The Day of Commendation, I Was Criticized

On the night of the flood, Zhou Weidong, an old clerk at the Yun Chuan County Civil Affairs Bureau, jumped into the floodwaters and rescued an old shepherd. His wrist was cut open by a piece of iron sheet. At the commendation ceremony, the one who wore the red flower and received the third-class merit was his brother-in-law, Deputy Director Zhao Mancang—on the merit report, the hero who saved the person had a different name. On the same day, Zhou Weidong was criticized for "being absent from duty." His son's college tuition was 8,600 yuan, his mother's hospital deposit was 20,000 yuan, and his wife was publicly mocked by her sister at her parents' dinner table: "If only brother-in-law had half of Mancang's ability..." He couldn't swallow this indignation: he went into the mountains to find witnesses, squatted at construction sites to find video evidence, but was instead sent to guard a suburban warehouse. When the inspection team came to town, he stayed up two nights to write a report, but the report leaked, and he was falsely accused of "making trouble for benefits." His mother was critically ill, his son wanted to drop out of school, and his wife cried and asked, "What's the use of fighting for this?"—On a snowy night, he wrote a statement to withdraw his appeal. But before dawn, the original draft found in the waste paper pile, the old shepherd who came to town on crutches, and the old director who had been holding back for three years—three pieces of ironclad evidence—all appeared at the same time. This time, the honest man who had worked for twenty-seven years was not going to "consider the big picture" anymore. If some accounts are not settled clearly, life will never be understood. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Day of Commendation, I Was Criticized — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠