Chapter 23 The Road Collapses
When Jiang Xiaobai woke up, his head felt groggy and he had no strength at all. It was obviously summer in July or August, but he actually felt a little cold.
"Water." Jiang Xiaobai felt his throat was extremely hoarse as soon as he opened his mouth.
"Xiaobai...Comrade Xiaobai, you're awake." Hearing Jiang Xiaobai's voice, Li Siyan said with a choked voice, his face full of happiness.
"Water, get me some water." Jiang Xiaobai tried to sit up, but he fell back on the bed.
"Don't move and lie down, I'll get you some water." Li Siyan hurriedly helped Jiang Xiaobai sit up, and then went out to pour water for Jiang Xiaobai.
Jiang Xiaobai held the white porcelain vat and drank half of the tea vat "Gudong, Gudong" before he felt better and had the energy to look out the window.
"What time is it and how long have I been asleep?" Jiang Xiaobai asked, shaking his somewhat dazed head.
"It's past 6 pm now, and you've been sleeping for 12 hours." Li Siyan was also a little hoarse, without the sweetness of the past.
"It's been a long time. Help me up and go out to see how we are doing. We've all been wet in the rain. Is anyone sick when we get back?" Jiang Xiaobai said and was about to get up from the bed. Li Siyan quickly came over to support him.
"Everyone is fine except you. After sleeping all morning, everyone will go out to work in the afternoon."
Li Siyan put another piece of clothing on Jiang Xiaobai, and then Li Siyan helped Jiang Xiaobai out.
Jiang Xiaobai's face turned red when he said this. Well, his feelings are not good for his health.
When he opened the door, he saw the commotion in the yard. When he saw Li Siyan helping Jiang Xiaobai walk out of the house, everyone immediately gathered around him.
"Brother Xiaobai, you're awake."
"Brother Xiaobai, how is your health?"
"Brother Xiaobai, have you taken your medicine?" everyone said in a flurry of words.
"Well, I'm fine. I'll stew the meat tonight, open two bottles of wine, and call the people who helped last night, as well as the secretary and Goudan. You guys will have a good meal."
They were so helpful last night, but I couldn't say no at all.
"Okay." Wang Xiaojun responded, then looked at Jiang Xiaobai and said hesitantly: "There is one more thing."
Looking at Wang Xiaojun's face, Jiang Xiaobai nodded and said: "Okay, let's go into the room and say, others should prepare and cook; when it's time to invite people, remember to invite them all. Those who won't come, give their names
Write it down and prepare the dishes later and send one over."
At this time, rural areas were poor, and many families had the habit of sending food to each other.
"Okay, Brother Xiaobai." Zhang Yanmei responded and took people to cook, while Wang Xiaojun followed Jiang Xiaobai and Li Siyan back to the house.
Originally, Wang Xiaojun wanted to support Jiang Xiaobai himself, but seeing Li Siyan beside him, he didn't reach out.
"Take the medicine first, and then we can talk about things after taking the medicine." After entering the room, Li Siyan spoke up before Jiang Xiaobai opened his mouth.
After taking the medicine, Li Siyan went out.
"Did something happen?" Jiang Xiaobai looked at Wang Xiaojun's gloomy expression and asked.
"Well, it rained heavily last night, and the road to Taoshan after going to the village collapsed." Wang Xiaojun nodded and said in a deep voice.
"What's going on?" Jiang Xiaobai was also surprised. He was sitting upright while leaning on the bed.
"There is only one road for us to go to Taoshan behind the village. It was a road that was opened a long time ago. However, in recent years, there have been very few people going to the back mountain, and gradually no one has repaired it. Naturally, the road condition has become bad..."
Jiang Xiaobai listened carefully. He had never been to Back Mountain. He only heard that there was a way up to Back Mountain. Later, when the educated youth went to build the road, he did not go.
Naturally, he didn't know the actual road conditions. It rained heavily yesterday. On the way back, he was worried that the road back to the village would collapse, but he didn't expect that the road up the back mountain would actually collapse.
And now I heard Wang Xiaojun say that it should be difficult to repair. If the road could be rebuilt with a simple leveling, Wang Xiaojun would not be so serious.
When I went out by myself just now, I heard a commotion in the yard, and they seemed to be mentioning some road. I thought they were chatting, but I didn't expect that the road to Taoshan behind the village had collapsed.
"The road from Hongtupo to Zhaipo is a path paved with stones. It turns out that when we repaired the road to Taoshan, this section of the road was mainly smoothed. This section of the road is already narrow. This time, we repaired a section of the road in the afternoon.
It was immediately washed away, leaving only a small trail on the back side to get through."
Wang Xiaojun said somewhat dullly, Taoshan is the raw material for their production of canned yellow peaches. If they can't go to Taoshan, the canning industry will need to stop.
But if we build the road, it will take them at least a month, and if we delay it for a month and a half, we don't know how much things will be delayed.
Moreover, many ripe yellow peaches on the mountain will also go bad.
"Well, can we repair the road? Do we need any equipment? Is it dangerous?" Jiang Xiaobai thought for a while and asked.
"You don't need any equipment to build roads. We can build them well. But if we just build them, it will take too long," Wang Xiaojun said after a pause.
"As for the danger? There must be some. The road to Taoshan is the section from Huangtupo to Zhaipo. Now there is only a narrow path left..."
"Is there any other way?" Jiang Xiaobai asked.
"There is no other road, only one road." Wang Xiaojun said. When the road up the mountain was leveled, he was the one who went to see it, so he knew everything.
"Let's do this, while it's still early, let's go up the mountain and you take me to have a look." Jiang Xiaobai forced himself to get off the bed and said resolutely.
Wang Xiaojun wanted to persuade him, but looked at Jiang Xiaobai and didn't say anything. Now everyone is counting on the canned yellow peach.
"I'll go too, and I'll accompany you, Brother Xiaobai." Wang Chao didn't know how to cook, and he wasn't familiar with the village, so he had nothing to do.
So when Jiang Xiaobai came out, he quickly followed him. Others were busy and did not notice the disappearance of the three people.
"Brother Xiaobai, how about I carry you?" Liu Aiguo looked at Jiang Xiaobai's weak appearance and said.
"No need, my body is just weak, I just need to move around and sweat." Jiang Xiaobai walked and felt a little energetic.
The three of them walked along the back of the village towards Peach Mountain.
The straight-line distance from Taoshan to the village is not too far, but the road up the mountain is steep and steep, making it very difficult to walk.
At this time, the small courtyard of the educated youth had become lively.
Chapter completed!