"Boom!"...."Boom!"....

The thunder rang out several times, and a dense raindrop began to fall. （)

Because of the double tonic effect of snow bird's nest soup and iron-headed pike, Lin Xi was full and warm, and a burst of heat rose in his body, feeling that the rain was heavier than yesterday, so he wanted to shout Jiang Xiaoyi to practice in the rain together.

But at this moment, he heard someone talking to Old Man Mo, but the voice was not clear in the rain.

A moment later, Old Man Mo's footsteps sounded on the wooden stairs, and as he got closer and closer, Lin Xi thought that someone might be looking for him again.

Sure enough, I only heard Old Man Mo walk not far from the door, and then he said loudly: "Lord Lin, someone has something important to look for you." ”

Lin Xi answered, immediately opened the door and went out, and followed Old Man Mo downstairs, but saw a farmer with an honest face and a pair of straw sandals.

Before he could speak, he saw that the farmer seemed to be sure that he was the "Lord Xiaolin" in everyone's mouth, and immediately knelt down with a pop, nervous, and naturally not good at words, he opened his mouth for a while, but he didn't know how to say it, and in a hurry, the farmer subconsciously snapped again and kowtowed to Lin Xi.

"Don't be polite, don't be in a hurry, if there's anything important, just say it to me. Lin Xi immediately stepped forward, supported the crop man, and forcibly lifted him up.

The farmer opened his mouth a few times, but he still didn't know how to speak, but finally burst out with a sentence: "Lord Lin, please save the lives of five thousand people!"

"Five thousand lives?"

Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi, including Old Man Mo, all changed their faces when they heard this, and they intuitively felt that something big had happened. But seeing that this farmer was nervous and wooden, and he didn't know how to say it, Lin Xi still remained silent, and said in the gentlest tone: "Don't be nervous, take your time, if you can't settle down and say it clearly, even if I have the ability to go through the sky, it is difficult to know what to do." ”

"Don't worry, you don't have to think clearly about the wording, what you think, just say what you say, we should be able to figure it out. After muttering slightly, Lin Xi looked at the farmer with encouragement and inducemented: "Are you from Donggang Town, what is your name?"

For this farmer, answering Lin Xi's question seemed to be easier than saying it himself, so after calming down a little, he immediately replied: "Grass farmer Chen Haozhi." It is a person from Sangyuwei, Donggang Town. ”

"Sang Yuwei?"

Lin Xi frowned slightly, he remembered that this place did not belong to the Seventeenth Lane, one Hong Kong and three cities, which often had some problems, but was in the east outside the town of Donggang Town, where a large number of farmers gathered. It's just that he vaguely remembered that in that village where farmers gathered, all the people added up to more than 2,000 people, what did Chen Haozhi mean by 5,000 lives?

"Is there something wrong with you?" but because the farmer was nervous and speechless, he asked calmly in the gentlest tone.

The farmer finally spoke a little smoother, and said in one breath: "The barrage is very likely to burst. ”

"Dam break?" Because Lin Xi was not an ordinary teenager, the knowledge in his mind was much more profound than that of people in this world, so he immediately felt the tension in it, and his brows suddenly furrowed. "I just came to Donggang Town, and I don't know much about this area... Don't be in a hurry, speak slowly. ”

"It was my grandfather who asked me to come, and my grandfather is ninety-three years old. Probably because Lin Xi didn't have to think clearly about the wording before, he could say whatever he wanted, and this farmer directly said something that didn't match the preface and the afterword, and said this sentence.

Then he immediately added: "My grandfather is in our kind of field, and he already knows our weather very well." He said that such rainstorms would probably fall for a few more days. And this year's rain has more than doubled compared to previous years. There is a high risk that the barrage will burst. ”

Lin Xi's brows furrowed even more, but before he could say anything, Old Man Mo had already frowned, and said, "But the barrage has always been very strong, and after so many years, I have never heard that there will be problems." It is said that the officials who built the dam were also rewarded, and later promoted to the capital. ”

Chen Haozhi, a farmer, seemed to have the essentials, and his speech became smoother: "My grandfather said that there were originally four dams built in total, one in Donggang, one in Yanlai, one in Qinghe, and one in Jinqi Town, which is downstream of us. Our Donggang and Yanlai have always been fine, because they were reinforced once thirty-seven years ago. At that time, it was also the weather of 'the river dragon king raised his head', not only did it rain a lot more than in previous years, followed by heavy rain, but also before the rainy season, the water level of the river was relatively full. ”

Lin Xi's heart sank, and he immediately looked at Chen Haozhi and asked, "Listen to what you mean, could it be that the dams in Qinghe and Jinqi Town collapsed that year?"

Chen Haozhi saw Lin Xi discussing with him carefully, and his expression was extremely solemn, so he suddenly felt more relieved, and nodded vigorously: "The dams in Qinghe and Jinqi towns were all collapsed back then, and now there is no trace at all. It's just that the two dams of Qinghe and Jinqi were used to open up large fish ponds behind them, and there were not many people living in the vicinity when the water was issued, so there were not many people who died that year. Now the fish ponds are gone, just two inner bays. Among them, the inner bay of Qinghe Town has become the port of Qinghe Town, and the side is full of dyeing and cloth mills. ”

Old Man Mo's face changed slightly, he is in his sixties this year, and these thirty-seven years ago were a bit long ago for him, but he vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such a thing.

"This dam was built for 45 years, and after it was built for eight years, it was flooded, and two of them collapsed. Chen Haozhi looked at Lin Xi, who frowned, and said: "The reason why my grandfather remembers it so clearly is because he was also one of the people who built the dam back then, and he worked under the master Yuan who built the dam back then. And he later did the work of reinforcing the dam. ”

After saying these two words, the farmer suddenly thought of a key point, and immediately said eagerly, "And my grandfather heard that Lord Yuan said that there was originally a water measuring column in front of the dam, and the water level exceeded the mark engraved on it, which means that the dam itself may be in danger at any time." However, the water column had been broken by the boat more than ten years ago, but my grandfather had seen the water level and said that the water level at this moment must be above the mark of the water column. ”

Lin Xi naturally grasped the key point better than Chen Haozhi, he nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Listen to what you mean, although those two dams have been strengthened now, they have fallen into disrepair again, and they are already very dangerous like thirty-seven years ago?"

Chen Haozhi immediately nodded and said, "When my grandfather found out that the water level was wrong the day before yesterday, he had already asked us to carry him around the dam to have a look, and he was sure that the situation of the dam was not as good as it was thirty-seven years ago. A lot of the timber has rotted. ”

Lin Xi frowned and continued to ask, "I haven't been to those two river dams to see... If those two dams fail, will it be dangerous for you to have a rear, and will you drown many people?"

"Behind the barrage in our two towns of Donggang and Yanlai are large areas of fertile land, and the villages are in the middle of the fertile fields, the terrain is not high, and there are many ponds around, connected into a water network, like an isolated island. Now we are in Donggang, this Sangyu Wai, most of the peasant households still listen to my grandfather's words, some old and young have been moved to other high places, but if all these fields and crops are washed away, we have no harvest, how will we live next? Therefore, the vast majority of people are not willing to give up, and now about half of the prime of life, listening to my grandfather's words, have been guarding the river dam on our side, trying to strengthen the dam. ”

"It's just that we have limited manpower, and we don't have enough big wood to reinforce for a while. Therefore, if the dam collapses, I am afraid that hundreds of people will die on the dam. ”

Speaking of this, although Chen Haozhi said it well, he became more and more anxious in his heart, and a stout man actually cried, and the order of his speech became incoherent: "Few people in Yanlai Town believe my grandfather's words, and I feel that I have settled down for so many years, and it seems that the dam is good again." So there was no movement at all. ”

"The reason why we in Donggang and Yanlai strengthened the dam was because many people who were building the dam were still there at that time, and behind the dam in our two towns were fertile rice fields transformed from depressions, so there was no room for error. But after so many years of peace and stability, coupled with the open water surface of the Xijiang River, the water flow is not urgent, there has been no water issue, and the prime of those who built the dam have died of old age, so everyone doesn't believe it, and there is no problem with the high water level at all. ”

Hearing this Chen Haozhi's crying and narration, Lin Xi's brows furrowed even tighter, his face became more solemn, and he asked seriously: "Then according to your grandfather's opinion... Now this dam is already extremely dangerous, and it may collapse at any time? The 5,000 people you say mean the people who may be flooded in the back of our Donggang and Yanlai combined?"

"Lord Lin, that's exactly the case. Chen Haozhi felt that he finally made it clear, and couldn't help but kneel down again.

Lin Xi dragged Chen Haozhi, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "This matter of river port water conservancy was not originally under my jurisdiction, and you are coming to me now, and you are so anxious, is it because the officials of the relevant engineering departments do not believe what you say?"

"Yes. Chen Haozhi wiped his face, looked at Lin Xi, and said sadly: "They think I'm talking nonsense at all, saying that my grandfather is probably old and demented, full of hysteria, how can I believe it." I just wanted to go to the town governor, but I didn't find it, I really had no choice, so I only thought of Lord Lin. ”

A wry smile appeared on the corner of Lin Xi's mouth, but his heart was nervous and cold.

Previously, he had hoped that the rain would fall more so that his cultivation would be more effective, but he didn't expect that the continuous rain had already caused such an impact, which might endanger the lives of so many people.

"Go, you come with me to the governor. ”

Just groaning slightly, Lin Xi nodded to the farmer, took his green umbrella, and walked into the pouring rain outside.

In the dark night, in the torrential rain, Chen Haozhi and Jiang Xiaoyi followed closely behind Lin Xi.

This chapter was written tiring and late, but for some reason, it was very happy to finish because today is the return trip from Shanghai to Wuxi, so tonight's update will definitely be later, everyone wait for me