"Huh, you say this small river ditch is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal?" Chu Qian opened her mouth in surprise, wishing that she could swallow an egg directly.

"Well, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Daughter-in-law, if you are given a boat, you can take the boat from here to the outside of your community. Moreover, this is not a small ditch, right, you look at this embankment, you look at this river, it is not a small ditch. ”

Chu Qian was speechless, pointed to the river under her feet and said, "Big brother, let's not be funny, okay? If this is not a small river ditch, what is a small river ditch?" Now Chu Qian has also learned skin, and a sentence with a Tianqu accent came out.

The position of the two people is on the east embankment of a river, the embankment is very high and steep, and it seems that the river is quite wide, but there is almost no water in the river, only a water stream less than three or four meters wide flows slowly at the bottom of the river, and the color is also a little scary, black......

Although the IQ of men and women in love is very low, their frost resistance is extremely good. January is the coldest time of the year, and the daytime temperature is only two or three degrees above zero, but this is not a small wave outside.

The community where Liu Moang's grandparents lived was next to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, less than 500 meters away from the straight-line distance of the Grand Canal dam. But when Lao Liu introduced the river to his girlfriend, he was directly questioned by his girlfriend.

"Ahem......" Lao Liu couldn't help but cough a few times in embarrassment.

If you look at the embankment, the river can indeed be called a river. But if you look at the water in the river, forget it, there is more water in the stinky ditch than in this river.

No wonder Chu Qian doesn't believe that the river under her feet is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal with a thousand-year-old history.

"Daughter-in-law, you can't blame me for this. There is a shortage of water in the north, and it is far less abundant than there is water on your side. Moreover, the water source of the South Canal from the Yellow River to Jinmen comes from the Zhanghe River and the Wei River, especially the Zhanghe River. In the past, this section of the canal still had a lot of water, and it had to be flooded in summer. However, since the construction of the Yuecheng Reservoir in the upper reaches of the Zhanghe River in the 60s of the last century, the amount of water in the South Canal has been decreasing day by day. I remember when I was a child, my brother-in-law took me to the canal to play, and the canal was still flooding in the summer. But since I was in the fourth or fifth grade of elementary school, there has been no flooding here, and the amount of water has been getting less and less. A few years ago, a rubber dam was built upstream, which directly cut off the flow of water, and there was no water here. That's what you're seeing now. ”

Chu Qian was stunned for a moment, and then said: "This doesn't seem right, right? Why don't you have water here? Isn't the South-to-North Water Diversion Project the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal?"

Liu Moang nodded, "The eastern route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is indeed the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but the problem is that it has not been repaired to this side, so the Yangtze River water cannot be passed for the time being." It seems that the same cannot be said, every winter, the canal will be watered, as if it is to supply the Yellow River water to Jinmen......"

The knowledge of water conservancy is limited to famous water conservancy projects such as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project or the Three Gorges Dam, but if they were to talk about the specific details of these water conservancy projects, they would not know anything about rolling pin and blowing fire.

"Liu Moang, what kind of bridge is that iron bridge to the north?" Chu Qian asked, pointing to an iron bridge across the Grand Canal to the north.

"That's the canal bridge of the Shide Railway, the railway from Tianqu to Shijiazhuang is here, and my brother-in-law took me here to play when I was a child. Oh, look at the train, it's going to Shijiazhuang. In the distance, a train was struggling to pull its long body on the tracks, and the distinctive sound of the electric locomotive's motor could be heard clearly even from here.

Chu Qian turned around and pointed to a bridge with three piers to the south and asked, "Then what kind of bridge is this bridge?

Liu Moang turned to look at the bridge with a smile on his face, "This bridge, can you guess what the bridge is?"

"It looks like the bridge is very old, and it must be abandoned, right? I see a lot of pipes on it, are they water or heat?"

"Heating pipes. Look at those big chimneys and cool water towers over there, that's Huaneng Tianqu Power Plant. Some of the steam produced by the power plant is passed through these pipes into the city, which heats the city in winter and provides heat for some factories that need steam in normal times. ”

"And what the hell is this bridge?"

"This bridge has a long history. Well, I'll do the math, if I'm not mistaken, this bridge should be one hundred and eight years old by now. ”

"Ah, one hundred and eight, didn't this bridge exist in the Republic of China era? Liu Moang, tell me, what kind of bridge is this bridge?"

"This bridge is the canal bridge that the Jinpu Railway crossed the Grand Canal in Tianqu, and it was built by German devils. ”

"No, this bridge is a railway bridge of the Jinpu Railway?"

"Although it doesn't look like it, I can tell you for sure that this bridge is the railway bridge of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway built by the German devils. Well, when the German devils and the British devils built the Jinpu Railway, it was not called the Jinpu Railway, it should be called the Jinzhen Railway, which was from Jinmen to Zhenjiang. Construction began in 1908 and the entire line was opened to traffic in 1912. Later, the Jinzhen Railway and the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway were connected, and finally renamed the Jinpu Railway. ”

Chu Qian nodded. There is a history of humiliation at the end of the Braided Dynasty, as long as you have been to school, you basically know.

"After the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Russians, the British, the Germans, and the Germans have been coveting China's territory. At that time, the Russian devils occupied the northeast, but the devils did not do it, so the Russo-Japanese War broke out between the two countries in 1904.

As a result, the dog bites the dog, and the devils finally beat the Russian devils away and occupy the northeast.

Let's not talk about the British devils, that's the worst. As for the German devils, they are also not things, they just don't leave if they occupy Dongshan, and regard Dongshan as their forbidden territory.

At that time, the pigtail government wanted to build the Jinzhen Railway, which happened to pass through the territory of the British devils and the German devils, so the British devils and the German devils took the right to build the Jinzhen Railway, the German devils were responsible for the construction of the North Jinpu Railway, and the British devils were responsible for the construction of the South Jinpu Railway. This bridge was built when the German devils built Kitajinura. ”

Liu Moang slowly told some things about the Jinpu Railway back then, and Chu Qian was also a little depressed when she heard it, "If you fall behind, you have to be beaten, and the braid dynasty of the year ...... Alas, don't talk about it, I feel bad when I think about it. ”

The wind on the embankment was still quite strong, and the two of them felt a little cold after standing here for more than ten minutes, so they got in the car and walked back along the asphalt road on the embankment.

The asphalt road has only been built for a few years, and the road surface is not very wide, and both cars have to slow down when they meet. However, the scenery on both sides of the small road is still good, with the Grand Canal on the right, a flat farmland on the left, and some villages in the distance. On both sides of the road are dense locust trees and willow trees.

It's just that it's winter, and all the trees are bare and look a little depressed.

"Do you see that rubber dam? This was built seven or eight years ago, when it was to store water for the urban area, so that the river on the urban side could form a landscape river. Lao Liu said while driving, pointing to the light blue rubber dam not far ahead.

Seeing this rubber dam, Chu Qian understood why there was so little water in the river just now, it was because the water in the river was intercepted by this rubber dam.

"My brother-in-law said that there were a lot of things that happened when the rubber dam was being built. Because to build this rubber dam, it is necessary to cut off the river and build a drainage canal, and after the river is intercepted, many nearby villagers dig treasure here. ”

"Dig for treasure, is there any treasure in here?"

"Well, there are treasures indeed. Don't forget that Tianqu was an important port for Caoyun, after Ming Chengzu Zhu Di moved the capital to Yanjing, it was the top port in the country, and the ships of Caoyun went here. And there were not a few boats that sank in the canal back then, so there must be treasures in this canal. In the past, Xiao Yue wanted to dredge the canal for us for free, but although the little devil said that it was free, he said that the things dug up in the river belonged to them. The state didn't agree, so the little devil couldn't help it. ”

"Well, I've heard that too. Chu Qian nodded.

"Actually, there's something in this river. My brother-in-law said that when the bridge was repaired, the river was also cut off, and there were many people digging treasures in the river at that time, and it is said that one person dug up gold ingots. ”

"Really?" Chu Qian was a little unconvinced.

"It must be true, it seems that not only gold has been dug up, but also porcelain, all of which were pulled by the sunken boats in the Grand Canal. Many of us locals know these things. ”

After a pause, Lao Liu gradually slowed down the speed of the car, pointed to the rubber dam and said: "When this dam was built, many people nearby came to dig treasures. Guess what happened to me when I came to see it?"

Chu Qian tilted her head to look at her boyfriend and shook her head.

"That time, my brother-in-law and I stood here and watched the people below digging treasure, but a woman and a man dug the pit too deeply, these two should be two people, the pit collapsed directly, and they were both buried. ”

"Huh?" Chu Qian was startled.

"I've seen it with my own eyes. Liu Moang swore an oath, "Fortunately, there are construction workers around and there are many people digging treasures." These people soon began to rescue, and when 119 came, the two were dug up, but the man had suffocated to death, and the woman was lucky to survive......"

"Alas, what's the trouble with this? doesn't the person in charge of the construction site care?" Chu Qian sighed.

It is said that two days later, another treasure digger was buried, and he did not survive, and since then, there have been police on duty on this construction site every day, so no one has gone down to dig treasure. But this rubber dam has already killed two people!"

Chu Qian let out a long breath and shook her head and said, "This is a murderous rubber dam......"