Chapter 105: Mudslide

"Auntie is a big lazy bug."

Su Qingyue was sleeping in a daze when she heard Su Zhuangzhuang's voice. She rubbed her eyes and woke up to see it was indeed Zhuangzhuang. "Where is your uncle?"

Su Qingxi raised her head from the book. "Brother-in-law went to work. The food is left in the pot for you, telling you to eat after you've slept enough."

Su Qingyue rubbed her face twice. She touched her belly. Recently, her sleepiness was getting more and more serious, and her body was getting heavier and heavier.

"Why aren't you two going to school?"

"Sister, today is Saturday."

Su Qingyue patted her head, feeling that she was becoming stupid from pregnancy. She put on her cotton clothes and said, "Let's dry the quilts after eating."

A bowl of egg custard was kept warm in the pot in the kitchen, and four white eggs were steamed. Pei Huaiye said that pregnant women should pay attention to nutrition, so she should eat a few more eggs every day.

A plate of fried tofu, a plate of stir-fried cabbage, and three flower rolls.

Su Zhuangzhuang and Su Qingxi had already eaten breakfast, but half-grown children had good appetites. Su Qingyue shared breakfast with the two little cubs.

Su Qingxi couldn't help but sigh. "Brother-in-law's cooking is too delicious. How early did he get up to steam these flower rolls? And he even stir-fried vegetables for you. Sister, you are so happy."

Zhuangzhuang bit into the soft flower roll, his eyes rolling around. "Auntie, will Uncle make flower rolls tomorrow?"

He sucked the fragrance on his fingers. "I want to take them to school as dry food, to make the classmates in the class drool, hehe."

Su Qingyue pinched his little face, smiling dotingly. "Okay, let Uncle steam a full pot tomorrow, and leave more for you two."

After the meal, Su Qingyue cleaned up the stove and felt sleepy again.

She laughed at herself, patted her cheeks, and asked her sister to help take out the bedding from the two bedrooms to dry.

She also took the two children to the brigade office. "You guys play on the threshing floor."

"You go, sister, I'll watch Zhuangzhuang."

Su Qingxi finished her homework and sat under the eaves to bask in the sun.

Once autumn and winter arrived, the threshing floor became a good place to bask in the sun. Song Popo brought a little yellow dog, Widow Liu's three children, and Xiang Jianming's grandsons were all there.

Several children went to school together every day. Now that they were on vacation, they were all playing eagle catching chickens on the threshing floor.

The address of the processing factory was next to the threshing floor. When the adults were tired from work, they sat and rested for a while.

Liu Shu took an enamel mug and took the initiative to send it to Widow Liu every hour. Anyone who saw it envied it, and Widow Liu felt as sweet as if honey had been poured into her heart.

"I heard from Zhuangzhuang that Liu Shu answers questions very actively in class. He is a good seedling for studying."

Su Qingyue praised him twice, and Widow Liu pulled her to the side. "Shen Xunbao asked Captain Xiang for an easy job for his wife yesterday, but Captain Xiang didn't agree. I guess he will find you for help."

Su Qingyue just wanted to say no way, when she heard Su Qianqian carrying a basket of eggs, greeting her enthusiastically from afar. "Sister Qingyue, I was just looking for you."

"See, here it comes. Be careful."

Widow Liu finished speaking and went back to burn fire.

"Do you have something to do with me?" Su Qingyue said lightly.

"Sister Qingyue, I really have no choice. I'm pregnant now and can't do heavy work. See if you can help me arrange an easy job."

Su Qingyue was about to say that you don't have to work, you can pay money to buy work points.

Su Qianqian pointed to her belly. "I can indeed pay money to find someone, but I don't have much money. After the child is born, everything needs money. I have to plan for the future."

"Qingyue, I know that picking soybeans and drying fermented soybeans all need people. See if I can come and help?"

Su Qingyue supported her forehead. "The factory director is Captain Xiang, and he makes the decisions about these things. I can't directly decide who does what job. How about this, we will list all the positions in the next few days, and then everyone will interview and vote to decide."

Many people on the threshing floor were watching them talk, so Su Qingyue couldn't make her words too dead. Anyway, the recruitment process would be like this in the future. It's better to say it in public.

If Su Qianqian wasn't selected by then, she couldn't blame her.

"Sister Qingyue, thank you. Take these eggs back to supplement."

"No need, you are pregnant, keep it for yourself."

Su Qingyue wouldn't accept her things no matter what, and Su Qianqian didn't ask for trouble, smiling and taking the eggs away.

In the afternoon, Su Qingyue was collecting quilts when Li Zilan hurried over. "Qingyue, the Qingshan Team drove the tractor into the river!"

"Drove into the river? Who drove it?"

Li Zilan walked and told Su Qingyue.

"The deputy captain of the Qingshan Team, named Zhang Huarui. They hired someone to repair it, but it won't be good for a while. Because the car is in the river, the grain can't be hauled to the Shuangqiao Commune, so they borrowed the bull carts from the surrounding villages."

Xiang Jianming was pacing back and forth in the office. "What to do? Because it was to hand in grain to the Shuangqiao Commune, all three bull carts of Pingshu Village were borrowed."

"Our tofu for the Hongqi Supply and Marketing Cooperative tomorrow can only be hauled by bull cart, but it can't be hauled at once."

"And the tiles and bricks for the processing factory haven't been hauled yet!"

Su Qingyue pinched her palm. "Where was it bought? Let them find a way to send it from the county town, and we will pay the transportation fee."

"Can't send it. The tractor drove into the river because of a mudslide on the hillside. Stones rolled down from the mountain and blocked the road."

Su Qingyue frowned. It hadn't rained recently, so why would there be a mudslide.

She didn't have time to think too much, solving the problem was the most important thing right now.

"Captain Xiang, you take people, go repair the road now, try to repair a convenient road."

"That's what I think too. At least let the bull cart pass. I'm going to call people now."

Xiang Jianming shouted a few times with a loudspeaker, mobilizing the men to take hoes to repair the road.

But some people were still unwilling to go. Not only was there no money, but it also affected work points.

Su Qianqian rushed out of the crowd at this time and shouted loudly, "Don't forget, everyone, if this road isn't repaired for a day, bean sprouts and tofu won't be sent to the county supply and marketing cooperative. If the factory is delayed for a day, we will earn less money for a day!"

"Don't let down the intentions of Captain Xiang and Su Qingyue. They finally led everyone to make money, we can't be white-eyed wolves."

"I'm a pregnant woman, but I'm also going to repair the road. I want my child to have school to attend in the future, and the conditions in the village will be good, so we don't have to live a hard life."

After she finished speaking, she didn't wait for everyone's reply and pulled Shen Xunbao toward the entrance of the village.

Everyone looked at each other, and some people were really moved and followed her.

Plus Xiang Jianming shouted a few more times, and most of the men followed to repair the road.

Su Qingyue didn't know what Su Qianqian was calculating, but thought about it and followed to see. "Sister-in-law, brother, watch the processing factory, don't let people take advantage of it."

When they arrived at the place where the mudslide was submerged, the road surface was severely damaged and could not be repaired in a day or two.

Su Qingyue's brows frowned tighter.

Suddenly, stones on the mountain rolled down without warning.

"Qingyue! Flash away!"

Before Su Qingyue fainted, what she heard was Pei Huaiye's shrill shout that tore his throat. ===== CHAPTER 106 =====