Chapter 28 Losing Ugliness
I didn’t sleep well all night. When I got up, my head felt groggy, and I didn’t even have much appetite for breakfast.
"Didn't you sleep well last night?"
"Yes." Lin Shu answered weakly.
Liu Xiao'e glanced at the rest of the family. Everyone was not in a good state of mind. "It has been three days since the funeral. Last night was the last night. There must have been a lot of commotion. We will carry it out and bury it this morning." , you can have a good sleep tonight.”
Lin Wei nodded: "Uncle Chao said before leaving work yesterday that everyone does not have to go to work this morning and will all go to see grandma off for the last time."
The uncle Chao he mentioned is the accountant on the team, his name is Lin Yuanchao.
"Okay, after dinner, you can go and see her off."
Eighty years old is a time of mourning, and during the burial process, no one cried or cried. People in the village Except for those who helped, most of those who came to see him off were just to join in the fun. I have been busy with spring plowing for so many days, but I am in a good mood because I can rest for half a day.
Following the funeral procession, Lin Shu discovered that the cemetery chosen by the captain's family was actually far away from the village, on the back of several green hills, that is, the cemetery faced the Qingjiang River.
The water quality of this Qingjiang River is very clear. In this era, if rural people do not bring water with them when they go to the fields, they will dare to drink the water from the Qingjiang River directly.
Even in later generations, the water of this river is still very clear, and the wild fish in the river are sold at unprecedented high prices.
There are dozens, hundreds, or even hundreds of river fish weighing a pound, and the wild turtles in this river can be sold for thousands of yuan, and ordinary people may not be able to buy them.
Whenever fresh fish comes out of the river, it is immediately bought by rich people at a high price.
Later, even this river, which had no pollution, was banned from fishing due to excessive fishing.
But now the villagers are not aware of the preciousness of fresh food in the river. As long as there are fish in the fields, no one is willing to go to the river to fish. After all, the fish in the water cannot be touched or seen, and the villagers are in an unprotected industry. Don't dare to step in easily.
“Sister-in-law, look there is a boat in the river!”
Lin Xiaojun’s shout brought Lin Shu back to her senses. Following the direction he pointed, she actually found something on the river in the distance. A black shadow is coming this way.
It’s just that this speed shouldn’t be a wooden boat with a manual paddle.
"How's it going?" Xu Ming looked at Gu Jiu proudly, "You probably haven't been on this kind of motor boat in the provincial capital, right?"
Gu Jiu leaned against the edge of the boat and closed his eyes to relax. The warm river breeze blew on his face. He didn't know how comfortable it was. Even though the diesel engine of the motor boat was very loud, it did not affect his good mood at all.
After hearing what Xu Ming said, he opened his mouth slightly and said, "I'm not a fisherman. Isn't it normal to have never been on a fishing boat like this?"
The proud smile on Xu Ming's face was slightly After a pause, "According to what you said, we will If we get on this boat, then we are fishermen? Also, you may be mistaken, the main purpose of this motor boat is not fishing, but ferrying.”
This is why they went downstream this time. The reason why the hydropower station has to be taken down by boat.
The land route from the county seat to the hydropower station downstream is nearly 40 kilometers, separated by three towns. The road is full of potholes, and you have to change trains when taking a bus. The time spent on the road is a whole day.
But riding on this motor boat is different. It's a smooth journey on the water, no bumps, no need to change cars, just go straight down the river, and it takes about six hours to get there.
Their power supply station was going to the hydropower station for business, and everyone agreed to rent a boat to go there.
This time, because I was going to the hydropower station below, I thought I would be bored on the way, so I called Gu Jiu, who was equally bored at home.
"Is there a difference between a fishing boat and a ferry boat? Don't they both have to fish in their free time." Gu Jiu rubbed his eyes. He was sober now. He was dragged out of bed early in the morning. I feel sleepy sitting on this boat.
If it weren’t for the comfortable ride on the boat and the nice scenery along the way, I might have fallen out with him long ago.
"." Xu Ming rolled his eyes: "Okay, you said it is a fishing boat, it is a fishing boat. When we return, let the boat owner catch a few fish for you to try." Gu Jiu looked at the wide river in the distance and asked: "These areas along the way should be considered irrigation areas, right?"
"Yes, they are all reservoir irrigation areas." Xu Ming nodded.
“Since the hydropower station below has started generating electricity, they have not expressed anything?”
Gu Jiu knew that a reservoir was going to be built, and the villages in the reservoir’s backflow area would suffer the most because the backflow area would be flooded. Many fields and some even villages will be submerged. If this is the case, then the entire village will have to be relocated, that is, resettled.
There are no subsidies in this era. Gu Jiu feels that since this is the case, there should always be some discounts to the villages along the way, such as free electricity or free power poles to enter the village.
Xu Ming nodded, since it belongs to the power supply system, he really understands this point, "There must be preferential policies. The power station helps the production teams along the way to pull wires into the villages, because the submerged villages along the way will build free houses for living.< br>
There are also villages that have to be pumped for irrigation due to relocation. Water pumping and electricity are free of charge every year. There are also villages along the Qingjiang River that are flooded due to insufficient power generation and flood discharge from the reservoir every spring and summer. How much is the subsidy for the hydropower station per acre, etc.?”
Although Gu Jiu is an unemployed young man who usually doesn’t care about anything, he nodded with satisfaction after hearing these arrangements: “It’s not bad.”
The higher-ups are willing to shoulder some burdens for the villagers, and the villagers are also highly ideologically aware. They will actively cooperate with any requests from the higher-ups, otherwise the construction of the downstream power station will not be so smooth.
The speed of the motor boat was not fast but not slow either. When they found a group of people gathering on the mountain opposite, Gu Jiu asked: "What's going on up the mountain?"
Xu Ming shook his head: "I don't know. , so many people gathered together, could it be that something was discovered on the mountain? What big treasure?"
"Big treasure?" Gu Jiu glanced at Xu Ming in confusion, "What big treasure? Is there any other imperial tomb buried here?"
Otherwise, I couldn't explain why so many people gathered on that mountain.
"No way, Gu Jiu, your imagination is richer than mine. I just thought I discovered the treasure cave, but you thought of the imperial mausoleum!"
Xu Ming laughed loudly, "There have never been any big figures in our county since ancient times. If we insist on having a relationship with historical figures, it seems that only Zhao Zilong has been here during the Three Kingdoms period."
Could it be that those villagers on the mountain Discovered Zhao Zilong’s tomb?
But it is said that Liu Chan buried Zhao Zilong in Sichuan, and some said that he was buried in Changshan, not in their county.
Gu Jiu looked at the group of people in the distance and said casually: "Our county belonged to Chu in ancient times. At that time, it was still the fiefdom of many kings. Are you sure that no kings or generals are buried here? "
"Well, I'm not a historian, how can I know the history of the county?" Xu Ming smiled sarcastically.
"Haha."
The uncle who was driving the boat couldn't bear it anymore. Listening to the conversation between the two young men, he almost suffered internal injuries.
Gu Jiu and Xu Ming both looked back at him.
Xu Ming frowned: "Uncle, what are you laughing at?"
"No, you're not laughing at anything." The uncle waved his hands, but his uncontrollable laughter floated into the room from time to time. in human ears.
The two turned to look at him again.
The uncle waved his hand again: "I'm not laughing!"
But laughter floated in the air from time to time, thinking they were fools!
The motor boat continued to sail in this strange atmosphere.
A quarter of an hour later, as the penetrating suona sound came, Xu Ming resisted the twitching of the corners of his mouth, and Gu Jiu even touched his forehead
(End of this chapter)