The heavy rain has lasted for nearly two days, and in the past two days, Lu Xingguo has always felt frightened.

In the past few decades, for Lu Xingguo, it can be said that he has gone through ups and downs and seen too many big scenes, but in the past two days, he has always palpitated and uneasy, making him unable to figure out the key.

"Lao Lu, you should rest early, it's almost ten o'clock."

Lu Xingguo's wife Li Shumei looked at her husband who was standing in front of the window staring at the rain and fog, smoking a cigarette, and she didn't know what he was thinking.

Lu Xingguo, who is only 47 years old this year, has gray hair on his temples, and he worries too much.

"Shumei, I've always felt uneasy in the past two days, and I have a premonition that something is going to happen, but I can't think of what the problem is."

"You, you have too much to worry about, Wang Tiejun not only told you to focus on production, but also asked you to take care of safety, is it deliberately trying to crush you? You are not the only deputy mine manager in this Black Cliff Valley, and you can't fight with your life. ”

Lu Xingguo's thin face had an unusually resolute look, and some deep-set eye sockets were indeed a sign of overwork.

But instead of dispelling, his gaze was clearer and more focused than many young people.

"Shumei, where did you go? I've been following Wang Tiejun for so many years, has he ever treated us badly? Without the support of the old leader, and without my Lu Xingguo's today, you dare not spread these words outside. ”

Li Shumei smiled, there was still the afterglow of youth between her eyebrows, "I'm not a fool, I said this is also for your body, the previous 'safety' and 'production' were managed separately by the two deputy mine managers, and now they are all called you to be in charge alone, and many people behind the scenes are gossiping, saying that you are ready to squeeze out Wang Tiejun and move ...... right."

"Let them say what others say, there are always some people who can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour, Wang Tiejun is not a matter of this year to be transferred back to the Mining Bureau, and the number one position in Heiyagou is not the time to fight, it is best to do your part."

"I can't talk about you, but Lao Lu, if you don't worry too much, you won't be suspicious, what can happen? Didn't it rain for two days? You'd better go to sleep. ”

Speaking of the rain in the past two days, it seems to have touched something, and Lu Xingguo was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps in the hallway, very hurriedly, and soon outside the door, there was a knock on the door.

Li Shumei frowned, "It's so late, who will it be?" ”

Lu Xingguo, who was standing in front of the window, didn't move, and raised his chin, "Don't you know if you go and take a look?" ”

A young voice suddenly came from outside the door, "Second uncle, open the door, I'm Liu Jian." ”

Lu Xingguo, who was standing in front of the window, had a bright eye.

"It's Jianzi who is coming, I'm going to open the door......"

Second uncle Lu Xingguo hurried two steps to open the door, and Li Shumei followed.

Actually, both of them were thinking, it's raining so hard, and it's so late, how did Jianzi rush from the city to Daxi Heiyagou? Is something wrong?

With this thought, Lu Xingguo's heart was a little tightened, he was most concerned about the life of his little sister Lu Xiuhua, although his sister's home was in Funing City, but among the brothers and sisters, her life was the tightest and poorest.

It was in order to improve the living conditions of his sister's family that he transferred his brother-in-law Liu Hongyi to the Heiyagou Mine Labor Service Company as a deputy manager at the beginning of this year.

Before Liu Hongyi was in the city's Light Industry Bureau, he was the deputy chief of a certain department, and he mixed up such a result for more than ten years, and heard that the Light and Heavy Industry Bureau was going to merge with the newly established Commercial Bureau, and many people began to be busy.

This is also one of the reasons why his father Liu Hongyi went to the Heiyagou mine, otherwise when the organs were merged, he would not have to sit in the position of deputy section chief, and most of them would be turned into 'chief clerks' and idle.

The door opened, Lu Xingguo looked at Liu Jian and Liu Hongsheng, who were half-wet in the rain outside the door, and hurriedly let them in.

"Jianzi, why did you come to your second uncle's house in the middle of the night? Is there something wrong with the family? ”

"No, my mother and sister are fine, but I suddenly missed my second uncle, and besides, I have something to say to my second uncle."

In front of the second uncle, Liu Jian was just a half-tall boy who was only 15 years old, and his thin body looked so naïve.

Li Shumei also knew that her husband loved his little sister, and when she loved the house and Wu, she naturally liked this nephew Liu Jian very much, even if this nephew was not a good child who studied well.

"It's okay to be okay at home, if you have anything to say, you and your fourth uncle sit down and say."

The fourth uncle, Liu Hongsheng, has also met the second uncle a few times, and the two sides are not strangers.

"Second uncle, I'll only talk to you alone."

"This kid ......"

……

In the study of Deputy Mine Chief Lu, the atmosphere seemed very depressing.

After listening to Liu Jian's detailed description of the story in his 'dream', Lu Xingguo felt very ridiculous, his nephew ran dozens of kilometers in the rain in the middle of the night, just to tell himself a 'dream';

But it was the disaster described in this dream that made Deputy Mine Chief Lu sweat all over his body, and even his hair stood on end.

There was smoke in the house, and in the process of listening to Liu Jian's narration, Lu Xingguo smoked nine cigarettes.

Hongtashan's cigarette butts were piled up with the ashtray on the desk.

Liu Jian clearly saw that the second uncle's fingers holding the cigarette were trembling slightly, and his eyes were staring at the rain outside the window, in a daze.

“…… Second uncle, I know you don't believe what I said, and it's hard for me to convince myself, but when I think of that terrible scene, I'm afraid, even if it's out of precaution, second uncle, don't you think you have to do something? ”

"Jianzi, a dream is just a dream after all, do you know how many years there has been no so-called flash flood in Heiyagou? The one-meter-high flash flood has not occurred in the past 50 years, some people want to build a house into the ditch, the site of the second phase of the new area of Heiyagou is likely to be connected to the higher river ditch, which is more trouble-free than building a bridge connecting the living area, you make the second uncle believe that the huge flash flood you said will happen in Heiyagou, how is this possible? ”

"Second uncle, I believe you know better than me about the situation of the Heiyagou river, once the flood is discharged, the mountains of garbage and many large cars, cement piers and cement beams in the ditch will only block the water level of the ditch and rise, and the overflowing water will wash away the houses built along the ditch on both sides, will it be very difficult? Can a small river embankment of less than 1.2 meters hold back a flash flood? Just because something hasn't happened in the last 50 years doesn't mean it won't happen in the future. ”

"Jianzi, don't say it again, what you said is simply impossible, but the second uncle heard your mother say that you are sick two days ago, and now you are much better, right?"

Liu Jian couldn't help but stand still, he knew that it was difficult to persuade his second uncle to use dreams to recount the disasters that would happen in the future, but the persuasion was too small.

"Second uncle, you are the deputy mine manager in charge of safety, and the lives of thousands of people on both sides of Heiyagou are in your hands, if you don't even have the mind to prevent trouble, if something happens, think about it, how many responsibilities do you have to bear? I think that the mine has put you in charge of safety matters, just to value your rigorous style in your work, such a heavy rain, has been falling for two days, isn't this a precursor to the formation of floods? In your memory, did it rain so hard for two days in a row? ”

This sentence stabbed the hidden worry in Lu Xingguo's heart again, yes, I don't remember how many years ago it rained heavily for two days in a row, and it is said that there have been landslides on some loose mountain roads.

A more scientific argument is that large coal mines have been mining all year round, which has caused serious damage to groundwater, and these mountains are no longer suitable for long-term human habitation.

In the long-term plan of the Mining Bureau, the living quarters will be moved to the suburbs to create new living quarters for the miners that are less dangerous and less polluting.

But this is only in the planning, and has not yet been further implemented on a large scale, involving the whole body, in fact, this is not as simple as saying a word.

Lu Xingguo didn't speak, but still looked at the rain outside the window, thinking that his nephew's statement was too ridiculous.

"Jianzi, don't worry too much about these haves and don'ts, you probably miss your father, right? He is now in charge of the old well to which the Xiwa kiln belongs and some small kilns that have been contracted out, but he doesn't have time to go home, so you can go and see him tomorrow. ”

Liu Jian felt sad in his heart, if the second uncle couldn't do something before the disaster came, then the damage caused by this disaster to Heiyagou would be inevitable, and he ran out to say this to others, and no one would believe it, when you are crazy.

Only the power in the hands of the second uncle can play the greatest role in dealing with this disaster.

"Uncle, if you don't believe me, I can't help it, I'll go to Xiwa Kiln to see my dad in a while, but, uncle, if this heavy rain has no sign of stopping tomorrow, you must do something, just pity the people who live along the ditch, just pity the miners who have to work hard in the small kiln well for their livelihood, for you to take charge of the responsibility of safety, you must also do something, a dozen small kilns, to irrigate the rat hole, do you say it will die? When the houses of the hundreds of households on both sides of the ditch were flooded, did you think about how heavy a burden you had to carry? ”

It didn't look like a 15-year-old boy had said it.

Lu Xingguo turned his head and looked at his nephew, and his first feeling was that the child had grown up and was sensible.

"Jianzi, you can have such an idea, it means that you are different from ordinary children, the second uncle is very pleased, but you think too simply, not to mention that such a large scale of prevention has not been for decades, once there is an action, it is necessary to clean up the ditch for more than ten miles, and it is necessary to use hundreds of bulldozers and excavators, otherwise it is impossible to clean up the ditch in a short time, such a big action must be decided by the mining party committee, do you think that uncle and I can call the shots?"

"Uncle, it doesn't matter if there is no accident, once something happens, these are the 'factual basis' that cannot shirk responsibility, which will only show that you, the deputy in charge of safety, have not eliminated the potential safety hazards, and the private buildings on both sides of the ditch are not illegal? Don't you have a count? Are you going to say that it hasn't been like this for decades? Didn't see anything, did you? ”

Lu Xingguo smiled bitterly, "That's the case. ”

"But I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what happens, especially if something big happens, I'm afraid that the Heiyagou Party Committee can't bear it, and your deputy position in charge of safety is the first to bear the brunt, second uncle, I don't expect one of my dreams to give you any hints, but you see that my nephew has run dozens of kilometers in the rain, I have to do something, in the face of huge natural disasters, although the insignificance of manpower cannot be recovered too much, but at least we have to do our best, isn't it? Shut down more than a dozen small kilns near the bottom of the ditch for two days, saying that they would have routine inspections, what else do they dare to say? In the past two days, the ditch has been sealed, and the car is not allowed to drive into the ditch, can they still rebel? Isn't that something that's within your purview? Those illegal houses along the bottom of the ditch, let them go out to their relatives' houses to avoid for two or three days, they can't get out, you always have to notify here, right? If there's something really going on, it can't be said that you're not doing your job well, right? But if you really leak a flash flood that hasn't been seen in decades, how many lives can you save? ”

Listening to his nephew's words, Lu Xingguo lit the last cigarette in the Hongtashan cigarette box.

The second uncle smoked silently, he was silent, and after listening to what his nephew said, he faintly worried that an accident would happen in his heart, and it seemed to be closely related to this.

"Uncle, if you think about it, I'll leave now, and I'll go to Xiwayao to see my father."

"You can stay at the second uncle's house at night, and tomorrow the second uncle will send a car to take you to Xiwayao."

"No need, second uncle, my dad is in the labor service company, and those small kilns contracted out in the ditch are also under their jurisdiction, he also has to do something, so you can't smear your face to the second uncle who recommended him to go, right?"

"Jianzi, the second uncle I told you is also in a mess, it's raining so hard, don't go up the mountain."

The West Tile Kiln is in the innermost part of the Black Cliff Valley, the more you go inside, the higher the terrain, all of which are roads up the mountain, and it is very dangerous to have a landslide.

Liu Jian was worried about his father's safety, and he didn't think about it more at all.

"Uncle, it's okay, my fourth uncle came in a car, go up with me."

"Okay, you guys slow down on the road, and call your uncle's house if you have something."

After sending off Liu Jian and Liu Hongsheng's uncle and nephew, Lu Xingguo took an umbrella and went out.

Li Shumei didn't know what he said to Liu Jian, so she hurriedly asked, "What happened to your gods?" ”

"It's nothing, I'll tell you when I turn around, I'll go to Wang Tiejun's house now."

Lu Xingguo believes that even if he wants to do something, he has to say hello to Wang Tiejun, the head of the big mine.