101: Chapter 101

Sun Ning was noncommittal about what Vice President Wang Jing had said.

He turned his gaze toward the leaders of the several villages, wanting to see if they had anything to add.

It was destined to disappoint Sun Ning.

Among them, a few leaders seemed to want to open their mouths to agree with Vice President Wang Jing.

However, hindered by Sun Ning's prestige, not a single person actually stood up to support Vice President Wang Jing's opinion.

Only Village Party Secretary Tian Lei added a sentence, "Vice President Wang Jing is right."

Sun Ning would naturally not speak too much here; he would train them slowly.

Seeing that the several people were not speaking either.

Sun Ning concluded, "Vice President Wang Jing is right. The density of the cave dwellings cannot be too high. Newly added ones will belong to the company, and the year-end dividends must be clearly explained to the villagers."

Once Sun Ning started speaking, he couldn't stop.

He began to lecture these people incessantly.

From the target audience of Mingyue Village's specialty tourism to the importance of a service-oriented government for the specialty economy.

Just as Sun Ning was continuously training these village officials.

Very abruptly, several women burst into the Village Committee office.

"Village Party Secretary, please go save my Huanyou, he was taken away by the Police Station."

"Yes, Village Party Secretary Tian Lei, hurry and save your cousin. The few of them were just playing cards when they were taken away by people from the Police Station."

"Right, what if my husband can't get out? My Xiao Long is only ten years old."

The few women spoke one after another, begging Village Party Secretary Tian Lei to help get them out.

Although they did not explain clearly why their men were taken away.

But through the word "playing cards," Sun Ning knew that these people were the families of those few hooligans.

Not to mention Village Party Secretary Tian Lei, who was a fellow villager, and one of them was even his cousin—how could he not understand the character of these people?

He was not in a hurry, and asked slowly, "Did they gamble again?"

Who in the village didn't know the character of those few people?

It was just the police catching some gambling, yet they acted as if they had encountered criminal police coming to make an arrest.

Village Party Secretary Tian Lei simply thought these people were making a fuss over nothing.

Without waiting for the women to answer, he continued, "You go to the Police Station and cooperate with the police investigation. If a fine is needed, pay it; if detention is needed, accept it. It's just gambling; it won't kill anyone!"

This was the working style of village officials: simple and crude; they couldn't even say anything high-sounding.

But Village Party Secretary Tian Lei still overlooked one point.

The people sent by Zhu Zihao to catch gambling this time came with a mission.

That was different from usual.

Although Zhu Zihao was straightforward, he also knew how much Sun Ning valued Mingyue Village.

People who could make him personally call to arrest them for gambling were undoubtedly to be dealt with severely.

Sun Ning would certainly not be bored enough to engage in retaliation.

Plus the domestic violence mentioned by Sun Ning.

There was only one explanation for the whole thing: the Township Head could not bear to see the masses have their families destroyed because of gambling.

So Zhu Zihao followed the leader's instructions to properly educate these hooligans.

Therefore, when they were arresting them for gambling, it didn't look like a gambling raid, but rather as if they had committed some criminal case.

This was why the women, who had experience with gambling raids, were frightened.

That was why they thought of finding Village Party Secretary Tian Lei to go to the township and pull some strings.

After all, who didn't know that Village Party Secretary Tian Lei was the apple of Sun Ning's eye?

"Township Head?"

"Huh, isn't that the Township Head?"

After failing to get help from Village Party Secretary Tian Lei, the women realized belatedly that Sun Ning was sitting steadily in the Central Government.

They often saw Sun Ning in the village and knew that Sun Ning was usually very gentle toward the villagers.

Although they were 'prisoners' families' at this moment, they still had some psychological burden in their hearts.

But they still gathered the courage to look toward the podium.

They couldn't even speak very clearly.

"Township Head, although our Huanyou has a lot of faults, he definitely wouldn't dare to commit a major crime. Please do a good deed and let the Police Station release him."

Sun Ning smiled slightly, stood up, and stood gently in front of the women.

"You must trust our people's police. They will not wrongly accuse a good person for no reason, nor will they let a bad person go."

"Sister-in-law, rest assured, I will pay attention to this matter and ensure that they handle these things fairly and justly."

After finishing the high-sounding words, Sun Ning changed his tone.

"Sister-in-law, perhaps you are thinking too seriously; it might just be the police from the Police Station conducting a gambling raid."

But Sun Ning's explanation could not put the few people at ease.

Before they could speak, Village Party Secretary Tian Lei scolded from the side, "Don't you know that the public security, procuratorate, and judiciary handle cases independently? Do you want the Township Head to make a mistake?"

"Isn't it just a gambling raid? This might not be a bad thing."

"If it were me, I would let the police educate them well so they would never dare to commit the offense again."

"Now they dare to gamble big in the village; tomorrow they will dare to go to underground casinos, and the day after they could go to Las Vegas!"

"The Township Head has worked so hard to lead us to prosperity, and you haven't even started living a good life yet, but you've already started causing trouble."

"When the whole village becomes rich later, and you are still destitute, will you still have the nerve to stay in the village?"

"Go to the Police Station now and ask the police to strictly deal with their gambling behavior, so they will behave themselves in the future."

The more Village Party Secretary Tian Lei spoke, the more enthusiastic he became. At the peak of his excitement, he felt he was extremely smart.

He continued, "I think it's feasible. You go to the Police Station now, pay the fines, and let the police discipline them properly."

Village Party Secretary Tian Lei never believed from the beginning to the end that they had committed a criminal case.

They were all from the same village, and some even grew up together running around naked.

Those who could become hooligans and commit domestic violence—which one of them wasn't a coward acting tough?

If they didn't drink two catties of booze, they wouldn't even have the courage to kill a chicken.

If the people taken away by the police were those in the village who rarely spoke and smiled at everyone, Village Party Secretary Tian Lei would have been anxious long ago.

As everyone knew, the more this kind of person got into trouble, the bigger the matter was.

Mingyue Village dared not have any homicide cases now.

Otherwise, the rising momentum of Mingyue Village would be extinguished by that fire.

Sun Ning had no extra thoughts, only appreciation for Zhu Zihao.

He was not a saint, so he naturally liked people who were obedient and capable of getting things done.

With Village Party Secretary Tian Lei playing the "bad cop," Sun Ning felt much better.

He could not speak to the masses like this; if it got out, it would be a huge blow to his prestige.

Therefore, Sun Ning remained silent after Village Party Secretary Tian Lei spoke.

The wives of those few hooligans were not shrewish women, and they were very moved by what Village Party Secretary Tian Lei said about the police educating their husbands.

In the past, everyone was poor, and most relied on the land to eat.

Now that Sun Ning was leading everyone to prosperity and life had hope, they didn't want their own men to remain in that state.

They were all people from the village, and everyone understood the logic of "hating you for having, laughing at you for not having, disliking you for being poor, and fearing you for being rich."

If everyone became rich.

And only their few families were still struggling because of the men's drinking, eating, whoring, gambling, and smoking.

In the future, they really wouldn't be able to gain a foothold in the village.

After the few people left, Sun Ning acted as a teacher again and began to lecture.

When the time was about right, Sun Ning let everyone go back to their own homes.

However, he did not leave.

He knew that Village Party Secretary Tian Lei must have had a belly full of words to ask him.