Hong Haibo wanted to pursue the question further, but his secretary reminded him, "We have to go to the Red Star Cotton Factory later, so we can't waste any more time."
He then talked about several work arrangements for the afternoon, and emphasized: "If you don't leave now, you will definitely be late!"
"ok, I get it."
Hong Haibo said to Chen Yong: "The nature of destroying vegetables is very bad. Director Chen, please send people to continue the investigation. You must give an explanation to the workers' families."
"Mayor, don't worry, I promise to find out who the bad guys are who knocked down the tomato shelves." Chen Yong promised firmly.
Hong Haibo nodded, walked out of the factory with other leading cadres, and took a car away.
After the car started, Hong Haibo thought of the green pumpkin fields, and couldn't help but praise the Su family's vegetable field, saying that the vegetables were growing so well.
"By the way, Xiao Zhang," he said to his secretary, "I think after a while when the pumpkin seedlings bear fruit, I can ask a newspaper reporter to interview the child's mother and ask her how she grows vegetables so well.
"
"Okay, I'll note it down and tell someone to do the interview later." The secretary said as he took out a pen and recorded it in his notebook.
At the same time, the entire Tongzi Tower was noisy.
Someone loudly said that the mayor personally went to the vegetable field to find out the person who pushed down the tomato fence of Master Su's house.
"Aunt Xu, are you just talking nonsense? How could the mayor care about such a trivial matter?"
"I heard it with my own ears. Mayor Hong said that the nature of this matter was very bad and asked Director Chen to find the person... Lihua, you also heard it, right?"
Xie Lihua nodded, "That's indeed what she said. I don't know who did this. I advise her to stand up and admit her mistake. Otherwise, if the factory director finds out in the end, the consequences will be even more serious."
"What will happen if Director Chen finds out?"
"We will definitely not be able to stay in our factory any longer. We might even be arrested and sent to a labor camp to carry out excrement picking! But I don't know the specific consequences. I only heard from the mayor that it is of a vile nature!"
Listening to their discussion, Zhao Hongxia couldn't stop sweating and her heart was beating wildly.
I thought that Bai Lu would not pursue the case and the matter would just go away. I never thought that the second son of the Su family would go to the factory director and happen to meet the mayor and make such a big fuss.
Someone suddenly tapped her on the shoulder. Zhao Hongxia was startled and her body shook violently.
"What are you doing? You look so ugly?" The person asking the question was Zhao Hongxia's neighbor and had a good relationship with her.
"No, it's nothing," Zhao Hongxia gave a random reason, "My son was too noisy last night. I didn't sleep well all night, and I was in a trance."
"Hongxia, there's something I have to tell you."
The woman looked around for a while, looking mysteriously, making sure no one was around to hear her. She lowered her voice and repeated what Aunt Liu and the mayor had said.
After saying that, she came closer and her voice was as low as a mosquito, "Aunt Liu, she deliberately wants to throw dirty water on you. Do you think this person is evil?"
"What?" Zhao Hongxia was shocked, "Liu Cuilan said she saw me walking to the vegetable field?"
"Yeah, it's nonsense when you first hear it... Oops, no more chatting, I have to go home and cook."
After she left, Zhao Hongxia also walked back to her home.
After closing the door, large beads of cold sweat broke out on her forehead, and she thought uneasily that if Director Chen let people continue to investigate, they might really be found on her head.
No! We must not let him find out about ourselves...
Zhao Hongxia thought of Li Qinghua as the scapegoat, and planned to figure out how to convince everyone that she was the one who did the bad things and not herself.
Su family.
As soon as Su Nanbing returned home, his brother grabbed him and asked him where he had gone by himself just now.
"I'm going to the factory! If I don't do anything, I feel it's too frustrating. I can't stand this cowardice!"
Bai Lu, who was making sweet potato dumplings, frowned and said, "Nan Bing, you went to the factory? What did you go to the factory for?"
"Of course let the factory director find the bad guys!"
After recounting what happened before in detail, Su Nanbing said with emotion: "That's great, Mayor Hong! He specifically asked the factory director to help us find the person who destroyed the tomatoes, and said he would give us an explanation."
"Mayor Hong?"
"Yes, that's what the factory director called him."
As if something suddenly occurred to him, Su Nanbing said "Oh!" and walked to his mother, "Mom, the person who saved dad from the farm last year was probably Mayor Hong, right? I remember Aunt Yang said that the mayor would help...
"
Bai Lu has never seen Hong Haibo.
"Maybe," she was a little unsure at first, but then she thought about it and said, "There is only one mayor in a city, and it must be him!"
Su Nanbing said excitedly: "Then isn't he our dad's savior? He helped our family again this time, twice in total!"
When his eldest brother heard this, he asked, "Should we thank them properly?"
"I definitely have to thank you, but I don't know what to give. If it's money or food stamps, and it's inappropriate, he definitely won't accept it. Our family doesn't have much money to give, and we don't have any tickets for alcohol or tobacco.
, can’t be bought.”
The little Jinbao crawling on the soft quilt said "Ababa" twice and said: "Guagua..."
In order to help Jinbao learn to walk and to avoid the little one falling, Bailu mopped the floor every day and put the winter quilt on the ground for Jinbao to crawl on.
Jin Bao can barely stand for one minute now.
She supported the quilt with a pair of chubby little hands, stood up with difficulty, patted her little hands, "Guagua... send... Guagua..."
"Sixth sister seems to be talking about sending melons?" Su Zhiyuan's eyes lit up, "Did you mean to send pumpkins to the mayor?"
Little Jinbao clapped his hands, his soft little feet were unsteady, and he leaned on the quilt again, rolling around like a dumpling, "Abba, Ababa..."
Everyone was amused by her cute appearance.
Su Nanbing said: "Mom, Jinbao has a good idea. When the vegetables in our field are ripe, we will pick some and give them to Mayor Hong. Thank you for helping us several times."
"Okay! Pick the biggest pumpkins then!" Bai Lu said with a smile.
For a while after that, everyone was talking about the Su family’s tomato shelf being knocked down all day long.
The factory director put Zhang Guangmao in charge of the investigation.
Zhang Guangmao went from house to house asking questions, trying to find the most suspicious person among them.
Aunt Liu said that she saw Zhao Hongxia going to the vegetable field, but Zhao Hongxia said that her eyesight was wrong.
Zhao Hongxia's neighbor testified to her, saying that they went to find Sister Hongmei together and then went home together. Hongxia did not go to the vegetable field.
Both sides insisted on their own opinions, and the dispute could not produce any results. Afterwards, everyone pointed the finger at Li Qinghua again.
Li Qinghua naturally refused to admit it and cried loudly at the top of her lungs that she was wronged. She cried so hard that her head hurt and her ears hurt.
This matter was discussed over and over again, but there was no progress until half a month later, Xu Damei suddenly came to Director Zhang’s house and said: "It was Li Qinghua who pushed down the shelf! I saw it with my own eyes!"