Zhong Guotao explained with a smile: "When did it happen, since the reform and opening up policy, it has been privately contracted, the factory is getting bigger and bigger, and now it has become a star enterprise in the county, solving the employment problem of hundreds of people, and the boss of our company was rated as an outstanding entrepreneur by the city." Let's just say that many of the young people in our Guhe Town are begging for a living here. ”

"Oh, that's really powerful, are we going to see Manager Wu?"

"Manager Wu is very busy, how can he have time to receive us, but he has said hello, I will take you to register, and I will assign you a job. ”

The two came to the personnel department as they spoke, and the person in charge of registration was a woman, and Qin Shanhai's first position in the work was "forest ranger", with a salary of 200 yuan, two days off and one off, and taking care of food.

As the saying goes, rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, and rely on the water to eat the water. Guhe Town has many mountains and deep forests, tree resources are relatively rich, three or five years of the situation, there are some capable people in the town who dare to fight, relying on mountain and forest resources, become the first batch of people to get rich.

Some people have made a fortune by taking the right path, and some people have relied on some despicable means to take shortcuts to make money, so there are some professional "mountain runners", the so-called "mountain runners", to put it bluntly, are tree stealers.

This steal is different from ordinary stealing, it is very professional and technical, and it is generally started in the early hours of the morning, because at this time few people can stay up without sleeping.

According to the route up the mountain obtained by squatting in advance during the day, a group of four or five thieves entered the mountain with professional tools, estimated the location and size of the target trees, and some were responsible for watching the wind, some were responsible for tying ropes, and some were responsible for sawing trees.

The rope is fastidious, and the rope used is important and strong, and two people tie the tree to be stolen, tie the rope to another tree and tighten it with force, and tie a slipknot.

The other two people took out the big saw, one person at the other, and began to saw the big tree back and forth, watering while sawing, because this can reduce the sound of the sound, ten or twenty minutes, you can cut two-thirds of the two or three feet thick tree!

The two men who tied the rope put a lot of force together on the tree that was about to fall, and pulled it in the direction of the tree. The other side continued to saw.

When it was about to break, several people shook back and forth together, and with a snap, the trunk was broken, and the big thick rope tied to the middle of the two trees flew up, and it straightened directly, and the trees that were about to fall on the ground were tied in the air, and the sound of the whole process was very small.

The job of a forest ranger is relatively simple, just watch the trees not be stolen, but the work is simple and simple, but it is very hard.

On the Daqing Mountain, the forest area under the name of the company has a simple house built every ten kilometers or so, only less than ten square meters, a bed, a chair and a stove, the ranger works here, there is a watchtower at the highest place on the mountain, the captain and deputy captain of the forest ranger live in the tower, there is a walkie-talkie contact with each other, change shifts every two days, usually cook and eat by yourself, go down the mountain to rest for a day, bring two days of supplies and then go up the mountain to change shifts.

This kind of simple house is cold in winter and stuffy in summer, this season, wrapped in a quilt and sitting in the house for a while can be frozen, it is forbidden to make a fire in the forest for heating, and can only rely on the small coal stove in the house to bring some heat when cooking, and it is necessary to seal it after cooking, because the briquettes are limited, only enough for cooking.

On Qin Shanhai's first day of work, Zhong Guotao took two hours off and sent him to the duty point on the mountain.

Qin Shanhai brought a few novels, and since elementary school, he has developed the habit of reading books, literary novels, popular science literature, and even technical books such as tractor maintenance can be read with relish.

When it's cold, I go out to play a set of military physical boxing exercises, and when my body is warm, I read a novel in the room for a while, and of course, the daily patrols are essential.

On this day, Qin Shanhai, who had been patrolling around, had just come back and was about to push the door in, when he was suddenly blindfolded with his hands, Qin Shanhai subconsciously reached out to hold the other party's arm, and as soon as he turned around, he was about to hold the other party's anti-joint.

"Oops, the sea, my arm ......" came the crisp voice.

Qin Shanhai was stunned: "Xiaojuan, why are you here?"

Xiaojuan rubbed her arm that was pinched by Qin Shanhai, pouted and said, "Just kidding you, why are you working so hard?"

"I'm sorry Xiaojuan, I didn't know it was you, come and see if you were hurt?" I thought it was a thief running the mountain......

"You're the thief!"

Xiaojuan let Qin Shanhai hold her arm, and said with a smug expression: "I heard Guotao say that you work here, I stewed a big stupid chicken, and rice, and brought it to you, you guy who doesn't know what to do, almost broke my arm." ”

Qin Shanhai pressed Xiaojuan's arm a few times, "What kind of food are you sending, the rations I brought here are enough, it's so cold, what are you doing here?" Okay, does your arm still hurt?"

"It hurts!"

"So what do you say?"

"If you eat a big stupid chicken, I won't be in pain. ”

"Sit in the room, silly girl. Qin Shanhai smiled.

Xiaojuan's surname is Guan, and Qin Shanhai are high school classmates, the two are still at the same table, they can be called childhood sweethearts, they fall in love with each other at an ignorant age, Qin Shanhai graduated and went to enlist in the army, Guan Xiaojuan often wrote to him, Qin Shanhai wrote back several times every three or five times.

Guan Xiaojuan was depressed and didn't understand the reason, Qin Shanhai's heart was like a mirror.

It was not long after graduating from high school, and on the TV of the village party secretary's house, I saw Guan Xiaojuan's father Guan Kai, this is the third time Qin Shanhai has seen Guan Xiaojuan's father, the first two times Guan Kai drove Santana to pick up Guan Xiaojuan from school, and this time I saw Guan Kai's news on the county TV station, which is a report on advanced private entrepreneurs.

Qin Shanhai recalled the contact with Guan Xiaojuan in the third year of high school, she was fashionable and decently dressed, beautiful and cute, cheerful and generous, with a superior family background, she never seemed to worry about money, her clothes and shoes were Shanghai goods at a glance, even the pen case was two-layered, and the fountain pen Qin Shanhai used was the first time to see it.

Qin Shanhai did not pay less tuition during his school years, but he knew what these tuition fees meant to a family like him, which was made up by his father Qin Deshe's old face from door to door for five yuan and ten yuan, and he had to save and save again when he ate in the school cafeteria.

He was also burdened with the expectations of his family and the elders and villagers in Shanghe Village, and he studied hard until late at night every day, but in the end, because of illness, he took a junior college exam.

After graduating from high school, Guan Xiaojuan worked as an accountant in the town's logistics company, and the CEO of this company was her father Guan Kai.

After Qin Shanhai was demobilized, Guan Xiaojuan came to him a few times, even if it was a wooden person, he knew what it meant, from the bottom of his heart, Guan Xiaojuan was cute and beautiful, lively and cheerful, as clear and translucent as white jade without flaws.

And as the old man said, he is simply a goose that fell into the well, no matter how it flutters, it is difficult to climb up.

"You live here, and the conditions are a little worse?" Guan Xiaojuan said, sitting on the only stool in the room.

Qin Shanhai sat on the bed with his arms crossed and said: "What's not good about this? The scenery is beautiful, no one disturbs, the daily job is patrolling, you can read books when you have nothing to do, exercise and exercise, and you can get a salary, it's good." Old classmate, your rotten capitalist thinking can be changed, hedonism is unacceptable. ”

"Don't be poor, hurry up and eat, the chicken soup is cold. Guan Xiaojuan got up, picked up the lunch box, opened the lid, and handed it to Qin Shanhai.

Qin Shanhai caught it, didn't refuse, picked up the chopsticks and ate it.

Guan Xiaojuan pursed her lips, as if she had made a lot of determination, "Dahai, do you understand what I mean?"

"......" Qin Shanhai glanced up at her and ate with his head bored.

"I'm a straight person, and I'm straight because ...... I'm afraid it's too late if I don't say it, the sea, I like you, I know you're in a bad mood these days when you come back from demobilization, you feel that your future is bleak, there's no way out, none of this matters, I just want to ask you, do you like me? I don't believe that we have been together for all these years, you don't mean that to me, you can not answer now, you think about it and tell me, I know what you think in your heart, you think that your family is difficult, you have low self-esteem in your heart, and you are afraid that you will marry me and make me suffer, but I tell you the sea, these are not things for me, we all have hands, and we can live a good life by hard work, are you right? Come to me when you think about it! I will leave first. Guan Xiaojuan seemed to have memorized it in advance, and finished speaking very quickly, and then without waiting for Qin Shanhai to respond, she got up and pushed the door directly and left.

Qin Shanhai held chopsticks in his hand, stuffed rice in his mouth, and was stunned.

......

In recent years, Guhe Town has relied on forest resources to generate income, and there are more than 30 timber companies of various sizes in the center of the town, many of which have built magnificent office buildings, compared with the residential bungalows in other places, it seems much more magnificent.

The Guhe Town Police Station is located in the west of the town, and it is still a two-story small building built in the early days of liberation, which was originally a classroom for the town primary school, and later the primary school built a new building, and the town changed this small building to the police station, saying that it was temporarily used, and a new one was built later, which was temporary for more than ten years.

It was renovated once three years ago, but it can't change the cold and damp of the old house, it is especially serious in summer, every time it comes, the director Liu Zhengkun asks the police to buy lime powder, sprinkled in the corner of the house to prevent moisture, in winter the room is very cold, only rely on the stove for heating, the conditions are more difficult.

Liu Zhengkun, the head of the police station in Guhe Town, is in his early forties, of medium height, with a solemn face at the moment, and is holding a meeting with the backbone of the station.

Everyone sat around the large square table in the conference room, and Liu Zhengkun said: "The comrades of the Forestry Bureau called, according to the comprehensive judgment of the intelligence of our two sides, these cases should be committed by the same group of people. ”

Lao Hou, Hou Zhenkun, forty-three years old, a veteran policeman who has been a police officer for more than 20 years, is older than the director and has old qualifications, but because of his hot temper, rough personality, and love to make a small mistake, so he has only mixed up with a deputy director, but this person's advantages are also particularly prominent, and his jealous and hateful personality makes his way of handling cases repeatedly foul, but it has miraculous effects, and the leader loves and hates him, and people with bad deeds in large and small villages in the jurisdiction are afraid when they hear the word Lao Hou.

Hou Zhenkun has a prominent personality, his appearance is also prominent, his body is stout, his skin is dark, and the beard on his face seems to be never clean.

Hou Zhenkun opened his mouth with a loud voice, " According to the mass report and field investigation visits, this group of people, the leader is Hu San, who was released from prison the year before last, nicknamed Hu Scar, was a boxer before he was imprisoned, a few years ago, we were not popular to practice martial arts here, this Hu San worshiped a folk martial artist, after practicing for a few years, he had capital, and began to come out with apprentices, this apprentice was a lot, he had a crooked idea, and took the apprentice to do evil, he was a well-known bully here, because of fighting with people, he was imprisoned for four years for injury, and the apprentices were scattered after coming out, he broke the jar and fell, and he never did his job, and the neighbors who lived near his house were all killed, and more than a dozen chickens that laid eggs in Aunt Li's house next door were almost stolen by him, It's all boiled and eaten, by the way, the area of his house that belongs to the small light in our institute, he has been arrested and tried twice, but this stealing chicken does not constitute a criminal case, educated, and detained for seven days, and he still does not change after coming out, and he does everything he does to abduct and deceive, this will not know where to learn the technique of running the mountains, and he has attracted a few ruffians in Guhe Town, specializing in stealing wood, this guy is not an ordinary petty thief, and he has not dealt with us for a day or two, he has a certain amount of anti-reconnaissance experience, our group organized two squatting guards in the last month, but he was not caught, according to my estimates, he stepped on the point during the day, worked at night, and his whereabouts were uncertain, Our police force is limited, and it is impossible to let all of our police force squat out and guard the hundreds of miles of forests near the jurisdiction, which is unrealistic, and this guy understands our methods very well, so it is difficult for us to grasp the key point in the direction of detection. ”