He Yuelong followed the secretary to the car where the old chief was sitting, bent his waist to 90 degrees, and said respectfully to the old chief sitting in the car: "My name is He Yuelong, and I am the secretary of the county party committee of Wushui. On behalf of the three million people of Wushui, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you! Look at it, as soon as you arrive in Wushui, the sky in Wushui will be exceptionally blue, the sunshine in Wushui will be extraordinarily bright, and the ...... in Wushui will be extraordinarily bright."

The old chief listened to him and became more and more unreasonable, smiled and waved his hand to interrupt him, and said, "Secretary He, there is no need to say these scenes. I am a retired old man, I can't walk steadily, and a little granddaughter around me can't control it, where can I make the sky of your Wushui bluer and the sun brighter? However, the environment and air quality of your Wushui are indeed very good, I just got off the train, and I first took a few breaths of the clean fresh air of your Wushui. It's just that I heard that Wushui is still a poor county in the country, and its industrial base is very weak. I estimate that this pollution-free, pure and dust-free air is precisely because you Wushui does not have any factory smoke and exhaust gases. This is of course a good thing, but from the perspective of economic development, you, the secretary of the county party committee, still have a long way to go, and you still need to work hard!"

He Yuelong's face turned red, and Nuo Nuo said repeatedly: "The chief is right in his criticism! Our industrial base in Wushui is indeed very weak, and its economic development ranks among the bottom in the entire Mingguang City and even in Tiannan Province. I am a new appointee, and I will certainly follow your instructions and work hard to grasp economic development!"

The old chief nodded and asked, "Is there anything else you need?"

He Yuelong said: "I received a notice from the municipal party committee that a central leader was coming over today and asked me to arrange a car and police force. I specially called the director and political commissar of the Wushui Public Security Bureau and asked them to drive a police car to clear the way for the chief in front. Without your consent, Chief, they all stopped opposite the station and did not dare to come without permission. ”

Before the old chief could answer, he sneered and asked happily: "Director Gu and Political Commissar Qiu are on the opposite side, let's go and say hello to them." ”

The old chief tilted his head and asked, "Do you know them?"

"Recognize. The last time I was arrested by the Public Security Bureau for the Lei Fang incident, Director Gu was still a political commissar at that time. On the night of the interrogation, he was afraid that the members of the Criminal Police Brigade would extort confessions by torture, so he personally sat in the Criminal Police Brigade for one night. Later, he tried his best to collect evidence everywhere and played a key role in clearing my name. Political Commissar Qiu, who was framed by Lei Yiming, former secretary of the Mingguang Municipal Party Committee, and Liu Xuewen, secretary of the Wushui County Party Committee, was imprisoned in the detention center, and stayed in the same room with me for more than ten days. ”

"Oh, such good cops, I need to meet them. Secretary He, please invite them over!"

He Yuelong happily agreed, and ran over to call Gu Zhenmin and Qiu Guangrong over.

When Sneng Xiaotian saw the two of them, he quickly got out of the car and hugged them affectionately.

The old chief sat in the car, shook hands with them one by one, and encouraged them: "Just now I heard Xiao Leng briefly introduce the situation of the two of you, and he said that you are both rare good policemen with righteousness, courage, and ambition. You are shouldering the heavy responsibility of ensuring the safety of the party, and you must continue to carry forward your advantages, fully perform your functions, do more good deeds, do practical things, and solve problems for the common people, and do a better job in the comprehensive management of public order in Wushui, so that the common people can have a sense of security. ”

Gu Zhenmin and Director Qiu stood beside the car with their bows bowed, and when they heard the old chief's words of encouragement, they were so excited that their faces were red, and they replied again and again: "Please rest assured, the chief, we will abide by the chief's teachings, conscientiously perform our duties and responsibilities, and never disappoint the ardent expectations of the people of the county." ”

The old chief nodded and said, "I'm the person who doesn't like to make a big show the most. Especially now that I'm older, I'm tired of the red tape and lively scenes that ushered in the delivery. However, you are all friends of Xiao Leng, since you want to accompany me, an old man, let's go to Lengxi Village to have a look! You lead the way in front, don't flash your police lights, don't honk your horn, and don't shout at vehicles and pedestrians to give way. Okay, okay?"

Gu Zhenmin and Qiu Guangrong both stood up, saluted, and responded in unison: "Yes!"

He Yuelong saw that he was not mentioned on the side, and anxiously whispered to Sneer Xiaotian, who was standing by the car door, "You ask the chief: Can I also go to Lengxi Village?"

Sneering smiled and turned his head and asked the old chief: "Secretary He said that he wanted to go to Lengxi Village with us to play, what do you think?"

The old chief smiled and said, "Secretary He, your priorities have been reversed! This is your territory." Isn't there such an advertising slogan: 'My territory, I am in charge!' You are the landlord here, where do you want to go, and what do you want to ask me to do as an old man? Come on, come on, you can just take a car with me, and I will ask about Wushui's customs and economic and social development by the way. ”

He Yuelong was overjoyed, hurriedly bowed down and got into the car, sat next to the old chief, and said with a heartfelt compliment: "Chief, you are not only in good spirits and energetic, but also very easy-going and humorous, which really makes people feel like a spring breeze." ”

"What is like a spring breeze? Secretary He, you have won the award! However, you say that I am in good spirits, and I like to hear this. Cao Mengde said: The old man has a long life, his ambition is thousands of miles, and the martyr is in his twilight years, and his heart is full of strength! Although I am over 90 years old, I now feel that the more I live, the younger I become. In particular, I am sincerely happy to see the rapid economic development of our country, the continuous improvement of the people's living standards, and the growing prestige and influence of the Chinese country in the international community! What did we strive for the prosperity and rejuvenation of the country for? Isn't it just to see the prosperous and prosperous scene we have today?"

He Yuelong kept nodding his head and said: "Wang Bo of the Tang Dynasty has these words in the "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng": 'When you are old, you should be strong, you would rather know the heart of the white head, be poor and strong, and do not fall into the ambition of the clouds!' These two sentences are the truest portrayal of you, chief!"

At this time, the captain of the guard came to report, everything was ready, and asked the old chief if he could go.

The old chief nodded, and the convoy drove forward along the potholed and dilapidated road leading to Leigong Town in Wushui County.

The road looks like it hasn't been built for long, and the trees and turf on both sides have not yet grown. However, the highway is full of big potholes, and the roadside Baokan is also cracked and forked. The conditions made the guards and security personnel in front and behind the cars very nervous, slowing down the convoy and stopping from time to time to remove large rocks that had rolled down the slopes on both sides of the hill.

Seeing that this road was so dilapidated, the old chief frowned and asked, "Xiao He, how long has this road been repaired, and why does it look like a newly built road, but it is so dilapidated?"

He Yuelong scratched his head and replied embarrassedly: "Chief, I haven't been in Wushui for a long time, and I haven't had time to come down to do research. I guess there is only one reason why this road is so dilapidated: when the road was first built, the builders cut corners and built it into a tofu slag road. When I returned, I immediately instructed the Highway Bureau and the Transportation Bureau to give an explanation. If there are really people who have the audacity to bid in violation of regulations when building highways, and let some companies with insufficient qualifications contract road repair projects, the county party committee will definitely seriously investigate and deal with the relevant responsible persons. ”

The old chief nodded, and suddenly asked again: "This road is rotten like this, isn't there a common people complaining?" By the way, are there many people in Wushui County who petition and complain?"

He Yuelong said: "As soon as I arrived in Wushui, I made a preliminary investigation and understanding of the petitioners. There are not many old petitioners in our county. However, there is a petitioner who is difficult to deal with. ”

"Oh, tell me: why did he petition, and why did he get so difficult?"

"I remember his name was Li Dongming. More than 10 years ago, his wife was undergoing a ligation operation when the power went out, which caused the operation to be suspended, and later he suffered from low back pain and was unable to work in the field. Since that year, he has been running to the province and the capital every year during the Spring Festival, threatening to go to the central government to complain. In recent years, the Mingguang City Letters and Visits Office has stopped him in the provincial capital every time and given him a few thousand yuan to let him go home. He gradually became accustomed to petitioning as a way to make money. This year, he went to the provincial capital again, and was sent back by the Mingguang City Letters and Visits Office for a few thousand yuan as usual. However, a few days after he returned home, he went to the Provincial Letters and Visits Office again, threatening to go to the capital to continue the complaint. People from the Mingguang City Letters and Visits Office hurriedly chased him and stopped him and asked him why he didn't keep his credit. He said in a hearty voice: 'I went home and thought about it, I have suffered a lot in the past few years. I'll settle accounts with you: If I go to the capital to file a complaint, you still have to rush to the capital to pick me up. Suppose you go to three people, and the round-trip plane tickets, accommodation and catering expenses, plus the travel expenses and living expenses to compensate me for petitioning, you can't do it without 30,000 or 40,000 yuan each time. And you stopped me in the provincial capital, at least saving you 30,000 yuan in travel expenses, but you only sent me 5,000 yuan home each time. So, if you don't give me 10,000 yuan this time, I'm going to go to the capital anyway!" The leader of the Mingguang Letters and Visits Office was stunned by his crooked account, and he couldn't think of anything to refute him for a while. In the end, there was really no way, in order to ensure stability during the Spring Festival, I had to really compensate him another 10,000 yuan. Look at it: if you encounter such petitioners, the government will really have a headache!"

After listening to this story, Lin Xue laughed "eating" next to her.

The old chief glared at her, turned around and said worriedly: "It seems that our system of letters and visits still needs to be constantly revised and improved! The current situation is that in order to whitewash the peace, some local governments either resort to human rights violations and deprive petitioners of their personal freedom, or they do not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy peace and use money to silence petitioners. Both methods do more harm than good!"

At this moment, the convoy in front suddenly stopped. A guard ran over, raised his hand to the old chief, and reported: "Chief, there are two women kneeling on the ground in front of the convoy blocking the road and shouting grievances.

The old chief, He Yuelong, and others were all taken aback: How could it be such a coincidence? Just now when they were talking about the petition and complaint, someone really blocked the road and shouted injustice?