catch the dream

Yu Hao backed up all the photos, and sent a message to Situ Ye, telling him that the photos were uploaded to the cloud, let him see for himself, there is a shared cloud network disk in the office, Lin Ze applied for it.Although Jin Weicheng disapproved of this way of working and preferred the traditional way of submitting manuscripts together, he couldn't hold back Lin Ze.

After all, memory cards are a reporter's second life. After Lin Ze bought the furniture that day, he threw a handful of camera memory cards into the desk drawer—ready to use them whenever they were confiscated.

"We are different from other reporters," Lin Ze once said, "we must be very careful about the police, as long as the other party does not have a gun, you don't have to be afraid of them, just run away. And unless it is absolutely necessary, you must never be invited to drink tea. Police station, your memory card is gone."

Yu Hao always keeps in mind the dogma that "memory card is the second life of a reporter", as long as he has time and internet access, he has to find a way to back it up in the cloud.

Lin Ze was wearing short-sleeved pants and flip flops, looking at the photos uploaded by Yu Hao at home.

"What is this?" Lin Ze tilted his head and turned his head to look at the pregnant woman's medical records and forms.

While drinking hot milk, Situ Ye clicked the mouse, called up the picture, rotated it [-] degrees, zoomed in, and dragged it onto the picture.

"Ge Laozi." Lin Ze laughed, changed the next one, looked at the medical records, looked at the forms, and looked back and forth, "This kid has a good intuition."

Situ Ye said: "Could it be that a kidnapping case has been uncovered, should we call the police?"

Lin Ze said: "Let me check, the family address is incomplete, and it will be gone in the village. Fortunately, there is a contact number. I have to go to the Shangtou Municipal Bureau of Guangxian County to check this phone number."

Situ Ye said, "You should confirm first."

Lin Ze wanted to call Yu Hao, but holding the phone, he checked the time, hesitating.

"Let's talk about it tomorrow." Lin Ze said, "Don't delay them."

When Yu Hao woke up, it was snowing outside. The first snow in the north this year unexpectedly came so early. The Siberian cold current roared down along Inner Mongolia, sweeping across the entire northern land.Jin Weicheng didn't come home all night, Yu Hao became nervous and called him, but he actually fell asleep in the bathroom.

Yu Hao dug out the meat floss bread he bought yesterday and ate one. He turned on the TV to watch the weather forecast. There was heavy snowfall in North China today, but the snow didn't seem too heavy.

"You check out first and take a few photos of the hospital gate." Jin Weicheng said, "Leave at ten o'clock, first go to the village for interviews, and in the afternoon to the chemical plant. I will contact the petitioner."

Yu Hao said "um", went down to check out after breakfast, went to a coffee shop, and wanted to make up photos of Guang County People's Hospital during the day.When he put on his fur hat and walked across the road, he suddenly had a strange feeling—someone was watching him from across the road.

Yu Hao decided not to take out the camera for now, and it turned out that this action made him escape a series of troubles successfully.He sat down in the coffee shop and swiped his mobile phone, and the two who were watching him from a distance opened the door and came in.

"Where are you from?" One person asked, "Show me your ID card."

One of them sat across from Yu Hao, and the other sat next to him. Yu Hao immediately realized: Plainclothes.

Yu Hao looked at the two suspiciously, took out his ID card, and showed him his student ID card.

"Psychology at Huazhong Institute of Education?" the plainclothes asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Find my girlfriend." Yu Hao said, "She broke up with me."

"Where does your girlfriend live?" the plainclothes asked again.

Yu Hao thought of the aunt who was desperately trying to give him a blind date on the sleeper, and immediately reported the address of her house nearby. I can't remember exactly which building or unit, but there are three houses in her house that are remembered by the demolition households.

After matching the information, the plainclothes returned the student card and ID card to him, and left without asking any more questions.

Yu Hao heaved a sigh of relief, took out his camera, and took a picture across the coffee shop after he was safe.This camera is so good, once the lens is pushed, it is clear no matter how far away it is.He couldn't help being extremely thankful that Zhou Sheng bought him this camera, otherwise he would be arrested by plainclothes within minutes if he went to the hospital gate with a mirrorless camera to take pictures.

"There are plain clothes." Yu Hao called Jin Weicheng, "Teacher, please be careful."

"The one who massaged my feet with me last night was in plain clothes." Jin Weicheng signaled to Yu Hao outside, "It's okay, let's go."

Jin Weicheng and Yu Hao left the county first, hitch a ride to the village, the land here has been polluted by lead and cadmium waste, there is a river behind the village, Jin Weicheng took a recording pen, followed the address to find people, and went to petition people Interview at home.

The petitioner has already been taken to the county town for questioning, and it is not known when he will be released.Jin Weicheng explained the reason and let them in conveniently.

Yu Hao heard that he was coughing uncontrollably, so he went to see the patient. They were two patients with chronic cadmium poisoning at home, one old and one young. Both father and son were lying on the bed, and they had previously worked in the battery factory.

"Can I take pictures?" Yu Hao asked Jin Weicheng who was recording.

Jin Weicheng signaled him to take pictures, Yu Hao went in and took a few pictures, and then took pictures of the interviewee, an old lady in her 70s.

Jin Weicheng pointed outside, Yu Hao took the camera, left the house, went to the village to take pictures, and took pictures of the river behind the village.The daughter-in-law of a family was washing clothes by the river, her hands were red from the cold, she saw Yu Hao kneeling on the roof taking pictures, she stood up, wiped her hands on her apron, as if she wanted to say something.

"Hey!" The woman called the two men over again, and asked Yu Hao in dialect.

Yu Hao made a shh gesture, if possible, he didn't want to alarm anyone, but this village is full of people, it's impossible to avoid it.

The other party was very enthusiastic, waving at him all the time, beckoning him to come down and drink ginger soup to warm his body.Asked questions, asked him if he was a reporter, Yu Hao understood, but replied: "I don't understand."

"My sister-in-law said, let you report on our family's situation!" A young girl who can speak Mandarin came and said, "Look at my brother."

Yu Hao took a photo of her brother and asked, "Are you all employees of the battery factory?"

"They are." The girl showed Yu Hao the work ID and the compensation contract, and Yu Hao said, "Can you make a copy for me?"

There was no photocopier in the village, so Yu Hao had to take a picture of the contract. The villagers packed red envelopes and gave them to Yu Hao at the same time. Of course, Yu Hao couldn't accept them. He went back to find Jin Weicheng. Jin Weicheng had already finished the interview.

"Stay with them at night." Jin Weicheng said, "Take the road lightly, go to the factory first, let's go."

Jin Weicheng walked to the battery factory two kilometers away without anyone leading the way.

"The news of the petition has already been passed down." Jin Weicheng said, "The crowd is more conspicuous."

The wind was so strong that it would blow Yu Hao's head off, he followed Jin Weicheng, and the two of them observed the battery factory located by the river.

"Climb in?" Yu Hao asked.

Jin Weicheng took out a telescope, looked towards the battery factory, and said, "Pay attention to your surroundings, don't get caught by the cops."

Yu Hao: "Don't worry, there is no one."

They walked a certain distance from the bus station. The surrounding area was bare, the fields were deserted, and there were half-dead trees left. When the wind picked up, they could see everything in the surrounding area, except for the white smoke from the chimney of the battery factory.

Jin Weicheng murmured, "The sewage outlet is behind."

"I don't know where the sewage treatment pool is." Yu Hao said.

"I don't think there is such a thing." Jin Weicheng said, "Take a look, is that a note?" He said and handed the binoculars to Yu Hao, but Yu Hao saw a bridge on the other side.

"You can take pictures there." Yu Hao said.

The two hurried over, and Jin Weicheng used binoculars to observe from time to time, like a thief.

"Teacher, be careful where you step!" Yu Hao said.

When the two got on the bridge, Jin Weicheng took a micro-camera and said, "No, it's too far away."

Yu Hao rotated the camera, pushed it nearly 300 meters, and showed it to Jin Weicheng, Jin Weicheng said, "Just shoot like this!"

The battery factory is discharging turbid sewage straight into the river, Yu Hao said: "This angle is not good, teacher, you pull me..."

Jin Weicheng said: "The wind is too strong, don't fall."

The bridge was half built, and Yu Hao asked Jin Weicheng to pull his backpack. He stepped on the outside of the steel frame, leaned out with his whole body, using his left foot as a fulcrum, and hung in the air outside the bridge. , kept urging Yu Hao to hurry up, Yu Hao took several photos in a row, and the two of them went around the river to take a frontal photo.

Jin Weicheng said: "If we can take pictures of the waste treatment workshop, this group of people won't be able to escape."

It was really difficult for Yu Hao to observe that the outer wall was full of glass, but there was no plainclothes patrol on the side facing the river, and most of the manpower deployed was concentrated at the main entrance.

"Try it." Yu Hao said.

Jin Weicheng was also uncertain: "Try?"

Yu Hao nodded, handed the bag to Jin Weicheng, took off his down jacket, ran a few steps up the mound behind the wall, stepped onto the bare wall, threw out the down jacket and hung it up high, tugged at the sleeve of the jacket, and the jacket hung On the broken glass at the top of the wall, slowly being torn apart.

Yu Hao couldn't stop pedaling, and climbed up with difficulty.Jin Weicheng opened his mouth slightly nervously, and it wasn't until Yu Hao stood firm on the top of the three-meter-high fence and bowed that Jin Weicheng threw the bag up.

Yu Hao put his bag on his back, looked inside the fence, and fell silent for a moment.

Beneath it lay a large black soil dog nearly one meter long.

Jin Weicheng motioned to Yu Hao, Yu Hao also motioned to Jin Weicheng, dropped the down jacket, Jin Weicheng tied his jacket with Yu Hao's jacket, and threw it up, Yu Hao used his strength to pull Jin Weicheng up the fence.Just as Jin Weicheng managed to stand still, the dog raised its head when it heard the noise.

Yu Hao had been prepared for a long time, with sharp eyes and quick hands, a piece of meat floss bread flew over like a shooting star, the dog jumped up with a "wow", caught it in mid-air, and ran to the den to eat it, wagging its tail.

Jin Weicheng: "..."

Yu Hao: "Let's go!" He thought to himself that it's a good thing it's just an earthen dog, not a police dog.

The two quickly jumped along the wall and landed on the second floor of a factory building where the workers were taking a lunch break.Yu Hao got down from the fire escape and took a picture of the fire safety map with his mobile phone. The two looked at it for a while, and Jin Weicheng pointed to the sewage treatment pool behind them. The two hid behind the wall and walked quickly over.

Security in the factory is weak, mostly concentrated at the main entrance.

Why are there not many security guards?Yu Hao thought to himself, but usually no one would think that these two stupid reporters would climb over the wall and come in by the river...

Jin Weicheng said: "We reacted too quickly. We petitioned the day before yesterday, but we arrived today."

Jin Weicheng ran into another dirt dog out of the blue, and Yu Hao immediately dismissed it with another piece of meat floss bread.

Jin Weicheng: "Dangerous..."

Yu Hao: "It's dangerous..."

Yu Hao went up the ladder softly, behind him was the worker's dormitory, and outside was the open-air treatment pool. When he took the photo, he straddled his legs between the building and the fire escape. Jin Weicheng said, "Don't fall down, there's sulfuric acid in it."

Yu Hao didn't know until after filming, fortunately Jin Weicheng didn't say anything at first, otherwise he would definitely be trembling.

"Can you take a picture of the main entrance?" Jin Weicheng asked.

"It can't be done." Yu Hao said, "There are plain clothes outside."

Jin Weicheng: "Make up for one from far away, push your camera and lens over."

Yu Hao found another place where he could climb over the wall, and flew over with one kick. Jin Weicheng slipped and stepped on the mud.

"Let's go." Yu Hao pulled Jin Weicheng, went back to wash, and evacuated safely, both of them heaved a sigh of relief.

Back in the village, I lived in a petitioner's house. It was exactly three o'clock in the afternoon, and it started snowing outside again.

Yu Hao clicked on the camera and sent photos. The signal here was really bad. There were two comatose patients and an old lady, and they couldn't ask for the WIFI password, so they had to pass it along.

"I'll go to the village to continue to understand the situation." Jin Weicheng said, "Go door-to-door and collect statistics on the dead. You are responsible for sending the photos back."

"Okay." Yu Hao said, "Teacher, be careful of the village committee."

Yu Hao glanced at his phone, Zhou Sheng didn't send a message, did he sleep all day?

After roughly finishing the interview, Yu Hao's mood suddenly became much lighter.

[Pig, get up. 】Yu Hao, 【It's three o'clock in the afternoon. 】

Yu Hao waited for the photo, but Lin Ze sent a medical record of a pregnant woman that he took yesterday on his phone.

Lin Ze: [Are you sure? 】

Yu Hao: [Not sure. 】

Lin Ze: [I called the police, reported to their provincial department, and investigated layer by layer. 】

Yu Hao: [Do you care? !How did I hear that many villages have united to prevent investigation. 】

Lin Ze: [Of course, human trafficking has been exposed so much in recent years, every place is very nervous, as long as it happens, report to the provincial department as soon as possible, and it will definitely take care of it. Don't worry, how is your progress there? 】

Yu Hao thought to himself that it was a good thing for the media to go after the hot spots with great fanfare, at least for now, they were afraid of accidents affecting their political achievements, and would rather kill the wrongdoers and thoroughly investigate if there was any disturbance.

Yu Hao: [All the photos are taken, the teacher went to investigate the data. 】

Usually follow the interview process, the last link is also the most important link, which is data.Yesterday Jin Weicheng took a picture of the patient list in the hospital and got the first data. Next, he started to collect the data based on a village.

There are a total of four villages, and we visited them one by one. If we hurry up, we can finish all of them and go back tomorrow.

Yu Hao: [It wasn't as dangerous as you said, and it went smoothly. 】

Lin Ze: [By the way, there is another very important skill that I forgot to teach you. 】

Yu Hao: [? 】

Lin Ze: [During the interview, no matter what the situation is, don't say "this interview really went well".It's like the night emergency doctor can't say "I'm fine tonight." 】

Yu Hao: [[covers face] I see. 】

Yu Hao leaned on the back of the chair, looked at the uploaded photos, he could only use his mobile phone as a hotspot, and his mobile phone only had a 3G signal, and it took over an hour to send out a dozen or so photos.Yu Hao hadn't eaten his lunch yet, so he took out a piece of meat floss bread for dogs and ate it himself, choking so hard. At 04:30, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the room.

Yu Hao: "Who?"

"Me!" Jin Weicheng said, "Quickly open the door!"

Yu Hao opened the door, there was a lot of noise outside the living room, a group of people crowded at the gate, Jin Weicheng walked in alone, smelling of alcohol, and locked the door behind him.

Yu Hao: "..."

Jin Weicheng: "Have the photos been uploaded yet?"

Yu Hao: "What's going on?! The village committee is here?"

"No no." Jin Weicheng said, "I counted the casualty data, and they asked how much they can pay..."

People from outside rushed into the living room and started banging on the door, shouting in dialect to come out and talk.Jin Weicheng gasped: "Then they asked me to make a price on how much one person would pay, how could I make a price? Someone should have stabbed us in the factory, and the factory asked them to catch us and give them money! People from the factory will also come soon Already!"

Kicking on the door started outside, Jin Weicheng said: "How many photos are left?!"

"It can't be finished!" Yu Hao said.

Jin Weicheng made a decisive decision: "Run!"

Before it was too late, Jin Weicheng went to open the window, Yu Hao opened the backpack, shook the camera, pulled the charger and the family's socket into his back, Jin Weicheng flipped out the window, Yu Hao followed .Jumping toward the firewood shed in the backyard——

"Wang..."

Yu Hao tossed the leftover half of the meat floss bread, the world was quiet, the two jumped onto the firewood pile, and Jin Weicheng slammed into the iron gate of the backyard with his whole body, only to find that the iron gate was locked in despair.

Yu Hao ran up to the pile of firewood again, turned out of the courtyard, a group of villagers shouted and chased each other out, Jin Weicheng followed and turned out of the courtyard.

Yu Hao: "Where are you going?!"

Jin Weicheng: "Take the national road!"

The two started to run wildly, with dogs barking behind them. Jin Weicheng strode forward and ran ahead. Yu Hao said, "Where do we have to go?! There are still ten kilometers to the county town!"

Jin Weicheng said: "Check that other village! My phone is out of battery again!"

Someone behind him was chasing him on foot, someone riding an electric scooter, Yu Hao rushed across a fork in the road, looked down at his phone, it was Zhou Sheng calling himself.

"I'm on the run!" Yu Hao shouted, "I'll tell you later!"

"You're messing around again!" Zhou Sheng roared angrily.

Yu Hao hung up the phone, checked the map, and shouted: "Mr. Jin! Run along that road!"

Many young people chased after them. Yu Hao did not expect things to develop in such a direction. He rushed into the lawn behind several empty houses and shouted, "Mr. Jin! Split up! I'll lure them away!"

Jin Weicheng was about to say something when Yu Hao shouted, "I'm a student! It's okay!"

Jin Weicheng said: "Meet at the destination!"

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen women chased after them, swiping brooms, beating the men in their respective families, and shouting at Yu Hao: "Hurry up!"

Yu Hao: "..."

Seeing that the opinions in this village were not unified, first a fight broke out.However, the pursuers on electric bikes overtook them and pursued them relentlessly.

Yu Hao rushed up the main road, ran across the middle of the road a few steps, glanced at the group of people riding electric bikes, immediately ran towards the side of the road, and ran directly into the wasteland.

In this way, the electric car would not be able to chase after him. Although Yu Hao would not be beaten to death if he was caught back, it was a matter of professional dignity, so he must not be caught!As soon as Yu Hao rushed into the wasteland, the villagers parked their electric cars on the side of the road one after another, and chased them all the way down with sticks.

Yu Hao looked back, and ran wildly along the half-person-high grass in the wilderness, jumping and running, rushed up a dirt slope, rushed down again, and rushed towards another road.

The people behind couldn't help shouting, Yu Hao made a rough estimate, and it seemed that he hadn't noticed that Jin Weicheng had successfully escaped, okay, now it's my turn.

However, just as he ran onto the road on the other side, another group of people came over, and a dozen or so people blocked Yu Hao from the front and back sides.

"Come back with us!" Someone shouted in Mandarin, "I won't beat you!"

There was the sound of a motorcycle engine in the distance, Yu Hao looked around, there was no way to escape on the national highway.

Yu Hao turned around again and rushed into the wasteland. The villagers chased after him in an instant, but the next moment, a motorcycle drifted and flew sideways, knocking the pursuers to the ground.

A man wearing a black wool cap got out of the car, holding an iron water pipe that he found somewhere, and stepped forward and kicked it.

Yu Hao: "..."

Standing in the wasteland, Yu Hao was completely dumbfounded, as snowflakes fell, Yu Hao was completely as if he was dreaming.

It's been a long, long time since Yu Hao saw Zhou Sheng throw a punch. The moment he raised his hand, Yu Hao let out a crazy shout!

Zhou Sheng is well versed in the true meaning of fighting in groups, as long as you are surrounded, aim at the opponent's leader and punch first!That punch immediately sent the leader flying head-on!The deterrent force instantly suppressed the scene, and the rest of the people calmed down, before Zhou Sheng picked up the water hose and rushed forward!

"Let's go together!" Zhou Sheng roared furiously, "Hobbits! Hurry up! I don't have time to play with you guys!"

Yu Hao was completely bewildered, the villagers backed away one after another, chatting a few words in dialect, Zhou Sheng made a gesture of threatening to step forward, and the group of people ran away in an instant.

Yu Hao stood in the weeds at half a person's height, his eyes went dark for a moment, Zhou Sheng couldn't help panting for breath, turned his head to look at Yu Hao, trembling slightly, he didn't dare to walk towards him.

The two just stood there looking at each other, snowflakes drifted back and forth, making Zhou Sheng's body wet.

Yu Hao yelled again, and ran up the road.

Yu Hao rushed forward quickly, Zhou Sheng rushed over in three steps in parallel, and the two hugged each other tightly.Zhou Sheng kissed it hard, with a choking smell of cigarettes on his body.

There was a sudden gunshot in the distance, Zhou Sheng was alerted immediately, pulled Yu Hao behind him, and turned his head to examine.

"Shotguns are used for hunting wolves in the village." Yu Hao said, "Don't be nervous."

Zhou Sheng pulled Yu Hao, dragged the motorcycle up, turned over, Yu Hao straddled him, Zhou Sheng turned the handle of the motorcycle, and drove away with a "buzz".

Someone came up with a shotgun and fired into the sky, but the sound of the gunshots got farther and farther away, and they couldn't catch up.

Yu Hao: "Why are you here!"

Zhou Sheng lowered his head, facing the wind, and drove Yu Hao all the way on his motorcycle without answering.

Yu Hao: "When did you come?!"

Zhou Sheng still didn't answer, the sun was slowly sinking at the end of the national road, the engine roared, and the snowflakes bloomed gently in front of the two of them like thousands of goose feathers.

"Zhou Sheng!" Yu Hao hugged Zhou Sheng's waist tightly, buried him on his back, and shouted frantically.

Zhou Sheng frowned deeply, and glanced at Yu Hao from the side. He was wearing a black suit, motorcycle gloves that he didn't know where he came from, and his tie was flying with the strong wind all the way.

Zhou Sheng finally tilted his head and said loudly, "Are you cold?"

Yu Hao said, "It's okay!"

Zhou Sheng's back blocked all the wind.

Zhou Sheng: "I'm cold!"

Yu Hao hurriedly said, "I'll give you my coat! Don't drive too fast!"

Zhou Sheng: "Don't move! Hold tight!"

Yu Hao hugged him even tighter, Zhou Sheng's suit jacket flew up, and he rushed to the end of the national road. When Yu Hao climbed the wall, the down jacket that was snagged and plucked countless fluffs, and they fluttered in the wind, which was the same as the snow that was blowing in the sky and the earth. One, never separated from each other, never separated again.