Volume 3: Taking Roots 2016 Chapter 522 Returning Home for the New Year
Zhou Dongsheng returned to Gu Town exhausted. As soon as he stepped into Gu Town, the air was filled with the familiar smell of his hometown. This was not an exaggeration.
After all, the mother river that runs through Gu Town is well-known for its nickname "Black Dragon River".
As soon as you drive into Gu Town from the bridgehead, you can see the black, smelly river water with oil and garbage floating in it. Not only is it pitch black, but there is also a slight heat rising from the surface of the river. When the wind blows, anyone who smells it can smell it.
Obviously, the "Green Mountains and Clear Waters" project sweeping across China has not yet reached this place, and the management of the Lianjiang River waters is just a face-saving project that is only done for three days and then dried for two days.
The entire Lianjiang River and its more than 800 tributaries were all affected. The vast majority of local people, including Zhou Dongsheng, believed that this "Black Dragon River" was definitely beyond repair.
Even if we spend ten years to treat it, the results are estimated to be minimal, just like a rotten sore on the body, which will rot away until everyone gets used to it.
As an ordinary citizen, Zhou Dongsheng naturally had no idea when the opportunity for change began, but from what he saw with his own eyes.
As long as you are determined to never give up until you achieve your goal, there are always more ways than difficulties. Even a village as powerful as the thunder god in the sky and the sea underground cannot resist the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves.
What's more, it's about managing a river? Zhou Dongsheng vaguely remembered that the solution was also very simple and crude. When he thought of this method, Zhou Dongsheng couldn't help laughing.
According to Zhou Dongsheng, an ordinary citizen, despite repeated orders to manage the Lianjiang River, the local authorities have always adopted an inaction and procrastination attitude, and have only dealt with the inspections in a perfunctory manner.
But paper cannot cover fire after all, let alone such a huge and pitch-black "Black Dragon".
Two years later, when the inspection team made a comeback and found that the results of the two-year governance had remained unchanged, they set up a station directly near the severely polluted waters.
Afterwards, the responsible persons at all levels were brought to live at the designated location, and they would be required to stay there until the pollution was resolved.
Perhaps this is what we call taking root at the grassroots level. The subsequent results can be said to be rapid and drastic, and with drastic governance, we completed this ingenious creation in just one year.
Facts have proved that sometimes, if you don’t push your leader, you don’t know how capable he is (funny).
Zhou Dongsheng was just moved by the scene and happened to think of such an interesting incident. For ordinary people who are powerless to do anything, this is naturally just a topic of conversation passed down by word of mouth.
But when he was at different heights and angles, Zhou Dongsheng couldn't help but feel a little moved. Is there a possibility that he could speed up this process?
Zhou Dongsheng was startled by this sudden idea and he quickly dismissed it.
It has to be said that as he accumulated more and more capital and things went smoothly for a long time, Zhou Dongsheng became more ambitious and felt that there were more things he was capable of getting involved in.
When people are in good times, their mentality can easily become distracted if they are not careful. If they fail to notice the changes in their mentality in time, they are often not far from making big mistakes.
In this regard, there will be countless typical examples in the near future. Thinking of this, Zhou Dongsheng immediately adjusted his mindset.
After all, even with the advantage of being a reborn prophet, his achievements in this life would never reach the level of the richest man. Even if he did, it would be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot. He should not have thoughts that he should not have.
Wouldn't it be nice to continue your cynicism with a clear conscience?
After thinking it through, he put these thoughts behind him. This time he arrived at the door of his home, exhausted. As the night got darker, a lamp was lit in front of the ancient Feitian Xiashanhu house, illuminating the way home for the wanderer.
Zhou Dongsheng calmed down all of a sudden, as if he had washed away all the worldly things in life. He walked to the door in two steps, pushed it open, and shouted at the top of his voice.
"Mom! I'm back!"
The air is still filled with the familiar aroma of food. The taste of hometown may be the stench of a sewer, but in the final analysis, it still has to be the "taste of mom". Hey, guess what, it's so authentic.
"Hey, you're back? Why are you alone?"
Liu Huaiying came out with a plate of food and a smile on his face. He saw Zhou Dongsheng, exhausted and standing there empty-handed, with the door at the back already closed. He couldn't help but say something in disappointment.
"Of course I'm the only one here. My assistant also has to go home for the New Year." Zhou Dongsheng said as a matter of course.
"Okay, you are the big boss now. Your mother can't control you anyway. When you find me a wife and give me grandchildren, your mother will be satisfied..." Liu Huaiying said.
"It's still early. Your son is so young, his career is more important. Let's eat..." Zhou Dongsheng smiled and said with a relaxed face.
No matter how well you are doing outside, when you return home for the New Year, you will feel like a dragon coiled up or a tiger lying down. This is the feeling of going home for the New Year.
I have to say, it’s great!
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In the next few days, as the Year of the Monkey approached, the mother and son began to prepare New Year's goods and make adequate preparations for the New Year's Eve dinner.
With the holidays and the Spring Festival travel rush, the streets and alleys of Gu Town, which is usually empty, are now filled with all kinds of young faces, injecting youthful vitality into the entire town.
The already narrow roads became crowded, and doors of every household were decorated with red lanterns and spring couplets, and of course the indispensable classic songs such as "Congratulations" and "Good Luck Comes".
It was noisy and bustling, and everyone seemed to have a faint smile on their face, although there were always people complaining that the New Year had lost its festive atmosphere.
However, when this most important family reunion festival of the year arrives, the festive atmosphere hidden deep in my heart cannot be hidden and emerges.
Zhou Dongsheng drove the Maserati that he had left at home to take his elderly mother to buy New Year's goods, and he particularly enjoyed the festive atmosphere.
However, when Zhou Dongsheng took his old mother to the supermarket to buy New Year's goods, he felt a little uncomfortable, as if someone was watching him.
Looking around, I saw a few young people pointing at me and whispering to each other, some even took out their cell phones to take secret photos.
It was hard for Zhou Dongsheng not to notice such an action that was not concealed at all. Only then did Zhou Dongsheng realize that he seemed to have neglected his current fame.
Although he is not a celebrity, he has become very popular on the Internet recently. People who don’t go online may not know him, but for young people who often go online, there will always be some who can recognize him.
What's more, he was so arrogant and had no disguise at all.
But it's okay. Maybe someone recognizes me, but they just discuss and secretly take a photo of themselves, take a photo as a souvenir, or send it to friends or brag about it online.
Perhaps this is the norm for most people in reality, reserved and rational.
Of course, there is also a possibility that Zhou Dongsheng is not famous enough, and he is not a traffic star, so where do his fanatical fans come from?
