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"Don't all go to work as laborers," Aunt Liu muttered, handing the hot cake to Gu Qingxun and Huzi, the little boy gobbled it up, she patted her son's head dotingly, "Do you know the Shimenyan downstream here?" She saw Lu Yixuan nodding before continuing, "I have been supervising the construction for two years, and at the end of last year, I received work, and there were 80,000 servants, because there were not enough soldiers, so I took the people's husbands, and now Shimenyan has collected the work and pulled people to the mountain, saying that it is ...... It is said that it is to intercept the flow and build a dam. She wrapped the cake in oiled paper before handing it to Lu Yixuan, for fear of soiling the girl's hands.

Lu Yixin took a bite, sweet and sweet: "Take the migrant workers, the court should give a lot." ”

"Where's enough!" Aunt Liu kept lamenting when she talked about it, "As soon as the river is opened, the river has to be intercepted, the river has to be closed, and the river at the head of our village is connected to the Minjiang River. ”

Mountains and rivers are linked to ten miles and eight townships, some people rely on cultivating crops and some people hunt and fish, this rod down, how many people upstream and downstream have to soak in the water to live, otherwise why bother to work diligently but have to be separated by wives to do hard labor?

Gu Qingxun was stunned and sighed: "I've heard of this, two years ago, when the governor of the lake region came to supervise, he just watched the flowers, and only after drinking did he nag that the silver that many laborers got was not enough to support their families." ”

"Sir is right," Aunt Liu was like finding a bosom friend, her eyes were shining, "Even if you want to build a dam to alleviate drought and flooding, but this Surabaya is a vast land, and there can be more than ten or twenty stewards who can't be named in our downstream area, and there may be a few masters in a county office." The woman shook her head and sighed, not all the silver has been stripped down layer by step, and it is these laborers who are bitter and tired.

"If this county is defeated, there will be the prefect and the court." Lu Yixuan subconsciously followed.

"The court of bullshit!" When Aunt Liu said that she was angry, she couldn't help but scold, "Girl, do you know something......" She patted Lu Yixuan's arm, only to say that this girl is a young lady who doesn't know the world and comes to visit the mountains and rivers, "How many times has the embankment in Surabaya been crossed, and every other time the embankment has been built to fill the gaps, either the embankment here has broken or the pier has collapsed there," Aunt Liu had an expression that knew the darkness and squeezed her eyebrows, "Of course, this silver is not enough, so you can only scrape together, saying that it is a provincial material is actually inferior material, luckier than you, it has passed the rainy season today, and you are unlucky, It's not a village downstream, my sister saw it with her own eyes more than ten years ago, the clam shells on the dam embankment, shiny white flowers. ”

That year, I also heard that some court officials were sent down to inspect and accept, but as a result, it was not half of the collapse, and the court didn't even let out a fart.

Aunt Liu sneered at it and was used to it.

Lu Yixuan paused, she remembered very well that the waiter of the Ministry of Industry was crying in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, revealing the truth not only was corruption and bribery, but also lower-level officials concealed the disaster and lied to the people's livelihood.

Simply, sin deserves death.

The woman patted her slightly sore back and picked up the child on the bed and listened to the water droplets falling from the eaves, the light rain was dense but there was no sign of stopping, she looked at the already silent sky outside through the window, and hummed a song like a child in her mouth: "'A startling mountain rises, and Sanqi is not the sea'," which sounds more like a local folk proverb, "I am afraid that this year will be another disaster year." Aunt Liu was melancholy.

"Why?" Lu Yixuan ate the hot cakes completely.

"This is the first rain since the beginning of spring, we commonly call it 'shocking mountain'," alarming the meaning of the mountain god, "In previous years, it had to fall more than half a month apart, but this year it was early." ”

"It's not raining heavily, so how can it be said to be a disaster year?" Gu Qingxun stretched out his hand and pulled out the oil paper under Lu Yixuan's fingertips, folded and folded it, and folded it with traces.

"If it's a heavy rainstorm, the old people say that the rainstorm is the mountain god is angry, and the rain will be sunny after the gas disappears, and this year's rain will not be continuous, but such a light rain, I'm afraid that in the next two months, the mountain will flood...... "Aunt Liu grew up in Surabaya, and knows everything about the mountains and the weather, and the words of the old people seem to have become a golden rule.

What she means is that this year's rain comes early, the rainy season lasts long, not a good sign, once the mountain floods, it is likely to break down several small dams, if the downstream Shimen weir can not hold, ten miles and eight towns will become a sea of oceans, three seven, is the third seven days, within a month, you can see.

Lu Yi's teeth were tossed by these mysterious folk proverbs, and he was sweating white.

"I heard that a tripartite reservoir has already been built in the mountains, and it is precisely the dam that is set up in the multi-gorge area, auntie, do you think it is inappropriate?" Compared with those leaders in the prefect's yamen, Lu Yixuan prefers to deal with these mountain villagers.

Aunt Liu was stunned and waved her hand and smiled: "Where did the women say it, the yamen said that there are five interceptions in the mountains, and there are many broken water flows in the Huju Gorge Road, and the turbulent flow is brave and rapid in the rainy season. ”

Lu Yixuan silently remembered her words in his heart: "Where is the Huju Gorge that intercepts the upstream stream?" ”

Aunt Liu pointed to the river outside: "Well, walk along this river, but you can't reach the upper reaches of the gorge, you have to go into the mountains, at least three or four days away, maybe you can see those Xiaotun where the laborers live." ”

Lu Yixin thanked the woman, and Aunt Liu took the infant child to the back room to coax him to sleep, and he could vaguely hear the child's soft and glutinous laughter, which made people feel two points of warmth in their hearts.

The dim candlelight flickered, and Gu Qingxun knew that Lu Yixuan wanted to hit them by surprise.

Sure enough, the next day the sky was gloomy, the light rain did not stop all night, Lu Yixuan and Gu Qingxun politely rejected Aunt Liu's kindness to stay them for one more night, saying that they were in a hurry to go to Huju Gorge, Aunt Liu heard it, but pleaded that if she saw her husband in Xiaotun, she should tell him that everything was fine, just to wait for him to return home as soon as possible.

The woman eagerly awaited the family reunion.

Lu Yixin was full of emotion.

The carriage did not travel in the starry night, and every time he arrived at a village or a sharp turn of the river, Lu Yixuan had to get off the carriage and quietly watch the river surface for a long time, and then grab the villagers to inquire about the situation, which were all trivial questions.

This first light rain rained for three days, but it was gloomy for only half a day, and it began to rain again, and the raindrops became heavier and heavier, one overshadowed another, and after five or six days, the road in the mountain was muddy and bumpy, and it was almost impossible to move forward, and it can be seen that the mountainside trail near the canal gorge was specially opened up, and a layer of stones was simply paved with anti-slip, and there were many traces of ruts.

It was the cart that carried the mud and stone in the mountains and ran it over.

The air was dull with thunderstorms in the distance, the sound of the torrential rain made it impossible to distinguish between the east and the west, the laborers shouted vigorously in the mountains, and the sound of the torrential rain crashing against the rock walls and the turbulent water colliding in the ravines and gorges mixed together to drown out all the noise.

Apparently, the dam under construction has not stopped.

"Hurry up and get to work, let you come to contribute, not to be a burden!" Some people shouted angrily, the rainy season is not the right time, it has been in a state of non-stop for more than half a month earlier than expected, and the urging documents of the imperial court are approaching day by day, how can there be time for these laborers to rest.

"If you miss the project, you will mistake your head, don't talk about you, your wife and children, and don't want to live!"

The paper umbrella in Gu Qingxun's hand tilted in disbelief: "This rain is too big, I'm afraid that I won't take their lives in such a hurry." "The workers are not afraid to speak out.

Lu Yixuan looked at the water flow of the gorge canal was already more turbulent than a few days ago, and the situation of the reservoir on the mountain was still unclear, if this heavy rain really fell for 7749 days, the small throttle dam would not work at all, and it was very likely that hundreds of people on the mountain would be buried in the ocean.

The two of them were stunned for a moment and could hear a loud "bang" on their heads, someone shouted in panic, the laborer who pushed the mud and stone was tripped and stumbled by the wood because of the heavy rain and the road in front of him was tripped and stumbled, and the supervisor next to him had already whipped over, and the laborer wailed and the whole body subconsciously hid towards the edge of the ditch, and the stone cart suddenly toppled over-

Stones of different sizes rolled down the muddy tunnel, and his own feet "poof" slippery, the whole person saw that he was about to fall into the ditch, and suddenly his wrist called people to grab hard, and his body seemed to be pulled to the side by a huge force, the laborer was also a quick reaction, grabbed the dry grass on the shore and struggled to climb up, the two trouser legs were wet, and the laborers on the side exclaimed and hurriedly dragged the lost man back.

Only then did everyone realize that it was a little girl who saved the man at the last moment, and the heavy rain wet her long hair and clothes into a muddy patch on her body, and the rain was dripping down the corners of her sleeves.

"The mud and rocks of this gorge are loose, and if you build it in the rain, I am afraid that it will kill people." The rain was wet and the road was slippery, and she accidentally overturned the stone car, so she said that if she hadn't rescued her in time, wouldn't she have lost her life casually, why are these officers indifferent to military service? !

"Who are you, idlers are not allowed to go up the mountain and the dam!" The overseer was dressed in an official uniform with a fierce expression, and looked like a figure in the county government, "Why do you care about so many idle things, the project is delayed, you can afford it?!" "The girl in front of him was a common man who came up to the mountains to make trouble.

"Delay? At the end of last year, Shimenyan began to intercept the upstream after the completion of work, and now it has been nearly May, why has it not been tamped so far? ! "Lu Yixuan's eyes are sharp, his words are chiseled, and he raises his sleeves and points directly to the dam foundation of the flooding canal gorge, and the ditches on the mountain are mostly made of wooden piles as the foundation and the stone as the main body, from which they are connected by stone ingots or iron ingots, and the dam construction of a small gorge should have been completed in the dry season instead of waiting until now to brave the torrential rain and danger to his life!" Could it be that the government of Surabaya slackened the local deployment operation, and the officials below knew that the imperial court had ordered it but disobeyed it? ! ”

The girl was obviously embarrassed, but she was stern and aggressive, so that the overseer's face became dumb and speechless.