Meixi Bridge is a cement bridge built in the middle of the 60s, after nearly 30 years of ups and downs, the bridge deck is full of potholes, the exposed steel bars on the bridge piles are also rusty and mottled, the railings are incomplete, and the narrow bridge deck makes two large trucks have to be careful on the bridge deck......

The Meixi Bridge, which has served the people on both sides of the lower reaches of the Meixi River for nearly 30 years, looks a little overwhelmed at this time.

Shen Huai pushed his bicycle and stood on the Meixi Bridge.

The land to the west of the bridge belongs to Tangzha District, and there is a spacious asphalt road built by the municipal finance, and to the east of the bridge is Meixi Town, where the gravel road is dusty.

Relying on the convenient and cheap river transportation of the Meixi River, from the bridge down, there are many river transportation wharves on both sides of the river, and there are some sand and gravel shops, timber shops and transportation stations.

It's just that the east of the bridge belongs to the area of Meixi Town, because the hardware facilities and management have not kept up, from the east bank of the river to both sides of the gravel road, it looks messy, and domestic garbage can be seen everywhere.

No matter how lagging the development of Meixi Town is, no matter how dirty it looks, every time he sets foot on this land, Shen Huai also feels cordial from the heart, insects chirp and birds fly, chickens and dogs jump, and those young girls squatting on the side of the road and peeing on their buttocks, all remind Shen Huai's soul that he belongs to this land.

No matter how shabby and backward she looked at this time, no matter how good, upright, evil, greedy, industrious, lazy, and motivated people living above her, he had to love her.

"Secretary Shen!"

Shen Huai's reverie was interrupted by a delicate whisper, and he turned his head to look over. A bus was driving onto the bridge from the west end of the bridge, and Chen Dan sat in the bus by the window, looking at him in surprise.

Although the Meixi River is no longer clear and the water is muddy and yellow over the years, Chen Dan still likes to look at the sparkling river every time he crosses the bridge. At this time, the sunset was slanting, the river was scattered with sparkling golden light, when the bus went on the bridge, Chen Dan was staring at the wide river in the distance, Shen Huai pushed the bicycle and stood on the bridge in a daze, and suddenly broke into her field of vision, so that she had the surprise of a sudden encounter. That coquettish cry was shouted almost subconsciously.

It's just that when I thought of Shen Huai parking in front of that kind of small shop that day, I thought that he was a greedy person, even if he hadn't had any crooked thoughts about himself, he should stay away from him, so he regretted saying hello to him.

How did Shen Huai know what Chen Dan was thinking about in his heart, seeing the kind and penetrating white face, as well as the bright and evasive eyes, which made his heart ripple slightly, the corners of his mouth curled, and he gave a responsive and clear smile, so he stepped into the car, followed the bus, and came to Meixi Town.

Shen Huai had visited Xiaoli in Meixi Town several times before, but he was far away and did not dare to disturb the peace of their lives, so Chen Dan had not seen Shen Huai in Meixi Town before.

Chen Dan turned his head, his face against the window glass, and watched Shen Huai ride a broken bicycle and follow him into Meixi Town. She didn't know that Shen Huai was going to Meixi Town, and she didn't know that Vice Mayor Chen Mingde died unexpectedly, these things were always very far away from her, how could she not be surprised to see Shen Huai riding a broken bicycle to Meixi Town?

At the same time, Chen Dan felt that the smile he had just now was extremely cordial, as if an old friend who had not seen him for a long time met and smiled, which was so natural and unforgettable, how could he feel this way about him?

Chen Dan had the heart to ignore Shen Huai, but when he thought that people had helped him a lot, he didn't pay attention to it, so he was a little too unkind, and when he saw the bus entering the station, he got off the bus and waited for Shen Huai to come over, wanting to say hello officially.

Chen Dan was wearing tight jeans under a rose-red tweed jacket, her legs looked slender and straight, standing on the platform with an outstanding posture, she simply tied her crow-colored hair behind her shoulders, and under the sunset that was gradually sinking westward, her fair face had an indescribable softness, which made her have the temperament of an unusual and beautiful woman.

Shen Huai saw Chen Dan standing on the bus platform from a distance, but a truck behind him was impatiently honking the horn, and he rushed to the bus stop before letting the truck pass.

At this time, his whole person was almost next to Chen Dan, and when he looked up, he saw her eyelashes, trembling slightly in the sunset, long and dense, and the falling shadows made her eyes extraordinarily deep, and Shen Huai looked a little distracted for a while.

Shen Huai's momentary loss of consciousness made Chen Dan feel a little irrepressible pride and disappointment in his heart, put the satchel in front of him, and asked softly in some embarrassment: "Why did Secretary Shen come to Meixi Town?"

"Oh, I'm bored in the afternoon, I'm riding around, and before I know it, I've ridden across the bridge," Shen Huai wanted to cover up a reason, and then asked, "Do you live near here?"

"I have to go one more way, but it's not far, just turn ahead. When I saw Secretary Shen, I thought of Haiwen's compensation, and I haven't thanked Secretary Shen yet......" Pulling away from the topic, Chen Dan fell and became generous.

"Really?" Shen Huai could probably understand Chen Dan's complicated feelings of not wanting to be unkind and unwilling to get too close, so he just laughed at Chen Dan's lie and said, "I still have to go to the town, so I won't delay......

"Secretary Shen is leaving, I have to say thank you again for Haiwen's matter. I happened to have something to do today, so I will invite Secretary Shen to my home another day. Chen Dan smiled sweetly, thinking that he had sent Shen Huai away, and bowed slightly to watch him ride away.

Shen Huai also knows that Chen Dan is a native of Hetang, Linzhen, married to Meixi, and she worked in the town guest house, and there are many people who know her in the town. If she walked side by side on the street with a "strange" man, and then invited her to the house, she didn't know what rumors would spread the next day.

Shen Huai rode forward for a while, stopped at the door of a hardware store, and saw that Chen Dan really turned south into a small fork in the road.

Shen Huai was so familiar with Meixi Town that he could walk around with his eyes closed, and knew that the small fork in the road that Chen Dan took could turn onto the old street of Meixi Town, pass through the town from the old street, and go to the east of the town.

Shen Huai wasn't angry that Chen Dan had deceived him, but he just felt a little funny, thinking that since her sense of vigilance was so strong, why did she get off the bus in advance and take two more stops?

Shen Huai was originally going to turn around to the Meixi Iron and Steel Plant in the south, but now he was afraid that he would be embarrassed by meeting Chen Dan in the old street, so he turned north at the intersection of the town center, pushing his bicycle in the sunset, and watching as he walked.

Shen Huai, as a native of Meixi, cherishes every grass and tree in the town; at this time, when he walked into Meixi Town again, perhaps the perspective of vision or observation has changed, and Shen Huai found that many people and things that were ignored by absent-mindedness in the past are clearly presented in front of him one by one.

He walked all the way north to the health center, thinking that Chen Dan should have gone back and would not be embarrassed by the gangsters in the town, so Shen Huai turned back and walked south. Walk through the old street and go to the south of the town is the Meixi Iron and Steel Factory. It used to be the leading collective enterprise in the subordinate towns of Donghua City, but in recent years, like the city steel mills, it has rapidly declined, and the situation is even worse than that of the city steel mills.

It's just that before he walked to the Meixi Iron and Steel Plant, Shen Huai saw a large group of people around the intersection of Xuetang Street and Lao Street from a distance, and vaguely watched someone pushing and fighting inside.

Shen Huai walked over lively, and saw three or five strong men pressing a young man with a flat head to the ground, Chen Dan desperately squeezed in without image, trying to protect the young man who fell to the ground, not asking others to punch and kick him, and shouted in his mouth: "If you want to be fined, you can fine, and you can confiscate things, how can you beat people?"

The curb was littered with bits and pieces of goods, as well as rolled-up plastic sheeting.

Shen Huai is too familiar with the situation in Meixi, and the situation in front of him must be that the town's joint defense team violently cleaned up the roadside stalls, and it may be that this young man hit the muzzle of a gun and cleaned up the street for the people of the joint defense team.

Although Chen Dan wanted to squeeze in to protect the young man, he had little strength, so he asked someone to push him out, sat on the ground with his buttocks full, and couldn't struggle to get up for a long time. The young man who was pressed to the ground and beaten saw Chen Dan being bullied, he stood up violently with a roar, stopped his waist and hugged the person who pushed Chen Dan, and fell to the ground, regardless of others punching and kicking him, he recognized that person stabbing his fist fiercely.

At this time, Shen Huai found out that the young man turned out to be Chen Dan's younger brother Chen Tong, who had been in the army for many years: This kid has come back from the army?

"Stop!" Shen Huai squeezed in, saw a person take out a short stick and wanted to pump it on Chen Tong's head, grabbed it, pulled it out violently, and asked, "What are you doing here?

"Who is your mother, Meixi got your chicken rake to meddle in your business?" The person who grabbed the short stick for Shen Huai, saw that his companion also pressed Chen Tong on his body and beat him, his eyes were red, and when he saw the person standing up and being idle, he came to pull Shen Huai's collar with his free hand, his eyes were round, and he couldn't wait to hit him in the face with his fist in the next moment.

"This is my work card. I don't want to mind your business, it's just that you are so ruthless that you want to beat people to death, which of you can afford to take responsibility?" Shen Huaicai didn't suffer a loss, and when he squeezed in, he took the work card in his hand and lit it up in front of the person's fist in time.

The man was stunned for a moment and took Shen Huai's work card.

"Who is your mother?" There was a short young man in the crowd, obviously in charge, seeing the nosy person stand up, he first commanded the joint defense team members to pull Chen Tong up and press him to the ground, first rescued his own people, and then walked over with his hands in his pockets, and looked at Shen Huai with slanted eyes, "The joint defense team enforces the law and rectifies the city, this kid knows the law and breaks the law, and he sets up stalls on the street, and he fucking disobeys discipline, so he starts to injure our team members first." Even if we beat him to death today, we will defend ourselves. Who are you, dare to go to Meixi's territory to take care of things?"

Shen Huai recognized this person, his name was Wang Gang, and he was a gangster in the town, because his face was short and small, like a cat, and his face was yellow all year round, and he was nicknamed "Yellow-faced Cat". His mother is a woman and cadre in the town, and somehow got into bed with Du Jian, the secretary of the town party committee, a few years ago. Since then, Wang Gang has put on a grass-green security uniform, and has become the deputy captain of the town's joint defense team, and has become the little overlord of Meixi Town.

From the hands of his subordinates, Wang Gang snatched Shen Huai's work card and fell to his feet, he was standing in the crowd just now, and when he saw Shen Huai pushing a bicycle over, he didn't look down on this little white face in his heart, and said sharply: "What the fuck are you, dare to come to Meixi Town to be the boss?"

"Who am you, you ask?" Shen Huai smiled, "I'm nothing, I'm just passing by." But if you kill someone, I'm afraid it's not easy to explain, right?"

"It's your business, you know how to lift it today, otherwise even you will be arrested," Wang Gang glared at the thorn in front of him evilly, turned back and pointed to Chen Tong, who fell to the ground, and instructed his subordinates, "Tie him up, take him to the team, lock him up for two days, clean up well, and see if he can learn to ......be honest."