Chapter 24 Chapter Twenty-Four

The reality made Deng Jiaying sad and almost desperate.How could this be so? Wherever she went, she was surrounded by lies, seduced by lies, and revenged by lies.A deception, they openly create a deception, deceive their superiors and deceive their inferiors.Its falsification is blatant, bold, and arrogant, which is really jaw-dropping. Deng Jiaying was prepared for the figures reported by the downstream Shahu County, but Deng Jiaying did not dare to take the figures verified or confirmed by several departments in the city seriously.But she really didn't expect that this time, their deceit was too presumptuous and excessive.

As soon as he set foot on the boundary of Shahu Lake, Deng Jiaying was seized by great anxiety, panic, anxiety and panic.Only later did she know that she still hoped that those conjectures and suspicions would not be confirmed, and she wanted to see another look, as written in their report. but. They did some work. Deng Jiaying and her team were first taken to Harvest Township, which is a famous hometown of fruits and melons, a business card of Shahu County that has been created with decades of hard work.The well-known white melon, Yellow River honeydew melon, tulip and Yinti white melon, the main production area of ​​green food such as Daban melon seeds, red melon seeds and sunflower seeds, is also a green barrier for Shahu Lake.But what Deng Jiaying saw was not optimistic. Compared with previous years, the harvest of melons and fruits this year was obviously lower, and the mood of the farmers was also very bad.The county magistrate, Kong Xiangyun, complained all the way, saying that this year's harvest had decreased by 30%, which was caused by water shortage.

"Didn't it mean that the effect of shutting down the well and pressing the field is very obvious?" Deng Jiaying asked tentatively. "The effect is not so obvious. The well is closed and the fields are pressured, but the groundwater is gone." Deng Jiaying groaned, raised her head and wiped her sweat.The autumn sun is not only poisonous, but also hot, and I feel that my strength can't keep up.Shen Lijiao, the deputy leader of the project team who was following behind, said worriedly: "Why don't you find a place to rest, it's too hot." Don't look at it, and don't make her tired. If there is an emergency, report it to the office immediately.

"It's not hot, keep watching. I haven't seen the well they shut down yet." Deng Jiaying said to Shen Lijiao on purpose. The county magistrate Kong Xiangyun heard the voice, and said to the accompanying county water conservancy director: "Don't look at the others. Alright, go straight to the point." The county has carefully prepared, just like every inspection, the county and township can always come up with a few "spots", as long as you reach the spot, you will have everything you want to see, and it is guaranteed that you will not find any complaints.Deng Jiaying and the others finally stopped in the middle of the third beam and the fourth beam. There are eighteen beams in the desert, all made of yellow sand. The first and second beams are now completely covered with green, and the third and fourth beams Now it is considered to be the best construction. When you reach Qidaoliang and Badaoliang, you can almost see sand but no green, and once you pass ten roads, it is a real desert.Deng Jiaying looked at it for three hours. It is true that many wells have been closed here, and some fields have been suppressed.According to a rough estimate, there are more than 30 wells killed.The head of the township who was in charge of the introduction was a young man in his early thirties. He said that each village was assigned 15 to 20 tasks, and 92.3% of them had been completed so far.Shen Lijiao, who was behind her, immediately counted, and after a long time, she quietly said to Deng Jiaying: "According to what they said, there should be few wells in Shahu County now."

"Really?" Deng Jiaying turned her head and asked Shen Lijiao. "I subtracted the number of wells they drilled and the number of wells shut down, and there really wasn't much left." Deng Jiaying looked at Kong Xiangyun with a smile.Kong Xiangyun pretended not to hear, and the best attitude for many questions was to pretend not to hear, this is a knowledge of officials, as a county magistrate, Kong Xiangyun has too many ways to deal with experts.Even if you are from the central government, you are still taken aback for a while, not to mention Deng Jiaying and the others are still in charge of the city.

"Did you find out? They used the abandoned well in the past to make up for it, and they made some tricks on it, so it became a closed well." Shen Lijiao said in a low voice.Deng Jiaying glared at Shen Lijiao, why didn't she understand!She has been running in the watershed for decades, not to mention three beams and four beams, even if it reaches eighteen beams, she can tell where it moves casually.What puzzled her was that Wu Tianliang didn't know about such a trick to hide the sky and cross the sea?Or, everything was done at his beck and call? When they arrived at Beihu, Deng Jiaying couldn't help it anymore. According to the information provided by the county and city to the flow control department, the whole county had the best completion of the task of shutting down wells and cutting fields in Nanhu, because Nanhu is currently the most sensitive.But as soon as Deng Jiaying's footsteps set foot on the South Lake, they saw the villagers digging wells, and Niu Dewang, the secretary of the village party committee, was shouting instructions with a cigarette in his mouth.Deng Jiaying frowned, and looked at Kong Xiangyun again.Kong Xiangyun didn't hide anything, and said bluntly, "There's no way, the village doesn't even have enough water to eat."

"Immigrate down without water?" "Immigration and well drilling are two different things." Kong Xiangyun quibbled and looked away. "What's going on over there?" Deng Jiaying pointed to another group of well diggers in the distance. Before Kong Xiangyun could speak, the director of the Water Conservancy Bureau began to curse: "These bastards know how to make trouble, and they agreed to only hit once, but they dare to speak everywhere." "Enough!" Deng Jiaying sternly interrupted the director of the Water Conservancy Bureau who was swearing. Perhaps it was too hot, or maybe she was too angry, and she complained. She suddenly felt uncomfortable, sweat beads on her head, and she had undergone surgery. There was also severe pain in that part of the body, and Deng Jiaying squatted on the ground in pain.Seeing that the situation was not good, Shen Lijiao immediately rushed to the hospital.Kong Xiangyun didn't want her to continue watching, so he winked at his subordinates, and several of them helped Deng Jiaying into the car and went straight to the county hospital.

Deng Jiaying's physical condition was very bad. After several doctors from the county hospital finished the examination, they suggested that she be transferred to another hospital immediately. "We don't dare to delay, and her body can't be delayed. She should be transferred to the hospital for treatment. The conditions in the county are really poor. This disease cannot be delayed." After finishing, he told Shen Lijiao: "We can't let her work anymore, we have to be responsible to her!" Shen Lijiao was terrified, but she couldn't make up her mind, so she called Mao Yingsheng for instructions, but Mao Yingsheng was not at work and went to the province on business.He said on the phone: "Persuasion first, let her agree to be transferred, and I will contact the hospital here immediately."

But Deng Jiaying resolutely disagreed with the transfer: "I know my situation. I am tired these days. Get some fluids and take a rest. Don't panic. Also, don't gossip around, let the whole world know about it." Shen Lijiao has followed Deng Jiaying for many years, and she is very familiar with Deng Jiaying's temper. No one can do what Deng Jiaying doesn't want to do, so she has to follow the arrangement and receive temporary treatment in the county hospital. The mistake is in this step.At night, people from the county came and asked to replace Shen Lijiao, and Deng Jiaying would be taken care of by them.Shen Lijiao didn't dare. Seeing that Shen Lijiao was tired all day, Deng Jiaying couldn't bear it, and said: "You should go back to the hotel to rest. I don't keep anyone here. It's fine for one night. Come early tomorrow morning. Besides, going back to the hotel is not just for you Rest, I am still full of doubts about the shutting down of the well, you have seen the scene today, you should think about it when you go back, see how to get the real data, and find a way to stop it.”

When it came to work, Shen Lijiao dared not disobey. This time, she was the protagonist, and she emphasized this very clearly when she left the office.The report to be obtained by the Flow Management Office this time must be true, objective, and realistic, and at the same time be able to provide constructive suggestions to the province and city from a professional perspective.This is what Deng Jiaying emphasized many times in the working meeting of the department. He was afraid that the deputy director Mao Yingsheng would be too soft and dare not touch the regulations of the province and city, so Deng Jiaying let Shen Lijiao, who dared to stick to principles, take on this important task.Shen Lijiao naturally did not dare to disappoint Deng Jiaying.

Not long after Shen Lijiao left, Deng Jiaying sent away the people in the county, wanting to be alone.Unexpectedly, at this moment, a person shrank into the ward alone. The person who came was Wang Ci, an immigrant from Longshan who moved to Beihu. Deng Jiaying recognized him, and her daughter Deng Chaolu had mentioned this person to her many times.Wang Ciren used to be a private teacher. After decades of teaching, he couldn't get a regular job. When he got old, the school removed him.Wang Ciren always felt that it was unfair, and he had petitioned, but it was useless, but there was a grievance in his heart.When I moved to Beihu, I encountered a situation where I didn't care about anything, and there were more grievances and complaints. I am now a petitioner in both Longshan and Shahu counties. After Wang Ciren came in, he was not in a hurry to say hello to Deng Jiaying, and looked inside and out for a while, even the bathroom.Deng Jiaying stared at him strangely, thinking he was looking for someone. "Are you in the wrong ward?" she said. "You're right, I'm here for you." Wang Ciren was sure that there was no "ambush" in the ward, so he sat down calmly and started talking. "I'm from Wang Ci. You've seen and heard of it. I saw you in Nanhu today, and I know they sent you to the hospital." "looking for me?" "Petition." "I don't receive petitioners, and I can't deal with petitions." Deng Jiaying said while observing. "I don't ask you to deal with anything or solve anything. I just ask you to listen to what I have to say." Wang Ci was not messed up at all. It seemed that he was very experienced in petitioning and talking to strangers. "Is it about Beihu?" Deng Jiaying became interested. "South Lake." "What happened to Nanhu?" "They didn't close a single well, but they drilled a lot of new wells." "I know that." "You only know half of it. Use the abandoned well to pretend to be closed, don't you?" "Yes. What about the other half?" "They're shutting in wells where there's no well." "What? How do you close a well where there is no well?" "Spend one to two thousand yuan to make a fake in a place where there is no well or water at all, and it looks exactly like the closed well." "You mean?" Deng Jiaying got excited and jumped off the bed. "You can't be excited, you are sick, I can't hurt you, you have to promise me, don't get excited, I will tell you." Deng Jiaying retreated back to the hospital bed: "Okay, I agree." But in her heart, she was still excited.It was the first time she heard what Wang Ciren said. That night, in the ward of the county hospital, the seemingly honest Longshan immigrant Wang Ciren talked with Deng Jiaying for more than an hour.Many things that Deng Jiaying didn't know or even thought about, came out of the mouth of the honest Wang Ciren.Including how the three levels of the county and the village teamed up to make fakes, including why the villagers in Beihu were not allowed to drill wells, but they were not allowed to drill wells after they were relocated. It turned out that it caused water shortages, put pressure on the province, and forced the province to take other measures to rescue Gushui City and sandstorms. Lake County.Wang Ciren said that the current goal of the city and county is not to close the wells and reduce the fields, but to divert water from the south to the north. The worst is to force the province to divert water from the Yellow River to Shahu County.Speaking of the middle, Wang Ciren took out a large stack of watches.Deng Jiaying was so convinced by this honest man that he even ran over fifty-two villages in six townships in Shahu County, and listed the real data and falsification of these villages' closed wells and fields on the table one by one.Holding these watches, Deng Jiaying was a little shocked.A relocated household can still do this, what about them, what did they do?While looking at her watch, she kept thanking Wang Ciren. "I have to thank you, thank you so much." Wang Ciren said no thanks, as long as you can grasp the situation. After reading the form, Deng Jiaying was not only shocked, but felt uncomfortable.According to the figures provided by Wang Ciren, and then calculated for the whole county, not only did one of the wells not close, but more than one hundred new wells were added compared to the end of last year.In other words, the downstream Shahu County is still exploiting groundwater on a large scale. The so-called governance is just a dead letter!After closing the form for a long time, Deng Jiaying felt empty in her heart, as if something had been taken away by Wang Ciren.She can understand the falsification of the number of shut-in wells.The problem is that the calls for river basin management are getting louder and louder, and the provincial government is paying more attention to it. Even the highest level of the central government has been alarmed. How dare they exploit and dig wells indiscriminately.You know, as early as August last year, the city passed a resolution that the motor-driven wells in Shahu County in the lower reaches must be examined and approved, and must be reported to the Municipal Watershed Management Office. under the supervision of the department.But what she saw was the same as what Wang Ciren said, it was simply out of control. Wang Ciren's words made her completely understand. "Now there is no need to apply for approval for drilling wells. The above said, and the application will not be approved. So the village does not apply, and directly drills." "Don't the county care?" "The county pretends not to see it, but in fact it acquiesces. If you hit you, I pretend not to see it. If something goes wrong, the responsibility rests with the village, not the higher-ups. Another thing is that in the past, drilling wells was approved. The subsidy is three to five thousand, now it’s good, and the money is saved.” "Then...why don't you fight at Beihu?" "It's not that we don't fight, but we can't do it at all. First, the South Lake is upstream, and they are old residents. They know where the waterways are. They have drilled wells where there is water and cut off the water. We fought, but it was in vain. Second, Niu Dewang is the emperor of the land, he will not allow the fight, and no one dares to fight." "If you don't dig a well, what do you drink and what do you use to water the ground?" "purchase!" "Where do you buy it?" "Buy from Nanhu, buy from Niu Dewang." "You mean, they sell water?" Deng Jiaying's eyes almost popped out. "Not only are the cows selling well, but in Shahu, there are more villages selling water. This is an old business, and anyone who has been a village cadre knows it." "..." I get it, I get it now.Old Yingsheng, no wonder people say that the village secretary is the emperor, whoever he wants to drink water will have water to drink, and water can be sold, and whoever he does not want to drink will die of thirst.Sand lakes, it appears, are not just an overexploitation problem. After Wang Ciren left, Deng Jiaying suffered from insomnia.The doctor repeatedly emphasized that she should rest well and not be excited or tired.However, she couldn't help being excited.The situation reported by Wang Ciren is really frightening. The underground water supply chain, serious local protectionism, the government shirks responsibility, and transfers the conflict to the lower level... Thinking of the end, Deng Jiaying broke out in a cold sweat. "No, I can't be hospitalized, I'm going to the scene, stop it!" Something happened to Deng Jiaying. At dawn the next day, before seven o'clock, Deng Jiaying left the hospital alone, without saying hello to anyone or Shen Lijiao, rented a car, and went straight to Nanhu.She was afraid that Kong Xiangyun and the others would know her whereabouts, and she would be unable to do anything.The car drove for half an hour on the country road and turned into the desert. The early morning desert wind penetrated the window and hit Deng Jiaying's face. Deng Jiaying felt a little cool.But her heart couldn't cool down. After talking about river basin management for many years, she didn't know how many proposals were taken, and she shouted a lot of slogans, but none of the substantive problems were solved.Not only has it not been resolved, but now a more complicated situation has arisen. Some people are muddying the waters and trying to put the cart before the horse.Some people are eager to divert their attention and drag the problem to other aspects.Deng Jiaying knows that river basin governance is not something that can be accomplished overnight, let alone a red-headed document.But you must have this awareness and be able to recognize the root of the problem.If you continue to be so confused, no medicine can cure it.She went today to give those who are still confused and wake them up.I can't cut off my own way, let alone destroy the future of the entire basin for my own small profit. Deng Jiaying stared at the river that was faintly visible in the distance through the half-open car window.Deng Jiaying remembers that when he first started working and visited desert areas, the river had water.Including the Nanhu Lake that we are going to today. At that time, there were reeds growing and wild ducks swimming. Deng Jiaying also picked up wild duck eggs in the lake, which were delicious.After many years, the river is no longer a river. If you don’t rely on the memory of the year, you can’t even see the shape of the river. The place that used to be a river is now either a farmland, covered by a seemingly prosperous scene, and the fields are still high. The signs of the science and technology agriculture demonstration zone are either full of yellow sand or dry. The river has long since stopped flowing, been swallowed up, and died.The sun gushed from the distant horizon, and the desert instantly became alive.Deng Jiaying suddenly asked the driver to stop and wanted to go down for a walk. Stepping on the soft sand, Deng Jiaying remembered something, thinking of Lu Bo.In the 1980s, her superiors deliberately asked her to work in Shahu County as the head of the water conservancy bureau. At that time, Lu Bo was in a bad situation. He was the deputy director of the reservoir management department at another reservoir in Longshan. He drank heavily all day, fell asleep when drunk, and cursed people .One day, he went to the home of the old secretary Liu Zhenshan and questioned why he was rehabilitated so that he would not die in that era.Liu Zhenshan was so angry that he called Deng Jiaying and asked her to do work for Lu Bo.Some jobs can be done, some really can't.Deng Jiaying knew where Lu Bo's heart disease was, but he couldn't get rid of it.Who can bring the dead back to life?At that time, Deng Jiaying was thinking about one thing all day, helping Lu Bo find his daughter.By the way, Lu Bo had a daughter with Cheng Xueyi, the top actress of the county theater troupe. Deng Jiaying didn't know about it at the time. Deng Jiaying only heard about it many years after the movement ended.In that movement, Lu Bo not only lost his parents, but also his wife who had been with him for a long time. Their only daughter disappeared after Cheng Xueyi mysteriously disappeared. There are two opinions in the county. One is that the child died too. But Lu Bo didn't believe it and insisted that his daughter was still alive.There is also a saying that Xueyi gave the child to a woman from Shaxiang before she disappeared, and begged her to bring her up.Every time Deng Jiaying thinks of these things, she feels the pain of long tears.As for the whereabouts of Lu Bo's daughter, Deng Jiaying believed in the latter. There was no reason, but she believed that she did not believe that Xue Yi and Lu Bo's daughter would die young, and that God would not be so merciless—— Deng Jiaying wanted to give up that opportunity to Lu Bo, and asked the old secretary Liu Zhenshan several times to tell her not to be too demanding of him because of Lu Bo's great contribution to the construction of the reservoir. "Give him a way, let him live." Deng Jiaying said hoarsely. "I won't give him the way?" Liu Zhenshan was indignant. "Let him be the head of the Water Conservancy Bureau. He is competent. You know his level and ability." "No!" Liu Zhenshan's attitude was very firm, "If he doesn't cheer up, I won't be able to hand over power to him for a day. This person has to be dealt with harshly!" Deng Jiaying didn't want that opportunity, and Lu Bo didn't get it in the end. It was Miao Yulan who went to Shahu County to serve as the director of the Water Conservancy Bureau.Deng Jiaying thinks now, if she went to Shahu at that time, would the situation be different? I am old, I am really old, and I often think about these meaningless questions.Deng Jiaying shook her head, stretched out her hand to smooth the hair that was blown by the morning wind, Yuan returned to the car and told the driver to go. Niu Dewang get up before dawn, so they have to get up early to catch up with work.Yesterday Niu Dewang, the secretary of the village party committee, saw Deng Jiaying's car. In order to prevent changes, Niu Dewang held a meeting overnight and asked the villagers to race against time. "Is it easy to dig a well now? It's not easy. Not only do you have to find money, but you also have to settle various relationships. Do you understand the relationship?" Niu Dewang suddenly opened his eyes and asked the villagers.The villagers don't understand anything, they can't understand, just listen to the party secretary. "Okay, watch the camel closely. It must be finished in three working days. There will be people coming from the province next week. Don't let them make irresponsible remarks." The man named Luo Tuo immediately nodded and said, "Don't worry about branch secretary, you can work all day today and finish tomorrow." When Deng Jiaying arrived at the scene, the camels were yelling at five or six farmers to work harder.There were also invited technicians at the scene, naturally they were from the well drilling team of the County Water Conservancy Bureau.Deng Jiaying sent the taxi away, and walked quickly towards the well digging place.Before he got there, he heard the camel shout: "Hey, who is that, women can't come to the well, go away, go away, do you hear me?" Deng Jiaying ignored it and continued to go up the well. The camel was in a hurry. He didn't know it was Deng Jiaying at the time, but thought it was a woman who was visiting relatives in Shaxiang.The camel's surname is Liu, and his original name was Liu Luo. He has a problem with one leg. He always drags his left leg and drags his right leg when he walks. Together, he is called Luotuo. The most valuable thing in the desert is the camel. In this way, he has an appropriate nickname. "camel".Luo Tuo is the follower of Niu Dewang, the secretary of the village party committee, and manages money in the village.When the village party secretary is away, he acts as the party secretary. "Hey, did you hear that? I'm calling you, stop!" Seeing that Deng Jiaying didn't listen, Luo Tuo raised his voice. Deng Jiaying cheered up and continued to move forward.The camel was in a hurry and rushed forward to stop it.Deng Jiaying said get out of the way, and the camel said why, the desert is yours?Deng Jiaying asked back: "Is it yours?" The camel chuckled: "You are right, this desert really belongs to me." Deng Jiaying saw that he was a scoundrel, ignored him, and shouted to the well digger in front: "Stop, I have something to say!" The dispute arose from this, Deng Jiaying called to stop, and the people digging wells in front kept going, Deng Jiaying rushed over, ordered them to stop, and told himself that it was from the pipeline management department, that drilling wells without permission not only violated the policy but also violated the law.Those farmers just kept their heads down and worked, ignoring her existence at all.After Luo Tuo knew that the person who came was the director of the flow control, he was not afraid, and looked at Deng Jiaying with a smirk: "If you have the ability, let them stop. If you can make them stop, I will call your aunt." After finishing speaking, Squat down and smoke.Seeing that Deng Jiaying couldn't stop them, she talked about the policy with them, and after talking about it, she confused herself. What did she come here to preach the policy to them? "Stop!" Deng Jiaying rushed forward, snatched the tool from the driller, and said to the technician, "Do you not want to work anymore?" This remark frightened the technician.This day's accident was also caused by the technician. If he ignored Deng Jiaying, the camel might not be popular.But he made up his mind, followed by hesitation, and said to the well digger, "Why don't you stop first?" As soon as the words came out, the camel immediately turned its face.Luo Tuo scolded the technician, rushed over and attacked Deng Jiaying.This action terrified the technicians, as well as those who drilled the wells.But camels are not afraid. The branch secretary has told him long ago that anyone who dares to stop them will be beaten. Deng Jiaying was seriously injured. The frightening thing was that Luo Tuo not only beat him alone, but also venomously said to several farmers, "Whether you want the wages or not, this woman dares to spoil our affairs. Beat her, and her wages will be doubled." Hearing that the wages are doubled, those few people can't stand it anymore. Camel doesn't care about their wages.The technician was in a hurry and rushed forward to protect Deng Jiaying. As a result, Deng Jiaying stumbled and fell into the well during the pushing. The well has been drilled five feet deep! This morning, Niu Dewang, the secretary of the village party committee, was standing not far from the well, with his clothes slanted and a cigarette in his mouth, watching all this with a smile.After Deng Jiaying stumbled and fell into the well, the branch secretary Niu Dewang coughed, spit into the distance, and went home for breakfast with his hands behind his back. The smoke from the kitchen has risen, and the smoke in the morning is quite different from that in the evening, which reminds people of the sentence "the lonely smoke in the desert is straight".Between the field and the desert, a few sheep are eating greens, two hens are flapping their wings on the dilapidated city wall, and clucking into the empty desert, and a yellow dog is lazily lying on the ground in the village. In front of the courtyard of the house, waiting for the sun to shine on it.In the distance, more than a dozen camels stepped on the camel bell and headed west tragically. At the mouth of the well, several well-drillers were suddenly stunned. The world was strangely quiet at that moment. Deng Jiaying was rescued by Wang Ciren.Luo Tuo is really a bastard. Seeing Deng Jiaying fall, he acted as if nothing happened. He put his hands behind his back and went home. It was like a pipe wrench fell into the well Stone.When the others saw the camel leaving, they looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing whether to continue digging the well or save people first.Fortunately, Wang Ciren from Beihu came here at this time. Wang Ci was sure that Deng Jiaying would come, otherwise he would not go to the hospital to see Deng Jiaying.This somewhat educated middle-aged man still has a deep understanding of the problem.And he concluded that Deng Jiaying would come alone, so this morning, after breakfast, Wang Ciren didn't care about doing anything, so he ran to the well, but it was a pity that he came a step late.When he yelled and scolded and the well diggers pulled Deng Jiaying up from the well, Deng Jiaying's breath was already very weak. She bled a lot, had difficulty breathing, and couldn't wake up no matter how much she screamed. "What are you still doing in a daze, call a car and take it to the hospital!"