157. The touchstone of conscience
In September 2001, it was rainy and rainy, and it rained heavily and lightly for more than half a month.
Before this, the flood control command office in the waterfront had issued a flood season warning to the city. In many low-lying areas in the city, flood control personnel cleared the sewer pipes in the rain. All units and living communities prepared flood control sandbags and rescue facilities.
The gravel fields in the mountains are usually located on the open space at the foot of the mountain. The crushing equipment is at the innermost point, and the outside is a pile of stones, with piles of stones.
Many gravel farms have hired all the laborers that the village can hire to help them build sandbags to prevent floods. They usually have a good relationship with the village, and the village is looking forward to them making money and is happy to provide them with help within their ability.
There were more than 40,000 square meters of stones in Zhao Shihao's gravel field. Because it rained, the roads in the mountainous areas were muddy and could not be transported out. He also wanted the villagers to help him to put sandbags outside the gravel field, against the ravine, just in case.
However, the village offended him and was unwilling to help. He even hired people at a high price, but the other party didn't come. The village chief said, "Whoever went to his gravel yard to build sandbags will not be allowed to work in the village's enterprises in the future."
There was no choice but to ask the workers in his yard to load sandbags. He deducted workers' wages on weekdays, and the workers were in a mood. Who would like to load sandbags outside in the rain? Everyone was grinding the labourers, and they couldn't load a few bags of sand a day.
The gangs who were hiding around him on weekdays, when they really put in their efforts to work, they all hid without a trace.
At this time, he called Tiantian and said that the ground was not working anymore. The ravine was not covered with sandbags. When the mountain torrent came down, the soil below was hollowed out, and the entire gravel field had to be washed away.
Finally, God has eyes. Before the workers loaded the sandbags, the water from the mountain was not very large. But in order to save money, he bought a limited number of sandbags, so he could not cover the ravine and could not function as a dam.
Finally, he asked the workers to transport all the uncompromised stones, both big and small, to the ditch slope.
Moving stones is all about hard work, and the workers don’t want to do it, so the progress will be even slower.
The mountains were harvested year round, destroying vegetation. By mid-September, a heavy rain came, and mudslides broke out in the mountains that night.
Those gravel fields that reinforced the sandbags, retained most of the equipment and stones, and suffered little loss. Zhao Shihao didn't have enough sandbags, so he could imagine how he would make do with some scattered stones.
After the mudslide flowed, Zhao Shihao's gravel field was razed to the ground by the mudslide flowed. The stones, houses, equipment, and everything were gone, and there was no trace of any gravel field here.
Living in the house, his uncle and his wife, two workers on duty, and two wolf dogs, also disappeared out of thin air, and the bones remained.
This village is called Baoziyu. A mudslide broke out that year, which shocked the entire Linshui City. Linshui Morning Post published a special article titled "The mudslide in Baoziyu, the touchstone of conscience". The general meaning is that there is a gravel field in the two villages in front of Baoziyu Mountain, and a mudslide broke out. There was basically no loss in Shanqian Village, and there was no tiles in Shanhou Village.
In the stone farm in Shanqian Village, the boss always shares life and death with Shanqian Village, shares joys and sorrows and common prosperity. In the stone farm in Shanqian Village, the boss only cares about his own wealth and is petty about the workers and the village. As a result, when a mudslide broke out, no one in the village came out to rescue the stone farm. The boss of the stone farm could only watch his equipment worth millions of yuan being swallowed up by the mudslide.
Of course, this special article is probably because the shizichang wanted to take the opportunity to win the name and bribe the author.
Mudslides are said to be natural disasters, but half of them are man-made disasters caused by blind quarrying.
It was from this time that the city gradually attached importance to environmental governance in the mountains, and began to stop work in an orderly manner, giving green to nature.
Zhou Dalin saw this news back then and still remembered it freshly.
He actually wanted to teach Zhao Shihao the easiest way to make a profit, especially signing an underwriting contract.
In that era, for the mountain people who were relatively behind, this underwriting contract could be said to be an extremely despicable marketing method. Using the mountain’s news blockage and ambiguous information to deceive those who did not have much marketing experience at that time, the interests of the mountain people would be damaged.
That's why he stopped at the right time and did not really fulfill the contract. A month later, he voluntarily canceled the contract.
When he entered the mountain, he took Zhao Shihao to the gravel farm in Shanhou Village to inquire about the processing and trading of gravels. It was done on purpose, just to let Zhao Shihao hear that this thing can be operated and profitable.
Zhao Shihao was indeed deceived and used the marketing methods he taught to set up a gravel yard.
If this gravel field was allowed to be done by Zhou Dalin, who knew it was appropriate to stop, the result would be the same as the gravel field in Shanqian Village that saved the field.
It is a high probability that Zhao Shihao, a mean and polite person who came to run the stone farm, followed the entire army twenty years later, and the boss of the stone farm was followed by a high probability.
Zhou Dalin is not a good person. If you respect me and treat me well, I will treat you twice as well. If you owe me, if you are dissatisfied with me and eight are resentful, I will cheat you to death!
At most, he is considered a person with a personality.
In Zhou Dalin's heart, Zhao Shihao was already owed the middle-aged Cheng Xiao's debt. He could be a good person in this life, but he still didn't give up. He wanted to compete with him for Cheng Xiao, but he really didn't know how rich he was!
It's okay, he can't remember to take revenge. But this kid is shameless and wanders under his nose all day long. If he can't cheat Cheng Xiao, he will cheat his father-in-law.
This time, I will tell you to know what a poke is, not a poke, but a poke! At least you will lose everything!
More than 40,000 square meters of stones, plus so many crushing equipment, and various auxiliary facilities, more than one million were washed away in a blink of an eye. The key was that two people died, as well as his uncle and his wife.
If the property is gone, it will be gone. If the death is gone, it will be a big deal. Life is at stake.
The simple mountain people, Zhao Shihao owed them no salary. At the critical moment, they still did not forget their duty and worked hard to do everything they thought they should do until they lost their pitiful life!
When things have come to this point, the public will definitely take action. Don’t say that your father is an ordinary cadre of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, even the director cannot save you!
First, he controlled Zhao Shihao, and then quickly seized the assets so that he could pay for the lost lives.
The place has become flat and is worthless. Then check who still owes Zhao Shihao the debt?
The infrastructure units that asked him for stones were in trouble. Before they could figure out a way to deduct some expenses from him, they had to pay back his debts first to calm the situation.
Zhao Shihao still owes the village stone money and the workers' wages. The account was not clear for a while, so he could only seize as much as Zhao Shihao had.
After the bank check, this guy's account was not enough for 100,000 yuan, and he was almost squandered the money he earned. Then he deducted fixed assets and he only had one car. Then, the Zhao family was in trouble. Except for the house, the rest had to be sealed.
Lao Zhao never thought that his son would cause such a big disaster. At that time, his chest tightened, foamed at the mouth, and fell to the ground.
This is even more chaotic. Fortunately, I live in the old community. My neighbors are not as cold as they are now. Everyone is helping Aunt Zhao to take him to the hospital.
The bus that Lao Cheng drove for passenger transport was half of Lao Zhao. As soon as Lao Cheng drove the bus into Linshui City that night, he was stopped by the court police and detained the bus directly.
The bailiff would not tell him what was going on, but only showed him the official documents. From the official documents, he could not tell what was going on.
None of them could get through when calling Lao Zhao and Zhao Shihao. He had to watch the bus drive away, and then ran home in a confused look on his face.
The community where he lives is located is separated from the community where Lao Zhao lives. At this time, Wu Ying was still busy cleaning the house and cooking at home, and he didn't know that something happened to the Zhao family.
Since Cheng Xiao followed Zhou Dalin back to the provincial capital, Wu Ying had to cook for Lao Cheng at home, waiting for Lao Cheng to come back, and no longer had time to go out to chat and perform. He kept sighing in his heart that this daughter is raised by others. No matter how well you raise it, it will belong to others sooner or later. If you follow him, it will be like not being raised.
I was feeling annoyed. Old Cheng came back and screamed for a long time, and he was confused.
"What kind of car is not a car? If you drive it yourself, who do you ask? The court is looking for you, you must have caused trouble. I was so busy at home that I know what you are doing outside?"
Lao Cheng and his wife were not sure about it, so he simply ran to Lao Zhao's place and smashed the door for a long time but no one paid attention to him. Finally, a neighbor upstairs knew him and told him that Lao Zhao had a heart attack and went to the city central hospital, but the person had not been rescued yet.
Only then did Lao Cheng realize that something big happened.
He didn't bother to eat, so he took a taxi to the central hospital and finally found Aunt Zhao.
At this time, Lao Zhao had already entered the ICU ward and his life was in danger. Aunt Zhao said that there was a large blood vessel in his heart and he needed to undergo bypass surgery.
Outside the ICU ward, I finally found a secluded place. Aunt Zhao roughly told Lao Cheng about what happened. Now, there is not much money at home, so Lao Zhao can't even make up the cost of the operation.
As Aunt Zhao spoke, tears kept falling down. Looking at her appearance, she could barely support her and she would fall down at any time.
"She Aunt Zhao, don't worry, I'll go home and get the money now." Lao Cheng quickly comforted Aunt Zhao, "Let's ignore everything else, we have to save Lao Zhao's life first!"
Aunt Zhao knew that Lao Cheng was a good man and passionate man. At this time, only Lao Cheng was willing to help her. When Lao Cheng came, she finally felt a little better.
Old Cheng came back again and told Wu Ying about the incident.
This time, Wu Ying was not as gloating as when the old Zhao couple made a fool of themselves this time, and forgot that Aunt Zhao said she had sold her daughter.
Most of the ordinary people in the flower planting family are kind. Especially Wu Ying's generation was born in the old society and grew up under the red flag. At critical moments, they will still show their kind nature.
It was late at night, and the bank didn't open the door, so Wu Ying took out all the bank cards at home and handed them over to Lao Cheng.
Chapter completed!