Six years ago, Zhong Jianguo, deputy director of the Qingshan Township Finance Office, died at the case handling site. There are four words on the closing report: settled in accordance with the law. That year, his son Zhongsheng was eighteen years old and had just received his university admission notice. The last words his father left to him were: "Follow the rules."
Six years later, Zhong Sheng dug out his father's old case files from a dusty cardboard box in the archives of the County Commission for Discipline Inspection. A report letter, seven verification records, and a name that had been suppressed for ten years - Zhao Caiwang. He started from a report material under the jujube tree in Shitou Village, and step by step uncovered the corruption shrouded in Yunxi County.
With every step up, the resistance increases. Some people smashed the door with iron rods, some people used letters to put pressure, and some people made phone calls from the provincial government. But there was always a group of people standing behind the bell - Li Dayou, the whistleblower who had been waiting for ten years, walked into the verification team holding a bamboo stick and said, "I'm here"; Sun Defu, an old accountant, hid the ledger in the hole in the wall and asked someone to tell someone before his death, "The accounts have been settled clearly." "; Contractor Luo Dayong handed over a notebook of kickbacks that had been recorded for ten years and said that he "could not sleep at night"; female prosecutor Kuang Yuanqing typed on the keyboard in her office late at night, clearly sorting out the ins and outs of each fund.
There are no cheats or twists in this story. Only one young man used the stupidest method - matching every number and following every procedure - to fulfill his father's last words before his death, "According to the rules." It took Zhongsheng six years to go from the archives to the front line of case handling, from clerk to deputy secretary of the county Commission for Discipline Inspection. What he pursues is not just the truth, but also a belief: rules are not slogans hanging on the wall;
