pjbooks Chapter 52 Refusal
Chapter 52 Refusal
Li Baoguo nearly slipped after hearing the comments from those around him.
Is Shan Yaowen really that unpopular with those around him?
And the way he brought the police with him was so fierce and menacing, like he was there to arrest someone.
Deng Boshan glanced at the people around him somewhat awkwardly. Couldn't the police be there to ask the public for help or to assist the public?
Arresting people as soon as they arrive?
After opening the door, Shan Yaowen glanced helplessly at the people around him.
It's not that the public has a bad image of the police, but the crackdown has been ongoing. Every day, we see in the newspapers how many people have been arrested, or we hear about someone from our neighborhood who went to the city and got arrested for some reason.
"Uncle, what happened?"
Li Baoguo glanced at Shan Yaowen, "Let's go inside and talk."
He never expected that this kid would turn around and ask him for a favor right after leaving his house.
As the police and the Party Secretary entered the Shan family home with smiles on their faces, the surrounding people not only did not disperse, but some curiously followed them in, while the others outside discussed what the Party Secretary had brought the police to the Shan family home for.
"Officer, have some tea."
The mother, somewhat reserved, took the thermos and poured a cup of hot tea for the three police officers and the village secretary.
"Thank you for your trouble, sister-in-law. How is Dashan?" Li Baoguo took the teacup, took a sip, and looked at Shan Dashan lying on the bed.
"I'm much better now. Thank you for your concern, Party Secretary. What brings you here?"
"It's nothing, I'll get straight to the point." Li Baoguo put down his cup and sat down in a chair.
"Here's what happened. A heinous highway robbery occurred in our town. A group of bandits set up a roadblock and robbed a minibus heading to the next county. They injured several people and stole over ten thousand yuan worth of valuables. The county has urgently mobilized manpower to solve the case and has already arrested some of them. However, some accomplices have escaped. Witnesses have seen those accomplices disappear into the mountains."
Hearing this, Shan Yaowen understood: "They wouldn't have sneaked over here, would they?"
"It's only a possibility," Deng Boshan continued, "We're here to relay this message and see if we can mobilize the militia from each village to search the mountains."
"Search the mountain?" Shan Yaowen looked at the old policeman in surprise. "It'll be quite difficult in this heavy snow."
"It's not a full-scale search of the mountains. We'll just set up defenses at the entrances and exits of your villages. These thugs will eventually try to escape. Just report them as soon as they appear in populated areas."
Hearing this, Shan Yaowen finally understood.
"What does this have to do with me?"
Whether it's searching the mountains or relaying orders from higher-ups, this matter has nothing to do with Shan Yaowen. He just needs to tell the Party Secretary, and the Party Secretary can organize it. There's no reason for him to make a special trip to his home.
"The village is planning to organize a group of people to patrol the mountains. Didn't you train an eagle? I thought birds can see further from the sky, so we wouldn't have to go into the mountains to look for it."
Li Baoguo rubbed his hands together, looking at Shan Yaowen with embarrassment.
"Is that all? You could have just told me. There was no need for the police to come all the way here, was there?"
"No, this patrol team is not in our village. It was organized by the county and is located in the town, directly under the leadership of the local police station."
"Are you going out?" Shan Yaowen asked hesitantly.
He really wanted to help, since a group of vicious thugs roaming the area could potentially threaten his family and friends.
But how should I put it?
He's fine with patrolling around the village, but it's a bit inconvenient if he goes out.
"I'll have the militia keep an eye on the ranch for you," the village secretary said immediately, assuming he was worried about the ranch.
"No, Uncle, I'm getting married soon." Shan Yaowen scratched his head, intending to refuse.
"Marriage?" Deng Boshan was taken aback. He had prepared reasons to persuade them, but he didn't expect them to talk about this. In this light, it was indeed a bit abrupt.
"If it's about marriage, then I haven't thought it through." Deng Boshan glanced apologetically at Shan Yaowen, then stopped talking about it and got up to take his leave.
Everything else is easy to discuss, but getting married is really difficult.
We can't let something that has nothing to do with them delay their wedding, can we?
As the police were leaving, Shan Yaowen pulled the Party Secretary aside and asked, "So urgent? Did some important person get robbed?"
These days, public security is terrible. In the past, state-owned ranches were often robbed and stolen from, but the higher-ups didn't seem to care much. At most, they would send someone to register the thefts.
If a bus is robbed, it is usually handled by the local police station where the incident occurred, at most reported to the county level, and the county may assist in issuing an arrest warrant or something similar.
In this day and age, if a case can't be solved when it happens, it's even less likely to be solved later. The higher-ups understand this principle, which is why they sent so many people to work on the case overnight. Shan Yaowen doesn't believe that no one was pulling strings behind the scenes.
Otherwise, who would go down to the villages one by one in the dead of winter to notify everyone, or even mobilize the militia to help search the mountains?
This energy is extraordinary.
"I don't know, but it's said that the county's top leader personally gave the order and directed it," the Party Secretary hinted cryptically.
"Oh~"
After gossiping with the Party Secretary for a while, Shan Yaowen finally let him leave.
Of course, although he refused to join that patrol team outside, he did not refuse to assist the village militia in searching the mountains, since he was staying in the village anyway.
The silly bird now flies around the village every now and then, it's just a casual thing for it.
Next, the fishing at Sandao Lake and the robbery on the road became the hot topics in the village, and you could hear people talking about them everywhere you went.
Sometimes when Shan Yaowen is passing by, people will pull him aside and talk to him for a while.
After all, he started fishing in Sandao Lake, and the police even came to his house to investigate the robbery incident.
No matter what, he was an important witness, and many people were curious about the inside story.
However, Shan Yaowen didn't know much about the inside story, but that didn't stop others from thinking he did, so they always dragged him around asking all sorts of questions.
This has made it difficult for him to take Lin Nian into the woods these days, as he's constantly being watched wherever he goes.
As the wedding approached, Shan Yaowen became increasingly busy, not so much with himself, but mainly with his family.
He now has money in his hands. He earned several hundred yuan from hunting with his brother-in-law, and he also earned several hundred yuan from fishing recently. His total savings have reached more than seven hundred yuan.
If it weren't for the incident at Sandaohu, and the heavy snow making it difficult to go hunting in the mountains, he felt that if he had worked for a while longer, it wouldn't have been impossible for his savings to reach a thousand.
"Mosquito, look at the wardrobe I made for you by hand, what do you think?" Gou Dan proudly showed his work to Shan Yaowen in the yard.
"Oh, you've mastered your craft?" Shan Yaowen looked at the brand-new wardrobe, which was indeed quite impressive. He patted it and it didn't wobble; it was quite sturdy.
"No, I only learned this."
"Shouldn't you have included this as part of Niannian's dowry when she comes over?"
"Sigh, I've already prepared the dowry. This is my gift to you as your brother on your wedding day."
"Damn, my brother, you're giving me double the gifts for my wedding!" Shan Yaowen patted Gou Dan's shoulder hard. "When you get married, I'll definitely prepare a big gift for you too."
"A big gift? What big gift?"
"I haven't decided yet."
"Tch~"
"Why are you cutting? Find a partner first."
"..."
Gou Dan is feeling down right now. His brother and sister got married, and now his family is keeping an eye on him, but he doesn't want to get married yet; he hasn't had enough fun.
In the following days, the four most common items for wedding celebrations—wedding candy, wedding cigarettes, wedding wine, and wedding tea—were gradually brought into the Shan family's home.
In addition to the wardrobe with four legs that Gou Dan sent, Shan Yaowen also needs to prepare "thirty-six legs," including various furniture such as tables, chairs, benches, and beds.
Then came the new house. Because it was too early to build a new house due to the heavy snow, after discussing it with his eldest son, Shan Yaowen's father renovated the room where Shan Yaowen used to live and tidied up the side room behind it to use as his wedding room.
Looking at the neatly arranged furniture being moved into the house, Shan Yaowen felt that he was among the worst-performing reborn individuals.
They were all preparing to get married, but the new house hadn't been renovated, and they hadn't bought any of the big items like bicycles, sewing machines, or televisions.
I bought a radio, oh, and a watch.
And that's all.
Given these conditions, he should really thank Lin Nian for not looking down on him.
"Awen, come try on your new clothes."
While Shan Yaowen was still thinking about his wedding in his room, his mother walked in beaming with joy, carrying a brand new set of clothes.
The new clothes were neither a Western suit nor a Zhongshan suit, but a set of clothes most commonly seen at local weddings, belonging to their traditional attire, which was made stitch by stitch by a single mother.
Of course, even though he was bedridden and unable to move, the father still put in a lot of effort.
Not only is the Shan family preparing to marry off their new daughter-in-law, but the Lin family is also preparing to marry off their daughter, and the villagers are preparing for a feast.
Anyway, everyone has nothing to do in winter, so it's nice to have a wedding in the village.