Chapter Ninety-Six: Walking Around the Village
At seven o'clock the next morning, Li Chen rode a three-wheeled motorcycle to the front of the brigade department.
Coming to the brigade so early, it wasn't that he had any official business, and he didn't want to talk to Li Liwen about anything, but Li Chen was really sent a special "errand" by Li Liwen.
This errand is to take two new village officials, Zhou Yali and Gao Liang, to familiarize themselves with the village environment.
It stands to reason that it should be the work of the village cadres to familiarize themselves with the environment of the village, but Li Liwen said that he was going to the town for a meeting today, and the accountant was inseparable from the accounts, and the deputy secretary Lian Wang was sick, and the cadres really couldn't spare manpower, so they were forcibly assigned to him.
Originally, Li Chen said that he could find someone else, but Secretary Liwen and they agreed that he was the most suitable.
There are also a lot of reasons, saying that he is also a college student, and he is young, and he should have a common language with these two people, and he also said that he has to go to Li Chen's mountain field anyway, and he should accompany him by the way, in short, he seems to be the only one who has to say him.
can make Li Chen depressed. Because Yuan Xin is coming today, although the other party has not yet made it clear that he is a boyfriend and girlfriend, but the more he is like this, the more he has to behave.
However, Li Liwen actually gave himself a death order, and even went online, saying that if he didn't complete this task, it would have a bad impact.
I couldn't refuse, so I had to agree depressedly.
When it was over, the secretary also lent him Li Dewen's tricycle, saying that it didn't matter if Li Chen was a big man, but he had to take care of the feet of the two little girls.
Just pondering, there was movement in the door, and after a while, Zhou Yali and Gao Liang walked out.
Both of them changed their outfits today, Zhou Yali wore a pair of purple and white Nike travel shoes, a dark blue sportswear, which set off her slender and graceful figure and was more outstanding, wearing a peaked hat on her head, refreshing and beautiful, seeing Li Chen's sweet smile, a "hard work" finally made Li Chen's depressed mood a little.
But Gao Liang's performance immediately offset this achievement.
Although her pink casual sportswear also set off her delicate curves, when she saw Li Chen, she inexplicably showed a black face again, but Li Chen's impression of her had been reduced to almost fail.
Zhou Yali is also very strange, although Gao Liang is a little quick-tempered, but Li Chen doesn't seem to provoke her, why does she look at people so unpleasantly?
However, smart people have always known what to ask and what not to ask, so she pulled Gao Liang, and the two got on the back of the tricycle.
There was no shed or seat, so Li Chen prepared a small wooden stool for them in advance, and a small mattress was spread on it, which was also soft and comfortable. After all, it's not a tourist, this kind of condition is not bad, if you change to a man, Li Liwen will find you a car!
"Sit down, I'm leaving."
Li Chen sat in the driver's seat, reminded him, and only then did he twist the handlebar after receiving a response, and the electric tricycle drove forward smoothly.
Li Chen actually rode this thing for the first time, but this thing is simple, similar to an ordinary three-wheeler, and less strenuous than an ordinary three-wheeler, so Li Chen is very familiar with it after a little practice.
"Where are we going?"
Li Chen asked, but didn't look back.
Although Li Liwen sent him this errand, he did not stipulate any fixed plan for him, so Li Chen wanted to ask the two masters.
Zhou Yali's crisp and pleasant voice came: "Take us around the village first, and introduce us by the way!" ”
Li Chen nodded, and after sitting down, he drove west along the main street. He was going to take the two of them around the outside of the village, from west to south and then east.
Along the way, Li Chen pointed to the passing scene and said as he walked.
According to Li Chen's introduction, the two girls also have a preliminary understanding of Tizhi Village.
The village is not too big, surrounded by mountains, and the brigade headquarters is basically located in the middle of the village.
The west side is called Xishan, which is barren, and the Xishan Col below is basically a wasteland, but now the Xishan Col is already the location of the old cadre's sanatorium.
The mountain to the south is called Nanyu, which is basically a large dirt slope, and the road leading from the village to the county seat also passes through it.
The east side is low, not far from the village, is a very wide dry riverbed, gravel sand, more than ten years ago this is a river, very wide, the water is clear and bright, is a small reservoir in the mountains at the junction of the neighboring county and Mi county in the northeast. When Li Chen was a child, he and his friends often played in the river, catching fish and shrimp and swimming in the wild, catching half-foot-long silver carp and big crucian carp and stewing to eat, the taste was very fragrant. Even the small reservoir on the top was secretly visited once, and I played for two days, which was very enjoyable.
But I haven't been there since.
Since the past few years, the groundwater has been declining for some reason, and I heard that the small reservoir has long since dried up. And the riverbed below is also at the bottom. Leaving this gravel land, you can't plant anything, and over time, the environment becomes extremely poor. Further east, dozens of miles away, is an extremely high mountain called Donkey Mountain.
Legend has it that a long, long time ago, there was a wild donkey spirit who made waves and poisoned the people, and was suppressed by the gods of ** power under this mountain, and this mountain was named after it.
Donkey Mountain is a two-boundary mountain, because the other side of the mountain is another neighboring county, and this side belongs to Mi County.
But the mountains here are extremely doudou, it looks like it has been cut by a knife, and there are many rocks and broken soil, and it is also impossible to grow food, but in order to prevent landslides, soil erosion, wind and sand or something, the town has organized many times to plant trees, but the soil quality is too poor, and the trees planted can survive less than two percent, and now looking at it from a distance, it is like the kind of head case of the top person, it is very ugly.
Seeing that the surrounding environment of Tisha Village was so poor, the two girls couldn't help frowning, even if they were a little mentally prepared. No wonder you're so poor!
But now, two big projects are about to be started, and the people in Tizhi Village finally have hope.
However, even if the economy goes up, how to solve this harsh environment is really a big problem.
The two glanced at each other, and both seemed to see each other's thoughts. But no one spoke.
Soon, they turned to the north of the village, and when they saw that there happened to be a small shop in front of them, Zhou Yali asked Li Chen to stop, and they wanted to buy water.
Li Chen wanted to buy it, but seeing that Zhou Yali was holding it tightly, he gave up.
Sitting in the car, I watched the two little girls enter the shop. Looking at the sign of the shop, Li Chen of the "Cuihua Store" smiled.
In fact, there was originally only one small shop selling goods in Tizhi Village, which was Li Huashan's house guarding the passage out of the village in the south of the village, and this 'Cuihua Store' was newly opened.
The reason why Li Chen laughed was because the proprietress of the newly opened small shop was one of the people who was still working in his mountain farm a few days ago, Li Chen called her Cuihua's sister-in-law, and her husband Li Erniu was also working in the construction team of the construction site outside, and she had just dragged it back, and opened this commissary with the money she earned from Li Chen's mountain farm plus some help from her mother's family.
Cuihua's sister-in-law has a lot of brains, and when she saw the prosperity of Li Chenshanchang, she took in some daily necessities to sell, and at the same time took some fruits and vegetables from Li Chenshanchang, and sold them piecemeal, and now the small shop is also quite prosperous.
Her management made Li Huashan, who was originally the dominant family, angry enough, but she was helpless.