Chapter 337: The Farthest Country
Wei Lan answered the phone, glanced at Nie Zuo, and said, "I'm working, I'm on a business trip these days, don't call me." β
Hanging up the phone, Nie Zuodang didn't hear it, Wei Lan explained to himself: "It's Mai He." β
Nie Zuo looked at the scenery outside the car and said with a smile: "Yes, maybe we will become relatives." β
Wei Lan sighed lightly: "I think Mai He is sincere, but his mother's attitude is ...... He said that his mother arranged for him to go on a blind date again. She is the daughter of a wealthy man in Dongcheng, a celebrity, dignified and beautiful, and knows etiquette and etiquette. β
Nie Zuo said: "It's not unreasonable to, Mai He belongs to a man who can pick people, not be picked." Just like catching Zhou, the gold ingots, black yarn hats, and green cards in front of them don't take anything, but they just run to get a piece of soap, and the parents must be crazy, and ask the child to catch it again for a good luck. Actually, it's until the parents are satisfied. This is a common problem in city A education, treating children as private property, when children are young, it is understandable to protect children, but when they grow up, they have their own way to go, but they still have to teach children which way to go. They think that they are for the good of their children and do not allow their children to resist too much. β
"Nie Zuo, do you have any suggestions?"
"Do you like Mai He?"
"Well...... I don't like it very much, but he was very nice to me, and I was very touched. After so many years, it is rare to meet a man who is really good to me, and I don't want to lose this opportunity. β
Nie Zuo pondered for a while: "Mai Zixuan, this person is relatively easy to speak, even if he hates you, but if Mai He insists, he will scold a few words at most, after a long time, care more about Mai Zixuan, it is not a big problem." The difficult thing is Mai He's mother, she is a utilitarian mother who takes self-interest very seriously. And her character is forbearing, Mai Zixuan has been fluttering with colorful flags outside for so many years, she should not be able to see it, just keep Mai He, her forbearance is imposed on Mai He, she thinks that her sacrifice is very big. If her son doesn't listen to her, she will feel hopeless. To be honest, I don't think you're better than Mother Maihe, and she hasn't used any powerful moves yet. What kneeling, suicide, she did it all. Nie Zuo had a thorough understanding of Mai He's mother, and confirmed that when Mai Yan threatened her interests, she had to get rid of her.
Wei Lan said: "Mai He told me. As long as I want, he can leave the Mai family, he doesn't want any interests of Sino-Ocean Group, he can go to work, he is also a top student, he can support me. β
"Haha, it's a little naΓ―ve."
"Men are very naΓ―ve in the face of love." Wei Lan said: "Don't laugh at others, it's just that you didn't find yourself naΓ―ve." β
Nie Zuo didn't say anything more. This is one of the reasons why Wei Lan, Eve, and Nie Zuo are not the same kind of people, if Nie Zuo is in this position. He could be murderous. However, it is difficult to face your lover when you kill your lover's mother. Alas...... Love, affection. You can't kill her, but you can curse her for dying early and reincarnating. In many TV series, many heroines face such a lover and mother. Showing great tolerance, understanding, etc., Nie Zuo felt that this was not kindness, but a kind of stupidity. Just like Mai He's mother, the screenwriter is embarrassed to write him as a good person who suddenly woke up. The character of forbearance for decades has been deeply ingrained.
Thinking of this, Nie Zuo said: "Actually, it's not completely impossible, you still have a way, and that is Mai Zixuan." If Mai Zixuan is willing to accept you, Mai He's mother can only agree. β
"Does it make a difference?"
Nie Zuodao: "Believe me, there are many things that can make Mai Zixuan change his opinion, but even if God comes, he can't change Mai He's mother's opinion." β
Wei Lan concentrated on driving, and after a long time, he said, "Do you say that men are fickle?" Mai He is so good to me today, I believe it is sincere, but will it change in the future? β
"Yes." Nie Zuo said: "This is an inevitable process, it depends on how it changes." Wei Lan, do you want to go to the future in 20 years to see how you live? β
"I've thought about it."
"I've thought about it too, but I think the wonder of life lies in the unknown. You look at some powerful children, they have already designed their routes as soon as they are born, what kindergarten to go to, what elementary school to go to, high school, university, then become civil servants, and then they are promoted...... There is no suspense, whether he is mediocre or brilliant, there is only one path to his development. It's okay to be mediocre, but if it's an outstanding talent, it will be entangled for a lifetime. Nie Zuo said: "So you don't have to think too much, leave the future to the future, and make your best choice at present." What if tomorrow is the end of the world? What if you're going to go to jail? β
"What?"
Nie Zuo reminded: "Eldest sister, concentrate, the speed limit here is fifty yards, and you drove ninety-two, don't you want to eat in prison?" β
Wei Lan hurriedly slowed down, looked in the rearview mirror, and asked nervously, "Is there a speedometer?" β
"No, otherwise I would have warned you, but this speed is on the fast side, this is a provincial road, there are many branch roads leading to the countryside, and young people in the countryside never wear helmets on motorcycles, and the speed is super fast."
The two chatted, but not lonely, the farthest township is sixty kilometers in a straight line, the traffic is relatively inconvenient, the highway is currently being built, the national highway and the provincial highway are a total of one hundred and forty kilometers, nearly eight o'clock in the evening Wei Lan and Nie Zuo arrived at the farthest township.
The farthest township is a very backward village in City A, and the municipal government has to subsidize hundreds of millions of yuan for poverty alleviation every year, while there are only more than 10,000 people in the township, that is, each person can get nearly 10,000 yuan of poverty alleviation funds every year. And they don't use the money for development, most of them use it for gambling. Aspiring young people are leaving their hometowns and going to City A, resulting in the farthest hometown being worse and worse.
If you don't work hard, the boss will be sad. There are also people who want to get rich and bring everyone rich, such as building fish ponds to supply nearby county seats. But the following year, there was a robbery. Planting fruit trees, stolen and robbed...... Liu Shaochong's TV station did a program, which sharply explained that the farthest township deserves it, for example, in any place in the city, the driver crushes a chicken to death, and the maximum record is 300, while in the farthest township, 3,000 is the starting price. Because the program was too sharp and there was a suspicion of regional discrimination, the TV station was fined and warned.
The farthest country has also become one of the most bizarre places in City A, like two worlds, like the civilized world suddenly degraded to the Stone Age. The only hotel in the township is a four-story hotel, the conditions are very poor, and the waiter's attitude is also very bad, feeling that Nie Zuo and their arrival are increasing their workload.
After moving in, the conditions will not be said, look out the window. It's the street in the township, and the people on the other side of the street directly throw the garbage from the third and fourth floors to the street, without even looking at whether there is anyone below. However, public security is a pretty good township in City A, and there are no thieves in the whole township every year. The TV station investigation believed that the locals were too fierce, caught the thief, beat them half to death, threw them into the pit, and then watched the police go to salvage. The police can't help it, the township government and the police are formally managed by City A.
Staying in the hotel, there was no phone harassment, and the night passed without words.
Go downstairs the next day. When they were about to go to the supermarket, they found that the car had been scratched, and the street cleaner told Nie Zuo that the outsiders were going to park the car at the township government. To put it simply, the locals are somewhat xenophobic.
Gambling is popular, and most of the mahjong parlors in other places in City A are middle-aged and elderly, and they are all young people. The game room was full of fifteen or sixteen-year-old smokers who were supposed to go to school. It's not that all the people in this place are like this, and those who don't want to live like this have long since left here. Ten years down. It is not without reason that the population of the farthest township has plummeted from the original 40,000 to the current 12,000. There are also fights. I'm from this village, you're from that village, arguing about two sentences, and starting to fight. And there are only four policemen in the whole township.
Wei Lan went to the supermarket, and the entrance of the supermarket was a vegetable market, a very messy place. Nie Zuo waited in the distance, and about ten minutes later, Wei Lan came back, and the two discussed while walking towards the hotel, and the supermarket old man was a good person. I heard that Wei Lan's brother brought his friends to the farthest hometown to gamble, so he began to help Wei Lan reminisce. When Wei Lan mentioned that his brother and friend had foreigners and couldn't speak Chinese, the old man immediately remembered, a few days ago, two people came to the supermarket and bought a lot of mineral water and packaged food, they hardly spoke, and when they paid the bill, the cashier asked them if they had any change, they didn't understand at all, they just shook their heads. After looking for money, the old man told them that the next time they came, the car should not be parked by the market, but should be farther away, and kindly reminded. As a result, a person gave the old man twenty yuan, and the old man was stunned on the spot, and after thinking about it, it seems that these two Asian-looking people can't understand their own words.
"The car is a silver joint venture car, and the tail number is 15 or 51, and the old man doesn't remember." Wei Lan said: "There is no valuable information. β
"Yes." Nie Zuo and Wei Lan returned to the hotel, Nie Zuo opened the electronic map, and said, "I understand when I buy food, but I don't understand when I buy mineral water." You see, these villages, all the places where people live, have electricity and running water, which is what the municipality has to do. So it can be excluded in crowded places. The remainder is mountain forests and abandoned reservoirs. Qin Ya and Hale investigated that the kidnappers had not abandoned the kidnapped vehicle, and at least no one reported to the police that they had found the abandoned car, which means that they were still using the car. β
"And then?"
"Using a car means refueling, and there is a gas station in the whole township. On the outskirts of the township, four kilometers from the center of the township. Nie Zuo said: "If my guess is correct, they want to use this car to trade, and use the kidnapped car to trade with Liu Shaochong, which is another provocation." They won't be able to hold it up, and there must be other vehicles following them. β
Wei Lan interrupted: "Wait, there are a lot of motorcycles, and there is only one gas station?" β
Nie Zuodao: "In some rural areas, gasoline can be purchased directly at convenience stores, and how much is the gasoline for a Coke bottle, and you don't need to go to a gas station." It's a long way to get to City A, and you may have to refuel back and forth. β
Wei Lan nodded: "They live in the wilderness, I want to ask, why do you choose the farthest country?" There are many mountains near City A. β
"That's a good question, why choose the farthest country?" Nie Zuo said: "Judging from the video, Liu Shuangshuang was not imprisoned in the wild, but in the room. But why should the room buy a lot of mineral water? β
Wei Lan's eyes lit up: "The biggest difference between the farthest township and other places is that the population has decreased from more than 40,000 to 12,000 in the past ten years, that is to say, many houses are uninhabited or even deserted. β
Nie Zuo nodded: "And the municipal projects of the municipal government guarantee the water and electricity of all people, which refers to the water and electricity of the registered population." For uninhabited houses, abandoned houses, water and electricity are not provided. It makes sense that many people from the farthest villages have migrated. "The natural village is a unit smaller than the village, usually a dozen households, and after most of the walk, the rest of the people will find a way to leave. This, combined with education, shopping, and transportation, will lead to the extinction of the natural village.
Wei Lan said: "We need to find someone who is familiar with the local area. β
Nie Zuo pondered for a while: "In this way, let's see if you can invite the old man to lunch, and I'll go to the gas station." β
Wei Lan nodded: "Okay." (To be continued......)