The village girl tried to snatch it back and shouted, "It's not yours anyway. Let go of me." Her companion beside her stared at Li Rui and said, "What are you doing? If you try to snatch it again, I'll scream. Someone's snatching it. Help! Someone's playing dirty … "
When Li Rui heard this, he was so angry that he almost fainted. He looked up and saw a few women and two men running out of the central room. They shouted loudly, "Where are you? Who's playing dirty? "" Beat him to death. How dare he play dirty in our village. "" That's right, beat him to death! "
Li Rui was so angry that he was about to cry. Although he was not afraid of fighting with these people, he did not want to have a conflict with them because of this matter. He let go of his hand and shouted, "Who are you people? Who let you snatch the gifts? Don't you have any manners? "
Some of these people knew Li Rui and recognized him at a glance. They whispered in panic, "This is the city leader who presided over the meeting during the day. He seems to be the one who bought the gifts. He's here. Let's leave quickly." As soon as these words were said, the five or six people scrambled to run out. Along with the two village girls, they quickly ran out of the courtyard and disappeared.
Li Rui did not chase after them. He rushed into the central room and saw that the corner where the gifts were placed was empty. There was only a large empty bag and an empty cardboard box. Needless to say, the remaining gifts had been snatched by those people just now. He was so angry that he cursed, "Motherf * cker!" After saying this, he slammed the table with force, making a loud noise and shaking a lot of dust off the roof.
He thought angrily, "I came all the way from the city to help you get rid of poverty and become rich. You're the ones with backward thinking and lazy consciousness, and you want me to buy gifts to stimulate your enthusiasm. In the end, you can't understand my deep meaning, and you're like thieves and bandits, robbing all the gifts. How can you do that? You only see the benefits in front of you. You deserve to be poor. With your cunning and greedy peasant mentality, you won't be able to get up even if I help you for a lifetime! I must have been blind to be so willing to help you all! "
After venting his frustration for a while, he suddenly had an idea. The village committee and the village party branch worked in the same courtyard. For the villagers of Little Dragon King Village, it was equivalent to the grassroots government. What kind of place was the government? Solemn and sacred, it represented authority. Was it something that anyone could enter just because they wanted to? Let alone locking the door at night, even if the door wasn't locked at night, which villager would dare to barge in? Not to mention coming in to snatch the gifts. Since the villagers dared to snatch the gifts, wouldn't they be able to snatch other things as well? Would the village cadres agree? But this incredible thing happened in front of his eyes. It seemed that this matter was not as simple as it seemed. Maybe there were some village officials involved. If it weren't for their acquiescence or secret instigation, which villager would be so blind as to come here and steal things? And so many of them at once?
While he was thinking, the village health director ran in from outside. Seeing Li Rui in a daze in the room, he asked in surprise, "Director Li, what happened?" Li Rui looked back at him and said, "The village committee doesn't lock the door at night?" The director said, "Yes, but I'm on duty tonight. Just now, someone asked me to go out and told me that the sheep at home were stolen. I went to his house to take a look. When I went out, I didn't lock the door. When I came back, I saw that the door was wide open. I knew something was wrong, so I rushed in and saw you. Did something happen?" Li Rui said faintly, "The leftover gifts from today's meeting were all snatched away."
The director was shocked. His eyes were wide open, his mouth was wide open, and his jaw was about to drop. He looked like he had seen a ghost in broad daylight. His expression was slightly exaggerated.
Li Rui looked at him and thought to himself, maybe this old man was the traitor. He pretended that he was asked to go out and took the opportunity to open the door. He secretly asked his relatives and neighbors to come and snatch the gifts. Everyone would take advantage of the situation. Anyway, the law does not punish the majority. Even if he knew about this, he would not be able to say anything. Could he really call the police?
The director asked, "Who snatched the gifts? Do you know Director Li? " Li Ruixin snorted and cursed. Damn, do you think I'm the village chief? Do you think I know them? I don't know any of them! But he said, "I know a few. I can recognize them when I see them." When the director heard this, his face changed and said, "Is that so? Then tell me who they are. I'll go find them and ask them to return the gifts. " Li Rui snorted and thought to himself, That's easy for you to say. Oh, they snatched my gifts and you want them to return them? How can there be such an easy thing in the world? He sneered and said, "Just return them?"
The director smiled and said, "What else can we do? It's just a few yuan. It's not worth calling the police. Director Li, what do you think? " Li Rui nodded and thought to himself, Yes, you all must be thinking the same thing. That's why you have me in such a tight grip. He sighed and thought to himself, If I didn't have an important position, I would have fought with you all on this matter. Damn it, how dare you take advantage of me. Do you really think I'm stupid and easy to bully? He said, "Yes, that's the only way." The director smiled and said, "Then leave this matter to me. Director Li, you should go back and rest. I'll see how much I can get back tomorrow, but I can't guarantee anything. If they have already used it, it won't be good to get it back. Because it's useless even if we get it back, right? Hehe … "
Li Rui looked at the director's smiling face indifferently. He wanted to give him a slap to freeze the smile on his face. He smiled and said, "Yes, I'll leave it to you. I'm going back." After that, he walked out of the house.
The director walked him out of the small courtyard and locked the door. When he returned to the central room, he also locked the door. Then, he took out his phone and called home. When someone answered, he asked sneakily, "Wife, how much did you take just now?" A woman's sinister laughter came from the other end. "Five towels and three bags of detergent. I didn't take the soap because it's too small to hold. I can't take too much either … His aunt took a lot. She took about ten bags of detergent. She said that the towels aren't worth much … But that's fine too. I won't have to buy detergent for the next six months. Hehe, hahaha.
The director said, "I forgot to tell you not to take too much. If the two of you took all the gifts, others will gossip if they don't take them. It won't be good if the city leaders find out. This kind of thing needs to be done in numbers … "The woman on the other end smiled and said," There are more than ten people in total. They all took the gifts. Our family took the most. Who asked you to be on duty tonight? It's fine. The law can't punish the majority. Don't worry. " The director said, "Good, that's good. Go to sleep. Remember not to spread this, haha."
Li Rui stood at the entrance of the alley. He didn't go home. He was angry and depressed. This time, he came to help the poor. His helper was an arrogant and unreasonable b * tch. The target of his help was a group of greedy and shameless mountain village farmers. This made him unhappy in both his work and his life. There was a saying, "Don't be afraid of a god-like opponent, but be afraid of a pig-like teammate." Now, he had met all of them. He had a target of poverty relief that was difficult to help, and a teammate that was difficult to work with. Under these circumstances, it would be impossible for him to do a good job in poverty relief.
He stood there for a while and suddenly felt that his mouth was dry. He was holding a thermos flask in his hand. He unscrewed the lid and brought it to his mouth. He wanted to drink the hot water inside. Luckily, he was lucky. He suddenly remembered that there wasn't any hot water in the flask. There was a poisonous scorpion that he had just caught. If he brought it to his mouth, he would be stung by it. He was so scared that he shivered. He quickly screwed the lid back on and walked home.
Before he took two steps, the first house in the alley was the new house of the landlord of Li Rui's rented house, Shi Dayong's family. Two people walked out of the house. In the dark, he couldn't see clearly and couldn't tell who they were. But, he could tell who they were from their voices.
The first one was a timid woman. She said, "Brother-in-law, you go back. I can go back by myself."
This voice was not unfamiliar to Li Rui, because he had heard it at least twice. The first time was when he was asking for directions, and the second time was when he was having a meeting today. The owner of this voice was the young and pretty wife that he had asked for directions from before. He was a little puzzled in his heart. Why was she not sleeping in the middle of the night and running to Shi Dayong's house? Calling him brother-in-law? Could it be that there was someone in Shi Dayong's house who was her brother-in-law?
Just as he thought of this, he heard Shi Dayong's cheeky voice. "Why are you being so polite with your brother-in-law? Is he an outsider? Let's go. Brother-in-law will send you home. Yan Er, it's dark. Brother-in-law will help you. "
Li Rui then understood that Shi Dayong was the beautiful wife's brother-in-law.
Suddenly, he heard the wife say softly, "Aiya, no need. Brother-in-law, I didn't drink. I don't need your help. You … let me go." Shi Dayong laughed and said, "It's okay. It's dark. Brother-in-law will help you." The wife scoffed, "There's really no need. Let me go." Shi Dayong laughed and said, "What's there to be afraid of? Is Brother-in-law an outsider? "
The two of them were talking as they walked out. Li Rui bumped into them.
When Shi Dayong saw that someone was coming, he let go of his wife and didn't say anything.
Li Rui couldn't not greet him and said, "Brother Shi, you haven't slept yet?" Shi Dayong recognized him and smiled, "Not yet. Leader, you haven't slept either." Li Rui said, "I'll sleep now." He then walked past the two of them.
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