Chapter 105 Mudslide

"My aunt is a lazy bum."

Su Qingyue was half asleep when she heard Su Zhuangzhuang's voice. She rubbed her eyes and woke up. It was Zhuangzhuang. "Where is your uncle?"

Su Qingxi raised her head from the book and said, "Brother-in-law has gone to work. I'll leave the food in the pot for you. You can eat it after you have had enough sleep."

Su Qingyue rubbed her face twice and touched her stomach. She had been becoming more and more sleepy recently, and her body was becoming heavier.

"Why don't you two go to school?"

"Sister, today is Saturday."

Su Qingyue slapped her head, feeling that she was becoming stupider because of her pregnancy. She put on her cotton clothes and said, "Let's dry the quilt after dinner."

There was a bowl of egg custard and four steamed eggs in the pot in the kitchen. Pei Huaiye told pregnant women to pay attention to nutrition and asked her to eat more eggs every day.

A plate of fried tofu, a plate of stir-fried cabbage, and three steamed buns.

Su Zhuangzhuang and Su Qingxi had already eaten in the morning, but the teenagers all had good appetites, so Su Qingyue shared breakfast with the two kids.

Su Qingxi couldn't help but sigh, "Brother-in-law's cooking is so delicious. He must have gotten up early to steam these steamed buns, and he also cooked for you. You are so lucky, sister."

Zhuangzhuang bit into the soft steamed bun, his eyes rolling around, "Aunt, will uncle make steamed buns again tomorrow?"

He sucked the fragrance on his fingers and said, "I want to take it to school as dry food, to make my classmates jealous, hehe."

Su Qingyue pinched his little face and smiled dotingly, "Okay, let uncle steam a big pot tomorrow and leave some extra for you two."

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

She laughed and patted her cheeks, then asked her sister to help take out the bedding from both bedrooms and dry them in the sun.

Then he took the two children to the brigade office and said, "You can play in the threshing ground."

"You go ahead, sister. I'll take care of Zhuangzhuang."

After Su Qingxi finished his homework, he sat under the eaves to bask in the sun.

In autumn and winter, the threshing ground becomes a great place to bask in the sun. Grandma Song with her little yellow dog, Widow Liu's three children, and Xiang Jianming's grandchildren are all there.

The kids go to school together every day, and now that they are on holiday, they are playing "Eagle Catches Chicken" in the threshing ground.

The processing plant is located next to the threshing ground, and the adults sit down and rest for a while when they are tired from work.

Liu Shu took an enamel pot and took the initiative to deliver it to Widow Liu every hour. Every adult who saw it was envious, and Widow Liu felt as sweet as honey.

"I heard from Zhuangzhuang that Liu Shu is very active in answering questions in class and is a good student."

Su Qingyue praised her a few times, and Widow Liu pulled her aside. "Shen Xunbao asked Captain Xiang yesterday to find an easy job for his wife. Captain Xiang didn't agree, so he will probably ask you for help."

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

"Look, here it comes, be careful."

After saying this, Widow Liu went back to make a fire.

"Do you have something to talk to me about?" Su Qingyue asked calmly.

"Sister Qingyue, I really have no choice. I am pregnant now and cannot do any heavy work. Can you help me arrange some light work?"

Su Qingyue was just about to say that you can choose not to work and just pay money to buy work points.

Su Qianqian pointed at her belly and said, "I can pay someone to help me, but I don't have much money. After the baby is born, everything will cost money. I have to make plans for the future."

"Qingyue, I know we need people to pick soybeans and dry fermented black beans. Do you think I can come and help?"

Su Qingyue held her forehead with her hand. "The factory manager is the team leader. He makes the final decision on these matters. I can't directly decide who will do what job. Let's list all the positions in the next few days, and then we can interview and vote together to decide."

Many people in the threshing ground were watching them as they spoke, so Su Qingyue didn't want to be too definitive. Since this would be the recruitment process in the future anyway, she might as well say it in public.

If Su Qianqian is not selected by then, you can’t blame her.

"Thank you, Sister Qingyue. You can take these eggs back to replenish your body."

"No, you're pregnant so keep it to yourself."

Su Qingyue would never accept her things, and Su Qianqian didn't want to make trouble for herself. She just left with the eggs with a smile.

In the afternoon, Su Qingyue was collecting quilts when Li Zilan came rushing over and said, "Qingyue, the Qingshan team drove the tractor into the river!"

"In the river? Who opened it?"

Li Zilan talked to Su Qingyue as they walked.

"The deputy captain of the Qingshan team, whose name is Zhang Huarui, has hired someone to repair it, but it won't be fixed in a short time because the cart is in the river and the grain can't be transported to Shuangqiao Commune. They have also borrowed ox carts from surrounding villages."

Xiang Jianming was pacing in the office. "What should we do? Because we need to provide food to Shuangqiao Public, all three ox carts in Pingshu Village have been borrowed."

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"Tomorrow we can only use oxcarts to transport the tofu to the Hongqi Supply and Marketing Cooperative, but we won't be able to transport all of it in one trip."

"And the tiles and bricks from the processing plant haven't been shipped out yet!"

Su Qingyue pinched her palms, "Where did you buy it? Ask them to find a way to send it from the county town, and we will pay for the transportation."

"It can't be delivered. The tractor drove into the river because of a landslide. Rocks rolled down the mountain and blocked the road."

Su Qingyue frowned. It hasn't rained recently, so how could there be a landslide?

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

"Captain Xiang, please get some people together and start repairing the road now. Try to build a shortcut."

"That's what I thought. At least we can let the bullock cart pass. I'll go call for help now."

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

But there are still some people who are unwilling to go, not only because they have no money but also because it affects their ability to earn work points.

Su Qianqian rushed out of the crowd at this time, shouting, "Everyone, don't forget, if this road is not repaired, we won't be able to deliver bean sprouts and tofu to the county supply and marketing cooperative. If the factory opens one day later, we will lose one day's profit!"

"Let's not disappoint Captain Xiang and Su Qingyue. They have worked so hard to help us make money. We can't be ungrateful."

"I am a pregnant woman, but I also want to go to build the road. I want my children to go to school and the conditions in the village to be better, so they don't have to live a hard life."

After she finished speaking, she didn't even wait for anyone's response and dragged Shen Xunbao towards the village entrance.

Everyone looked at each other, and some people were actually persuaded to follow her.

After Xiang Jianming shouted a few more times, most of the men followed him to build the road.

Su Qingyue didn't know what Su Qianqian was planning, so she decided to go with her after thinking about it. "Sister-in-law, brother, keep an eye on the processing plant. Don't let anyone take advantage of the situation."

When we arrived at the road that was flooded by the landslide, we saw that the road surface was severely damaged and could not be repaired in a day or two.

Su Qingyue frowned even more tightly.

Suddenly, the rocks on the mountain rolled down again without any warning.

"Qingyue! Get out of the way!"

Before Su Qingyue fell into coma, she heard Pei Huaiye's shrill cry at the top of his lungs.