As soon as these words came out, everyone paused instantly.

Xiting hurriedly asked, "Is there a river temple in your village?" ”

Although she is not from Pingyang County, and this time she was also infected by her grandmother's illness, so she was taken to live with her for a few months.

A few months ago, when the River Division was building the embankment, due to the lack of labor, he also had to seconded the river workers of the River Division to help prepare materials and build the embankment.

Naturally, she often went down the river with these river workers, and the embankment happened to be built near the village of Hexiang, and she remembered seeing a river temple built on a hillside in the village.

Seeing that everyone did not answer, Xiting said: "I remember that there is a river temple on the mountainside of the village, and your village is low and often eroded by floods, so the villagers built a river temple on the mountainside, so that the river god can protect everyone from floods. ”

Previously, the villagers only wanted to evacuate according to the instructions of the officers and soldiers, and they couldn't remember that there was a river temple in the village, but now that Xiting mentioned it, she instantly understood what she meant, she wanted everyone to hide in the river temple.

"Although this river temple is built on the mountainside, the terrain is much higher than the farmland houses, but in previous years, the water level occasionally flooded the river temple, and now the rain is fierce, I am afraid that this river temple may not be able to hide." An old man on crutches in the crowd worried.

"I know everyone's worries, but since the water level has reached the official road, we must not risk running forward, not to mention some old people, women and children, they can't run at all at such a long distance, why don't we hide in the river temple first, if the rain will stop, it should not be flooded in the temple." Seeing that everyone hesitated, Xiting explained.

"......"

"Everyone immediately retreat to the River Temple." Cao Jiang suddenly pulled out the satchel on his waist and drove away the villagers who stopped in front.

In fact, this is not the first time that these officers and soldiers have helped Xiuhe Si evacuate the people affected by the disaster, and they know very well what kind of danger the red flag planted on the river bank portends, and continuing to run back to the city at this moment is undoubtedly sending them to death.

Seeing this, Tietou and Kuroko also drew their shoulder knives and drove everyone away with him, "Go back!" ”

After listening to Xiting's words, the villagers were already a little shaken, but when they saw the officers and soldiers ordering like this again, they no longer hesitated in an instant, turned around and ran in the direction of the river temple.

After a while, everyone came to the River Temple, and Cao Jiang and the others stood at the end of the line, watching the villagers step into the threshold in panic one by one.

Xiting did not hide in the temple with the crowd, only to see her come to the temple and look at the flood under the mountain with the railing, and after a while, I saw her running back and forth around the temple, suddenly looking up at the night sky, and suddenly scanning her eyes around.

After going back and forth like this a few times, she ran behind the officers and soldiers without hesitation, staring at them with a determined expression, "My lords, we can't just count on this river temple. ”

Cao Jiang and the others turned their heads when they heard this, frowning slightly, "...... are you?"

Xiting led them a few steps away to the railing, pointing to the flood below the mountain, "Now that the water level has reached the foot of the mountain, with the current rain, it is estimated that it will not be long before this flood will flood this river temple, and according to the water level in previous years, this temple will be flooded nine times out of ten." ”

Cao Jiang looked at the rolling flood at the foot of the mountain, and said helplessly: "How can this be good?" ”

"No, we still have a chance to live."

Cao Jiang suddenly turned his head to look at Xiting and said in shock: "Do you have a way?" ”

Xiting didn't answer directly, but pointed to the hillside next to the river temple, "A few adults, we need to cut down half of the trees on this mountain." ”

As soon as the words fell, several officers and soldiers widened their eyes in disbelief, "What? ”

"Ridiculous!" Cao Jiang shouted, "This tree is originally used to block the rain, if you cut it down, then a mountain torrent will flow down, then we will ......."

As he spoke, he suddenly paused, glanced up and down at the Xiting Pavilion, and saw that she was just a little girl who had nothing to do with the world, so he didn't want to say much to her, and walked straight to the temple gate, "Go back, this method is not feasible." ”

Seeing them walking back, Xiting hurriedly stepped forward to stop, "A few adults, you listen to me first." ”

"You ......" Cao Jiang saw her stopping him, and his anger came up.

Xi Ting ignored the anger in his eyes, only looked left and right, suddenly picked up the stone at his feet and squatted on the ground and drew a few times, "My lord, you see, we are now in the depths of the valley, only this stream in front of us can discharge the flood, before the river worker reported that the water level of the water monument can rise in half an hour, so that at most, two hours, the flood can flood this temple." ”

"But if we cut down this half of the tree, and then put these cut trees horizontally between the two trees, then the cross-section that blocks the flood will become larger, and the flood water coming down from the mountain will be slower, so that the ditch below the mountain will have more time to consume the flood water......"

As she spoke, she knelt on the ground and drew a regular triangle, and clicked the top corner of the triangle heavily, "Suppose that this peak point is the flood peak, then this bottom is the time it takes for the flood to go from beginning to end, and this whole triangle is the amount of water that this flood will pass; If we stretch the time, that is, this bottom is stretched......"

After a pause, she drew a long arc in the middle of the triangle, "The bottom becomes longer, and if you want to keep the amount of water and the area consistent, this vertex must be pressed down....." She suddenly nodded at the top of the arc, "At that time, the water level of this flood peak will be lower, maybe even half of the original water level, that is, the top of this arc, and then this flood will not be able to flood the mountainside." ”

With that, Xiting threw the stone in his hand to the side, and looked up at several officers and soldiers, only to see that they were frowning and staring at the figure on the ground, their eyes flickering under the rain curtain.

"Boss?" As soon as Tietou spoke, he saw that Cao Jiang suddenly ordered Tietou and Heizi before: "You guys go into the temple with me and arrange for them to cut down trees according to this method!" ”

The two got the order and hurriedly ran into the temple.

Xiting stood in place and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, only to see Cao Jiang muttering a few words to several leading men standing at the temple gate, and then saw a group of young and strong men suddenly running out of the temple, picking up the firewood knives that had been stacked under the eaves before and running up the hillside.

Some of them didn't have a firewood knife, so they picked up their hoes, and Cao Jiang and the others took out the sidecar they wore and climbed to the top of the mountain together.

After a while, Xiting climbed to the top of the mountain with the others, and when he saw that they had cut down a tree, he immediately walked up to him, "Quick, come two people, put this tree horizontally on these two small trees, and make sure that it will not be washed down by the current." ”

"And so on, put a big tree between every two trees, and continue!" As she spoke, she looked at the people who were running to the top of the hill, and shouted to the sound of the rain, "Don't gather all of you on this side, divide some of you to the other side of the mountain, and make sure that both sides use this method to stop these floods." ”

By the time the tree had been cut down, it was almost an hour later, and the rain had become a little lighter than before, but there were still thunderstorms.

Xiting put the firewood knife back under the eaves, and looked at the rain curtain outside the house with a heavy expression.

"Qian Niang, can we avoid this disaster by cutting down these trees?" An old woman came behind Xiting at some point.

Hearing the sound and looking behind her, she was stunned for a moment, and then continued to look at the rain curtain outside the house, as if muttering to herself: "Mama, I'm not sure, but at this moment, we have done everything we can, and there is no other way." As for whether they can escape this catastrophe......"

She paused, looked up at the lightning that was flying in the sky, and murmured, "I can only look at this providence." ”