The democratic election in Hetang Village was strongly instigated by He Jiaguo and received strong support from the Shayang County Party Committee. Ji Ji, secretary of the county party committee, and He Jiaguo reached a broad consensus on the issue of democracy and the legal system, and the two sides hit it off, and the work of the general election of the Hetang village committee was carried out in strict accordance with the "Organic Law of the Villagers' Committee," and the county party committee also issued a special document for this purpose. As a matter of fact, the term of office of the Hetang Village Committee expired as early as March last year, and it was long overdue for the term of office, because no one mentioned it, and everyone forgot about this matter, not because Lao Gan and Lao Nie made serious mistakes on the issue of family planning, and even Ji Fushun, secretary of the town party committee, could not think of such a thing as a re-election.

One day in early May, He Jiaguo and Secretary Ji of the county party committee personally sat in town, and nine villagers were elected to form the Hetang Village Election Committee by the political power unit of the Shayang County Civil Affairs Bureau, the town party committee, and the town ** according to the number of votes. In the afternoon of the same day, the Election Committee held its first meeting and elected the chairman and deputy directors of the Election Committee according to the number of votes received. He Jiaguo announced on the spot that from now on, the general election in Hetang Village will be independently led by this democratically elected election committee, and the competent departments at the city, county, and town levels will no longer issue any administrative orders. The villagers present were silent for a moment and immediately applauded warmly, fully affirming and supporting this democracy in the true sense. Ji Ji, secretary of the county party committee, also made a speech, to the effect that he asked the villagers to cherish their democratic rights and do a good job in the general election. Ji Fushun didn't want to speak, but he was afraid that He Jiaguo's words would be misunderstood by the villagers, so he followed He Jiaguo's words and said a few words: The city, county, and town no longer issue administrative orders, it does not mean that they just ignore the election and let it go. If there is an irregularity in the electoral process, the organization still needs to be intervened.

In response to Ji Fushun's speech, the villagers were strangely silent, and even the party members and cadres present did not slap much.

According to the atmosphere of the venue that day, Ji Fushun predicted that the audition in Hetang Village might not go too smoothly.

However, he did not expect that it would not go smoothly in the future: Although the meetings in various fields were made public five or six times, the "Organic Law of the Village Committee" allowed the election committee to lead the villagers to study it again and again, and explained all the truths, several comrades from the political power unit of the county civil affairs bureau and the town people's congress have been sitting in the village to supervise and inspect, and only two of the nine party member candidates favored by Ji Fushun and the town party committee have surfaced from under the sea. On May 10, the villagers held a meeting and elected 15 official candidates, including two candidates for the chairman, four candidates for the deputy director, and nine candidates for the village committee. On the afternoon of the same day, the Election Committee posted Announcement No. 5, announcing the list of the 15 candidates, and decided to elect nine more candidates from the 15 candidates in the next round to formally form a new village committee, and the election time was set for 13 May.

The election situation is 13 to 2, and six of them will have to be crossed out during the formal election on 13 May, and if it is these two party member candidates who are crossed, this kind of democracy will not be fun, not to mention the loss of face, and it will not be easy to control the current village committee, and if it is not done well, there will be chaos. Ji Fushun was very anxious, and for several days in a row, he went to Hetang Village every day, and he didn't talk much about democracy, but focused on talking about the party's leadership, and he also called He Jiaguo every day to complain, claiming to ask for instructions. He Jiaguo's instructions were very clear: Ji Fushun should strictly implement the "Organic Law of the Villagers' Committee," adhere to the principle of democracy, and let the villagers themselves be the masters of their own affairs. Ji Fu asked by the way, if there will be chaos in Hetang Village in the future, will you look for me? He Jiaguo sneered and said, in the past, the village committee you appointed did not have a lot of chaos, and the superborn was almost the champion, and even your old plan was put into it! How to forget.

He Jiaguo was unreliable, and Ji Fushun had to rely on the town mayor Liu Quanyou and the chairman of the town people's congress, Lao Meng, who was forced to take up the weapon of democracy to start a war with democracy, do the work of the villagers separately, and also help the two party member candidates prepare campaign speeches. These two candidates for party membership, one is Duan Jiji, who was borrowed from Hetang Village to the town as a clerk, Ji Fushun originally wanted to arrange him to be the village director and party branch secretary, but he asked for opinions. There is also Bai Fengshan, a professional rabbit farmer, who was mobilized to run for deputy director. According to Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou's assumptions, it is still ideal for the two comrades, one old and one young, to form a team together. Duan Jiji is a decent person, politically reliable, and has been a clerk in the town for more than a year, so he can grasp the policy well; Bai Fengshan is an honest man, very experienced in meat rabbit breeding, and the town of meat rabbit breeding and processing base Chen Rabbit is a brother-in-law, can catch the meat rabbit breeding and processing as a leader, with a village people on the road to get rich. The villagers did not buy this account, and understood the kindness of Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou as suppressing democracy, and the more they did their work, the more the villagers did not understand. The situation shows that whether it is the village director of Duan Heiji or the deputy director of Bai Fengshan, it is very likely that they will not be elected.

On the afternoon of 12 May, Lao Meng, chairman of the presidium of the town people's congress, went to Ji Fushun again to report that there had been people in the village who had been secretly active in the past two days, and they went around saying: Since it is a democratic election, the more people from above want to be elected, the more party members there are, the more people should not be elected. After discussing with Liu Quanyou, he asked Lao Meng to investigate, but Lao Meng did not find out the clue, and the villagers did not admit that there was such an "anti-party" thing, but instead reflected a large number of problems with Lao Nie, the former director of the village committee, and Lao Gan, the branch secretary, saying that it was better to elect party members who violated the basic national policy and tied up people and beat people at every turn.

As a result, another candidate for village director,—— Gan Ziyu, a non-party "masses" who is very well-known not only in Taiping Town but also in Shayang County, will have the top spot and will most likely win the formal election on 13 May.

Gan Ziyu is known as Mr. Four, and the generation of the Gan family in Hetang Village is very high, and the original village party secretary Gan Tongsheng wants to call Gan Ziyu the fourth master. Mr. Four was arrested for engaging in feudal superstitious activities during the "**" period, and was sentenced to several years in prison, and later wore a bad hat. In the past few years, I have often gone to the south, and I have become rich first by telling fortunes to the bosses in the south, and I have built the only four-story small building in the village with tiles on the outside, which is more generous than the village committee. Mr. Four is very busy with fortune-telling work, and it is rare to live at home for a few days a year. I somehow came back from the south for a while, and it is said that I still came back by plane in first class. As soon as he returned, he participated in the election for village director and was elected as a candidate for village head with the highest number of votes. Later, Mr. Four shook hands with everyone and gave them business cards, saying everywhere that they would resolutely fight corruption and settle the corruption accounts of Lao Gan Lao Nie in the past few years; He also said that one person is not rich, but the whole village is rich, and he swears that he will not forget his fellow villagers when he is rich, and he must contribute his wisdom and talents, and use his "gossip prediction" and his divination and fortune-telling to take more than 600 villagers in Hetang Village to go straight to the bright road of well-off. According to the poll conducted by Lao Meng, more than half of the villagers in Hetang Village are ready to vote for Mr. Si's village director and follow Mr. Si to become well-off, and the four-story building that Mr. Si stands at the west end of the village has become the best campaign advertisement.

Ji Fushun thought that if this sharp-faced monkey-cheeked Mr. Four really came to power by democracy, the irony of democracy would be too great, so he went to Hetang Village with Liu Quanyou very responsibly to have a thorough conversation with Mr. Four. This time it was the real inspection work, but the two did not dare to go to the village committee to drink "one piece of eight", and they went to Liu Quanyou's house for dinner. Because he wanted to talk about democracy, he didn't dare to pass on Mr. Four, who had a high demand for democracy, to the village committee,—— but Liu Quanyou wanted to pass it on, but Ji Fushun didn't allow it, so the two went to Mr. Four's house.

Mr. Four's house was very lively, and the excited villagers crowded into a house and a yard. When Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou walked to the gate of the courtyard, they heard Mr. Four talking about the corruption of Lao Gan and Lao Nie of the former village committee. Seeing that Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou were coming, Mr. Four did not evade, pointed to Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou and said: "Old and young masters, don't you keep saying that Secretary Ji and Mayor Liu have drunk a lot of 'one piece of eight' in our village, do you know what the township mayor in the south drinks?" Remy Martin! That bottle of wine is enough for us old and young masters to eat for three years! Besides, the two corrupt elements Gan Tongsheng and Lao Nie were still pulled out by Secretary Ji. Therefore, I said that our secretary and Mayor Liu are not only not corrupt, but also a clean official, and they didn't let us buy remy horses for them to drink! ”

Ji Fushun was on fire in his heart, but he didn't have a good seizure, and said with a forced smile: "Gan Ziyu, are you scolding us in a different way?" ”

Mr. Four was proud, but he didn't get carried away, and smiled sincerely and cutely: "How can it, Secretary Ji, without you, how can there be today's democracy!" ”

Ji Fushun said: "Gan Ziyu, I came with Mayor Liu today and wanted to talk to you about democracy!" He looked at the people in the courtyard, and said quietly, "Gan Ziyu, can you stop your campaign speech first?" Give us a little time, too. ”

Mr. Four was reserved: "Secretary Ji, look at what you said, did you misunderstand?" Do you think I want to run for this village chief? I was dragged out by the old and young masters, and I can't even run if I don't want to! Aren't I going to do my duty and take the old and young masters to be well-off together? The old and young masters can trust me, if you really choose me tomorrow, I really have to do it, and I won't fight if you don't choose me. ”

Liu Quanyou said: "Gan Laosi, you don't need to say this, the villagers don't choose you, you can't fight if you want to!" ”

Mr. Four said: "That's, that's, democracy, what's there to say!" After that, he bowed his hand to the villagers in the courtyard, "Old and young masters, let's just say that, everyone will go to the election tomorrow, and now I have to talk to the two leaders about some work." ”

The villagers could see that Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou were not good, and they greeted Mr. Four one by one and left one after another. Some bold young people deliberately said loudly in front of Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou: "Fourth master, don't worry, we will all choose you tomorrow!" ”

Ji Fu waited for all the villagers to leave, and then asked Mr. Four: "Gan Ziyu, how capable are you, can you take Hetang Village and go straight to Xiaokang?" Fortune-telling by showing people physiognomy? You might as well engage in ** work, you are more lacking in morality, and it is faster to cheat money! ”

Liu Quanyou also said: "Gan Laosi, you just take the opportunity to make waves!" Secretary Ji is a foreign cadre, I don't know your details, but I know you, you have suffered less for feudal superstitious activities? If you have time to reminisce about the past, it will be good for you! ”

Mr. Four got up unprecedentedly: "Secretary Ji, Mayor Liu, I think you have a big misunderstanding!" How is it a feudal superstitious activity? How is it fortune telling? I'm working in bioinformatics science now, do you understand? If you don't understand, you can learn slowly, don't jump to conclusions first! As he spoke, he gave Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou a business card.

The business card is much larger than the ordinary business card, and there are rows of gilded characters printed on it: Gan Ziyu, senior researcher of the Chinese Bagua Theology Research Association, expert in paranormal research, special researcher of human prediction, and the owner of the global Chinese physiognomy evaluation network.

Ji Fushun shook his business card and asked, "So, are you going to take all the villagers of Hetang Village to learn gossip prediction?" ”

Mr. Four said disapprehantly, "What's this? If you can do gossip prediction, follow me to learn to do gossip prediction, I am selfless in technology, and I will never hide it. If you can't engage in gossip predictions, you can engage in supporting services! Shigang Town, where I stayed in the south, started by gossip and prediction, ** is very supportive, the Industrial and Commercial Bureau issues licenses, and it is legal to operate. As soon as the gossip prediction became popular, various service industries also became popular, hotels and restaurants were full every day, and even the boss of ** and many officials were always running there! ”

Liu Quanyou was a little excited: "Oh, there is still such a thing? Reviving a town's economy with fortune-telling? ”

Ji Fushun glared at Liu Quanyou, and Liu Quanyou realized that he was confused and kept silent.

Mr. Four saw Liu Quanyou's thoughts: "In these days, as long as you can make a fortune, what are you doing?" Aren't all the big smuggling cases involved? People are not even afraid of smuggling, so they invest in building temples, burn some incense, kowtow and nod, and the money will be grabbed. We don't have enough money, so what's the point of gossip and prediction? This mainly depends on whether you are emancipating your minds as leaders or not, and if you emancipate your minds, I will take the lead in Hetang Village. Of course, after I came back, I also heard that the two of you have just made a mistake, and you may think about it more, so I am not embarrassed for you, so I will take the business license of Shigang Town in the south and open it first. ”

Ji Fushun couldn't listen anymore: "Gan Ziyu, don't say it, I don't think you are qualified as a candidate!" Would I rather choose a pig than you? ”

Mr. Four smiled: "Secretary Ji, why do you say that I am unqualified-you see that I am not qualified, you see that it is your own opinion, and it does not represent the opinion of the villagers." Democracy, if the villagers elect me, I will be qualified, but only those you send will not be qualified! I engage in prediction, not to talk about benefiting the country and the people, nor harming heaven and reason, besides, gossip is a science, and it is fundamentally different from fortune telling. ”

If you don't take this fourth gentleman to the town for a two-day shift, you have to train him face-to-face, but he didn't dare to do it that night, turned around and left, found a place where no one was around, and called He Jiaguo again, told him the latest situation, and concluded that tomorrow's formal election would be a big joke. Therefore, Ji Fushun made two suggestions on the phone: first, issue an executive order to the Election Committee to postpone the election; 2. Cancel the qualifications of Mr. Gan Ziyu as a candidate for village director, and let Duan Ji, the village party secretary, be elected as the only candidate for village director, and more than half of them will be deemed elected. He Jiaguo didn't agree at all, and said in a tough tone that even if Gan Ziyu was really elected to power, there was nothing to be afraid of, there was still a party branch in Hetang Village, and the country still had laws, so there would be no big mess. Don't be afraid of a little mess, there is always a price to be paid for the implementation of democracy, and after the villagers of Hetang Village pay the price this time, they will mature in the future.

What else is there to say about this? Ji Fushun closed his mobile phone, and pulled Liu Quanyou away angrily: "Okay, Liu Zhen, we have fulfilled our responsibilities, let Mayor He and the villagers of Hetang Village pay the price for democracy!" ”

As soon as he walked to the small bridge at the east end of the village, Duan Jiji suddenly appeared out of nowhere, stopped Ji Fushun and Liu Quanyou, and reported: "Secretary Ji, Mayor Liu, you all know the situation, right?" Gan Ziyu and they are too active, and the Gan family is the surname of the village, I definitely can't choose it, if not, I'll quit! ”

Ji Fu said smoothly: "Before the battle is fought, you will retreat?" Choose for me! If you can't choose, you are not afraid, the village party secretary will do it! ”

Liu Quanyou also said: "Xiao Duan, you can't have no confidence at all, you still have to believe in the masses!" ”

Duan Ji said dejectedly: "I believe in the masses, the masses don't believe in me, the party's prestige has been ruined by Lao Gan and Lao Nie!" ”

Ji Fushun said with a heavy heart: "Therefore, your task in the future is very heavy, and you will be elected tomorrow, you are the village director and branch secretary, if you can't be elected, you are still the branch secretary, and the party's prestige will depend on your actions to benefit the villagers!" ”

On the way back, Ji Fushun talked to Liu Quanyou about He Jiaguo's unreality, and sneered: "Our Mayor He doesn't look at what kind of place this is?" Is it the United States? Is this kind of democracy fun? Can we afford it? I don't know much about the situation below, how did he know that even the broken tea barrels and dirty towels placed at the door of ** were stolen! ”

Liu Quanyou thought about it: "Hey, Secretary Ji, you reminded me: tomorrow's official election, Mayor He is coming, should we hurry up and buy a new tea barrel and put it on again?" Buy a few more thick towels to make them look better, and don't let Mayor He criticize us again......"

Ji Fushun didn't wait for Liu Quanyou to finish speaking, and said: "Don't buy it, don't buy it!" Let Mayor He see what the hell this place is! Just let him open his eyes! ”