Chapter 977: People who die for money and birds who die for food—such people cannot be kept

After lunch, Li Long rested for a while and stood up to look south—recently, because of the flood, he felt a bit neurotic, needing to check the situation in the south from time to time.

At this time, a dark cloud was covering the mountains in the south. He said to Meng Hai: "Old Meng, safety officers still need to be sent. It's raining in the south again. Although this area is still far from the river, we must be careful."

"Okay, I know." Meng Hai looked at the south, then called a young man and told him to go to the front to watch first.

Li Long himself shouldered his backpack and carried his rifle to continue forward.

Some people looked at his background with some envy. Others were different; they could do whatever they wanted, while they had to work hard here cutting trees and carrying stones. Sigh, people can't be compared with people.

In Li Long's backpack were a pack of dynamite, a small pack of detonators, a bundle of fuses, and a few pull-tubes.

These things weren't assembled together. He had tools in his backpack, pliers, electrical tape, etc. When needed, they could quickly be assembled into individual dynamite sticks, and could also be assembled into a big one.

It was better to keep them separated when not in use.

When passing the location of the big jade stone, Li Long looked specifically and found that if someone didn't know the situation, they really wouldn't find anything unusual.

He remembered the terrain of this area and didn't think about moving the big jade stone back in the short term. Let's wait for the opportunity.

Walking all the way up, passing wide or narrow river beaches, he didn't find a single wild animal. Li Long suspected that the sound of the dynamite over the past two days had scared these guys away, and they didn't dare to come over.

Muffled thunder rang out in the mountains. Li Long looked at the area covered by dark clouds, which should be upstream of the river beach he was walking on, so it was highly likely that a flood would really come down.

He himself was also being careful, staying on the high ground by the river beach when walking.

The herding path wasn't like that; it basically followed the river, traveling along the riverbanks and in the valleys most of the time. When Yushanjiang and the others walked, the river wasn't deep and there was no flood, but at the moment of road construction, it was exactly in the high-incidence period of snowmelt floods.

Although floods in the mountains were intermittent, each one was sudden, coming fast and going fast, but the destructive power was still very strong, and it was easy to wash away the road surface where the roadbed was unstable.

So one still had to be careful when building.

Li Long marked several locations, all of which were places where the river turned and easily produced torrents. He thought about reminding Meng Hai when he returned. When paving the roadbed in these few locations later, one must use stones. Paving the roadbed with stones of all sizes, even if a flood rushed over, it would be very difficult to wash away the roadbed.

Continuing forward, walking to the place covered by clouds and mist, he felt the air humidity was very high, and occasionally raindrops dripped down. The clouds and mist on the mountains in front were like vertical strips, very good-looking, full of immortal spirit.

Li Long didn't continue forward. Walking nearly two kilometers along this road, there were no major obstacles, and he didn't need to take action. Even if there were stones in some places, they could be easily bypassed without consuming much engineering volume, so he didn't move.

When shouldering his rifle and walking back, Li Long specifically circled into the mountains, firstly to see the situation of wild mushrooms in the mountains, and secondly to see if there were any wild animals to hunt in other places.

Entering the forest, he could occasionally see hoof prints of wild animals, some fresh and some not, but he just didn't run into any wild animals. It seemed they were really scared.

He walked back to the place where they were working, put down his backpack and rifle, and started working with everyone.

When the sun set and they were preparing to finish work, the flood came as scheduled, but this time the water volume wasn't large and it was still far from the roadbed. Li Long originally planned to leave, but thinking of the big willow tree he protected with stones the day before, he let Meng Hai and the others go first, while he went over to take a look.

Meng Hai was worried and insisted on letting others wait here for a while, while he followed Li Long to take a look.

A small half of the area protected by stones was flooded at this moment, but the situation wasn't serious. Although the water flow was quite rapid, the stones were basically unaffected.

Li Long reassured Meng Hai, and then led everyone to withdraw. Li Long gave the money to Meng Hai on time every day, and settling by the day was more convenient.

Driving the jeep back to the county, when Li Long passed the acquisition station, he saw that it was already closed. Next door, Sun Jia Qiang was talking to Tie Lanhua in the courtyard.

Tie Lanhua was already showing, but her movements were not slow at all. A strong woman, indeed, was different.

The couple didn't see Li Long's car, talking in the courtyard and laughing loudly.

Happy days.

Li Long returned to the big courtyard. After hearing the movement, Han Fang hurriedly came over to open the door, then quickly went over with Gu Xiaoxia to pull Mingming and Haohao, afraid that the two children would run over and be hurt by the car.

After the jeep stopped, Han Fang ran over again to close the door. On this side, Sister Yang greeted everyone to eat.

"Did you save someone in the flood?" During dinner, Gu Bo Yuan asked, "Is it dangerous or not? We saw it written quite thrillingly in the news draft."

When Gu Bo Yuan said this, everyone else was looking at him. Obviously, everyone knew about this matter.

"Not very dangerous..." Li Long smiled and explained, "It's just that when there was a flood that day, the villager who was building the road fell into the water. I thought that I was the one who started the road construction, so I couldn't let people lose their lives, so I went into the water to save him."

"That Clerk Ma wrote it very thrillingly." Gu Xiaoxia was still a bit worried and a bit disbelieving, "Saying there were many sundries in the water, saying you were also injured..."

"I'm not much, there were some tree branches in the water," Li Long hurriedly explained, "It's just that that guy panicked after falling into the water, didn't know how to save himself, and wouldn't let go of me, so I knocked him out before pulling him up. Otherwise, it would be impossible for me to get so much water on me. By the way, the river beach isn't deep, and there were people on the shore helping me, so we saved him very quickly. It's fine."

Saying that, he rolled up his sleeves to show everyone:

"Look, I don't have any injuries on me. I've also asked people to send safety officers these two days. If there's a flood, withdraw to high ground, so there won't be any more danger."

After he said this, Gu Bo Yuan and Gu Xiaoxia were half-believing. They still urged him to be careful and not to hurt himself while building the road; it wasn't worth it.

Li Long hurriedly nodded and agreed, thinking that next time Ma Xiao Yan wrote a news draft, he must remind her not to write it too thrillingly.

After Mingming and Haohao fell asleep at night, Gu Xiaoxia insisted on letting Li Long take off his clothes to check his body to see if there were any injuries.

Li Long laughed while taking off his clothes: "There aren't any, don't worry."

Actually, it wasn't that there weren't any, it was just that the scars from the injuries he had suffered over the past two days had already fallen off. However, the careful Gu Xiaoxia still saw the two marks on Li Long's back that were different in color from the skin elsewhere, and touched them while asking:

"Is this where you were injured?" They had been a couple for several years, how could Gu Xiaoxia not know her husband's characteristics? "Your scars heal quickly, and you recover quickly—"

"That's it, underwater, the flood broke the tree, and then it hit me," Li Long explained while gently hugging Gu Xiaoxia. "It's fine, look, it only hurt the skin. Don't worry, I won't go into the water in dangerous situations. I have you and the children, I can't bear to run to a dead end."

"As long as you know." Gu Xiaoxia hugged Li Long back. "Mingming, Haohao, and I wait for you to come back safely every day. We have enough money at home, and life is good enough. We don't ask for anything else, just be safe every day."

"I know, I know..." Li Long said softly. "Don't worry, I have a count in my heart."

That night, Li Long was in a mood of guilt and compensation, and Gu Xiaoxia wanted her husband to truly feel the warmth of the family, so the wind blew the leaves, the rain hit the banana trees, and in short, it was very chaotic.

This led to Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia both not getting up as early as Mingming and Haohao the next day.

During breakfast, Gu Xiaoxia kept her head down, her face a bit red. Han Fang felt a bit strange and wanted to ask but didn't.

After breakfast, Gu Xiaoxia hurried to work, while Li Long waited until Sister Yang finished her work and took over Mingming and Haohao before he drove out.

The weather in the county was quite sunny, but when he reached the mountain pass, Li Long found that the mountains were covered in clouds and mist, looking like it wasn't a good day.

He was a bit worried, continued to drive inside, and drove all the way to the road construction site. Seeing Meng Hai and the others already building the road, there were cotton candy-like clouds above their heads, not looking like it was going to rain.

Looking south again, the Lishan Mountains in the south should already be raining. Looking at the riverside again, the water volume hadn't risen, the water was still clear, and the flood hadn't come over.

The road built here had already passed the giant boulder blasted by Li Long. The river beach was relatively wide, and the road built in this area was above the river channel, so there was no worry about safety issues.

Li Long chatted with Meng Hai for a few words, then shouldered his backpack and carried his rifle to continue walking inside along the road. ===== CHAPTER 978 =====