Chapter 169 Non-slip soil
Dumplings are now able to distinguish their prey very well. Its father Liu Moang will not let the prey be caught, and the dumplings will never be touched.
However, although the dumplings stopped catching those pikas and snow pigs, the Pleasant Goats in the pasture suffered. Dumplings this guy will attack a sheep almost every day...... Oh no, the lower paws, after a few days, half of the twenty-odd sheep in the original pasture have been gone.
Naturally, these sheep all went into the belly of the three little ones.
Lao Liu naturally has no objection to this kind of thing. The golden eagle is the king of the sky, so it must have the domineering spirit of the king of the sky.
What is it to hunt a sheep every day? If it weren't for the fact that the yaks in the pasture were too big for the dumplings to hunt, Lao Liu hated to let the dumplings hunt the yaks......
Chu Qian also witnessed the heroic appearance of a dumpling hunt, a Tibetan sheep was directly scratched by the sharp claws of dumplings, and there was no chance to escape.
Of course, Lao Liu would not let his daughter-in-law see the bloody scene of eating the sheep in three small shares, and went back to the inn with his daughter-in-law in his arms.
"Why don't you let me see it?" Chu Qian was still unwilling.
"Why are you watching that kind of scene? I have seen too many people who can't get pregnant!"
"You ......" Chu Qian was choked and speechless, so she could only use her fingers to vent anger on Lao Liu.
When they walked to the door of the inn, the young couple saw a construction truck painted orange and yellow walking slowly on the side of the road on National Highway 109, and there were road guards with shovels and orange overalls in the body and under the car.
Every 10 meters or so, the car stops, and then the road guards in and under the car use shovels to remove some dirt from the body and pile it up on the side of the road.
"What are they doing here?" Chu Qian asked curiously.
Lao Liu shook his head and said, "I don't know very well, but it should be related to road protection, right?"
"Is it related to road protection? Are you going to use this loess to pad the potholes on the road?"
Lao Liu spread his hands, "If I knew, I would tell you?" But it doesn't matter if you don't know, there is a mouth under your nose, just go over and ask." ”
The two men walked hand in hand to the side of the road, and when they got closer, they found that the two road guards were already sweating on their foreheads, and it seemed that they had been doing this job for a long time.
The two road guards looked like Tibetans.
In fact, most of the road guards on the plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Railway are local Tibetans. Just like the railway class guarded by Uncle Lobsang Danba that Lao Liu met when he went to play in Cuona Lake, most of the road guards in it were local Tibetans.
On both sides of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, you can see a small house built with composite color steel plates and insulation materials at intervals, which is manned 24 hours a day, and the workers on duty are basically local Tibetans.
"Tashi Delek!" Lao Liu and Chu Qian walked up to them and said hello with their hands folded, the two Tibetan compatriots stopped their work and said hello with a smile, the driver of the car stopped the car and poked his head out to say hello to Lao Liu, it can be seen that these three people seem to know Lao Liu.
"Big brothers, what are you doing here? Why are you piling up all this loess on the side of the road?"
"What do you mean?" a man who looked to be almost forty years old pointed to the loess in the car body, "This is anti-slip soil prepared to prevent the road from icing." ”
"Non-slip soil?" Lao Liu and Chu Qian were confused.
It is estimated that they have been working for a long time and want to take a break, so the driver got out of the car, and the worker on the car body also jumped off.
Lao Liu hurriedly took out a pack of Huazi and took out three and handed them over, the driver and the oldest man took the cigarette, and the other waved his hand to indicate that he would not smoke.
After lighting a cigarette and taking a deep breath, the oldest man explained: "Our altitude is high, and it often snows in November, and there is often dark ice on the road. As you know, dark ice on the road is the most pitiful driver, and if you don't pay attention, you are prone to accidents. ”
Lao Liu and Chu Qian nodded, when they sent Chu Qian home to climb over the mountain passes, they often had to add snow chains to the car tires, because the roads of these high-altitude mountain passes often have dark ice and even snow, and it is really easy to get into a car accident if you don't pay attention.
"If the temperature is high, it's okay to say that as soon as the sun comes out, the dark ice on the road will melt. But now that the temperature is getting colder, the dark ice on the road at night sometimes has to wait until noon to melt, which is very dangerous, so you have to find a way to make the roadside not slippery. ”
The driver turned out and said, "Snow melting agents, salt water and other things are too expensive, and they are easy to cause pollution, so our predecessors came up with such a solution a long time ago." Once the road surface is icy, then directly sprinkle these loess prepared on both sides of the road onto the road surface, which can be very anti-slip. So every year after winter, we have to build small mounds of dirt on the side of the road to make it easier to spread soil on the road. ”
As soon as the driver's eldest brother explained this, the two suddenly realized.
It turns out that these small mounds piled on both sides of the road are actually used for this, no wonder they are called non-slip soil.
Not to mention, this anti-slip method is definitely very effective.
Everyone knows that when there is snow or ice on the road, the road is very slippery. For example, in the past few years, in winter, the news will report that the Beijing-Tibet Expressway is prone to traffic jams after leaving Beijing, not because there are too many vehicles, but because the road slope is large, and once the road surface is frozen, those big cars will not be able to get up at all.
You just step on the accelerator in the gas tank, and the car spins in place, and the car doesn't move!
The same is true of the highland road. Like the road in front of the inn, it looks flat and has almost no slope, but in fact, the slope of this section of the road is still not small. In the 25-kilometer-long section from the inn to Zhongning Township, the altitude dropped from nearly 4,006 to nearly 4,004, and the altitude dropped by more than 200 meters within 25 kilometers, and the slope was basically close to 10/1000.
The slope of this road is actually quite steep, but because the road is too long, it is difficult to see that this section of the road has a slope just by visual inspection.
But that doesn't mean there aren't slopes on this stretch of road. So once it snows or freezes, this section of the road is prone to problems.
However, if the road surface is sprinkled with loess, then the probability of car accidents can be greatly reduced immediately.
These road guards are really hard, not to mention anything else, just standing here and looking in one direction, until the end of the invisible road, there are such small mounds of twenty or thirty centimeters high on both sides of the road.
These small mounds of dirt were piled up by these road guards in this way, one by one.
It is these inconspicuous small mounds that ensure the smooth flow of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway in winter.
And behind these small mounds are the hard work of countless unknown road guards.
"Masters, if you are hungry and thirsty, come to our Tianlu Inn, there is hot water and food here, and you can come for free. Chu Qian's eyes flashed with emotion, and she said to the three road guards very sincerely.
"Thank you, we have food and hot water in the car. The Tibetan compatriot who drove the car smiled politely.
Lao Liu also said: "You're welcome, there are also a lot of Tibetan compatriots working in my inn." The Tashi Dawa brothers of Obacuo, as well as several girls from Zhongning Township, all worked as waiters at the inn. And now our inn has also set up a company with Obatso to jointly develop local tourism resources. So you're welcome, come to the inn when you're tired, hungry and thirsty, and you're very welcome. ”
Although Lao Liu and Chu Qian were very sincere, the three road guards did not go to the inn, but chatted with Lao Liu and his wife for a while, and then continued to pile up dirt on the side of the road.
Seeing the orange engineering truck going farther and farther, Lao Liu and Chu Qian sighed and turned around and walked back to the inn.
After breakfast, a group of people gathered at the bar to chat, and not long after chatting, they heard the sound of vehicles outside.
Gesang Lazhen smiled: "Misses, there are guests, go out to pick up guests......"
Her voice naturally caused a group of ladies to laugh and scold, but before Gesang Lazhen could open the door, the door was pushed open with a "bang".
All the people in the room were stunned for a moment,, what kind of rhythm is this?
The next moment, more than a dozen people walked in from outside the door, all of them with unkind faces, as if the people of the inn owed them tens of thousands of yuan.
This is obviously not to eat or to treat high reactions, Lao Liu frowned and walked over and asked, "What are you ......?"
Before Lao Liu finished speaking, he was interrupted by a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties, "Where is your boss?
"I'm the boss, what's the matter with you?" Lao Liu said with a cold face, and at the same time glanced at the big dog standing aside, who immediately walked into the bar with great interest, fiddled twice in the bar and walked out.
"Are you that Boss Xiao Liu?" asked the middle-aged man in his forties with a sneer on his face, his accent was full of a strong Bashu flavor, it was obvious that he was a Bashu person.
"I heard that you have been very popular recently, those tourists and drivers have come to your inn to eat and stay, are you breaking the rules and using low prices to attract tourists and drivers?"
"Bad rules?" Lao Liu was happy when he heard it, but he didn't bother to explain it to the people in front of him. These people are here to find fault at first glance, and they are not as easy to explain to you.
"You are all restaurant owners on the side of this road, right?" Lao Liu glanced at the group coldly.
Five of the dozen or so people nodded, and the others were probably either the chefs of the restaurants or working in those restaurants.
Another short and stout man, who was also about forty years old, said: "Boss Liu, everyone is begging for food on the side of this road, everyone must abide by the rules on this road, and whoever violates the rules will be punished." This short man also has a Bashu accent.
Lao Liu looked at these people with a cold face, "What are the rules of this road?What are the rules of this road?Why hasn't anyone told me before?"
The first man to speak said: "The rule of this road is that no one can break the price of food and accommodation, and whoever has a lower price of food and accommodation in a restaurant than other restaurants is breaking the rules." ”
The second short man followed: "From the hot spring town all the way to Dangquka, in these dozens of kilometers of road. Counting your Tianlu Inn, there are a total of six roadside restaurants on this road, and your store is also the latest to open. But who doesn't know who opens a restaurant on this road, if you want to make the hotel's business better, you have to raise it for at least half a year. But what about your restaurant? It has become popular in just one or two months, how can you have managed to raise a business in such a short period of time if you don't break the rules?"
As soon as he heard this Lao Liu, he was happy, and he looked up to the sky and snorted, "Oh, with you coming here today to ask for the guilt, is it based on your guesses? You don't know the price of food and accommodation in my inn? Just because the business of my inn is good, you say that I broke the rules?"
Lao Liu's gaze swept over the five bosses, and then slammed the table, "What the hell do you want to learn from Qin Hui and get me a false one? Who is so bad at the rules? Ah? A few of you tell me, who is breaking the rules? Just because my inn business is booming, you just guess that I am bad rules, and you even come to the door to reprimand me, why is your face so big?"
Ma Ali is still the richest man in the country, and other people's business is even hotter, why don't you go to Hangzhou to find Ma Ali to hold him accountable? Tsk, you have the courage to come here to give me face? Lazhen, show our menu to these bosses, let them see if we have broken the rules!"
The first man took the menu from Gesang Lazhen and looked down, the more he looked at it, the more ugly his face became.
After a few hurried glances, he handed the menu to the stout man, who also looked at it a few times, and his face became quite ugly.
It's just that none of them noticed that Chu Qian immediately quietly walked out of the back door after seeing her boyfriend turn his face......
When Kelsang Lazhen took the menu, the first man and the stout man looked at each other, and then they looked at another man in his thirties standing behind them.
The first man said to that person with a very bad face: "Lao Yue, what you did in this matter is not authentic, the price of Boss Liu's meals is no different from the price of our meals, and they have not reduced the price." ”
The man in his thirties was tall and thin, with a figure somewhat like a bamboo pole. The most important thing is that this guy has a pair of eight-character eyebrows, and the corners of his eyes are drooping downward, so he doesn't look like a good person at first glance.
The tall and thin man quibbled: "Boss Wang, Brother Tuesday, who knows if they will give a discount when the guests check out? Otherwise, why is their business so hot?" The tall and thin man's voice did not have a Bashu accent, but a Qiangui accent.
"Let your mother's eighteenth-generation ancestors fart in a row!" Lao Liu immediately spat out fragrant mouth, "Why do you dare to spew feces like this, believe it or not, Lao Tzu slapped you and couldn't take care of yourself?"
The tall and thin man also glared, and quibbled: "Boss Wang, do you see, this guy was hit by me, so he was angry." ”
"Am I angry?" Lao Liu was angry again, "As far as you are unlucky, it will not make Lao Tzu angry." But if you slander Lao Tzu like this again, Lao Tzu will let you know what it is like to be angry and corrupt. ”
The tall, thin man also shouted, "We won't believe your reason unless you show us the ledger." ”
"Do you want to see my account books? Are you from the IRS? Get out, get out of here, don't mess with me and throw you out." It's so brain-dead, and he can't talk more than his brain, phew!"
The bosses who came with him also had some scorn on their faces......
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