Liang Chuan has checked the terrain around Helu, and it is not in vain to run on the mountains every day, and the result of running is to know the terrain well. The back of He Lu is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the ridges and valleys are staggered, and the top of the mountain looks like a small plain. The ridge is densely vegetated, but it is fortunate that there will be no serious disasters such as mudslides under heavy rains, but the valley is like a natural river, and after the rainstorm, the rainwater from the mountains collects into the river valley, and the water falls from the sky, and the water takes advantage of the mountain momentum, and it becomes a rapid and unrivaled torrent. At the foot of the mountain, four villages could be wiped out at any time.

These valleys are not smooth, winding and twisting, nine twists and eighteen bends, coiling over the mountains. There were boulders and dead trees in the valley, and the boulders were exposed in the valley, and the dead trees blocked the way of the rain, and the water from the mountains began to accumulate in the valley during the rainstorm. When the scattered currents of the trumpet-shaped valley are clustered together, it is easier to induce flash floods. He Baozheng also said that in the history of Xinghua, even if there is no heavy rain every year, this flash flood will take away several lives, as if there is a shortage of family members in the mountain god's mansion, and he is harvesting human lives to serve him.

There is groundwater on the mountain, which is an underground spring created by the mountain fault, once the rainstorm comes, the water content in the mountain is saturated, and the water pressure in the rock fissure will also increase suddenly, which will also increase the probability of flash floods, coupled with a large area of bamboo forest on the mountain, the water culverting capacity is weak, and when the warm and humid air meets the cold air in the forest area, it will form a frontal rain of local heavy precipitation, all signs show that this El Niño brings more than just ordinary rainfall in the past.

The villagers rarely saw Liang Chuan take this matter so seriously, even if the drought lasted in the past, he was still smiling, and casually got an orange tree and set up a waterwheel to minimize the impact of the drought.

Xinghua is a big water? That is also a headache on the south bank of the South Stream, the terrain in the north is too high, except for the occasional flood on the north bank of the farmland in history, it is the flash flood on the mountain, where will there be any harm?

He Baozheng saw that Liang Chuan was so cautious about this matter, and explained to his wife Wang that he was making mosquito coils, and he was the first to follow behind Liang Chuan with a pickaxe, and set an example to take the lead in doing these flood control projects. When the villagers saw that He Baozheng himself was also here, it was even more difficult to say anything, so everyone picked up the farm tools at home and gathered under the camphor tree as agreed, and then Liang Chuan assigned the work.

Liang Chuan asked He Baozheng to count the number of people first, and all the other families in the village except Meng Liangchen and their family sent people. Meng Liangchen's family has an old mother alone, there is no other labor, and he can't do farming, and the children's studies can't be delayed, so their family is free. Brother Zhao and his eldest brother separated, and Brother Zhao himself came, but his eldest brother and sister-in-law did not appear, Liang Chuan frowned, he has never understood this family, from beginning to end, it seems that he is nesting in that dark little broken grass house every day, neither producing nor communicating with others.

Liang Chuan is very relieved, whether they are voluntary or forced to do so, there is no second chance for flood control, and if something happens, the cost of saving it will be higher, and the loss will be greater, and it will be too late to make amends.

Although everyone is still skeptical of Liang Chuan's approach, most people's psychology still doesn't matter, because it is the season of farming, and the crops in the field are basically stable. Everyone is idle, support Liang Chuan's work, their women are now busier than themselves, the head of the family, working for Liang Chuan every day, men can't do nothing, it's easy to get sick when people are too idle.

Liang Chuan led everyone up the mountain, the first thing was to widen all the winding down the mountain to the valley bell mouth at the bottom of the mountain, the mountain flood became fierce because of the rapid contraction of the bell mouth, the flood pressure became larger, the flow rate became faster, and it rushed to the bottom of the mountain and was unstoppable. Before leaving, each family brought their own farm tools, and the bamboo baskets were distributed by Liang Chuan, which he did, and now they are distributed to the villagers free of charge, and the store now has a lot of stock, not so many of them.

The mountains are high and densely forested, fortunately there is the sun to shade them, and it is not very tiring to work on the mountains, not to mention the large number of people, and the amount of work to be done by one person is actually not large. Dozens of people cut down trees, some cleared obstacles, and moved the cut trees to open heights. The other part of the people was responsible for digging the land and widening and deepening the ravines in the valley. When these ravines are deepened, they become natural rivers that guide the stagnant water in the mountains to the low-lying areas, and when the bells at the mouth of the valley are removed, the torrents come together and the water level does not rise sharply, but flows slowly down the mountain.

But even such a small project, a village of strong men still did it for three days, Liang Chuan practiced himself, he took an axe to chop trees and split wood, his axe is huge, and his workload is as strong as that of several villages.

Seeing that Liang Chuan is so friendly, everyone will not be so resentful when they work by themselves, everyone is for the benefit of the village, Liang Chuan's ability can pull down their faces and do it themselves, what else can we ordinary people not do.

Since Liang Chuan suggested that the villagers should try to exchange it for grain if they have money at home, many people have listened to it, and now they are working and communicating with each other from time to time, how much grain has your family changed today, and what is the price of rice today. Although other villages don't know why they are so crazy about exchanging food, their enthusiasm is not reduced, and they are still happy to exchange food, because Liang Chuan himself has collected a lot of grain and filled the He clan ancestral hall. There will be no mistake in following Liang Chuan, who makes the family a capable person, even the children's husband, Mr. Meng, obeys Liang Chuan's words, we don't know anything about Bai Ding, who doesn't know a single word, and we have to learn from smart people.

After cleaning the bell mouth of the valley**, the valley road is next. The valley road is a riverbed for flash floods, and if the torrents were diverted to the villages at the foot of the mountains, the consequences would be unimaginable. The valley stretched to the foot of the mountain, and Liang Chuan led the people to plug the gap in the valley, and cut the valley deep into the middle, clearing the trees and mud and stones blocked in the valley, just like dredging the riverbed. When the big rocks on a mountain road are removed, some small stones are left, and the riverbed is only mud, which is not good, and the mud and sand are easily washed away.

The wood cut out is sorted out to the open place, not discarded at will, the next few months may be rainy and rainy, when the time is not enough to have rice, the family still has to have firewood to eat, these firewood pile together, the daily work is done and begin to divide the firewood, everyone takes a little, and carries it home with a bamboo basket. The peasant family is very good at living, and they will do the same without Liang Chuan, even if they don't burn it themselves and sell it at the market, they can sell it at a good price.

There is only one large valley on the mountain behind He Lu, facing the village, and the valley disappears at the foot of the mountain. But if the flash flood comes, the water will not go away. Liang Chuan led everyone to clean up the valley in the mountain, and was stunned to clear out a riverbed. At the foot of the mountain, he led the people to dig deep ditches. One of the two canals is a ditch connecting the valley to digest the mountain flood, which runs along the mountain's back against Helu to the edge of the South Stream, discharging the water into the river.

The other is a ditch that separates it from Shanshui Village.

The other three villages also have the same hidden danger of flash floods as He Lu, but they didn't care, and even He Lu people did their best to sneer at them when they were doing these fortifications. Now the murderous reputation of He Lu Village is famous far and near, and one village singles out three villages and beats He Lu's murderous name.

If they don't do it, we have to do it. They dug a drainage ditch between the two villages, more than three feet deep and about five feet wide, and widened it on the basis of the ditch used for watering. Therefore, the amount of work is much smaller, and the excavated canal soil is piled on the canal bank on the side of Helu, and another layer of protection is added.

Just digging these valleys and ditches, it took a month for the strong labor of a village, and Liang Chuan took most of them into battle in person, and after a month, the skin on his body was tanned and shiny, and he completely turned into the appearance of a farmer.

Although Fan Dianyuan's sugarcane field is also within the boundary of Helu, they don't have to worry, because when Liang Chuan taught them to plant sugarcane, the fields were piled up very high, and the drainage in the field was also designed very reasonably.

The drainage canals in each piece of the field have been dug and deepened again, and now it is raining for a year in a row, and everyone does not have to worry that the crops in the field will be flooded or soaked, because there will be more water in the field, and it will naturally flow into the drainage canal and drain down to Nanxi.

After the canal was dug up, Liang Chuan took the villagers to inspect each house, and if the thatched tiles on the roof of their house were defective and leaky, they quickly organized people and horses to build grass and heavy anvils together, if they wanted to repair the tiles, the material cost was paid by their own family, and Liang Chuan asked Zhao Xiaopin to help repair it.

Some earthen houses have been lost for a long time, the walls are cracked and cracked, Liang Chuan is organizing everyone to repair together, after the earthen houses are soaked in water, the danger is greater, or repair it well, even the moon rain tossed down, it must collapse. The villagers were originally digging ditches and ditches with Liangchuan, and everyone saw that these could prevent floods, how to dig and dig it became a house repair, and some people were reluctant to repair their houses when they saw that their houses were broken, and they couldn't be ruthless.

Liang Chuan didn't expect his behavior to misunderstand the villagers again, he really thought about flood control and waterlogging, if he didn't take precautions before the disaster, and he dug the toilet only when he was in a hurry, then he would have to cry.

Two months of busy work have passed, and the sun above everyone's heads is still the same. Everyone went back after they were busy, although there were no complaints, but they couldn't help but worry a little for Liang Chuan, Liang Chuan had sworn in the county government that it would rain in the next three months, two times have passed in a blink of an eye, and the flood control fortifications have been done properly, what about this rain? What about the floods? If there is no major flood in Liangchuan for three months, it will be stabbed in Chaozhou.