This year's rainy season came early, and the rain was much heavier than usual.

The bean-sized raindrops fell day and night, and they didn't stop for two or three days. After a short pause for a long time, it fell again.

Cui Pu saw that the situation was not right, and sent people to check the flood situation half a month ago. The news coming back is not encouraging.

Yangzhou is the land of fish and rice, rivers and lakes can be seen everywhere, Hailing County is also adjacent to the Yellow Sea in the east, and all kinds of benefits on weekdays come from here. But once it rains heavily and the tide rises, it's bad. Up and down Yangzhou Mansion, it can be said that there are high and low embankments everywhere. Although every year the imperial court will allocate funds to build the embankment, but after 5,000 yuan, after layers of exploitation, it would be good to have 1,000 yuan to use on the embankment. And how can this money be enough? So most of us choose to deal with it casually and make the surface work look good.

Most of today's dikes were built around the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and it has been more than 20 years now, when he was in Tianchang County and Hailing County, Cui Pu found that the embankments in both places were subjected to termite erosion to varying degrees. Whenever the summer flood and autumn flood are high every year, as soon as the water level is high, there will be a large area of manhole tide and seepage and water leakage on the back slope of the embankment.

The financial revenues of Tianchang County and Hailing County are not bad, and it is still possible to squeeze them out of the county treasury and repair the key places of the embankment in combination with the money allocated from above. It's just that most of the magistrates in other places are not as attentive as Cui Pu.

This time it rained heavily, and the embankments of Liuhe County, Chudi in Jiangpu County, and the embankments of Yizheng, Taixing, Hanjiang, and Jingjiang counties looked like they were not working.

In the end, the embankment in Jingjiang County collapsed because it could not withstand the impact of the surging tide.

The two villages below have been flooded.

"Now that you're in this situation, you have to go down and take a look. Mu Jiaojiao said.

Cui Pu looked at her who was still weak, and looked at the child who was sleeping in swaddling clothes, and he looked hesitant.

Mu Jiaojiao knew what he was worried about, so he smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about us." Erlang is already three months old, and my body has almost recovered. There's a sister here, they're with me! We're fine in the office. It's you, you will definitely have to walk everywhere this time, and bring more shoes and socks or something. And those medicinal herbs are also brought, and a little is used for everyone around you, just in case. ”

Cui Pu was already worried about the situation below. Now that I heard her say this, I naturally no longer hesitated, and said, "Everything here will be left to you." I'll leave Xiao Si'er for you this time, and if anything happens, you can let him go to me. Now he is familiar with all the places under Yangzhou Mansion, no matter where I am, he will definitely find it. ”

Mu Jiaojiao nodded and called Mung Bean to clean up for him.

This time the situation was urgent, Cui Pu just brought a few clothes casually, but asked the little girl to carry a large bag of medicinal materials shoes and socks, and hurried to Jingjiang County.

Once he went, he didn't come back for half a month.

Later, the news came back little by little, and Mu Jiaojiao knew that the situation in Jingjiang County was much more serious than what came at the beginning.

Yue Hongyi, the county commander of Jingjiang County, has been standing still for decades, and his life is about to end in this county. He is now about to be sixty years old, and it is estimated that he will return to his hometown after this term, and now he must make money as much as he can. Therefore, the river dam in Jingjiang County has not been repaired for many years. After years of termite gnawing, it has already become very hollow.

Moreover, the embankment was built near the river, and in order to facilitate the irrigation of crops and canals, farmers secretly dug openings in the embankment to release water. Over time, the dam was disfigured beyond recognition, and flooding would occur at every turn. But because the scope is not large, everything was pressed by Yue Zhi County.

But now, the dam has been washed away by heavy rain for several days, and the places where the breach has been broken are endless, and even the officials have repeatedly told him that there are cracks in the embankment, but he still wants to hide it, and he also hopes to secretly plug the gap so that he can pass through the barrier. As for the people in several villages downstream of the dam, he did not think of evacuating the crowd one step in advance.

So now, the dam finally couldn't hold it anymore and collapsed, submerging the two villages downstream in an instant. But the water did not stop there, but rushed downstream, and not a single nearby town was spared.

And it was only at this time, seeing that everything was irreparable, that Jingjiang County hurriedly sent the news to Yangzhou City, and it was also secretive.

Cui Pu went to the place, only to find that the matter was more serious than he thought, and he was immediately furious, and removed Yue Zhixian from his post on the spot and imprisoned him. Then, without a moment's delay, he asked Mr. Wu to survey the terrain on the spot and quickly come up with a countermeasure.

But in addition to dealing with the gap in the dike, what he needs to do now is to quickly organize people to rescue the people trapped by the flood, and then do his best to grab the people's belongings that have been drowned in the flood.

This busy is gone.

The eldest lady and the eldest Langjun didn't see Daddy for a few days, so they came to Mu Jiaojiao hand in hand.

"Auntie, where is Daddy?" asked the eldest lady crisply.

"I'm busy down there!" Mu Jiaojiao said, "What, miss him?"

The big lady nodded her little head. Da Langjun took the opportunity to get into Mu Jiaojiao's arms again.

Mu Jiaojiao hugged her son, but her mind had already drifted to Cui Pu.

The eldest lady also climbed into bed, took Mu Jiaojiao's hand and said, "Auntie, it's raining outside every day, will Daddy be frozen when he goes out these days?"

He must have been frozen a lot, right? These days, that man is afraid that he has been soaked in water for most of the time. She doesn't know his temperament? Once something happens, she will naturally rush to the front line.

In fact, in the past, when she encountered a flood disaster, she also went to the scene as a doctor with the team and knew what the situation was at the scene. It's just that it is still a modern era where all preparations are already complete, but this time Cui Pu went in a hurry, and he didn't prepare anything at hand, but he was afraid that they would have a hard time now.

But she really doesn't understand this kind of thing, and now she can only make trouble for him. Now, she can only sit at home with the children, and by the way, she cares about the latest situation.

The mother and son were snuggling together, and there was a word of speculation about the situation on Cui Pu's side, and Mung Bean suddenly ran in: "Lady, Hu San is back!"

"Let him in!"

Mu Jiaojiao hurriedly got up, changed into the clothes of the guest and went to the side hall, and the eldest lady and the eldest lady hurriedly took her hand and followed out like a long tail.

Hu San had just come back, his body was still wet, and he was burying his head in eating. As soon as he saw Mu Jiaojiao's mother and son coming over, he quickly put down his chopsticks: "My subordinates brought a letter from the prefect to the Jiangnan Dongdao Observation Envoy's Mansion to ask for help, and I came by the way to report to my wife that I was safe." Governor Cui is fine in Jingjiang County now, but he hasn't eaten well and slept well for several days. Now the gap in the levee is temporarily blocked, but because the rain has not stopped, and the other parts of the levee are about to appear again, so he can't come back for the time being, so he can only organize people to continue dredging the floodwater. ”

Before he came back, Cui Pu told him to tell the truth, there is no need to hide it, he really didn't hide it.

After hearing this, Mu Jiaojiao nodded and said, "I know." After a pause, she suddenly asked again, "I remember that the Jiangnan Dongdao Observation Envoy has only just taken office in the past two years, right?

"It seems to be. Hu San didn't know anything about officialdom right, so he just replied conservatively.

Mu Jiaojiao lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then said, "You finish eating the contents of the bowl first." I'll write another letter, and you can take it to Yangzhou by the way. We'll have to do two things now. ”

Hu San nodded and agreed without thinking about it.

Soon Mu Jiaojiao wrote a text message, and Hu San took it into his arms and left.

Immediately, the eldest lady threw herself into Mu Jiaojiao's arms: "Auntie, Daddy is suffering! I'm going to find him! Help him!"

"If you don't go to him now, you're just helping him!" Mu Jiaojiao patted her little head.

The eldest lady pouted unhappily.

Mu Jiaojiao shook her head. "I think since you have this in mind, you might as well come and prepare clothes and food for your father with me. Didn't you listen to your Uncle Hu, your father hasn't eaten properly for a few days. Knowing that you have something for him, he must have eaten very happily!"

"Okay!" she couldn't go over there to help Daddy, and now she had to do that.

The eldest lady pursed her lips and took Da Langjun's hand: "Brother, let's go!"

Da Langjun paused, and then let her drag herself forward.

That night, Cui Pu came back from the embankment and received a large bag of dry clothes and a large bag of pastries from Xiao Si'er.

There was also a letter hidden in his clothes. Cui Pu opened it and couldn't help laughing.

Mr. Zhuang saw it in his eyes and asked, "Is it a letter written to you by the little lady?"

"Yes!" Cui Puzai carefully read the letter before putting down the first page.

And when he swept his gaze to the second page, his face suddenly darkened.