This mentality of worrying about gains and losses made Yang Duning feel a little psychologically unbalanced, and he no longer had the kind of pleasure he wanted on the battlefield.
Yang Duning doesn't really want to rely on his own force to do things, he still wants to rely on orthodox methods to mess with his official career.
Yang Duning left Shicheng without eating dinner, and he went back to Yuecheng.
He didn't want to disturb anyone, he came back, just made some preparations.
When he came back, he felt a little guilty for Huang Qiuling and Awu, and he didn't even see him when he went back.
This night, Yang Duning did not sleep at all.
He was thinking.
At 7 o'clock the next morning, Yang Duning picked up Lu Jiawen and Mi Xiaoqing and came to Haha Township.
Today's work is to go on.
Yang Duning must go on, to get a real understanding of some situations, and he must first prepare for work.
The car didn't drive because there is no highway at all, it's all mountain roads.
Haha Country has six villages under its jurisdiction, with a population of more than 3,000, scattered in a mountainous area of more than 130 square kilometers.
From near to far, Yang Duning planned to run most of the six villages in one month. Naturally, Lu Jiawen was also directly "expropriated". Anyway, he has nothing to do as the director. There are two deputy directors. Overhead him, so he can find time to accompany Yang Duning.
Lu Jiawen is one of the very few people in the village who has visited Haha Township.
This morning, after Yang Duning went to Lin Feng to say hello, he was going to leave, but when he thought about it, he went to Qu Nan’s office to find the head of the township. He personally asked for leave and received warm reception and strong support from Qu Nan.
Qu Nan sincerely supports Yang Duning to go down. Without investigation, there is no right to speak. Only when you continue, you will be able to figure out some problems. It is impossible to get a complete understanding of the documents while sitting in the office.
The first village to go to is Muzi Village.
Muzi Village is about 30 kilometers northwest of the township government. It is the farthest village and the hardest to walk.
Thirty kilometers is not too far to say, but in this mountainous area with an average altitude of more than 2,000 meters, it is not easy to walk. Lu Jiawen carried a big bag with some dry food and flashlights in it. He said that it would be good to be able to walk to Muzi Village before dark today. I can only stay in the village tonight.
Yang Duning has specially prepared a satellite phone, otherwise, the phone will lose its signal and become a waste as soon as he enters the mountain.
The Haha Township Government is located in a Pingba, and it didn't take long to walk into the mountain.
It was supposed to be green mountains and green waters here, but oncoming bare mountains. Yang Duning couldn't help but feel a little lost, Shicheng's timber was almost sold out! There are not a few trees in the mountains, they are all grass, and the work of returning farmland to forests has not yet been completed.
There are still some slides that were still in use a few years ago on the mountain. They were left when the trees were sent down from the slide after cutting down the trees, but now that there are no trees, these slides have become the scars of the mountain. , I don’t know how many years it will heal.
In fact, even if the land is destroyed, there is not much benefit, because there are too few places suitable for planting rice and other crops. The main crops are potatoes, corn bags, and buckwheat.
At the foot of the mountain, too many caves have been dug out, such as dizzy eyeballs, which are so densely covered at the foot of the mountain, which are left by the mining of rare earth mines.
Shicheng's rare earth reserves are very large, accounting for one-tenth of the country's. The other nine-tenths are in Mongolia. There are no conditions for development at all, so this is the country's largest rare earth base. Another point is that more than 90% of the world’s rare earth deposits are located in China.
As time goes by, the trees on the mountain gradually increase. It is not that these trees are of no use value, but that the road is too difficult to walk.
A mountain road with a width of only about one meter, close to the mountainside, hovering all the way, not to mention the delivery of wood, even the walking began to become a lot more difficult, in some places the width is less than 50 cm, people can Pass carefully sideways.
Looking at the nearly 100-meter-long ravine below, people who have not walked this mountain road are afraid that their hands and feet are weakened and unable to move.
This is the only mountain road that connects the mountains and beyond. There are quite a lot of people. What makes Yang Duning most lamented is those women who are walking on the mountain road with firewood on their backs.
The women in these mountains are not tall, and I haven't seen any more than 1.6 meters old, and they are almost thirty-four years old, but their long years of hardship have made them look far beyond their actual age.
Yang Duning recalled that he had come to a ridiculous conclusion in his previous life: walking on the streets of the county seat, the eyes were full of black crows, except for married women's blubbers. It doesn't just refer to more, but black hair, black eyes and black face, plus black and gray clothes, which are all black.
One more time that Yang Duning remembered was the previous life.
One day, Yang Duning met a mountain woman who was in her fifties who sold vegetables on the street. The black face was covered with deep wrinkles, and he carried a back pocket with rice, some daily necessities, and a small piece of fat.
People in the mountains like fatty meat, not because they don’t like lean meat, but fatty meat is not only meat, but also some oil!
The old woman stood in front of a Japanese grocery store with a few coins in her hand, and whispered to the store owner to sell her half a bag of salt, saying that she only had a dime or two cents left.
At that time, there was no bulk salt here, and all of them could only sell iodized salt in bags.
A bag of salt, a dime and a quarter.
It may be that the old woman made a wrong calculation, so she lost two cents when she bought the salt.
Looking at the dime or two cents that was about to be crushed by that calloused hand, the shop owner simply rejected the old woman's request.
Seeing the more rickety body of the old woman, Yang Duning, the quasi-angry young man at the time, pushed away the indifferent crowd of onlookers, took two cents and eight cents out and handed it to the boss, and took two bags of salt.
Turning to hand a bag of salt to the old woman, Yang Duning tore open another bag of salt smoothly.
Before everyone had reacted, Yang Duning turned back and threw the torn bag of salt on the face of the grocery store owner that day!
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It has been so many years, and Yang Duning still remembers it.
(This incident is the author's personal experience, not fabricated. It is ridiculous that the hand was so angry at the time, and now she is in almost the same situation as the old woman back then. There has been no high spirits.)
The woman on the mountain road carrying firewood (no typo, it is wood cut down for firewood), the woman carrying on her body is almost arm-thick tree trunks, about one meter long, all placed horizontally on a shelf, and The shelf is on his back. The shelf is very high, so the firewood is piled very high, at least a few heads higher than the woman's head. The wood on this back must be at least one or two hundred catties, right
They all hold a "t"-shaped wooden product in their hands, about sixty to seventy centimeters high. This is to hold them under the back frame when they are tired, so that they can rest.
There is an old saying in Shicheng: Find a Shicheng woman and be a mule. This also just clarified how hard-working and hardworking women in this stone city are.
The firewood in Shicheng is very cheap, and this firewood can be bought in the county seat for only a few dollars.
But Yang Duning didn't see the other look in their eyes, and some of them were the kind of hope for the road ahead.
However, regardless of whether they are satisfied or dissatisfied with the status quo, Yang Duning has decided to help them change everything now. At least, they don't have to chop wood and back firewood so hard and exchange for a little bit of pitiful daily necessities!
As expected, Lu Jiawen is a character who has traveled to Haha Township. Along the way, almost everyone he meets will greet him. The names vary. Some are called "Director Lu", some are called "Guardian Lu", and some are called "Land cadres".
At this point, Yang Duning felt that Lu Jiawen was an individual talent. In today's society, there are very few people who can calm down and do things seriously. As long as there is a chance, Yang Duning will not forget to give him a chance.
Lu Jiawen didn't even think that because he went to the village a lot and was known by most of the villagers, this formed the impression of "capable official" in Yang Duning's heart, and he did not think that because of this, the trajectory of his life began to appear. change.
After walking for almost four hours, the two came to a mountain peak.
This is called Yakou.
It's hard to meet people on mountain roads.
The environment here has also undergone tremendous changes. The mountain is full of towering trees, completely covering the whole mountain. Although the sun is already high, the mountain road is very cool in the shade of the trees.
The melodious bird song is introduced to the ears from time to time, which makes people feel the primitive nature. The sound of the stream that accompanies the two has always been loud and small, but the stream itself cannot be seen under the cover of the trees.
Clouds of white mist rose up in the mountains. I looked at my side, but when I approached, I felt that I was far away. Even if I felt like I walked in, only moist and fresh air remained, but there was no fog in my sight. exist.
It's been a long time since Yang Duning returned to nature so easily. Even if he went to many such places while performing missions at Blade's Edge, it was another mood. So he looked at the mouth of the cliff not far away, and ran to the mouth of the cliff, ignoring Lu Jiawen, who was panting behind him.
The mouth of the cliff, as the name suggests, is the cliff on the top of a mountain peak. On one side is a deep cliff where Yun Shen does not know where, and on the other side is a sweeping view of the green hills at the foot. Doesn't it mean that Dashan's son always has an open mind? I have seen this scene a few times, and even a small-hearted person is afraid that the mind will be enlarged.
Looking at the green hills under the mountain peaks, Yang Duning couldn't help but scream up to the sky. Amidst the roar, there was a sense of contentment and joy, dispelling the haze that had been suppressed in his heart because of the blade's edge.
Suddenly, the mountains echoed constantly, and the wild birds and birds echoed loudly. Suddenly Yang Duning hoped to find a place like this one day and live in the mountains and forests with the beauty.
When Lu Jiawen finally came up, panting like a bellows, Yang Duning smiled dumbly and laughed at herself, fearing that it would be difficult to turn back once this official road was stepped up.
It should be too late now, but since Yang Duning chose this path, how could he give up like this? He is not this kind of person, even if this road is difficult to walk, he has to go down, no matter how long or far this road can go!
Facing difficulties, the road ahead is like hiking a mountain road, with highs and lows, peace and urgency, but on the road, there will always be cliffs, and they are peaks one by one.
Those are difficulties and hurdles that need to be conquered one by one!