A middle-aged man in his fifties, wearing a sheepskin and shoulder, holding a * in his hand, although the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the ground, but his eyes were cold and his face was not good, and he was very wary of these two men who broke into the territory.

Strangely, Han Wei stared at the man's face and suddenly exclaimed, "Are you...... Xin Minghao? ”

The man was stunned for a moment, looked at Han Wei carefully, recognized him, and asked tentatively: "Look at you, your surname is Han, right?" ”

Han Wei grinned and nodded: "Uncle Xin, I'm Han Wei." ”

"Ouch, that's what it's called." Xin Minghao, who was originally tense, put away his shotgun very embarrassed, strode over and held Han Wei's hand tightly, emotional.

Han Wei shook hands with Xin Minghao for a while, and then introduced Li Yuanlang to him. When Xin Minghao heard that Li Yuanlang was the newly appointed head of Shuiming Township, he also warmly shook Li Yuanlang's hand, and said repeatedly: "Township Chief Li, I have heard of your name for a long time, and when you were still the deputy head of the township, I heard that you won a donation of 200,000 yuan to Hanjiatun Primary School, and also solved a month's arrears of wages for the teachers of the township, and gave them welfare products before the holiday. You don't know, behind the back of the common people, they praise you as a good cadre, and a good official who does things for the people. ”

Li Yuanlang hurriedly said politely: "Uncle Xin has won the award, and I haven't done enough." ”

Xin Minghao hurriedly invited Li Yuanlang and Han Wei to sit down, and was busy boiling water and making tea, Han Wei took the first step to help, so that Xin Minghao could chat and talk with Li Yuanlang.

I heard Minghao say that he was originally the village director of Liujiadi, but because of a disagreement, he had an awkward quarrel with Liu Wanquan and was ostracized by Liu Wanquan.

And Liu Wanquan's youngest son Liu San has always been eyeing his daughter Xinrui with ill intentions, and in the end, Xinrui has been studying in other places and is afraid to go home, so he was forced to be helpless and ran to the mountains to become a forest ranger.

Li Yuanlang asked Xin Minghao why he was forced to resign because of the conflict with Liu Wanquan.

"Alas!" Xin Minghao sighed, took the cigarette handed by Li Yuanlong, lit it and took a deep breath and said, "How can I say it, Township Chief Li, I still can't figure out whether what I did was right or wrong." ”

"Uncle Xin, I have a good relationship with Han Wei, you and Han Wei are old acquaintances again, don't have any scruples if you have anything to say." Li Yuanlang saw that Xin Minghao had a hard time, so he simply gave him a reassurance.

Xin Minghao looked at Li Yuanlang's sincere eyes, and saw Han Wei's very affirmative nod, and then opened his heart and said what was in his heart.

He was worried that the quarry would over-exploit the mountains and forests, causing natural damage, and easily causing mudslides or flash floods, which was a short-sighted behavior that would damage everyone's wealthy family.

But Liu Wanquan is full of words in Liujiadi, the key is that the Liu family is a big family in Liujiadi, relatives and relatives, and the relationship is connected, the surname Liu occupies 80% of Liujiadi, and the people surnamed Liu waved their arms and responded to many people.

A person with a foreign surname like Xin Minghao is fortunate to be the village director, and it is a pipe dream to influence Liu Wanquan's thoughts.

Therefore, Xin Minghao can only be tossed by Liu Wanquan. Unexpectedly, Liu Wanquan was favored by the God of Wealth, and in just a few years, he made a lot of money, turning the impoverished Liu's family into a wealthy land, and the people's pockets were bulging, so they naturally admired and supported Liu Wanquan very much.

On the contrary, people like Xin Minghao, who had opposing views at the beginning, became the target of public criticism, and bad words and strange words flew all over the sky, and people surnamed Liu took the lead, and everyone jointly wrote a letter to the township to dismiss Xin Minghao.

At that time, the township chief was quite upright and was not deceived by the illusion, but when he was about to investigate the truth, he was squeezed out by Ma Shengran and left Shuiming Township gloomily.

Taking advantage of the fact that the new township chief was not in place, Ma Shengran covered the sky with one hand, accepted the impeachment letter of the people, and used his power to dismiss Xin Minghao on the spot, fulfilling the wishes of the people of Liujiadi.

Xin Minghao is no longer the village director, and his status is not as good as before. Liu San, who was still a little jealous of him, was so bold and reckless that he dragged his daughter Xinrui into a cornfield in broad daylight to do misdeeds.

Thanks to Han Wei's timely rescue, Xinrui was saved from suffering*. But later, under the coercion of Liu Wanquan, Xinrui, a high school student and a little girl who was not deeply involved in the world, couldn't stand Liu Wanquan's rhetoric, and reversed black and white to sue Han Wei to the township.

And the newly appointed township chief arrested Han Wei into the police station without asking about the indiscriminate situation, so that Han Wei was wronged, and he is still haunted by this matter.

He was not angry that Ruien would take revenge, but hated the various practices of the township chief, and in the end he didn't get a good reward, and he was driven out of Shuiming Township by Ma Shengran.

Mentioning this incident, Xin Minghao said to Han Wei: "Han Wei, I'm really sorry for you, what Xiaorui did at the beginning was really ......" He shook his head in shame, and remorse was written all over his face.

Han Wei waved his hand indifferently, saying that he understood Xinrui's approach, and she was also forced to be helpless, children, where can she withstand coercion and temptation.

"It was also because I was masturbated by the village director that I got caught on fire and became seriously ill. The family has no money for treatment, Liu Wanquan secretly gave Xiaorui a sum of money, she wanted to treat me......"

Xin Minghao sighed, but when it came to Xinrui, Han Wei still cared about her, thinking that Xinrui should be a big girl in her twenties now, so he asked about Xinrui's situation.

Speaking of his daughter, Xin Minghao's face was full of pride, he said that Xin Rui had been admitted to Donghe University, studied agricultural science and technology, and would return to his hometown to serve the people after graduation.

Li Yuanlang asked Xin Minghao if he had any difficulties to mention, Xin Minghao shook his head and said: "The difficulties have passed, I have a salary as a forest ranger, and I have nothing to do with hunting in exchange for pocket money, which is enough for Xiaorui to study." Besides, Xiaorui, this child is very sensible, he works as a tutor in his spare time, and he can earn some living expenses, and he is about to graduate in more than a year. ”

Xin Minghao snorted his cigarette butt, Li Yuanlang handed him another continuation, Xin Minghao still didn't understand, Liu Wanquan used the quarry to get rid of poverty and become rich, and his original obstruction was right or wrong.

Li Yuanlang knew that if Liu Wanquan led the whole village to the road of prosperity with the quarry alone, it could not be said that he was useless, at least the people enjoyed real benefits.

Nowadays, Liu Wanquan relies on mining quarries as a pretext to plant hurting grass behind his back, it is difficult to say that he will use hurting grass as a raw material for anesthetics, once it is refined into drugs, Liu Wanquan's sin will be great.

In the next step, Li Yuanlang had a plan, but the mobile phone had no signal in the mountains, and he couldn't put it into practice yet.

At this moment, the sunrise in the east is getting thicker, the sun is about to come out, and the sky is already slightly bright.

The reason why Xin Minghao got up so early was because he heard a signal flare rising in the mountain, accompanied by shouting, so he went out to check with a shotgun, and happened to come back and meet Li Yuanlang and Han Wei coming in, and the scene just now happened.

Li Yuanlang didn't hide it, so he told Xin Minghao all the stories about him and Han Wei's night exploration of the quarry.

Xin Minghao was also taken aback, he didn't expect Liu Wanquan to have this hand, secretly planting hurtful grass. He also heard from the elders that the hurting grass has an addictive medicinal effect, and there were people in the village who often ate hurting grass before, and after eating, the whole person was crazy, incoherent in speech, and listless, anyway, it didn't look like a normal person.

"Crazy, incoherent?" Li Yuanlang muttered in his mouth, and suddenly frowned, remembering Xiao Zhanwang's original appearance, and the ingredients of drugs found in his body, Li Yuanlang suddenly made a bold prediction, could it be related to him?

At this moment, I heard the sound of people running outside the house, from far to near, more and more clearly.

Not good! Han Wei's heart was shocked, Xin Minghao hurriedly walked to the back window, opened the curtain and looked out, and then said to Li Yuanlang and Han Wei: "There are a large group of security guards running over, it seems that they are looking for you." ”

"Uncle Xin, let's withdraw quickly, we must not affect you." Li Yuanlang stood up and was about to pull out his legs and take a step.

"Township Chief Li, what are you talking about, I still have this responsibility. Don't worry, you come with me. As he spoke, Xin Minghao walked to the outer kitchen, picked up the large iron pot, and swept away the ashes covering it, revealing an iron plate underneath.

Xin Minghao opened the iron plate, and inside was a black hole. Then he said to Li Yuenlong and the others: "This is a cave, you two go in quickly, and I will deal with it outside." ”

As the voice of the voice got closer and closer, and someone came to slam the door with loud noise, without further ado, Li Yuanlang and Han Wei jumped in one after another, Xin Minghao immediately covered the hole, returned to the original state, pretended to be sleepy and yawned just now, and whirled around with the door smasher.

Shan said that Li Yuanlang and Han Wei jumped into the cave, Han Wei illuminated it with a flashlight, and walked deep and shallow to the depths of the cave.

I thought this cave was not that big, it was just a dead end. But the two of them went out far away, and they didn't reach the end yet.

The cave was damp and shady, with the sound of water droplets from time to time, and it was accompanied by the sound of whining wind, Li Yuanlang guessed by imagination that there must be an exit from this cave, and it was possible that it was through the ventilation.

He communicated this idea with Han Wei, and Han Wei also agreed very much. When he was a special soldier, there was an escape training for caves.

If it was a dead end, the two of them would be deprived of oxygen and uncomfortable if they stayed in it for so long. Now that the ventilation is so good, it means that oxygen is pouring in into the cave.

So the two of them walked along the cave all the way forward, the cave became more and more open, the sound of water droplets became clearer, Han Wei held a flashlight and kept shining on the stone walls on both sides of him, the stone walls were very cold and wet.

At first, the feet were all soft loess, and after walking for a while, it turned into gravel and puddles. The two of them were more cautious, taking one step at a time, and their speed slowed down significantly.

The further you go inside, the more humid the air becomes, and the sound of water droplets gets louder and louder.

Hey? Li Yuanlang's nose moved slightly, and he smelled a very strange smell, I can't tell if it's fragrant or smelly, anyway, I've never smelled a strange smell.

"Director, don't you think this smells like ......" Han Wei turned around and asked Li Yuanlang, but Li Yuanlang pointed his hand ahead and exclaimed: "Look, is there any light there!" ”