Hidden worries
The twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month is the traditional Spring Festival festival.
When Zhang Feng returned to Jinxiuyuan, it was very late. He didn't plan to come. But when he saw many children on the street still setting off fireworks, he suddenly remembered what day it was, and he was at the door of the local product company for sales. The shed built for fireworks bought some fireworks and turned around and returned to Jinxiuyuan.
Sure enough, I saw Zhang Wen in the eldest sister’s family at the gate of the community. Fang Qian was dragged by Zhang Wen’s little hand, and she bounced around. There was a large circle of people on the small square outside the community, setting off from time to time. With all kinds of colorful fireworks and fireworks, the atmosphere of the festival is extremely strong.
Jinxiuyuan is a commercial housing residential area developed earlier in Zhou'an County. It is similar to the villa area in the east of the city. It is a gathering place for relatively affluent people in the county, so it has become one of the more lively places during the festival. Now, many people in the city rushed to watch the fireworks display at the gate of the community, as if they were singing a big show.
When the car came in, it took a lot of effort. After all, it was still unable to drive into the living quarters of Jinxiuyuan. Outside the community, Zhang Feng called her eldest sister Zhang Jing, brother-in-law Fang Lan and others, and removed the cardboard box from the car. After saying a few words, he left. Unless there was a little niece, he wouldn't make this trip.
Zhang Feng didn’t go to the nitrogen fertilizer factory. At this point, he couldn’t see anything. Instead, he asked Zhou Yong to take the car to the county committee compound. Zhang Feng went back to the office by himself. Just a few minutes after sitting down, Xiao Tang knocked. The door came in, added tea to Zhang Feng, and said, "Secretary Zhang, I will prepare a supper for you?"
Zhang Feng nodded and said, "By the way, call Li Guanyu and ask him to come over."
Xiao Tang’s office was specially set up on the sixth floor to serve as the future project office. It is quite large. There are also living facilities in it. In terms of area alone, it is much larger than Zhang Feng’s office. The smaller lounge became Xiao Tang's bedroom. She was a college student from another place and had no other place to stay in the county, so the office became her nest.
Because of this, no matter when Zhang Feng comes back, Xiao Tang will know at the first time and come over to do some service work.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Li Guanyu rushed to the office, and he didn’t go back for a long time. Tonight, they don’t want to sacrifice the stove at home, but their home will have to wait until tomorrow night, so they plan to take a rest early, but his wife wants to take the children out to see. It was lively, so it was delayed until now and I haven't rested, but I caught up with Xiao Tang's call, and then rushed back to the county party committee without touching the ground.
Refilling Zhang Feng with hot tea, Li Guanyu reported: "Secretary Zhang, there is nothing that can be seen at the nitrogen fertilizer plant for the time being. The murderer has also been controlled by the Public Security Bureau, but the injured mother and daughter have not yet escaped the dangerous period. After the county magistrate Tan went to the hospital to visit the injured, he went to the city, and the deputy county magistrate in charge of the industrial port, Chen Jian, had returned to the county."
Zhang Feng sighed secretly in his heart, and met Chen Jian on the street by chance today, but he would rather see an illusion by himself.
The Toyota Camry had the license plate of the municipal government, but it was not a leader’s car. He was not in a hurry to find out who the owner of the car was, but he had already anticipated that the nitrogen fertilizer plant might be true. It will be like Chen Huishan's random analysis during small talks. It is not as simple as it seems on the surface. The key is how Chen Jian will behave.
Knuckles knocked on the table unconsciously for a while, and Zhang Feng suddenly said, "What do you think of this matter?"
Li Guanyu was obviously prepared for this in his heart, and he just thought about it a little bit and said: "Now is not the time to pursue responsibility, but to guard against possible accidents. The nitrogen fertilizer plant is like a hydrogen balloon full of gas. The body may explode at any time. Although there will not be a second homicide, the possibility of a mass accident is still very high."
Zhang Feng pondered for a while before he said, "You mean, County Chief Tan left in a hurry and rushed to the city overnight, actually avoiding?"
Li Guanyu hesitated for a moment, and said: "This possibility is not without it. With the wisdom of County Chief Tan, he will definitely be aware of this possibility. Therefore, there is still a possibility of temporarily avoiding it through reporting work. Moreover, Secretary Xu has not appeared since the accident until now, which is very abnormal."
Zhang Feng said with an "um" and said: "Chen Jianneng rushed back from Shanghai, but Secretary Xu stayed in the city and never showed up. To say that he was caught by something, the reason was too far-fetched, you say, Secretary Xu Why would you still not show up?"
Li Guanyu pondered for a while, then shook his head: "I don't understand, but there is no reason for Secretary Xu to not know what happened at the nitrogen fertilizer plant. Although the secretary and driver are not in the county, presumably, there is no shortage of information to Secretary Xu. people."
Zhang Feng nodded and said, "What's the situation on the public security bureau?"
Li Guanyu said: "I can't get the details. I also listened to the rumors between the murderer and their workshop director... Others talked about it, and there will be no falsehoods when I think about it. Now it's like that worker's situation. It cannot be said to be very common in nitrogen fertilizer plants, but there are also similar situations. These are all unstable factors as the new year is approaching."
Zhang Feng pondered for a while, and felt that the situation Li Guanyu said was very likely. The workers couldn’t eat food anymore. Maybe they could find a way to endure it because of face, or even think of other ways to tide over the difficulties, but today However, the homicide in 1989 has revealed the fig leaf. Many people will choose to take the risk. The chaos of public security is still light. If a person with a little brain organizes it, it will immediately appear. This is obviously very fatal to the county government. problem.
He didn't understand Tan Jinghan's thoughts. How could he choose to go to the city to report to work at this time? Even if you want to evade responsibility, it is not such an evasion law. Others can do this, but the county magistrate cannot. You are the head of the government. No matter whether this matter has direct or indirect relationship with you, you have to take responsibility. .
Then there is Xu Yuan, the secretary of the county party committee. Just like Li Guanyu said, there is no reason not to show up now. Even the deputy secretary of the county party committee rushed back overnight. How could Xu Yuan not understand the possible impact of the nitrogen fertilizer plant incident? After sitting in the executive chair and pondering for a while, Zhang Feng ordered: "Call Comrade Ye Qing and ask her to come over."
Xiao Tang went to the street specially, bought a catty of beef at the night market, cut a plate of pig ears, and made a few cold dishes. When he came back, he caught up with Ye Qing and set the desk together. It was half-faced, because I was going to talk about things, so instead of bringing white wine, I moved a box of blue ribbon beer and gave Ye Qing a drink.
After Xiao Tang left, the remaining three people sat around the desk eating and chatting. After all, they all had dinner. Although it was late, the appetites of several of them were not very strong, so they took a few mouthfuls. The topic turned to what happened at the nitrogen fertilizer plant today. Zhang Feng asked Ye Qing: "What is the situation, have you figured it out?"
Ye Qing sighed and said, "It's not complicated, it's just that it's not the right time to happen."
Zhang Feng smiled bitterly: "Who would say it is not, when this kind of thing happened in my youth, it is purely to add to people's obstruction."
Ye Qing said: "The murderer's name was Ma, Ma Tao, an ordinary worker in a nitrogen fertilizer plant, and his wife was a technician in the weaving branch of the nitrogen fertilizer plant. He had a daughter who was only on the first day of junior high this year. The shop director who was stabbed to death was surnamed Wang, named Wang Jianjun. It is one of the few leaders in the nitrogen fertilizer plant who has not been replaced. Wang Jianjun’s wife is also an employee of the nitrogen fertilizer plant. In the finance department of the main plant, his daughter has already gone to college."
After taking a sip of wine, Ye Qing sighed with regret, and said: "As you know the situation of the nitrogen fertilizer plant, production has been suspended for more than half a year. In fact, it has already started to default on the wages of the workers before the suspension. It is said that the production and sales of nitrogen fertilizer are booming. The supply is in short supply, how can we keep losing money? It is said that the equipment is aging, the production line is outdated, and so on.
Li Guanyu said: "I heard that the nitrogen fertilizer factory could still pay 70% of the salary six months ago. After the production is completely stopped, the money will not be paid. There will be four to five months. For single workers or families in rural areas. For the people, it’s not half a year. Even if there is no wages in 1978, it is not a big problem, but those who do not have savings can be miserable."
Ye Qing said, "Just because there is savings, how much money can ordinary workers save? In recent years, prices have soared, especially for daily necessities. Matches have quadrupled? The price of vinegar has increased by nearly ten times, right? Powder, soap, edible oil, sugar, etc., can you find a few things that have not increased in price? Although they are all small things, they consume the most."
Li Guanyu stretched out his hand to wipe his sweat, and said, "I have really gained a lot of knowledge after hearing what Ye Ju said. I knew that money was getting less and less, but I didn't analyze it in such a detailed way. It has also increased a lot, but at the end of the month, when the accounts are settled, it is actually more nervous than before the salary increase. I am still wondering where the salary increase has gone."
Zhang Feng smiled slightly. Li Guanyu may not be clear about the root cause, but he said so deliberately. Inflation has begun to show its power in the country. The country is engaged in so-called clean-up and rectification and a soft economic landing. These major policies are temporarily unavailable. It is impossible to benefit ordinary people, and this kind of economic plunder will intensify in the future, widening the gap between the rich and the poor, and the gap between urban and rural areas.
Zhang Feng couldn't help thinking of the trend of "buying hukou" from time to time. If someone said that some people didn’t know the development policy and trend of some countries, Zhang Feng would not believe it anyway. Only more than ten years later, the aftereffects of buying hukou would be When it comes out, those who have spent a lot of money on commodity grain accounts are afraid that they will regret death.
Ye Qing clamped a piece of pig ears, chewed it for a while, put down his chopsticks and said: "Those ordinary dual-employee families, especially those with no savings in their hands, have no economic income all at once. You can imagine the embarrassment, Ma Tao’s My daughter was ordered to go home every other day because of incomplete tuition and fees, so-called materials fees, school uniform fees, or even class fees. She has not been to school for several months."