Chapter 957: Such a labor scene is too rare

On the morning of April 5th, after eating, Li Long drove the jeep to the gate of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

Inside the big courtyard, two trucks were ready, some people had already climbed into the truck box, and some were still chatting while smoking below.

What surprised Li Long a little was that among these nearly twenty people, there were also five or six female comrades, some big sisters in their forties or fifties, and some new comrades in their twenties.

At this time, even people working in the city knew what to do when going into the mountains and to the countryside; many had been sent to the countryside and had experience. They changed their leather shoes, wore cloth shoes, changed their daily clothes, and changed into work clothes.

The Supply and Marketing Cooperative also prepared gloves for everyone, and some even wore straw hats. After dressing up like this, they really didn't look like city people.

Li Xiangqian was talking to Zhou Yuan and several other section chiefs. Li Long looked at it like this, and except for a deputy director and a security section chief, most of the leaders in the Supply and Marketing Cooperative were basically there.

"Little Li is here?" Someone greeted with a smile, and Li Long responded before going over to see Li Xiangqian.

Seeing Li Long, Li Xiangqian took two deep puffs of the cigarette in his hand, threw the cigarette butt, stepped on it twice, stepped on it out, and said:

"Get on the car, prepare to set off!"

Actually, one car should be enough for these people. Li Long thought that two cars were too many no matter what.

"That truck is loaded with some supplies. We are going into the mountains to help others, and since we are working for these few days, we have to bring some things up the mountain anyway." Li Xiangqian sat on Li Long's jeep and explained, saying: "Now go pick up Officer Ma?"

"Mm, I'm the lead car, go along the county committee side on Guangming Road, pick up people on the way, and then go directly into the mountains."

"Mm, alright." Li Xiangqian responded, "Everything arranged?"

"Arranged." Li Long said, "After arriving, not only will we work, but the herdsmen will also work."

"That's right, we don't do those empty things. With so many people today, we have to achieve some results no matter what." Li Xiangqian was quite confident.

"Definitely, at least we can open the road to two winter camps." Li Long said, "I have a handle on this in my heart."

"Hey, that's good."

Arriving at the gate of the county committee courtyard, Ma Xiao Yan was already waiting at the gate with her camera and satchel.

The jeep pulled over, Ma Xiao Yan sat in the back seat, and Li Long waited for her to sit down before driving. Ma Xiao Yan greeted Li Xiangqian, and then chatted about the details of the follow-up interview.

Some were what Li Long should say, and some were what Li Xiangqian said—for example, how many people came to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, how much supplies and funds were invested, to what extent they planned to repair the road, and what activities would follow, etc.

Li Long didn't say anything about these questions, leaving them for Li Xiangqian to play.

Ma Xiao Yan asked and recorded all the way. By the time they reached Qingshuihe, the questions were basically asked.

Meng Hai was waiting by the road with a bag of things. Li Long stopped the car and wanted to let him get on, but he smiled honestly and said: "No, no, I'll sit in the truck behind." Saying this, he carried the bag and walked towards the back, climbing into the truck box with the help of people in the truck box.

Continuing to advance, after entering the mountains and arriving near Halimu's winter camp, Li Long saw someone standing in the distance on the hillside looking over here, and then after seeing Li Long and the others, turned the horse's head and went into the mountains.

Li Long looked at the figure, which looked a bit like Talihaer. This should be waiting for the people here, and now going to report.

When the jeep led the truck convoy to the winter camp of Talihaer, there were twenty or thirty people gathered there. When they saw the convoy, the young men cheered.

"They are welcoming us." Li Long said to Li Xiangqian and Ma Xiao Yan, "The herdsmen will also join the road repair team."

The cars stopped in an open space, everyone got off, and Yushanjiang and Halimu, as well as several elders in the tribe, also came over to greet and shake hands with Li Xiangqian and the others.

Some had been here and knew each other, and the feeling of reunion was good; some were newly joined, feeling very novel.

"Director, say a few words?" After greeting, the two sides stood side by side, and Li Long said to Li Xiangqian, "Boost the morale."

"You have so many tricks!" Li Xiangqian scolded with a smile, "Alright, I'll say a few words."

Li Xiangqian stood in front of this team of ethnic unity and said a few words. There was no big truth, just saying that the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, as a unit serving the common people and a unit building together with the herdsmen, this time was to help the herdsmen solve difficulties and also to exercise the team.

He also said that for this road repair matter, the Supply and Marketing Cooperative would send people over to work every week, striving to open the road from the winter camp to outside the mountains as soon as possible, and would increase investment depending on the situation, which would definitely let the herdsmen comrades live a better life.

"Alright, start working." Li Xiangqian didn't say much, totaling less than three minutes. The employees of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative applauded, and the herdsmen also followed with applause, and there were young men whistling; this was not teasing, but an expression of excitement.

"Comrade Li Long, you are most familiar with the situation on both sides, you assign the work!" Li Xiangqian pointed to Li Long, "Assign boldly, I'm just an ordinary soldier this time!"

"Alright, then I'll assign the tasks." At this time, Li Long was naturally not giving way, and he had a plan in his mind long ago:

"Meng Hai!"

"Here!" Meng Hai hurriedly stood up, standing straight, just short of saluting.

"You drive the bulldozer, look at the direction of my finger, see that gully head? That's your main attack direction today. You have to push out a road from that gully head so that the small four-wheel tractor can go up, can you do it?"

"Guarantee to complete the task!" Meng Hai saluted with a slap, excitedly went to drive the tractor.

"Comrade Li Xiangqian!"

"Here." Li Xiangqian smiled, then tightened his face.

"You take eight comrades from the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, from here to that gully head, take sickles and iron shovels, cut down the shrubs and dwarf trees that affect passage, and drag them to the side, understand?"

"Understand!" Li Xiangqian couldn't help but respond, then laughed, and whispered to Zhou Yuan beside him: "Hey, this kid, a bit interesting."

"Comrade Zhou Yuan!" Li Long spoke again.

"Here!" Zhou Yuan just wanted to respond to Li Xiangqian, but hearing Li Long shout like this, he immediately stood out and answered.

"You take eight comrades from the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, go to the river gully below to move stones, move them over and place them at the top of the slope, understand?"

"Understand, understand!" Zhou Yuan naturally had no objections; he had to wait for Li Xiangqian to finish picking people before choosing people.

"Liu Gong!" Li Long pointed to people again.

"Here, here, and I have work too?" Liu Gong in the logistics unit was a little confused, then stood out.

"You take one female comrade and work with our herdsmen comrades to do a good job in logistical support, mainly responsible for supplying tea and making lunch, etc."

"Ah? We are doing this?" Liu Gong was actually prepared to do heavy work, and it wasn't that she hadn't done it... looking at this work now, it was much lighter than she thought.

"Revolutionary work is not divided into light and heavy, all are very important." Li Long smiled.

"Alright, alright." Liu Gong naturally had no objections.

"Yushanjiang, you take half of the herdsmen, mainly responsible for clearing the thicker trees on the road from the slope head to Bieke's winter camp." After Li Long finished assigning work to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative side, he started pointing at the herdsmen again.

Ma Xiao Yan had already taken several photos, and also recorded Li Long's situation of assigning tasks, writing very vividly. At this time, seeing Li Long issuing tasks to the herdsmen, she was a little worried about whether these herdsmen would listen.

"Understand!" Yushanjiang had also received militia training, immediately stood at attention and answered, then went to count people.

"Halimu!"

"Here!" Halimu answered more standardly.

"You take three herdsmen comrades, slaughter sheep, responsible for guaranteeing today's lunch, how about it? The sheep are caught from Yushanjiang's house, and the money is considered public funds."

"Guarantee to complete the task!" Halimu was a little dissatisfied, but he couldn't tear down Li Long's stage at this time. "Talihaer!" Li Long finally shouted.

"Here, here!" Talihaer was a little excited, answering twice; he hadn't expected Li Long to point him.

"You take the remaining herdsmen comrades, carry iron shovels, from here all the way to the gully head, dig down the slopes on both sides of the gully, and fill the soil dug out into the bottom of the gully to widen the roadbed."

"Understand!" Talihaer's voice was the loudest.

Mm, not bad, all had received militia training, everyone really had no problems in this regard.

"Start action!" He shouted loudly, and these people immediately scattered, taking tools and going to the positions they should be in.

Meng Hai had already started the tractor. The tractor hanging the bulldozer blade rushed to the gully head for the first time, starting to push the floating soil above down.

Ma Xiao Yan took the opportunity to come to Li Long, holding a small notebook and interviewing, the first question was half-joking:

"Comrade Li Long, everyone has their own work, what are you doing?"

"I am responsible for overall coordination. Where manpower is abundant, where manpower is lacking, I will coordinate with each other. At the same time, when supplies are insufficient, I will also make adjustments, and also see where difficulties arise, and then find ways to solve them."

Li Long was naturally not a cover, and answering was also very confident. As the coordinator of both sides, only he could do this work.

"Then you started this activity, have you thought about what final effect to achieve?" Ma Xiao Yan's interview began to become formal.

"Initial effect, that is, to repair the road leading to the dozen winter camps of this tribe before they transfer pastures. In this way, their wool can be smoothly sold to the outside, and it is also convenient when transferring pastures."

"Since there is an initial effect, what about the long-term effect?" Ma Xiao Yan continued to ask.

"That is to open the road from the winter pasture to the summer pasture, all the way into the Tianshan Mountains. In this way, they don't have to be so hard every year for two transfers." Li Long sighed:

"We say outside the mountains, if you want to be rich, repair the road first. Our public now mainly repairs big roads leading to each township and village. There are many people over there, so naturally, we have to take care of that side first.

As for me, I became good friends with the herdsmen here, and with the good policy of reform and opening up and the help of herdsmen friends, I earned some money, so I wanted to repay them and let them live a better life.

It just so happened that our Supply and Marketing Cooperative leaders knew about this matter and supported my action very much. After all, my ability is limited, and with the support of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, this matter is much easier to do. Look, today, one day, can let two winter camps have a road that can pass small four-wheel tractors to the outside world."

These words, if placed in later generations, many people would definitely feel that this is showing off and empty talk, but at this time, combined with what Li Long is doing now, this is very real.

Ma Xiao Yan felt that these words Li Long said were very good, and it was no problem to use them directly in her manuscript. She estimated that her manuscript, sent to the Beiting Daily, would definitely be published.

Maybe it could even cause a sensation!

Ma Xiao Yan interviewed for a while, and then Li Long had work to do. After the bulldozer pushed away part of the floating soil at the top of the gully, because the slope below was too steep, the tractor couldn't use its strength.

Li Long told Ma Xiao Yan, hurriedly went over to see, and then reported to Li Xiangqian, deciding to use "advanced technology", that is, blasting.

At this time, there was dynamite in the security section of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, which was that ammonium nitrate dynamite like a relay baton, which some capable people could stir-fry by hand.

Li Long could naturally do it too, but this thing was too dangerous, so he didn't do it.

Li Xiangqian sent someone over, and Li Long let Meng Hai come down first, others stay away, and then watched that person holding a cigarette, holding pliers, skillfully tying the fire tube, connecting the dynamite, and then arriving at the slope, digging a hole with a short shovel, stuffing the dynamite in, and burying it well.

"Just one, the power is not enough, right?" Ma Xiao Yan asked standing beside Li Long.

"Should be trying it out first." Li Long said, "Try the power, and then determine how much to use later."

Sure enough, after this piece of dynamite exploded, that person quickly made five or six, and didn't know whether to tie two or three together, dug a hole and buried it.

Li Long was very worried that there would be duds, but fortunately, listening to the movement, they all exploded in the end. The place where the gully head was blocked was also blown up with mud and soil, and it was obvious that the soil slope was not so steep.

"Alright, Meng Hai, drive over and try!" Li Long shouted.

Meng Hai pushed the control lever, drove the tractor up, and others were watching.

The roar of the bulldozer became louder, and it rushed to the top of the slope pushing soil with black smoke, and the place where the gully head blocked like a wall suddenly lacked a large piece.

"Hey, this is not bad, it can pass!" Many people said excitedly.

"That's right, this soil slope is pushed over, the big work is done, and the rest are small things."

Li Long was also quite happy here. Li Xiangqian proposed preparing these dynamites. Li Long originally thought it was unnecessary, but looking at it now, ginger is still old and spicy.

The huge roar took a long time to dissipate in the mountains, and some birds and beasts were frightened and scattered.

It was hot and noisy here, and over there Halimu took people to slaughter the sheep quickly. The stove was prepared long ago, because knowing there were many people, three stoves were prepared outside.

The supplies pulled by Li Xiangqian besides those for work, there were also quite a few ingredients. Fifty naans, a sack of potatoes, a sack of onions, etc.

The rest were ten bags of rice and ten bags of flour. The purchasers also knew the living habits of the herdsmen, and brick tea, sugar, and salt were not lacking. These things had already been unloaded at the door of Talihaer's winter camp, waiting for the work to be finished, and distributed uniformly by the tribe.

When these supplies were unloaded, Ma Xiao Yan took photos, whether it was in the newspaper or not, it could be kept as data.

Liu Gong took another female comrade to help, preparing onions and potatoes. They knew that the herdsmen were used to making shouzhua meat, so they planned to make braised mutton and stir-fry two dishes properly.

Soon, various aromas permeated the winter camp.

Li Long didn't idle either, running back and forth at the slope, helping wherever he was busy. At this scene now, whether it was moving stones, cutting shrubs, or expanding the road surface in the gully, everyone was hot and noisy, no one was lazy, and everyone was scrambling.

By noon, Liu Gong shouted at Li Long, saying that the meal was ready, the dishes were stir-fried, and the shouzhua meat was almost falling off the bone, asking him to greet everyone to come over to eat quickly.

"Do you want to eat in batches?" Li Long asked, "Are the enamel bowls prepared enough?"

"Enough, enough." Liu Gong said, "We are well prepared this time, brought fifty enamel bowls, and after using them, everyone takes their own back, and the herdsmen's are left here—we leave them and they don't use them, right."

"Right, right, right, then that's really enough." Li Long said with a smile, "Alright, then I'll go greet them to eat."

After saying this, Li Long first ran to the hillside and shouted: "Meal is ready! Everyone, according to the original group team, line up to get food, prepare to eat!"

Shouted three times, people put down the work in their hands one after another to prepare to eat, and some people planned to finish the little work in their hands before eating.

Li Long didn't care. He saw Meng Hai's tractor still roaring over there, and the slope had been pushed out a gap, and it was no problem for the small four-wheel tractor to go up, so he walked quickly, went to the tractor, and shouted at Meng Hai to let him turn off the engine and come down to eat quickly.

After shouting over there, it was the group on the slope side. Seeing that the road there had basically been expanded, Li Long shouted again, and the people there moved quite fast, one after another putting down tools and walking towards this side.

Each person had a piece of meat bone, and there were braised mutton and stir-fried sheep offal in the enamel bowl, plus half a piece of naan.

Those who had already got food found a place to sit down and prepare to eat, and those who hadn't were queuing and discussing today's meal. The herdsmen and the Supply and Marketing Cooperative staff had already become familiar after a morning of running-in, laughing and talking, and Ma Xiao Yan herself had already got food, but she couldn't help but put down the food and took a few more photos of this scene.

It was really too fitting.

Li Long was the last one to eat after everyone had got food.

He was really hungry. Today's work might not be as much as others, but he ran much more up and down the slope than others. Fortunately, the work in the morning basically completed the plan, and there was a surplus. The road leading to Bieke's winter camp had basically taken shape, and the next was the next family.

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After finishing the work, no one sang or danced today—to tell the truth, everyone was a bit tired. Li Long announced a one-hour break, and some people simply leaned against trees and dozed off.

So tired! (End of chapter)