This summer, the capital feels extremely hot, and people often look forward to a heavy rain from God when they can't stand the heat, so that the hot weather can be cooled and cool. But for people living in the Yangtze River basin, I hope God will never rain again. Because of the summer approach, the flood season of the Yangtze River has been lengthened, the water level has remained high, and heavy rains have fallen on Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake, and the flood has been raging for a time, and the lives and property of countless people have been greatly threatened. The eyes of the whole country and the world are focused on the disaster area. Governments around the world and various domestic institutions have begun to organize donations for the disaster areas. Hong Kong, which just returned to China last year, donated 680 million yuan, the largest in the world. It is followed by Taiwan, followed by Singapore. The family affection of the Chinese people in the world whose blood is thicker than water is undoubtedly reflected.

Ye Ziyu's company also set up a donation box downstairs. At lunchtime, people working in the office building go out for lunch, and when they pass by, they donate their money and form a long line in front of the donation box, including many foreigners. Ye Ziyu also went to the auditorium to listen to a report on flood fighting and rescue. What he remembered most was the flood outbreak introduced by flood control experts. One of the main reasons is the direct consequences of soil erosion caused by indiscriminate deforestation in the Yangtze River basin, and the indiscriminate occupation of rivers in the middle and lower reaches of lakes and farmland. Due to siltation, reclamation and other reasons, the area of lakes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has decreased, reducing the flood control capacity of the lakes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the flood storage capacity of the lakes has decreased year by year, many lakes that pass through the river no longer pass through the river, the rivers and lakes are separated from business, and the difficult land for flooding can no longer be flooded. According to one set of data, 400 million people live on both sides of the Yangtze River, and in the mid-fifties, the forest coverage rate in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River was 22 percent, and 80 percent of the forests on both sides of the Yangtze River were cut down after continuous agricultural land reclamation and urbanization. Of the 193 counties in Sichuan Province, only 12 have more than 30% forest cover, and some counties have reduced their forest cover to less than 3%.

As a result, 20 percent of the 1.8 million square kilometers of land in the Yangtze River basin have suffered soil erosion, 2.4 billion tons of topsoil are lost every year, and more than 500 million tons of soil and sand carried from the upstream into the East China Sea every year flow down the Yangtze River. Year after year of soil and sand siltation, the riverbed of the Yangtze River has been raised above the ground since many years ago, becoming another "hanging river" after the Yellow River. The clear water of the Yangtze River has long been gone, and its turbid yellow degree is comparable to that of the Yellow River. The water area of Dongting Lake has shrunk from 4,350 square kilometers in 1949 to 2,145 square kilometers, Poyang Lake has shrunk by one-fifth in 40 years, and hundreds of small and medium-sized lakes have disappeared from the map forever. All this is the reason for the flooding of the Yangtze River.

After listening to the report, even a layman like Ye Ziyu felt that today's ecological environment was in danger, and it could bring new huge disasters to people at any time. Although mankind's science and technology are becoming more and more prosperous, the laws of nature cannot be arbitrarily violated.

For several days, the company's colleagues have been talking about this once-in-a-century flood during their lunch breaks, and paying attention to the latest news in the newspaper every day. Soon, a little girl in the disaster area with the same name as the popular female star Jiang Shan became the object of people's attention. On that terrible night, the TV station suddenly interrupted the normal program broadcast, and the announcer urgently notified: There was a breach in the Paizhou Bay embankment, and the people were asked to quickly move to the nearest high place. In an instant, the little girl's village erupted in a burst of cries, and after a while, the electricity went out, and the roaring flood made a "boom" sound from far and near.

The little girl's father worked in the provincial capital, and she, her grandmother, mother, two sisters, and two younger brothers ran around the ridge at night. The flood water quickly rushed up, and the water rose higher and higher. A huge wave came and swept away her mother, eldest sister, and two younger brothers. The little sisters who followed the grandmother were not swept away because the grandmother desperately grabbed a poplar tree. Several armed police fighters swam over, transferred them to two poplar trees, and went to save the others. The tree that the grandmother and the little girl were holding was not large, but fortunately the little girl could tread water and climb the tree, so the flood did not drown her. The little girl has two older sisters, and her father wants his son very much, so since she came into the world, she has not been valued by her parents and has rarely cared for her. She often plays alone in the field, and she can't even be found when she eats. When she was two years old, she began to play in the pond and developed a good water character. In the summer, she would catch fish, dig birds' eggs, and shoot butterflies everywhere barefoot, and her little face was tanned. She had small scars on her face, hands, and legs all year round, and she was never afraid, and rarely cried like any other child, so the flood did not scare her. But the flood was getting bigger and bigger, and the grandmother finally moved her to a taller tree, and as soon as she was put on top of the tree, the flood swept her away. She heard her grandmother struggling and telling her, "Wait for the uncle who wears the red star to come and save you......"

The village was gone, the grandmother was gone, and there was nothing but boundless darkness and roaring floods all around. The water was getting faster and stronger, and it shook her and the little tree from side to side, and she couldn't help but feel afraid, for she had never been so afraid when she climbed a very high tree or went down a deep pond. She couldn't hold back her tears anymore. The water was down to her neck, and she climbed up again. A fierce wave swooped down, and the trunk could not bear to break, and the little girl sank into the water, and rolled and undulated with the trunk in the raging torrent. When she was exhausted, she slammed into a tree, so she quickly clasped her hands behind her back and grabbed the trunk. The current jerked her forward, and her hand almost tripped, and she immediately turned over, hugged the tree with both hands, then wrapped her feet around the tree, and climbed up one by one, and found a tree, and stepped on it with her little feet. The little girl could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but her stomach was hungry. She plucked two leaves and put them in her mouth, the taste of the leaves was astringent, her throat seemed to be blocked, she tried to scream, but found that her voice was completely hoarse. She was very tired, and her upper and lower eyelids kept fighting, but she did not dare to sleep, so she lay on the tree like a snail, and when the water rose an inch, she climbed an inch. In the early morning of the next day, the rescuers were on the assault boat through the dark night, and accidentally found something that seemed to be perched on a tree. Most of the child's body was submerged in water, his eyes slightly open, and he was dying. Fortunately, she was finally rescued. It was later learned that among the survivors of the disaster, the little girl was the only child who was rescued after fighting the flood without the protection of an adult.

After reading the report, Ye Ziyu felt that it was necessary for him to teach Li Xin to swim this summer. Li Xin has never swam when she is so big, and when she heard Ye Ziyu say it, she was very embarrassed and couldn't put it off. Ye Ziyu said, you have such a good figure, what is there to be afraid of? He didn't discuss with Li Xin, so he helped her buy a swimsuit and dragged her to the pool. Li Xin didn't dare to go into the water before, but later, under the support of Ye Ziyu, she gradually became bold and began to play with Ye Ziyu in the water.

After that, Li Xin actually liked swimming, and every weekend, she took the initiative to ask Ye Ziyu to accompany her to swim. In this way, they spent a splendid and beautiful season.