Chapter 38

Surrounded in the middle of the crowd was none other than the Executive Deputy Town Mayor Li Tian.

As soon as he came up, he took a large loudspeaker from the person beside him and said to everyone, "Fellow villagers, you have worked hard."

"I have brought all the town's staff to assist you in rebuilding your homes."

"Everyone didn't sleep well last night, right? Today I brought fifty tents. And many daily necessities to help everyone get through the difficulties."

"At the same time, please rest assured that our town government will definitely get through the difficulties with everyone."

After his voice fell, the staff behind him began to distribute tents and relief supplies.

From beginning to end, Li Tian didn't ask if Su Yang was there, nor did he pay attention to the villagers' indifferent eyes, but performed on his own.

The village party secretary Zhao Jiefang, who came behind Li Tian, pretended to say, "Thank you, Town Mayor Li, for coming to comfort us, and thank the town government for caring about the people."

Following that, he stepped forward to shake hands with Li Tian, with the disaster-stricken villagers and a few tents as the background behind him. After the two shook hands, Li Tian personally handed some disaster relief supplies to Zhao Jiefang.

Zhao Jiefang distributed them to his nephews and brothers.

Just when Su Yang thought Li Tian would pretend to care about the disaster-stricken villagers, Li Tian turned and left directly.

What he didn't expect even more was that Zhao Jiefang said to the person he brought, "Collect all the disaster relief supplies that were just distributed; they have other uses..."

Seeing this scene, Su Yang was so angry he wanted to slap Zhao Jiefang on the spot.

He had seen people putting on a show, but he had never seen anyone put on a show like this.

But just as he got up, he was stopped by Zhou Ruohan, "No need, they are doing this on purpose."

"It won't be too late to deal with these pests after the villagers are all settled."

Zhou Ruohan was also very angry; she had really gained experience this time...

What is shameless, what is having no bottom line, what is crazy showboating, what is insane, what is shocking—this is it.

Despite this, Su Yang still grabbed someone holding a camera and asked, "Which unit are you from?"

That person glanced at Su Yang and said, "Lancheng Daily."

"What, you want me to report on you?"

"Want to sell misery? Gain sympathy?"

"Sure, but you have to be sensible; otherwise, you want me to report on you for free?"

While this reporter was speaking, he also stretched out his hand to make a gesture of asking for money.

"Oh, I understand the rules, but I have no money."

"Report it or not, as you like." Su Yang said coldly.

He had only heard about such dirty things before. He didn't expect to encounter them directly now.

It was truly as disgusting as it could be.

"Hmph, you deserve to be hit by a disaster, you deserve to be poor." The reporter said with contempt and turned to leave.

"Mayor Su, don't be angry; after seeing more of such things, you will become immune."

Zhou Tai advised from the side.

"Let's go, let's go back to the town government first and see how to settle the villagers."

"In addition, we have to discuss the villagers' losses."

Su Yang said, and walked to the old party secretary Liu Ximing again, saying, "Old party secretary, please trouble yourself to count the village's losses, including the apples that haven't been sold yet."

"Calculate the apples according to the market price."

"I'll go to the town for a meeting first; we'll talk about other things after I finish the meeting and come back."

Liu Ximing nodded and said, "Okay, Mayor Su, but looking at the situation in town... sigh, if it really doesn't work, just let them be. We are all used to it."

"They are not human; don't count on them to do good things."

"Don't let them implicate you when the time comes."

Old Man Liu also came out and said, "Mayor Su, you are a good person; don't get bullied by them together for the sake of us common people. It's not worth it..."

Su Yang said, "It doesn't matter; they say if an official doesn't make decisions for the people, it's better to go home and sell sweet potatoes."

"The village has suffered such a big disaster; I, as the Town Mayor, have the responsibility and obligation to help everyone rebuild their homes."

These words of his were spoken with such resonance that they couldn't help but move Zhou Ruohan beside him.

After Su Yang left, Zhou Ruohan said to Xiaobai, "Let's go back too; the situation in this Huatian Town is far worse than we thought when we came."

"All of this is the inaction of the local officials."

"If everyone were like Mayor Su, the common people wouldn't suffer so much."

"I'm going back to write a complete report for the leaders."

Xiaobai said "Hmm," and left the mountain with Zhou Ruohan.

When Su Yang returned to town, it was already past nine o'clock.

He first changed his clothes and washed his face. Then he took out his phone and called Jin Zhe.

"Mayor Su, what are your instructions?"

"Whatever I can do, I will implement immediately."

When Jin Zhe received the call, his attitude was as good as it could be.

It was much better than his attitude toward his own father.

"I'm asking Secretary Jin for a favor; our town's Huatian Village had a heavy rainstorm last night, and a flash flood submerged the village. There are no disaster relief supplies in town, and there's no way to settle the villagers."

"I want to ask you to greet the Civil Affairs Bureau and help us allocate some disaster relief supplies and special funds."

"I estimate I'll go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to file a report this afternoon."

Su Yang knew his situation very well; if he went directly to the Civil Affairs Bureau, he estimated no one would pay attention to him at all. If Jin Zhe made the call, the Civil Affairs Bureau would definitely cooperate.

Moreover, he could also foresee that Qin Chuan and Li Tian would definitely dig a hole for him because of this disaster relief matter.

"Okay, this is a small matter; the Civil Affairs Bureau has to cooperate anyway."

"You go directly to find their director this afternoon..."

"In addition, I will also greet the Finance Bureau, but I can't guarantee how much money they can give."

"After all, there are many people eyeing the Finance Bureau, and I'm not sure how much face I have."

"Also, about that Wang Erni, I'll find a way to get her reimbursed and arrange for experts from the county hospital to check and treat her. They say it's not a big problem, and she'll be discharged in a few days." Jin Zhe handled things for Su Yang even more thoughtfully than Su Yang himself; there was no way, he couldn't afford to offend this living father.

Just making a casual phone call, between singing "Tears in Prison" and even eating peanuts (bullets), he knew how to choose.

He had been on pins and needles these past few days; if Su Yang didn't call him every day to ask him to handle something, he couldn't sleep at night.

He was just about to call Su Yang to ask if there was anything that needed to be handled.

"Then thank you very much, Secretary Jin; I'll treat you to a meal when I get to the county seat." Su Yang wasn't being polite; he was sincere.

As for the Civil Affairs Bureau and the Finance Bureau, let alone him, this unwelcome Town Mayor, even an ordinary Town Mayor or Secretary wouldn't necessarily be given face.

"No need, why are you being polite with me? If possible, I'll treat you to a meal."

"I'm just afraid you won't give me face." Jin Zhe said repeatedly.

Su Yang smiled and said, "I estimate the people who want to treat you to a meal could line up to form an reinforced company; I am so honored. See you later..."

Just as Su Yang finished the call, Zhou Tai came in and said, "Town Mayor, just now Director Xu of the Party and Government Office called and said there is a Party Committee meeting, right now..."