In the afternoon, Li Rui was thinking about when Gao Jie would come, when he received a call from Jiang Liansheng, Chen Shiwei's grandmother passed away. Li Rui quickly greeted Yu Meixia and hurried to the South Bridge.

On the way, he received another call from Jiang Liansheng that the old lady's body was to be transported back to her hometown for two days, and asked him to go directly to Chen Shiwei's old house. Li Rui knew that this was a custom in Nanqiao. After the person passed away, he would park it at home for two days for relatives and friends to pay farewell, and then transport it to the funeral home for cremation. The same was true for his grandfather's funeral.

Chen Shiwei's hometown is in a village below Chengguan Town. When Li Rui arrived, the old lady's body had just been transported back. White banners had already hung at the entrance of the yard, and there were crying in the main hall.

When Li Rui walked into the yard, Chen Shiwei was standing in the yard and making a phone call, probably informing his relatives and friends to report the death everywhere. His eyes were red and swollen and his expression was sad. When he saw Li Rui coming in, he hung up the phone and walked over.

The two of them held their hands together heavily, and Li Rui looked at him and comforted in a low voice: "Sad to be ashamed of change!"

Chen Shiwei said, "Don't worry, I'm fine." Then he comforted himself, "My grandma is a lucky person after living in her nineties, and she is quite peaceful when she left, and she has no fault of anything..." She choked up and couldn't continue to say anything after speaking.

Li Rui sighed and stepped forward and patted his shoulder. He had also had such an experience and said sympathetically: "Birth, old age, sickness and death are just natural laws, no one can escape, don't be too sad."

As he said that, he took out a cigarette and handed him a piece of it, and lit it for him. Chen Shiwei took a few sips, but was accidentally choked and coughed loudly.

After he calmed down, Li Rui continued, "I have nothing to do in the past two days. If you need any help, just tell me."

Chen Shiwei nodded. But Li Rui soon found that his words were redundant. As the people who came to mourn him were all the leaders and minds of various departments under Qingshanquan Town and more than 20 administrative villages. With their participation, Li Rui would have to intervene. Chen Shiwei accompanied the old lady to say goodbye to the old lady in front of the old lady's body. He originally had to bow three times, but when he thought of the enthusiasm of the old lady to Chen Shiwei's house several times, he felt sour in his heart, and then pushed the Jinshan Yuzhu down and kowtowed to the old lady respectfully.

Seeing this, Chen Shiwei quickly knelt down and replied, holding Li Rui's hand excitedly and said, "Brother, I appreciate your love."

Although there are many people who come to mourn filial piety to give great gifts, Chen Shiwei knew very well who these people were for, but Li Rui was different. He came to bid farewell to his grandmother sincerely.

It is reasonable to leave money to burn paper when coming to pay condolences. Li Rui came to the place where he collected money and kept his accounts. There was Jiang Liansheng and several staff members of the town finance office were busy.

Li Rui took out 200 yuan according to the general rules. With his relationship with Chen Shiwei, it doesn't matter how much money it costs, it's mainly because of his intentions. But when he signed the account book, he found that the one in front was at least one thousand. After looking forward, there were 34,500, most of them were coal owners of more than 20 coal mines below Qingshanquan Town. He couldn't help but frown secretly, but he couldn't say anything when people came and went. It would be normal to collect some money at the funeral at home, but now is the critical moment for Chen Shiwei. It's easy for someone to catch a handle when accepting gifts in such a large amount. Didn't someone sue it last time?

He felt it was necessary to remind Chen Shiwei. He winked at Jiang Liansheng and called him aside and whispered: "What's going on? It's so eye-catching!"

Jiang Liansheng knew what Li Rui was referring to and smiled bitterly: "This is the rule in our countryside. The money sent by the paper must be accepted. If someone sends it here, I can't stop taking it."

Li Rui understood Jiang Liansheng's embarrassment. After all, he was not a master's family, and some things were not easy to make decisions without authorization, but it was not so outrageous to burn paper money. Generally, people with status like them were only one or two hundred. If they were ordinary people, they would only be dozens or even dozens of dollars. He pondered: "Call Lao Chen over here."

Chen Shiwei came over quickly. Li Rui didn't say much and asked Jiang Liansheng to show him the account book. When he saw the number behind a personal name recorded in the account book, he took a breath and said quickly: "Why are there so many? How many have you collected in total now?"

"It's almost hundreds of thousands." Jiang Liansheng said.

Looking at the familiar or unfamiliar names on the account book, Chen Shiwei also frowned. He knew the intention of Li Rui calling him over. He had already collected so many people in less than half a day. People coming to pay their respects were still in a steady stream. I don’t know how much they would receive on the day of cremation. It is impossible to be moved by so much money, but at this critical moment, it is very hot to pick up the money! If someone caught the handle for this matter, it would be too unpaid.

"Repeat, please help me return all the money. Then tell those who come to mourn, the maximum burning of paper money cannot exceed 200, just say that it was what I said. Everyone is grateful to come to mourn me, Chen Shiwei, but they cannot burn much money." Chen Shiwei insisted on the railway.

"I know, Secretary Chen. But many people on this are gone, how should I return it? There are still many of them on this, and you know that it is probably difficult to return the money." Jiang Liansheng was embarrassed.

Li Rui interrupted, "Don't retreat in this way. As Lao Chen said just now, each person will collect 200 yuan and return more than one part. If you really can't return it, you can create another book and count the number. Then you hand it over to the Discipline Inspection Commission and ask the Discipline Inspection Commission to issue a certificate. Lao Chen, what do you think?"

"Okay! Liansheng, you can do what Li Rui said." As he said that, Chen Shiwei said to Li Rui gratefully: "Brother, fortunately you reminded me, otherwise this would be really troublesome."

Li Rui admires Chen Shiwei's attitude of being able to take on it and let it go. Hundreds of thousands these days are quite a huge sum of money, and no one can give up just by saying that he can give up.

"Now is a critical moment. No matter what, we must try our best to strive for it. The key is not to let people catch the handle." Li Rui said.

Chen Shiwei nodded, sighed, and looked very tired. He turned to Jiang Liansheng and said, "Liansheng, I have been busy these two days, so I'll worry about this matter more."

Jiang Liansheng seemed a little ashamed because of what happened just now and hurriedly said, "Secretary Chen, don't worry, I will help you with this."

In the evening, Zhu Jie and Wu Kangmei were all here. They were still informed by Li Rui, but they did not see Fang Qiang's figure. Wu Kangmei said that Qiangzi had something to come tomorrow.

Zhao Wenlong returned to his hometown Jiangdong Province to celebrate the New Year, and specially commissioned Zhu Jie to bring gifts. When Li Rui asked them that they were planning to give two thousand, he hurriedly stopped them and said, "Everyone is their own people, just have a moment of meaning, two hundred."

"Two hundred is too little, right? How can you take this?" Wu Kangmei said in surprise. Three birthdays and two birthdays a year, weddings and funerals are a great time for officials to make money. Although everyone gets along well because of Li Rui's relationship, it is indeed difficult to take advantage of this amount of money.

Li Rui photographed him, "I said Lao Wu, you are usually very smart, why are you confused today? Now is the time? In the sensitive period, don't cause trouble."

Wu Kangmei then suddenly realized and patted her head and said, "I understand, understand, only two hundred."

After they gave gifts and burned paper money, Zhu Jie couldn't help but stutter: "The scene is really big. I only saw such a big scene when I attended the funeral of our father-in-law Wang in Bureau two years ago."

Li Rui shook his head secretly when he heard this. The Wang Bureau, whom Zhu Jie mentioned, was Wang Hai, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, and Director of the Municipal Bureau. His father-in-law died and held a funeral. Even Zhu Jie, the deputy director of a police station in the branch office, had to pay condolences and give gifts. How big is this scene! But then again, this kind of thing is also a common phenomenon in the leadership team. The gift-giving person actually knew in his heart that giving gifts may not be able to please the leader. Perhaps they might not even know who you are, but if you don’t give gifts, they might offend others, so this strange phenomenon of rushing to give gifts has occurred. Isn’t this the case now?

"The old lady has lived for more than ninety years, which is considered a long life, and she is a happy and mourning!" Wu Kangmei sighed from the side.

Zhu Jie also smiled and said, "I didn't expect Secretary Chen to be a grandson, who is quite filial. When I went in to pay my respects just now, Secretary Chen cried so sadly! It was obvious that he was not pretending."

Li Rui frowned and patted Zhu Jie, "Don't talk nonsense, Old Chen's parents have died since he was a child. He was pulled by the old lady with one hand. This relationship is different."

Zhu Jie also realized that it was inappropriate to joke about this kind of thing. He patted his mouth and hurriedly said, "Yes, that's really different. No wonder Secretary Chen is so sad."

While he was talking, there was another crying sound from the main hall. This was also one of the rules for funerals in the countryside. At a certain moment, Li Rui felt a little disgusted. In fact, he knew the situation of Chen Shiwei's family very well. Old Chen had no brothers and sisters, and the old lady had only two sons, but they all starved to death during the Great Famine, leaving only Chen Shiwei and a cousin who had been given away since childhood. However, later Chen Shiwei became prosperous and became the local emperor of Qingshanquan Town. Many relatives emerged. It was really poor in the downtown area and no one asked about them, and rich in the deep mountains and had distant relatives. Now, a few of the people who were crying inside were really aimed at the old lady, and they were all aimed at the official position under Old Chen's butt.

Li Rui originally called Wu Kangmei and the others to ask them to come and help, but when they saw the scene now, they couldn't get involved. Wu Kangmei suggested: "Or why don't we find a place to drink?"

Although the Chen family also has tofu rice to entertain people who come to pay their respects, they are prepared here in a hurry, and there is nothing good to eat. Secondly, there is noisy staff. If they really stay here to eat, they will really have no appetite. Moreover, Li Rui's identity is there, and someone will have to come to toast at that time. People are crying here, but eating and drinking there is very lively. What's that matter!

"Is there a restaurant open for this New Year?" Zhu Jie said in confusion.

"Follow me, I'll take you to a place to ensure the door is open, and the taste is quite good." Wu Kangmei smiled.

Three people and three cars followed Wu Kangmei's old crown and drove along a gravel road to a farmhouse. Sure enough, the door was opened. Wu Kangmei was obviously a regular customer here, and she talked and laughed as soon as she met her boss, because the business was very light during the Spring Festival holiday, and there were no other customers. After entering the house, Wu Kangmei went straight to the kitchen to order dishes, and Zhu Jie carried a jar of Qingyunchun's raw pulp from his police car. It was obvious that the dozens of jars of hundred-year raw pulp left in the winery at the beginning. Li Rui couldn't help but say, "Didn't this thing be hidden by Lao Zhao? Why are there any?"

Zhu Jie smiled and said, "This is what I came from Mr. Zhao. I originally wanted to go to our director's place to flatter him, but after two trips, there was no one at home. Today I just happened to eliminate it. By the way, I also brought a few bottles of the new Five-Star Qingyun Laojiao that was not yet available in the winery, and I will use it to blend it later."

Zhu Jie said that, and took out two bottles of five-star Qingyun Laojiao from the car, both of which were carefully packaged. Five stars were printed on the box outside. It felt like the grade had suddenly increased. The bottle inside was specially customized blue and white porcelain plum bottles. Li Rui took it in his hand and looked at it carefully. The workmanship was also quite beautiful. Even if he drank all the wine inside, the bottle was a very beautiful decoration. This must be Yu Meixia's creativity. It seems that Qingyunchun will be selling well this year.
Chapter completed!