Li Xiaoning is so smart, and he has been in officialdom for so many years, so he naturally heard Qin Youli's voice, but he didn't say anything.

Afterwards, several people chatted for a while. The more Li Xiaoning listened, the heavier his heart became, because he heard that what Qin Youli said was all the opposite. He had the heart to ask the doubts in his heart, and Hou Yonggui, the village director who had not said a word, had already intently smoked a "Su cigarette" he had given him, stood up, and said: "Let's go, let County Magistrate Li -- Xiaoning rest." ”

Qin Youli also stood up and said, "Xiaoning, you can rest." "Just go out, don't give Li Xiaoning any room to stay.

After the election couple saw off the guests at the gate of the hospital, they were busy preparing lunch. Li Xiaoning and Cheng Xiaoxi were left in the courtyard.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and Li Xiaoning said: "Yu Sihai's resignation is a mystery, and a bunch of counter-words from the village party secretary Qin Youli are another mystery. You can hear it, it's all in the town leaders. If I am on the job, I can understand, I can check, I can listen to reports, and if there is a real problem, I can deal with it. But not now, I don't have that right. ”

Cheng Xiaoxi said: "If you have no power, you will have no responsibility." No matter what it is, just listen to the gossip, why put it in your heart? ”

Li Xiaoning nodded and said, "Also, if you are not in your position, you don't seek politics." ”

Cheng Xiaoxi sighed: "What is unpleasant is the snobbery that can't be avoided. I didn't expect the countryside to be so snobbish. When you were the magistrate of Xinpi County, you did so many good things for the people, it stands to reason that they should be grateful to Dai De. But you've been here for two days, who ever said such a thing? The party secretary and the village director didn't show up until two days later, and they didn't say a word about the benefits you had! That is to say, when you are on stage, you recognize your benefits, and when you get off the stage, the so-called benefits will be written off and never mentioned again. Do you think so? ”

Li Xiaoning also felt this way, but he didn't want to admit it. He believed that there were snobbish people among the peasants, but on the whole, the peasants should be the least snobbish stratum in society.

Yu Xuan's wife came out of the house and interjected: "Xiaoning." I think what your family said is right, and now our family has become a white-eyed wolf who can't be fed. I'm not afraid that you will be angry when you say it, you have done so many good things for our people, so many people have been lifted out of poverty and become rich, but do you know what they say about you behind their backs? ”

"What do you say about me?" Li Xiaoning asked.

"They say that's what you should do, it's your duty to do it well, and if you don't do it well, you should be scolded." Yu Xuan's wife sighed and said, "They also said that if you want them to miss your good, you will give each family 100,000 yuan, and then each family will buy a car." ”

"This has really become a 'Shengmien fighting Mi Feud'." Li Xiaoning smiled helplessly.

"Who wouldn't say that! Hey, this person, it's good when he's still poor, but once he has money, he doesn't know who he is, and he doesn't think about the good. Yu Xuan's wife also sighed and said.

Because the topic was a bit heavy, the conversation became a bit of a match until lunch. For the convenience of the guests, the meal was served at the election, first four bowls full of sharp points: braised pork, meatballs, stewed mutton, fried meat noodles, and then served on the plate, all of which were cold dishes such as peanut kernels, shredded potatoes, and flour skin, up to six plates. The staple is dumplings, which are served subsequently.

"Ouch, uncle, aunt." Cheng Xiaoxi looked at the dishes on the table and exclaimed, "There are so many dishes, and a lot of meat, can you eat them?" ”

Yu Xuan's wife said: "This is your first meal at my house, it should be." ”

Li Xiaoning said on the side: "This is a rule handed down by the elders in the village, the first meal of hospitality must not be sloppy, it must be of sufficient specifications and high grade." ”

Cheng Xiaoxi replaced the shredded potatoes and fried cabbage in front of them, and said, "It's enough for the two of us to have this, but the meat is not good, and we can't eat it at all." ”

Yu Xuan brought a bottle of Yanghe Tequ and said, "Come, let's drink two cups." ”

Li Xiaoning looked up and said, "What about the four seas?" Let's eat it when he comes back. ”

Yu Xuan said: "Don't wait, let's eat first, when will he come back to eat." ”

Li Xiaoning waved his hand and said, "No, no, I haven't seen him yet, I must wait for him to come back." ”

Yu Xuan said without raising his head: "You can't wait, his daughter-in-law said that he rarely eats on time, and often eats leftovers hot." ”

Cheng Xiaoxi also said: "Oh yes, I haven't seen my daughter-in-law and children from all over the world." I'm still waiting to give my child the New Year's money. ”

Yu Xuan's wife said: "Sihai's home is in the county seat, and my daughter-in-law works in CCB. During the Chinese New Year, the daughter-in-law led the child back to her parents' house, and the four seas came back to celebrate the New Year with us. ”

Li Xiaoning said: "Second uncle, if you look for it, you must find the four seas back." We have something to talk about. ”

Yu was a little hesitant about the election, but he still went out. His wife walked to the door and said, "If you can't find it, come back quickly, don't let the food get cold." ”

Yu Xuan came back soon and said that he couldn't find it, don't wait, let's eat first. Cheng Xiaoxi looked at his watch, and less than five minutes after Yu Xuan left, he smiled and said, "Second uncle, did you come back after standing outside the gate for a while?" ”

Yu Xuan said: "I went to the front and asked a few people, but they all said they didn't see it. ”

Cheng Xiaoxi obviously read something from Yu Xuan's face, so he said, "Xiaoning, don't be reluctant, let's eat." ”

Yu Sihai did not come back, which made this meal very beautiful. Li Xiaoning became more and more uncomfortable in his heart, not to mention that the two of them had a superior-subordinate relationship before, even from the perspective of Zhuang Qin and Zhuang Lin, Yu Sihai also called himself a brother. No matter from which point of view, after he came back, it was reasonable that Yu Sihai should go over and have a look. It's good now, he has come to their house, Yu Sihai is hiding and not coming back to eat, this is unreasonable! It's understandable that others don't understand, but Yu Sihai, who was once the head of a town, doesn't understand, so he can't say it.

As for the election couple, because their son did not come back, they consciously took care of the loss, and they said a few words without a match. Meals are eaten in a dreary atmosphere.

After dinner, Li Xiaoning and Cheng Xiaoxi went for a walk outside. I went around to the back of the room, turned a corner, and arrived at the school playground. Cheng Xiaoxi asked: "This school is well repaired, it doesn't seem to be a few years old, it was built when you were the county magistrate, right?" ”

Li Xiaoning nodded and said, "Yes." The road was also built at that time. ”

Cheng Xiaoxi paid close attention to the three classrooms in the front, and the other three sides were offices, dormitories, kitchens, toilets, fences, gates and other facilities, which looked very clean and tidy. Cheng Xiaoxi nodded and said, "With such a school, it's no problem for the children in the village to go to school, right?" ”

Li Xiaoning said: "When it was built, even several surrounding villages were taken into account. There are also children from the above villages who come here to go to school. ”

"Good!" Cheng Xiaoxi said, cocking his thumb.

Stroll past the edge of the playground and walk to the west end of the village and walk up to a concrete bridge. Li Xiaoning said: "This is also what I did when I was the county magistrate. It turned out to be a concrete arch bridge, built just after the end of the Cultural Revolution, and it became a dangerous bridge when I was in middle school. In my first year as county magistrate, I blew up the dangerous bridge and replaced it with the current one. ”

Cheng Xiaoxi cocked his thumb again and said: "This matter, my evaluation is still this!" ”

After a pause, Cheng Xiaoxi asked again: "I see that the village uses tap water, don't sue me, that's also your credit?" ”

Li Xiaoning did not answer immediately. When she got off the bridge and walked back, she told her about the drinking water project.

It turned out that in the years at the turn of the century, several polluting factories were built in the townships, such as paper mills, cement factories, etc., which polluted the surrounding rivers. The villagers dig wells, even if they dig 40 meters, and the water that comes up is not clean.

When Li Xiaoning was the county magistrate, while vigorously rectifying pollution, he also deliberately built water towers in every village in the town, treated the water, and then brought it to every household......

Li Xiaoning said: "Don't think that I only think about my own village and town, no matter where else. When I was the county magistrate, I really did a lot of good things, and I am very confident in that. Of course, I have to be emotionally biased towards my village. ”

Cheng Xiaoxi said: "You have done so many good things for the village, I was moved when I heard it, but the villagers who have benefited and enjoyed the blessings, seeing that you are no longer an official, wrote it off without mentioning it, what do you say this is not snobbery?" ”

Li Xiaoning waved his hand and said: "Snobbery or not, it doesn't matter." When I did it at that time, I didn't think about asking people to remember it and sing praises to virtue. What I should be making trouble about now is what happened to Yu Sihai? ”

Cheng Xiaoxi said: "I thought about it when I was eating, did someone else pull the flag as a tiger skin and say something in your name, causing a misunderstanding in the four seas?" ”

Li Xiaoning thought about it and nodded: "It's not impossible to have such a possibility." ”

Cheng Xiaoxi asked, "Then what should we do?" Go home first, or what? ”

Li Xiaoning thought for a while and said, "If this mystery can't be solved, I won't leave." He doesn't eat lunch, he has to eat dinner, right? You have to come back to sleep at night, right? We can always wait for him. ”

Who knew that Yu Sihai not only did not come back for dinner, but was still nowhere to be seen until ten o'clock in the evening. In desperation, the two had to go home to sleep.

got up early the next morning, after washing up, Li Xiaoning was going to Yu Sihai's house again.

Cheng Xiaoxi frowned and said, "People don't want to see you, but you have to ask people to see you, that's too much." ”

Li Xiaoning said: "There is something greasy in this, I have to figure it out." With that, he went out.