Tuesday, April 3rd, sunny.
On the third day of the third lunar month, it is appropriate to start construction and business.
Li Long drove a jeep to pick up Director Wei and Li Xiangqian, and then went to pick up Ma Xiaoyan and Yelaya.
Behind the jeep was a large truck, which was pulling a whole truckload of water pipes.
Whether it is enough or not will be used first.
Director Wei set the date and informed Li Long a week in advance. Li Long also felt the same, but he just hoped it wouldn't rain that day.
Okay, the weather has been a little windy and sunny these days.
The road to the mountains has dried up, and the snow in the mountains has also melted. Young grass that is not very lush has grown on the turf near Harimu and his winter home, which looks quite pleasing to the eye.
The pine trees in the mountains have turned green, and clusters of new tender pine needles have just sprouted out, growing on the old branches. The color is obviously different from the old branches, which looks quite unique.
The first ones to bloom are Laowa garlic and dandelions, which are bright yellow, goose yellow, and a little blood red - the middle strip of Laowa garlic is this color.
Li Long drove, Director Wei sat in the passenger seat, and Ma Xiaoyan and Ye Laya sat in the back seat.
Originally, Li Long wanted to let Li Xiangqian sit in the back seat. After all, the back seat could seat three people, but Li Long insisted on sitting in the co-pilot of the big truck, so-called leading the car.
Li Long didn't force himself and drove the jeep to lead the way to Halimu's winter nest.
Li Long had already told Harimu about this matter yesterday, so when Director Wei and the others arrived, many people had gathered here in Dongwozi.
There were many men, women and children. When the jeep and the big truck arrived at Dongwozi, Harimu brought these people over to greet them, with sincere smiles on their faces.
There were not only those pipes on the big truck, but also some living supplies. This was not what Li Long said, but what Li Long proposed to Director Wei.
Anyway, there are a lot of things in the supply and marketing cooperative, and it is normal to express condolences to ethnic minority people. Your superiors will not only agree but also praise you.
Rice, flour, oil, dried fruits, and honey are all very popular supplies.
When these things were moved down, the people behind Harimu couldn't help but cheer.
Ma Xiaoyan asked Yelaya to take photos quickly and choose a good angle to better show the image of national unity.
The people around Harimu were really happy. These people could send them supplies at this time, which made them feel the sincerity of the other party.
Harimu also said that when they come here, they still need to send some water pipes to connect the water to the door of each winter nest. What a good thing!
Under the command of Li Xiangqian, the young men removed the water pipes.
Today we need to bury the water pipes in Harimu's winter home, and Director Wei will follow the whole process.
Li Long has promised to complete it within one day, and it will not delay his return home from get off work today.
Director Wei is naturally satisfied.
"Halimu, let's divide the people into two groups. One group is preparing for lunch, and the other group is digging holes and burying pipes according to the predetermined route." Li Long discussed with Harry Mu, and then told Director Wei and Ma Xiaoyan the plan. .
Tell Director Wei to let him know where today's project volume is mainly used. I told Ma Xiaoyan that I wanted her to understand the project so that she could write a press release.
The most important work is still done by the young men, together with Halimu, Yushanjiang and Li Longlai.
As soon as Harimu spoke here, the boys took shovels and started digging the turf according to the positions agreed upon before Li Long and others arrived.
The hole that needs to be dug is only one shovel wide and no more than thirty centimeters deep, so the amount of work is not large.
Thirty centimeters may be frozen in winter, but Li Long has done research here. As long as the water in the upper water source keeps flowing and the water below continues to flow, the middle will not freeze.
If the water stops upstream, even if it doesn't freeze, there will be no water downstream, so you don't need to think so much.
There were seven or eight young men who came this time, and together with Li Long, the total digging project for each of them was only a little more than ten meters. The place they chose avoided rocks and was made of turf. There was some sand and gravel near the stream where the puddle was dug. Li Long did it himself.
Director Wei and Li Xiangqian also took shovels and worked symbolically for a while, and then they were called by Yushanjiang to drink milk tea.
However, the driver took the shovel they were working on and continued working, digging quite quickly.
After Li Long arrived at the water source, he began to dig. He needs to dig out a deep enough and large water tank here first, and it is best to clean off all the floating sand on it, so that after the water pipe is buried, it will not be easy for the sand to seep in and block the pipe.
He used a shovel to find several places near the spring. Finally, Li Long determined the location less than five meters away from the spring and started digging.
There were some other creatures in the water, including various small insects. Li Long didn't pay attention to it. After digging for a while, a puddle about half a meter deep and almost half a meter in diameter came out.
The water quickly filled up and then rushed downstream with turbid silt.
Li Long began to dig out the trough for the water pipe next to the puddle.
Underneath the thin layer of soil here are rocks. Fortunately, they are mostly sand and gravel. If you can dig them out, you just need a scrap shovel.
It took more than an hour, using a shovel and a pickaxe, to dig out a qualified ditch from the five- to six-meter stone layer. Then we turned to look at other locations. Everyone had basically dug all the ditches assigned to them. .
Then it continued to deepen. Li Long remembered that when he was smashing the stone layer, he vaguely heard Li Xiangqian saying to dig deeper.
Then dig deeper.
Li Long didn't. He went over to pull the water pipe, wrapped his head in gauze a few more layers, and then buried his head to the bottom of the puddle he dug at the beginning.
The puddle was near the north. Li Long dug a deep trough. At this time, the water flowed along the trough to the ditch he dug.
Li Long didn't care about that. He pressed the mouth of the water pipe tied with gauze to the bottom of the puddle. He first used a few prepared stones to hold down the water pipe, and then placed some small stones at the mouth of the water pipe. The smallest one is half as big as the mouth of the tube. Because of its irregular shape, it will not get into the tube after the gauze breaks.
After burying the mouth of the pipe with these stones, Li Long pressed several large stones on top of these small stones, and nothing moved further.
This pit needs to be cleaned frequently, because the surrounding sand will slowly gather into the pit with the flow of water, slowly blocking the pipe opening.
However, this process will not be too fast, and it may only need to be cleaned once every year or two.
Ma Xiaoyan was randomly interviewing the herdsmen with a small book, and Yelaya translated the things she didn't understand. While she was interviewing Director Wei and Li Xiangqian, Yelaya ran around taking pictures.
Here, Li Long took a few photos of Ye Laya. They were all taken when he was bending down and working, and his silhouette could be seen. He looked very serious.
After Li Long buried the mouth of the water pipe, he began to straighten out the long pipe. The pipes were measured in advance and were three to five meters longer than the trench they dug. These were reserved.
Water was already flowing down the pipe, so Li Long began to press the pipe into the ditch from his own side. He pressed it up five or six meters, and then began to fill the ditch with soil.
Not far away, Harimu had finished digging his trench. When he saw Li Long starting to fill in the soil, he immediately came over to help.
One presses the pipe and the other shovels the soil on both sides into the ditch, and the movements are very fast.
After the two men buried the more than 20 meters of pipe they had to dig, the people behind them also began to straighten out the pipe and bury it.
The water pipes were originally coiled into a circle with a diameter of more than one meter. Now they are still a little twisted after being removed. If they are to be straightened and buried, they will turn in circles, otherwise the pipes will not obey.
The people behind were turning the pipe to smooth it out while pressing it into the ditch.
Li Long and Halimu trampled the places where they had buried themselves, and the top of them was still covered with the turf they had just dug.
In this case, when it rains, the turf will continue to grow, and it will soon be impossible to tell that a ditch has been dug here.
"The water is coming, the water is coming!"
A young man at the end of the water pipe shouted.
The water has flowed from here to there. The difference between the top and bottom is twenty or thirty meters, which is larger than the well dug by Li Long and others in the team.
Therefore, the water flow is not small and the flow speed is also very fast.
Looking at the water flowing out of the water pipe, it was a little turbid at first, and then became clear. People in front of Dongwozi spontaneously cheered. Especially for those women, it would be great to think about the fact that they don’t need to go to the bottom of the mountain to fetch water every day!
Their eyes changed again when they looked at Director Wei, Li Xiangqian, and Li Long on the hillside.
Good days are brought about by them.
The sheep have been slaughtered and experienced old men are cutting them up. Some are to be boiled and some are to be roasted.
Before arriving, the young people had already cut red willow branches and dug a barbecue trough on the ground.
But I haven't added any charcoal yet.
The water supply project is going so smoothly right now that it doesn't even take a whole day. It only takes less than half a day to dig. The water is also brought down. Next, a big hole needs to be dug at the end of the water pipe, mainly to hold water. , easy to use.
As for when the puddle is full, the water will naturally flow down the mountain and slowly create a ditch, without the need for people to do anything.
Seeing that the amount of work was gradually decreasing, Yushanjiang asked a few young men to dig a trough for barbecue.
Ma Xiaoyan and Ye Laya also took pictures of this scene, and specifically asked the young people why they did this.
In fact, Yelaya could explain it herself, but she didn't say much and faithfully translated the conversation between the two parties.
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It seems that life has taught her a lot.
Li Long and Halimu checked and buried all the water pipes along the dug ditch from the top of the mountain. After all the water pipes were buried, the barbecue trough here had been dug, and someone had poured the red charcoal into it. Put it in the trough and spread it evenly with a stick.
Over there, the women who came to help were skewering the cut pieces of meat with red willow branches. The young man took the skewers and put them on the trough to grill.
The trench was dug quite long, and the excavated soil was piled firmly on both sides, so that the skewers could fit perfectly on top.
There are two experienced people who sprinkle salt, spicy noodles, and cumin powder on the skewers.
Li Long and Halimu walked to the head of the water pipe, looked at the extra pipe with a length of three to five meters, and asked Halimu:
"Should I cut this off?"
"Harimu hesitated."
Li Long helped him make the decision:
"It's better to cut it off. It's inconvenient for the pipe to be exposed outside. Just leave a small section. Otherwise, it will be easy to freeze in winter, and if you are discovered after you move to another place, it will be troublesome for them to tear the pipe away."< br>
Harimu thought it was right, so he took his knife and slowly cut off the water pipe.
Li Qianqian walked up to Li Long and said with a smile:
"Originally, after hearing what you said, I thought I would be here all day today. Looking at it this way, I can go back after lunch."
"Yeah." Li Long smiled, "I originally thought that this trench would be difficult to dig, but I didn't expect that the bottom part was all soft soil, and only my section was made of rocks. If the rest of it was like this, it would be great. Too much.”
There are nearly 20 herdsmen in this small tribe. Li Long's plan is to connect all the herdsmen with water pipes in front of their winter dens so that they can use water nearby.
According to the previous plan, this work would have to be done until Harimu and the others moved on.
Now it seems that this time point can be advanced.
This will make it much more convenient for Li Long. After all, it's not convenient for him to stay in the mountains every day. There is life at the bottom of the mountain as well.
Besides, Gu Xiaoxia is already seven or eight months pregnant with her child, which is a critical period, and he doesn't want to stay outside.
The aroma of barbecue soon spread, and the mutton cooking in the big pot also spread the faint smell and rich aroma.
Director Wei drank two bowls of milk tea and chatted with Director Ma Xiaoyan about the original intention of why the supply and marketing cooperative was doing this activity, as well as the supplies and follow-up plans. When Ma Xiaoyan agreed to include these contents in the manuscript, he was satisfied Nod.
Then he stood up and walked around on the grass.
There were some small mushrooms on the grass. Director Wei went to the pine forest to put water in and picked up some mushrooms.
He still knew straw mushrooms, but picking them up and holding them in both hands was no longer enough.
I thought it would be good to take these wild mushrooms back and fry them.
Li Xiangqian had already seen Director Wei picking mushrooms and talked to Li Long. Then Li Long took out a bag from the trunk of the jeep and gave it to him. Li Xiangqian took the bag and gave it to Director Wei.
"There are a lot of wild mushrooms here." Director Wei said smoothly, "Life in the mountains is not as boring as imagined."
Li told Xiang Xiang that if you stay here for only one day, you will know whether it is boring or not if you stay here for three months.
Why do people want to run to cities or big cities? Not only because the conditions in the city are good, but also because there are so many people there.
At this time, the mutton was already roasted. Harimu came over with a handful of skewers and shared them with Director Wei Li Xiangqian and Li Long.
"This meat is so well grilled!" Li Xiangqian took a bite and praised, "Hey, I haven't eaten such delicious barbecue for a long time."
"That's right," Li Long said with a smile as he ate, "Fresh mutton, freshly slaughtered, and freshly roasted. It also has ethnic flavor and original flavor, so of course it's delicious."
"If it tastes good, eat more." Director Wei had already finished one bunch, threw away the red willow branches, and was eating another bunch when he uttered an advertising slogan for later generations.
Li Long also ate two skewers and thought they were good. But he still planned to eat some finger meat and drink a bowl of mutton soup.
Li Long threw away the red willow branches, pulled some wild onions, washed them in the puddle he just dug, and put them in when he was going to drink mutton soup later.
The chopped green onion needs to be sprinkled when the broth is out of the pot, otherwise it will be tasteless.
Seeing Li Long doing this, Li Xiangqian also pulled a handful of wild onions. Li Long reminded him:
"Chief, you are a little fat. You should drink less of this broth."
Li shook his head forward and said with a smile:
"What should I drink less? How many days have passed in the good days? How can I drink less? I can't drink such delicious mutton soup a few times a year. I'm not like you. I will come here often in the future. I must have a good drink today. …”
Having said this, Li Xiangqian whispered to Li Long:
"Director Qian called me yesterday and asked me what your main job is in the supply and marketing cooperative. I said that you mainly take over the tasks in our cooperative, organizing people to make brooms, tie brooms, tie reeds, etc. He said he got it."
Li Long nodded without thinking too much.
Li Qianqian looked at his expression and shook his head. He really felt like he hated iron for not becoming steel.
This kid is usually so smart, why doesn't he understand now?
To be honest, Li Long is now moving step by step towards his goal, and he is quite satisfied with his situation for the time being. There are some things in his plan that can only be carried out when the time comes, otherwise they will not be carried out.
And now the focus of his life is Gu Xiaoxia and his unborn child, so he really doesn't care much about other things.
Harimu and the others are different. They really saw the convenience of connecting water pipes today. The water is now right in front of Dongwozi. It will be much more convenient to do anything. The most convenient thing is the water for domestic use. You don’t have to travel so far to wash anything.
Harimu was happy, and everyone else felt the same way. Everyone knows how to install such a large roll of water pipes. Some people think of cutting off a section now so that they can dig it back at home.
However, Yushanjiang was stopped, and he told everyone to work together, otherwise the route could not be found well and the water pipe openings could not be properly opened, and the water pipe openings might be blocked. In that case, all the efforts would be wasted and there would be a lot of trouble.
Yushanjiang's prestige in the army is quite high, and everyone still listens to what he says.
After the work was completed, the effect was obvious. Everyone's faces were full of joy now. Some people had started singing, and some were dancing to the songs.
Ma Xiaoyan was eating barbecue. Seeing this scene, she immediately started handing the meat skewers to Yelaya. She took out her notebook and recorded it. Yelaya looked around and called a young man to help hold the meat skewers. Then he took a photo with his camera.
Watching them dancing cheerfully, Li Long felt that his mood became as cheerful as theirs.
Director Wei and Li Xiangqian really felt that the water pipes they brought today helped these people and made them so happy.
They were also affected. Although they did not dance along, the smiles on their faces obviously became sincere.
Li Long looked at the herdsmen, then at Director Wei, and thought that today's goal had been achieved.
Although I can change the living standards of some tribes by myself, how can I bring everyone together to come together? (End of chapter)