Great changes in the countryside

Chapter 85

Dredging and transporting mud in the river requires not only brute force, but also manpower, and it is the slowest way to do it alone.

After Tong Laogui assigned the tasks, everyone still found a partner, or two partners, or three together.

Chen Yang insisted on going it alone.

At this time, it shows the benefits of having a large family.

Apart from grandma with little feet and sick mother, Chen Yang is the mobilizer of the whole family.

Grandpa is in a strong body, and it is impossible to ask him not to do it.

Although the eldest sister, Chen Ping, is a woman, she can do the work of half a man.

Liu Zhongping, the master of the second brother Chen Bing, is affiliated with the woodworking club of the commune. The woodworking club is temporarily on vacation to participate in water conservancy construction. Of course, Chen Bing has to go home to work.

The 11-year-old second sister, the nine-year-old third sister, and the nine-year-old third brother were also pulled out to work by Chen Yang because the village primary school had a temporary holiday.

The division of labor is also very clear. Grandpa took his second younger sister, third younger sister and younger brother to dig mud in the river.Chen Yang, his eldest sister and second brother transported mud to the shore.

Grandpa used a shovel to dig out pieces of mud, and the second sister, third sister, third brother, and three filled the dustpan with mud.

Chen Yang uses a large dustpan. He has great strength and can lift more than 150 catties.

The eldest sister and the second brother are weak, and they use a small dustpan, which weighs no more than seventy catties each time.

Four large dustpans and eight small dustpans are used in turn to save time.

The difficulty is not to carry the burden, but the slope of the river bed is still fifty or sixty degrees.

Together with his grandfather, Chen Yang first shoveled soil on the river slope to build a temporary staircase with a total of forty steps.

Started to work, Chen Yang didn't talk or laugh, and devoted himself wholeheartedly.

After all, he is an adult, Chen Yang worked hard and did it very fast.He went up and down three times, and the eldest sister and second brother only had two times at most.

The whole family worked together from noon to dusk.After dinner, we turned on the lights and fought at night, and worked for another three hours.

Grandpa said to Chen Yang, "At least one square of soil has been dug. Yang, this speed is fast enough. It will definitely be completed on time in one month."

For a section of 25 meters, [-] cubic meters of soil need to be excavated. At this rate, it would take less than a month.

Chen Yang said with a smile: "Grandpa, this is the first day. After two more days, these little things will definitely get down."

Grandpa shook his head, "You can't hold on for long. With your vigor, you can't hold it for three to five days."

"Then what to do? Grandpa, do you have any good ideas?"

"Make a wheel, install it on the shore, put the dug up soil on a wooden plank, and pull it up through the wheel..."

Chen Yang shook his head and denied, "This is not good. How much mud can be pulled by that kind of wheel. Two to three hundred catties is enough for us to work hard."

Grandpa smiled, "Yang, the waste parts you brought back from repairing the tractor can be put to great use. Especially those few gears, which are used on the wheels, are very easy to shake."

Chen Yang's eyes lit up, "Pulley? Grandpa, can you do it?"

"I'll give it a try. However, I want to make something better..."

As expected of a grandfather, as worthy of being a carpenter.

Grandpa plunged into the miscellaneous room in the backyard and "invented" what he imagined for several days in a row.

Chen Yang took his younger brothers and sisters to continue digging in the river.

But the more we work, the more tired we are, and the speed is getting slower and slower.

The mud in the river channel is dry on the surface, but when dug down, it becomes wet mud or even muddy water.

A party of wet mud or muddy water will double or even triple its weight.

The younger brothers and sisters complained endlessly, worked for a while and rested for a while, and simply collapsed on the ground and couldn't get up.

Chen Yang looked at both sides, he was slower than him, he was not a backward person, so he allowed his brothers and sisters to rest for a day.

At this time, Grandpa's "invention results" came out.

(End of this chapter)