Jiang Chaolin was on Commander Li's helicopter at 14 o'clock on this day. At this time, according to reports from various sources, 80,000 people had been evacuated. However, Jiang Chaolin still didn't dare to take it lightly, and before getting on the plane, he repeatedly explained to Tian Liye and Hu Zaoqiu, asking them to drive the car to do the last inspection for him.

Tian Liye was tired and sleepy, and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't worry, old secretary!" ”

Jiang Chaolin was not at ease, and said: "Liye, you are checking for me this time, you must be dedicated!" ”

Tian Liye was a little unhappy: "Old secretary, can you rest assured of me once?!" ”

Jiang Chaolin didn't want to say anything, and was worried that he was pulled onto the plane by a staff officer next to Commander Li and left.

After Jiang Chaolin left, Tian Liye let Jiang Chaolin's No. 0001 Audi go with the driver, sat in the old jeep driven by Hu Zaoqiu, and carried out this final inspection with Hu Zaoqiu.

The jeep is really shabby, the springs on the sofa are about to be exposed, Tian Liye scolded as soon as he sat on it: "Fuck, where did you get this broken car?" Where's your new Santana?! ”

Hu Zaoqiu stepped on the accelerator and drove the car out of the way: "Where did the broken car come from?" You broken cars in the Burning Mountains! I drove away from Linhu Town when I fled in panic! You're a terrible thing, you can come up with this kind of damage trick for me! ”

Tian Liye was also angry: "If you think about it carefully, will I do this?" ”

Hu Zaoqiu said: "How could it not? It's your kid's usual style, and the whole process has your taste! ”

Tian Liye glanced at Hu Zaoqiu: "So, you ran to Mayor Wen to sue me, didn't you?" ”

Hu Zaoqiu said: "It's not a complaint, it's an objective reflection of the situation, but, Leader Tian, this has to be honest, I really don't want to get you out of the position of Lieshan!" You should know me, I've never been a conspirator, have I? In the student union election in the third year of college, the political animals of Shandong Li pulled me so much, I still support you, right? The last person to sell you was the school girl Bai Ling, right? ”

Tian Liye sighed: "Commander Hu, don't say it, those who pit me at critical times are all friends, and those who don't trust me at critical times are all friends, with friends like you and Secretary Jiang Chaolin, I will admit bad luck in my life!" ”

Hu Zaoqiu said: "Brother, you can't say that!" Do you still think you're unlucky in this life? Aren't you only forty-two years old? It's early in a lifetime! Comrade Xiaoping is still up and down three times, aren't you only two up and down now! Besides, it can't be counted as a deputy secretary-general when he returns to the agency, right? At least this is at the level of the department, and you can't get down, right? Hey, Liye, I told you to go back to the agency, the level is clear, right? Bring brackets, right? ”

Tian Liye was really angry: "Commander Hu, are you annoyed?" You kid wants to be an official all day long, want to be a level, and I'm like you?! I want to do something! I have figured out how to carry out the work of Lieshan, I want to show my skills, and take a good step back into the century. ”

Tian Liye couldn't explain what he said, Hu Zaoqiu thought that he had ruined Tian Liye's good future, and said again and again: "Liye, don't be angry, don't be angry." I've ruined your business, so I'll try to make up for it. In a few days, I'll find a chance to talk to Mayor Wen again, and I'll say whatever you tell me to say, okay? I don't care about the insult I suffered! As he spoke, he moved himself, and sighed, "Alas, Leader Tian, Leader Tian, you said that in today's commodity society, where can you find a friend like me who is righteous and doesn't care about personal honor and disgrace!" ”

Tian Liye couldn't cry or laugh, and when he saw Hu Zaoqiu driving the broken car all over the place, he said: "Drive your car well, I won't talk to you anymore!" Look at your car, how do you roll it into the mud puddle? If it's not your Mirror Lake property, you won't cherish it? ”

Hu Zaoqiu smiled: "That's, Leader Tian!" I have to take back all the physical and mental damage I suffered in the Burning Mountain! Those two dogs told me to send them the car back, delusional! As soon as I said that I would go to the countryside last night, I came in this car, and the purpose was very clear, that is, to save my Santana! Don't feel distressed, you are not the acting secretary of the Lieshan County Party Committee now! ”

Tian Liye said: "I am not the acting secretary of the Lieshan County Party Committee, but I have become the deputy secretary general of the Pingyang Municipal Party Committee...... Damn, why did you kid roll into the dung pit again! ”

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Just talking and laughing all the way, the broken jeep walked around the streets and alleys of the town, and there was no one to see. A town that had been so noisy and so vibrant, on the afternoon of July 3, when danger was approaching, seemed so deserted, so quiet, and so melancholy, as if it were not at all the same place as it had been during the morning of the great evacuation.

It should be said that Tian Liye is responsible, and Hu Zaoqiu later confirmed that where the car could not drive, Tian Liye insisted on getting out of the car and walking, and conducted an on-the-spot inspection. When he was about to leave, he accidentally found Zhou Jiuyi and other eighteen stranded comrades on the west polder embankment where the water seepage broke through, and it was also Tian Liye.

At this time, the catastrophe had already come, one step ahead of the arrival of the great flood peak.

There was no sign of the catastrophe, the weather was fine, and as the song goes, the blue sky was full of white clouds. Outside the town, the cotton fields stretch as far as the eye can see, and the cotton has budded and is showing its strength in the sun. There are two ducks waddling along the main road in the town. Hu Zaoqiu, who was driving, tried to kill the two ducks who had no one in their eyes, and Tian Liye pulled the steering wheel to let the two ducks escape from the broken jeep.

At this time, it was 2:37 p.m., Tian Liye looked at the table below when he decided to go back to Pingyang, and said to Hu Zaoqiu very seriously: "Commander Hu, you have to testify to me, I conducted the final inspection on behalf of the old secretary, and it is now 2:37, we have not found any missing personnel, and we have started to go home!" Right? ”

Hu Zaoqiu said: "Yes, yes, you are a good cadre of the party, and I will go back to testify to you." ”

Tian Liye smiled bitterly: "You are a good cadre of the party, I am an untrusted dumper!" ”

Hu Zaoqiu said: "Where, where, we are throwing together, throwing together, you are the big slocker, I am the second sling!" ”

At this moment, Tian Liye realized that something was wrong: "Commander Hu, why is there water coming?" ”

Indeed, there was water flowing from the direction of the West Mirror Lake, and the current was very fast, and it carried floating objects up the roadbed.

Hu Zaoqiu didn't take it seriously, and said: "Hong Feng arrived at four o'clock, let's hurry up, there is no one on the road, I beat the car to the highest speed, and walk out of Petersburg in twenty minutes!" ”

The jeep sped up and sprang out of town like an arrow as if it were racing against a flood.

However, just four or five hundred meters after the car left the town, Tian Liye unexpectedly found that there were still people on the West Polder Embankment, and not one, but many!

Tian Liye shouted loudly: "Commander Hu, our mission has not been completed yet, turn back quickly, there are still people on the embankment!" ”

Only then did Hu Zaoqiu see the figure on the west polder, and he hurriedly turned the head of the car and rushed to the polder embankment against the current.

However, the current was already very fast, and in the blink of an eye, it rose to nearly half a meter, and the jeep failed to reach the embankment as expected, and the fire was extinguished, so the two had to abandon the car and run up the embankment on foot. When I ran to the embankment, I saw that the villager chief Zhou Jiuyi was leading his seventeen people to stand in the water arm in vain to block the mouth and rescue the emergency, and the scene was really thrilling.

Hu Zaoqiu was angry, Ri Niang pounded her grandmother, scolded all the dirty words, and while scolding, she and Tian Liye pulled Zhou Jiuyi and the human chain connected by him to the polder that had not yet collapsed. Hu was a landlubber in early autumn, he didn't know how to water, and he slipped and fell in the water several times and was drowned and rolled his eyes. Tian Liye was afraid that Hu Zaoqiu would not be able to save people, so he gave away his life first, so he put Hu Zaoqiu on the embankment.

The gap in the rush was expanding, the water was getting faster and faster, and it was not so easy for Zhou Jiuyi and his companions to come up. Tian Liye hissed and shouted for everyone to hold hands and not let go. However, the last two middle-aged people in the human chain still couldn't support it and were swept away by the rapids, and Tian Liye was almost swept away by the current.

After a hard fight, only fifteen people went up the embankment.

Hu Zaoqiu completely lost his mind, and after pulling Zhou Jiuyi up, he kicked him down with one kick and scolded: "Zhou Jiuyi, you should fucking go to jail and be killed!" Did you see that? See? Two lives are at the hands of your dog! ”

Zhou Jiuyi was already like a wood at this time, shrinking his thin and withered body and paralyzing in the muddy water, Ren Hu beat and scolded in early autumn, except for tears in his eyes, he didn't say a word.

Tian Liye felt that Hu Zaoqiu was too much, and reminded: "Mayor Hu, pay attention to your identity!" ”

Don't damn people but die, Hu Zaoqiu's eyes were red, he didn't pay attention to Tian Liye at all, and still scolded: "Didn't you fucking take people to withdraw?" Yes? Why did you sneak up to the embankment again? It doesn't matter if you die alone, and you still fucking drag so many people to your funeral?! Zhou Jiuyi, tell me, ...... you?"

No one could have imagined that Hu Zaoqiu didn't finish speaking, but Zhou Jiuyi struggled to get up, and looked up to the sky and roared: "Old and young masters in Cofferdam Township, I, Zhou Jiuyi, am sorry for you!" With that, he plunged headlong into the torrent of Mirror Lake, and was immediately washed away without a trace.

Hu Zaoqiu was stunned, his mouth was wide open, and he couldn't say a word anymore.

Tian Liye shouted regretfully: "Early autumn! Tears came down from his eyes.

Hu Zaoqiu "snapped" himself and cried silently.

At this time, the villagers of the rescue team said nonsense: "Mayor Hu, don't be sad, don't blame you, Township Chief Zhou has said more than once, as long as the wei is broken, he will not live." ”

"Yes, Mayor Hu, it has nothing to do with you!"

"It's true, Mayor Hu, it's okay with you, it's also voluntary for us to stay secretly......"

Tian Liye said: "Okay, okay, it's already like this anyway, don't talk about it, let's run for your life!" It's not safe here, it's about to tear under our feet, you see, even the jeep is gone! Run, there's a pumping station ahead, get there! ”

Everyone woke up from a dream and stumbled towards the concrete bungalow at the pumping station.

The cement bungalows at the pumping station are too small to protect the pumps from wind and rain. Tian Liye took a look and estimated that there could be at most eleven or twelve people standing on the roof of the bungalow, so Hu Zaoqiu, who didn't know how to water, and some villagers climbed up and squatted first, waiting for rescue.

Hu Zaoqiu didn't do it, and said: "Let them go up, start a business, and let's be together!" ”

As a result, the roof of the bungalow barely held all 15 villagers, and when the entire west embankment collapsed, the humble little pumping station became an island in the flood, and the existence of this isolated island allowed 15 people to survive the raging water.

After a period of chaos and helping fifteen villagers find a temporary shelter, the danger on the west polder embankment became even more serious: the original gap was torn into a sea in silence, and the embankment in front of it was broken again, and the remaining dozens of meters of polder dike could disappear into the flood at any time.

At this time, Tian Liye found a tall willow tree under the polder embankment in time, according to the visual situation, the main trunk of the willow tree is much higher than the water surface of the mirror lake, so he grabbed Hu Zaoqiu and said: "Early autumn, follow me up the tree!" ”

Hu Zaoqiu, who couldn't swim, hesitated as he looked at the tumbling water between the polders and the willows.

Tian Liye didn't think much about it, dragged Hu Zaoqiu into the water, hugged Hu Zaoqiu's neck, picked up Hu Zaoqiu with his backhand, and swam desperately towards the big willow tree 200 meters away. Hu Zaoqiu was so frightened that he instinctively struggled in the water, which made Tian Liye more and more difficult, panting along the way, and drinking a lot of water.

After a lot of effort, he finally swam to the willow tree, Tian Liye was exhausted, and he only had to pant while holding on to the trunk, so Tian Liye was out of breath and asked Hu Zaoqiu to climb the tree by himself.

Hu Zaoqiu almost cried: "Liye, don't you know me? I...... How can I climb a tree? ”

Tian Liye remembered, let alone climbing trees, Hu Zaoqiu couldn't even climb the boom in college, so he made fun of it and made the last joke in his life with Hu Zaoqiu: "Commander Hu, I'm ...... I have convinced you, except for being an official and a master, bullying the revolutionary masses, you ...... You can't do anything! ”

Hu Zaoqiu didn't have the heart to joke anymore, he said it very sincerely, and stammered, but it was more ridiculous than a joke: "Liye, I won't care, don't you still have ...... Do you have it? You...... Wouldn't you be equal to me? Isn't it, man...... Buddy? ”

Tian Liye didn't answer, and he didn't say anything in the future.

According to Hu Zaoqiu's later recollection, maybe Tian Liye didn't have the strength to speak at that time. Hu Zaoqiu felt that Tian Liye's hand supporting him was trembling all the time, and then, the trembling hand turned into a shoulder, and then it became Tian Liye's wet head......

In this way, a friend who knows water, with his shoulder, with his head, and with the last strength of his life, held up a friend who could not water until the water rose to the tree right, and let his friend grab the tree right and climb the tree safely. And he himself, but his strength was exhausted, and he couldn't even grasp the tree power, and was finally ruthlessly swept away by the torrent when the flood peak came, and walked silently.

Indeed, it is silent.

When Hu Zaoqiu took advantage of the buoyancy of the water to grab the thick tree right and climb the tree, he thought that Tian Liye was still under him, and wanted to beckon Tian Liye to climb up, but when he looked around, he found that Tian Liye was nowhere to be seen, and everywhere he looked, there was nothing but big water.

The water is really big, Hu Zaoqiu has never seen such a big water in his life, except for the big willow tree he was in and the pumping station in the distance, everything was submerged, as if the whole world was immersed in monstrous water.

At this time, Hu Zaoqiu cried and shouted in panic: "Liye-Tian Liye-"

The only thing that answered Hu Zaoqiu was the sound of surging water in the distance and near the sky......