He won 900 million in the lottery.

For an average person, the pinnacle of their life is reaching the level of a junior staff member.

The pinnacle of a clerk's career is becoming a section chief.

Datai County.

Liuzhuang Village.

More than 20 people were gathered around an excavator because it was pressing down on their field, where crops were still growing and it wasn't harvest season yet.

"What you're doing is illegal!"

A man in uniform on the excavator was shouting loudly through a megaphone.

But it still couldn't stop the commotion from the 20-odd villagers.

"Smash it! Burn it!"

Someone threw a small bottle of gasoline, which landed in the excavator's basket.

boom!

The fire exploded instantly.

The one with the megaphone was so frightened that he scrambled away.

"good!"

The villagers led the applause.

night.

Liuzhuang Village, Village Committee.

"These unruly people are absolutely unreasonable! They actually dared to burn an excavator—that machine costs tens of thousands of yuan!"

"Village chief, the task has been assigned by the leadership. There's only one week left. We have to finish it no matter what."

"Do you need to tell me?"

The old man, addressed as the village chief, pulled out a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes from his drawer, one for each person: "Tell Zhang Hu and the others to go door-to-door tonight! No one with the surname Liu should get involved."

"it is good."

In Datai County.

Private room in a restaurant.

Several villagers from Liuzhuang were eating around a table, each with a large bowl of rice and large portions of dishes. They were all wolfing down their food.

"Is there enough to eat?"

"That's enough, that's enough. Brother Shen, you've been so good to us, we don't know how to repay you."

"I'll help you guys, and you'll help me too. That way, everyone's happy, right?"

"Yes, yes, I didn't believe you before, but the method you taught me today really works. We won't hurt anyone, we'll just burn their excavators and make them unable to work!"

At that moment, one of them received a ring on his phone and answered it casually.

"Liu Shun, where the hell are your men?"

"Who are you?"

"Don't worry about who I am, but I'm telling you now, get yourselves and go home before midnight."

Liu Shun glanced at me, then hung up the phone as I gestured.

"Brother Shen, they won't burn down our house, will they? After all, we just burned down one of their excavators during the day."

"If your village chief doesn't want to do it anymore, let them burn it down. Give them three lives."

"Okay, then we'll do as Brother Shen says. We trust you."

"Since you trust the boss, tell us everything you know now."

Wheat is in Liancheng. This time, I took Xiaoqi, Monkey, Gangzi, and Glasses with me when I went out.

The man with glasses took out his notebook and began asking questions one by one.

The same old routine.

It's simply that someone knew about the plan in advance, and the village committee bought the villagers' houses ahead of time. However, the village committee's behavior was too greedy, and the price they offered was too low. In the end, neither the promised money nor the new homestead approval was fulfilled, which forced the villagers to block the construction.

"Did you call the police?"

"We reported it, but it was no use. They said we had already signed it."

"So you went to the petition office?"

"Yes, the staff at the petition office were very rude and looked down on us. When we said we wanted to sue the village chief, they said suing someone was a matter for the court. When we said the village chief was corrupt, they said to go to the procuratorate for corruption. When we said the police station was protecting bad guys, they asked me to provide his badge number and name, but we didn't know him. When we went to the police station, they wouldn't let us in, and even if we did, we were kicked out."

"If you want to file a lawsuit, you need to write a complaint, and hiring a lawyer to write the complaint costs money—a lawyer's consultation fee is 300 yuan per hour..."

"We went to the procuratorate to report corruption in the village, and the next day, someone came to my house with a letter of complaint. That's the consequence of reporting corruption."

One of them extended his left hand, his little finger was missing a segment.

"My grandfather and I went to the police station to report that my father's little finger had been cut off. It took them more than an hour to arrive, and by then those people had already run away. They just made us sign some papers and then wait for news. Three months have passed, and we still haven't heard anything."

These are ordinary people. The people who receive them are just clerks or even temporary workers. With a single word, if they get impatient, they can wave their hands and kick more than a dozen grown men out of the house, leaving them homeless and forcing men in their fifties to squat by the roadside and wipe away their tears.

Glasses spent an entire night compiling all the relevant information from the villagers' oral accounts, and then everyone signed and affixed their fingerprints. Of course, the audio and video were recorded simultaneously.

"Brother Shen, what are we doing?"

"Gather evidence! If you don't gather evidence, how can you get your house back and realize your legal rights?"

"oh oh."

"Don't go anywhere these next few days, and don't go back to the village. Just leave two people to keep an eye on the construction team from a distance."

"What if they still forcibly demolish our property?"

"The matter has already gained traction on Douyin, so the action should be postponed for a few days. If they really do carry out a forced demolition, then let them demolish it. Just trust me, I can help you get your money and interests back."

The group of people exchanged glances and nodded to each other.

"Don't go anywhere these next few days, just follow his lead and learn to speak."

"What did you say?"

"A qualified whistleblower should know the nature of the matter and the person they are reporting, which unit or department is responsible for it. Even if the staff refuses, they should know the reason, the solution, and the staff member's name and employee number. They should leave a record of their actions."

This is the most basic thing.

However, these are precisely the knowledge gaps that ordinary people often have.

A week later.

hostel.

Xiaoqi took out a box.

"Everyone wears one of these on their chest. As long as you don't lose it, you don't need to worry about the rest."

"What is it?"

"The locator is to prevent you from being captured one by one."

"OK."

"Each of you must go through the process again in every department of the petition office, procuratorate, and police station, according to the language you learned this week."

"What if we get kicked out?"

"Do exactly what they say, without causing trouble for others, inciting unrest, or generating significant social impact. In short, get things done quietly, and if you can't get it done, leave quietly."

"Yes."

A group of suffering villagers left.

But in my eyes, they changed; they were no longer chickens and ducks to be chased away, but an awakened people.

On the road to defending their rights!

Municipal Bureau of Letters and Calls.

I went through another door and entered Lingling's office.

"It's incredibly difficult for ordinary people to protect their rights."

"No way to protect one's rights, no access to protection, and no awareness of protection—ordinary people will find themselves in this dilemma."

"Legal awareness is still insufficient."

Lingling said irritably, "The country started popularizing legal knowledge in the 1990s, but that's a matter of personal cultivation. People who are willing to learn more will learn more, but those who aren't will not even look at it even if they are whipped."

"This is a problem with the education system. How to protect one's legitimate rights should be instilled in primary and secondary school textbooks."

Ordinary people only think of arming themselves with knowledge they don't usually have access to after experiencing a failure from which they can't turn their lives around.