Due to the kindness of his wife Wu Ningfang, Hua Nianping stayed up all night because he was worried about being late and missing the train. Coupled with the two cups of coffee before going to bed last night, the nervous excitement stirred in his brain.
He endured until four o'clock in the morning, then packed his luggage and went downstairs alone.
Before leaving, he didn't think of waking up Wu Ningfang, but she didn't wake up either, saying she would see him off.
Hua Nianping got off the bus at the West Railway Station. It was already past five o'clock. While queuing up for security check to check his luggage, he saw the girl who bought the ticket from a "scalper" with him two days ago.
Still wearing sunglasses, she was embraced by five or six young men and women and sent into the waiting room with soft seats. Several of the faces seemed to be familiar faces that Hua Nianping had seen on TV.
They seemed to have come to take the girl to the car.
Hua Nianping sighed in his heart, thinking that he was going to Huaishang to take up his post now, but he was in vain to be a senior executive of a large company, and he was alone, so miserable and lonely.
Yesterday at noon, when he was on the phone with Lin Sirer, he told her uneasily that he was going to take a bus this morning and go to work in an unfamiliar place.
Lin Sirer's voice on the phone was filled with unconcealable pain because he suddenly left Beijing and refused to see her. She offered to drive over early in the morning to take him to the West Railway Station, but Hua Nianping cruelly refused.
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Hua Nianping squeezed into the common carriage with the crowd. When he finally found a seat and settled down, his underwear was completely soaked with sweat.
This train was severely overloaded, and the aisles and ends of the carriages were filled with passengers.
Hua Nianping found out from the Internet yesterday that more than two million people from Huaishang City go to work across the country every year.
At this time, he was in a train full of fishy smell and screams. He thought that there was only one round trip from Beijing to Huaishang and it was far away from actual needs. He immediately thought that the first thing after taking office was to communicate with the railway department.
Get in touch and try to open at least two new trains.
Sitting opposite Hua Nianping was an old country man in his sixties. Hua Nianping saw that there were more than a dozen men and women around him, all obeying the old man's command in every word and deed. They called the old man "Uncle Yan"
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Uncle Yan dressed and behaved like a foreman leading a team back to his hometown from the capital.
Next to Uncle Yan, there sat a young man wearing a suit and tie. He was not tall and stocky-looking.
He had a straight face from the moment he got in the car, obeying Uncle Yan's orders, but Hua Nianping could see that there was an anger hidden in the young man's heart that could explode at any time.
While the train was still loading, the conductor pushed a sales cart past the carriage. Uncle Yan immediately instructed the young man to buy two boxes of barrel noodles, a few sausages, and a bottle of drink for each of his dozen companions.
The young man was very reluctant and said with a blushing face: "Didn't you just eat before entering the station?"
Uncle Yan stared at him and said, "Didn't you see that more and more people are getting on the bus? When the bus is full, the toilet will be full. How can the trolley still be squeezed in? Could it be that just now?
One meal can last us more than ten hours before we get off at Huaishang City."
The young man muttered again: "Then don't buy so much for everyone at once."
Unexpectedly, Uncle Yan stood up immediately and lost his temper: "The train hasn't started yet, and we are still in the capital!"
He immediately asked a group of more than a dozen people accompanying him to get their luggage and get off the bus.
The young man seemed to be frightened immediately, and he responded obediently: "Buy, buy!"
Hua Nianping found that Uncle Yan and his group of more than a dozen people seemed to have been begged by young people before they were willing to leave Beijing.
However, as soon as the train started to move after the whistle sounded, the young man immediately became proud and proud.
His short stature was like a spring that suddenly took off. He jumped up from his seat, waved his arms vigorously in the air to Uncle Yan Si and the others, and said loudly: "Listen to me, all of you. I'll be there all the time."
Be honest and don't cause any trouble for me."
His voice drowned out the roar of the train, startling Hua Nianping on the opposite side.
Looking at Uncle Yan Si's group, all the tigers became honest and docile as if they saw the whip in the hands of the beast trainer.
Uncle Yan Si smiled dryly and said: "Mayor Lu Feng, please sit down and speak."
Mayor Lu said to Uncle Yan in a vicious tone: "You, Fourth Uncle, are the ones who take the lead in causing trouble. If there is any problem, our town cannot solve it. In the past few years, you were either making trouble in the district or running around in the city. In the past two years, you have grown up
After gaining knowledge, they gathered people again and again to the capital."
Uncle Yan Si said: "The town can't solve it, and the district and city don't care about it. We can't live this life."
Mayor Lu mocked Uncle Yan and said:
"You can solve it when you go to the capital. The capital found the province, the province found the city, the city found the district, and the town. Finally, the first level of the people sent me to take you all back.
.Don’t you all think about how much money there is in our town? Every time you go to the capital, you spend your own money. How can the town take you back without giving you a salary of ten thousand or eight thousand?"
Uncle Yan Si stopped talking, and the group of people he brought to the capital were even more silent.
Seeing everyone's obedience, Mayor Lu changed his tone and said: "Actually, I also know the difficulties of the villagers. Don't make things difficult for me anymore. When you return to Huaishang City, the town will hire a car to pick you up at the station.
Everyone, go back and we can discuss anything together later and don’t just mess around."
Hua Nianping had not slept well for two nights in a row. He wanted to have a good rest on the train, but seeing how noisy the carriage was, he couldn't feel at ease, so he planned to have a few words with Mayor Lu.
He handed Lu Feng and Yang Sidabai a cigarette each, and asked Lu Feng in a casual tone: "Are you the mayor?"
Lu Feng took the cigarette politely and replied: "It's the deputy mayor."
Hua Nianping asked again: "Why do they want to come to the capital?"
Lu Feng glanced at Hua Nianping warily and asked bluntly: "What do you do? This is our town's own business, does it have anything to do with you?"
Hua Nianping saw that Deputy Mayor Lu was a sensitive and responsible person. Instead of being angry, he had a good impression of him and said, "My surname is Hua. I have acquaintances in Huaishang City. See
See if I can help."
Although Lu Feng dismissed his doubts, he still did not want to expose the family scandal and said: "Thank you Mr. Hua for your kindness. The things here are too complicated and you can't talk!"
Uncle Yan took the cigarette from Hua Nianping and saw that Lu Feng was reluctant to talk to him, so he took the initiative and answered:
"There is a Xinhua Pharmaceutical Factory affiliated to Enyuan Group in our town. It has produced citric acid and amino acids in recent years, and has discharged the sewage from the factory into the Erdao River next to our village. The Erdao River has been flowing incessantly in recent years.
When we went out, the sewage overflowed to the edge of the village, the crops stopped growing, and the water in the village wells smelled sour. Mayor Lu Feng is the first democratically elected deputy mayor of our Qilitang Town. Everyone said that he is a good man and has done great things for our village.
We have reported this to the district and city several times.”