Seeing that he finally spoke out, Li Weimin breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground as if exhausted. However, he couldn't help but cursed: "You're really fucking scaring me to death."
Gu Xingdong's tense face also softened a lot.
"Hehe." Wang Dazhu grinned weakly and said, "My mother once made a prediction for me, saying that I am destined to turn bad luck into good luck. If I survive a catastrophe, I will be blessed later in life."
Li Weimin raised his hand and wanted to hit him on the head, but seeing his miserable bear look, he had no choice but to give up: "If you continue to act so carelessly, nine lives are not enough for you."
Gu Xingdong roughly inspected Wang Dazhu's wounds and then straightened up and said, "You are too seriously injured. I will ask someone to send you back to the rear now."
As soon as he heard that he was about to be sent away, Wang Dazhu immediately struggled to get up: "Batalion Commander, I can still leave if it's okay."
Just as he moved, the tourniquet Gu Xingdong had just tied immediately started to leak out a lot of blood.
"Don't be brave." Gu Xingdong pressed his shoulders and said rudely: "You will slow down everyone's progress."
Wang Dazhu was a little unwilling.
Li Weimin smiled and consoled him: "Listen to our battalion commander. I want to show you are not in a hurry at this moment. When you recover from your injury, we brothers will cooperate together."
Soon Gu Xingdong called two people to take Wang Dazhu back.
As Wang Dazhu left, Gu Xingdong gathered the rest of the people together and redeployed the march plan.
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Chen Lishu stared at the window for a while, then got up and got dressed and went out. Zhang Qin happened to come out of her room. The two looked at each other and smiled, and went to the kitchen to make breakfast together.
Li Xiulan slept late last night and got up a little late this morning. When she went to the kitchen, she saw her sister-in-law cooking and talking and laughing. She sighed in her heart, but she quickly covered up the disappointment in her eyes and acted as if nothing had happened.
walked in.
"Mom." Chen Lishu looked up and saw her coming in and called out.
Li Xiulan nodded: "Your father heard that the contract has been awarded, and he said that he would call your elder brother and the others to go to the mountain together after breakfast to see the situation. We are not in a hurry to collect grain for now."
Hearing her words, Chen Lishu felt warm in her heart. After all, most old people would feel uncomfortable about the possibility of being unable to have children. Now Li Xiulan and Gu Shoufu not only did not treat her strangely, they even considered her. She was very grateful to the two old people for their understanding.
Chen Lishu smiled: "It just so happened that I had already said hello to Fourth Uncle Hu and the others yesterday and was preparing to go to the mountains to have a look today."
Liu Yuemin came in from the outside yawning, and happened to listen to the conversation between the two. She hurriedly said: "Mom, third brother and sister, why didn't you tell me in advance that you were going to the mountain? Xingmin made an appointment with my elder brother and the others early in the morning.
Okay, let’s go to town to sell grain together today, my eldest brother and the others don’t know anything, so they definitely need someone to keep an eye on them.”
Li Xiulan: "Since we have agreed, let's not go to Xingmin. Anyway, there are your dad, your eldest brother and Xingye here, so he is not the only one left."
When Liu Yuemin heard that Gu Xingmin was no longer needed, her face showed a smile again.
There is no benefit without money. Why can't the whole family make money to work for Chen Lishu in vain? During this period, Gu Xingmin has made a thousand dollars, and he also promised her to go to the town to buy a bracelet in two days.
Soon breakfast was ready. After dinner, Gu Xingye drove the carriage and the family walked towards the foot of the mountain together.
In winter, the green mountains are covered with a mysterious veil of white snow, and the tall and tall gray trees become the only embellishment.
When a few people arrived, Chen Mandun, Hu Si'er, and another forest ranger in the village, Lin Dazhong, were talking. When they saw them driving the carriage, they stopped talking and came over.
"Fourth Uncle, Uncle Lin, you know the mountain better, please take us up first to have a general look at the situation."
After listening to Chen Lishu's words, Hu Si'er and Lin Dazhong nodded and began to lead the way: "There is a gentle slope in front of this area. It is easier to go up from there."
The altitude of Qingshan is not too high, only six to seven hundred meters high. The mountain road is not easy to walk in the snow. It took the group nearly an hour to climb to the top of the mountain.
Standing on the top of the mountain, the view suddenly becomes much wider.
The southern slope is close to the village and has been cut down, revealing a large open space that looks like a dog has gnawed it. The opposite northern slope is almost covered with trees.
After seeing the whole picture, Chen Lishu listened to Hu Si'er and Lin Dazhong's detailed introduction, and she had a general understanding of the entire mountainous area.
"If you want to make it easier to go up the mountain, this road must be built first." After walking around in a circle, Gu Shoufu said as he was going down the mountain.
Chen Lishu also had this intention: "I will start recruiting people when I go back. I will do it now so that it will be easier for everyone to work in spring."
This time, the contracting of the mountainous area took almost all the cash in her hand. Except for the few goods sold in various stores, she only had less than two thousand yuan left.
The available working capital is limited, and land reclamation in the mountainous areas requires not only labor, but also follow-up investments that will definitely require a lot of money.
For projects with large capital investment and slow return on investment, she is prepared to postpone them for a while, adopting the strategy of ‘feeding the short with the long’ and ‘feeding the mountain with the mountain’.
First, level the open space that was cut down by the villagers before, and then plant crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and beets that do not have particularly high requirements for the growing environment, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and sugar beets that have a short maturity period and quick yields, or interplant dandelions, evening primrose, and blueroot among fruit trees.
They are all relatively common medicinal materials in the north and have relatively low environmental requirements.
Chen Lishu told everyone her thoughts and immediately gained everyone's approval.
"Your dad is a good farmer. He is the most experienced in this area, and his skill in growing melons is even better." Hu Si'er smiled and gave a thumbs up.
Lin Dazhong: "Yes, I remember that the village had planted melons for two years before. The full stockpile was the most productive. The village made a lot of money during the harvest that year. Unfortunately, the rains were frequent the second year and the transportation was inconvenient. I just watched it.
The melons rotted in the ground, and from then on Murakami never dared to risk planting any more."
When Chen Mantun heard everyone praising him, he smiled honestly: "It's all just nonsense."
Chen Lishu didn't know that this happened, and she probably didn't have much memory when she was young.
"Dad, I will also set aside a piece of land to grow melons next year and hire you to be my technical consultant in this mountainous area."
Chen Mandun was even more embarrassed: "Why don't you ask, why do you need to hire someone to help your daughter?"
Just as a few people were planning how to develop it, the commune secretary and two other staff members arrived at the Qingshan Village brigade headquarters.
Zhang Changhe, Sun Yuzhu and two other village committee cadres are meeting to study road construction in the spring.
"Construction will start after the new year. We have to hurry up and bring back the stones and other materials. It happens that the prices of these things are not expensive before the new year. Tomorrow..."
Zhang Changhe was talking when he looked up and saw Secretary Wang from the commune coming in with two staff members. He was stunned for a moment, then quickly stood up and greeted him: "Secretary Wang, why are you here free?"