Seeing that Secretary Wang was interested, the driver Lao Li said with a smile: "Of course not every household is like this, but there are often such things. I heard from the people of the Family Planning Commission... Secretary Wang, it is said that all the girls in Wuling Township are very beautiful, and many of them are rare beauties. Being the top leader in that kind of place may not only be a fat person, but also a great blessing."
Secretary Wang couldn't help but smile, but said calmly: "I'm going to work. Many issues need to be paid attention to and cannot cause adverse effects."
The driver Lao Li laughed out loud: "Secretary Wang, you are so young and not married yet. What's wrong with a single man having a partner? Besides, you know the local customs. You should care more about left-behind residents in the village and communicate more about work and feelings with female cadres!... The director of the women's director of Wuling Township went to the county for a meeting. I have seen him. He is a charming beauty. I have never seen such a beautiful woman."
Secretary Wang's eyes lit up: "Is it true?"
Driver Lao Li: "How could I lie to you? I was shocked at that time and thought to myself that as long as I could hold such a woman and kiss her, this life would be worth it!"
The two of them walked and chatted all the way. The arduous and rugged journey was driven by a certain desire, and it became less boring and difficult to bear in anticipation. Cheng Tianle kept following behind slowly. At almost three o'clock in the afternoon, the distance was already more than 90 miles, and he suddenly heard the sound of another car.
Strangely, the car did not come from the opposite side, but the off-road vehicle caught up from behind. It was a minivan, with the bus empty and not loaded with things. Cheng Tianle clearly observed various imprints on the way he came. There were no traces of the car passing for at least half a month. So how could the off-road vehicle catch up with a truck driving in the same direction?
This situation is very strange. In fact, it can only explain one thing. The truck should have driven from Wuling Township, and then turned around and drove back on the road, and happened to appear in front of the off-road vehicle. Cheng Tianle thought so, and opened his spiritual sense to pay attention to the investigation, but did not find any trace of anyone using his magical powers.
The off-road vehicle driver subconsciously honked his horn, but he could not overtake this kind of road. Unless he arrived at an open area with no cliffs on both sides, the car in front stopped and barely pushed the wheel outside the roadbed, and the car in the back could carefully pass over.
It was impossible to overtake while driving, so the off-road vehicle had to follow the truck. After walking not far, I finally saw traces of people and a dazzling cable bridge. This road leads directly to a cliff. There is a flat open space among the forests on the edge of the cliff. A white two-story building is built, and behind it is a small substation.
A cable emerged from the ground and connected to the tower opposite the cliff through two towers. Between the two cliffs is a valley nearly 1,000 meters deep, and a rapid flow rushes at the bottom. The rapid turns a right-angle bend not far away, and the roar of water hitting the cliff can be heard by standing on the top of the cliff. From this cliff to the top of the cliff, it is more than 200 meters wide, and a cable bridge is set up in the air.
Cheng Tianle traveled through the Hengduan Mountains not long ago and was no stranger to various cableways and cable bridges. In the eyes of tourists, the steep and beautiful peaks and majestic valleys in Hengduan Mountains are all beautiful scenery of nature; but for those who have lived there since ancient times, those are the difficulties and obstacles that must be faced. Since ancient times, the transportation and transportation of local mountain people have been inseparable from cableways, and it is still the case today.
The earliest cableways and cable bridges were made of bamboo rattan. They were twisted into thick ropes with tough bamboo strips and fixed on the huge rocks at both ends of the valley. Below are the abyss and rushing torrents. If you pull a few cables side by side, fix them together with horizontal tendons, install railings, and lay wooden boards, it will be the original cable bridge. The carrying capacity and service life of this cable bridge are limited, and it is very troublesome to maintain, but it is relatively low in cost.
The main structure of the cable bridges and cableways in ancient times was iron chains. For example, the Dadu Bridge that was once seized during the Long March of the Red Army, the bridge board was laid with iron chains as thick as bowls. In modern times, steel cables were used as the main structure.
Nowadays, many people travel to scenic spots, and most of them take cableways. Some of the thick ropes have seats with safety buckles, while others have closed cars.
However, simple cableways in remote mountainous areas are far less safe and comfortable. The simplest one is a zipline, also called a zipline, which is installed at both ends of the canyon, one is high and the other is low, and pulleys are hung with natural gravity to slide over. If a zipline is hung with a car, it is often like a large iron cage. Ziplines that use gravity usually require a pair, one is sliding over and the other is sliding over.
Ziplines are too dangerous and sometimes they are like playing acrobatics. In some mountains, you can see flat ropes made of several steel wire ropes, and the car is hung below and controlled by a winch. In many places, the winches are often manpower rather than electric.
What is more convenient is the cable bridge. What you see in Tianle is a new modern cable bridge. It uses wire rope as the main structure, uses anchors, connectors, and vibration regulators to form components, and fixes multiple steel ropes across the canyon. There are soft railings on both sides, and bridge boards are also laid on them to allow vehicles to move.
This cable bridge should be the throat of Wuling Township outside the outside world. It seems to have been built in a short time. On the high cliffs on both sides of the bridge, traditional ziplines are still retained. There are steps on the left and left of the bridge leading to the heights. A steel cable tilted to the opposite bank, and a large bamboo basket hanging below it. This basket is so big that it can hold a person and a cow.
People sit in the basket, and the basket can slide directly to the opposite side by hanging pulleys on the steel cable. A rope is connected to the basket, which can be pulled back from here and continue to use. On the right, there is also a zipline, with the high point and bamboo basket on the other side, and people can slide over from there. After the cable bridge is opened, there is no need to take such thrilling hanging basket ziplines, but the locals still retain them, as if they are a symbol and a commemoration.
The two-story building on the open space on the cliff was closed and there was no one. The truck passed by the accelerator and accelerated, rushing onto the cable bridge with smoke. The cable was shaking and swaying, as if it was about to rush the car at any time, but it still crossed the bridge slowly and turned a corner and disappeared. It seemed that it still did not know where the road was.
The driver of the off-road vehicle behind suddenly saw a cliff and a cable bridge, and involuntarily slowed down. At this moment, the door of the small building on the roadside opened, and two men rushed out, one holding a small flag and the other holding a whistle on his chest. He stood at the bridge and reached out to stop the off-road vehicle.
The driver Lao Li rolled down the car window, leaned his head and shouted, "What are you doing, why are you blocking the way?"
The flag holder also shouted: "The car cannot drive forward any more, this bridge cannot pass!"
Driver Lao Li: "Why can't you pass? I just saw a car passing by. Isn't this the road to Wuling Township?"
The whistleblower pointed to the bridge and said, "What are the words written on it? You can't see it?" Looking in the direction of his finger, there was indeed a sign on the left side of the bridge head, which read "This bridge was built by Wuling Village villagers to facilitate local residents' travel. It is prohibited to chase and fight on the bridge to avoid danger; it is prohibited to overweight and overload vehicles to pass, otherwise you will bear all consequences."
The driver Lao Li pointed to the sign and asked, "Did you watch the bridge?"
The whistleblower nodded and said, "Yes, we are on duty at the bridge. Your car cannot cross the bridge, otherwise there will be little danger and it will be troublesome if the bridge is crushed."
The driver Lao Li pushed open the door and walked down, shouting dissatisfiedly: "Why can the truck pass by just now, but my car can't do it?"
The flag holder said coldly: "This car is overweight."
Driver Lao Li: "Is this off-road vehicle heavier than that truck? Do you have eyes?"
Flag holder: "I know the car I just passed by, it's from the countryside. I'll walk on this bridge many times, and there will be no problem. But your car has a heavy chassis, so it will be dangerous to cross the bridge. If something really happens!"
The driver Lao Li looked at the two people, then leaned over to the car and said, "Secretary Wang, they are watching the bridge in the village, saying that our car is overweight and we will not let it go."
Secretary Wang sat in the car and said, "I clearly saw a truck passing by. Did they deliberately make things difficult for foreign vehicles and want to blackmail?...Don't you know what I'm here to do? Tell them quickly and get out of here!"
The driver, Lao Li, had the confidence, walked back to the car and said, "Do you know who is sitting in the car?"
The flag holder: "No matter who he is, he has to get off the bus! Your car cannot cross the bridge, otherwise who will be responsible for any incident?"
Driver Lao Li: "It's Secretary Wang who came to Wuling Township to take office, and Wang Chongqing, the new secretary of the township party committee! Haven't you received the notice?"
The whistleblower was stunned: "Secretary Wang? I seem to have heard that Secretary You has retired, and the county has sent another secretary here."
Driver: "Now Secretary Wang has arrived, so he is sitting in the car! If you don't let Secretary Wang cross the bridge, then call the village and ask them to send a car here to pick him up."
The whistleman turned his head and looked at the flag holder and asked, "Lu Bai, the new Secretary Wang is in the car. What should they do if they insist on crossing the bridge?"
The flag-holder named Lu Bai replied, "Lu Wu, go and ask the webmaster."
Behind the small building on the roadside is the substation of Wuling Township. In the past, because it had to cross a cliff from Wuling Township, it was inconvenient to transport, so a small building was built at this location. Before the cable bridge was opened, if any inspection work was arranged on it, the relevant personnel were required to go to the local area. Often, they only arrived at the small building, and the people in the village would receive and report their work here.
This small building is both the reception desk and the office of the substation. After the cable bridge is built, the staff on duty at the substation are also responsible for guarding the bridge. Because the population of this township is small and the staff is really limited, many staff members hold multiple positions. (To be continued.