Chapter 449

"What's going on?"

Su Yang stopped in his tracks immediately and looked back. Just a moment ago, there wasn't a single person here, but in this instant, several people had actually emerged from the surroundings.

There were men, women, old people, and young people. They all rushed over in a hurry, some holding pickaxes, shovels, wooden sticks, and so on in their hands.

"My brother was beaten to death by them, my brother was beaten to death by them, I want my brother, I want my brother..."

Seeing this group of people, Liu Er cried even more fiercely.

"What are you people doing? Why are you hitting people?"

"Hurry, hurry, go call someone, hurry and see how Liu Da is?"

"Go call someone quickly, these two children Liu Da and Liu Er have been pitiful people since they were young, we can't just watch them being bullied."

In the chaos, everyone was shouting one thing or another, and in just a moment, twenty or thirty people had surrounded them.

From the incident until now, it had been no more than five minutes in total. With so many villagers who should have been working in the fields rushing out at this time, a trace of coldness couldn't help but rise in the corners of Su Yang's eyes.

If he still couldn't see that someone was deliberately setting a trap at this moment, then he wouldn't be worthy of being the Deputy Director of the Poverty Alleviation Office.

"What are you doing? They were the ones who tried to molest us first. This is our legitimate self-defense." Xie Siyang tried to explain.

But the sharp-mouthed, monkey-cheeked man in the lead wouldn't listen. "Stop talking nonsense here. I just arrived and saw you hitting people, and you beat him to death. These two brothers have been orphans since they were young, and their intellectual development is incomplete. Why did you hit him?"

"How did he provoke you? You had to use such lethal force. And these two brothers are usually very timid. You say they molested you, I don't believe it."

"They have the intelligence of seven or eight-year-olds, how could they do such a thing?"

"Right, we don't believe it either!"

"You city people only know how to bully us country folk."

"If you don't give us an explanation today, we won't be finished with you."

"Right, he just bullies us poor people because we're easy to talk to. He hits us when he says he will, he scolds us when he says he will. Such honest brothers, and he actually says they molested them."

Led by the rhythm set by this shifty-eyed man, this group of people began to roar. Some even held the tools in their hands and were about to rush up.

If they were careless, Su Yang and the others could all be beaten to death by random sticks.

Su Yang stepped forward to block Gao Peixia and Xie Siyang behind him, then said to the shifty-eyed man,

"We are poverty alleviation cadres sent down from the county, not bad people. We came here just to visit impoverished households."

"Just now, it was indeed these two brothers who wanted to molest our female comrades. If you didn't see it, I won't argue with you about this matter."

"But you had better not fan the flames here, thinking of creating chaos. No matter who is directing you from behind the scenes, I will immediately have the police come and investigate this matter clearly."

"In the end, the person who gets arrested and goes to jail will be you. If you don't believe me, you can try and see."

Su Yang was full of righteousness, and his words were even more sharp. The shifty-eyed man already had a guilty conscience, and he subconsciously took two steps back.

However, the villagers had already begun to crowd forward. He retreated to his own safe place and shouted, "He is not a cadre at all, he is definitely not a good person. County cadres wouldn't hit people."

"Liu Da has already been beaten to death by them. We must make them give the Liu family an explanation. Rush up first, beat them down, and then talk."

"Otherwise, we'll have failed the old Liu couple."

The villagers might know the situation, or they might not, but the common people in remote rural areas are relatively united. Although they have their own grievances on weekdays, and even neighbors living next door don't speak to each other, if something happens, they can definitely work together and rush forward.

There were people in this group setting the rhythm, and of course, there were also people who really rushed up. They knew that Liu Da and Liu Er had been mentally abnormal since they were young, and perhaps they could do things like molesting women, but at this moment, they weren't willing to think about such things.

Just do it, and that's it.

Seeing that people were about to rush up, Su Yang had already decided to first knock down and control the ones in the front, and then intimidate the others.

But just in this flash of lightning, a splashing sound was heard, followed by Liu Da's confused voice, "Why am I sleeping here?"

Su Yang looked back and saw that Xie Siyang had run into the cave dwelling at some point, brought out a large basin of water, and splashed it on Liu Da's face.

Liu Da climbed up, and the villagers who had already rushed to Su Yang's front holding tools stopped in their tracks.

Although they were poor, it didn't mean they were stupid. Now that the person had climbed up, it meant nothing was wrong, so it wouldn't be appropriate for them to treat Su Yang and the others like that.

"They are bad people, they are bad people, they want to hit me." Liu Da climbed up from the ground, rubbing his head, and pointed at Su Yang.

He wasn't wrong about that; it was indeed Su Yang who beat him just now.

But Su Yang didn't pay attention to what Liu Da said at this moment. He said to the crowd, "Don't misunderstand. I am indeed a cadre sent down by the county. If you don't believe my identity, I will immediately call your Town Mayor and have him come here."

"Or I can directly have the county notify your Village Party Secretary and have the Village Party Secretary come over."

To be honest, at a time like this, the Town Mayor might not necessarily be useful, but the Village Party Secretary would definitely be useful.

And Su Yang also knew in his heart that if he called Cui Mingjiu directly, Cui Mingjiu might not necessarily answer the phone, and even if he did, he might deliberately drag his feet and wouldn't necessarily come on time.

In this way, it would also waste time. But calling the Village Party Secretary would be different. The only problem was that he didn't know the Village Party Secretary's phone number and had to go through the relevant county units to issue orders level by level in the shortest possible time and in the most authoritative way.

Just at this time, Cui Mingjiu brought a few people and rushed in from behind the crowd. "What are you doing? What are you all doing? Do you know who this is? This is a poverty alleviation cadre from our township."

"He came here just to visit impoverished households, he is a leader who wants to give our township food and clothes."

"Go back to what you were doing, all of you disperse for me. Otherwise, all of this year's relief grain will be taken away from you."

Originally, this group of people might not necessarily listen to the Town Mayor, but as soon as they heard that the relief grain was going to be completely canceled, they all disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Of course, they also saw the fierce-looking Village Party Secretary following behind. If the Village Party Secretary shouted this, it would definitely have the same effect.

"Director Su, are you okay?"

"I heard you were coming to this village today, so I rushed over. This village has some special circumstances, and I was afraid you might encounter them. It turns out I was almost late."

Town Mayor Cui walked quickly to Su Yang's side in front of everyone and said loudly.

Su Yang said, "It's fortunate that Town Mayor Cui arrived in time, otherwise the consequences today would have been truly unimaginable."

"We originally thought about visiting this family to get a sense of the situation and see what kind of help they needed, but we didn't expect that these two brothers, perhaps due to intellectual development reasons, would actually molest two female comrades just now. Sigh, if you hadn't come, it really would have been hard to explain."

At this time, Liu Da had already climbed up from the ground. He ran to the Village Party Secretary's side, pointed at Su Yang, and said, "They hit me just now, they wanted to hit me, they wanted to beat me to death..."

"If we don't keep that woman here to be my wife today, I'm going to kill her..."