In the next few days, Shen Huai rested at home, and made a special trip to accompany his girlfriend "Cheng Yi" who came from afar to play in Donghua, regardless of the rumors; Xie Zhi went to Xucheng the next day under the pretext that the company had something to do.

Shen Huaiwei's feet fell, it would take two or three days to reduce the swelling, and it was inconvenient to drive for two days at first, but fortunately, Sun Yalin pulled Chen Dan and accompanied them to drive all the scenic spots that Donghua could see.

In addition to Xiapu and Xinjin, Shen Huai also specially drove Cheng Yi into Yushan.

Yuanshan County is located on the southeast slope of Yuanshan Mountain, and the northern suburbs of the city used to be the southern boundary of Yuanshan County, but there is a Xiangqiu Ridge that is not very high but the mountain is steep and crosses out, so that if you want to enter Yuanshan County from the city, you have to go around 20 kilometers more from the territory of Xiapu County.

The extra 20 kilometers around are still second, they are all Pinglu County Road, relatively smooth, and the road into the territory of Yushan County is called tossing people.

The winding mountain road of forty or fifty kilometers is not very treacherous, but the road is bumpy, and there is not even a smooth gravel road, nearly three hours of driving, people like Sun Yalin, who can't do without cars all day long and have excellent physical fitness, can hardly bear it.

When they arrived at the place, Chen Dan and Cheng Yi pulled the car door and squatted on the side of the road to vomit, vomiting in a gloomy color.

Cheng Yi was embarrassed to say anything, and Chen Dan couldn't help complaining: "Cheng Yi rarely comes to Donghua, you take us to Laoyu Ridge to drill, no matter what good scenery there is, it is also called such a road to be tormented." ”

Shen Huai grinned, and when he saw Cheng Yi, who was bleak in color, he was also puzzled, and said, "You guys were patronizing motion sickness just now, and you didn't pay attention to the terrain. Along the road, this river is called Dongyu River, and the upstream is the largest reservoir in the eastern part of Huaihai Province, Yuanxi Lake, which separates the east and west Yuanxi. In the early years, Dongyu Creek was also called the Yeqizi River, we entered the county seat, and then walked two or three miles upstream, the terrain will be a little higher, and you can see the Yeqizi forest on both sides of the river. This is the time when the trees are at their most colorful, and if the weather is fine tomorrow, you will know that this trip has been worthwhile. Like Sun Yalin, I can't endure this hardship, I haven't brought her here before?"

"Blow," Sun Yalin didn't believe Shen Huai's nonsense, and asked, "I heard that you have to go into the mountains every three or four months, just to see this wild forest?

"Cheng Yi, when you first arrived in Donghua, did you think that Donghua's development was very backward?" asked Shen Huai.

"......" Cheng Yi nodded, she took Xie Zhi's car and took the national highway from Xucheng, in so many places she has walked, she has never seen a place that is more backward than the development of Huaidong.

Even in Donghua City, there are few scattered high-rise buildings, the so-called commercial street in the city center is also very narrow, and there are even dilapidated houses in the middle of the street shops, even the most important shopping mall in Donghua is only six stories high, and the 30-storey Tianheng Building, although it gives Donghua some face, but at the same time, it also sets off the surrounding urban area more bleak.

In comparison, although the territory of Meixi Town is smaller, it has the feeling of a new town, rising next to the southeast suburbs of Donghua City.

The area that has been renovated in Meixi Town, the road, the green plants on the side of the road and the buildings on both sides are excellent, especially the Zhuxi Avenue and Meihe Highway on both sides are transplanted with a large area of eight to ten years of ginkgo, although the trees are still very delicate, but since late autumn, the apricot trees are golden and pleasing to the eye.

Get off the plane in Xucheng, take the car to the east, and all along the road are the plain areas on the north bank of the Zhu River, and all you see are fields, and you rarely see patches of woods.

After arriving in Meixi Town, I saw that there were such dense trees in the plains of the original Huaidong region, which made Cheng Yi feel more or less like a British town.

Cheng Yi can see that the trees planted in the township and countryside of Meixi Town are quite young, but due to the relatively dense planting, they are also considerable, and the wetlands along the Meixi River have been restored to a near-native landform of metasequoia forests, shrubs, reeds and grasses, and the scenery is particularly beautiful.

This makes people know that Shen Huai is not as bad as imagined when he is a local official, even if Shen Huai no longer holds the party and government positions in Meixi Town, it also shows that what he left to others is not always bad things.

"Donghua is poor, the development in the past two years has been quite improving, this year's urban and rural per capita income may be about the early 2,000s, but compared with the situation in Yushan County, it is much more generous," Shen Huai said, "The per capita income of urban and rural areas in Yushan County this year may not be more than 1,000." ”

"So poor?" Cheng Yi asked in surprise.

Cheng Yi went to the UK to study for a master's degree in law, coupled with family factors, her knowledge is much broader than that of ordinary young women, and she naturally knows that the per capita income in urban and rural areas is not more than 1,000, and the degree of poverty will be terrifying.

For most affluent families, it is difficult to understand the concept of food and clothing as a problem.

When Cheng Yi and Chen Dan eased up a little, Shen Huai pointed to the road and asked Sun Yalin to drive to the city of Yuanshan County.

The so-called Yushan County is similar to Meixi Town two or three years ago, and the area is even slightly smaller, and there is some farmland on the periphery.

The whole thing looks like a dam nested in the mountains, and the narrow oval terrain is like a huge elm leaf falling between the mountains, dividing the Dongyu River into two.

The main city is in the east of the river, there is a section of asphalt road along the river, which is also the smoothest road since entering the mountain, but driving past, the branch road and laneway on the side of the road are either gravel roads or ancient stone roads. Especially in Hexi, although the place is narrower, but the charm of the ancient town is stronger, looking into the distance, there are only two narrow bridges at the head and end of the city, connecting the two and a half cities in the east and west of the river.

The county guest house is at the top of the asphalt road, next to the county government compound, and it is an old-fashioned walled building.

Shen Huai drove the car into the courtyard of the guest house and went through the accommodation procedures, and the best room was only 30 yuan each, and an additional 10 yuan for dinner. However, I know that the scenery of Yushan is good in autumn, and there are many travelers who enter the guest house to stay, and Shen Huai and them may not have enough rooms when they come late.

Entering the guest house, Cheng Yi and Chen Dan's spirit recovered, the hazy weather suddenly turned sunny at dusk, Shen Huai left the guest house with the three girls, limped to a higher place, looked down, looked at the layers of black roofs in Yuanshan County, divided Dongyu Creek into two, as if two dark clouds, at the edge of the city, the wild pestle forest was dyed red like fire, as if to burn Dongyu Creek...... "The scenery here is really good, and the development of tourism in the future is good." Cheng Yi felt that it was really worth it to take two or three hours on the road.

Shen Huai smiled and said, "Yes." However, the extent to which tourism can develop is closely related to the overall level of economic development. Yushan County is the least populous county in Donghua, but it also has a population of more than 500,000. If we want more than 500,000 people to rely on tourism to solve the problem of food and clothing, then we need to attract at least 10 million people a year, an average of 30,000 people a day, to travel to the mountains for free consumption, relying on three or five large sums of money or occasionally one or twenty people overseas tour groups, we can only ask three to five hundred people to make a career out of this. And even if the peripheral economy develops and there is a demand for travel consumption, the basic conditions of Yushan County itself are poor, and there are not many people in real life who are like us who are full of food and support, and who have nothing to bump for two or three hours to see a wild pestle forest. ”

Sun Yalin listened to Shen Huai talk about the customs and customs of Yuanshan County all the way, and saw that he knew that he knew all kinds of situations in Yuanshan County very well, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind: "You won't be crazy, you want to enter Yuanshan to be an official, right?"

"Don't you think that Yuanshan is a good place to recuperate?" asked Shen Huai.

"The resources of Yushan County are too limited, and there are even few pieces of flat land for the development of large-scale industries, no matter how strong you are, throw you into Yushan Mountain, you are just a little loach, and you can't make any waves," Sun Yalin said, "If I were Tan Qiping, I would directly transfer you to Yushan County, let you be a deputy secretary, trapped here, and you can't do anything, see how you still toss." If you don't obey the order, then you don't want to go back to the place again. ”

"Poison a woman's heart again," Shen Huai and Sun Yalin crossed their eyes, and said to Cheng Yi, "By the way, Old Man Cui fought guerrilla warfare in Yushan County in his early years, and he was still the secretary of the Yushan County Party Committee at that time. ”

Put in a defensive state of mind and get along with ordinary friends, Cheng Yi found that Shen Huai is a person with extensive knowledge, profound insights, funny conversation, and proper behavior, and he will not feel the slightest pressure to get along with him, maybe it is really as he said, being a lover is not qualified, and it is really good to be a friend.

Even if Sun Yalin, although she often squeezes Shen Huai between words, and even counts his previous bad deeds from time to time, Cheng Yi can feel that Sun Yalin and Shen Huai, two cousins and brothers who may not be related by blood, are actually very close.

It has been two days, Shen Huai's right leg has become swollen a lot, as long as the distance is not long, he can walk slowly, and in the evening, he will accompany the three girls to walk around in the county town of Yuanshan, and find a normal mountain flavor meal, and invite them to a full meal.

The next day, I got up early and drove on a more rugged road to go upstream to Yuanxi Lake.

Yuanxi Lake is a reservoir built in the 60s, equipped with a hydropower station, and is one of the few industrial facilities in Yushan County, with an installed capacity of only 4 kilowatts. Although the hydropower station is not large, due to the backward economic development of Yushan County, the power generated by the power station in the wet season is even rich and can be exported, which is also one of the main sources of income for Yushan County.

Yuanxi Lake is hidden between the mountains, gathering more than 10 streams and rivers on the eastern slope of the Yuanling Mountains, with a water accumulation area of nearly 100 square kilometers, which is not only the largest reservoir in the eastern part of Huai Province, but also the largest freshwater lake in Donghua City.

After playing in Yuanxi Lake for a long time, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Shen Huai drove again, left Yushan County directly with his three daughters, returned to Donghua City, and rushed to the airport early the next day, so that she could take the flight back to Yanjing.