Chapter 421 Don’t Let the Mother Know

"This is some stuff I prepared for Qiaozi's family." Luo Yang handed the package in his hand to Lu Jiansen.

"I didn't buy anything. I gave my monthly allowance to his family. Please ask Lu Tuan to bring it to them for me." Luo Yang handed over all the money checks he had received this month.

Gu Xiaoxi sighed, turned back to the room and took out a large cardboard box and a small wooden box.

"Put the things you want to send in the cardboard box, and the money in the wooden box. We will bring them to his family when we go there."

When everyone heard this, they put down their things in an orderly manner and left.

Gu Xiaoxi didn't waste any time and went to bed early after washing up.

The next day, she got up at five o'clock.

Although she had packed some things the night before, she still prepared a suitcase in the morning.

At half past five, Gu Dachuan, Li Kun and Lu Xiangqian came over and helped Gu Xiaoxi move the things to the troops.

At seven o'clock in the morning, Gu Xiaoxi, Lu Jiansen and their group of four flew from the army's military airport to a military airport in Nanchuan, and then took a car for more than seven hours to arrive at the town where Chuangzi lived.

However, to get to Zhuozi’s house, one still has to walk more than ten miles along the mountain road.

After receiving the notice, the local township government arranged for Gu Xiaoxi and his group to stay for one night. The next morning, they took people to Panshan Village where Zhuozi's family lived.

Panshan Village is a village located in the mountains. It is remote, poor and backward. The houses are built on the mountain. The terrain is very steep. In addition, it had just rained, so the mountain road was extremely difficult to travel.

Gu Xiaoxi had only walked for ten minutes, but his shoes and trousers were already covered in mud.

The thick mud stuck to my shoes, making my steps extremely heavy.

She nearly fell when she touched a slippery surface, but fortunately Lu Jiansen held her.

It was not easy for Lu Jiansen, Li Kun and Sun Xiangsun to walk as they were carrying things.

Halfway through the journey, Gu Xiaoxi couldn't help but say, "Is it possible for us to build a road?"

A local comrade said: "This mountain road is about 15 or 16 kilometers long, and there is only one village on the mountain, so such a large project is not easy to complete."

"We'll see how the situation turns out when the time comes." Lu Jiansen did not reject his little girl's suggestion.

It took us three and a half hours to walk along the mountain road before we reached Panshan Village.

When they arrived, some villagers at the entrance of the village saw them and someone reported it to the village chief.

Some enthusiastic villagers came to ask them who they were looking for.

When he knew they were looking for Zhuozi's house, he immediately wanted to lead them there.

However, the town staff still waited until the village chief came over, called him aside and whispered a few words to him before going to Zhuzi's house together.

The village chief was sighing all the way. He told Lu Jiansen and the others that Qiaozi's father had broken his leg a few days ago and was lying at home.

My old mother has been paralyzed for five years, and it has been my younger brother Pan Tiemu who has been taking care of her at home.

After walking for more than ten minutes, they finally arrived at Zhuanzi's house.

It was a house made of stone and yellow mud. A man was weaving a winnowing basket at the door. When he saw the village chief coming, he was startled and then shouted.

"Uncle Village Chief, why are you here? What's the matter?"

"Tiemu, come here." The village chief waved to him and called him outside to talk.

Gu Xiaoxi was a little afraid to listen, so she opened her luggage, took out the folding wheelchair she had brought with her, and assembled it.

When she finished her job, she saw Zhuanzi's brother coming back with red eyes.

He went into the house and told his father that the troops were coming. Then he became speechless and stood there crying.

Father Pan's face suddenly changed, and his voice was trembling, "Did something happen to your brother?"

Families with soldiers in their family are most afraid of the arrival of troops.

The little son cried again. Needless to say, he realized something.

Pan Tiemu nodded, "Yes."

"Help me out." Father Pan immediately stood up and tried to go out.

At this time, Lu Jiansen walked in.

Before he could even open his mouth, Pan's father quickly said, "Leader, let's go out and talk. Don't let the mother know."

Lu Jiansen nodded, and asked Li Kun and Sun Dongming to carry the wheelchair in. They helped Pan's father sit on the wheelchair, and pushed it to a big tree at the door of the house to talk.

Gu Xiaoxi did not go over to listen, but just took a quick look at Qiaozi's house.

When she found out that there was no electricity in Zhuanzi's house, she immediately bought three large rolls of electrical wire from the exchange mall and took them out using a cardboard box as a cover.

When Lu Jiansen and the others had almost finished their discussion, Gu Xiaoxi told the village chief about helping to install the electrical wires for the family.

The village chief nodded and said, "Connect it! When the town asked people from the big villages to connect the power lines, everyone thought the electricity was too expensive and refused to install it. Later, the village wanted to install a radio, so they connected the power lines at the end of the village. Just let us know if you need our help. The villagers have nothing but a lot of strength."

"I brought some electric wires here. I may need to cut down a tree to make a pole for the wires and pull the wires over from the end of the village."

"No problem, I'll have someone cut down the tree right away."

"No need. We'll go cut it down later. I just wanted to tell you first."

As she spoke, she called Li Kun and Sun Dongming over and told them her request to cut down the trees.

Without saying a word, Li Kun borrowed tools from the village chief and went to cut down trees with Sun Dongming.

While Lu Jiansen was busy, Gu Xiaoxi did not disturb him. She asked two enthusiastic villagers to help. After Li Kun and his team cut down the trees, the village quickly erected two electric poles and pulled the wires to Chuanzi's house.

Then she took out a box of light bulbs from her bag and installed electric lights in the kitchen, living room, and bedrooms of Qiaozi's house.

"Sister-in-law, you are really thoughtful. You even brought the wires and light bulbs." Li Kun said with emotion during a break from his busy work.

They are grown men but they are not that careful.

"I heard from Lu Jiansen before that Qiaozi's family lives in the mountains, and many families in such places don't have electricity, so I made some special preparations."

"Sister-in-law, what should we do now that the power is turned on?" Li Kun asked.

Gu Xiaoxi threw out twenty small bags of cement weighing one pound each from the large cardboard box he brought with him and placed them on the ground. "Here is some cement. Where can you find some mud and sand? We can fill the ground at the door and level the threshold so that it will be easier for the wheelchair to slide out."

Sun Dongming's eyes widened at the side. He thought his sister-in-law brought food, but it turned out she brought cement as well?

Although it’s not much, it should be enough to reach this threshold.

By the time they were done, Lu Jiansen had already talked it over with Pan's father and the village chief, and it was decided that Chuanzi's ashes would be buried the next morning.

Seeing that Lu Jiansen had already handed the pension to the Pan family, Gu Xiaoxi took the initiative to step forward and stated his identity as a doctor, wanting to help Pan's father check his leg first.

The village chief was even more excited than Pan's father after hearing this. "It would be great if his leg could be cured."