And now, thinking back many years, it’s the first time she’s tasted something so sweet.
She glanced at Gu Nian, who was sitting beside her laughing without a care in the world, and felt envious of this girl once again.
If you talk about who had it worse, clearly they were the same, both abandoned by their parents.
However, Gu Nian was luckier than her.
At night, there was a village meeting.
Ever since the village head became the head, Taohua District had turned into his playground. Previously, matters were decided through meetings, but eventually, a simple notice from him sufficed.
And now, the gong for the village meeting sounded again, causing many to feel anxious. What was going to happen this time!
Mrs. Jiang grew worried, "His father, could it be that the village head is targeting our family?"
"Don’t fret, although Young Master Nan didn’t agree, I haven’t responded to the village head yet. Even if he is targeting us, it won’t be this early. Besides, we’re not pushovers. If the village head truly acts unfairly, we’ll fight to the bitter end. I’ll expose his embezzlement to the county, and he also took ten taels of silver from Pandi, and Pandi is still at our place." Lin Sanshui said, "You wait at home, I’ll go see what’s going on."
Saying this, Lin Sanshui went out.
The old place for village meetings was in the center of the village, with a big grindstone and mortar. All the village residents ground their flour there.
Since Lin Sanshui went out, Mrs. Jiang was restless.
She hurried to greet him upon hearing footsteps returning.
"How was it? What was discussed at the meeting?"
Lin Sanshui, a man in his fifties, was smiling like a blooming flower. "Good news, the village head has been dismissed, and from now on, Feng will be the village head of our village."
The village head of Taohua Village was always elected. Once elected, unless there were unusual circumstances, they would manage village affairs indefinitely.
If the old village head hadn’t had a bad reputation before, he wouldn’t have been elected. Unfortunately, once he became the head, he became arrogant.
Now, it’s resolved; someone from the county personally came, and the village head flaunted his power, took bribes, and controlled grain taxes. His deeds were reported, and he was taken away by the county’s government officials.
Today’s meeting was for electing a new village head, naturally. The Lin surname was prominent in Taohua Village, and the clan leader had always been selected from the Lin family, this was widely accepted.
This time, the elected one was Lin Feng. Lin Sanshui had to call him brother, as they were closely related within five generations from the same family.
"Will the old village head be able to return after being taken away?" Mrs. Jiang was equally shocked, having just worried about the village head retaliating against their family, only to find out that the village head not only lost his position but was arrested.
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"The possibility of him returning is very low," Lin Sanshui whispered, "If it was just a bit of bribery, it might be okay, but he controlled the village’s grain taxes, deliberately rejecting others’ taxes, causing several households to delay paying taxes each year. Once this was reported, all the families he made things difficult for testified against him in front of the officials. He might end up in jail."
"Oh my, the village head going to jail won’t implicate our village, will it?" During this time, crimes required collective punishment, when one was guilty, the whole clan suffered, which was why the village head had been so domineering without being exposed.