4. Chapter 4, Deserted Village
What I saw was a village. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
A house has been abandoned, the grass growing in the yard is taller than the house, and not a single person can see the village.
It's an immigrant village, and it's not uncommon to see villages like this. Generally, because of the need for infrastructure construction, or the land is acquired, the whole village is relocated, but generally after the relocation, the place can do whatever it should do, such as being flooded, such as building a highway, or a factory, etc., but there are very few people like the one in front of me who have been expropriated and allowed to be abandoned.
How much does it cost to move a village? Even if you have money, you don't play like this. From those barren grasses that are taller than people, I'm afraid that the time of desertion here is not short, and these times are especially money!
Of course, there is also a possibility that when the people of this village moved out, there was no one to compensate them, and they moved out on their own. But this is very unlikely, because land is also money. Since ancient times, the Chinese have had a strong sense of the countryside, and they will not abandon their homes and land unless they have to, but whenever the entire village is moved away, it is generally a catastrophe, and if you don't leave, you can't survive. At first, I wondered if this would be a place that had been abandoned for decades, but the advertisements on the walls of "Telecom Village" and "Kangda Feed" clearly reminded me that this village has been alive at least for the last few years.
"Isn't it weird? What has become of this village? โ
I heard someone in my ear, but I wasn't sure if it was telling me, and I turned my head to see Lisso standing beside me, standing side by side with me, looking at the silent deserted village under the scorching summer sun.
At this time, I had unconsciously walked out of dozens of meters, and when I looked back, the Ford E350 was still panting in a low voice, because the air conditioner was to be turned on, and the engine had not yet been turned off. Compared to the entire deserted village, the limousine looked out of place, as if it had accidentally crossed over to Henan in 1942. Of course, in 1942, there were not so many barren grasses in Henan villages, and at that time, there was a great drought, and the green things had long been eaten.
But there are not only wild grasses here, but the trees also grow very tall, and some trees grow out of the yard, and the canopy of the trees can cover the whole yard and the house. It doesn't make sense, if this is an old tree, it is very valuable, and it is impossible for the village to let the family surround it by themselves, and the branches of the big tree have broken through the eaves, and it looks like it is going to wrap the whole house. My feeling is not that the family built a house around this big tree, but that the tree planted in the yard has grown so big that it can almost swallow the house. But it's just an ordinary camphor tree, and a camphor tree planted in the yard grows so much bigger?
And when I looked around, there was more than one tree like this, and it could be said that you could see it everywhere in this village.
It's not scientific!
I suddenly had a feeling of goosebumps all over my body, this blue sky and white day, the sun shining brightly overhead, this can't be a collision with evil, right? These big trees remind me of the grandmother in "A Chinese Ghost Story", the thousand-year-old dryad. The special Li Suo can't be Nie Xiaoqian, right? But Nie Xiaoqian is a classical beauty in our China, when have you ever seen a beauty with red hair and blue eyes in a costume film? Really, fortunately, Li Suo is not from this village at first glance, whether it is her appearance or dress, otherwise I would suspect that she is not human at all!
What's even more strange is that the plants in this broken village are very luxuriant, but I don't seem to see any animals. Not only are there no people, but there are also no chickens and ducks, and there are so many big trees, there should be many birds that like it, but I didn't see any flying birds. Such a barren grass, there should be a lot of mosquitoes, I wear a short-sleeved shirt today, a suit shorts, I am particularly mosquitoes, in the past, as long as I was with me, the people around did not need to light mosquito coils, like this grass in a place, as long as I stand out, I will be bitten by mosquitoes all over the body in minutes. But there are not even mosquitoes here! But there is also a pond that is perfect for mosquitoes to breed, and a small river flows through the edge of the village!
I wasn't bitten by mosquitoes, but I got goosebumps all over my body, really, this place is so weird!
And then Li Suo was standing beside me, and I smelled a faint, vague scent of roses, maybe this was not a perfume, but a body fragrance on her body...... She's standing next to me, and there's no one else here, so she's supposed to be talking to me.
I swallowed and asked uncertainly, "Are you talking to me?" โ
Li Suo nodded and said, "Yes, aren't you a government official?" Why don't you seem to know anything about this place? โ
I rub, when did I become a government official? I'm just an ordinary employee of the District Environmental Protection Bureau, not a civil servant, but a career. Although I am not a party member, I asked very consciously, "What do you want to say?" "I told her with sharp eyes, you foreigners, don't try to attack us, don't apply your so-called human rights and environment to us, the national conditions are different, understand?
Lisso shrugged his shoulders and said, "Professor Hรถlderlin is taking samples of the water body, and his two assistants are collecting samples of plants and soil. I mean, you can tell that this village is quirky, right? We asked to investigate a year ago, but your official reply was that there was no such village here. โ
She said so much in one breath, she was tired, and I was tired from listening. But I don't want to remind her that there's nothing wrong with this kind of thing, it's like someone up there comes down to check and sees something good. In order to make the leaders above see all the good things, the magistrates will do everything they can, and I don't need to cite those examples.
I was wary and asked, "Who are you?" Who gave you the right to come here to collect samples? I knew I was asking a question, so I added, "I'm not asking about who you came here through official channels, I want to know what the hell are you doing?" "Look, what a conscious and stand-up person I am, even if I am a beautiful woman, I will never betray my principles easily...... So far, though, I don't know what I can sell to the redhead beauty in front of me, and I'm thinking maybe I can be flexible if she needs it.
At this time, Li Suo looked at me and smiled, oh Maiga, this is a banshee, this smile is too charming, her oriental background that is very delicate in the western face is simply incomprehensible when she laughs like this. I want to use the female star I have seen in my brain to describe the beauty of her smile, but I can't find it, well, the real beauty is really unique. I finally understand why there are so many troubles that have caused the monarch to lose his country, there is no way, she just smiled at me, I just want to take the initiative to ask her, what do you want to know? I'll tell you all.
It's just a pity that I don't have anything to tell her.
Then Li Suo said: "Don't be nervous, we are not a criminal organization, in fact, we are a member of an international academic institution, the name of this institution is deepgreen, which translates to Chinese as 'deep green'." โ
Well, I saw this on the badge on her chest, and now that I look at it again, I'm sure I'm just looking at the badge...... Well, it's full...... But I think an organization that wears a badge so openly on its chest is certainly not a criminal organization.
"Dark green"? This is a green environmental protection organization, there have been many of these groups in the West over the years, and in some small countries they have even formed green political parties to participate in the election, which belongs to the more radical practitioners of ecological thought. I think I'm quite knowledgeable.
Li Suo continued: "It is mainly a collaborative platform, our members are scholars and professors from all over the world, and our philosophy is ......"
I don't want to know their philosophy, and honestly, I'm not interested in that.
Westerners live a good life, and they accuse others at every turn, especially saying that our countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America are not environmentally friendly and destroy the ecology, but they seem to have forgotten that bringing the world into industrial civilization, burning forests with industrial fire, and blocking rivers with cement were all done by Westerners at the beginning. What's even more shameless is that later they found out that this is harmful, so they moved all kinds of harmful enterprises and factories to Asian, African and Latin American countries, they plundered raw materials from underdeveloped countries, but their own countries legislated to protect forests and mines, and in the end they also blamed underdeveloped countries for causing climate warming? !
I suddenly realized that I was so angry, even though I wasn't young anymore.
Li Suo felt this uncooperative and even resistant attitude of mine, which she seemed to face often, so she just shook her head mildly and said: "In Brazil, in Venezuela, in Nigeria and Malaysia, in the United States, Germany and Japan, the 'Homeland International Alliance' has found that the 'Homeland International Alliance' illegally uses internationally banned genetic equations to make new species, extract stem cells from these species and develop new drugs with huge profits. And Homeland Pharmaceutical Group is the initiator and leader of this international industry alliance, this city is the headquarters of Homeland Pharmaceutical, and we have tried countless times to understand the production base of Homeland Pharmaceutical, but we have been rejected. But we have our own sources, a villager who used to live in this village told us that in recent years, a lot of strange things have happened in this village, the livestock they raised have died in a large area, and several unknown plants have grown wildly, and even the villagers have begun to die unexplained, and the experts sent by the government to investigate do not know why. But based on similar situations that we have investigated in several countries, it can be shown that these changes must have something to do with Homepharma's latest biologics, and that their actions are illegal or criminal, and our conscience does not allow us to turn a blind eye to such things. โ
There is a great sense of justice. Aren't the heroes who think they saved the planet in American blockbusters all like this? To be honest, I'm disgusted with American-style heroism, they don't take others seriously except for themselves too seriously.
I looked into the distance and couldn't help but say, "I think you'd better take care of yourself first, if I'm not mistaken, they're here for your trouble." โ
At this time, just outside the village, I don't know when, there were a few more cars.