Rust II

The early autumn of 05 was destined to be an unforgettable time for the whole city of C.

It's just that this piece of news with a special nature has been tracked and reported by the C City Evening News for nearly half a month. to describe the darkness.

The Ma family never imagined that the time needed to go from heaven to hell is just a flick of a finger.

At the same time, they didn't expect that after this flick of a finger, what awaited them was layer after layer of mire that made people sink into it and couldn't get out of it.

The cause of the matter is actually very simple and very small, so small that the Ma family, which has always relied on money and power to solve everything, didn't pay attention at all at the time.So naturally, I didn't expect that it would become the spark of a prairie fire, or even a fatal fuse.

In March, Ma's experimental factory was officially put into use and production. Because of the occasion of employment, a large number of experimenters were recruited, and some of them were college interns who had not yet graduated from the department of pharmacy or medicine or even some chemistry majors.

The accident is also happening in this group of interns with relatively low hiring costs.

At the beginning of June, a boy surnamed Wu who was studying medicine from County S in City C suddenly felt a burst of abdominal pain after lunch in the canteen of his unit, accompanied by mild intermittent nausea and dizziness. At first he was not aware of this phenomenon. I don't take it seriously, just think that I accidentally ate my stomach, and I will be fine after taking some antidiarrheal medicine and recuperating.Who would have thought that on the second and third day after that, even staying in the dormitory on weekends, this abdominal pain and nausea would never go away.

This strange phenomenon lasted for nearly half a month. It was discovered by Xiao Wu's parents who came to C city to visit their son on a temporary basis. They immediately took the child to a nearby hospital, but they couldn't find out what the cause was, so they had to hospitalize their son. I took it back and observed it by myself for a few days.

And in the past few days, several other people with the same symptoms appeared in the company one after another, and they all started from diarrhea, and after a few days, they turned into vomiting and dizziness from time to time. And nosebleeds.

And its scope has gradually spread from the experimental department to other departments.It's just that everyone's reactions and performances are different. Some have obvious discomfort, and some only faint for a second or two occasionally, and there are no abnormalities at other times.

Afterwards, this matter was finally reported to the company's middle and senior management, but it did not attract the attention of the upper management.

Until more than a week later, someone suddenly began to question the construction land of the experimental plant, saying that the predecessor of this company was a chemical plant that had been abandoned for many years. Could it be that the recent anomalies are due to the pollution of this land exceeding the standard, the soil The air and water quality are not up to standard. We eat, drink, work and rest here for a long time, and some employees live directly in the dormitory arranged by the unit. After a long time, did it cause various degrees of discomfort?

This talk gradually spread among the grassroots of various departments, causing panic for a while. After hearing the rumors, some eager parents immediately asked their children to resign early and change their internships.As the first person in the experimental factory to notice his abnormality, Xiao Wu is no exception.

The matter originally came to an end here, but who knows that something unexpected happened, just after Xiao Wu returned to his hometown S county with his parents for a rest, in addition to nausea and dizziness, symptoms began to slowly appear again My skin was inexplicably itchy, my throat was inexplicably swollen and sore, and once I developed a high fever without warning in the middle of the night, which scared Xiao Wu's parents enough, so they hurriedly picked another weekend and rushed back with their son In city C, I went to the best local people's hospital for an examination.

What's incredible is that the report that I got after the inspection showed that everything was normal.

Wu's father and Wu's mother were stunned for a moment. The medical conditions in County S are mediocre. It is understandable that the cause of the disease cannot be found out. How can one not feel helpless and hopeless in a situation where the seizures are ongoing?

Unacceptable, Mother Wu dragged her son, who had lost more than ten catties in more than a month, and suppressed her anger and anxiety. She had a quarrel with the doctor in charge of the examination at the outpatient department, and asked anxiously: "I heard that in a place where the pollution seriously exceeds the standard Living and working in local areas, especially places like chemical plants, will cause abnormalities such as blood fingers after a long time, and my child often feels uncomfortable. How can I find out that there is no problem? Have you checked it carefully? "

The medical staff who were annoyed by the noise also got angry, and responded casually: "Is Zhonghui here?"

Mother Wu was taken aback.

The other party sneered again, and sneered in a low voice with unknown meaning: "Then why are you arguing? Don't waste your time investigating. No one from Zhonghui can find out the problem. Go back to your boss and report the medical expenses."

Xiao Wu's parents were helpless, so they took the child home and thought about it, gritted their teeth, bought a ticket, and rushed directly to City B.

After two days and one night of running around, I finally got a result that was no longer "everything was normal" in the No. [-] Hospital of City B, but was even more depressing and desperate.

Fortunately, it was not too late to discover, and there is still a possibility of cure. However, for the Wu family whose family conditions are in the middle and lower levels, the huge medical expenses are still not much worse than a catastrophe.

In desperation, Xiao Wu's parents, who were still unable to raise enough money from all parties, had to go back to the source of the incident - Ma's experimental factory Zhonghui.

However, no matter how much they appealed or made troubles, the rich and powerful Ma family did not respond. Wu's father hurriedly shouted at the office building at the door: You have done this with no conscience, and you will be punished sooner or later!We have worked so hard to bring up children, if they are ruined in the hands of you bastards in the end, I will sue you even if I sell the iron, even if I sell my flesh and blood!Sue you!

Ma Yifu, who was being escorted out by the driver, happened to come across this scene. Hearing this, he only smiled mockingly, and asked the driver to stop the car without any fear, and lowered the window halfway. Wu's mother said two words lightly: sue.

Xiao Wu's parents looked at him in grief and pain.

Ma Yifu glanced at the two of them again, and repeated casually: "Go and sue." He said with a curl of his lips: "If you can't do it in the city, you can go to the province to sue. If you can't do it in the province, there is GWY. If you have the ability, just do it." go."

After saying that, he smiled disdainfully.

"If you can sue."

After speaking, he walked away.

Wu's parents were completely helpless.

What Ma Yifu said was correct, they were indeed helpless against the Ma family, not to mention that they could not produce direct evidence, even if they could, they would have no way out.

Fighting against the Ma family is no different from shaking a tree with the arms of a mantis.

So this incident was secretly discussed by the few passers-by and some employees of Zhonghui who were lucky enough to see it on the day of the disturbance.

But what is surprising is that a month later, Ma's Zhonghui, which had just opened for less than half a year, was suddenly shut down. Ma Yifu and Ma Hui, who were talking about their plans to make a big splash in City C the day before, As well as the management of Zhonghui, they were also taken away by JCY.

More than ten days later, the front page of the C City Evening News began to report on this incident that had attracted the attention of the higher-ups without warning, and ordered a thorough investigation.

All of a sudden, in the streets and alleys, online and offline, as long as there are places where people from City C gather, there is no one who does not talk about this vicious incident that is characterized as a huge crime.

In City C city forum, for more than half a month in a row, analysis posts related to the Ma family occupied the page.Such as "Why Zhonghui (former Wonsan Chemical Factory) was built with pollution exceeding the standard by tens of thousands of times, but it was successfully completed and opened for business, what should the regulatory department be responsible for?" Posts like Zhonghui’s employees who were poisoned and sought medical treatment but were turned away” appeared endlessly, and even anonymous people posted under the name of former Zhonghui interns, telling their stories from discovering physical abnormalities to going to the hospital for medical examinations, However, he was told by the medical staff who had already bribed him that he had no illness.

With the gradual fermentation of the incident, coupled with the continuous urging of the C City Evening News reports, all kinds of pasts of the Ma family were exposed one by one. One by one "classmates", "colleagues", "former neighbors" whose names have been withheld have been picked up on the Internet.

And as for why this son of the Ma family can do all kinds of bad things so arrogantly, the reason can naturally be traced back to his father and uncle who were GUAN in the early years.

Automatically falling into a circular chain of discussion, not only did not make people less enthusiastic about this incident, but made people's interest even higher as the investigation progressed.So throughout August and even September, the Ma family thoroughly experienced what it means to be desperation that thousands of people reviled at the end of the day.

As the saying goes, one stone can stir up a thousand waves. As the investigation of the Ma family case deepened, its involvement became wider and wider. The investigation lasted for nearly two months, and there was no sign of ending after the National Day.

In the anticipation of a large number of excited people in City C, a large number of officials from the local huanjing, jianshe, and land/tax bureaus in City C were implicated and resigned, and even a certain deputy SZ was dismissed.As for the Ma family, which was accused by thousands of people of falling down, almost the entire army was wiped out. Even Ma Zhongping, who had already retired, was not safe at the end of the day and was not spared.

This time, both the political and business circles in City C caused an uproar and a large-scale cleansing. Tracing back to the source, it is also due to the fact that they were sent to the city hearing office in early August, and then transferred to the provincial hearing office or even a higher level. A real-name report letter.

It was signed by Wu's parents who were confidently mocked by Ma Yifu, "Even if you want to sue, you won't be able to sue".

"Brother, tall, it's really tall!"

In the blink of an eye, it was November again, on the eve of the beginning of winter, Ding Hua finally caught Xu Xin who had returned from a business trip and planned to stay in City C to rest for a while, and dragged him to Lao Wang's Bashan Commoner to open a private room. The name is to reward the immediate boss who has been away for months, but in fact it is because the heart of gossip that has been suppressed for a long time is really ready to move.Sure enough, after sitting down and drinking two cups, he put up a thumbs up to Xu Xin, who was drinking tea in silence, and sighed at the other party.At the end, he smacked his lips again and added another sentence:

"But being ruthless is really ruthless."

Xu Xin leaned on the teacup, and did not give any emotional feedback to Ding Hua's later comment.

"That's your future in-laws after all. They sold it as soon as they said it. Awesome!" Ding Hua said with an exaggerated expression, and thought about it by himself, then leaned forward stealthily and asked in a subdued voice. : "Hey Boss, tell me? When did you always have crooked thoughts?"

Yu Bi stared at the other party with his eyes full of curiosity.

After Xu Xin heard it, he finally turned his face to look at him, and then looked away a second later, without answering him directly, he only said in a low voice, "Stop talking nonsense." Mouth out."

Ding Hua immediately rolled his eyes, straightened up and poured a sip of wine into his mouth, humming: "Come on, the company has discussed several times secretly, saying that your Xu family is the best, especially Your elder brother, who has been an official for so many years, can he be a soft persimmon? Also, the Xu and Ma families are so close, and they are almost forming a family. , but your Xu family is alright? If you think about it with your toes, you know there must be something wrong here!"

Xu Xin didn't speak.

"Hey, that's not what I said. The employees under them are full of food and have nothing to do. It's not my fault." Then he lowered his head and flipped something on the phone, "Oh, right, speaking of this, Two days ago in the afternoon, I got an analysis post from their internal staff, on the Internet, it almost said that your surname Xu can be used to engage in spy warfare, I will find it and you can take a look."

Ding Hua muttered, bowed his head and flipped through his mobile phone, but searched for a long time among the messy MMS messages in the inbox, but couldn't find them.

"Fuck, why is it gone!" Ding Hua was so angry that he couldn't help cursing, "I haven't had time to finish it yet!"

Xu Xin was playing with the cup in his hand. Hearing this, he glanced at the other party who was occasionally as childish as when he was young. The nerves that had been tense for more than half a year suddenly relaxed a little, so when he opened his mouth again, his expression and voice followed suit. Loose and fast.

"What did you say?" He asked in a low voice.

"Ah?" Ding Hua was still immersed in the grief and indignation of losing the gossip analysis, and raised his head in a daze when he heard the sound.

Xu Xin looked down and gestured to the mobile phone in his hand.

Ding Hua reacted, rolled his eyes, quickly waved his hands and replied: "Hey, it's nothing, just say what he said. According to his years of experience in studying history and GC struggles, the fall of the Ma family this time seems to be to clean up the collapse. (...), in fact, from another point of view, it is probably just a purge of the D faction above who borrowed a knife to kill people. What else did you say? According to his understanding, since the 6s and 70s, although your Xu family and Ma family have a close personal relationship Be honest, but there are actually big differences on many Jingzheng (...) strategies, and they belong to two factions, one is called the conservative faction, and the other is called... hiss, what is it called?"

Ding Hua recounted while reminiscing, but got stuck at a key point, momentarily annoyed, thought hard for a while and had to skip it.

"Hey, anyway, I'm not one of their GC gangsters. I really don't understand these gangsters. In short, there are two factions. Let's just count him as A faction and B faction." Ding Hua said Getting excited, he picked up the wine glass and took a sip from the rim of the cup, moistened his throat and continued: "Then this faction A... because it is more in line with the historical trend? Anyway, it won a big victory in the battle between the two factions, After this victory, the B faction will be lower than the A faction everywhere. Up to now, the older generation has basically been boiled to death. Of course, there are still some left, but there is still a new generation, such as Those who were secretly brainwashed by the remnants of the B faction are still in their seats. So what kind of situation has formed? On the road, A has the final say, after all, the winner is king. But B? , although you can only accept it obediently, but you are always wicked, sneaking to make A some undead, but also give you a stumbling block. So A is always thinking about what opportunity he can use to justifiably wipe out B once and twice."

Ding Hua made a long list of words, which was enjoyable but also a little unfinished. Up to this point, he knocked on the table with his fingers, clicked his tongue, and said: "No, isn't City C this time a typical case. You Look at those who got off the horse with the surname Ma, Zhang Song, Li Qiuhe, and who else, oh yes, the former deputy head Shen Bai, after careful study, they all bear the imprint of the B faction. "

After finishing the sentence, he squinted his eyes and thought about it, and concluded with a sense of enlightenment: "Hey, don't say it, I didn't care about it yesterday, I just took it as a joke, and today's recollection, I feel that what I said is really interesting, quite It seems to be the case." As he said that, he gave Xu Xin a playful look, and half-jokingly asked for the other party's opinion: "Hey boss, what do you think?"

But Xu Xin, who was sitting on the other side, only smiled slightly after hearing this, and then quietly cast his eyes on the table without saying a word.

"...So in the end, this old man analyzed all aspects of the situation and came up with an inference. He said that the marriage between your family and the man surnamed Ma was probably just a scam from the very beginning. He even said that even that A report letter that ruined the Ma family's reputation may have been handed over by someone instigated by your old Xu family. Cough, boss, from this point of view, what you are doing is... a beauty trick?"

When Ding Hua said this, the expression on his face suddenly became weird. He glanced at Xu Xin quietly, and endured it. After all, he still didn't dare to say another argument that the buddy who opened the post could be called a magic pen, that is, the other party I don’t know where I heard it, and I got a birthday of Xu Sanshao who was completely wrong, and then pretended to do the math in the post, and deduced that Xu Xin was destined to be unmarried in this life, not a divorce. It's not that it's difficult to get married, but that he has no marriage, which fully shows that he has nothing to do with that Miss Ma.Even if there is a relationship, it can only be regarded as the woman's wishful thinking and unrequited love at best.

This passage almost killed Ding Hua, who was sitting in the office at that time, laughing to death.

Of course, he didn't dare to express his joy at the moment, and not only did he restrain his displeasure, but when he suddenly thought of the beautiful and beautiful Ma Jiaqi again, he felt a wave of sympathy and pity from his heart.After all, if this matter really has something to do with the Xu family, then the situation of the eldest lady of the Ma family cannot be described in simple words.

After all, no one would be able to bear the double blow of a family being defeated and a lover turning into an enemy.

However, looking at the expression on Xu Xin's face at this moment, after the smile just now, he still maintains the original idleness and indifference.Moreover, the calm posture of drinking tea and eating vegetables seemed to be really just listening to his probing eloquence just now as an anecdote that had nothing to do with him.

Ding Hua saw it in his eyes, and while secretly sighing in his heart, he couldn't help but also sighed.

Today's boss...has become more and more inscrutable and incomprehensible. Let's put it in the past. It's not his bragging. You can easily distinguish the other party's likes and dislikes and the emotions leaked by gestures and gestures with your naked eyes alone. Now, I don't know since when, it has been reduced to the point where even if he borrows ten pairs of eyes from him, Ding Hua dare not guarantee that he can completely read the other party's mind.

And this depressing idea was once again ruthlessly confirmed by an unexpected phone call nearly half an hour later.

At that time, the two had changed the subject, and Xu Xin obviously didn't want to talk more about the Ma family, which was full of turmoil in the city. After Ding Hua happily recounted the "analysis post", he opened the conversation and asked Informed about recent matters related to the daily operation of the company and other management in the company.

When it came to work, Ding Hua also gradually became serious, answering one by one in a decent manner, and after he realized it, the two of them had already turned a good meal into a one-on-one mini-meeting.

Ding Hua couldn't help crying in his heart. Originally, he dragged Xu Xindi out for gossip, but he didn't want to be self-defeating, so he forced him to work overtime off the court.

It's really a loss for the lady and the soldiers.

And just when he was crying and crying, God seemed to finally hear the cry in his heart, and the mobile phone on the table vibrated violently without warning.

Ding Hua was overjoyed, and hurriedly lowered his head to look at it, but he didn't want his heart to skip a beat when he glanced at it - because what was flashing on the screen was not someone else's name, but a long-lost name. , the word "Chenjialou" that I haven't actively contacted myself for almost two months.