Chapter 55
Everyone followed, swimming towards the center of the lake. The secretary said: Our movements must be uniform, unified and powerful. Come on, everyone sing "Tinglin Song" with the rhythm, maple forest, bamboo forest, not as good as our Tinglin, tree forest, primeval forest, not as good as our Tinglin...
In the song of Tinglin's praise, everyone follows the secretary to the other shore.
After swimming for a while, the secretary stopped and turned around, saying: Some comrades may be a bit tired, let's take a rest to avoid getting lost.
Everyone stopped paddling, but once they stopped paddling. Some people who were not familiar with the water began to sink into the water, and they could only keep treading water on the spot.
The secretary said: After the exercise just now, I'm wide awake. Just like when I lead you all, we are leading the masses. The town head's words were good. The mutated animals in Tinglin Town are a precious treasure of Tinglin Town. In terms of quantity, they are rare and protected by the state. The government has an obligation, responsibility, and determination to protect these mutated animals. Unify them, collect them, make rational plans, manage them according to regulations, develop them scientifically. This is the most responsible attitude towards the people... Just like when we swam earlier, if there wasn't strong leadership, a firm direction, a unified rhythm, or a stable water surface, we wouldn't be able to swim so well...
Suddenly, a flash of light came from the horizon. A puff of green smoke emerged from the water's surface. Everything returned to silence.
This is a tragic accident. Someone was secretly electrofishing at night and directly connected to high-voltage electricity, resulting in the excellent leaders of Tinglin Town being killed.
Summer passed in a daze, in the days when all the town leaders met with disaster. Except for the ordinary people's lives, everything was chaotic. The rights distribution that people used to talk about with relish, you on top of me, suddenly all disappeared quickly. A new batch of leaders took office soon after, and the new secretary was his last term in his leadership career. He just wanted to retire peacefully and let Tinglin Town return to calmness. The mutated giant animals were all eaten by people, in order to support Popo Printing Factory, letting the factory print a few more books, produce a bit more paper. Residents spontaneously bought many books, bought them but couldn't waste them, so they could only read them. Although Popo Printing Factory was discharging the same water, this water no longer made animals grow bigger. This made people very curious.
Liu Bizhan's restaurant did not survive the summer because it didn't do big business. The business was bleak, and his wife and service staff also left him due to his decision, which coincided with Liu Bizhan expanding and renovating the restaurant, investing all his money. After the hottest days of the year, Liu Bizhan went bankrupt, and his restaurant was taken over.
In this summer, Zhou Xiaolong still hasn't found his place. When he found Liu Bizhan, Liu Bizhan no longer had a private room, Zhou Xiaolong told Liu Bizhan about the things that happened in this summer, including his failure to make his chorus successful. In the end, he just became an audience member.
Liu Bizhan said: In this era, you are just a bystander.
Bruce Lee said: I grew up reading stories of heroic figures, I don't want to be a spectator.
Liu Bizhan said: It's good to be an audience, you see me, I can only be a listener.
In the experience of Zuo Xiao Long, the deepest impression was the night of the Bobo literary party, but he never knew his goal because there was no temporary goal, so all he could do was follow his feelings, just like when there were no previous wishes. Can only satisfy fleeting thoughts.
