"Okay, it's rare for you to open your mouth once, and I'll definitely go back then." Lin Dong said with a smile.

hung up the phone, and he sent Huo Danjun's mobile phone number to Qiu Weijia's mobile phone.

Qiu Weijia knew many people in Damiaozi Town, and he didn't know where to get a three-row van and drove straight to the county bus station. An hour later, he arrived at the county bus station, and when he remembered that he had forgotten to put on a sign, how else would the group find him.

There was a small supermarket next to the bus station, Qiu Weijia went in and bought a marker, asked the supermarket owner for a piece of cardboard, took out his mobile phone, and looked at the message Lin Dong sent him, which had Huo Danjun's name and mobile phone number, so he wrote the words "pick up Huo Danjun" on the cardboard.

After making the sign, Qiu Weijia immediately ran to the exit of the station, held up the sign and began to wait patiently.

In Huaicheng County in March, it was still a bitterly cold wind. It takes nearly nine hours to get here by long-distance bus from Xizhou City. Huo Danjun and his entourage set off at seven o'clock in the morning and got off the bus at nearly four o'clock in the afternoon. The bus station in Huaicheng County is in tatters, and it is a bit of a shabby beauty in the afterglow of the remnant sun.

The appearance of the seven members of the special operations team in Huaicheng County immediately attracted many onlookers at the station. One by one, they were wearing jackets, peaked caps, and a big backpack on their backs, which was bulging.

Qiu Weijia stood in the cold wind for more than an hour, shivering from the cold, and there were cigarette butts piled up under his feet. Just as he was about to smoke another cigarette and go out to smoke to keep warm, he saw a group of specially dressed people walking towards the exit of the station. Immediately held the sign in his hand high. He thought that most of these people were members of the special operations team that Lin Dong had mentioned.

Huo Danjun and others were also looking for someone to pick them up, Pang Lizhen's eyes were sharp, and she saw the sign held up by Qiu Weijia, and said, "Team Huo, look at that!" ”

Huo Danjun followed the direction of Pang Lizhen's finger, saw the words "pick up Huo Danjun" on the sign, and said with a smile: "Teammates." We've found someone to pick us up. ”

The group walked in front of Qiu Weijia, and Qiu Weijia asked, "Hello, I am entrusted by Lin Dong." What is the task force coming here to pick you up, is that you? ”

Huo Danjun stretched out his hand, "Hello." I'm Huo Danjun, and they're all my teammates. Who are you? ”

Qiu Weijia smiled: "My name is Qiu Weijia, and Lin Dong has been classmates for many years, and I have known each other since I wore open crotch pants, and he asked me to pick you up." It's cold, so come with me. ”

Qiu Weijia walked ahead, took Huo Danjun and his party to the place where the van was parked, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, it's a small place, I can't find a good car." I've wronged everyone. ”

Huo Danjun said with a smile: "It's good to have a car, Brother Qiu may not know about our group, we, the main means of transportation is two legs." ”

After getting into the car, Huo Danjun sat in the passenger seat. The other six sat in the back two rows.

Qiu Weijia started the car and said with a smile: "You can call me Xiao Qiu in the future." Lin Dong told me, if you have anything to do in Huaicheng County, just come to me, don't be polite to me, otherwise Lin Dong will scold me when he comes back. ”

Huo Danjun and his party smiled, Qiu Weijia was flexible. talked a lot, and began to introduce Huaicheng County to everyone along the way, and soon won the favor of everyone.

When he was about to arrive at Damiaozi Town, Qiu Weijia said: "Everyone, the best place in our town is the guest house, I have already arranged it, and you will live there in the future." I'm a guest at my house tonight, but you must give me face. ”

Along the way, everyone drank Qiu Weijia, talking and laughing, and became acquainted.

Pang Lizhen smiled: "Xiao Qiu, do you have any local vegetables here?" In the evening, we will eat your authentic local vegetables from Huaicheng. ”

Qiu Weijia said with a smile: "This is too simple, what we Huaicheng people often eat is the local dishes of our Huaicheng, let you taste my mother-in-law's craftsmanship at night." ”

…,

Talking to the town of Damiaozi, the town guest house is diagonally opposite the town government, is a three-story building, because often to entertain people from the county, so the guest house is quite clean, compared to a few hostels in the town, it is good.

Qiu Weijia parked his car in front of the guest house, and the owner, Zhu Dazhi, was his friend.

"Lao Zhu, do you have seven rooms?" Qiu Weijia asked when he entered.

Zhu Dazhi looked embarrassed, "Yo, I'm sorry, Wei Jia, I can only give you five rooms, someone from the county will come tomorrow, Secretary Zhao called just now and ordered two." ”

When Qiu Weijia didn't know how to tell Huo Danjun and the others, he heard Huo Danjun say: "Xiao Qiu, five rooms are enough." There are two couples in our team, and two rooms for the four of them will do. The rest of Ba Pingtao and Qi Weizhuang are all big men, two people live in one room, and one more room is enough for me. Four rooms in total! ”

Qiu Weijia smiled: "So that's the case, alas, mom, I'm sweating in a hurry, now it's okay, the problem is solved." He turned his head to Zhu Dazhi and said, "Old Zhu, Sijian, hurry up." ”

Zhu Dazhi took the key to the room to Qiu Weijia, "Weijia, you can go up with your friends by yourself, the four rooms are next to each other." ”

Qiu Weijia took Huo Danjun and the others to step up the stairs, and the room was on the third floor. When he got upstairs, Qiu Weijia gave the key to Huo Danjun and said with a smile: "You are the captain, you can divide it." ”

Huo Danjun nodded, summoned the other people, and said, "I want the one closest to the stairs, and you can pick the rest." ”

"This room next to Team Huo is reserved for me and Lao Qi." Ba Pingtao said.

The remaining four people were all in pairs, and they asked for the innermost two rooms respectively.

Huo Danjun divided the key and said, "Let's go and put down the luggage." ”

Qiu Weijia said: "Rest first, I'll go home, and I'll call you when the meal is ready." ”

Qiu Weijia walked outside the guest house and called Lin Dong, saying that he had received someone.

After Lin Dong confirmed that Huo Danjun and the others had arrived in Damiaozi Town, he immediately called Gu Xiaoyu and told her that she had sent someone over for a field investigation. Gu Xiaoyu was overjoyed when he heard this. said that Yan Qingnan has been talking about this for a while. Lin Dong knew that Yan Qingnan was afraid that this matter would be yellow, and said to Gu Xiaoyu that it seemed that Yan Qingnan still didn't know much about him.

Gu Xiaoyu smiled and hung up the phone.

Lin Dong called Zhou Yunping and asked, "Xiao Zhou, has the design company been found?" ”

Zhou Yunping was busy with this matter all day today, and said: "I've found it, I've ordered two." Why don't you call over tomorrow and have a chat? ”

"Okay, you made an appointment for me to listen to their thoughts." Lin Dong said.

Zhou Yunping said: "Then I'll do something." With that, he hung up the phone.

Deal with these things. Lin Dong wanted to drive back to Xizhou City, but he received a call from Gao Qian as soon as he went out. She said on the phone that she would be at Sioux City Station in another hour and asked Lin Dong to pick her up. Lin Dong had no choice but to give up the idea of returning to Xizhou City. Drive immediately towards Sioux City Station.

……

Saying that, when Zhou Yunping returned home, he called his wife Ding Xiaojuan out of the room.

"Xiaojuan, stop watching TV, there's a guest at home."

Ding Xiaojuan ran to the courtyard, saw no one, and asked, "Weijia, where are the guests?" ”

Qiu Weijia said: "It was sent by Lin Dong to visit our Damiaozi Town, and now in the town's guest house, I said that I would invite them to come to my house for dinner in the evening." It's not early. You hurry up and put up the dishes that will entertain the guests in the evening, and order hard dishes on the whole day, but you can't neglect others. ”

"How many?" Ding Xiaojuan asked.

"Seven." Qiu Weijia replied.

Ding Xiaojuan nodded, "Okay, I know." Rest assured. With that, he went into the kitchen and got busy.

Qiu Weijia said: "I don't have any good wine at home, I'll buy some, do you need to bring anything?" ”

…,

"The soy sauce is gone, you call a bottle and come back." Ding Xiaojuan said in the kitchen.

Qiu Weijia entered the kitchen and carried the soy sauce bottle to the small shop in the town.

After everyone put away their luggage. They were all gathered in Huo Danjun's room.

Pang Lizhen opened her mouth and said, "Team Huo, everyone wants to walk around the town, do you want to go?" ”

Huo Danjun smiled: "Have you all discussed it?" ”

The crowd nodded.

"Then come and ask me what I'm doing, let's go now." After speaking, Huo Danjun took out the camera from his bag and left the room with everyone.

When I got downstairs and saw Zhu Dazhi, Huo Danjun walked over and said, "Boss, if Xiao Qiu comes to look for us, please tell him, just say that we went out for a walk, not far, just in the town." ”

Zhu Dazhi smiled: "Okay, let's go out and play." ”

Huo Danjun left the guest house with the team members, there were few pedestrians on the streets of Damiaozi Town, the north wind was howling, and the skin of the cut people was painful.

At this moment, there is a huge fiery red sun hanging in the sky of Damiaozi Town, surrounded by thousands of clouds, red glow, the remnant sun is like blood, and the afterglow of the setting sun is sprinkled on the town, which has a poignant tone.

Sha Yunjuan in the team held her boyfriend Guo Tao's arm and muttered to herself: "What a beautiful sunset." ”

Everyone took off their cameras and put them on to capture the fleeting beauty of the sunset.

"No wonder Mr. Lin wants to build a resort here, it's indeed a good place, it's beautiful, isn't it?" Qi Weizhuang laughed and said, although it was the first time for everyone to come to Damiaozi Town, they were all infected by the beautiful scenery in front of them, and they couldn't help but have a good impression of this place.

"Xiao Guo, Xiao Sha, you two stand together, I'll take a group photo of you." Huo Danjun said with a smile.

"Okay, thank you Team Huo."

Guo Tao and Sha Yunjuan stood together intimately, and Huo Danjun gently pressed the shutter to record this moment.

"It's a nice town, let's go for a walk." Zhong Yunan said with a smile.

The crowd lifted their feet and continued on their way.

A few years ago, Damiaozi Town was still tiled houses, and in the past two years, many people have earned money by working outside, and some people in the countryside have built buildings. Most of the residents in the town will do some business, some open supermarkets, some open restaurants, and some buy clothes and shoes, so the families are quite solid, and most of the families in the town have built two-story small buildings in the past two years. However, the small buildings here are much rougher than the beautifully designed ones in the southern towns, and there is no beauty in them. But if someone starts a building, in the eyes of the people of Damiaozi Town, it means that the family is living a good life.

Damiaozi Town is divided into front street and back street, and both streets are intertwined with tiled houses and buildings. However, the dilapidated and low-rise tiled houses have become a rare sight in the town, and they are declining at a rapid rate.

The crowd walked and discussed, and a lot of information could be obtained from the architecture of a place. The members of the task force all have a lot of experience, and they can tell the poverty of the town when they see the buildings on the street that represents the economic center of Damiaozi Town.

"It's a school, isn't it?" Zhong Yunan asked, pointing to an iron gate in front of him.

Before they could get closer, they saw the iron gate open, and a group of students rushed out of it on worn bicycles. For a moment, the noisy sound rolled in like a wave in the sky.

After school, the mood of the students is undoubtedly happy. Some of them were carrying worn-out cloth bags that looked like they had been sewn by their mothers and covered with patches, and some of them had books in the basket in front of their bikes.

The students here are different from the students in the city, and it is rare to see fat people, and it is rare to see people wearing glasses.

They did not wear the same school uniform, and the color of the clothes was mainly black and gray, which was slightly bloated on their bodies, and looked like old cotton jackets sewn by their mothers at home. The feet are all black cloth cotton shoes, and most of the uppers are dirty.

…,

Huo Danjun and his party paused, such a scene evoked their memories.

Among the people present, Huo Danjun felt the deepest, he was born in a peasant family, and when he went to school, his shoes, clothes and schoolbags were all sewn by his mother with stitches and threads. Seeing the outfits of the group of students in front of him reminded him of his memories of his childhood, and unconsciously, two lines of tears had been drawn in the corners of his eyes.

The saddest thing in life is that the son wants to be filial and his relatives are absent.

When he finally gained a foothold in the city and was able to make a good life for his tired parents, the bad news came that his father had liver cancer and passed away within half a year. Soon after, his mother became ill and left him two or three months later.

"Team Huo, what's wrong with you?"

The attentive Pang Lizhen noticed Huo Danjun's strange eyes and asked with concern.

Huo Danjun wiped the corners of his eyes and said, "I'm fine, I just saw this group of students and thought of what happened when I was a child." I was just like them back then, no, even their current conditions are not as good. When I was in junior high school, from home to school, the 20-mile mountain road was all two-legged running, and a day back and forth, it was a 40-mile mountain road, and I had to wear out about a dozen pairs of shoes every year. ”

Zhong Yunan said with a smile: "Team Huo, no wonder the muscle lines of your legs are so good, it seems that they were all trained by walking mountain roads when you were a child." ”