Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 146 Bridge Building
Meng Er didn't even look at Zhao Xiaoxiu. He glanced at Sheng Qingyang and waved at her, who thought she was cheerful and kind, and said, "Hi!"

Hearing Zhao Gang's footsteps coming from the stairs, he turned around and ran away.

"You're blushing." Zhao Gang stretched out his finger, as if he had discovered something interesting, and poked Meng Er's face, asking in surprise, "It's so hot, do you have a fever?"

Meng Er pressed his hand down and dragged him out. As he walked, he excitedly turned his head to look in the direction of the kitchen and asked in a low voice:
"Who is that woman in the kitchen? How old is she? Is she married?"

Zhao Gang: "Sheng Qingyang, the master of Xiaoxiu Daofa, is 24 years old and unmarried. She is not a gentle woman. And... you are not worthy."

"I'm not worthy?!" Meng Er's tone unconsciously rose by two degrees. He glared at Zhao Gang in dissatisfaction and explained, "I didn't want to pursue her, so how can I be unworthy?"

Zhao Gang stared at him without saying anything.

Meng Er paused for half a second, then realized something and slapped himself on the mouth. Damn it, he accidentally told the truth.

The two men stared at each other in silence for a long time until Meng Da appeared and the stiff atmosphere was broken.

Meng Da: "We will cut down the wood this morning, measure the distance in the afternoon, and see whether to build a floating bridge by using a cable bridge or by splicing rafts together."

"Brother Gangzi, luckily your evolved ability is tentacles, which can extend a long distance, otherwise it would be difficult for us to build this bridge."

Meng Da walked and talked in front of him.

Little did he know that his younger brother had fallen into a serious internal conflict because of Zhao Gang's words "You don't deserve it".

However, when he arrived at the poplar forest, Meng Er no longer had the energy to think about other things.

The three men raised their axes and started working.

Sheng Qingyang went back not long after staying there. She wanted to take a walk around the forest area in the isolation zone to see if she could get any unexpected gains.

Zhao Xiaoxiu also wanted to go, but was ruthlessly rejected by Sheng Qingyang, saying: "The snow is thicker than a person, you can't leave."

"Then, then when the snow melts, Master, can you take me with you?" Zhao Xiaoxiu said hurriedly.

Sheng Qingyang nodded, turned around and strode away.

"Yeah!" Zhao Xiaoxiu clenched her fists happily, hoping that the snow would melt quickly.

Unfortunately, the weather forecast shows that it will be cloudy today and for the next few days.

But she was not discouraged. She turned around and ran next door with the hoverboard to find Sister Miaomiao. She also called Sister Monkey to hold the hoverboard. The two of them sat on the hoverboard together and she directed Sister Monkey to take them to the river bank.

When passing by the pond, Zhao Xiaoxiu went over to take a look.

The water in the pond was not flowing, and a thick layer of ice had formed on the surface, covered with white snow. Peter Pan inside was still hibernating, with no signs of waking up.

Zhao Xiaoxiu swept away the snow, lay on the ice and looked inside, and could vaguely see a black outline.

"Oh~" Zhao Xiaoxiu sighed regretfully. She couldn't bring Peter Pan to play with her.

"See you in spring." She whispered as she lay on the ice.

He stood up, opened his arms to keep his balance, slowly moved to the shore, climbed onto the hoverboard, and the monkey and two kids came to the river bank together.

Zhao Gang and the other two had almost prepared the materials. Meng Er and Meng Da were standing at the other side of the poplar forest, while Zhao Gang was standing at the end of the territory. They were measuring the width of the river with a long hemp rope.

Zhao Xiaoxiu called out "Dad", and Liu Miaomiao followed suit and called him "Uncle" in a low voice.

Zhao Gang turned around and smiled at them as a response, then turned back to continue measuring.

After saying hello, the two little girls jumped off the hoverboard and found a safe open space. Each of them had a bucket and a small shovel and played with the snow freely. When they got tired of playing, they watched what the adults were doing and occasionally came up with some of their own creative ideas.

Although none of the ideas were adopted by the adults, there was a strong sense of participation.

By the evening, the outline of a suspension floating bridge had taken shape.

After actual measurements, Zhao Gang finally decided to combine the suspension bridge and the floating bridge.

Strong load-bearing piles were driven into the river bank on both sides, and then two suspension handrails made of hemp rope were connected.

Then seven rafts, each five meters long and one and a half meters wide, were spliced ​​together and nailed securely at the joints with long hooks. Ropes were then used to connect the handrail and the bridge deck, so that the raft would not be washed away even when the water was flowing fast.

After doing all this, it was already dark.

On the next day, Zhao Gang and his two companions used the thick wooden boards that they had prepared when making the fence and laid them flat on the connected raft bridge decks. A suspended bridge spanning 38 meters was completed.

The load-bearing cables on both sides of the river are also designed to be adjustable, and can be moved up and down according to the height of the river to ensure that they will not be submerged by the rising water.

Generally, a suspension bridge floats on the river, allowing the buoyancy of the water to bear most of the weight.

If the river water is far below the river bank, or higher than the river bank, it will be pulled up so that it is suspended above the river surface to ensure that pedestrians can pass.

After the bridge was completed, Zhao Xiaoxiu was the first to test it. He ran back and forth several times and was very satisfied.

What surprised her most was that there were nets on both sides of the bridge, so she didn't have to worry about falling into the river while running.

However, the disadvantage of the suspension bridge is also obvious, that is, it will shake violently when the wind is strong or the water flow is fast.

But compared with the length of the detour, this little drawback is nothing.

It used to take half an hour to walk to Yangshulin, and more than ten minutes if you rode a faster bike.

It only takes half a minute to cross the bridge now.

When the two tenants saw the bridge, they were secretly envious and hoped to build their own territory as soon as possible.

They didn’t dare to hope that their home would be as good as No. 13. They just hoped that they could have a safe fortress of their own where the whole family could live happily in it.

Perhaps he was stimulated by Zhao Xiaoxiu's family's actions of building a wall and a bridge.

Seeing that the snow had stopped falling, Qiu Bai and his wife Wang Xiang went out early and came back late every day, and started construction on their No. 2 territory in advance.

Jiang Ning and Liu Chuan left the old man and the children behind, and began to take repair tools and patrol to their own No. 16 territory every day in patrol cars, actively preparing to move into the new territory after the snow melted.

The front of Zhao Xiaoxiu's house became lively again. The lords who had been hibernating in their homes finally left their nests. After all, in this farming area with a lack of entertainment, life without electronic products was really hard to endure.

Everyone came to charge again. Some plugged in their charging devices and asked Zhao Gang to help watch over them before going into the mountains to hunt.

Those with rich financial resources, such as Dongfang Ling, Bai Cailing, and Zhang Lijun and his trio, plug in the electricity and sit there all day long.

Bai Cailing and Wen Fei still don't get along, but they are the most informed about gossip and can always bring everyone the latest news from major bases at the first time.

Dongfang Ling hadn't appeared for a long time. Perhaps he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to speak clearly after not speaking for too long, so he responded from time to time, making the atmosphere awkward, but was then driven back to being active again by Bai Cailing's high enthusiasm.

"By the way, did you know that the biological company is planning to build a small research base in our planting area?" Wen Fei suddenly said.

Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was squatting under the mutant pine tree and playing hide-and-seek with her sister Miaomiao, suddenly pricked up her ears.

(End of this chapter)