paddock

In the afternoon Zhang Xiuyan took Yuan Ning to the gardening shop.

Meng Zhao stayed in the greenhouse on the third floor, and there were many more flowers and plants in the stone trough, and the symptoms were the same as what Yuan Ning had seen two days ago.

The old man was also there, and there was a middle-aged man Yuan Ning didn't know, about forty years old, in good spirits, wearing coarse clothes and cotton shoes, a bit like the dress of the feudal era.They all concentrated on studying the wilting flowers and plants, only Meng Zhao noticed the arrival of Yuan Ning and Zhang Xiuyan.

Yuan Ning shouted: "Teacher!"

Hearing this address, the middle-aged man looked towards the door together with Meng Zhao.Seeing that it was a six or seven-year-old doll, the middle-aged man said, "Meng Zhao, is this your student?"

Meng Zhao was a little embarrassed, but still nodded: "Yes, teacher."

The middle-aged man looked at Yuan Ning kindly, and joked: "Little friend, you have to call me Shigong."

Yuan Ning is very obedient: "Master!"

Meng Zhao: "..."

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Meng Zhao, you did the right thing this time. Tell me immediately if you find any problems. I'm not boasting. There are not many people in China who are willing to study this. I'm one of them. The old Hou from the south counts." One. Researching this thing is the most offensive thing, and it is not easy for people to believe." He pointed to the flowers in the stone trough, "Now they are flowers, and they may become people in the future."

The old man next to him was terrified: "Will this patient really get it?" He hurriedly told what he found yesterday afternoon, "These flowers were planted in a retired old man's house, and some people nearby also transplanted them. Not many, but they got sick one after another. I heard from them that in the past two years they have been very evil, and they have several bone cancers in a row! Bone cancers, there were very few in the past, but several of them appeared all at once!"

The middle-aged man looked solemn: "It seems that the pollution is already very serious."

"Pollution?" The old man was puzzled.

"Yes, pollution." The middle-aged man replied without hesitation, "The places where these plants grow are severely polluted with cadmium. Cadmium pollution will not only affect plants, but also affect people's health. In severe cases, it may even induce cancer. "

Yuan Ning didn't quite understand, but she knew that the matter must be serious, so she couldn't help but asked with concern: "Then what should I do?"

"Cut off the source of pollution." The middle-aged man paused and sighed, "Stop production, move out, clean up, and wait."

"wait?"

"Wait for the pollution to decrease," said the middle-aged man helplessly, "or wait for a miracle to appear."

Once the land is polluted, the pollution may persist for decades or even centuries.Artificial treatment, at best, can only reduce the degree of pollution - so, expecting the impact of pollution to disappear completely is no less than waiting for a miracle to appear.

Yuan Ning was at a loss.

Isn't there any way to deal with the black silk thread lingering on the flowers?

The flowers felt Yuan Ning's sadness, and they all comforted Yuan Ning in turn, saying: "It's okay, you have helped us a lot." "At least we know what the reason is." "It won't be contagious." Grandpa Lin is really kind!"

Yuan Ning knelt down and reached out to touch one of the withered leaves.Just when he touched the blade, he felt a cold fingertip, and the black silk thread wrapped around his index finger as if alive, as if it was going to cut off his finger!

Yuan Ning was taken aback.

The flower shook its branches and leaves desperately, causing the black silk thread to shake violently, and finally the black thread fell down, and the leaves also slowly fell.

The flower became even more lethargic.

Yuan Ning was extremely disturbed, and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't touch you casually!"

The flower said, "I can feel that they are absorbing our life force. We can't live, you don't have to apologize to us."

Yuan Ning stared at it blankly.

He didn't know what "death" was all about.

But he hates death.

The flower said another thing: "We have some very good friends around us. They will not get sick when they grow there," the flower said with some hesitation, "They also said that there seems to be some trees in the land that they like very much." but we don't know what they're called - I think they might be useful. I mean, if the food they like to eat is what you're talking about, you can grow them over there Go, let them eat that kind of thing, okay?"

Yuan Ning praised sincerely: "You are so smart! May I know your name?"

The flower said: "How can a flower have a name?"

Yuan Ning said: "Why not? Don't you often chat? Don't you call each other's names?"

The flower said: "Our life is very short, and there are so many flowers around, what do we do with names? Naming is simply a boring thing that humans do." Although the flowers said so, they suddenly hoped It also has a name.Even if its life is so short - even if its life is about to end.

"Is that so?" Yuan Ning didn't quite understand, "Then if your friend misses you, what should he call you in his heart?"

"Our lives are short," the flower emphasized, "we don't spend time thinking about anyone."

"But--"

"No but!" Hua'er got angry.

"But if I think of you in the future, what should I call you?" Yuan Ning insisted on asking.

The flowers are quiet.

Somehow, it remembered that when Grandma Lin was still alive, it was accompanied by Grandpa Lin to see them.At that time, Grandma Lin looked at it in surprise, and said to Grandpa Lin, "Come and see, my wife, this flower blooms really beautifully, like snow-white ivory."

After a while, Hua'er said, "Ivory, my name is Ivory."

Yuan Ning said: "Your flowers must be white!" He remembered that ivory is white.

Hua'er stopped talking.

Yuan Ning remembered what Hua'er said, stood up, and listened attentively to the middle-aged man and Meng Zhao discussing the governance plan.Needless to say, they need to contact the city hall to cut off the source of the pollution. What they need to study is how to treat the land that has been severely polluted.

Is it really just a matter of waiting?

Yuan Ning interjected cautiously: "Are all the plants over there sick?"

The middle-aged man looked at him.

The old man said: "That's not true, some plants grow better than others!"

Yuan Ning asked in a low voice, "Then why do some plants get sick and others don't?"

Meng Zhao's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly to the middle-aged man: "Teacher, you said that plants can selectively absorb minerals. Do you think there are any plants that can enrich cadmium and recycle all the cadmium in the land?" ' already?"

The middle-aged man looked thoughtful.After a while, he made a final decision: "This idea is very good. Let's go to the field to see if we can really find such plants, maybe it can really reduce pollution." After finishing speaking, the middle-aged man turned to Yuan Ning, There was a lot of emotion on his face, "Little friend, you have made another contribution!"

Yuan Ning shyly hid behind Zhang Xiuyan.

He really wanted to tell the middle-aged man and Meng Zhao that it was Hua'er's credit, but he knew that he couldn't expose his abnormality—so Yuan Ning could only secretly say sorry to Hua'er.

Hua'er naturally doesn't care about these.

It is not human?What to do if you care about this, Yuan Ning can convey this matter on your behalf and help other companions who have not been victimized, which is much more useful than being praised.

Yuan Ning looked at the flowers and asked, "Is there really no way to cure them?"

Yuan Ning's love for the flowers reminded the old man of his dead wife.He assured Yuan Ning: "I will always keep them."

Yuan Ning understood that the flowers really couldn't be saved.

On the way back, Yuan Ning couldn't help but say, "Big brother."

Zhang Xiuyan looked at him.

Yuan Ning asked, "What is pollution?" In front of Zhang Xiuyan, he felt that he never needed to hide his confusion.

This question made Zhang Xiuyan a little silent.

What is pollution?

Zhang Xiu carefully reasoned his thoughts before carefully explaining to Yuan Ning: "In the process of industrial production and our life, some things that may damage the environment will be produced. They may be gases, solids, and liquids. The common point is that they all affect the environment. Animals and plants will eventually affect us in turn," he paused, "Although there are a series of laws to limit pollutant emissions, there are currently too many unknown pollutants and too many unknown pollution effects—and dealing with pollution The cost of things is too high, so it is difficult to manage those who exploit loopholes, those who knowingly commit crimes, and those who conceal and do not report."

Yuan Ning was a little sad.

He didn't quite understand what Zhang Xiuyan said, but he understood the sentence "management is difficult".

Does this mean that things like this will happen again in the future?Will more people and more flowers be harmed by such things?

Yuan Ningan sat quietly.

Zhang Xiuyan kept staring at Yuan Ning and didn't speak any more.

After bringing Yuan Ning home, Zhang Xiuyan made another trip to the municipal library before turning back to Mr. Zhang's study and knocking on the door.

At this time, Mr. Zhang's work just came to an end.

Mr. Zhang was a little surprised to see Zhang Xiuyan coming over again.

Zhang Xiuyan said straight to the point: "Something happened to Nanxiang."

Just because it's hard to manage doesn't mean it can't be managed.If you just want to take care of it, you can't just rely on Meng Zhao and his teacher to think about it from the academic aspect, you have to ask Mr. Dongzhang to intervene.

Zhang Xiuyan learned from the gardening shop that the problem is not only the flowers they sold in the past, but also many local plants. Roughly calculated, there are probably two large villages and the land between them that are all seriously polluted. .

Although this is not the capital, it is very close to the capital, and there are many famous "tributes".If something goes wrong in this area, it will be a big problem.

Mr. Zhang has only been here for half a year, and he is still struggling in many aspects.Now that this incident happened coincidentally, if it is handled properly, all the people in charge of Nanxiang will have to be replaced.

Some people go down, and others come up naturally.

It's a good time to replace yourself.

Zhang Xiuyan believed that Mr. Zhang would not let go of such an opportunity.

Zhang Xiuyan calmly and objectively told what he and Yuan Ning discovered by accident, and handed over the documents and related materials written by Mr. Meng Zhao to Mr. Zhang.

After Mr. Zhang took it, he was not in a hurry to read it.He glanced at his son, who was very similar to himself, and said in a surprised tone, "You didn't care about these things before."

——Not only does he not care, but he even dislikes his father's utilitarianism and iron fist.

Zhang Xiuyan replied: "I kind of understand what you said to me before."

If you want to do something and protect some people, you must first harden your heart, and learn the rules of this world before the people you care about—and use these rules.

The author has something to say:

Host: What does it feel like to love someone?

Big brother: It seems that I suddenly have a weakness, and I also suddenly have an armor

Ning Ning: ..._(:з」∠)_There seems to be something wrong