Chapter 54: The Absurd Bridge (1)

In my spare time, I was coaxing my grandson to play in front of the house, and my grandson was scared by the sound of a horn hiding behind me, and following the sound of the horn, an old man got out of the car.

He is tall, although he is not fat, but his body is also tough. A pair of big eyes on the square face, the hair has been gray by the baptism of the years, a straight Zhongshan suit is not fat or thin, and the leather shoes on his feet are shiny, he beckoned to me with a smile, and when he got closer, it turned out to be an old man I hadn't seen for many years.

Zhao Mantang, now in his 60s, only met decades ago when a bridge was being repaired. At that time, he was a technician at the commune water conservancy station, and in the 70s, in response to the party's call, he learned from Yugong to move mountains and transform China, and set off a large number of suggestions for building farmland foundations and digging rivers and building bridges.

In the winter of '76, after everyone planted wheat and didn't have a respite, the commune arranged a plan for digging rivers and repairing bridges, and under the leadership of the water conservancy station, they started a grand blueprint for building water conservancy and building four modernizations.

According to the commune's arrangement, our village was assigned to build a bridge on the Henggou River construction site in Luoka Village, which was more than ten miles away from our village, and we had to eat and live on the construction site. At that time, the Commune called for all actions to be dictated. Assign tasks uniformly to brigades.

Under the leadership of the captain, 20 young and strong laborers were organized, bringing application tools, loading pots and pans, grain and other necessary materials with frame cars, and marching to the Henggou River construction site ten miles away. When they arrived at the construction site in Luoka Village, they found a farmer's idle house as a place to eat and live, and the cooks began to set up a stove and make a fire for cooking. The night was over. Early the next morning, I went to the construction site. The so-called construction site is the road dam that connects the north and south roads with the east and west rivers. Under the guidance of the technicians of the water conservancy station, the road dam was dug and the foundation of the bridge was laid.

At the beginning, because the roadbed was very hard for many years, there was a white spot all of a sudden, and it could not be dug at all, and even the road dam surface was not dug up one morning, so I had to call it a day.

Back at the station, the cook had already prepared breakfast.

Everyone washed their hands and ate, each of them served a bowl of sweet potato tea and half a bowl of fried radish and Chinese cabbage without oil, and tied two sweet potato chips and cornmeal steamed buns with chopsticks and ate them. Some also ate four steamed buns, and more than half of one steamed bun went down.

After breakfast, everyone talked about the emptiness, whose wife and whose bachelor got along......

Whose wives chewed the root of their tongues for others...

The crowd laughed.

About an hour later, the captain gave an order, and all the migrant workers entered the construction site again with tools in hand and dismantled the road dam.

More than a dozen people were divided into two shifts, one for the other to work, talking and laughing endlessly, sometimes just talking and laughing, delaying the work. In the morning, I only dug two or three feet deep, and when it was time to eat again, everyone went back to the station to eat again.

The morning meal was different from the morning meal, and the cook was busy all morning, making a pot of bean noodles with a lot of vegetables in it. Because the production team at that time had a special person to open a vegetable garden for the masses to eat, so the food ate more vegetables.

Zhao Moumou took a large bowl of bean noodles and took a cornmeal bun, and squatted under the tree to eat with everyone, although he was not tall, long and stocky, 1.6 meters tall, 140 pounds, outsiders sent the number: sitting on the ground cannon. This person can eat and dry, when he is not tired, he is also everyone's joke, everyone is happy with him when they are fine, and he is not annoyed. Sometimes others don't tease him, and he takes the initiative to tease others until everyone laughs.

Everyone hadn't finished their first bowl of noodles, and he had already filled the second bowl.

At half past 2 o'clock in the afternoon, I entered the construction site again, and when I started to work, I don't know who was careless, and even the soil with a shovel head was thrown out, and it was smashed on Zhao Moumou's head, and there was a hole on the head at that time, and the blood flowed, which could panic the personnel of the construction site, and complained about Chen who threw the soil, but Chen didn't know that the shovel head would fall and hurt people, and he was also panicked at that time.

The captain asked two people to send Zhao Moumou to the commune health center for bandaging, and a discussion meeting was held at the construction site, some said that Chen Moumou should compensate Zhao Moumou, and some said that it was a bit unjust to let Chen Moumou compensate, and he was not wronged or unintentional. In the end, the captain determined that the team would bear all the expenses of Zhao Moumou, and recorded Zhao Moumou's work-related injury and enjoyed 10 points of compensation per day.

Zhao Moumou bandaged himself from the commune health center, took an injection and took anti-inflammatory drugs, and asked him to go to the commune health center on time every day to change the dressing.

Zhao returned to the station, avoided the pain of fatigue, and recuperated from his injuries at the station. There is a widow in her thirties, a son, a daughter and two children are already in school, and her husband died in a car accident on the way to the county seat. Buried her husband hastily and did not remarry.

Because she is a widow, she has not been cared for by love for a long time, and she is uneasy in her heart, and she wants to find a lover in this village, but she is afraid that people will cause trouble, so she has been looking for it, but she has not been able to do so.

After breakfast that day, everyone went to the construction site to repair the bridge, Zhao was fine, resting alone under the tree outside the village, the widow saw that it was Zhao, and replied before approaching, and the two of them started a homely routine under the tree.

Zhao saw that although the widow was a rural woman, she also had a bit of a posture, a figure of 1.5 meters, not fat or thin, well-proportioned, a wide melon seed face at the top and a good face, with a pair of apricot eyes, and double eyelids under the willow eyebrows. The breast peak is towering, seductive, and the lipstick is white and the face is full of shame.

Zhao's soul flew out of the sky, scattered in the sky, and he had already thought that he couldn't stand up.

One is affectionate, the other is intentional, when dry firewood meets fire, how can there be a reason not to burn. Zhao went to the widow's house under the pretext of thirst, and the impatient widow, seeing that she was in the middle, led Zhao into the house. The widow closed the door and went to the hall and poured boiling water.

asked Zhao to drink tea, Zhao stood up and was about to serve tea, and the widow suddenly threw herself into Zhao's arms. Zhao also took the widow in his arms, and after the two kissed for a long time, they were still not happy. The widow proposed to rest on the bed in the inner room, which was in line with Zhao's wishes, and the two of them entered the inner room, untied their clothes, and became a dewy couple.

Seeing that it was almost noon, the children were about to come home from school, and the widow had to endure the pain and let Zhao get up and go out.

A physiological need, a natural nature, the two are getting closer and closer, like glue and paint, inseparable, it is really a day of not seeing each other.

If you don't want people to know, you can't do it unless you do. There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the two are falling in love, enjoying the joy of clouds and rain every day, but the widow's mother-in-law sees the clues.