforts have finally not been in vain."
At this time, Li Ping asked, "Xiao Xu, have you found out why the county did this?"
Li Xu's face darkened and he told the general situation.
After hearing this, the three of them also turned pale. Then Li Jiakang warned, "Keep your mouths shut. Don't let any word leak out, especially you, Boss. It's best not to tell even Guilan."
Because of this rumor, all the Feng Shui masters in the city were in a panic, and this situation had been going on for several days. Now the rumor had come true.
If they knew that all this was caused by the Li family, they would definitely find ways to retaliate.
Li Ping agreed, "I know. I won't tell anyone, and I think we should never mention this matter again from now on."
Li Jiakang nodded and changed the subject, "Let's talk about something else, Xiaoxu. We were just discussing that it's time to prepare a wedding quilt and new clothes for you. Do you have any ideas?"
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