Chapter 584: Chapter 584: Who Bears the Responsibility (Part 2)
Chapter 584: Whose Responsibility?
Secretary Quan hadn’t expected that, out of the one hundred people Captain Ma took with him, not a single one would return.
Luckily, he was smart enough to have found a scapegoat early on; otherwise, he might have been torn apart by this group of angry women by now, right?
Still, some people raised doubts: "Secretary Quan, who are you trying to fool? Captain Ma is young, but you are not. The older generations all know that Ghost Valley is a place where one enters but never returns. Don’t you know that?
If you really wanted to stop him, as the secretary, he’s under your leadership, could you not have stopped him?
Don’t make it seem like Captain Ma is so disobedient to the leadership. If you really wanted to stop him, you definitely could have.
Even if you couldn’t stop Captain Ma, could you not stop the other team leaders? What about the other key members? Even if you couldn’t stop all the team leaders and key members, if you had informed everyone, could all these women here not have stopped their own men?"
Upon hearing this, the women immediately sobered up.
Yes, the team leader is under the secretary’s leadership. If he really wanted to stop Captain Ma, how could he not have succeeded?
Even if he truly couldn’t stop Captain Ma alone, he couldn’t fail to stop all the team leaders, could he?
If it has come to this, and the team leader does not listen to you, then what kind of secretary are you?
Secretary Quan sweated from his forehead: "Ah, I... I also harbored some hope, I tried to stop him, but since Captain Ma wouldn’t listen, I didn’t push further. It’s my fault; I didn’t try hard enough to stop them.
All this is because of that person who came to our brigade to contract Ghost Valley. If he hadn’t thought of contracting Ghost Valley, why would our brigade leader think of scouting Ghost Valley?"
Upon hearing Secretary Quan’s words, Mengyu was speechless. So now it’s her fault?
This secretary, truly as cunning as a ghost.
First, he shifts the blame, then after being purposefully called out a few times by her and seeing he couldn’t shake it off, he starts to deflect the controversy.
The problem is, with his words, he really did shift the women’s thoughts:
"Yes, it’s all the contractor’s fault."
"Right, knowing full well Ghost Valley is a place of no return, why did he come to our brigade leader? If he didn’t come to contract, why would our brigade leader think about scouting it first?"
"Exactly, at this time, why would suddenly someone come to contract Ghost Valley? What is their purpose?"
"Indeed, he shouldn’t have come to contract Ghost Valley."
"Let’s find that contractor and make him take responsibility."
"Yes, find him, make him atone for our men!"
"Right, beat him to death, who asked him to come and make a contract!"
"Yes, beat him to death!"
...
At this moment, an overwhelming voice arose: "I’m afraid it won’t work to make the contractor atone with his life, as he only paid money to contract Ghost Valley, and didn’t ask you to scout Ghost Valley. If you had directly contracted it out, you would just exploit the benefits from Ghost Valley that no one dares to visit and get money every year without doing anything.
Now, you don’t trust the contractor and sent people to scout it out; what does it have to do with the contractor?"
Everyone fell silent at this voice.
Yes, he paid money to contract Ghost Valley, but he didn’t ask you to scout it, how can you blame someone else?
Someone asked: "How do you know the contractor didn’t ask for a scouting of Ghost Valley?"
"Then ask the Women’s Director and the Youth League Secretary, did Captain Ma ever say the contractor asked you to scout Ghost Valley?"
Many people turned their heads to look at the Women’s Director and the Youth League Secretary.
Just now, both the Youth League Secretary and the Women’s Director had testified for Secretary Quan, confirming it was indeed the brigade leader who insisted on scouting Ghost Valley, and Secretary Quan did indeed try to stop it.
But was it the contractor who requested it?
If it wasn’t the contractor who proposed it, then who suggested scouting Ghost Valley?