At this point, how could the villagers of Sanqinghe Village sit still? They immediately ran to Qinghe Village to find out what was going on.

The scrap business in Qinghezhuang has resumed its previous output, with truckloads of used electronic products being transported to Qinghezhuang.

They disassemble the electronic components and put them into the recycling decomposer, and the entire recycling process is completed. The only subsequent work is to sort them, load them, and then ship them out.

As Zhao Yan said, they did not use water when processing electronic components, let alone produce wastewater, nor did they erect chimneys to discharge exhaust gas.

Walking around Qinghezhuang, if I hadn't known in advance that they were processing recycled resources, I would never have thought that they had a factory here.

The village environment is so quiet and comfortable.

Even the people of Sanqinghe Village have to admit that if their income is guaranteed, they would also like to live in this environment.

Who would like to be surrounded by exhaust gas all day long, endangering their health? Who would like to not be able to grow onions and coriander in front of or behind their house?

In view of everything they saw in Qinghe Village, the villagers of Sanqinghe couldn't help but wonder, is the recycling decomposer sold by Zhao Yan really that easy to use?

The people in Qinghe Village were all smiling and praising the recycling decomposer.

"Of course it's useful! The new machine has saved us a lot of work. We don't have to monitor the tedious purification steps; the machine does it all for us. Lately, I've even had time to knit sweaters."

"Not only is there less work, but we calculated our costs and profits and found that our profits are even higher after we replaced the new machines."

"It's a bit expensive to buy so many machines at once, but after buying the machines, there are no other costs. I save a lot of chemical raw materials and even water bills."

After a trip to Qinghezhuang, it would be a lie for the villagers of Sanqinghe Village to say they were not moved.

After returning, they began to discuss whether they should also replace the recycling resource decomposer like Qinghezhuang.

But the problem is that they have already purchased the equipment and even signed a five-year contract for the sewage treatment plant. Now no one is willing to give up the equipment they bought with their hard-earned money.

"What can I do if I don't want to let go? Can it lay eggs or hatch cubs if I hold it in my hand?" said a villager.

Yes, now the regional emission standards have changed, and the facilities and equipment they have added no longer meet the standard requirements.

Even though the villagers of Sanqinghe Village were reluctant to part with the equipment, they still found someone to sell it at a depreciated price.

The sewage treatment plant rented from the big boss was also returned. The big boss was easy to talk to. For the sake of his fellow villager's face, he did not make things difficult for them. However, everything still had to be done according to the regulations, and the penalty for breach of contract must not be reduced by a single cent.

Sanqing and the villagers went through a lot of trouble, but in the end they spent more money than if they had just bought a recycling decomposer.

Thinking of the money they had lost, the villagers of Sanqinghe were heartbroken and began to blame each other.

Most villagers blamed Li Ergou because he always contradicted Zhao Yan and shook everyone.

Li Ergou is not someone who is easy to mess with, and he often says sarcastic things to them.

No one benefits from shirking responsibility.

After shirking responsibility, Li Ergou still went to Zhao Yan with a smug look on his face.

Zhao Yan now goes out early and comes back late, and he is not seen returning to the village until late at night every day.

Li Ergou jumped out from the side of the road and almost scared Zhao Yan, who quickly stepped on the brakes.

Before Zhao Yan could curse, Li Ergou rubbed his hands and walked to Zhao Yan's window. When Zhao Yan lowered the window, Li Ergou bared his teeth and tried to get close to Zhao Yan.

"Brother Zhao, have you been busy lately? I haven't seen you every day."

Zhao Yan has been very busy recently. Since he became the agent of the recycling decomposer, he has had a lot of work to do.

At the beginning, he didn't take the sales job seriously. He just wanted to sell the machines and be done with it. It was a one-time deal.

It turned out that the agency job was more promising than he had imagined.

After selling the batch of recycling resource decomposers to the villagers of Sanqinghe, people kept coming to inquire and place orders to purchase them.

The recycling decomposer is a large piece of machinery and is more suitable for sale by offline agents. In addition, there are also decomposers, which can also be purchased from him.

Just based on these two businesses, Zhao Yan and his two childhood friends earn much more than when they were working.

So during this period they were busy selecting stores, communicating with buyers, transporting and delivering goods, etc., and there was endless work to do every day.

He originally returned to his hometown with the intention of enduring hardship, but he didn't expect to develop a better career in the end.

No one at home objected anymore, and they planned to find time to come back and visit soon. They also missed Sanqing River, but they had only seen it in the news and had never been back to see the current appearance of this mother river with their own eyes.

Because of his busy work, Zhao Yan has rarely come back recently. However, when he comes back, he runs into Li Ergou, and it is difficult for him to be in a good mood.

Zhao Yan looked at Li Ergou and asked in a neutral tone, "What's the matter?"

"It's nothing serious. I just saw Brother Zhao San came back, so I came over to say hello." Li Ergou took out a cigarette from the cigarette box and handed it to Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan pushed it away and confiscated it.

Li Ergou was thick-skinned enough that the fact that the cigarette was not given away did not affect his ability to ask people for favors. He put the cigarette behind his ear and continued to say what he wanted to say.

"By the way, I wanted to ask you if you still have that scrap processing machine you were selling?"

Zhao Yan was also a smart man. He understood immediately that Li Ergou wanted to buy a recycling decomposer.

"The goods are out of stock, and we don't know when we'll have to wait for the next batch."

Li Ergou: "Brother Zhao San, this is boring. You can't deliberately make things difficult for me just because I said something unpleasant and offended you unintentionally."

Zhao Yan: "I'm not making things difficult for anyone. I'll sell the machine to anyone. There's no reason not to sell it to you."

Li Ergou: "Don't think I don't know. You just brought back a lot of goods during the day. I saw it with my own eyes, right in front of your store. How could you sell out in one day?"

Zhao Yan: "That's already been reserved. It will be delivered tomorrow morning."

Li Ergou couldn't understand: "Hasn't Qinghe Village already bought the machines? Who else wants to buy one?"

Zhao Yan: "Many."

There are more than just these two villages doing the recycling business. Now that environmental protection is strictly enforced, far-sighted companies have already inquired about recycling decomposers.

The machines that Zhao Yan represented were relatively few, as their funds could not support too many machines, so they only represented the recycling decomposers.

Dai Li's own company has a lot of machines for processing recycled resources, and each type of garbage is carefully divided.

In comparison, Zhao Yan's business is relatively small.

Zhao Yan: "Even this batch of goods has arrived and it's not enough. There are still people waiting in line."

"Brother Zhao San has become rich recently." Li Ergou was extremely jealous, but now that he needed help from others, it was naturally impossible for him to say anything sour.

He continued to apologize with a smile, "Brother Zhao, based on our relationship and the fact that we're from the same hometown, shouldn't you look after me and let me cut in line?"

Zhao Yan: "Whether you know me or not, you have to follow the rules. Otherwise, it would be unfair to others."

Li Ergou: "If you don't tell me, who will know?"

Zhao Yan looked at him for a moment and said, "I advise you to forget about it. I asked you to buy it before, but you refused. Now there is no stock at all, and I don't know when the next restock will be."

After saying that, he was too lazy to argue with Li Ergou anymore, so he stepped on the accelerator and drove away.

Leaving Li Ergou covered in dust.

"Now that he's rich and powerful, he doesn't even care about fellow countrymen." Li Ergou spat on the ground at the exhaust gas from the car.

Li Ergou was just the beginning. Later, more and more Sanqinghe villagers came to Zhao Yan with the same purpose, which was to buy recycling decomposers from him.

Zhao Yan’s answer was still the same: it’s out of stock now and he didn’t know when the next restock would be.

Even if we finally get some goods, we will give them to other buyers first.

He was no longer like before. When he had goods, he would give them to the Sanqinghe villagers first. He always maintained a businesslike attitude and made them wait in line.

While the scrap business in Qinghe Village is already on track, the villagers of Sanqinghe Village are still living off their savings and are reluctant to wait for their scrap factory to open.

As the days of unemployment passed, the villagers became more and more panicked because they had no source of income, and those who could not wait had already started to go out to look for work.

There are also some people who are unwilling to go out to work and continue to stay in the village waiting for the goods.

As I waited, I started to have some bad thoughts.

The attention paid to Sanqing River has decreased a lot now, and the environmental protection inspection team no longer patrols the village every day like before.

Apart from still not agreeing to them starting construction, Sanqinghe Village seemed no different from before.

Li Ergou and a few of his friends have been so idle lately that they can only pass the time by playing cards. Someone at the card table mentioned that since no one comes to check, they can secretly remove the seals at home to dispose of electronic waste without anyone knowing.

The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously.

Li Ergou went back and discussed it with his family. They all thought it made sense. So they secretly removed the seal at night and put it back on the next day. No one would know.

They haven't had any income for two months. If they continue to live off their savings, they will be out of money sooner or later.

Instead of waiting, it is better to earn some money first. They will not continue to do it secretly. Once Zhao Yan's goods arrive, they will immediately replace them with new machines.

Li Ergou's family had a very good plan.

That night, they quietly removed the seal.

In order to conceal their tracks, they did not dare to work during the day. After nightfall, Li Ergou turned on the lights at home and began to process electronic waste.

That night, the family did not sleep all night, and only stopped their work when it was almost dawn.

Then we started to deal with the finishing work, put things away, seal them up, and deal with the wastewater produced today before dawn.

The family split up into several groups, each carrying a large bucket of wastewater, and went out to find a place to dispose of it.

Li Ergou carried the most wastewater and walked the farthest. He rode a motorcycle to Sanqing River, found a secluded place to park, and walked to the riverside.

Seeing the clear water of Sanqing River, Li Ergou hesitated for a moment.

However, Li Ergou's conscience only lasted for a second or two. A moment later, he tried to dump some wastewater into the river, about 100 ml.

100 ml of wastewater mixed into the Sanqing River and was instantly diluted by the water of the Sanqing River, leaving no trace.

The river water is still so clear.

Now Li Ergou had no psychological burden at all, and poured both buckets of water into the Sanqing River.

When he just poured it in, the water was still a little muddy. In less than three seconds, the river water in front of Li Ergou became clear again.

After finishing all this, Li Ergou didn't stay for long and immediately got on his bike and rushed home.

He was the last one to arrive home, his family having already arrived.

The place where his family dumped the wastewater was closer. Some people found a place nearby where they could not see and dumped it into the ground, while others dumped it directly into the pond in the village.

Murakami's pond has also been treated, with a sewage treatment machine placed underwater. Now the water quality of the pond is the same as that of Sanqing River, and the aquatic plants in the pond can be clearly seen.

Because people who dump wastewater know that there is a sewage treatment plant in the water, they have no psychological burden at all.

Everyone in Li Ergou's family felt that they had completed today's work excellently, and went to bed with satisfaction.

Unfortunately, they did not sleep well. It was only nine o'clock in the morning. Not long after they closed their eyes, someone knocked on their door.

It wasn't a gentle knock on the door, but a very loud noise that was bound to wake up the whole family.

Li Ergou and his family were indeed woken up, and Li Ergou got up and opened the door cursing.

"Knock, knock, knock your mother, don't you know I'm still sleeping?" Usually, people who come to see Li Ergou don't have any serious business, they just want to ask him to play cards. When he suddenly heard the knock on the door, he thought it was his group of friends who came to ask him to play cards again.

When I opened the door, I saw a group of law enforcement officers in uniform.

Li Ergou's expression immediately changed, and he smiled broadly: "Director He, what east wind brought you here?"

Director He's face was expressionless: "What east wind are you talking about?"

"I know. Come and check. I'll just check here casually." Li Ergou led the person into the house and diligently brought a stool for him.

He yawned, thinking about his previous outspokenness, and explained, "I just went to bed, and I didn't know you guys were here, Director He. I'm sorry for the offense, please don't take it personally."

Director He: "Sleeping during the day and secretly dumping polluted wastewater at night?"

Li Ergou: "How can that be? I play cards at night and come back at dawn. We don't play big, just a few dollars."

Director He had a stern look on his face and stared at Li Ergou without saying a word.

Li Ergou would never admit it, "Everything in our house is sealed and hasn't been touched in two months. How could it be possible that wastewater was produced? If you don't believe me, go check it out."

Director He was not going to be polite with him and took his men directly into Li Ergou's small processing factory.

When the people in Li Ergou's family heard the noise, they all came downstairs and asked him in a low voice if he had been discovered.

Li Ergou whispered to them to watch their mouths and not admit it even if they died.

After saying that, he also walked into the small factory in the back room.

The people brought by Director He are taking photos and collecting evidence at the scene.

Li Ergou: "Director He, look, is the seal here still intact? I just haven't used the equipment inside."

"Are you stupid or do you think we are stupid?" Director He pointed at a seal with obvious signs of being torn.

Li Ergou didn't know why the seal was not affixed properly. He remembered that he followed the method on the Internet and it was perfectly done.

His mind worked quickly and he immediately called his wife over.

"I told you to come less often to clean. These devices are all unusable. It's useless to clean them. You're the only one who's diligent. Now look, you've damaged the seal. You're in big trouble."

Li Ergou's wife was also a smart person. She readily responded, "It's all my fault. I can't sit still. I'm used to wiping the things I eat every day. I can't change it in a short time. Director He, did I make a big mistake? I don't understand this. I thought it would be fine after it was applied. Can you please let it go this time? I promise not to rub it randomly next time."

The couple sang the same tune and managed to cover up the lie quite well. After all, the equipment in their factory was not as clean as if it had been out of service for two months. It was either being used frequently or being cleaned frequently.

Director He: "Alright, stop pretending. Since we can find you, we must have evidence of your illegal construction and wastewater dumping."

Li Ergou and his family were shocked and didn't understand how they were exposed.

They had just started working secretly one night and disposed of all the evidence under the moonlight. No one noticed them during that time, so how could they be discovered by the environmental inspection team?

Li Ergou: "We haven't started work yet. Director He, you must have made a mistake in your investigation."

Director He stared at Li Ergou in silence for a while, then shook out a piece of paper from his briefcase.

"At 5:14 a.m., 17 liters of wastewater were dumped at Liulinpo; at 5:19 a.m., 82 liters of wastewater were dumped in the woods behind Li Mintao's (also known as your Li Ergou) home; at 5:26 a.m., 23 liters of water were dumped at Sanqing Pond; and at 5:35 a.m., 59 liters of wastewater were dumped at the Sanqing River forestry section."

Director He read out the numerous crimes of Li Ergou's family as if it were a public execution.

"Li Mintao, do you remember these places?"

Li Ergou was still playing dumb: "Look at what you said, Director He. Aren't these all place names in our village? How could I not remember them?"

Director He: "Li Mintao, stop playing dumb with me. You know what I'm asking."

Li Ergou: "Director He, you can't accuse me falsely. I'm not the only one who can go to those places. How can you say it was me who did it?"

Director He: "Li Mintao couldn't have been unaware that the sewage treatment machines and soil purification machines have wake-up recording functions. If they detect pollutants seeping in nearby, the machines will start recording."

The soil purifiers were placed by Dai Li and his men later, and there are ones throughout the village.

Its function is similar to that of a sewage treatment machine. It can also absorb, decompose, migrate and transform toxic and harmful substances in the soil and restore the natural ecological environment of the soil.

After the installation of soil purifiers, the contaminated soil in the village is improving.

At present, villagers are still hesitant to grow vegetables on it, but the grass and trees in many places have recovered.

There is a detection needle under the soil purification machine, which is mainly used to detect pollutants to facilitate the machine's processing, and can also monitor newly infiltrated pollutants.

Industrial pollutants will not be produced in nature, it must be someone who does not follow the rules.

We all work together to protect the environment and create green mountains and clear waters, and we must never tolerate those who do not follow the rules.

It was because of this that Dai Li set up a wake-up photo-taking program in the soil purifier, and she was determined not to let go of anyone who did not care about the environment.

Director He took out five pictures, all of which were taken by the wake-up program.

All of Li Ergou's family members in the picture look cunning.

The ironclad evidence was placed before Li Ergou's family, leaving them no room for excuses.

Li Ergou and his family finally realized their regret. If they had known that photos would be taken, they would never have taken the risk. They had wasted the whole night.

Director He: "We are letting bygones be bygones for the previous pollution incidents. This is already the greatest tolerance we can offer you. It's your own fault for not cherishing the land, so you can't blame us."

Li Ergou asked awkwardly, "How much is the fine?"

Director He: "Do you think it's just a fine? Deliberately dumping toxic and hazardous wastewater and breaking the seal without permission will result in detention."

When Li Ergou's family heard that he was going to be detained, they gasped in fear.

Li Ergou: "This is our first offense. Can you please show some mercy? We promise we won't do it again."

Director He was impartial and no matter how much Li Ergou's family tried to please them, they were still taken into the car by Director He.

The equipment in Li Ergou's house was also sealed again and loaded onto trucks and taken away.

It was not just Li Ergou and his family who were taken away that day.

The friends who played cards with Li Ergou that day seemed to have been reminded of this as well. They went back to discuss it and also planned to start work quietly at night.

Within one day, villagers in Sanqinghe Village saw three families being taken away for investigation, and the trucks carrying evidence were three full.

Its mighty posture successfully intimidated the villagers of Sanqinghe Village, and no one dared to have any evil thoughts.

Half a month later, the three families were released one after another. They were like eggplants hit by frost, hiding at home and not daring to go out to socialize.

It is said that he was detained for fifteen days, fined tens of thousands of yuan, all his equipment and materials were confiscated, and he was also deprived of his qualification to engage in the recycling industry.

The villagers were talking about it, saying that the fine was too heavy and they lost at least 100,000 yuan at once.

But netizens still think this punishment is not enough. The most popular comment said that they should all be arrested and put in jail.

The three families of these people did indeed anger the public.

Not to mention the Sanqing River in the past, the water in the Sanqing River is so clear now, how could they have the heart to dump polluted wastewater into it.

This shows that some people will never have a sense of public morality and are bad at heart.

However, when netizens heard how they were caught, they laughed out loud with delight.

[Old driver of the rocking car]: Soil purifier: You didn’t expect that I can take pictures, and I don’t use beauty filters.

[Pikachupid]: Don't pollute. If you do, you will be caught.

[djfkf]: The automatic wake-up program is really great. Can it be installed in public places such as lakeside and green belts? My wish is to see unconscious people being publicly executed.

[DaDaJiang] replied to [djfkf]: Is your wish to exhaust DL company? The output is terrifying, but I like it very much /dog head.

[借水晓愁]: My wish is that DL company produces more, exhausts your company, and benefits all of us netizens/dog heads.

[Network Marriage Scissors]: Is this a wish? My wish is simpler: the water and soil can be purified. Teacher Dai, look at the sky above me. I have suffered from smog, and I want to see blue sky and white clouds.

[Happy Lao Liu] replied to [Online Marriage Cuts]: Your wish is too simple, Teacher Dai will surely solve it in minutes/dog head.

[I am an honest man]: Teacher Dai: Get up tomorrow morning and look up at the sky/sunglasses.

[Whale blue]: Teacher Dai: Don’t bother me with such simple questions. I like to challenge difficult questions.

Before they knew it, netizens had turned the omnipotent teacher Dai into a meme.

Through Teacher Dai's words, it seems that even the most difficult things can become simple.

Dai Li herself saw it.

Sister Tu: "It's over, now they know you are Doraemon."

Dai Li patiently explained once again: "I am not Doraemon, there are many things I can't do."

Sister Tu: "What about the smog? Do you have any solution?"

Dai Li pursed her lips and didn't respond.

Sister Tu said happily: "When you encounter difficulties that you cannot solve, come and refute me."