At the turn of autumn and winter in the year 424 of the Epoch Era, it was not much the same as in previous years, the wind of late autumn leisurely rolled up and the fallen leaves swirled in mid-air, and before the cold air could land, the cold air whistled and came, and the people who were whining and blowing the cold in the night were caught off guard. People living in Xiaye have an interesting saying about this kind of weather: the upper work drinks the autumn wind, and the lower work drives into the pit. Although I went to work during the day, I went out in the cold wind, and I could go out with my neckline and cuffs tight, but when I got off work at night, I had to shrink my whole body, tighten my collar and trot home, otherwise I would have to freeze out of the problem.

"Pit" refers to nature, which is Xiaye.

The whole Xia Ye leaned down from mid-air to see a huge crater, and there were small craters in it, one after the other. Hundreds of years ago, when humans landed on the home planet and settled, these large and small craters left behind by an unknown number of thousands of years ago exist today, and the surface of these craters was not covered with green plants like now, and they showed their barren and skinny bones to the dead and silent cosmic space.

These craters at the bottom are like a pair of stubborn eyeballs, staring at the human ancestors who first landed on the home planet, they knelt on the ground and wept and whispered sighing about the climate and temperature suitable for survival on this planet, the abundant natural resources, watching the landed human beings fall to the ground and blossom and take root, cut down trees and make fires, build bridges and roads, and raise tall buildings on the ground.

However, despite the fact that the initial landing site was not far from Xiaye, human beings naturally chose those fertile plains and higher terrain to live, live and develop. Hundreds of years have passed, although the current permanent population of Xia Ye is not small, but the population density of an administrative region in Xia Ye per unit area is less than one-fifth of a city in the federal capital, not to mention that Xia Ye is a real barren land, and now in addition to some stones used to make building materials, there is no large storage of industrial minerals that can be taken out.

In today's era of the Federation, where you have resources, you have everything, Xia Ye, who has rarely received any policy support for hundreds of years, is really poor to the roots.

It is very common weather on a rainy day, and when it rains, the clouds in the sky are like thick ink on the paper, and they are heavy as if they are about to drip black water. A rain turned over and over, and the air could smell a sticky musty smell, revealing an indescribable nausea.

Fortunately, federal officials in Xia Ye are really not careless in these infrastructure constructions, and Article 3 of the federal constitution clearly states that "any active and passive violation of the safety of public life is a first-degree crime". Therefore, Xiaye Prefecture has been picking and picking out the already not very rich funds allocated by the federal government for many years, and constantly laying and repairing new sewer pipe networks. A few steps from the sewer mouth on the street, the horizontal fence of the inlet is condensed with a thin layer of brown-red rust, and people step on it firmly and firmly, and when you go to the side and look down, you can see the sewer pipes buried in the ground more than two people high, and in the early years, I even heard that plumbers could sail in it when the rain was heavy.

However, in addition to the sewer network facilities, the other infrastructure construction in Xiaye is not flattering, and the highway grade is a whole grade lower than the other three administrative districts, except for Xiaye City and a few large towns with a large population in the surrounding areas under the assistance of the Federal Planning Department to lay the established roads, many of the surrounding scattered small towns are not so lucky. If the economic situation is better, please prepare a table of good wine and good food, take some ready-made stones to process and polish, and spend half a month to pave a bluestone road from the center of the town, which is quite good. In those small towns where there are few people and no money, they have to buy two more pairs of rubber shoes with thick soles, so that their feet will not get stuck in the yellow mud and cannot be pulled out when they go to work in the rain.

As for the airport, except for Xiaye City and Tongjia Town, which is not far away, there is one in the whole Xiaye sometimes without seeing a rise and fall in ten days and a half months, and the children often go to the runway to play with pigeons on good days.

However, today's airport in Tongjia Town is more lively than in the past, as early as the afternoon, there were three federal military standard G-13 transport planes with blue and white lines spraying blue and white lines on the fuselage slowly puffed white smoke and landed on the runway, because it was not yet time to get off work, and did not attract too many people's attention, and when the sun set, three more G-13 landed, crowding the already small tarmac of Tongjia Town. With so many planes coming at once, the townspeople forgot when they had last seen them, and they were just in time to get off work, when the men and women who had just come out of the mine and walked out of the fields and ridges squinted their eyes in the direction of the airfield, and the wind was rushing towards the town, saying that there must be a big man in the town, and they had to hurry to see the excitement.

When the first three G-13s landed, there were sharp-eyed idlers who watched a few people who got off the plane all the way to the Tongjia Town Public Security Station, only to see from a distance wearing federal uniforms, and they were too timid to go close to see what the officials were, only to see these people and Director Yang of the Public Security Station went to the mediation hall on the second floor of the small public security station. At this time, outside the old gray wall of the security station, it was already full of people from the town who had stopped work today and came back early, and the window of the mediation hall on the second floor was crowded with people.

"Today's battle is really not small, I heard that there are six transport planes, obediently, what is that model? I heard that they are all military models in Shangdu! ”

"Transport planes are nothing, you haven't seen the officers coming off the plane, with several stars on their shoulders and blue caps on their heads. I stopped working today, and followed all the way to Lao Yang, Lao Yang saw that people snapped and saluted several times, and he was so scared that his face was sweating in such a cold weather. ”

"I don't know if this big official is here to collect stones, if he really comes to collect stones, he dares to do it, I don't know how many of the six transport planes have to be loaded!"

"I think you're frozen stupid, and it's worth it to be such a big officer in person? Still flying a plane to collect stones? Do you think that little stone in your pit is gilded with gold? ”

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Lao Yang didn't know whether the stones in Tongjia Town were gilded or not, but he knew that at this moment, his face was shining with oil, and the sweat was about to catch up with the gold-plated layer.

As early as a few days ago, the higher-ups told him through a video link that an officer from the Second Garrison Division would come over the next day, and asked him, the director of the small security station, to receive him well and not to slack off, and he hurriedly cut off contact without saying how many people there were and what they were doing. As a result, no one came after Lao Yang arranged to stop, and after asking the mayor who was going out, the mayor said that Xu had changed the itinerary from above, and Lao Yang didn't care, and withdrew the honor guard and receptionist. Although it was not a big deal, the two little daughters-in-law who brought food to their husbands were blinded by the smoke and dust in the tunnel, and one fell on the mine track and fainted, and the other hurriedly ran out to the security station to call people, and several people in the station went to the mine.

Coincidentally, as soon as the front foot left, the back foot airport came to the phone, saying that three G-13s were coming, and the people who came down saw that the military uniform was from the security department, and hurriedly put the phone after speaking. Lao Yang hurriedly called the only telephone operator left in the office, drove to the airport, and scolded the grandsons of Shangdu for carrying out a surprise attack, and scolded the mayor for not coming back, so he could only let him, the little director of the security station directly under the control of the garrison, go to receive him. As a result, halfway through the car, I saw a few people wearing federal uniforms walking along the road, Lao Yang fixed his eyes and saw that the person walking in the middle almost had weak legs, and the flat dark blue garrison uniform had three shining school officer stars on his shoulders! Lao Yang has been in Tongjia Town for almost twenty years, and the biggest official he has ever seen is only a lieutenant officer who has resisted a few meteor tails. Or his own direct superior department security department!

Until this time, Lao Yang sat in the mediation hall of 100 square meters and was still a little dizzy, a total of three people from the garrison sat down in the mediation hall and were not in a hurry, looking east and west, Lao Yang was dizzy in the clouds, and only heard the people in the garrison say that he was looking for someone, and asked in confusion: "Ah?" Who is it? ”

"Hugo." Standing opposite Lao Yang was a captain adjutant of the garrison department, a young man with thick eyebrows, who seemed to be in his twenties, and his eyes were heroic and bright.

"You send someone to fetch him, the Colonel has something to ask him." The captain adjutant said to Lao Yang kindly.

Lao Yang raised his eyes to look at the officer sitting in the main seat on his left, the colonel was a middle-aged man in his forties, his hair was very short, his dark blue scalp was exposed, the dark blue garrison uniform was washed straight, the collar and cuffs were a little white, his hands were casually crossed together, as if he didn't care about the conversation between the two of them at all, but looked out of the window with interest, his eyes sometimes stopped in the crowd outside, and sometimes looked at the rows of towering boundary plants planted in the distance in the mining area to divide the land boundary.

In fact, the colonel got off the plane on a whim, wanting to see this place, which was somewhat familiar to him but was beginning to be unfamiliar, so he walked all the way to the town without a personal guard. Outside, the man in the tree with crooked necks looked at the colonel and thought he was looking at himself, so he was startled and almost fell from the tree.

"Hugo? Isn't that the little boss of Canglanju on Central Street? The people outside the mediation hall heard this and whispered.

"But no, I didn't expect him to have a relationship with the big officials in Shangdu? Tsk, the little boss is usually approachable and quiet, but I can't see it. A few people in the back row lowered their voices and said enviously.

"Open your dog's eyes and see clearly, who is sitting next to Lao Yang with his head down! It's that gambling bastard Yuqiu! And the one standing over there, that's the steward of Tongshengfang! In my opinion, the little boss is in trouble, and his gambling bastard must be in trouble! A tall, thin man near the window said with a smug of his shoulders, relying on his close proximity to see clearly.

Lao Yang couldn't help but be furious when he heard the voices of people outside the window, how could the mediation hall say that it was also his own one-third of an acre, how could it be like a vegetable market, and he couldn't help but slap the table and shout outside: "It's all idle and have nothing to do?" What are you doing around me! ”

"Come on, Lao Yang, the soil on the conference table in your hall is about to catch up with the mine, and you can't catch up with the mediation in eight hundred years, so we will give you a cheer!" The crowd burst into laughter.

Looking at the smile in the colonel's eyes when Wen Yan retracted his gaze, Lao Yang's face turned red. A few years ago, in order to show off his re-election as the director of the Tongjia Town Public Security Station, he bought a vacant two-story building next to the public security station, found someone to paint a beautiful magenta roof, painted the exterior wall again, bought a few new tables and chairs and placed them on the bright small second floor, called it the "mediation hall", and also widely advertised it in the town, saying that everyone was welcome to come here to sit down and solve the conflict, and the office would mediate for everyone. There are not many outsiders in Tongjia Town, and there is a small friction in the neighborhood that has been solved by their own family, and no one has any problem running his mediation hall to break up housework, and the mediation hall is rarely used, and it has been idle until now. He looked angrily at the gambling bastard on his right hand who kept his head down and didn't speak, as if he wanted to get face back on him, and said viciously: "You caused a good thing!"