lcionline Chapter 338: Fireworks 1
Chapter 338: Fireworks 1
There was no modern machinery for building roads in this era.
Common household tools include hoes, shoulder poles, and baskets. Less commonly used tools include wedges, shovels, steel chisels, and wheelbarrows.
Chunni and Yang Anzhang agreed that each family would provide one strong laborer per day, regardless of gender, so that they could take turns working and take care of both the family and the construction site.
No rules no standards.
Chunni and Yang Anzhang had already arranged that each village would be responsible for a section of the road. Of course, some special types of work would be divided into special groups, such as the tractor group for pulling materials and the blasting group.
Therefore, after the mobilization meeting, Guan Jian saw the villagers busying themselves, carrying pots, water and tools to their destination.
Some of them were chiseling everywhere, some were digging everywhere with hoes, and some were pushing one-wheeled or two-wheeled carts to transport sand and gravel.
In some places, you need to use a steel chisel to hit the stone. The hammer makes the steel chisel ding-ding sound and even sparks. There is a kind of harder stone in Lion Rock called Qinggang stone. When you hammer it, it just leaves a mark. There is no other way, you can only use the iron chisel, steel chisel and hammer together. There is also a kind of stone called Huang Paoshi, which is more loose. When you hammer it, it will easily break into a large piece.
Chunni led Guan Jian for a walk and they arrived at a small hill.
There is a cliff on one side, with the rolling Tuojiang River below, and a hillside on the other side. The road must be moved to the hillside.
Mountain excavation is the most dangerous, and Chunni and Guan Jian are also the most worried.
Yang Bangming helped to drive away the children around. "Hurry up and hide at home. The firecrackers will deafen the children's ears!" he threatened.
The children were frightened and ran home in panic.
They don’t want to be deaf, otherwise they won’t be able to get married!
There was only one slug-nosed little kid, about two or three years old, crying and shouting for her chicken and her little flower!
No one takes chicken seriously.
To be honest, what the rural people are most interested in is the firecrackers Chunni brought back from the county. After a few firecrackers, the hillsides will collapse.
Look, except for the children, everyone in the village, including the old men and women in their seventies and eighties, came to watch the fun.
Yang Anzhang frowned and drove the man ten meters away.
An old man with all his teeth fallen out smiled like a chrysanthemum, not annoyed at all, and walked out slowly with his cane.
Old Master Chu couldn't help but give him a thumbs up. He was even worse than him because he didn't use a cane.
That thing is so troublesome!
There were even some middle-aged ladies who were threading the shoe uppers quickly with one hand while chatting with the other lady who was cracking melon seeds next to them.
Anyway, the originally solemn act of setting off firecrackers was not solemn at all!
Chunni smiled helplessly. There weren't many entertainment activities in the countryside, and setting off firecrackers was indeed a rare occurrence. She could understand why these people came to watch the fun.
"Erwa, go and dig a hole for the blast." Yang Anzhang also knew that this group of people loved to watch the fun, so he didn't care whether it was safe or not, and directly ordered the guys in the blasting team to make preparations first.
"Okay." Yang Yuejin was seen digging the surface soil with a hoe at the location he had found long ago, while Yang Banglin quickly piled the soil aside.
Yang Yuejin was a waiter at Chunni Restaurant. When he learned that the road was being repaired, he asked Chunni for leave. As the only breadwinner of the family, he should do his part for the family.
Yang Qianjin...
Didn’t he marry into the Xue family?
Of course, they are not considered as members of his family.
If Yang Qianjin knew about this, he would definitely beat this useless brother to death. He promised.
After everyone saw the stone, Yang Anzhang asked someone to bring a steel chisel.
"Use a hammer to drive the steel chisel in!" he commanded.
"How deep?" asked curious baby Yang Yuejin.
Yang Anzhang... He didn't know either! Maybe one meter deep was enough!
"Hit it two meters!" To be on the safe side, he asked someone to hit it deeper!
"Great!" Yang Yuejin steady the steel chisel, and Yang Banglin screamed and hit the steel chisel hard.
Yang Yuejin was frightened by Brother Lin's powerful roar, and was rebounded by the force of the hammer. He lost his grip on the steel drill and fell heavily to the ground.
"Hahahahahaha." The onlookers couldn't stop laughing.
"Little kid, are you able to do this? If not, let me do it!" a white-bearded grandpa shouted.
"This Yang family kid is unmarried, so it's normal that he has an unstable chassis." An old lady winked at her old friend.
The old friend gave her a look that said, "You understand, I understand, and everyone understands."
"Hahahaha!"
This group of people are shameless and make dirty jokes. Secretary Xiao Wang, who was following Guan Jian, blushed with embarrassment.
Chunni had long been immune to these dirty words, and she shouted to Yang Yuejin nonchalantly: "Don't panic, another brother, help Yang Yuejin hold the steel drill steady."
"I'll do it!" Wen Laosi walked out of the crowd.
Wen Laosi is used to doing physical work. His strength and steadiness are much better than Yang Yuejin's.
"Sit on the ground and steady the bottom of the steel chisel." He instructed Yue Jin, while he spread his feet and held the steel chisel firmly with both hands.
"bring it on!"
An expert can tell whether it is good or not with just one move. Yang Banglin smiled with satisfaction, spat on his hands twice, rubbed them, and then swung the hammer to hit the steel chisel.
"Bang!" A sharp metal friction sound echoed through the valley. The steel drill moved down several centimeters.
"That's fine!"
"This kid is quite strong."
Someone in the crowd commented.
Someone from the blasting crew added water to the blasthole.
Chunni and Guan Jian smiled at each other.
After the blast hole was completed, Guan Jian went to take a look and nodded with satisfaction.
"Yes, yes, the blast hole should be completed."
After the blast hole is drilled, someone will pour explosives into it and bury the detonator and fuse.
"Everyone, step back. Step back, step back to the fields in front!" Yang Anzhang began to drive away the crowd.
Setting off firecrackers is such a deadly thing, it’s better not to watch the fun.
The crowd, who were originally enjoying the fun, also knew how powerful firecrackers were, so they didn't want to delay any longer and picked up their walking sticks, shoe soles, and melon seeds and quickly ran to the farmland a few hundred meters away.
"I thought they were not afraid of death!" Secretary Xiao Wang muttered.
"What?" Guan Jian asked?
"Nothing, nothing." Xiao Wang was terrified. She didn't know why, but ever since that blunder, she had been extremely afraid of Guan Jian.
"If it's nothing, let's leave first!" Chunni suggested.
Guan Jian nodded and walked towards the crowd first.