Riverside Police.

In a blink of an eye, 001 has been out for a month.

From Shuzhou City, Jiangnan Province, it goes upstream, passes through Hui'an and Xijiang River, and arrives at Beihu Lake.

Together with Xi Gong and Xu Gong, Yao Lirong and others walked against the flood, slept on the Yangtze River, surveyed and surveyed all the way, and provided decision-making basis for the Yangtze River Defense Command, the Yangtze River Committee, and the flood control command departments of provinces and cities along the river.

The working life on board can be described as "dire water".

When the weather is bad, there will be storms, thunder and lightning all the way.

The Kent window of the cab rotated rapidly, but Captain Fan and Liu Wei still couldn’t see the river ahead clearly. It was pitch black outside at night, and the window was covered with rain and gray during the day. They could only rely on the radar to know whether there was an incoming ship in the waters ahead.

Sometimes when the wind is high and the waves are rough, 001 rises and falls like a leaf in a squall.

Yao Lirong, who had never been on a boat before, and Yang Dawei, a village cadre, couldn't vomit. Xi Gong, Xu Gong, Zhu Baogen and the "land lord" Xiao Chen were too nervous to speak.Even Captain Fan and Liu Wei, who had rich experience in sailing, trembled while holding the steering wheel, but they still went forward with all their strength.

When the weather is good, 001 is scorched by the scorching sun like a hot iron plate.

The deck was hot enough to fry an egg, and the bulkheads and railings were too hot to touch.

Although the pilothouse and the command cabin are equipped with air-conditioning, most of the survey items have to be carried out on the side of the ship, such as measuring the water speed and the sand content in the flood, etc. After a few hours, I feel dizzy and hot. To collapse.

It was stuffier and hotter in the engine room than on the deck.

Zhu Baogen and Xiao Chen's clothes are always wet. I don't know how much sweat they sweat a day, but they drink a lot of water every day.

After finally arriving in Hanwu, they only berthed at a small pier where the water level was soaring for five hours, and successfully completed the replenishment. When Xigong and Xugong went to the shore to report their work and came back, they had to embark on the journey again.

According to the instructions of the superior, 001 will be responsible for the survey and survey of the Hanwu section to Changyi section of the Yangtze River from now on.

All the way from the Xijiang River, the embankments on both sides of the river are full of soldiers and civilians participating in flood control, and red flags are planted everywhere, and the same is true for Hanwu.

When sailing to the embankment of Longwangmiao, the river is wide and the water is fast. The torrent carries the sand, tree roots and all kinds of garbage washed down from the upper reaches, roaring, scouring the embankment, and rolling down the river.

It is said that there has been a dangerous situation on the shore. There are many leaks in the Hanwu embankment, and the houses near the point where the water gushes out of the city are being demolished, and all people have been evacuated.It's just that I was busy with supplies at the small pier and didn't go ashore. I don't know how nervous it is on the shore. Now I finally feel the tense atmosphere of flood control and emergency rescue.

I saw two cargo ships transporting stones from upstream berthed outside the Longwangmiao embankment, and the people on board were throwing large stones at the leaking site.The thrown stones hit a huge water column and bang, and were immediately washed away by the turbulent river.

On the nearby river, more stone ships are waiting to dock.

Yao Lirong could clearly see through the binoculars that the people on the shore were connecting stones and concrete blocks together to increase the weight of the stones entering the river.There are also many people building cofferdams and throwing sand and gravel on the shore...

Xu Gong is a native of Hanwu. Faced with this situation, he said worriedly: "Xiaoyao, this is the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Han River, the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, and it is also the most dangerous embankment. The great flood and the flooding of the three towns of Hanwu were all caused by the collapse of the Dragon King Temple embankment.”

The first flood peak of the Yangtze River has formed, just upstream.

If 001 has completed the mission according to the original plan, it can return to the voyage after replenishing fuel, drinking water and dry food.

It is precisely because the flood peak is coming that the flood control command department needs to keep abreast of the flood peak situation. The superiors consider that 001 not only has underwater surveying and mapping equipment, but also is a tugboat with good stability and high horsepower that has experienced strong winds and waves at the tail of the Yangtze River. The driver and The crew has rich experience in dealing with strong winds and waves, and is more suitable for carrying out flood peak survey tasks than the first flood control command ship "Guoxun No. [-]", which was just built and launched by the flood control department this year, so it was decided to extend the borrowing time by one month!

Plans are always better than change.

Although Yao Lirong was very homesick, he still agreed to continue to assist in the survey mission. After all, this is survey flood peak data, similar to the "wind chaser" of the Meteorological Bureau.There are so many water conservancy operators in China, how many of them have the opportunity to perform such a task?
Besides, following Teacher Xi and Teacher Xu, I can really learn a lot.

Yao Lirong calmed down, put down the binoculars and asked, "Mr. Xu, is this year's flood really bigger than that of 54? Is the magnitude of the flood peak we are going to survey higher than that of 54?"

Dayu controlled the floods, but he never entered the house three times.

Xu Gong didn't expect that he would have this day. He had already arrived in Hanwu, but he couldn't take care of going home to visit his old father.

He took a few deep breaths in a row, calmed down his emotions, and said with a frown: "From the data provided by the upstream hydrological station, the magnitude of the flood peak this time should be smaller than that in 1954."

"Less than 1954?"

"The amount of water is less than in 1954, but the pressure on the Yangtze River dikes is greater than in 1954."

XCMG suddenly wanted to smoke, took out a cigarette, and explained: "Due to the fortification of the beaches and embankments in the Yangtze River Basin in recent years, large areas of large and small lakes such as Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake in the middle and lower reaches have been reclaimed, and the storage volume has decreased sharply. The loss is very serious, and the rivers and lakes are blocked, so that the water level of the Yangtze River continues to rise when the water volume of the Yangtze River is not very large."

Xi Gong said a few days ago that the Yangtze River has moved an average of 5.2 million tons of sediment every year.

What is the concept of losing 5.2 million tons of sediment a year, and how much can be washed into the sea from the upper reaches of the river?It is conceivable that lakes that were able to store floods before may only be able to store a fraction of what they were before.

Yao Lirong was secretly shocked when he heard this, and was worried about whether the embankment along the river could withstand the test of the flood peak. Xugong lit a cigarette with the wind behind his back, and reminded: "Mr. Xi hasn't had a good rest these days. Let's enter the command cabin later and let him Get more sleep."

"Oh well."

"Actually, the leader planned to arrange another colleague to board the boat with me. He wanted Mr. Xi to have a good rest, and then let Mr. Xi stay in Fangzhi with Mr. Liu from the Design Institute of the Yangtze River Committee. Mr. Xi said that 001 was from Xianyu. It was borrowed, and we were all brought back by him, he insisted on boarding the boat, insisted on staying with us."

"It's true, Mr. Xi, it's not necessary."

"Surveying the flood peak is dangerous to a certain extent, he is worried." Xu Gong took a few puffs of cigarettes, thought about it and then smiled: "His personality is relatively... straightforward, he likes to do research, and he doesn't like dealing with leaders. It’s because I feel that being on a boat is more peaceful than staying on the shore.”

Yao Lirong subconsciously asked: "A straighter personality?"

"Otherwise, how could a professor-level senior engineer like him go to the end of the Yangtze River?"

Xu Gong asked a question back, and said with emotion: "I was assigned. He is different from me. He has many choices. He originally stayed in the Design Institute. He heard that the Changjiang Estuary Hydrology Bureau was short of people. The subject he was researching at that time happened to be I needed to go downstream for field research, so I volunteered to transfer there.”

The economy of the Yangtze River Delta is more developed than that of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, but Hanwu is the provincial capital.

Moreover, the Changjiang Estuary Hydrological Bureau is not located in a big city, or even in the urban area of ​​Shuzhou, but in a small town by the Shuzhou River. The conditions in all aspects are not as good as those in Hanwu.

People who do research are like this, and their personalities are a little weird.

Chen Gong, the chief engineer of Linghai Conservancy Bureau, also has a bad temper. The leaders don't like him but they can't do without him.

Just when Yao Lirong was full of emotions, Xiao Chen, the "land lord", was standing in the shade at the stern of the boat, looking at the three towns of Hanwu, which were getting farther and farther away, chatting with Zhu Baogen.

"Uncle Zhu, Xiaoyu's house may be in the tallest building we saw this morning."

"It won't be so coincidental."

"He told me that his community is the tallest residential building in Hanwu, and he has to take the elevator to go home! Because it's too high, if you don't take the elevator, if you climb the stairs with your legs, your legs will break! Uncle Zhu, Have you ever taken an elevator?"

"Who has never taken an elevator before? The Hong Kong Supervision Office has installed an elevator. I have taken it several times. But I don't really sit in it, I stand in it." Zhu Baogen smiled, thought about it and said: "I have not only sat up straight up I have taken the elevator that goes straight down, and I have also taken the elevator that is inclined.”

"What kind of elevator is the slanted elevator?" Xiao Chen was confused.

"It's the kind of elevator with stairs. Come to think of it, it's called an escalator."

"I've seen escalators before, and Wenfeng Shopping Center has them."

"I went to sit on the opening day of Wenfeng Mall. I didn't want to go, and it cost money to go. Xiao Binfei took me there. There are so many people, crowded, there are elevators on every floor, and there are no elevators beside the elevator. There was something blocking it, and I sat on the sixth floor and didn’t dare to look down.”

Compared with the Wenfeng shopping mall opened in Linghai last year, Xiao Chen is more interested in Xiaoyu's home in Hanwu, muttering: "Actually, we can go ashore after filling up the gas and water. It's my fault. Why didn't I think of asking Mr. Yao to make a call with his mobile phone and ask Xiaoyu where his family lives. If we know the place, maybe we can go to his house to play, see his parents, and see the little crocodile .”

When Xiao Chen mentioned the old Liang couple and the little crocodile, Zhu Baogen was also a little regretful, and couldn't help sighing: "Xiaoyu and Yuzhen got married and put wine twice. When Yuzhen and Yuzhen returned to Hanwu, they invited many people, including me, and wanted to bring me to Hanwu for a few days."

"Uncle Zhu, you have been to Hanwu!"

"I've been here once, but I'm not here to drink Xiaoyu and Yuzhen's wedding wine. I'm here to receive Changjiang Public Security 110, Changjiang Public Security 111 and Binjiang Public Security 002."

"Is it the time you escorted the submarine?"

"Ah."

"Then why don't you come to Xiaoyu and Yuzhen's wedding wine? It's not like they didn't invite you, and they don't want you to spend money!"

"It's not about money or not."

Zhu Baogen was silent for a moment, looking down at his hands: "You don't know what I did before, what would I look like if I went to get married? Besides, it's not like I didn't go when Xiaoyu and Yuzhen set up wine at Linghai Hotel Had a wedding wine."

He used to restrain the dead, so it's not appropriate to drink other people's wedding wine.

Xiao Chen came to his senses, thought about it and asked again: "The last time you came to receive the new ship, you waited for several days in Hanwu, and Xiaoyu hadn't been transferred back to his hometown at that time, did he ask you to go to his house to play?" ?”

"I called, but I didn't go."

"why are you not going?"

"We came here in 001. No one is allowed on the boat. I want to see the boat."

"If it were me, I would definitely go."

"There's always a chance."

The two were chatting when Xu Gong and Yao Lirong came over and curiously asked what they were talking about.

Xiao Chen pointed to the three towns of Hanwu that were getting farther and farther away, and mentioned that Xiaoyu's parents and son were both in Hanwu, and he wanted to visit it when he was berthed in Hanwu today, but he couldn't.

To Xiao Chen and Zhu Baogen's surprise, Xu Gong pointed in the direction of Hanwu and said solemnly: "It's not that I don't let you go ashore, the main reason is that the management on the river embankment is strict. It will be very troublesome for you to go back to the boat after you go ashore." .”

"Strict control on the river embankment?"

"Except for flood control and rescue personnel, no one is allowed to go up the embankment without permission."

"Don't people want to go up to the embankment to see how high the river is?"

"No."

"why?"

"for safety."

"Worried about someone falling into the river?"

"This is one aspect, but the main reason is that there will be lawbreakers doing damage."

Xiao Chen asked in amazement: "Who would destroy the river embankment, and is it so easy to destroy the river embankment?"

Xu Gong took out a cigarette again, took out one and handed it to Lao Zhu, and said in a low voice: "It seems that you don't usually watch the news very much. There are many bad people in this world, some bad people are even down to the bone! On February 2 this year, there were two A bastard planted a bomb on a bus and detonated it when the bus was driving on the Yangtze River Bridge, killing more than a dozen passengers and injuring more than two dozen."

Zhu Baogen suddenly remembered this, and immediately exclaimed: "I remember, Xianyu and Han Ning told me. After the bombing, even our Changhang branch in Binjiang was very nervous. During that time, as long as we went to the pier Those who take the boat must open their bags and be inspected to see if there are any dangerous items or explosives!"

Xiao Chen turned around again and looked at Han Wu, who was getting further and further away, and said in horror: "That said, we should be stricter. What if there are bad guys, what if the bad guys blow up the river embankment?"