The person who spoke was Xu Zhongde who was standing at the door. Although he had a straight face, his tone was not so harsh and he seemed to be very appreciative.

The three people stood up quickly and said in unison: "Secretary Xu is ridiculous. We are all talking nonsense."

"Haha, Zhongde, stop teasing them, but the analysis of these three little guys is quite reasonable." Shui Qingzhang then followed and patted Xu Zhongde on the shoulder. It seemed that the content of what Li Yuanlang and the three of them said was

These two heard it all.

Li Yuanlang returned to Ganping on the evening of the 7th, and sent his father to find a good nursing home early in the morning on the 8th. After settling in, he rushed to Shuiming Township to work without stopping.

It was almost nine o'clock in the morning when he arrived at the township government. There were not many people in the corridor. Everyone seemed to have not recovered from the Golden Week holiday. Many offices were guarded by General Iron.

Li Yuanlang shook his head helplessly, opened the door and walked into the office. Han Wei followed him in. Li Yuanlang asked him to sit down, let out a cigarette, and asked about the current situation of Hanjiatun Primary School.

Han Wei said that after Principal Han received 30,000 yuan, he thought that winter was coming and he had to solve the school's heating problem first.

In the past, the school had no money to buy coal in winter, so every autumn, Principal Han organized students to go to nearby mountains to collect firewood and use stoves to keep warm.

The stove heats unevenly, and students close to the stove often sweat profusely from the heat, while students far away from the stove have cold hands and feet.

Now that he had money, Han Zhongwang helped contact the waste recycling company and got a batch of obsolete old-fashioned radiators. He mobilized the blacksmiths in the village and villagers who knew plumbing to help install a small coal-burning boiler for the school, and mobilized the second generation

There are more than a dozen sets of radiators. In this way, every room in the entire school will have a heater, and this winter will be as warm as spring.

Li Yuanlang was very satisfied after hearing this. At least the children would not suffer from the cold. The problem of Hanjiatun Primary School was solved, but the situation in other schools was still not optimistic. Next, changing the backward education environment in the township was the top priority before him.

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It happened that Chang Ming also came to see him, so he discussed with him that he would visit the primary schools in the villages below in the next few days to get first-hand information, so that he could have a good idea for future plans.

Chang Ming didn't say anything, I'll hit you wherever Brother Li points you. I'm here to learn from you.

The three of them were talking in the office when someone knocked on the door and came in. It turned out to be Huang Wenfa.

This guy's little triangular eyes were chattering, he rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Deputy Township Chief Li, the village director of Yangma Village, Ma Zesheng, has come to the township government again. Now you are the only township leader at home. Do you want to let him see you?"

See you."

Yangma Village? Isn’t that Ma Shengran’s hometown?

Before Li Yuanlang could continue, Chang Ming said first: "Head Li is in charge of education. Ma Zesheng's matter involves the Liu family land. The land dispute between the two villages should be resolved by Secretary Ma. It has nothing to do with Head Li."

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Huang Wenfa said awkwardly: "I asked Secretary Ma for instructions, and he said to let Deputy Township Chief Li receive me and report back to him later."

Ma Shengran went too far to bully others. He issued orders to remotely control Li Yuanlang without telling him. He didn't even bother to call him on the phone, but only asked Huang Wen to convey the message verbally. He didn't take Li Yuanlang seriously.

Han Wei was so angry that his face was livid, and Chang Ming also frowned. On the contrary, Li Yuanlang was not anxious or annoyed. He thought about it and told Huang Wenfa to ask Ma Zesheng to come to his office and he would receive him.

As soon as Huang Wenfa left, Chang Ming complained on behalf of Li Yuanlang, muttering about Ma Shengran. Han Wei also said: "Director, Ma Zesheng's matter involves Liu Wanquan from the Liu family, and it will definitely not be easy to solve. It's better for you not to interfere."

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Listening to Han Wei's general explanation, it turns out that Yangma Village was the original collective name, but it has actually been divided into two villages, namely Upper Yangma Village and Lower Yangma Village.

Ma Shengran's hometown is from Shangyangma Village. Naturally, the whole village of Shangyangma Village is rich. However, Xiayangma Village, which is less than one mile away from Shangyangma Village, has become a stepmother, so good things will not happen.

Good policies are not available, and the whole village is extremely poor. Compared with Shangyangma Village, it is as if it is in the sky or on the earth.

At this moment, Huang Wenfa led an angry Ma Zesheng in.

Ma Zesheng is in his fifties, and his face is full of wrinkles, like vertical and horizontal ravines. He is a tall man of about 1.8 meters, slightly stooped. The clothes he wears are not good, and the color of the camouflage uniform has been washed away, and it can be seen that he is wearing it.

Several years.

I had met Li Yuanlang before at the township cadre meeting, and he was not a stranger. Ma Zesheng shook hands with Li Yuanlang and sighed: "Deputy Township Head Li, you can't solve our problems. Ma Shengran is hiding from me on purpose and asking you to receive me.

Send me to fool people."

Upon seeing this, Chang Ming and Han Wei Zhiqu left, leaving only Li Yuanlang and Ma Zesheng in the office.

Li Yuanlang quickly made tea and water for Ma Zesheng, handed him a cigarette and said: "Director Ma, tell me about your matter. I will definitely help if I can."

"Alas!" Ma Zesheng sighed and said, "It's not that I look down on you, Deputy Township Chief Li. Our village has been in conflict with the Liu family for several years. Liu Wanquan has been bullying our village with the support of people above him. Every time I come here

When I complained, Ma Shengran either hid or ignored me, saying that he would definitely handle the matter, but in the end it was still the same, and the matter of Liu Wanquan occupying 20 acres of land in our village still exists."

Xiayangma Village is adjacent to Liujiadi Village. The reason why Liujiadi has become rich in recent years is mainly because the village privately opened a small quarry in Beigou. Although the authorities have repeatedly issued orders to strictly prohibit the construction of such a quarry in order to destroy

The natural ecological environment causes water and soil erosion, which can easily lead to flash floods. Hanjiatun is a lesson learned from the past.

But Liu Wanquan didn't care. When people from the County Environmental Protection Bureau and Work Safety Supervision Bureau came to inspect, he would close it. Once the people left, he would still open it without delay and put a lot of money into his pocket.

More importantly, the villagers turned a blind eye to this, and the villagers all supported him, so Liu Wanquan did whatever he wanted.

A few years ago, he took a fancy to a piece of mountainous land in Xiayangma Village next door. It was said that the stones there were better than those in Beigou, so he enclosed it without permission. He often pulled stones from there and sent them to Beigou quarry for processing, earning a lot of money.

All the money went into the account of the Liujiadi Village Committee, and not a penny was left in Xianyangma Village.

For this matter, Ma Zesheng often asked Liu Wanquan for an explanation, but Liu Wanquan didn't care at all. He said that the land was assigned to them by the villagers to the Liu family, and also falsely accused Ma Zesheng of having pink eye when he saw them getting rich, and that he insisted on messing around.

Share the benefits.

Li Yuanlang knocked on the coffee table with his fingers and said: "Secretary Ma is from Yangma Village. Although you are in Yangma Village, you are all named Ma. You can't write two characters for Ma in one stroke. You are all relatives of the same family, and you are the third cousin."

Fenxiang, why don’t I speak for you?”

"Hmph!" Ma Zesheng sneered and shook his head. He said that the horse-raising village was used to raise horses for the emperor in the Qing Dynasty. The leaders were two brothers. Later, the family was divided due to disagreements over family property.

The descendants of the eldest brother are all in Dayangma Village, and the people in Yangma Village under their branch are all descendants of the second son. Because of the grudges between the older generation, conflicts and even fights often broke out between the two villages until recently.

After years of strict government control, it finally stopped.

But even so, the inherent hatred between the two villages has not diminished. They never interact with each other and never speak when they meet. They are no different from enemies.

Ma Shengran would speak for Xiaoyangma Village unless the sun came out in the west. This was the main reason why Liu Wanquan dared to occupy the land of Xiaoyangma Village.

The land dispute still involves two village committees. To be honest, Li Yuanlang is really worried.

He was not in charge of the rural land, and he was unable to do what he wanted. However, the sense of justice in Li Yuanlang's heart drove him. When this matter happened to him, he must take care of it. No matter what kind of resistance he encountered, he should get justice.

Just as he was about to go down, there was a village-run kindergarten in the Liu family area, which he was in charge of. Li Yuanlang asked Han Wei to drive, and he, Chang Ming, and Ma Zesheng took the car to Xiayangma Village to inspect the land on the spot.

On the way, Ma Zesheng talked about a strange thing he discovered accidentally, about the Beigou quarry.

According to him, once, several young people in the village were dissatisfied with the occupation of their land. After drinking, they went to Beigou Quarry to argue with Liu Wanquan. As a result, they were detained by the pickets at the quarry without authorization and locked up in a cave.

For two days and two nights, it was not until Ma Zesheng personally asked for his release.

One of the young men told Ma Zesheng afterwards that he was in the cave at that time and wanted to escape when the guard was not paying attention. However, he did not know how to escape. At the three-way intersection in the cave, he actually saw a bright light at the end of one of them.

, there should be someone inside.

But before he could run over to see what was going on, he was caught, beaten and interrogated, making him explain what he had seen.

The young man told the truth that he saw nothing but bright lights. The pickets coaxed and threatened him, making sure that he was not lying, and then let him go.

Afterwards, the young man was curious, so he sneaked back to that place one dark night, found the cave and the fork in the road, and wondered if there was a treasure hidden deep in the light.

As a result, he was greatly disappointed. The bifurcated cave was filled and blocked with stones, making it impossible to walk through.

The young people are still wondering, it is not surprising that there is a cave in the quarry, but the strange thing is, why did someone deliberately block the cave, and what secrets are hidden inside?

Others in the car took this matter as a piece of news, but Li Yuanlang felt that it was not simple. As for why? Two words: intuition.

Xiayangma Village is similar to Hanjiatun, except that the village is not big, with only about a hundred households. Most of them are dilapidated adobe houses, with a few brick houses here and there, which are also old.

Ma Zesheng let Li Yuanlang, Chang Ming and others into the village committee, which was also a row of dilapidated adobe houses. The yard was covered with dirt, and there were chicken cages near the corners, where they raised more than a dozen chickens.

"These chickens are raised by our village committee for entertaining guests. I will kill two at a time and ask Deputy Township Mayor Li and the assistant to have a try. These are authentic native chickens that do not eat added feed."

Li Yuanlang quickly waved his hand and said that they should go to the land first to have a look and get a practical understanding before returning to their hometown and not having lunch here.
Chapter completed!