Wei Kaiyun was truly frightened. He wasn’t afraid of anything else, just that someone might accidentally hurt his wife in the commotion.

His dearest, not even one finger of hers should be touched by others.

That’s why when his son told him, he rushed over like a madman.

After work, Li Xue and the others returned home, and the door was locked.

They all knew that Dad and Second Uncle went to Tangjiazhuang today, so why wasn’t Second Aunt at home?

This made the few of them really scared. "Red Army, you go to Teacher Jiang’s house and ask Master Wei if he knows anything. Changhe and I will cook."

Hongling and Cheng Lin also followed Red Army to Wei Kaiyun’s house.

Jiang Xinyu saw the three of them and said, "It’s okay; I took your mom to find your dad. When we went there, things were almost settled. Don’t worry; nothing will happen."

At this, the three children relaxed, "Teacher Jiang, Master Wei, we’re going back now."

Li Xue and Changhe cooked the meal. Looking at the cornmeal dough from the morning, they made flat cakes with it. Potatoes were stewing below, with two rings of cakes around the edge of the pot.

The three young ones came back, repeating Jiang Xinyu’s words, and everyone was relieved.

Changhe actually wanted to go to Tangjiazhuang, but Li Xue stopped him.

Now, knowing the news, they were all relieved.

The three young ones went outside to pull green onions; big onions dipped in sauce were a must for every meal.

Lunch was ready, but they hadn’t returned yet. Cheng Lin and Hongling moved small stools to the gate to watch outside.

They waited for an hour before they saw Dad coming back. Cheng Lin rushed out, while Hongling ran into the courtyard.

Li Yungui and Qu Xiaoli saw five children waiting for them at the gate.

Li Xue checked that Second Uncle seemed unchanged, which finally set her mind at ease, fearing he’d been wronged at Tangjiazhuang.

The children all greeted the elders, and Qu Xiaoli knew by this time, the niece must have prepared dinner.

By evening, all the villagers in Li Family Village knew they had returned four hundred yuan from Tangjiazhuang, and now everyone was overjoyed.

Now, let’s see who dares to bully people from Li Family Village. Two women with excellent verbal skills vividly and accurately mimicked what Li Yungui had said to everyone.

"You don’t even know how scared I was. When Village Chief Li went to the township, we were all worried he’d be dismissed. I thought about coming back to get everyone to go to the township, but I was stopped by Village Chief Li."

Everyone has their own judgment. Li Yungui has been the village chief for so long and has done so much for everyone. They all know it in their hearts.

Tao Chunhe and his siblings were eating.

"We really underestimated Li Yungui. He went to another village by himself; I didn’t expect it."

Tao Yanzhen nodded too. She thought it would be a group fight, but she didn’t expect it to be resolved so smoothly.

"Li Yungui will not be underestimated in the future. He’s a capable person."

The two girls nodded. Li Yungui’s position in Li Family Village was now even more solid. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

"Dad, did you point a gun at Tang Manyin?"

"Of course, even if it can’t be used, it’s still for courage."

"Dad, where is that gun?"

"It was left by your grandfather. It can’t be used now; I can’t let you play with it. I have to keep it."

Being admired by the children, Li Yungui was quite pleased.

After dinner, Li Yunqiang came over. Today their buying of watermelons wasn’t too successful, as the market seemed a bit saturated.

"Second Brother, Xiao Wei suggested putting them all in the cellar and selling them during the Mid-Autumn Festival."

"We’ll listen to Xiao Wei."

The brigade also had a cellar, so for the next two days, everyone started working on this.

Li Family Village was bustling with activity, while Tangjiazhuang nearly had an incident.

With someone like Tang Manyin, checking his accounts was extremely easy.

There were six years of account books here, and it was discovered he embezzled 6,300 yuan from the public funds.

When this number came out, it drove the villagers of Tang Family Village crazy.

Tang Manyin was almost beaten to death. It was only the intervention of the working group that stopped it.

Tang Fugui wanted to save Tang Manyin, but he couldn’t even leave his house now.

He even disregarded the threats from his five sons, but he couldn’t escape his old age. With someone at home watching him, he really couldn’t get out.

On the third day, the working group took the investigation report and account books back to report to Xing Xiangzhang.

Now, the Tang Manyin family didn’t dare to go out, and 5,100 yuan was confiscated from their house.

Tang Manyin was directly convicted, though they still needed to listen to Xing Xiangzhang.

Xing Mingying looked at the investigation report, pale with rage.

"Such things must be severely punished. Xiao Liu, go to the city tomorrow to report this matter. The Tang Manyin case is a model for our township."

This directly confirmed Tang Manyin’s crime.

If this were really submitted to the city, he might not survive.

But his relationship with Tang Manyin was merely acquaintance; no one would create trouble for themselves for someone they didn’t get along with.

So Xiao Liu went directly to the county by car.

The county leaders were shocked when they saw the report. How could a small village chief acquire so much money?

Thus, Xiao Liu went to the city. The Revolutionary Committee directly took over this matter.

They dispatched people the same day to take Tang Manyin to the city, where he would be criticized in every county across the entire city.

Xiao Manshan had sores in his mouth from the stress, though Tang Manyin didn’t implicate him, it couldn’t withstand an investigation.

He secretly hated the Tang family father and son, as they had harmed him.

Actually, Xiao Manshan didn’t know, the investigation of him had already reached the senior leader’s office.

This matter was of such a vile nature that further investigations uncovered many other problems.

Xiao Manshan was taken away while he was sleeping.

The one in charge was Xing Zhibin. Due to his excellent work, he was promoted to official director.

Ultimately, the biggest winner turned out to be him, Xing Zhibin.

Today is the full month of Li Yunqiao’s youngest son, Li Hongpeng. Harvest season was approaching, and early corn could already be harvested, so only Li Xue and her two siblings returned.

But they brought back a lot of things. This time it was Guodong who drove over, as Li Yunqiao had Wei Kaiyun drive to pick up his wife.

Thus, the task fell directly on Guodong.

Li Xue looked at her chubby little brother; this child looked sixty percent like Aunt Lu.

Li Yunqiao was now at the height of his success, with his career on track and now a newborn son. How could he not be happy?

This time he took two days off, plus Sunday, he could stay for three days.

After the family had lunch, the two boys needed to take the bus back, as there wasn’t enough space.

Zhibin watched them leave, crying loudly. Lu Fengzhen couldn’t bear it; after all, she watched him grow up. She wanted to take him back with them.

"Lihong, on Sunday, let Zhibin and his grandpa come back together."