It is too exaggerated to describe the situation after the consultation meeting as "burnt out", so the "old nine" is not as frustrated as a bishop who has lost. When the villagers scattered out of the compound one after another, he found that the time was past 12 noon, and he arranged for some subordinates, including his son-in-law, to collect tables and chairs, remove the podium, and clean up the messy courtyard.

He didn't go home for lunch, as he had planned. The village committee does not have a canteen, and in principle, people who work here either use their lunch break to go home to eat, or bring food to the boiler room in the morning and let the master who boils the water help heat it up at noon. When the secretary of Chang Jinzhu's department was in power, the village cadres liked to go to the village restaurant to gather at a table, or call the boss to teach the boss to bring the wine and food, and then make a blank slip when it was time to settle the bill. At that time, there was an empty room next to the conference room, and there was only one large square table in it, which was specially used for serving wine and food. After Chang Jiucheng came to power, he issued a ban in this regard, and no one dared to make a mistake. "Lao Jiu" originally estimated that today's lunch break would be very tight, and he had to make a lot of preparations for the afternoon, so he and his son-in-law carried a lunch box when they went out early in the morning. At this time, he forgot to go to the boiler room, and he hesitated in the corridor outside the office, and from time to time he glanced through the window at the young subordinates who were cleaning up the mess in the courtyard. It's not hunger, it's deflated, he thinks. But he Lao Jiu is really not discouraged, or he has not had time to be discouraged, he is in a deeper mood than discouragement.

He forgot how he walked back to the office, but he remembered that after sitting in it for a long time, Liu Yuyong knocked on the door and came in, and put down the lunch box for him. The son-in-law originally planned to accompany him, but he waved his hand and asked Secretary Liu to go back to himself: "You go back to the secretariat to eat, I'll think about something." ”

When he opened the lunch box, steamed buns, stewed beans and shredded potatoes were steaming, and his chopsticks pounded and pounded rhythmically between them, and he didn't pick up anything for a long time. He clenched his left hand into his temple, staring at the peeling wall in distraction, not even glancing at the food.

There was a knock on the door again, and "Lao Jiu" thought that his son-in-law was not at ease and came back to take a look, so he kept silent, thinking that this kid was interesting, and he would leave without hearing him call him in. After knocking twice, the door was pushed open, and it was not Liu Yuyong who walked in, but the old village chief. "Lao Jiu, haven't you eaten yet?" the village chief also held the lunch box and looked at him twice, "At this time...... Busy?" "Oh, no. Village chief, you can sit casually. Do you have something to do with me?" the village chief closed the door and said, "It's nothing, I just want to have a meal with you and talk for a while." ”

The village chief's family is not good at cooking, this is the well-known lace news in Dayangtun. Chang Jiucheng glanced at the village chief's lunch box, and saw that the contents were really rough, no wonder the village chief ate it in small bites, and his expression seemed to be about to spit out before he swallowed it. "It was the same in the past, when Chang Jinzhu and his people were secretaries, I wanted to do something for the villagers, as long as they felt that they were in the way, they would play all kinds of conspiracies and tricks to stir things up. I don't know if my rice is too unpalatable, the village chief put down his chopsticks and said suddenly. "Village Chief, how can you see that Chang Jinzhu instructed people to stir up today's matter?" "Lao Jiu" cast an inquiring look. "Obviously, you see, those people, can they ask that kind of thing? They asked us like can't come to the stage, obviously they colluded, they must have been Chang Jinzhu's pawns, and Chang Jinzhu taught them those words. ”

The village chief's analysis seems to be very reasonable, and the "old nine" has in his mind the scene of Chang Feihu sitting indifferently in the last row when the three of them are competing to ask questions. "I have some impressions of these people, they shouldn't be related to Chang Jinzhu's family, right? Chang Jinzhu and his son no longer have any positions, and their families are not doing business in the village, so they are neither officials nor businessmen. "It's good if you want to open it, I'm afraid you'll be discouraged by their little actions. The old village chief was relieved and sighed, "Back then, I just couldn't swallow my breath, I swelled my head and fought with them, and I didn't talk about tactics, I was calculated by them, and I lost several battles in a row. ”

The old village chief has served in Dayangtun for decades, and he has experienced too many ups and downs, and his seniority in the officialdom of the village is equivalent to Chang Jinzhu, but he has always been a supporting role for so many years. Since joining the village committee, Chang Jiucheng has often heard him express similar feelings in private chats with him, regretting that he had no way to lower Chang Jinzhu and let this local snake act recklessly. After listening to it more often, "Lao Jiu" will think: Maybe before I became secretary, he couldn't even find anyone in the village committee who could talk to him, right?

"I'm not discouraged. Secretary Chang Jiucheng said worriedly, "I'm worried." "Worried about what?" "Worried about the folks. "Lao Jiu" paused, and finally spit out his worries to the old village chief, "It's not that the problems that those people pulled out today can't be solved, but it's not something that can be explained clearly in a few words, so just by asking and answering on the spot, we can't give the villagers a comprehensive and credible explanation at all." On the other hand, when the couple sings and praises, such shouting is tantamount to exaggerating the bad aspects of the problem, and everyone will take the bad aspects very seriously, after all, if they take it out and look at it alone, this can threaten their current days. If I were in the audience, I would probably think: If the good life is not lived, and the current poor life cannot be maintained, then how can I live? If I take it too seriously, the bad aspects will inevitably occupy an important weight in their hearts. When the time comes, they will naturally be suspicious and wavering about the project, and if there are a few guys like this guy today, everyone's enthusiasm and courage to participate in this plan to get rich will be gone, and the project will not be able to continue. "Then let's study the solutions to the problems they raised, by the way, there are still those that have not been mentioned but may appear, and then have a consultation meeting to explain to the villagers?" Lao Jiu smiled helplessly: "At this point, I'm afraid our explanation will not work." I can only find someone to reassure the villagers. "Then who has the 'reassurance' you say?"

"Lao Jiu" said solemnly: "Village chief, do you still remember what I said, you want to invite agricultural experts to give training and lectures to growers?" "Remember! Don't you want to invite today?" "Now it seems that the loss of not inviting today is really too great." When the experts told me that I couldn't come today, I thought about waiting for the planting responsibility area to be allocated and the farmers would go up the mountain to start maintenance and planting, and then take the time to invite them to come, this step would have to be advanced. "Oh, smart, Lao Jiu! You have to let the experts solve the siege!" "Not only the experts, but also the sellers. Didn't they say that they hadn't met the sellers and were not at ease with them? Let's pick the most powerful sellers and ask them to send a representative to meet with you. This is good, let the sellers also contact the growers, don't just deal with us officials, lest they turn back and think that we are the kind of black-hearted intermediaries in the city, and do not let the buyers and sellers meet, and they will fool people with oil and water at both ends. ”

The village chief couldn't help but sincerely admire this "old nine" who was younger than him. Far from being discouraged by the unexpected setback just now, the new secretary of the village party committee, who had never been an official in the village, saw through the crux of the problem so quickly, and thought so far ahead, and found a way to solve the problem. With such a mind and such tenacity, I am really far from it.

Li Jinming also stayed in the courtyard for a while after the meeting, but he didn't help with cleaning. He and his clerks, as well as a few other quick-eared cadres, were assigned by Chang Jiucheng to record the questions raised by the villagers at the consultation meeting. He was very quick to write down not only the questions, but also the outlines of the cadres' answers. In the final stage of the consultation meeting, due to the villagers' discussions, questions came one after another, and the order of the venue gradually became chaotic. Fortunately, there were no verbal or physical altercations, and after the villagers left, he hurried to sort out the unfinished notes. When he was walking back, the old man who was guarding the door came quickly and said that two men had been looking for him by name in the morning. "Who are you looking for me?" I asked, but they didn't say their names, but only the big celebrity who had come to us last time, the one you received, who drove a big car to the north slope, and said that his ancestors were men from our village, and that he had sent them to consult with you. The old man told him again that he was too busy because of the consultation meeting, so he didn't let them come in and disturb him. "I asked them to go into the communication room and wait, and they said they were not in a hurry, so they poked at the entrance of the courtyard. After a while I was called to help out at the meeting, and I didn't greet them again. When I came back just now, I saw that they were gone. Li Jinming was surprised in his heart and asked, "What do they look like?" "They are both quite young, one is in his early twenties, carrying a big bag, and the other is twenty-seven or eight, carrying a small bag and wearing glasses." Their coats are the same as those worn by those who come to our neighborhood to climb the mountains and set up tents on the mountains. ”

Li Jinming walked outside the gate of the compound and looked around, and there was no shadow of a person who met the above characteristics near and far. He went back to the old man and asked, "Did they say something was wrong?" and "I asked, but they didn't tell me, they said they had to consult with you." "They didn't say where they came from?" "This ...... They all speak Mandarin and don't have much accent to hear. ”

Could it be that they came from Beijing? But Ou Luochuan should have lived in the south for a long time, so why did he send two people from Beijing? What are you doing here? The more Li Jinming thought about it, the more strange he felt.