13. Stumbling

Wang Wensi drove the carriage onto the road, sat happily on the wheels, whipped the horse twice, and the carriage galloped up. He took out his little black cigarette holder from his pocket, put it on his mouth, blew on a cigarette, lit it and smoked a few puffs, and thought about beautiful things with a smile.

Regarding the matter of sending white noodles to the construction site, before Dong Datian could say who to let go, Wang Wensi asked to go into battle. Dong Datian said to send two people, and Wang Wensi said that I can do this little errand alone, and everyone has to work hard for water conservancy construction. He also said that he was a village cadre, and he also learned about the situation at the construction site by the way. A few simple words moved the honest Dong Datian and gave Wang Wensi a thumbs up. Originally, he was allowed to leave after breakfast, but on the grounds of going early and returning early, he pulled out the horse from the stable and put on the rubber-tyred cart as soon as it was dawn and set off.

Wang Wensi often said that if you don't go into the water, you can't touch the fish, and if you want to catch the fish, you can't be afraid of getting wet pants in the water. What he thinks is that as long as the white flour is unloaded on the construction site, the yellow mud sticks to his pants, and it is not but. No matter how well Li Minqiang does on the construction site, it is also the soy sauce of the dumpling shop. The common people are all people with good eyes, and it is more uncomfortable to harm their interests than to cut their flesh. Although the common people are all donkeys in the grinding road to listen and drink, but you Li Minqiang has no prestige in Shagang Village, and you have no right to speak, who will listen! Like you, a person who wants to be superior everywhere, is a bare pole in Shagang Village, a piece of stinky, and is pulled by others at will, I don't believe you can stand it, don't worry if you don't leave, as long as you leave, Shagang Village will be all up to me. Thinking of this, another question flashed in his mind, what if Li Minqiang didn't accept it? His face sank slightly, and then he smiled again. Wouldn't it be better if you didn't accept it, who doesn't know that the big white steamed buns are chewed in the mouth, and the delicious ones in the mouth are running away, what can the migrant workers do? The officials don't give gifts. If you, Li Minqiang, make an arbitrary decision not to accept it, then there will be a disturbance on the construction site? Now is the time for Li Minqiang to buy people's hearts, can he easily make such a decision? Who does he rely on to make a name for himself outside? It's not by those stupid boys on the construction site! Everyone made trouble on the construction site, gave him a pig Bajie to throw a rake and didn't do it, or didn't work hard, grinding foreign workers, and the project couldn't go up, wouldn't it be better if he swept his prestige on it? The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this move was a high-level move, and the opponent was difficult to parry. The lonely tree knew it, and he was smug. He touched the sack behind him, and said to himself: No one will get up early if there is no profit, I got up early for you, this year is to support the bold and starve to death, after sending the wheat to the grain processing factory to change it into flour, get two bags out and turn it into a hundred and ten yuan. When he returned to the village, he cut down the tree and transported it to the county woodworking factory, and he was overjoyed when he put a handful of tickets into his pocket. Wang Wensi whipped the horse twice, and the slowed horse galloped again, and the horse's hooves knocked on the frozen hard road and made a sound of "get it".

Before noon, Wang Wensi drove the carriage to the construction site, parked the car outside the shed, because he was eager to see the scene, he unloaded the cattle and tied them to the wheel, and did not say hello to others, so he ran to the embankment to take a look, he was stunned: under the four or five meters deep river trough, the migrant workers flew shovels, like a quick knife to cut tofu to load a piece of mud into a small cart, just like a carp turning over the golden waves, Jiaolong in the sea palace; The slope of the reservoir was filled with dirt carts, one following the other and churning up and down the roadway; The smoke from cooking in the room drifted on the construction site in the wind, intertwined with the smoke from the machine, and the convoy was like a dragon piercing through the clouds and fog; Red flags fluttered along the coast, loudspeakers played war songs, and tractors crushed the embankment to make a crisp "boom" sound, like a war drum urging the formation. You come and go on the whole construction site, and you call me to shout so lively.

Others will be uplifted and encouraged when they see this boiling scene. But Wang Wensi was uneasy when he saw this scene. He didn't want to watch such a scene anymore. As he walked, he searched his stomach and thought about his thoughts, but he forgot his feet, and stepped on one foot in the mud puddle with ice ballast, and fell on his heels, and the crowd next to him laughed. A naughty young man spoke: "Your eyes are on the top of your head, just look at the sky and not your feet, and don't walk on the smooth road, why do you step on the mud pit!" Then there was a burst of laughter. He scrambled to his feet, glared at the laughing crowd, wiped the mud from his feet with his hands, rubbed his twisted ankles, and muttered uncleanly as he walked on.

The people pushing the cart came and went like shuttles, and the people who were doing the work were all strong young men, and it was difficult to tell which one was from Shagang Village. He walked and found that there was a group of people around the slope in front of him, he hurriedly walked a few steps forward, and found Chang Ziming standing inside and talking about something, he saw clearly, it was Wang Mingkun standing opposite Chang Ziming. I thought to myself: It must be Wang Mingkun, a young man who is arguing and fighting with others, and the leader who sued him is looking for him to settle accounts, why don't you do so many people who don't know each other standing around? He took a closer look and found that no one in Shagang Village helped him, and even Li Xiaobao, who loved to join in the fun, didn't know where to go, and he thought that his judgment was accurate. sneered: Don't look at you Wang Mingkun can play two hundred and five elements in Shagang Village, this is not your world, who eats your set? You and Li Minqiang are good, right? When it came to the juncture, you also smeared oil on the soles of your feet, right? still lose your ugliness in your eyes, and you don't think about what kind of person Li Minqiang is. I haven't seen it through yet.,It's a person who hides when he's good.。 You guys make trouble, you beat your head and bleed, hurt your arms and legs, and I slapped my ass happily when the team broke up. He stopped, he wanted to see how this play ended here, and when they made a big fuss and showed enough ugliness, he would stand in the crowd and say a few words, which also showed the ability of me, an old cadre, isn't this the best of both worlds for a single man and a widow? But he twisted his neck and stretched his ears, so he couldn't hear what was being said in the crowd. He wanted to take a few more steps, but as soon as he lifted his foot, he stepped on a frozen block, which slipped down the slope and threw him on his back. He got up and kicked the frozen block with his foot in a fit of rage, and the frozen block rolled like a ball to the bottom of the reservoir.

"Oh, why are you kicking underneath, smashing people!"

Wang Wensi was taken aback by this sudden stern reprimand, and he suddenly turned around and found that it was Li Xiaobao, standing behind him with a hemp rope in his hand: "Oh, who should I be, it turns out to be the eldest nephew!" ”

Li Xiaobao didn't expect it to be Wang Wensi at all, and then he felt that what he said just now was too much, so he hurriedly smiled and said: "Who should I be, it turned out to be Uncle Wensi, you changed your clothes and didn't recognize it, why did you come here?" ”

Wang Wensi put his hand behind his back and said angrily: "Your uncle is not a person who likes to see scenery, so he brought you delicious food." ”

Li Xiaobao said happily: "Really? Great, Brother Minqiang will still talk about food. ”

Wang Wensi looked around and asked, "What about the people in our village?" ”

Li Xiaobao happily pointed down and said: "Look, we have made the fastest progress, and now Brother Minqiang is leading everyone to dig out water, and when Brother Mingkun finishes talking about things, the water will dry up and then transport mud up." ”

"You're using a rope to pull a cart, right?"

"Yes, I used a car with Brother Minqiang, I pulled him to push, and I competed with them in the second and third rows to see who could pretend to run faster. It's really fun to work with Brother Minqiang, and I have learned a lot from him, Brother Minqiang is very amazing, and the mayor wants everyone to learn from him. Brother Minqiang also praised me at the meeting, praising me for making rapid progress and being a good young man, and he also wanted to learn from me in the whole platoon. ”

Wang Wensi didn't want to listen to Li Xiaobao anymore, so he pouted into the crowd and said, "What are they doing around?" ”

Li Xiaobao said very seriously: "You go and take a look, you can do a great thing, Brother Minqiang and Brother Mingkun didn't sleep in the middle of the night last night, and they figured out a good way to transport mud, using this method to improve work efficiency, Brother Mingkun is introducing experience to the brothers." ”

Li Xiaobao's enthusiastic words, Wang Wensi was like eating ice cubes in this winter, and his warm heart suddenly cooled down, and he asked Li Xiaobao to tell Li Minqiang to send someone to unload the car, and Li Xiaobao rushed down to the bottom of the reservoir like flying. Wang Wensi walked over to the crowd.

Wang Wensi was like this no matter where he went, before the voice arrived, he shouted before he could come to him: "Mayor Town, where are you busy?" ”

Everyone turned their heads and looked at Wang Wensi, Chang Ziming said happily when he saw Wang Wensi: "Come on, look at their new invention, it's not simple!" ”

Wang Wensi walked into the crowd and glanced at Wang Mingkun, who was ruddy, and stood there pretending to be puzzled and looked around. Chang Ziming gushed open: "Look at how simple this method is, the car takes the next to grab the wheels to the sky, and the handlebar is buried under the wire around the rim as a rope, which saves time and effort, this method is promoted in the whole construction site, hey, the ergonomics can be improved a lot, so that the project is completed in advance It is a sure thing." ”

Wang Wensi smiled and said: "Who doesn't know that the generals are smart and skillful, and the strong generals have no weak soldiers, this is not the mayor's leadership." ”

"Look at what you said, I'm not a strong general." Chang Ziming said with a smile.

Wang Wensi took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and handed it to Chang Ziming, and then took out another one for the people around him, but no one answered, so he smoked it himself.

At this time, the on-site meeting to introduce the experience was basically over, and Chang Ziming announced: "The experience will be introduced here, and everyone will do it according to this method when they go back." Of course, it is not excluded that there is a better way, and after you go back, you must continue to use your brains on this basis and come up with all the methods that can improve work efficiency. Okay, let's all go back to work. ”

Everyone talked about returning to their combat posts.

Chang Ziming took a puff of cigarette, pointed to the young men who were bare-headed at the bottom of the reservoir, holding their arms, holding their trouser legs, and digging water with their waists, with a satisfied smile on their faces, and said: "Look at the young men, which one is not like a little tiger, they can win glory for your Shagang Village." ”

Wang Wensi hurriedly picked up the conversation: "Bingyong also depends on your generals." ”

Chang Ziming waved his hand and said: "You are not right, I have led the class to engage in water conservancy projects two or three times, but I have never been so happy as this time." Speaking of this, he changed his words again, "Hey, go back and tell Dong Datian that there is a good seedling in your village." ”

Wang Wensi, who had been racking his brains and thinking about his thoughts, now heard the other party's praise of Li Minqiang, and said with a smile: "Then it doesn't need to be said, the people who came out of the army." ”

At this time, Chang Ziming remembered to ask Wang Wensi's intention: "You are also a person who does not go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, how can you ...... today?"

Without waiting for Chang Ziming to finish speaking, Wang Wensi hurriedly took over the words, as if only then did he remember, and said, "I'm also busy at home, how can I have time to come here to watch the scenery." I'm worried that Minqiang has just returned from the army and has no experience, and I'm worried that doing a bad job on the construction site will affect the progress of the project, so I'll take a look and send them something by the way. ”

Chang Ziming smiled and said, "Now you can rest assured, right?" ”

Wang Wensi nodded and smiled and said, "Rest assured, rest assured." ”

Chang Ziming said: "It's not time to finish work yet, I'll go down and work for a while, and I won't accompany you." He took two puffs of the cigarette in his mouth, then threw the butt to the ground, habitually stomped it out with his foot, and was about to leave.

Wang Wensi grabbed Chang Ziming's arm, and said with a somewhat touched and concerned expression: "You are also in your forties, and you are still working with the boys, I have to learn from you." But you also have to pay proper attention to your body, which is the cost of work. As he spoke, he picked up the padded jacket from the ground for Chang Ziming and handed it over, saying, "I am relieved after coming here to see it, I have to go back quickly, there are still many things waiting for me to do in the village." ”

Chang Ziming shook Wang Wensi's hand and said, "Then let's talk later." As he spoke, he put his padded jacket on his shoulders and rushed to the bottom of the reservoir.