Babaoliang Village. Zhou Family!
On the big Kang in the main room, Zhou Yang, Lao Zhang and An Bangguo were drinking tea and chatting, while Li Youwei was washing melons and plums for everyone in the main room, all grown in the village.
The sound of children playing was heard outside the door. In order to prevent the children from disturbing them, Li Youwei asked Huang Rufeng and Li Haiyan'er to play with the children in the yard.
An Bangguo took a sip of the brown sugar water in the bowl, and then said, "Xiao Li, stop working. How can you have the stomach for these melons, peaches, and plums after you just finished eating!"
Li Youwei smiled and said, "It's okay. It won't be too late to eat after digestion!"
Lao Zhang said with emotion: "In these two years, three years forward, even if you want to eat, you don't have the conditions!"
An Bangguo also nodded and said: "I remember when I first came to Babaoliang Village, there was not a single decent house in the whole village. Only the brigade headquarters was slightly taller and covered with an outer brick wall. , the others are all adobe houses, and they all look earthy gray from a distance, nothing like now!”
Zhou Yang smiled and said: "At that time, I was really poor and didn't hide it!"
"Well, I really didn't expect that in just a few years, this remote place would develop to what it is now. It's really surprising!" An Bangguo said with emotion.
At this time, Lao Zhang sighed and said with the same emotion: "I have the most say in the changes in the village. Counting this year, it has been exactly 10 years since I came to the village."
"What kind of life did the commune members and people in the village live in the past few years? Although they didn't starve to death, they were not easy to live with! Especially in the summer and autumn of each year, most people would eat up all the food they received in the first year. In autumn, When I was not working, I had to either dig wild vegetables to make ends meet, or find ways to go down the river to catch fish or dig out duck eggs. I had to eat one meal before finishing one. The few old guys who came with me couldn't hold on and took a step forward. ..."
Zhou Yang hurriedly comforted him: "Uncle Zhang, don't be sad, there is nothing you can do about it. Everyone's life was difficult in those years..."
Lao Zhang smiled and said: "Don't be sad, I have become accustomed to it over the years. In fact, you don't know, I was still envious of those old guys in the first few years. They would just kick their legs and close their eyes and they would be gone. Like I have to hold on slowly!"
"Haha, you shouldn't envy them now, right?" An Bangguo asked with a smile.
"I'm not envious, I just feel a little regretful!"
"regret?"
"Yes, the changes in the village came too late. If they could have changed a few years earlier, those old guys might still be able to survive. They are the pillars of the country. It is such a pity that they disappeared quietly like this. Got it!" Lao Zhang said.
An Bangguo smiled and said: "Then you have to ask Comrade Zhou Yang. If he can enlighten himself early, the village members and common people will also be able to live a few less days of poverty and hardship!"
Then he looked at Zhou Yang and said: "To be honest, you are really disrespecting your talent if you don't manage local government affairs. Seeing the state of your village now, I really regret that I didn't argue with Lao Nie. Even if I let you take a part-time job in the local area, that’s fine!”
"You are so honored. This is all the result of the joint efforts of the comrades in the village!" Zhou Yang said.
"Haha, if I didn't know about your kid cheating on my family, I might have believed this!" An Bangguo said with a smile.
"Come on, we can't get through this!" Zhou Yang said with a grimace.
"Hahaha..."
An Bangguo looked at Zhou Yang and said again: "I have watched your village develop step by step. How could I not know the role you played in this? Without you as the leader, Babaoliang Village would not be able to survive." Maybe if it develops so well, Yunshan County will not be the current Yunshan County!"
Lao Zhang also echoed and said: "This is pertinent. They say that the tractor's speed depends on the front belt. You are the front of our Babaoliang Village."
"The hard days of those years are still vivid in my mind. Looking at the past few years, all the commune members' families have been unable to finish the food. In the past, they had two meals a day, and one meal had to be thin. Now, who doesn't have three meals a day? For rice, we eat either white flour steamed buns or corn flour buns, even the livestock in the village are fed beetroot, this is all your fault!"
Being praised so much by the two big guys in front of him, Zhou Yang didn't know what to say.
At this moment, there was a sudden "crash" sound outside the door, and then I saw my father-in-law, Li Fengnian, and his son-in-law, Li Changqing and Liu Yunlong, walking in from the outside.
As soon as he entered the door, An Bangguo immediately asked: "Director Li, have you finished the investigation? How is the situation?"
Li Changqing said with a serious face: "The investigation has been completed, but the situation is not very good!"
"Oh, what's going on?"
"After our investigation, the heavy rain caused disasters in 17 villages. It has been confirmed that 7 people were killed, more than 82 members were injured, more than 600 houses were damaged, and more than 5,000 people have been evacuated so far!" Li Changqing replied.
"so serious?"
Both An Bangguo and Zhou Yang were stunned. This situation was completely unexpected.
Although the rain was heavy, fast, and lasted a long time, it would never cause such great harm.
"Director Li, why do I feel something is not right? It's just a heavy rain, how could it have such serious consequences? Have you investigated this matter?" An Bangguo asked in a deep voice.
At this time, Liu Yunlong next to Li Changqing suddenly said: "Leader, I have some ideas about this matter!"
"Yunlong, if you have anything to say, just say it!" Zhou Yang said.
"I think the reason why this heavy rain caused such huge losses is not only due to the extreme weather, but the most important reason is due to excessive deforestation by the members and the people!" Liu Yunlong said in a deep voice.
"Excessive deforestation?"
"right!"
Then Liu Yunlong continued: "In the afternoon, I personally led a team to Haiwozi Village and took people to inspect the scene. I found that the reason why the debris flow broke out in Haiwozi Village was directly related to the terrain and environment there. !”
"The villages there are backed by hillsides, and the floods came down from the mountains without any protection and were so powerful that they not only washed away some villages, but also destroyed some cultivated land and crops."
"And I learned from talking to the commune members in the village that there used to be a dense forest on the mountain behind their village, but the trees on the mountain have been cut down by the commune members in the past two years, and they even removed the roots of the trees. They were dug out for firewood and burned, and the trees were gone..."
In fact, when Liu Yunlong said this, Zhou Yang already understood the cause of the matter. This was a disaster caused by ecological damage.
It must be that in order to raise pigs and chickens in recent years, the village has made all the crop straw into feed and no longer distributes it to the members.
However, the commune members had no choice but to ask for firewood from the mountains if they could not get straw. A village with dozens, hundreds, or even hundreds of households cut down trees on the mountains all year round to use as firewood. No matter how big the mountain was, it could not withstand the felling.
When the trees on the mountains are cut down, the soil becomes loose and cannot hold water vapor. When heavy rains occur, either flash floods or mudslides occur.
Although the truth of the matter was figured out, Zhou Yang was not in a good mood.
He didn't expect that after going in a big circle, this matter had something to do with him.
After all, if he had not asked the county to guide these people to engage in biological feed farming, the people would not have deforestation due to lack of firewood, and this situation would not have happened...
Fortunately, the current situation is not particularly serious, and there is still a chance to save it!
After listening to Liu Yunlong's narration and analysis, An Bangguo said in a deep voice: "Director Li, we did not expect such a serious situation caused by deforestation. We must pay attention to this situation!"
"Yes, our county should learn about the situation as soon as possible and try to introduce control measures. We can't do this!" Li Changqing said.
An Bangguo nodded, then his eyes suddenly turned to Zhou Yang, and asked in a deep voice: "Comrade Zhou Yang, what do you think about this matter?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room focused their attention on Zhou Yang, and they were all full of expectations...
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