The weather grew hotter and hotter, and the snow on either side of the road visibly melted. Most roads at the time were still gravel or even dirt, so once the snow melted, there was mud everywhere. Walking on it was miserable. Every few steps, you had to scrape the mud off your soles, or your shoes would end up like ancient officials' boots, their soles growing thicker and thicker and harder and harder to walk in.
Li Juan and Li Qiang had a hard time too. They had to cycle to and from school, and although their bicycles had mudguards over both wheels, mud still splattered onto their backs and schoolbags.
Sometimes they even had to tuck a stick onto the rear rack, specifically to pry away the mud that the spinning wheels carried up beneath the mudguards.
Fortunately, the flap of Li Long's little butterfly wings had changed a few things. The roads from the Fourth Team to Central Elementary School and Township Middle School had been surfaced with gravel. Although there was plenty of Snowmelt, at least the roads weren't all mud as they had been a few years earlier-
Back then, this road had been dirt. Whenever the snow melted or heavy rain fell, it became impassable. One step could sink you ankle-deep in mud, and a bicycle couldn't travel fifty meters before mud packed the gaps between its wheels and mudguards so tightly that you couldn't even push it.
At times like these, Li Long always reflected that the saying "to get rich, build roads first" was absolutely right. How wonderful it would be when this place finally had asphalt roads.
Of course, that would still take a long time. In his previous life, it had taken another twenty years before an asphalt road actually