This chapter will understand the issue of rural residents’ petitions from the perspective of village politics and its relationship with the state. In a sense, the factional politics, class politics, and family politics discussed in the previous chapters all occurred in villages and belong to “village politics” in a broad sense. However, in this chapter, the author will focus on the village politics that occurred between the villagers and village cadres. In other words, this chapter will reveal the logic of the state in shaping rural resistance by narrating the stories of conflicts and petitions between villagers and village cadres. Although rural petitions induced by factional politics, class politics, and family politics may also be mixed with conflicts between rural residents and village cadres, the main root of these petitions lies in family, faction, and class differentiation. In addition, unlike the stories of rural residents’ petitions in the previous chapters that took place in the rural areas of the central and eastern regions, the story of the petitions discussed here happened in an agricultural village in Southwest China.