Hua Miaobing didn't enter the village; she went straight into the mountains, and thus didn't know about the upheaval happening outside.
In Shen Maoqing's village, to welcome her arrival, they decorated the van she was riding in with big red ribbons and flowers, and prepared to welcome her with drums and gongs.
Shen Mao'an, panting heavily, ran desperately along the mountain road for dozens of miles, afraid the Beijing expert would slip away. When he arrived at the entrance of Shen Maoqing's village, he saw a group of villagers holding drums and gongs as if it were a festival. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and searched the crowd for Shen Maoqing to ask about the situation.
On the mountain, Hua Miaobing and her group, trudging through slippery snow, finally reached the place they were looking for halfway up the mountain. Together with two assistants, they opened their toolkit, put on gloves, and collected soil and air samples.
