"It's up to you. Anyway, I'm more flexible on my own."
Seeing himself alone, Nie Cai couldn't help but sigh, took out a small camera bag from the car, and said.
After all, he is still a newcomer, and Qian Xiaohao has already worked with people in the column. At this time, it is understandable for them to make this choice.
"Okay, then let's part ways here and call you after completing the task. I wish you good luck."
Qian Xiaohao went straight back to the car, and with these words, he started the van, leaving Nie Cai alone...
After bidding farewell to Qian Xiaohao and the others, Nie Cai walked by the lake towards Mapo Village not far away.
Without others around him, Nie Cai felt more relaxed.
He didn't take out the camera he carried in his bag. Anyway, Nie Cai had a pupil camera, a secret camera that was incredible. This small DV was actually used to cover up other people's eyes.
The sewage outlet of Lanxiang Chemical Plant should be discharged directly into this lake. This lake is quite large, at least about a hundred acres. The plains alluvially produced by nearby lakes are very fertile. This is very fertile in the mountainous and densely forested D City. It is a rare fertile land.
However, most of these fertile fields by the lake are now deserted, and only a few fields are still sparsely planted with crops.
From a distance, Nie Cai could smell the strong smell of lake sewage, which made people feel extremely uncomfortable.
In the paddy field, a couple of old people were working. Nie Cai walked over and asked, "Old man, how long has this lake been like this?"
The old man was holding a hoe in the field, and his legs seemed a little lame.
He answered in the local dialect and said: "It has been almost ten years. I remember that not long after my eldest son got married, the lake was already like this. The water in this lake is too poisonous. My cattle drank this a few years ago." The water is dead.”
"Then the people from Lanxiang Chemical Plant didn't give you an explanation?"
With his keen sense of news, Nie Cai immediately asked further.
This kind of news material is too convincing. The loss of a cow is not small. Cows are not only the main labor force of local farmers, but also valuable livestock in ordinary people's homes.
It can be said that in this kind of village, a cow is the most valuable thing in most people's homes.
The old man sighed, and a look of resentment appeared on his wrinkled face: "An explanation? My leg was discounted when I went to ask for an explanation. The people in the chemical plant relied on the fact that they had someone above them, and they were like local bullies!"
"It's so overbearing... I'm here to buy Erythromycin from other places. Do you have any at home? I want to buy some authentic ones... "
Nie Cai made up a random reason. If he appeared in such a closed village with a foreign accent, he would definitely attract attention, and his identity as the purchaser of Erythromycin was the best cover.
"You're lucky. I went up the mountain a few days ago and found some... If you want them, I'll sell them to you cheaply."
The old man said with a look of surprise on his face.
Because of the pollution, the output of Erythromycetes is not as good as before. Nowadays, very few people come to Mapo Village to purchase. Most of them take long detours to other villages, where the degree of pollution is less.
"Really? That's great."
A look of surprise appeared on Nie Cai's face. When he was a child, Erythromycin was not that expensive and it was considered a home-cooked dish. Nie Cai could often eat it.
Nowadays, he can hardly eat it. Most of it is dried and used as gifts. Now that there is fresh Erythromycin, his greed is suddenly aroused.
Nie Cai and this old man came to his house.
The old man's home was not far away, just on the edge of Mapo Village. As soon as he reached the door, he shouted into the dark room.
"Honey, someone is here to collect the Erythroblastoma fungi, come out quickly!"
A middle-aged woman responded, probably his wife.
This middle-aged woman was holding a dark pot, and she seemed to be cooking.
"I happen to be cooking. Young man, if you don't mind, would you like to eat here?"
The old man put down his hoe and said to Nie Cai with a smile.
The purchase price of Erythromycetes is not cheap, and it is a huge amount of income for them. The old man was in a good mood, and it happened to be dinner time, so he invited Nie Cai.
"Old man, is our rice edible? I'll cook some more good rice..."
The woman glared at the old man and wanted to take the pot back.
"Auntie, wait, are you cooking?"
But Nie Cai quickly stopped her, his eyes focused on the pot in the woman's hand.
Nie Cai's eyesight was sharp, and he could see from a distance that the porridge was boiling in the pot, but the porridge was black, and even the rice soup was tinged with black.
"Yes, here is the rice we grew and the water from the well. It tastes bad when cooked. Young man, please wait a moment."
The aunt was a little embarrassed, thinking that Nie Cai was disgusted, so she quickly said.
"No, no... I want to take a look at this porridge, okay?"
Nie Cai's heart moved and he walked over.
This porridge is black and thin. How can normal rice be like this? I'm afraid it became like this due to contamination.
He leaned over and took a whiff, and sure enough, a familiar smell immediately drifted into his nose. It was the faint smell of sewage in the lake.
"Hey, it's all the fault of the Lanxiang Chemical Factory. We used to have fertile farmland here, and the rice we produced was famous far and wide. Now look..."
The old man sighed, turned around and walked into the house. Then he walked out with a handful of rice in his hand and spread it out in front of Nie Cai.
The rice grains were very small and tinged with black, which looked completely abnormal.
"Lao Li, are there guests?"
At this time, many villagers had gathered in front of his house. It was a rare thing for them that Nie Cai, a businessman who purchased Erythromycin, suddenly appeared in the small village.
With the beginning of Lao Li, everyone told me about the misfortune of living here. The water they eat is not good, the food they grow is not of high quality, and their yields are reduced, etc. They think these are all caused by pollution.
In order to solve the problem, they also spent their own money to hire the environmental monitoring department to conduct monitoring, but it did not help.
The villagers gathered around us and talked. No one cared about Nie Cai's identity from beginning to end. What's the use of talking to a businessman who buys Erythromycin
However, they really need someone to really listen patiently to the various harms they have suffered. Once someone is willing to listen to them, even if it is a stranger, why not
Looking at the simple yet troubled faces of the villagers and thinking about all the sufferings of living here, Nie Cai felt really bad.
"We cannot let this chemical plant continue to discharge pollutants. These villagers are so innocent. Their lives have been completely ruined by this chemical plant. Who will make the decision for them?"
Nie Cai sighed deeply, looking at the chimney standing in the distance, he couldn't help but think.