The sun is scorching in the sky, and you can even feel the hot heat rising from the soles of your feet when you step on the dry riverbed with your shoes on! On a dry riverbed in Huidong County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, an old man with gray hair and dark skin is standing blankly on the riverbed, silently scanning everything around the riverbed.

This river is called Laichun River, almost runs through the entire Huidong County, on weekdays, the people wash vegetables and rice, irrigation and farming, all rely on this river, and now, this river that has been running in Huidong County for I don't know how many years has completely dried up!

In the cracked riverbed, there are many large and small potholes, these are the traces left by people digging under the riverbed, and at the beginning, as long as you dig down about 30 centimeters, you can see the seeping water, although it is a little muddy, but it can barely assume the role of irrigation.

But as time went on, the water seeping out of the holes dug out of the riverbed dwindled day by day, and to this day, the old man had dug more than a meter deep, but the bucket beside him contained less than ten centimeters of mud, not even muddy water!

Since the beginning of the severe drought more than three months ago, less than 10 millimeters of rain has fallen in the entire Huidong County in the past 100 days, and the people of Huidong County can only watch the water level of the Laichun River, on which they depend, continue to drop.

More than a month ago, the Huidong Reservoir built in the upper reaches of the Laichun River would open the sluice gates and discharge water from time to time to replenish the evaporated river water of the Laichun River, barely maintaining the basic water supply in Huidong County, but until the water level of the Huidong Reservoir dropped to nearly four meters below the warning line, the Huidong Reservoir, which was difficult to protect itself, was unable to support the water supply downstream, so it could only close the sluice gate and beg Grandpa to tell him every day that it was looking forward to rain.

But God doesn't know if they are asleep, but they still look forward to it, how pious they are, that is, it doesn't rain, and if it doesn't rain, it won't rain! By now, the fish living in the Huidong Reservoir have died in patches, and if it doesn't rain again, the Huidong Reservoir will completely dry up, and those fish that are still struggling to survive will also be completely extinct!

Whether it is animals, plants or humans, they are so powerless in the face of such a terrible drought, they can only hope and beg, and there is no other way.

There was a look of confusion in his cloudy eyes, and the thin, dark-skinned old man was holding a hoe, silently looking down at the big pit he had worked hard for nearly an hour to dig, watching the wet dirt below dry up in just a few minutes, and then looking at the little mud that he had worked hard for an hour beside him......

In the blink of an eye, two lines of cloudy tears slipped out of the corners of his eyes, and he cried, silently.

On the left bank of the Laichun River, he contracted more than ten acres of land and planted chili peppers, originally hoping to have a good harvest this season and get a sum of money to improve the poor life of his family, but now the chili peppers planted in the field are dying, and if they are not effectively irrigated, they will not be far from completely dying.

"Oh my God! Please, old man, let it rain! Suddenly, he raised his head and let out a cry of sorrow, and the old man, who had fallen into despair, knelt down in front of the big pit he had dug with his own hands, stretched out his hand and grabbed a piece of extremely hard mud, looked up at the cloudy sky, and cried bitterly: "I kowtow to you, let it rain!" Please!! ”

On the riverbed, which was as hard as a concrete floor, the old man kowtowed to the sky, and the blood gradually stained the ground in front of him, but the blood could not escape the merciless plundering of the sun, and it was completely condensed in the blink of an eye......

When the old man kowtowed to the sky, about 900 meters away from the old man, on the bed of the Laichun River, there were also two middle-aged men in white shirts, looking at the holes in the riverbed, the two men looked at each other silently, and the pain caused by the chapped lips seemed to be unaware at all.

After looking at each other silently for a long time, the man on the left bent down, broke off a piece of mud that was as hard as a stone from the riverbed, and said astringently: "If there is no obvious rainfall, our county will be finished, really...... Finished! ”

"I called the Provincial Meteorological Agency two hours ago." The man who was still standing was also full of bitterness, and after taking a deep breath, he said in a low voice: "In the next seven days, not only will we be in Dongxian, but also most of Sichuan, and there will be no significant rainfall." ”

Speaking of this, he raised his head slightly, squinted at the blue sky, looked at the radiant sun in the sky, swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and then said in a low voice: "Such a large pepper base, I'm afraid there will be no harvest this year." ”

"Alas......" The two of them sighed at the same time, it is not difficult to see from their faces that their powerlessness and despair at the moment, as the county magistrate and county party committee of a county, in the face of such a natural disaster, they have no strength to resist at all.

Now they really can't let go of the people, or the people in the county, the tap water has been cut off for almost half a month, many people in the county have chosen to run away from home, go to other provinces to seek a way to survive, if this continues, I am afraid that the entire Huidong County will become a dead city.

In the face of such a situation, they are powerless in addition to powerlessness.

While several provinces in southwest China are panicking because of the severe drought, the three provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi, and Fujian in East China are in a hurry for the floods caused by the heavy rains......

The bearing capacity of the reservoir reaches the limit, and the opening of the gate to release water will have a huge threat to the downstream.

Many provinces in southwest China have gray hair because of the great drought, but many provinces in eastern China are in a mess because of the great floods.

Chenzhou is located in the southeast of Anhui Province, in the Nanling Mountains and Luoxiao Mountains intersected, the Yangtze River water system and the Pearl River water system divergence, the rivers in the territory are radially dense, is the famous hot spring town, but also the whole Anhui Province water resources richest, one of the cities with the largest number of reservoirs.

In Chenzhou alone, the number of large and small rivers is as many as nearly 700, and these dense rivers are one of the signboards of Chenzhou on weekdays, but with the heavy rainfall for more than ten consecutive days since the beginning of spring, these rivers have become the most helpless existence of Chenzhou people.

The rising water level of the river, serious urban waterlogging, soil erosion, frequent floods, and mudslides have brought the whole Chenzhou into the atmosphere of a big flood!

The raindrops are still crackling, and the Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee and his party appeared on the embankment of the Dongjiang Reservoir in Chenzhou, holding an umbrella and wearing rain boots, looking at the turbid river that has far exceeded the warning line of the reservoir, and everyone's face showed a dignified look.

The person in charge of the reservoir appeared next to the Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee, holding a black umbrella, and persuaded in a low voice: "***, let the water go......"

"What about the people downstream?" Liu Changhua, the municipal party committee, frowned, but he also knew that if the reservoir was not depressurized, the possible consequences would be even more unimaginable!

After a moment's pause, he asked, "How long can Curry hold on now?" ”

"This ......" Hearing Liu Changhua's inquiry, the person in charge of the Dongjiang Reservoir raised his head slightly and glanced at the black clouds in the sky, gritted his teeth and said: "If the current rainfall continues for another twelve hours, and the reservoir does not fully discharge the flood, the Jiangdong Reservoir will ...... There is a danger of bursting the embankment! ”

"What?!" Hearing the answer of the person in charge, Liu Changhua, who thought that the Jiangdong Reservoir could hold out for a few days, could no longer suppress the shock in his heart, and exclaimed in surprise!

The Jiangdong Reservoir is the largest reservoir in Chenzhou, and it is even known as the Dongting in southern Hunan Province, and the Jiangdong Reservoir, which has a storage capacity of more than 8 billion cubic meters, will burst its embankment......

Most of Chenzhou will directly become an ocean, threatening millions of people, and the economic losses caused are immeasurable!

Hearing the answer of the person in charge, Liu Changhua's face was completely pale.

Listening to the sound of the rain *** hitting the umbrella, Liu Changhua suddenly threw away the umbrella, looked up at the dark and oppressive clouds in the sky, and shouted hysterically: "God, enough is enough!! ”

The sound was loud and very high-pitched.

Looking at Liu Changhua, who was standing in the pouring rain and shouting loudly, and looking at this municipal party committee who was almost crazy because of the heavy rain, the officials in the same company lowered their heads and sighed long in their hearts.

Some people are thinking about how to solve the problem of flood discharge from the Dongjiang Reservoir, while others are thinking about where they should move their relatives and friends......

This heavy rain, which is rare in a century, will not dissipate at all in a short period of time, even if Liu Changhua shouts out his throat and let the more than four million people in Chenzhou knock their heads, the heavy rain will continue ruthlessly.

Everyone thinks so, including Liu Changhua, who is roaring in the sky! He also didn't think that the heavy rain would dissipate anytime soon, and his current roar was just venting.

But he was not reconciled, unwilling to threaten the people downstream by discharging the flood like this, causing great economic losses, and he was unwilling to wait for the reservoir to burst and threaten the entire Chenzhou City!

The lesser of two evils was when he was about to order the evacuation of the people downstream of the Dongjiang Reservoir and open the floodgates to relieve the pressure on the Dongjiang Reservoir......

The heavy clouds in the sky began to roll violently, and the raindrops the size of beans slowly shrank and decreased......

Liu Changhua, who was standing there and letting the heavy rain drench, felt it.

He looked up in astonishment and looked up at the sky