Chapter 72 72 Formal proposal, will Pan's parents come too? ...
Qi Guangming arrived at the commune near his hometown and borrowed a phone to call back. No one answered the first time, but someone did pick up the second time. However, it was not the Deputy Section Chief Liao he was looking for, but Sister Zhou, who was in charge of cleaning in the unit. From Sister Zhou, he learned that Deputy Section Chief Liao had gone to a meeting.
"Meeting? What kind of meeting?"
Qi Guangming asked subconsciously.
How come he doesn’t know there’s a meeting at the company today?
Sister Zhou: "Deputy Director Qi, I don't know either. Director Zhang said it was a document issued by the higher-ups about something like the Mid-Autumn Festival."
"Okay, okay, I got it." Qi Guangming understood that several document meetings would be organized before various festivals every year, such as meetings to ensure supply, ensure social security, etc.
This meeting was held just a few days ago. It was close to the Mid-Autumn Festival, and we asked everyone to step up and do a good job of supervising the work of each unit. It was not a very important meeting.
"When Deputy Section Chief Liao comes back, you can ask him to go to..." Qi Guangming swallowed his unfinished words and said, "Forget it, I'll call again tomorrow morning."
Although he was used to leaving the company whenever he had something to do, without asking for leave from anyone, it would have a bad impact if the news of him going back to his hometown during working hours got out, so he hung up the phone after saying that.
To say that Qi Guangming could accept bribes and engage in black market while serving as a cadre of the Revolutionary Committee, he was certainly not stupid. On the contrary, he was somewhat sensitive and suspicious.
But what happened was that his attention at this moment was completely focused on the sound of the wooden fish that had been ringing for two days in a row.
The bang bang bang sound is right next to my ears, clear and rhythmic. It keeps ringing for the whole morning. Who wouldn't feel scared when it happens to them?
If the hospital can't find the cause, then it's possible that he was possessed by evil spirits, but they have been cracking down on feudal superstition for several years. Who would dare to do this? It's hard to find such a person.
Besides, he didn't dare to look for such people in Fengning. Once caught, he would be in the hands of someone.
Although there are such risks when going back to hometown to ask someone to do things for you, Grandma Sun who worked as a fortune teller was criticized by me in the past. Fortunately, I saw that the other party was old and was a neighbor, so I only criticized her in public and didn't let the villagers criticize her. She only carried manure for a few days. The other party should remember this favor, help him, and keep the matter confidential.
He was not afraid that she would not keep the secret. As a cadre of the Revolutionary Committee, he also had a say in the village. If he just said hello to the village cadres, someone would naturally help him keep an eye on the witch's family.
But after returning to the village, Qi Guangming's search for someone to exorcise the evil spirit was not successful.
The neighbor grandmother thought Qi Guangming was trying to cheat her, so she smiled awkwardly and said she knew nothing. It was a new society now, and all the monsters were paper tigers. She firmly opposed feudal superstition.
In short, no matter how Qi Guangming tried to persuade her, and even apologized for his criticisms, Grandma Sun did not dare to agree. She even recited a long passage from quotations, which made Qi Guangming very angry.
But now he needed help from others, and he didn't dare to say too much, for he was afraid that others would not be serious when exorcising him, and would not be able to drive away the "evil spirit" in him. He could only continue to be patient and say nice things.
Since I failed to convince the neighbor’s grandmother that night, I stayed at my hometown for the night.
His parents were extremely surprised. After sending the man away, they secretly asked their youngest son what was going on. They also said, "Do you have another mission? Or did you not catch enough people who practice feudal superstition this year? Are you coming back to blackmail your grandma?"
Qi Guangming felt even more helpless.
Even his own mother thought so, no wonder Grandma Sun didn't dare to admit it.
He smiled bitterly and said, "Mom, I really encountered trouble." After thinking for a while, he added, "I think people still need to have a sense of awe. You don't know what I have been doing these past two days..."
Qi Guangming had no choice but to tell what had happened in the past two days.
His mother also used to believe in those things, but now the crackdown is strict and her son is a cadre, so even if she believes in them in her heart, she dare not say it out loud. She also has to act righteous and awe-inspiring. She even scolded Grandma Sun in order to prove that she was against feudal superstition.
Now that he heard his son say that he was really contaminated by something, he couldn't help but feel uneasy. He whispered, "Is it retribution for the excessive arrests and criticisms of witches you've done? But retribution can't befall you. It was your leader who asked you to do this. Why don't you take retribution from your leader?"
How could Qi Guangming explain this situation?
He also had to think about how to convince Grandma Sun to help him exorcise the evil spirit.
Threatening would definitely not work. He was afraid that Grandma Sun would not be dedicated, so he could only bribe her.
If he can help him exorcise the evil spirit successfully, he will arrange a job for any descendant of Grandma Sun who is suitable.
However, the positions in various units in the city are all filled to the required positions, and there is no temporary recruitment.
I asked about the current situation of the Sun family and learned that the old man has a granddaughter who is turning 16 this year.
"16, girl!" Qi Guangming thought of Ding Guo again. When he thought of Ding Guo, he naturally thought of Su Dayong.
"Wait!" There has been no news in the past two days, so the person must not have been taken away yet.
I'll call and urge them tomorrow. If it doesn't work, get Ding Guo out of here and get the girl from the Sun family to work in the food factory. Forget about her being a regular employee. She can just be a temporary worker so that it's easier to control her.
If you want to become a regular employee, you have to help him keep the secret, and you have to cooperate with him even if you are possessed again in the future.
Anyway, the benefits cannot be given all at once. This is his experience in controlling people over the years.
Qi Guangming was thinking about it, but he didn't know that he had scared the old woman so much that she asked her son to send her to her married daughter's home that night to hide.
On the way, he kept muttering: "That little bastard is staring at me again. I can't catch him. I haven't been in this business for many years!"
His son also frowned and said, "Maybe the higher-ups have another mission to catch someone typical, and since they can't catch anyone else, they're targeting us."
"You are such a bastard, you will never have a good ending." Grandma Sun supported her son, tossed his feet, and cursed, "If there is really an evil spirit in him, please ask that evil spirit to take that bastard away quickly."
She has not forgotten how her grandson spoke to her in an official tone and scolded her in front of so many people, and asked her to carry manure. She was an old lady with bound feet and asked her to carry manure. And Qi Guangming's mother, whenever she met her, she would pinch her nose and walk around her from a distance, and spoke to her in a sarcastic tone.
Even though her own son helped to choose, Old Lady Qi said that she was violating the rules and wanted to tell her son. Bah, what a damned family.
The next day, Qi Guangming found out that Grandma Sun had gone to visit her daughter's home, and he was furious.
But what made him feel relieved was that the sound of the wooden fish was no longer ringing in his ears today. He was both happy and surprised.
His mother whispered, "The Qi family's cemetery is at the entrance of the village. You have to pass by the cemetery when you come back from the commune. Maybe your father stopped you when you entered the village."
Because of his own experience, Qi Guangming actually believed this. He nodded and whispered, "It's possible, but the investigation is still tight. I'll come back and burn paper money for Dad when I find a chance."
His mother asked, "Are you still waiting for your grandma?"
"No more waiting!" Without the sound of the wooden fish in his ears, he felt light and his mind was active. He was thinking about going back to the unit, arranging the things that needed to be arranged, and then going to West Lane.
He had been so exhausted these past two days that he didn't pay any attention to the three people who were arrested. People in West Lane were probably also waiting for news.
"I'll go back first and wait for Grandma Sun to come back. We should ease the relationship. Who knows when I might need her." Qi Guangming took out a stack of banknotes and stuffed them into the mother's hand, then hurried to the village.
The journey to the commune was not short, so he asked the village to arrange a horse carriage to take him there.
Ding Guo felt very sorry. After getting off her night shift, she rushed to the Revolutionary Committee's family compound, but still did not meet Qi Guangming and did not send out today's wooden fish sound. She turned the handlebars and headed towards Fangzi Hutong.
On the list of enemies that Xiao Haifeng gave to Qi Guangming, there was a person who lived in Fangzi Hutong.
She visited them one by one, determined to dig out some useful information.
It's still the same old routine. Instead of going directly to the main person, I'll first chat with some aunts, grandmas, and try to find out a few things from the neighbors indirectly, and then think about how to talk to the main person.
The conversation went smoothly, but the door of the host's house was locked. Neighbors said that the man is now riding a tricycle near the bicycle station.
Ding Guo rode his bike to the bus station. He hadn't found the person yet, but he saw a familiar figure getting off the bus in front.
"Why is Qi Guangming here?"
Ding Guo was puzzled.
The reason she didn't run into anyone this morning wasn't because she was late, but because her grandson wasn't at home at all.
I was regretting that I didn’t give out the props today. Isn’t this a coincidence?
"It seems that Comrade Lao Qi has a connection with my wooden fish prop."
What are you waiting for? Quietly using the wooden fish prop on Comrade Qi Guangming again, Ding Guo turned and walked towards the bus.
Over there, Qi Guangming, who was walking forward with big strides and carrying a black faux leather handbag, suddenly stopped, his scalp felt numb, and goose bumps appeared all over his body.
Here it comes again, the familiar sound of wooden fish.
Bang bang bang, bang bang bang, it started knocking in my ears again.
Qi Guangming raised his hand and pressed his forehead. He was sure that it was an evil spirit.
This is how he judged it. The time was the same the day before yesterday and yesterday, so why was it late today? It must be that when he passed by his father's grave last night, his father helped him to stop it. In the land of his hometown, the evil spirit never dared to take possession of him. Now that he was in the city and far away from his father's grave, the evil spirit must have taken possession of him again.
A layer of sweat instantly broke out on Qi Guangming's forehead.
We have to get rid of the evil, we must get rid of it, even if we have to go back and kneel down and kowtow to Grandma Sun.
However, he had already arrived in Fengning, and the return bus would not leave until the afternoon. Even if he wanted to go back immediately, he could not. So he decided to go to the office first and sign in, otherwise the director would have to give him a warning.
Qi Guangming walked away.
Here, Ding Guo used two apples to find out from the conductor where Qi Guangming got on the bus. He silently noted it down and turned around to continue looking for the real person named Feng Dahai.
In the next few days, Ding Guo would go look for Lao Qi after get off work in the morning. If he couldn't find Lao Qi, he would go look for Lao Qi's enemies. Except for those who were not in Fengning, he visited all of them.
In order to get the news, she also did a lot of hard work, such as helping the old grandmother move coal briquettes, helping the old grandfather climb the stairs, helping the half-grown children in the host's family climb trees to dig out bird nests, carrying the host's daughter-in-law who was about to give birth onto the ox cart, etc. She did a lot of odd jobs, but the rewards were very rich.
Ding Guo herself didn't know that she had such great potential in finding out information.
This potential was forced out by Qi Guangming, thank you Qi Guangming!
Xiao Haifeng was shocked by Ding Guo's style of doing things.
Xiao Haifeng flipped through the thin papers in his hand one by one and read all the contents recorded on them. He was so shocked that he didn't come back to his senses for a long time. After a moment, he suggested with appreciation: "Comrade Ding, the job guarantee I mentioned to you before can be increased. Now I can't help but suggest, are you interested in working in the Revolutionary Committee, or working as a police officer in the Public Security Bureau?"
In just a few days, Ding Guo visited most of the people on the list he provided to Ding Guo. The few who were not visited were not in Fengning and were transferred to other places by Qi Guangming.
Xiao Haifeng ignored the news about these people. He felt a little ashamed because he didn't know why these people were assigned to the post and where they were assigned to.
However, there was a reason why he did not pay attention to the follow-up. In the beginning, he also visited these people. His purpose was the same as Ding Guo's now, which was to dig out some information from these people to deal with Qi Guangming, or to join forces with those people to deal with Qi Guangming. But those people did not dare to do so. They were already scared. In addition, Qi Guangming's father-in-law had not retired yet, and Comrade Guangming was in the limelight. Who would dare to cooperate with him?
Xiao Haifeng understood their feelings very well, so after being rejected, he did not come to bother them again, and did not continue to pay attention to them afterwards.
To put it bluntly, he is not as decisive as Ding Guo.
Because Qi Guangming had tricked her once, this girl was trying her best to suppress Qi Guangming.
In fact, it's not just for this. Ding Guo is determined to get Qi Guangming because of his relationship with the Pan family. After all, it is the Pan family that has done so much harm to people!
"How did you find out?" Xiao Haifeng asked this subconsciously without any other meaning. He was just simply curious. After all, he had visited Qi Guangming in the past, and his rank was higher than Qi Guangming's, but Qi Guangming didn't reveal any information to him.
Ding Guo smiled and said, "It's very simple. First, talk to the people around you and get some relevant information. Uncle Xiao, don't underestimate the power of the masses. Even if the person involved keeps some secrets from others, after a long time, the news will always leak out. After getting the truth from the masses, I will go to the person involved to verify it. Of course, they will reject it, but when I talk to the masses, I will also ask if the target person has any difficulties at the moment, and help him to the best of my ability, and then slowly talk and it will come out."
Xiao Haifeng was stunned, then he shook his head with a smile and gave Ding Guo a thumbs up: "Not a bad method, Uncle Xiao has learned it."
Ding Guo smiled and said, "But it's still a little unsatisfactory. Uncle Xiao needs to check the substantive evidence of some of the things recorded above."
"As I should." Xiao Haifeng continued to look down.
The records above are both clues and Qi Guangming's criminal record. Although there is no substantial evidence, there are witnesses for every incident. However, whether the witnesses are willing to come forward depends on Xiao Haifeng's ability.
What skills? Of course, the ability to protect witnesses, and the ability to bring down Qi Guangming.
If Qi Guangming could still be so arrogant in the end, why would anyone risk offending Qi Guangming again and testify for him? Wasn't he miserable enough?
"Song Xianfeng was once Qi Guangming's leader. When Qi Guangming was first assigned to the Revolutionary Committee, Song Xianfeng brought him along. It can be said that he promoted him single-handedly. But in the end, Qi Guangming suppressed his leader and demoted Song Xianfeng's two children. Do you think he is hateful?"
"Feng Dahai, Qi Guangming's ex-brother-in-law, caught his sister doing something immoral and filed for divorce, but Feng Dahai was blamed for it and became the one doing something immoral. Qi Guangming sent her to prison for two years..."
"Wang Bo..."
Scanning the names on the paper one by one, Xiao Haifeng sighed and shook his head, folded the paper carefully and put it in his pocket, and said with a smile: "Okay, the day after tomorrow is August 15th, you celebrate the festival diligently, and Uncle Xiao will give you a Mid-Autumn Festival gift!"
He has almost set up everything and is just waiting to close the net.
It was also a godsend. While he was doing this and that, Qi Guangming was like being possessed by a ghost. He heard the sound of wooden fish in the morning and returned to normal in the afternoon.
I went to the hospital several times and also went back to the countryside several times.
According to the people who followed him, he committed several feudal superstitions when he returned.
I had been cleaning up the West Lane for such a long time, but Qi Guangming didn't even notice it.
Of course, there is a reason why it was not discovered.
Qi Guangming came back that day and arranged for people to contact the three people who were captured first. As soon as the other party took action, he pinned them down and they were bald without much effort.
Choose between accepting punishment or making meritorious contributions, the other party will of course choose the latter.
Xiao Haifeng asked that person to pass false information to Qi Guangming. In addition, Qi Guangming was exhausted by the auditory hallucinations and had no ability to distinguish, so he actually concealed the news.
Finally, the net was about to be closed. Ding Guo smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll wait for good news from Uncle Xiao!"
The day before Mid-Autumn Festival, Ding Jianguo, who had not been seen for a long time, came to the food factory to find her.
Ding Guo said coldly: "If you have something to say, say it now. If you have to fart, fart now!"
Ding Jianguo: "...Tomorrow the Pan family will come to our house to formally propose marriage, and it is also the Mid-Autumn Festival, so your parents asked you to come home for dinner."
In fact, his mother meant not to let Ding Guo go back because she was afraid that Ding Guo would cause trouble.
But his father disagreed. His eldest sister had been away for such a long time, and the neighbors often asked about it. His father didn't want people to always say that there was discord in his family.
Normally, she could say that she is busy with work, but tomorrow is a holiday, and if my elder sister doesn’t go back, I don’t know what nasty things the neighbors will say.
Besides, the Pan family will come to propose marriage tomorrow, which is a big deal. I don’t know how many people will come, and my eldest sister can help out when she goes back.
Ding Guo had not planned to go back originally. She had already bought her things. Ding Dayong had been on short business trips recently and was spending the Mid-Autumn Festival here. She returned to the steel plant’s staff quarters, and Dayong was left alone at home.
But Ding Guo really wants to watch the Pan family propose marriage.
"Okay, I'll go back tomorrow morning. I'll formally propose marriage. Will Pan's parents come too?"
She had to recognize those two faces in case they were needed in the future.
Seeing that his elder sister didn't say anything sarcastic and agreed readily, Ding Jianguo breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Of course, the marriage proposal has been formally made. If nothing goes wrong, they may get married this year. Uncle and aunt Pan will definitely come to recognize their relatives."
He just hopes that stupid brother Pan Dingfeng won’t come, otherwise he is afraid that his elder sister will go crazy again.
Ding Guo agreed with a smile, and Ding Jianguo went back to report.
However, Ding Guo, who had been transferred back to the day shift, returned home from get off work that night and saw Ding Dayong holding the letter he had just received today with a frown on his face. Seeing her, he said with a worried look on his face: "Sister, uncle and aunt know that I didn't go back to my hometown. It was Second Aunt who called the steel plant and told Aunt, and insisted that Aunt arrange a job for their family in the city as well."
Ding Guo immediately smiled: "I was worried that you would be lonely at home tomorrow. Now that you know, let's be open and honest. I will take you home for a feast tomorrow."
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