Yang Chen has always trusted his brother's feelings. But after hearing him say this www.biquge.info Yang Chen still showed obvious surprise: "Erlang, can you be sure that someone deliberately set fire?" ”

Yang Zhen sniffed vigorously again, and then nodded solemnly: "It's not wrong, this smell can't hide from my nose." ”

Yang Chen's heart sank even more when he heard this. If arson had caused the disaster, it would have been even more problematic. But at this moment, he didn't have time to think about these things, and the top priority was to quickly think about putting out the fire. So after being stunned for a moment, Yang Chen opened his mouth and greeted loudly: "Fellow villagers, please hurry up and put out the fire." They all come and act according to their commands......"

With Yang Chen's command, the firefighting behavior that was a little messy just now and fought separately finally became orderly. There were those who carried buckets to the yards of nearby homes to fetch water, those who carried buckets of water to the warehouse, and those who used other things to fight the spreading fires......

When more and more people were fighting the fire, the cooperation of firefighting became more and more skillful, and the things stored in the warehouse were gradually burned, and the flames were no longer burnable, the fire was finally controlled and completely extinguished. It's just that the hundreds of stones of grain stored in Changping have already been burned clean by this fire. In addition, some of the remaining storage materials have also been destroyed, and if it were not for the previous proposal to repair the embankment, I am afraid that the loss this time will be even greater.

But even so, after glancing at the warehouse that was still steaming with smoke, and finding that it was impossible to leave any usable food inside, Yang Chen's heart still throbbed. That's more than 20,000 catties of grain, which is the county's accumulation in the past few years, but this year may encounter a catastrophe. Now it's ruined!

Yang Zhen looked at his brother's regretful appearance, and his heart was very uncomfortable, and he wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only pat him on the shoulder hard to encourage him.

Suddenly, Yang Zhen's gaze fell on the same dull-eyed people not far away, and he was surprised: "Why are you here too?" Didn't you stay on the embankment and keep an eye on it? It turned out that those people were the county officials headed by Wang Hai, who were supposed to be guarding the embankment, but they also participated in this firefighting operation at some point.

Wang Hai was covered in smoke and sweat at the moment, and he was wiping his face with his sleeves. was asked by Yang Zhen, so he said casually: "We saw it as early as when the fire started." Because the embankment was safe, and I was afraid that the people in the city would not find out, so I hurried over. When he said this, his gaze was a little evasive, and he looked at Ruan Tong on the side from time to time.

Yang Zhen immediately guessed why he abandoned the river embankment to fight the fire. He was also worried about Ruan Tong's safety, after all, the two of them had been friends for many years, since they knew that Ruan Tong was in danger in the fire, how could they not come and rescue him?

Although he could understand the other party's behavior in his heart, Yang Zhen still scolded with a straight face: "You guys are really confused." This is of course important, but the river embankment is more related to the life and death of the people in our county. ”

"I'm ......" Wang Hai's face turned red, and several other officials who came with him to fight the fire also felt a little cramped and uneasy. They followed Wang Hai, and they also had their own thoughts, such as worrying about the embankment, it would be safer to come to the county seat.

Yang Chen also walked over at this moment, and when he saw them like this, he sighed: "Erlang, don't blame them anymore, after all, they are also doing things for the county government." If it weren't for them, the fire wouldn't have been so easy to extinguish. As he spoke, he turned to a few people: "Okay, now that the fire has been extinguished, you better go back quickly." After all, the situation on the river embankment is not optimistic, don't look at the rain stopping, but the river water is not small for a while. ”

"Yes!" A few people humbly agreed, turned around and walked out of the city. It's just that the people here don't know, and they only think about going back at this moment, it's already too late.

Yu Ding has been staying on the embankment all this time, following Yang County's order and other people to build an embankment for flood control, and it looks no different. But only he and a few of his brothers knew that their real purpose was not to protect the levee, but to destroy it.

Before they participated in the embankment repair project, they had already received a large sum of money from the Li family, and were instructed to remove several important positions on the embankment at the appropriate time, so as to release water to irrigate the city.

But after a few days, Yu Ding was a little depressed and found that he had no chance to start. Needless to say, there are hundreds of people walking back and forth around during the day; Even at night, the Yang County Order will arrange people to be on duty at night, and many of them are poor masters in the county government, which makes Yu Ding and his brothers dare not act rashly.

If they break the embankment by force, they will definitely be caught by these tolerances who are already tasked with night patrols. At that time, not only could I not complete the task, but I even had to get into it. Such a loss-making and profit-free transaction will naturally not be done by him.

And today, after seeing the rain stop, Yu Ding's heart is even more anxious. If he still can't find a chance to break the embankment until the water goes down, I'm afraid that he can only return the silver to the Li family, and I'm afraid he will be troubled by the other party.

didn't expect that there was no endless road, and just when he was about to give up, something suddenly happened at night. A fire suddenly broke out in the originally quiet county, and from a distance, they deduced that it was a regular closing position for storing grain.

Just when these people were pointing at the firelight in the distance, guessing what was going on, Wang Hai, who had been staring at the situation here, suddenly changed his face, hurriedly called a few officials, and ran to the city. He was in a hurry, and he didn't even greet the others, and they were greatly surprised to see Yu Ding, and they didn't know why this fire burned him.

But for a moment, Yu Ding found that this was a good opportunity for himself. Wang Hai took away all the county government officials, so that the people here are just ordinary people, so it will naturally be much easier for him to do something.

Do what you think. Yu Ding quickly found his brothers, and then quietly came to a key point of the embankment while everyone else on the embankment was overlooking the fire in the city.

"Do it!" After he gave the order, several people swung hammers and shovels and smashed them into the embankment. With a bang, they knocked down the dam, which was already a little fragile due to the continuous erosion of the water, and a large hole appeared in front of everyone.

Yu Ding didn't dare to stay for a long time, so he led people straight to the next position, and repeated the old trick again, and another big hole appeared on the embankment. As long as there is a hole in the embankment, the long embankment will be quickly dispersed and expanded by the water pressure, and eventually the embankment will be completely destroyed.

Yu Ding, they didn't expect the water to come so fiercely. As soon as he opened the gap and wanted to turn around and slip away, the river that broke through the embankment came up in waves, burying these profit-hungry guys into the turbid current. And after swallowing them, the river did not stop at all, and moved forward with a more ferocious attitude, completely destroying the embankment.

When the people who had gathered in front of the embankment and watched the fire in the city heard the strange noise behind them, they saw a scene that made their hearts tremble—the turbid water of the Puyang River suddenly roared like a beast out of a cage, devouring and biting the embankment that had imprisoned it all along, and then pounced on them with even more ferocity.

After only a moment's stunned, everyone let out a cry of horror, spread their legs and ran desperately towards the direction of the county seat. But how can a man's two legs be faster than a raging flood? In an instant, the few people who were left behind were swept up by the flood and swallowed up. Then there were the people in front, who had only run more than ten kilometers away, and their bodies had been completely submerged by the flood...... In the blink of an eye, there was no longer half of the living mouth on the entire embankment.

At this moment, Wang Hai and the others just wanted to turn around and rush to the embankment. But they had only walked a few steps, and Yang Zhen behind him had already pricked up his ears and shouted with a big change in his face: "It's not good, something happened to the river embankment!" ”

"What? That's impossible. The rain has obviously stopped, and the water cannot be stronger than during the day, how can something happen? Yang Chen immediately shook his head and said.

But soon, many people heard the sound of water rushing towards the county seat, and everyone's faces showed a look of horror.

"Boom, pop!" The flood rushing down from above slapped heavily on the wall of Zhuji County, and after being blocked by the city wall, it first rolled backwards, and then was pushed by the flowing water behind and slapped on the city wall again. At the same time, some cracks in the city wall, as well as the gaps under the city gate, were quickly passed through by the pervasive river, and streams of turbid water quickly seeped into the county seat of Zhuji.

At this moment, even if Yang Chen didn't want to believe it anymore, he had to admit that the Puyang River embankment that he had been holding on to was completely finished.

The water level of the streets of the county, which was already somewhat waterlogged due to heavy rain for many days, soon exceeded the knees of ordinary people, and the county was completely surrounded by the Puyang River, which burst its embankment.

In just a short moment, the county seat of Zhuji has become an isolated island surrounded by rivers.

"How so?" Seeing that the situation had suddenly become so bad, and seeing the people around him crying and mourning one by one, and not knowing what to do at all, Yang Chen was also completely stunned at this moment.

Blessing and misfortune are not alone, and in his mind, only this old saying remains.

I thought that the fire that often closed the position was enough to cause people a headache, but I didn't expect that it would be followed by an even more terrible and unbearable flood! How should he, the county magistrate, lead the people of the county to deal with all this?

Thinking of this, Yang Chen, who was already in a state of confusion, couldn't help but look at his brother Yang Zhen beside him!