Pushing open the courtyard door, Chen Qingyun shouted loudly, pulling his suitcase and hurried inside. Two half-sized native dogs, one white and one black, looked at him from a distance and barked wildly. Chen Qingyun cursed.
: "The black and white evil spirits don't recognize me anymore." When Chen Qingyun was in college, he bought two puppies from the market. Chen Qingyun nicknamed them "the black and white evil spirits". Everyone in his family said that Chen Qingyun was too funny.
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"Qingyun is back." A middle-aged woman came out from the gate, with a joyful smile on her beautiful face. "Why don't you call back and ask your father to send a car to pick you up at the station." "There is a shuttle bus just outside the station.
, it’s convenient to get off the car right in front of my house. Besides, dad’s broken Jeep, I might as well take the shuttle bus.”
"Your dad changed his car and bought a Santana, which is much more comfortable than that old jeep." Huang Qiuling took the suitcase from Chen Qingyun, and Chen Qingyun put her arm around her mother's shoulders and walked into the courtyard.
This is a typical farmhouse compound, with farmland and a small river in the front, and green hills in the back. The courtyard covers an area of more than three acres, but there are no farm tools, rockeries, pools, pavilions, and more than a dozen sweet-scented osmanthus trees. The courtyard is very grandly decorated.
The backyard is a pig pen, a chicken coop and several vegetable plots. Many villagers no longer grow vegetables, but Chen Qingyun's family still maintains the habit of being self-sufficient for their daily needs.
"Our college student is back, let me see if he has gained weight." Two more old people came out of the small building. Chen Qingyun hurriedly stepped forward: "Grandpa, grandma, are you in good health?" "Okay, okay, see you.
Qingyun is even better." The two old men were smiling happily.
"Where's dad?" Chen Qingyun asked his mother. "Your dad has a customer in the factory, and he may not come back until after dinner. The business of the factory is better this year. The electric porcelain they produce is not only sold domestically, but is now ready to be exported. Today's customers
He's from the United States." "Great, but it's a pity that I can't help." "That's not necessarily true. If you learn foreign languages, you can at least help your father as a translator."
Qingyun mother and son were chatting when a shouting voice came from outside the door: "Aunt Huang, is Qingyun back?" "Li Yong" Qingyun hurriedly walked out of the courtyard, "You came just after I got home. When did you take vacation?"
Li Yong was Qingyun’s classmate in high school and studied automation at the National University of Defense Technology.
"Let's have dinner at my house. Let's go play basketball first. I haven't dealt with you for a long time and my hands are itchy." "Anyway, you are the defeated one, so I'm still afraid of you." Chen Qingyun's home is a three-story building.
Lou specially arranged a table tennis room for Chen Qingyun because Chen Qingyun has loved playing table tennis since he was a child.
Despite the bragging, Chen Qingyun was no match for Li Yong. The two played three games, but Chen Qingyun lost both times.
While eating, Chen Qingyun asked Li Yong: "Are you okay tonight? Can you accompany me to see my second uncle?" Before Li Yong could answer, Huang Qiuling took over: "Don't go, your second uncle went to Zi
We opened a new clinic in Weishan." "Go to Ziweishan to open a clinic? It's a poor mountain, so I won't offend my second uncle. Isn't the clinic in Qingpu Town good? What's going on?"
Chen Qingyun's grandmother's home is in Ziwei Village at the foot of Ziwei Mountain. When his grandmother was alive, he would go to Ziwei Village two or three times a year and was no stranger to Ziwei Mountain.
"When you went to Yanjing to study, a big event happened in our Liquan City. When the municipal government was conducting a mineral resources survey, it was discovered that there were gold veins in Ziwei Mountain. The nearby farmers who got the news stopped farming and swarmed up the mountain to pan for gold.
, many people made a fortune.
This year, more people came to Ziwei Mountain to pan for gold. Not only people from this city, but also many gold diggers from other provinces came. Now there are tens of thousands of people panning for gold on Ziwei Mountain. Even Qingpu Town, there is discussion
The most common thing is this. I heard that a child was watching the fun at the stone crusher. A bright yellow stone fell at his feet. He picked it up casually. After taking it home, his father found that it was a piece of gold."
"Is it so mysterious?" Qingyun sighed.
"This incident has spread widely. Many people from Qingpu Town have gone to Ziwei Mountain to pan for gold. Your second uncle, out of his mind, also went to Ziwei Mountain."
Just as he was talking, a cheerful voice came from outside the door: "Qingyun is back." Chen Qingyun looked up and saw his father Chen Yongjun coming in from the door following the voice.
After a while, with two calls of "brother", a delicate and lively girl and a shy boy came in from the door. They were Qingyun's younger brother Qingzhu and younger sister Qingyun.
Chen Qingyun’s younger brother and younger sister both study in Liquan City No. 1 Middle School, which is a well-known provincial key middle school and Chen Qingyun’s alma mater. Qingzhu is in the first grade of high school and Qingyun is in the second grade of junior high school. The brother and sister admire Qingyun especially.
He often takes Qingyun as an example. When he sees his brother who is studying at Ziwei University come back, he will naturally become affectionate and stick to Qingyun and never let go.
The reunion of a family of seven brings a lot of excitement. As a student of the Journalism and Communication Department of Ziwei University, Chen Qingyun is naturally the pride of this family.
Chen Yongjun asked Qingyun what his plans were. Chen Qingyun told his father that he wanted to see his teacher and then get together with his classmates. He also wanted to visit his father's factory. The main time might be spent with his second uncle to see what happened to him.
Nerve. Chen Qingyun’s second uncle is a Chinese medicine doctor who is very famous, especially in acupuncture. Chen Qingyun has liked his second uncle since he was a child. He spends most of his vacation time with his second uncle, and he really learned a lot of skills.
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"Your second uncle has a car that goes into the city every week to do shopping. Ask him to go around to Qingpu to pick you up. Ziwei Mountain is very chaotic now. Remember to listen to your second uncle's arrangements and not mess around." Chen Yongjun is a casual father.
The education of children is also mainly relaxed. When Chen Qingyun was born, he discussed the education of children with his friends and advocated the laws of natural education.
When he was going to bed at night, Chen Qingyun's grandma came to his bed and sat on the bamboo chair beside the bed. She turned a string of rosary beads in her right hand and closed her eyes slightly, preparing to recite the Diamond Sutra for Chen Qingyun.
Chen Qingyun's grandma came from a scholarly family. She read poetry and books when she was young, devoted herself to Buddhism, had kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and was deeply loved by her neighbors. For more than ten years, she insisted on reciting the Diamond Sutra for Chen Qingyun every night.
"Grandma, you should go to bed early, I will recite by myself." Chen Qingyun felt sorry for his grandma and couldn't bear her to work for him anymore.
"Lie down." Grandma said without any doubt.
In the soothing voice of grandma's chanting, Chen Qingyun fell asleep.
Ziwei Mountain is located at the junction of Liquan City and Anjiang City. The urban area, Qingpu and Ziwei Mountain are in a triangular position, with Ziwei Lake in the middle. Entering the mountain from the road next to Ziwei Lake, the entire mountainous area belongs to Ziwei Township
About ten kilometers after entering the mountain, we arrived at a market town, which is the seat of the Ziwei Township government. After passing through the market town, Chen Qingyun's Isuzu double-cab car traveled for about five kilometers on a gravel road.
We just arrived at Ziwei Village.
"It turned out that this was just a mountain road. After the gold-mining army moved in, the party secretary of Ziwei Village allocated some funds to the bosses. It was considered as a fundraiser, and then a road was built that could pass cars." Driver Xiao Wang told Chen Qingyun,
He didn't know that Chen Qingyun was far more familiar with Ziwei Mountain than he was. Of course, it was Ziwei Mountain in the past. After the rise of the gold mining industry, Chen Qingyun was definitely not as familiar as Xiao Wang.
Chen Qingyun asked: "Brother Wang, it's time to eat peaches now, have you eaten them?"
Xiao Wang replied: "Fortunately, those gold diggers did not notice the peach grove on Ziwei Mountain, otherwise this year's summer solstice peaches would definitely not be able to complete the task of the county committee. On the day of picking peaches, the county committee sent many people and also dispatched the police.
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"It seems a little early to pick peaches, right?"
Xiao Wang said: "This year's peaches matured early, and I was afraid of being stolen, so I had to pick them quickly." Xiao Wang is not a local, but he is very familiar with the situation in Ziweishan Village.
Ziwei Mountain is the highest mountain in Liquan City, with an altitude of more than 1,700 meters. On the mountainside, there are lush forests and clouds and mist all year round. The mountain is steep and the road is rugged. No one can climb to the mountainside. Taohuayu is located at the foot of Ziwei Mountain.
A small stream flows through the valley. The widest part of the valley is less than 100 meters. Because peach blossoms are planted beside the stream, the locals call the valley Peach Blossom Valley. This is the only way up Ziwei Mountain. There are only a few hundred households.
The villagers do not live in Taohua Valley, but on the edge of the fields outside the valley, close to the mountains.
Chen Qingyun's second uncle, Chen Aimin, opened a clinic and a restaurant at the entrance of Taohuayu Valley. The clinic was located in a three-story building, with medical treatment downstairs and offices and accommodation upstairs. This small building was originally the branch secretary of Ziweishan Village.
Huang Jianguo's, the entire building is now used by Chen Aimin. A large wooden shed was built next to the small building, which is a canteen and restaurant.
Huang Jianguo is Chen Qingyun's uncle, and the surname Huang is the common surname in Ziwei Village. Huang Jianguo, who has been the village party secretary for more than ten years, has absolute authority in Ziwei Village.
When Chen Qingyun came to Taohua Valley, all the peach blossoms in the valley were gone. The hillsides on both sides of Taohua Valley were covered with mining caves. Along the creek were work sheds one after another, cyanide ponds one after another, and one after another.
Crusher after crusher, pile after pile of ore and cyanide-smelted sand and gravel. The gray-white muddy stream carries a large amount of mud and sand along Taohua Stream and flows into Ziwei Lake. The farmland outside the valley is also cyanide-smelted.
The chemical tank, crusher, ore, and ore were occupied. In the past, it was the season when rice was ripe, but now there is no trace of rice.
Chen Aimin, who was wearing a white coat, was busy treating people. When he saw Chen Qingyun coming in, he nodded. This is a small clinic that combines Chinese medicine and Western medicine. The shelves are full of medicinal materials for treating common diseases. Chen Aimin is the only one in the clinic.
There were seven or eight patients waiting for the doctor, and two nurses were busy. There was a row of small coal stoves against the wall, and the medicine jars above the coal stoves were steaming.
Chen Aimin was very happy when he saw Chen Qingyun coming in. He didn't bother to talk to Chen Qingyun and immediately handed over the task of grabbing the medicine to him.
I heard that Mr. Chen was here. In the evening, the village secretary Huang Jianguo treated him to a table of game, deer, pheasant, wild boar, etc. Huang Jianguo, Chen Aimin, Huang Jianguo's son Huang Li, and Chen Qingyun each occupied a side of the Eight Immortals table.
After three rounds, Huang Jianguo began to introduce the situation of Taohuayu to Chen Qingyun. After the government prospecting information was obtained by Huang Jianguo, Huang Jianguo first found his brother-in-law Chen Yongjun. Chen Yongjun invested 300,000 yuan in gold mining, accounting for 60% of the gold mine's equity.
Chen Yongjun was busy with business, so he could only send Chen Aimin to join the battle. Chen Aimin didn't know much about gold mining, but Huang Li's unit, Yuanjiachong Lead-Zinc Mine, was in a state of semi-stop production due to over-exploitation and insufficient production, so Huang Li invited
More than a dozen good brothers came here to pan for gold after going through the formalities of being suspended without pay. Huang Li naturally became the person in charge of the entire gold panning process and production, while Chen Aimin was responsible for the sales of gold in addition to seeing a doctor.
Due to the complete data and early mining time, among the dozens of gold caves currently mined, the two working areas mined by Chen Yongjun and Huang Jianguo are the mines with the largest veins and the highest gold content. Huang Jianguo was considerate and took out 10 from his own shares.
% of the equity was distributed to every household in the village, so it naturally gained everyone's support.
Chen Qingyun was shocked after hearing this and looked at his second uncle with some doubts: His father never mentioned these things to him?
Chen Aimin affirmed Huang Jianguo's statement and told Chen Qingyun that the situation in Taohuayu was complicated. You can read more and listen more, but don't talk too much, don't interfere in the production of gold mines, don't interact with others easily, and don't be meddlesome. Chen Qingyun was heartbroken.
I thought, there must be a reason for my father's actions, and I felt relieved.
Huang Li was a few years older than Chen Qingyun, and he admired Chen Qingyun very much: a top student at Ziwei University, who had studied medicine since he was a child, and could independently diagnose diseases and prescribe prescriptions; but he was an entrepreneur's son, but he had no airs at all. Chen Qingyun said mockingly:
"I am the son of a director of a township enterprise, where does my airs come from?" Because Chen Aimin and Huang Jianguo had something to discuss, Huang Li accompanied Chen Qingyun to look around after dinner.
At night, the entire Taohua Valley is brightly lit, with people drinking and playing cards in various work sheds. "Qingyun, you have to pay attention. Except for valleys and fields, you must not go to the hillsides on both sides, especially at night. There are tens of thousands of people in the entire Taohua Valley now.
Robberies, gambling, prostitution, and fights happen every day, and even murders occur. Yesterday, I heard that two people were missing. If you kill someone here, just throw them into the mine and no one will know.
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Chen Qingyun asked in surprise: "Does the government not care?"
Huang Li explained: "Now that the immigrant population is so large and mobile, gangs have begun to appear. However, various departments of the city government only know how to collect money. Our gold mines have complete procedures and pay taxes according to regulations.
, of course, it is just a symbolic payment. All gold mining bosses say that they are losing money, but they work harder and harder. But most gold mines do not go through the formalities at all, and the government departments turn a blind eye after collecting the money.
Eyes, close one eye.
The sale of sodium cyanide and explosives is controlled by the Public Security Bureau, with the public handling the formalities and private supply. Mining, environmental protection, forestry and other departments have to come to collect money several times a year, while the township government has established a gold mine.
The management office collects management fees once a month, but after several major fights, the township government established a security team to maintain order in Taohuayu. On the surface, the situation is much better than before."
Chen Qingyun said with emotion: "I didn't expect that a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters would become so unbearable because of gold mining. If the chaos continues for a long time, Ziwei Village will definitely not be peaceful. The temptation of gold is too great."
Huang Li said: "Now gold mining people are basically divided into three major factions: the local faction, dominated by our two families. We are familiar with various departments of the township government and the municipal government. The villagers also listen to us for safety reasons.
The other two factions are gold diggers from provinces S and F, each controlling a large gold mine. Other unorganized small bosses, local villagers and gold diggers from all over the city are digging everywhere, basically
It depends on luck.
Many of these people went home at a loss, but it is really annoying when one group leaves and another comes. However, people from other places are quite restrained in their treatment of the villagers in Ziweishan, and they have never come to the village to cause trouble."
Chen Qingyun was a little distracted as he listened: indiscriminate mining and excavation, serious ecological damage and environmental pollution, chaotic social security, and inadequate government management have caused many social problems. A place with beautiful mountains and clear waters has become a place of filth and evil.
So, it's really sad.
Huang Li saw that Chen Qingyun was very interested in this topic and told Chen Qingyun in detail what had happened in the past few months. He had worked in a lead-zinc mine for many years and was well aware of the harm that mining caused to the environment. Especially Ziwei, who received water from Taohua Creek.
The lake has been seriously polluted, and villagers downstream have petitioned many times. Almost all the farmland in Ziwei Village has been damaged, and there are only a few acres of paddy fields left for sowing. Huang Li also feels very sad about this situation.
Judging from the situation introduced by Huang Li, it is urgent to solve the current chaotic situation and standardize gold mining behavior. Chen Qingyun thought to himself: What a good news subject, it can form a good news investigation, just right
The school has assigned a holiday topic, which is a news investigation. But this matter is closely related to my father. Once it is revealed, will it have any impact on my father? What will my father think?
Confused, Chen Qingyun returned to his residence, recited the Diamond Sutra more than ten times, and fell asleep with a heavy heart.