The team that escorted the old company commander on his last journey set off again and embarked on this mountain road that had poured the old company commander's life's efforts.

This team may be shabby in the eyes of some people in the outside world, but here, it is all about it.

Towards noon, the team finally reached the end of the road, the end of the tunnel that the old company commander had not yet opened.

There were still three handfuls of ashes left in the urn in Qin Long's arms, but Qin Long had stopped swaying them.

Qin Long slowly put the lid of the white marble on the urn, put it on the floor laid by the old company commander at the end of the tunnel, got up and looked at the people behind him and said: "These three ashes, I plan to wait until this road is completed, sprinkle them on this last part of the road, so that the old company commander will die and be blinded." ”

Second Master Li smiled bitterly and nodded: "It's still thoughtful, Dalin is coming back soon, so let's leave these three ashes to him." ”

There are only two mountains left from Liujiapo, and Uncle Zhuang led the mountaineers of Liujiapo to say goodbye to the mountaineers of Lijiagou.

The mountain people of Lijiagou have long been prepared, and bags full of persimmon biscuits and pecans have been handed to the mountain people of Liujiapo, which is also the only gift they can give to others.

Uncle Da Zhuang looked at Qin Long: "Brother Da Long, do you want to go back with us?"

Qin Long took Uncle Da Zhuang's hand and said, "Uncle Da Zhuang, I still have something to do here for a while, and when I go back, I will definitely visit you in Liujiapo." ”

Uncle Da Zhuang patted Qin Long's hand vigorously: "Good brother, I have prepared good wine and meat for you to come back." ”

Walking out of the tunnel and seeing Uncle Da Zhuang and them climb up the steep cliff, Second Master Li took a deep breath and took Qin Long's hand, and said emotionally: "Hou Sheng, let's send Changqing here, and we will wait for Da Lin to come back and continue to do the rest together." You sent Changqing back, and you brought us so many good things, and our people in Lijiagou haven't thanked you properly. Let's go, go back to the village, we're going to treat you to the best hawthorn wine. ”

Qin Long held Second Master Li's hand and shook it: "Second Master, I thank you in advance." But there are some things I haven't done yet, and when I'm done, I'll go back to the village and ask you for a drink. ”

"What are you still up to? Tell me and everyone will do it for you. ”

Qin Long smiled, stretched out his hand and pointed to the dark tunnel behind him, and said firmly: "Open it up !!"

When the people in Lijiagou heard Qin Long say that they wanted to open this tunnel, the vast majority of people instantly showed embarrassment on their faces, and the rest of them, except for those ignorant and ignorant children, had an indifferent expression that had nothing to do with themselves, and some people even blurted out: "Why do you bother with that effort, our people in Lijiagou don't want to go out, even if this road is to be opened, it will be the people outside them who will fight it." ”

Someone speaks, and it immediately has a ripple effect.

"Yes, yes, in the past few hundred years, people outside them have taken advantage of our Lijiagou people, and if they want to build roads, they should also build them outside. ”

"Dalin is coming back, and when Dalin comes back, he will definitely continue to build this road, and he doesn't need our help at all. ”

"This road is already very good to be repaired here, we only need to climb two mountains to get out, and there is no need to repair the next road. ”

"Building roads is the government's business, the government doesn't care, why are we bothering to do that, anyway, we can't be hungry, whoever likes to repair it, I can't repair it anyway. ”

Qin Long looked at the gossiping Li Jiagou people dumbfounded.

Qin Long understood why the old ancestor would say that poor people must have something to hate.

The words left by the ancestors can really be said to be every word!!

After hundreds of years of relying on the sky to eat, they never had to worry about being hungry, and they didn't need to compete for survival.

It's no wonder that almost all of the people in Lijiagou that Qin Long saw were fat and fat, because they didn't need to work at all.

Every year when the harvest season comes, pick some of the ripe persimmons, pecans, and hawthorns all over the mountains and fields, which is enough for them to lie down and eat and drink for a year.

No wonder the old company commander said that someone had moved to the resettlement site arranged by the county, but it didn't take long for them to move back to Lijiagou.

They are too lazy to fit into the living environment of the outside world.

Here, just a few busy days a year is enough.

Outside, you have to fight every day to survive!!

Maybe the people of Li Jiagou don't think they are pitiful at all, let alone hateful, they are used to enjoying the rewards given to them by God, and they have never thought about making progress and changing the current status quo of life, they are afraid that they will think that this is already good, why bother to change it?

Qin Long also understood, why did this road be dug silently by the old company commander alone for a lifetime, if the people of Li Jiagou worked together, no matter how difficult it was to build this road, how could it take decades?

The old company commander is probably the first person in Lijiagou to go out in hundreds of years, and after he came back from the army, he probably also persuaded the people of Lijiagou, and finally he decided to build this road, which probably also contains the meaning of letting people from outside come in to stimulate the self-motivation of Lijiagou people.

The old company commander was a knowledgeable person, so he also sent his son out of Lijiagou and into the army.

Qin Long looked at the gossip Li Jiagou and shook his head and smiled bitterly: "You don't need to say it anymore, I will repair this road, if it is not troublesome, you just need to prepare something to eat for me." ”

When people heard Qin Long say this, the tone of conversation immediately changed, and many people patted their chests: "There must be no problem with eating and drinking, we have nothing else in Lijiagou, but some are eating." ”

Some are eating?

Qin Long smiled bitterly.

What you so-called eat is just those persimmon biscuits, pecans, dried hawthorns, haven't you been tired of eating for decades?

No wonder each of you has so many large and small stones on your body, even children of a few years old have stones, don't you know that eating too many persimmons is harmful to the human body? Doesn't it hurt to pee?

In addition, excessive sugar intake can also cause many diseases such as diabetes and obesity, do you really think that you are happy to live like this?

Yesterday night, in order to remove the stones on the bodies of Li Jiagou and these people, even the little monsters who just gave orders were already tired and out of breath, and this is just to remove the stones in your body, obesity and diabetes are not the bacteria in the human body that are at fault, and even the little monsters are helpless, and you can only rely on yourself to change your eating habits.

Last night you were complimented when you ate rice and braised pork, but in your mind, you never considered to exchange your own labor for this.

Qin Long thought of the person in the story who sat on Baoshan but was starved to death, how could the people of Lijiagou in front of him not be like this?

The persimmon trees, hickory trees, and hawthorn trees all over the mountains are the treasures of Lijiagou, but the people of Lijiagou are using this treasure mountain in the least cost-effective way.

Qin Long shook his head with a wry smile, and said to Second Master Li, who looked embarrassed: "Second Master, go back, I'll stay here." ”

Second Master Li just said that you have something to say and everyone will help you do it together, but what Qin Long said was such a thing, Second Master Li couldn't get over it, coughed and said, "What, I'll stay and do it with you." ”

Qin Long looked at Second Master Li's fat appearance in his seventies and eighties, and he was about to commit embarrassment.

"Second master, I really don't need it, the hole is so big, and the two of them can't turn around. ”

"Yes, yes, second master, let's go back. ”

"Brother Dalong, I'll ask my son to bring you food later, and tell me what you want to eat. ”

I want to eat sea cucumber and abalone, do you have one?

Uh, excuse me, but you've seen it?

Qin Long smiled: "Whatever you want, it's good to fill your stomach." ”

After that, Qin Long turned around and entered the tunnel that had not yet been opened, at the end of the tunnel there was the old company commander's floor shop, the old company commander's urn, and the old company commander's more than a dozen iron hammers and hundreds of steel drills.

Soon, from the tunnel came the sound of ding, ding, ding, the sound of hammers, steel drills, and rocks colliding, monotonous and powerful, just like when the old company commander was there.

The people of Li Jiagou at the entrance of the cave looked at each other, and someone muttered in a low voice: "A foreigner, what kind of heart, it is estimated that he will have to run away in three days." ”

"Shut up!!" Second Master Li roared, and paused a few times with a black face on the mountain road covered with steel brazing marks with a cane: "Those who are willing to help stay and help others, and those who are unwilling to help go back to prepare food for others." ”

After that, Li Erye squeezed through the crowd with a black face and went back to the village on crutches.

The people in Li Jiagou looked at each other, and a fat young man said with a smile: "Go back, I'll stay and help Brother Da Long." ”

There are people who want to stay.

People muttered and followed Li Erye towards the road, and the three young men, two girls, and seven or eight children stayed curiously.

Qin Long, who was sweating like rain and smashing the hard granite with a hammer and steel drill, heard footsteps behind him, stopped his hand with some curiosity and turned his head to look, and saw three young men, two girls, and the seven or eight children entering the tunnel, Qin Long had a happy smile on his face.

Chen Jiagou is not hopeless, there are still people who are full of hope for the future.

However, after only more than half an hour, Qin Long's face darkened little by little.

These girls, boys, and children are simply staying to listen to their own stories, to tell stories from outside.

The outside world was strange and mysterious to them, and Qin Long could tell from their eyes that they were very curious about the outside world, but at the same time, Qin Long couldn't see a trace of yearning and longing in their eyes.

Their eyes were blank!!

They are more like a group of people who have not yet opened their minds, although they are full of curiosity about the outside world, but they are also full of fear of the outside world.

Qin Long wordlessly extinguished the precious oil lamp, and the monotonous sound of hammers sounded in the cave again, as for whether they would help him move these knocked down gravel out of the cave and throw them under the cliff, Qin Long didn't care at all.

Open this tunnel as soon as possible, and then there will naturally be people from the outside who will come in, maybe the first people who come in just want to plunder the gold and silver mountains that have been enjoyed by you for hundreds of years, but when you have been pitted by others a few times, you will also slowly get to know the world.

You are simply living in the peach blossom paradise of Yelang Country, a life without pressure and competition, which has turned you into a walking corpse without a mind of your own.

The next day, only a young man, two girls and three or four children came, and they brought Qin Long a bag full of persimmon biscuits, pecans, and sun-dried hawthorn slices, and then squatted there and watched Qin Long sweat like rain, but Qin Long was no longer interested in telling them the 'story' outside.

A few children waited for a while and saw that they couldn't hear the story, so they left first.

When the girl and the young man left, they told Qin Long a piece of news, the TVs that Qin Long brought in couldn't be used at all, and after plugging in and turning it on, only one person who came out at the beginning made an advertisement, and then there was nothing.

Qin Long casually sighed and answered, it was his own negligence, he couldn't even receive a mobile phone signal here, and the possibility of receiving a TV signal was even more minimal, it is estimated that the old company commander said in the capital that he could watch the news broadcast while sitting at home, if those words were not to comfort the chief, it was that they were watching the expired news recorded by the DVD player, Qin Long guessed that it should be the latter more likely.

On the third day, the girl and the young man didn't come, and the food they brought to Qin Long yesterday was enough for Qin Long to eat for a while.

When it was close to noon, only one child came, and the child stood behind Qin Long and watched silently for a while, then turned around and ran.

For three consecutive days, Qin Long's palms were already covered with blisters from steel drills and hammers, and his confidence had gradually declined from being extremely high at the beginning to now.

This is a road to Li Jiagou's merits, but the people of Li Jiagou are like water, what am I fighting for here?

Every time Qin Long asked himself this in his heart when he broke the blisters on his hands, but when Qin Long's eyes fell on the urn of the old company commander, he gritted his teeth and picked up the hammer again.

On the fifth day, it was the same child who ran to take another look, Qin Long was about to give him the only piece of chocolate left in his backpack, but he didn't expect that the child had already turned around and ran.

Qin Long looked at the child's back speechlessly and shook his head and smiled bitterly, this child should have been sent by Li Jiagou to see if he was still there, right?

For five days, Qin Long was really tired.

In five days, Qin Long had only dug less than half a meter of the tunnel, and the hard granite would only spark when hit with a steel drill, even if this hammer only collapsed a stone the size of a peanut, Qin Long was ecstatic, he couldn't imagine how the old company commander had built this road all the way here.

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