Era: Seven money-losing girls? They're trying to trick me into having a daughter again!

"Don't argue with him."

Officer Gao reached out and gently patted Xiao Li on the shoulder, speaking in a low voice.

Seeing Song Xuezhuan's completely unreasonable behavior, he knew that there was no point in continuing to argue with this idiot in the hall!

"Comrade Fang Wei, please sit in the lobby and wait for a while. Don't rush."

"Okay, I'll leave my matter to Officer Gao and Comrade Xiao Li."

Fang Wei spoke very politely, without glancing at Song Xuezhuan once throughout the entire conversation.

Seeing this, Officer Gao felt even more dissatisfied with Song Xuezhuan and said to Xiao Li, "Let's go, we can't reason with him, let's go directly to the station chief."

Xiao Li glared at Song Xuezhuan, closed the register, and followed him to the backyard of the police station.

When Song Xuezhuan saw that the two of them were really going to find the director, his expression finally changed, and he quickly followed them.

Fang Wei watched the three figures disappear at the end of the corridor, and slowly clenched his fists.

……

In the director's office, there was a dark brown solid wood desk by the window, with several stacks of folders on it and a few fountain pens in a white porcelain pen holder.

A banner hangs on the wall, embroidered with the four golden characters "Serve the People".

Director Guo was a middle-aged man in his early fifties. His hair was neatly combed, and he didn't have many wrinkles on his face. He looked calm and reliable.

"Knock knock knock".

Director Guo looked up at the three people who had entered and asked, "What's wrong? What's the matter?"

"Director, there's something I need your advice on."

Officer Gao recounted the events from the beginning, ending with an emphasis: "Chief, you know about this."

"In the villages below us, all babies are born in their own homes by having a midwife deliver them."

"Not to mention Laotang Village, you can't find many birth certificates in the entire town!"

"Isn't Song Xuezhuan using this as a pretext to obstruct people's progress? Isn't that blatantly making things difficult for them?"

After listening, Director Guo didn't immediately express his opinion. Instead, he looked at Song Xuezhuan and asked, "Little Song, what about you? Do you have anything to say?"

"Chief, I'm innocent!"

Song Xuezhuan's arrogance in the hall had vanished. He sighed and put on a wronged expression, as if he had been wronged.

"I was truly doing this out of a sense of responsibility for my work; I had absolutely no selfish motives whatsoever."

"At the county's household registration work summary meeting a while ago, the leaders above clearly mentioned it at the meeting."

"In the future, we will gradually standardize rural household registration management, ensuring that any missing documents are submitted and any necessary procedures are completed."

"Regarding birth certificates, the leadership has specifically emphasized that they must be required from now on."

Song Xuezhuan looked at Director Guo and said in a very sincere tone.

"Director, think about it. Since the leader mentioned it at the meeting, it means that this matter has been put on the agenda."

"As grassroots staff, shouldn't we prepare in advance and strictly follow the instructions of our superiors?"

"If we open a door now, and something goes wrong later, such as someone impersonating another person or changing their name to do illegal things."

"When the matter is investigated, who will bear the responsibility—me or the institute?"

"Stop trying to confuse me!"

Officer Gao frowned and interjected, "The leader said 'in the future'! 'It might be required'! He didn't say it's mandatory now!"

"There hasn't been an official document issued yet, so what gives you the right to act on your own and treat a statement that hasn't even been issued as a mandatory regulation?!"

"Officer Gao, you don't understand."

Song Xuezhuan turned his head and glanced at Officer Gao, then replied slowly and deliberately.

"Isn't it our job to understand the leader's instructions and implement them in advance?"

"We can't really wait until the documents arrive and then scramble to fix them, can we?"

Officer Gao was so angry that he couldn't speak when he saw that Song Xuezhuan actually used the leader as a figurehead.

This kid is clearly trying to use that ambiguous statement to act like a scoundrel!

"Chief, you just returned from the city this morning. I have something to report to you."

He decided to change his playing style, he said in a serious tone.

"The day before yesterday, the police station received a report of a huge theft in Laotang Village. A villager named Yang Qian had sixty yuan hidden under his bed, which was stolen by someone prying up the bricks."

Director Guo frowned and said, "Sixty yuan? That much?"

"right,"

Officer Gao nodded and continued, "Xiao Xu, Xiao Xiao, and I spent two days visiting Laotang Village, but we didn't find any clues."

"As it turned out, early this morning, it was this Comrade Fang Wei, who wanted to change his child's name, who, based on his own judgment, staked out the back mountain of the village for most of the night and personally caught the thief."

"Caught red-handed! Sixty yuan, not a penny less!"

Director Guo raised an eyebrow.

"The people of Laotang Village can testify to this, and so can Xiao Xu."

Officer Gao couldn't figure out what Chief Guo was thinking, so he could only say, "The person who stole the money is named Liu Wang. He has been formally arrested and is currently being held in the detention room at the back."

"Comrade Fang Wei has rendered a great service to our institute!"

At this point, his tone became somewhat agitated.

"It saved our station a lot of manpower and also solved a major theft case that could be classified as a criminal case."

"He's a good citizen who risked his life to catch a thief for us, and now all he wants is to change his child's name."

"Instead of praising them, we deliberately made things difficult for them with a mere 'verbal message' that hadn't even been officially issued..."

Officer Gao stared at Chief Guo and said firmly.

"Chief, if word gets out, what will the public think of our police station? Who will dare to act bravely in the future?"

The office was silent for two or three seconds.

Song Xuezhuan opened his mouth as if to say something, but when he saw Director Guo's gaze, he swallowed his words back.

"Director, I also have something to say."

Seeing that the time was right, Xiao Li immediately interjected, "Until the official document is issued, continue with the current procedures."

"As long as the applicant can provide a genuine and valid household registration booklet and a certificate stamped by the village committee to prove the kinship is true, in fact..."

She glanced at Song Xuezhuan and continued, "Actually, there's no need to mandate a birth certificate at all!"

"Comrade Song's request does indeed exceed our existing procedures!"

Upon hearing this, Song Xuezhuan couldn't help but glare at Xiao Li.

Xiao Li glared back without any politeness, showing no intention of taking back his words, and even sarcastically said, "I'm just following the rules. If Comrade Song has anything he doesn't like, he can just report me!"

Does this guy really think I'm afraid of him?!

She just doesn't like to cause trouble, but that doesn't mean she's actually afraid of trouble!