Over the next few days, the villagers talked endlessly about the County Television Station's evening news.
Apart from the Cooperative members, whose appearances on television no one disputed, everyone else was discussing the matter or getting involved.
Some swore they had appeared too, pointing out the exact minute and second when their profile showed up in the frame.
Others were full of regret, saying someone from the Cooperative had asked them to come help, but they had been busy and declined. Now they regretted it terribly.
This was a chance to show their faces on the County Television Station, for the whole county to see!
Others said sourly that Li Long's Cooperative was keeping all the benefits to itself. With such a wonderful opportunity, they should have let the whole village appear.
Some even went specifically to Team Leader Xu Chengjun, asking him to speak to the Cooperative and tell them not to do this again.
Xu Chengjun shot them down outright:
"The county arranged this, and the township was responsible for carrying it out. What's it got to do with their Cooperative? If you wanted to be on camera, why didn't you volunteer to help back then? How could you not have appeared?"
Xu Chengjun had appeared several times, as Li Long had specifically told him.
Naturally, he sided with the Cooperative.
There were three cooperatives in the village. Everyone called Li Long's the Li Family Cooperative. Although Xie Yundong was its manager, everyone took it for granted that Li Long must have been behind it.
Even Li Jianguo could not have come up with something like this. He had drive, but he was extremely steady and would never have taken the initiative to bring those old practices back into use.
The villagers discussed appearing on television, while people