Don't look at Luo Daliang as a small village official, and he doesn't have any ranks, but he has been the village party secretary for nearly 20 years, and he has made countless profits from oil and water in the open and in secret.

If there is no throne of this branch secretary, where can his Luo family still build the Little General's Building? How can you make a fortune? Even if this is not the main factor in the Luo family's fortune, it is also an important factor.

Not to mention anything else, the Luo family's two largest fish ponds in the village, as well as the water surface that has contracted most of the water pools, as well as the unique small restaurants and commissaries in the village, are enough to explain the problem. Later, Zhou Nan learned that the vegetable market on the west side of the village also belonged to the Luo family, under the name of Luo Daliang's son-in-law Lin He.

Whether it is Zhou Nan or Zhang Zhijun, he has no intention of letting him sit at the table, and Luo Daliang is embarrassed to leave, nor is he staying.

Zhang Zhijun strode over, tugged at his arm, and said in a low voice, "Luo Daliang, what's the matter with you, hurry up and bring the things back...... Secretary Zhou is the most annoyed by this set. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Zhijun pushed Luo Daliang out of the door.

"Mayor Zhang, look, I'm ......"

"Don't be verbose, go back quickly!" Zhang Zhijun stood at the door of his house and glared at Luo Daliang fiercely.

Luo Daliang was helpless, so he had to go home depressed and dejectedly with the cigarettes and alcohol he brought.

When Zhang Zhijun came back, Zhou Nan was slowly gnawing on a piece of sheep bone, and his expression was very focused. And Zhang Ningning sat on one side, staring at him with a smile.

"Secretary Zhou......" Zhang Zhijun greeted softly.

Zhou Nan looked up at Zhang Zhijun, put down the sheep bone in his hand, and smiled, "Lao Zhang, I think your backing village is indeed quite poor. Along the way, many of the villagers' houses are straw houses, and there are very few brick houses. ”

"I think, even in the entire Ningshan Town, the backing village is considered poor, right?"

Zhang Zhijun sighed and nodded, "Well, Secretary Zhou, it's true, the land in the mountains is little and barren, there is not much income from farming, and the people in the village only rely on selling some mountain goods to raise sheep and chickens, and barely deal with it." In our town, the backer village is almost the same, if not the poorest. ”

"With such a cornucopia of ready-made water resources, it is completely possible to develop fish farming. I don't think there are a few families at the foot of this mountain who are raising tilapia? The income should be not bad, right? Zhang Ningning interjected with a smile.

"Mr. Zhang, let's be honest, this water surface has been contracted out, and the contractors are the brothers of the Luo family. As for the fish pond below, it is not said to be open...... Because the market is not selling well, in fact, there are many people in the village who are unwilling to raise it. ”

Zhang Zhijun hesitated for a moment, said softly, and carefully observed the changes in Zhou Nan's face.

"Where there are mountains and rivers, how can you be poor?" Zhou Nan smiled faintly, "The environment here is very good, I look at the next step, the town will support it, and there is still a lot of potential to tap the key development of fish farming and characteristic animal husbandry, and at the same time, the mountain and forest resources should also be used reasonably." ”

"In addition, there is actually a good way to develop - tourism. You see, at the foot of the mountain, with a flat river at the back, backed by green mountains, and relying on a big water park, it is possible to build some farmhouses, or attract investment and invite outside enterprises to invest in the construction of eco-tourism resorts. ”

"How about it, Mr. Zhang, are you interested in the Sky Group?"

Zhou Nan looked at Zhang Ningning with a smile.

Zhang Ningning pondered for a moment and smiled lightly, "There are abundant resources here, as long as the political axe is willing to support it, it has investment value, and it is not bad to build a resort." However, it is too closed and the road to the outside world is not smooth, so it is actually difficult to develop. ”

"The road is impassable, so it can be repaired." Zhou Nan smiled and waved his hand, and said, "When I am busy with the two projects of market logistics and garment industrial park, I will go to the county to fight for it, and I have to give some funds to repair this road first, and build the road first to get rich. ”

"Well, Secretary Zhou is right, the road should be repaired, this road has been delayed for five or six years, and it is really not what it looks like." Zhang Zhijun echoed, "If the road can be repaired, the people's lives will be better." After all, there are some quarries and coke gem mines in the vicinity. ”

Zhou Nan was stunned, and suddenly remembered that on the way to come, he saw a big hole dug out of half of the mountain on the side of the road, and couldn't help frowning and said, "Quarrying this thing, stop as much as possible, seriously damage the mountain and forest resources, you can only fatten individuals, and the people will not get any benefits." ”

"Lao Zhang, how many quarries are there around here?"

"Secretary Zhou, there is one in the backing village, and there are two in the neighboring villages, so there are three in total." Zhang Zhijun looked at Zhou Nan with some suspicion, and said in his heart: Stopped the quarry?

"After we go back, let's take a time to have a meeting to study, quarrying is a very low-level industry, the energy consumption is too large, and the destruction of mountains and forests will not outweigh the losses in the long run. Lao Zhang, the next step is to grasp this matter, call the owners of these quarries over to communicate, and ask them to stop as soon as possible. ”

"I guess it's the contract that the village signed with them...... It really doesn't work, so I just keep it first, but the contract will not be renewed when it expires. Zhou Nan took a beer glass and drank it all.

"Okay, Secretary Zhou." Although Zhang Zhijun felt a little dissatisfied with Zhou Nan's words in his heart, he did not dare to have any disobedience in words.

Zhou Nan glanced at Zhang Zhijun, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. In fact, he also knows very well in his heart that all the people who mine the quarry have some background in Ningshan County, and they are not so easy to "clean up".

However, no matter how difficult it is, Zhou Nan is also determined to slowly advance this matter.

He has always been very disgusted and opposed to the behavior of quarrying and destroying mountains, which only focuses on short-term interests, and as long as he is still in Ningshan, he will do his best to prohibit quarrying and digging mountains, and close down these quarries in the town.

Of course, the meal should be eaten one bite at a time, this is the long-term work plan later, and when it is mentioned at this time, it is said by the way, and it is not really included in his work plan.

The meal continued, but it seemed that the atmosphere and appetite were gone. Finding that the atmosphere was a little dull, Zhang Zhijun couldn't help but secretly curse that it was really not the right time for Luo Daliang to come. It's like the rat poop that fell into the pot, and it spoiled a pot of soup all at once.

By the time we finished eating, it was nearly evening. In the summer in the mountains, night falls earlier than in the city.

Zhou Nan suddenly said intentionally or unintentionally, "Lao Zhang, I think the most beautiful house in this mountain village is the small western-style building, there is a pickup truck parked in front of the door, and there are two stone lions, so magnificent, whose house is this?" ”

Zhang Zhijun smiled bitterly, although he knew that Zhou Nan was knowingly asking, but he still replied respectfully, "Secretary Zhou, that is the village party secretary Luo Daliang's family." It was probably just built last year, and I heard that it was a newly approved homestead. ”

"Oh." Zhou Nan smiled indifferently, didn't continue, got up and patted his stomach and said with a smile, "I'm too full today, Lao Zhang, you and Xiao Song help clean up, and Mr. Zhang and I will go out for a walk." ”

With that, Zhou Nan walked out of the door side by side with Zhang Ningning.

………… The night is low, the crescent moon is like a hook, and the stars are dotted.

Zhou Nan and Zhang Ningning slowly climbed up along the mountain road, the mountain wind was howling, with a whining sound, if it was a person walking on this mountain path, it would definitely be a little scary.

Zhou Nan wanted to sneak up to the platform halfway up the mountain to sit, but after walking a hundred and ten meters, Zhang Ningning stopped a little tiredly and said with a wry smile, "Zhou Nan, I can't accompany you anymore, I'm so tired." Let's find a place to cool off and go back to rest. ”

Zhou Nan shrugged his shoulders and smiled, "That's fine." ”

This is a gentle winding dirt road, which should have been built by the villagers themselves, and the road is not wide, about three or four meters long. There was a swarthy boulder on the side of the road, Zhang Ningning walked over lightly, sat down, then patted his side, turned his head and beckoned to Zhou Nan.

Zhou Nan walked over and sat next to Zhang Ningning.

The cool mountain breeze blew over, blowing Zhang Ningning's long hair. Her long hair fluttered away, and the tips of her hair slid down Zhou Nan's cheeks, making him feel a warm pulse in his heart.

Zhang Ningning didn't speak, bent his knees and put his hands on his cheeks, looking up at the vast night sky, silent.

Zhou Nan sighed softly in his heart, and sat silently beside her, but his eyes fell on the dark dense forest sea that could be faintly seen undulating with the wind.

"Zhou Nan, seriously, why do you know me so well?" Zhang Ningning's quiet voice came from his ears, "Even me...... You know exactly what I like......"

Zhou Nan smiled, but did not speak.

"Answer me." Zhang Ningning said angrily.

"I told you a long time ago, there is no answer, I can't answer. All in all, it's still the same sentence...... "Before Zhou Nan's words were finished, Zhang Ningning immediately got up and stomped his feet unhappily, "Hypocritical guy...... You are really too hypocritical! ”

Under the bright moonlight, Zhang Ningning's bright eyes and bright teeth were like a dazzling lightning, which pierced the depths of Zhou Nan's heart at once, as if he had returned to the time of his previous life, and fell into indescribable memories.

Finding that Zhou Nan's expression was a little wrong, Zhang Ningning's heart trembled. She avoided Zhou Nan's soft and calm eyes, and pulled Zhou Nan's arm, but said softly, "Let's go, we should go back, Zhang Zhijun and Xiao Song are in a hurry." ”

………… Speechless all night.

The Zhang family has three main houses and two side rooms. Zhou Nan was in the room, Zhang Ningning and Song Xiaolin were in the room, and Zhang Zhijun lived in the wing room by himself.

The next morning, Zhou Nan got up early, and when he got up and went out for a walk, Zhang Zhijun and the others were still asleep. In the morning, the air in the mountains was very fresh, and Zhou Nan trotted along the mountain road to the villagers' settlement halfway up the mountain.

It is said to be "halfway up the mountain", but in fact it is just a large platform with gentle terrain. Or after thousands of years of reproduction and renovation, local farmers have dug this mountain from the halfway point into the belly of the mountain, forming a plane terrain that is obliquely inserted into the belly of the mountain, and many villagers have built houses on it.

Of course, the people of the mountain village have been like this for generations. However, the road to the foot of the mountain has been widened and hardened several times, and it is connected to electricity and cable TV, and every household has a water cellar.

When I woke up early, many villagers had already gone to work in the fields, or went out to work, and they didn't know what to do. Seeing Zhou Nan, the villagers were obviously a little surprised, but no one came up to take the initiative to say hello.

Zhou Nan stopped at the gate of a dilapidated courtyard, stopped for a while in front of the red paint sign of "Ningshan Town Gushan Village Central School", looked at the slogan "Study hard, make progress every day" that had long been unreadable at the door, and the dilapidated school building in the courtyard, and was silent.

He turned back suddenly, and looked at the beige small general's building not far away, with dark brown glazed tiles inlaid on the roof, and his face became extremely ugly.

It was the new residence of Luo Daliang, the richest man in the village and the village party secretary, in this mountain village full of dilapidated thatched houses and messy farm yards, this small building is so eye-catching and eye-catching!

Just now, Zhou Nan passed by the door of the small building. The courtyard wall is high and deep, and the two stone lions at the door rush to the intersection, the black iron door is closed, and the barking of wolf dogs is faintly heard inside.

Reform and opening up allowed some people to get rich first. Although in Zhou Nan's view, the so-called "first rich lead the later rich to get rich together" is really a boring, but after all, there are still a few people who have made a fortune by taking advantage of the policy.

No matter how prosperous a city is, there is no shortage of poor people, and in the same way, no matter how poor a place is, there will be rich people, which is normal. Zhou Nan did not hate the rich, because he was a rich man himself.

But the crux of the matter is that the whole village is in a state of low poverty, and the village officials are so wealthy that it is unpleasant to look at.

Zhou Nan couldn't talk about this, but he did feel panicked because of this.

Zhou Nan slowly walked back to Zhang's house, and when he entered the door, Zhang Ningning and Song Xiaolin had already finished washing, laughing and talking in the courtyard. And Zhang Zhijun probably ran to his brother's side a long time ago, urging his brother's daughter-in-law to prepare breakfast for the four of them.

Breakfast was very simple, white flour steamed buns, home-made pickled dried radish pickles, and corn porridge, but a few people ate it very fragrantly. Especially Zhang Ningning, he was full of praise for the corn porridge boiled by Zhang Zhijun's brother and daughter-in-law.

Drinking corn porridge, Zhou Nan suddenly said softly, "Lao Zhang, you will go to the village committee to make a call to the town in a while, and ask the party and government office to notify the party branch secretaries and village directors of all the natural villages in the town, and come to the mountain village tomorrow morning, and we will hold an on-site meeting here - let Mayor Ma also rush over." ”

"On-site meeting?" Zhang Zhijun was stunned, glanced at Zhou Nan, and hurriedly agreed.

Zhou Nan didn't explain anything, so Zhang Zhijun and Song Xiaolin naturally didn't dare to ask more.

The leader has the idea of the leader, if he is willing to say that the leader will naturally say, since the leader does not say, what is it that is not boring to ask himself? This is Song Xiaolin's mentality.

In the morning, Zhang Zhijun went to make a phone call, while Zhou Nan, Zhang Ningning and Song Xiaolin, went to climb the mountain together, insisted on climbing to the top of the mountain, and played on the top of the mountain for several hours before returning down.

After eating at noon, Zhang Ningning and Song Xiaolin had to go into the water, but Zhou Nan had no choice but to accompany them to Da Shui Bo at the foot of the mountain. However, in order to ensure safety, Zhang Zhijun borrowed two "lifebuoys" from the village for Zhang Ningning and Song Xiaolin - the inner tube of the car tire, which is fully inflated.

Zhou Nan didn't go into the water, he sat on the stone by the water, and looked at Song Xiaolin and Zhang Ningning in swimsuits and big black tires splashing in the shallow water.

Two fashionable beauties from the city wore three-point swimsuits and suddenly appeared in Da Shui Bo, which naturally attracted the attention of many local villagers. Even the people who were busy working on the edge of the fish pond at the foot of the mountain were looking eagerly at this side.

Zhou Nan sat there and smiled bitterly, and shouted, "Hey, you two, have you had enough, look at how many people are watching you." ”

Zhang Ningning fluttered in the water, giggling, "If you like to watch it, we are still afraid to watch it, hehe, the water is neither hot nor cold, it is so comfortable, Zhou Nan, you can also come down and play." ”

Zhou Nan smiled and shook his head. Don't say he didn't bring swimming trunks, even if he did, he would definitely not swim in this big pool in public. There is no other, because of his identity as a leading cadre.

Seeing that the two girls had no intention of coming out and leaving for the time being, he got up and walked slowly towards the fish pond below.

"Hey, fellow, how long have you been building this fish pond, and are you still making money?" Zhou Nan asked with a smile to a shirtless middle-aged man who was laying a net.

The man turned around and glanced at Zhou Nan, and immediately recognized that Zhou Nan was the "protagonist" of yesterday's conflict with the Luo family, and later heard that it was Secretary Zhou in the town, so he immediately stood up respectfully and said with a smile, "Secretary Zhou, I have been building this fish pond for two years. I can't make a lot of money, just a little hard-earned money, just enough to pay for two children to go to school. ”

"Two children at home? Where to go to school? Zhou Nan smiled and handed over a cigarette, the man rubbed his hands embarrassedly, took it carefully, and said with a smile, "Secretary Zhou, a son goes to high school in the county, and a girl goes to secondary school in the city - it is Ningnan Health School." ”

"That's good, the kid is really good." Zhou Nan smiled and took the initiative to use a lighter to help the man light the cigarette, and the man was flattered and thanked him again and again.

"What's the way, the baby in the mountains, if you don't study hard, where is the way out."

"Hehe, why don't you build a fish pond again? You have water here, and with this big dam, it's a good way to make a living raising fish. Zhou Nan smiled and asked.

The man sighed and said, "Secretary Zhou, the village does not allow miles, and each household can open a maximum of one fish pond, and there is a limit on how many fish can be raised. ”

Zhou Nan frowned, pointed to the Luo family's fish pond not far away, and said lightly, "Doesn't the Luo family have two fish ponds?" ”

"People are village party secretaries, how can I compare with others?" The man subconsciously said this, but as soon as the words came out, he suddenly remembered that it was Secretary Zhou in the town who was standing in front of him, his face became a little pale, and he secretly cursed himself for talking too much.

(To be continued)