"Hahahaha, I understand! I understand! The national conditions are different! But you are busy and you can't be lazy when it comes to drinking. Come on, raise a glass. Whose turn it is! Hurry up, if you are not active in drinking, what else can you do!" Qiu Xian
He patted Hong Tao on the shoulder to express his understanding. However, his hands were not idle. He picked up the wine glass again and shouted to the township cadres below to stand up and toast. They lined up here one by one, each person toasting to the table!
"Hey, I told you to eat it slowly! No matter how fast my hands are, I'm not as fast as your mouth! Don't just eat the fish, eat it with the cake!" Hong Tao picked off the bones from a piece of fish and divided it into two portions for Kai.
Katie and Pan. Katie is indeed a foodie. She took a small bite first and felt it was good. Then she immediately turned on all her power and ate all the fish on the plate, then looked at Hong Tao.
"It's okay! It's okay, eat more! Eat more! Xiao Tang, find a waitress who will pick fish bones for our foreign guests. Don't do it, just pick it at the table!" Deputy Director Dou saw that Katie liked it.
When he eats fish and meat, he immediately becomes happy. He is considered half a master. The guests love to eat their own dishes, which in itself is an affirmation of the master.
"But Hong Tao, and my brothers and sisters, don't be too busy eating this now, keep some food in your stomach, there will be good things later." After Deputy Director Dou arranged for the waiter to pick the fish bones, he started to stop Hong Tao and Katie.
He refused to eat and pointed at a waiter who came out of the kitchen.
"This is a croaker! It's really big. When I went fishing in Pheasant Valley two years ago, I used a shrimp cage to catch croakers, but they were not that big!" When the waiter put a large porcelain basin on the table
After putting it on, Hong Tao immediately recognized what kind of fish was in the basin. There was a whole basin of roasted croakers in sauce, all about one foot in size. Not many croakers could grow so big. If they were wild, they would be.
Even more rare.
"It seems that Hong Tao is really an expert. He recognized what kind of fish it was at a glance. Have you ever been to Pheasant Valley? Is this the Pheasant Valley?" Deputy Director Dou saw that Hong Tao hadn't eaten yet and started praising his own dish.
, laughing so hard that his eyes couldn’t even see his eyes.
"Yes. I have gone fishing. I have been to this reservoir several times. I have stayed in Xionghu Valley, Pheasant Valley, and Alkali Plant. The scenery here is beautiful and the water quality is good. For people like me who like fishing, it is a paradise.
Ah!" Hong Tao actually came from his previous life and remembered that magical big carp. His eyes were not right as he spoke.
"Hey! This is called fate! Come on, for this fate, raise a glass and go!" Deputy County Magistrate Qiu is a master at persuading people to drink. The ants on the ground fight fiercely, and he can use them as reasons for toasting.
, so as long as you talk at the wine table, he can let you drink.
"Eat this fish by yourself. There is no fish bone, just a bone in the middle. Eat more, this fish is beautiful!" Hong Tao could only explain to Katie in Chinese, and then she would tell Pan. In this case, English is used.
It is very impolite to communicate because other people cannot understand and will think that you are hiding something from them, which is also impolite.
"You know this pot of fish, right? I asked the reservoir management office to fish for three full days before I could collect more than 20 fish. I threw away all the small ones. They couldn't fit on the table. I remember when I was a child, I ran to
Come here to catch fish. At that time, everyone wanted all the fish.
It's more than a foot long. It's fished out and left to dry in the sun. It has poisonous spines on its back. I hate this fish the most when it's barefoot in the water!" Deputy Director Dou was so happy that he began to tell stories about his childhood.
He also lamented that there were fewer fish in the reservoir area.
"Isn't our reservoir area well protected? Look at this green mountain and green water, how come there are ecological problems?" Hong Tao feels that there should not be such problems here. Firstly, there are no residents, and secondly, there are no fish farmers. Why is it like this?
?
"Hey, in the past few years, no one was managing this place. We just looked at the dam. People from the village below often came to fry fish. This was only contracted to a person a few years ago. He is also from Beijing. His surname is Ma.
The management is a little better. However, there has been a bit of drought down here in the past two years, and the annual irrigation water consumption is very large.
The water level in the reservoir has dropped to the lowest level. Most of the silver carp fry he scattered were washed away by opening the gate and releasing the water. He doesn't want to do it anymore. He is looking for me to terminate the contract. Isn't it just that you are here? How about you?
This matter is still difficult to handle!" Deputy Director Dou continued talking about the issue of the contractor of the reservoir.
"Hey, you can say that I am lucky! Oh, no, no, we are destined. Come on, brothers, I want to toast the two leaders for this fate!" As soon as Hong Tao heard what Deputy Director Dou said, he knew that he was
After explaining it to myself, I felt relieved that the contracting of the reservoir was basically a sure thing, and the only remaining issue was the cost.
In fact, speaking of this Beijinger surnamed Ma, Hong Tao was relatively familiar with him in his previous life. He has been contracting this place for almost ten years. His main income is raising silver carp fry. He does not use cages or provide any feed, so the silver carp can be raised here.
It grows naturally. The water here is very vast,
The winding length of more than ten kilometers is most suitable for the growth of silver carp, an upper-level fish that relies on swimming to feed. Therefore, the sales of his silver carp here are very good, and they are all transported to Beijing in refrigerated trucks, plus they are 100%
Wild silver carp and high-end meals are in short supply.
But since 2008, eastern Hebei has been relatively dry. The Taolingou Reservoir, which is responsible for irrigation, must open its gates to release water downstream. Hong Tao knew this in his previous life. When he came to fish at that time, the narrowest corner of the reservoir
It is less than 200 meters wide. The water has been released continuously for three years and has not been replenished in winter. As a result, the water level of the reservoir has reached the minimum storage capacity.
Release of water is not the most important thing. What worries Boss Ma the most is his fry. As soon as the gate is opened, the fry will follow the water flow and run out. We can't build any blocking net at will near the dam of the reservoir, so we can only watch.
When the fry disappear, it means that all the money in his pocket is gone. In this way, Boss Ma can resist it for one year, but in two years he will not be able to bear it anymore. As a result, in three years, Boss Ma can’t even pay this year’s contract fee.
They didn't pay enough and they clamored to terminate the contract.
In fact, let alone officials at the level of Deputy County Magistrate Qiu and Deputy Director Dou, it would be useless even if the Secretary of the Qinhuangdao Municipal Party Committee comes. The amount of water released for irrigation is set by the Provincial Water Conservancy Bureau.
The National Water Conservancy Bureau issued an order for disaster relief. Who dares to stop it? Let alone building a barrier.
Medium and large reservoirs like this don't belong to that county or city, they are all managed by the province or the state. People who contract the water surface will ignore you. But if you want to build ancillary facilities near Beipei, don't even think about it. Just go up a few meters downstream.
When it comes to the safety of lives and property of hundreds of thousands or millions of people, who will take action? Who dares to take action?
Hong Tao knew in his heart that by this spring, there would be floods in the upper reaches of the Taolin Kou Reservoir, that is, in Liaoning, and the water level of the reservoir would directly return to high levels, even exceeding the highest warning level in summer. In the province,
The leaders of the city have personally come here to direct the defense
There is no need to worry about the water level of the reservoir, so there is no need to worry about the water level of the reservoir. As for Boss Ma, in his previous life, he shouted to terminate the contract for two years. As soon as the water level came up, he stopped shouting and continued to contract the reservoir.
Until Hong Tao traveled through, Boss Ma was still here.
However, Hong Tao could only say sorry to Boss Ma silently at this time. He really couldn't tell him that the water level was about to rise. No one could tell him. After he signed the contract, others could only say that he was lucky. But Hong Tao
I feel really bad. I was just an idler who had nothing to do with the world. It was good to play around, but I
After I came up with the idea of contracting the reservoir, I went around asking people to be conspicuous without saying anything, and let Pan, a shrewd woman, tie my hands and feet. Now I have to watch others lose money. Isn't this a little too crazy? At least it's a break away.
If we have not set our standards as a human being, can this reservoir make up for such losses? Hong Tao doesn’t know!
But it’s too late to say anything now. Sometimes in life, people are like this. As long as you start something, you will not push the development of the event, but the event will push you forward. Unless you have the determination to cut off the strength of a strong man, otherwise you will not be able to stop.
Can't stop. Now Hong
Tao was in this state. He had already called Pan back from Germany for this reservoir, and she came as soon as she was told. Whether she was helping Hong Tao for her own business or for other purposes, she was here anyway.
This favor is enough to repay for a lifetime.
In addition, Irene is still actively lobbying Paul and others, hoping that they will also invest in Hong Tao. It is said that the group of lawyers and bankers who eat people's bones have relented, as long as Hong Tao signs the contract.
After that, they immediately sent people over to investigate. Although those people didn’t
What a good bird, but you can't play with others. Hong Tao doesn't care. At most, he will go to New York less in the future. At worst, he will even go to the United States less. But Irene still has to hang out there, anyway.
You can't let Irene ruin your reputation just for Hong Tao's unrestricted dream.
So, now Hong Tao is like the pawn crossing the river on the chessboard. He can only rush forward in one breath. If he really can't do it, no one will blame him. This is not because of lack of effort, but because of the limitations of objective conditions. But
You can't stop doing it!
The last dish of the banquet was Hong Tao’s favorite, braised badger meat!
A badger is a small mammal. It looks similar to a raccoon, one of the four pests in North America. It is larger than a raccoon. It usually comes out to look for food at night. It eats everything, including small birds, frogs, mice, and snakes.
, to corn, potatoes, peanuts, vegetables, whatever comes your way, your teeth will be good, whatever you eat tastes good! (To be continued)
