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"Village Chief Ding, what are you talking about? The villagers looked at Ding Zhaokun with blank eyes, waiting for him to announce the answer.

"This thing, it's a poppy. Ding Zhaokun's face was calm, as if the kind of thing he said was as ordinary as potatoes and corn.

"Poppy?!" Upon hearing this, the villagers immediately became agitated.

In fact, when Cha Bo came to the village to persuade everyone to plant poppies, many people looked at the face of the banknotes and more or less moved some thoughts. But under the strong opposition of the old village chief, the matter was stopped from then on, and no one dared to mention it again.

Now as soon as Ding Zhaokun took office, he dared to take the words of the old village chief as a deaf ear. Under his suggestion, the villagers who had been thinking about it suddenly itched again.

"Isn't that a harmful thing? The old village chief refused to ask us to plant anything at the beginning. Aunt Zhang, who was crowded in the front row of the crowd, did not have a mouth that she couldn't interject.

"Aunt Zhang, you don't understand this. You must not think that this poppy can only harm people, but it is still a good medicine that can save people! Do you know that morphine can be extracted from this poppy, and it is a painkiller that people who are terminally ill must use! I have already contacted a pharmaceutical factory in the town, and as long as we are willing to grow poppies, they will buy them all, regardless of the amount of harvest. The price given is three or four times more than that of our farming!"

"Hey, give so much money, is it really fake?" When Aunt Zhang heard that the price was so high, her eyes lit up for a moment, and she left the words of the old village chief behind.

"Of course it's true, when did I, Ding Zhaokun, tell a lie?"

"That's a good thing!"

"You can make three or four times more money in a season, and it's not a lot more than a few times that year!"

"How about it, I said at the beginning that it was right for us to choose the village chief Ding, for the sake of our villagers everywhere!"

"If we knew there was such a good thing, we should have planted poppies a long time ago!"

The villagers suddenly became excited, and these unassertive peasants were all looking forward to the day when they would count a lot of money in the future.

At this moment, I heard a sudden thunderous explosion in the crowd: "No, I don't agree with this matter!"

This thunderclap roared and instantly woke up many villagers who were daydreaming.

I saw Huo Jingui with a gloomy face, and walked towards Ding Zhaokun step by step. His pace was extremely slow, but every step was solid, and the onlookers suddenly made way for him, and no one dared to stop him.

Seeing that Huo Jingui looked like he was going to eat people, Ding Zhaokun was scared a lot. His legs trembled, and he fell off the bench in one fell swoop.

"Ding Zhaokun, do you want to ruin the reputation that we have accumulated in Wangbei Village for so many years!?" Listening to this guy seriously tricking the villagers into planting poppies, Huo Jingui regretted why he gave up the position of village chief to this kind of person in the first place!

"I ...... How can I ruin the reputation of our village!" Ding Zhaokun faced Huo Jingui's accusations, and wanted to distinguish a few words.

"We have taken root here in Wangbei Village for so many years, and it is because we have a righteous spirit in our hearts that we have not joined those evil sects! You touch your conscience and think about how our fathers educated us in the first place! Don't you have a trace of shame?"

Ding Zhaokun had long expected that Huo Jingui would speak out, but he didn't expect him to be so fierce that even his deceased fathers moved out.

He glared at Huo Jingui, pretended to be calm and composed, and quibbled: "What's the matter? I told everyone to plant poppies to sell them to pharmaceutical factories to make money, and I didn't ask everyone to take drugs and sell drugs, so why am I sorry for my fathers? You don't use such big words to press on my head, and find out who the village chief of Wangbei Village is now!"

This kind of thing came out, making it clear that Ding Zhaokun was going to rely on his position as the village chief to force Huo Jingui to be. It's only to blame that you didn't come to fight for the position of village chief in the first place, and now you want to use two big words to press me, and there is no door!

"You !!" Huo Jingui was so angry that he really wanted to punch this old boy, but if he did this, he would really become a sinner in Wangbei Village, and dare to do something to the village chief, this is a big crime to be expelled from the village!

"I, what am I? Let me tell you first, how long have you abandoned the land that the village has given you? I have been hunting and hunting all day, and I haven't seen you catch any big prey! If you have land and don't want to plant, then I'll give your land to others this year!?"

Ding Zhaokun had already thought of this set of rhetoric, which is the so-called hitting the snake and hitting seven inches. He has known Huo Jingui for so many years, so he naturally understands where his pain is. Huo Jingui likes to be free and doesn't like to be restrained, so the land allocated to him by the village, he generally grows crops that don't need to be taken care of at will, even if he can have a harvest, he earns it, and it doesn't matter if there is no harvest.

Now that Huo Jingui has been countered to the army, he is depressed in his chest and sulks, almost suffocating him to death.

He did not quarrel with Ding Zhaokun, but instead said to the onlookers: "Listen to me, this poppy is a harmful thing, and the old village chief never let us touch this kind of thing, just because he didn't want our reputation in Wangbei Village to be blackened by poppies! Have you ever seen those drug addicts? All of them have yellow faces and thin muscles without a human shape, and they live like evil ghosts. If we grow poppies, we will harm others, and we will become accomplices of those drug dealers!"

His words were sincere, and many of the villagers were indeed moved by him, and began to resist the idea of growing opium poppies.

But the more Huo Jingui objected, the more Ding Zhaokun felt that his position as village chief had been challenged! He grabbed Huo Jingui's clothes and said loudly: "Huo Jingui, let me ask you! If someone chokes to death after eating the potatoes you planted today, will you become a murderer? Are you guilty of the most heinous crimes?"

Huo Jingui ignored him and continued to say to the villagers: "There are many people who have lost their families and wives because of these drugs, and even if these drugs are not sold by us, you think about it, we have grown them! If our relatives become inhuman and ghostly because of these drugs, will you really not resent yourself? Anyway, as long as I am in this village for a day, I will absolutely not allow you to plant this poppy! We can't make money stained with other people's blood and tears!"

"I hear you fart here!!"