Chapter Ninety-Four: Autumn Night

Lin Shanshan's impoliteness made the atmosphere of the dinner suddenly embarrassing, and then, Village Chief Yu became more restrained and uneasy, glaring at his wife from time to time, probably complaining that his wife had offended the guests.

Li Qiuhe is nothing unusual, he still rarely moves chopsticks, and from time to time he will say a few words to Aunt Wang, the wife of the village elder, hoping that the other party will not take what happened just now to heart, and at the same time express his apologies.

This made Aunt Wang flattered and frightened, and secretly gratefully muttered in her heart, this girl is young, not only is she handsome, but she also speaks so gently, how can it be like what the old man said, the big cadres in the city like to open their mouths and scold people at every turn, and I don't know which family will be blessed in the future to marry such a fairy-like girl home. Aunt Wang is a part-time matchmaker in the village, and she helps people to be idle when she comes and goes.

Fortunately, this embarrassing atmosphere did not last long, and after about ten minutes, Li Qiuhe's phone rang, and her face was overjoyed, and she quickly got up and went to the side to answer the phone.

Sure enough, the phone call came from Chen Yang, saying that it was about half an hour before she could get to the village, she was overjoyed, and she didn't even hear Chen Yang's words clearly, and said, "I know, I'll go to the village to pick you up immediately." After that, he hung up the phone quickly.

Immediately afterward, she immediately turned back to the people at the table and said, "Village Chief Yu, I'm sorry, my friend seems to be coming soon, I have to pick him up at the entrance of the village." ”

After saying that, she was so anxious that she didn't even wait for the old man to answer, and she had already hurried out of the hall.

"Eh, Cadre Li, wait a minute, I'll accompany you."

Seeing this, Old Man Yu's face suddenly changed greatly, and he followed out as he spoke. He knew that there were a large group of villagers outside his courtyard who had not yet dispersed, and if he frightened Cadre Li for a while, he would be killed.

Outside the courtyard, as soon as Li Qiuhe ran out, when he saw the large group of villagers outside, his heart suddenly chuckled, but he still walked outside. There was no way, as soon as she thought that Chen Yangxing had arrived at the entrance of the village, she couldn't sit still anymore, even if she was being treated as a Martian at this time, she couldn't care about it so much.

But what is surprising is that after the villagers saw her come out, they didn't, but became quieter, and took the initiative to give her a wide passage, and even where she passed, the nearby villagers took the initiative to greet her very honestly.

"Hello, Cadre Li."

"Cadre Li, you have worked hard."

The simple greetings of the villagers made Li Qiuhe a little flattered, and she had to smile and nod frequently while walking out of the courtyard of Yu's house, and said "Hello, hello." to respond to these enthusiastic folks.

In fact, she didn't think that she really helped Liulin Village much, a Hope Primary School is up to 200,000 yuan, and the number of children in Liulin Village and nearby mountain villages is not large, and the scale of the school is not too large, so the foundation helped the village to build the primary school only spent less than 80,000 yuan. In addition, when the foundation selected the first 100 impoverished villages to invest in the establishment of schools in the country, most of them were also personally demarcated by Chen Yang, and this Liulin Village was no exception. Anyway, she always feels a little ashamed of her gratitude to the villagers.

At this time, Village Chief Yu and several colleagues who followed Li Qiuhe into the mountain also chased them out, shouting Li Qiuhe and so on, and she had to stop.

The village chief Yu caught up and panted and said: "Cadre Li, the entrance of the village is two miles away from here, the road in the mountains is not easy to walk, and it is dark, just let my second boy go over and pick up your friend, you don't have to run so far." ”

Li Qiuhe shook his head with a smile and said, "No, it's better for me to go over and pick it up in person." As he spoke, he looked at his subordinates again, "Liu Xin, don't come with you." Then he glanced at Lin Shanshan, who had also come over but had been bowing her head and not daring to speak, and sighed in her heart, this secretary was chosen by herself, and she didn't have to say anything about her work, but she was far from meeting her own requirements in terms of morality.

In the end, the village chief Yu still asked to accompany him, and Li Qiuhe didn't have a problem, thinking about staying at the village chief's house tonight, in case Chen Yang wanted to live in a room with him at that time, he would always be unable to hide it from the village chief's family, so he nodded and agreed.

Soon, a few subordinates were left, and the village chief Yu carried a kerosene lamp to accompany her to the direction of the village entrance, who knew that halfway through, a middle-aged man wearing a yellowed old-fashioned military uniform hurriedly ran over and called the village chief, panting with a frightened face: "Village chief, village chief, big thing, big thing is not good"

This man is also a village cadre, who usually lives in the village office and is responsible for propaganda and family planning work.

Seeing his disgraced appearance, Village Chief Yu felt that he had lost someone in front of Cadre Li, frowned and scolded: "Erniu, you speak well, Cadre Li is also here, it's not a shame to be in a hurry, what can be a big deal, it's true." ”

"Oh, oh." Erniu replied again and again, nodded at Li Qiuhe with an embarrassed smile, and then said very eagerly, "Village chief, the township just called, saying that another big leader is coming to our village to inspect the work, let us prepare in advance." ”

The village chief Yu was stunned when he heard this, since he was elected as the village head, if Li Qiuhe is not counted, the biggest cadre in the village is a deputy township chief in charge of water conservancy who went out from a neighboring village, how big a cadre can there be in the village in the middle of the night? Then he frowned and asked, "Isn't Cadre Li already here, and what other big cadres are coming?" ”

"No, listen to me, the village chief, really, the township chief just said on the phone that the mayor is coming to our village, and he will be there soon." Erniu said, with a strange look on his face, obviously he was encouraged by the fact that he had just been able to talk to the township chief on the phone.

After listening to this, the village chief suddenly felt like someone had smashed his brain with a wooden stick, opened his mouth wide and couldn't speak for a long time, and was stunned for more than ten seconds before he came back to his senses, and asked again and again in disbelief: "What?" What do you say? You repeat, why is the mayor coming? ”

"Village chief, it's true, the township chief just said that this time it's really the mayor who is going to come to our village to inspect the work." Erniu couldn't suppress his excitement, and his voice was trembling all the time.

Indeed, I heard that there was a deputy mayor in the city who casually went to the next village to inspect it, and the result was that the deputy mayor made a decision on the spot to build a big reservoir for the neighboring village, and now the neighboring villagers no longer have to worry about the dry season without water to irrigate the crops, almost every year there is drought and flood to ensure the harvest, and in the spare time they use the reservoir to engage in aquaculture, I heard that a lot of money has been made, and every household in the village has a bonus at the end of the year, which can be regarded as taking off the hat of poverty, which is really the envy of the people in their village.

"What, what"

Old man Yu muttered stupidly, he still didn't dare to believe it, but his mind was the same as Erniu's thoughts, these days, I'm afraid that I won't be able to lead.

He asked in a trembling voice: "Erniu, which mayor did the township chief say," and every three or five days in the village, a postman sent an expired Nangang Daily in the township, so the village chief Yu also knew the names of some of the city's leaders.

"I heard what the township chief said just now, saying yes, it is Mayor Chen from our Xizhou region who came to our village, and it is really Mayor Chen from our Xizhou who is coming." Erniu is an old bachelor in his thirties, and his eyes are red at this time. It is no wonder that he seems to have begun to fantasize that Mayor Chen will throw a lot of money into the village, and then their village can get rid of poverty and become rich like the next village, and he can also have money to marry a daughter-in-law.

"What?"

Erniu's words were like the last straw that pressed the camel, and the village chief only felt that his head was banged, his legs were weak, and he fell directly on the hard muddy ground.

Then his teeth seemed to freeze, and he collapsed on the mud floor, and asked in a trembling and dejected state, "Mayor Chen?" ”

"Village chief, don't fall, our village is pointing at you." Erniu hurriedly went up to help the old man up, dragged him back, and hurriedly muttered, "The township chief just said that the time is urgent, I'm afraid it's too late to prepare carefully, but I still ask our village committee to take immediate action to mobilize the forces that can be mobilized, and we must show the good spiritual outlook formed by our village since the reform and opening up in front of Mayor Chen."

Seeing that the village chief Yu, who had lost his ability to think, was dragged away by Erniu, Li Qiuhe couldn't help but secretly shook his head and smiled bitterly, look at these people, as soon as I heard that Mayor Chen was coming, I haven't really seen anyone yet, what has become of this?

After a long while, she bent down and picked up the kerosene lamp that the old village chief had dropped on the ground but had forgotten to pick up.

Luckily, the lights didn't go out.

His eyes turned to the direction of the village entrance in the distance again, but he couldn't take a step.

Indeed, since Chen Yang is here to investigate, the accompanying cadres beside him must be indispensable, and if he rashly goes to the village entrance to wait for him, he will always let his cadres guess wildly, which will not have a good impact on him.

After thinking about it, she simply carried a dim oil lamp, stood on a mound beside the road, and observed the situation in the direction of the village entrance in the distance.

I don't know how long it took, a series of headlights flashed in the direction of the village entrance, and it seemed that there were still a lot of cars entering the village, and there were more than ten of them.

Seeing those flickering headlights getting closer and closer to her, she bit her lower lip, but she thought depressedly in her heart, didn't she say that she would come to rest for two days, why did she come to the village to inspect it now? Hmph, it's really a speech, and I was happy in vain.

Although it was still early at the moment, just after nine o'clock, the night in the mountains was already a little cool, and she suddenly felt a little cold, so she subconsciously reached out and hugged her chest.

At this moment, a cold mountain wind blew, blowing her skirt to the sound of hunting.

So, in the middle of the autumn night when the night breeze is getting cooler, on this bare hillside, this dim butter lamp, this beauty in autumn clothes but light as a chrysanthemum, constitutes a very strange picture in this silent night.

And the graceful figure of the beauty in the painting, as the autumn wind gradually rises, but it looks more and more pitiful

On both sides of the yellow mud road about 100 meters in front of the village office of Liulin Village, flags are flying at this moment, drums are flying all over the sky, and large and simple slogans and colorful flags are flying horizontally, among which the middle and largest banner has a big title written on it -- "Warmly welcome Mayor Chen to Liushu Village to inspect and guide the work"

Not to mention, as far as this banner is concerned, although because of the time, the production is a little simple, and even the handwriting on the banner doesn't seem to be dry, but the content is really decent.

Here I have to praise the old village chief's organizational skills, in just half an hour

And this lively scene makes people almost forget that it is almost half past nine o'clock now, you must know that in the village, usually after nine o'clock in the evening, it is definitely the dead of night, basically you walk on the field road, at most you can hear a few sparse dog barking, such a lively scene is definitely the first time in this small mountain village for so many years.

"Welcome, welcome, warm welcome"

In the cold wind of the early autumn night, the children who stood in line on both sides of the road shouted slogans of welcome. It was already a little cold at this time, and most of the children's cheeks were red from the cold, but they were still trying to shout the welcome slogan loudly, and each child had a lovely smile on their faces, heartily welcoming the arrival of the mayor of the city.

Yes, maybe their queues are sparsely packed, their Mandarin is not standard, and even their slogans are not very uniform, but they are definitely serious.

Because the old village chief had already said at the emergency mobilization meeting before that it was the mayor of Xizhou City who came to their village to inspect this time, and he was a great chief. And I'm afraid that few of them can clearly explain what kind of big official the mayor is, but they all know that it must be a very big official who can make the usually bullish old village chief incoherent and crazy.

They didn't know what it meant for the mayor to come to the village for inspection, but the old village chief made it very clear when he was mobilizing before, if the mayor was satisfied and happy after returning from the field trip, then there would be hope for them in Liulin Village, and they, the dolls in the village, would be able to use pens for two yuan a piece in the future, and maybe they would be able to afford to go to college in the future. What is a university? It was a paradise in the minds of the children in these villages.

Therefore, although many of them were actually taken out of the bed by their parents just now, they were very sensible and did not cry at this time, and worked hard to do what the village cadres asked, shouting slogans, and waving the small red, green and blue colored flags in their hands.

It is said that the children of poor families are in charge of the family early, which seems to be true.

But it's a pity that Chen Yang, who was sitting in the car, didn't feel the slightest joy of being welcomed by the metro, but when he saw these dozens of children standing on both sides of the road trembling and welcoming him, he was shocked by the welcome ceremony held by Liulin Village in the middle of the night.

Seeing the fresh and immature little faces red and purple by the cold mountain wind, he couldn't help frowning slightly, and immediately instructed Hu Linan in front of him: "Xiaohu, ask what's going on?" Who's got the bad idea? It's ridiculous to ask a child to run out in the middle of the night and suffer this sin."

In fact, this is mainly because Chen Yang usually acts in a low-key manner, and rarely needs to go below to investigate and engage in leadership image projects, so he feels ridiculous, in fact, things more outrageous than this are repeated every day in many parts of the country. Seriously, it's normal to ask these children to come out and welcome the city leaders, and the leaders are all good to show their closeness to the people. This is just a trivial matter, and in fact, in order to curry favor with the higher-level leaders in many localities, even more absurd welcome ceremonies abound.

"Okay, Mayor."

Xiao Hu could hear the displeasure in Chen Yang's tone, and hurriedly responded, then quickly took out his newly equipped mobile phone and called Secretary Li in the car in front of him.

Soon there was an echo.

After Xiao Hu briefly asked about the situation, he immediately turned around and reported to Chen Yang: "Mayor, Secretary Li said that he didn't know very well, and he just told Xiaonanxiang to make simple preparations and arrange food and accommodation, but he didn't expect that the village would distort his meaning and make such nonsense." "Then he immediately said," Secretary Li said that he had notified the village cadres to let the children go back. ”

Chen Yang let out a "hmm", stretched out his hand and pressed his forehead vigorously, since he had already informed his meaning, he did not continue to pursue this issue. And he actually knows very well in his heart that there will be no result if he asks continues, not to mention that the following cadres are not doing this to curry favor with themselves, from their point of view, they are not wrong to do this, but they didn't expect to meet a leader like himself who doesn't like to engage in this kind of behavior very much.

Soon, I saw a middle-aged cadre with a black briefcase in the head car in front of him getting out of the car quickly, and quickly found Zhang Erniu, a village cadre who led the children to make a welcome queue, and then saw that Comrade Zhang Erniu's face was so frightened that his face turned green, and he nodded busily, obviously they didn't expect the horse's fart to be slapped on the horse's leg, it turned out that there was a leader who didn't like this.

After less than two minutes, the queue of students who were still shouting "welcome" was finally taken away by the team leader.

The children didn't know what was going on, and they all thought that they were not good enough, especially the scary appearance of the black line on the face of Uncle Erniu, the village cadre, made them feel sure that this time they must not be good, if they leave a bad impression on the mayor, then there is no hope for our village?

The children were sent home in a long queue of great loss.

And when Chen Yang, who was sitting in the car, saw the stunned, puzzled, and even aggrieved expressions on the faces of the children before they left, he couldn't help but sigh again in his heart, this kind of formalism is really deadly.

Three minutes later

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After about five minutes of driving at the speed of a snail, with a slight sound of brakes, the Honda finally came to a safe stop in front of a broken tile house in front of it.

Then, the window of the car slowly rolled down, and Chen Yang sat in the car and glanced out slightly at the dilapidated courtyard that was somewhat similar to the ancestral hall.

At the same time, Hu Linan had already quickly gotten out of the car, went around to the back, and lightly helped Chen Yang open the car door.

As soon as Chen Yang got out of the car, Secretary Li and Mayor He of Nangang greeted him from their respective parking places, and Secretary Li whispered to Chen Yang in the car: "Mayor Chen, this is the village office of Liulin Village." Then he pointed to a little old man waiting in the distance next to him, and introduced, "This is Comrade Yu Dagen, the village chief and branch secretary." ”

In fact, he didn't know the name of the village chief Yu Old Man, and the information of Liulin Village, and even the information of the entire Xiaonan Township, was made up in the car before. After all, if Chen Yang knew that he was not familiar with the place under his jurisdiction at all, he would not have to be criticized in vain, and it would be a bit unreasonable.

Chen Yang looked in the direction pointed by Secretary Li, and saw an old comrade who looked very nervous and uneasy standing not far from here.

And this old comrade is dressed very specially, just looking at the upper body is better, an extremely formal dark blue tunic with unusually neat buttons, a pen in the pocket of his jacket, straight and straight, looking very energetic, although this dress looks obviously old, and several places at the cuffs have been worn off, but it is still very decent. can be paired with the white green military pants he wears on his lower body, and the overall look is a bit nondescript.

Looking at the dress of the head of this village, you can probably guess that Liulin Village is indeed a poor village.

Chen Yang sighed secretly in his heart, and immediately walked quickly towards the village chief.

When the village chief saw the mayor walking towards him, he was so excited that he forgot to take the initiative to catch up, and stood in place in a daze, and the several village cadres behind him were the same, and at this time, they all felt a little masterless. Especially Chen Yang looks so young, like a young offspring, which completely subverts the majestic and cold image of the mayor in their imagination.

"Comrade Yu Dagen, hello."

Chen Yang took the initiative to stretch out his hand, he did not criticize the absurd welcome ceremony in front of the other party, but greeted him cordially.

"Chen, Mayor Chen, hello, you."

After letting go of his hand, his ears still kept buzzing with Mayor Chen's capable, calm, and slightly magnetic voice, and the whole person was like falling into a dream, and he only felt that after shaking hands with such a big leader as Mayor Chen, he had a feeling of no regrets in his life.

Chen Yang turned his head and glanced around, and found that there were actually many ordinary people present in the welcoming procession, but most of them were watching from afar, their eyes flickering, and whenever he looked at these villagers, the eyes of the villagers quickly avoided in panic.

But despite this, Chen Yang could still read the same meaning from their curious gazes, that is, ardent expectations.

Yes, he knew what his presence meant to these masses. They hoped that their word would change their situation of distress and poverty.

That's right, for Chen Yang, it is not difficult to do this, but at the same time, it is very difficult.

It is not difficult that with his current position of power, he can easily change the backward appearance of this village, and what he really feels difficult is that what he wants to do now is not only to make a Liulin village rich, but he hopes to make the entire Daxi Prefecture rich through his own efforts. Even, he hopes that one day, he will never see such a poor village in the country again.

And to do this, he must have more power and must stand in a higher position, otherwise, this qiē is all utopian.

Somehow, he had a lot to say in his heart, but at this time, his throat seemed to be blocked by something, and he couldn't say half a word.

After a while, he condensed, turned his head to Secretary Li beside him and said: "Comrade Wuping, you go and arrange it immediately, find a bigger place, and see if anyone is interested, you can call over and sit down, I also want to hear what you want to say to me, the mayor." ”

Secretary Li frowned secretly, he was really afraid of something, it was no problem to chat with these villagers, but if someone in the middle talked nonsense, it would be a big trouble. Thinking of this, he persuaded with some hesitation: "Mayor, will it be too late today, you see, or wait for tomorrow?"

Chen Yang waved his hand and interrupted: "No, I think it's going to be fine tonight, aren't there many villagers here, so that tomorrow will delay everyone to do farm work." ”

Secretary Li was helpless, so he had to nod and agree: "Okay, Mayor Chen." After speaking, he gave a look to a cadre next to him, and the cadre understood, knew how to choose people, and quickly turned around to do something.

About ten minutes later, a clearing in the courtyard of the village office was crowded with people. I heard that Mayor Chen wanted to chat with everyone, and everyone signed up enthusiastically, but the number of places was limited, and in the end, more than 30 honest villagers were selected as representatives, including men, women and children, of course, they were all good people, and Diao Min definitely did not have such an opportunity. If it weren't for Chen Yang's surprise attack, I believe it would definitely have done better.

In fact, according to Secretary Li's true thoughts, he didn't really want so many people to come over. Isn't it? What is there to talk about? Look at their bitter appearance, they just want to take the opportunity to spit out some bitterness with Mayor Chen, and petition again by the way. But I am afraid that if the villagers come too little, it will make the leaders suspicious, which is not beautiful.

Because the time was in a hurry, and the conditions were indeed very simple, Chen Yang did not let people arrange some tables and chairs and other furnishings, he himself stood in this small barn, and the cadres and masses next to him automatically gathered in a circle and listened to him quietly.

Chen Yang actually didn't have much to say, and the purpose of his coming here was to listen more and talk less.

Therefore, after a brief greeting, he began to listen to the villagers introduce the situation of his village. Hearsay is false, and the real situation is best known only to the villagers who live here, and only they really know what kind of support they need most from the government at the moment.

This does not just refer to the financial allocation, in fact, the poverty alleviation funds allocated by the financial department every year are not too small, but the financial departments at all levels in the middle are deducted layer by layer, and there is very little money left to really reach the village and really use it to develop the village economy.

But I don't know if it's because the village cadres in front of me have explained, and after Chen Yang finished speaking, I didn't hear anyone take the initiative to speak, and the masses were still like when they greeted Chen Yang's frame in front, a little evasive, and no one dared to take the lead in speaking.

After being cold for a while, it was still the same Secretary Li, he knew that it would not work like this, so he quickly glanced at one of his subordinate cadres and motioned for him to find two people to come out, so that the leader was satisfied, and it seemed that the villagers were cowering and not doing it for a while, which would lose the meaning of holding this people-friendly meeting, and it would appear that there was a deliberate element in it, and it was easy for the leader to notice. Anyway, let's carry it over tonight first, and then go back and arrange it well, and it won't be easy to make any mistakes.

Soon, an old man in the crowd stood up first, only to see him move out a little tremblingly, Chen Yang saw this and hurriedly took two steps, held his hand cordially, and asked: "Old comrade, hello, what is your surname?" ”

"Mayor Chen, I, my name is Wang Fugui."

Wang Laohan replied tremblingly, Mayor Chen's approachability made him excited, his eyes immediately turned a little red, he didn't know where to put his hands and feet, he simply snorted very rudely, choked and sighed: "Mayor Chen, the government is good."

Wang Laohan sighed as soon as he opened his mouth, and then said, "Our village can be regarded as looking forward to you, and I want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our municipal party committee and municipal government on behalf of the sixteen lonely and widowed elderly people in the village." I am over 60 years old this year, and if it weren't for the government's care, I'm afraid that my old bones would have been confessed a long time ago, and even if I didn't die of hunger, I would have died of illness a long time ago. ”

immediately listed a large number of advanced deeds that I don't know if it really happened to him, or if he made it up, such as the "Sending Warmth to the Countryside" organized by the Nangang Municipal Government in a certain year and month, "The Nangang Municipal Party Committee Team Went into the Mountainous Areas to Help the Poor" and so on.

Although the language of the villagers is very simple, and their expressions are also very natural, but in fact, the actual content is similar to what Wang Laohan said, which is nothing more than some clichés of thanking the government and the party.

The atmosphere at the scene became enthusiastic for a while, and not only the masses spoke enthusiastically, but also the cadres talked about these advanced activities one after another.

Chen Yang has been communicating with the masses cordially, but in fact, he knows very well in his heart that he knows that his trip is in vain, and he has not heard half a sentence of real public opinion, but has heard a lot of flattery.

Forget it, communication in this form is a pure waste of time.

Chen Yang thought a little depressed, but he was helpless about it.

I chatted with the masses for more than 20 minutes, and when it was almost ten o'clock, Secretary Li came to persuade again: "Mayor, it's very late, besides, you have also been on the road for a day, and you haven't had dinner yet, so I think today's meeting should be held here first." ”

"Well, let's do it first."

This time, Chen Yang agreed to push the boat down. Indeed, he has never been one to waste his time.

But just when Chen Yang and his party left the grain drying field and planned to eat in another hall, Chen Yang saw a **-year-old boy struggling to hold a large water bowl full of nourishing sugar water at this time, and he was also planning, it seemed that it was.

And on this cool and swishing night, the little boy was dressed in a short dress, as if he was not afraid of the cold.

"Kid, wait a minute."

Chen Yang beckoned to him and stopped him.

The cadres next to him suddenly became nervous, because no one could see that there were several obvious large patches on the shorts worn by this little boy, it seemed that he was not afraid of the cold, but his family estimated that he really had no money to buy clothes for him.

After the little boy was stopped by Chen Yang, he was a little confused for a while, he didn't know what the big leader was going to ask him, he stood still and didn't move, and his stupid appearance looked very pitiful.

Chen Yang walked up to him, squatted down, reached out and gently touched the little boy's head, sighed lightly, and asked, "Little classmate, tell Uncle Sù, what's your name?" ”

"Uncle, I, my name is Zhang Guo." Although the little boy was very nervous, he still reported his name in order.

"Little classmate, you" Chen Yang wanted to speak again and again, and finally asked, "You are so thin in this cold day, don't you feel cold?" ”

"Uncle, I'm not cold."

The little boy shook his head vigorously, but after saying that, he sneezed directly.

"Little Copperbeard, your family conditions are not good, right?"

"Hmm."

This time, the little boy nodded vigorously, he felt that this uncle was not like a bad person.

"But didn't New Hope Primary School give you autumn uniforms for free? Why don't you wear it? It's not pretty, right? ”

"No, uncle, the school uniform looks good." The little boy shook his head like a rattle, "Uncle, I can't bear to wear it, because Dad said that new clothes can be sold for a lot of money, but if they are unpacked, they can't be sold for money." ”

"Then what will you do when you go to school in the future? Don't you want to continue your studies? Chen Yang asked again.

The little boy was stunned for a moment, and after a long time, he lowered his head gloomily and whispered: "Uncle, I really want to continue studying, but my family has no money to continue my study." ”

"Come in, and go back with your lord in a while."

Chen Yang patted his head lightly, sighed lightly as he spoke, and then got up from the ground, and then his face became more and more solemn.

And beside him, Secretary Li and Mayor He were both full of shame. Obviously, the words of the little boy mercilessly pierced the harmonious and joyful scene that they had carefully arranged just now.

After the little boy left, Chen Yang did not continue to walk into the side hall to eat, but stood at the door.

If he didn't leave, the other cadres naturally didn't dare to go in.

"Comrades, Nangang is not comparable, but in our entire Xizhou region, Nangang City is definitely not the poorest, but you see, there is such a poor place in Nangang, you ask yourself, are you really doing your usual work?" As he spoke, Chen Yang's tone became more and more severe, "I don't know how much the state and province allocate every year to a poor village like Liulin for poverty alleviation, but I think it will not be enough for children to have no clothes to wear and no books to read." Do you say yes? ”

When all the Xizhou cadres heard this, they all lowered their heads in shame.

"I'm curious to know, where did your city divert the state's poverty alleviation funds? Who in your city is responsible for this? Chen Yang's words already have a bit of accountability.

In a depressing atmosphere, a middle-aged cadre soon had to stand up.

"Mayor Chen, the national and provincial poverty alleviation funds have been allocated to the finance, I am specifically responsible for the overall financial planning, because in the past two years, Nangang's seaside tourism has developed rapidly, and strive to create a tourism brand belonging to Nangang, the Standing Committee of the Standing Committee is also to try to tilt the financial, material and human resources to this direction. This is a bit of a neglect of poverty alleviation. After a pause, he continued, "I accept your criticism, it is true that I did not do my job properly, and I will definitely make a deep review of you when I go back." ”

At present, it is not uncommon for local governments to embezzle all kinds of special funds allocated from above, and there is rarely a record of not only poverty alleviation funds, but also special funds for education, agriculture, and even religion. Anyway, the money is in the account of the local finance bureau, and it is up to the local government to decide how to spend it. Although there are mandatory requirements not to appropriate this type, and there are also institutional constraints, the effect is still not ideal.

Therefore, his review is more like exculpating himself.

Chen Yang glanced at this middle-aged cadre, but only to know that this person turned out to be the brother-in-law of the arrogant and domineering captain Peng before, that is, Zhou Yaokun, the deputy secretary in charge of economy in Nangang. Unexpectedly, the previous matter had just been put down temporarily, and the matter here involved him again.

To be honest, Chen Yang had already had the idea of moving this Deputy Secretary Zhou before, after all, in his opinion, a leader of the municipal party committee who can condone his relatives' misdeeds, if he says that he has no problems, the possibility is so small that it can be ignored.

"Secretary Li, the central government has long issued orders and asked local governments to do less face-saving projects and do more practical things for the masses. Or do you think that taking the title of a tourist city is more important than keeping the masses fed and clothed? ”

Chen Yang's questioning was not loud, but it made all the cadres chuckle in their hearts, and Secretary Li and others honestly bowed their heads and were trained, not daring to talk, let alone say more.

Then, Chen Yang retracted his gaze at the other party, and said in a deep voice: "I don't require everyone to be like me, a bowl of water is flat, because it is unrealistic to do that, and everyone still needs to do the work, I just hope that the next time I come to Nangang, there will be a earth-shaking change here." ”

"In addition, here, I can also responsibly tell you that on matters of principle, if anyone can't get along with me, then I will move whose position."

Chen Yang's words were loud, and everyone was shocked when they heard the words.

In fact, many people present had not seen Chen Yang in person before, but they knew that the new mayor was very young, as if he was not yet thirty years old. Seeing this today, I am really young. And although he is younger, but for some reason, the feeling that this calm young mayor brings to everyone is so, the innate powerful aura on his body makes the people present unconsciously want to take two steps back, as if this young man should be born to be a high leader, and good citizens such as us should be born to be ordinary people.

It's a strange feeling, it's hard to accept, but it's really alive.