Chapter 504: I kowtowed to you

The sky was scorching sun, and I was wearing shoes and stepping on the dry riverbed. I could even feel the hot heat coming up from the soles of my feet on a dry riverbed in Huidong County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. An old man with white hair and dark skin was standing in a daze on this originally flowing riverbed, silently scanning everything around the riverbed.

This river is called Laichun River, which almost runs through the entire Huidong County. On weekdays, people rely on this river to wash vegetables, rice, and irrigate farming. Now, this river that has been flowing in Huidong County for countless years has completely dried up.

There are many pits of different depths on the cracked riverbed. These are the traces left by people digging the remaining river water below the riverbed. At the beginning, just digging about thirty centimeters down can see the seepage of river water. Although it is a little turbid, it can barely assume the role of irrigation farming.

But as time goes by, the river water seeped out from the pit dug in the riverbed is decreasing. Until today, the old man has dug more than one meter deep, but the bucket beside him has only less than ten centimeters of mud, and even mud cannot be considered turbid water.

Since the severe drought began more than three months ago, only less than ten millimeters of rain have fallen in Huidong County in the past 100 days. The people of Huidong County can only watch the water level of the Laichun River on which they rely for their survival continue to drop.

More than a month ago, the Huidong Reservoir built in the upper reaches of the Laichun River would open the gates from time to time to replenish the evaporated river water of the Laichun River and barely maintain the basic water supply in Huidong County. However, until the water level of the Huidong Reservoir dropped to nearly four meters below the cordon, the Huidong Reservoir, which was difficult to protect, was unable to support the water supply downstream, and could only close the gate and beg grandpa to sue his grandmother every day to look forward to it raining.

But God doesn't know if he is asleep, but it still depends on how they expect and how pious they are. It doesn't rain. If it doesn't rain, it won't rain. Until now, the fish living in Huidong Reservoir have died in pieces. If it doesn't rain, the Huidong Reservoir will completely dry up. Those fish that are still struggling to survive will also be completely extinct.

Whether it is animals, plants or humans, they are so powerless when facing such a severe drought. They can only hope and beg, and there is nothing else to do.

There was a confusion in the turbid eyes. The thin and dark-skinned old man leaned on a hoe and silently looked down at the big hole he had dug for nearly an hour. He watched the wet soil below dry up in just a few minutes, and then looked at the little mud beside him that he had worked hard for an hour...

After blinking, two lines of turbid tears slid out from the corners of his eyes. He cried, crying silently.

On the left bank of the Laichun River, he devoted all his money to contract more than ten acres of land and planted peppers. He originally hoped that this season would produce a good harvest and get some money to improve his poor life at home. However, the peppers planted in the fields are now dying. If they are not effectively irrigated, they will not be far from being completely dead.

"God, old man, please, it's raining." Suddenly, he raised his head and cried with a sad cry. The old man who had fallen into despair knelt in front of the big pit he dug with his own hands, reached out and grabbed a piece of extremely hard mud, looked up at the sky with dark clouds, and cried bitterly: "I kowtowed to you, it's raining, please."

On the riverbed that was as hard as cement, the old man kowtowed to the sky, and the blood gradually dyed the land in front of him red. However, the blood could not escape the ruthless plunder of the sun, and it completely condensed in the blink of an eye...

When the old man kowtowed to the sky, two middle-aged men in white shirts were also standing on the bed of the Laichun River, about 900 meters away. Looking at the pits in the riverbed of varying shades, the two men looked at each other silently, and the pain caused by their cracked lips seemed to be unaware of it.

Looking at each other silently for a long time, the man on the left bent down and broke off a piece of mud as hard as a stone from the riverbed. He said awkwardly: "If there is no obvious rainfall, our county will be finished, it's really... it's over."

"I called the Provincial Meteorological Department two hours ago." The man who was still standing was also bitter on his face. After taking a deep breath, he whispered: "In the next seven days, not only will we Huidong County, but also in most Sichuan, there will be no obvious rainfall."

Speaking of this, he raised his head slightly, squinted his eyes at the blue sky, and looked at the shiny sun in the sky. After swallowing his saliva with difficulty, he whispered: "That big pepper base is probably going to be inseparable this year."

"Oh..." The two of them sighed at the same time. It was not difficult to see from their faces that their powerlessness and despair were at this moment. As the county magistrate and county party secretary of a county party committee, they had no strength to resist when facing such a natural disaster.

What makes them really uneasy now is the common people in the county. The tap water has been cut off for almost half a month. Many people in the county have chosen to run away from home and go to other provinces to seek survival. If this continues, the entire Huidong County will probably become a dead city.

Faced with such a situation, they are not only powerless.

When several provinces in the southwest were panicked due to severe drought, the three provinces in Anhui, Jiangxi and Fujian in East China were busy with heavy floods caused by continuous heavy rains. Today, mudslides broke out, tomorrow floods invaded, the day after tomorrow...

The capacity of the reservoir reaches its limit. Opening the gate and releasing water will pose a huge threat to the downstream. If the gate and releasing water are not opened, the huge pressure brought by the flood may even cause the reservoir to burst, directly causing a vast ocean downstream.

Many provinces in the southwest have turned white hair due to severe drought, while many provinces in the east China are making a mess of flooding.

Chenzhou is located in the southeast of Anhui, located in the area where the Nanling Mountains and Luoxiao Mountains intersect and the Yangtze River System and the Pearl River System are diverted. The rivers in the territory are radially dense. It is a famous hot spring town and one of the cities with the richest water resources and the largest number of reservoirs in Anhui.

In Chenzhou alone, there are nearly 700 rivers of all sizes and sizes. On weekdays, these dense rivers are one of the signs of Chenzhou. However, with more than ten consecutive days of heavy rainfall since the beginning of spring, these rivers have become the most helpless existences of Chenzhou people.

The water level of rivers has been rising, severe urban waterlogging, soil erosion, frequent floods and mudslides, and various signs have brought the entire Chenzhou into the atmosphere of floods hitting the city.

The raindrops as big as beans were still falling down. The secretary of the Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee and his group appeared on the embankment of the Dongjiang Reservoir in Chenzhou. Holding an umbrella and wearing rain boots, looking at the turbid river water that had already exceeded the reservoir cordon, everyone showed a solemn look on their faces.

The person in charge of the reservoir appeared beside the secretary of the Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee, holding a black umbrella, and whispered: "Secretary, let's let the water..."

"What should the people downstream do?" Liu Changhua, secretary of the municipal party committee, frowned, but he also knew that if the reservoir was not decompressed, the possible consequences would be even more unimaginable.

After a moment of pause, he asked, "How long can Curry last?"

"This..." Hearing Liu Changhua's inquiry, the person in charge of Dongjiang Reservoir looked up slightly at the dark clouds in the sky, gritted his teeth and said, "If the rainfall like this will last for another twelve hours and the reservoir does not fully discharge the flood, Jiangdong Reservoir... will be in danger of breaking the dam."

"What?" After hearing the person in charge's answer, Liu Changhua, who thought Jiangdong Reservoir could hold on for a few days, could no longer suppress the shock in his heart, exclaimed in a burst of exclamation.

Jiangdong Reservoir is the largest reservoir in Chenzhou, and it is even known as Dongting in southern Hunan. Once the Jiangdong Reservoir, with a storage capacity of more than 8 billion cubic meters, bursts the dam...

Most of Chenzhou will become a vast ocean, threatening millions of people, and the economic losses caused are immeasurable.

After hearing the person in charge's answer, Liu Changhua's face turned completely pale.

Listening to the sound of the rain clicking on the umbrella, Liu Changhua suddenly threw away the umbrella, looked up at the dark clouds in the sky, and shouted hysterically: "God, enough"

The sound is very loud and very sharp.

Looking at Liu Changhua, who was standing in the pouring rain, and looking at the city party secretary who was almost crazy because of the heavy rain, the officials who accompanied him all lowered their heads and sighed in their hearts.

Some people are thinking about how to solve the problem of flood discharge in Dongjiang Reservoir, while others are thinking about where to move their relatives and friends. Everyone has different thoughts, but what everyone agrees with is...

This heavy rain, which was rare in a century, will not dissipate in a short period of time. If Liu Changhua shouts and lets the more than 4 million people in Chenzhou knock their heads, the heavy rain will continue ruthlessly.

Everyone thinks so, including Liu Changhua, who is roaring to the sky, he also doesn't think that the heavy rain will dissipate in a short period of time. His current roar is just venting.

But he was unwilling to accept that the flood discharge would threaten the downstream people, causing great economic losses, and he was even more unwilling to wait for the reservoir to break the dam and threaten the entire Chenzhou City

The two evils are more minor. Just when he was about to order the people downstream of the Dongjiang Reservoir to open the gates and release the floodgates to reduce the pressure of the Dongjiang Reservoir...

The heavy clouds in the sky began to roll violently, and the raindrops as big as beans gradually shrank and gradually decreased...

Liu Changhua, who was standing there and letting the heavy rain drenched, felt it.

He raised his head in surprise and looked into the sky
Chapter completed!