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Chapter 1044: Go with the Flow 5

Chapter 1044: Chapter 1044: Go with the Flow 5

Mayor Chen looked at him with a half-smiling expression, "You’re quite adept at going with the flow, aren’t you?"

Secretary Zheng cleared his throat, "What ’going with the flow’? I am acting on behalf of the people out of pure loyalty. The sun and the moon can bear witness."

Vice Mayor Wang couldn’t hold back his laughter and pulled out a chair to sit down, "Secretary, don’t you feel your face burning? Before all this happened, every day I heard you cursing Li Chengdong behind his back, calling him an old bachelor, wishing you could flay him alive. Why didn’t I see you acting on behalf of the people then? Mayor Chen says you’re ’going with the flow,’ and he’s certainly not described it incorrectly!"

Secretary Zheng sat down in his own chair, sighed and said, "To put it bluntly, it’s just cowardice! There’s no other way, who can we rely on when we don’t have a powerful backer? Knowing that Li Chengdong is no good, but considering the person who promoted him, we can only swallow our complaints. Our commune is considered to be doing well, haven’t you seen what a mess the Red Flag Commune is in? So many years after the founding of our nation, the working people have long since become masters of their fate. Those who needed to be dealt with have been dealt with, what else is there to pursue? Isn’t it just envy that some people’s lives are better? Now that Li Chengdong has hit a snag, if we don’t take the chance to scoop this rat out of the pot, we’d be fools."

"That’s exactly what we should do. Haven’t you heard what Comrade Lu Jiang said? Qingxue is pregnant! While soldiers are fighting valiantly on the front lines, countless are coming back in horsehide coffins, and the lucky ones who do survive come home every three to five years, only to face such scoundrel’s insult, it’s simply infuriating!" Mayor Chen raised both hands in approval of Secretary Zheng’s decision, "We can’t let our soldiers lose heart."

Militia Battalion Commander Chen Dazhi, Mayor Chen’s nephew, came in and said, "Secretary, both mayors, what should we do about Li Chengdong? Right after we reattached his dislocated jaw, he’s ranting about suing Comrade Lu Jiang for hitting him for no reason!"

"What did he say?" all three asked in unison.

"He said if we don’t stand up for him, he’ll go to the county and seek justice from the county committee, which will surely give him fairness and give the punishment deserved to Comrade Lu Jiang who hit him! Because now he is a representative of the people, and other counties need him to take Li Guohong to give speeches, to talk about their miserable pasts of oppression and exploitation when they were young." Chen Dazhi revealed a cold smile at the corner of his mouth.

Mayor Chen spat out in disgust, "Good people are ruined by these bad guys! They’ve also led the public morality astray. Even if Feng Shuanzhu isn’t innocent, as long as he hasn’t exploited or oppressed the common people, he’s not a bad person and shouldn’t be subjected to both mental and physical torture. But this world, ah, is full of so many who don’t distinguish right from wrong, who only judge by one’s class but not by one’s character. I think there are countless rotten to the core among those with ’good’ backgrounds, like this Li Chengdong."

Mayor Chen, Secretary Zheng, and Vice Mayor Wang were sworn brothers, as close as if they were one person, so when Mayor Chen spoke these words, there was no intention of concealment, and the others found nothing unusual.

Their thoughts influenced each other, agreed with one another, so they always acted in concert.

Secretary Zheng spoke earnestly, "We can’t do much about other communes, but what we can manage is Dawn Commune. I don’t want to be pointed at for lacking backbone by our locals in ten or twenty years’ time. Don’t look at these people’s tyranny; ten years east of the river, ten years west, fortune turns in its own time. Let’s wait and see, I don’t believe that those who have suffered such humiliation will never prosper."