"Wei Min, come here." Fang Guihua shouted outside.
"Here it comes." He had just sharpened the knife and was about to use it.
"Lanlan is going to the city center soon. You should follow her and take good care of your sister. If you can come back at night, come back. If not, find a place for her to stay," Fang Guihua said as she stuffed some money into his pocket.
"Okay, I will bring my sister back safely." We have to go to town in the afternoon and come back immediately. If we stay too long, it will be dark and it will be scary to walk on the road.
The three of them walked together without stopping on the way. It took them just over an hour to reach the town and the town office.
Wei Wenjie looked at the old man at the door and said, "People like us can't go in, unless you are an official."
"What should we do, Xiaolan? Let's go back now."
"Uncle, we are here to look for Director Shi. Can you help us find him? We will wait for him here." Tian Xiaolan always does it first.
"Who are you to him?" The old man looked at her shabby clothes and guessed that she was another poor relative of his.
Tian Xiaolan said anxiously: "I am his cousin. I have something important to talk to him about. Please help me talk to him."
"Okay, I'll help you check." The old man looked at her. In the past few years, many people had come to the director to seek connections. The director said that he would not see any relatives who came to him in the future. He refused directly but did not give up. He went into the house and pretended to dial a few numbers. He put the receiver to his ear and said, "Is this Director Shi? There's someone at the door who claims to be your cousin. What? You don't have a cousin!"
"You little girl, you are a bad boy and you even pretend to be a relative of a leader. Go away! Otherwise I will call the police." The old man at the gate said as he was about to walk out with a fork in his hand.
"Did you really hit her?" Tian Xiaolan wondered. It was clearly a secret code agreed upon between Shi Shichang and herself. What went wrong?
"Why would I lie to you! What's there to lie about?" the security guard raised his voice.
Li Weimin and Wei Wenjie were standing in the alley opposite waiting for her. It was hard not to hear his voice. Li Weimin clenched his fists and was about to rush over.
"What are you doing? Don't cause trouble for Sister Xiaolan." Li Weimin stopped rushing forward after hearing this. He realized that this was not the village and he still had to protect Xiaolan, so he couldn't be so impulsive.
"I just saw you clearly hang up the phone, and you told me it was on. Oh, I understand now. You think I'm from the countryside, and it seems you don't take seriously what the leader said about workers and peasants being one family!" Tian Xiaolan didn't bother to talk to him any more, and directly told him what she had just seen.
"What are you talking about? Go away, go away, don't block others from coming in!" The gatekeeper was about to use the fork at the door to drive people away.
"What are you doing?" Li Weimin rushed over, caught his pole with his bare hands, and pulled it towards him.
The gatekeeper saw that there was someone behind her. How could an old man like him beat her? "What do you want to do? If you dare to do anything, everyone around here will help me!"
"What did I do? You were the one who wanted to hit my sister, so why can't I say anything?!"
Tian Xiaolan advised: "It's okay, don't I have you?!"
"Sister, you can't be like this. If I'm not here, anyone will dare to bully you!" Li Weimin looked at her with a feeling of disappointment, and he also understood why his mother insisted that he come over.
"If you have something to say, go home and talk. This is not the place to discuss things! When the leader sees you later, he won't be as easy to talk to as I am." Although the gatekeeper's stick was snatched away, he refused to give up and continued to speak.
Not long after the gatekeeper finished speaking, Wu Dehua arrived late. Seeing that several people at the door were dressed shabbily, he knew there was no money to be made there, so he planned to go in directly.
"Director Wu, please come and help me!" Seeing Director Wu, the gatekeeper put on a flattering expression again.
Wu Dehua thought about what he had done yesterday and decided to show some mercy and give him some face. "What is it?"
"As soon as they arrived, they rushed into the house and hit people with poles. Director, you have to deal with them properly!"
As if he had heard the hidden meaning in his words, Wu Dehua hated being threatened. This time, he still needed his cooperation, otherwise it would not be possible.
"You troublemakers, you dare to barge in now that you've seen what this place is? Wait here, I'll call someone to throw you out!"
The gatekeeper followed Wu Dehua and even brought a fan from the house to fan him.
Seeing that he wasn't speaking properly, Tian Xiaolan retorted, "We are the troublemakers? Our ancestors were all farmers. Did you just live in the city? I am a farmer and I am proud of it. You are a city dweller, but you eat the rice we grow. Why don't you call us the troublemakers when you eat it?"
Wu Dehua looked at the sharp-tongued little girl and felt that he was no match for her. "I'm talking about you. Why are you arguing with me about this?"
"We working people are one family. Do you have any objection to what the leader said?"
"I just... have no objection," Wu Dehua said in a roundabout way, so as not to give anyone a handle on him.
"Okay, since you don't mind, let us in!"
"You watch here first, I'll go call someone."
The person who came was Zhou Dayong. Zhou Dayong was still sitting in a daze when he was suddenly called over and said, "Go and kick that person out."
"How can I catch up?" Zhou Dayong looked at the man who was a lot stronger than him and began to back out, but the director gave the order and he had no choice but to do it.
"You can do whatever you want." Wu Dehua said this and went to the security room. Although it was afternoon, the temperature outside was still hot. Even standing under the tree would not be much cooler, and even waves would appear.
Seeing the director walk into the security room to turn on the electric fan, he wanted to argue with them outside. The director had just come to him and didn't tell him what had happened, but he just held on to the belief that the director could not be wrong and that there must be something wrong with them.
Zhou Dayong spoke seriously, as if being treated this way was a blessing for them. "The director is so kind as to ask you to leave. You guys are staying here because you want to have dinner! We don't have dinner here. Get out of here!"
Li Weimin waited for a long time, but the director finally brought such a weak little guy. He looked down on them and kept saying some unpleasant things.
"Who do you think you are? I think you are just a dog beside him, barking at his master's butt!" Li Weiguo spoke quickly and didn't care that this was someone else's territory.
"You..." Although many people had said this behind his back, no one dared to say it in front of him. He was the first one.
Seeing that the director's men were all choked, the gatekeeper had no choice but to rely on himself. If the hard approach didn't work, he would try the soft approach.
"I'll talk to the director about your situation. It's getting hot here, so go back first. I'll let you know as soon as I have any news!"
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