Chapter 102: Burning the Farmhouse
In a few moments, the area where the smoke was rising was getting closer and closer to the marching Ivan.
The car left the national highway and drove east for a while.
Because it is early spring, the land in the north has just woken up, and the green grass has just begun to sprout, and the trees have only just sent out small green sprouts. The billowing smoke swept over the branches and grass, and in an instant it dyed off the tender green and turned black.
Twilight was approaching, and the hearts of the two of them became more and more nervous, and they were eager to go to the smoke to see what was going on.
Finally, when they were about to reach the scene of the fire, they found that the flickering tongue of fire had come out of a deep ravine about 100 meters in front of them, and had been burning all the way to a farmhouse with a small courtyard.
The farmhouse had almost burned down, and a peasant couple was already standing in the yard crying and crying.
Ivan parked the car as fast as he could, and Uncle Ji got out of the car quickly, and ran to the farmer in three or two steps to inquire about the situation. The farmer and his wife wept silently, and could not tell what was going on, except to hear them pointing to the grass house and crying:
"Child, my child!"
Ivan didn't need to ask anymore, he dragged down a quilt to dry on a rope in the yard,
Press into the big water tank next to it, soak the whole quilt thoroughly, and then put it on his body and run, and directly break into the mud house of the farmhouse that is still burning, Uncle Ji picked up a tin bucket on the ground and poured the water in the tank, and poured it on the door of the earthen house, and shouted at the farmer:
"Hurry up, man! Don't just look at it and cry, you also splash water on it, hurry up! ”
Only then did the farmer react, and he also splashed the water with Uncle Ji.
Sure enough, after a while, Ivan picked up a boy and rushed out, and when he reached the yard, Uncle Ji asked the farmer in a loud voice:
"Is there anyone else in there?"
The farmer shook his head: "No." ”
The child who was picked up had already passed out, and the child was in his teens, wet all over. When the farmer's wife took the child, Ivan said:
"It's a shame that this kid jumped into the big tank and stayed there, otherwise the fire would have scorched him a long time ago."
Uncle Ji gave the child a simple first aid treatment, and the child woke up after a while. The fire on the eaves could not be extinguished, and after more than an hour's work, the farmhouse was left with four earthen walls.
When the fire in the farmhouse is gone, something is still burning in the deep ditch in front of it.
Only then did Ivan realize that the smoke was so pungent that his whole chest was painful, and they led the farmer's family of three to hide in a place where the smoke could not blow.
Ivan began to look around the farmhouse. Behind the farmhouse was a deep ditch that stretched into the deep ravine behind the hill.
It looks like this deep ditch was originally a farmer's septic tank, and it is about 30 meters square. Right now, the cables inside are still burning, emitting a thick, suffocating pungent smell.
After Ivan saw it, he returned to this side, and he said to Uncle Ji:
"Sure enough, it is dealing with incineration and processing cable skins, and the amount is really a lot."
Uncle Ji asked the farmer:
"Where did you get these cables?"
"Where do I know, from out of town?" The farmer looked a little flustered.
"Oh, gentlemen, you don't have to be nervous, I just ask. I don't know what kind of market you have here. ”
When the farmer heard this, he immediately became less nervous, and said:
"It's better to do this than to farm, and this pit is one hundred and eighty yuan. Well, more than eighty dollars. ”
"Then you can't get the house in tow, can you build a new house for 180 yuan?"
"Hey! It's all because I'm greedy for money. ”
"How? Guys, let's say, it's good to pick up a little life today, what do you care about! ”
"Well, that, every time I hide it a little, the iron hook hooks out a little, and I can't hook it out when it's cold, and today I'm going up to the house with the flames."
Uncle Ji, they were very helpless when they heard it.
This time they came only to investigate, not to enforce the law, so they had to understand the situation and look for clues about the main culprit of this business.
It's a pity that the farmer doesn't know anything, and it seems that he has fallen several times here. In this way, the peasants still felt that this livelihood was more suitable than farming, and they all rushed to tell each other. No, it had already reached this area so quickly, and the news spread much faster than their intelligence.
Ivan asked the farmer:
"Big brother, do you have any relatives near you tonight?"
"Yes, yes, dozens of miles!"
"Let's get in the car and give them to you."
Uncle Ji helped the children over and let them sit in the back seat of the car. Ivan drove fifty miles through the potholed country road, and finally delivered the farmer's family to their relatives.
By this time, it was already past midnight.
Tonight, Uncle Ji and Ivan could only spend the night in the mountains and fields, curled up in the car.
I don't know if it's because of the smog floating, looking out of the car window and looking out of the five fingers, Uncle Ji said:
"The current situation is very serious, we have to react with the superiors, and urge the relevant departments to come down and enforce the law as soon as possible, otherwise the vicious circle will reach the point of incorrigibility, and the first victims must be the farmers, and they will have no way to live."
"Uncle, in fact, we have been reporting the relevant main culprit information for more than two months, and it is said that the environmental protection law itself is ready-made, and there are goals for law enforcement, so why can't this be curbed?"
"Hey, not only do you think you don't understand, but I think it's weird. But we are not law enforcers, so we can't violate the procedures, so isn't this also a hurry. ”
Ivan thought for a moment and said:
"Anyway, this on-site investigation mission was not arranged by the superiors."
Uncle Ji looked at Ivan and was embarrassed, and he said:
"Actually, I arranged it myself. This time, Lan Yu is gone, before you go back to country J, you must be in a very bad mood, let's take it as a trip. Second, let's go ahead and give priority to the statistics of the data, and when the main goal is exposed in the next step, wouldn't it be better to work qualitatively and quantitatively together. ”
Ivan felt a little unhappy, and he said with resentment:
"Uncle, you can't remember it, you are kind, but if someone blames it, you won't pay it back!"
"You kid, why did you become a mother-in-law and mother before you got old, like a little old man."
"What else do you say? I'm not about to become a little old man! ”
Uncle Ji then looked at Ivan carefully.
By the moonlight, I could still see Ivan's disguised facial material began to blush. Fortunately, it was at night, and it was an uninhabited territory, otherwise, it would have scared a large number of people to faint.
Uncle Ji cleaned Ivan's face and said patiently:
"Remember, our mission is what pioneers should do for the benefit of generations to come. The cause we devote ourselves to has nothing to do with those miscellaneous things, this is the reason why we are loyal to the faith, you don't need me to sing a high note, you can understand. ”
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