The spring breeze blows, and all things come back to life. In the vast fields, women are busy sowing the seeds of hope in the soil.
However, in sharp contrast to this vibrant scene, the embankment construction team led by the commune secretary encountered difficult problems.
The snow this year melted unusually quickly, as if it was being urged to do so, posing a huge challenge to the team leader and his colleagues.
As soon as a one-meter-high dam was built, the water level rose by one meter, as if it was in a fierce race against time.
Faced with such an urgent situation, the commune secretary had no choice but to call on more than a dozen villages to participate in clearing the silt in the river to prevent the river from backflowing into the farmland. Qingshan Village was naturally among them.
So the commune divided all its forces into two groups: one group, consisting of the remaining five villages, continued to build the dam above; the other group, consisting of a dozen other villages, was responsible for clearing the silt in the river.
Each brigade was tasked with cleaning a section of the river. However, as fate always seemed to play a trick on them, the Qingshan Brigade was assigned the first section—the one with the most silt accumulation.
Since the upstream reservoir has not released floodwaters for several years, dredging of the downstream river channel has been difficult and progress has been slow.
Nowadays, time is money, and every minute and every second is extremely precious.
Despite facing many difficulties, everyone had no choice but to devote all their efforts and race against time to the dredging work.
Wu Youcai looked at the huge amount of silt in front of him and couldn't help but feel worried. He thought to himself: "How long will it take to clean up this much silt?"
So he started to make a plan in his mind and wanted to be lazy.
But what he never expected was that there was a hibernating snake in the place where he chose to be lazy. He sat down and sat right at the door of the snake's home.
The weather was still a bit chilly, but Wu Youcai felt a bit chilly. He looked around and found some dead branches scattered on the ground. He suddenly had an idea and decided to build a fire to keep warm.
He picked up the dead branches and carefully lit them, and soon he had a small fire.
However, he didn't know that this small action caused great trouble to the hibernating snake.
As the fire grew stronger, the temperature around it also gradually rose.
The hibernating snake felt the warmth and began to wake up. It slowly crawled out of the cave, thinking that spring had come and it was time to go out and move around.
When it climbed to the entrance of the cave, it was surprised to find a man sitting at his door.
This made it very angry, thinking that this person was invading its territory.
So, it opened its mouth without hesitation and bit Wu Youcai's leg hard.
In an instant, a miserable howl came from the section of the river under the responsibility of the Qingshan Brigade, like a pig being slaughtered.
Wu Youcai was terrified. He covered his injured leg and ran forward desperately.
The snake followed closely behind, chasing it relentlessly.
Wu Youcai ran alone on the river bank, his heart filled with fear and despair.
He completely forgot where he was and was only concerned with getting rid of this terrible snake.
Just then, he suddenly found a huge rock blocking his way.
Because he ran too fast, he didn't have time to dodge and bumped into the big rock.
Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain, lost his balance and fell heavily to the ground.
Blood gushed out from under his head, staining the ground red.
He groaned in pain and tried to struggle to get up, but was unable to do so.
At this time, the other people who were busy cleaning the river noticed something was wrong. They stopped what they were doing and looked in the direction where the sound came from.
They were shocked to find Wu Youcai lying in a pool of blood in a very critical condition.
When the team leader and the village chief saw his face covered in blood, they turned pale with fright. They hurriedly called on the nearby villagers to carry him on their backs and rushed him to the hospital.
The river tasks that their brigade was responsible for were already extremely heavy, and now three people were missing. The brigade leader was extremely anxious and even had several blisters on his lips.
Fortunately, the silt in the river channel is relatively hard, so it can be directly dug out and transported up with a rope; if the silt is softer, the workload will increase several times.
In this dredging operation, Gu Changmu demonstrated extraordinary abilities; he alone was worth the work of several people.
He quickly dug out the mud under his feet, and then Father Gu and Old Man Gu pulled it ashore.
With clear division of labor and quick actions, they quickly cleared a gap to expose the riverbed.
However, what is unexpected is that a huge cave is hidden at the location where the stones of the river channel are laid.
At this moment, Erzhuzi suddenly lost his footing and almost fell into the hole. Fortunately, Gu Changmu was quick to catch him.
Erzhuzi looked at Gu Changmu with gratitude.
At this moment, someone nearby shouted loudly: "Captain! There is a big hole here!"
After hearing the sound, the captain rushed over to check the situation, only to discover that the stones that should have been stacked tightly had long disappeared, and a huge cave had appeared on the side close to the mountain!
The cave was like a naturally formed karst cave, unfathomable. He picked up a stone and threw it into the cave, but it took a long time before he heard the sound of the stone hitting the ground.
The captain suddenly had an idea and thought that since there was such a large space, he might as well dump all the silt in the river into it. This way, not only could he save time and energy in dumping the silt, but he could also greatly improve work efficiency.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
