Chapter 22 Chapter Twenty Two

The scam was discovered by the Frenchman Paul. Paul is currently still in the river basin. The project he and Deng Chaolu jointly conducted is about to be completed. Paul will stay in China for a while. In addition to the analysis of water resources in the Shiyang River Basin, Paul and his team also want to analyze another large river basin. ——Research on hydrology and water resources in the Heihe River Basin.Just the day before his departure for the Heihe River Basin, Paul suddenly received news from France that his ex-wife had been cheated in France. "Ex-wife?" Paul was a little dazed at the time, he didn't even remember that he had an unhappy marriage.The other party said Wu Ruohan's name, and Paul realized it.

"Oh, it's her." Originally, Paul didn't want to pay attention to him. Wu Ruohan has nothing to do with him now. Their story belongs to the past. Paul is a person who doesn't want to waste too much energy for the past. His ambition is the future, and his eyes are always on the future.This is very different from Deng Chaolu. Paul also made fun of Deng Chaolu for this, saying that her legs were stuck in the mud, trapped by the past, unwilling to let go of her burden, and ran cleanly on the road full of hope ahead.But what the other party said made him have to pay attention to this matter.The other party is Paul's friend and colleague. He said that many Chinese students have been deceived, and one of them was his junior student when he was studying in China.These international students have successively received letters from a consulting service agency called "Quick", promising to handle the procedures for going abroad, including choosing a school or choosing a work unit. .Although this organization has been established for a short time, its deceptions are sophisticated, and more than 50 people have been deceived.It was seized by the French police just a few days ago, and Wu Ruohan was among the deceived.

"She was cheated not only of money but also of sex. Paul, you didn't expect that, did you?" the friend said again. "What?" Paul was startled. The other party made it clear to Paul that Hua Shugeng and Nick had really cheated more than 50 people and made illegal profits of more than 4 million yuan.The two scammers broke free from their control and reported the incident to the police, which made their plan to continue defrauding fall through.At present, Hua Shugeng, Xiang Min and Nick are under control. Because Wu Ruohan was cheated, he went to the bar to drink alone, went berserk after getting drunk, and smashed the bar facilities.

"She looks so embarrassed, she is completely different from before, she is simply crazy." The friend said again. "How could this be?" Paul was stunned. He didn't know that Wu Ruohan had gone to France, and he couldn't even imagine what Wu Ruohan would be like after being cheated.After much deliberation, Paul told Deng Chaolu the news. He wanted to hear Deng Chaolu's opinion. What should he do? Should he go back to France first and help his ex-wife Wu Ruohan to settle the matter?Unexpectedly, Deng Chaolu was more anxious than him when he heard it, so she immediately said: "What are you doing in a daze, tell Uncle Wu quickly."

"Tell her father?" Paul didn't understand. According to his thinking, Wu Ruohan is an adult, and if something like this happens, he should solve it by himself, and shouldn't involve his parents.But Deng Chaolu didn't listen, seeing Paul's hesitation, he called Wu Tianliang first and explained the situation briefly.Wu Tianliang's head exploded at that time, and this matter is going to spread, so it's okay?While begging Deng Chaolu to stop talking about it for now and keep it a secret for him, she called Miao Yulan to question whether she had ever sent money to her daughter.Miao Yulan already knew the fact that her daughter was cheated. She hesitated to send money to her daughter at the beginning, but she only had Wu Ruohan as a daughter. It took a lot of trouble, and he gave all the family property to his daughter in a cruel heart, but who knew that the person surnamed Xiang was actually a liar.

"She is my daughter, I can't watch her suffer." Miao Yulan was afraid that her husband would get angry, so she pre-empted her. "You're confused!" Wu Tianliang didn't care about talking, and after arranging the work in the city, he returned to the provincial capital overnight. Deng Jiaying didn't see Wu Tianliang until half a month later, at Wu Tianliang's home in the provincial capital. At this time, Wu Ruohan had already been picked up by Wu Tianliang through connections. "That kind of thing really happened?" Seeing that Wu Tianliang was in a bad mood, the Deng family asked timidly.

"What's the matter, what do you want to happen to her?" Wu Tianliang didn't care that Deng Jiaying was ill, and scolded her face to face.He misunderstood Deng Jiaying's meaning, thinking that what Deng Jiaying said was asking about Wu Ruohan and the French ruffian Nick.Wu Tianliang couldn't imagine how embarrassing this matter would be.She is her own daughter, how could she do such an outrageous thing! Deng Jiaying also realized that there was something wrong with her words, and changed her words: "What about the two of them, why are you the only one at home?"

"If I drive them away, they still have the face to stay in this house?" Wu Tianliang said angrily. "You." Deng Jiaying sighed, not daring to say more, went into the kitchen to get food for Wu Tianliang.She seldom comes to this house, and usually goes to the office to look for Wu Tianliang when she has something to do.Standing in the kitchen at this time, Deng Jiaying felt an indescribable emotion.Thinking about what happened now, the emotion is even stronger.Deng Jiaying thought of Miao Yulan, and that special era, when they were all under 20 years old, and no one knew what life would be like in the future.How many years have passed, and what life gave them turned out to be so much pain and so many injuries.Later she thought of Wu Ruohan again, oh my god, she screamed secretly, she didn't even know what she was afraid of, but she was afraid.

After the noodles were cooked, Wu Tianliang refused to eat them, saying that he had no appetite, which made the two prodigal sons full.Deng Jiaying had calmed down at this time, and persuaded her with good words: "It's all about business, and you have to eat. This family depends on you. If you get sick from hunger, what should you do?" "That's not what they want!" Wu Tianliang picked up the bowl in anger.Indeed, he hadn't had a good meal in a few days, since he returned to the provincial capital, he had been arguing with Miao Yulan endlessly.Instead of criticizing herself, Miao Yulan kept saying that he didn't care about their wives and only knew how to be the secretary of the municipal party committee.

"What's the use of being an official? Your family has become like this, and your daughter has been harmed like this. Instead of speaking for your daughter, you blame us instead. Isn't it right for her to go abroad?" Wu Tianliang beat Miao Yulan in a panic. This is the first time since we got married.At that time, he was very angry. Originally, he wanted Miao Yulan to go to France, or go to Beijing to find connections, trying to get his daughter back.Unexpectedly, Miao Yulan, who is usually domineering and omnipotent, is stuck at home like a dead pig at this time, unable to get out.In the end, it was he who made a phone call to ask for connections and complained to others before he got his daughter back to the country.But this incident had a great impact on him. The province already knew about it, and it probably won't take long for the relevant processing to come down.Miao Yulan didn't care about this, as soon as the mother and daughter met, they immediately cried and yelled at him, asking him to avenge his daughter and get rid of Xiang and her man.Is this what a leading cadre said, he Wu Tianliang is powerful?This trick didn't work, so he immediately changed the subject and asked Wu Tianliang to call Qin Yu.

"Why didn't he come? It was his wife who had the accident. Why didn't he pay attention? I suspect it was his fault. Isn't the person surnamed Xiang in the same laboratory as him? If it wasn't for him, how could our Hanhan know each other?" Such people?" "Enough!" Wu Tianliang interrupted her sharply.He almost said, isn't the person surnamed Xiang also a subordinate of your Miao Yulan? Could it be that the person surnamed Xiang knew his daughter because he wanted to curry favor with you, Miao Yulan?Thinking about it again, these accounts are irrelevant, and now he just wants to calm things down and let the storm pass as soon as possible. "Where's Qin Yu, still below?" Wu Tianliang asked Deng Jiaying.Originally, he didn't want to mention Qin Yu. To this son-in-law, Wu Tianliang couldn't get close or far away. He didn't know how to deal with Qin Yu when something like this happened, but pretending to be deaf and dumb isn't something a man should approach taken.At this time, he wanted to do work for Qin Yu through Deng Jiaying.He knew that no matter how many grievances and estrangements they had, Qin Yu still respected Deng Jiaying. "I haven't seen him for some days. This kid has been avoiding me recently." In one sentence, Wu Tianliang was at a loss for words again.Qin Yu avoids Deng Jiaying not because of marriage, but because of the little dew in the middle, Wu Tianliang knows this very well.Wrong, I really shouldn't have agreed to this marriage in the first place, I shouldn't!This is good, it's all messed up. Deng Jiaying didn't dare to mention work matters to Wu Tianliang. It was indeed cruel to talk about work and governance plans at this time.He chatted with Wu Tianliang again, went to the hospital for reexamination, and left Wu Tianliang's house.But in her heart, she was anxious about the plan.On the second day after returning to the office, Deng Jiaying made a decision. She would go down to Shahu County in person, to Nanhu and Beihu, where the conflicts were most acute, and to verify the numbers of wells and fields closed.She has to personally evaluate the effect of river basin governance mentioned by the relevant departments in the city. Lubo stepped back. He wanted to retire a few years ago, but the higher-ups refused to approve it, saying that he was not yet old enough, and he was required to stand on the last post no matter what.But Lu Bo didn't want to stand for a day anymore, this post was tiring and boring.He went to his superiors over and over again, his old friends and superiors. If they refused to approve him, he pretended to be sick, and he was indeed sick.In the end he won, and the higher-ups saw that he was really not focused on work, and someone always complained, saying that now he often hangs out with Yu Gantou and his group, and keeps doing things that don't make a name for himself.Just a few days ago, Yu Gantou and Wu Dou led a group of Tibetans and injured two staff members of the Nanying Reservoir for releasing water downstream.The higher-ups took this opportunity to remove the director of the Lubo Zamu River Water Management Department. On the second day after retirement, Lu Bo went to the flow pipe to look for Deng Jiaying with his canvas bag on his back.Deng Jiaying was away and went to Shahu. Mao Yingsheng kept Lu Bo for dinner and said that he would go to Shahu with him after dinner.Lu Bo smiled and patted the canvas bag, saying that there was dry food in it, then left the flow pipe and headed towards Gushui River. When Lu Bo came to the management office, he came to bid farewell to Deng Jiaying. During this time, he could not accompany Deng Jiaying, nor could he take care of her. Although he knew that Deng Jiaying needed more care from others at this time, Lu Bo really had something to do. Things are still very urgent. The Gushui River used to pass through the city, dividing Gushui City into the East City and the West City. This is recorded in the history books. Gushui City must have been beautiful at that time.I don't know how many years ago, this river dried up, and the east and west of Gushui City became one.In the west corner of the city, on the northwest side of Haizang Temple, there is a shantytown, which was demolished in the city in recent years to accommodate the demolished households.In a corner of the shantytown, there is a small courtyard.When it was getting dark, Lu Bo stopped in front of the courtyard gate. Lu Bo stopped in front of the courtyard door, he didn't rush to knock on the door, but looked around for a moment, just like a thief.This is a habit, every time he came to this courtyard, Lu Bo would look east and west, making sure that no one was following him, and no one had noticed, then he hastily pulled the latch to tell the inside that he was coming. The door creaked open, and a trembling face poked out.This is an extremely desolate face. At first glance, it is old and suffering. The forehead is covered with wrinkles of the years.This face looks more than eighty years old, but it feels like she has lived for centuries.She looked at Lu Bo, following Lu Bo's example, stretched out her head, and looked left and right.The streets and alleys are very quiet, there are no people, not even the sound of the wind. The whole world seems to stop for them deliberately, so that their meeting can be calm and calm. "Come in." She said in an old voice. The yard is not big, there are three rooms in total, built in the 1980s, adobe house, but the roof is tiled.The courtyard was kept very clean. Although the courtyard looked very dilapidated, it clearly had a tidy smell inside.When you enter the house, it is another world.There is a living room in the middle of the three rooms, and the two sides are intertwined with each other. One is used as a bedroom, and the other is used as a kitchen and storage room.The two walls of the living room are covered with calligraphy and paintings.These calligraphy and paintings are all made by one person, and people in Gushui today may not recognize them. In the 1960s and 1970s, these calligraphy and paintings would have been famous in Gushui City.At that time, who in Gushui didn't know Cheng Nanyan as a painter.Tall and thin, with a fair face, long hair, and a southern accent, he is polite and courteous to everyone he meets.And definitely not like the Gushui people, who judge people first by status, nodding and bowing to the powerful and powerful, and bowing their knees.It is very domineering to order the powerless and powerless.Cheng Nanyan no, he was too modest and simple. Everything in the house was very familiar to Lu Bo, not only familiar, but also kind.It can be said that only when Lu Bo came to this small courtyard, and only when he was in front of this silver-haired old lady, would he feel at home. yes, home.Everyone has a home, but for Lu Bo, home is a difficult road, a river of suffering, layers of mountains and ravines, tears and wounds. "Didn't eat it, I'll make some noodles for you." The old woman's gaze paused on Lu Bo's face for a while, probably reminded by Lu Bo's exhausted appearance that she wanted to cook.Lu Bo hurriedly said, "I've eaten on the way, so I'm not hungry." "You're not hungry yet. You've never been hungry, but you haven't seen any flesh growing on your body." The old woman walked into the kitchen while talking.Judging from the way she talks and walks, her body is still strong, her ears are not deaf, her eyes are not blurry, her back is not hunched, and she is full of energy.Lu Bo didn't stop him. He was really hungry. It was more than a hundred miles away from the flow tube to the city, and Lu Bo walked back.He likes to walk, and he likes to watch while walking. Whenever he encounters people running on the mountain, no matter if they are "Bawo" or "Benbo", Lu Bo will stop and exchange warm greetings with them.Let's talk about the sky and the land, and the topic will eventually return to this mountain and this river.Once back to the river, Lu Bo talked too much, and he couldn't finish talking in an hour.He talked with three groups of people that day. One group was Tibetans he met on the Mao-Tibet Plateau. The Tibetans were better informed than he was. When they learned that he was retiring, they kept asking if they wanted to go back to the city. , From now on, you won't be able to see you, Road Worker, on the prairie.How can Lu Bo say, life belongs to the prairie, and death also belongs to the prairie.The Tibetans were so moved that they grabbed his hand and refused to let him go.The second group is the young Naropa.The last few times he met Luoba, he was always with that woman named Song Jiayi. Lu Bo already knew that Song Jiayi was Xiaolu's classmate and also Xiaolu's best friend.I didn't see Song Jiayi that day, so Lu Bo asked Luoba, where is she?Luoba told Lu Bo that Song Jiayi had gone to the south to raise funds. She wanted to build a watershed protection organization and needed money.Naropa also invited Lubo to join in, and told him many things about non-profit organizations.Lu Bo was a little shocked. How could such a public welfare organization be initiated by a southern woman? He felt a sense of dereliction of duty, so he readily agreed to Naropa, saying that he would definitely report to Naropa after he was busy for a while. Lu Bo used the word report, which made Luoba very uneasy, and said anxiously: "You are too polite, we want you to be the leader, without you, the appeal of the organization will drop by half." "How is it possible, how is it possible." Lu Bo was polite, but at the same time he was very happy. Thinking of this, he was still ready to move.After a while, he wants to talk to the old woman, and he will retire, but he can't be idle.You can't be idle, you have to do something.But besides the watershed, what else can you do? The third group is Yu Gantou and Wuyangling's group of "stupid waves".Lu Bo is a little annoyed by these people now, but he can't do without them.It's only now that Lu Bo realizes that the more annoying you are, the more you can't leave him.When he was young, he hated Wu Tianliang and Qin Jizhou, but in this life, he was still tightly bound by them, and he couldn't break away even half a step away.Now he is annoyed by those people who shout all day long but do nothing. Without these people, he is at a loss.Is it my fault, or they are wrong.Perhaps this is the way this world is. People cannot choose their companions based on their own likes and dislikes. People have to change their likes and dislikes in the process of polishing with colleagues and opponents. Yu Gantou and the others have caused a lot of trouble recently. First, they beat up the management personnel of the Nanying Reservoir, and almost let the police into the cell. If Wu Tianliang hadn't come forward to say good things, saying that they were also for the watershed, they might have gone in now up.The second is to fan the flames everywhere and create rumors that the government will move all the herdsmen on the Mao-Tibet plateau down the mountain, and draw some red lines on the grassland to prevent the Tibetans' cattle and sheep from crossing.Lu Bo criticized them and asked them to do less dirty things.But Yu Gantou said that Lu Bo believed in the government too much, and the government can do anything. "Think about your whole life, who didn't kill them?" Yu Gantou wanted to provoke him with Lu Bo's life again, Lu Bo snorted, which was a warning to Gantou.But this time, Lu Bo was thinking, is this really what he deserved in his life? The noodles were ready, every time Lu Bo smelled the delicious smell, he would drool, stood up hastily, and went to the dining table.The old woman said: "You are tired, just sit there and eat." As she spoke, she handed over the bowl.Lu Bo devoured it voraciously, not afraid of being burned.Seeing his starving appearance, the old woman sighed: "You are not young anymore, you have to pay attention to your body, how can you rest assured when you are hungry and full?" Lu Bo raised his head, glanced at the old woman, put down his chopsticks and said, "Mom, I'm retiring, and I won't go to the mountains again." Lubo called the old woman Ma! The old woman was stunned for a few moments, and suddenly something like tears flashed in her eyes. "Really retreated, it was too fast, why did you retreat in the blink of an eye?" "You said just now that I'm not young anymore, no, I'm sixty years old in a flash, it's time to retire." "Sixty, it's so fast, it's frighteningly fast." The old woman seemed to be remembering something.Afraid that she would bring up the past again, Lu Bo hurriedly said, "The noodles are really delicious. From now on, I'll come to Mom's every day for a meal." But the old woman was not fooled by Lu Bo, she closed her eyes and thought for a while, then said: "If Xue'er is still alive, she would be fifty-seven, she is three years younger than you, my Xue'er." The old woman controlled Couldn't help but choked up. As soon as the name Xue'er came out, Lu Bo's heart was overwhelmed.With a wow, he burst into tears in front of the old woman.The old woman also cried, and for a while, the peaceful courtyard was drowned by crying.What flows in the crying is a tragic story, a tragedy of a family.