After the rebirth, the cannon fodder left the plot

Chapter 118 Repairing the Dam

Because these things were planned by Shen Jingcheng and the others long ago, and they were recorded one by one, so this matter was carried out in an orderly manner, and even some of the obstacles imagined by the few people were not encountered at all.

They didn't know that it wasn't that no one wanted to make trouble during this period, it's just that before the chaos started, it was suppressed by the people who watched Shen Jingcheng patrol the embankment for the past six months.

At any rate, the county magistrate is really doing something. At any rate, they didn't flee as usual this year because of the county magistrate. At any rate, they still have an extra harvest this year.

Besides, the magistrate of the county has no land here, and whether the dam is repaired or not will do no harm to them. On the contrary, the common people will be able to farm well after the dam is repaired, and they don’t have to flee every year. Provoke public outrage.

In this way, Shen Jingcheng's plan went smoothly so unexpectedly, just like what Gu Jin said, work is work, and people must be able to eat hot food and drink hot water, so as not to let people die Sick and cold, not to mention slowing down the progress of embankment repairs, may also arouse public resentment.

Therefore, in Yuhe County this year, along the river embankment that turns sharply, there is a row of land nests. Every morning before dawn, people start to light a fire and cook. The soil was excavated, rammed and rammed, the masons beat and beat, and the craftsmen piled stones to fill the gaps.

This year, the people who served in corvee labor were still worried when the government said that the food they brought was collected by the government and they wanted to cook in a unified manner, for fear that their food would be embezzled.

As a result, the government cooks to keep you full, and you can eat as much as you can, which completely exceeds the amount of food they originally brought.

That's not to mention, every morning and evening, no matter what the government eats, they will cook a few big pots of hot salty oil soup mixed with ginger. There is no salty soup at noon, just hot ginger water, people can drink it anytime. .

In this way, after a day of work, people can’t even feel the slightest chill. They sleep warm at night and sweat during the day, not to mention the cold from freezing and starving. Wherever you feel cold in a day is up to you. .

Eat well and sleep well. Apart from being a little tired from work, people have never enjoyed such a life at home in recent years.

In addition, I heard that these ginger shreds were grown by their county grandpa, and they were not bought by the county at all, just to protect them from the cold and prevent them from getting cold, people suddenly felt an unspeakable feeling in their hearts. taste.

Is the magistrate of this county stupid? He also does such a money-losing business?

But while thinking this way, they also became inexplicably respectful to the county magistrate, and they worked harder one by one.

And when He Dongzhi and Yuan Shulin, who were far away in the capital city, waited for the days to count their days and pretended to cough for a few days and asked for sick leave, what they saw was such a scene.

They felt that these ordinary people seemed to be suffering from some kind of disease. They dug the soil without supervision, and carried it up the embankment with their shoulders and hands, each of them looked full of anger, as if they were fighting a war.

The two of them have been in the Ministry of Industry and Water for many years, and it is not that they have supervised the common people's repair of dams, but they have never seen such a lively scene.

After the two of them stared dumbfounded for a long time, they felt as if there was a fire burning in their bodies, urging them to join in quickly.

In this way, after the two found Shen Jingcheng, they left the field to guide the craftsmen in their work. Except for going home to sleep with Shen Jingcheng at night, they almost never left the river bank.

Busy days can't help but time flies, and the dams are raised quickly almost by sight. By the time of the twelfth lunar month, the nearly two-mile dams have been roughly completed.

He Dongzhi and Yuan Shulin couldn't believe their eyes looking at the long embankment.

That's it!Such a complicated curved embankment, these people just finished it like this?
But believe it or not, facts are facts.

When they returned to Beijing, both of them were in a daze, and when they were about to leave, Gu Jin prepared some new year gifts for them to take away.

Regarding these things, the two felt a little guilty, after all, they didn't feel that they had put in so much effort.

But Gu Jin and Shen Jingcheng didn't think so.

If it weren't for these two people, how would they know how much impact the Yellow River bend would bear?And how do you know what kind of curvature can slow down the impact of the flood?And what kind of embankment should be built.

Therefore, the two of them actually did not take much of these things.

After the two left, people worked for another half a month before the embankment was finally completed. It happened that the Chinese New Year was coming soon, so Shen Jingcheng asked the people to go back to their homes to celebrate the New Year, and they would come back on the eighth day of the new year to continue strengthening the embankments in other sections of the river.

People happily returned home, and the women in every household almost blinded themselves.

In the past, when these people came back from corvée service, which one was yellow and emaciated and described as miserable, like a beggar.It's good now, it's okay to have a red face, and everyone is strong and strong, and some people even gained a lot of weight.

Are they going to do corvée, or go to fatten up?

But the surprise was the surprise, and they were also very happy that their men came back intact.

So the women of each family immediately began to cook and cook to welcome them back.

From the beginning of the construction of the embankment, Shen Jingcheng almost left Xiao Youping when he was still awake, and only came back at night when he fell asleep. He saw Xiao Youping every day, but Xiao Youping hadn't seen him much.

Therefore, when Xiao Youping saw a stranger sleeping next to him that day, he slapped him on the face.

Being dumped, Shen Jingcheng suddenly opened his eyes, seeing that it was this brat, he immediately stretched out his hand and dragged him into his bed.

"Ahhh..." Xiao Youping was dragged by him and screamed, Gu Jin couldn't help laughing when he opened his eyes and saw the appearance of the two fathers.

"Ping'er is good, he's daddy." Gu Jin looked sideways at the two fathers, smiling with crooked eyebrows.

"Daddy." Xiao Youping subconsciously repeated Gu Jin's words, and then stretched out his little paws towards Fu Jin: "Mother, Mother."

Recently, he has started to babble, the first thing he knows is the word daddy, and then Aniang.

Although he didn't know what daddy meant, he knew that Auntie was Gu Jin.

"Hey, do you want to pee?" Gu Jin asked him with a smile.

"Pee." Xiao Youping repeated unconsciously.

Hearing this, Gu Jin didn't care whether he was urinating for real or fake, and immediately got up and put on his clothes, and then went to the foot of the kang to find the clothes that had warmed Xiao Youping and put them on for him.

"After dinner, let's go to the street to buy some red paper to write couplets on, shall we?" Shen Jingcheng looked at Gu Jin who was dressing Xiao Youping with lingering eyes.

"Sir, I bought it two days ago. I went to cut the red paper with my husband when I had time these two days. Now I only have to write couplets." Gu Jin replied while dressing Xiao Youping.

"Then let's write couplets together later. When I'm busy repairing dams these days, my husband handles most of the affairs in the yamen for me. It's time for him to rest."

"Okay, after dinner, I'll ask Axiu to look at Ping'er first. Recently, this kid wants to leave all the time, so my husband can't look at him."

"Okay." Shen Jingcheng nodded.

Gu Jin had already dressed Xiao Youping at this time, and carried him to the next room to urinate in his little pail.

And Shen Jingcheng quickly put on his clothes and started to light the stove. The temperature in winter here is similar to that of Qingzhou Mansion. Even if the weather in the twelfth lunar month is not splashed into ice, it can still make people shiver.

Because the Chinese New Year was coming soon, there was almost nothing going on in the yamen, so after dinner, Gu Jin asked Gu Xiu to take care of Xiao Youping first, and then went to Jiang Zhengshu's place to write couplets with Shen Jingcheng.

They had to write together with Shenjiaao in Shenjiacun, but there were not many young and old.

Gu Jin and Shen Jingcheng were very busy here, but in a small village far away in the next county of Qingshan County, Qingzhou Prefecture, a man suddenly let out a groan in shock.

"What? She wants to divorce?"

(End of this chapter)