Chapter 835: Water Retreat

Yang Lili's new home to the county seat is a two-story brick yard, which looks a little old, but the yard has been reorganized, paved with flower bricks, lacquered wood colonnades, planted with some bamboo, flowers and plants, and the branches and leaves have also been damaged by last night's rainstorm, but on the whole it is better than those flooded areas, I don't know how many times better.

Because the land price in Yushan is very cheap, such a large yard looks like a small half an acre of land, but it can be bought for only 200,000 yuan, and then spend some money to clean it up exquisitely, which is within Yang Lili's ability.

Upstairs and downstairs there are seven or eight rooms, and there are two boys in the yard lying on the ground playing: the younger one, only six or seven years old, when he saw Yang Lili walk in, he jumped up and ran over excitedly and shouted "Mom"; Xie Zhi knew that Yang Lili was a widow, but from her beautiful face, she really couldn't tell that her children were so old; the other looked shy, twelve or thirteen years old, Yang Lili told Xie Zhi that it was the son of Luo Qing and Feng Yumei.

Two old men poked their heads out, it was Luo Qing's father: last night, their house was also flooded.

Feng Yumei went to the township to participate in the disaster relief; although Luo Qing could not participate in the rescue of Huineng, Liang Zhenbao and Xiao Haomin relied on him very much in the disaster relief and rescue in the county; and Meigang's rescue personnel and materials now mainly rely on Luo Qing's coordination -- neither of them had time to take care of the old and the young, so Yang Lili took his family over to live.

At this time, Yang Lili and her mother came back from buying vegetables outside, complaining that the vendors on the street were robbing money with black hearts, and a cabbage would cost 20 yuan.

When the entourage of SITC Group was picked up, Yang Lili spread bamboo mats in the living room and chess and card room downstairs, and temporarily sorted out two rooms for the staff of SITC Group.

Electricity, television, the ability to watch the news, and hot water for bathing are much better than being trapped in a lonely building in a hotel or crammed into a tent in a middle school in Yushan County; at lunchtime, there are not many vegetables, but chickens, ducks, bacon, and eggs are enough.

Yushan County is still closed and backward, and there are many people in the county town who raise chickens and ducks in their yards.

When the flood came up, the vegetables in the corner of the yard were flooded, but many people carried chicken coops and duck houses to the higher places. After withdrawing, I found that even the place to live was nervous, these chickens and ducks were very troublesome, everyone was in a hurry to get rid of them, the price was very cheap, and they didn't want to buy vegetables for twenty or thirty yuan a catty.

Even though the losses caused by the floods are very serious, there is no problem in supporting the daily necessities of the entire county for 10 days and 8 days; the key lies in the short-term chaos and the speculative behavior of some traders, which caused the market order to be out of balance in a short period of time.

However, this situation was quickly stopped by the afternoon.

The county set aside a piece of land to the east of the county middle school as a temporary farmers' market, and the staff of the county industrial and commercial office supervised it on the spot to crack down on the behavior of indiscriminate price increases, so that the situation of soaring prices has improved.

Xie Zhi and the others were trapped in Yushan and couldn't get out, and it was impossible to say that they would stay at Yang Lili's house and do nothing, and they would all have to help at the Lishui resettlement site in the afternoon.

In the afternoon, there were four more such resettlement sites in the county seat; and by the afternoon, male teachers from the primary and middle schools in the county who were not in school during the summer vacation had basically been organized, and four to five hundred organized rescue forces had joined in, and the rescue work in the county town had become more abundant, and it was also able to transfer more equipment and manpower to the towns and villages below to provide rescue, and even two military helicopters had entered Yushan County.

It is impossible for the Donghua City Military Sub-district to have military helicopters, and the Huaihai Fleet's base in Xiapu has only just begun construction, and it is impossible for there to be military helicopters.

Since the officers and men stationed in the garrison who were transferred in yesterday all went up to the river embankment or directly to the townships and towns, the influence of the officers and men stationed in the county town could not be seen in the county town, and the morale of the residents of the county town was somewhat affected; at this time, when they saw the military helicopters hovering over the county town and participating in the rescue, many people seemed to see greater hope, and the crowd erupted in thunderous applause when they saw the military planes flying by.

By five o'clock in the afternoon, however, the clouds in the sky had become thick and dense again, as if the night had come early, and one was afraid of the return of the rainstorm of last night. In this way, not only will the flooded area of the county continue to expand, but also whether the upstream Yuanshan Lake Reservoir and the river embankments along the coast can withstand the impact, everyone is playing a strong question mark in their hearts.

There is also the silting up of the lower reaches of the Dongyuxi River, which is always a sharp sword hanging above everyone.

If the silt cannot be blocked, the water from the middle reaches of the Dongyu River to the upper reaches of the Yuanshan Lake Reservoir will not be discharged, and the entire Yuanshan River Valley may become a huge dammed lake at any time.

This will not only exacerbate the flooding of the county, but the downstream will also become extremely dangerous due to the instability of the dammed lake.

When Xie Zhi was hesitating whether to send someone to the county flood control headquarters to inquire about the news, someone in the house suddenly shouted excitedly: "The phone is connected!"

Xie Zhi quickly took out her mobile phone, and when she saw that there was still no signal on her mobile phone, she thought that the people in the house said that the landline was connected, so it seemed that it took less than a day for the telecommunications department to repair the communication line that was scraped last night.

In Yushan County to 98 years, the living standards of urban residents are still very low, household telephones are still luxury, and after the communication lines are rushed, there will be no communication line congestion problem - Xie Zhi hesitated to enter the house to make another call to Hongqi to report safety, and saw Yang Lili walking from the house to the sunshine, with an excited tone, telling everyone: "The downstream blockage has been opened, and the drainage has begun to increase downstream......

At half past five, the rain came again, and the rain was slightly lighter than last night, but no one can say how long this rainstorm would last, and if it lasted for another seven or eight hours like last night, no one doubted whether the mountain would be able to hold on.

After returning to Yang's house in the rain and having dinner, everyone did not go out again, while Yang Lili stayed at the resettlement site.

Xie Zhi stayed at Yang's house at night, watching the news on TV, and the disaster was broadcast everywhere on TV:

Not only Yushan County was seriously affected, but not only Donghua City was seriously affected, but the embankment collapsed in Yunhe County in the upper reaches of the Zhujiang River, and the picture of the flood flooding over the towns and villages was broadcast on television.

By nine o'clock, the communication lines were cut off again, and the rain was sometimes heavy and sometimes light, and it just didn't stop.

"Papapapa", someone knocked on the door outside the yard, Xie Zhi walked to the balcony, and saw Yang Lili and her mother holding an umbrella and walking out to open the courtyard door, and saw Yang Lili asking the two to come back half-lifted and half-hugged, with blood on their faces.

Xie Zhi was startled, and hurriedly went downstairs to help Yang Lili come in.

When I entered the house, I heard Yang Lili and her mother complaining, whining, and scolding loudly, Xie Zhi couldn't understand anything, and inexplicably cared about this beautiful woman she usually looked down on: "You are not in the resettlement site, how can you fall like this?"

Luo Qing's father, an old teacher, also ran to the hall when he heard the movement, listened to Yang Lili's mother's complaints, and asked Yang Lili in Mandarin: "So, the water in the city has not risen again?"

"The water didn't go out, it didn't rise again, I saw it with my own eyes. It should be that the downstream section of the river has been cleared up and the drainage has been increased, which has played a role. The upstream reservoir has not closed its gates, and it seems that as soon as the rain stops, the water will recede...... "Yang Lili said.

Only then did Xie Zhi know that Yang Lili did not stay in the resettlement site, but personally braved the night rain to see the flooding situation in the city, and accidentally fell on the way, calling someone to save her.

Seeing that Yang Lili's face was broken with a large piece of skin, and blood seeped out, Xie Zhi's heart trembled, thinking that if she left a scar, this beautiful face would be greatly reduced, but Yang Lili didn't care about it, and seemed to be just happy that the water did not rise.

This is indeed the most comforting good news for everyone, no matter how heavy the rain is, as long as the water does not rise, the situation will be worse, and this is where the hope lies, and as long as the rain stops, the situation will improve.

Sometimes, there are things that cannot be seen with the eyes, but those who understand are secretly glad in their hearts: if it weren't for the Xiapu County organization to interrupt the silting of the downstream river in just one day, the situation tonight is really unimaginable.

Yang Lili had medicine on her face, and she also scolded her mother, so she stayed at home and didn't go out again. No one could sleep peacefully, and the communication line was cut off again, so they stayed in front of the TV and watched the news.

Xie Zhi sat chatting with Yang Lili, and only then did she know some more detailed information.

The city could not send more support forces, and the rescue of Yuanshan could only be based on Xiapu County.

In the afternoon, Shen Huai personally led a team to organize rescue construction in Yuanshan, which was not even five kilometers away from the county seat of Yuanshan recently. It was also Shen Huai who commanded at the scene to carry out underwater blasting in several serious blockages along the Dongyu River to open the opening of the upstream flood water.

In the process of on-site command, Shen Huai's left shoulder was hit by a falling rock that rolled down the mountain, he was injured and forced to withdraw from the on-site command, and now it is Dai Quan who replaces Shen Huai to stay in Daxing Town in the east to direct the rescue work, as long as the rain stops, the road will be able to be cleared tomorrow.

In the afternoon, the communication line was rushed through, and it was also sent by the Xiapu side, but it was just a temporary pillar, and the storm blew down at night, so I could only wait until the rain stopped and then go up the mountain to repair it.

The second rainstorm did not last for another night like last night, and it was still in the mood for a little bit at about eleven o'clock - Xie Zhi and the others were still not in the mood to sleep, until dawn, the sky was blue and bright, and the morning star appeared on the horizon, which made people believe that the most difficult moment was finally over, but the news of casualties came one after another.

In the rainstorm in these two days in Yushan County, almost all towns and villages have broken out flash floods, and there are more than 20 houses buried by mudslides.

At noon the next day, the entire Yuanpu Highway was rushed through, and more elite officers and soldiers were transferred in. By the morning of the third day, in the northwest corner of the lowest part of the terrain, the streets were gradually exposed, and the courtyard of the county government's guest house was still full of stagnant water, and there was no place to drain it.