Chapter II: The Natural Ecological Environment of Impoverished Counties
The tour bus suffered a lot for the people on the bus during the second half of the trip. Before entering the territory of Yunnan-Guizhou Province, the roads began to be bumpy, and these nominal national highways were actually many times worse than the provincial and county roads in the coastal provinces. There are very few concrete pavements in front of them along the way, let alone extravagant flat asphalt roads. In addition to the endless sand roads, the cranky potholes, the cars swaying and jumping all the way, the roads are also terribly narrow. The winding road is lined with cliffs, but outside is the bottomless canyon with a raging river below. When the car walks on the road, people and vehicles seem to be suspended in the air and walk. It's a feeling that will never be forgotten, and people who have walked it once won't want to go a second time.
The occupants of the car thought that after a section of such a section, they would show a wide road in front of them, and even if they didn't expect it to be flat, at least they needed a buffer zone. In this way, let the car be suspended all the time, whose heart can get some relief? Unfortunately, this desire turned into an even more terrifying reality. The driver should have been driving with all his care, but bad road conditions were a foreseeable danger, and the bigger threat was the rockfalls above the road. This insidious threat is always on the driver's mind, and any kind of mistaken luck will send the whole car to the gates of hell.
Yang Jiewen has begun to regret it, she was in a meeting a few days earlier, Zhou Tangrong told everyone about the situation of the road, and there were two other female business leaders who attended the meeting, when they learned of this situation, they had the idea of retreating, they were willing to pay a little more money, but they were not willing to take the risk themselves, it was not that they were not tenacious enough, but considering the impact of their own risks on the enterprise, weighing the pros and cons, they decided to temporarily withdraw from the action.
Zhou Tangrong has also carried out ideological work against Ms. Yang Jiewen, because so far, the strong-willed Ms. Yang Jiewen has not had the slightest intention of retreating. And Zhou Tangrong hoped that Yang Jiewen would think about it again, but in his heart he still hoped that Yang Jiewen could persevere to the end. He believes that if there is not a single female comrade in the formation of this group, there will definitely be regrets and imperfections.
Yang Jiewen is indeed very strong in her heart, and she has also made a lot of preliminary ideological preparations for this action. Now that she has finally made the trip, she realizes how fragile she is in her heart. Those so-called strong wills were completely self-defeating tricks, and she wanted to close her eyes and not imagine what happened along the way. The good state of mind of preparing to enjoy the scenery of the journey has long been offset by the panic and constant fear for safety.
Ms. Yang Jiewen only hopes that the distance can be shortened and shortened, and that it is better that a simple hotel can appear in front of her at this time, no, even a thatched hut that can accommodate her, she is happy to stop. The scene of talking and laughing in the car is gone, and everyone is silent, as if their words will bring endless disasters to themselves.
Zhou Tangrong has experienced many such tests of life and death. Therefore, he did not have much worry about the trip, but before he reached the destination, all the risks were still there, and he only silently waited for the driver to operate the steering wheel perfectly and steadily.
In order to eliminate Yang Jiewen's worries and nervousness, Zhou Tangrong and Yang Jiewen switched places, replacing Yang Jiewen's window position with his own seat, he kept aiming at Yang Jiewen's side with the corner of his eyes, and Yang Jiewen pretended to squint her eyes and doze off. In fact, every sharp turn made her brow furrow a few times. Zhou Tangrong didn't want to bother her at this time, because he also knew that Yang Jiewen's mental pressure should have reached the limit, and a little more pressure on her would make her unbearable.
The first destination of the delegation was a village middle school in this county. The car first turned into the gate of the county's civil affairs bureau, but the security guards did not let him in, so the comrades of the civil affairs bureau who accompanied the delegation handed him a letter of introduction, and the gatekeeper made a phone call before the bus let the bus go, and ordered the station wagon to stop at the designated position. According to the agreement, we will have lunch here before and after going to a township point below, there are also townships and towns here, but they are all close to the surrounding areas of Chengguan, which is a relatively economically developed place; A little farther away, a little more remote places are called what villages and ruins, a little difficult to remember.
The person who received us was a deputy director in his fifties, who claimed to be surnamed Lai, and was followed by a young girl who knew her surname was Qi. Miss Qi is very clever and cute, she is plainly dressed, with a smile on her face, although she is tall, she is not a qualified beauty, but as the old saying goes, a delicate cover a hundred ugliness, her enthusiasm is unforgettable.
Lunch was arranged in the canteen of the Civil Affairs Bureau, and their large class opened the canteen, which made the already crowded canteen position tense. Fortunately, this little clever ghost said something, and the colleagues who had already sat at the table to eat left quickly with fast food boxes, and everyone felt a little warm and apologetic. It was proposed that they should pay for today's lunch. Deputy Director Lai said resolutely: "Let you go all the way here, not to mention all the hardships, it is already a very embarrassing thing to let everyone eat a boxed lunch today, and even let you pay for this meal yourself, what face do I have to say: Reception!" ”
Because the two departments of the local education commission and civil affairs also had to send personnel to guide the work in the car, and the seats on the car were full, everyone suggested that Yang Jiewen and several other slightly older entrepreneurs should stay first and give up their positions to local comrades. Yang Jiewen insisted, is her energy vigorous? You can't get me out of the car. In the end, everyone persuaded the heads of several other enterprises to get out of the car.
The car carried them all the way to the west, and because of the guidance of the guide on the car, the driver began to become emboldened and rushed all the way. But within 20 kilometers, the car began to climb. The local comrades told the driver of the car that the slope is called "Disappointment Ridge" and that the total length of the slope is about 12 kilometers, and the ramp does not look steep, so it is easy to paralyze the driver, and once the driver loses concentration, the hardships behind him will be unforgettable for the rest of his life.
Zhou Tangrong patted the comrade on the shoulder and said, thank you for the leader's reminder, our two drivers are the most experienced people in the team, and technology plus experience determines their excellent performance, you can rest assured.
The "Lost Soul Slope" is indeed worthy of its name, and this time it gave their delegation the first "dismount".