Chapter 16 Liveliness and Hope
When they arrived at the top, Wang Buping saw that a large platform had been built in just one day, with various machinery placed on it. The mountain road below was so wide that it could cover the distance of a truck in just one day.
Wang Buping walked over and looked at the road. It seemed that it had been simply repaired for use by vehicles. I don’t know how the platform was made. There was a small platform on the edge of the cliff, but wasn’t it surrounded by rocks?
It's not very high below, just over 100 meters high. The cliff is only over 20 meters away from the water. It's an extension of the mountain, so it's not very high. The mountain is full of rocks and there aren't many trees, and the slope of the mountain is relatively good.
, that’s why Wang Buping built the bridge here. This way the road is easier to build. It’s not too steep and just a little more inclined. It’s all stone. The road surface doesn’t need cement. Just this stone road is fine. It’s not.
If you need to take a car this way, it will be enough if you can take a person or a scooter.
Seeing that construction was started below at the same time, it was better to be in the mountains. No one would care about the road construction. However, Wang Buping asked Li Hui to get a real estate certificate for the warehouse. No one said who would build a house here.
Moreover, the land here also belongs to Wangjiazhai, all the way to the end of the dirt road, but because there is no road, no one grows anything here, and nothing can be grown here.
After looking at it for a while, there was nothing to see. Wang Buping told Li Hui and prepared to go back to the village. He stood on the platform prepared for the hanging tower and slowly lowered it. He saw that everything was installed on the boat.
It was almost done. They stood on Uncle Zhang's boat and waited for a while before loading it up. Wang Buping took them towards the river in front of the village. Because they were going upstream, it took a lot longer than when they arrived.
, but still rushed back at noon.
Originally, these workers planned to have a simple meal on the river beach, but Wang Buping refused and planned to let them have a meal at his house first. Later, the uncle found out, and people in the village also found out one after another.
I was very happy, so I cooked a meal at Grandpa’s house. Everyone came here to watch in the afternoon. They left a few people to build simple houses here, and asked Uncle Zhang to take them to get people and machinery.
, everyone saw these machines and so on, and finally saw that the bridge out of the village was going to be built. Not to mention how happy they were, they started discussing in the afternoon to widen the small bridge over the river, otherwise it would not be enough to walk in the future.
Wang Buping found out about this and felt that the small bridge did not need to be demolished. The original small bridge was an all-wood bridge, and people and cattle simply walked on it. Now Wang Buping is planning to let the people in the village build a bigger one next to it.
It needs to be built of stone, with wood on top and thick planks laid on it so that small four-wheel vehicles can be driven on it.
In the afternoon, all the adults in the village came to discuss how to build the bridge. Wang Buping thought that there would be stones carved out of the mountain. He might as well polish those stones and use them as bridge foundations, and then drive tree stumps next to the stones so that the bridge would not be damaged.
The water was washed away, and the river was not very big. It was all water flowing from the reservoir and the surrounding mountains. Wang Buping told everyone his idea, and they all thought it was feasible. A few elders discussed it there, and finally decided to wait until tomorrow.
They started work, and the people in the village brought down the stones to build the bridge.
After everyone dispersed, Wang Buping walked to the worker, asked him if he needed anything, and then told him. Later, he thought that Uncle Zhang would be transporting things with the engineering team these days, so he sent 1,000 yuan from the space to prepare for him.
Uncle Zhang, who knew that Uncle Zhang was willing to live or die? He said that building the bridge affected the whole village, so he should also contribute some effort. Wang Buping had no choice but to prepare to compensate him in the future.
Remembering the matter about the orchard, Wang Buping ran to the old patriarch's house and told him about it.
The old patriarch said: "You want that orchard? Give 50% of the profits to the village. That's fine. There's no one to manage the orchard anyway."
"Old patriarch, now that we have a road, I think we may need to use the orchard in the future, so I would like to rebuild the orchard, which will also create some profits for the village."
"That's it, don't leave. I'll write you a note so that no one can trouble you in the future."
Wang Buping took the note written by the old patriarch and walked towards his home. He wanted to ask his mother if there was anyone better at pruning fruit trees, and he also wanted to find someone to pull out the weeds in the fruit trees.
When I got home, I saw my mother talking to my grandfather and grandma. Wang Buping walked over. When Li Yuping saw her son coming back, she asked, "What were you doing at noon? Why didn't you come back for dinner?"
"Oh, we are all on the river beach. Didn't the bridge start to be repaired? Now there are workers coming, and the bridge on the river also needs to be rebuilt. We all ate on the river beach at noon. My dad and uncle are still working on the mountain?"
"I just went up after dinner and asked me to clean it up first. Is your bridge really going to be repaired? How much will it cost?"
Wang Buping didn't dare to tell his mother the price, so he said: "It's just the money for two people's ginseng. By the way, Mom, there's still some money left. Look at the money I borrowed for school. I'll pay it all back. What's left?"
If you see what you need, just buy something." Then he took out the prepared 100,000 yuan from his pocket (which was actually kept in the space) and handed it to his mother.
When Li Yuping saw her son giving her money, she quickly said: "Aren't you going to build a vegetable greenhouse? How can you pay me back? Do you have enough money?"
"Mom, I have enough money, and I still have a lot of money from selling ginseng."
After taking the money, Li Yuping realized something was wrong. Why was there so much money? She hurriedly asked her son: "Did you give me the wrong money? Why is there so much money? Look, it's already 100,000 yuan. I've never seen so much money."
Where is the money? Son, have you done anything bad outside?"
"Mom, look what you said, your son, you don't know what bad things I can do. This is all the money from selling ginseng. That ginseng is very expensive."
The grandfather next to him also spoke at this time: "The ginseng that Bu Ping sells is indeed valuable. Just take the money. Bu Ping should be the one selling the ginseng."
When Li Yuping saw her father-in-law speaking, she didn't say anything else. She was going to take the money to pay off the debt that Wang Buping had spent studying, and buy some useful things.
"Mom, don't cook so much food tomorrow. They are going to repair the bridge over the river in front of the village tomorrow. I'll put it aside for now. When the bridge is repaired, it will be built. Also, you can find some workers for me.
Auntie, I brought over the orchard on the mountain and planned to pull out the weeds in the orchard. When the bridge is repaired, I will find a few people to help cut the branches. If you help pull out the weeds, don't worry about your food.
Give them 50 yuan a day, and if you give them too much, you’ll be afraid they won’t take it.”
"Why do you want that orchard? You can find someone if you can. The work in the fields is not busy now, and many people are idle. I will find a few for you later. Even if I give you money, I don't know if they want them?"
"Mom, if you agree with them, they won't be allowed to come if they don't need money. I'll build that orchard mainly for future development. You won't understand even if I tell you this, so don't ask. Anyway, I sell ginseng.
There is still a lot of money.”
"That's it, I'll go find someone for you, and you can talk to grandpa and grandma."
Seeing that his mother had gone to find someone for him, Wang Buping stayed behind to prepare for a conversation with his grandfather and grandma.
"Grandpa, do you know if we have any younger people who are good at hunting?"
"Now there are people who can hunt! In recent years, hunting in the mountains has been banned, and there are very few people hunting. Only us old hunters have nothing to do to go up the mountain to hunt rabbits, pheasants, etc. You are looking for someone who is young and can hunt.
We don't have this, but there are still people living in the mountains over the reservoir. I saw some, there should be more. They sometimes go to the town to sell some of the pheasants and hares they shot.
You should be able to find some replacement items in the town. You can’t wait for the big cow to come back during the New Year. The big cow knows how to hunt. Even if he only goes out to work this year, I don’t know if he will come back this year.”
"I understand, and there's no rush now. My brother Daniu should be back after the Chinese New Year. I haven't seen him in three years. Niu'er also went to work with Daniu?"
"Yes, they have nothing to do in the stockade, and they want to go out for a look. The son of the fifth master you went out to last time seems to have made a fortune outside. He came back during the Chinese New Year to visit the graves of his ancestors. He also paid for the construction of the ancestral hall.
I happened to see that all the young people in the village had nothing to do, so I took them out and said they were opening a big restaurant."
"Oh, it was Wang Youming, the son of the fifth master who died when I was in high school. Didn't Uncle Youming go out to work? He even opened a big restaurant outside."
"Yeah, I didn't expect him to get rich. By the way, I remembered, your uncle has his mobile phone number, right, old lady?"
"Yes, I'm just not happy with the one you take every day, so I bought one for your father so you can make calls from far away."
"That's called a mobile phone. I'll go out and buy one for grandma in a few days. If you need anything, grandma, you can call me. Grandma, do you agree?"
"Why do I need that thing? I don't know how to use it. Don't spend it randomly if you have nothing to do!"
"Okay, I don't want that thing. After the bridge is repaired and the electricity is connected, I will buy you a TV set and you can watch the opera singer every day."
"Is the TV set the thing in town with the villain talking inside?"
"Yes, grandma, do you agree?"
"Well, that's okay. Is it expensive? If it's expensive, we won't buy it."
"It's not expensive, grandma. You can watch opera singers every day from now on."
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I talked with my grandpa and grandma until my mother came back and said that I had found someone and I could do it tomorrow. I just gave them money to make them unwilling, but in the end my mother told Wang Buping and they stopped talking.
During dinner in the evening, Wang Buping told them what happened today, telling them that he would be working on his yard until the bridge was repaired, and that they would go to the river to repair the bridge tomorrow.
The uncles agreed to this when they knew that the road out of the village was going to be built, and they were very happy. Knowing that this was Buping's money, they each offered Wang Buping a glass of wine, which made Wang Buping a little dizzy from the food.
After dinner, he ran up the mountain and entered the space. Wang Buping washed his face with the space spring water and felt more awake. Thinking that he had not been online for a few days, Wang Buping planned to go out and browse the Internet until Wang Buping finished it.
Okay, I went to my QQ and saw that a lot of people sent me messages. Some asked me how to get home, and some of them were coming to Wang Buping’s hometown to play. Three friends from Wang Buping’s dormitory also sent me messages.
Chapter completed!