Yang Lei was walking on the dirt road heading to the east, and his doubts about Zhang Guoquan were completely unreasonable. Zhang Guoquan would not do that to anyone who would put gravel on the doorstep of his house.

Is it actually what he thought? He didn't notice it when he first arrived at the Dongdi intersection. As he gradually got closer, he was very pleased with the result.

Unlike some places in the village, the dirt road dozens of meters away from the Dongdi canteen is already covered with gravel. The blue stones cover up the clay color of the original road.

It looks quite smooth and clean. No wonder the road needs to be built. The gravel is different when paved with it. It is much stronger. More importantly, I no longer have to worry about stepping on mud when it rains.

If it weren't for the coal below Yangjiazhuang, I wouldn't have been treated like this for many more years.

"Guoquan, it's better for you to do it here." Yang Lei stepped forward quickly and finally saw a scene that satisfied him. Along the way, he spent a lot of time just persuading the villagers.

Zhang Guoquan understood the meaning of Yang Lei's words. Although he did not go to the village to see it, he could tell from the villagers who came to Dongdi to pull stones that the enthusiasm was definitely not without reason.

It's almost crazy. It seems that what is piled on the east floor of Yangjiazhuang is not rubble, but valuable things like silver.

Fortunately, it's not money. If it were money, then go crazy.

If it hadn't been for him and Ryoko's efforts to stop it, I'm afraid the dirt road in Dongdi wouldn't be what it is now.

Now that I think back to what I experienced in the morning, I still feel frightened. There were five huge piles of gravel. Xia Sujuan brought five large trucks with her a few days ago, and they all collapsed in Dongdi.

Five large piles of gravel are like a hill. During the days when the villagers, led by Yang Lei, collectively compacted the dirt road, children often came here to pick up gravel.

What I pick up are those rounder, smoother stones, which are used for throwing stones. I put a few on the ground, take one in my hand, throw it into the air, and quickly touch down with my hands. It depends on my ability to touch a few, and at the same time, I have to be accurate.

Only by catching the stones thrown into the air correctly will you win.

Various rules depend on the children's rules. Basically, little girls come to pick them up. If they pick up a lot of satisfied ones, they put them in their pockets and keep them to play with their friends or go to school to play with their classmates.

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Some boys also came to pick them up, and they were all used as slingshots to shoot birds.

Girls don't bother to play boys' games, and similarly, boys don't play girls' games. There seems to be a tacit understanding among children.

For example, there was a tacit agreement to pull gravel from the east side. The villagers all came in a swarm as if they had made an agreement. They pulled the cart and loaded the cart full of gravel. They didn't care if it spilled on the road. It wasn't like that anyway.

Come for a visit.

The largest number of people, if Zhang Guoquan remembered correctly, came more than a dozen times.

At first, Zhang Guoquan didn't care. He just pulled it. It was a good thing that the villagers were actively building roads.

During the process of pulling stones, he also suspected that his enthusiasm was too high. Could it be that Wei Guangming had promised some benefits to the villagers?

Wei Guangming doesn't have a long memory. The incident at the village committee last time was not enough to cause trouble.

Everyone piled up to pull the stones, and Zhang Guoquan didn't want to compete with others. You pulled first, and we from the east stayed at the end. Anyway, it was convenient to pile the stones here, so we started by pulling the long roads to the south and west.

He was sitting on the deck chair under the locust tree, listening to the radio leisurely, and unconsciously thinking about Xia Sujuan in his mind. He couldn't help it, the radio was given to her by someone, and as he was listening to it, he naturally thought of that dignified and elegant woman.

Maybe we will see each other more often in the future, provided that Xia Sujuan can get some business in the mine.

That will all happen in the future. In front of him are the villagers who are pulling gravel. Zhang Guoquan will shout to the villagers from time to time: "Slow down, what are you trying to do? Look, my door will be covered with lime everywhere."

If he meets someone familiar, such as Hu Yazi, he will jokingly say: "Dirty it for me, and I will keep those dirty things just for you."

The Huge Yazi asked, grinning and turning up one side of his lips and said, "Guoquan, why are you still lying there? Why don't you hurry up and pull out the pebbles?"

Zhang Guoquan squinted his eyes and slowly raised his hand: "No rush, you pull first, and we will clean up this place at the end."

Huoyazi didn't have time to chat with him, so he just said a few words quickly: "Oh, if you don't pull it, it will be gone. Then you won't be able to get it if you want it."

Zhang Guoquan opened his eyes slightly and glanced at Hua Yazi, but did not see his face. Hua Yazi had already pulled the driver away.

"Hey, there are so many piles of stones, how can we just say they are gone? Besides, if you all take them away and pave the road, it will save me the effort. Listening to the radio will be so comfortable."

Zhang Guoquan looked at Hu Yazi's back and muttered to himself.

"Guoquan, why don't you go pull the rocks?"

It's Ryoko's voice.

Zhang Guoquan stood up and sat there: "Brother Liangzi, didn't you go to visit relatives? It's not yet noon, so why don't you come back after having dinner there?"

Liangzi said: "What else are we going to have to eat? If I don't come back, all these pebbles will be gone. Guoquan, please hurry up and bring some back to pad the door."

"There's no rush. When we were paving the road, we laid a piece of mat together. Let them pull it first."

"What kind of road are you waiting for to pave the road? You don't know, they have just laid it all in front of their house."

"Really or not, isn't it paving the way?"

"Then I can still lie to you." Liangzi said, pulling up the car and joining the team grabbing stones.

Aunt Wang also came out and shouted: "Guoquan, hurry up, hurry up and grab some. Help my old lady grab some."

No wonder the villagers were so motivated that they all rushed to the door of their houses. Zhang Guoquan ran to the place where the stones were piled. Just like Aunt Wang said, hurry up, otherwise everything will be gone if you wait a little longer.

When I ran to the pile of rocks, Liangzi was grabbing her arms and squeezing in. However, there were so many people that she couldn't squeeze in all at once.

Zhang Guoquan patted him on the shoulder: "Brother Liangzi, stop crowding, let's go to the place with few people."

Liangzi turned around and saw that it was Zhang Guoquan. He shouted at the top of his lungs: "Guoquan, why are you here empty-handed? Go pull the car and grab as much as you can with your hands."

"Brother Liangzi, we can't rob him, we have to protect him. Even with so many people trying to rob him, we can't rob him."

"Then what should we do? We can't just watch them finish."

"Never mind this, go to the place with few people first and protect as much as you can, otherwise we won't have any stones to pave the road in this area."

Liangzi was confused: "What? You still want to pave the way?"

After Zhang Guoquan's persuasion, the stones were used to pave the road. If they were all laid at the door of his house, then there would be no point in building the road. Liangzi finally changed. As long as it was what Zhang Guoquan said, he would not doubt it at all.

Like other villagers, the villagers in Dongdi also started to grab stones. Zhang Guoquan and Liangzi persuaded the villagers in Dongdi. He could not persuade the villagers in other places, and no one listened to him at all.

In Dongdi, Zhang Guoquan's words were still listened to. There were few people in Dongdi, and after the river burst last time, in the days to come, the villagers in Dongdi loved Zhang Guoquan very much, and their words to Zhang Guoquan were also very popular.

Will listen

Probably after experiencing the last hardship, the villagers in Dongdi seemed much more united than other villagers in the village.

You see, suffering can sometimes bring strength to people.

Of course, this first requires a spiritual leader. Subtly, the second son-in-law of Mr. Yang's family who knocked on the door became the default spiritual leader of the Dongdi villagers.

It may be said that the leader is too exaggerated, but in fact it is like this. Zhang Guoshen showed tenacity and unyielding, and he had a passionate and sincere heart towards people and things. At least in the hearts of the Dongdi villagers, they admired him.

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Zhang Guoquan said that if the road is not repaired or repaired, it will still suffer the same disaster if it rains. Just paving the stone in front of his house is of no use. The villagers in Dongdi also agreed with Zhang Guoquan's statement. Everyone

The guy agreed, but he still wanted to grab the stone.

Zhang Guoquan acquiesced to this approach.

It's just that the purpose of robbing the stones has changed. All the stones they robbed belong to Dongdi and are used to pave roads for Dongdi.

Zhang Guoquan and Liangzi also went to grab it, and the stones they grabbed were first piled on Zhang Guoquan's wheat field.

When some villagers saw Zhang Guoquan coming to grab stones, they remembered that it was Zhang Guoquan who caught the trafficker last time, so they gave some to him.

Zhang Guoquan received the photo correctly and started grabbing it like everyone else.
Chapter completed!