HLnovel Chapter 395: Repair a Road
Chapter 395: Repair a Road
“Thank you, Prince.
Otherwise, these children’s household registration cannot be transferred to the capital.”
Li Lanzhen thought to herself that both the county examination and the provincial examination must be taken in the place where one's registered residence is located.
Although he lived in the capital, he had a farm, a shop, and a house.
However, settling down in a place like Beijing is not an easy thing.
Shopkeeper Hua smiled and said, "It is also because Madam Li's sons have outstanding character and excellent learning."
Li Lanzhen smiled. She was naturally happy and proud that her children and grandchildren received praise from others.
Everyone in Taohua Valley, adults and children, knew that she was conferred the title of Concubine by the Emperor.
They were overjoyed. Li Erhan's family worshipped their ancestors at home and told their ancestors that Li Lanzhen, the daughter of Li Jiayou, had discovered a new high-yield grain variety in the spring of the third year of Emperor Yuan of Jin, and the emperor named her Yiren.
Zhang Deshui and his friends were planning to hold a grand celebration in Taohuayuan, but they were stopped by Li Lanzhen.
Later, everyone saw that she really didn't want to be too ostentatious or high-profile because of this matter.
I didn't want to make her unhappy, so I gradually stopped talking about it openly, but I was still proud of it in private.
Another village committee meeting.
Zhang Deshui reminded everyone, “It’s time to pick the pears in Lishu Village.
The peaches in our peach forest can be picked more than 20 days later, so we can just miss them.”
The grafted plums and peaches have a higher survival rate and fruit maturity rate this year.
Of course, the pears and peaches are better than before in both taste and size.
Han Dazhong said, "The pears in Lishu Village are really good this year! They are big and your mouth is full of juice when you take a bite. They are sweet and crisp.
There was only one problem: it was too much work to transport the picked pears to the Eleven Trees dock.”
Yes, last autumn, there were not many plows on the mountain in Lishu Village, so it took two days to pick the fruits, put them in baskets, carry them on backpacks, or push them on carts and deliver them to the small pier.
This year, we estimate that it will take three or four days to pick the good quality pears and deliver them to the small pier.
Li Lanzhen tapped the table lightly with her fingers, frowning as she thought about this question.
Lishu Village is now developing better and better. After two years of improvement, the land has become much more fertile.
The per-acre yield of corn fields increased by more than 600 kilograms compared with the previous year.
The per-acre yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes is about to catch up with the target quantity in Taohuayuan.
At the beginning of this spring, the people of Lishu Village reclaimed several small hills around it into terraced fields.
The soil in the terraced fields is much more fertile than the cultivated land in Lishu Village.
Next spring, you can plant corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes on them.
In this way, the grain output of Lishu Village will increase.
Transporting them to the Peach Blossom Spring would be an even greater undertaking.
"If you want to get rich, you must first build roads." Li Lanzhen muttered this to herself, and everyone heard it.
Su Beisheng picked up his pen and quickly wrote down this sentence.
He thought this sentence was very useful. After writing it down, he looked up and listened carefully to what Li Lanzhen said next.
“Everyone knows that Lishu Village will grow more and more food, and the target amount will increase every year.
Moreover, the pear trees on the mountain will bear more and more fruits.
So transportation is a problem, and the only way to solve this problem is to build roads.
First, build a road from Taohuayuan to Lishu Village."
As soon as she finished speaking, voices of doubt arose.
"Building roads?"
"How do I fix it?"
“That’s a mountain road!”
Li Lanzhen waved her hand to quiet everyone down, "Just build it the same way as the main road in Taohuayuan."
Han Dazhong said, “This project may be large.
To build the main road to Taohuayuan, since the land was flat, all we had to do was compact the soil, sand and stones layer by layer.
But from Taohuayuan to Lishu Village, all the ditches and bumps must be leveled.”
Others did not speak, but they were thinking in their hearts that the main road in Taohuayuan was originally a flat road and the workload was low, so it was built in less than 20 days.
After they arrived here, the roads were muddy due to rain or when the ice and snow had melted. Li Lanzhen couldn't stand it. She would come back with her feet covered in mud.
Sometimes, when you are halfway through the journey, you have to find a stick to push the mud off your feet so that you can walk more easily.
During the slack season, she proposed building a gravel road.
This road starts from the south gate of Taohuayuan and extends all the way to the peach forest.
The main road is a road like this, and the others are extending from the main road, leading to 11 trees, the small pier, the school, and the courtyards of each household...
Li Lanzhen simply told Han Zhaoxiong in detail how the road should be paved and compacted, and they went to do it.
The section of road built on the first day was used as an experiment and took about a day to complete.
Later, it gradually became faster, and then more people joined in.
Therefore, this path takes less time and produces faster results.
Thinking of this, Li Lanzhen stood up and said, "How about this, let's go to Lishu Village now and walk and see. We don't necessarily have to flatten all the high slopes, nor do we necessarily have to fill all the low-lying areas.
We can also build along the mountainside.
Go and ask Han Zhaoxiong to go with you, he has the final say."
They did it right away. When they left the dining room, Han Chaoxiong also ran over, his head full of blood.
Li Lanzhen handed him the towel in her hand.
"Wipe your sweat off. Don't be in a hurry. Let's talk while we walk."
They walked out of the south gate of Taohuayuan and looked around. They found that the soil was loose in two places along the original path leading to Lishu Village.
Han Zhaoxiong pointed directly at these two places and said, "Aunt Lanzhen, these two places are not good. The soil is too soft. Even if the sand and gravel are laid on top and compacted, it will turn into mud when it rains or when the ice and snow melt in spring, and we have to keep repairing it.
I suggest that we go around this hill, thus bypassing these two sections of the road.
It’s just a longer journey.”
Li Lanzhen observed and confirmed his statement.
"It doesn't matter if the journey is a little longer, but the quality of the road must be good, so we should go around it."
In this way, they kept observing the road, and Han Zhaoxiong also took out his notebook and a charcoal pencil at any time to keep recording.
Of course the one who recorded more carefully than him was Su Beisheng.
In this way we arrived at the entrance of Lishu Village.
Dunzi and his friends smiled happily when they learned that they were going to build a road from Lishu Village to Taohuayuan.
They had been to Taohuayuan several times, but they envied that road.
It’s flat, clean and beautiful. It doesn’t dirty my shoes at all, which is great.
Now they have such a path too.
Big Liu quickly walked up to Li Lanzhen and asked.
"Master, just tell us what you need us to do."
Li Lanzhen was also very happy. After these people came here, they were all hardworking and diligent, and they did not look down on Dunzi just because of his disabled leg.
Instead, she considered everything for him and gave him advice.
Lishu Village has changed a lot now.
“Okay, then we may need you to transport sand and gravel.
Do your part to build this new path.
Just follow Han Zhaoxiong's unified arrangements."
After inspecting the road, they prepared to return to the village to carry out the next preparations for road construction.
Han Dazhong suddenly reminded me when we were walking back.
"Zhao Xiong, why don't you put some wooden stakes on the road you just picked out, so that when the time comes, you can just build the road along the stakes."
Han Zhaoxiong praised it repeatedly, "Okay, this is a good idea! Drive the piles."
Da Liu and the people standing there quickly went to get machetes and chopped down more than 20 wooden stakes.
He carried the tools in a basket on his back and held a hammer in his hand.
"Master, you go ahead and we'll follow behind. When you say you need to drive stakes, we'll just put them on the road."