After finishing the bed, I washed my face briefly in the simple home, and dug out a piece of potato buried in the stove last night and patted it. The piece of potato was already ripe and my mother was still sleeping. Maowen's movements were particularly light. He left two piece of potatoes on the stove and put one in his pocket. Maowen was ready to leave the house with ease.

I don’t know if the door mortar at the door was a little old. Although Maowen’s movements were already very light, the “creaking” sound of pushing the door still woke up my mother. At the moment of opening the door, Maowen heard the coughing sound from the sleeping mother in the main room.

"Cough... cough... you want to go out... cough..." Grandma's voice was still so weak.

"Well, the fruits in the garden are almost ready to be eaten these two days. I want to pull them off and sell them in the city. I will buy some medicine for you..."

There was no sound in the main room, but Maowen still faintly heard the mother's low crying, gritted her teeth, and Maowen pushed open the door.

The place in Mulonggou is very early, and it is usually bright at around 6 a.m. When it is past four o'clock, the east is already turning white, and there is some yellow in the morning and evening in the sky. Things around and in the distance can be seen lightly.

Whenever I go out, whenever I see Mulonggou in front of me, for some reason, the twenty-year-old Maowen feels that he wants to cry. If tears work, he already thinks that he is a man, but he doesn't mind crying. But four years ago, Maowen has no tears in his eyes.

Looking at the mountain where the gold mine is hidden in Mulonggou, there is no tears in the eyes of Maoling Earth. There is only hatred. Even in the early morning, the sound of the ground crusher from the gold mine can still be clearly heard. Over the years, the people in Mulonggou have long been used to this sound. The foreign company that mined never lets the mine machines rest for even a second, and they desperately dig, screen or mine, open mountains, and bombard cannons. It is like every day is the end of the earth. There is never anything that can stop the gold mine for a day...

Looking at the mountains and rivers of Mulonggou in front of you, to be honest, Maowen often has a trance-like mood. He lived here for a lifetime and never walked out of Mulonggou. Maowen often felt that he was a stranger. He suddenly came to a strange place, everything in front of him. There is no place to overlap with the influence left by Mulonggou when Maowen was a teenager. In just a few years, the Mulonggou that used to be dead is now present in front of Maowen.

Mulonggou reminds Maowen of the corpse of wild boars that he had been going up the mountain to collect firewood when he was a child when he accompanied his father to go up the mountain to collect firewood. When he was a child, he saw the corpse of wild boars falling into the hunter trap and no one took care of for many days. He was bleeding and hung in the trap. His intestines were rotten, and his former tenacious body had no trace of vitality. A large number of disgusting maggots and flies were surging on the corpse of wild boars. From a distance, the black body of the wild boar turned into a grayish-white "moving" body. Before you could approach, the stench of the corpse could smother people.

People who have left Mulonggou for more than four years, but now when they come back, no one can recognize that the place in front of them has anything similar to Mulonggou. The beautiful mountains and forests in the past have long disappeared, and the land left behind are deep ravines formed as if they have been washed away by rain for thousands of years. The rain in Mulonggou is abundant. Whenever the rainy season comes, a large amount of soil, sand and stones often leak down from the mountain. In the past four years, many people have been buried under such disasters. Many people have heard such a new term - mudslide flow! In the past, no one in Mulonggou knew what mudslide flow was, but now, almost everyone knows it.

The trees and vegetation are gone, and the streams in the mountains are missing one by one. Some are dug up, while others are less and less. Slowly, there is no more. Even the clear Mulong River in Mulong Gully has gradually changed color. In the past, fish could be caught in the river, but now, in the dim river with strange foam, even the aquatic plants gradually disappear...

Maowen now likes the rainy season of Mulonggou. Although there are always some landslides and mudslide disasters in Mulonggou at that time, all year round, only at that time can Maowen see a little green in Mulonggou. From that little green, with the memory in his mind, Maowen can find a little shadow of Mulonggou in the past. That little shadow can make Maowen's mood no longer dazed and no longer feel that he is a stranger to Mulonggou. Because when it rains in Mulonggou, the thick layer of gray-yellow dust on the branches and leaves of the trees around Mulonggou can be washed away, revealing the original color of the leaves.

In Mulonggou, it becomes a luxury to see the original color of trees. Whenever the wind hangs, the poured tailings piled up everywhere on the gold mine, floated like clouds with the wind blowing, and then fell everywhere, dyeing the entire Mulonggou with the same color as the tailings. The wind in Mulonggou is very strong. Therefore, whenever the wind blows, Mulonggou begins to "sand". The sand falls on villages, rivers, farmlands, orchards, and roofs of various houses. Some people who have passed outside say that the sand in Mulonggou looks like snow. Maowen has never seen what it is like, and he can't think of it. However, Maowen thinks that the snow must be very heavy, because after the sand from the sky accumulates, it can often be crushed to pieces. In normal times, the surface of all Mulonggou can see is a thick layer of sand with strange colors...

The crops and fruits produced in Mulonggou’s farmland and orchards are less and less, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to find anything on the mountains and rivers. People in Mulonggou are also becoming more and more sad. Many people will sigh like this when they get together - it would be great if Mulonggou had no gold!

Mulonggou quickly declined in the past four years, and many things that were difficult to understand occurred.

In Maowendi's impression, in order to survive, the people from Mulonggou fought with the foreign company that started the mining industry many times, but never once was a victory.

After the foreign company's mining area was exposed, I knew that the mine was not from any country. And the local government said that it could not control anything about the mine. In order to find a way out, some people

After leaving Mulonggou, people who could not leave Mulonggou did not take the bans that had been heard from others before, and many people began to secretly go up the mountain to steal mines and prepare to open private mines. Maowen didn't think that there was anything wrong with this. Why did our ancestors live in places for generations? You came here with a foreign company. These mountains and mines became your land?

The initial thing about stealing mines was just a few brave people who were stole such a big Mulonggou and such a big mountain. Everyone was familiar with the things that wanted to avoid being discovered. It was really simple. Slowly, in less than a month, more and more people stole mines, from one or two people at the beginning, to three or four people at the beginning, and finally, the entire village stole.

Stealing mines is actually a very hard and tiring thing. People who go up the mountain carry an embroidered basket, and carry the mineral soil on the mountain with one basket and one basket. There are many people who don’t know. I don’t know who thought about it. But everyone uses dustpans and sieves to learn from others to find a place by the Mulong River to use water to screen the ore. In order to find one or two grains of gold sand, it is difficult to walk on the road to the mountain and down the mountain. One person can get up to dozens of kilograms of mineral soil for a night. The family is busy for several weeks and sometimes there is no harvest. However, some people use local methods to make gold sand...

Maowen also went up the mountain to steal the mines when it was dark. Maowen's parents were both simple and honest. In Maowen's memory, the neighbors in Mulonggou got along well with each other and often helped each other, but his father was the kind of person who was embarrassed to reach out for a fruit in the orchard on the roadside of other people. Seeing others stealing mines on the mountain, his father didn't go to the ground at the beginning, but his mother said to his father, "You are a man at home, you don't go. Then I'll go!". Dad finally gritted his teeth and made up his mind. At night, he also took Maowen and his mother up the mountain with his baskets on his back.

Maowen's father went up the mountain for the first time and the last time he went up the mountain. Maowen still clearly remembered the scene at that time. When the people in his family and other people in the village were filled with mineral soil and preparing to go down the mountain one by one, a group of people came from the gold mine, holding guns in their hands, without saying a word, raised the gun and pulled the trigger at the people in the village. A few of the people in the village fell down the spot. The remaining people ran down the mountain crying and shouting. Those people chased behind with guns, chasing behind like dogs, and shot while chasing. Maowen's father stood behind Maowen's back, and in a panic, Maowen felt that something hot was spilling on his neck. Maowen's father finally didn't run down.

That time, seven people from Mulonggou were killed. Maowen's mother also fell and injured her leg when she ran down. As a result, she fell into the root of her illness. She cried all day long, and she muttered this sentence, "It's all my fault for being greedy for money. You shouldn't have asked your dad to go that day. Why didn't you beat me to death if that gun!"

Seventeen-year-old Maowen went up the mountain alone, recognized the body, and while crying, he carried his father down from the mountain...

Both the government and the police station came to understand the situation and did not say much. They just told everyone that the gold mine has the right to shoot without any responsibility.

Maowen's tears have dried up from that time. Later, I heard others say that when the security guards in the gold mine were at the beginning, they saw people from Mulonggou stealing the mine without any action. The consultants of foreign companies in the gold mine questioned them, "There are guns in the mine, why don't you shoot?" Later, the security guards still dared not shoot. As the scale of stealing the mine became larger and larger, facing the hundreds of people who went up the mountain every night, the dozens of security guards were even afraid to move. The consultant of the foreign company then dismissed the security department of the mine, and then found another group of people from outside. For the shooting, the mine even offered a bonus to the new security guards - those who dared to shoot were given a bonus of half a month's salary, and killing a person who stole the mine to get a monthly salary!

The person who went up the mountain to steal the mine was beaten to death. Those who were preparing to open a private mine saw this situation, but no one dared to move...

It was also from that time that a sign was hung on the barbed wire guardrails around the mine. Maowen couldn't understand the words on the sign, but the content was understood. On the yellow triangle iron plate, a black little man held a gun. At the muzzle, another black little man was shot down. Seeing the black little man being shot down, Maowen felt that he was his dad...

After the mine stealing incident, none of the people in Mulonggou dared to go up the mountain again. The gun management of the entire Tadian Federation is very strict. Some ordinary people have never touched a gun in their lifetime. However, the foreign company that started the mine had a gun in his hand, and it was not illegal to kill people with guns in the mine. This made many people in Mulonggou fear and dared not cause trouble again. However, the lives of the people in Mulonggou did not get better with everyone's peace of mind, but became more and more sad...

Everyone can find fewer and fewer things in the fields, rivers, and mountains, but more and more unpleasant things, and everyone's life is getting poorer and poorer! People who are interested have counted that more and more people are sick and dead in various villages in recent years. People in Mulonggou are sick and cannot go to a large hospital at all. They just need to find a doctor in the countryside to get some medicine. In the past, although the doctors in the countryside were not very skilled in medical skills, they were generally headaches, fever and a little bruising and injury, that is, they would be cured by taking a few pairs of medicine. But now, Mulong

The ditch suddenly discovered that the medicine prescribed by the country doctors gradually became useless, and the doctors couldn't explain it, and there were more and more strange diseases. The elderly in each village could hold on for a longer time. In the past, the faces of the dolls were all red, but now they were all waxy and yellow with yellow eyes. Mao Wen had a deep understanding of this. Even himself, during the days when the sand was up and down, his eyes and throat became very uncomfortable, and he almost had blood in his bowel movements!

Some people say that those who mined alchemy all used poisonous things to refine gold. Those poisonous things affected the health of the people in Mulonggou. At first, Maowen was a little suspicious, but in the second year of mine, when all the fish and shrimps in Mulong River were all over their belly and floating on the water one day, Maowen believed it...
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