Crime and Punishment: Female Secretary

Chapter 19
In the early morning of the next day, the people in Jiangkou Village were still asleep. After yesterday’s turmoil, everyone slept more deeply. At dawn, they seemed to be very peaceful. The crowing of roosters could be heard from one or two farm yards. The sky began to brighten, and blue smoke began to rise from individual chimneys, and more and more chimneys began to blow blue smoke.Lao Zhong, who lives by the river, woke up early in the morning, pushed the door latch, and opened the door. Lao Zhong stretched lazily, carried a hoe, rolled up his trousers, and walked to his responsible field in a pair of rotten slippers. .But before he reached the edge of the field, he was stunned by the scene in front of him: overnight, the seedlings in the field turned from green to withered yellow, and the lush green mountains withered and turned yellow like fire.In early summer, it was a time of lush greenery, but now it feels like late autumn, full of desolation, desolation and withering scenery.

Lao Zhang lost his mind and yelled: "It's not good, it's not good, our seedlings are all gone, all are gone!"

Lao Zhang's terrified cry was like a loud thunder, waking everyone up from their sound sleep.Everyone put on a piece of clothing in a panic, and came out to see what happened. Everyone stood at the gate of the yard, and after looking around, they were all dumbfounded.

All the seedlings withered overnight?

Overnight, the mountains and plains withered and yellowed?

Is this the work of the devil?
Or is it raining sulfuric acid?

"It must have been caused by the gas leak from the Longxiang Chemical Plant yesterday!" A villager in the crowd suddenly remembered something and shouted.

"Yes, it was caused by Long Xiang's leak."

"Yes, we're going to talk to Long Xiang's boss for an explanation."

"What's the use of asking the boss for an explanation? First, we need to find the local government. It is a foreign-funded enterprise introduced by the local government. We need an explanation from the local leaders."

"Yes, yes, let's go to the local government to discuss it."

"We have to talk to the head of the village secretary about this first, they don't know yet"

"Yes, go to the secretary and director first."

The villagers gathered together, discussing with each other, and finally agreed to find the secretary and director first, and report the strange phenomenon that happened in Jiangkou Village.

"Bang bang bang—" A group of villagers gathered around the village secretary's yard, knocking on the door incessantly.

"Secretary Zhong, get up quickly, it's not good, something serious happened!" The villagers shouted loudly.

Secretary Zhong of Jiangkou Village, hearing the commotion outside, hurriedly put on his coat, buttoned his coat and hurried out to check what happened.Last night, under the leadership of Secretary Li Chaozheng and his team, they evacuated the villagers away from Jiangkou Village, and did not return until after five o'clock in the afternoon. Home.

"Secretary Zhong, it's not good. Look, our seedlings all withered overnight. Take a look."

Secretary Zhong followed the direction of the villagers' fingers, took a look around, was extremely surprised, and thought to himself: It's over, did you become like this overnight?Jiangkou Village, which was originally green and verdant, now looks like it has gone through a baptism of fire, and it is withered and yellow.

Secretary Zhong hurriedly called Lin Ruonan to report what happened in Jiangkou Village.

Lin Ruonan was still sound asleep when she received the phone call from Secretary Zhong of Jiangkou Village. Yesterday, she had been running all day without stopping for a second.

When Lin Ruonan received the call, she was very surprised, and quickly called the secretary Li Chaozheng to report the situation in Jiangkou Village to him.When Li Chaozheng received the call, he was also extremely anxious, and said, "Let's go, let's go to Jiangkou Village, hurry up!"

Lin Ruonan quickly dialed the driver's number and told him to drive to the gate of the community immediately, hurry up.

Lin Ruonan went to the bathroom and "shabu-shabu-shabu" briefly cleared his mouth, washed his face, put on his coat, glanced back at his daughter who was still soundly asleep, and then went straight downstairs and left the gate of the community , Seeing that the unit's car had just arrived at the door, Lin Ruonan hurried over, opened the door, got in the car, and said, "Go, pick up Secretary Li, something happened in Jiangkou Village."

Seeing Lin Ruonan's expression, the driver knew that something serious had happened, so he turned around and hurried to Secretary Li's house without asking anything.

Lin Ruonan and the others were on their way to Jiangkou Village when they received a call from Secretary Zhong of Jiangkou Village. Secretary Zhong anxiously told Lin Ruonan that all the villagers in the village had flocked to the township government compound, and there was nothing to stop them.

Lin Ruonan hung up the phone and said to Li Chaozheng who was sitting in the front row: "Secretary Li, just now Secretary Zhong called to say that all the villagers in Jiangkou Village have flocked to the courtyard of the township government. We are going to the township government now. , let’s go to Jiangkou Village first.”

Li Chaozheng said calmly: "Let's go to Jiangkou Village to check the scene and see what's going on. I'll call the township government and ask Deputy Township Chief Huang to deal with it first." After speaking, Li Chaozheng quickly took out his mobile phone , Dial the number of Deputy Township Chief Huang.

"Hello, Head Huang? Are you in the courtyard of the township government? Oh, yes, well, there will be hundreds of villagers from Jiangkou Village coming to the courtyard of the township government. Please persuade them first, so as not to intensify the conflict. , Everything will be dealt with when we come back, Township Chief Lin and I will go to Jiangkou Village to check the scene first, and we will be back right away.”

When the car drove into Jiangkou Village, Li Chaozheng and Lin Ruonan quickly opened the car door and stood at the entrance of Jiangkou Village. Looking around, they saw the large fields and mountains near the Longxiang Chemical Plant all withered and yellow. Lin Ruonan After carefully checking the range of the withered yellow, it was basically the direction in which the smoke spread yesterday.

No need to guess, Lin Ruonan can also be sure that this is the result of a gas leak from the Longxiang Chemical Plant yesterday.

Seeing this withered scene, Lin Ruonan took a breath in his heart.She understood that the villagers of Jiangkou Village mainly depended on planting rice and some fruit trees on the mountain for their livelihood. Now that the mountains and plains have become like this, the villagers of Jiangkou Village have lost their source of livelihood, so it is no wonder that they are not making trouble.

After Li Chaozheng and Lin Ruonan inspected the scene for a while, they hurried to the township government compound.Because Township Chief Huang called just now to say that the township government compound was packed to the brim. Hundreds of people gathered in the compound to curse and shout, and the arrogance of the crowd became more and more difficult to control.

Before the car drove into the township government compound, Lin Ruonan saw densely packed villagers gathered at the gate, and the street residents passing by the township government gate saw so many angry villagers gathered in the township government compound, and from time to time Looking back, doubts appeared on his face.

Li Chaozheng asked the driver to park the car outside the door, then got out of the car with Lin Ruonan first, and walked into the courtyard of the township government.

In the crowd, someone recognized Li Chaozheng and Lin Ruonan, and shouted: "Secretary Li and Mayor Lin are here, let's ask them for an explanation."

The crowd in the courtyard heard that someone said that Li Chaozheng and Lin Ruonan had come, and they gathered around Li Chaozheng and Lin Ruonan like a tide. It was the first time Lin Ruonan saw such a scene, and he felt a little flustered, but he still forced himself to calm down. Come down, absolutely don't mess up.

"Secretary Li, Mayor Lin, all the seedlings in our village are dead. What did you officials do? What kind of enterprise did you introduce?" Someone in the crowd asked angrily.

"That's right, all our seedlings died overnight. What kind of company did you introduce? It's a poisonous company!"

"Yes, this is a toxic enterprise. We don't want such an enterprise to be established in our Jiangkou Village."

"How did you leaders do it? It's a reckless disregard for human life. I don't know if we were inhaled by poison gas."

"Yes, yes, this is a toxic enterprise, and your government leaders cannot shirk their responsibilities."

"All the seedlings died overnight. What kind of poisonous gas is this? We don't know how much poisonous gas we have inhaled."

"This responsibility has to be borne by your government. You say, what should be done, what should be done?"

"Throw out Longxiang Enterprise, blow it out."

"It's too cheap to blast them out. They make money and ruin our fields. We are going to blow up this factory."

"Yes, the factory was blown up."

……

The villagers surrounded Li Chaozheng and Lin Ruonan yelling, cursing and pointing.

"Villagers, you all be quiet, be quiet, so that hundreds of people gather together to talk to you and me, we can't hear your request clearly, and we can't negotiate to solve this problem properly. Now Secretary Li and I are also very sad when this incident happened, but please believe that our government will take responsibility for this incident and solve this problem properly. Please trust us, trust us!" Lin Ruonan Seeing the turmoil of people, she and Secretary Li were completely submerged in it, and then shouted loudly that she had to find a way to control the situation and not let the angry voice continue to heat up, otherwise it would be even more difficult to control.

"Yeah, all of you calm down. When do you have any thoughts or requests, you can send a few representatives to talk to us. Only when we sit down and talk can we find a solution through negotiation." Li Chaozheng also shouted loudly .

When the gathered villagers heard the voices of Lin Ruonan and Li Chaozheng, they began to calm down slowly, thinking about their words rationally, and felt that what they said was reasonable, such hundreds of people, you can't solve the problem at all. , will only delay time.

"Yes, Secretary Li and Mayor Lin are right. It's not conducive to the settlement of the matter like this with hundreds of us. We need to send a few representatives to talk to the government." One of the crowd shouted loudly. responded.

"Okay, okay, let's send a few people out to discuss."

"Who do you send, let Secretary Zhong and Director Zhong come out and talk?"

"No, we can't send them. They are village cadres who follow the government. We send Zhong Gui'an and Li Daorong out."

"Yes, we can't send village cadres. We choose Zhong Guian and Li Daorong to negotiate on our behalf."

The villagers in Jiangkou unanimously elected villagers Zhong Guian, Li Daorong, and Zhong Wuming to negotiate.Except for a few village cadres and old party members, the other villagers, under the persuasion of the township cadres, left the township government yard one after another and returned to Jiangkou Village.

In the conference room of the Party Committee of Pilong Township, Li Chaozheng, Lin Ruonan and the villagers’ representatives sat on both sides of the big conference table, and the village cadres, several old party members, the leaders in charge of the village’s resident point and the resident cadres sat on the mahogany sofa chairs against the wall .

Li Chaozheng looked around for a while, and then said solemnly: "This morning, as soon as Lin Xiangzhang and I received a call, we rushed to Jiangkou Village to check the situation. The scene was just like what you described. The fields and mountains were barren overnight. We speculate that this incident was caused by the waste gas leakage from the Longxiang Chemical Plant yesterday, but we cannot draw conclusions without investigation. We will invite experts from the province to investigate and verify. We will negotiate with the company and let them take out money to compensate you. What are the needs and ideas of the villagers in Jiangkou Village? Zhong Guian, you can also talk about it as representatives elected by the masses. What is the solution."

As soon as Li Chaozheng finished speaking, the villager named Zhong Guian stood up excitedly, and said first: "Jiangkou Village has become like this now, you don't need to defend and defend as leaders anymore, you have been doing well for so many years, when will you come out?" After all these things, the Longxiang Chemical Plant had an air leak yesterday, and the Jiangkou village, Tian’s village became like this, do we still need to invite experts to prove it?”

"We said we invited experts to come, but we did not rule out the exhaust gas emission factors of Longxiang Chemical Plant. The reason why we have to go through a procedure is to give everyone a clear explanation, and at the same time be responsible to the enterprise. We have the expert's investigation report. There is a good reason to go to the company to make a theory." Lin Ruonan saw that the villagers in Zhong Gui'an became excited again, and quickly explained calmly.

After listening to Lin Ruonan's explanation, Zhong Gui'an gradually calmed down his excitement, and then continued: "Well, you invite experts to investigate, it is your government's business, and our villagers have a few big requests today: [-]. The mountains and plains are full of deserts, and the seedlings and saplings are all dead. The basic rations we rely on for survival are gone, and the accident company has to make compensation; [-]. Longxiang is a polluting company that emits harmful poisonous gas. We strongly urge this company to move out. Jiangkou Village; three, all our villagers have to undergo a physical examination to see if our bodies are affected, and if they are affected, we must compensate accordingly.”

"Yes, that's what we want," several other village representatives responded one after another.

Lin Ruonan patiently listened to the villagers' requests, and then glanced sideways at Li Chaozheng. At this time, Li Chaozheng was showing his eyes to her. Lin Ruonan understood that Li Chaozheng wanted her to answer these questions, because Long Xiang The owner of the company, Gong Xiaolong, has a very good relationship with Lin Ruonan. Regarding the company's attitude, Li Chaozheng respects Lin Ruonan's opinion more than he would express his opinion at will.

Lin Ruonan lowered his head and thought for a few seconds, then raised his head, and said solemnly: "Just now Zhong Gui'an made the three major demands on behalf of the villagers of Jiangkou Village. I think they are very reasonable. The fields and mountains of Jiangkou Village died overnight. What is the reason, our government has the responsibility to share with you and solve it. This is our unshirkable duty. It is impossible for our government to sit idly by when you are hit by a disaster. On this point, please rest assured that we will definitely take this responsibility. As for The first request just made is to require the accident company to make compensation. As long as experts come to investigate and identify that it is caused by the exhaust gas leakage of Longxiang Enterprise, we will definitely represent you to claim compensation from Longxiang. Don’t worry, we can do it , even if the loss is not caused by their enterprise, but is caused by other reasons, our government will find ways to fight for funds from above, or provide financial money to make up for everyone's losses. As the mayor of Pilong Township, I hereby promise to everyone, We will never let everyone go hungry and beg for food. The third question is about the general medical examination. The villagers should indeed go to the hospital for a comprehensive physical examination. I will coordinate with the director of the county hospital on this matter. The examination fee does not need to be paid by the villagers. It will be covered by our government first. I will discuss this matter with the county hospital after the meeting. Long-term contact, please rest assured. As for the second question raised just now, I want to move Longxiang Chemical Factory out of Jiangkou Village. This is how I think about it. It is not easy to be an enterprise. In a backward county like ours, the economy is so underdeveloped, it is very necessary for more enterprises to settle in our county. At the beginning of the establishment of this enterprise, the environmental protection department came to check, the location of the factory, the level of pollution control They all met the requirements of the higher authorities, and they were built on a barren hill 2 kilometers away from the village. It stands to reason that they would not have any impact on the production and life of the villagers. As for the gas leakage incident, it can be said to be an accident. What caused it specifically? Still in the process of further investigation, if the company produces normally and does not have accidents, it will not cause pollution. Everyone knows what a company paying tens of millions of yuan means to a county like ours. Everyone is eager to change the poverty , embark on the road to prosperity, but our Jiangkou Village currently has no other way to make money besides planting rice or rice. The establishment of such a large factory here solves the employment problem of the surplus labor in our Jiangkou Village. The monthly average is between 3000 and 4000 yuan. In our county, the current cadre salaries and sunshine allowances add up to 2000 yuan per month. I just hope that everyone will not veto such a good thing first, and wait for the conclusion to come out After that, we will make a conclusion. We will invite experts to fully follow up this enterprise and investigate whether it has potential harm. If so, I also agree to resolutely move it out, but if not, I hope everyone, be cautious !. I just want to emphasize one more sentence at the end, we will never exchange the life and health of the people in exchange for bloody GDP ! "Lin Ruonan became more and more excited as she spoke. Her sincere attitude and turbulent tone infected every cadre and the masses present.

Several village representatives were also deeply moved when they heard Lin Ruonan's long and heartfelt words. In fact, before the accident happened, the villagers in Jiangkou Village were full of joy.Each family has a representative working in Longxiang, receiving a salary of several thousand yuan a month. At that time, the eyes of the surrounding villages almost dropped with envy.

After a while of discussion between the two parties, the village representatives finally agreed with Lin Ruonan's point of view, and they will wait until the conclusion of the expert appraisal comes out.

After the village representatives left, Lin Ruonan came to Li Chaozheng's office and said apologetically, "Secretary Li, I didn't have time to ask for your opinion on the call just now, so I made a promise on behalf of the government. Do you have any objections? "

"Where will it be? You said it very well. It is really not easy to bring in that Longxiang enterprise. You don't want to move out at will. I can understand your thoughts. But now that something has happened, let's contact the experts in the province first. Let them come to investigate as soon as possible and make an appraisal result as soon as possible. Over there, you can also contact Gong Xiaolong. I guess this matter is almost inseparable. His company has to bear the responsibility, and he still has to compensate for the compensation to the villagers. , we can’t protect him in this regard.”

"That's for sure. I'll go to Longxiang Chemical Factory again to discuss this issue with him. The experts in the province should be contacted by me, or by Secretary Li. You can contact him personally."

"As for the expert investigation, I will contact you. You are responsible for negotiating compensation with Gong Xiaolong. Oh, and the villager's medical examination. If the accident is caused by the Longxiang Chemical Plant, they will bear the cost. Our government We can’t pay for them. Of course, it’s okay for us to pay in advance before the conclusion is reached.”

"Oh, okay, okay, I'll call and make arrangements." After Lin Ruonan finished speaking, she left Li Chaozheng's office.

(End of this chapter)