Chapter 337: The Farthest Hometown
Wei Lan answered the phone, looked at Nie Zuo, and said, "I'm working. I'm on business trips these days, don't call me."
When Nie Zuodang hung up the phone, he didn't hear it. Wei Lan explained himself: "It's Mai He."
Nie Zuo looked at the scenery outside the car and smiled and said, "Yes, maybe we will become relatives."
Wei Lan sighed lightly: "I think Mai He is sincere, but his mother's attitude... He said that his mother had arranged for him to go on a blind date again. He is the daughter of a rich man in Dongcheng, a famous lady, dignified and beautiful, and knows etiquette and understands the festival."
Nie Zuo said: "It's not unreasonable that his mother is a man who can pick people, not be picked. Just like catching Zhou, she doesn't take any gold ingots, black hats, and green cards in front of her, but she goes to get a piece of soap. Parents must be crazy and ask their children to catch them again for a good start. In fact, it's just to catch them until their parents are satisfied. This is a common problem in the education of A City. It treats children as private property. When children are young, it's understandable to protect children, but when they grow up, they have their own way to go, but they also have to teach them which path to go. They think they are for the good of their children and do not allow them to resist too much."
"Nie Zuo, do you have any suggestions?"
"Do you like Maihe?"
"Well... I can't say I like it very much, but he treats me very well and is very touched. In so many years, it's rare to meet a man who treats me sincerely. I don't want to lose this opportunity myself."
Nie Zuo pondered for a while: "Mai Zixuan is a better person. Even if he hates you, if Mai He insists, he will curse at most. After a long time, he will care more about Mai Zixuan. It will not be a big problem. The difficulty is Mai He's mother, she is a utilitarian mother who values personal interests very much and has a tolerant personality. Mai Zixuan has been flying outside for so many years, and she can't see it, just keep Mai He. Her forbearance was imposed on Mai He. She thought that her sacrifice was very great. If her son didn't listen to her, she would feel despair. To be honest, I don't think you can beat Mai He's mother. Now she hasn't used any powerful tricks. She can do anything to kneel down or commit suicide." Nie Zuo had a comprehensive understanding of Mai He's mother and confirmed it. When Mai Yan threatened her interests, this person must be removed.
Wei Lan said: "Mai He told me that as long as I am willing, he can leave the Mai family and do not have any interests in Ocean Group. He can go to work, he is also a top student, and he can support me."
"Haha, it's a bit childish."
"Men are very childish in the face of love." Wei Lan said: "Don't laugh at others, it's just that you haven't found yourself childish."
Nie Zuo no longer said anything. This is one of the reasons why Wei Lan and Eve, Nie Zuo are not like people. If Nie Zuo is in this position, he may have the intention to kill. However, if he kills his lover's mother, it is difficult to face his lover. Alas... love, family affection. You can't kill her, but you can curse her to die early and reincarnate early. In many TV series, many heroines show great tolerance, understanding, etc. When facing such lover's mother, Nie Zuo feels that this is not kindness, but a kind of stupidity. Just like Mai He's mother, the screenwriter is embarrassed to write it as a good person who suddenly wakes up, and his forbearance for decades has been deeply rooted.
Thinking of this, Nie Zuo said: "In fact, it is not completely impossible. You still have another way, that is Maizixuan. If Maizixuan is willing to accept you, Maihe's mother can only agree."
“Is there any difference?”
Nie Zuo said: "Believe me, many things can change Mai Zixuan's view. But even if God comes, he cannot change Mai He's mother's view."
Wei Lan concentrated on driving and said after a long time, "Do you think men are fickle? Today Maihe is so kind to me, I believe he is sincere, but will it change in the future?"
"Yes." Nie Zuo said: "This is an inevitable process, it depends on how it changes. Wei Lan, do you want to go to the future in twenty years to see how you live?"
"I've thought about it."
"I have thought about it, but I think the excitement of life lies in the unknown. Look at some powerful children, they have already designed their route as soon as they are born, such as kindergarten, elementary school, high school, university, and then civil servants, and then they are promoted... There is no suspense. Whether they are mediocre or outstanding, there is only one way for their development. It's okay to be mediocre, but if they are outstanding talents, they will be entangled for the rest of their lives." Nie Zuo said: "So you don't have to think too much. Leave the future things for the future and be your best choice at the moment. What if the end of the world is tomorrow? What if you want to go to prison?"
"What?"
Nie Zuo reminded: "Sister, concentrate. The speed limit here is fifty yards. You have driven ninety-two. Don't you want to go to prison?"
Wei Lan quickly slowed down, looked at the rearview mirror, and asked nervously: "Is there a speed detector?"
"No, otherwise I would have reminded you a long time ago, but the speed is too fast. This is a provincial highway, and there are many branches leading to the countryside. Young people in rural areas never wear helmets when riding motorcycles, and the speed is super fast."
The two were chatting, but they were not lonely. The farthest distance from the farthest township is 60 kilometers, and the transportation is relatively inconvenient. The expressway is currently being built. The total of national and provincial highways is 140 kilometers. Wei Lan and Nie Zuo arrived at the farthest township at nearly 8 o'clock in the evening.
The Farest Township is a very backward village in City A. The municipal government has to subsidize hundreds of millions of yuan in poverty alleviation every year, while the township has only more than 10,000 people, which means that each person can get nearly 10,000 yuan in poverty alleviation funds every year. However, they do not use the money to develop, but most of them use it to gambling. Aspiring young people leave their hometowns and go to City A, which makes the Farest Township worse and worse.
If you don’t work hard, you will only be sad. Some people want to get rich and want to bring everyone rich, such as building fish ponds to supply nearby counties. But the next year, a looting incident occurred. Planting fruit trees, stolen and robbed... Liu Shaochong’s TV station made a program, which was very sharply explained that the poorest people in the farthest village deserved it. For example, in any place in the city, a driver killed a chicken, and the record was at most 300 yuan, while in the farthest village, 300 yuan was the starting price. Because the program was too sharp and suspected of regional discrimination, the TV station was fined and warned.
The farthest township has also become the most bizarre place in City A, like two worlds, just like the civilized world suddenly degenerates into the Stone Age. The only hotel in the township is a four-story hotel with poor conditions and bad attitudes from the waiters. I think Nie Zuo and his friends arrived to increase their workload.
After checking in, I won’t talk about the conditions. Outside the window, there is a street in the village. People across the street directly threw the garbage from the third and fourth floors to the street, and didn’t even look at whether there were people below. However, public security is a very good town in City A. There are no thieves in the whole town for a year. The TV station investigated and found that the locals were too fierce. They caught the thieves, beat them half to death, threw them into the pit, and then watched the police go to salvage them. The police had no choice. The township government and the police were both managed by City A.
I checked into the hotel. There was no telephone harassment, and I passed by without words all night.
The next day I went downstairs and was about to go to the supermarket. I found that the car was being scratched. The street cleaner told Nie Zuo and others that outsiders would park their cars to the township government. Simply put, the locals were a little xenophobic.
Gambling has become a trend. In other places in City A, the mahjong halls are mostly middle-aged and elderly people, and there are young people here. The game console rooms are all 15 or 16-year-old smokers who should have gone to school. It’s not that people in this place are all like this, and people who don’t want to live like this have left here long ago. In ten years, the farthest township has dropped sharply from the original 40,000 to the current 12,000, which is not without reason. There are also fighters. I am from this village, you are from that village, and you are from that village, and you are from arguing for a few words and start fighting. There are only four policemen in the whole town.
Wei Lan went to the supermarket. There was a vegetable market at the entrance of the supermarket. It was a very messy place. Nie Zuo was waiting in the distance. About ten minutes later. Wei Lan came back and the two walked towards the hotel and discussed. The supermarket was a good person. He heard that Wei Lan brought friends to the farthest village to gamble. He started to help Wei Lan recall. When Wei Lan mentioned that his brother had a foreigner and knew how to speak Chinese, the old man immediately remembered that a few days ago, two people came to the supermarket and bought a lot of mineral water and packaged food. They hardly spoke. Later, when they paid the bill, the cashier asked them if they had any change, but they didn't understand at all, and just shook their heads. After looking for the money, the old man told them not to park at the market next time, and to stop farther away. He kindly reminded him. As a result, someone gave the old man twenty yuan. The old man was stunned on the spot. Later, he thought about it, it seemed that these two Asian-looking people couldn't understand their words.
"The car is a silver joint venture car, and the old man doesn't remember whether the car has a 15 or 51 last number." Wei Lan said: "There is no valuable information."
"Yes." Nie Zuo and Wei Lan returned to the hotel. Nie Zuo opened the electronic map and said, "I understand buying food, but I don't understand buying mineral water. Look, these villages, all places where people live, have power and tap water, which is what the municipal government must do. So it can be ruled out in places where people are concentrated. The remaining are mountains and abandoned reservoirs. Qin Ya and Hele investigated that the kidnappers have never abandoned the kidnapping vehicles. At least no one called the police and said that they were still using the abandoned cars.
"Then what?"
"Using a car means refueling. There is only one gas station in the whole township. It is in the suburbs of the township, four kilometers away from the center of the township." Nie Zuo said: "If I guess that's right, they want to trade with this car and trade with Liu Shaochong with the kidnapped car. This is another provocation. They will not be too arrogant, and there must be other vehicles following and receiving."
Wei Lan interrupted: "Wait, there are many motorcycles, there are only one gas station?"
Nie Zuo said: "In some rural areas, gasoline can be purchased directly from convenience stores. How much does a Coke bottle cost? You don't need to go to the gas station. The journey to City A here is long, so you may have to refuel around the round trip."
Wei Lan nodded: "They live in the wild. I want to ask, why should I choose the farthest township? There are many mountains near City A."
"This is a good question, why should I choose the farthest town?" Nie Zuo said: "From the video, Liu Shuangshuang was not detained in the wild, but in the room. But why should I buy a lot of mineral water in the room?"
Wei Lan's eyes lit up: "The biggest difference between the farthest township and other places is that the population has decreased from more than 40,000 to 12,000 in the past ten years, which means that many houses are not lived in or even abandoned."
Nie Zuo nodded: "The municipal government's municipal engineering guarantees the water and electricity for everyone, which refers to the water and electricity for registered populations. For houses that are not inhabited and abandoned houses, no water and electricity are provided. It makes sense that many people from the entire natural village in the farthest township migrate." Natural villages are smaller units than villages, and generally more than a dozen households. After most of them leave, the remaining people will find ways to leave. In addition, education, shopping, and transportation will lead to the extinction of natural villages.
Wei Lan said: "We need to find someone who is familiar with the local area."
Nie Zuo pondered for a while: "Let's do this, see if you can invite the old man to have lunch. I'll go to the gas station to have a walk."
Wei Lan nodded: "Okay." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!