Chapter 1448

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Liu Yumeng's question was extremely direct, extremely sharp.

Dong Dongdong was asked until he was a bit dumbfounded.

Wang Xiaohua, however, still buried his head eating his meal, not saying a single word.

Dong Dongdong looked at Wang Xiaohua's expression, saw that Wang Xiaohua wasn't expressing a stance, and could only hurriedly explain:

"Don't listen to others' nonsense! I didn't do that, okay!"

Seeing Wang Xiaohua not expressing a stance, Liu Yumeng then got a bit anxious:

"Wang Xiaohua, how are you doing your job as Director of the Poverty Alleviation Office? Say something!"

Wang Xiaohua only spoke at this moment, he looked at Dong Dongdong with sincere eyes:

"Brother Dong, the sole meaning of our Poverty Alleviation Office's existence is to help impoverished families. Every impoverished family's subsidy isn't much, so every single cent is extremely important to them. Do you understand my meaning?"

Dong Dongdong didn't dare meet Wang Xiaohua's gaze, just kept nodding:

"Understood, understood."

Wang Xiaohua then said:

"Then why don't you explain?"

Dong Dongdong knew there was no way to quibble anymore, so he could only confess:

"Actually I really didn't embezzle. The other village cadres of Sanlian Village Committee didn't embezzle either. It's just that we didn't want to do this thankless task!"

"Oh?" Wang Xiaohua looked at Dong Dongdong, letting out a questioning sound.

Dong Dongdong then explained:

"Every day working ourselves to death, letting those impoverished households come eat. Not a single word of thanks would be fine, but quite a few impoverished households even kick nose on face, pick at this, pick at that, say this isn't tasty, say that isn't tasty. Whoever came to do this work would get a belly full of anger! So I discussed with the other village cadres, might as well drive away those insatiably greedy people, stop cooking for them. How to drive them away? Definitely can't drive them directly, otherwise they'd go complain to the Town Government, and our official hats would fall off. So everyone discussed and decided to cook bad-tasting food for one or two weeks straight, drive away those people who have hands and feet and can cook for themselves, let them go cook for themselves! As for those low-intelligence poverty-stricken households, they won't be that picky. Even if it's bad-tasting, small portions, even spoiled, they'll happily eat it all! This policy we've already implemented for nearly ten days, so that's why you'd get our bad evaluations from other impoverished households! As for embezzlement and such, there really isn't any! We all have account records. How much rice was cooked each day, how many people came to eat, all recorded clearly! Don't believe me, you can go check!"

Hearing this, Wang Xiaohua suddenly realized:

"So that's how it is."

Liu Yumeng, on the other hand, retorted:

"I see you just want to slack off. We grassroots cadres serve the people, understand? If you can't even do this much, I suggest you resign and go work in a factory!"

Liu Yumeng is obviously standing and talking without her back hurting, standing on the moral high ground to accuse Dong Dongdong.

Dong Dongdong also didn't dare retort, just dryly laughed hehe.

Wang Xiaohua then said:

"This is actually a pretty good strategy. Our rural canteen was originally prepared for those low-intelligence persons, not for those who have hands and feet and can be self-reliant. If we even help them cook their meals well, that would only foster their laziness."

Hearing this, Dong Dongdong couldn't help but stare blankly:

"Director Wang, you're agreeing with my approach?"

Wang Xiaohua didn't answer directly, but said:

"Show me the canteen account book."

Whether he agrees or not isn't decided by just a mouth saying so.

Still have to look at the account book first.

If the account book really balances, no embezzlement or shortchanging exists, then Wang Xiaohua naturally agrees with Dong Dongdong's approach, not only agrees, but would commend him.

Dong Dongdong hurriedly ran to fetch the account book.

Wang Xiaohua carefully flipped through it, and discovered the expenses actually did match up.

Market vegetable prices, Wang Xiaohua knows them. The vegetable purchase prices recorded in this account book are actual prices, and the purchase quantities also conform to normal ranges.

Starting from last week, vegetable purchase quantities suddenly dropped, expenses also reduced by more than half. Estimated it's because Dong Dongdong and Sanlian Village Committee implemented new rules, causing not many people to come eat, so demand for meals also dropped.

"Your approach sets an example for other village committees, can serve as a reference."

Wang Xiaohua closed the account book, gave this conclusion.

Dong Dongdong, however, laughed dryly:

"Better not. Otherwise if higher-up leaders find out, say I set a bad precedent, that wouldn't be good."

Wang Xiaohua then said:

"Change your thinking. If you get affirmation from higher-up leaders, that's an achievement for you."

Dong Dongdong, however, busily waved his hands:

"No no no. I'm this age already, don't hope for promotion anymore. No disasters no troubles persisting until retirement already counts as pretty good. You can promote it, but don't say it was my idea."

Seeing Dong Dongdong say this, Wang Xiaohua didn't say anything more.

He could understand Dong Dongdong's conservatism.

After all, a person at middle age, elderly above, children below, most important is being able to live steadily, not pursue some promotion opportunity.

People in the system all know. If you don't get promotion opportunities when young, after passing 35, wanting to move up again is hard. Wanting to move up isn't realistic.

To avoid being pushed out by Wang Xiaohua, Dong Dongdong also said:

"What we're doing, to say something unpleasant, is actually just to slack off! Before when the canteen had many people, busy until hands and feet smoked. Every morning other work didn't need doing at all, just cooking. Now the canteen has few people, we're relaxed a lot, can also spare some time to do other things! Director Wang, you mustn't spread our Sanlian Village Committee's slacking-off free time outside!"

Hearing this, Wang Xiaohua didn't know whether to cry or laugh:

"Alright then, I won't tell others."

Liu Yumeng at this moment suddenly added a line:

"Although I can understand your reasons for doing this, it's clearly non-compliant, right? Walking crooked paths like this doesn't conform to the 'Serve the People' principle!"

Wang Xiaohua was speechless:

"Liu Yumeng, how about you come to the Rural Cafeteria and work as a cook for a few days?"

This Liu Yumeng, she doesn't do any actual work, she just loves standing on a moral high ground and engaging in moral kidnapping!

Liu Yumeng hurriedly waved her hands:

"This won't do, I don't know how to cook! I can't do it!"

Wang Xiaohua then said:

"Serving the people is correct, but didn't the great man also say, practice yields true knowledge! Doing things must not detach from reality!"

Seeing Wang Xiaohua defending Dong Dongdong instead of speaking up for her, Liu Yumeng's face immediately fell with gloom.

At the same time, she was still very unconvinced.

So she asked Dong Dongdong again:

"Dong Dongdong, your Sanlian Village Committee has so many poor households, how come your visit speed is actually faster than Wang Chang's? You know Wang Chang is responsible for Changjiang Village Committee, and they have far fewer poor households than your Sanlian Village Committee! Be honest, did you cut corners?"

Dong Dongdong wore a bitter smile:

"What a monstrous injustice! Liu Yumeng, without evidence you can't just pin a label on me like that!"

Dong Dongdong hated Liu Yumeng to death in his heart; can such baseless words really be said straight to someone's face?

But he couldn't do anything to Liu Yumeng, so he could only hurriedly explain:

"It's because the Rural Cafeteria reform made my work much more relaxed, so I have comparatively more time to visit poor households, so naturally the speed would be a bit faster!"

Dong Dongdong also said:

"I have records and traces for every poor household visit, and I took photos; if you don't believe me, you can go do return visits and ask!"