Chapter 381 Ming Tombs Dam Construction Site

On the way home, thinking of the girl just now, He Yuzhu asked with a smile,
"The girl you are dancing with is so pretty. What do you think, Xu Damao? Is she willing to date you?"

When Xu Damao heard He Yuzhu ask the girl if she was happy, he felt insulted and jumped up and down excitedly.

"Go, go, go, what do you know?
You need to figure it out. Is it whether the girl is willing to date me? It's whether I am willing to date her. You got it wrong.

When we were dancing just now, I didn't even ask for their names, and left right after the dance.
Do I look like I want to date her?"

Although he already knew that Xu Damao would not easily date someone, He Yuzhu couldn't help but curse him after hearing his words.

"Bah! You scumbag,

If you don't want to date a girl from the beginning, then why are you dancing with her?

You're not afraid that the girl's family will find out and come to trouble you."

"Tsk, finding a partner is a matter of mutual consent. If I don't agree, their family can still tie me up and force me to get married or something. Do they understand the marriage law?"

After saying that, Xu Damao took the lead and walked forward quickly with a proud look on his face.

In the following two days, the families of Jia Zhang and Liu Haizhong were discharged from the hospital one after another, and the neighbors in the courtyard began to think about asking them to host the reception.

Sure enough, after discussing it, Liu Haizhong and Jia Zhangshi only paid the same amount of money and tickets as Yan Bugui.

Yi Zhonghai made the final summary.

"Everyone knows the current situation. Although Lao Liu and his team didn't contribute much, it's still a token of our appreciation. We won't be picky.

We will follow the old banquet rules. Old Yan, you will take care of buying food, and Old Liu and I will take care of the tables, chairs, pots, pans, and utensils.
Lao He, the cooking depends on you and Zhuzi.

I hope everyone is alright."

Siheyuan encounters many problems every year. What Yi Zhonghai said is just a cliché. Naturally, the neighbors have no problem.
Only He Yuzhu expressed a different opinion.
"Uncle, you can ask my dad to help with the cooking. Our militia has received a mission from our superiors. I have to lead a team to the Ming Tombs Reservoir to support the construction of the dam.
On Sundays, let alone helping with cooking, I wasn't even sure if I could come back for dinner.
I really can’t help you with this.”

Regarding the construction of the Ming Tombs Reservoir Dam, some news was circulating in Beijing.
He Yuzhu said he would bring the militia to support the dam construction.

Yi Zhonghai didn't say much good.
He also knew what was important and didn't dare to disagree.
"Okay, Zhuzi, since you are going to lead the team to support the construction of the Ming Tombs Reservoir, then you should complete the tasks assigned by the superiors and don't worry about the things in the yard.

Apart from the pillars, do you have any other questions? If not, we will adjourn the meeting."

No need to wait until Sunday,

Early the next morning, the deputy captain on duty took the militiamen who came for training to the Ming Tombs Reservoir.

On Sunday, most people have a day off.

Ma Yongqiu even assembled most of the militia and took He Yuzhu and others to support the Ming Tombs Reservoir.

Early in the morning, after the militiamen had gathered, He Yuzhu and his men took hoes, iron hoes and other tools and drove the troop carrier to the dam.

Before reaching the destination, I heard a huge noise coming from the front.

Apparently there were quite a lot of people gathered not far away.

Wait a little closer,
He Yuzhu clearly heard that they were singing "Unity is Strength". [Unity is strength, unity is strength, this strength is iron, this strength is steel, harder than iron, stronger than steel, ...]

Hearing the passionate singing in front, the militia comrades in the car couldn't help but sing along.

The convoy soon arrived near the dam command center.

The person in charge of the dam heard the roar of the car and rushed out of the office. He was very happy to see that Ma Yongqiu brought so many people.
"Team Ma, thank you for your hard work. You came just in time. Thank you."

"Hello, Director Zhang. Sorry to bother you again. Time is tight. I will take you to the dam directly. If you have anything to say, wait until I have arranged it for you."

"Okay, okay, thank you Captain Ma, I'll wait for you in the office."

He Yuzhu first asked his comrades to get off the bus, and then, under the leadership of Ma Yongqiu, they walked forward along the muddy road.

It didn't take long to see a huge, unfinished dam standing in the middle of the river.

At the construction site near the dam,
Countless young and middle-aged laborers work as hard as ants.

Some of them were digging, some were transporting, some were tamping. A little further away, the comrades in the army were blasting and quarrying.
There are railroads connecting the quarry and the dam, and a few construction machines are moving back and forth to transport materials.

Although there were no less than 10 people working on site, everything was not chaotic but in good order.

After Ma Yongqiu assigned the task, He Yuzhu led the militia from Dongcheng District and took their own tools to dig the soil on the nearby hillside.

Following behind the common people who were transporting earth,
He Yuzhu quickly brought Zhou Yiming and the others to their destination.
I saw countless people busy here, digging out the soft soil and putting it into baskets, waiting to be transported to the dam for compaction.

Seeing this, He Yuzhu and others rolled up their sleeves without saying a word, picked up hoes, shovels and other tools and started to help.

Everybody is working.

Then I heard Comrade Fang Yunquan from the militia say with a smile,

"This soil is really easy to dig. It's much easier than when I was farming in my hometown in the countryside. It's nothing like in my hometown, where the soil is frozen hard during spring plowing. Your hands will be numb from the hoe.

It is up to the comrades on the dam to work hard to consolidate it."

As soon as Fang Yunquan finished speaking, a young man next to him interrupted and said,
"Comrade, what you said is not right.
Now that the weather is getting warmer, the land is easier to dig.

When the dam construction started in January and we just started digging the foundation, the soil here was also very frozen and it felt like digging on rock when we used the pickaxe.

Later, the district brought a lot of coal to boil water, poured the boiling water on the ground, and slowly dug out the soil and laid the foundation of the dam.
Otherwise, it would not have taken two or three months to complete only one quarter of the work.”

Hearing that this comrade had been thinking about this when the dam was just started, Fang Yunquan knew that he had just said the wrong thing.

First he apologized with a smile, then he started praising me.

"I'm really sorry, comrade. I just arrived and don't know the situation.

But you guys are working really hard. I know this frozen soil is hard to dig. You may not get any results even if you work hard for a long time.
It’s amazing how much you’ve accomplished.”

(End of this chapter)