Chapter 2 Chapter One

The eagle patrolled twice above its head majestically, then suddenly tightened its wings, slid up the peak in an extremely light and elegant manner, floated over the top of the dark forest, and sank into the deep and clear sky like a lake. On the valley, the innocent and smart little cloth pigeon was still fluttering its wings, calling for help in a frightened and mournful way. "Damn bad luck!" A man in his mid-thirties jumped up from behind a clump of wild peach trees. He looked in the direction of the eagle with regretful eyes, turned his body sideways, and made a helpless gesture towards the grass next to him. gesture.

The grassland is extremely small, among rocks and thorn trees.The tops of the weak and dense weeds are gradually dyed a circle of waxy yellow.A few grasshoppers and grasshoppers stretched out their limbs, with their chests and stomachs puffed out, singing sweet and long autumn songs.It was the afternoon, and the mountain wind stretched out countless warm hands, soaking the grassland and the foothills of the forest where the grassland is located in the brilliant and peaceful sunshine. "Damn it!" The person lying on the grass spat out the half-grass stick that he had been biting in his mouth, turned over and jumped up, patted the top grains of grass sticking to the fine-made Chinese tunic a few times, took it from the side and handed it over. A pair of natural crystal stone color-changing mirrors, looked towards the flat valley in the mountain depression, and then asked, "Where are Biaozi and the others?"

"There, behind the jujube tree." The thirty-five or six-year-old man shook his bare arm with deltoid muscles a few times, and shouted: "Biaozi! Peng Biaozi——" From behind the jujube tree that looked like a rockery, a skinny, hairy head and equally skinny, hairy arms protruded.The arm waved angrily towards this side, and at the same time, there were several inarticulate curses. "This ugly thing!" The thirty-five or six-year-old man cursed, glanced at his wrist, and took off the brown leather bag hanging on the mountain peach branch. "Secretary Yue, don't you still have a meeting? It's almost two o'clock."

The person called Secretary Yue was named Yue Pengcheng.According to local customs, he was forty-six years old; in terms of real numbers, he was two months and seven days away from forty-five.Because in recent years, the development from the knees up has been round, and the height of 1.75 meters has been shortened by at least 5 centimeters.Fortunately, he is not the prey the girls are chasing at the moment, and he does not suffer from the distress of "second-class disability"; even as a middle-aged man and "secretary", he properly shows a certain stability and dignity. He was not in a hurry, he scanned the open sky with his eyes, put on his photochromic mirror, and then slowly started down the hillside.

On the road under the hillside, a silver-gray ultra-luxury Crown sedan was shining golden in the autumn sunshine. The young driver was poking his head out of the car window, looking this way. "Hu Qiang, tell Peng Biaozi that you have to hunt down the eagle no matter what within two days." Yue Pengcheng ordered as he walked down the mountain path. "Don't worry, there will be no problem with the insurance within two days." "You don't have to think that the tax office has no regulations! The old customers of Crescent Island are here. If this program is missing, I will tear your tongue out and give Caesar a feast!"

Caesar is the name of a wolf dog that Yue Pengcheng raised. Hu Qiang didn't make a sound, just grinned his thick lips, supported Yue Pengcheng's arm, and walked down a steep weir full of piles of rocks. "rabbit!" Suddenly, a hare sprang out from a clump of trees where a few gravels rolled over, with red eyes and gray fur flashing, and ran quickly towards the hillside. "Catch the rabbit—" Yue Pengcheng and Hu Qiang were a little dazed, each grabbed a stone from the ground, threw it at the rabbit, shouted, and chased after it. The hare has short front legs and long rear legs, downhill like a woman with small feet, and uphill like a strong athlete.The two tried their best, and when they got to the mountain peach tree that they had just covered, the athlete had already jumped onto a piece of exposed stone boron group that was almost on the top of the mountain; Only tall and smart big ears.

Yue Pengcheng took off his leather shoes, panted and poured out the sand inside, at the same time narrowed his left eye resentfully, and made a gesture of aiming at the provocative hare. "Damn it! Good boy! It would be nice to bring that old Soviet-style double pipe! Bagou—" As if the hare was really hit, Ding Li fell down from the abrupt stone boron, followed the mountain with extreme speed, and rolled into a thicket of thorns. "Yeah?..." Before Yue Pengcheng could say a word of surprise, a black bolt of lightning shot out between two mountains standing side by side in the distance.

--eagle!It was the eagle that had just gone away and returned again! At the same time, behind the jujube tree that looked like a rockery, the skinny hairy arm and the indistinct cursing reappeared; a sharp and fierce child's voice was added to the cursing. Yue Pengcheng and Hu Qiang rushed to the piece of cow's tongue grass in front of them, completely ignoring the thousands of pairs of teeth of the cow's tongue grass, and nervously looked for the black lightning that had already ruled over their heads. This is obviously a battle-tested veteran in the air.It has already discovered the delicious and delicate prey on the ground of the valley, but it refuses to do so easily. It just hovers vigilantly in the mid-air: getting lower and slower every time, trying to find any clues of possible danger. .This hurts the people underground. "Hawkeye has the strength to roll beans."A rolling bean can't escape the eagle's eye, even a little flaw or doubt is enough to make the expectation come to naught.They took advantage of the time when the air veteran circled away, and quickly and vigorously buried their superfluous and clumsy bodies in the jujube branches and cow's tongue grass.

The veteran in the air finally failed to discover dangers and flaws.When it was convinced that the little cloth pigeon was just waiting for it out of ignorance or generosity, it chose the best angle, folded its wings suddenly, and swooped straight to the valley. This is a strong bow shot, the speed is so fast, and the time is so short that the veteran airman suddenly found the "Skynet" stretched a dozen meters above the ground, and he was unable to hold his wings and change himself even a little bit. The landing point of the dive. "Wow—" a desperate, valley-echoing hiss.

——The innocent and beautiful little cloth pigeon ended his fear forever, a huge transparent and carefully camouflaged net hula fell, and the veteran in the air who was still flying in the wind and clouds just now was left with only the pecking, kicking and struggling portion. "Oh—" Yue Pengcheng and Hu Qiang ran towards the valley. In the valley, the eagle and the nylon wire mesh had already rolled into a ball. "Don't move! Don't move any of them!" Peng Biaozi came running up and down, and knocked the broken gong in his throat when he was far away. A pair of military rubber shoes with leaking holes was put on the dirty feet; a pair of shiny trousers, whose color was difficult to distinguish, had several strange mouths; the naked upper body seemed to be coated with a layer of Iron-colored, long-lasting tin water; there are not many hairs, but very chic, which makes people think of it at the first sight: think of the fluffy grass beside the dusty road.

Peng Biaozi stood in front of the eagle net like this.Behind him is a skinny boy of twelve or thirteen years old——Stone Ding'er. Shi Bo Ding'er timidly stared at Yue Pengcheng and Hu Qiang, stopped by a pine tree, and only radiated greedy eyes. Peng Biaozi walked around the eagle net with his hands outstretched, under his thick and swollen eyelids, there was a glimmer of dissatisfaction. "None of you, don't move forward! Don't move forward! It's a terrible thing!...Hey, dear son! I knew that our fathers have affection, affection...Don't worry! Your uncle Biao will let you come out and kiss Son! Kiss on the mouth..." He conjured up a pair of long canvas gloves, wrapped half his arms with them; expertly grasped the eagle's legs, and with unimaginable agility, he picked it out of a mess of clueless nets. Afterwards, from a worn shirt tied around his waist, he tore off a few pieces of cloth about half a foot wide, and wrapped them one after another. In less than half a moment, the eagle, which was pecking and pecking desperately to escape, was caught. Wrapped from beginning to end, wrapped into a tight cloth roll.Only a small head was exposed outside the cloth scroll, and even the expression of anger and fear became weak. After seeing the whole process of releasing the eagle, and asking about the quality of the eagle and the time when it can be released, when Yue Pengcheng came to the side of the road full of joy, Hu Qiang, who was talking and laughing, suddenly stopped: "Secretary Yue..." Yue Pengcheng noticed the hesitation on the tip of his tongue, and deliberately looked at the stone bridge not far away.His "horse", the little silver-gray crown car that sent him to the meeting, was driving towards this side through the stone bridge.On the opposite side of the stone bridge is the beginning of another mountain ridge, and several cattle and sheep are grazing under an old eucalyptus tree.An old man and a boy who were grazing, from time to time roared a few wild songs with their hoarse and fragile voices.That weird tone reverberated in the valley. "Secretary Yue, I have something to tell you, don't..." Hu Qiang, with a thick back and a beard, suddenly seemed to be a big girl who hadn't left the cabinet. "If you have something to do, hurry up! Don't act like a fucking old woman!" "That's what happened. When I came here later, sister-in-law Shuzhen brought Dayong home..." Hu Qiang was cautious, but tried his best to appear calm. "What's wrong with calling home? Tell me!" Little Crown pulled to the side of the road, and the driver, Xiao Xie, opened the back door. "I heard a few words from the outside, it seems...it seems to be because of Qiu Ling's matter..." A gust of wind gushed through the valley.The wind painted a layer of purple red on Yue Pengcheng's generous face.His eyes wandered over the chest of an old eucalyptus tree by the roadside. "Is there any more?" "It seems to be talking about you..." "That's all?" Hu Qiang lowered his head and rubbed his toes on a stone by the side of the road. "Fucking dog bites a mouse!" The purple on Yue Pengcheng's face has passed, and his thick black brows are jumping, showing a bit of fierceness, "You, the chief of the security department, are really smart! Tell you to pay attention to your movements, put your ears on Go to the wall of my house! How courageous!" "Secretary Yue... no... I'm really not..." Hu Qiang's attentive face turned into fear, and the skeleton supporting his body seemed to have been sawed off in half.Yue Pengcheng didn't look at him, walked straight to the car, and then turned his head again: "I'll tell you about this, Hu Qiang, and stop here! In the next half sentence, you bring your old uncle here, don't mention me Don't give him face! You know it!" "Secretary Yue, I never dare! I, Hu Qiang, am an animal, and I dare not kick at you!..." Knowing that his goal had been achieved, Yue Pengcheng raised his legs to get on the car, moved his buttocks inward, and said in a relaxed tone, "Come on, I'll take you back." "No need for Secretary Yue, don't delay your meeting. I have to go to the gardening field to have a look." "That's good, Guo Mu is now down, and there must be no loopholes in the security work. Also, tell Yue Jianzhong, don't put your head in the eyes of the money, and bleed where it should bleed!" Hu Qiang seriously agreed.Yue Pengcheng leaned back firmly in the chair, and the door was pushed shut from the outside immediately.The clever little Xie only moved slightly, and the small silver-gray crown flew away like a swallow grazing the ground. What a magnificent and alluring time autumn has been! When the ivy burns red like sunset on the towering cliffs and on the branches of old old trees; "Words" and "people" The word geese, the mountain valley under the geese, countless red, yellow, purple and turquoise lanterns light up on the fruit trees in the wild river beach; Mother and wife light up the smoke in the summer... Autumn is mature.How the ripe autumn once made Yue Pengcheng's mind turned upside down! But I don't know when, autumn has been invisibly diluted, and it has lost its charm and charm that makes people's hearts tremble. Little Crown was driving on the plump and mysterious field in autumn, with fascinating colors showing off everywhere outside the window, and Yue Pengcheng's eyeballs didn't seem to move. The interior of the car is comfortable and elegant.He took a sip of the orange juice from the small refrigerator, adjusted the seat that could move back and forth to the best position, then closed his eyes, and entered the state of ecstasy half-lying and half-reclining. The gentle singing gradually entered my ears.A faint fragrance escapes from the delicate and exquisite pagoda-shaped incense box on the front seat. The tinted glass shaded the glare of the sun.The slowly blowing cold air immediately wiped away the traces of the mountain wind and bright sun. Xiao Xie, who watched the row of seats from the mirror, quietly turned down the volume of the radio, looked forward, and tried his best to drive the car as smoothly as possible, for fear of disturbing Yue Pengcheng's "golden dream". "Golden Dream"!This is the copyright of Xiaoxie.Only Xiao Xie knows how many absurd dreams this Yue Pengcheng had, but won success and praise in the end, during the drowsy long-distance travel and the driving of only a few kilometers or even a few hundred meters.This car, which no one dares to underestimate when driving on Chang'an Avenue, was originally just a 80% new Little Shanghai with a price of 15,000 yuan.At that time, it was already majestic enough, and the secretary of the county party committee was far behind.Xiao Xie, the young man who followed Yue Pengcheng out of the field pushing a wheelbarrow, boarded the bridge with a honey-like smile on his face.Just one month.Before he could warm his hands on the driver's platform, the car was driven away, and his smiling face was also driven away.But a week later, Yue Pengcheng took him back from a dismantled military camp and drove back a brand new red flag.Moreover, half of the 45,000 yuan that Little Shanghai sold was left.It was the first small red flag in the whole county and even the whole city. Wherever Xiao Xie drove, there would always be amazed and envious crowds around him. Even the bossy traffic police never dared to let out a red light.However, a year later, the little red flag turned into a check for RMB 85,000.With this check and the money Xiao Shanghai earned, Xiao Xie and another driver drove back from Guangzhou in a Crown and a Bluebird. In three years, a semi-new little Shanghai has turned into two brand-new high-end imported cars, and 15,000 yuan has turned over a dozen somersaults invisibly.What's more interesting is that there is a series of favors left behind.Those who left their checks in cash and drove away were all grateful, left a few baskets of sweet words, and some even paid extra. "As soon as my secretary closed his eyes, the banknotes flowed into his pockets. Where are the county magistrates and mayors?" Xiao Xie always praised every opportunity, sincerely and proudly.His admiration for Yue Pengcheng is by no means inferior to that of any great man in the world today. Yue Pengcheng's mood at this moment has nothing to do with "Huang Quan's dream". The joy of catching eagles did not last long.Hu Qiang's ambiguous words kept revolving in his mind: ... Shuzhen brought Dayong home ... it seemed that it was because of Qiu Ling ... Yue Pengcheng had no doubts about Hu Qiang's loyalty.This is not only because the kid ran over and killed someone with a car in the city, he managed to save him, and got him to become the chief of the security section in the village, but also because he and the kid's uncle, the former head of the organization of the county party committee and the current deputy of the standing committee of the county people's congress The director, Dashuai Chen, has a deep relationship. During the daytime, Shuzhen brings Dayong, who is the chief financial officer of the company, home. What will happen?Because of Qiu Ling's matter, because of Qiu Ling's matter?Did Shuzhen discover something about her relationship with Qiuling? ...Yue Pengcheng's heart skipped a beat, and immediately felt a layer of heat and humidity on his forehead. Could it be last night... last night.According to the time agreed by Qiu Ling, Yue Pengcheng rushed to the office ahead of time, wiped down the desk and coffee table, and tidied up the beds in the inner room.Many memories of him and Qiu Ling have been printed here.It's just that in the past six months, Qiu Ling has been reluctant to come to this office easily, especially not to enter the room inside.This made him only endure the torment in the expectation and anxiety that arises from time to time. "I have business with you tonight." Qiu Ling said softly when they passed each other on the stairs before leaving work. "To my office?" Qiu Ling's eyes flickered imperceptibly, she nodded: "Okay, I'll come at eight o'clock." Like a bright cloud in the sky, like a crane in a dream, Qiu Ling drifted away. On the stairs, a salesman said goodbye to several customers who came to ask for help.Yue Pengcheng climbed up quickly, kept the customers with rare enthusiasm, and took them to the small restaurant of the hotel, ordered some seafood and several bottles of Tsingtao beer.The customers are very grateful, and before leaving, I don't understand why this famous secretary of the Party branch of Dasangyuan Village and general manager of Far East Industrial Corporation, who is rarely seen in person, is so generous today. When the hands of the clock reached seven forty-five, there was the sound of footsteps on the stairs.Yue Pengcheng immediately picked up a newspaper and sat down on the sofa.He didn't want Qiu Ling to see his embarrassment of waiting restlessly.When dealing with women, and with a beloved woman who is much younger than oneself, one must pay attention to a little strategy.In the past six months, he has shown great concern for Qiu Ling and Qiu Ling's family, but he has never forced her in the slightest.A woman's heart is soft and hard.This is the only way to conquer a woman's heart.He knew that Qiu Ling would never forget him, and would come here as often as before.Of course, besides caring and considerate, he has other considerations and methods.Unexpectedly, before his "consideration and method" was put into practice, Qiu Ling would come here. woman!woman! The sound of footsteps on the stairs was heard outside the door, and it was the driver Xiao Xie who pushed the door and entered.The young man's fiancée was going back to his home in the county seat, and the young man asked the secretary if he needed a car at night. "You go, drive the car too, let her parents open their eyes! If someone asks, just say pick me up in the county." The young man went happily.The stairs never sounded again. 7:55... 8:00... 8:5... Yue Pengcheng felt as if some bugs were crawling on his body, and someone lit a fire on the sofa.He jumped up, went to the window, raised the purple and cream double curtains, and looked down the alley on the left. Still no one!Still no one! Distraught, he threw the newspaper on the sofa and sat in the wicker chair in front of the desk.Suddenly, he was shocked: on the high-backed sofa chair against the wall opposite, a girl was smiling towards this side. The smile was both admiration and sarcasm.The heaviness of the night reveals the silvery brightness of the two rows of clean teeth; the forehead is like a field of falling snow; below the field, two stars are inlaid under the two thick eyebrows; the bridge of the nose is straight like a ridge; Floats and streams freely in the back of the head and down the neck.She stretched out her slender index finger towards the wall, and the soft, milky white fluorescent light immediately made her whole body glow with a spring aura.The halo covered the fine creases on the corners of the eyes, and some kind of melancholy and uneasy feelings faintly leaking from the eyes below the creases. "Qiu Ling!..." With an impulse of joy, Yue Pengcheng stepped forward and took the girl's little hands. The hand was soft and smooth, like a warm sponge.A current was transmitted to the nerve center through the sponge, and Yue Pengcheng bent down. The hand pushed him away: "Don't move around, I have something to do with you." "It's so urgent, and it's delayed..." "Do you want to hear it? If you don't want to hear it, I'll leave immediately!" There was no room for maneuver in his tone. "Okay! Listen, how dare we not listen to Qiu Ling's words!" Yue Pengcheng retreated obediently to the sofa, and casually threw a bag of high-grade wine sweets. "I'm going to get married." "marry?" Yue Pengcheng's eyes froze suddenly.He almost jumped up, his eyeballs almost rolled onto the scarlet chemical fiber carpet. "I think you should understand me." Qiu Ling raised her lowered eyelids, and there was gentle expectation in her examining eyes. "With who?" Finally asked a word. "He Gong, He Zilei." It really was him, this "bad element" who was taken in!A month ago, Yue Pengcheng had heard that Qiu Ling had a relationship with this wandering engineer.But he didn't expect things to develop so quickly. "Did he understand all those things in the past?" "That was the secretary's frame for him." "So it's decided?" "I think so." silence.It's hard...it's dark outside the window.windy.The wind is like a naughty child, quietly trying to uncover the thick curtain and spy on the secret behind it.Suddenly, the curtains were lifted, and the magic and beauty of night penetrated into the dreary room. Yue Pengcheng took a few steps on the neat carpet.Then he returned to the rattan chair, took out a pack of cigarettes from the desk, lit one, and took a deep puff. Smoke filled his face and filled Qiu Ling's sight. He had quit smoking for nearly a year because of stomach problems and pharyngitis.That was the result of Qiu Ling's persuasion, but at this moment Qiu Ling could only watch helplessly, suppressing the thoughts of persuasion that rushed up several times. "Are you here to tell me about this today?" Yue Pengcheng coughed, but his mood had obviously calmed down. "Yes." Qiu Ling's face suddenly became a little hot, and her eyes fixed on the side of the desk.There was a magenta free-standing self-rotating quartz heater that had become an ornament. "If you can forgive me, I would like to ask you to do one more thing..." "Forgive you?" Yue Pengcheng groaned, leaning back for a moment, showing a warm and cheerful look. "It's a good thing that you want to get married, so why don't I forgive you? We've been together for so many years, in terms of merit and friendship, as long as I, Yue Pengcheng, have the final say in the big mulberry garden, you, Qiu Ling, can talk about anything!" Qiu Ling hesitated instead: "I just want to..." "Do you want to build a house? Do you want a foundation or materials?" "No, I just want to put his account..." "Oh, you can get married only if you have a registered permanent residence." Yue Pengcheng bent his fingers ponderously, and frowned slightly: "Qiu Ling, the matter of changing the household registration has been stuck, you know that. Especially like He Gong, who still has a tail behind his buttocks, it may be even more difficult." The bent fingers flicked lightly on the table a few times, and suddenly he raised his chin: "Well, I'll do it myself. I'm sure I won't miss your good day, okay?" Qiu Ling was obviously moved, and a few bright tears splashed from her eyes.She looked directly at Yue Pengcheng who was standing in front of her, and let him hold her little hands into two broad, firm palms like a cat, and put a series of heavy kisses on her lips... In deep thought, Yue Pengcheng couldn't help it He rubbed his palms gently, and then licked his lips. The warmth of the girl's hands and the sweetness of her red lips seemed to have not disappeared. What will Shuzhen find out?What will Dayong know? Shuzhen is a bloody person, if she really finds out about his affair with Qiuling, it will definitely cause a big disturbance.But how is this possible?What happened last night was as simple as that.Quickly and secretly! ...Maybe because of something else, the sisters Shuzhen and Qiu Ling collided?It must be for that alley, that boy Dayong wants to move the foundation of the house out a brick, it is really unreasonable! ...Yes, it must, it must be that alley! ... This kid Hu Qiang heard that the wind is rain, so he must beat hard when he goes back! ...Little Crown drove into a compound in Yue Pengcheng's thoughts.Before it stopped, a cadre ran over and opened the car door, and said to Yue Pengcheng, "Everyone is here. The county party committee secretary and Mr. Xing from the province are here, and they are waiting for you." Yue Pengcheng got out of the car, flung the door casually, trotted lightly, and climbed up the steps paved with white jade.