Chapter 57: Ineffective Meeting
After breakfast, Hu Yue helped us make some arrangements, and before lunch, we held a meeting with the five village heads.
The content of the meeting was actually very simple, and it was just about past events at school.
The five village chiefs kept silent about what happened before, perhaps this had become a tacit understanding between them.
But no matter what, we now know much more than they imagined. Of course, we cannot expose everything about ourselves, for he is afraid that these five village chiefs will do something bad to us.
I touched down, left their meeting, took out a cigarette, and walked to the yard alone.
What secrets are these five people hiding together?
This is something I just can't understand no matter how hard I try.
"So what do you think we should do now?"
Next to the five village heads sat an old man, who was the head of this village.
The old man’s surname is Chen, and everyone calls him Mr. Chen.
That was exactly what Mr. Chen said. It's not that he didn't know what to do, but he kicked the ball back to us.
My cousin frowned and said, "We must send those children back to their homes. Now that we have a construction team, it won't be difficult to start the work. We just need to watch over them. What I'm telling you now is to contact the families of those eight children and tell them that the children are going back and ask them to prepare."
"Of course we can contact the child's family, but they said they don't want the child, and they also said that the child cannot be buried in their ancestral tomb no matter what. What do you say?"
I listened to their conversation and felt overwhelmed.
In fact, they have been at a stalemate since the meeting started this morning and it is almost time for lunch now.
My temper is actually not that bad, but I really can't stand them kicking the ball back and forth like this.
Please, we are just here to help. If they don't need our help, we can just turn around and leave.
Why make things so complicated?
I walked to the table in the conference room angrily and slapped it.
Everyone looked at me in surprise.
"Call the parents of those children here. If you can't convince them, I will talk to them slowly. Why waste our time here? If I had known that it would be a waste of time to call you to a meeting, I would have gone directly to their homes to talk to them!"
My cousin suddenly looked up at me with a hint of approval in his eyes.
Those people left a little angrily, perhaps because I didn't give them face. After all, this is their place.
After they left.
My cousin sighed.
"I have wanted to tell them a lot, but my age doesn't allow me to do so. You are different. You are arrogant and young. You did a good job this time. They are really annoying."
My cousin's words of praise made me feel a little better, or at least not so angry.
"Uncle, I always feel that they are hiding something. Could it be something big and particularly difficult to handle?" I sat down and handed my cousin a cigarette.
"What they are hiding is just why that Yin Yang Master did this, but I am still more curious about the parents of those eight children."
In fact, my cousin is curious, and so am I.
Why does the family just reject a healthy child?
Moreover, children aged fourteen or fifteen are at the right age, and they are not as annoying as other children, nor do they have as many worries as adults.
"Let's go and see what the parents of those children have to say. The more they hide things from us, the more I feel that the village chiefs and village heads of these five villages are a little weird."
My cousin stood up and sighed.
Dong Jing and I looked at each other and followed him.
According to the list I have, there is a family of a murdered child in the village where we are.
Standing at the end of the village, at the door of the murdered child's home, I didn't dare to knock on the door.
The house looks smoky and smelly, but I'm sure there are people living in it.
Boom boom boom…
Dong Jing saw that I didn't dare to knock on the door, so she knocked on the door first.
"Excuse me, is there anyone inside? We are from the engineering team and came here to understand the situation."
Engineering Team?!
As soon as they heard that it was a construction project, the door that had a small hole opened was immediately closed.
I looked at Dong Jing and we looked at each other.
What does it mean?
Could it be that they knew from the beginning that the construction team was helping to rebuild the school, so they were so alert?
We stood outside the door without moving or leaving.
Actually, it’s because I was thinking about something and I was too lazy to move around.
But the person in the room heard no sound outside. He opened the door to check, but saw Dong Jing and I standing outside the door.
"What on earth do you want to do? Why do you keep haunting me?"
I didn't even say a word before the man who opened the door was already angry. His face turned red with rage and he threatened to fight with us if we didn't tell him who all the people were.
I froze for a moment.
Dong Jing next to him reacted quickly: "Uncle, why are you so angry? We haven't even spoken yet. Can't you invite us into the house to have a drink of water?"
As expected, a girl's coquettishness is effective. The man's expression seemed to ease a little, but he did not intend to invite us into the house.
The man's deliberate concealment made us feel that the matter was even more suspicious.
"If you have anything to say, please tell us. We are from outside the village and are not familiar with anyone in the village. We will not tell others what we know. If you are concerned about the village heads and village heads of the nearby villages, there is no need to worry because we have already held a meeting this morning. They are also contacting the parents of the other seven children. It's just that we came a step earlier and found you."
I tried to cajole and get men to let down their guard against us.
The man didn't refute us.
His silence told me that he was considering whether or not to tell others what he knew.
"Uncle, what's your last name? I'll mark it on the children's roster so that when we have the meeting, we'll know how to address you."
"My last name is Hu."
The man said this and was about to close the door.
I was quick to block the door with my feet.
Uncle Hu had no way to close the door and glared at me angrily.
I don't care. He wouldn't dare to do anything to me in broad daylight .
Dong Jing pulled me and said, "Don't bother me, I might be busy with something else."
Dong Jing's understanding made the uncle close the door with less force.
Finally, he gave up struggling.
