Chapter 5 A remote mountain village

Soon down to the bottom of the valley, even at noon, the sun is shining above, there is no ray of sunshine at the bottom of the valley, the whole valley is a little chilly, nervous out of a sweaty Hao Meng, but also can't help but snort, the valley bottom is not wide, about two hundred meters, from the bottom of the valley, both sides are straight and steep cliffs, in some places, the valley mouth is obviously narrower than the valley bottom.

There is a small stream on the left side of the valley, which is quite flat on both sides, and the ground is covered with wild flowers, weeds and shrubs, exuding a spring mood. Walking forward about a few hundred meters, a few stones appeared in the middle of the river, Zhu Zhishu took the lead in stepping on the stones, and suddenly, not far away, a few water crows flew up, and a water crow had a small fish two fingers wide in its mouth.

"Ah, what is this?" Although tired, Hao Meng seemed quite excited and quickly took out the camera, however, her speed was still much slower, and she was not able to leave this beautiful scene.

"This is the water crow, whose book name is Cormorant, also known as osprey, is the star of diving among birds, and fishermen often domesticate it for fishing." Liu Gang explained with a smile that although he was a mess of books, he knew a lot about wild animals and plants.

After standing and resting for a while, Hao Mengcai felt that he had some strength, carefully crossed the river from the rock, and asked Liu Gang to take a picture of her standing on the rock, and then, they walked downstream along the creek for about a few hundred meters, and on the left side of the valley, a fork appeared, a valley was almost the same, a stream was almost the same, and the streams in the two valleys converged together and continued to flow downward.

"There are only two villages here, and the outer village is lower, called Xiashan Village, and from there, it is higher, called Shangshan Village." Zhu Zhishu pointed to both sides of the fork road, and then led them into the fork and walked upstream of the stream. Looking in the direction pointed out by Zhu Zhishu, there was a road on the left cliff on the lower side, which was only a few dozen meters away from the fork, similar to the stone road they had just come down.

The group continued to walk along the path by the creek at the fork in the road for about ten and a half hours, and on the steep cliff, a road similar to when they had just gone down the ditch appeared again. Zhu Zhishu proposed to take a break and climb again, and the group naturally had no opinion, and after walking for almost an hour, Xu Dacang and Hao Meng were a little out of breath.

It's just that Hao Meng didn't rest, but pulled Liu Gang to take a picture in the ditch.

"You can take it easy, you've taken half of the film." Liu Gang smiled and shook his head.

"Just take a picture when you're done, just go back and buy it again!" Hao Mengman said nonchalantly.

After resting for about half an hour, the group continued to climb the mountain, it was easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, when going up, Hao Meng actually walked up by herself, just letting Liu Gang take care of her behind her. I went up the cliff and walked for about half an hour before finally arriving at the village office.

"Welcome, welcome......" Village Chief Song was also waiting there for a long time, Village Chief Song was a young man in his thirties, with a magnificent and upright body, dressed in a washed and white military uniform, and the whole had strong traces left by the army, and the introduction of Xu Dacang also confirmed this.

In this remote village, the judge is undoubtedly mysterious and high, except for a very few people, who have never seen the judge at all, therefore, although it is quite a busy season, the large courtyard of the village office is also crowded with people, and it is more lively than doing a happy event.

The three parties were all called into the hall, the hall was not big, the ** official Hao Meng patiently explained the laws of the country, and the other people in the courtyard put their eyes and ears into the house, but the noise overshadowed the sound in the room, and people heard more of the praise of those men and women for the beautiful female judge.

In addition to the Chengren of the three families, there are also one or two elders together, plus the village chief and the village party secretary, there are also more than ten people, and there are not many gaps in the small hall, Liu Gang does not have much interest in the case, and it is not his duty to solve the case, his duty is mainly to prevent some people with ulterior motives from making trouble, he sat by the gate with a high stool, and looked at the black crowd in the courtyard for a long time.

These little guys, why don't you watch the excitement? Liu Gang was very surprised to see some children running out one after another, but soon he was relieved, and after a lot of effort, those children ran back again, followed by some adults, obviously, they were going to call their father or some other relatives.

The more and more people gathered in the courtyard, these people were obviously divided into four parts, three groups of people gathered together, discussing something in a whisper, and the other group of people gathered at the door of the hall, standing on tiptoe, stretching their necks, hoping to see or hear the situation in the house, and some people asked Liu Gang from time to time about some information, and they seemed very enthusiastic.

Hao Meng is obviously a competent and strong sense of justice Judge Hao, she explained the relevant laws in detail, patiently did mediation work, from more than three o'clock in the afternoon, until the sun gradually set, her voice became a little hoarse, and she still had no intention of giving up. However, compared with Hao **guan's dedication, Liu Gang admired the crowd who watched the excitement more, and for more than three hours, the number of people in the courtyard not only did not decrease, but increased.

"Judge Hao, Township Chief Xu, look, are we going to take a look at the site tomorrow and determine the specific losses." After arguing for more than an hour, and there was no result, Zhu Zhishu made a suggestion.

"Well, it's time to check it out!" Hao Meng nodded approvingly, and Xu Cannon also agreed, seeing the scene of Liu Gang beating people at noon, his cannon throat was obviously affected.

"It's not early today, let's go back first, ...... early tomorrow morning" Zhu Zhishu ended the day's mediation, and the three parties left the village office.

"The meal should be about the same, Judge Hao, Township Chief Xu, let's go over and eat first." Village Chief Song greeted everyone warmly.

"Zhu Zhishu, where are we going?" Seeing that he walked out of the village office and walked towards a small road, Hao Meng couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Xiao Song's lover's food is good, the guests from the village all go to him to eat, and at night, you and Captain Liu live in Xiao Song's house." Zhu Zhishu explained with a smile that it is rare for outsiders to come to a remote village, so naturally there will be no restaurants or anything.

The village chief's house is very far away from the village office, and the group walked slowly for about twenty minutes to arrive, which is similar to almost all the houses in the village, and the house is located in the middle of the mountainside, but it is a red brick house, which is almost a grass house in the village, which seems to be a bit luxurious.

"Hehe, this is the first brick house in our village, and it is also the best house in the village, and Xiao Song is also a good hand at planting medicinal herbs! In the past few years, many people in the village have made a fortune by planting medicinal herbs with him! In last year's village chief election, he was unanimously elected. Zhu Zhishu introduced with a smile, with envy in his tone, the house, that is the best embodiment of the family's economic strength.

"We are too remote here, and there is no other way, most people rely on digging some herbs in the mountains to earn some money for oil and salt, so I wonder if I can grow those herbs, and I don't want to really have some harvest." Village Chief Song was not very modest.

Walk into the house, the red brick tile house is newly repaired, but there is no trace of mud digging around, obviously the old house pushed the rebuilt brick house, the yard, is the slate floor, the slate wear is heavier, it looks like there is some history, into the house, but it is quite disappointing, the ground of the house is actually dirt floor, not even the triple soil, in the hall, in addition to an old table of eight immortals, four stools, and a few bamboo chairs leaning against the walls on both sides, the rest, there is only an old small square table, on the square table, A black-and-white television set from Fourteen Villages.

This is the best family, and it really deserves to be the poorest village in Linshan, I don't know, what kind of poor law is the Deng family! Looking at the whole house, Liu Gang couldn't help but shake his head secretly, thinking of the Deng family, one of the parties involved in the case, in the afternoon, he vaguely heard that the Deng family was the poorest family in the village.

Dinner is very good, although it is ordinary home cooking, the taste is indeed very distinctive, of course, wine is also indispensable, but I know that there is something to do the next day, and I didn't drink much.