Chapter 1060 Snakes and People

Current situation, Eastern Xia.

There was no sunlight under the gloomy sky. In the darkness, there was only the sound of thunder, and the dark clouds were constantly brewing with dazzling lightning.

Thick rain curtains continued to fall from the sky, and the low sound of rain did not spread.

Because there was an even more shocking loud noise coming from in front of him.

river.

The mighty river surged rapidly beneath the dam. At first glance, the turbid and yellowish water could not be seen to the edge. There was only darkness in the depths, and even huge searchlights could not light it up.

In this extremely bad situation, helicopters kept roaring past.

Between the hills in the distance, on the road, a convoy with no end in sight was trudging through the mud. The weight of the large amount of earth and stone caused the wheels to sink deeply into the mud.

Accompanied by uniform shouts, the young people's faces turned red, and they tried their best to push the truck forward, bit by bit.

There were even more people running around inside and outside the makeshift camp.

Patrolling up and down dozens of kilometers of embankments.

And right at the front, in the raised rain shelter, an unkempt young man on a sandbag was holding a rice bowl and scooping out the soup noodles in the bowl.

Suck slip.

The not-so-delicious noodle soup and noodles were mixed into a ball and stuffed into the stomach.

There is no trace of the dignity of the director of the Jinling Social Security Bureau. He has lost his former grace and demeanor and looks like a homeless man. But even the homeless man looked much better than the others around him.

As if they had just crawled out of the mire, those people were covered in water and mud, lying on blankets on the ground. Some of them were still holding bowls in their hands, and they had already begun to sleep soundly, snoring everywhere. Unless the assembly signal sounded again, no amount of deafening thunder could wake them up.

Under this simple rain shelter, icy rainwater was still blown in by the cold wind from time to time, falling on my face and head.

"Is it getting serious again?"

Chu Hongchen wiped his face and put the bowl in his arms.

Occasionally when I look at the mighty river in front of me, my eyes gradually become cold.

Under the illumination of the searchlight, the turbid muddy water surged forward mightily.

In the broad river, impurities and sediment are constantly surging, and those blurry shadows gather together, as if forming a shadow that stretches for thousands of miles.

Sometimes it disappears and sometimes appears.

But now, the shadow was blocked in front of the embankment, struggling and rushing, but no matter what, it could not break through the last line of defense.

"It's a big snake."

Chu Hongchen clicked his lips, bit his chopsticks, and sighed vaguely: "Dragon Gate is so close in front of you but you can't pass it. You must be very angry, right?"

Thunder crackled.

Like the angry roar of a giant beast.

In the river, the vague shadows convulsed again, and the invisible body stirred the torrent, making the siren more and more harsh.

That is what is called a ‘snake’.

No, it’s not an exaggeration to call it a dragon evil, right?

For farming peoples like Dongxia, rivers and rivers have been the embodiment of hope and life since ancient times. It is precisely with the continuous water source that we can irrigate more land, cultivate more crops, and feed more people.

Because of this, totems like dragons exist.

If the countless towering mountains are the bones of dragon veins, the complex water system covering the entire Eastern Xia is the body of the dragon, and the endless rivers are like blood, covering the entire country.

Wherever it passes, everything grows.

This is the dragon.

It is this generous gift from the ‘dragon’ that allows countless lives to thrive.

The so-called Dragon Vein is like this - mountains, rivers, earth and people are indispensable.

If it were a dragon that nourished and gave life to all things, then this out-of-control power and overflowing torrent would be no different from a snake.

The struggle between dragons and snakes has never stopped since ancient times.

It is foreseeable and will continue into the future.

Nowadays, the climate disasters that the Pied Piper has brought to the world have become apparent, not just droughts and heavy rains, but also disasters that have been dormant for many years.

When material disasters are combined with this silent disaster, the sleeping serpent will be resurrected from nothingness and countless evil creatures will evolve.

Not just at this moment, but here and now, a war that spread throughout Eastern Xia had started a month ago.

There is no smoke in the fight between humans and natural disasters. There is only the roar of countless people under the thunder and heavy rain, and in the darkness, the fight between the disaster serpent and the Eastern Xia lineage that longs to transform into a dragon.

Just under the rain shelter, Mo San came back in a hurry wearing a raincoat. The fierce battle with the water monster in the past few days had been exhausted, and the flame attribute Stigmata was particularly disgusted with this kind of weather, and his face looked... They are all a bit pale.

After I came in, I sat down on the mat and couldn't get up.

"Yuan Zhao, give me a glass of water! Yuan Zhao! Huh? Where is that boy Yuan Zhao?"

She looked around and frowned: "Aren't you working as a guard for you? Did you skip work again?"

Chu Hongchen suppressed a smile and pointed to the bottom of the embankment.

"Well, isn't that right?"

Mo San squinted his eyes and looked for a long time in the mud, among the people passing by, before he saw the young man covered in mud.

Carrying a small mountain of sandbags on his shoulders, he was running hurriedly behind the queue.

The originally handsome face had long been covered in mud, and the hair was messy, so it was impossible to tell that it was him.

Mo San's face looked a little better, but he was still a little unhappy: "Is this kid going crazy again?"

"I arranged it."

Chu Hongchen replied, "I am a useless person who can't carry it on my shoulders and lift it with my hands. I can only sit in the camp and fish for fish. If I need any guards, I might as well go down and come in handy."

But that kid was much more reliable than before. He kept running like an animal for two days without complaining. "

"I've grown up."

Mo San's expression became slightly relieved: "Children will grow up. Isn't this much better than the original way of doing nothing?"

"yes."

Chu Hongchen nodded in agreement, his eyes sympathetic: "Unfortunately, in the adult world, not only age will increase, but the workload will also increase... How can he still have time to pee? You can ask someone to add more to him later. Work.”

"..." Mo San didn't speak.

Everyone in the Social Security Bureau has recognized that although my eldest cousin is indeed considerate, he is not a human being, and he does not seem like a human being.

Unfortunately, there are more times to be inconsiderate than there are times to be considerate. The little girls were all discussing in private whether this was a new type of PUA method...

"How is the situation upstream?" Chu Hongchen asked.

"I'm still very nervous." Mo San took a breath and replied: "The rainfall is still increasing, and the water level is about to reach the highest level in history."

"You keep an eye on it and keep everyone's spirits up. Floods, droughts, and epidemics are all serious. We can't be embarrassed at this moment." Chu Hongchen emphasized again, "If anything goes wrong, the losses will be countless."

Mo San nodded solemnly, thought for a moment and said comfortingly: "The whole territory is tense right now. No matter what we do, we are still better than those guys who maintain the pedigree."

"Can you learn a little bit?"

Chu Hongchen rolled his eyes and did not bring up the topic. He just asked, "What did Master Yu and Uncle Feng say?"

"They are trying to disperse the clouds, but the effect is not great. The rainfall upstream is too high." Mo San whispered: "When I came here, I heard people say that it is better to just take out the relics of Han Bao's authority. "

After hearing this, Chu Hongchen stopped picking up the rice, raised his head, and his expression became more solemn: "You think so too?"

"I'm not responsible for using my brain, so why are I thinking about this?"

"Some people just think too much." Chu Hongchen sneered, "In order to solve a temporary emergency, to increase distortion in disguise... What is the difference between drinking poison to quench thirst?"

Authoritarian relics are more than just terrifying.

That kind of thing, if not operated properly, will lead to endless troubles.

Not only is the correction value wasted, but it also increases the load on the situation in disguise.

Once the drought breaks out, the drought will last for thousands of miles, and the floods will disappear, but the food output in the next ten years will also have problems. By then, not only the cabinet, but also the surviving family who came to finish the work will be scolded.

For so many years, everyone has been abiding by the unspoken unspoken rules, that is, the restraint agreement on authoritarian relics. Unless there is a large-scale distortion incident, such things will never be used in the current situation.

Chu Hongchen took out his mobile phone, glanced at the list above, and started to make arrangements: "It seems that old man Xuanniao has been too busy recently and didn't pay attention to ideological construction. As a result, some people started to decline as soon as he ignored them, and he still had to open a few more when he turned around. Class, study in depth.”

After the education is completed, they can be sent to the border to work for a few years, and then they will know the importance. If you still can't hold up the wall with mud, just sit on the bench until you die.

"At this juncture, everything is tense. At least we have a great family and a great business. Don't be like poor people who are obsessed with gambling. We must do what we should do. Don't do what we shouldn't do."

Some people just don't know how luxurious it is to do things in a proper manner sometimes. I like to gamble whenever I have the opportunity. If I win, I won’t make much, but if I lose, I will suffer heavy losses.

Picture what?

Chu Hongchen shook his head to dispel irrelevant thoughts and asked, "Where's Kuafu? Didn't you skip work?"

"Although it's unreasonable, he understands the importance, don't worry." Mo San replied, "As you asked, I told him before coming here that if I hope to take you with me next time we have a party, just stay in Haiyan and block it and don't move.

According to Xuannio's arrangement, Bai Ze still stayed in Yanjing, Di Ting was arguing with those guys from Russia and Tianzhu, Qingdi's old lady was still in the northwest, and Teng She seemed to have other jobs and disappeared without a trace. "

She paused and sighed helplessly: "If Lao Fu and Xiao Bai..."

Before she finished speaking, she noticed the serious look from Chu Hongchen and stopped talking.

"This kind of thing cannot be solved by one more person or one less person. Dongxia, Rome, Egypt, America... everyone has a hard time.

It is simply unrealistic to expect one person or one method to solve so many problems. You can only take your time and let every drop of water penetrate the stone. "

Chu Hongchen lowered his head, stirred up the dried dough in the porcelain vat, and randomly put it into his mouth before wiping the corners of his mouth.

"Buck it."

He looked at the turbulent current in front of him and the phantom of the big snake that spread thousands of miles, with an expressionless expression on his face: "Let's see who among us can survive."

No one responded.

There are only towering dams and violent rivers flowing.

.

Just in the distance, at the edge of another embankment, beside the rolling turbid current, water was rolling.

An old rainproof cloth was propped up, and firewood was burning vigorously in the high stove, making the fragrance under the pot cover even stronger.

"The pear blossoms are closed due to the rain, and all the flower dust has fallen from the swallow mud. The little matchmaker handed Jane to the west chamber, and the banquet in the east pavilion was held to calm the surprise..."

Next to the boiling soup pot, the old man sitting on a chair looked at the river, smoking a cigarette, and humming an old melody leisurely.

After opening the lid of the pot, the sweet aroma of the eel soup couldn't help but fill the air. Not only did it make people passing by within a few hundred meters gulp, but even the rolling torrent seemed to be surging. Looking at the shadow, get closer.

Unable to hide hunger and thirst.

The old man scooped a spoonful for himself leisurely, sipped it, and frowned slightly: "It should be a little lighter...forget it, let's do it.

Little monkeys, stop looking and come over to have dinner. "

He knocked on the edge of the pot and waved to the young people who quietly peeked out from under the awning not far away.

The young people hesitated and looked at the squad leader behind them.

The monitor was squatting next to him, smoking a cigarette, and glared at them angrily: "Look at what I'm doing, look at the discipline. You two have no discipline at all!"

"There are also pancakes," the old man added, "hot."

"..." The monitor's expression twitched, and his stomach began to growl. He hadn't eaten yet.

"He's a handyman in my cooking class."

The old man finally said with a smile, "Not counting the masses."

"...Give me a bowl."

In silence, the squad leader took out his lunch box with trembling hands.

This was the last straw that broke my persistence...

I can't help it, the soup is too fragrant.

Soon, a pot of thick soup that had been simmering all night disappeared into the mouths of the hungry young people together with two baskets of bread. Before the assembly horn sounded, the squad leader returned the pile of money and the basket together: "Thank you, sir. You can leave as soon as you're done. It's too dangerous here. I heard the water will rise again in a while."

"Well, you go ahead, I understand." The old man nodded and just smiled: "This pot of soup is not ready yet, I have to simmer it for a while."

The squad leader wanted to say something else, but there was no time. He left only a cart and left in a hurry.

Not far away, Yuan Zhao, who was smelling the lingering fragrance, put his head around. When he saw the rickety back, his foot slipped and he almost fell into the mud.

He subconsciously shrank his head and wanted to slip away.

But the old man seemed to have eyes behind his back and waved: "Hey, boy from the Yuan family, come here."

Yuan Zhao froze in place.

After a long time, he moved over very reluctantly, nodded and bowed, squeezed out a smile, and said flatteringly: "Zong...Uncle Zong, how are you doing?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

The old man smiled and nodded, "It just so happens that I still need a few fish to make the soup, and you look good too."

As if he could see the holy mark of the trembling dragon and horse, the old man smiled and asked knowingly: "Young man, how is your water quality?"

Silence fell suddenly.

Yuan Zhao looked at the old man's soup pot, then at the bottomless rolling turbid current next to it, as well as the countless huge shadows swimming in it.

Swallowed.

Suddenly there was an ominous premonition.

And when the old man lifted up the huge fishing rod that was so exaggerated that it could hang a person on it... tears finally burst out.

"With such a big bait, something good must be hooked, right?"

Just like that, amidst the screams, Guo Shouque smiled and swung the stick.

full of expectation.