Our northwest is a backward area. The economic conditions and natural environment are much worse than other areas in the country.
Our county is the most backward area in the entire northwest region.
Originally, this high-speed rail line did not consider passing through our county, but when designing this high-speed rail line, the designer in charge of this line happened to be from our county.
In order to take care of the people in his hometown and contribute to his hometown, the designer deliberately let this high-speed rail line pass through our county, and even set up a high-speed rail station in our county.
Regarding this project that is beneficial to the economic development of our county, whether it is our county, the prefectural party committee, or even the provincial leaders, they all attach great importance to it. Therefore, except for Li Shunlai's incident that caused a slight impact on this high-speed rail project, the entire project has been going smoothly.
However, not long after Li Shunlai's case was closed, when the high-speed rail project reached a place called Xiakou Village, a very serious engineering accident occurred.
According to the designer's design, when the high-speed rail passed through Xiakou Village, it had to build a tunnel that was hundreds of meters long to open up a mountain near Xiakou Village. However, when the tunnel was being built, the tunnel suddenly collapsed from the inside, killing more than ten workers inside.
A dozen lives were a big deal, but just as the leaders of the various management departments were busy dealing with the aftermath of the dozens of workers who were killed, the designer of this route committed suicide.
Before the designer committed suicide, he left a suicide note. In the note, he explained everything. He said that he had wanted to do a good deed for his hometown, but in the end, he had killed more than a dozen people in his village.
It turned out that the designer was born and raised in Xiakou Village. When he was surveying and designing the high-speed rail line, he lived in his hometown in Xiakou Village with a few colleagues from the survey team.
However, on the night that the designer made this decision, he dreamed that an old man with a white beard came to him and said that he must not let the high-speed rail line pass through the middle of the mountain, or else something big would happen.
After the designer woke up, he felt that the dream was a little ridiculous, so he didn't take it seriously.
However, the next night, he dreamed of the white-bearded old man again. He said the same thing. The white-bearded old man even begged him to not design the circuit as he had planned.
The next day, he had the same dream again. The designer felt a little strange, but if the route was changed, the cost of the high-speed rail line would increase by hundreds of millions. From his point of view as a designer, this was absolutely unacceptable.
On the third night, he had just fallen asleep for a few minutes when the white-bearded old man came very quickly.
After the old man arrived, he directly knelt in front of the designer, practically begging the designer to let go of his descendants and change the route he had designed.
Even in his dream, the designer was annoyed and scared!
Therefore, the designer tricked the old man, saying that his design had already been submitted to the design institute. When he returned to the design institute, he would discuss with the leader to revise the route and try to bypass the mountain in Xiakou Village.
This involved a few hundred million in cost increase. It was not something that a designer like him could decide!
He couldn't possibly increase the cost of the entire project by hundreds of millions just because of a dream he had, right?
So, after much consideration, the designer didn't even mention this matter to the head of the design institute.
In order to help the villagers in their village, the designer even informed the construction company to recruit more local workers when building the tunnel in Xiakou Village. This way, it would be convenient for the villagers to earn some money. The construction company would definitely give the designer some face. They recruited many villagers from Xiakou Village as workers and gave them good treatment.
On the day of the tunnel's construction, he was invited by the county leaders to return to his hometown to attend the opening ceremony and accept the sincere gratitude of his hometown people.
After all, he did do a great deed for the people of our county without violating any principles.
The designer was invited by the leader of his hometown and did a great thing for his hometown. This was a very honorable thing, so he gladly accepted the invitation to attend the opening ceremony of the Xiakou Village Tunnel.
The opening ceremony that day was very grand. The designer was in the limelight, and there were praises and thanks everywhere. After the opening ceremony, the explosives buried at various key points in the mountain were detonated with the order of the leader of the construction unit. The construction of the Xiakou Village tunnel officially began.
After the explosives were detonated, the workers began to use excavators and other tools to dig out the rocks that had been blasted open by the explosives.
However, in the process of digging up the rocks, they dug out a large number of snake corpses that had been blown up.
It turned out that there was a huge snake cave hidden in this mountain. According to the number of snakes excavated by the workers, at least thousands of snakes were killed when the mountain was blown up.
When the designer saw the snake carcasses that were blown into pieces all over the mountain, his expression turned ugly.
At this moment, the designer suddenly remembered the strange dream he had for the past few days! He remembered what the white-bearded old man had said to him!
That white-bearded old man had once begged him to spare his descendants, and he had even agreed to it!
Could it be that the descendants that the white-bearded old man mentioned were the snakes that covered the mountains and plains?
The designer was terrified, but it was too late for regrets!
He wanted to change, but there was nothing he could do!
That night, he stayed in his hometown in Xiakou Village with a heavy heart. Not long after he fell asleep, the white-bearded old man came.
When the white-bearded old man arrived, he was covered in blood. He pointed at the designer and cursed, saying that the designer did not keep his word!
After scolding the designer, the white-bearded old man told the designer that he would avenge his descendants!
However, this dream made him feel extremely terrified!
He felt that this dream was very likely to be true. That white-bearded old man was very likely the ancestor of those hundreds and thousands of snakes!
In other words, he was very likely a snake that had become a spirit!
The snake spirit is called the snake immortal or the willow immortal in our local area!
Because the legendary Fuxi Celestial Race, who deduced the Eight Trigrams, had the head of a human and the body of a snake, and because Fuxi Celestial Race's hometown is not far from our county, the people here are very respectful of snakes.
The worship towards the human-headed, snake-bodied Fuxi Celestial Race originated from ancient times!
However, in modern society, if he spread such superstitious things with his identity, few people would believe him. Instead, it would have a greater impact on his personal reputation and career prospects.
Therefore, the designer didn't say anything. However, he had been paying close attention to the progress of the tunnel construction. For safety reasons, he didn't let go of every detail during the construction process.
And these people had all died because of him!
He had to take responsibility for this, so he committed suicide!
When Wu Shun's father said this, the three of us all let out a long sigh.
Logically speaking, this designer was a good person. He had just made an unintentional mistake, but why did he end up so miserable?
I suddenly thought of something my father often said to me. He said that a man can't stand without faith. If you can't do it, don't make a promise. Once you make a promise, you have to do it.
Because people could be bullied, but the heavens could not be bullied. As long as karma was owed, it would be repaid sooner or later!
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