Chapter 82 Red and Purple
The biggest difference between Zhulan and Sun is that the administrative division of the city is not strictly divided into two isolation areas.
It is a city and village at the upper and lower levels.
The entire city is not big, about the same size as Yaoguang, and the population is not densely populated. Every resident here lives a very prosperous and happy life.
After leaving the station, Li Wei found a small park near the station and bought Zhulan's newspapers from the past half month from the newsstand in the park.
Although before departure, he also bought some newspapers and periodicals from Zhulan in Taiyang, but the information in those newspapers and periodicals was lagging behind. It was okay to simply understand the customs and customs. The trains between the two cities alone were very long. It would take five days to travel, and apart from cross-city communication, there would be a considerable information gap.
Sure enough, after finding a bench in the park, Levi spread out the thick stack of newspapers, looked back from the previous dates, and realized that when the sun was turned upside down by him, Zhulan has not been peaceful at all during this time.
The government of this city is called [Lanting Grand Council Hall]. It is formed by a total of 72 large landowner families in the city. The seats are inherited from generation to generation. The leader who coordinates the entire council hall and manages the entire Zhulan is called Called the chairman or general director.
The position of chairman is also inherited from generation to generation by a family named Qi.
On the same day that Li Wei and Fengzi smuggled from Yuguang to Yaoguang together, the current chairman of Zhulan suffered a heart attack and died at home.
His only daughter was sent to the academy to study at the age of 5. She rarely returned to her hometown in recent years and never appeared in public.
Instead, he stayed in Zhulan. His nephew who took care of government affairs for him was eyeing the position after his uncle's death. At the same time, a large part of the Lanting Grand Council wanted to take this opportunity to abolish the hereditary chairmanship. , changed to a four-year electoral system.
So the former chairman’s cronies saw that something was wrong, and immediately informed the "princess" who was supposed to succeed, and asked her to take a leave of absence from the college and return immediately.
Things were already chaotic enough. These days, Zhulan's government affairs have been affected. As a result, an even bigger chaos happened two days ago.
The former chairman’s daughter, Zhulan’s ‘Princess’, who was originally scheduled to return to her hometown today, was riding in a train that accidentally derailed!
An entire carriage was missing, including her servants and security guards!
Missing is just a nice way of saying it. Everyone knows that if the carriage separates from the main body of the train in the intercity tunnel, death is certain!
According to the gossip in the newspaper, it is said that after learning about the incident, Chairman Principle’s nephew held a private party to celebrate that night. When questioned by reporters the next day, he even cursed, He said that his sister's death was a huge blow to him, but now he has to bear this kind of humiliating slander.
At the same time, early this morning, his face was full of sadness, and he cried so hard that he almost fainted and stood guard in front of the station, preparing to represent all Zhulan to hold the train management and operation accountable!
Well, yes, this nephew is the Huang Mao that Li Wei met when he got off the car.
After reading about the dirty things that had happened in the upper echelons of Zhulan these days, Li Wei smacked his lips and sighed inwardly that the newspaper offices in this city were full of factions, and they were all dogs raised by different families.
The last daily newspaper was still scolding the principal's nephew for murdering the "princess", and the next morning newspaper started to complain that there was a group of scum in the Lanting Grand Council Hall who wanted to make the Qi family extinct. !
Of course, this was also mixed with some recent major events in the sun, especially the ridicule of the city next door being turned into such a mess by an artificial biological man. Even the tokens of parliament and city naming were thrown into the pot.
After learning about the current situation of the city's high-level officials, Levi lost interest in these things. He directly found the owner of the newsstand and bought ten different magazines and newspapers, and then talked about it in a roundabout way. inquired.
"Uncle, were we in the village below particularly short of manpower four years ago?"
"Four years ago? There was no shortage of people in the village down there! All the local farmers who planted fruit trees were gone. They have been relying on selling people from other cities in these years."
"Buying from other cities Have all the people been assigned to plant fruit trees?”
“Absolutely. If you really say that four years ago, the gentlemen of the Grand Council did a big business with the people of the Sun. At that time, Newspapers were reporting on this, saying it was a great political achievement, and the people were relocated to Hongzi Village below. However, the contract was only signed for three years, and those people had probably gone home long ago. "< br>
The old man at the newsstand shook his fan and looked up at Levi.
"Why are you asking about this?" Levi smiled and put back the newspapers and magazines he had just bought.
“Those Sun workers haven’t gone home yet. My family is very worried, so I asked me to come over and ask when they will be able to go back.”
“They haven’t gone back yet. ? Then they must be enjoying themselves here and don’t want to leave. Look at what troubles your sun has caused these days. It must be difficult for a man-made thing to cause such trouble."
< br>"Yes, they must have stayed here to enjoy themselves."
Li Wei said softly, ignoring the complacency, and kept talking about how bad the sun was and how bad the bamboo orchid was. What a good uncle, he turned around and left.
Soon after finding a place to have lunch, Levi rented a car from a car rental agency. Following the Zhulan map he bought, he drove out of the city and visited the densely packed villages in the countryside. Found the Red and Purple Village.
This is the western district of Zhulan. Most of the land is used to plant fruit trees. After driving onto the country road, you can clearly feel that there are many more people here than in the city.
But their mental outlook is very poor. Compared with the workers in Yuguang, they look even leaner and darker. Most of them are working in the vast fields, and occasionally one or two are sitting on the roadside. Those who were resting also seemed taciturn, with numb eyes.
When those people saw Levi driving a car, their eyes were obviously mixed with shrinkage and cowardice.
Li Wei drove like this all afternoon, and finally arrived at Hongzi Village near dusk before it got dark.
This place is more like a shantytown than a village. The ground is full of mud and there is no so-called infrastructure at all. There is not even a cement floor or even a brick in it.
Li Wei threw the rented car directly on the roadside at the entrance of the village and walked into the village on foot through the mud.
It wasn't dark yet, and most of the young people in the village were still working in the fields. Only a middle-aged man who looked like he was going home to pick up farm tools was stopped by Li Wei and handed him a cigarette.
"Brother, please ask, is Liu Bao in this village?"
The middle-aged farmer who was stopped by Li Wei was obviously frightened. He obviously saw what Li Wei was doing. Those who came here didn't even dare to take the cigarette he handed over.
"Master is looking for Liu Bao? I know where he is buried. How about I take you there now?"
"Is he dead?"
"He has been dead for two years. He is exhausted. "In the field."
"Where is Yu Haichao?"
"He was the village chief and died a year ago."
"Where are Yao Jiang, Chu Dafu, Wu Zhouping, and Zhao Sheng?"
"I don't know Zhao Sheng and Wu Zhouping, but they should have died a year ago. They were all buried together."
Levi was silent for a while, took a deep breath, and then spoke calmly again.
"Are the hundreds of people who were sold here from the sun still alive four years ago?"
"The people from four years ago? There is also a child, but he is crazy Now, I have been living in the old forest in the cemetery.”
(End of this chapter)