I caught rabbits in the grass, borrowed money from Gu Maolin, and got the good news unexpectedly.
It was immediately agreed that this Sunday, the Perak surveying and mapping team would be invited to return to Nanshao Village. The main point was to ask Section Chief Chang Gaofeng to see the water town construction in Nanshao Village and to provide ideas for the sales of the sand quarry.
Professor Wen didn't waste any time, and immediately took Gu Maolin back to the station, packed his luggage, and then took him with him and returned happily.
When they arrived at Nanshao Village, none of the three of them had eaten. He was taken directly to Dong Pianfang's house and asked Cuilan to roll out some noodles. After eating the noodles, Professor Wen and Ye Qianqian took Gu Maolin directly to the construction site behind the primary school to find Wang Ke.
Entering the construction site, Gu Maolin was stunned. He had no idea that squad leader Wang Ke could drive the excavator skillfully.
Wang Ke was shoveling the sand with a bucket and pushing it upward. Glancing around, he saw three people. After pouring the sand, he stopped the excavator, turned off the engine, jumped off the motorcycle and walked over here.
Gu Maolin immediately stepped forward to greet him, stood at attention from a distance and saluted. "Hello, monitor!"
Then he ran over and the two hugged each other.
"Squad leader, why do you know how to drive an excavator?"
"It's very simple. I'll teach you when I have time."
The arrival of Gu Maolin made Wang Ke particularly happy and emboldened. He walked up to Professor Wen and smiled, "Teacher Wen, that's okay. I didn't expect you to bring Gu Maolin back so quickly."
"Brother Bing, there is still good news." Ye Pian did not wait for Professor Wen to speak, but rushed to tell what Section Chief Chang Gaofeng said about mobilizing the Xushui Caohe River to help his godfather Dong Pianfang raise donkeys. In addition, the next step is the construction of the ditch gate diversion dam. Priority was given to sand and gravel from the sand quarry in Nanshao, as well as the visit of the Perak surveying and mapping team to Nanshao this Sunday.
"Oh, this news is so good!" Wang Ke imitated the old village chief's tone, and then he said to Professor Wen: "Teacher Wen, tonight the old village chief and several village cadres will study another project with us at the village committee. question."
"what is the problem?"
"This is about the classification, storage and processing of sand, earth and rocks. Teacher Wen, I have calculated that in the future we may clean up tens of millions of cubic meters of sand, earth and rocks from ancient rivers. Where will they be piled? Can we not do it here and have it formed there? New desertification and pollution.”
Um! This is really a problem. Professor Wen did not answer, but seriously looked at the "walls" piled up around him and began to think deeply. In this pit alone, there may eventually be 300,000 cubic meters of sand and gravel and 900,000 cubic meters of clear river sand.
"Don't do it this afternoon, let's think about what to do?" Professor Wen said to Wang Ke. Wang Ke was eager to have free time today. He wanted to take Gu Maolin for a walk in the village. Although the separation time was not long, it happened. There are many things.
Gu Maolin's whole person has changed since he made a meritorious service. The deep-fried energy and looseness are getting less and less. In the class, he quickly caught up with Song Ruimin and Niu Suozhu, and now he is even more famous in the company and the direct team than Hu Yanlou, a fellow villager who was transferred.
Wang Ke brought Gu Maolin with him. In addition to wanting to chat about some inner thoughts, he also wanted to explore the village.
"Maolin, have you settled in yet?"
"not yet."
"You put your backpack in my room and live with me." Wang Ke was afraid that Gu Maolin would live with those students. If he didn't pay attention one day, something might happen again.
"Monitor, where do you live?"
"I'm staying at my godfather's house. Come on, take your luggage now." Wang Ke pulled Gu Maolin up and left. Suddenly he felt a little abrupt, and quickly turned to Professor Wen and said, "Teacher Wen, let Gu Maolin live with me." Let’s get together, it’s easier to discuss things this way.”
"Okay." Professor Wen agreed.
"By the way, Teacher Xiaoye, where is your car?"
"It's parked right in front of my godfather's house."
"Okay, let's go get our luggage."
"Yes." Ye Pian responded and followed Wang Ke and the others.
Professor Wen was left. He walked around in the construction pit, then climbed up to the north side of the "wall" and looked around. Wang Ke was right, where is the pile of sand and gravel that was excavated?
Wang Ke helped Gu Maolin settle down and immediately took him straight to the small reservoir construction site in the west of the village. The construction team here is working in full swing, and the sound of "clinking" and smashing stones can be heard all the time. Looking at the bottom of the main pit, which is about seven or eight meters deep, it is a thousand square meters. It is surrounded by bluestone paving and cement slurry grouting. It slopes up all the way, like a huge funnel.
The more than ten-meter-wide flood discharge and diversion dams running north-south on both sides, relying on the cliffs to the west, are also taking shape.
After seeing this miniature reservoir, the two of them followed the diversion dam directly southward. After walking five or six hundred meters, they saw a small courtyard covering an area of more than 20 acres with a red brick wall.
"Maolin, that's my godfather's Dong's Natural Rubber Factory. There are dozens of workers in it. If you are demobilized in the future, you can settle down in Nanshao and work as a worker here. Although it is a small business, there is Jinmen behind it. University, there will be thousands of photosynthetic farmers in the future.”
"Well, that's not a small thing! Hey, squad leader, why don't you come? We have agreed that I will go wherever you go from now on?"
"Look, you're here again. Are you not going to have a family in the future?"
The two chatted and laughed, and soon arrived at the factory. They didn't come in the morning, and they hadn't seen each other all night. The small factory of godfather Dong Pianfang has changed again. The main production building has been built, and now the first floor can be seen.
"Squad leader, this factory is really big. It's great to be a worker here."
Wang Ke looked at him and said to himself, once Huang Zhonghe, the wireless squad leader, is introduced as the factory director, I believe there will be soldiers from the platoon who are willing to settle here. The command platoon is never separated.
"Maolin, follow me around. Don't forget the mission I told you. You need to have a good look. First, see clearly the direction of the ancient river. Also, take a look at the strange things underground in and around the village. Go back. Draw a picture and label them one by one, so don’t waste my efforts digging you out.”
"Don't worry, monitor." Gu Maolin said, walked out of the factory gate, looked at the east-west gravel road in front of the door, then took a few steps southward in a serious manner, and kept walking eastward in the fields. go. He walked around and looked back from time to time, acting like a scientist.
Wang Ke didn't leave, he stood there quietly. Godfather Dong Pianfang was not here today, so the factory entrusted the village secretary of the Communist Youth League to help take care of the construction site. The sun is about to set, and the mountains to the west just block the sun, like a parasol, more like a sudden wall, hiding the factory in its shadow.
However, the building, struggling to emerge from the land, announces its presence in the southwest corner of the village, the most inconspicuous and easily overlooked corner, just like the mountain.
Wang Ke spread his legs and chased Gu Maolin. He had already walked about a hundred meters.
Following Gu Maolin, the two of them headed east until they reached the southernmost tip of the hillside where the primary school is located. Gu Maolin stopped, looking suspiciously at the elementary school wall on the north side, and then at his feet.
At this place, Gu Maolin seemed a little confused, like a compass, turning in a semicircle around the foot of the mountain. Then he went straight north, heading straight for the tree east of the back door of the elementary school. Standing under the tree, looking at the hillside of the elementary school in trance.
"Maolin, what's wrong?"
Wang Ke also followed and said to Gu Maolin.
"It's really strange, how could this happen."
"Maolin, is something wrong?"
Gu Maolin ignored Wang Ke and climbed up the tree.
This is a poplar tree as thick as two arms. If it hadn't been for its deep roots and lush leaves, it would have been washed away in the flood. At that time, both Wang Ke and Gu Maolin swam here, and Professor Wen also wanted to come here on a raft.
Now the two of them were standing under the tree, with a hole dug earlier next to them. Standing under this tree that connects the past and the future, Gu Maolin's brows frowned more and more. He kept looking at the hillside of the primary school, and he kept looking at the back of the hillside, which is the beam that stretches across the north of Nanshao Village, and further down. , that is, the small plain in the north, where no grass grows, and the Gobi Desert is full of gravel and soil. Beyond this piece of Gobi Desert, further to the northeast corner is the source of the Juma River.
"Squad leader, this place is so strange."
"Maolin, what are you talking about strange?"
Gu Maolin still didn't answer. He kept looking around, giving people a mysterious feeling. He got down from the tree and ran up the hillside of the primary school. Then he ran down from the north and passed through the Gobi Desert, which was full of gravel. Finally ran back.
"Squad leader, can we go into the village and have a look?"
"Okay." Wang Ke saw that it was already getting late, and many houses were already filled with smoke. The two people came in through the back door of the elementary school, then went out through the front door, turned a corner, and walked toward the village.
During this section of the road, Gu Maolin said nothing, just lowered his head and looked around. After walking around the village several times, we finally came to the east side of the courtyard of godfather Dong Pianfang's house. This was also a small construction site, and we were planning to build a two-story building to build "Dong's Clinic".
Arriving at this small courtyard, Gu Maolin finally showed a relaxed smile.
"Squad leader, this small courtyard has great feng shui!"
"How to say?"
"Squad leader, this Nanshao Village is like a human eye, and this small courtyard is the pupil of the pupil."
"Are you saying that the whole village is like a human eye, and my godfather's house is right in the center of the eye?"
"That's not quite the case, monitor. There is a room, or a cave, underground here." Gu Maolin walked forward for more than ten steps and stopped next to the pistachio tree in the west courtyard. Opposite was the donkey pen. Next to the small side house where I live. "Squad leader, this is the place. If we dig a well, the water from this well will be fragrant for brewing wine and cooking."
"What are you talking about? Any water used for cooking is delicious."
"Monitor, what you said is wrong. It's the same as making porridge. Some water will make the porridge sticky and fragrant, while some water will make the porridge clear and watery no matter how you boil it."
"I understand. You are saying that the water here contains alkali. You can tell it even from the groundwater. From now on, you will be responsible for digging wells in the whole village."
"No, no, no, monitor, you don't understand what I mean. I see there is a hole next to here, and there is a spring in the hole. The water is different, blue, sweet and clear."
"Okay, I believe you. It's at this location, right?" Wang Ke confirmed the location. He was going to tell his godfather Dong Guofang to dig a new well and move the pressure well here. If, as Gu Maolin said, this water is used to feed donkeys and produce Dong's natural glue, there will be unexpected surprises.
"We have a meeting tonight. You can slowly draw what you just saw at home. Be serious and don't draw the symbols like you did last time."
"yes!"
