The leaves of the ancient ginkgo tree are yellowing and falling, and the branches are completely lifeless, becoming dry and gradually falling, and at night when the wind is strong, even an entire branch will be blown to the ground.

The tree doctors of the Garden Bureau all went out and made every effort to diagnose and treat it, but the condition of the ancient ginkgo tree did not improve, and many people were worried when winter came, wondering if they could see it budding and blooming in spring.

"It turns out that the ancient ginkgo tree is not sick because of transplantation, but because there is a drainage pipe from a chemical plant at its feet, and the excessive sewage flowing there has caused it to be like this!" As the message came out, it quickly spread among the people who cared for the ancient ginkgo tree.

"Which chemical plant is it? Let them make it clear, or they'll have to stop production!"

"Yes, we want them to stop production!

"Sue them...... This is too cheap for them! To deal with this kind of person, you have to catch them and beat them before you can get rid of your hatred!"

"Let them drink the wastewater from their factory!"

"What kind of factory is it?" the people began to ask, and some of the young men in the crowd began to roll up their sleeves, and Li Yao shouted along with them.

The ancient ginkgo tree, which was designated as China's national tree in 2008, has been designated as the national tree in many places, and many places have begun to apply for the Guinness Book of Records for the title of "the world's largest ginkgo tree".

Now the branches of this ancient ginkgo tree are craggy, and it seems to be looking down on the beings under their feet. Its growth period is significantly beyond a certain age, and it has entered a slow growth period, and the dry diameter grows very slowly, giving people a weather-beaten, vigorous and clumsy feeling in form.

The tree in front of me is almost 4,000 years old, it is already a very old tree, it is about 50 meters high, the diameter at breast height is more than 6 meters, the diameter is about 2 meters, it takes more than 10 people to embrace, the stalactites around the waist of the tree are densely overhanging, the color is thick and dignified like the stone, the mallet is like bamboo shoots, the cone and so on. It flows slowly like the slime of a rock, seemingly moving, with a strange shape and strong branches.

"Sure enough, it's a tree with tenacious vitality!" Jin Ying couldn't help but sigh. It took him a lot of effort to bring Li Yao, who was going to follow the humans to the chemical factory to settle accounts, home.

Yan'er watched her into the kitchen, and Jin Hotaru began to stuff flowers into the vase again, in recent days, the large and small vases at home, even the bottles originally used to hold pickles, oyster sauce, and soy sauce were used to hold flowers, and Jin Hotaru had to separate the bouquets and stuff them into each vase one by one.

"Yo, Li Yao's flower shop has closed down, and you have moved all the flowers in the store back home?" Ji Ao came out of nowhere and swaggered to the sofa. Sometimes he stayed at Jin Ying's house every day, and sometimes he disappeared for ten days and half a month.

"Bah, bah, less in this crow's mouth, these are all given to Jin Ying by others. Li Yao poked her head out of the kitchen and announced the incredible news to Ji Ao.

"Male or female?" Ji Ao was most concerned about this.

"Of course it's a woman!"

"Was it sent by a blind man?" Ji Ao assumed.

"It's not. ”

"Is that the psychopath?" Ji Ao assumed again.

"It's not!"

"That must be an enemy, this is called saluting first and then soldiering!" Ji Ao suddenly slapped his palm with his fist, and then stood up, looking suddenly enlightened, "It must be for you to relax your vigilance, and then do it to you." ”

"Jin Ying is not you, how can there be an enemy!" Li Yao shouted angrily, "It was given to him by my employees." ”

Ji Ao suddenly sat back on the sofa in disappointment: "I thought something was wrong, it turned out that you couldn't sell the rest in your store." Li Yao, when will the meal be good, I'm dying of hunger. ”

"It's good right away!" Li Yao muttered in a low voice as she agreed, "Ji Ao is so strange today, is he sick? Usually he would definitely get to the bottom of this kind of thing, but this time it's just like that?"

Jin Ying finally finished planting all the flowers, turned around and saw Ji Ao lying on the sofa on his back, holding the back of his head with both hands, looking at the roof in a daze. Jin Hotaru looked at the flowers in the room, and began to start.

On the way to pick up Li Yao today, Jin Ying was at the gate of a factory not far in front of her, and there were many people in the usually secluded side street for some reason, and they were shouting there. Jin Hotaru wasn't the kind of person to stop and watch the excitement, but as he drove by, several young men stopped his car and shoved the flyer into his window.

"It's about the tree again. Jin Hotaru looked at the flyers and the crowd outside the window, and couldn't help but stop the car.

The hottest topic in recent days in the city of Reitan has been about this ancient ginkgo tree, online, TV, radio, newspapers...... News about it is everywhere in various media outlets.

"There is also a cute side to human beings. The monsters also think that the humans who are working hard for a tree are indeed cute, and Jin Hotaru couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the humans who were pulling the slogans and shouting excitedly, since he borrowed the corpse to return the soul, he laughed more often.

"The sewage discharge from our factory did not exceed the standard, and here are the test results of the environmental department...... The leaking drain pipe is our fault, the equipment is aging, and we will be responsible for repairing it......" The person in charge of the factory told reporters "details" through the iron gate, repeatedly emphasizing that the sewage discharged from their factory did not exceed "the standards set by the state".

"The standards set by humans ......" Jin Hotaru sighed, human beings always use their own standards to measure nature, they may never have thought that even if they do not exceed the standards they set, sewage is still sewage, which is completely enough to kill those who have no right to set standards in the human world.

Human beings always think wishfully that they are the masters of all things, and there is no need to care about why insects and plants exist, so it is natural to use their perspective to set standards, as long as they are beneficial insects, they are called beneficial insects, vice versa, and plants that are beneficial to them are collectively called crops, and vice versa are called weeds.

If we were to classify it from the perspective of living beings, apart from human-eating monsters, what other creatures could be classified as "beneficial beasts" of humans? and how would we classify humans as "harmful beasts" or "beneficial beasts"? Jin Hotaru thought as she continued to drive on the road.

The crowd surrounding the factory became more agitated, and the police desperately tried to maintain the law, preventing them from squeezing through the iron gate to storm the factory, and some young men with strong blood had begun throwing stones, inkwell bottles, and other miscellaneous objects into the factory, and pushing the police.

"Why don't you policemen arrest them?

"Yes, it's the sewage discharged from their factory that makes the ancient ginkgo trees like that. ”

"Arrest them!"

"They should be sentenced to death!"

"If you don't arrest us, get out of the way, and we'll clean up these forgetful guys!"

“……”

Jin Hotaru suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure among the policemen, and that human was the only person who could be called Jin Hotaru's "friend".

"He Jiang?" Jin Ying was a little surprised, he felt that He Jiang was more like the kind of person who stood outside the door and threw stones, but now he was wearing a uniform and blocking the crowd with a straight face.

I saw him wave his arm, and when everyone was not paying attention, his elbow suddenly hit the stomach of the person in charge of the factory, and the man immediately grinned in pain and squatted on the ground, and he immediately raised his leg again and kicked the other party's leg, and the man jumped up with a scream.

"What are you shouting, what are you shouting, are you still yelling here! Why don't you hide in quickly! Who will be responsible if something happens?" He Jiang reprimanded that person solemnly, and pushed that person's shoulder heavily, "Go in, go in quickly!"

The man was pushed a few steps by him, and his head slammed into a discipline sign made of iron by the door. He rolled his eyes in pain, and when he raised his head, he couldn't bear the pain and didn't dare to talk to He Jiang anymore, so he hurriedly fled back to the factory.

A colleague of He Jiang secretly gave He Jiang a thumbs up and squeezed his eyes, and He Jiang casually shouted at the crowd: "Hurry up! Hurry up, what are you doing, go back, don't go any further!

Jin Ying guessed that he couldn't be so honest in carrying out the order to protect the chemical plant.

Human beings are really incomprehensible, some people destroy nature without feeling, some people desperately try to protect nature, and some people are usually so indifferent, but they burst out with incredible enthusiasm in an instant...... Even if it's a youkai......

Suddenly, Jin Hotaru stared at a familiar demon figure in front of her with wide eyes in surprise. Li Yao was running with a girl carrying a big basket from a distance shouting: "We're here with ammunition!"

The two of them panted and threw the big basket on the ground, wiped a handful of sweat and crossed their waists, and the crowd immediately scrambled to take tomatoes and eggs from the basket and threw them desperately through the iron gate into the factory. Even He Jiang's forehead was smashed by an egg.

Li Yao let out a long breath: "Those stalls selling tomatoes have divided all the broken ones, they should be ready for us, I'll get them right away." ”

"Okay, we'll help you carry it. Immediately a few young men who volunteered ran out of the crowd.

"Li Yao...... What are you doing......" Jin Hotaru hurriedly stopped the car beside her, cautiously asked.

"Jin Ying, you're here!" As soon as Li Yao saw Jin Ying, she immediately happily pounced over and hugged Jin Ying's arm, "You're just in time! Hey, we have a car, you don't have to carry it! Come back quickly!"

"Hey, what are you doing?" a crowd of people swarmed into his car, and the question asked by Jin Ying in a low voice was ignored.

"Hurry up and go to the vegetable market, hurry, hurry, everyone is waiting to use it!" Li Yao urged as soon as she got in the car.

As soon as the vegetable vendors in the vegetable market heard that they were using these to deal with the original culprits of the ancient ginkgo tree, they took the initiative to provide all kinds of spoiled vegetables.

Some even left their businesses behind and ran behind Jin Hotaru's car to show their support. Hotaru's car is always stuffed with vegetables and strange people for strange purposes, and he doesn't know what he's doing.

"Hey, hey, that taxi! stop!" A police officer who maintained order finally stared at the car that was coming in and out, busy creating chaos, and pointed at Jin Ying while walking quickly towards him and shouting orders, "Hey, it's you!

Jin Ying honestly stopped the car and stepped out of the car to wait for the police to approach her.

"Stupid! What are you doing here, waiting to be caught!" someone next to him kicked Jin Ying into the car and warned loudly, "Hurry up, hurry up!"

He Jiang got out of the crowd at some point, rushed to the side of the car and waved his hand to Jin Ying, signaling him to go back to the car, and then met the police officer who came over, put his arm around the other party's shoulder and said, "He's my buddy, let him go." ”

"Tell him to go quickly, don't stand there stupidly and make it difficult for me!" The officer didn't want to bother with this nosy either, so he threw down a sentence, pretended not to see it, and walked back.

Li Yao got into the car and patted the steering wheel excitedly: "Hurry, hurry up and drive, let's run away! The police are coming to arrest us! It's so interesting, it's so exciting!"

Jin Ying didn't think such a thing was interesting. As he drove away, the crowd besieging the factory dispersed in droves.