"Take some time this afternoon to go back to my hometown. Can you bring your partner to meet me?"
It was considered much more polite. After all, the child was grown up, and I had to give her enough respect and pressed the send button.
After putting away his Nokia music phone, Qi Tongwei looked up at Sha Ruijin who had been waiting for him for half a day.
"Secretary Sha, let's take a car and go around the area to see the countryside here."
Sha Ruijin naturally had no objection, as his words did not count.
Under the command of Qi Tongwei, Coaster headed towards Yantai City again.
Yantai City and Lincheng City are adjacent to each other. In less than 20 minutes, the convoy reached the junction of Yantai City and Lincheng City. When they arrived here, several cadres from Lincheng City did not dare to follow and parked the car at the junction. With worry in their hearts, they kept calling all parties for confirmation.
They were cadres of Lincheng. Without the approval of the provincial party committee and government, it was best not to leave Lincheng during working hours without permission. Especially since the leader of the inspection team was the deputy secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, they dared not do anything illegal and could only call Sha Ruijin.
"Just go back and do your daily work. The inspection team will now go to Yantai City."
However, Sha Ruijin couldn't tell where Qi Tongwei was going, so he could only whisper to them to go back to the Lincheng Municipal Government compound first.
Qi Tongwei directed the driver all the way to a mountain village on the outskirts of Yantai City. There was a stone archway in the village with three words written on it: Liangjiazhuang.
Qi Tongwei was very familiar with Liangjiazhuang. He had been the son-in-law of the Liang family for more than 20 years in his previous life. Qi Tongwei actively took over the welcoming and seeing off of guests at home.
During the first ten years of his marriage to Liang Lu, he would come to Liangjiazhuang almost every year. Until Liang Qunfeng passed away in a retired cadre institution due to an old heart attack, Qi Tongwei and Liang Lu had nothing to say to each other and he rarely came to Liangjiazhuang.
The group followed Qi Tongwei's footsteps and got off the car at the entrance of the village. A very flat platform was built at the entrance of the village. This archway was also something that had not existed in the previous life. The entire platform at the intersection was a new thing.
Qi Tongwei was feeling sad that Liangjiazhuang produced a deputy provincial-level cadre, two state-owned enterprise leaders, and a corrupt official at the bureau level, but they did not contribute much to their hometown.
Instead, he only sent two young policemen to investigate the case. These two young policemen from other places could bring tremendous changes to the local area and truly make the local area rich.
Can't Liang Qunfeng do it?
It's impossible. In terms of power and influence, he is more than ten times stronger than Yu Xiaoming and the others. He just wants to protect his reputation and is afraid that these poor relatives will bother his family. At most, he will go back with great fanfare during the Chinese New Year, but in fact he doesn't help his fellow villagers at all. Even giving them advice is too troublesome. It is a typical selfish behavior.
Sha Ruijin followed Qi Tongwei closely.
"Deputy Secretary Qi, this doesn't seem to be the territory of Lincheng City anymore."
Qi Tongwei nodded, and without slowing down his pace, he admired the scenery of the village as he walked.
"Secretary Sha, you forgot that I am from Lincheng City.
I am very familiar with the surrounding area. Although this village is closer to Lincheng City than Yantai City, its administrative jurisdiction belongs to Yantai City.
The amount of farmland in this village is not as much as that in the six agricultural counties, because it is located in a valley on the extension of the Yantai Mountains.
Most of the land is mountainous, and the only farmland is the one in the village where I used to play when I was a child.
At that time, people here were so poor that their mouths were bitter.
Do you know why your mouth feels bitter?"
Sha Ruijin also came from a poor family, so he knew what this meant.
“This is because we were so poor that we were starving and could only drink cold water and eat some strange things from the mountains.
How could those things be delicious? When I was a kid, I had no food to eat, so I went up the mountain and ate a lot of food. One time, I ate some kind of mushroom and I fainted from the poison. "
Qi Tongwei nodded.
“Yes, that’s how it was in this village. At that time, everyone was poor and there was little flat land. After paying the public tax, there wasn’t much left of the crops we grew.
It would be fine if there were only two or three adults in the family, but if there were a few teenagers, they could eat up a month's food ration in just a few days.
Then there was no choice but for these boys to climb up the mountain and look for something to fill their stomachs.
The easiest thing to find is mushrooms. If you don’t have some guidance from the elders, it’s not uncommon to be poisoned by mushrooms.”
Qi Tongwei led the cadres all the way to the ancestral hall at the entrance of the village, where there were several 4.2-meter trucks transporting goods parked.
The village cadres had received the news and rushed over. They knew that a group of people who looked like cadres had entered the village. They must be the leaders from above who came for an unannounced visit.
Qi Tongwei took a look and realized that they were old acquaintances, just from the previous life. These people had been village cadres all their lives. Although they were in awe of Liang Qunfeng on the surface, they actually looked down on him in their hearts, because Liang Qunfeng was very careful about his reputation and did not help the village develop or help the villagers get rich.
Liang Qunfeng's two sons are both senior executives of state-owned enterprises. They can help their fellow villagers in their hometown get rid of poverty by leaking some projects. However, these two sons are the same kind of people as Liang Qunfeng. After they became rich, they looked down on their relatives in their hometown and were unwilling to come back even when they came to visit.
Whenever Liang Qunfeng came back to visit his relatives, it was Qi Tongwei who brought him here. Those two wolf cubs didn't even consider themselves to be villagers here.
Qi Tongwei looked down on these people in the Liang family back then. They were heartless and all the same, young and old.
Liang Qunfeng is such a high-ranking official. If he just asks the local government to give some favorable policies and funds, his hometown village will develop rapidly. However, he is afraid of gossip and does not do so.
The village party secretary also looked down on Liang Qunfeng back then, as he was the son of the old patriarch. But he still remembered that Liang Qunfeng used his brother's job in the city to threaten the old patriarch to change his age, but the patriarch was too powerful to dare to say anything.
Qi Tongwei walked up and greeted the village party secretary, although the other party did not know him.
"Secretary Liang."
Qi Tongwei took the initiative to extend his hand. Secretary Liang didn't know Qi Tongwei, but seeing how big the crowd was, he was obviously a big leader. Secretary Liang shook hands with Qi Tongwei with a puzzled look on his face.
"I'm sorry, leader. I'm old and my memory is not very good."
Qi Tongwei laughed out loud. In front of local cadres, Qi Tongwei had to maintain a dignified appearance. This was a professional requirement. But when dealing with grassroots people, Qi Tongwei had to get along with them. This was also a professional skill for senior cadres.
"Secretary Liang, it's not that you have a bad memory, but the last time I came to your village was thirty years ago.
At that time, I came here to play with my classmate Liang Zhe, and we walked around the mountain several times.
On the way back, you drove the tractor to take us to the bus stop outside the village. "