93 year old people insist on 21 years of embankment protection
source: Chinese business network Author: Zhao Airlines
village people said: the old man is strong, not he repaired the river embankment, the nearby farmland still do not know how many times
a shovel, an iron rake, 93 year old Fengxian old man For 21 years, Ceng Wencai built a river embankment destroyed by flood once a day, in order to protect the reclaimed land. The weathered old man rolled his huge stones with his rough hands and tenaciously built his enthusiasm for the land.
son
"the old man just eats the rice and moves the stone to the river."
the Zeng Wen's home is about 4 kilometers east of the Yellow Cattle shop in Fengxian, a gully called the temple gully, and the three fork river flows through the house to the Jialing River.
along the direction of the villagers, a courtyard with an old style and a clean outer wall came into view. A bamboo forest was swaying in front of the house. There was no old man in the house. The 50 year old son of the old man was preparing to eat. He pointed to a river beach near the door of the house. "The old man had just eaten the meal and moved to the river." Along with the guidance of Zeng yuan, along the gray riverside, a figure with a bent back is moving in a faint way. "My father fled to Fengxian before 1949, and his hometown is in Sichuan." Zeng yuan did not know clearly about the specific location.
villager
"as long as it does not rain and snow, there is always his shadow on the riverbank"
for the old father to build the river embankment in twenty years, his son said, "what does the old man want to do, and no one can manage it." The idea of sprouting the river embankment was in July 1991, when a heavy rain triggered the three fork in the river and destroyed more than 3 acres of land by the river. All the vegetables in the land were washed out. So he decided to repair a river embankment and protect the reclaimed farmland.
"dear father, dear land, I also cherish food, which is a habit of hardship." Zeng De Yuan said. So from 1991, Zeng Wen Cai, 72, began his 21 year life of building a "dike". In the morning, when the dawn comes, the old man carries the tools down the river. The village man said, "as long as it doesn't rain or snow, there will always be a figure for him to pry stones and move stones."
the river embankment was finally built, but in a few years, the hard work was still washed away by a flood. The old father was not reconciled to the destruction of the river embankment and planned to start again. Zeng yuan can not bear to look at the old father one person to work, then call a gang of people to use a wire mesh stone to build a river embankment, thinking that the river embankment built the father does not have to work. However, in the summer the three Cha river rose, and the river bank fixed with wire mesh still failed to withstand the test of the flood, and the river embankment was destroyed again.
old man
"what difficulties can't stop me, the river embankment can be destroyed from the beginning of"
"the villagers in the village say that my father is strong enough, and if it is not his built River, how many times do the nearby farmland be destroyed?" After several repairs, Zeng Wen Cai still stubbornly carried tools. "The right to build dikes should be exercised. Let them do what they like if they are old." Zeng yuan read the old man's perseverance in his father's back, and finally did not stop his father. "More than 90 years old, eat meat, eat a plate, drink some wine every day." In addition to the back of the ear, the body is still hard. "
"father always says," what difficulties can't stop me, and the river banks can be destroyed once again. " But whenever he had seen his father's shadow busy at the Bank of the river, he still felt sad.
11 6, on 6, a Snowy River levee was humid, and a man who was winding up the stone found someone coming up to see and asked in a strong Sichuan accent, "which one are you?" A blue gray hat, a black coat, a waist Brown apron, not tall, but hale and hearty, the old man was Zeng Wen Cai.
"it's too old to work. You boys have to work hard!" The old man clapped his hands on the dirt and stopped his work.
greeted the old man. He could not hear a word in his ear, and then turned around to play with a big stone. The stone was too big and too heavy. He bent down, rough hands and lifted a stone, and the stone rolled over, a little closer to the bank.