On the busy highway, Chen Xing and Zeng Ping, including the secretary and the driver, took a car to Xiaoshiping again, and Chen Xing, who was going back to the capital the day after tomorrow, arranged time to visit Xiaoshiping again.

Sitting in the car, Chen Xing was slightly silent, after having dinner with Lin Yupei last night, Chen Xing called Zeng Jing when he went back, after all, he was born as a criminal policeman, Zeng Jing undoubtedly has a strength that ordinary women do not have. On the phone, Chen Xing could feel Zeng Jing's suppressed grief in his heart, but Zeng Jing never showed his crying side.

Chen Xing sighed, he actually wanted to comfort Zeng Jing and cry out Maybe it would be better, at least he could vent some grief, but Zeng Jing's character, Chen Xing knew that Zeng Jing would not cry in front of outsiders, and in the end he didn't say much except to say some comforting words, Chen Xing didn't say much, he probably asked last night, knowing that her husband Jiang Yi's funeral might not be held so soon, because the city bureau wants to hold a memorial service for Jiang Yi, it may be five or six days later, Chen Xing has already planned to take time to pass by then, but on the phone, did not say it to Zeng Jing.

Sitting in the car, looking at the landscape outside the window that disappeared in sight with the rapid progress of the car, Chen Xing sighed, people are not long, they are always moving forward, the past days are like the disappearing landscape, after all, the dust is to dust, the earth is to the earth, the dead are gone, the living, after all, they have to look forward.

"Mayor, you seem to be upset." Zeng Ping and Chen Xing sat in the back seat and couldn't help but ask out loud.

"Nothing." Chen Xing shook his head, raised his hand and looked at the time, from the city to Xiaoshiping, about an hour's journey, this will be almost there.

Coming out of the office today, I also met Lin Yupei, Chen Xing didn't plan to take the other party, this woman, Chen Xing was only worried that the other party's big mouth couldn't hide the words, and went to Xiaoshiping to visit the field, Chen Xing is going to focus on rectifying this heavily polluted area, if you take Lin Yupei over, it will be difficult to ensure that Lin Yupei comes back and will talk about it in private, for such a woman who is very good at showing off her style, Chen Xing is undoubtedly a headache.

When the car arrived at Xiaoshiping, Zeng Ping, who had been to Xiaoshiping several times, pointed out the road to Li Yong, and the car stopped at the intersection not far from the Jiuye Paper Mill that Zeng Ping said before, and Zeng Pingjian walked over.

"Mayor, see no, this whole area, there are no less than thirty or forty enterprises, ranging from large to small, and the wastewater and waste gas they discharge can be said to be all substandard." After getting out of the car, Zeng Ping took the road and introduced Chen Xing as he walked, and at a glance, they were all factories, and because there were many enterprises gathered here, there were many floating populations, and there were many people and cars coming and going.

"Dozens of enterprises are basically illegal pollutant discharge, and the district has turned a blind eye, and I don't know what to think in my head." Chen Xing's face was calm, his face was not good-looking, but after all, Chen Xing knew that the district valued the economic benefits brought by these enterprises and the annual profits and taxes paid to the district, as the mayor, Chen Xing knew in his heart that he actually couldn't go to the cadres in the district too harshly, this phenomenon was too common.

"The reason why this place is called Xiaoshiping is because of the name of this river, and this river is called Xiaoshihe, from which the name of Xiaoshiping comes from." Zeng Ping explained to Chen Xing in detail that several people had walked for a while, and they had already gone around to the side and back of the paper mill, where the sewage outlets of the factory were all here, and the sewage pipes as thick as buckets were directly discharged into the river.

Chen Xing looked at the Xiaoshi River that Zeng Ping said, he didn't know what the Xiaoshi River looked like before, but what he was looking at now was purely a black and smelly black river, and the river was about to catch up with the black ink black.

"The villagers here said that ten or twenty years ago, they still ate the water of this river, and in the summer, the surrounding villagers came here to swim, and no one dared to come here in recent years, saying that if the water went down to soak up, it would be strange if the skin did not rot." Zeng Pingdao.

"I think the villagers are right, not to mention that this water will rot the skin if people go down, even if the animals go down, they can't stand it, I think the fish and shrimp in this river have long been dead." Chen Xing shook his head and looked forward, Chen Xing could clearly see that along the Xiaoshi River, there were many large and small enterprises.

"Do the villagers eat well water now?" Chen Xing turned his head and asked Zeng Ping.

"No, the villagers don't even dare to eat the well water now, saying that they are afraid that the sewage will pollute the underground water quality, and now every household eats tap water." Zeng Ping is very familiar with the situation in Xiaoshiping, and said, "Because there are a group of enterprises here, the economic development is not bad, the city water company has already laid the pipeline to this area, and a ton of water is not expensive, and the villagers would rather eat tap water." In fact, how to say it, the surrounding villagers, these enterprises are both love and hate, because these enterprises, the surrounding villagers also benefit, the village sells the money of collective land, the villagers can benefit, plus the enterprise recruitment, many of the village's surplus labor force are working in these factories, the wage income is okay, the villagers' life is not bad, and because of the floating population and business opportunities brought by these enterprises, many villagers open small shops or stalls to do business, can make some money. ”

Zeng Ping paused as he spoke, "So the villagers in the surrounding villages, on the one hand, hate the pollution caused by this small Shiping enterprise, but on the other hand, they have formed an inextricable interest relationship with these enterprises." ”

"You said that some villagers had been to the city before, what was the reason?" Chen Xing frowned.

"The overall cause was pollution, when several elderly families died of cancer, the villagers thought it was a long-term pollution cause, and they wanted to claim compensation from the company, but the company did not agree, so the villagers gathered in the city to make trouble, and later a newspaper exposed the pollution here, and the city asked for supervision." Zeng Ping said.

"Then it's gone, isn't it?" Chen Xing looked at the big chimneys erected by the Jiuye Paper Mill next to him, which were already emitting thick exhaust gases, his face was expressionless, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Then it was over, the newspapers couldn't keep tracking and reporting, and the villagers said they were disgusted with the pollution, but they really didn't have the determination to completely fall out with the company." Zeng Ping said he knew the villagers' mentality all the better.

"From what you said, we can get a very important message, we want to clean up Xiaoshiping, and we can't take a one-size-fits-all approach, otherwise we will wishfully think that we are for the good of the villagers, maybe the villagers may not appreciate it in the end." Chen Xing smiled, and then wrinkled his brows, "It is said that these enterprises have supporting environmental protection equipment when they are built, are the environmental protection equipment of all enterprises not up to standard?" ”

"That's not, it's not that some companies see that the environmental protection equipment of other companies is not up to standard and no one cares, some of the enterprises that are clearly environmental protection equipment fully up to the standard will follow the learning, stop using environmental protection equipment, because this can save costs, can save money and no one cares, why don't enterprises?" Zeng Ping smiled bitterly.

"Don't you environmental protection department care?" Chen Xing looked at Zeng Ping.

"Mayor, we want to manage it, but as soon as we come to check, those environmental protection equipment is not up to standard, either pretend to be closed for rectification, or continue to produce, do not put us in our eyes at all, and environmental protection equipment up to standard, as soon as people come to check, they will turn on the environmental protection equipment, as soon as people leave, they immediately turn off again, and we play a game of cat and mouse, we can't do anything about them, the background is harder, and some directly push our staff out." Zeng Ping smiled helplessly.

When Chen Xing and Zeng Ping, including secretary Huang Jianghua and driver Li Yong, stood on the edge of the Xiaoshi River behind the side of the paper mill and pointed, they didn't notice that someone in the factory noticed them upstairs. ”

"Team Chen, do those people look like reporters? I didn't see anyone with a camera. A security guard said to the man who spoke, and the man was one of the security captains in the factory.

"Hmph, Lao Tzu just stared at them from the small building behind them for a while, they pointed at our factory, look at the big sewage pipe behind us, maybe people have already taken some secret camera to shoot it, and now there are even pinhole cameras, you know what." The man in the lead smoked a cigarette and hummed, "Besides, where the birds don't and stink, do you usually have anyone who is full and walks around here?" ”

"Team Chen, people say that reporters are not easy to mess with, let's really fight?"

"Nonsense, you're afraid of a ball, the big boss in our factory has a hard background, what is it for us to beat a few reporters, maybe the boss is still happy, he is the most annoying reporter."

Chen Xing and a few people obviously didn't expect that they were just standing and talking, but disaster would fall from the sky, a few people in security uniforms carried batons, and after walking from afar, they suddenly shouted and cursed, and without saying a word, they rushed over with batons, and smashed people when they saw them.

Huang Jianghua was the closest, and he was hit with a stick all of a sudden, grinning in pain, Zeng Ping didn't expect a sudden accident, his eyes widened in fright, and he said angrily, "What are you doing, we are cadres in the city." ”

"Return the cadres in the city, it's you who beat you." The man named Team Chen shouted.

Zeng Ping was so angry that one Buddha ascended to heaven and two Buddhas went out of his body, he still didn't understand what was suddenly going on in front of him, such an arrogant security guard, he was the first time he saw it, he couldn't care about anything else, Zeng Ping shouted Mayor Chen to run quickly, for fear that Mayor Chen would be beaten, the four of them were empty-handed, but they couldn't fight with seven or eight security guards with batons, and the half-old man didn't know how to fight at all, except for Li Yong who was born in the armed police, Zeng Ping pondered that Chen Xing and Huang Jianghua were the same as him, and they could only be beaten.