Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 1159 Deciding to Make a Big Deal Out of It

As soon as Wang An shouted his words, coupled with the jeers and curses from the group of people handing over their grain, the older man, the grain station manager, was clearly flustered. Sweat began to bead on his forehead at a visible speed.

The issue of withholding grain from ordinary people is a matter that can be considered a big deal or a small deal. But if things really escalate, we don't know what will happen to others, but the position of the grain station chief will definitely be in serious trouble.

After a while, seeing that the station chief wasn't coming to inspect the grain, Wang An pointed at the station chief's nose and shouted:
"Look at this, look at this! What the hell have you lazy dogs done? I'm asking you, how do you deduct 8 units of water from corn grown like this? Come on, explain it to me."

As he spoke, Wang An dragged the shovel toward the stationmaster. The shovel made a screeching sound as it scraped against the ground, like a death knell, which frightened the stationmaster so much that he backed away repeatedly.

Seeing that Wang An was determined to kill the stationmaster, the staff members, like dogs protecting their master, all tried to step forward to stop him.

But after Wang An raised the shovel, they were all so frightened that they scattered to the sides.

Although they lacked the courage to stop Wang An, they still boasted:
"Let me tell you, don't act impulsively."

"You fucking stand right there and don't move forward."

"Let's talk this out. Do you know that what you're doing is illegal?"

To be honest, reasoning with these people is completely pointless; violence is the only effective means, mainly because these guys always have a whole bunch of reasons waiting for you.

When you try to reason with him, he talks about the rules; when you talk about the rules, he talks about weights; when you talk about weights, he talks about orthodoxy.
No matter how you look at it, they are always right, or rather, they are the ones who are right, leaving you with no recourse.

After scaring away the group of staff, Wang An immediately threw the shovel on the ground and caught up with the retreating stationmaster in a few quick steps.

Immediately afterwards, Wang An grabbed the stationmaster by the collar and dragged him to the grain sacks.

During the dragging process, the stationmaster continued to struggle, shouting incessantly:

"Get off me! Don't tell me I'll have you locked up. I'm telling you, you've already broken the law, do you know that?"

Wang An only dragged the stationmaster without actually harming him, which emboldened the stationmaster, who seemed certain that Wang An was bluffing and that his words were just meant to intimidate him.

No matter how much the stationmaster struggled or shouted, Wang An's hand remained like a pair of pliers, tightly gripping the stationmaster's collar and refusing to let go.

In fact, Wang An didn't want to do this either, because no matter what, the head of a township-level grain station was still a powerful figure, and it was really not a good thing for Wang An to grab him by the collar and drag him around.

However, in order to solve the problem, and more importantly, to make him face the problem, Wang An really had no choice but to do so.

Because Wang An had already beaten up the quality inspector, and the staff member who came to help was also stunned by Wang An hitting him with a shovel.

Therefore, at this point, Wang An was actually not far from being executed.

It's important to understand that assaulting grain station staff is akin to assaulting those cadres on Ling Island; it's a matter of face, or rather, a matter of upholding authority and dignity. It's like the relationship between parents and children: if parents make a mistake, does that give children the right to beat them?
The answer is definitely no, so it is absolutely forbidden from above.

Therefore, the current situation is either to pin the blame on the quality inspector alone, and then have the grain station manager forcibly suppress the matter.

Either we have to make a big fuss, the bigger the better, ideally alarming the county or even Bingcheng, and exaggerate the grain station's mistakes indefinitely by opposing oppression and withholding from farmers.

In the former case, the grain station only needs to deal with the quality inspector, while in the latter case, it's not just the quality inspector's responsibility, but the responsibility of all the staff at the grain station.

In fact, the station manager of the grain depot and those people from Lingdao were well aware of what the quality inspectors were doing.

To be precise, without the tacit approval or instruction of Liangzhanlingdao, the quality inspectors would absolutely not have dared to so blatantly make things difficult for those who were handing over grain.

The grain that was over-deducted for water content was actually over-harvested grain, and where this over-harvested grain ended up is a very obvious question.

Who would believe that the grain station turned over all the extra grain it collected?
Putting aside other things, take Wang An's classmate Ye Qingfeng. Because his father worked at the grain station, he was able to eat his fill every meal since he was a child, and he always ate refined grains.

So here's the question: back then, everyone's food rations were fixed, so where did his family's food come from?
To put it bluntly, everyone at the grain station was a bunch of scoundrels, in cahoots.

After dragging the stationmaster to the sack, Wang An finally spoke in a loud, booming voice:
“Aren’t you the station chief? Then you should check this corn yourself and see how much moisture it has. If that doesn’t work, we’ll call the people from the county grain station. If that still doesn’t work, we’ll dry it and measure how much moisture it has.”

After Wang An released the stationmaster, the stationmaster stopped cursing. However, facing the aggressive Wang An and the crowd of onlookers jeering, the stationmaster suddenly hardened his tone and said in a very forceful voice:

"The amount of water in grain is regulated and standardized. If you disagree, you can report us to the county government. We always act in accordance with regulations."

Turning around, the station manager shouted to one of the staff members:
"Xiao Song, go to the locksmith and find Zhang Suozhang. Tell him there's trouble at the grain depot and he needs to bring his men and guns over immediately."

Seeing that the stationmaster had no intention of solving the problem and even tried to pressure him, Wang An immediately decided to make a big scene.

The main issue is that if this matter doesn't escalate, then there will definitely be a resolution regarding Wang An assaulting the staff member.

So Wang An turned around and said to Wang Li:
"Fifth brother, go to the post office now and call the county grain station. Tell them that I, Wang An, am looking for Ye Qingfeng. Tell him to bring people to Xing'an Township immediately. Also, tell him to bring the grain testing equipment with him."

Wang Li agreed upon hearing this.
"Okay, Fourth Brother."

As he spoke, Wang Li turned to leave, but Wang An immediately said again:
"Fifth brother, wait a minute. After you finish talking to Ye Qingfeng, call An Ju, the county official, and tell my older sister that Pian Chusuo from Xing'an Township is going to arrest me."

To be honest, Wang An wanted to call Wu Dong and the others again, but he felt it wasn't a good idea to ask Wu Dong about such local matters.

(End of this chapter)