The Era of Hard Work

Early in the morning, after packing up his camera and carrying his backpack, Lu Dong came to Jijie Street and asked Li Wenyue to go for a walk along the Qingzhao River.

The members of the village committee woke up earlier. Accountant Li was leading Red Star and a few others to spray paint the walls along the street. The slogans on them, such as "Together Wealthy and Well-off", were replaced by brand new slogans.

At the gate of the brigade, the new red slogan is quite eye-catching.

"Just give birth to one!"

Li Wenyue was watching the spray painting from the sidelines, and Lu Dong also went over.

Accountant Li saw the two of them and asked, "Where is this going?"

Lu Dong said, "Turn around the river." He pointed to the new spray-painted slogan, and asked, "Last month when Uncle Ma came over, he just sprayed a new one. Why did you change it?"

"A request from superiors." Accountant Li shook his head and said, "Last year, our county's family planning work was not done well, and we were named and criticized by the superiors. The county has also issued documents, and we must cooperate."

Li Wenyue said: "People from the Family Planning Commission didn't leave until they saw us start work."

Accountant Li sighed, and said, "Anyone who wants to do this offending job will have to pay the fine, and the village can't afford it..."

Lu Dong said, "We will do whatever the higher-ups ask us to do."

"That's right." Accountant Li said, "I heard that the higher-ups are going to be serious about it."

Lu Dong greeted Li Wenyue: "Let's go."

The two went north along Jijie Street and found many new slogans spray-painted on the walls along the street.

"Gender equality, boys and girls are the same!"

"Late marriage and late childbearing, fewer and better births!"

"Witness pregnancy, birth certificate!"

Probably before the village spray painting, it was specially selected, and there were basically no such stern slogans like "one person who has an extra birth and the whole village has a ligation".

From the North Entrance of Gathering, in front of the bridge leading to Majia Village, along the embankment on the small dam, Lu Dong and Li Wenyue walked east first, and stopped after walking a few tens of meters. There was an opening about ten meters long on the embankment opposite the river. , the inner edge of the opening is a normal earth embankment, and the outer edge is a temporary plug built with sandbags.

This is the breach that was blocked by the human wall formed by the officers and soldiers of the army in the summer of 1998.

A year and a half later, the outer woven bag has long been damaged, and a large pile of dried soil has fallen on the river bed. Occasionally, when the wind blows, it will blow up bursts of dust.

At the beginning there was no breach, the opening was blocked, the flood was carried, and no serious consequences were caused.

Then, it seemed to be forgotten by everyone up and down, and no one repaired it at all after so long.

The embankment on the Lujia Village side was repaired once last spring, but no one took care of the Majia Village side.

Li Wenyue hadn't been here for a long time, pointing over there and asked, "Has it always been like this?"

Lu Dong opened his backpack to take out the camera: "When the flood fell, everyone forgot about it. Last year, the flood was not big, so I didn't think it was a big deal."

Li Wenyue looked at the obviously reinforced embankment under his feet: "This side of our village has been well repaired, and there is no fear of flooding over there, and the scars will not hurt when they are healed."

"Majia Village has no money, and the village committee has no appeal." Lu Dong has learned specifically: "If the higher-ups don't support it, who will pay for it? After the flood has passed, no one is happy to pay for it."

The third grandpa never thought of asking the villagers to raise funds for repairing the embankment in Lujia Village, because he knew that it would be too difficult.

Lu Dong took out his camera, squatted on the embankment, and took pictures at the gap opposite.

Li Wenyue took the folder and took a pen to record the relevant damage on it.

The two of them walked further east along the embankment, and soon passed the range of Lujia Village, but the land below was the responsibility of Lujia Village, and the embankment naturally also belonged to the section of Lujia Village.

This area has also been reinforced, all the way to Tiger's Head, more than a thousand meters away to the east, and even the holes dug out from the outside of the river embankment have been carefully filled.

There is a stark contrast between the north and south banks. The embankment has been washed and baptized by the 98 floods, and the rainforest is exposed to the wind and sun. It seems that the aging speed is faster than before.

On the side of the river embankment in the north facing the river bed, there are too many places where the outer rammed layer of composite soil falls off in large pieces, exposing the loess part inside.

Without the protection of the outer layer of composite soil, the ordinary soil layer inside cannot withstand flooding at all.

When I didn't look carefully, I didn't think it was a big deal. If I looked carefully, I could only say that it was shocking when I thought of the flood in 1998.

Lu Dong kept taking pictures, and quickly finished shooting a film, and then changed the film and battery to continue shooting.

Li Wenyue followed him and kept writing records. The two walked farther and farther, and soon passed the Laohukou. There is a river-crossing bridge on the Quandao Expressway, the river embankment between Lujia Village and Majia Village, and the Kangjia Village in the east. Take this bridge as the dividing line.

The river section under the bridge is almost clogged with rubbish, all kinds of industrial waste and domestic waste are almost blocked under the bridge into a garbage dam.

Lu Dong and Li Wenyue avoided the garbage and carefully walked under the bridge. The embankment here was even more dilapidated.

On both sides of the north and south, not only the inner sanhe soil rammed layer has a large area falling off, but also the outer soil layer can be seen from time to time. People dug large pits. Not anymore.

Building a house or building a factory in rural areas requires a lot of good soil. It is unrealistic to dig soil in responsible fields or private plots. They are all farmers who plan and eat in the field. Everyone knows the importance of good soil. production will be severely affected.

Soil embankments don’t need to be considered so much. They are not in their own land, and no one cares about them. You can dig as much as you want, as long as you don’t dig the embankment and collapse it.

The inside and top of the river embankment are made of rammed composite soil, and the outer layer is ordinary soil, so grass and jujube trees will grow on it.

With such a long embankment, it is extremely rare for an idiot to have to catch a place and dig until it collapses, so all I see is a big hole dug in the next section.

Not to mention the river sections in these outer villages, before the maintenance last year, similar situations were not uncommon in Lujia Village.

There are quite a few new houses built in Lujia Village, and no one is stupid enough to dig their own land, so digging must find a way.

As for digging other people's land, no one would do it except for those with a brain. It would really be a martial arts show.

There were too many pits to photograph, so Lu Dong could only choose the largest pits to photograph.

Li Wenyue had personally experienced the great flood, and felt it firsthand. Looking at the openings in the embankment, he couldn't help but said, "This is going to happen again. It's a miracle that we can last for a day."

Lu Dong was not so optimistic: "With two-thirds of what happened the year before last, we will have to become a country of mud and swamps."

After another film was shot, Lu Dong stopped to change a new film.

Li Wenyue squatted on the river embankment, threw a piece of dirt into the icy river, and asked, "Dongzi, will someone take care of your proposal when you hand it in at the meeting?"

Lu Dong told the truth: "I'm not sure, I'm not sure at all. Optimistic estimates."

He thought about it, and said: "There is a 20% possibility, the higher-ups will pay attention to it, and immediately send people to inspect it, and it will be included in the key construction and renovation projects of the Qingzhao in the past two years. There is a 40-percent possibility, and the higher-ups will pay attention to it. But it is limited to various factors such as fiscal revenue and economic environment, and it is left to the next generation to solve. There is still a 40% possibility, just like the report that the third grandpa will make every year, the mud will fall into the ocean."

"I hope it's not useless." Li Wenyue is a college student, and he is used to thinking on the bright side.

Lu Dong smiled: "No."

Li Wenyue said again: "Such a big flood has not been able to wash away, I hope it will not be dumped in a smaller flood."

Lu Dong said: "I hope there will be no floods in the next few years."

Although every summer rainy season, the water of Qingzhao River would rise sharply, and sometimes it was only 40 to 50 centimeters away from the bridge deck between Lujia Village and Majia Village, but the flood that really threatened the embankment never appeared again.

This situation lasted until 2019. In Likima in 2019, due to the heavy rain that fell in a short period of time, everything from the upstream reservoir to the downstream villages was in an emergency.

But during this period, the embankment of Qingzhao River withstood the test.

Thinking of this, Lu Dong suddenly realized that he had been ignoring an extremely important issue!

A problem that was easy to think of at first, but fell into the dark under the lights because of misunderstandings in thinking.

It is very, very important, because Qingzhao did not have another major flood until Lekima, and even part of the river broke its embankment. He always remembered that from 1998 to 2019, the Qingzhao embankment withstood every rainy season. test……

But he forgot one thing, this embankment is not the other embankment!

In the great flood in the summer of 1998, Lujia Village was submerged, and most of the entire village was washed away. The flood went south through Luozhuang, and many villages were affected, shaking Quannan up and down.

After the disaster, the river embankment must be rebuilt, and the embankment is naturally the top priority. The embankment in the Lujia Village section was rebuilt, and other areas have also undergone major repairs.

After that flood, the entire embankment of the Qingzhao River was re-reinforced!

Therefore, every summer rainy season, the turbid river water does not threaten the Qingzhao River embankment!

In the past two years, there may not be a lot of water, but it will be hard to say in a few years.

Lu Dong knew very well that because of him, the Qingzhao River did not break its embankment in Lujia Village, and a series of subsequent reactions did not happen. From Lujia Village to the surrounding Liuwan Zhangwan and even Luozhuang, the fate of all has undergone a huge change.

This kind of influence even expands the university town and even the whole Qingzhao.

Correspondingly, because the embankment did not break, not only did the higher authorities hold a commendation meeting for flood fighting and disaster relief, but they did not pay much attention to the problem of the embankment.

Is this his negative influence?

Lu Dong thought for a while, and it wasn't hard to see why he ignored such an important issue, because in some respects, he was probably more selfish.

He basically thinks about what is going on in Lujia Village, and rarely thinks about things in other villages.

Seventh Uncle's words were spoken directly, but if he didn't say it, why didn't he agree with Seventh Uncle's words about the river embankment?

He pushed the third grandfather to repair the embankment of the Lujia Village section, promote the reconstruction of the village primary school, and promote the development of factories. In fact, they did not go beyond the scope of Lujia Village.

As for other than Lu's Village, if you think about it carefully, it might be that there is no Seventh Uncle's idea that Lu's Village will be safe if the big water breaks the embankment.

Lu Dong wouldn't blame himself for the stupidity of the Qingzhao River embankment being unmaintained, but his determination to promote this proposal has become even stronger.

After packing up the camera, Lu Dong continued to walk forward: "Wen Yue, let's go a little further, then go to the north bank, turn back and go west."

Li Wenyue followed up: "Okay, I'll follow you."