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"Why haven't you come yet?" In the slightly dark office, an old man scratched his head in distress. "People outside have been making noise there for several days. Why hasn't that newcomer arrived yet?"

While talking, the old man patted his head, pulled off the wig on his head, and patted his bald head irritably.

They have a lot of trifles and problems, and everyone finds them annoying, thinking that they are dog skin ointment, sticking here and there, and still can't get rid of it!Wait until something goes wrong, they think of coming here again, no, the group of people at the door has been blocking there for three days!

A middle-aged man was sitting opposite the old man, smoking an old cigarette.Everyone else smokes fashionable boxed cigarettes, the packaging is either big red or big gold, it looks either very festive or very rich, and it is especially attractive to men.The place where the hand is held is also made with a soft filter tip, which is comfortable and stylish to smoke.He doesn't like that, he likes smoking old cigarettes and drinking spicy wine, what he wants is the feeling of burning his throat.

The office building is dilapidated, and the offices inside are also cramped. They even drew the curtains in half. The room was very dark, and the old smoke permeated the room, making the faces of the two people in the room dim. hazy.

The old man couldn't help but said again: "Is the newcomer really coming back? I heard that he is a top student at the Capital University, so how can he look at Changcang's side? How many people were assigned here before and just ran away. The teacher is So it is with doctors."

The middle-aged man took a deep breath and exhaled a puff of white mist.After a while, he finally said, "We are different here. If you don't come after we arrange you, this way will be cut off in the future."

The old man didn't take it seriously: "How did I hear that people's family is not simple?" He was a little uncomfortable from the smoke, and waved his hand and said, "Can you smoke less? You smoke every day, and you won't be afraid of breaking your lungs."

"Hey, it's not a simple family and you can arrange to come here?" The middle-aged man sneered, "When I first came, didn't you think my family was not a simple one? How is it now? How many years have I been nesting here?"

The old man fell silent.

One of the two was silent, and the other was smoking a dull cigarette, and the room suddenly fell silent.

While they were silent, someone knocked on the office door, and it was the young man who was blocking it from the outside.The young man has only been out of school for two years, and he is still energetic. Although he is assigned to the remote Changcang, he still earnestly completes his work.Therefore, he was usually sent out to handle any difficult and chores in the department.

The old man frowned and asked, "What's the matter? Those guys outside are here again?

The young man shook his head hastily, with a look of shock on his face, and replied hesitantly: "They came a long time ago, sitting there blocking the door early in the morning. But a young man came just now, and he sat next to those people After talking to them for a while, the men followed him."

The old man and the middle-aged man were also surprised. They looked at each other and found the surprise in each other's eyes.Because those villagers are always blocking the door recently, they have to go through the back door when they go to work, for fear of being blocked by them.

It's not a big deal for these people to block the door, but when the livestock they raised got sick in the spring, the epidemic prevention command department took people to cull all the livestock in their family.

If you follow the normal procedure, it proves that you are indeed sick, and if you kill the livestock and lose money, there is nothing to cause trouble.The problem is that there is something wrong here. The culling did not go according to the proper procedure, and there was no discussion with the other party. The other party's livelihood for a year has not been settled, so why don't they just make trouble every day?

If the epidemic prevention command department pushed the matter to their side, they would be unlucky, and they would make trouble for several months.

The middle-aged man put out the cigarette in his hand and asked, "Is that young man from our side?"

The young man said: "No, it looks like it's from another place." In fact, the young man didn't recognize everyone, but thinking of the young man's appearance, he felt that he must not be from the local area. Who would not know it?

Thinking of this, the young man vividly talked about what happened just now: "The young man looked a few years younger than me, but after talking to them a few words, they stopped fighting, and I don't know what they talked about afterwards , and they left with him." After the young man finished speaking, there was obvious admiration on his face.

When these people came to make trouble, he was doing the work, and no one knew better than him how difficult those villagers were.The young man persuaded them with a few words, and told them to leave the door early!

The middle-aged man didn't say anything, got up and left the office.The old man wondered: "Fu Aijun, where are you going?"

The middle-aged man's name was Fu Aijun, which was a typical name for the era in which he was born.Hearing the old man's question, Fu Aijun frowned, and said nonchalantly: "I haven't gone anywhere, I'm tired, go for a walk. We must follow the instructions of our superiors, how close we are to the people."

The old man put the wig back on, touched his head with hair, shook his head and sighed.

The young man looked at Fu Aijun's back, and then at the old man sitting there scratching his head, feeling somewhat confused about the future.He has no connections and no special skills, and he will probably end up in this unit like Fu Aijun and the old man in the future.Will he become like them in the future?

Fu Aijun went out of the gate, but didn't stroll on the street.He looked left and right, and called a motorcycle.The motorcycle drove him out suddenly, and after a certain distance, Fu Aijun shouted: "Stop." He took out the money and handed it to the motorcycle driver who brought him.

The place where Fu Aijun got off was not in front of the village or in the back of the shop. The motorcycle driver was a little confused, but he didn't care when he got the money, and drove away in a chug.After the motorcycle driver had gone far away, Fu Aijun continued to move forward.He took big steps, and he walked to a winding mountain road in a short while.

There were footsteps and conversations ahead, Fu Aijun paused, walked closer, and soon heard a young voice.The voice was clear and pleasant, like a clear spring gushing out from among the rocks on the mountain.The other party seemed to be discussing the trees in the forest with those people. I don't know what he said just now, but the group of villagers became very happy and introduced him with great interest.

Fu Aijun took out a cigarette and followed it not far or near, exhaling a puff of white smoke from time to time.There are not many forests in Changcang, and Huaishu Village is one of them.

The villagers in Huaishu Village still keep the totem handed down from their ancestors. It is a tree, and this forest is their lifeblood. Called back.Surrounded by forests, they raise cattle, sheep, pigs and ducks, grow wheat, rice and corn, and sell their livestock to exchange outside if they need anything.

The matter of culling the livestock was because someone held a grudge against the people in Huaishu Village because they couldn't talk about them, and deliberately targeted the people in Huaishu Village.

Fu Aijun knew about these things, but he didn't care.He didn't intend to fight for power and profit in the one-acre three-point land in the county, and he didn't intend to get involved in those messy village feuds.

Fu Aijun followed all the way and soon arrived at the entrance of the village.He didn't go in, and watched the young man follow the villagers into the village from a distance.At such a young age, he even looks like a teenager, but he has the audacity to follow those troublemakers into the village alone, and he is not afraid of accidents.

Two days ago, Fu Aijun received a call from an old friend from the capital, begging him to take care of the newcomer.The newcomer's surname is Yuan, and his full name is Yuan Ning. He went to college earlier than his peers and graduated at the age of 20.Before graduating, it was because the unit asked him to ask him, but he didn't want to stay in the capital, and he didn't want to go to other good places, so he insisted on coming to Changcang.

At that time, when I heard Fu Aijun, I felt bad.This is trouble, big trouble!If it wasn't troublesome, why would an old friend call him specifically to ask him?

Following the young man and the troubled villagers, Fu Aijun became more certain of his judgment.

This kind of nosy young man has always been a big trouble.They are young, bloody, hot-blooded and impulsive, but they do things without thinking about the consequences, so it is very difficult to deal with.

Fu Aijun was about to throw away the cigarette butt in his hand when a childish voice sounded from behind him: "Who are you!"

Then another voice rang out: "Why are you smoking in the woods! Throwing cigarette butts will burn the woods!"

Fu Aijun paused, pressed the cigarette butt against the tree, and showed the extinguished cigarette butt at the two children.

The younger child looked at him angrily: "You scalded the tree!"

Fu Aijun: "..."

Fu Aijun was "invited" to the village by two children.

The villagers were entertaining guests, and when they heard children yelling that someone was smoking in the forest, they all came out immediately: "Who? Who is it again? Last time a bastard burned our forest, and we haven't found it yet. This time it's very It’s impossible to peel off their skins!”

Fu Aijun was soon surrounded by groups.

Yuan Ning was discussing tree species and livestock species with the village in the house, and when he heard the movement, he came out to have a look, and was very happy.

Before coming over, Yuan Ning went to senior brother Du Jiancheng to find out everything about the situation here. He also read the file of Fu Aijun and recognized Fu Aijun's appearance.

Seeing the old fried dough stick who had stayed in the same place for more than ten years surrounded by villagers, Yuan Ning couldn't help laughing, and said to the village chief: "That's my acquaintance, don't worry about me, follow me." He apologized for Fu Aijun, "He is used to staying in the city, he doesn't understand these things, he doesn't know that throwing a cigarette butt in the woods may cause a fire."

After listening to Yuan Ning's explanation, the villagers relaxed a little and dispersed from around Fu Aijun.

Yuan Ning greeted Fu Aijun: "Brother Fu, come and taste the tea from the village chief's grandfather. It's delicious. This tea is grown from an old tea tree in the village. It's a bit bitter in the mouth, but after the bitterness, it will return to sweetness. It's very delicious."

The village head was praised by Yuan Ning, and greeted Yuan Ning and Fu Aijun with a smile on his face.

Only after Fu Aijun sat down did he realize that Yuan Ning had come to discuss cooperation with the village.