After Mu Qingli put away the supplies, Fu Hongzhou rode his bike to take her out of the city. After the two said goodbye, Mu Qingli drove away.
Mu Qingli opened the car window, hummed a song, and enjoyed the spring breeze on her face as the car drove steadily towards Ding'an County.
The city is only sixty or seventy kilometers away from the county seat, and it takes more than an hour to get there. It takes another hour to get to the town and the village. She drives quite fast, so she doesn't plan to stay in the county seat, so she will bypass the county seat and go directly to the town.
Beijing is more than 150 kilometers north of this place. These 100 kilometers are like thousands of mountains and rivers away. There is no other way except to take the college entrance examination and leave here.
On the way, when passing a village, Mu Qingli saw a lot of people gathered in front and several cars parked on the road. Mu Qingli stopped the car from a distance.
Despite this, Mu Qingli was still discovered.
"Look, there's someone coming over there!"
Mu Qingli's car was soon surrounded.
"What do you want to do?" Mu Qingli lowered the car window and looked coldly at the villagers who were surrounding the car.
Some militiamen even had guns in their hands.
Mu Qingli narrowed her eyes slightly. Although she had known for a long time that gun control was not strict in this era, each village had a militia company equipped with guns, and there were guns in the villagers' homes, this was the first time she had actually seen it.
"We don't want to do anything, we just want to eat,"
"Leader! We just want to eat! Give us a way to survive!" At this time, one of the villagers shouted.
As soon as these words were spoken, it seemed as if a butterfly effect was triggered, and the villagers started buzzing about it.
Mu Qingli frowned. Did he think of himself as a leading cadre?
It’s no wonder people admit their mistakes. Nowadays, apart from leading cadres and the military, few people can afford to drive a big jeep.
No one suspected that Mu Qingli was not a cadre just because she was a young girl.
"What's going on?" Mu Qingli said and got out of the car.
Before getting out of the car, she opened the manual key on the electronic lock. After getting out of the car, she held the electronic key, locked the car with the key, and put the car key into her bag.
Mu Qingli walked forward with the crowd and saw several people wearing dark Zhongshan suits and looking like cadres in front of the domestic cars.
"Huh? Someone is coming! Go and take a look!" At this time, someone in front said.
"Chief!" The person following the man said as he followed him, his hands still on his waist.
Mu Qingli stood in front of those people with an expressionless face.
"Young comrade! Are you sent by the county to handle the problem?" The man who spoke was in his fifties, with a straight figure and looked very kind.
Although they were all wondering why a little girl was sent, none of them doubted Mu Qingli's identity.
Be it the vehicle, the clothes, or Mu Qingli's serious and cold temperament, nothing could arouse suspicion.
"Can you tell me the situation?" Mu Qingli neither admitted nor denied it. She needed to understand the situation.
Now that I've been stopped, there's no way to hide.
"Xiao Zhao! Let someone who knows the situation speak!" After hearing what Mu Qingli said, the middle-aged uncle whispered to the person next to him without saying a word.
"Yes!" The person following him straightened his back and said yes, then went to find someone to do the job among the villagers.
After a while, Xiao Zhao came over with an elderly villager.
"This is the village chief!" Xiao Zhao introduced to Mu Qingli.
"Tell me about the situation!" Mu Qingli went straight to the point without saying much.
"Leader! I don't know what's going on in the village. The river water and the well water have all dried up. There wasn't a single snowflake last winter, and there's no spring rain this year. The crops are dying of drought! We went to the town commune to report it several times, but no one cared! We couldn't do anything even if we stopped the leader's car! We're going to have nothing to harvest! Food is the lifeblood of the members!" As he spoke, the village chief's face, which already had many wrinkles, wrinkled into a chrysanthemum.
"Oh? I'll go take a look!" Mu Qingli heard that it was a lack of water, which was easy to solve.
When the villagers heard that Mu Qingli wanted to go and take a look, they were all willing to lead the way.
It turned out that the people in the two cars looked at each other and started to catch up.
Mu Qingli followed the crowd on the dusty country road. Because there were so many people, the dust raised by walking was a bit choking.
As Mu Qingli walked, she looked around at the dry and cracked land, the withered wheat seedlings, and even the trees and weeds with yellow leaves, looking listless. It was truly shocking.
"Here, here, those are our village's fields, and over there, those belong to the neighboring village! Originally, our village was the only one experiencing drought, and we could still borrow water from the neighboring village. But who knew that before even a month had passed, the neighboring village would gradually run out of water. Later, we learned that the drought was gradually spreading, and now the entire town is almost short of water, and the drought is still expanding."
"Is this a drought?" Mu Qingli frowned. Although this place is not Ding'an Lin County, it is not far away. It is only separated by two or three small counties. Will the drought affect Ding'an County?
"Leader, there is no water in the village, and people are dying of thirst!" The villagers all had dark and haggard faces, and their lips were cracked and pale. Mu Qingli couldn't help but remain silent.
Walking to the dry riverbed and looking up, the earth was desolate, like a scarred wound, the soil was lifted up and cracked into small squares.
"I'm going to see the source of the river on the mountain! You guys wait! Don't all go up!" Mu Qingli said, walking along the riverbed.
The source of this river is the confluence of small streams on the top of the mountain, but now they are all dry.
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