Chapter 15 The Magistrate of Zhou

Secretary Ouyang and Han Laosan came to the county and found the county magistrate's office, where the county magistrate Zhou was leisurely inhaling the self-rolled horn, sitting on the chair with clouds and mist, and muttering to himself: "Why is this year different!

As he was talking, the door was pushed open, and two people came in, one was Secretary Ouyang, the other was Han Laosan, an old acquaintance. County Magistrate Zhou looked at the two of them, pulled the old donkey's face and said: "Secretary Ouyang, Han Laosan, it's been five years, and you can't allocate money to repair the berm for five years, why don't you give up? Let me tell you, this year's money is the same as last year's, just a little bit, and each commune will lose it!"

Secretary Ouyang was carrying a fiber bag in his hand, and there were things moving around in the fiber bag, and there was a rooster crow. He smiled at County Magistrate Zhou, and said, "Old Zhou, I'm not here to talk about repairing the embankment this year, I'm here to report the good news! What do you see I've brought you?"

County Magistrate Zhou saw that it was a big rooster and asked, "What kind of good news is it to use the rooster? Could it be that it has laid eggs?"

Han Laosan never thought that County Magistrate Zhou would say such a thing, so he couldn't help coughing, Secretary Ouyang laughed, and replied: "It's not that the rooster wants to lay eggs, I think our store is going to be finished! You look at the rooster only knows how to crow, but it doesn't know how to lay eggs, it is superfluous in our store, so I can't afford to raise it, so I'll send it over to you to raise! Look at this, Lao Zhou has a rooster crowing every day, so you don't have to worry about not being able to get up?"

"Bastard, you are clearly a bribe, and you are talking nonsense in a high-sounding manner, let me tell you, I don't dare to accept gifts, not even an egg! You don't want this, I won't accept it, please take it!"

"Lao Zhou, you misunderstood what I meant, our store has been admitted to two college students this year, and we haven't been rewarded yet? My rooster still doesn't want to crow for you? I'm crowing for our county! Our county is poor, so we have to be strong, do you know?" Secretary Ouyang explained.

"Alas, Ouyang, what do you mean? Our county is obviously very poor, you are still poor, poor, what do you mean? Are you making fun of my incompetent leader, or what?"

"Lao Zhou, the male we are talking about is the male of the rooster, do you know? As long as everyone has ambitions, our county can be self-reliant, and first solve the most difficult problems, and then we will solve other problems!" Secretary Ouyang has changed the previous problem of going straight and learned the method of guidance.

"I don't understand what you're saying, just say it, don't beat around the bush, say it, persuade me, this rooster will be raised first, if you don't accept it, you will come from where it will go!"

"Then I'll say, can we repair the embankment at the mouth of the Sanjiang River at the entrance of our store? You only need a word, repair or not, we go back and forth every year, it's not easy, we come five times and even spend all the money, this time you don't agree, Lao Tzu won't leave, stay at your house, eat for a year and a half, see if you agree!"

"Yo, old ghost Ouyang, when did you learn to cheat? It seems that you have developed a good ability? Or what?" As soon as County Magistrate Zhou heard Secretary Ouyang's words, he immediately pulled down an old donkey's face, which was very dark.

"County Magistrate Zhou, we have no way to beg you, as long as there is a little hope, we will not come. Your life, you don't know it, you have also inspected us, if we don't repair the berm, we won't be able to grow crops at all, then we are really going to be finished!" Han Laosan was anxious, "poof", knelt in front of County Magistrate Zhou, and shed tears.

When County Magistrate Zhou saw that Han Laosan was kneeling, he hurriedly helped him up, and said while helping: "Han Laosan, we have something to say, you kneel in front of me like this, others don't know, think I'm bullying you?"

"You just bullied me Han Laosan, you approved the berm maintenance money for other communes, but you didn't approve it to us, you lack heart, you are not fair, you are not a good person, you are a bad guy······! How did Han Laosan learn to scold the street, the more he scolded, the louder he scolded, and the more he scolded, the more energetic he became.

This Han Laosan's big voice called all the people in the other offices, and they all looked at County Magistrate Zhou for unknown reasons, which made County Magistrate Zhou so embarrassed that he didn't know how to explain it.

In the end, the county officials came, and when everyone saw the county officials coming, they automatically got out of the way.

County Magistrate Zhou looked at the senior county officials and explained: "Secretary Li, this, Han Laosan at the entrance of this store, he, he is a scoundrel!"

Han Laosan soaked his nose and burst into tears, and when he saw Secretary Li coming, he said: "Secretary Li, I hope you go to our store to have a look, inspect Sanjiangkou, if you say you don't need to repair it, from next year we will starve to death and will not come to beg you, our store is not a dead face person, but also has backbone, we have been in the county for six consecutive years to ask for the repair of the embankment, but the county magistrate Zhou is prevaricating every year, not giving us approval, we are indeed about to starve to death, so we cry with the county magistrate Zhou!"

Secretary Ouyang looked at Han Laosan, and when he came, he didn't discuss crying, making trouble, and hanging himself, this guy suddenly made this song, did he have water in his brain! But at this time, it was too late to stop it, Secretary Li came, so he had to watch Han Laosan continue to act! At this time, he found that he had become a puppet and could not play a role.

Secretary Li came over to help Han Laosan, took out a handkerchief to wipe his tears in person, and said while wiping: "Your name is Han Laosan, right?" Secretary Li is in his fifties, tall, wearing a white shirt, and it can be seen from his resolute face that he is a soldier, and he even walks with a military posture.

Han Laosan nodded, his throat hoarse.

"Then I really don't know about the Sanjiangkou of Diankou, I am a new transferee, I have not been here for a long time, and I am not familiar with the situation in Zhuji! Since you have reported the situation, I will go to Diankou with you tomorrow to see if the situation is really as you said, I will tell you, the province will not approve it, I will report to the central government! I will never stand idly by, rest assured!" Secretary Li's words are like nectar, which makes people feel much more comfortable listening to them.

When Secretary Ouyang heard Secretary Li's words, he was happy from the bottom of his heart, and said with a smile: "County Magistrate Zhou, it seems that we don't have to live in your house anymore, and we don't need to play tricks on you! Secretary Li, it's still hello, you are our parents!" he went to shake hands with Secretary Li.

Secretary Li was very kind, shook hands with Secretary Ouyang cordially, and asked while shaking hands: "May I ask who you are?"

Secretary Ouyang replied with a smile: "Secretary Li, hello! Hello! I am Ouyang, the first secretary of the Diankou Commune! We have come to the store five times for this matter, and this is the sixth time, alas! This year there are floods, I can't sleep well at night, you see that I am more than ten years old, this is all worried about it, you see that the county magistrate Zhou came with me, he is about the same age as me, but more than ten years younger than me!" He deliberately said this to Secretary Li, which means that the county magistrate Zhou does not have the idea of sharing worries for the people.

When County Magistrate Zhou heard Secretary Ouyang's words, he was almost angry, and scolded loudly: "Ouyang, who are you talking about? You mean as if I sit in the office all day and don't go out to do things, Secretary Li, don't listen to his nonsense, you see that I am not sunburned like oil and fish, all yellow, almost like a camel Xiangzi, what do you say?"

Secretary Li looked at County Magistrate Zhou, laughed out loud, smiled slightly, and replied: "Old Zhou, people didn't say anything about you, just said that you were young, what are you nervous about?"

"This, this, this, why is it called not self-confession, I, I, I ······" County Magistrate Zhou was choked by Secretary Li's words and didn't know what to say.

Secretary Li ignored the county magistrate Zhou, and pulled Secretary Ouyang and Han Laosan out of the office, the fiber bag in Ouyang's hand, and the rooster in his pocket kept shaking, making a "clucking ······" The cry.

Secretary Li looked at the bag and said: "I also brought a chicken, ready to bribe County Magistrate Zhou, but County Magistrate Zhou didn't eat it, so Han Laosan gave him a trick of crying, making trouble and hanging himself, you two are really good at acting!"

"Secretary Li, this, it's not what you said, I really haven't broken, I don't cry, what else can I do, I really want to hang myself in the county magistrate's office! Who told him to prevaricate every year! I, I, there is really no way, I want to die! I still ······" Han Laosan replied very sincerely.

Secretary Li looked at Han Laosan and didn't look like he was lying, but indeed revealed his true feelings, so he said: "It seems that what you said is true, we will go to the store tomorrow, okay, you will squeeze it in my house today, and slaughter this chicken by the way, let's have a full meal, and tomorrow you will have the strength to walk! Secretary Ouyang, I see that you have not been nutritious for a long time, and the skin on your face is dry like old bark, alas! The two chicken legs are yours tonight!"

"Hahahaha······" The three of them laughed as they walked.