Dashan Makes a Living 1984

Different from the layered soles that ordinary people wear, the shoes with this footprint leave circles of fine lines, a bit like ripples in the water stirred up by stones.

Wang Tianxiao recognized this kind of shoes as the rubber-soled shoes that have gradually become popular in the market recently.

Qingcheng is dry and rainless all year round. Even if it snows in winter, the snow is difficult to melt. Unlike the southern winter, there will be a little snowflakes, but it often melts before it hits the ground.

Because of this, the shoes that people in Qingcheng like to wear most are layered soles.

This thousand-layer bottom, as the name suggests, is to stick a lot of waste cloth layer by layer with a paste made from noodles (here called Ranzi), and it will stick to a thickness of about one centimeter.

Then, start to wrap the sole with a rope made of hemp, and fix each layer of cloth.

The soles made in this way are very strong, and the nails are impenetrable. Except for the poor waterproof effect, they are almost perfect soles in other cases.

But this kind of sole is really inefficient to make. It takes a long time for a pair of shoes from the initial cutting of the shoe pattern to the sticking of the sole, drying, and fitting the sole.

And the matter of getting the soles of the shoes is very hard in itself.

Because the sole of the shoe is made of many layers of cloth and paste, once it dries, the sole will become so hard that it cannot be pierced with a needle, so the women had to use an awl to make a hole first, pass the rope, and then Make a hole and thread the thread again.

In this way, one can imagine how long it will take.

During the slack season, there is still some time to do it, but once the farming season is busy, I will be exhausted from working in the fields every day, so I don’t have the time and energy to keep making shoes.

If there are many children in the family, it will be even more troublesome. It is hard to make a pair of shoes. He is growing tall, and his feet fit well when he made them.

It is precisely because of this situation that with the advancement of industry, a ready-made rubber sole gradually began to appear. This kind of confidence only needs to be bought back and nailed to the upper.

Not only greatly reduces the workload of making shoes, but also the rubber sole can also be waterproof, which is also an advantage that the layered sole does not have.

Once this kind of sole came out, it was quickly liked by the people of Qingcheng. Since then, except for some people with special sentiments, most people have turned to rubber soles.

At the end of 1984, this kind of rubber sole did not become popular in Qingcheng. People who could wear this kind of shoes usually returned home from work in other places.

Among the three, Mi Xiaoqing happened to be working out of town and only came back at the end of the year, so she wore a pair of shoes with rubber soles on her feet.

Of course, it's not that other people can't wear such shoes, but it shouldn't be such a coincidence. In this mountain, based on the current clues, it can be basically concluded that Mi Xiaoqing must have been here.

In this case...

Wang Tianxiao stood up and began to observe the surrounding terrain.

The place where this cage is placed is very far to the east of Yangziling, near a slope that is not too steep, and the slope is full of wild goji berries, and now the leaves fall early in winter, and the goji berries on the branches are also taken by all kinds of small animals and little ones. The bird devours it all, leaving only the bare branches.

It is densely packed, as tall as a person, blocking the steep slope in front.

Looking forward at a glance, the wolfberry branch is at least more than 100 meters long, and it is almost impossible to see the end under the moonlight.

The medlar branch is a path more than one meter wide. It is not a serious road. If you don't look carefully, most people will never find that there is a road here.

On the other side of the trail is a mountain wall. Except for deer and wild goats, it is not impossible for humans to climb up, but at least they must have some hard work to climb over the eaves and walls.

He Wang Tianxiao continued to walk forward along the path, and was surprised to find a snakeskin bag in the wolfberry bushes by the roadside, which contained several rabbits, which were still alive for the time being.

Following the traces and pushing aside the wolfberry bushes, he found that there seemed to be a small path artificially opened up here, extending forward and downward through the wolfberry bushes.

this……

He gasped.

He knew that the wild goji berry grows on the edge of the cliff, and behind it is a steep slope. Although it is not a ninety-degree cliff, it is at least sixty or seventy degrees.

It is still possible to slide down slowly, but if you suddenly lose your foot, you will really fall into the valley.

In this year, Wang Tianxiao was very anxious.

Something happened to the three of them.

If there is no problem, they must have returned, so how could they not return.

And the little rabbit in the bag was thrown aside, indicating that the situation was very anxious at that time, and it was too late to take it, so the rabbit had to be left where it was.

So, why is the situation so urgent?

After a little thought, a preliminary conclusion can be drawn.

Someone, or even a few of them, fell off the slope for unknown reasons, and the rest had no time to react, so they had no choice but to follow.

As a result, the people behind did not stop their pace, and fell off the cliff together with those who fell in front.

Wang Tianxiao rubbed the space between his brows, and took a long breath. He knew that there was no point in being anxious or fearful at the moment. If something happened to them, the sooner they could be found, the more likely they would be treated.

He began to smash the dead wolfberry branches on both sides with the butt of his gun, and at the same time looked at his feet very cautiously, moving forward a little bit, not daring to be careless at all.

The hillside has been frozen solid, and it is still a bit slippery to walk on. The slope at the beginning was relatively gentle, but after walking more than ten meters, the slope suddenly became much steeper, from 10 to 20 degrees to about 40 to 50 degrees.

He had no choice but to lower his body's center of gravity, slow down and continue exploring.

After more than ten meters, the dead branches of wolfberry disappeared completely, and there were only bare hillsides and some scattered small trees in front of us. Under the moonlight, the hillside seemed to be covered with a layer of silver light.

"Tiancheng, Guanping!"

In the vast moonlight and the vast hillside, his vision is in a haze, and it is difficult to focus on a certain point.

He had no choice but to shout the names of his brother and brother-in-law towards the hillside.

"Tiancheng, Guanping!"

"Mi Xiaoqing!"

"Can you hear me?"

"where are you?!"

His voice echoed in the empty valley, but there was no response for a long time.

He had no choice but to use the flashlight to check the surrounding traces, hoping to see some traces of the three people falling, but the battery of the flashlight seemed to be out of power, and it had become very weak at this time, and it was no different from direct sunlight on the ground. .

He had no choice but to turn it off and insert it back into his waist.

"Tiancheng, Guanping!"

"Tiancheng, Guanping!"

"Tiancheng, Guanping!"

"Brother-in-law!"

Just when Wang Tianxiao thought the shouting was futile, and was about to continue exploring, Li Guanping's voice suddenly came from nowhere, and he hurriedly shouted again: "It's Guanping, where are you?"

"under."

This time, Wang Tianxiao heard that Li Guanping was still ahead of the ramp.

Listening to the sound, it seems that it is not at the same level, maybe it is in a valley.

"Are you all right, where are Tiancheng and Xiaoqing?"

"Xiaoqing and Tiancheng... were injured. We fell into a... pit and couldn't get up."

When Wang Tianxiao heard that both of them were injured, he was very anxious. Unfortunately, something happened, and he injured two people at once.

"You wait, I'll be right over."

While comforting his brother-in-law, Wang Tianxiao continued to slide down slowly, the hillside was full of bumps and bumps.

The raised area is fine, but the sunken area has not yet completely cleared the snow. Sometimes it is obvious that it is a pit, but when I put my foot in and step on it, the underfoot is extremely slippery, and I almost slipped on the air.

And because the ground is frozen in a relatively flat place, it is difficult to find a point to grab, and it also increases the difficulty of descending virtually.

He had no choice but to continue to slow down and move forward slowly under the premise of safety.

While walking down, he still didn't forget to talk to Li Guanping. After half an hour, he finally came to the edge of the hillside.

There was no road ahead, only a half cliff five or six meters high remained.

He looked around, found a relatively flat place, tied the rope around his waist to the tung tree next to him, and slowly climbed up the slope.

Little by little, he finally came to the edge, looked down, and found that Li Guanping was hugging a overgrown tree, lying on the cliff less than two meters away.

Not daring to move.

Seeing Wang Tianxiao, Li Guanping shouted excitedly: "Brother-in-law, I am here."

"I see, just wait a moment."

Wang Tianxiao roughly judged the distance, the distance from the cliff to the flat place below was six or seven meters, and the distance between him and the pine tree was three to four meters. If the rope was 30 meters long, there would be a few meters left if it was double-folded.

It can fully meet the needs.

He turned back, folded the rope in two, pulled one end around the tree and tied it to his body, then pulled the two ropes at the same time and slowly fell down.

The advantage of this is that the rope can be pulled back when it falls to the ground in the future, and the rope is equivalent to using two strands together, which increases safety.

Stepping on the rocks on the cliff, he slowly descended, and slowly pulled Li Guanping down. He first signaled him not to panic, and after he went down, he slowly slid to the bottom along the rope that had already landed.

Li Guanping said that his hands were already frozen, and he was afraid that he would not be able to grasp the rope. Wang Tianxiao had no choice but to tie the rope to Li Guanping's body, slowly lower him to the ground, and slide down the rope himself.

As soon as Li Guanping fell to the ground, he collapsed to the ground, lying on the tree for an unknown period of time in the temperature of more than ten degrees below zero. He almost relied on his willpower to hold on, otherwise he would have fallen long ago.

Wang Tianxiao was not much better either.

He didn't wear much clothes in the first place, and just now he was tossing and tossing, and he was sweating again. At this time, he slowly cooled down, and suddenly felt as if his body was frozen, and there were piercing pains all over his body.

But seeing Li Guanping like this, he had no choice but to persevere.

It was not time to rest yet, he only found one of the three, and the other two were nowhere to be seen.

After some difficulty, Li Guanping recovered, his mouth stopped trembling at last, and he could speak normally.

Tell the whole story.

It turned out that several people came here in cages all the way, and one was accidentally run out of the cage by a rabbit. Mi Xiaoqing subconsciously reached out to catch it, but accidentally slipped under her feet and slid directly down the steep slope.

Wang Tiancheng next to her subconsciously tried to pull her, but instead they were brought down together.

Li Guanping was walking behind with a bag of rabbits, but when he saw this, he hurriedly dropped the bag to have a look. Unexpectedly, his shoes became very slippery after stepping on a lot of snow along the way.

To make matters worse, he happened to be hung on a tree, and he couldn't get up or down. He only knew that the two people in front of him had different injuries when they fell, but they couldn't reach the top from the bottom.

So the two said they were going back to the station to call for help, but the call disappeared for a long time.

Life and death are now uncertain.

In order to make the plot coherent, there will be big chapters in the future, with two chapters per day, and occasional bursts of updates.