A plate of peanuts, a plate of pork head, and a large pot of steaming stew, plus a bottle of Zhanggong wine, make up a table of dishes.

Township Chief Qian carried two small stools in front of the small square table, and said to Zhao Changfeng: "Assistant Zhao, sit!" Don't be shabby. ”

Zhao Changfeng said with a smile: "Township Chief Qian, I love to eat stew, especially when it is cold, holding two hot steamed buns and eating a big bowl of steaming stew, I suddenly feel warm, that feeling, really energetic (local dialect, comfortable, enjoyable)!" ”

Township Chief Qian laughed and said, "In it, Assistant Zhao likes it!" ”

Zhao Changfeng took the initiative to take the wine bottle, unscrewed the cap, and poured wine for Township Chief Qian, and Township Chief Qian was about to grab it: "Assistant Zhao, I'll come, you are a hero today." I should have poured you a drink. ”

Zhao Changfeng stopped Township Chief Qian while pouring wine: "Township Chief Qian, what kind of hero?" Without your leadership, would I have been able to do what I am today? So, I should pour you a drink! ”

Township Chief Qian felt comfortable in his heart, and felt that it was no longer so proper. It is not easy to meet a capable subordinate, and it is even more difficult to meet a capable subordinate who does not take credit at all. Comrade Xiao Zhao is indeed good, but it is a pity that he is a cadre in the province, and he will eventually go back to the province.

When Zhao Changfeng filled up the wine in his cup, Township Chief Qian raised his glass and said, "Assistant Zhao, I'll give you a toast." To be honest, I'm really convinced, how did you come up with such a tricky way to draw lots? ”

Zhao Changfeng held the wine glass in both hands, touched the middle and lower part of the wine glass of Township Chief Qian with the mouth of the cup, to show respect, and said: "Township Chief Qian, I respect you." This method is not unusual, and when I was in college, the student union used to use this trick in the event lottery. ”

"Haha, you college students!" Township Chief Qian pointed at Zhao Changfeng with his hand and smiled happily: "No wonder [***] old people often say that the more knowledge, the more reactionary!" ”

Zhao Changfeng accompanied Township Chief Qian to drink all the wine in the wine glass, and then took Township Chief Qian's wine glass and added wine to Township Chief Qian.

Township Chief Qian shook his head again and said, "Speaking of which, without such reactionary methods, it is really impossible to deal with these poor middle peasants. By the way, Assistant Zhao, you can learn from Director Li again when he brought Cui Jincheng to your room. ”

Zhao Changfeng also laughed and said, "Township Chief Qian, I won't study, right?" When I think of Cui Jincheng's fearless revolutionary image of death, I am happy. Having said that, this scene is also thanks to Cui Jincheng's excellent cooperation. Look at Cui Jincheng's performances, to be honest, our country's Hundred Flowers Award and Golden Rooster Award for Best Film Actor can't act! ”

Township Chief Qian sighed and said: "Assistant Zhao, according to what you say, Cui Jincheng is really a pity, he was born early and is old, if he is only seventeen or eighteen years old now, we will send him to the film academy to train him, maybe in the future we can win a Hollywood card award for our country!" ”

Zhao Changfeng laughed again, he really didn't see that there was no lack of humor in Township Chief Qian.

In the next time, Township Chief Qian did not arrange specific tasks for Zhao Changfeng, and Zhao Changfeng went to the following villages to conduct research under the leadership of Xiao Wang in the office.

There are a total of nine administrative villages in Liangyazi Township, except for Qianqian Village and Qinglonggou Village, the other villages are far away from the township political axe. According to Xiao Wang in the office, the poverty level of the villages under Liangyazi Township is directly proportional to the distance from the township political axe, and the farther away from the township political axe, the poorer the village.

In addition to Qianqian Village, the richest village in Liangyazi Township is Qinglonggou Village. Zhao Changfeng of Qianqian Village didn't want to go over, so he chose to go to Qinglonggou Village.

After arriving at Qinglonggou Village, Xiao Wang led Zhao Changfeng to go around the village and visited several households. Zhao Changfeng couldn't help but feel a sour feeling in his heart, the so-called richest village is nothing more than a full meal mixed with coarse grains and fine grains in a normal year. Although there is also electricity in the village, half of the households do not use electric lights, because they are reluctant to pay for electricity, let alone pay for the initial installation of electricity meters of dozens of yuan. Even those who have electric lights in their homes rarely turn them on.

Zhao Changfeng asked Xiao Wang, the electric light doesn't cost much electricity, since the villagers have installed the electric light, why don't they use it? Xiao Wang said that because of the high mountain route in Liangyazi Township, the line is very long, so the cost of agricultural electricity is very high, once it cost three yuan eight, how can the villagers be willing to use it?

At the home of Zhang Changyou, the party secretary of Qinglonggou Village, Zhao Changfeng saw the only color 14-inch TV in Qinglonggou Village, Meile brand. Zhang Changyou proudly introduced to Zhao Changfeng that the picture tube of his TV set was produced in China according to this standard.

As he spoke, Zhang Changyou immediately untied the dust cover on the TV and turned on the TV for Zhao Changfeng to watch. To be honest, the effect is okay, if Zhao Changfeng doesn't care about the snowflakes on the screen.

"The signal is not good, let's change the station!" Zhao Changfeng said.

Zhang Changyou immediately turned off the TV and said, "Assistant Zhao, don't watch it yet, I'll lead you to other villagers' houses." ”

Xiao Wang smiled and said to Zhang Changyou: "No need, I'll just take Assistant Zhao around." ”

Leaving Zhang Changyou's house, Xiao Wang told Zhao Changfeng that Zhang Changyou's TV could only receive programs from two stations. Among them, the first set of programs is so-so and can still be watched, and the second set of programs is full of snowflakes, and the people in the TV series are always "about winter". As for the other channels, they don't receive anything at all. So whenever there are guests at home, Zhang Changyou only watches the first set of programs.

Leaving Qinglonggou Village, Xiao Wang took Zhao Changfeng to other villages to see, and the more Zhao Changfeng looked at it, the more sad he became. If he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, he really couldn't have imagined that there was such a poor group of people living on Chinese soil. If you bring a camera to take pictures of the living conditions of these people and compare them with African refugees, Zhao Changfeng believes that except for the difference in skin color, the life of these villagers is not much better.

visited three villages for three days in a row, and the shock that these villages brought to Zhao Changfeng was bigger than one another, and later, Zhao Changfeng really didn't have the courage to go to see the poorest villages with Xiao Wang.

Although Liangyazi Township is poor, the forest coverage rate is still relatively high, the vegetation on the mountain is well preserved, and there are lush secondary forests everywhere. It's just that near these villages, some bare mountains are exposed, with no grass on them, leaving traces of rain washing, as if a scar suddenly grows on a healthy scalp, which makes people look very uncomfortable.

So Zhao Changfeng asked Xiao Wang what was going on.

Xiao Wang explained to Zhao Changfeng that the arable land area in Liangyazi Township was too small, so the villagers tried to cut down trees and cultivate grain on the hillside. However, because the slopes here are very steep, most of them are above 30 degrees, and the trees cannot be retained without cutting down, and when it rains, the soil that has lost the protection of vegetation is washed away, so that only bare rocks remain, not to mention crops, and even wild grasses cannot grow.

Zhao Changfeng nodded, only then did he understand.

On the fourth day, Xiao Wang saw that Zhao Changfeng didn't want to go to the village below, so he said to Zhao Changfeng, in fact, the scenery in Liangyazi Mountain is very good, there are many places with springs and waterfalls, and he can take Zhao Changfeng there to see the scenery and relax.

When Zhao Changfeng heard it, is there such a place in Liangyazi Township? Let's go inside and relax. So he followed Xiao Wang into the mountain.

Starting from the township axe, he walked up along the rugged path, and after walking for half an hour, Zhao Changfeng became hot all over, and he no longer felt that the autumn cold in the deep mountains was pressing. He took off his down jacket and followed Xiao Wang in his sweater. After walking about six or seven kilometers, I suddenly heard the sound of thunder in front of me. This voice is too familiar to Zhao Changfeng, and the waterfall in Yuntai Mountain in his hometown is such a sound.

Sure enough, after turning a corner, a huge waterfall appeared in front of Zhao Changfeng. The waterfall is sixty or seventy meters high and more than thirty meters wide, rushing down from the top of the mountain and falling down into a pool of blue gems at the foot of the mountain. A gust of mountain wind blew, and bursts of mist drifted over, hitting Zhao Changfeng's face, which was cool and silky, and eliminated a lot of the heat that had been rushing all the way. Zhao Changfeng suddenly felt relaxed. Even the depression and depression brought about by coming to the poor village to investigate have been forgotten for the time being.

"Beautiful! So beautiful! I really didn't expect that there is such a beautiful world in Liangyazi Township. Zhao Changfeng praised loudly and asked Xiao Wang: "Xiao Wang, there must be a lot of people who come here to see the scenery, right?" ”

Xiao Wang said: "Who is coming from this poor country! ”

Zhao Changfeng said: "The people in Liangyazi Township. ”

Xiao Wang pouted and said, "Those old farmers won't come to see this!" In their words, this thing should not be eaten or drunk, see what is the use? Should I be hungry or hungry. ”

Zhao Changfeng was speechless for a while.

Xiao Wang said again: "Assistant Zhao, if you like to see it, there are many such scenery in Liangyazi Township." There are six or seven waterfalls alone. Today we are here to play, and tomorrow I will take you to another place. ”

Zhao Changfeng's heart moved, what? There are so many such beautiful scenery in Liangyazi Township?

(To be continued)