Chapter 216: Grandfather God helps in the crisis

On the Loess Plateau at more than 40 degrees north latitude, the sunny day in May can still feel the temperature beginning to rise sharply, but at this time, the spring planting has ended, and the summer harvest has not yet arrived, and it is not the time to really farm at this time, at this time in previous years, the people in the mountains of Wanzi Township will gather at the head of the village, bask in the sun, play poker, and chat to pass the boring time.

However, this year's ***, they can't sit still, thousands of men and women, densely gathered on the mountain road leading from the secondary road to Wanzi Township, shouting trumpets, laughing, using the most primitive tools, shovels, pickaxes, baskets, oxen and carriages, shuttling back and forth, transporting sand and soil, carrying stones, from their expressions can not be seen at all that they are engaged in heavy physical labor, with both hands to build a road out of the mountains, their laughter, the end of the heat, It's more like having a big banquet,

In the midst of the sea of people building the road, a young man in his twenties, holding a shovel in his hand, struggled to load the basket with sand, and shouted to the people behind him from time to time: "Folks, work harder, turn this bend, and you will finish half of the repair." ”

Immediately behind, there were a few women in their thirties, giggling and joking: "Former township chief, you have solved the problem of travel difficulties that we have not been able to solve for hundreds of years in Wanzi Township, and we ordinary people don't know how to thank you, so if you have a crush on someone's girl, I will bring you back as a daughter-in-law." ”

As soon as the woman's words were finished, another woman immediately picked up and said: "Guiqin, I think you want to give your second girl to the head of the original township, don't dream big, that is, you don't want a penny of dowry, I'm afraid the head of the original village won't be able to look down on you." ”

The fat eldest sister was also in the road construction team, and her loud voice also shouted: "The former township chief wants to find a daughter-in-law, and he also wants to find the beautiful and fashionable one in the city. ”

Seeing that everyone was talking lively, Yuan Xiaosheng put down the shovel in his hand and lost no time in encouraging everyone: "I usually don't like to listen to the fat sister the most, why, because she always looks down on herself, what's wrong with our Wanzi Township, our Wanzi Township is beautiful, and the girls raised are also as smart as flowers and bones, how can they not compare to the girls in the city, how good are the girls in the city, isn't it just a dress, who can't dress up with money, and when this road is repaired, let's repair the stream in the mountains again, Make a lazy river, not to mention the people of Hewan County, that is, the people in the city of Yinan City, all of whom want to travel to us, will put a lot of money in our pockets, if we have money, the girls in our mountains will also come to rub the grease and powder, and show off the flowers, so as to ensure that the men in the city are all flowing and rushing, and they want to marry the girls of our Wanzi Township. ”

Everyone laughed as they spoke, and another young man asked, "Yuan Township Chief, we don't know what kind of beautiful river you are talking about, can it really attract people from the city to our Wanzi Township." ”

Yuan Xiaosheng laughed, waved his hand in the air, and corrected the young man: "It's not a beautiful river, it's a lazy river, let's put it to you simply, it's to get a rubber raft, people sit on it, and float downstream along the river, that's the lazy river, now this thing is very popular, Director Niu and I went to the tiger's mouth some time ago to see, that landscape is very suitable for a lazy river, there are springs on the mountain all year round, and the construction cost will not be very high, but, it's still what I told you before, there is no money in the township, Or do you want everyone to do it together, of course, and so on to make money, or everyone to share together, this is called unity, self-reliance, hard work, and a well-off together, I believe that in a few years, our Wanzi Township will definitely become our Hewan County, Yinan City and even the richest township in the entire Hexi Province, by that time, our people are all millionaires with thousands of dollars, you say bullish or not,. ”

As soon as Yuan Xiaosheng's words landed, there was a burst of warm applause, and at this moment, not far away, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl picked up two plastic buckets with a burden, carefully walked in the pile of rubble, and walked over here, shouting to everyone to drink water with a crisp voice while walking, and a large number of sweaty men and women who had already dried ran over, directly with the water scoop in the bucket, scooped a scoop, and drank it.

The girl put down the bucket and walked over to Yuan Xiaosheng, approached, but as if by magic, she took out a glass jar from under the handkerchief, and the glass jar was transparent and clear filled with water, the girl walked in front of Yuan Xiaosheng, and gave the glass jar in her hand to Yuan Xiaosheng, and smiled with a pair of cute dimples on her face and said: "Brother Yuan, if you are thirsty, drink some water." ”

Yuan Xiaosheng took the jug from the girl's hand, touched the jug that was still a little warm, took a few sips sweetly, wiped the water marks on his mouth and said: "Erya, the weather is not cold now, don't give me this kind of special in the future, I'm not so delicate, and it's too troublesome to talk about it." ”

The girl named Erya threw a thick braid down the back of her head unhappily, and said resolutely with a pout: "I'm not too troublesome, how can you compare with us, we are all raised in the mountains, and we are used to drinking raw water, you are from the city, and suddenly drinking raw water is going to get sick and diarrhea." ”

Yuan Xiaosheng did not say that he was originally a rural person, but he could understand Erya's delicate mind, from the day when Yuan Xiaosheng mobilized the eight thousand people in the township to collectively build the road, Erya has been using this glass jar to bring boiling water to Yuan Xiaosheng from his home more than ten miles away from the mountain road, and he was afraid that the water would be too cold along the way, so he covered it under his clothes, bulging, like a pregnant little woman, and the water that others drank was all picked by her from the mountain stream canal, although it was also very clean, but relatively speaking, this jar of boiling water, It's even more precious and hard-won, Yuan Xiaosheng knows that he can't screw her, so he can only let her go,

Erya is just said to find a daughter-in-law for Yuan Xiaosheng, named Guiqin's daughter, is a very simple peasant woman, but also an authentic Wanzi Township people, living under Erlang Mountain, from the place where the road is repaired, there are more than ten miles of mountain roads, despite this, he still leads his daughter to the construction site with everyone to repair the road every day, not only the mother and daughter of Erya, but almost all the people in Wanzi Township are like this,

And because there is no extra funds available in the township, and we can't guarantee everyone's food supply, when we come, we take the initiative to bring dry food from home, eat a mouthful of dry food when we are hungry, and drink the spring water that Erya picked up from the mountain stream when we are thirsty.

Whenever I think of these, Yuan Xiaosheng's heart turns over the river and feels an indescribable excitement, this is our people, this is our farmers, as long as we are willing to make a little effort, willing to show a sincerity, they can take out their hearts,