Chapter 25 Chapter Twenty-Five

The strange thing is that on this day, Lu Bo also had an accident. Lu Bo had originally retired, and the retired Lu Bo planned to live in Gushui City and spend good time with the elderly Bai Ni. "I'm not going anywhere, just stay with you." This is what Lu Bo told Bai Ni. "What's the use of being with me, you have to find her. If you can't find her for a day, I'm so uneasy." Bai Ni wanted to cry again as she spoke.Lu Bo was in a hurry, he knew who she was, she was his daughter.Bai Ni's ability to live to this day is due to a certain degree of concern in her heart. If this concern is gone, I don't know how many days Bai Ni, who is in her eighties, can survive!

"I'm looking, looking, and I will definitely find it for you." Lu Bo sighed. "Not for me, but for yourself. Don't you miss her?" One sentence stopped Lu Bo, didn't he want to?His heart is about to die, but what can he do... Lu Bo left Gushui City, the shantytown and the small courtyard in the west of the city.Lu Bo had nowhere to go. Standing under the old tree in front of Haizang Temple, Lu Bo looked up and looked around. Gushui City, which he thought he was familiar with, suddenly became so strange and ruthless.It's so vast, he can't see the direction to go next, and he can't see where he can take him in.Lu Bo had a house in the city, but he rarely lived in that house.The space is too loose, no wife or daughter, can home be called home?Can't call!What do you do when you can't call home?

Lu Bo panicked for a long time, raised his foot abruptly, and went up the mountain again.It seems that in this life, only the mountains can accept him, and only the mountains are his real home.But Lu Bo made a mistake this time. Before he reached the mountain, he was stopped halfway, more than once. The first group to intercept Lu Bo were Yu Gantou and Wu Yang, followed by a group of people, not those pretending to be "Stupid Bo".Lu Bo saw that Zhang Xingru, the old branch secretary of Nanying Village, was also inside. "What's the matter, Lao Zhang?" Lu Bo asked. "Something has happened to the old way." Yu Gantou bluffed.Lu Bo ignored him, fearing that he would make a fuss again, and stared at the dull Zhang Xingru.This is also the one who built the reservoir back then, but he was still a young boy at that time, and he was not in the same age group as Lu Bo and the others.Lu Bo only met Zhang Xingru when he came to Zamuhe, and Zhang Xingru could tell a little bit about what happened back then.

"Lu Chu, come here." Zhang Xingru winked at Lu Bo.When we arrived at a quiet place, Zhang Xingru said, "I found the place where they drained water. It's too black-hearted. Even if you are old in water conservancy, you can't think of such a harmful method." "Found it?" Lu Bo showed a little surprise. There are secrets between Lu Bo and Yu Gantou, including the old party secretary Zhang Xingru.A few months ago, a paper of approval in the city answered Lu Bo and others' doubts about Qilian Smelting Group. Lu Bo's doubts included three major aspects and six issues. The second is the air pollution after the smelting group opened the furnace.The city has come up with several conclusions, all of which have been verified and tested by experts. Lu Bo and the others don't believe it, so they continue to petition and report to the province and even the central government.As a result, the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau and the Development and Reform Commission jointly convened an assessment, and finally gave an authoritative conclusion, saying that after the restructuring of the Qilian Group, the company increased investment in governance, strictly followed national standards to reduce energy consumption, and reduced pollution. Effective measures have been taken for the problem one by one, and the rectification has been completely completed. After the inspection and acceptance by the expert group, it meets the production standards.

In other words, the restructured Qilian Smelting Group has resumed production.Lu Bo was a restless person, so he didn't want to be fooled by them, he couldn't bear it first, crossed the mountain, climbed over the mountain ridge, crossed two bridges, hid under the mountain, and watched. What are you looking at?See where the sewage from the smelter is discharged, and whether there is black smoke from the large smoke columns that stretch into the sky.Lu Bo was surprised to find that the smelter had no sewage after re-production.The smelly and dirty sewage that used to flow into the mountain streams or valleys disappeared, and the white plastic pipes at the drains were full of clean water!Although the smoke is still coming out, it is indeed not as black and pungent as before.

Lu Bo first thought that what was said above was correct, that the Smelting Group had indeed worked hard and invested a lot of money to solve the pollution problem that had plagued it for many years.One day not long after, the old branch secretary Zhang Xingru came sneakily, so sneakily, he didn't want people to see him getting involved with Lu Bo again, which would be bad for Lu Bo.When Zhang Xingru entered the door, he said, "It's haunted. The water coming out is obviously clear water. Why have all the sheep in my village died, and many cows have died, and now the pigs are starting to die."

Lubo was terrified, which was comparable to what Gantou said. "Could it be the plague?" "It's not like." Zhang Xingru shook his head sullenly. He has experience in this area. He has been a farmer all his life and has raised animals all his life. He dare not brag about anything else. At least he knows how the animals died. "There's a problem with the water," he said. "Is there really a problem?" Lu Bo asked. "Yes!" He replied in the affirmative. "Then..." Lu Bo didn't know how to continue. "Shanli! Do you know, Shanli!" Zhang Xingru said as if chewing hard grass roots.

"What mountain?" Lu Bo was puzzled. "Oh!" Zhang Xingru sighed, he thought Lu Bo was stupid, some things were obvious, why couldn't he see them.So he spoke in detail, and in the middle of speaking, Lu Bo shouted: "Impossible, they want to do such a thing, it is against the law!" The old branch secretary Zhang Xingru smiled wryly. He never thought Lu Bo was stupid. At that moment, he felt that this man who was full of knowledge and righteous was a bit stupid. Why didn't he believe it?It's not reasonable, these people, what can't be done—— Lu Bo was still skeptical in the end, and he reached an agreement with Zhang Xingru to conduct a secret investigation.Zhang Xingru is familiar with this mountain, and he is familiar with all the valleys and valleys. He can tell whether a bird flies in the sky from this mountain.Find it out and find the smelter, but if you can't find it out, you swallow it secretly.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xingru really found out.The smelter has indeed done something unreasonable. The sewage drainage system they built is fake, and it is deliberately shown by the common people.The real sewage, as Zhang Xingru said, was secretly discharged into the cave, diverted by the cave, turned into groundwater, and disappeared mysteriously. "No wonder the cattle and sheep will die. It turns out that they are building plank roads and crossing Chencang secretly. These sons of bitches have their consciences eaten by wolves." Lu Bo was indignant. Yu Gantou came up and said, "There are even more ruthless ones. They dig wells in caves and use high-pressure water guns to press the water to a depth of tens of meters underground. Poor people downstream, how can they live after eating such water? .” Yu Gantou, who had always been called inhumane, choked up while speaking.

"Look and see!" Lu Bo couldn't listen anymore, and decided to go up the mountain to see what happened. How to let them see it?Lu Bo thought the problem was too simple.When Zhang Xingru and the others were looking for "water" secretly, they aroused people's vigilance, and when Lu Bo and the others went up the mountain, they had already set up an ambush.Lu Bo had a bit of a brain, so he instructed Zhang Xingru and the others not to look for them during the daytime, so many people would look for them directly, it would be strange if they didn’t guard against them, and when it was dark, they would touch them one by one. Anyway, they were familiar with the situation in the mountains, so they could touch them even if they closed their eyes. Go into those holes.So I ate and chatted at Zhang Xing Confucianism, and when it was almost dark, I took the flashlight and walked towards the factory like a ghost.

They wanted to follow the source and find out all the pipelines that secretly drained sewage.As a result, he was beaten as soon as he arrived at the factory. Qilian Smelting Group is located in the northwest of Nanying Township, five kilometers away from the town. It was originally planned to be built in the town, but the people in the town disagreed. They were afraid that if such a huge thing was built there, the town would not survive in a few years. up.After it was completed, there were many conflicts with the people in the river basin, production was stopped several times, and production was restarted after several rectifications.Later, the city reformed a state-owned enterprise and sold it to the Longteng Mining Company in the province. In fact, the mining company had already been restructured.Everyone in the valley knew that Mr. Tian had a good father, who was once the No. 2 man in the province. He had retired these years, but would he be able to be idle if he retired?It was also said that the city didn't want to sell it, but it was not up to the city or Wu Tianliang whether to sell it or not.When it was sold, Wu Tianliang was not the secretary or the mayor.Not long after it was sold, the original secretary went to work in the province and took a higher position. Wu Tianliang was also promoted because of "selling" and moved to the position of secretary. On the small road leading to the cave from the factory, more than 20 people had been ambushed for a long time. It was expected that someone would come to "make trouble" tonight. , I am responsible for killing you.” So crackling, Lu Bo and the others didn't react at all, and they didn't even have time to argue with them. After a mess of sticks, all five of them lay down.Lu Bo was the most seriously injured, and he called out his name in the middle, saying that he was Lu Bo, the director of the water pipe department of Zamu River.Unexpectedly, people said that it was Lubo who hit him.As a result, he had three holes in his head, two broken ribs, three fractures in his right leg, and more seriously, his stomach was bleeding, which was probably caused by a gastric perforation. After successive incidents happened, Wu Tianliang couldn't sit still any longer, and kept calling one after another, as if urging him to die.The chaos at home has not been sorted out, his wife is still yelling, Gu Shui has such a mess again, and the people who are related to him are still beaten, how can Wu Tianliang hold back?He grabbed the phone and called the chief of the city's public security bureau, ordering the police to go to Nanhu immediately: "I want a murderer, so courageous!" After the phone call, Wu Tianliang tidied up. He wanted to comfort his wife and say a few thoughtful words. A woman, a few kind words will warm her up.Thinking about it again, forget it, this person has gone crazy recently, because my daughter, arguing with this one today, and that quarrel the next day, makes the whole thing restless.Yesterday, I had a quarrel with my mother-in-law, Chu Ya, and the two women who seldom blush even spoke rudely to each other, and they were on the verge of a big fight. Let her cool down first, and find out her shortcomings! It took about four hours to drive from the provincial capital to Gushui. Wu Tianliang told the driver to go directly to Nanhu Lake. After speaking, he closed his eyes. Deng Jiaying was beaten and Lu Bo had another accident.Wu Tianliang has been very restless recently, always feeling that something big is about to happen.What big event it will be, I can't tell.But he still felt uneasy, thinking of what a friend in the province had said to him two days ago, his heart became more and more confused.My friend is in the provincial government office. He is close to the provincial leader. I approached him two days ago and asked to sit down and have tea and talk.Of course, Wu Tianliang couldn't refuse. You are a feudal lord from below, but when you come to the province, you are "from below". Besides, his friend has always had a good relationship with him, so he went happily.As a result, Wu Tianliang was very preoccupied after drinking a cup of tea. Frankly speaking, Wu Tianliang is not a person who takes official position too seriously, let alone an official fan.At this age, it is really meaningless to covet official positions.This life has been full of ups and downs, and I have experienced a lot. I am already tired, and I want to retire earlier, enjoy leisure, chat with old friends about the past, and relax.But that’s not what my friend said. The higher authorities may have meant to let him down, but it’s not decent or normal.My friend said that he failed to handle two things well. One is the management of the watershed, especially the smelter. He did not handle it actively and wisely. more passive.Another thing, his daughter made too much noise this time. "How he educated the children made the city full of storms!" This was relayed to him by a friend, and the main leaders of the province criticized it at an internal meeting. He asked him to come down because of his daughter. He believed that, no matter what, it was his problem that the child had reached this point.Recently, he is also reviewing and introspecting.But because of the management of the river basin, especially the smelter, he was aggrieved when he was asked to come down. For this smelter, he went through a lot of troubles, from firm opposition at the beginning to compromise later, and then to hard work, he devoted almost half of his energy to this enterprise.But what happened?Wu Tianliang didn't dare to think about it. There are some things that you can't control. As for watershed governance, Wu Tianliang could only sigh.He admitted that he didn't make a good head, he didn't make a good one.During the few years he has been in office, the water shortage in the river basin has become more and more serious year by year. It is not news that not only the downstream but also the upstream have water shortages.But river basin management is a complex project, extremely huge.Vegetation is not destroyed every year or two. The traditional economic farming model cannot be changed for a long time. New agricultural models, especially water-saving agriculture, cannot be effectively promoted. Many planting techniques are not accepted by farmers and cannot be rigidly promoted.Wu Tianliang suffered from hard promotion. When he was the deputy mayor, he promoted the cultivation of plastic film in a village in Shahu. As a result, the farmers didn't care about it anymore when the plastic was spread, saying that it was a matter of the county and the city. It didn't matter, it made him call every day to urge the agricultural department, asking them to go down and watch, go down and urge, even if he begged his grandpa to sue his grandma, he still had to motivate the farmers.Although this technology is no longer considered technology, and mulch planting has become a common dish, but thinking about the hardships of the year, Wu Tianliang still gasps.It's really difficult to deal with farmers, but the plight of farmers is very real. Hundreds of thousands of people need to eat and develop, and the output of those lands alone cannot support them.The population is constantly increasing, and the burden on agriculture is getting heavier every year.Downstream Shahu County had less than 200,000 people in the 1970s, but now it has increased to more than 400,000 to nearly 500,000.The upper reaches of Longshan Mountain are even more troublesome. Those mountainous areas have long been unable to support people. In what age, donkeys have to carry water on their backs. It takes two to three hours, sometimes even half a day, to carry water.When it doesn't rain, no one in the village dares to wash their faces, but it's getting less and less rainy... All these, he, the secretary, has to think about and solve them.But how to solve it?Yes, Deng Jiaying, Lu Bo, and the others are right, and Qin Jizhou is also right, saving water, protecting vegetation, and restoring ecology.Wells can no longer be drilled in the downstream, farmland can no longer be developed, and crops that boil a lot of water can no longer be planted.What kind of crops do not boil water?The economic crops have been developed for these years, and the income is higher than that of traditional crops, but the water cannot be reduced, and the land compaction is more serious.At one time last year, some experts suggested that Shahu introduce cotton planting. Wu Tianliang was also tempted at first, but after many inquiries, he finally gave up. It's all because of the water. How can ecological governance happen overnight? What has been destroyed for decades can be restored overnight?The bigger contradiction is still the conflict between development and governance. Farmers want to increase income, local governments need to increase taxes, the economy needs to increase, and higher-ups want to increase growth and GDP. As a local leader, he cannot ignore development and only talk about governance.But in the Northwest, there is no energy, and some mines are high energy consumption and high pollution.Maybe it's Wu Tianliang's incompetence, maybe he's not emancipated enough, maybe... Wu Tianliang might not be able to go on anymore. Huge pressure, doubts, fears, and anger from nowhere came together to torture him, destroy him, and make him collapse in an instant, and go crazy in an instant! The car drove into Shahu County, during which Wu Tianliang received several calls from the hospital, reporting to him separately the injuries and treatment of Deng Jiaying and Lu Bo. Waking up, still in a coma.Especially Deng Jiaying, who was already weak, almost lost her life in the well this time.The director of the county hospital said: "We dare not take this risk. I beg the city leaders to make a decision as soon as possible and transfer to another hospital." .The dean obediently agreed, but Wu Tianliang's heart was hanging high and empty. At the same time, he prayed, Jiaying, you must hold on, you must hold on... Later, it was from the city, and the mayor called a few times and said He has rushed to the smelter, but Boss Tian is not there, and the people in the company can't tell whether he is in Hong Kong or Beijing.There is no leader above the vice president of the group, and only a few department heads are left. They don't know what to do when they ask questions, and no one admits to beating someone. "Black and white?" Wu Tianliang was furious, how could he speak like that. "Instead, they filed a lot of complaints, saying that since the reopening of work, the people around have been stealing, ranging from stealing raw and auxiliary materials, machine parts, and equipment, to sneaking into workers' dormitories and stealing everything they see. Half of the energy is spent on anti-theft, so how can we focus on production. A few days ago, villagers in two villages fought each other for theft, and this time it may be the same." "Bullshit!" Wu Tianliang cursed and hung up the phone.Later, the mayor called again, saying that the smelter was on holiday and stopped production, and asked Wu Tianliang what to do?Wu Tianliang said angrily, "Whatever you want to do!" In the end, less than ten minutes later, the provincial phone call came, with a questioning tone: "How did you create the corporate environment? You didn't promise others like this at the beginning, and you can't control anything else. Could it be that the city can't do anything about the theft of the masses?" The caller was the director of the Provincial People's Congress, an old comrade-in-arms and colleague of Boss Tian's father. The villain first complains, diverts attention, and diverts the target!Instinctively, Wu Tianliang thought of another level. This time, Lu Bo might have been beaten for nothing, and there is no place to appeal after being beaten! Wu Tianliang was delayed in the hospital for an hour, and he had to go to Nanhu without looking at Deng Jiaying.Deng Jiaying's situation was much more serious than he thought, as soon as he stepped in, he couldn't move anymore, and his face was full of horror. "Jiaying, Jiaying, Director Deng, Lao Deng—" Wu Tianliang leaned over the bed and called out several times. Deng Jiaying was quiet, except for the faint heaving of her chest, everything else was stiff. "Jiaying, I'm Wu Tianliang, wake up." Wu Tianliang became more and more anxious, and grabbed the doctor on duty, "Didn't you say it's not so serious? How could it be?" The doctor on duty was terrified. He had never seen the secretary of the municipal party committee before. He only cared about what the secretary looked like and whether it was the same as what he saw on TV. He never expected that Wu Tianliang would be like ordinary people, shouting and screaming. "She was seriously injured. She probably suffered a concussion. Fortunately, there was no intracranial hemorrhage. She probably won't wake up after a while." "Estimate, everything needs to be estimated, what do you need to be a doctor? Call the dean!" The dean was by his side, but he was blocked by the bodies of the county magistrate and the county leaders, and Wu Tianliang was a little intimidated by his aura.Hearing Wu Tianliang's shout, the dean slipped forward from the crowd and poked out half of his head. "Secretary, I'm here." "How serious is the situation?" Wu Tianliang squinted at the dean. "It's hard for us to say that. I fell from a height of several meters, and there are rocks underneath. It's not bad to be able to carry it back alive." "Official accent, you are full of official accent!" Wu Tianliang had vented enough, and finally calmed down. He called the director and two attending doctors, and the county magistrate Kong Xiangyun. "You personally escort her there, arrange everything before you come back, if something happens to her, Kong Xiangyun, you know the consequences." The county magistrate Kong Xiangyun's face had already turned crimson purple. He knew what trouble Niu Dewang had caused him, so he just nodded to Wu Tianliang, so he couldn't say no. "Have you told the family?" Wu Tianliang asked again, seeing that everyone was stupefied and unable to react, he asked again, "Have you told her daughter, Xiaolu?" "No." After Kong Xiangyun answered, he lowered his head.Wu Tianliang thought for a while, he really couldn't tell Xiaolu about this, he should hide it first, and then tell her when the situation is better, then said, "Listen, don't say anything about it beforehand, don't tell anyone about it, especially her daughter, Whoever dares to talk nonsense will be responsible for themselves." Before the words landed, there was a lot of noise outside, as if a girl was arguing with someone.Wu Tianliang was startled, thinking it was Xiao Lu, and said to the secretary, "Go and see." After a while, the secretary Zhou Yabin came in and said, "It's some reporters from the Provincial Evening News and Morning News, clamoring for an interview. .” "Nonsense, what's the point of interviewing this matter, let them go!" Zhou Yabin let out a "huh" and walked out quickly.Here, Wu Tianliang's phone rang again. He checked the number, but he didn't answer, but the phone rang stubbornly, so Wu Tianliang had no choice but to go out. "Where are you?" The unfriendly voice of his wife Miao Yulan came from the phone. "I'm down there, checking work." "Bottom, who's below?" Miao Yulan asked sadly. "Miao Yulan, what do you mean?" "What do you mean? You know better than anyone else that you don't care about your daughter who has become like this. She ran to take care of other people. Wu Tianliang, you are cruel." Once Miao Yulan opened her mouth, she couldn't control it anymore. What? It's hard to hear what to say.Wu Tianliang was patient first, the matter of his daughter hit the couple very hard, Miao Yulan was almost no different from a lunatic these days, he could understand, but when Miao Yulan said, "Is she your wife or am I?" Your wife, Wu Tianliang, if you have the guts, you will spend the rest of your life with her!" He couldn't bear such words. "Miao Yulan, I'm warning you. I haven't settled some accounts with you. Be careful!" Before Miao Yulan could attack again, Wu Tianliang pressed the phone, called the driver, and set off. He was going to Nanhu, and he wanted to meet the branch secretary Niu Dewang in person, and he also had a debt, which he wanted to settle with Niu Dewang. It took less than half an hour for the car to drive out of the county seat, and it was still some distance away from Nanhu Lake. Something happened.It wasn't that something happened to Wu Tianliang, but something happened to Nanhu. More than 2,000 people from a village in Nanhu Village surrounded the police who were going to handle the case. They not only refused to hand over the camels and others, but also said in a daze that they had never drilled a well.The deputy director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau went to the well to see it, and was dumbfounded. The well was actually filled, and an old Populus euphratica tree was planted in the well. "Cruel, you guys." Knowing that he had encountered a tough situation, the deputy director looked at the village party secretary Niu Dewang in a daze.Niu Dewang smiled "hehe", lit his cigarette enjoying himself while laughing, took a puff, and the smoke filled his proud face. The heat wave was rolling, and the desert heat at the end of September was deadly. Even though it was on the edge of the village and in the fields, the heat still made people want to scream. "It's okay, it's really okay. I've been here in Nanhu. How many years have I been here?" Niu Dewang said, and walked back to the village at a leisurely pace.The deputy director had no choice but to gather more and more villagers, and they had been surrounded tightly by three floors inside and outside.He took out his phone and asked the director for instructions. The director was furious: "What are you dawdling about? Get someone right away!" After that, he told the deputy director that Secretary Wu of the municipal party committee had already rushed to Nanhu. The deputy director went all out, he couldn't hesitate anymore at this time, so he gave an order to forcefully enter the village to take away Luo Tuo and others.That's when the chaos began. First, the woman from the camel rushed forward, and the 73-year-old mother from the camel rushed forward and hugged the deputy director's leg, crying out in long and short ones: "My God, don't let people I'm alive, if you want to catch you, catch me first—" A policeman couldn't see her, and came over to try to drag her away, but the mother of the camel ran headlong into the young policeman, and the policeman was agile, jumped lightly, and dodged , the camel mother used too much force, and slammed into a jujube tree as if she couldn't stop the car, and the blood flowed. "People have been beaten, the police have beaten people." Somebody yelled, and people rushed towards Mother Camel in a clamor. Mother Camel yelled and wiped the blood from her head with both hands, covering her face and body. Paint it all over the place.People were frightened by the blood, and more people began to shout: "The police beat someone, the police killed someone." Shouting and shouting, they heard a louder shout from outside the crowd. "hit!" The sound sounded like a horn, and soon, the villagers of Nanhu Village took up shovels, hammers, and wooden sticks. Anyway, they copied whatever they had in their hands, and the police and villagers fought like this. When Wu Tianliang arrived, the fight was still going on, and the policeman completely retreated and hid behind a melon shed, using a small melon shed to cover himself.Villagers are celebrating their victory.The mayor ran up to Wu Tianliang in a panic: "Secretary, I'm sorry, people in this village cannot be offended." Wu Tianliang glanced at the scene: "Where is Niu Dewang?" "I'm sick, I'm lying on the kang and taking medicine." The village head said. "It's time for this sick man." Wu Tianliang said while taking out his phone. At this time, he can't be soft. If he is soft, how can he carry out his work in the future?He called the secretary of the county party committee: "Aren't you there?" The secretary panicked when he heard that he was here, "I'll be right there, right away." The two secretaries did not stop the day's fighting. On the contrary, the group incident escalated again after their arrival. The already aroused villagers in Nanhu couldn't listen to anyone's words. The method was to overturn the car again, including Wu Tianliang's special car, and also injured two officials in the county.Wu Tianliang couldn't bear it anymore and gave the order. "Send the police again, and arrest any perpetrators who fight with weapons!" Then he turned to the secretary of the county party committee and said, "Excuse me, invite me to invite Party Secretary Niu to the municipal party committee!"