At about nine o'clock in the morning, the sky cleared, and a red sun passed over the towering mountain top as usual, and the bright sunlight poured into the col along the hillside. In such a good weather that is very suitable for people who have lived in the city for a long time, it is very suitable to play in the suburbs and embrace nature, three men wearing vests and sunhats, carrying microphones, cameras and large satchels respectively, cautiously walked around the abandoned log barricades and entered the village of Dayangtun.

At this moment, the men, women and children of Dayangtun are moving around unusually frequently like ants. When the three men entered the village, they found that there were old men or women in each house busily going back and forth between the gate of the courtyard and the fence wall, sometimes going out to look out, and sometimes whispering to the neighbours on the other side of the fence wall; a few able-bodied women, hurrying back from afar, as if from a distance, to greet the families next to each other along the street, and calling them to come and share the news of the new news; and the men who walked around the village gathered mainly at the village commissary or the old threshing floor, where the gangs of old men were arguing fiercely about something. The three of them didn't understand the dialect of the place, but they could see that everyone in the village was very grim in terms of expression and tone. When passing by the eyes of the villagers, the eyes cast on the three of them were full of surprise and speculation.

"Hello sister-in-law, we are reporters, I want to ask you a few questions, don't be nervous......" As far as the three people saw, the commotion in Dayangtun Village began at dawn in the morning, and it was easy to catch a few villagers to do an "interview", and they knew that the real accident happened late last night, when it was dark, although they heard unusual movements, but they saw nothing. "Sister-in-law" and "uncle" told the "reporter" that at nearly 10 o'clock last night, the chess and card room in the center of the village suddenly lost power, and after a few minutes, the lights came back on, and many villagers who were playing cards and chess there found that their wallets were stolen, and soon someone saw that their wallets were stuffed in the bag of the administrator of a chess and card room on duty The original number was returned, the administrator refused to admit it, the two sides argued, and it was impossible to tell who made the first move, and more than 80 villagers beat the administrators to the ground with a blue nose and swollen face, and also smashed all the tables, chairs, cabinets, and electrical appliances in the chess and card room. Then someone called the police and brought back a few troublemakers and the administrator who was beaten back to "assist in the investigation".

Everyone understands the truth that family ugliness should not be publicized, and several interviewees downplayed the important points, and the three "reporters" based on some fragments of their words and combined with their own unique experience expected that the so-called chess and card room was actually an underground casino. From this, it is not difficult for them to analyze that the cause of the casino gang fight is by no means as simple as the theft of the gamblers' wallets. However, they did not know at this time that after a brief power outage, what disappeared from under the noses of the villagers who participated in the gambling was the gambling money they spread on the table. Regardless of who took it out, or who would end up with the rules of the casino or the unpredictable outcome of the game, the lights turned on and the money on the six large tables was gone, not even a steel hammer remained, except for the cards that had surrounded them. "Hey, here, here!" As the crowd was overwhelmed with astonishment, panic, and exasperation, someone accidentally opened the door of the freezer next to the casino manager's table and saw several hundred-dollar bills pressed under a layer of beer. The manager, together with an assistant manager and a waitress, was also dazed by the inexplicable power outage before, and saw the gamblers rushing up to the freezer, and it was too late to stop. The red-eyed guy frantically brushed aside the layer of beer and the layer of drinks underneath, and turned out handfuls of money, even finding the steel hammer that had fallen into the corner of the freezer. The more the gamblers looked, the more they felt that the tickets looked exactly like the ones they had just placed on their tables.

"Dog mongrel, you actually make this three indiscriminate tricks! You want to steal all our money, right?" A bachelor who lost money today pointed at the casino manager and scolded, his baseless accusations quickly got more responses, as the saying goes, nine out of ten gambles lose, all day long to this "chess and card room" Although the upper limit of the gambling book is set here so that the losers will not lose their wives and daughters, but when they enter the door and bulge their wallets, they are not as thick as the composition of elementary school students, and the taste in my heart is ironclad and unbearable. "Fuck, it's not enough to cheat on the dice mahjong tiles, this time I will rob it directly!" "Do this kind of immoral thing, not afraid of cutting off children and grandchildren?" "Bastard! We honor you with our hard-earned money, and we see how nourishing you are, and you are not satisfied?" Give our money back!" The losers vented their frustration together, as if the man they were pointing at the nose and the freezer he was in charge of at the moment had caused all their failures.

The bearded and sturdy manager was not the actual owner of the casino, but an unemployed villain from the village who had been hired to the town, and he had not seen much of the "big world" than the little yellow hair who watched the gate, and he had to force his composure to be calm when he saw the indignation of the crowd, and he couldn't think of how to deal with it at all. In the confusion, he said that the money was not from the casino, because the casino would not deposit the proceeds in the freezer, but he could not be sure that the tickets were the gambling money on the big table a few minutes ago, and he refused to admit that the casino people had stolen them and hid them in the freezer. Such a pale justification only provoked the hot-headed gamblers to become even more frenzied, and their eyes swept towards the assistant manager, the manager's nephew, about the size of the janitor's yellow hair, and the waitress, so frightened that the two children stood dumbfounded. Next, the way the manager and the gambler are antagonistic is upgraded from verbal to physical, and there are those details interviewed by the "reporters". At that time, the nephew's assistant manager stepped forward to protect his uncle, and the waitress ran away from the door.

After the incident, the police who received the report rushed to the scene as they had come to catch gambling as before, and the casino that had always been quiet caused a group fight, which also attracted onlookers from the villagers, including the families of the gamblers. What they fear most is that the police will arrest their loved ones and take them back to the locked up room and impose heavy fines. To the relief of most of them, and to the surprise of the whole village, the police did not boil the people in the casino, but only arrested two or three gamblers from the scene who took the lead in causing trouble, and brought them back for questioning together with the manager and deputy manager who were beaten.

In fact, there are two other situations in which the "journalists" have not been able to obtain them. One is that Chang Jinzhu, the person who originally proposed and decided to set up a "chess and card room", was escorted into the police car under the gaze of the villagers, although he was not handcuffed, but the street lamps vaguely reflected his face and the policeman's face showed that he obviously did not go to drink or take a bath with some acquaintance at the police station.

In the other case, two janitors and a waitress were tied up in the janitor's duty room. After the three children were saved, the attack on them did not seem to be taken seriously by anyone, and naturally no one mentioned it to reporters.

"That's what it's like to dare to love. Uncle, does your village committee have any explanation for this chess and card room brawl to the villagers?" "Heh, young man, look at what you asked!" The uncle looked up at the tall "reporter", "The police have not yet tried the results of this matter, why are they in a hurry to give an explanation." "Do you know how to get to the village committee?" "That...... Over there," the uncle was stunned for a moment, and raised his hand to wave, "go straight to the head, turn to the right, and you'll be there." After that, he didn't wait for the "reporter" to say thank you, and walked quickly in the direction of the threshing floor.

The tall "reporter" shook the arm holding the microphone, and since the interviewees were generally much shorter than him, he did not hold the microphone, but stretched his arm and lowered the microphone diagonally to their mouths, which would make his arm a little sore if he remained in this position for a long time. He looked at the "photographer" behind him and the "driver" carrying the bag, and said, "I see it, right?" The "photographer" nodded. "So let's go next...... Village. "Yes. "He'll meet you...... I mean, although I didn't see him out of the village, he may have been haunted by the events of last night, or he was ...... A project that benefits Dayangtun. "That makes sense, that's enough for him to keep busy for a while. "But he won't feed me behind closed doors, and I'm sorry I'll have to grieve you for a while, and I'll be the only one to go in." ”

Chang Jiucheng, the secretary of the village party committee, was sitting in his office, wearing reading glasses, flipping through the documents that Liu Yuyong had printed for him. He only heard about the casino after the escaped waiter begged someone to call the police, because his home was far away from the casino, and he issued a strict order: no one in the family could set foot in the casino. When the police arrived, he had a brief exchange with the officer leading the team at the scene. He hadn't dealt with the police for at least 20 years — he had been back in his hometown of Dayangtun — and Chang Jinzhu was said to be quite familiar with them. Fortunately, the officer showed an attitude of doing things according to the rules, and his speech was not so aggressive. As for the casino brawl, all he could do now was wait for the police to call him as agreed last night as soon as they had an accurate outcome, and before that, he would have to worry about the walnut and apricot trees.

"Bell-" The phone rang, Chang Jiucheng grabbed the receiver, but he heard it from the transmission room. "Secretary, there is a reporter from a TV station who wants to interview you at this time, is it convenient for you there?" Immediately after, the voice in the earpiece became very weak: "It seems that it was ...... for the 'chess and card room' last night", "no ......" and "convenient" The words came to his mouth and were swallowed back. Officials in recent years, whether they are honest, greedy, loyal, or treacherous, have a certain degree of resistance to such "raids" by reporters. However, Chang Jiucheng thought that he was bent on establishing a good new image of Dayangtun as a healthy and upward person, so he, the secretary, should be more upright, and should not cower and hide, otherwise the reporter waved his pen, and the people of the whole country would think that he had a ghost in his heart. So he said, "It doesn't matter, let him in." ”

Soon, reporters knocked on the door and came in. He was wearing a brown vest with the word "TV" printed on it, but the sunhat on his head was pulled very low, and he lowered his head, and the brim of the hat covered half of his face, which made the permanent secretary more wary. "Hello, Secretary Chang. "Hello, excuse me...... What do you call it?"

"Hehe, Lao Jiu, I haven't seen you for many years, it seems that you forgot me. Hearing the "reporter" call himself "Lao Jiu", Chang Jiucheng was taken aback. But when the "reporter" took off his hat, a spring breeze-like smile that could not be concealed bloomed in the slight tremor of his face. "Captain, are you alright?"