You must resist temptation. In the absence of so many good people, how can those village leaders reply humorously?

1 Humorous replies need appropriate occasions and ways, and you can't do whatever you want.

For those poor leaders in villages and towns, we can try to laugh at ourselves or quote some humorous quotations to ease the embarrassing atmosphere.

For example, "I dare not go to those towns and villages for fear of being arrested by the leaders as gunmen", or "I heard that those leaders are good people once in a blue moon, and I am afraid I will never meet them in my life".