After Chen's father and Chen's mother passed away one after another, the silly eldest sister became the head of the family at the age of 16 and suffered too much. She was the biggest contributor to the Chen family's ability to survive until Chen Qi was reborn.

If it weren’t for her hard work carrying bricks and doing farm work to feed her younger brothers and sisters, she would have probably starved to death.

"Sister, this is what I think. The family has really needed you in the past few years, but this year my little brother and sister are going to high school. I plan to let them live in school. As for Lijuan and I, you can rest assured that someone will take care of us.

So this year, you have to think about your own problems and find a good in-law. Don’t think that just because you are a rural girl, our family is richer than ordinary families. If you have a business and can make money, I will also leave this house to you.

You, who dares to look down upon you?"

The silly elder sister got anxious and lightly hit Chen Qi:

"What nonsense are you talking about? You bought this house, and you are responsible for our stinky tofu and bacon business. How can you give it to me? Besides, after taking care of you, I also have to take care of my nephews and nieces.

, I’m busy and don’t have time to get married.”

Chen Qi smiled, looked at the people chattering in the main room, and whispered:

"Sister, don't worry. Now that I have money, I have saved a lot of foreign exchange from performing surgeries for foreigners. You can rest assured and find me a brother-in-law. This is what my parents want to see most."

Regarding this kind of topic, the silly elder sister didn’t take it seriously at all and said perfunctorily:

"Okay, okay, I got it. I'll look for you. By the way, have you had dinner? I'll cook some egg noodles for you?"

Chen Qi sighed and could only let nature take its course, "Sister, stop working so hard. Let's go and watch color TV together."

That night, the four sisters of the Chen family were reunited for the rare occasion. They ate foreign snacks, watched the large color TV, and excitedly talked about the programs on TV until very late.

After Chen Qi went to work the next day, he dove into the operating room without running out, and began his "lurking".

After the "Haidong Province Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment Center" is established, it will start to build infrastructure. Chen Qi doesn't need to worry about this. The hospital's logistics infrastructure department will naturally take care of it.

The Fourth Hospital originally had a plan to expand the center. This time, the province directly allocated funds, so the scale was expanded. It was planned to have 300 beds and 3 operating rooms.

Although Haidong Province does not have much money, it is easy for the province to allocate 500,000 yuan. In addition to infrastructure, this money is enough for the treatment center to purchase a full set of equipment and medical instruments for cleft lip and palate surgery.

Chen Qi knew that it was easy for cadres to get lost in infrastructure construction, so he decided not to take any part in it and subcontracted all the projects. He only asked the fourth hospital to do a good job in supervising the work.

He himself is planning to make the name of "Haidong Province Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment Center" famous in the province and even the whole country first.

But often the trees want to be quiet but the wind doesn’t stop.

Three months have passed in a flash.

It has entered May of 1985, the weather has begun to warm up, and the slack farming season has arrived.

With the deepening of reform and opening up, various places in Vietnam and China have also begun vigorous large-scale infrastructure construction.

No, Chen Qi's hometown, Xingtang Township, is also planning to build a road to connect to Keqiao Town. If you want to get rich, build the road first, which was also an iron rule in the 1980s.

These days, there are no formal engineering teams for rural road construction, let alone any design companies.

It is even more impossible to build an asphalt road or a cement road. Generally, it is repaired by building a roadbed, paving gravel and pressing it with rolling stones.

For people in the mountains, as long as there is a mechanical plowing road that allows tractors or horse-drawn carriages to pass, it doesn't matter even if they scream.

After all, the cost is there, so you can’t expect too much.

But building roads in mountains is different from flat land. Although there are fewer river networks, there is no need to build many bridges, but there are mountains one after another, so it is necessary to crack the mountains to open roads.

If you have the conditions, you can dig a tunnel. If you don't have the conditions, you can only dig along the mountainside. But this will increase the amount of work and be full of dangers. After all, you will have to use a detonator to blow up some rocks.

Since road construction benefits the township and everyone has a share, each household must have a male child, or how much money each household should contribute, which is also determined by the township convention and folk rules.

If you have a lot of money, you can hire someone to build roads for you.

Those who have no money can only do it on their own.

These are all voluntary labor and there is no salary. However, the commune will provide meals, free tea and snacks.

Those who cook food and water are also local lesbians. In addition to the women directors and female militiamen in the village, they are housewives without strong labor force.

Anyway, no matter what you do, you must work hard, otherwise you will be drowned by the spit of the villagers.

For example, in Xiaze Village, Chen Qi’s uncle had to work on the construction site himself.

Chen Qi's family, except for him, all have registered residences in the village, and his grandparents also have separate households, so Chen Qi asked someone to bring money to the village and bought two places.

Originally, Chen Qi had no choice but to not pay the money, and he did not want to have anything to do with Xia Ze Village, but building the road was a good thing, so he had to do his part, and at the same time, he said that he would not take advantage of the villagers.

Liandong Village is also a village that passes through the newly built road, so the village chief Zhang Agen arranged the day's work early.

17-year-old Zhang Xiaodong, who is as thin as a hemp pole, has already started working with the villagers with a hoe.

Zhang Xiaodong's family situation is quite special. His father died of a serious illness a few years ago. His mother is too weak and sick to do physical labor. She also has four younger brothers and sisters.

So even though Zhang Xiaodong is underage, he has already become the mainstay of the family.

It's a pity that Zhang Xiaodong doesn't have the good luck of "Chen Qi". He has no rebirth or time travel, and he doesn't have Grandpa Jin Laozhi to help him, so he has to do all the farm work at home.

Including this road construction project, he is the only "male close to adulthood" in the family, so he has to go to work as expected.

There is no such thing as child labor or female labor these days. Young Pioneers and Women’s Pioneers are very much advocated.

Just when everyone was in full swing, the rocks were loosened due to the explosion of the mountain. With a crash, a piece of stone rolled down and hit the road construction crowd at the foot of the mountain.

Village chief Zhang Agen had experience. When a small stone fell from the mountain, he knew something was going to happen, so he shouted loudly:

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, the rocks are going to fall~~~"

When the villagers heard this, they all ran to both sides.

However, the speed of falling rocks is definitely faster than the speed of people running, and it doesn’t matter where they roll when they roll down the mountain, they will randomly kill people.

Older mountain people have experience and will find places to hide.

Zhang Xiaodong was also unlucky. Originally, the villagers took care of him and asked him to smash small stones at the foot of the mountain to repair the roadbed. However, when the rocks fell, he was at the inside and ran the slowest.

With a bang, he became the most unlucky person on the scene and was hit by rocks.
Chapter completed!