Chapter 23: The Breach of the Levee
For two days in a row, the water level of the Han River began to fall. The civilian disaster relief team, including the Longfeng rescue team, has been evacuated, and the special brigade is also preparing for evacuation. The afternoon sun shines on the quiet streets. Ye Wenrou paced aimlessly on the sidewalk, feeling a little depressed. These days, it's like a dream. The two who were about to become strangers suddenly had close contact. There is no buffer, skipping all the processes, skipping the rustiness and inextricable knots caused by years of separation, and in the end, you can't skip the torture of fate.
In the morning, Wenrou talked to her father on the phone, and the two quarreled. Ye Zhengtai didn't understand why his daughter was angry with him because of a small fight, and Wenrou didn't understand why her father took money so seriously. She thought of Sun Yu again, she hadn't seen each other for two days. The two of them obviously have the same mind, but their souls are playing hide and seek! Wenrou feels that she still needs to go to see Sun Yu, no matter what the future holds, there are some problems that must be faced. Knowing that there may not be results in the future, and knowing that there will be endless lovesickness in the future, she is still ready to do anything.
Love, if it can be analyzed and explained by logical reasoning, it is not called love. Love, no need for a reason!
In the evening, Sun Yu was leading the soldiers on a routine inspection of the embankment. Zhang Tianling brought a box of lunches over, the staple food was rice, the dishes included pork ribs and stir-fried vegetables, smooth and greasy, fragrant, which made him have an appetite all of a sudden. Sun Yu smiled and asked, "Secretary Zhang, where did this meal come from?" Zhang Tianling said, "You don't care, anyway, it's in your hands, you can eat it." Sun Yu asked tentatively, "Is this the small stove you opened for me?" Zhang Tianling laughed out loud and said, "You saved me, and I haven't thanked you for so many days." I'm free today, so I stewed some ribs for you. Eat it, or it will be cold. "Okay, the flood peak has passed. I guess I'm full and I'm going to evacuate. The two are about the same age, and they have a lot in common when they chat.
Ye Wenrou saw the two of them eating and laughing together from a distance, and she felt very uncomfortable. She quietly brought the food she had brought, returned it to the car, and walked up the embankment. Sun Yu saw Ye Wenrou coming over, and hurriedly introduced: "Secretary Zhang, this is my classmate Ye Wenrou." Zhang Tianling politely shook Wenrou's hand, then said goodbye and left.
Wen Rou glanced at the pork ribs and rice that Sun Yu had eaten half, and said sourly, "It seems that your food has improved well, much better than instant noodles." Sun Yu smiled and said, "It depends on whose craftsmanship." The two of them sat very closely, and Sun Yu's breath lingered in her nose.
Wenrou suddenly remembered that she had made up for Sun Yu's class, and he said seriously: "Wenrou, don't sit next to me." "Why?"
"Smelling your scent, I panic. Sun Yu said shyly. Two young people who have no guesses, their feelings are so innocent.
Thinking of this, Ye Wenrou gently leaned her head on Sun Yu's shoulder and asked, "Are you going back soon?" Sun Yu said "um" in agreement. "Sun Yu, I asked my dad yesterday. He said he didn't know about the fight with your father. ”
Sun Yu was silent, not knowing how to answer. Just because Ye Zhengtai doesn't know doesn't mean he doesn't have responsibility. Sun Yu didn't want to dwell on those unhappy things, so he changed the subject and said, "I don't seem to have seen the jade pendant on your neck." Ye Wenrou was stunned for a moment and said, "When I was a child, my mother bought it for me." I've been wearing it for the past few days. Sun Yu took the jade pendant, looked at it for a while and said, "Your jade pendant is a dragon pendant." There should be another piece. Wen Rou asked curiously, "How do you know?" "I also have a piece of dragon pendant." Sun Yu took out an antique jade pendant and said, "This is what my grandfather left me." ”
Back then, Sun Yu's grandfather worked as a master in the Jinmen Tongjian Boxing Club and rescued a young lady from a group of green-skinned hooligans. Since then, the young lady often goes to the martial arts hall to watch him practice martial arts, and brings him some snacks from time to time.
came and went, and there was a quiet affection between the two young people. Later, when the civil war broke out, the young lady followed her parents to the United States. When parting, the young lady secretly gave the dragon pendant in the family heirloom dragon and phoenix jade pendant to her grandfather as a token of their future meeting. Who knew that after that, the society was in turmoil for decades, and there was no news between the two. However, this jade pendant has become the spiritual sustenance of the grandfather. It wasn't until his deathbed that he told Sun Yu the secret.
Later, a tattered one in the village fell in love with the jade pendant at a glance and had to buy it for 100 yuan. Mom was moved at that time, after all, Dad's monthly salary was only about 100 yuan. Sun Yu firmly disagreed. Since then, he has been wearing jade on his body. Every time he stroked the jade pendant, Sun Yu felt that he was talking to his grandfather.
After listening to Sun Yu's story, Ye Wenrou couldn't help but say with some regret, "It's a pity, we are all dragon pendants." Didn't know where the other half was. ”
The two were chatting when a soldier shouted, "Company commander, there is a pipe surge here." "It turned out that the fighters found a bubble spring at the bottom of the embankment, and the water coming out was muddy. Sun Yu immediately ordered the whole company to urgently combine, the first row to find the source and plug the loopholes, the second row to block the bubble spring on the inner side of the embankment, and the third row to move stones and sandbags. At the same time, immediately report to your superiors. Wen Song led 13 commandos to plunge headlong into the murky river to find the source, trying to plug the loophole. One of the fighters shouted: "There is suction here. Wen Song didn't care about life or death, and plunged into the muddy water 3 meters deep with a quilt. All the commandos took the sandbags, passed the sandbags, pressed the sandbags like crazy. I saw that the water flow was getting smaller. Suddenly, a column of water with a diameter of 1 meter and a height of 70 centimeters erupted from the waist of the embankment near the bottom. In an instant, the pipe gushing turned into a large pool. The leader of the second platoon shouted, "Jump with me." He then led five fighters to jump into the pipe surge. With such a large pipe surge, the embankment will collapse at any time, and 6 people may be buried at the bottom of the embankment at any time. It's not that they don't care for their lives, it's just that they wear this uniform.
Sun Yu, who was directing the blockade, found that Ye Wenrou was still standing to the side in a daze, and couldn't help shouting, "Wenrou, it's dangerous." You hurry up. "No, I'm going to be with you. Ye Wenrou said stubbornly. Sun Yu glanced at her, took off his life jacket and put it on her. "I don't want it, you can wear it. Wen Rou shirked. Sun Yu forced the life jacket into her hand and said, "I'll go into the water in a while." Not at all. ”
At this time, Leng Feng and Zhang Tianling arrived with reinforcements and quickly loaded bags of earth and stones to carry out the rescue. However, a few minutes later, a torrent erupted, and six fighters were rushed out in an instant. Huge waves like mountain peaks swooped down like high-speed trains. Ye Wenrou's mouth opened slightly, and she couldn't help but hold Sun Yu's arm tightly.
Under the wash of the river, the embankment collapsed, and the water splashed. Ye Wenrou exclaimed, her head drilled into Sun Yu's arms, and the dense droplets of water splashed all over people's faces like a waterfall. In an instant, a huge whirlpool formed at the inlet, and the cavity at the top of the embankment was the size of a room. In desperation, Leng Feng ordered the troops to push a truck parked under the embankment to the pipe surge, but in the blink of an eye, the huge truck rolled in the flood and disappeared.
Before anyone could come back to their senses, "boom", a row of huge waves crashed up again, and the entire embankment was faintly trembling. "Has the embankment broke?" Zhang Tianling raised her head, shocked, and asked in a trembling voice.
"Not yet. However, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold ......," Sun Yu said in a low voice. Zhang Tianling's original firm confidence was suddenly shaken, and in the face of the vastness of nature, she realized that manpower would really be poor at times. In the face of the mountain-like floods, humans are indeed as fragile as ants.
Behind him, there was a clear sound of a hard object cracking. "Hurry up and retreat, run ......" Sun Yu shouted at the soldiers, pulling Ye Wenrou along the embankment and running into the distance.
The entire section of the embankment suddenly cracked like an eggshell, and the cement wall protruded outward, and then all of them swelled open, surging floods, surging down the mouth of the embankment.
The Han River embankment has burst!