In order not to worry Xiaojia, Hou Weidong handled the facts in a small way, such as "the fatigue tactics of the procuratorate, the black fist behind Tang Xiaowei", all of which were omitted. Although he heard the simplified version of the story, Xiaojia was still worried and repeatedly told him on the other end of the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Hou Weidong sat on the sofa, thinking about the past period of time. After the stone yard was built, he was devoted to making money and rarely considered the affairs of his career. However, the recent incident of "Zeng Xian was robbed and was taken to the procuratorate to cause trouble" in the past two years made him gradually realize that in the current social context, if he did not become an official, or if he did not have a background as a high-ranking official, even if he had some small money, he would be easily harassed by various forces. Such forces may be a gangster or various departments of the government.

After thinking about it, Hou Weidong made up his mind to walk on two legs in the future. One should use his mother's name to open a stone yard to make money, and the other should gradually move closer to the officialdom, seek political protection, and increase his social status.

How to make progress in the officialdom has become a new topic before Hou Weidong.

The next day, Hou Weidong got into a taxi and returned to Shangqinglin. At noon, he set up a table in the unpaid restaurant next to the foundation and invited Qin Dajiang, Township Mayor Gao, Xi Zhaoyong and other relevant personnel.

Hou Weidong raised his wine glass and said, "As the saying goes, true feelings are revealed in times of adversity. This time I can come out without any help. If you don't have any help, I might still be in the procuratorate. To express my gratitude, I will drink it first."

Ten thousand people signed the letter, which was the idea that Zhu Bing gave to Qin Dajiang, and was sent to Gao Zhiyuan's home in Shazhou by Qin Dajiang. Therefore, Qin Dadong also thought he had some credit and said happily: "Secretary Gao Zhiyuan heard that the madman was arrested by the procuratorate. After asking about the situation, he called Secretary Zhu of the County Party Committee on the spot. Secretary Gao is really good, and he will celebrate the New Year and the festival every year in the future. As people from home, we should go around more."

Township Mayor Gao immediately said: "Qin Dajiang's proposal is good. Having a leader speaks for his hometown is of course a good thing. At the end of this year, we will plan it well."

Xi Zhaoyong and Hou Weidong had similar situations. Even if he was a civil servant, he also had a stone yard. He wanted to know the whole story of the matter and asked, "What did the Procuratorate ask you for this time?"

"It was purely a fire in the city gate, which affected the fish in the pond. Gao Jian, the head of the Finance Department of the Transportation Bureau, committed a crime. The procuratorate checked the accounts and saw that there was a lot of money coming in and out of the Qinglin Stone Farm, so he wanted to cheat me. Gao Jian seemed to have many problems and had been criminally detained. He heard that the amount of embezzlement and bets was huge. I'm afraid I'd lose my head."

Xi Zhaoyong also asked Gao Jian to collude for the materials for the stone yard. He asked an acquaintance of the second department of the Public Security Bureau. He ate a meal, gave him 2,000 yuan, sang a song, and played a lady, spending nearly 5,000 yuan. The materials that arrived at the account were still intermittent. Therefore, Xi Zhaoyong hated Gao Jian very much. He heard Gao Jian's fate, and said, "Gao Jian is too dark. I have said before that he will capsize sooner or later, but he didn't expect the retribution to come so quickly."

Everyone sighed.

After three rounds of drinking, only Hou Weidong, who had the most alcoholic drinker, was left on the table. In the end, Qin Dajiang also drank high, his tongue was disobedient in his mouth. He said mysteriously: "Crazy, the election is about to be a new term. Do you want to be an official? As long as you are willing, our friends will have a way to get you up."

Qin Dajiang's idea coincided with Hou Weidong.

Hou Weidong visited the procuratorate once and learned about the power of the people's dictatorship. He didn't want to cause trouble anymore. He was very careful in his work. He looked around and saw that there was indeed no one, so he said: "This matter violates the election law and cannot be said randomly. I also find time to talk about it."

Qin Dajiang was drunk too much, and was very imposing. He said in a sensation: "The election law, you don't have to come forward, just let me greet you. I still have face in Qinglin Town."

"But I don't quite understand how I can become a candidate." Hou Weidong really didn't know about this. After he arrived in Qinglin Town, he had never participated in the township election, nor had he read the relevant information."

Qin Dajiang said indifferently: "When the township people's congress election is held, as long as one representative proposes ten people to submit an agreement, the formal candidate can be mentioned. I will propose it at that time and guarantee the election to make you a formal candidate."

Hou Weidong knew that this was a good opportunity to emerge from a new force, so he nodded and said, "Let's talk in detail tomorrow, Dajiang, this matter must be kept confidential."

In the evening, Hou Weidong thought about it and finally made up his mind to take advantage of this election opportunity to become deputy mayor. With this step, things will be easier to handle in the future. The next morning, Hou Weidong came to Qin Dajiang and said, "Is there any book on elections? I'll take a look at it and I'm not at ease."

Qin Dajiang searched around and found a legal publicity manual, which happened to have detailed rules for the election of the new term. He looked carefully and said, "Dajiang still remembers what happened yesterday?"

Qin Dajiang slapped his chest with a "dong, dong" sound and said, "You don't have to come forward to this matter, leave it to me. There is no need to do work in the three villages of Qinglin. As long as I suggest, they will definitely vote for support. I have good friends in Qinglin. I will say hello and it will be flat."

Hou Weidong was already very mature and said, "Dajiang, this is not possible. If the above investigation comes into contact, it will soon be exposed. Even if there is no evidence, it will not be good for my future development. The method must be clever. You can take advantage of the meeting in the town to specifically talk about the development of Qinglin, and specifically mention the matter of building roads and setting up stone yards, and promote it for me without any silence. However, you must not express your intentions, so as not to be caught, and you must not have gambling and election activities, so that you can withstand the organization's investigation."

Qin Dajiang smiled and said, "Crazy, why are you so careful? Don't worry, brother has a way to ensure that you won't be implicated."

Qin Dajiang is a branch secretary with strong ability to move, and is also famous for his integrity. Many village cadres have to buy what he said. After giving the task, Hou Weidong watched the development of the situation.

In early December, Zeng Xiangang was also out of the hospital. When he was discharged, Hou Weidong went down the mountain and took the passbook and the remaining cash from Shazhou College, and brought it to the hospital together. Zeng Xiangang exploded his eyes and made a fake eye. In order to cover up the fake eye, he wore flat glasses. The thick man wore glasses for the first time, and it looked very inconsistent.

Hou Weidong looked at it several times. Finally, he held back his smile and handed over the passbook and cash to him.

Zeng Xian had just taken the passbook. He opened it and took a look, put the passbook and cash in his close place, and said, "Crazy, I was in trouble this time. You have helped a lot."

Hou Weidong interrupted: "Brothers, why do you want to say this? The stone yard is running normally this month and has good income. When I return to the mountain, I will give you the account."

When Zeng Xiangang returned home, cadres from the three villages and relatives and friends came to hear the news. Branch Secretary Tang Guiyuan deliberately killed a pig, bought a few big firecrackers, and set a scene in Zeng Xiangang's yard with great enthusiasm.

After drinking, the village women's director brought someone to clean the house again, and then everyone left. They returned to their home, but it seemed like a different life. His wife Zhang Lan seemed to be swaying around the house, and the smell of hot pot fish seemed to float in the kitchen.

Zeng Xiangang squatted in the yard for a long time.

In the evening, Hou Weidong came to the Zeng family again, and Zeng Xiangang was commanding everyone to raise the wall.

Zeng Xiangang's body had not been completely restored and he did not participate in labor. He pointed at the side. When he saw Hou Weidong, he said, "The original wall was only more than one meter high. You can come with a light support. I plan to build the wall to three to five meters, and put some glass on it. It would not be so easy for Bangerke to turn it in."

There was still a dog hanging in the yard, which had been peeled.

Zeng Xiangang said angrily: "This dog is useless. If it yelled twice that day, I would be prepared. Oh, it would be useless to raise it. We will eat dog meat tonight."

In addition to the wall repairs, there are also several people cleaning up the side room.

Zeng Xiangang said again: "There are people on duty every day in the stone yard. I clean up a house and the staff on duty can sleep in it." Hou Weidong understood his approach. The Zeng family's yard was a separate yard, and it would be relatively safer to live in a few more people.

In the evening, the people who came to help gathered together to eat dog meat. According to the rules of Shangqinglin, everyone asked them to drink the first glass of wine together, and then toasted each other.

Zeng Xiangang put his glass on his glass and said, "I quit drinking. From now on, I will never drink again." He said with regretful face: "If I didn't drink that night, I wouldn't have been sleeping like this. As long as I was awake at that time, these boys would not be able to enter the house. Only if I was half a drop of wine, I would be a turtle bastard."

It is hard for everyone to persuade him in this situation, and Zeng Xiangang is the master. He doesn't drink and talks less during the meal, so he doesn't have much interest in this meal. After the dog meat is eaten up, everyone will disperse.

Hou Weidong had something to do, so he stayed. Seeing that Zeng Xiangang was in a normal mood, Hou Weidong talked about the accounts of Yinggang Stone Field and Zeng Family Stone Field during this period. The accounts were simple and the talks were completed in half an hour. Zeng Xiangang was not very interested and just kept nodding.

After the talk, Zeng Xiangang suddenly asked, "Crazy, I won't talk about the account issue for now. I've asked you something. I heard that the procuratorate has caused you trouble and you have been detained for two days?"

"With this happening, you have been in the hospital some time ago, so I didn't tell you."

Zeng Xian had never smiled after he came out of the hospital, and his face was gloomy. After hearing the incident, he thought about it and asked again: "The election is about to be changed. Do you have any ideas?"

Hou Weidong was about to talk about this, but when he saw him mention it on his own initiative, he tentatively asked, "I am not a candidate, what can I do?"

"That's not necessarily. In the last election, Fatty Chao only had seven more votes than Director Huang. If Director Huang had done his job, he would have been elected. I went to secretly contact other villages and suddenly raised you during the election. There should be no problem."

Hou Weidong told the truth: "This time I was brought in by the procuratorate, and I came here. In Qinglin Town, or Yiyang County, it is not enough to have money alone, and I also have political status. Otherwise, Bangerke can come to rob, and the public security, procuratorial and other departments can also come to cause trouble at any time."

Zeng Xiangang said: "That's it. I'll do your job. Then the representative group will propose to select you."

Hou Weidong emphasized, "It is okay to do work, but you can't spend money, otherwise the nature will change."

When they broke up, Hou Weidong shook Zeng Xiangang's hand and said, "By the way, if you are in trouble, you will have good fortune and your son's affairs. You should find more time to accompany him. If it really doesn't work, go to a large hospital in Shazhou or Lingxi Province to see it."

Zeng Xiangang didn't say anything, just nodded and held Hou Weidong's hand hard.

In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the election. Qin Dajiang shouldered the mission of Hou Weidong and did his work quietly. He had been the branch secretary for many years. He had some working methods and did not directly canvass the votes. He just took the opportunity to talk about Hou Weidong's contributions to the Shangqinglin Highway and how to drive the development of Shangqinglin Enterprises.

Zeng Xiangang was waiting for the rabbit. During this period, village cadres with good relationships came to see him one after another. He talked about Hou Weidong's benefits in a realistic way. From the construction of the road, he talked about all kinds of small things during the injury and hospitalization.

Since all the words are facts, Qin Dajiang and Zeng Xiangang do not need to be fabricated, the speakers do not struggle, and the listeners do not feel abrupt.

When the secretary Zhao Yongsheng and the mayor Qin Feiyue fought hard, both sides secretly wooed the cadres of the village. After Qin Feiyue left, Zhao Yongsheng was the only one who dominated the country and became absolute authority in the Qinglin government. This made Zhao Yongsheng's vigilance begin to decline. He believed that the election should not be much problem. When Minister Liu of the Propaganda Department called to inquire about the Liu Kun's election, he also made a promise on the phone.

In mid-December, the list of candidates was announced:

The mayor will conduct equal elections, and the candidate is Su Ming;

The mayor shall implement a difference election, with four candidates electing three,

They are Zhong Duanhua, Liu Kun, Tang Shugang and Li Hui. Zhong Duanhua was the former member of the Party Committee and the Minister of Armed Forces. This time he was adjusted to the deputy mayor. He has a good mass base and is also an old leader of Qinglin. There should be no big problem;

Liu Kun is the assistant to the town mayor, the county government handled it, and it is also the key target of this election. After arriving in Qinglin Town, he has always been low-key and has a proper work. Zhao Yongsheng has to take him with him in the village just to increase his popularity;

Tang Shugang was originally the director of the Party and Government Office. This time he was able to be included in the list of internal orders was purely lucky. The leadership function of Qinglin Town Government has always been one chief and two deputy. Before this election, due to work needs, the county party committee added the leadership positions of some townships. The leadership function of Qinglin Town Government became one chief and three deputy, and Tang Shu was lucky enough to be included in the candidate for deputy mayor.

Li Hui from the Family Planning Office is just an ordinary staff member with average qualifications and is placed here mainly for differential elections.

On December 19th, the Qinglin Town People's Congress was officially held. Because of the election tasks, the town attached great importance to this People's Congress. It rented two buses, one bus went to Shangqinglin to pick up the town People's Congress representatives, and the other bus went to Xiaqinglin villages to pick up the town People's Congress representatives.

Hou Weidong was not a member of the National People's Congress and was not qualified to attend the meeting. After he got up, he went to Jianshan Village to see a scene, and then came to the Dogbow Curtain Stone Field.

Standing on the high-level stage, he thought: today's election results will come out. Judging from the feedback, the possibility of choosing is relatively high, and I don't know which unlucky person will be selected.

Is it Zhong Duanhua, Liu Kun or Tang Shugang?

At one o'clock noon, he had lunch with the workers in the stone yard, and then slowly returned to Shangqinglin yard. As soon as he entered the room, his cell phone rang.

Xiaojia said on the phone: "I took a leave today and went to Yiyang County in the afternoon. When will you come back? I want to visit my new house." Xiaojia has never been there after the new house of Shazhou College was installed. This time, she specially asked for leave to visit Hou Weidong. One reason was that due to the matter of the procuratorate, she came to comfort her beloved husband, and the other was to see the new house at Shazhou College."

Hou Weidong was waiting for the election results. This matter had the elements of a secret operation, so he planned to completely hide it from Xiaojia. After all, letting Xiaojia know too many dark things also damage his sunny image in Xiaojia. He said, "When you set out from Shazhou, call me and I will take a truck down the mountain."

After putting down the phone, he simply took off his clothes, thought nothing, got into the thick bedding, didn't want anything, just sleep.

At about two o'clock, the phone rang suddenly. When he answered the call, he heard Qin Feiyue's voice. He said happily on the phone: "The development zone has been officially established. Weidong, are you interested in coming here? After coming here, we will arrange for you to be responsible for the country and land work first. This is a waste of money."
Chapter completed!