Chapter 36 Build a section of stone road

Don't think that Yan Yongnong's road repair work has ended here, there is still a more difficult road waiting for him to repair.

Further ahead, a mountain range lies in front of it, which is Dajia Mountain, which divides the mop ridge into two troughs.

The trough over there is large, and most of the population is concentrated over there. At that time, when the school was being built, the people over there were vying to build the school there, and there were 10,000 people here who refused to agree.

The ancestor of Kaiqi took the two brothers Rong Ba and Rong Jiu to the mop ridge to settle down. Rong is the top eight and dominates the wide slot. Rong Jiu was weaker and had to nest in the mountains here, there was no flat land for easy farming, no field for cattle to turn around, and no flat road for easy walking.

With the large number of people over there, it is natural to be profitable, and several large public buildings are built there.

Mill house, specially used for rice milling. It is not easy to build a grinding house, and the middle part of the bent bluestone is cut out, and then they are coiled into a circle with a radius of about five meters to become a grinding trough. There was also a discus-like grinder the size of a pan in the trough.

The pressing house, which is specially used to extract oil, has "collision" in addition to "grinding". The collision is used to press oil, and this thing is made of giant wood. There is no record of the year and month when the mill house and the squeezing house were repaired, and it is estimated that Yan Yongnong's parents and grandparents did not participate in the construction.

People live without rice and oil, and millet must be milled into rice, tea, and rapeseed must be beaten out of oil. Every household in the trough here goes to the mill house at least once a month to take off rice, and more than 100 catties of burden are pressed on their bodies, climbing mountains and mountains and exhausting people.

The descendants here are not convinced, but this is in the hands of the ancestors, and the people can't turn it over after the fact.

Repairing schools is also a matter for generations, and now we have to rely on your children, and your children are more expensive? Our children are not born to mothers, so they should be affected? All the good things are for you, don't think about it!

The people in this slot gathered at the tablet of the ancestor Rongjiu and swore that if the school was built on the opposite side of the mountain, as long as the family sent their children there to study, the ancestral tablet would be split and the name would be eliminated from the family tree.

The people in the trough here are united, if the school is repaired to that side, the people here will not participate, and the children here will not go over there to receive education even if they become cattle and pigs. Later, the people on both sides took a step back and built the school on the ridge of the big foot hill, in the center, and it was good on both sides.

It's just a little bit over there, which is made up of natural conditions, and there is a large flat where people live in a house, and there is a clear spring not far away.

After studying at the school, the road connecting the two sides was changed to the current road, and there is a long slope from this side to the school, and the slope is large. For many years, cattle trampled on horses, and the rain washed to expose loess bones.

After a long sunny day, the dust flies, and when it rains, it turns into mud. The mountain water washed and polished a section of the way into a smooth and slippery trench. Yan Yongnong clearly remembers the experience when he was a child, his partners often sat in the ditch with their feet held and slid down, the soles of their shoes were worn out, and the crotch of their pants was worn out.

Once, he was in a daup, and when he was sitting on the "slide", his toes were tripped by the roots of the tree sticking out, and the whole person shrank into a hedgehog and turned over a series of pounds in ignorance, and stopped on a flat ground below. At that time, he only felt that the world was spinning, and he couldn't tell the way to come.

I didn't feel any pain at the time.

He went home and slept for a while, and the next day when he got up with his left hand, his shoulder was painful, and his father gave him to the teacher [a martial arts master who can heal bone damage] to see, and it turned out that his left lock was broken.

He will never forget the pain of receiving this bone in his life, this collarbone itself is deformed, and it is still born in such a bifurcated, pimple, and complex pivotal place, and it is difficult to connect and clamp.

The teacher put his left hand on his right shoulder, and tied it from his elbow to his neck, and tied it tightly, and because of the lack of blood flow, his left hand was swollen and purple and shiny, and the swelling pain made him unable to live day by day.

He couldn't stand it, and cried and cried to untie it, and the teacher told him: "If this bone is not attached, your left shoulder will be oblique, and your left hand will be weak."

The mother frightened him: "In the future, you will be crazy with high shoulders and short and ugly, which aunt wants you?"

To this day, he still remembers his father's angry words: "Hurt you to death! A cub like you who is too lazy to squirm, with good feet and not good walking, wants to slip like that, and has such retribution cheapens you, why don't you break your cervical vertebrae? Then you have a 'good life' in this life, lie down and eat, and lift up." ”

Yan Yongnong did not allow his son to repeat the mistakes of the past, and had to transform this mountain road to ensure that his son walked on the road steadily, smoothly and safely. He planned to dig the road step by step with a hoe, and the dirt steps would soon collapse if the oxen trampled on the horse, and it would become a deeper and more slippery ditch after being washed by the water.

He had to chisel stones and lay them on the earth steps, the loess was sticky, and as long as the stones were put in the soil to dry some water, the stones would be fixed.

It is said that it is easier said than done. How easy is it to pave a thousand steps on this road? He estimated that it would take him at least a month, but for the sake of his son, he would have to repair it even in a year. My son will walk this road for six years!

He also thought about organizing the people in the trough here to repair together, this is a post road, it is everyone's road, everyone has to go, there is a road to go along everyone's convenience. He was afraid that he would not be able to summon everyone without convincing, but those people did not have as many worries as Yan Yongnong, nor did they treat the child as a master.

The people in the mountains climb up and down the mountain all day long, and if they want to build a road along the way, they don't know how many roads they have to build? Can it be done? Not necessarily. None of the adults and children in the mountains are climbing up and down the rugged and steep walls? They won't waste their time on this road! Therefore, Yan Yongnong dispelled that thought.

After he cultivated for a few days, the people in his side were touched, which was contrary to Yan Yongnong's original intention, and everyone understood and supported his approach.

It is true that people have been tired of this road for many years, not to mention that they do not walk smoothly, and they have suffered from falling noses and swollen faces, broken heads and bleeding, and lame feet and lameness more than a few times a year.

Paving the way for the benefit of others is everyone's business, and everyone cannot sit idly by, let alone sit back and enjoy the results. So the men and women in the trough here all went out into battle, and soon the stone steps were repaired to the front of the school.

Yan Bianzhao likes this stone staircase so much! When he walks this way, he doesn't walk step by step, but jumps with his feet. When jumping up, he counted every step, took a few jumps, rested for a while, and then jumped again and continued to count.

It's much easier to jump down, jumping several steps in a row, taking fewer breaks and counting more and more. Numbers within ten, hundreds, and even thousands are all memorized on this path.

Yan Yongnong took the lead in repairing the road with hard work, and naturally became a road maintenance worker, and he picked up a knife and hoe to walk on the road whenever he was free. He was more diligent in maintaining and building roads than tending to his crops, and more attentive and careful than he was in carpentry.