Everyone in the square turned to look at the place where the sound of gongs and drums came from.
"Boss, what happened?" Chen Qingyun put down his chopsticks and asked the young stall owner.
The busy stall owner dropped a sentence: "Rain God Festival."
Seeing that the stall owner was too busy to talk to him, Chen Qingyun turned to a scholar-looking brother with glasses at the food stall next to him and asked softly: "Brother, can you tell me what the Rain God Festival is about?"
The scholar said kindly: "Brother, you are an outsider. It is a blessing to be able to see the Rain God Festival. The Rain God Festival is a unique way of worship in Yushen County. Many units and families hold openings, openings, completions and other festive events.
People will worship the Rain God. I heard that another paper mill by the Rain God River will hold a commissioning ceremony today. I guess they are holding a Rain God sacrifice." There was also a young woman and a little girl at his table, probably his family members. I saw Chen Qingyun single.
One person, a scholar, came over with a wine glass, sat next to Chen Qingyun and said, "Brothers, please enjoy it. This kind of large-scale Rain God Festival is rare. It shows that the boss of the newly opened paper mill is not weak."
Chen Qingyun saw that this man was elegant, generous, enthusiastic, and willing to make friends, so he asked: "Brother, what's your surname? Are you a local?"
The scholar replied: "My name is Yu Chunhui. I am a teacher at Yushen No. 1 Middle School. I have a day off today and am bringing my family here to play. What's your surname, brother?"
"My name is Chen Qingyun, and I came here from Yanjing to relax. The scenery of the Rain God is very good, and the Thunder Duck and Rain God Fish in Yushan are even rare delicacies. It is indeed a worthwhile trip." Chen Qingyun deliberately opened up the topic.
Yu Chunhui said proudly: "Although Yushen is a small place, it does have some unique places. In addition to the two flavors of popular food you mentioned, which are unique to Yushen, if you go to the mountainous area, there are a lot of game; and the Yushen Lake's
There are also many kinds of fish, and the taste is better than that in big cities. During every festival, this dance called the Rain God Festival will be performed. Legend has it that in ancient times, this place was occupied by demons and became a evil village. The rain gods fought with the demons to save the villagers from water and fire.
In the end, they died together with the devil. In order to commemorate the Rain God, the villagers held sacrifices to the Rain God every year, forming the current Rain God Festival. There is a hill with towering ancient trees one kilometer outside the town, and there is a Tomb of the Rain God. Legend has it that the Rain God died in battle.
After being buried here by the villagers, the Rain Temple was built. It is unknown when the original Rain Temple was built. The current Rain Temple is a building from the Ming Dynasty."
Regardless of whether there is a rain god or not, this rain temple does have some origins. Chen Qingyun was about to ask about the details of the rain god ceremony when the sound of gongs and drums came to the square. He saw more than a dozen big men naked, carrying three
A wooden board wrapped in red silk, with a cow's head, a pig's head and a sheep's head placed on the board.
With the sound of gongs and drums, a fat man in a suit and leather shoes raised his hands to all around: "Dear fellow villagers, today is the celebration of the commissioning of Qingyu Paper Mill. In order to ask the God of Rain to bless the safety of this place and to bless the Qingyu Paper Mill with abundant wealth and prosperity, we have specially prepared three animals for sacrifice.
Lord Rain God."
Someone next to him immediately handed over red candles and sandalwood. The fat man lit them with money paper, bowed three times and bowed nine times, inserted them into the large incense burner in front of the temple, faced the square, and waved his hand: "I want to invite the Rain God to offer sacrifices."
Suddenly there was a roar of gongs and drums, and everyone in the square dispersed and formed a circle. Several people carried out their weapon racks. Two young men with bulging muscles stood up from the crowd and started to practice boxing. Then there was a sword fight against a spear.
Then there were individual martial arts, broadsword, qigong and other martial arts performances. People in the square kept cheering loudly and bursting into applause.
Chen Qingyun stood in the crowd and agreed very much with the performance of the Rain God Ceremony. The people who performed were not just showboats, but a few of them had quite solid kung fu. After practicing Qingwei Jue, Chen Qingyun felt that he was superior to others.
He has already practiced the first two moves of Tiangang Palm: Hidden Dragon Do Not Use and King Kong Slams Monument. The focus is on physical training, but the performance of the Rain God Festival is mainly about moves. In other words, they are moves designed for fighting.
I was wondering if I should also practice martial arts routines.
After the performance of the Rain God Festival, he and Yu Chunhui's family walked slowly towards the county seat. They invited their family to have dinner at a Diaojiaolou called the "Northeast Building" in the county seat, and frankly told Yu Chunhui that he came to the Rain God Festival.
Purpose. Yu Chunhui's simple and bookish style aroused Chen Qingyun's affection, and he was not at all wary of Chunhui. The meal did not end until the evening. Chen Qingyun and Yu Chunhui had a pleasant conversation, and the two exchanged phone numbers.
Just separated.
This was the first friend he made when he came to Yushen County. He considered it a real friend. Even though they only met once, he believed in his intuition.
Yu Chunhui told Chen Qingyun about the situation of the Papermaking Industrial Park, but he did not know much about the inside story of the papermaking industry. He only described the water quality of the Yushen River, the reactions of the citizens and the attitude of the government, which made Chen Qingyun's heart
I had the concept and told Chen Qingyun the location of the industrial park.
The water quality of Yushen Lake and Yushen River is worse than Chen Qingyun imagined. On both sides of Yushen River, there are more than 20 deep red ditches with a thick layer of garbage floating on the water.
The river water at the bottom has become filthy from here, like more than twenty evil dragons with teeth and claws, entangled around the body of the naturally beautiful fairy. It is terrible to see. From the industrial park below, not only the river and lake water have become dark red, but also there is a smell in the water.
A bad smell.
After taking the film in the camera and replacing it, Chen Qingyun walked around the industrial parks on both sides of the Yushen River and found that thirty-five paper mills were constantly discharging crimson and foaming paper into the Yushen River.
The sewage, including the Qingyu Paper Factory with a thick red hanging on the gate. There is an iron chimney beside the wall of each factory, and thick black smoke is billowing into the sky.
Chen Qingyun found a sewage outlet with the largest drainage volume, and walked along the sewage outlet towards the factory at the foot of the mountain. The only difference between this factory and other factories was that its chimney was made of red bricks, and the black smoke emitted was larger.
From a distance, I saw the name of the factory hanging on the door pier in front of the factory: "Yushan Hongyun Paper Mill". The big iron gate at the factory entrance was open, but there were two big men standing on both sides like door gods. From time to time, small four-wheelers pulled waste paper in and pulled
There were bundles of finished paper coming out, a very busy scene, but no one came in or out.
Chen Qingyun observed from a distance for a long time, and estimated that he would be blocked from entering through the gate, unless it was in the name of discussing business, but that would be too complicated. So he went around to the back of the factory in the simplest way, regained his strength, and jumped from the wall
Passed by and landed on an open space in the factory.
The layout of the Hongyun Paper Factory is very simple. There is an office building next to the factory gate, and in the middle is a cement flat of no less than 20 acres. The flat is filled with mountains of waste paper. Several workers hold water pipes and pour water on the waste paper.
Pile watering; on the other side, there are three factories arranged in the shape of finished products: two production workshops and a finished product warehouse.
No one paid attention to Chen Qingyun. He walked into the workshop with a calm expression. There is also a paper mill in Tai'an Industrial Park. He was no stranger to the production process of recycled paper, so he started from the first workshop on the right, shredding, stirring, sanding,
I took a few photos of the entire process of blanketing, drying, cutting, and bundling. Then I got into the boiler room behind the production workshop, avoiding the workers who were adding coal, and looking for smoke and dust treatment facilities. I found that the flue gas from the boiler was directed toward
Aerial discharge; after a final round of the factory, no wastewater treatment facilities were found.
When I was considering whether to go to the factory's office building to identify myself to the boss, suddenly a dog barked at the gate. Several people rushed to the cement floor and looked around. One of them found Chen Qingyun who was hesitating and pointed at him and shouted.
: "There, catch him."
At this time, he couldn't explain clearly. Chen Qingyun ducked to the workshop. When he saw no one around, he jumped out of the factory.
Seeing the momentum of the workers, Chen Qingyun knew that he could not communicate with these workers, so he used the land flying technique to take photos at the entrance of each factory, and also took photos of each sewage outlet, and then took several panoramic photos, and then went upstream.
He ran. He didn't expect that a group of people were waiting downstream. They only knew that a young man holding a camera was a threat to them.
Chen Qingyun's behavior of going upriver was completely subconscious, but it saved him from trouble.
He had to face what he had to face. He developed three sets of photos, one set to send to the agency, and two sets for backup.
Chen Qingyun took the photos and went to the County Environmental Protection Bureau first.
Yushen County is a small town in the mountains, but the small courtyard of the Environmental Protection Bureau is very exquisite: it covers an area of about six acres, a six-story office building, an annex building, a gate with a reception room, and a screen wall opposite the gate.
On the big book: Serve the people, there is a flag-raising platform in front of the wall, with three stainless steel flagpoles standing high.
The Environmental Protection Bureau office was on the second floor. Chen Qingyun knocked on the door: "Please come in." A childish voice came from the door.
Chen Qingyun pushed the door open and saw a young man sitting behind the executive desk, staring at him with curious eyes: "Who are you looking for?"
Looking at this young man of similar age to himself, Chen Qingyun put on a serious expression and said: "Hello, I am a reporter from Ziwei Daily. I came to Yushen County to learn about the situation."
"Ziwei Daily": The young man was stunned. This was a major newspaper in his eyes. Every year, the newspaper subscription task was assigned, and "Ziwei Daily" was always ranked second or third. This was a springtime far away from their lives. Suddenly
The reporter from this newspaper appeared in front of him, which made him feel uncomfortable. The young man asked in a voice that seemed strange to him: "Excuse me, what can I do?"
Chen Qingyun said calmly: "I want to know about the pollution problem in your county's paper industry. Who can give me some information?"
"Please wait a moment, I'm going to ask the leader for instructions." The young man forgot about making tea and hurriedly ran to the third floor because he felt invisible pressure.
About half an hour later, the young man came in and said softly: "Please follow me. Director Wu has just come back and is waiting for you in the office." Chen Qingyun understood the trick. Maybe all the directors went out, leaving this director to deal with the problem.
right.
Chen Qingyun guessed well. All the directors of the Environmental Protection Bureau were at home. They just heard the young man's report. After an emergency meeting, they left Deputy Director Wu Tianxing to deal with it. Director Meng Lin went to the county government to report to the county magistrate in charge.
Yushen County is very small, and Meng Lin arrived at the county government within ten minutes. After reporting the situation to the county magistrate Jiang Zailiang, the two discussed countermeasures.
"Reporter Chen, welcome, welcome. Yushen is a small place, and big media are rarely seen. What brought Reporter Chen here today?" Chen Qingyun came in, and Wu Tianxing, who was sitting behind the desk, stood up and shook hands with him.
"Ziwei Daily received some petition letters, and the leader of the newspaper sent me to understand the specific situation, mainly related to the issue of wastewater pollution from Yushen papermaking." Chen Qingyun did not intend to beat around the bush and explained his purpose straight to the point.
Wu Tianxing was slightly startled, but soon calmed down. He knew that what was supposed to come would always come, so he had to get over the hurdle before him: "Sitting on the ground will damage the grass. The paper mill will cause some pollution to the water quality, but the discharge of wastewater is still within the national sewage discharge standards."
Within the city, and the paper-making enterprises are all located downstream of the urban drinking water intake, so they will not have any impact on urban residents." Wu Tianxing deceived Chen Qingyun, a young man, and deceived him as soon as he opened his mouth.
"How do you measure compliance with sewage discharge standards?" Chen Qingyun really didn't understand, and the petition materials didn't explain it clearly.
"The pollutant indicators of papermaking wastewater include cod, bod5, suspended solids, sulfide, ammonia nitrogen, etc. These all meet the national three-level sewage discharge standards. Only the color exceeds the standard, so Yushen papermaking wastewater looks a bit scary, but in fact there is no big problem.
." Wu Tianxing immediately relaxed: It turns out he is a rookie, trying to scare people.
"Have these paper mills passed environmental protection approval? Do they have sewage treatment facilities?" Chen Qingyun continued to ask.
"All paper mills have gone through the approval procedures of the 'Three Simultaneities' of environmental protection, and the construction process is strictly carried out in accordance with the 'Three Simultaneities' of environmental protection." Wu Tianxing became more and more smooth as he spoke.
"What does the 'Three Simultaneities' of environmental protection mean?" Chen Qingyun was surrounded by Wu Tianxing and asked following his train of thought.
"Environmental protection's 'Three Simultaneities' means that pollution control facilities and the main project are designed, constructed and put into use at the same time."
"In other words, all paper mills have sewage treatment facilities?" Chen Qingyun finally grasped a core question.
The muscles on Wu Tianxing's face twitched slightly, which was caught by the sharp-eyed Chen Qingyun. He waited for Wu Tianxing's answer because he knew that these paper mills did not have sewage treatment facilities.
"They all have sewage treatment facilities. Otherwise, if the environmental protection inspection fails, the company will not be allowed to put into production." Wu Tianxing said with certainty. Chen Qingyun knew that he was not telling the truth, so the rest of Director Wu's introduction would also be untrue.
Chen Qingyun didn't want to continue to entangle with him, so he said straightforwardly: "Can I go to the scene and have a look?"
"This is inappropriate, isn't it? Entering the company's production area requires the permission of the company leaders, and the county has regulations that without the approval of the county party committee leaders, all departments are not allowed to conduct inspections." Wu Tianxing said with difficulty.
As soon as he left the phone, the phone on the table rang. He picked up the phone and immediately said with relief: "The county government has decided to carry out comprehensive rectification of paper-making pollution. All paper-making companies have stopped production, and companies whose sewage does not meet the standards are not allowed to resume production. The document was issued yesterday by the person in charge of environmental protection.
It was signed by County Magistrate Jiang, and I just received the notice. The county government has agreed for you to go to the site for an interview, but you are off work now. Go in the afternoon. Magistrate Jiang will host a banquet at the county government guest house at noon to welcome Reporter Chen."
Chen Qingyun did not want to embarrass the leaders of the local government. If his interview prompted the county government to resolve to control papermaking pollution, it would be considered a meritorious deed, so Chen Qingyun readily agreed to the noon feast.
In the box of the county government guest house, Jiang Zailiang squinted his small eyes and stretched out his hands towards Chen Qingyun with a smile on his face: "You are the big reporter of Ziwei Daily. You are so young that I am jealous. Reporter Chen is only in his twenties.
Years old."
"Absolutely." Chen Qingyun didn't want to discuss his age. Being young also means a lack of experience, and he can easily be looked down upon: "I have only been at Ziwei Daily for a year and I don't have enough experience. Please give me more advice from the leader."
Jiang Zailiang originally wanted to write something about this and get close to Chen Qingyun, but Chen Qingyun simply pointed it out. Jiang Zailiang smiled and said: "Reporter Chen is scolding me. People in small places have little knowledge. They blame me for talking nonsense. Reporter Chen, don't mind.
.Don’t talk about these, let’s take a seat. Today’s lunch will be mainly about friendship. The Rain God’s Thunder Duck and Rain God Fish are very unique. Reporter Chen has a try.”
Meng Lin, director of the Environmental Protection Bureau, saw that Jiang Zailiang was a little uncomfortable and stepped forward: "Journalist Chen traveled thousands of miles from Yanjing to Yushen, a remote and poor ravine for Yushen's environmental protection. It is our honor. Today Jiang County
The mayor is also moved by your responsible spirit, and specifically wants to communicate and discuss with Reporter Chen. Reporter Chen came at the right time. The county government just decided to comprehensively rectify papermaking pollution yesterday. We also hope that Reporter Chen can build momentum for us and make our
Pollution control work has achieved fruitful results."
Chen Qingyun was shocked. He was not used to such clichés, especially at such a sensitive time: "Director Meng's words are serious. If the papermaking pollution problem in your county is solved, I am willing to do my best to promote your county."
My own ability. But Director Meng said that the county government has documents, can you give me a copy to study on?"
Meng Lin immediately took out a red-headed document from his briefcase. Chen Qingyun read it carefully: "Then can I go to the scene and take a look?"
Jiang Zailiang said to Meng Lin: "Director Meng, you are responsible for accompanying Reporter Chen throughout the whole process. You must let Reporter Chen see the determination of the county government, and you must also present the beautiful scenery of Yushen and the enthusiasm of the people of Yushen to Reporter Chen without reservation.
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Returning to Yushan Town again, it was still a lively scene yesterday, but now it is quiet, and it feels like people are leaving the buildings. It seems that the Yushen County Government is serious about it, and the pollution problem in Yushen can be solved. Chen Qingyun is relieved, he really can't
I am willing to add negative news to this beautiful town.
What happened next made Chen Qingyun disappointed and even angry.