Siheyuan: Grassroots Counterattack

The young soldiers were not idle either. They worked with the villagers. Soon a section of canal was built and the water in the pipe began to flow into the canal. The team leader then led people to clean the canal beside the field to ensure that the water could flow smoothly in the canal.

The water flow in the canal was getting stronger and stronger. Li Tianyi knew that they had finally dug a well. It was already night, but the work here was still in full swing. Several nearby villages also rushed over after hearing the news.

They all went to the leader and begged him to dig wells in their villages. The leader was also very embarrassed. Now this was just a sample. It would not work with so many villages just with one set of drilling rigs.

So he arranged for his secretary to return to Sijiu City to report the situation in the department and ask his superiors for instructions on how to make arrangements.

The well has been dug. Li Tianyi asked people to start repairing the well platform, and then lifted the motor off the car. This motor was specially prepared by Li Tianyi so that he could start pumping water for irrigation immediately after the well was dug.

At the same time, Li Tianyi also explained the situation to the senior leader and asked him to arrange the motor as soon as possible.

After the racks were dismantled, several team leaders gathered around and asked to go to their village.

Although the big leader couldn't bear to refuse them, everyone had been busy for a day and a night and were extremely tired, so they had to go back to Sijiu City first, and then start arranging people to dig wells in the villages around Sijiu City. Of course, if two villages were close to each other, the two villages would share one well.

If the village cannot afford the motor, then it will belong to the local government. The village can apply for it when it needs it, and only after approval from the town government can the motor be picked up. Of course, the village has to bear the cost of the electricity used or the oil used for the tractor.

Everyone separated after returning to Sijiu City. Li Tianyi fell asleep as soon as he got home. Wang Xue felt distressed when she saw her husband's haggard face, but she couldn't say anything to ask her husband to stop working so hard.

The big leader did not rest immediately. He went to the minister's office first after returning to the department and communicated with the minister. The minister also received a notice from his superiors, requiring the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture to work together on this matter. In the future, the maintenance of motors will be under the jurisdiction of the Agricultural Machinery Station. At the same time, the superiors required the Ministry of Industry to coordinate the production of the motor factory and produce the motors as quickly as possible.

As for the production of drilling rig frames, superiors required that they could not rely solely on the production of Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, but should seek more help from steel mills. Of course, the contribution of Red Star Steel Rolling Mill this time must be affirmed.

Especially for Li Tianyi's contribution, we should try our best to meet this comrade's living and work requirements, and at the same time, the rewards for Li Tianyi should also be in place.

In the following few days, Li Tianyi was idle, while others started to get busy, especially the team of soldiers. They formed a special installation team to train personnel while installing the equipment. These trained personnel were then sent to various parts of the country.

While everyone was busy, my younger sister's high school entrance examination results came out, and she was admitted to the Sijiucheng Medical College.

When she received the admission letter, the younger sister jumped and danced with excitement, and then ran to the courtyard to find her little sister He Yushui.

He Yushui also took the junior high school entrance exam this year, but she took the high school entrance exam. Of course, she was successfully admitted. The two agreed to go shopping tomorrow and then went back to their respective homes.

Just when the steel rolling mill was busy, Director Yang left and Li Huaide was appointed. From then on, the steel rolling mill entered the Li Huaide era.

Li Huaide's ability to become the factory director had an impact on everyone in the courtyard. Everyone knew the relationship between the Li family and Li Huaide. Liu Haizhong approached the Li family several times, hoping that Li's father would help him find a position, but was rejected by Li's father every time.

For this reason, Liu Haizhong secretly hated the Li family, but he had no way to deal with the Li family.

Father Li talked about this with Li Tianyi. Li Tianyi's suggestion was that he should tell his uncle so that Liu Haizhong wouldn't use their family's name to get close to his uncle in the future.

Speaking of getting close, Li Tianyi then remembered that Lou Xiao'e, who was supposed to marry Xu Damao, has not appeared until now. Now Xu Damao has married a widow, so what about Lou Xiao'e?

Afterwards, Li Tianyi made a special trip to Lou Mansion, but at this time Lou Mansion was deserted, the door was locked, and the yard was overgrown with weeds.

What was there for Li Tianyi to not understand after seeing this scene? Lou Zhenhua had run away early.

Li Tianyi didn't dwell on this matter too much. He came here just to satisfy his curiosity.

One day, Li Tianyi was reading a book in the steel rolling mill office when suddenly the phone on the table rang. Li Tianyi immediately picked up the call. After a while, Li Tianyi put down the phone, picked up his briefcase and went out.

After arriving at the Ministry of Industry, Li Tianyi went directly to Section Chief Wang's office.

"Chief, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"Mr. Li, you are here, please sit down."

After Li Tianyi sat down, Section Chief Wang explained the purpose of asking Li Tianyi to come here.

It turned out that the country had received a semi-automatic machine tool donated by overseas Chinese. In order to figure out the machine tool more quickly, the higher authorities convened engineers from multiple departments to study it.

The Ministry of Industry found Section Chief Wang, Li Tianyi and another engineer, and they will go to the Institute of Machinery together tomorrow.

Li Tianyi said he understood, and the two talked for a while before Li Tianyi came out of the Ministry of Industry.

Time flies, and two months have passed quickly. Although the drilling rig developed by Li Tianyi has alleviated the drought to a certain extent, the country is so large that there are always places that cannot be taken care of.

It is now September and the disaster is getting worse. There is no food for sale in either the pigeon market or the black market. At the beginning of every month, long queues form in front of the grain stores, but each person's ration is still decreasing.

Nowadays, everyone passing by on the street has a pale face and thin body. In order not to be special and to save food, the Li family eats dry food every morning, eats in the cafeteria at noon, and basically has porridge in the evening.

As for An An, Li's mother takes him to work every day. When he is hungry, he drinks some milk powder, and when he comes back in the evening, he drinks breast milk.

Actually, there is no way around it. Xiaoxue is a nurse, and when she is busy she has no time to take care of anything. In the Li family, except for the younger sister who is in school, the only one who has free time is when Li's mother is at work.

Although it was difficult, people still had to live. Li Tianyi also calmed down for a while. He did not study anything else. After finishing his research on machine tools, he returned to the steel mill.

Today, the steel rolling mill is headed by Li Huaide. The original logistics director has been promoted to the position of deputy factory director, still in charge of logistics.

Although many projects across the country have slowed down and orders for many factories have decreased due to natural disasters, the steel rolling mill has not been greatly affected.

The tractor project has now been partially exported, and the drilling rigs are also being produced at full capacity. With these two projects, the steel rolling mill can fully consume the steel billets produced by itself.