"I'm back, four girls, I've worked hard for you......" As soon as Mao Laosi got off the tractor, she saw more than a dozen men, women, and children standing at the intersection of the potholed dirt road and the path up the mountain.

In the thatched hut without walls that was erected next to it to hide from the rain for passers-by, there were several back baskets around the fire pit.

The old ones are hunched over their waists and look like they will die in the next moment, and the young ones even have half-grown children who should have gone to school in school.

This idea, nine-year compulsory education is not popular, a semester of primary school has to pay hundreds of tuition and miscellaneous fees, for the average family is nothing, but for these people who still adhere to the teaching of the large number of people, in order to strengthen the family strength, but to have children, three or five is few, six or seven are barely passable, so it is difficult to let the children in the family carry schoolbags to school.

Many families don't even have the money to buy salt, let alone spend hundreds of dollars to send their children to school.

"Why is everyone here? Third grandfather, why is your old man here? Mao Laosi was very suspicious that these eager old and young people had been waiting for him outside the bus station in the township.

"The frost girl said that you have to come back in the next two days, I am worried that it will be too late when you come back, and I am afraid alone, so we waited for you here yesterday, these post-born babies are too idle to do anything, and they are here today, saying that they are here to pick up their fourth aunt......" The old man, who was called the third master by Mao Laosi, knocked his own cigarette pot on the sole of his cloth shoe, and said calmly to Mao Laosi.

"Third grandfather, if I come back two days late, won't the big guy have to wait until I come back?" Mao Laosi didn't expect that these frost girl's relatives would attach so much importance to themselves.

"Fourth aunt, that's for sure, my aunt said that after you come back this time, our road will be ready to start......" a half-year-old child said excitedly.

To get rich. Build roads first.

These mountain people are far more urgent about building roads than anywhere else.

However, building a road that can be passed by cars in the mountains is not a problem that can be solved by manpower!

Moreover, building roads is a big project, and although there are a lot of strong laborers in the mountains, there is no money and no materials. It is simply impossible to build a mountain road of hundreds of miles by hand.

Building a road in the mountains so that Nijiazhai, which has a population of several hundred, can connect with the dirt road leading to the township is something that the Kangshan Township Government has been considering in the 80s, but because all the mountain roads are too difficult to build and lack of funds, it has been delayed for seven or eight years, and the construction has not started until now.

"Third grandfather. This ......" Mao Yadong didn't know what to say, she was just an errand runner in this matter.

Unexpectedly, Ni Lishuang's third grandfather personally took a group of descendants to wait for him on the way up the mountain.

"Fourth aunt. You are now our God of Wealth, we have nothing to do in the village anyway, and we are idle when we are idle......" Ni Sanye didn't speak, and the kid next to him rushed to say.

"Five stunned. You kid didn't want to go to school and found an excuse to sneak out, right? Look at me when I go back, I won't tell your aunt to go......" Mao Yadong didn't know how to deal with such a heavy gift, so she could only joke with the kid who spoke.

"Third grandfather. It's not too early, let's go...... "If it weren't for his mother being here, Mao Laosi wouldn't want to come back here at all."

got off the train, took a day's car, and then took a half-day tractor, and had to walk more than a day of mountain roads to reach Nijiazhai, which was simply fatal for her, a city girl who had suffered a lot since she was a child, but had not walked so many mountain roads.

"Yes, it's not early, if you don't leave, you won't be able to arrive tomorrow when it gets dark. Fourth girl, please get on the sliding rod......" The two middle-aged people took out a sliding rod made of wooden chairs and recliners tied to both sides of two bamboos from the shed that made people shelter from the rain, and put it at Mao Laosi's feet, Ni Sanye said to Mao Laosi.

The mountain road is difficult to walk, these sliding poles, only two kinds of people can enjoy, one is the bride, the other is the person who has to go to the hospital who is seriously ill......

Now, the man from Nijiazhai actually used this to carry her back to the village, how could he not let her be moved?

"Third grandfather, how can this be ......" Mao Laosi has always wanted to sit, but she knows the meaning of the sliding pole on the road, anyway, she has been in this mountain for a long time, and she doesn't care about walking the mountain road a few more times.

"Fourth girl, this is what the patriarch ordered......" Ni Sanye, who was full of wrinkles, said to Mao Laosi with a smile.

In these fringe cottages, the patriarch has more power than the government officials.

You must know that Lu Dao, when she first saw this thing that only existed before the liberation, she wanted to sit on a plate, but no matter what she said, Ni Lishuang's grandfather, who was the head of Nijiazhai Village, did not agree to this matter.

Now they go back to raise money for road repairs, and they actually use such a big gift!

"Frost girl, you tell grandpa the truth, the fourth girl can really bring back the money to repair the road when she goes back this time?" Ni Fulai asked the only girl in his old family who was fiddling with the potatoes on the edge of the fire pond while snorting the hookah.

Potatoes account for a large proportion of the food of people in the mountains of southern Yunnan.

Southern Yunnan is mountainous, there are not many terraced fields in the mountains where rice can be grown, and the staple food in many places is high-yielding crops such as potatoes and corn, and of course, sorghum and other cereals that urban people simply do not want to eat.

For children in southern Yunnan, potatoes are not only a staple food, but also a snack.

"Grandpa, don't worry, she will definitely be able to bring the money back, when the time comes, when the road is opened, then repair the school in the village, as long as the road is opened, there will be teachers in the school who are willing to come, when the time comes, let's send more money to those teachers, and they will be able to stay." Back in southern Yunnan, her hometown where she had never been before, Ni Lishuang gained a lot of weight.

"Frost girl, you're not here to entertain us, are you? The money we spend to build the road is not a small amount, otherwise, the township government would have repaired it a long time ago, and it would cost hundreds of thousands! Ni Lishuang's third uncle, Ni Weifu, took the old man's hookah, and smoked it regardless of holding the child in his arms.

"Third uncle, don't worry!" The third uncle is the successor of the village, how can she not understand the poverty situation in the village who is eager to change the situation!

"Sister Shuang'er, can you tell us about a big city again? In our village, grandpa has only been to the county seat a few times. The most knowledgeable is the uncle who went to school, but it's a pity that ...... "Ni Lishuang's second uncle's youngest son married the new daughter-in-law Zhang Hongmei after the Chinese New Year, is very yearning for the world outside the mountain, and she has rarely been to the countryside, let alone a big city.

"Hongmei, shut up!" Ni Lishuang's second aunt Zhou Xiuying, who was taking the soles of her shoes, suddenly changed her face, and scolded her little daughter-in-law who had just entered the house.

After Ni Lishuang came back, the old man had a family meeting, and no one could mention her father in front of Ni Lishuang.

This girl was born without her parents, and because their relatives were too far away, and they didn't want to ruin Ni Lishuang's life, the old man cut off the idea of taking her back to raise her.

In this year, there is an insurmountable gap between rural people and urban people.

Normally, if a rural person wants to get an urban hukou, in addition to being a soldier, the only way to do this is to study.

For so many years, the matter of recruiting soldiers has not been encountered in the whole village, and the recruitment that is very common in other places has not been seen at all, and the only thing left is to study.

Since the liberation, only Ni Lishuang's father has been recommended to go to college in this village, and there are not even a few people who go to junior high school......

"Second aunt, it's okay, although I didn't have a father or mother since I was a child, my adoptive parents treated me very well at home! There's nothing you can't say, Sister Hongmei, when the road is repaired in the future, I'll take everyone to Rongcheng to play, and if you want to stay in Rongcheng at that time, I'll ask my brother Yunfei to arrange a job for you. For this girl who married at the age of sixteen, Ni Lishuang was full of sympathy.

"Really? I haven't read anything, I don't even know a lot of words! When Zhang Hongmei heard Ni Lishuang say that she was going to take her to a big city and arrange work, she immediately became excited.

"Frost girl, don't coax her to play, otherwise she won't be serious about her work all day......" Zhou Xiuying heard Ni Lishuang say that she wanted her little daughter-in-law to arrange work, although she was looking forward to it in her heart, but thinking of this matter, it was not easy at all, and she was worried that this new daughter-in-law would be ambitious, and it would be difficult to manage it in the future.

"Second aunt, I'm really not coaxing her, my brother Yunfei's factory has been recruiting people all the time!" Yun Fei has several factories, even if there is no culture, it is not difficult for her to arrange a few positions.

Yun Fei is not opposed to stuffing some relatives into it, as long as he doesn't stuff people into the management and the technical department, and the people who stuff it obey the management, there will be no problem.

"Frost girl, I've been hearing the four girls of the Mao family say that you are Brother Yunfei, what is he doing?" The old man didn't go to bed early and get up early like other old people, and after Ni Lishuang came back, his habit of not chatting by the fire pond for a long time had changed.

Soon after Ni Lishuang came back, Qing Yu'e brought her daughter to Ni Lishuang, which made the family very pleased, this girl without parents can also receive such attention, how can they not be pleased?

Besides, they didn't know the way at all, Ni Lishuang ran away from home. (To be continued......)