In the early hours of the morning, Xiao Zhen, who was full of exhaustion, sat in the conference room of the town office building after a simple rest. At this time, he was discussing the next step with Deputy Mayor Zhang, Director Wu and others. We were notified that the maximum flood peak would arrive around 7 a.m. But now the flood control materials in the town have almost been used up, which is also the evil result of Long Zaihai's obstruction in every possible way, and now Xiao Zhen has to bear the difficulties. Although information has already been sent to ask for support from surrounding towns and villages and to collect flood control materials from residents, who can be expected to come up with such scarce supplies to support themselves in the current situation. Now we can only hope that the channel to the quarry will be opened soon, and even if the flood water overflows the embankment, it will greatly relieve the pressure on the core area. At this time, there are less than 3 hours before the arrival of the maximum flood peak.

Suddenly, there was a commotion under the town office building, and then someone went to the conference room to report Xiao Zhen, and some people downstairs said that there was an urgent matter to see the town leaders. Xiao Zhen hurriedly asked someone to invite someone to the conference room, but it seemed that the person was Liang Ying, the son-in-law of Bai Wanhao. When Liang Ying saw Xiao Zhen, she was not polite, and immediately stepped forward to explain her intentions, it turned out that they heard that there was a lack of flood control materials in the town, and it happened that the Bai family had a batch of hoarding in their hands, so Bai Wanting made the decision to donate this batch of materials to the town, and Liang Ying took the initiative to ask Ying to escort this batch of materials over.

Xiao Zhen was overjoyed when he heard the news, held Liang Ying's hand tightly, and thanked the Bai family for their generous assistance on behalf of the town government. Immediately asked Deputy Mayor Zhang to work with Liang Ying to distribute the materials to various important places. Xiao Zhen continued to command various places and organize the safe evacuation of people in low-lying areas.

At 7 a.m., the biggest flood finally rolled in, this time far more violently than in the middle of the night. The huge flood peak mixed with the soil, trees, and bricks that had been carried along the way rushed like a bamboo, and slammed into the flood control embankment built by everyone overnight with a thousand pounds. Seeing that the flood was getting more and more fierce and was about to cross the embankment, Deputy Mayor Zhang immediately commanded everyone to continuously strengthen and raise the embankment. But the speed of the flood was beyond the reach of manpower, and the flood finally overflowed the embankment of Rolling Bay and rushed to Baijia Town. Seeing this, Xiao Zhen had to let everyone retreat quickly in order not to make fearless sacrifices. The embankment, which had lost its manpower to maintain, was soon washed away again, and the flood rushed towards Baijia Town even more violently. Although most of the residents of the low-lying areas of the town have been evacuated to higher ground, the property damage caused by such flooding to the town is also immeasurable. Soon many areas in the west of the town were flooded, and the water on the ground in the center of the town began to grow exponentially, and the bottom floors of some low-lying houses were completely submerged.

Everyone has done their best, and at this time they have to resign themselves to fate, there is nothing left to do except protect their own safety, and they don't know how many places will be flooded and how many houses will be washed away before the flood peak passes. At this moment, the roar of an explosion, blocking the last obstacle of the flood to the southeast quarry, was directly exploded by explosives. In an instant, the flood water rushed through the channel to the southeast. The pressure in the town suddenly eased a lot, and everyone was even surprised to find that the flood water in the city was faintly showing signs of receding. Flood fighting is like a battle, Xiao Zhen seized this rare opportunity, and immediately organized people to rely on a gentle slope outside the town to quickly fill in a flood control barrier. The barriers are not too high, though. But because the flood found a better way to vent, the barrier also prevented a large amount of flood water from flowing into the city again.

The flood peak finally passed, and the water level in the river began to slowly fall, and Xiao Zhen organized everyone to advance the defense line, until the damaged river embankment was repaired, and then fell asleep on the river embankment. When the residents of Baijia Town saw this scene, they were all impressed by the mayor of the town who was dedicated to the people, and they couldn't bear to disturb it again.

At noon, Long Zaihai actually returned to Baijia Town ahead of schedule when he went out for a meeting. And as soon as he came back, he convened a meeting of party members and cadres and core backbones in the town in the name of the town D committee. Xiao Zhen, Deputy Mayor Zhang, Director Wu and others also appeared in the council room exhausted. The atmosphere in the conference room was slightly solemn. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Long Zaihai suddenly became angry, put the water cup in his hand on the table, and then pointed at Xiao Zhen and said hatefully: "Mayor Xiao, you always shout about flood control and flood control, I really think you have some ability, and I trust you so much, but I actually made the flood fighting and rescue work like this." I've only been away for most of the day, and you can see what has become of Baijia Town. You're a derelict mayor?"

Everyone didn't expect Long Zaihai to open in such a way, as soon as the words fell, the conference room was full of surprise, and most of the people present, except for a few people who fled with Long Zaihai overnight, most of them participated in the previous flood fighting, even if they didn't participate, they all saw how Xiao Zhen was not afraid of life and death, and commanded the flood fighting work immediately, it can be said that if there is no Xiao Zhen, it is a problem whether the current town office building is still there. What's more, in the face of a flood that is rare in a century, the overall terrain is already low-lying, and Baijia Town, which is close to the Baimeng River, only some old houses in the west of the town have been completely washed away, and the buildings in the core area have basically not been damaged too much. The most important thing is that in this flood, there was no death in Baijia Town. This is actually a great achievement. Now Long Zaihai said that the flood fighting work was so unbearable, although it pointed to Xiao Zhen, but unconsciously it faintly made the people involved in the flood fight a little resentful.

Long Zaihai pretended to calm down his extremely sad mood, and continued in a slightly lighter tone: "Comrade Xiao Zhen, I didn't say you, the town spent so much effort to let you grasp flood control and flood control work before, but this is the effect? It seems that you are still too young, after all, you have just changed jobs, and you don't have enough work experience. If it hadn't been for the importance of this economic meeting, I would have stayed in the town, and I believe there would have been no such problems. ”

"Yes, I heard that the flood flooded into the town, and Secretary Long hurried back without caring about the meeting, but it was still a step too late. Bai Shuisheng, the deputy mayor on the side, also seemed extremely sad and echoed Long Zaihai.

Xiao Zhen sneered in his heart, people can be so shameless.

"Okay, Comrade Xiao Zhen has no credit and hard work, let's take a good rest for a while. Now that I'm back, I naturally have an unshirkable responsibility for the flood fighting and disaster relief work in Baijia Town. Now I will arrange a few important tasks for the next step. ”

Xiao Zhen finally understood now, Long Zaihai was ready to pick peaches after buttoning his hat. Perhaps after the flood has completely passed, an article titled "The Young Mayor of the Town is not conducive to flood control for the whole town, and the wise secretary turns the tide and retreats the flood" will circulate everywhere. However, Long Zaihai obviously misestimated Xiao Zhen's bloodiness, how could a soldier who could be highly praised by the leader in the main force where the elite gathered, how could he be bullied at will.

There was a loud "pop" on the table, and everyone's hearts in the venue were shocked. Xiao Zhen slapped his hands on the table and glared at Long Zaihai angrily: "Do you still have a fucking face?" Long Zaihai, let me ask you, you keep saying that I am not good for fighting floods, so can you tell you what we have done in this flood, how much damage our Baijia Town has suffered, how many people have been killed and injured, and how big the affected area is? What is the basis for saying that I am not good for fighting floods? Say that I am derelict in my duty, and I am derelict in that place?"

Long Zaihai was cunning after all, and he was not frightened by Xiao Zhen's momentum: "Comrade Xiao Zhen, this is a serious town D committee meeting, if there are any questions to discuss, but please pay attention to your attitude." Our party has always advocated criticism and self-criticism. You can't slap the table and scold your mother just because I criticize you for a few words. This is not the quality that a party member and cadre should have. ”

I have to say that Long Zaihai was able to calm down quickly, not only avoided sharp questions, but also found out the small problems in Xiao Zhen's words to fight back, which really reflected a certain amount of old spiciness.

"Okay, even if what you said makes sense, then can you answer me to the question I asked you just now?" Xiao Zhen clearly didn't want Long Zaihai to avoid the question, so he insisted on asking.

"Everyone knows that I just returned to the town from a meeting outside, have any of you reported these important matters to me at the first time? As the mayor of the town, you didn't report to me, the secretary, and pass on the information, but questioned me here?" Long said at the seaside, and glanced at Deputy Mayor Zhang and Director Wu, conveying a sense of shock.

Xiao Zhen saw that Long Zaihai not only avoided his dereliction of duty of ignorance of the anti-Hong work, but also attributed the problem caused to Xiao Zhen and others not reporting to him, which was simply black and white. Xiao Zhen sneered, "Okay, since Secretary Long said so, then I will make a self-criticism and talk about my dereliction of duty." At the beginning, I vigorously grasped the flood prevention and flood control work, but you said that I was not doing my job properly, but all the special meetings have been recorded, have you participated in it once? Various flood prevention and flood control projects were blocked by you for no reason, and the disaster prevention funds were withheld by you, resulting in the failure of the street vendors in the underground passage of the town's Qianqian Road to evacuate in time, causing unnecessary losses. In addition, the newly built flood drainage channel has not been opened for a long time due to your reasons, and the flood control materials in the town have also become seriously insufficient due to your repeated obstructions. This is my dereliction of duty, I just gave you too much face, and I was derelict in my duty not to tear my face and fight with you to the end; I failed to report and report to my superiors in a timely manner in the face of an unscrupulous official like you, who disregarded the interests of the people and only knew how to form gangs and factions and engage in power struggles; moreover, when the flood came, you left the people to flee in an attempt to evade responsibility, and I failed to stop you in time, which is even more dereliction of duty. ”

"Fart! I went to an important meeting at the request of the city, so I ran away from the battle. You have to be responsible when you speak!" Long Zaihai was pointed at the sore spot by Xiao Zhen, and at this time, he was also annoyed and angry, and he couldn't help but burst out of his foul language.

"Good attendance at an important meeting. I didn't pay attention to it before, I didn't arrange it, but I temporarily added a plug to sign up before the flood, and it was only about two hours away, but I had to leave overnight, is there such a meeting?" Xiao Zhen immediately retorted.

"That was when the leader saw that our town didn't sign up and called me personally, so we should attach great importance to it, so I made up the quota temporarily. As for leaving early because of such an important meeting, I was afraid that I would be late in case of traffic jams along the way. Besides, I didn't know that such a big flood would break out before I went to the meeting," Long Zaihai explained at this time, completely following Xiao Zhen's pace.

"Yes, yes, who knows?" Hearing this, Deputy Mayor Bai and Director Ma immediately echoed again.

Xiao Zhen snorted coldly and said, "Okay, I don't know, right." It just so happened that less than half an hour after you left, the official information about the flood was released, and it was also such a coincidence that when you left, Deputy Mayor Bai, Director Ma, and your family also moved out of Baijia Town with valuables at the same time. ”

Long Zaihai didn't know that Bai Shuisheng and Director Ma had actually notified their families to move out of Baijia Town, and unconsciously glanced at them angrily. The two didn't dare to look at him, and silently lowered their heads.

Xiao Zhen didn't intend to let Long Zaihai go, and continued: "Now that the flood seems to have been controlled, you deserters can still come back in a big way, wanting to pick the fruits of victory. Let me ask you, do you know how many flood control materials are left in Baijia Town? Do you know how the flood control forces in the town are constituted and distributed? Do you know where the biggest hidden danger is in Baijia Town? Do you know how many people affected by the disaster need to be resettled in Baijia Town? I don't know anything, you still have the face to come back to pick peaches, and you still have the face to make arrangements for flood fighting and disaster relief work, you are treating flood fighting and disaster relief as a child's play, and you regard the lives of the masses as if they were grass and mustard!"

Xiao Zhen's words were loud and echoed in everyone's hearts. At this time, Long Zaihai's face was flushed, but he couldn't speak.

"It's okay if you want to pick peaches, but in order to highlight yourself, you want to slander the contribution of the people of the town to the flood fight, and say that the white is black. Where do you want to put every party member and cadre here who have been fighting since last night, where are you going to be the thousands of people who are desperately guarding the front line of flood control, and where are you going to put your own conscience?" Xiao Zhen immediately said to the hearts of everyone who participated in the flood fight. Everyone's hearts have changed significantly at this time. Long Zaihai has been covering the sky in Baijia Town for many years, but in fact, everyone is more afraid of him, or dares to be angry and dare not speak. Now that they have experienced the life and death test of flood fighting, they have been ignited by Xiao Zhen's words, and many people have shown suppressed indifference and resentment in their eyes when they look at Long Zaihai.

Long Zaihai glanced at the people in the venue slightly, and his heart was shocked, he suddenly woke up, and he had unconsciously committed the anger of the people. Through this day's performance, Xiao Zhen has established a tall image in front of the people of the town with his actions. Long Zaihai suddenly found that he had exhausted his calculations, but in the end he put himself in a very passive situation, he did choose the wrong opponent at a wrong time, and he also thought he was smart to launch a wrong attack. This deterioration of the situation must now be lifted as soon as possible, and there can be no further entanglement in this situation.