Swallowing Wu

Swallow Wu, first swallow your anger. He's the reporter least like a reporter at the newspaper: good at writing articles, but even better at keeping accounts.

A temporary assignment brought Lu Chen to Linshui County. There was no money, no roads, no rules here, only stacks of papers waiting to be signed and a crowd waiting to laugh at him. Deputy County Magistrate Chen Shanhe arrived empty-handed, and Lu Chen came along with no official position.

Others relied on connections; he relied on procedure. Others argued over right and wrong; he offered solutions. Others scrambled to climb the ladder; he posted a list online and let the money come looking for him.

He turned over the county's accounts inch by inch, and tightened the net ring by ring.