Chapter 134: Wavering Trust
After a night of discussion, the next day, as soon as the village committee began to work, seven or eight people gathered at the gate of the compound to discuss the explanation. These are people in their 50s, and they have not come here because Chang Zhimin was released or for a village cadre to bribe reporters, but because yesterday's consultation meeting could not be held as scheduled. Yesterday morning, they were also here for the arrival of the expert representatives, and in the end all they were looking forward to was the disfigured empty car. Although they have heard what the driver Chang Xing said, from the perspective of these elderly villagers, they are not most concerned about this. Most of them have experienced hardships when they were young, and they are not afraid of hardship or tiredness, but it is difficult to continue to be poor after accepting hardship, so they have always maintained certain expectations for Lao Jiu's plan of "growing dried fruits and getting rich". However, when all kinds of related news on the Internet slammed into their ears, they were eager for an explanation, or a proof -- for "Lao Jiu" to explain or prove the original intention and credibility of the plan to grow dried fruits. However, since the village chief announced on the spot that the exchange meeting would be cancelled, what to do next, whether the experts and representatives will come, when will they come, whether it is the "old nine", the village head, or other people in the village committee, have not come forward to explain.
Unlike these people who are over half a hundred years old, at a time when the topic of the village is heating up on the Internet, the 18-year-old teenagers in Dayangtun, who are at the forefront of interacting with the outside world, generally do not care much about the "road rage" encountered by the expert representatives. Their interaction with information outside the village is entirely through the Internet, and the current enthusiasm on the Internet is to discuss the bureaucracy, disregard for people's livelihood, corruption and other behaviors of the Dayangtun Village Committee, and the children's microblogs, blogs and posts naturally revolve around these aspects. The interception of the car of the expert representatives seemed to them to be a different subject from the above - perhaps more precisely, to a different audience - so that none of them thought to mention it on the Internet.
When Liu Yuyong cautiously knocked on his father-in-law's door and informed that some villagers had come to reflect their opinions, "Lao Jiu" was criticizing Li Jinming. He, like most people in the village, only learned about giving reporters red envelopes after watching last night's news. At this moment, he was pacing in front of his desk, Li Jinming stood in front of him with his head bowed, the scene was very similar to a teacher training students, but Teacher Li had changed positions now.
The old village chief sat on Li Jinming's side, and Liu Yuyong listened to his father-in-law's scolding outside the door, and none of the words he said were directed at him, but when he came in, he also looked frustrated and hung his head silently.
"Jin Ming, you said that you have been a teacher, why don't you understand the reason? Where can you do this? No matter what it is for, when you make such a fuss, don't you equate yourself with Chang Jinzhu's gang?" "Lao Jiu" motioned to his son-in-law to go out and wait, and his tone of criticism softened slightly. "Lao Jiu, don't blame Jin Ming, I came up with the idea. At that time, I was afraid that the two reporters would become more and more crooked, and I panicked all of a sudden, and I wanted to correct them as soon as possible, and I just remembered this method when I was in a hurry...... "Village chief, I am not afraid of crooked shadows, didn't I say it, they write their news, let's do our business." As long as we do a good job of getting rich in an open and honest manner, the things they made up will not stand scrutiny at all, and they will still be able to become true? ”
It's not just the problems caused by red envelopes that give "Lao Jiu" a headache. Yesterday, the police at the town police station pestered him and Zhimin with a whole morning with a lot of empty and boring questions, and many of them were asked last time. The policeman who questioned him was different from the last time, why hasn't the question changed? "Lao Jiu" almost asked the fat policeman sitting opposite him with these words. Finally, it was almost 12 o'clock at noon, and according to what "Lao Jiu" said, "the public security didn't want to take care of my grandfather's food," so the police station let them go, waiting for "I will invite you over next time." Before he could return to the village committee, he received calls on his mobile phone from the seller and the agricultural expert's organization, who invariably adopted a questioning and reproachful tone, demanding that he explain the violent and intimidating incident that had occurred a few hours earlier, and why the villagers in Dayangtun had asked the expert representatives to "go as far as they wanted" and "stop coming", and why they made it clear that the dried fruits of the village "do not have your share".
"Lao Jiu" was confused, so he had to repeatedly say that he did not know the specific situation, and then called the other party back when he returned to the village committee to ask. He rushed back to the compound without taking care of lunch, and saw the venue that had been cleaned up long ago. He approached the village chief and called the relevant personnel to ask what was going on, and everyone was surprised to hear him talk about the attitude of the vendors and the institutions where the experts worked. After the village chief repeated to him the description made by Chang Xing in the morning, everyone realized that someone had told a lie. "What about Chang Xing? Call him. "Lao Jiu" said. "He went to the town hospital. Said the person in the know. "Whoever has his mobile phone number, give him a call...... It doesn't matter if he asks him, so what...... Tell us about our ...... Care and condolences, by the way, tell him that after returning to the village, we will go here, we will punish that gang of road rage, and we have to ask him for help. ”
As soon as the arrangement was completed, the mobile phone of "Lao Jiu" rang again, and it was still the seller, but this time it was a higher-level leader of the merchant, who had a very key decision-making power in this transaction with Dayangtun. Like all executives of large private companies today, the leader greeted politely first, and then used elegant and aggressive language. He seriously questioned the feasibility of the cooperation plan with Dayangtun and expressed his shock at the "attack" on behalf of the company and the intention clearly expressed by the villagers of Dayangtun during the "attack process". He doubted whether the cooperation between the two sides had won the approval of the villagers and whether the village committee had truthfully explained the true purpose of the cooperation to the villagers or to their company, and finally hinted that he had begun to consider canceling the cooperation because the cooperation with Dayangtun Village might damage the employees and reputation of their company.
It is not difficult to hear that the news of Yiteng.com has also penetrated into the judgment of this leader, coupled with his deliberately imitating Mandarin accent from Hong Kong and Taiwan, "Lao Jiu" exerted unprecedented self-control, so that he did not scold him and then hang up, or simply threw his mobile phone to the ground. However, the secretary of the village party committee did not appease the leader on the other end of the phone, but said firmly: "Let me tell you, we have shown 100 percent sincerity from the beginning to the present, and we will be 100 percent sincere in the future." He did not plead with the other party not to cancel the cooperation, but promised not to allow such a thing as stopping a car to happen again.
"When will Chang Xing go back to the village?" hung up the phone, "Lao Jiu" muttered to himself under the gaze of everyone, "I have to figure out who stopped the car!"