Chapter 048: Serving the public and gaining merit

In the car, Gu Xiaoxi chatted with the driver about various things to kill time.

As they were talking, they naturally came to the topic of the disaster that had hit the various brigades.

Driver Xiao Xu said with great emotion: "We had no choice but to drive to Qingbei City at night. The mission was urgent, and we had to take a long detour. Many trees in the Shuangtuo Forest ahead had fallen, and they all blocked the road."

"Will this trip take a lot of time?" Gu Xiaoxi asked casually.

Driver Xiao Xu nodded, "Yes! In the past, it only took two and a half hours to get from Hongxin Commune to Qingbei City by taking the shortcut, but now it takes at least four or five hours."

"So no one clears the trees from the road?"

"It just collapsed this morning, and I haven't taken care of it yet..."

As the two chatted, they unknowingly arrived at the fork in the road leading to Sutta Forest.

Just when driver Xiao Xu was about to turn left and take a detour, Gu Xiaoxi, who had excellent eyesight, hurriedly stopped him.

"Wait, stop the car!"

Driver Xiao Xu was stunned for a moment, "What's wrong?"

Gu Xiaoxi picked up a flashlight from the car and shone it outside, then asked, "Is there a small bridge ahead on this road? It looks like the bridge is broken."

"No...no way?" Driver Xu was so scared that he broke out in a sweat.

There is a small river in front. The river is not wide, so the bridge is not long and a car can pass through it in a few seconds.

"I'll go down and take a look." As he said this, Gu Xiaoxi opened the car door and jumped out.

Driver Xiao Xu and the attendant behind him also got off the car quickly.

When they saw that half of the bridge had really collapsed, the expressions of the three people were extremely ugly.

It's not practical to repair the bridge at this time of night.

Turn back?

But the road was too narrow and we couldn't turn, so we had to go back.

But what a waste of time!

Gu Xiaoxi also understood this, so he gave a suggestion, "Why not clear the road and take the shortcut!"

Driver Xiao Xu sighed, "There are a lot of big trees on this road. It may not be possible for the three of us to make it."

Gu Xiaoxi said, "We can use the force to roll the tree to the side of the road to ensure that our car can pass. Let's try it first. If it doesn't work, we can only go back and ask for help."

Driver Xiao Xu also sighed. This was the only way now.

Gu Xiaoxi is a man of action and he does what he says.

Seeing the big trees that had collapsed due to the landslide in front of her, she began to clear the broken branches.

For larger trees, she used thick branches to leverage the force and combined it with cleaning techniques to easily roll the tree over.

When driver Xiao Xu and the attendant saw that a little girl like Gu Xiaoxi could move a big tree, they hurried over to help.

With the cooperation of the three people, and with the secret help of Gu Xiaoxi, the first wave of trees blocking the road were quickly cleared to the side of the road.

When Xiao Xu saw that the car could pass, he quickly asked everyone to get on the bus and moved forward slowly and cautiously.

At this time, Gu Xiaoxi discovered that her merit value had increased by 2.

She was so happy that she even looked forward to having more trees blocking the road.

After the car drove about a hundred meters away, we saw a bunch of trees blocking the road ahead.

This time, the three of them didn't need to say anything. They got out of the car tacitly and started working.

After the cleanup, everyone got back in the car and continued on their way.

Just like that, within an hour, they cleared more than a dozen obstacles of varying sizes that were blocking their way.

Gu Xiaoxi's merit value has also risen to 36 points.

After the car drove smoothly for half an hour, Gu Xiaoxi and his friends encountered a new problem: the car broke down and stalled.

Driver Xiao Xu and the attendant quickly got off the car to inspect it. Seeing that they didn't seem to need his help, Gu Xiaoxi walked forward alone with a flashlight.

Driver Xiao Xu hurriedly shouted, "Sister-in-law, please don't go too far. It's not safe at night."

Gu Xiaoxi immediately responded, "I won't go far. I'm just going to check out the road ahead. Just keep repairing it and don't worry about me."

Seeing that she said she wasn't going far, driver Xu focused on repairing the car.

Gu Xiaoxi walked forward and found some rocks scattered on the road, so she cleared them to the side of the road.

Walking a little further, she saw that the road ahead was flooded due to low terrain. She was worried about driving safety, so she used the wind-stem technique.

But then she found that her wind-driving skills were not effective in dealing with the flooded road surface.

After thinking about it for a while, she simply used the freezing technique to freeze the accumulated water first, then used the dismantling technique to break up the ice layer, and then swept it to the roadside for garbage incineration.

After this series of actions, she discovered a big problem. There were several big potholes on this road. It would definitely be troublesome if the tires got stuck in them.

She looked around, then walked back and threw all the rocks she had cleared from the roadside into the junkyard.

When choosing to exchange old for new, she chose to replace the rocks with a pile of small pebbles, and then filled the big hole in the road with them.

You know what, after this change, she made the road quite smooth.

Just as she was about to move forward, she discovered that her merit points had increased by 10 points at once. Her heart suddenly became excited.

It turns out that we still need to do more to serve the public!

She thought that she could arrange the road construction in the future!

She looked back and saw that Xiao Xu's car seemed not to be repaired yet, so she walked forward a little.

However, since I found that there was no problem with the road as far as I could see, I walked back to the car.

"Is it not repaired yet?" asked Gu Xiaoxi.

Driver Xiao Xu, who was lying on the ground repairing his car, replied as he was repairing it: "We'll have to wait a while."

"Then you take your time to repair it, there's no rush! I think the road ahead is pretty good." Gu Xiaoxi didn't say that he could also repair it, and walked around again.

When she saw the branches and fallen leaves on the roadside, she thought for a moment and decided to collect some of them and put them in her junk store to use as kindling for future home fires.

But embarrassingly, the options given to her in the new product showroom were saplings of four different heights.

She couldn't take the saplings home to plant, so she simply walked into the woods on the right, found a place with loose soil, poked some holes with a branch, dug up the soil with her hands, and planted the short saplings.

With no tools at hand, this was all she could do.

I hope these saplings are strong and can survive.

Just as she was thinking about it, she saw her merit value suddenly increase a little.

Her eyes lit up. It turned out that planting trees could also earn merit points!

Afterwards, she didn't care how deep the forest was or whether the rain or dew would wet her clothes. She started clearing the fallen leaves and branches all around with a flashlight.

Every time she got a sapling, she would plant it on the spot.

Until Xiao Xu called her: "Sister-in-law, the car is fixed, we can go now!"

Gu Xiaoxi quickly shook off the mud on his hands, washed his hands with the cleaning technique, and ran back to the car.

After getting in the car again, it drove smoothly. We only got off the car three times to clear roadblocks, and the car drove smoothly to Qingbei City.