If it's not raining on a summer afternoon, it's going to be muggy, and the first scorching summer of the year is just around today.

A slight hot wind gently stirred the large poplar tree, but only the leaves on the branches swayed slightly, and even the tiniest twigs could not be moved. The weeds and wildflowers on both sides of the cement road were sunburned and drooping, and there was a lot less anger.

When the sun was obscured by the white cotton-like clouds in the sky, David felt as if he was in a hot and humid sauna, and his whole body was sweating non-stop. After a while, the T-shirt on the upper body was soaked, sticky and sticky to the body, feeling very uncomfortable.

In this kind of weather, even the most industrious old farmers are reluctant to go to the fields to serve those precious crops, and honestly stay at home blowing fans, lying on the kang to rest, hiding from the hot afternoon sun and hot and humid air.

But Dawei had to walk on the cement pavement in the village that could directly spread eggs in such weather. Because Wang Yong's mobile phone couldn't get through for some reason, he called his godfather and asked to find out that he threw his mobile phone at home and took Wang Qian's county magistrate's boyfriend up the mountain to check his property on the mountain.

I can't delay this matter, and if it's a little later, it may be too late. So Dawei had to brave the poisonous sun that was powerful for the first time this summer, and hurriedly went up the mountain to find Wang Yong. This matter can only be solved by him now, and I am afraid that it will be too late if someone else's words are delayed.

Along the winding path that people have stepped on up the mountain, Dawei went all the way up. When he walked to Wang Yong's orchard, with the shelter of those tall fruit trees, Dawei felt a little cool, not to mention how comfortable it felt!

Not only did he no longer have to face the scorching sun overhead, but even the originally hot breeze brought a slight coolness to his face, into his neck, all the way down, to his belly, and quickly took away the heat from his body. It's like having a cold drink. It is cool from the beginning to the soles of the feet.

Shuttling through the somewhat sparse orchards, David heard the conversation between Wang Yong and Hao Wenjie from a distance.

"Can your golden egg-laying hen be promoted? If all the farmers in the county can raise these chickens, in a year, all the villages in the county will be happier than the city people. At least they will have more money on hand than most of the so-called city dwellers. Even if you can't sell dozens of them according to your village. If you can sell it for ten dollars a piece, that's fine! ”

"It's not as simple as you think. At present, in addition to the scope of the Mid-Levels Village, even the armed police base on the Dongshan side, which is only a mountain away, cannot make chickens lay golden eggs. Even if you take the hen that is laying eggs in the middle of the village and go outside. It's all the same that can only lay ordinary eggs. On the contrary, if you take the hen that is laying eggs from outside the village to the village in the middle of the mountain, it will lay golden eggs in a few days! ”

"Then you didn't invite an expert to come over and find out what the reason was?"

"I'm an expert myself, okay?"

As soon as Dawei heard this, he pouted, and said in his heart, you are too shameless! Just your two moments, you dare to call yourself an expert. Just wanted to stand up and expose his true colors, but suddenly stopped abruptly. He remembered that he didn't come to Wang Yong to expose his true face, this matter was urgent!

"Wang Yong, where is it? Hurry up and get out, something big is wrong! ”

After shouting in this voice, Dawei sat down under a peach tree full of fruits, not too dirty, leaning against the tree, pretending to pant and not moving.

After a while, Wang Yong and Hao Wenjie walked out of the bushes along the path and walked towards Dawei unhurriedly. It was as if Ken hadn't heard Dawei's words, and he didn't look in a hurry.

When he arrived at Dawei, Wang Yong looked down at the face without a drop of sweat but pretended to be tired, panting, and lifted his T-shirt to fan himself, as if he was really hot.

"Alright, don't pretend. Tell me, what's going on? Could it be that you made your Wang Jing belly bigger? ”

"! A dog can't spit out ivory in his mouth! ”

"Have you ever seen a dog that can spit out ivory? Where? Take me to see it, I've never seen such a cow dog. When the time comes, no matter how much it costs, I will buy two of them, and I will tie them to the yard of my home, waiting for them to spit out my ivory every day! ”

Hao Wenjie watched with envy Wang Yong and Dawei playing tricks on each other, since he entered the officialdom, especially after he became the secretary of Director Wang, who was still the secretary of the municipal party committee at the time, he no longer had friends who could chat and fart with him without scruples. In officialdom, he always has to carry the ubiquitous guns and arrows, and even when he sleeps at night, he has to keep one eye open and one eye closed, and he is always vigilant. Although the official is getting bigger and bigger, the interest of life is getting less and less, and he feels more and more bored in life.

"Do you remember the big locust tree in Yangjia Village?"

As soon as Dawei's words fell, scenes of childhood memories suddenly appeared in Wang Yong's mind. Even if you don't need to remember it in a small light, every bit about the big locust tree is like it happened yesterday, and it is very clearly recalled.

It was a very thick tree, more than a meter in diameter at its thickest point. The middle of the tree was rotten because of the wind and rain. There is also a large hole in the ground near the root of the tree that has rotted even the bark, which can be easily penetrated by an adult.

When he was a child, Wang Yong used to attend primary school in Yangjia Village for two years, one year in the red class, the first grade, and in the second grade, the primary school in Yangjia Village moved. Since then, it seems that Wang Yong rarely goes to Yangjia Village again, but every time he goes, he never forgets to see the ancient locust tree standing in the middle of the village.

At that time, I heard the adults say that this big locust tree was planted by the first generation of ancestors in Yangjia Village, and it has a history of more than 400 years. A few years ago, the state has corresponding protection measures for these ancient trees, and this ancient locust tree, which has a history of more than 400 years, has also been honorably hung with a small plaque, proving that the tree has begun to enjoy the protection of the state and the origin and age of the tree.

At that time, every time he went to school, Wang Yong would pass by this ancient locust tree. Laughing and playing with his friends in the big tree hole, playing for a while, until it was almost time for class, he reluctantly left. After school, there will always be a large group of children who come to the bottom of the big locust tree in a noisy manner, jumping rubber bands, taking pictures, throwing mud, hopscotch, and bouncing glass balls,......

The big locust tree is like a kind and loving old man smiling at his children, covering the sky with dense branches and leaves, sheltering the children from the wind and rain, and has never complained.

It's just that as the children grow up from generation to generation, the old grandfather is getting older and older. The big hole in the middle of the trunk has also become so large that it can accommodate three or four children to play in it at the same time, without feeling crowded at all.

Because of the storage of the tree hole in the trunk, the whole big tree is close to the little trunk next to the bark to transmit the nutrients needed for growth, so that the branches of the whole tree are getting fewer and fewer, and now there are only about a dozen branches left, and there is no longer the beautiful scenery that the old people in the village have passed down from mouth to mouth.

When he returned home during the summer vacation of his first year of college, Wang Yong learned that in Yangjia Village, in order to protect the locust tree, the villagers had specially filled the hole of the locust tree with soil. I also planted poplar trees on it ingeniously, hoping to create a tree-in-a-tree landscape. However, it is said that within two months, I was told that the locust tree had been struck by lightning, which made the poor branches and leaves that had been sparse become less and less.

"What's going on?"

Wang Yong asked in surprise. You must know that it is an ancient locust tree known as the patron saint of Yangjia Village, which is deeply loved by the people of Yangjia Village. It can't be dead, right? Shouldn't it? A few days ago, I heard that someone was idle and wanted to cut down the big tree, but it was opposed by all the old people in the village, and finally it was stopped.

"I just heard the news that the big tree in Yangjia Village was somehow full of leaves and almost all of a sudden. Many people say that the lifespan of this big tree has reached the end of life, and the soul of the tree has been taken away by Lord Yama. That's why all of a sudden, this strange thing happened. ”

"Really? When was this? ”

"It is said that it was the day before yesterday, but now after discussing it in the village, it has been decided to sawn off the part above the ground and let it emerge from the roots and new branches. Now that they're about to do it, I'm going to come to you, a self-styled expert, and see if there's anything you can do? ”

"Oh! It turned out to be this way. Leave the little thing to me. By the way, do you have a phone call from an acquaintance in Yangjia Village, make a call first, ask them to suspend their work, and I'll take a look. ”

Dawei took out his mobile phone without saying a word, and quickly dialed a number. It didn't take long for the call to go through. As soon as Wang Yong said what he meant, the other party immediately happily promised to persuade the people in the village to wait for Wang Yong to see it before doing it.

Hao Wenjie, who had been listening to it for a long time just now, suddenly interjected: "Since it is an ancient tree that has been listed, it can't be done with the meaning of the village, and the relevant units must be informed." Like the Cultural Relics Bureau, the Forestry Bureau, and so on. ”

"Pull it on! Still counting on them? Since the cards were hung up, I haven't seen that group of officials come to see it once. It is estimated that this matter will be reported, and no one will come down to check it, at most, let the village write a report into the file for future verification, and then cut it down directly. ”

Dawei was very unimpressed with the county magistrate in front of him, who was very unpragmatic and seemed to lack grassroots work experience. A mouth full of official words, listening to it makes people disgusted for no reason. If he didn't know that he was Wang Qian's boyfriend, even if he was the mayor, Dawei would not hesitate to take care of him.

This is a kind of arrogant temperament that the people of the Mid-Levels Village have slowly developed after a series of events. If you look at it, you can be an irrelevant beggar who may also become a guest of honor in the village. If you can't look at you, even if you are the mayor or governor, you still won't open your eyes and look at you. (To be continued......)

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