Like a Flowing River (Da Jiang Da He / 大江大河)

Proletarian internationalism is built on the notion of seeking truth from facts.

Only when you stand firmly,

insisting on seeking the truth from facts

can socialist modernization

move forward.

We can now enter university!

What has been undergoing, as a practice, is the only discussion we will have to examine the truth.

More practically, the core argument is to emancipate the mind.

Whether or not...

Like A Flowing River

~ Episode 33 ~

I want to ask you something.

What is it? Speak.

That matter concerning my father has happened days ago.

How is Secretary Dongbao going to handle it?

He can't be seriously investigating my father.

If that is the case, then he is really a scumbag.

So now you know how to be concerned about your father?

What were you doing before that?

You are shameless enough to come over here and ask.

What do you mean by that?

We all have the same surname Lei.

Lei Dongbao was promoted by my father single handedly.

If he dares to investigate my father, what do you call it then?

It's called being ungrateful.

Furthermore, among those who are in positions of responsibility now,

who doesn't accept a little bribe?

Let's not talk about those far away. Just among the few of you, who is clean?

Shut up quickly.

If only you had found some proper work and earned some money, would your father have been forced into such a situation today?

If you are really filial,

go and take the rap for your father.

What are you doing?

Lei Shigen,

what do you mean by that?

The way I see it, this is all caused by you.

You're a dog.

Lei Dongbao's dog.

Secretary Dongbao didn't allow any investigation because of the honor for your father.

Look at you. You spilled everything out about your father.

Who is the one who makes things look good for your father?

- Where are you going? - What are you doing?

You want to raise your hand against someone?

So what if I raise my hand against you?

What's happening? Why are they fighting?

He said that the Old Secretary is corrupt.

- Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. - What's happening? Why are they fighting?

- Sounds like he's saying that the Old Secretary is corrupt. - It can't be.

How can the Old Secretary be corrupt?

The Old Secretary is corrupt?

Just try investigating my father!

What are you doing?

- What are you doing?! - Just try investigating my father!

- Investigate! Asshole, just try investigating! - Don't move! Don't move!

- Don't move! - Lei Weiguo,

you're an ungrateful thing.

You treated my kindness as donkey's innards.

Get moving! Get moving! Go, go home!

What's there to look at people fighting? There's nothing to look at!

- Go home! - Are you heartless?

Just continue talking!

What are you doing?

- Go! - Just you wait. If you investigate my father, I'll kill you ungrateful bastard! - Go! Go back!

I don't believe it either. The Old Secretary is such a good person.

The Old Secretary has served our Xaioleijia Village

for so many years. How can we not know what sort of person he is?

- Right. - If he didn't do anything wrong, then just allow to be investigated.

- You must be joking. - How can I joke about this?

Weiguo. Weiguo.

All the trouble was caused by you and Lei Shigen.

Now everyone in the village knows about your father.

They are all scolding your father for being corrupt.

Mother, you can't blame everything on me.

I just want to help my father.

I went to look for Lei Shigen precisely because I was afraid that he might investigate my father.

Father, it is not like that at all.

I heard that Secretary Dongbao had no intention of investigating you at first.

It's all because of my brother that this matter became a big deal.

Father.

Sister-in-law, you can't talk nonsense like this.

Did you hear this or see this yourself?

Who is the one who is talking nonsense, Sister-in-law.

If not for the two of you who are greedy and lazy,

would anyone be able to dig anything up on father?

- Hey, father-in-law— - All of you shut up!

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Father.

Shigen!

Dongbao.

Where are you injured?

I'm alright.

Do you want to eat something?

I don't want to eat.

I didn't imagine that so much trouble would be generated from this matter.

You are not to be blamed for this matter.

It's that fellow Lei Weiguo who's so muddle headed.

He insisted on throwing his father's honor into the cesspit.

Okay.

Don't look as if someone has died.

Dongbao.

The crux of the matter is that this thing has now created a great uproar.

The whole village knows about the matter concerning Old Uncle's corruption.

If we still don't give an explanation,

how would they think of us?

How could we not be seen as being involved?

The key to the finance office

and the key to the safe. Dongbao, Dongbao, you keep them.

What are you doing?

On one hand, I am in charge of the official seal. On the other hand, I am in charge of the accounts. I have too much power, Dongbao.

No matter what, I'll be the first one to be suspected.

Shigen, you have followed me for so many years.

You have been my left and right arms a long time ago.

Would I have kept you if there were really something wrong with you?

Please stop worrying and continue to do what you have been doing.

If I don't suspect you, no one else would dare to suspect you.

Keep them.

Keep them!

But how do you intend to handle that matter concerning Old Uncle?

I didn't investigate the matter concerning the Old Secretary these last few days,

nor did I come and talk to you about it.

I have a misgiving.

I felt very bad about those words that Uncle told me that day.

He's old.

He doesn't have many more years.

I can't be like his son and throw his honor into the cesspit.

I'm just thinking that...

...I'll settle this matter quietly.

Allow him to resign quietly and return what he owed quietly. Make it with no one else knowing.

Old Uncle understands it very clearly. He wouldn't say anything when he returned home.

But ...

Xiaoleijia Village got to where it is today by everyone putting up a life or death struggle at any cost.

Everybody followed me through hardships and difficulties.

Has anyone thought of stretching out his hand to take a little more money from the brigade? No one.

Tell me then, on what basis did Old Uncle do that?

No one can do that, and the more so Old Uncle can't do it.

Because he is the Old Secretary!

The accounts of the Xiaoleijie Brigade cannot tolerate any irregularities.

If this matter is not investigated properly, it is the same as making a precedence for other people to follow.

There'll be no end to it.

Investigate it.

When the investigation is completed,

announce it by posting a notice.

Dongbao,

this matter can be investigated,

but I can't be the one doing it. To the other people, I am definitely unclean now.

If you really want to investigate, shouldn't we find someone from outside who is totally unrelated to it?

Otherwise Old Uncle and his family would not be convinced.

Can we look for Chen Yuanping and ask him to send someone from higher up to investigate?

If this matter escalates further, it will be hard to resolve it.

We'll also be inviting outsiders to gossip about us.

We have to retain some honor for Old Uncle.

We will investigate it ourselves.

Okay.

We will investigate it ourselves.

If we are standing straight, we will not be afraid that our shadow will deviate. We will investigate it ourselves.

- I'm going off. - Okay.

One thousand three.

The month of March.

Does Dongbao really want to do this to the Old Secretary?

Shigen and the few of them are checking the accounts everyday.

It must be investigated.

Did Old Secretary really corrupt the money of the village?

Seven, eight...

Town Mayor Lei, can you see if this account adds up right?

When I was passing the Brigade Office that day,

I saw Lei Shigen and Lei Weiguo fighting.

- Such a thing really happened? - It's true. - Really?

Right... Let them investigate.

Okay, Xiao Yu. You can go back first.

Then we go back first.

It's been hard for all of you.

Four-eyed.

Old Uncle.

Let's talk a little.

I'm being investigated today. Right?

The investigation went on for the whole day.

The accounts are quite clean. There is no problem.

That is good.

Old Uncle, they want to go to the brick factory tomorrow.

Why are they going to the brick factory? Aren't all the accounts

submitted to the office headquarter?

They said that from looking at the accounts, it appeared that for a period of time, the rejection rate of the brick factory

was too high.

Dongbao.

Old Uncle hanged himself.

Old Uncle is gone.

Dongbao. Dongbao, where are you going? Dongbao.

Dongbao, you can't go.

Don't go, Dongbao!

Dongbao, if you go now, you'll be flayed!

Dongbao, Old Uncle is gone now. What are we going to do in future? What are we going to do with this matter?

Who did Old Secretary meet last night?

Why did a completely well person commit suicide?

- Secretary Dongbao! Secretary Dongbao! - What did you tell Old Secretary?

I didn't say anything.

Tell me truthfully.

Don't even leave out a single word.

Old Uncle asked yesterday if his accounts are being investigated yet.

I said yes, but there were no problems with the accounts.

But the accounts of the brick factory needed to be verified because the rejection rate was too high.