The Era of Hard Work

After dinner, Lu Jianguo was going to the No. 3 Construction Company in the county. After seeing him off, he had another conversation. Because Song Na was curious about the place where Lu Dong grew up, Lu Dong simply led Song Na out to look around.

The two went out to the north, preparing to go to the embankment.

Song Na looked curiously as she walked. Such a street with old houses from south to north is rarely seen even in rural areas.

It feels antique. After eating a meal, Song Na had a solid foundation in her heart, and her mood was even better: There is a heavy sense of history.

Lu Dong laughed: I didn't feel the weight of history, but I felt that there were many bugs and rats. In my house, as soon as the weather warmed up, a scorpion and centipede would fall from time to time. Last time I was stung by a scorpion.

Song Na looked back and forth, saw no one on the street, and quietly grabbed Lu Dong's arm: You are the leader of the Five Poison Sect, and insects are naturally close to you.

Lu Dong dragged her to the side of the river embankment: The worms are almost eaten to death.

Song Na said: Seventh Uncle is really amazing. You can make itchy pepper jars into special delicacies, and the taste is quite good. If it is energy-produced, can it be made into a special product of Lu's cooked food?

Lu Dong pondered for a while: Don't say it, you can try it. No one raises this thing, but it floods the trees, and it is everywhere in ten miles and eight villages. Try collecting some another day to see if you can receive it. There is no way to batch it. It can be produced and eaten by oneself.”

Song Na casually said: It tastes good, it can be used as a snack for children.

For some reason, Lu Dong suddenly thought of Lu Lanlan.

Not to mention worms, as long as they are delicious, Lan Lan Chang worms dare to eat them for you.

It is estimated that Uncle Seven has never given Lan Lan a taste of it, otherwise the chili peppers on the embankment would be extinct. For Lan Lan who dared to chop a pig's head with an axe, picking a can of chili peppers would be a piece of cake.

The two came to the river embankment, and Song Na went to look at the hundred-year-old big locust tree surrounded by it, and walked around it curiously.

Even in the southern mountainous area of ​​Qingzhao, such a thick tree is very rare.

Lu Dong simply said: This is the river-suppressing sacred tree. It is said that there is a big worm under the tree. Once it comes out, it will cause trouble and bring disaster to the village.

Song Na asked curiously: The white lady of the Lu family village? Do you have Xu Xian here?

Lu Dong told the truth: Uncle Seven made up and created the myths and legends of Lujia Village. He took the lead on the embankment, and when Song Na came up the slope, he said: The various ghosts and legends in Lujia Village are mostly old people. Most of them were handed down from generation to generation, and most of them were compiled by Uncle Qi when he was young, and after more than ten years, the big guys can't tell which ones are old and which ones were compiled by Seventh Uncle.

Uncle Seven is very old. Song Na looked at the Qingzhao River, the river was not completely dry, the stagnant water was yellow-green, and the river was full of garbage, which was completely different from what she remembered. She asked: Didn't you say that you often go swimming in the river in summer, just in this kind of water?

Lu Dong understood what she meant: That was when I was a child. The pollution has been severe these years. The last time I really went down into the river was when there was a flood last summer.

In winter, there was basically no strange smell on the embankment, so the two walked north along the embankment.

Song Na came to a sour jujube tree, and saw newly broken branches on it. At the high places that were out of reach, you could still see the jars of itchy peppers, but it was hard to see the low ones.

Lu Dong said, Uncle Qi probably picked it.

Song Na nodded slightly: Uncle Qi is very caring.

Uncle Qi brought such a big bag over, but Fang Yan didn't dare to eat it, obviously to tell her to try something new.

The two of them came to the Triangle Dam. This side of the river embankment has been repaired the most, and there are many traces of repairs. Compared with the damaged river embankment on the opposite side, this side looks much stronger.

Standing at the front of the Triangle Dam, Song Na asked, This is where you found that you almost opened your mouth?

Lu Dong stomped the sandy soil under his feet: Wen Yue was here at the time, luckily nothing happened...

While talking, I thought of more than a year ago, more than ten years ago, when I turned my head to see Lujia Village. At that time, most of Lujia Village collapsed in the vast ocean. Although it was rebuilt later, not only Lujia Village was washed away by the flood. The house, as well as the human heart and will, are like a broken spine. Even if it is cured, it will never return to the way it was before.

In the end, this increasingly smaller and poorer village, like most small villages in Taidong, did not escape the fate of being annexed.

Lu Family Village has completely become history, and when people of Lu Dong's generation are gone, perhaps few people will remember that there is still a Lu Family Village here.

It was only when the village was annexed that Lu Dong knew the land where he was born and raised, and how important his hometown was in his heart.

Therefore, in the summer of 2019, even though there was a storm, even if Lujia Village had already been annexed and its administrative division revoked, Lu Dong still drove back against the wind and rain, and returned to this embankment to fight the flood.

Probably, it was also to make up for the guilt in my heart, for the old and young who fell in the flood.

Fortunately, the fate of Lujia Village has changed.

What will happen in the future, no one knows, but in Lu Dong's view, it is worse than before, poorer than before, no one wants people, no money is needed, and finally other villages are merged.

If Ren Fuyu Village is merged, it will really be raised by a stepmother.

Song Na saw Lu Dong staring at the village in a daze, she didn't speak, and stood with him all the time.

After a while, Lu Dong said embarrassedly, I was distracted.

Song Na smiled: It's okay. She asked curiously: What did you think of?

Lu Dong said simply: I was thinking, if the flood flooded the embankment that day, Lujia Village would not be what it is now.

Isn't it okay? Song Na comforted: Don't think about these bad things. You see, the embankment here has been repaired and strengthened, and there is no fear of flooding again.

Yes, maybe it won't last too long. It's not that Lu Dong doesn't have a sense of the overall situation, but there is only a limit to what one person can do: It's enough to carry it longer than other places.

Song Na reminded: Let's talk about this by ourselves, but don't go out and talk nonsense, you are not an ordinary person, and you will be criticized by others.

Lu Dong thought of his status as a committee member, since he enjoys the convenience, he must also take responsibility, and said: When the meeting next year is held and there is no movement from above, I will propose repairing the embankment. Even if it cannot be demolished and rebuilt, we must find a way to strengthen it. .”

The whole Qingzhao, because of the flood, because of Lujia Village, because of the university town, because of all kinds of things about Lu Dong, too many things have changed, who can guarantee that the flood of the scale of 1998 will not appear until 2019?

Song Na knew it was difficult, but said: That's fine, no matter what, I can remind the higher-ups.

Recently, she has gone through various procedures with Natasha and dealt directly with many departments. She has seen too much.

This is still a university town where Yang Liewen continues to standardize and strengthen management.

It is difficult to do things, and it is equally difficult for those who want to do things.

Lu Dong saw that Song Na was a little depressed, so he quickly changed the subject: Look over there, that's Uncle Tie's chicken farm.

Song Na saw the factory building with white walls and blue roof, which occupied a large area.

Lu Dong continued: The factories in the village and our company's stores have expanded in scale, and Uncle Tie's processing plant has also expanded. Most people in the village work in the cooked food processing factory, and Uncle Tie's factory employs mostly people from neighboring villages. Comparable to ordinary administrative editors in county towns, they are all high-income in rural areas.

Song Na listened, and occasionally echoed a word or two.

What Lu Dong does can help those around her, she has always believed in this.

Go further north, get off the river embankment, and walk along the gravel road, which is the former apple orchard and now the Lujia cooked food processing factory.

It was a busy time, with cars passing by on the road, Song Na watched from a distance for a while, and didn't go over to cause trouble.

Through contact with the seventh uncle and seven aunts, Li Wenyue and Uncle Tie in Lujia Village, she roughly understood that Lu Dong was an absolute leader among the younger generation in the village, and bringing his girlfriend there would inevitably cause a lot of trouble.

He just looked at the beast squatting on the roof of the columbarium, and walked back with Lu Dong.

Back home, I chatted with Hu Chunlan and Li Min for a while, during which Hu Chunlan gave Song Na a red envelope, and Song Na said she didn't want anything.

Song Na declined: Auntie, I'm still a student.

Hu Chunlan said with a smile: Xiao Song, if you don't accept me, my heart will be empty.

Song Na understood the meaning of these words, and Fang Yan also persuaded: Put it away quickly, or my aunt will really suffer from insomnia at night.

Hearing this, Song Na had no choice but to put it away. Lu Dong brought some special food from the delicatessen into the house from outside, and Song Na offered to leave.

A group of people went out, sent people to the car, and didn't go back until Lu Dong drove out of the old street.

Li Min said to Hu Chunlan: Okay, you should feel relieved now.

Hu Chunlan smiled: Xiao Song and Dongzi are old classmates, and they know each other well. Her parents and Lao Qi's family have met many times, and she is not a person with many things. Dongzi is lucky to find such a person.

Fang Yan also said: I have been in contact with Xiao Song a lot in the past few months. Except that she is a bit stronger, there is nothing else to say.

Hu Chunlan said again: It's just that both of them are a bit dark, and there will be a child in the future, what should I do if the dark is not?

All three laughed.

Back in the university town, Lu Dong asked Song Na: Where are you going? The school or the community?

Song Na said: Go to the community, my parents are still waiting.

Lu Dong smiled and said, Don't worry your parents, my mother thinks that you have wronged you by looking for me.

Song Na was surprised: Why?

Lu Dong said casually: The top student found a scumbag, aren't you wronged?

I'm not a top student. Song Na smiled: Not to mention the level of sports students, my grades are not very good.

Entering the north side of the complex, the car was parked beside the building, Lu Dong opened the trunk and let Song Na carry the things to go.

Song Na had no choice but to say, I'm going here, and I'm collecting red envelopes and carrying things, so I'm going to ask for cards for food.

Lu Dong closed the trunk: This is a gift in return, and I don't quite understand it. Just take it, and I won't go in.

Okay. Song Na was about to leave, but turned around and asked, Where are you going tomorrow?

Lu Dong said: I'm going to Quannan. Mr. Fan from Guangmei Electric called me yesterday and made an appointment to meet and chat at ten o'clock tomorrow.