The current situation is that the upper reaches of the river are cut off, but there is water in the Nanji River. If the drought continues, the Hougang clan people near the Nanji River will definitely have to compete with the Jiqiu clan for water. Rivers mainly provide domestic water, and the biggest question after spring ploughing is whether it will rain or not? If it continues to rain, the competition for irrigation water will be the most intense.

Hou Gang frowned and said, "What Lord Jiqiu said is extremely true, I just wanted to discuss it with you. The rivers in the world are ownerless, and everyone uses them because of their residence. You and I live across the water, and we can both lead the water of the Nanji River. If there is a real spring drought, this water source is particularly important, and since I am the city lord, I have the responsibility of organizing the people to prevent disasters......"

Hou Gang did not budge this time, and he pointed out that the water in the Nanji River could be used by the people of both tribes. Under normal circumstances, water can be diverted from both banks, and neither should cross the line and destroy the other's ditches. As for the Jiqiu clan who tried to destroy the ditch, he should be punished, but considering that he has been broken and lying at home, he will not be investigated for the time being.

There was a severe drought in the upper reaches of the river, and the main victims were the Hougang clansmen. As the lord of the city, Hou Gang needs to organize the people to prevent disasters. If it still doesn't rain in the spring, then more water is diverted from the upper reaches of the Nanji River. This is a drought-fighting measure, and the people of the Jiqiu clan should not obstruct it.

The drought on the territory of the Jiqiu clan is not serious, and the water sources in the territory need to be uniformly dispatched, which is also the responsibility of the government. However, considering that if most of the water source is diverted from the upper reaches of the Nanji River, it will indeed have a certain impact on the Jiqiu clan, and if this is really done, the Hougang clan should also give the other party appropriate compensation.

Hou Gang said this as the city lord at this moment, and said that the matter would be coordinated with the neighboring city lord of Jicheng and reported to the higher officials.

At this time, the Cangshi Lord of Yuncheng interjected: "There is no rain in the upper reaches of the water this winter, I am afraid that the greed and viciousness of the city lord Hou Lechang have attracted the wrath of the sky." Now that Hou Lechang has been removed, I believe that it will rain soon, and the two adults don't need to worry too much. ”

The official system of each city in the land of China is similar to that of Ba Yuan, but there are slight differences, the so-called warehouse affairs are equivalent to the warehouse masters in the city outlines of Ba Yuan, and this warehouse affairs is quite clever. At that time, many people believed that the misdeeds of the world would be punished by God, so they put the responsibility for this drought on Hou Lechang's head.

The Jiqiu clan asked again: "Lord Hougang, the drought is not serious now, but if it doesn't rain in half a month, the Hougang clan will suffer from natural disasters." Are you going to pray for rain to the gods, or go to the Lianghua River to ask the master to cast a spell and pray for rain?"

Half a month later, spring plowing and sowing will begin, in fact, what is more serious than the river water is that God does not rain. Even if there was water in the river, if the fields were completely irrigated by manual water, it would be too heavy a burden at that time, and it would definitely cause a large area of grain production to be reduced or even destroyed.

In such cases, the tribal leaders would often pray to the gods for rain, and sometimes spend a lot of money to ask the immortal masters to pray for blessings. The most familiar immortals in this area are, of course, in the Lianghua River south of the river. Jiqiu didn't mention Liang Jineng, but he deliberately mentioned Lianghuachuan, I don't know if it was some kind of reminder or hint.

Hou Gang didn't take this stubble, still frowned and said: "It is recorded in my Guan clan that the upper reaches of the water have never been cut off for hundreds of years, and when I returned to my hometown, I did not see any obvious abnormalities in the surrounding places, only in this area, there must be a special reason, I will definitely try to find out as soon as possible." ”

Taiyi also spoke: "When approaching the city, I also feel that in the upstream direction of the water, the heaven and earth seem to be dry, the clouds do not gather and the rain does not apply, and there must be a cause for this change." ”

Huwa said: "In this case, I will go upstream, if I can find out the cause and solve it, it is the best." If you can't find out, Lord Hou Gang can also prepare a sacrifice to the gods and pray for rain, and we should do our best to help, so we don't need to ask the immortal chief of Lianghuachuan. ”

Without taking the stubble of Lianghuachuan, Hou Gang politely sent away the Jiqiu clan, and after resolving the internal contradictions of the clan, he also temporarily calmed down the external disputes.

After the Jiqiu clan walked out of the City Lord's Mansion, he realized that he had unconsciously broken out in a cold sweat, and he felt a little cold on his back. Hou Gang's attitude is very good, so people can't find anything wrong, but he feels full of confidence, and he doesn't care that the Jiqiu clan or Lianghuachuan may be looking for trouble.

If it is said that on behalf of the tribe to seek justice for the matter of fighting in the village, so as to give an explanation to the clansmen, the purpose of the Jiqiu clan has been achieved. But he still has another purpose that has not been accomplished, that is, to find out who it is and what means have been used to capture Liang Jineng? I don't know why, the Jiqiu clan didn't even open his mouth in the city lord's mansion, let alone ask for details.

After Jiqiu's departure, Huwa planned to set off to the upper reaches of the river to investigate the true cause of the drought. Taiyi wanted to go together, but Huwa ordered him to stay.

Now although Hou Gang has successfully become the head of the monarch and taken over the city, the internal situation of the tribe is not completely clear after all, and the forces that originally belonged to Hou Lechang's faction may still be dissatisfied, and more importantly, on the other hand, Lianghuachuan must not be guarded against, it is not enough to rely on a trumble, and you can rest assured that Taiyi is in charge.

Taiyi also knew that although the incarnation of Shizun had just broken through the Dacheng cultivation in Jiuli, he was not weaker than the monks of the world in terms of insight and various means, and he was indeed better at investigating this kind of thing than himself, so he obeyed the arrangement.

Huwa bought some things at the market, changed into ordinary local clothes, and carried a rattan basket out of the north gate of the city. Although the local people mainly focus on farming, they often go to the wilderness to collect various products, including various mountain goods and herbs, and it is also common for tiger babies to look like this.

The tiger baby did not fly into the sky, nor did she use her magical power to hurry. He kept dry food and drinking water in his rattan basket, and found a long jujube pole in the wild. The pole is more than a man tall and sturdy, and can be used not only as a cane when trekking through mountains and rivers, but also as a weapon for self-defense in times of distress, walking upstream along the half-dry riverbed.

The riverbed on the surface of the river is almost completely cut off, and only the thin flow of water is still under the gravel, leaving large and small puddles and pools in the low-lying parts of the riverbed, like lakes. There are a lot of fish in these puddles, and there are even a lot of big fish in the larger puddles. They're all trapped inside, and if the water level continues to drop, they're probably going to die sooner or later.

Closer to the city, many people run to these puddles to catch fish, which is a rare opportunity to catch fish, and some people cut the fish and hang them on wooden racks to dry. The children ran around and laughed, but the adults weren't so happy. Because of the drought and the cut off flow, fishing is only a temporary harvest, and in half a month at most, it will be the spring plowing season.

The further you go, the fewer people there are in the riverbed, and the terrain gets higher and more rugged, until finally only the tiger baby is left alone. Although the tiger baby did not use his magical powers, his incarnation cultivated the mountain opening energy to the realm of martial arts when he was in the grass cultivation village, which was far stronger and more powerful than ordinary people, and his steps in the mountains were light and not slow.

Huwa walked along the riverbed for two days and three nights, entered the Wangwu Mountain at the source of the water, climbed several waterfalls and high cliffs that had been broken, and continued to walk deeper. The more he walked, the more strange he felt, and he already knew roughly the cause of the drought, and it was indeed a place where the heavens and the earth had changed, and there was a sense of dryness, so that the clouds did not gather and the rain did not fall.

Although Wangwu Mountain is not as majestic as the wild plateau mountains around Ba Yuan, it is also steep and deep, with lush vegetation and many birds and animals, and the valley is full of towering ancient trees. Although the climate here is not as warm and humid as that of Ba Yuan, it can be said that it is more pleasant to live in, and it is said that at this time, you can already see the green buds of plants and trees being pumped out.

But at this moment, I saw only a patch of grass and trees withering, and even some evergreen tree species were showing a withered yellow scene. Most of these plants and trees are still alive, indicating that the drought does not last long, and if a heavy rain falls, the mountains will soon return to greenery, but if it does not rain for a whole spring, all kinds of plants will die one after another.

The birds and beasts in the mountains are gone, they should have migrated to other places, and the tiger baby also found that many springs have been broken, and he only found a few small springs, and the water should be much less than usual.

Huwa walked in Wangwu Mountain for three days and three nights, and he found that the dryness in the spiritual breath of heaven and earth was centered on a certain location, enveloping a hundred miles of land. It is precisely the difficulty of water vapor accumulation in this 100-mile radius and the relative increase in temperature, which affects the climate in a large area, and there is always no rain in the upper reaches of the water.

Although the tiger baby found the abnormality, he never found the cause of the abnormality, and he searched many times in the dry center, but he had no clue. It seems that the dryness that pervades the world appears out of thin air, this should not be a natural phenomenon, and it seems to be for no reason, but the tiger baby is helpless.

Three days later, the tiger baby walked out of the mountains, returned to the valley in the upper reaches of the water, and found a deep pool under the high cliff. This deep pool was originally at the bottom of the river, and the river was exposed after the river broke off, and the deep water of the pool seemed to be bottomless, but looking at the waterline traces on the rocks, its water level has also dropped a lot recently.

The tiger baby struck the rocks by the pond with a jujube wooden pole and made a rhythmic crisp sound, shouting, "Where is the god of water?

When the tiger baby came, she passed by here, and when she saw this waterhole, she knew that it had been chiseled by the magic power, and dug down very deeply, which should be a cave of demon cultivation in the water, and also found many other traces of this demon cultivator's activities around. But the cultivation of this water demon is not too high, and he can only avoid the deep pool during the great drought, and the cause of the drought obviously has nothing to do with him, so the tiger baby did not alarm him.

At this moment, the tiger baby returned from the deep mountains in vain, so she thought of asking the local demon cultivator about the situation. I saw a whirlpool roll up on the water, and a big golden carp jumped out, landed and turned into a human form, wearing a very strange scale armor. He looked at the tiger baby in surprise, and saluted with some hesitation: "This immortal chief, you are very fresh, may I ask where you come from, and why did you call the little one to come out?" )