Yang Xianmao returned to the post station, and Xuan'er ran up to him excitedly and said, "Big brother, have you told Zhizhou? When will we go to the river to watch them hunt the big crocodile?"

Yang Xianmao said: "I thought about it temporarily, we still have to wait for the news in the post station, because the soldiers on both sides of the strait have been guarding for a month or two and have not seen the crocodile come out, the crocodile does not know whether it is dead or gone somewhere else, if we honestly squat by the river to guard the crocodile, then I don't know if the year of the monkey Ma Yue can wait, it is better to wait in the post station." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info You see that this continuous rain has not stopped for a day, braving the rain to the river, it is okay for a day or two, but after a long time, I will get sick. So it's best to sit back and wait for news. I have already told Zhizhou that as soon as there is news, Pegasus will come to report it, and we will ride my Chiyang donkey, and we will arrive in a few moments. The big crocodile is so difficult that I am afraid that I will not be able to kill him for a while, so it is enough for you to have time to rush to see the excitement. ”

Hearing Yang Xianmao's words, Xuan'er couldn't help but pout, but thinking about what he said was also right, even if he was guarding the riverside now, he might not be able to see that monster, so many soldiers who had set up crossbows on the riverside for two months and didn't find them, how could they appear as soon as they arrived? I also saw that there was no shelter in the open area by the river before, so I couldn't live in a tent like those soldiers, right? Thinking about it, I could only sigh and say: "Okay, then you must tell them to report to me as soon as they have news." ”

Yang Xianmao naturally agreed.

That night, they stayed in the inn, and it rained so hard that it rained all night.

Listening to the sound of the rain crackling on the tiles, Yang Xianmao could no longer feel even a moment of poetry. He was only full of anxiety. If it goes on like this, it won't become a monstrous flood, and it is really unreasonable. Of course he didn't believe Li Xu's nonsense, there could be no monstrous flood in the whole world, and if he wanted to flood the mountains, this flood was far from reaching, but in front of him, Xuzhou was only afraid that he would face a monstrous flood.

Therefore, at dawn the next day, Yang Xianmao couldn't hold back and decided to go to the river embankment to inspect it. One of the important tasks entrusted to him by the emperor was to inspect the performance of officials, which was the most important thing. If it was really necessary to strengthen the embankment, he had to show his identity as a minister and force Zhang Zhizhou to continue to strengthen the embankment.

After Yang Xianmao told Xuan'er and Snake Fairy Gu, as soon as Xuan'er heard that she was going to the river, of course she would not give up this opportunity, so she didn't want to be bored in the room of the post station, and she also shouted that she would go with Yang Xianmao. Yang Xianmao had no choice but to agree. This time, they did not take the carriage, but rode directly on the Chiyang donkey, wearing a robe, Yang Xianmao held a large oil-paper umbrella, covering the two people, and the snake fairy Gu walked with an umbrella.

They went out of the city and walked to the Baigou River, and in a short time they reached the river.

At this time, they saw some people coming along the embankment, helping the old and the young, pushing carts, and carrying burdens as if they were trying to escape the famine.

Yang Xianmao couldn't help but move in his heart, Xuzhou is also the land of fish and rice, as long as there is no big thing, it is impossible for the people to leave their hometown and escape the famine. Why is this? Yang Xianmao reined in the little donkey, and when they got closer, he bent down and asked with a pleasant face, "May I ask where you are going?"

The dozen or so people who dragged the family with their mouths stopped, looked up at Yang Xianmao, and saw that he was gorgeously dressed, with a little girl behind him, and a young woman next to him holding an oil-paper umbrella, as if he was also a family out, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "Where else can I go? Naturally, it is to escape the famine." ”

"Where are you going to flee to? Isn't Xuzhou City good?"

"Good is good, but in a good place, you have to have a life to enjoy, what's the use of not having a life?

Yang Xianmao's heart moved, looked at the snake fairy girl next to him, and then said to the old man: "I don't know what disaster is coming, if the old man knows, can you reveal a thing or two? ”

The old man glanced at the two of them, nodded and said, "Since you asked, it's not good for the old man not to say it, saving someone's life is better than a seventh-level floating slaughter." -- The old man advises you to go as quickly as you can, go as far as you can, leave the Baigou River far away, go to a higher place, as soon as possible, it is best to leave immediately, I am afraid that it will be too late if it is too late. ”

Yang Xianmao hurriedly got up and asked, "What is the matter?" Please tell the old man clearly, I can have a plan, after all, our family still has a house, I am entangled, and I must have a good reason." ”

The old man nodded, turned around and pointed to the embankment, lowered his voice and said, "This embankment won't be on the top for long, it will collapse soon, if you don't run, aren't you waiting to feed the fish?"

Yang Xianmao was taken aback, looked at the thick and high embankment, and said: "I think it is very thick, and the height is enough, how can it collapse? Moreover, there are officers and soldiers patrolling the embankment, and if they find a problem, they will block and build a dam as soon as possible." ”

"It's useless. The old man shook his head and said, "You only know the surface but don't know the inside, let me tell you, my family lives by the embankment, for decades, I can see clearly how the embankment is repaired, the inside of the embankment...... , alas, can't say, say that the government knows that you will go to prison. Alas, it would have been a flood like this for more than a month, and it would be impossible for it not to collapse again. Okay, that's all I can say, believe it or not, we're leaving. ”

Speaking of this, the old man took his family along the river embankment and walked on the official road towards the distance.

Yang Xianmao looked at their background in a daze, thinking about the old man's words just now, and was speechless for a while, but Princess Xue'er behind him burst out laughing, scraped her little face with her hand, and said to Snake Fairy Gu and Yang Xianmao: "Are you ashamed? ”

Yang Xianmao was a little embarrassed, but the snake fairy girl blushed with shame, glared at Yang Xianmao with disgust, and said, "I didn't say it, it was he who fooled and talked nonsense." ”

Yang Xianmao smiled wryly, changed the topic and said, "What the old man said just now, there is something in the words, we have to hurry up to the river embankment to see, what's going on?"

As soon as she heard Yang Xianmao talk about the right thing, the snake fairy aunt nodded and said, "Indeed, since this old man has been by the river embankment for so many years and has seen the entire construction of the river embankment, we have to take a good look at what he said." ”

Yang Xianmao drove the little donkey and went directly up to the river embankment.

At this time, the soldiers patrolling the embankment saw that someone had gone up the embankment, so they trotted over and said loudly: "Lord Zhizhou has ordered that no one should stay on the embankment to look out, so as not to increase the burden on the embankment." If the riverbank collapses, I'll test you. ”

Yang Xianmao sneered: "A few of us can trample on the river embankment, how fragile should this river embankment be, could it be made of egg shells?"

Speaking of this, Yang Xianmao looked down at the river embankment, raised his hand, and a golden dragon golden gun appeared in his palm, kicked his feet on the ground, jumped into the air, turned a somersault, held the tail of the spear, and the spear pierced straight into the embankment of the river embankment from top to bottom.

The gun was so powerful that it pierced the entire body into the riverbank, leaving only the tail of the gun he was holding.

At the moment when the spear pierced the river embankment, Yang Xianmao sensed that something was obviously wrong. Because the embankment in the front section is very resistant, and after passing through the front section, it becomes very easy to reach the body of the gun.

Yang Xianmao's face changed immediately, he grabbed the tail of the spear and slowly pulled out the Panlong Golden Spear. As the body of the gun was slowly pulled out, the original golden body of the gun turned into pitch black and with a rancid smell from the middle section forward, Yang Xianmao didn't need to smell it with his nose at all, touch it with his hands, and it could be seen directly that the gun body was covered with black silt, full of rancid smell, and dripping water.

It turned out that the outside of the embankment was wrapped in layers of sandbags and rocks, and the inside of the embankment was full of silt dug out of the riverbed to fill up, and it was not solid rocks or sandbags that could resist flooding at all.

No wonder the old man fled with his family, but it turned out that they witnessed it with their own eyes, during the construction of the embankment, mud was poured into the middle of the embankment to cut corners, and the mud in the middle had turned into silt, proving that the entire embankment had been soaked in floodwaters!

When the soldiers gathered around him saw the water-dripping mud on his spear, they seemed to understand what had happened, and they couldn't help but look at each other. Then, suddenly, he ran away, not back, but down the embankment, into the distance.

Yang Xianmao turned his head and saw that the flood on the river embankment was a foot higher than what they had seen yesterday, and it was already very close to the top of the river ladder. Under this kind of river pressure, the pressure on the embankment increases countless times for every inch of the water surface grows upward, and combined with the results of the detection just now, the embankment is already in danger of bursting.

These soldiers have witnessed the surging flood on this embankment for a month or two, and the tension and terror in their hearts have reached the verge of collapse, so they found that the middle of the embankment is a pile of mud, and it is still wet dripping, and they already know that the river has soaked the embankment, soaking the middle of the embankment, that is to say, the whole embankment is about to burst, what are they waiting for if they don't run?

However, not all the soldiers fled, and a few of them ran back to the barracks to inform their good brothers, fearing that more soldiers would flee the dam immediately.

Yang Xianmao put the mud-stained Panlong Golden Gun into the storage bag, immediately turned over on the little donkey, and said to the snake fairy girl: "Go back to the city, find Zhang Zhizhou, this bastard, and ask him to immediately organize people to strengthen the river embankment." ”

The snake fairy girl's face changed color and said, "I'm afraid it's too late!"

"Let's do our best!" Yang Xianmao urged the Chiyang donkey, like a gust of wind galloping towards Xuzhou City.

Xuan'er hadn't understood what was going on, but the flight of those soldiers and the words of the family who had fled the embankment earlier had already made her vaguely guess that the embankment was about to burst, and her face couldn't help but change, and she said, "Big brother, what should we do?"

"Rushed back to the city, forced Zhang Zhizhou, the bastard, to immediately mobilize the army to recruit the people, strengthen the embankment, and at the same time, add sandbags to the four city gates, ready to block the city gate holes at any time, to prevent floods from rushing into the city, and evacuate the people outside the city to the city as much as possible to take refuge. ”

They hurried back to Xuzhou City like a whirlwind.