Seventy-year-old man volunteered to repair the mountain road for 9 years, 5 miles of goat path can be open to traffic

 

Reporter Liu Chunmei Wu Xiaochuan

 

 

A mountain trail, a septuagenarian, a period of nine years.

　　In Chengdu Jintang County, Qixian Township, Lihuagou Village, 79-year-old Yi Shenghuai staged a more touching scene than the "Soldier's Assault" in the Xu Sanduo road repair. In order to make "firewood people to reduce the work, to play people walk comfortably," since 2002, Yi Shenghuai insisted on a person will be Lihuagou Liao family pine forest mountain trail widening, and in the mountains to open up new roads.

　　Nine years have passed, he used four or five hoes and more than 10 drills to repair a section of the disk road that is about 5 miles long and nearly 3 meters wide at its widest point.

"In our village, everyone gives a thumbs up when mentioning Brother Huai." Jiang Shicui, a 60-year-old villager from Lihuagou, said.

 

　　It's been nine years since the road was repaired.

　　The goat track is now open to traffic.

　　At the beginning of this month, the reporter came to the village of pear flower ditch Liao family pine forest at the foot of the mountain. Since the foot of the mountain upward look, a road extends, passing halfway up a family, continue to wind upward. Along this road for nearly 200 meters, came to be located in the mid-levels of the Yi Shenghuai home.

　　Villagers introduced the road in the past can only accommodate a person to walk, is a veritable goat path. Today, the widest point is close to 3 meters, the road and rut marks, proving that there have been cars driving up.

　　In 2000, Yi Shenghuai moved from the village at the foot of the mountain to halfway up the mountain, and in 2002, Yi Shenghuai started to build a road from the bottom of the mountain to his own place.

　　"At that time thought he just wanted to repair a section of the road to facilitate their own up and down the mountain, did not expect to have been repaired until now." Yi Shenghuai is along the road to repair the mountain firewood villagers Jiang Shicui said. Yi Shenghuai from the age of 70 years old began to repair the road, repair this section, and then began a "huge" project - to repair the mountain road.

　　From the hut of Yi Shenghuai's family, the reporter walked along the not yet fully completed disk road, it took more than 20 minutes to walk the rest of the way, on both sides of the road are vegetable fields, wheat fields and pine trees.

The road is two meters wide at its widest point and can accommodate a tricycle. Where it is steeper, on the outer side of the road are piles of stones, with a thick layer of soil on top.

 

　　Construction with Common Sense

　　Slopes and turns should be designed

　　Yi Shenghuai is not tall, back of the ear, thin body, a pair of large hands covered with calluses.

　　"My body is fine now, last year only two days short of a whole year without illness, the result of the waxing moon on the twenty-eighth began to cough, the whole thing I took six days of medicine." Yi Shenghuai's laugh is bright and confident about his health. He said, so many years insisted on repairing the road, has worked out the body.

　　If road building is a discipline, then Yi Shenghuai has almost never been trained in it. The whole process is based on his common sense accumulated over the years.

　　July-September is the time of the year when Edson Wyoming concentrates on road repair. During this time, there is a lot of rain in the area and the soil is soft. "I want to take advantage of that 'moist' strength, easy to dig and save energy. The soil is also sticky at this time."

　　On the steeper sloped roads, the road slopes inward. This is so that when it rains, the rain can flow to the inside and then down the road, not allowing the rain to flow out sideways and wash out the roadway, Eversheds said.

　　Mountain roads are also designed differently for left and right turns. "For a right turn, the outside of the road is higher, and a left turn is basically balanced." Yi Shenghuai said he hadn't read any books and was relying on his observations from years of riding the road. "I've heard people posing with trivia from 100,000 Reasons why in the past, and it's come in handy when building roads."

　　The tools for road construction in Eversheds were simple: a drill, a hoe, a spade and a dustpan. The hoe digs the soil, the spade and hoe plow the stones, and the drill chisels the stones into smaller sizes. Because he was afraid that other people would not be able to fix the road, he never wanted other people to help him repair the road.

"He wouldn't even let anyone ask for help. Once the stone was too big, he asked someone to come and get it, and paid them." Yi Shenghuai's niece-in-law Chen Xiuying said.

 

There's no reason to build a road.

　　I just want everyone to be comfortable.

　　Yi Shenghuai has been asked by many people about the motivation for building the road. He just laughed and did not make a clear answer. The day before yesterday afternoon, the West China Metropolis Daily reporter and Yi Shenghuai walked with him to repair the road, carrying a hoe and spade hoe Yi Shenghuai, walking speed is no less than a young man.

　　Asked this question again, Yi Shenghuai said while taking a big step, "In fact, there is nothing, it is so that the firewood people to reduce the work, come to play the people walk comfortably."

　　Liao family pine forest is located in the Li Hua Gou village and the junction of slate village, villagers from both villages from time to time to the mountain firewood, picking up leaves, or tending to the crops in the field. The road has become wider and smoother, and small cars can be driven up, so these neighbors can save some work.

　　Liaojia Pine Forest is part of the Pear Blossom Gully Scenic Area, and there are a lot of people coming to Pear Blossom Gully to play every time the weather gets warmer. "In another two weeks, there will be a lot of people coming to play on this mountain." Another purpose of Yi Shenghuai's road repair is that he wants tourists to walk comfortably. "In case people come to play because the road is not good to walk and sprain their feet, go back and say that they sprained their feet in Pihua Gully, won't it be a shame to spread the word?"

It is these simple wishes that support Yi Shenghuai, so that he wakes up every day, first go up the mountain to repair the road for an hour or two, and then come back to eat breakfast, continue to be busy.

 

　　No one said he was stupid.

　　He gets a thumbs up.

　　The empty and quiet pine forest resounds with the sound of tapping from time to time. An old man slowly break the stone, spread flat, and then the thick soil on the top of the step evenly. Such a picture, in the eyes of the villagers of Lihua Gully has been taken for granted.

　　Yi Shenghuai lived alone for many years without children, and went to his nephew's house for meals during the New Year and festivals. The nephew's daughter-in-law Chen Xiuying said: "The old man's temper is stubborn, no one can say he. But no one can say he is stupid, mention him, all have to give a thumbs up."

　　Li Hua Gou village village committee member Wang Jiahui said, Yi Shenghuai's move, the village is very supportive. Sometimes because of repairing the road Yi Shenghuai occupied the land of other people's homes, he also took his own land with others in exchange, "but everyone does not mind, occupied on occupied."

　　Wang Jiahui said, "We will consider widening and hardening the roads repaired by Yishenghuai again. Let them play a bigger role."

　　Because Yi Shenghuai has lived alone for a long time, the village arranged for Yi Shenghuai to move to the home for the elderly in May this year. Mentioning this matter, Yi Shenghuai always emphasizes, "I'll report there, and if the road isn't finished yet, I'll come back and continue to repair the road, which they said would be OK."