This kind of investigation can be described as decent, just like the investigation of ordinary leading cadres. Guo Zhuocheng did not show his "extraordinary" technical ability in the investigation, nor did he express his foresight, but according to Yu Gangqiu's hints, he only understood the situation in the military industrial enterprises, answered the questions raised by the leaders below that must be answered, and solved the problems that could be solved within the scope of his authority.

The symposium was held in a relaxed and warm atmosphere and lasted until late at night.

The next morning, they said goodbye to the enthusiastic factory leaders and drove away from this factory to the next.

Guo Zhuocheng drove the jeep along the road and continued to drive northwest. Because there was a lot of dust in the air, it didn't take long to drive, and the car that was washed by the factory workers in the morning was covered with another layer of floating dust.

Yan Yu, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, frowned, and said in the vast wilderness: "The air here is too dirty. It's been a long way to go, and the eyes of such a beautiful car are not eyes, the nose is not the nose, and it is all dust. ”

The jeep was not well sealed, and although the windows were closed, dust still came in through the cracks, and the air in the car smelled of not only gasoline, but also earth.

Guo Zhuocheng smiled: "A jeep is also a high-end car? Be content with that. You haven't seen a sandstorm yet, when the sandstorm comes, there is no trace of cleanness in your whole body, there are no clear people on the other side, there is dust all over the place, even if you wear a mask, the sand can get into your mouth and nose. ”

Yan Yu said in disbelief: "Is the sandstorm so strict? Where does the sand in the air come from? Can they fly that far? ......, it would be nice if you didn't give away those high-end bulletproof cars. ”

Guo Zhuocheng smiled: "It's okay for that kind of car to run on the asphalt road on the street, but if you use them to run this kind of road, it will fall apart immediately, and a protruding stone will make your heart ache." That thing is too expensive, and if you are hit by a stone, you will have to spend tens of thousands of yuan or hundreds of thousands of yuan to fix it. I don't like delicate things, but this kind of jeep leather is solid, and it won't be worth much if it is broken. ......, by the way, you haven't seen the power of sandstorms yet, but when you let you, a southerner, see it, and you will feel the violence of nature. The soil that takes off here can not only fly to the capital, but also fly across the ocean

Iben, fly over the Pacific Ocean, hehe. ”

Liu Weixuan, who was sitting in the back, asked, "Director Guo, have you also encountered sandstorms?" ”

Guo Zhuo said sincerely: "The sandstorm I encountered is much more powerful than the one you have encountered. It's just that what I encountered was a sandstorm in my previous life, and what you encountered was a sandstorm now. Because of the lack of food and meat in the country, everyone has no food to eat and no meat to eat, and the grassland is either over-cultivated or overfed to livestock, and the grassland is becoming more and more degraded, and the desert is rapidly encroaching on the grassland that was originally lush with water and grass.

In addition, there is the blind exploitation of minerals and the sale of rare earths in large quantities. At the same time, in order to export cashmere, which is as expensive as gold, so that a large number of goats are fed that have great damage to the grassland,......, all kinds of things that destroy the ecological balance are getting more and more, and the sandstorms naturally become more and more intense, until everyone can no longer stand it, and then they begin to spend huge sums of money on desert management, return farmland to grassland, engage in rotational grazing, and no longer take too much from nature. ”

He walked across the boundless grasslands and asked himself in his heart, "Can I start to stop this frenzied reclamation at this time?" Can I get people up and running in an orderly manner ahead of time? Can the development of other industries divert people's attention away from the grasslands and from the minerals underground? ”

Because he had to drive, he didn't think deeply, let alone the specific steps. After listening to Liu Weixuan's question, Guo Zhuocheng said with a smile: "I really haven't experienced a large-scale sandstorm, and there seems to be a small one last year." ”

Liu Weixuan said: "Every year. However, it's not as strict as you say. As long as you wear a mask, it's basically fine. ”

Before I knew it, it got dark, and it didn't take long for it to rain heavily, and although the air was much fresher, the dirt road suddenly became muddy. Because the road is slippery, and the road surface is almost unmaintained, there is a hole in a hole here, Guo Zhuocheng is no matter how good his driving skills are, he can't drive fast, and he can only drive from the grass next to him several times.

Countless mud splashed up and landed on the dark green sè body, which soon turned the beautiful body into a difficult mud sè, no different from the old jeep that passed by from time to time.

Of course, the jeeps of the past were not necessarily old, and they were probably the same as the ones they were riding, and they were all damaged by the mud, causing all the jeeps to look like bears.

In this era, there are very few vehicles, and there are very few jeeps in the car, and among the vehicles on this road, seven or eight out of ten are jeeps, and the rest may be tractors, long-distance buses or Jiefang trucks, basically less than cars and vans.

Jeeps are now the standard mount for army officers and county and township cadres.

Driving in the grassland on a rainy day, not only the speed is slow but also the fuel consumption, after driving a distance, Guo Chengcheng said to the town in the distance: "Today we can only live in the town here." If you continue like this, you will run out of gas halfway through. Tomorrow when the rain stops and the road is good to run, we will go again. ”

Yan Yu smiled: "Okay! Anyway, it's late at night when we rush over, so we can't do anything, so it's better to stay in the town for one night and see the customs here. ......, hehe, I don't know if there is a roasted whole sheep to eat, I have long heard my classmates in the north say that the roasted whole sheep tastes very good, and I have always wanted to taste it. ”

Liu Weixuan hurriedly said: "That's it." However, the average person cannot afford to eat it. I've only eaten twice when I've grown so big. I once ate it when I was a child, and I forgot how it tasted, but I knew that there were many people who ate it together, and I couldn't mention everyone's happy appearance. ”

Guo Zhuocheng also had a child's heart, and said in disbelief: "How is it possible, don't the herdsmen feed their own cattle and sheep now?" How is it so difficult to roast a sheep? ”

Liu Weixuan said with a smile: "In the past, the sheep were all public, and the slaughtered sheep were divided into meat and distributed to each family, not to mention that there are very few cases where the whole sheep and the whole sheep are divided, that is, the whole sheep is divided into the whole sheep, and it is also for the sake of satiety, where do you dare to eat it all in a few clicks?" Now the sheep are basically distributed to the family, but people are reluctant to sell them for money. ......, hehe, I haven't been to the grassland for a long time, and I don't know if they eat roasted whole sheep. Maybe their lives are better, and some people are starting to learn to enjoy them. ”

Yan Yu smiled: "You are also pure guessing, I believe that people often eat roasted whole sheep now." It's a pity that there are no acquaintances here, and they may not bake it for us to eat. ”

Amid the jokes of the three, the jeep slowly drove into the town. It opened in the eyes of people who were indifferent and even a little hostile. Only a few ignorant children showed a trace of curiosity, their eyes moved with the mud-covered vehicle, and their eyes fell on Guo Zhuocheng and others from time to time.

The three people in the car were already tired, but they couldn't stand people's indifference, and they didn't know why someone treated guests from afar like this, which felt weird.

“！ There is a snack bar in front where you should be able to find a place to stay! Yan Yu pointed to a big tree in front of him and said. It was a large elm tree, and its leaves had fallen quite a bit, and under it stood a woman, who was grooming a few skinny legs of mutton, carefully plucking the hairs on them.

This woman was obviously not very old, certainly not more than thirty-five, but she had already been wrinkled early by the hardships of life. Hearing the sound of the jeep engine, she first took a closer look at the car, and her eyes scanned the faces of Guo Zhuocheng and Yan Yu for a while, before she stood up, tried to smile, and watched the jeep stop in front of her.

Yan Yu stretched out his head and asked, "Comrade, do you have anything to eat here?" Is there a place to stay? ”

The woman smiled and said, "We are the restaurant we opened, of course we have food to eat, and we also have a place to stay at night." Let's park in the yard behind the car, there is a place there. ”

Yan Yu glanced back at Guo Zhuocheng, and Guo Zhuocheng smiled: "Go down." ”

When Yan Yu got out of the car, the woman's attitude was better, and she hurriedly pointed to the door hole in front of her and said, "Just go in there, there is a courtyard inside." ”

It is now more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and the northern day is very late, and many families have already begun to eat dinner, especially those who only eat two meals a day.

I'm just going on day by day.

However, when Guo Zhuocheng and the others walked into the snack bar, there were almost no customers inside, and the business of this shop was really not very good. Except for the woman just now, no one else came out to greet her. The woman threw the leg of lamb she had just packed into the basket, carried it into the shop, and warmly beckoned them to sit down.

It didn't take long for her to make tea, turn on the light, and the house was a little brighter.

She is busy, this shop seems to be taken care of by her alone, she is the proprietress that people often said in the previous life, but few people dare to say this name at this time, "boss" and "proprietress " are often associated with the "capitalists" in the past, and they are the objects of education and crackdown by the people.

The proprietress led the three of them to a table slightly inward.

She cleaned up the table and said with a smile, "What do you want to eat?" Although my small shop is not very big, it has an authentic northwest flavor here, and there are things inside and outside the customs. And the game that is usually hard to see, do you want it? Caught hares, shot pheasants, guaranteed freshness. If you are from the mainland, there is also roast mutton and roast beef, which is guaranteed that you still want to eat it. When the three of you are satisfied, get a good night's sleep, and as soon as you get better tomorrow, you can go home happily. Three comrades, what do you want? ”

Guo Zhuocheng said to Yan Yu and Liu Weixuan: "Do you want to eat roast whole sheep?" ”