Even though Luo Daliang is just a small village official with no high-level establishment, he has been the village party secretary for nearly 20 years and has reaped countless benefits, both overt and covert.
Without the throne of Party Secretary, how could the Luo family build the Little General Building? How could they become rich? Even if this is not the main factor in the Luo family's fortune, it is still an important factor.
Not to mention anything else, the Luo family's two largest fish ponds in the village, as well as the water surface covering most of the pond, as well as the unique small restaurant and canteen in the village, are enough to explain the problem. Later, Zhou Nan found out that
The vegetable market on the west side of the village actually belongs to the Luo family and is under the name of Luo Daliang's son-in-law Lin He.
Neither Zhou Nan nor Zhang Zhijun had any intention of letting him sit at the table, nor did Luo Daliang leave in embarrassment, nor did he stay.
Zhang Zhijun strode over, tugged on his arm, and said in a low voice, "Luo Daliang, what's wrong with you? Take your things back quickly... Secretary Zhou is annoyed by this the most."
With that said, Zhang Zhijun pushed Luo Daliang out of the house.
"Mayor Zhang, look, I..."
"Stop being so nagging and hurry back!" Zhang Zhijun stood at the door of his house and glared at Luo Daliang fiercely.
Luo Daliang had no choice but to go home depressed and despondently, carrying the cigarettes and wine he had brought.
When Zhang Zhijun came back, Zhou Nan was slowly chewing a piece of sheep bone with a very focused expression. Zhang Ningning was sitting on the side, staring at him with a smile.
"Secretary Zhou..." Zhang Zhijun greeted gently.
Zhou Nan looked up at Zhang Zhijun, put down the sheep bones in his hand, and smiled, "Old Zhang, I see that your mountain village is indeed quite poor. Along the way, many villagers' houses are thatched houses with bricks and tiles.
There are very few rooms.”
"I think even in the entire Ningshan Town, Kaoshan Village is considered poor, right?"
Zhang Zhijun sighed and nodded, "Well, Secretary Zhou, it is indeed like this. The land in the mountains is sparse and barren, and there is not much income from farming. The people in the village can barely make ends meet by selling some mountain products, raising sheep, breeders, and chickens. In our town,
If the backing villages are not the poorest, they are almost there."
"With such a ready-made cornucopia of water resources, it is absolutely possible to develop fish farming. I don't think there are several families at the foot of the mountain raising tilapia? The income should be pretty good, right?" Zhang Ningning interjected with a smile.
road.
"Mr. Zhang, to be honest, this water surface has been contracted out, and the contractors are the brothers of the Luo family. As for the fish ponds below, they can't be opened immediately... because the market sales are not good. In fact, there are many in the village.
People don’t want to raise them.”
Zhang Zhijun hesitated for a moment and said softly, carefully observing the changes in Zhou Nan's expression.
"How can you be poor in a place with mountains and water?" Zhou Nan smiled faintly, "The environment here is very good. I think the next step is for the town to provide support and focus on the development of fish farming and specialty animal husbandry. There is still a lot of potential to be tapped.
At the same time, these mountain forest resources must also be utilized rationally.”
"In addition, there is actually a good way to develop - tourism. You see, there is a flat plain at the foot of the mountain, green mountains in the background, and a large water pool. It is completely possible to build some farmhouses, or to attract investment from outside companies to invest.
Build an eco-tourism resort.”
"How about it, Mr. Zhang, is your Sky Group interested?"
Zhou Nan looked at Zhang Ningning with a smile.
Zhang Ningning pondered for a moment and smiled softly, "The resources here are rich. As long as the government is willing to support it, it is worth investing in. Building a resort is not bad. However, it is too closed here and the road to the outside world is not smooth. In fact,
It’s hard to develop.”
"The road is impassable. It can be repaired." Zhou Nan smiled, waved his hand, and said, "After finishing the two projects of market logistics and garment industrial park, I will go to the county to fight for it. At least I will have to provide some funds to put it in the right place."
This road needs to be built first. If you want to get rich, you need to build the road first. Without a road, everything you say is useless."
"Well, what Secretary Zhou said is that the road should be built. This road has been delayed for five or six years and is really in disgrace." Zhang Zhijun agreed, "If the road can be built, the people's lives will be easier.
Some. After all, there are some quarries and burnt gem mines around here."
Zhou Nan was startled, and suddenly remembered that on the way he was waiting for others, he saw a large hole dug out of half of the mountain face on the roadside. He couldn't help but frowned and said, "Stop quarrying as much as possible. It's serious."
Destroying mountain and forest resources will only enrich individuals, and the common people will not get any benefits."
"Lao Zhang, how many quarries are there near here?"
"Secretary Zhou, there is one in Kaoshan Village, and two in the two neighboring villages, so there are three in total." Zhang Zhijun looked at Zhou Nan with some suspicion and thought: Stopped the quarry?
"After we go back, let's take some time to have a meeting to study it. Quarrying is a very low-level industry. It consumes too much energy and destroys the mountain and forest landscape. In the long run, the gain outweighs the loss. Lao Zhang, take a look next.
Regarding this matter, call the owners of these quarries to discuss this matter and ask them to stop as soon as possible."
"It should be the contract signed by the village with them... If it doesn't work out, we'll just keep it as it is, but the contract will not be renewed when it expires." Zhou Nan picked up the beer glass and drank it all in one gulp.
"Okay, Secretary Zhou." Although Zhang Zhijun felt a little dissatisfied with Zhou Nan's words in his heart, he did not dare to have any disobedience verbally.
Zhou Nan glanced at Zhang Zhijun, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. In fact, he knew very well that all the people who mined the quarry had some background in Ningshan County, and it was not easy to "clean up".
However, no matter how difficult it was, Zhou Nan was determined to slowly advance this matter.
He has always been very disgusted and opposed to quarrying and destroying mountains, which only values short-term interests. As long as he is still working in Ningshan, he will do his best to ban quarrying and mountain excavation, and close these few towns in the town.
quarry.
Of course, he had to eat the meal one bite at a time. This was his long-term work plan later. When he mentioned it at this time, it was just a casual mention, and it was not really included in his work plan.
He continued to eat, but the atmosphere and appetite seemed to be gone. Feeling that the atmosphere was a bit dull, Zhang Zhijun couldn't help but secretly cursed Luo Daliang for coming at the wrong time. It was like the rat droppings that fell into the pot, and it was bad all of a sudden.
A pot of soup.
By the time we finished eating, it was already approaching evening. In summer in the mountains, night falls earlier than in the city.
Zhou Nan suddenly said, intentionally or unintentionally, "Old Zhang, I think the most beautiful house in this village is the small western-style building. There is a pickup truck parked in front of the door, and there are two stone lions. It's so grand."
,Whose family does this belong to?"
Zhang Zhijun smiled bitterly. Although he knew that Zhou Nan was asking questions knowingly, he still replied respectfully, "Secretary Zhou, that is the home of Luo Daliang, the village party secretary. It was probably just built last year. I heard it is a newly approved homestead."
"Oh." Zhou Nan smiled lightly and did not continue. He stood up, patted his stomach and said with a smile, "I'm too full today, Lao Zhang. You and Xiao Song can help clean up. Mr. Zhang and I will go for a walk."
With that said, Zhou Nan and Zhang Ningning walked out of the door side by side.
The night is low, the crescent moon is like a hook, and the stars are dotted.
Zhou Nan and Zhang Ningning slowly climbed up the mountain road. The mountain wind howled and made a whining sound. If they were walking alone on this mountain path, it would definitely be a bit scary.
Zhou Nan originally wanted to walk to the platform halfway up the mountain and sit down, but after walking a hundred or ten meters, Zhang Ningning stopped tiredly and said with a wry smile, "Zhou Nan, I can't accompany you anymore, we are so tired.
Just find a place to cool off and then go back to rest."
Zhou Nan shrugged and said with a smile, "That's fine."
This is a gentle winding dirt road, probably built by the villagers themselves. The road is not wide, about three or four meters long. There is a dark boulder on the roadside. Zhang Ningning walked over lightly, sat down, and patted it.
Next to him, he turned around and waved to Zhou Nan.
Zhou Nan walked over and sat next to Zhang Ningning.
The cool mountain breeze blew over and ruffled Zhang Ningning's long hair. Her long hair drifted away, and the hair tips slid across Zhou Nan's cheeks, making him feel a warm feeling in his heart.
Zhang Ningning didn't speak, she bent her knees and held her chin in her hands, looking up at the vast night sky, silent.
Zhou Nan sighed softly in his heart and sat silently beside her. However, his eyes were cast on the dark sea of dense forest that could be seen undulating in the wind.
"Zhou Nan, to be honest, why do you know me so well?" Zhang Ningning's quiet voice came to my ears, "Even me... you know exactly what I like..."
Zhou Nan smiled but said nothing.
"Answer me." Zhang Ningning said angrily.
"I told you a long time ago, there is no answer, no answer. In short, it is still the same sentence..." Before Zhou Nan finished speaking, Zhang Ningning immediately stood up and stamped his feet in displeasure, "Hypocritical guy...
You are really too hypocritical!"
Under the bright moonlight, Zhang Ningning's bright eyes and white teeth looked both happy and angry. It was like a dazzling lightning that pierced Zhou Nan's heart at once, as if he was transported back to his previous life.
I was immersed in memories that cannot be described in words.
Realizing that something was wrong with Zhou Nan's expression, Zhang Ningning trembled in her heart. She avoided Zhou Nan's soft and calm eyes, pulled Zhou Nan's arm, but said softly, "Let's go, we should go back, Zhang Zhijun and Xiao Song
We have to wait impatiently."
Speechless all night.
The Zhang family has three main rooms and two side rooms. Zhou Nan has one room, Zhang Ningning and Song Xiaolin have one room, and Zhang Zhijun lives in the side room by himself.
The next morning, Zhou Nan got up very early. When he got up and went for a walk, Zhang Zhijun and others were still sleeping. The air in the mountains was very fresh in the morning. Zhou Nan trotted along the mountain road and arrived at the village settlement halfway up the mountain.
It is said to be "halfway up the mountain", but in fact it is just a large platform with gentle terrain. Perhaps after thousands of years of reproduction and renovation, local farmers have dug a large piece of the mountain from halfway up the mountain into the belly of the mountain, forming a sloping
It is a flat terrain inserted into the heart of the mountain, and many villagers built their houses on it.
Of course, the people of Kaoshan Village have been like this for generations. However, now the road leading to the foot of the mountain has been widened and hardened several times, electricity and cable TV are also connected, and every household has a water cellar.
When I got up early, many villagers were already working in the fields or going out to work for who knows what. Seeing Zhou Nan, the villagers were obviously a little surprised, but no one came up to say hello.
Zhou Nan stopped at the door of a dilapidated courtyard. He stayed for a while in front of the red paint sign of "Ningshan Town Kaoshan Village Central School" and looked at the handwriting on the door that had long been unclear: "Study hard and make progress every day."
"The slogan, as well as the dilapidated school building in the courtyard, were silent.
He suddenly turned around and looked at the beige building not far away, with dark brown glazed tiles on the roof, and his face became extremely ugly.
That is the new residence of Luo Daliang, the richest man in the village and the village party secretary. In this mountain village full of dilapidated thatched cottages and messy farmyards, this small building is so eye-catching and eye-catching!
Just now, Zhou Nan passed by the door of the small building. The courtyard wall is high and deep, and two stone lions face the intersection at the door. The black iron door is closed tightly, and the barking of wolves and dogs can be heard faintly inside.
Reform and opening up allowed some people to get rich first. Although in Zhou Nan's view, the so-called getting rich first and then getting rich together is a boring nonsense, but after all, there are still a few people who have become rich by taking advantage of the policy.
No matter how prosperous the city is, there is no shortage of poor people. In the same way, no matter how poor the place is, there will be rich people. This is normal. Zhou Nan does not hate the rich because he is a rich man himself.
But the crux of the problem is that the entire village is in a relatively low state of poverty, but the village official's family is so rich, which makes people unhappy no matter how they look at it.
Zhou Nan couldn't argue with this, but he did feel confused because of it.
Zhou Nan slowly strolled back to Zhang's house. When he entered, Zhang Ningning and Song Xiaolin had already finished washing up and were talking in the courtyard with smiles. Zhang Zhijun, on the other hand, had probably run over to his brother's side, urging his brother's wife to prepare for them.
The four of them prepared breakfast.
Breakfast was very simple, consisting of white-flour steamed buns, home-pickled dried radish pickles, and polenta, but it was delicious to several people. Zhang Ningning, in particular, was full of praise for the polenta cooked by Zhang Zhijun's brother and his wife.
While drinking corn porridge, Zhou Nan suddenly said softly, "Old Zhang, you will go to the village committee and make a phone call to the town later, and ask the Party and Government Office to notify the party secretaries and village directors of all the natural villages in the town to come tomorrow morning.
In Kaoshan Village, let’s hold an on-site meeting here—ask Mayor Ma to come over too.”
"Meeting on site?" Zhang Zhijun was startled, glanced at Zhou Nan, and quickly agreed.
Zhou Nan didn't explain anything, so Zhang Zhijun and Song Xiaolin naturally didn't dare to ask any more questions.
The leader has the idea of leading. If he is willing to speak, the leader will naturally say it. Since the leader won't say anything, why don't you ask for trouble? This is Song Xiaolin's mentality.
One morning, Zhang Zhijun went to make a phone call, while Zhou Nan went hiking with Zhang Ningning and Song Xiaolin. They insisted on climbing to the top of the mountain and played on the top of the mountain for several hours before returning down.
After lunch, Zhang Ningning and Song Xiaolin insisted on going into the water. Zhou Nan had no choice but to accompany them to the big water pool at the foot of the mountain. However, in order to ensure safety, Zhang Zhijun borrowed two water bottles from the village for Zhang Ningning and Song Xiaolin.
"Lifebuoy" - it is the inner tube of a car tire that is fully inflated.
Zhou Nan did not go into the water. He sat on a stone by the water and watched with a smile as Song Xiaolin and Zhang Ningning splashed around in the shallow water wearing swimsuits and holding big black tires.
Two fashionable beauties from the city, wearing three-point swimsuits, suddenly appeared in the large pool of water. Naturally, they attracted the "peeping" eyes of many local villagers. Even those busy at the fish pond at the foot of the mountain,
Looking up this way.
Zhou Nan sat there and gave a bitter smile before shouting, "Hey, you two, have you had enough fun? Look how many people are watching you."
Zhang Ningning splashed in the water, laughing and saying, "You can watch it if you like. We are afraid of watching it. Haha, the water is neither cold nor hot. It's so comfortable. Zhou Nan, why don't you come down and play too."
Zhou Nan smiled and shook his head. Not to mention that he didn't bring swimming trunks. Even if he did, he would definitely not swim in this big pool in public. Otherwise, because of his status as a leading cadre.
Seeing that the two women had no intention of coming out and leaving for the time being, he got up and walked slowly towards the fish pond below.
"Hey, fellow man, how long have you been building this fish pond? Are you still making money?" Zhou Nan asked with a smile to a shirtless middle-aged man who was laying a net.
The man turned around and glanced at Zhou Nan, and immediately recognized Zhou Nan as the "protagonist" who had the conflict with the Luo family yesterday. Later he heard that it was the town's Secretary Zhou, and immediately stood up respectfully and said with a smile, "Secretary Zhou, I
This fish pond has been built for two years. It doesn't make much money, it just makes a little hard-earned money, which is just enough to pay for the schooling of two children."
"Are there two children at home? Where do they go to school?" Zhou Nan smiled and handed over a cigarette. The man rubbed his hands sheepishly, took it carefully, and said with a smile, "Secretary Zhou, one of his sons is in high school in the county.
, a girl is attending a technical secondary school in the city - Ningnan Health School."
"That's good, the kid is really promising." Zhou Nan smiled and took the initiative to help the man light the cigarette with a lighter. The man was flattered and thanked him repeatedly.
"What can you do? If you are a kid in the mountains, if you don't study hard, there will be no way out."
"Haha, why don't you build a fish pond? You have water here, and relying on this big dam, raising fish is a good living." Zhou Nan smiled and asked.
The man sighed and said, "Secretary Zhou, the village won't give way. Each household can only give way to one fish pond, and there is a limit on how many fish they can raise."
Zhou Nan frowned, pointed to the Luo family's fish pond not far away, and said calmly, "Don't the Luo family have two fish ponds?"
"He is the village party secretary, how can I compare with him?" The man blurted out these words subconsciously, but as soon as the words came out, he suddenly remembered that the person standing in front of him was Secretary Zhou from the town, and his expression changed.
Somewhat pale, secretly cursing myself for talking too much.