May 24, 2019, it was Friday.

For Liu Jian, this is a day worth remembering forever in the course of his life.

It was raining heavily that night, and when the rain weakened at nine o'clock, more people were stopped by the torrential rain and rushed home.

Liu Jian, who came out of the restaurant after drinking a few glasses of wine, also went home leisurely.

Unfortunately, while walking down a waterlogged road, he fell into the sewer and quickly lost the roof, never coming up again.

There is no greater tragedy in life than this, and the soul that disappears like this is unwilling.

When Liu Jian's consciousness came to his senses again, he didn't know whether he was on earth or in hell.

When I opened my eyes, I felt a dim light.

When my vision gradually turned to normal, I heard a thunderclap in my ears and the sound of rain outside the window was clearly audible.

Liu Jian was lying on a single bed, his feet facing the window.

The curtains were not drawn, and I happened to see the lightning that disappeared in the night sky outside the window.

Or on a rainy night, didn't you fall into the sewer? Did you save it?

But this environment in the eyes made Liu Jian feel surprised, both strange and familiar environment, déjà vu, but also felt far away.

Isn't this the old house I used to live in?

As he turned his head to look at the room, memories of the past flooded back.

On the wall facing the single bed, hangs an old-fashioned mahogany box clock, which was more popular in the 90s.

The hands of the clock are pointing to more than nine o'clock.

Isn't this the time when you walk out of the restaurant to go home and fall into the sewer?

So how can you lie in bed yourself?

Liu Jian clenched his fists and knocked on his head a few times, his sword eyebrows twisted into a thorn, what the hell is going on? I'm alive?

At the bottom right of that wall clock is a popular star calendar of that era.

Looking at this wall calendar, it can evoke those old memories buried in Liu Jian's heart, and in the 90s, he was also a loyal fan of many Hong Kong and Taiwan stars.

In a small bedroom of only seven or eight square meters, Liu Jian swallowed his saliva with difficulty, this home is too familiar, he 'had' slept in this bed for N years, it was more than nine years old, and he was still in junior high school.

However, at this moment, Liu Jian's memories before falling into the sewer are there, and they are extremely clear.

So, how did you end up in your old home when you were nine years old?

Outside, a woman's voice came from the big room.

"Fourth, now that the rain is lighter, you go back, Xiao Jian should be fine."

The little Jian that the woman said in her mouth should be herself.

Fourth? Could it be the fourth uncle Liu Hongsheng?

Dad has five brothers and sisters, except for the eldest aunt, the eldest uncle is Liu Hongde, the father is Liu Hongyi, the third uncle is Liu Hongchang, and the fourth uncle is Liu Hongsheng.

Liu Jian was shocked at this time, got out of bed silently, and walked towards the wall calendar in the dark room.

The year, month and day of the wall calendar made Liu Jian's heart twitch hard, May 1999.

Could it be May 1999?

Just when Liu Jian was shocked, a deep man's voice came from the side of the big house.

"Second sister-in-law, I don't think Jianzi is fine, don't worry too much, after the hospital examination, didn't the doctor also say that it was okay? It's just a slight concussion, and it will recover in a few days. ”

Yes, this voice was from the fourth uncle Liu Hongsheng, and Liu Jian could hear it.

Concussion? Have you been checked in the hospital? What the hell is going on?

Until this moment, Liu Jian was still not sure if he was in a dream or in reality?

Thinking of this, Liu Jian reached out and struck him on his thigh.

The pain was so intense that he opened his mouth wide and almost didn't scream.

Uh, haven't woken up yet?

"The child is like this, your second brother didn't come back to take a look, this is only three or two months, and the family doesn't care."

The voice of my mother complaining came from the big house again.

Liu Jian continued to listen.

"Second sister-in-law, isn't my brother also for this family? You think he wants to get out? Who doesn't want to guard the hot kang head of their wife and children at home? ”

My mother said: "I regret letting my second brother arrange for him to go to that black kiln ditch, the coal has been smelly for the past two years and no one wants it, what do you say are still guarding that piece?" ”

"Second sister-in-law, you don't understand this, do you? No matter how smelly the kiln ditch is, isn't the second brother a few times stronger than the income of ordinary families in the city? Now the coal market is sluggish, just for a while, this is also affected by the Asian financial crisis two years ago, I heard that the year will pick up, no matter how poor your family is, it is poorer than my family? ”

"Fourth, look at what you said, is your second brother's family so rich? You are also the deputy director of the police station, and no one is looking for you to do business, and my sister-in-law doesn't believe it, who is going empty-handed? ”

Everyone understands this person's sophistication, who doesn't do things for others?

In my mother's opinion, the fourth uncle, the deputy director, can still get oil and water.

The fourth uncle didn't completely deny this, but he didn't think that he was better off than the second brother guarding the kiln ditch out of Ujin.

Listening to the conversation between the old mother and the fourth uncle in the big house, a lightning bolt crossed Liu Jian's mind.

kiln, refers to the coal kiln, in my memory, my father went to Xiwa kiln in early 99 under the arrangement of his second uncle Lu Xingguo.

Xiwa kiln is a town in Daxi District, it is located in the innermost part of Daxi Heiyagou, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the first coal shaft of Heiyagou mine is Xiwa kiln, it is the first well to uncover the glorious history of Heiyagou mine.

Over the years, with the passage of time and the improvement of coal mining technology and equipment, the Heiyagou mine had to abandon the old shaft and choose to build a modern new shaft in other places where the terrain is flatter and the coal seam is thicker, which is more suitable for large-scale mining equipment.

The West Tile Kiln was gradually forgotten and abandoned, and its former glory was also dusted.

By the early 90s, the 'kiln owners' of the Great Western District came up one by one, and these people were nouveau riche with a lot of money.

How did these people get rich? Everyone knows that it started by contracting small coal kilns.

The kiln owner is a general term for the contractor of the small coal kiln, and it is also a local name for the soil, but anyone who is called the kiln owner is a nouveau riche in the ditch.

After my father arrived in Xitile Kiln, he was also called 'Kiln Master' by the people in the town, because he became the actual manager of the old well in Xitile Kiln.

The well of Xiwa kiln is not comparable to ordinary small kilns, after all, it was the first well of the Heiyagou mine, so even if it was abandoned, it still retains the name of "national well", because it is the first well of a large state-owned mine.

Moreover, it is impossible to contract this kind of 'national well' to private individuals, and it will only be managed by the tertiary production 'labor service company' of the main mine.

At the end of February 99, under the arrangement of his second uncle, his father Liu Hongyi entered the Heiyagou Mine 'Labor Service Company' as the deputy manager, in charge of the old well of Xiwa kiln, which is the reason why my father was called 'kiln owner' by the locals.

But in fact, my father is the poorest 'kiln owner', which Liu Jian knows very well, because he is not a contractor, and the biggest profits cannot flow into his personal pockets.

In addition, he has just arrived, and he has not yet entered the state, and he has not figured out the specific situation, so it is strange that he is not poor.

That is, at the end of May of this year, after four days of continuous rainstorm, Xiwa Kiln Ditch broke out the largest flash flood since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the entire Black Cliff Ditch started from the highest West Tile Kiln, to the lowest Yongxing Kiln, all of them were ravaged by flash floods, and the flood along the ditch poured more than 10 small kiln wells like rat holes, according to incomplete statistics, this time the flash flood was discharged, and the missing population of Heiya Ditch alone amounted to dozens of people.

Later investigations showed that some of the missing people were drowned in small kiln wells, and when the flash flood fell, dozens of houses built along the ditch on both sides of Heiyagou were flooded.

After the incident broke out, it shocked Funing City and Xiliang Province.

This major flash flood caused countless losses, and the party committee team of the Heiyagou mine was collectively taken down, and none of them were spared.

And the biggest responsible person is Lu Xingguo, the deputy mine manager in charge of safety at Heiyagou Mine, that is, Liu Jian's second uncle.

At that time, the second uncle was already the deputy mine manager at the deputy department level, and he was the deputy in charge of safety and production, and his authority should not be underestimated.

In the face of natural disasters, the small manpower can be ignored, but the responsibility after a major accident still needs to be borne by someone.

In the investigation after the incident, it was found that hundreds of houses built along the ditch were in violation of regulations, and there were many self-employed vehicles parked in the dry ditch, as well as many cement beams and piers fenced in the ditch, in addition to these piles of garbage like hills down the ditch, all of which were safety-related hidden dangers, and they filled the ditch with a twist and narrowness, which became the main cause of the flash flood.

For decades, there has been no flash flood more than one meter high, so people have forgotten about its main function as a flood discharge.

In this incident, his father Liu Hongyi was also swept away by a sudden flash flood.

Afterwards, the second uncle Lu Xingguo also took the greatest responsibility, falling into the abyss from the apex of his life's glory, and the Lu family, which was well-known in Heiyagou, has also collapsed since then.

A catastrophe has torn dozens of happy families apart, leaving them with the loss of loved ones.

When these long-lost memories swept through Liu Jian's mind, he broke out in a cold sweat, for himself who lost his father at the age of fifteen, it was a scar engraved on his heart that could never be erased.

Liu Jian opened the door of the hut and rushed out of the bedroom.

"Mom, what time is it today?"

At this moment, he no longer thinks that he is dreaming, and he is reborn back to this time in 1999, and the first thing he wants to do is to change the tragic fate of his father and second uncle, and save the dozens of lives that are about to be swept away by the torrent.

It's just that I don't know what day it is, Liu Jian's heart hangs in his throat.

Lu Xiuhua, the mother who was startled by her son who suddenly rushed out of the room, was taken aback.

Sister Liu Wei cheered, "Brother, are you awake?" ”

There is a kang in the outer big house, which is the most basic setting for people to live in those bungalows in the past, and the 'kang' still exists in thousands of households.

The younger sister, who is 4 years younger than Liu Jian, is pure and lovely, inheriting her mother's excellent qualities, and has begun to show the prototype of a little beauty embryo.

Mother Lu Xiuhua is really not the fifty or sixty years old in Liu Jian's memory, and now she is entering middle age, in fact, she is only thirty-seven or eighteen years old.

The fourth uncle Liu Hongsheng is a few years younger than his mother, that is, he is in his early thirties, with a mustache, and he has a strong and tough atmosphere, especially when he wears a police uniform, he looks strong and heroic.

"Xiao Jian, are you awake?"

Mother Lu Xiuhua looked surprised, hurriedly came over to take Liu Jian's hand, and looked at him with concern.

There were fine beads of sweat on Liu Jian's head, and he was sweating in a hurry, but his mother thought he was weak.

"You kid, run out recklessly, look at this sweat."

"Mom, tell me, what time is it today?"

Fourth Uncle Liu Hongsheng said: "You kid isn't really concussion, right?" I don't even know what day it is? ”

As for how he had a concussion, Liu Jian didn't bother to care about these.

Instead, my sister said, "Brother, today is May 24th." ”

May 24th?

Liu Jian was stunned there, he went from May 24, 2019 to May 24, 1999, spanning 20 years.

On May 24, it seemed that there were more than two days before the flash flood in Heiyagou, that is, more than 50 hours.

"Fourth uncle, did you come by car?"

"yes, it's raining all the time, why don't I drive?"

"Let's go, Fourth Uncle, you take me to the hospital, I'm a little uncomfortable."

When my mother heard this, she was anxious, "What's uncomfortable?" Mom will go with you, too. ”

Liu Jian gave the fourth uncle a look.

The fourth uncle understood at a glance, and said in his heart, what the hell is this kid doing?

But he said: "Second sister-in-law, don't go, the only person who is at home can't do it, don't you feel at ease with me and Xiaojian?" ”

Mom thought about it, and it wasn't too much of a problem to see Liu Jian, so she agreed.

The rain outside was much lighter, but there was no sign of clearing, and Liu Jian knew in his heart that it would rain for two more days.

After getting into the white and blue Santana of the fourth uncle, the fourth uncle asked, "What the hell are you doing?" ”

"Fourth uncle, don't ask too much, you want your second brother's life, immediately follow me to Daxi Heiyagou to find my second uncle."

"What did you kid say? Such heavy rain. ”

"Don't ask, hurry up, can it be done?"

Liu Jian's eyes were red and he yelled at the fourth uncle.

I had never seen this kid so out of shape, and his expression was a little hideous.

Liu Hongsheng started Santana, quickly drove out of Kunwu New Town, and went west on Longqing Street.

"Boy, you talk to the fourth uncle, what's going on?"

"Fourth uncle, my heart is very confused, I can't tell you clearly for a while, you go to Heiyagou, go to my second uncle first."

Seeing that Liu Jian's expression didn't seem to be fake, Liu Hongsheng became more and more depressed in his heart, this kid said that it was about the life of his second brother Liu Hongyi, isn't this a bit mysterious?

What the hell is going on, and how does he know? Didn't he lie in bed for two days?

But what this kid said was too serious, Liu Hongsheng's foot kicked the accelerator even harder, and Santana went all the way west in the rain and fog.

Liu Jian was really in no mood to explain anything to the fourth uncle, and it was useless to tell him.

Now he is thinking about how to convince his second uncle, how to make his second uncle believe everything he says, to save dozens of families that are about to be shattered in the disaster and to recover huge losses.

Yes, convincing the second uncle is the biggest problem, if you can't convince it, you can't change anything.

But the worst result is to rescue my father, if the second uncle doesn't believe what he said, let the fourth uncle go to Xiwayao to pick up my father, coax him to say that he is "seriously ill", and let him leave that dangerous place.

Along the way, Liu Jian just stared at the rain curtain and didn't say a word.

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