Chapter 2 Chapter One

When the strong wind comes, Heyang City is solemn and solemn. It was less than five o'clock in the afternoon, and the streets were already empty.The students did not dare to go to school in the afternoon, and all hid at home.It is a holiday for government agencies and units, but it is not a legal holiday on the calendar.Even the Hehua Group, whose business has always been booming and whose workshops are running day and night, was surprisingly quiet this day. On the west side of the rocky river beach, on the ruins of the ten-foot-long Ming Great Wall, two eagles screamed in shock.They barked for a whole day, their throats were broken, and their hoarse cries pierced through the breath of death on the river beach, and shattered over Heyang City.According to the reputation, the two eagles are like two faithful watchmen, looking at the distant sky in the west for a while, and Heyang City in the east for a while.Very anxious, very irritable.

Twenty fire trucks from the city's fire brigade lined up at the door early in the morning and waited until now. In the compound of the Public Security Bureau next door, more than 100 police cars were replaced with new lights.The police officers were sleeping, and a few students temporarily borrowed from the police academy were sitting under an elm tree smoking secretly.The female student in the middle is probably in love with one of them. When she saw her boyfriend blowing out smoke rings, a strong love flashed in her eyes.In the distance, a young policeman on duty had been staring at the girl's pink skirt for a long time, then suddenly walked over as if he saw something.

At this time, in a lonely old courtyard in the center of the city, two vermilion gates squeaked, a crack opened, and a woman's head poked out, but it quickly retracted.In the second wing room in the courtyard, a long-haired man made a bed with a dignified expression. The sheet he raised in his hands was also pink, just like a female student's skirt, which was easily reminiscent of it. In the air, a sour, astringent, and astringent smell floated from the northwest corner of Shasha Street, and got in next to the window. The smell was pink, and the men in the room quickly inhaled it. up.

It was already 5:30 in the afternoon, and Heyang City became more and more solemn. A pigeon hovering over the Municipal Party Committee Guest House, it was very tired from flying, as if it had been hovering for a century, its eyes were desperate, and it was so desperate that it was about to vomit blood.At this time, it saw a pink figure rushing through a small garden in a panic, and got into a bungalow.It shook its wings resentfully, and flew in another direction. In the sight of the pigeon, a sad man is smoking, two lonely old people are lying on bamboo chairs, and a sexy woman is opening another door...

On this day, two strange things happened in Heyang City. One is that in the ancient courtyard at the east end of the city, Mr. Wen, who had been asleep on the hospital bed for three years, suddenly woke up.He dismissed Huang Ya'er, dressed in a green shirt, walked cleanly into the courtyard, arranged the bamboo chair bought during the Qianlong period, lay down on it, and then fixed his eyes on Heyang Chengwang without moving. At noon, Mr. Wen's Shan Sun Wenhou also crawled out of the house.Wen Hou inherited all his father's bad habits. He started peeping at opium when he was very young. Later, Mr. Wen found out and kicked him out of the house in a rage.But his father was reluctant to part with him, so he hugged him back, protecting him like a cow protecting a calf, for fear that if he was not careful, he would fall into the hands of the hateful Mr. Wen.The father and son depended on each other like that, and finally, after his father died of smoking opium, Wen Hou took his father's pipe without hesitation. Up to now, he has become a famous big smoker in Heyang City.

Wen Hou climbed very hard, the smoke had exhausted his strength, and he could no longer stand up.He crawled and crawled, and finally climbed to Mr. Wen's side, turned around with difficulty, and leaned his back against an old tree with a crooked neck next to Mr. Wen.The old tree is already very old, so old that the sun can break it.Wen Hou is as skinny as a stick, a bird can pick him up, his eyes are like two dark dark wells, they can't be opened or closed, but he still follows the example of the old man, looking to the west empty. When the pigeon saw them, the two had been lying down all day.

Another incident was that Huang Yaer, the little nanny of Mr. Wen's family, was suddenly hit in the face by bird droppings on the way home. Why is it so evil, but let the bird droppings hit the face?At that time, Huang Ya'er was walking on the road, thinking why Mr. Wen woke up strangely?Huang Ya'er has served Mr. Wen for some years. When Mr. Wen adopted her, she hadn't graduated from junior high school.Mr. Wen Lao intends to continue to support her in her studies, and said that she can go to university as long as she lives up to expectations, but she is not a material for studying. Once adopted under the name of Mr. Wen Lao, she will be completely free, and she will never have to worry about it again. After listening to her father Huang Feng's nagging, she devotes her mind to serving Wen's family and father, and occasionally learns storytelling from Mr. Wen, but she is obviously not a storyteller, and Mr. Wen never expects it.After she graduated from junior high school with the worst grades in the school, she completely became a nanny.Fortunately, Wen's family and father are good to serve, and Huang Ya'er is also happy.Mr. Wen has been falling asleep all these years, and Wen Hou is smoking and thin, so Huang Yaer feels lost and often sits under the old tree in a daze.Seeing the old man wake up suddenly this morning, Huang Ya'er was really excited, and ran over to tell the old man about Heyang City, but the old man waved his hand lightly and said, come back, I don't need you here anymore.

Ya'er has an indescribable disappointment, why don't you need it, can it be that I did something wrong?Just thinking about his face being cold, it turned out to be bird droppings when he touched it.Ya'er took a sip.It is very unlucky to have bird droppings hit your face, she suddenly felt unlucky, looked up and saw that the sky was empty, and there were no birds, Huang Ya'er was very strange, thinking what is going on today, why the street Not even a human hair? Ya'er wiped the bird droppings and continued walking. The street was empty, making Ya'er feel uncomfortable.On weekdays, the maid seldom goes to the street, and her footsteps are always shuttling between her home and Mr. Wen's old courtyard.Her father, Huang Feng, had a quirk, and would call her home to stay overnight every few days.Ya'er was a little annoying to her father, thinking that he was getting old, and had strange ideas one after another, where was she not sleeping, why did she have to let her go home?But Ya'er didn't dare to disobey, and his father couldn't compare to Mr. Wen, who got angry and had a big temper.

After walking a few steps, Ya'er was suddenly attracted by a red light, Ya'er stopped walking, and looked intently at the place where the red light came out. On the north side of the street, a lingerie store has not had time to close, and a red underwear is smiling at the girl in the sun.When the shop owner saw Huang Ya'er, his frustrated face immediately flashed with excitement. Seeing Huang Ya'er hesitated, he waved vigorously to call her. Ya'er walked in following the red light, and the hostess hurriedly took off her underwear. Huang Ya'er had no shortage of underwear, but a piece of underwear hanging in her broken yard was stolen again a few days ago.Huang Ya'er has never been able to figure out who is stealing her underwear.It has been stolen five times, and every time she washed it and dried it out, the underwear disappeared.Huang Ya'er once wanted to use her brain to catch the thief, but she gave up after thinking about it.Steal it, she said, and see how long you can steal it.Ya'er thought to herself that her father would not let this thief go, as long as he steals frequently, sooner or later he will fall into his hands, and then he will be very attractive.Ya'er likes to buy underwear, and prefers to wash and dry underwear. Half of the money Mr. Wen gave her was spent on underwear. It's not my fault. Ya'er grows too fast, so I don't buy many bras The sky can't wrap her burgeoning breasts.

The underwear is the one-piece bra and pants, very trendy and colorful.In front of the proprietress, Huang Ya'er blushed and tried it once, and the size was just right, she was very satisfied.But when I took it out to try again at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the underwear was too big, and the bowl was empty when I put it on, as if my breasts had shrunk. Huang Yaer was not convinced, so she threw the underwear into the water for a while. , This is Huang Ya'er's common sense, and then she hung her underwear on the rope in the small courtyard and fell asleep. When the wind was blowing, Huang Ya'er and Mr. Wen saw two eagles almost at the same time.

It was two eagles, flapping their wings desperately, and there seemed to be something still screaming in the eagle's beak. Huang Ya'er didn't understand, but Mr. Wen did. His ears moved, and then he was completely deaf. Two eagles struggled desperately and flew towards the sky above Heyang City. Behind the eagles was a large group of red flocs, as big as the sky, like wool covered with sheep dung, dirty and messy, unreasonable. Not knowing what to do, it looked like a huge red-haired monster, rumbling from behind the eagle.Huang Ya'er didn't have the heart to look at it, she just stared at the eagle. When the eagle bounced to the top of her head, she saw one softly falling from the air, halfway down, struggling to flap its wings a few times, Huang Ya'er Just as she was about to cheer it up, she heard a "boom", and the eagle fell to the ground and died in front of her. It was exactly six fifty.It is the same time as the weather bureau forecast. Immediately, sirens sounded in Heyang City, and the police cars screeched and scattered in all directions.People can no longer open the windows if they want to look out.The sky darkened in a flash, it was so dark that it was frightening, it made people jump, it was that kind of reddish black.The city seemed to be submerged in the flood all of a sudden, suffocating.A strong smell of sand and dust rushed in through the cracks in the windows, and the room was quickly filled with dust, making people afraid to let go of their noses.The children hid under the covers and covered their heads tightly, and the women began to pick up the sprinklers used to water the flowers and spray water vigorously into the house. The men start smoking.At this time, what else can I do besides smoking? After the siren rang, countless sounds followed, crackling, pinging, bang, bang!Bang!Snapped!Snapped! got windy.And it's Red Wind! Hongfeng's roar was like that of a wild wolf at first, and then that of a tiger. "Ho———" There was a tight sound, tearing people's heart to pieces.One by one, the tiles fell from the roof and hit the opposite glass, bang!Wow!The glass shattered.One after another, the branches "clicked and clicked" broke. It's windy in Heyang City! ——Red Wind! The clothes of this woman who had been lying on the ground all her life were torn in a blink of an eye, leaving nothing behind.Then, countless pairs of men's hands violently hit her. On the face, legs, belly, and breasts, almost every piece of skin was hit by hands "ping-ping-pong-pang-pong" and "crackling".Some hands were spread out and they were beating her with palms, some were clenched and they were beating her with fists, and dozens of hands were spread apart, tearing at her hair, trying to pull it out together with her scalp.The woman's body was already bleeding, her skin was torn apart, and the whole skin was about to be torn off... In the middle of the night, the power went out. First it was the area in the northwest corner, then the area in the belly, and after that, the electricity in the whole city was cut off. In the dark night, there is only the sound of violent wind tearing, like the howling and trembling of a beast. The women were tired and sprayed water for a long time before they found it was useless, so they had to soak the water with towels and cover their noses one by one. The men are tired too, wanting to do something after smoking for so long! In the lonely old courtyard with double vermilion gates in the center of the city, the windows of the wing rooms are tightly closed.In the room, on an old bronze-colored bed, a long-haired man is riding on a flirtatious woman. He has ridden on when the wind blows, and hasn't come down for a while.The woman was the one who poked her head earlier. Because of her excitement, her appearance was exaggerated, and her whole body was filled with desire. Her cry burst out from the window and splashed in the yard, torn apart by the strong wind. Fragments fell into the windows of every house. The siren finally stopped.It’s not that I don’t want to bark, it’s that the newly replaced police lights don’t work at all. The super strong lights can’t be found within five meters, so the police cars have to be scattered and parked in front of shopping malls and banks, like a dumb dog, guarding these important places. place. The entire Heyang City was blinded by the wind and sand. The water stopped. Heyang was short of water.The drought for five consecutive years has caused water shortages in the upstream and downstream. For several years in a row, water supply has been divided into different areas and rotated at different times.This time, in order to prevent the strong wind, the water company worked hard. It wanted to show its face in front of the citizens, but it took only one day to do it. Usually people don't think the water is so important, even if the water is cut off, they just feel that it is a little inconvenient. Huang Daya is even secretly happy. If the water is cut off, there is a reason not to cook and go to the street to eat. pause.However, it was in the wind, in a dark wind, suddenly there was no water, and people began to be afraid, thinking that the water stop was a very bad omen.People who have heard Mr. Wen’s stories think that in the 16th year of the Republic of China, a strong wind caused Heyang City to have no water for three years, and even the grass roots on the ground disappeared, let alone green.After a strong wind in 1966, the city of Heyang suffered intermittent water shortages for ten years, and many people fled to the countryside to survive.In those years, Heyang City caught fire one after another, and a large area was burned. When fighting the fire, people could not find water, so they could only hope that it would burn down.The ancestral yard of Huang Feng, a native of the old city, was burnt down that year.Now the wind cuts off the water again... When the wind cuts off the water, the sorrow haunts people.Mr. Wen has said many times that one side of water and soil nourishes one side, water is the root that nourishes people, and water is the spirit of the earth veins.Could it be that the pulse of Heyang City is exhausted?Can't support people anymore?in the future... The wind continued to roar, and when there was no water, even the sound of the wind became hoarse, like countless lonely ghosts, calling for grievances at Heyang City one after another. The women are scared.In this kind of wind, it is impossible for women not to be afraid. They curled up and snuggled into the arms of the man, their eyes trembling with blue light.No matter how useless a man is in the eyes of women, now he has become a wall, a solid wall. The room is filled with a burnt smell, and the soul of the earth is roasted by the hot and dry wind, not like a flame, but black smoke from scorched corpses... On the third day, the phone line went down. In order to prevent communication interruption during strong winds, the telecommunications department made preparations as soon as they received the notice, investing 1 million yuan in ten days, and the entire communication facility was repaired and maintained at the first level.But in the end it was cut off, and the phone signal disappeared in an instant. On the evening of the fourth day, at about eight o'clock, the wind weakened and the raging sound gradually weakened. The strong wind sent a signal to people that I was going to retreat.The men couldn't get bored and wanted to breathe, the women started yelling to get water, they were dying of thirst. So, in the evening when the strong wind had just weakened, the air was still full of sand and dust, and nothing could be discerned two meters away, Heyang City suddenly lit up with will-o'-the-wisps.The will-o'-the-wisps first lit up from the door openings of houses in the residential area, like stars lighting up lights, then went out and then came on again.Soon, the will-o'-the-wisps gathered on the street, like a ecstasy formation, moving eastward for a while, then westward for a while, it was eerie and frightening. On the street, people collided with each other unexpectedly, and they asked, "Did you see it?" "No!" So I held the flashlight again, carried the bucket and followed the light, moving it over and over again. After tossing around for half the night, I ran into a ghost, but no one found the water. At this time, in that lonely old courtyard, the long-haired man and the flirtatious woman were finally tired. They hugged each other and lay on the bed. The strong wind didn't affect their mood. On the contrary, they looked more energetic than usual. The woman is snuggling in the arms of the man. The plumpness of the woman is in sharp contrast to the thinness of the man. It makes people feel that it is the woman who sucks the man dry. Looking at Heyang City again, this woman who has been lying down all her life has been covered with wounds, every inch of her skin has been rotted open, the blood, the deep red blood, has already penetrated the ground and reflected the entire sky red.She was dying and passed out. This morning when the strong wind had completely subsided, Huang Ya'er suddenly remembered the underwear she had left to dry in the courtyard, turned over and ran to the courtyard. God, it's over, it's over - there's nothing left! For a long, long time, Huang Ya'er raised her head in despair, following the gradually bright colors of the sky, her eyes stretched into the distance. The dust gradually receded, the outline of the city gradually appeared, and the tall building protruded.God, what is that pink silk floating on it, could it be... In Huang Ya'er's gaze, Heyang Cheng gradually took off her dusty clothes, revealing her gray figure.In the dark sky, the ancient city looked decadent.The dilapidated buildings, abandoned factories, dilapidated equipment in the courtyard and all kinds of moldy and spoiled products dumped in the sewage ditch seem to tell people the stories that have happened in this land.Following this thread, you can even clearly feel the vigor and shocking atmosphere of this land in the not-too-distant past, as well as the people who are burning with passion again and again, making great achievements on this land. Any kind of struggle or effort.However, failures extinguished the dreamy flame in people's hearts time and time again.After being baptized by several storms, the ancient city finally calmed down helplessly, and its exhausted body was covered with disability-like scars... In the past 20 years, this ancient city has performed scenes of epic tragedies and comedies. During the gradual transformation from a traditional agricultural city to a modern industrial city, Heyang City has experienced too many sufferings of great sorrow and great joy.Those figures and enterprises that were once prominent but fleeting have now become a kind of history, silently making another comment on the development of this city.Today, 20 years later, a large number of famous enterprises in the past have fallen to the ground, leaving only a few poor ones, struggling to support the sky of Heyang City. The Hehua Group, located under the ancient Haizi Spring in the west of the city, is the best among the few companies.This modern enterprise that rose up in Heyang City in the late 1980s was originally a dilapidated small factory. At its initial stage, it hardly attracted much attention. By the time people paid attention to it, Hehua Group had miraculously standing there. People in Heyang feel that it is a myth that such an enterprise can grow on this piece of land.For a long time, people couldn't believe it, and even had some doubts.Huang Feng, a native of the old city, said that it was luck that a blind cat met a dead mouse. Huang Feng's words didn't make Heyang people care, because their interest was completely focused on Hehua.Hey, look at the factory area, the entire garden, I heard that the construction of the factory alone cost 200 million yuan.Two hundred million!Villa-style office buildings, streamlined factory buildings, and patches of green grass in the factory area. The grass is worth more than the wheat in the crops. The grass planters are said to be invited experts, and their salary is as high as that of the mayor.There are also those trees that have never been seen before, all of which were moved from the south.The people of Heyang were excited. For five whole years, people's eyes were firmly caught by Hehua, and every move of Hehua affected their hearts.When the efficiency of the factory is good, the employees will be divided into one today and another tomorrow. Every day is like a festival, and the people of Heyang also take advantage of it. The workers take taxis to and from get off work, and go to the hotel every now and then. Wang, the leaders come to inspect from time to time.It's really interesting to see and listen to, Heyang City has a lot of scenery in front of outsiders! However, He Hua Leng built such a 28-story Tongtianzhu, the tallest building in the entire Hexi Corridor, not even the provincial capital.The people of Hehua are so courageous, they really dare to cultivate in high places.The city also designated it as a landmark building in Heyang City.Huang Feng, a native of the old city, said: "It looks like a coffin to me!"Now he was right, a factory was built, and a building was repaired. It has been four or five years, and the Babel is still placed in the square, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, what a heartache! pass!People in Heyang believe that the factory has played too much with fire.If there is too much money to burn it, why build such a coffin?How many people are there in Heyang City, can't they all be put into that coffin?As the saying goes, you can eat food that is overcooked, but you can't do things that are overcooked, and whoever does it will get retribution. No, Hehua will have a hard time immediately. One of the four famous people in Heyang, the blind immortal "God Baby", said that the building was built on the heart of Heyang City, and it was suppressed!In the future, Heyang City is afraid that he will never be able to stand up again.As soon as the words came out, people immediately opened the map and checked it carefully. Worse, it really covered the heart.So tall Tongtianzhu, pressing on the heart, the city can still move? The words of the "God Baby" came true immediately. Accidents happened one after another in Heyang City, factories collapsed one after another, even the 50-year-old winery collapsed, and there were more laid-off workers than stones on the river beach.Immediately afterwards, there was a severe drought. It had not rained for five years, and the crops were getting more and more sunburned every year, and people could hardly stand.The sandstorm blows again, and the wind blows once a year, from the beginning to the end, the sky is also dim, and the ground is also dim.Drug dealers, prostitutes, vandals, robbers, all kinds of strange things happened one after another, people began to blame the Tongtianzhu, who didn't cultivate in the east, and didn't cultivate in the west, but cultivated in the heart!God, who approved it? ! Looking at the Hehua Group again, I feel that this factory is really evil. It has been doing well for the past two years, and the tax paid in a year is said to account for one-fifth of the total income of Heyang City.One-fifth, great!But since the Tongtianzhu was repaired, it has slid down year after year. Some people say that Hehua is going to be listed, and once listed, there will be hope again, but most people don't believe it.listing?Is that easy?It must be those people who are tossing around again, if they don't toss around, they are unwilling... Some people say that Hehua is going to disintegrate, and the 12 factories that were originally merged will be separated to live their own lives.Some people still don’t believe it, it’s easy to match the time and difficult to share the time. This is the same as separating the sons. If the division is not good, the donkey will die and the saddle will rot. People are discussing, worrying, saying whatever they want, Hehua must not collapse.If Hehua collapses, the sky in Heyang will also collapse. How will the people of Heyang live?Tens of thousands of workers come out with a bang, and Heyang City can't mess up? Chen Tianbiao, the founder of Hehua Group, has always been the center of discussion among Heyang people because of the peaks and troughs of Hehua Group.Regarding his complicated past, people have different opinions and have been unable to reach a consensus.Some people say that he was originally a junk collector, picked up a treasure while collecting junk, and became a rich man overnight.Some people say that he used to be a pig dealer, started his business by selling pigs, and later made great achievements.Some people also said that he was born with a fine personality, and he set up a private factory long before contracting production to the household, earning a lot of money, and later spent a lot of time in prison for a woman.Of course, there were also people who said a lot of bad things about him, called him a fool, and insisted on tossing a good factory to death.But "God Baby" said that Chen Tianbiao committed a big taboo, he should not divorce and marry a concubine.He was born poor, and all his blessings were brought to him by his eldest wife. Marrying a younger wife is tantamount to digging his own grave.The concubine is not only a white tiger, but also has a red mole the size of a pea on her bottom, and she specializes in conquering men with a strong heart. People in Heyang didn't have much objection to Chen Tianbiao's divorce and remarriage.For a boss as big as him, marrying a concubine is nothing, just leave the Sangong Sixth Court.It doesn't matter who you put on! On the contrary, Huang Feng, a native of the old city, often said that he was just a country bumpkin who wanted to make big troubles in Heyang City?Huang Feng, a native of the old city, harbored an unreasonable hatred for Chen Tianbiao from the beginning to the end, saying that Heyang City was made into a mess by these country turkeys.Among the few entrepreneurs left after the big waves washed the sand in Heyang City, Huang Feng only favored Hu Wankun from the winery, saying that he had drunk ink and was a material for great things. How dare Chen Tianbiao compare with Hu Wankun?Huang Feng watched the sky quietly, and then sighed: Hu Wankun is the only one who has become a great weapon.But not a year after Huang Feng finished saying this, the winery unexpectedly collapsed, and Huang Feng was slapped in the face.From then on, he stopped talking about major events in Heyang City, and wandered around the square all day long, looking at the colorful and small things in Heyang City. People in Heyang believed that Huang Feng, a native of the old city, had always been extreme. His hatred of Chen Tianbiao was actually his hatred of the country people in Heyang City.Of course, his words were unacceptable, and some people confronted him, saying: What’s wrong with the country people, every one in Heyang city has a big brother and lives in a small western-style building; whoever drives a private car and raises a little girl is not a countryman?Look at you people in the old city, living in a slum, eating rotten vegetables, marrying a nasty woman, living in such a useless life, you still think you are like a countryman.Huang Feng was not convinced, and scolded: "No matter how much money a countryman has, he is still a countryman. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Compared with city people, it is far away. It will take another hundred years. This education alone is probably a You can’t learn it in a hundred years.” Then he cursed again. Cursing is cursing, contention is contention, people in Heyang generally have high hopes for Chen Tianbiao, and feel that if there is no such a person in this city of Heyang, who should we talk about after dinner.Hu Wankun?No, it's tasteless. Anyone who has read the book is a coward, and they can't get rid of the word "sour" at any time. How can someone Chen Tianbiao be so bold that when a mountain rises on the ground, it will make a sound when it collapses.Say Che Guanghui?It's better not to mention it, but it will be more invigorating to mention Che Guanghui.Take a look at Heyang City, where has he never been demolished? Compared with the past, Heyang people still prefer Chen Tianbiao. After all, it is not easy for him to build such a big factory for Heyang City and support 10,000 people!