Before Lu Tao arrived, Su Yaoguang had already arranged a good table of meals at home, including local chicken, rice field fish, dried beef, beef shutters, braised pig's feet, wolfberry stewed bullwhip, etc., and specially bought two bottles of Wuliangye wine, ready to entertain the "God of Wealth" of the Local Taxation Bureau.

Unexpectedly, today the local taxation bureau only came to Lu Tao, a small clerk, and the assistance funds arranged for the village were only 100,000 yuan, so he was disappointed, so he decided not to invite Lu Tao to his home for dinner, and arranged for the village accountant Su Yuejin to take Lu Tao to a small restaurant on the side of the national highway for dinner, and he took the village director Su Xiancan back to his small villa in the east of the village, and beat Li Weijun, secretary of the party committee of Dalong Town, Huang Zeke, mayor of the town, Li Lin, chairman of the township people's congress, and deputy party committee of Dalong Town The secretary Hu Haili and other town leaders called and invited them to their villas to eat local chickens, fish and bullwhips......

According to the arrangement of the Organization Department, all the members of the mass work team stationed in the village either eat together at the villagers' homes and pay the food fee every day, or cook and eat at their own residences, and then return to their units for reimbursement. Lu Tao didn't want to trouble the villagers, so he brought his own cooking utensils and chopsticks, and planned to borrow a briquette-burning stove in the village to cook his own food.

However, because he had just come to the village today, he had no time to buy vegetables and cook, so he followed the village accountant Su Yue into a home-cooked restaurant on the side of the national highway, ordered two dishes and one soup, and followed Su Yuejin to the village committee office building after eating in a hurry. When passing by Su Yaoguang's house, he suddenly saw two cars coming over and stopped outside Su Yaoguang's country villa, Li Weijun and others got out of the car and walked straight into Su Yaoguang's house.

Su Yuejin may have been a little dissatisfied with Su Yaoguang, so he deliberately asked Lu Tao: "Cadre Lu, why didn't Yaoguang invite you to his house for dinner? This morning, he asked Su Xiancan, the village director, to buy a lot of good dishes, and also prepared two bottles of Wuliangye wine, saying that he was going to entertain the leaders of the Local Taxation Bureau. Now that the town leaders have been invited by him, why did he leave you alone?"

Because all the villagers in Huaguang Village are surnamed Su, Su Yuejin did not shout "Su Zhishu" when he called Su Yaoguang, but called "Yaoguang Zhishu".

As soon as Lu Tao heard Su Yuejin's words, he understood: Su Yaoguang had a lot of opinions about the bureau leaders not coming to the village in person, and he was also disappointed with the 100,000 yuan in assistance, so he didn't invite himself to his house to have that sumptuous luncheon to vent his dissatisfaction......

So, he said to Su Yuejin casually: "It's okay, I'm here to carry out the help work, not to eat and drink." In addition, the mass work team has a disciplinary requirement that it is strictly forbidden to participate in eating and drinking at public funds in the village, and if village cadres are found to be eating and drinking at public funds, they must be stopped. So even if Yaoguang is invited, I won't participate in their publicly-funded eating and drinking banquet. ”

Su Yuejin thought that he couldn't eat grapes and said that grapes were sour, sneered in his heart, didn't say anything more, took him to the second floor of the village committee office building, arranged for him to live in a room, told him that the place to take a bath was in the bathroom in the stairwell, and then said goodbye......

At 8 o'clock in the morning of the next day, Lu Tao received a call from the secretary of the party and government office of Dalong Town, informing him to go to the conference room on the fifth floor of the town government at 9 o'clock to attend the work deployment meeting of the mass work team.

At around 8:50, Lu Tao entered the conference room on the fifth floor of the office building in Dalong Town, looked around for a seat, and finally saw the note that read "Local Taxation Bureau" on the leftmost seat in the penultimate row.

When the participants arrived one after another, Lu Tao found that people from the county State Taxation Bureau, the Finance Bureau, the Financial Office and other units were all arranged to sit in the first row, and among the six mass work teams of the county-level organs participating in the meeting, only he, the local taxation bureau, was arranged in the last two rows, and the party secretaries and village directors of each village were sitting with him. These branch secretaries all looked at him with curious eyes, obviously wondering why he was arranged to sit here.

Lu Tao knew that this must have been arranged by Li Weijun, and the purpose was to deliberately humiliate himself in retaliation for his disrespectful words and deeds to him yesterday morning......

Soon after, Hu Haili, deputy secretary of the town party committee, began to inform the participants of the meeting: On the morning of the day after tomorrow, Comrade Zhou Yihong, secretary of the Songshan City CPC Committee, will go to Dalong Town to inspect the work of "stationing villages and households and providing assistance in pairs." At the same time, Secretary Zhou also has to choose one of these villages participating in the pairing assistance as his linkage point, and he will personally guide and help the village's new rural construction work......

When the village party secretary and village director below heard the news, they suddenly blew up the pot and began to "buzz" with excitement on their faces, and their faces also showed expressions of eagerness and hope: you must know that the "contact point for new rural construction" of the secretary of the municipal party committee is not only a huge honor, but also can get a lot of benefits, such as getting more assistance funds, getting the attention of the leaders of the county party committee and various departments, taking the opportunity to know the secretary of the municipal party committee and leaving a good impression on him, and so on......

Hu Haili waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, then cleared his throat and continued: "Everyone, this visit by Secretary Zhou of the Municipal Party Committee to Dalong Town is both an opportunity and a challenge for us. We must make use of the remaining day or so to make adequate preparations. In particular, the mass work teams in each village must conscientiously keep a good record of the "People's Sentiment Log" and the "Work Log", keep in mind the basic situation in the village, especially the economic development situation at the village level, and be able to answer questions smoothly and fluently if they are selected by Secretary Zhou. ”

Next, Li Weijun stressed several issues, and demanded that the village branch and the two committees of each village must attach great importance to Secretary Zhou's inspection work, supplement the materials that should be supplemented, and improve the measures that should be perfected, and pay special attention to doing a good job in the village's sanitation work, ensuring that the inspected villages are clean, tidy, and beautiful, and not leaving the impression of "dirty, messy, and poor" to Secretary Zhou.

He also put forward several requirements for the mass work teams of various units, such as abiding by the discipline of mass work, being familiar with the village conditions and people's conditions and development plans of the villages to be helped, and having clear plans and measures for helping the masses.

In the end, he glanced at Lu Tao, who was sitting in the last row, intentionally or unintentionally, and suddenly said in an aggravated tone: "Regarding the question of the mass work team, I still want to say a few words here. The vast majority of the team members who come to our town to carry out the assistance work are very conscientious and responsible, but there are also individual people in a few units who disdain the work of pairing and helping, regard themselves as ministers sent by the imperial court, and have a high-minded attitude, and do not take us township cadres seriously at all. I think that if you do mass work with this attitude, sooner or later you will run into ashes!"