Chapter 34 Chapter Thirty-Four

Now that she, Wang Yuanyuan, has money, it would be shameful to donate another 180 yuan.She, Wang Yuanyuan, is not an ordinary citizen, but a special citizen. In order to treat her illness, so many kind-hearted people in the factory and newspaper office donated money.The Emergency Relief Foundation of the municipal party committee also donated a total of 10,000 yuan for her medical expenses.Now, raising funds to go to Huancheng Road, she should donate more to be worthy of Ping Chuanli who gave birth to her, raised her, and rescued her. Thinking of this, he took 8,000 yuan and went out to the Zhongshan Road Collection Station.

At this time, it was already dark, and there were still many people coming in and out of the fundraising station to donate. Wang Yuanyuan walked around for a long time, but there were no fewer people, so she walked around the nearby No. 1 Department Store.I fell in love with a red short jacket at the leather clothing counter. It looked very new. No one on the street wore it. I was tempted to buy it, but when I asked about the price, it cost more than 400 yuan. I didn't want to.After that, I bought a lipstick worth five yuan and three cents at the cosmetics counter, and went to the fast food restaurant downstairs to eat a boxed lunch worth two yuan before arriving at the collection station.

It was meal time, and there was no one in the collection station. Behind the desk, there was only a middle-aged man with glasses keeping accounts, and on the other side of the room, a lesbian who looked like a cashier was counting donations.When Wang Yuanyuan entered, the lesbians on the other side of the room didn't pay attention, but the middle-aged man wearing glasses stood up with a smile on his face. Wang Yuanyuan asked, "Are you off work?" "Glasses" said: "We don't get off work. There are regulations above. As long as one person comes to donate, we will not go off work."

Wang Yuanyuan said, "Very well, I will donate." "Glasses" quickly took out the citizen donation register and a blank donation certificate, ready to fill it out, and asked habitually, "Which unit? Name? Occupation? How much did you donate?" Wang Yuanyuan put the small bag in her hand on the table in front of "Glasses", and took out all 8,000 yuan: "That's all!" "Glasses" froze for a moment: "How much is it here?" Wang Yuanyuan said shyly, "8,000 yuan, please order." "Glasses" hurriedly called to the other side of the room: "Accountant Zhang, come quickly, this girl donated 8,000 yuan by herself."

Accountant Zhang came over, looked at Wang Yuanyuan in surprise and said, "My eldest sister, you must think about it, 8,000 yuan is not a small amount, and you can't go back on your word if you donate it!" Wang Yuanyuan said: "I've thought about it long ago, and I won't regret it." "Glasses" said: "I advise you to think again before going through the donation procedures." Wang Yuanyuan shook her head: "Don't think about it, you collect the money and go through the procedures." "Glasses" was very responsible and insisted: "Girl, you Thinking about it again, the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government called on the citizens of Pingchuan to donate money, which indeed has an economic purpose, and more importantly, it is to arouse the political enthusiasm of our Pingchuan citizens to love Pingchuan and build Pingchuan. The total investment of the ring road is about several It is far from enough to rely on citizens to donate 20 million yuan to 100 million yuan. Therefore, what the municipal party committee and the city government ask everyone is to do their best within their ability. Donations of tens or hundreds of yuan are enough. "

Wang Yuanyuan couldn't take it anymore, and said softly, "If you don't accept it here, I will donate it elsewhere." Then "Glasses" stopped talking, and counted the money together with the accountant Zhang.After collecting the money, "Glasses" asked Wang Yuanyuan to sign the donation register.Wang Yuanyuan was reluctant to sign at first, but later she couldn't resist the "glasses", so she had to pick up a pen and sign Wu Ming in the column of voluntary donors' names. "Glasses" and accountant Zhang hadn't become suspicious at first, but when Wang Yuanyuan was still unwilling to report the address of the unit after repeated questioning, "Glasses" suspected that this might not be her real name. "Glasses" didn't say anything, and had an idea, and asked accountant Zhang to hold Wang Yuanyuan, and hurriedly went to find the camera, saying that he wanted to take a picture of Wang Yuanyuan as a souvenir.

"Glasses" was probably afraid that Wang Yuanyuan would disappear in the vast crowd of Pingchuan and never be found again.However, Wang Yuanyuan insisted on disappearing into a sea of ​​people and turning into a drop of water.When the accountant of the same chapter was pulling, Wang Yuanyuan thought, I don't want to be in the limelight, I just want to give my heart and end a relationship.Maybe I will die, but my heart and love will remain on the road around the city forever. When future generations walk on this wide road, she will definitely smile. Taking advantage of accountant Zhang not holding her back, Wang Yuanyuan floated out of the door like the wind and melted into the boundless night of Pingchuan.When I dragged my tired body step by step to move home, it was already very late.Wang Yuanyuan thought her father would not wait for her to come home for dinner.Unexpectedly, when I got off the Jiefang Road, I saw my father's familiar figure at a glance.The reporter's father was standing at the alley with an empty stomach, waiting anxiously for her.

When I had dinner with my father, it was already past ten o'clock, and the Pingchuan news was being broadcast on TV. "News from the Huancheng Road Project Headquarters: As of 20:00 tonight, donations from citizens in the city have exceeded 24 million yuan, which has greatly exceeded the expected goal of the Engineering Headquarters. Wu Mingxiong, General Political Committee of the Huancheng Road Project Headquarters and Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Commander-in-Chief and Mayor Shu Huaru spoke highly of the dedication of our city's cadres and people." To Wang Yuanyuan's surprise, news about her was broadcast on TV next. "Latest news: Our reporter learned an hour ago that a young woman donated 8,000 yuan to the Zhongshan Road fundraising site tonight, setting a record for personal donations in our city so far. The young woman insisted on refusing to stay Only sign 'Wu Ming' on the pledge register with my real name and work unit. The Huancheng Road Project Headquarters entrusts this station to issue an appeal. Comrade 'Wu Ming' please contact the Engineering Headquarters as soon as possible. The contact number is 558868 .Repeat again, the contact number is 558868."

Afterwards, this appeal and this phone number appeared again and again in newspapers and on the radio, but Wang Yuanyuan never dialed.A week later, the CPC Pingchuan Municipal Committee and the Pingchuan Municipal People's Government issued an "open letter to Comrade Wu Ming and all anonymous donors".The open letter said, Comrade Wu Ming, you and many donating citizens did not leave your names, but the city of Pingchuan and the road of Pingchuan will remember you. That night, Wang Yuanyuan was in such a good mood, she wanted to laugh and cry at the same time, everything in the world seemed so beautiful.Lying on the bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, Wang Yuanyuan went to the balcony and stared at the night sky in a trance.The night was so beautiful, around the fifteenth day, a round of bright moon was hanging in the high dark blue sky, and the sky was full of stars twinkling, which reminded Wang Yuanyuan of a movie she watched a long time ago.I have almost forgotten the content of the movie, but I remember the name clearly, it is called "Tonight's Stars Are Brilliant".Yes, the stars are so bright tonight!Chapter Thirteen When the 50th train from the provincial capital to the capital slowly stopped on the platform, Wu Mingxiong saw Ju Tongan, the director of the Pingchuan Municipal Office in the provincial capital, from the window of the carriage.Ju Tongan was very experienced in picking up the car. He stood right in front of the door of the soft sleeper compartment. As soon as the door opened, Ju Tongan squeezed into the car and helped Wu Mingxiong and the accompanying Municipal Party Committee Secretary Ye Qing get out of the car with their luggage.Walking on the platform, Wu Mingxiong asked: "Xiaoju, I want you to conduct a survey, have you done it? How much is the peak traffic flow on several main roads in the provincial capital?"

Ju Tongan said: "Secretary Wu, I will report to you in detail when you live in the Provincial Party Committee Guest House. Not only did we conduct on-the-spot investigations, but we also read the materials accumulated by the Provincial Transportation Bureau over the years, including the Kuomintang and Japanese Some materials from the period.” Wu Mingxiong said: “Okay, then I will give you another task: go to the provincial library and various universities to find more materials from the post-war recovery period in Germany, Japan, and South Korea. The focus is For road infrastructure construction. Leave it to me when I return from a visit abroad, or to Secretary-General Ye.”

Ju Tongan agreed, and then asked casually: "Secretary Wu, didn't you go to Beijing to attend the Central Work Conference this time? Why did you go abroad again?" Wu Mingxiong said: "I went to Beijing to hold a central work conference with the leaders of the provincial party committee. Secretary-General Ye and I left Beijing to meet Mayor Yan and the others in Tokyo. We traveled to three countries for 15 days, mainly investigating roads and municipal affairs. construction." Ye Qing warned: "Director Ju, you have to run the materials that Secretary Wu wants. If you can't bring them out, you can make copies. If you don't want to make copies, ask someone to copy them down. You need both the Chinese and foreign versions. It takes half an hour. It should be fine for many months, right?" Ju Tong An repeatedly said, "No problem, no problem." After leaving the station, Ju Tongan led Wu Mingxiong and Ye Qing into a brand new luxury Crown. As soon as Wu Mingxiong got into the car, he said, "Xiaoju, you are richer than me, and you are already sitting in this high-end car." Ye Qing also said: "Director Ju, your car is beyond the standard. According to the regulations, you can only use Santana for department-level units like you." Ju Tongan immediately shouted: "My Santana has already run 200,000 kilometers, and Mayor Shu didn't approve me a new car, and he didn't even give me office expenses. Reception. Mayor Shu told me: If you have the ability to run a company in the provincial capital to make money, I don’t care if you live in the same Mercedes-Benz 500; " Wu Mingxiong laughed with a "puchi": "This old beam is quite humorous." Then he said, "You live in Tong'an with an unusual status. In the provincial capital, you represent our Pingchuan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. It is also good to have a good car." No exaggeration, I let you go, just pretend not to know." Ju Tongan said flatteringly: "Secretary Wu, how about I exchange this car for you?" Wu Mingxiong said: "I dare not sit." Ju Tongan drove the car himself, drove out of the station square, and planned to drive directly to the Provincial Party Committee Guest House at No. 22 Guangzhou Road. Wu Mingxiong looked at his watch and said, "Xiaoju, it's still early, why don't you take us for a drive around the main road in the provincial capital, okay?" Ju Tongan said: "Secretary Wu, you are not tired after more than six hours of driving?!" Wu Mingxiong said: "Are you tired from the car? The comrades at the Damohe Water Conservancy Construction Site and the Huancheng Road Construction Site are the ones who are tired." Therefore, Ju Tongan drove Wu Mingxiong around the city and turned to an intersection where he could park. Wu Mingxiong got out of the car several times and used his big feet to measure the road surface, making passersby stare at him curiously. Look, it almost attracted the intervention of the traffic police. When Wu Mingxiong was on the road, Ju Tong'an parked his luxury car far away, as if he wanted to draw a line with his municipal party secretary. Ye Qing also stood on the side watching from a distance, and shook his head and said to Ju Tongan: "Our Secretary Wu is really crazy, since he got on Huancheng Road, he likes to measure the road wherever he goes." At the intersection of Shengli Road and Jiefang Road, Wu Mingxiong was measuring the road when an Audi suddenly stopped in front of him, which startled Wu Mingxiong, and also shocked Ye Qing and Ju Tongan not far away. It never occurred to me that Qian Xianghui, secretary of the provincial party committee, came out of the Audi. Qian Xianghui said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Old Wu, did you walk on the main road in our provincial capital? If my car hits you, will it be mine or yours?" Wu Mingxiong smiled: "I can't hit it." Then he pointed to the busy intersection and commented, "There is a problem with the design of this intersection. With such a large traffic volume, I think an overpass should have been built in the first place. The road design must be advanced. ...Secretary Qian, look, the reality in front of you proves that adapting means lagging behind." Qian Xianghui nodded and said, "Yes, who would have thought that our society and economy would develop so rapidly more than ten years ago?" Wu Mingxiong said thoughtfully: "So, we in Pingchuan can't make this historic mistake again today, and the ring road in Pingchuan must be top-notch." At this time, Ju Tong'an and Ye Qing came over, and passers-by looked here from time to time. Qian Xianghui was afraid of affecting the traffic, so he said to Wu Mingxiong, "Come on, get in my car. I'm going to the guest house to see you, the city party committee secretaries." Wu Mingxiong said: "Our office's car is here." Qian Xianghui said: "You take my car and let them go by themselves." Wu Mingxiong immediately thought of the Hetian incident, thought of the ups and downs caused by roads and water conservancy projects, thought that the secretary of the provincial party committee, Qian Xianghui, might have something to talk to him, and warned him in private, so he went to Qian Xianghui's office. car. However, Qian Xianghui did not issue any warning, and did not even take the initiative to bring up the Hetian incident and those rumors. Instead, he talked with Wu Mingxiong about the decisive role of infrastructure construction in economic take-off, almost all of which were foreign matters. Qian Xianghui said: "Everyone knows that Japan and Germany, as the defeated countries in World War II, their post-war economies were built on ruins. International economists at that time predicted that Japan and Germany would not be able to recover within 30 years. Unexpectedly, in a short period of time, the economies of Japan and Germany have grown up. There are of course many factors involved, but one point inspired me a lot. Which point? It is infrastructure. In the darkest days of the last days, when the girls on the streets of Berlin and Tokyo prostituted themselves for a piece of bread and rice balls, and when the white-collar workers of the past picked up the cigarette butts of American soldiers from the ground to smoke, their post-war government did not forget the foundation of the entire country Construction. Many famous highways in Germany were built at that time, and they are still working now, which is amazing.” Wu Mingxiong's heart suddenly became hot: "I'm just looking for information on this. I want to read it myself, and I also want to ask the comrades in Pingchuan to read it, so as to further unify our understanding. Secretary Qian, can you recommend some to me?" Qian Xianghui said, "I'll give you a bibliography later on!" Only then did Wu Mingxiong take the initiative to say: "About Pingchuan's water conservancy and road projects, Secretary Qian, have you heard some discussions?" Qian Xianghui said very succinctly: "Speaking of which, it's only Hetian who will meet!" Wu Mingxiong said: "Shang Dequan, Secretary of the Hetian County Party Committee, has asked us to withdraw from the city committee. However, this county Party Secretary is still a good comrade in essence, and we really shed tears to kill Ma Su." Qian Xianghui never talked about Shang Dequan, nor did he mention specific matters, but only said: "To you municipal party committee secretaries, I have always said that you have great power and great responsibility, which is related to the prosperity and decline of a place. If you make a wrong decision, you have to take responsibility." The main responsibility lies with you, the secretary of the municipal party committee; you, the secretary of the municipal party committee, are responsible if you do not deal with the problems you find. The team you preside over makes the right decisions, so you can handle problems and unexpected emergencies. Favoritism, no fraud, and fair handling according to party discipline and state laws, I, the secretary of the provincial party committee, have nothing to say." Wu Mingxiong fully understood: Qian Xianghui was actually telling him that Xie Xuedong could not represent the Provincial Party Committee, and that Qian Xianghui, the top leader of the Provincial Party Committee, supported Wu Mingxiong in doing practical things, and those irresponsible rumors could not be deceived. The eyes of the leader of the provincial party committee. This made Wu Mingxiong very pleased. However, what Wu Mingxiong did not expect was that at the same moment he was sitting in the car talking with Qian Xianghui, another accident happened on the Damo River water conservancy construction site: the deputy county magistrate of Shuichang County and the commander of the water conservancy project of Shuichang County, Mr. Chun received a mere 800 yuan bribe from Fang Xiaofang, a female manager of a leather bag company, and sold a batch of expired and inferior instant noodles to the construction site in the Shuichang section, causing food poisoning to 432 people and arousing great indignation among the migrant workers in Shuichang. About 13,000 people committed suicide. The suspension of work was announced at 15:00 on the same day. Who was the leader in organizing the shutdown was not immediately known. Xiao Daoqing made this fatal call. The time is 22:45.