Rebirth as an official

Shui Wazi's words made the three brothers and sisters shake violently, their eyes widened, and they looked at Li An in surprise.

The round-faced woman looked even more incredulous, "How young is he? He is already the mayor of the township. Shui Wazi, don't be fooled."

Lao Wangtou immediately testified, "Sister, he is indeed the mayor of our township."

The round-faced woman rolled her eyes and immediately started to yell, "Even if you are the mayor, you can't bully others. I'm going to sue you."

Li An no longer wanted to pay attention to this woman at this moment, and waved to Shui Wazi, "Shui Wazi, come here."

"Mr. Li, what's the matter?" Shui Wazi walked to Li An's side obediently.

"Go and call your village chief over, just tell me to call him." Li An said.

"Our village chief is not in the village." Shui Wazi said.

"Ah? Don't you live in the village?" Li An was stunned, and then asked: "Where is the village party secretary?"

"I don't even live in the village."

"This~" Li An was surprised, why did the two main managers of the village not live in the village.

"Does your village still have that village cadre in the village?" Li An asked.

"Uncle Wang, the security director, is here," Shui Wazi replied.

"Then go get him."

Shui Wazi nodded and immediately left the room.

The remaining few stared in the room with big eyes and small eyes, and the atmosphere was extremely awkward.

After a short while, a tall man in his 40s came in. When he saw Li An, he immediately came forward to shake hands and said, "Mr. Li, I didn't know you were here. I'm sorry."

Li An shook hands with the director of security and said: "Director Wang, Shui Wazi's father hasn't come back yet, and someone still has to take care of his mother's funeral. I will entrust this matter to you to help make it better. , you don’t have to worry about money, I’ll give you whatever you need to spend.”

"Also, I'll leave this money with you first and give it to Shui Wazi's father when he comes back. It's not safe to leave this money with a child."

After Li An said this, he glanced at the round-faced woman intentionally or unintentionally, making her face turn red and white with anger.

"Mr. Li, there's no problem. I promise to handle Shuiwazi Niang's funeral affairs beautifully." The director of security promised, patting his chest.

When Li An left, he specifically called the security director out to give an explanation.

Let him take more care of Shui Wazi and his sister, especially those three relatives, and don't let them cheat Shui Wazi of his money.

On the way back, Li An kept saying thoughtfully: "Kaizi, don't you find it strange that the village party secretary and village chief don't live in the village?"

Xu Kai did not mind at all and said: "What's the big deal? Maojiagou is so close to the county seat. It's normal to live in the city."

"But today is working time. Although the village cadres implement a flexible work system, it is a bit strange for two people to be away at the same time." Li An thought for a while and said.

"Hey~ In the village, laziness is normal. Anzi, are you overthinking it?" Xu Kai felt that he was a little too sensitive.

"Maybe, but I always feel like there's something wrong." Li An rubbed his head.

The next day, Li An was still worried about Shui Wazi, so he took Xu Kai to Maojiagou again.

When we arrived at Shui Wazi's house, today was already very different from yesterday.

The room in the middle has been decorated as a mourning hall. A coffin is placed inside, surrounded by a plain.

Relatives and villagers filled the yard, firecrackers went off, trumpets, gongs, drums and Feng Shui masters sang noisily, leaving everyone around busy.

Li An saw Shui Wazi and his sister kneeling next to the coffin. Someone came forward to worship, and a person in charge next to him shouted: "A filial son returns the favor."

Shui Wazi and his sister kowtowed to the visitor in return. Li An silently stepped forward and offered three sticks of incense to the deceased, wrapped the money he had prepared in white paper and threw it aside.

This is also the rule for giving platinum money. Firstly, the money must be in an odd number. Secondly, the money cannot be given to the family members and must be thrown next to the memorial tablet.

Li An walked up to Shui Wazi. The young man, who was not yet an adult, looked haggard and tired. His eyes were staring ahead blankly, as if his soul had been pulled out.

When the person in charge shouted, "A filial son returns the favor," he kowtowed mechanically and numbly. Li An knew that this was a sign of excessive sadness.

Li An originally wanted to say a few words of comfort, but when he saw Shui Wazi's appearance, he said "My condolences", walked out of the mourning hall silently, and lit a cigarette.

The atmosphere in the mourning hall was so depressing that Li An couldn't breathe.

After standing outside for long, the conversation between several villagers caught Li An's attention.

"Do you think it's strange? There have been a lot more cancers in our village in the past two years."

"Yes, I heard that the mother-in-law of Liu Huaiwang's family at the east end of the village was also diagnosed with cancer."

"The fortune teller said there is something dirty in our village."

"You mean that thing from Yeju Valley."

"Eighty percent."

"Have you not noticed that the village and the village party secretary have all moved to the city?"

Li An couldn't help but have doubts in his heart when he listened to the villagers' discussions, so he walked closer and said to one of the aunts.

"Auntie, what are the dirty things you are talking about."

"Who are you?" The aunt looked at Li An and couldn't help but become wary.

"I am Shui Wazi's friend. I heard that his mother passed away and came over to express my condolences." Li An said.

After hearing Li An's explanation, the aunt also lowered her guard, but she didn't want to say more and said perfunctorily: "It's nothing, let's just talk casually."

Li An also understood that these villagers must not be willing to tell outsiders what happened in the village, so he took out 50 yuan from his wallet.

"Auntie, why don't you buy some tea? I like to collect stories. Please tell them to me."

Money helped clear the way, and the aunt didn't mind telling what was going on in the village. She took Li An's money and started talking.

"That dirty thing is Yejugu who took out the garbage."

"Garbage, what garbage?" Li An asked.

"A company called Peng has been dumping garbage there for the past two years, making the river in the village stink." The aunt said.

Li An couldn't help but frown slightly when he heard this, "Doesn't your village care about this?"

"What do you care about? The company paid you, so you can't care about it."

"Some time ago, a fortune teller said that there was dirt in the garbage dumped in Yeju Valley, which caused many people in our village to get sick."

"Auntie, can you take me there?" Li An asked again.

"That place stinks so much now. I won't go there. Just keep walking south along the road and you'll see it when you get to the end." The aunt said with some disgust.

"Garbage, wild chrysanthemum valley, cancer." Li An carefully considered the three key words he just heard.

Ang Lee feels that there seems to be some internal connection between the three.

"Anzi, what are you thinking about?" Xu Kai saw Li An alone there, pretending to be deep in thought.

"Kaizi, let's go to Yeju Valley."

"where is that?"

"Uh~" This question stopped Li An. Although the aunt told the approximate location, Li An still had no idea, but he happened to see the security director coming out of the mourning hall.

"Director Wang, come here." Li An waved.

"Chief Li, what do you want from me?" The security director nodded and walked over.

"Take us to Yeju Valley." Li An said.

Hearing the words Yeju Valley, Li An saw the expression of the security director change obviously, and said somewhat unnaturally: "Chief Li, what are you doing there?".