Lin Shidong took a shovel and easily dug a big pit in the open space in front of the house. The pit was covered with firewood, and a hanger was built out of wood, and a large black stuffy jar was hung with half full rice. After adding water to the stuffy jar and igniting the firewood, Lin Shidong said to Nini while handling the pig's head:

"Nini, you go and talk to Uncle Wang and Aunt Li, and come to the house for dinner in the evening. ”

Nini said hello, took a bag of yogurt, and walked out in a hurry. After taking the processed pig's head into the house and stewing it in a pot, Lin Shidong came outside the house, sat on the big tree stump used for chopping wood, looked at the woods swaying lightly in the breeze, and muttered:

"Isn't it nice to be like this now?" the mark of the axe flickered a few times, and the light slowly dimmed.

Chu soldiers rode motorcycles on the brand-new Nanhe Bridge. Occasionally, you can see steam ferries loaded with trucks ferrying back and forth on the river. came to Anqing County and communicated with the local county police bureau for the first time. After all, Anqing is their jurisdiction, and they are much more familiar with the local situation. After the exchange, Chu Bing learned that the surname Lin is the surname of Anqing, but the person with the middle of the name should be the person near Sanshan. Because the surname Lin there is basically a big family with a surname. In this family of surnames, the scholars are basically young people, which is more consistent with what is said in the information.

However, people from the county police department also said that the Sanshan area is a poor area among poor counties. Not only administrative villages, but also many natural villages that cannot be managed, it is not easy to investigate. It's best to go to the town hall of Sanshan Town, they must know more about the Sanshan area than the county. When Chu Bing came out of the county police station, it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon. After buying a few baked cakes on the street to cushion his stomach, Chu Bing rode straight to Sanshan Town.

The road to Sanshan Town in the county is really rotten! Even if the Chu soldiers rode all-terrain motorcycles, the maximum speed did not exceed 30 kilometers per hour. Dulong Mountain is difficult to walk because there is no road, only a rugged stone mountain road. And the road to Sanshan Town was really crushed by vehicles.

Chu Bing had observed the road, which was supposed to be an asphalt road with a relatively high construction standard. From the cracked and undulating pavement, the roadbed below can be clearly seen. Under the asphalt pavement, it is not an ordinary triple soil, but a concrete roadbed with a high load-bearing capacity, with a thickness of 20 cm. But such a sturdy road is still crushed by heavy trucks shuttling back and forth, and you can imagine how much these cars must be overloaded.

Chu Bing parked his car in the grass under the road and let go of the unlicensed heavy-duty truck whizzing by. The ore and dust that fell from the car dyed the Chu soldiers and the car red. The whole road, as well as the grass and trees next to it, have an eerie pink color. Chu Bing took off his helmet, picked up a piece of ore and looked at it carefully, the ore was red as a whole, but with a little silver-gray. Throw down the stone and look at the surrounding vegetation, which is very sparse and short.

Chu Bing exhaled, his expression was a little solemn, this is mercury ore, and the pollution to the environment is very serious. Of these cars coming and going, I didn't see that none of them were closed. If this accumulation continues all year round, the large areas of land on both sides of this road will definitely become a dead place! The investigation of the case is very important, and when this wave of trucks has passed, the Chu soldiers will continue to set off on motorcycles towards Sanshan Town.

In just a few tens of kilometers, Chu Bing rode for more than three hours. The road was rotten, and he had to often dodge the rampaging truck convoy, Chu Bing felt that it was a miracle that he could reach Sanshan Town safely!

When I entered Sanshan Town, it was already a little dark, and the street lights in the town were lit up early. Riding slowly along the main road in the town, looking at the small villas and shopping malls that appeared on the side of the road from time to time, Chu Bing's doubts gradually increased, this is a poor area? This is much better than several towns under Lin'an County! It is getting late, and the town government staff must be off work. Chu Bing found a hotel to stay in, and decided to rest for one night and go to the town tomorrow.

The hotel that Chu Bing was looking for is three floors high, the first floor is a restaurant and a shop, and the second and third floors are inhabited. After taking a good shower in the room and cleaning the dust off his body, Chu Bing came to the hotel wearing the white shirt he had just bought. It was a little late, and Chu Bing was the only one who ate in the restaurant. The proprietress who was about forty years old simply let the waiters leave, and she was busy serving food to Chu Bing.

After eating, Chu Bing asked for another pot of tea, and while drinking tea, he chatted with the proprietress:

"Eldest sister, I heard that Sanshan is a poor area, but looking at the situation in your town, it doesn't look like it at all! ”

"Our town has only developed in the past two years, and if you had been here for the first two years, there would have been no buildings here. At that time, some of the houses were still adobe houses!"

"You can make the town what it is now in two years, and there are capable people in your town!"

"That's not it, it's thanks to the mayor, if he hadn't let the whole town raise money and build a mine on the mountain, then our Sanshan Town would still be as poor as before. ”

Chu Bing frowned slightly, how could it be like Dulong Mountain, and he opened a mine again? Chu Bing thought for a moment, and then asked:

"Eldest sister, when I came to Sanshan Town, I saw a lot of trucks pulling ore, and those ores are produced here, right?"

"Yes, we have a lot of mercury ore and lead-zinc ore in the mountains, and many factories come to us to buy ore. ”

"Those things are polluting and harmful, aren't you afraid?"

The proprietress sighed, put down the rag in her hand, sat opposite Chu Bing and said:

"Big brother, I'll be honest, now that information is so developed, who doesn't know that these mines are very polluting. But we're all poor, we're really scared. The kind of hard life when you can't even eat enough to eat, you don't want to live a minute or a second, even if there is pollution, it's better than being half-dead!"

After wiping the table twice with a rag, the proprietress continued:

"But now that the conditions are better, the town has paid a lot of attention. The trucks that pull the mines are now on the periphery, never close to the town, and the town is much less polluted than it used to be. ”

Chu Bing nodded, yes, it's a bit nonsense for people who can't eat enough to talk about environmental pollution. After Chu Bing finished drinking tea, he said hello to the proprietress and went back to the house.

Around the swinging bonfire, about 20 people sat on the ground, old and young, talking and laughing. Uncle Wang stuffed a piece of fatty pig's head meat into his mouth, pulled two mouthfuls of rice hard, and said with a little emotion:

"Dongzi, it seems that it's still good outside, you haven't been back for more than half a year, right? This spirit is very different from the past, it seems that it is still raised in the city. You two go out, it's right to go out!"

Picking up the porcelain bowl and taking a sip of the Zhao family's soju, the old man sighed comfortably, and then said:

"By the way, why didn't that kid come back? Wait for you to talk about him, don't patronize and make a lot of money outside, you have to come back and see whatever. There are about 30 people in our village, and the young ones are the two pillars of the family, and the others are still too young. I, as well as the elders in the village, are also in good health. It's good to last for five or six years, and one look at it will be one less look. ”