Me! A high-ranking official!

Boss Chen's efficiency is indeed high. The dimensions were just measured yesterday, and today the materials for the lighting project began to arrive one after another. Several small trucks, fully loaded with brand-new solar street light LED heads and batteries, slowly drove into Luojia Village.

As the workers deftly unloaded the streetlights on both sides of the two main streets that intersected, the villagers who had been idle at home were drawn out.

The crowd gathered by the roadside, looking at the gleaming solar panels and sturdy steel pipe supports in the sunlight. They pointed and exclaimed with curiosity.

"Wow, look at this light fixture! It's huge! If we installed it, the night would be as bright as day!"

"Absolutely! This new Secretary Zhao is really capable! He just said a couple of days ago that he was going to install streetlights in our village, and today these things have already been delivered! His efficiency is a hundred times better than those previous ones who all talk and no action!"

"Secretary Zhao is a good official who gets things done! Our village's days of being shrouded in darkness every night are finally coming to an end!"

The villagers' discussions were endless, and they praised Zhao Jianguo, the new Party Secretary, in their words. The people's eyes are discerning; they know who is just making empty promises and who is actually investing real money in the village's development.

Hearing the commotion outside, Zhao Jianguo came out of the village committee office. He walked to the pile of streetlight materials, greeted the villagers with a smile, and then squatted down to personally pick up a few light bulbs and batteries and carefully inspected them.

Although he didn't understand engineering, he had seen too much of the shady dealings of using inferior materials within the system, so he specifically used his phone to search online for the standard parameters of lighting project materials stipulated by the county. After checking the model and material, feeling the thickness of the pipe wall, and looking at the power rating of the solar panel, he was certain that Boss Chen hadn't dared to cut corners on the materials and was indeed using genuinely good stuff, which put his mind at ease.

To minimize material costs and ensure the 80,000 yuan special fund was used effectively, Zhao Jianguo led the workers to determine the installation locations one by one. Instead of choosing expensive independent poles, they adapted to local conditions—where there were existing utility poles along the road, they directly fixed the streetlights to the poles with clamps; where there were no utility poles, they found suitable angles and open views on villagers' courtyard walls and directly fixed them to the walls with expansion bolts.

This approach inevitably involved communication regarding the use of villagers' outer walls. But as the saying goes, good intentions are rewarded. Installing streetlights is a great thing for the whole village; who wouldn't want their doorstep to be brightly lit at night? It's just a matter of hammering a couple of nails into the outer wall. The villagers not only didn't complain, but they also enthusiastically helped the workers by handing them ladders, pouring water, and even volunteering to have the lights installed on their own walls.

Throughout the afternoon, Zhao Jianguo and his construction team marked all the areas on the two main streets where installation was needed with conspicuous red markers. They were just waiting for the workers to arrive early the next morning so they could start drilling and installing the equipment!

As evening fell, Zhao Jianguo, who had been busy all day, returned to the village committee and ate a simple dinner.

After dinner, he took out his phone and sent a WeChat message to both village chief Luo Shuishan and village director Luo Ming, formally informing them to come and participate in the "People's Talk" live broadcast at 8 pm that night.

The scandalous incident that occurred this morning, in which Luo Ming, in desperation, hired elderly people from Dongsanzhuang Village to obstruct the delivery of materials, has spread like wildfire throughout Luojia Village after those elderly men and women returned and caused a scene. Now, everyone in the village knows that Luo Ming did such a despicable thing to enrich himself and obstruct village construction.

After Luo Ming returned home looking disheveled in the morning, he locked the door and didn't even come out for lunch. He never showed up again. Zhao Jianguo sent him WeChat messages, but they were like stones sinking into the sea, with no reply for a long time.

However, that old fox Luo Shuishan remained calm and quickly replied with a voice message, laughing and agreeing that he would definitely be there on time that night.

Around 7 p.m., he sat down at his desk in the conference room early, opened his notebook, and mentally reviewed what he would talk about during the live broadcast that evening. He marked several key data points and events with a red pen.

At 7:50, he sent another message in the WeChat group of the loving family in Luojia Village, reminding everyone to enter the live broadcast room at 8:00 sharp.

As the clock ticked closer to eight o'clock, the office remained eerily quiet, and Luo Shuishan hadn't seen a soul in sight.

"That old fox, he's definitely two-faced again, playing delaying tactics on me." He sneered, too lazy to wait any longer for these village officials with their own ulterior motives, and directly set up his phone and clicked the live broadcast button on time.

As the live stream began, a surprising scene unfolded.

With the visible progress of the past week, such as the arrival of environmental protection bank and street light materials, coupled with Luo Shuishan and Luo Ming's prestige in the village being skillfully cultivated step by step, the villagers' attention to this young village secretary has reached an unprecedented level.

Within just one minute of the live stream starting, seventy or eighty people flooded into the live stream room!

Watching the number of viewers constantly increasing in the upper left corner of the screen, Zhao Jianguo couldn't help but feel a small sense of accomplishment. With a smile, he said to the camera, "Good evening, folks. Please wait a minute longer. We'll start officially after all the other folks who haven't come in yet have joined."

As he spoke, he kept staring at the constantly flashing entry prompt on the screen.

Suddenly, his gaze sharpened, and his heart skipped a beat!

Among a row of familiar WeChat nicknames of villagers, he clearly saw a highly recognizable name, "Haiqing Heyan," enter the live broadcast room!

County Party Secretary Zhou Qingyan!

He felt a slight surge of joy in his heart, suppressing the smile on his lips. Last time he went live, Zhou Qingyan had secretly come in and tried to surreptitiously, but the number of villagers watching the live stream was pitifully small, not even reaching double digits, so he had to finish his speech quickly.

But this time it's different!

The scale of this live broadcast was significantly larger, and he had indeed achieved real results this week! Starting this live broadcast in front of hundreds of villagers was tantamount to giving this newly appointed county party secretary a vivid and down-to-earth work report!

He wanted to take this opportunity to let Zhou Qingyan see for himself how Luojia Village, a notorious mess that no one cared about, was transformed step by step under his leadership as a marginalized, sidelined cadre!

Another minute later, the number of viewers in the live stream had soared to 223. For a hollow village with a permanent population of only 400 to 500, it was practically a case of every household sitting on a small stool watching on their phones.

Zhao Jianguo cleared his throat, his smile vanished, and his expression became calm and dignified.