Meng Wentian only felt a stream of blood rushing from his chest to the top of his head, and said angrily: "They are so shameless?"

Hua Yi said coldly: "If it weren't for Huang Ziqi grabbing me, I would have trampled those three Wang Ba eggs to death!"

Then, Hua Yi sneered: "Chang Hengzhang's family has not had a good thing for several generations. Zhang Hutong's old guy finally confessed that their Zhang family had made a fortune by mastering other people's black materials for generations. He was so, his father was so, and his son learned from him to do such shameless things. I heard that it was when he was in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but fortunately, his family was almost wiped out by the rebels, and their family was interrupted for a while, and it was too late to do this kind of thing of arresting people and black materials. Later, in the era of the Republic of China, his family was ready to do this again, but fortunately he was killed by the warlord and only escaped Zhang Hutong's father, losing the handle he caught. ”

Meng Wentian asked: "The reason why Zhang Hutong shouted for him with the fact that the principal of a martial arts school had mastered many officials was because he secretly mastered the black materials of many officials?"

Hua Yi said: "Isn't it? If it weren't for the fact that the principal of a martial arts school in a county town could call for wind and rain in Changheng County and even Jiangde City? Did you think that the Zhang family would gain prestige by being able to fight?"

Meng Wentian nodded and said, "That's true." Then, he asked, "You seem to have hated them before, and when I called the police, I listened to your tone as if I wished they were guilty, did they also arrest your family with black materials?"

Hua Yi glanced at him, but still nodded his head and said, "My uncle was dragged into the water by him, but my grandfather and my grandfather would rather remove my uncle from his post and go to prison than let his Zhang family succeed, so they can't help us." You say, 'Can I not hate them?'

The two were chatting while riding their bicycles, and before they knew it, they were in a village. I found a random farmer, inquired about the location of the village chief's house, and easily found a man in his forties.

Obviously, Hua Yi and this village chief know each other. Seeing her, the village chief was very polite, and hurriedly invited Hua Yi and Meng Wentian to his house to rest, saying that they were chatting while drinking tea, and promised that they would let her know what she needed to know.

Although Meng Wentian has lived in the countryside in his two lifetimes, because his family has always been a vegetable farmer on the outskirts of the county, he does not know much about the real countryside, so he was brought over by Hua Yi, and he really wanted to see how this girl from a big family conducted rural research and saw what she asked.

I don't know if Hua Yi made full preparations before she came, or because she had this ability, or her family told her how to conduct rural research, anyway, in Meng Wentian's opinion, this girl behaved very well, asked a lot of questions, and recorded a lot of content in her notebook.

Even Meng Wentian, a rural blind person, has somewhat understood that the countryside is now busy with spring planting, planting early rice seedlings into paddy fields, and now harvesting rapeseed, making nutrient mounds for cotton seeds, or preparing to plant soybeans on ridges or canals.

The so-called planting soybeans is to dig a small pit on the edge of the ridge or canal with a tool, and then put a few soybeans in it, and the soybeans will sprout in a few days, and a large number of soybeans can be harvested in autumn. Of course, some farmers do not plant on the ridges or canals, but on farmland or dry land, after all, the price of soybeans is now good, the yield is good, and the income is not less than that of planting rice or cotton.

After asking about farm work, Hua Yi asked about the taxes and other burdens paid by the farmers, such as the children's school fees, the source of private teachers' salaries, and so on.

In addition, she also inquired about the village's retention and debts, the village's plans for dredging channels and expanding roads, the situation of households with five guarantees, households in difficulty, and migrant workers...... , and so on, she wrote them all down in her notebook.

Not to mention the questioning, Hua Yi has a lot of understanding of this village, and even Meng Wentian, who only listens to it from the side, has not gained a lot of knowledge. He believed that the content of Hua Yi's question must have been made by her family or her family who entrusted an insider to make an outline of the inquiry for her, otherwise it would be impossible to ask so detailed and professional.

Even the village chief admired the girl, saying that he couldn't tell that she was from the city.

After talking here for about two and a half hours, Hua Yi ignored the village chief's retention and insisted on leaving with Meng Wentian and going to another village.

On the way, Meng Wentian asked, "Hua Yi, do you only talk to the village chief, not the people?"

Hua Yi smiled and asked, "Are you afraid of me as a bureaucrat? When you look for the village chief, all they ask is a false situation?"

Meng Wentian smiled and didn't say anything.

Hua Yi said: "Now that I'm short on time, and I don't know how long I will be working here, I need to find them to understand the situation first, and I have a general outline of the whole town in my heart." In just a few days, it is impossible to understand all the situation in the town, I just hope that it is not a smear, not to say the layman's words of planting rapeseed in spring and harvesting rapeseed in autumn. ”

The rape is planted in autumn and harvested in spring after winter. It is not the same as other crops, it can be said to be the opposite.

The two young men were full of energy, and although the mountain road was rough, within half an hour they came to another village.

The village they came to is deep in the mountains, called Thatched Village, which consists of three natural villages. The so-called natural villages are small villages that have been gradually formed over the years by some peasants who live on a slightly flat land in the mountains. These lodges are generally small in population, inaccessible to the outside world, and economically impoverished.

Thatched Village, as the name suggests, produces a lot of deep wild thatch, and the common people live in great poverty.

Indeed, when Meng Wentian and Hua Yi rode their bicycles through the rugged and winding paths to enter the area, they found that the peasants here still lived in thatched houses and their clothes were shabby. The best house in the entire mountain village is the house where the village cadres work, and it is just a brick bungalow, which can only be regarded as the most ordinary and ordinary house when it is taken outside.

It is estimated that someone called over, and when Hua Yi and Meng Wentian arrived here, two men and one woman stood in front of the village "office building" to greet them. Before Hua Yi got out of the car, one of the men greeted him with a smile and said politely: "Welcome to the county magistrate Hua, the county magistrate Hua came to visit our thatched village, and I would like to express my welcome and gratitude on behalf of more than 1,600 villagers in the village." ”

Hua Yi also knew this person, so he hurriedly got out of the car and stretched out his hand to shake the other party, and said, "Hello Village Chief Zhang, this is what I should do." ”

Then, the village chief surnamed Zhang introduced two other people to her: one was named Wei Rui, the deputy village chief and village accountant of thatched village, and the woman was named Wang Xiaomei, who was the women's director of the village and the village cashier.

Hua Yi also introduced Meng Wentian to them, and the position she gave Meng Wentian was what she said before she went out: communicator.

Hearing that the village chief's surname was Zhang, Meng Wentian glanced at him deliberately, and involuntarily remembered the town mayor, it should be said that the former town mayor, Zhang Haiqing, and also remembered Zhang Lewei, the director of the Gukou Town Police Station: "He also has the surname Zhang, will they be relatives?"

Village Chief Zhang led them to the village "office building" and said with a smile: "County Magistrate Hua, I didn't expect you to be a delicate girl who dares to ride a bicycle on a path like ours, how bold you are." If I'm not afraid of your jokes, when I was learning to ride a bicycle in Zhang Qingfeng, I fell down at least five or six times on this road. ”

Hua Yi smiled and didn't speak.

Zhang Qingfeng said: "County Magistrate Hua, do you want to start the inspection now or start again after lunch? You see, it's almost time to eat now, why don't we have a cup of tea here first, and then you will investigate after dinner?"

Hua Yi said: "I didn't come here to investigate, that is, to recognize the road and visit the cadres in the village. Lunch is gone, we have to rush to the next point, and there is no time. ”

Zhang Qingfeng hurriedly said: "Then how can you do it? If you don't eat when you come to us, people who know will say that you are the county magistrate of Hua County who forgot to sleep and eat, and those who don't know don't scold me Zhang Qingfeng doesn't understand human feelings, and some will even say that I didn't deliberately hang you up, and I am rectifying you, the big leader?"

Hua Yi sneered: "Let others say whatever they want, just let them say it, if their mouths grow on other people's bodies, can they still be blocked?" Besides, I am the deputy county magistrate, you are the village head, can you still fix me?"

Zhang Qingfeng smiled wryly.

Wei Rui and Wang Xiaomei didn't say anything, they both laughed together.

Hua Yi looked at Zhang Qingfeng's office a little, and ordered: "Let's go to the village and talk as we go." ”

Zhang Qingfeng glanced at his deputy Wei Rui, and then said, "It's okay, it's okay, let's go." ”

It's just a natural village, and it's not big. And not only do the peasants here go with the flow and like to act spontaneously, but most of the chickens, ducks, pigs and buffaloes raised by the farmers in the village are free-range, so that they can find food and drink by themselves. They are released in the morning and in the evening they go home on their own or the children rush home.

So the excrement of these domestic animals can be seen from time to time on the uneven path, and the air is also filled with a foul smell.

Meng Wentian is better, she can bear it more or less, Hua Yi is much more uncomfortable, how can she adapt to this environment when she grew up in a honey pot? Her brows furrowed from time to time, especially when she saw the pile of cow dung that had just been pulled by the buffalo in front of her, exuding a smell and heat, her face was even more pale.

Meng Wentian secretly felt funny in his heart, and also felt sympathy for her discomfort: It's really hard for you.

However, Hua Yi still endured the discomfort in his heart, and asked Zhang Qingfeng, Wei Rui and Wang Xiaomei about the situation in the village with a smile.

I don't know if the village is really so dirty, or if Zhang Qingfeng did it on purpose, anyway, the road he led was almost not clean, and he had passed under the eaves of other people's houses several times. Under the eaves is generally dark and damp, especially at the junction of the eaves between the two farmhouses, there are basically no people passing through, and they are all places where farmers get garbage and waste, and there are a lot of messy weeds.

In broad daylight, there are mosquitoes here, and you can also see spider webs, and if you kick over a piece of rotten wood, you can often see several earthworms wriggling at your feet, and several centipedes running away.