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Evening.

On Qingluan Mountain.

"How much farther?" Zhang Dongfang panted.

"Still quite a ways, County Chief Zhang," Village Party Secretary Xiao Cheng said.

Zhang Dongfang waved a hand. "Whew, no, I can't go on. I need to rest."

Someone immediately came up from behind. "I'll help you, County Chief Zhang. Sit down and catch your breath."

Zhang Dongfang's nearly two hundred pounds of flesh trembled as he swayed. He had only climbed for a little over ten minutes before he could no longer hold on. The county government office staff accompanying them hurriedly tended to the county chief, helping him sit down and fetching bottled water. The group heading up the mountain had no choice but to stop.

"Sorry about this, Secretary Dong." Zhang Dongfang wiped his sweat and panted. "I'm getting old. When I was young, I was pretty slim too. A little mountain this high? I could climb straight from bottom to top without even taking a breath. Sigh, time spares no one. I can't do it anymore. Can't do it anymore."

Dong Xuebin asked with concern, "Are you all right?"

"I'm fine. I'll recover after resting a bit." Zhang Dongfang did not want the County Party Secretary to wait for him. "You all go ahead. Don't worry about me."

Dong Xuebin said, "How could we do that?"

Zhang Dongfang said, "Xiao, take Secretary Dong up first. I'll catch up soon."

Dong Xuebin shook his head. "How about this? Help County Chief Zhang up the mountain in a while. I'll go take a look by myself first. Xiao, which direction exactly?"

Xiao Cheng hurriedly said, "It's getting dark, and you don't know the way. The mountain paths are hard to walk, and if something happens... How can you go alone?" Xiao Cheng had worked here for five or