Countless washed-out trees and roof beams were floating and colliding with each other in the flood.
The raging river water hit the unprotected river bank, and the high loess slope tens of meters high collapsed under the constant erosion of the flood.
The originally extremely turbid flood water added a lot of yellow sand along the way, which made the water in the entire river become even more murky and swollen.
"Comrades, get out of the river quickly——"
Waves of gong sound spread from the production team upstream to the Guanzhuang production team.
Then, after receiving the news, the "flood observers" of the Guanzhuang production team would beat the gong and pass it along the Wuding River to the Shilipu production team.
Next,
The "flood situation observers" of the Shilipu production team will also beat the gong to convey the danger to the downstream production team heading to Wuding River.
Like an ancient inn
Luo Xuan sat on the embankment behind the high "combat readiness trench", quietly watching the flood rushing past in front of him.
Behind Luo Xuan, Huang Xuan and Bai Fugui, who were in complicated moods, were by their side.
Huang Xuan cautiously approached Luo Xuan and said softly: "Luo Xuan, the flood observer is calling for evacuation."
"I can't bear to leave."
Luo Xuan pointed at the small black spots in the endless flood: "Maybe it's just a drowned sheep, but it's also possible that it's a living person. These poor people, they are still here
How could I be willing to leave when I was struggling to survive in the flood?"
"But...but your body"
Aunt Bai Fugui has been working day and night in the hotel and has performed very well.
At this time, Huang Xuan was by her side, so it was not her turn to speak.
But caring is chaotic.
Bai Fugui's wife knew that if Luo Xuan hadn't supported her back then, how could Bai Fugui's mother-in-law be able to work in a restaurant now, how could she eat well and get a fixed salary?
Therefore, she was really worried and said to Luo Xuan with concern: "How about we keep an eye on it here for you? Can you go home and rest for a while?"
Luo Xuan shook his head and said nothing.
Huang Xuan and Aunt Bai Fugui knew clearly in their hearts: Luo Xuan was sitting here, even if he didn't have to do anything.
Those lined up along the riverside were Jian Teng, Chen Xiaobai and Dou Jiande, who were busy rescuing people in Huishui Bay.
Including all the members of the Shilipu production team, they have a backbone in their hearts, and everyone is more energetic when working.
"Let them evacuate to the dam. This heavy rain has affected a wide area. There may be a second and third wave of floods."
Luo Xuan told Aunt Bai Fugui: "Then you ask Captain Dou Jiande, a man with more agile hands and feet and a faster runner, to go lookout three miles upstream to observe the flood situation.
If the flood peak comes, let him release a string of sky monkeys quickly so that those of us downstream can evacuate in time."
"Okay, I'll go right away."
Aunt Bai Fugui was really neat at work. She took three steps and two steps at a time, and ran down the river embankment very quickly. She was seizing the time to implement Luo Xuan's order.
This time the heavy rain fell over a wide area, not just in the Tuocheng area. There was a heavy rainstorm that had not been seen in decades.
Even the Mongolian Plateau to the north received a rare heavy rain.
Although this morning, the peak of the flood rushing from upstream has passed once.
However, a heavy rainstorm of this magnitude can easily form a barrier lake on a plateau made entirely of accumulated loess.
This kind of barrier lake formed by the collapse of loess cannot withstand long-term soaking by rainwater, and is prone to a second landslide.
Barrier lakes vary in size from large to small.
Who knows when the dam of such a huge barrier lake will break?
If you are unlucky and encounter several barrier lakes collapsing at the same time, millions of cubic meters of flood water will rush down at the same time.
Who can withstand such a result?
If the people who are busy rescuing people are evacuated to a place dozens of meters away from the dam in advance, everyone will be able to evacuate in time even if the flood peak comes.
After all, before rescuing others, you must first take care of their own safety.
Aunt Bai Fugui was sent away.
Luo Xuan asked Huang Xuan: "How many people have our production team rescued so far?"
"It's a lot. The exact number can't be calculated yet."
Huang Xuan replied: "It's just because many of the victims who were fished out of the river have lost their hope of living because they have been immersed in floods for a long time, causing their bodies to become hypothermic.
There are many more injured people affected by the disaster. When they were rescued, they were already dying or even dead. It is really impossible to count them."
"Is the millet porridge with sugar water enough?"
Luo Xuan asked again: "There are also quilts taken out by the production team, are they enough?"
Huang Xuan nodded: "Chen Xiaobai and Jian Teng are really capable of doing things. Before you came back, Chen Xiaobai had already ordered Captain Dou Jiande, Accountant Li and the others to prepare these things."
Luo Xuan asked her: "About how many people were rescued?"
"Maybe he's in his early 100s."
Huang Xuan replied: "Don't worry, as long as there is still a little hope of survival, we will not give up on their treatment.
All the people who have come up now have been properly placed in the homes of the members and settled in the workshops of the cosmetics factory."
Luo Xuan thought for a while and said: "We have to increase our efforts to save people! If there are not enough manpower, let the cosmetics factory temporarily give up filling products, and let all employees go all out to save people.
Come at work."
"Isn't this not good?"
Accountant Li's voice sounded from under the embankment: "The loss caused by the cosmetics factory suspending production for one day is really too great. Oh, Comrade Luo Xuan, don't get me wrong. When facing life, I don't feel sorry for the money."
Accountant Li stood by the river to help rescue people. He had been working continuously for 4 or 5 hours.
At this time, he was replaced by someone else and took a short rest.
I saw Accountant Li climbing up the embankment. Before he could take a breath, he quickly reminded Luo Xuan: "You must know that we rescued many people this time.
If this trend continues, our Shilipu production team will rescue at least more than 200 people this time."
Accountant Li asked: "I want to ask now, with so many people coming back, where will we get so much food to feed them?"
If we expect the commune or the county to allocate food relief to us, we don’t know when it will happen.
Since the grain transferred by superiors cannot reach our production team in time, we can only use cash to buy it at a high price in the pigeon market. You must know that everyone is busy with disaster relief now. In fact, there is no food in the pigeon market.
How much grain has been sold? This will cause the price of grain to skyrocket."
"So cosmetics factories especially cannot stop production at this time. Otherwise, our cash flow will have big problems!"
Accountant Li is a very rational person, and he always analyzes things based on reality.
Therefore, Accountant Li did not hesitate to take the risk of offending Luo Xuan and said: "Comrade Luo Xuan, now I am worried about how to arrange for these 200 people in the future.
The cosmetics factory is a hen that can lay golden eggs. If you don't have money, you can't buy high-priced food, so how can we stop it?"
"well"
Luo Xuan sighed: "Don't talk about it yet, I understand your worries. Saving people is the top priority now, and other things must be detoured! Don't worry, I know what you are worried about."
"People are the primary productive force."
Luo Xuan smiled slightly: "I will take care of the food issue. Now you only need to concentrate on how to save people. The more you can save, the better."
Faced with such a huge natural disaster, Accountant Li's stubborn temper grew: "It's easy to save people!
But after they are rescued, there is no food for them to eat and there are not enough houses to house them. Is this called rescuing people?"
Accountant Li snorted coldly: "What's this? It's like fishing them out and then watching them starve to death or freeze to death!"
"Even if we don't fish people out of the river, we will most likely die without saving them."
Accountant Li was extremely angry: "But have you considered picking them up and then watching them die of serious injuries, freezing to death due to low temperatures, or starving to death because there was no sick food?
If this happens, the responsibility we will have to bear will be huge! It may be so big that our superiors will directly invite us to eat free prison meals!"
What Accountant Li said does have a point: you can save people.
However, the number of people rescued must be controlled to a more appropriate number.
Otherwise, even if they are rescued, there will be a lack of medical treatment, food and enough space to house them.
As a result, it caused a second harm to these victims, causing some of them to die.
This responsibility must be placed on all the cadres of the Shilipu production team.
Simply because this disaster struck suddenly, was severe, and the affected area was extremely wide.
Accountant Li is worried that once the superiors require each production team to calculate their respective disaster situation and the amount of relief grain applied for.
After the production team reports, the commune will send people down to verify the situation. Then the commune will report to the county, and the county will report to the area.
After the disaster relief funds and food are allocated, the communes still need to decentralize the funds one by one.
Before this process was implemented, so many people were rescued. What did they eat?
What if the members of the production team, who had been relying on melons and fruits for half a year, could save some food from their teeth to help those affected by the disaster.
Everyone can persist for a day or two, or even grit their teeth and endure it for 10 days.
But if things continue like this, how can the members of the production team persist for long?!
Once time goes on and these members have resentment in their hearts, an all-out conflict will break out between the members of the production team and the victims.
If this happens, how can we rely on the grassroots cadres of the production team to suppress it?!
This is a struggle related to "one bite for the disaster victims, but nothing for the production team members"!
Now is the time of spring famine, and the members originally need to eat well before they can start spring plowing work.
There is not enough food to eat, but you still have to help others? And you have to help the victims for a long time. How can the members tolerate this?
Delaying spring plowing and production will make life for the entire production team members even more difficult in the coming year.
Hearing what Accountant Li said, Luo Xuan also felt a little bit embarrassed: The current rations of the members of the Shilipu production team are actually supported by the surplus grain from the village in Xiaolaojun Mountain, which is thousands of miles away.
Including the prosperous restaurant run by the production team.
The food they usually need is secretly supported by Xiao Laojun.
After such a long period of hard work, there is actually not much leftover food left by Xiao Laojun.
The new season's grain has not yet been harvested.
If we continue to divert grain from Xiao Laojun, Ji Xuyuan will probably have objections.
There is not much food, and it is difficult to get train leather.
Even though Ji Xuyuan has three heads and six arms, he is still overwhelmed and unable to cope.
The food in your own space is of little use at the moment.
So in addition to selling some grain to Chen Xiaobai for cash at the frog market in Zhimi County, Luo Xuan also sold 2 carts of grain to the "Doujiapan Coal Mine".
Luo Xuan has always stored the rest of the food in space.
Calculated now, the food in space should be tens of thousands of kilograms.
However, these grains allowed the members of the Shilipu production team to survive the spring famine. However, Luo Xuan did not expect that the flood would be so violent, and he did not expect that the affected area would be so wide!
If the food in space is used to relieve too many disaster-stricken people, it will indeed be a bit stretched.
After weighing it carefully, Luo Xuan said: "Let's save people first! Accountant Li, I know that the food situation of our production team is very serious now."
"But! In fact, we have a bigger crisis, but you haven't seen it at all."
Now the Shilipu production team is facing great difficulties, and ideological conflicts have begun to arise among the eight members of the production team.
Accountant Li is straightforward and courageous, and he is completely public-minded.
That's why Accountant Li dared to talk to Luo Xuan directly about this matter. Dou Jiande, the militia captain and the women's captain actually had strong opinions on this in their hearts.
It's just Accountant Li who stepped forward and took the lead.
In order to unify opinions and integrate people's hearts.
So Luo Xuan carefully explained to Accountant Li the underlying reasons why he had to "go all out" to save people: "Let me ask you, has our production team built 22 weirs and dams?"
Accountant Li nodded: "This is a well-known thing, and it was Professor Yan who worked behind the scenes to reach a compromise with the county for us.
The county does not force our production team to copy the model of the Guanzhuang production team.
But do these things have any necessary connection with our saving people?"
"have!"
Luo Xuan nodded firmly: "Have you ever thought about a question about your birthday? After our cofferdam has experienced this flood, will there be a large amount of sediment at the bottom of the cofferdam?"
Accountant Li nodded: "Definitely."
Luo Xuan asked: "So after the floods are released and the sediment dries up, how many acres of fertile land do you estimate will be accumulated in each cofferdam?"
Accountant Li thought for a while and said: "Based on the amount of floods this time and the landslides in the ravine, 30 acres of fertile farmland can be deposited in each cofferdam."
"22 cofferdams, 660 acres of new prime farmland."
Luo Xuan sighed: "This kind of fertile land has a high yield. It is impossible for our production team not to cultivate it. But we have to cultivate these fertile fields scattered in 22 ravines. How can the members work collectively?"
"ah?"
Accountant Li suddenly came to his senses: "I'm beginning to understand that the biggest crisis you mentioned has not really arrived yet!"
"In other words, we must cultivate these newly added fertile fields.
But if members of the cooperative cannot work collectively, they will be taking the path of ‘solo households’ and they will definitely be punished!”
Accountant Li's face turned pale: "This problem is really serious! It can be so serious that no one can protect us!!
So, what to do?
If our production team members insist on working together, by the time everyone walks to the field with hoes on their shoulders, it will already be noon, so what the hell are we still doing?"
"But watching the new high-yielding fertile land go unplanted, instead planting slopes with a yield of less than 200 kilograms per mu? Who would be happy about that!"
Accountant Li scratched his head and scratched his head worriedly: "What should we do? Luo Xuan, when we build the cofferdam, aren't we just trying to create new fertile fields?"
"what to do?"
Luo Xuan pointed to the three victims on the river bank who had just been fished out by Chen Xiaobai and the others: "If we want to solve this problem, our hope lies in them!"
Accountant Li turned his head in confusion and looked at the limp victims being supported by members of the Shilipu production team.
