There is a white bone spirit in the village

Chapter 34

Due to limited conditions in ancient times, the dam body was mostly rammed with clay to build the bottom, so leakage prevention is particularly important.I don't know about other things, just looking at the degree of peeling of the clay layer in these gaps, Lin Jiao can roughly conclude that the leakage problem of this reservoir should have always existed since it was built.

"What did you see?"

Lin Jiao heard the old man talking behind her, and there were only the two of them here, so these words were naturally addressed to herself.Throwing away the handful of soil that he had pinched just now, he looked back.Seeing the old man staring at him with piercing eyes, he glanced around and said casually: "It's a pity that such a place has been abandoned. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the Longchuan River flows through it. From the previous flood, the water collecting surface It’s still big, and if it’s re-opened after the design is expanded, it should be no problem to irrigate thousands of hectares of fields downstream.”

The old man's expression moved slightly, he took a closer look at Lin Jiao, then shook his head and sighed: "It's rare for you, a little country girl, to have such insight. It's just that words are easier said than done. Do you know why it was abandoned here in the past? Leakage is unavoidable, and it can be repaired, but the bigger problem is sedimentation. When the water bureau was established here, it did not consider the sedimentation from the upstream and the mountains. Until 50 years ago , The silt here has accumulated nearly half the depth of the reservoir, a large amount of erosion occupies the water capacity, and the slightest heavy rain will cause flooding. The state officials at that time had no choice but to cut off the upstream water source and discard it. The silt problem is puzzling, that is At this moment, the water storage is rebuilt, and in a few decades, it will become the source of flooding again."

Lin Jiao said: "It's not impossible. If there are proper sand discharge facilities, the silt may be solved." Seeing the old man's eyes brighten, he couldn't help itching, pointing to the road in the distance where he was standing just now. The dam breach at the foot of the mountain ridge continued: "It should be the former discharge gate of the dam. I have heard of a method to set up multiple gates, connect the sand discharge facilities with the discharge gate, and use the water volume and the water level difference between the upstream and downstream. Desilting. Of course, everything needs to be surveyed and designed in detail before we know whether it is feasible..."

On a whim, Lin Jiao was talking to the old man when she suddenly saw someone approaching the corner of the mountain four or fifty meters away. Thanks to Chunjiao's good eyes, she immediately recognized it as Yang Jingxuan!Not expecting to meet him here, she immediately shut up in a daze.The old man on the opposite side was fascinated by what he was listening to. He had already sat on a rock because of his tired legs. Seeing that she stopped talking, he stood up and urged, "Tell me more quickly!"

Lin Jiao's eyes fell on his raised left hand, and only then did she notice that although the old man was dressed as a farmer, the hand that raised his hand to caress his beard had slender fingers and clean nails, unlike a real farmer. For an old man at this age, he can use his hand directly as a sledge.Suddenly remembered that he had heard from Yang Jingxuan that the magistrate seemed to be concerned about water conservancy and had been walking around to investigate, and he suddenly understood and complained endlessly.It was too late and then it was too late, the old man on the opposite side blinked his eyes, she had already turned around to pick up the basket on the stone, lowered her head, stepped on the rocks and walked away quickly.

This old man is Li Guantao who came out in disguise.With the honor of the prime minister of the two dynasties and the crown prince, he was relegated to this post as a seventh-rank county magistrate when he was nearly sixty years old. He had no complaints and anger, but instead became a local parent official seriously.After clearing out the bandits, he personally experienced the suffering of the local people relying on the sky for food. Due to the irregular rains and poor harvests for several years, he wanted to build water conservancy here.In the past hundred years of water storage in Yanlaipi, half of the achievements have been mixed, and it was finally completely abandoned due to the problem of silt.At first, he searched all over the craftsmen, and even consulted the water officials of the Ministry of Industry by borrowing his previous relationship. He wanted to find a way to deal with the silting. Only then did he have no choice but to give up, and instead looked elsewhere.After surveying a large circle, I finally felt that Yanlaipi had the right time and place. It was not unreasonable to build a dam here a hundred years ago to stop the water. Now it is abandoned because of the silt, and I feel really unwilling, so I turned again. Come here and think of another way.When I saw Lin Jiao for the first time just now, I was surprised that she, a country girl, came here. She even touched the soil in her palm and kneaded it in a serious way, so she asked a casual question. I didn't expect to have a few conversations, and I heard her say that there is a cure. The law of silt immediately became like rain after a long drought, and was about to ask again, but in a blink of an eye, her expression changed as if she had seen a ghost, she shut her mouth, turned around and left, her legs and feet were extremely agile, and she couldn't catch up with her , hurriedly shouted: "Hey, what's your name, where are you from?"

Lin Jiao heard Li Guantao calling out behind her, without turning her head, she said, "Daya Wang from Xilin Village loves to talk nonsense during the day. It was all nonsense just now, so don't believe it!"

Li Guantao saw that she was running fast among the chaotic rocks, and climbed up the stone beam in a blink of an eye, leaving only a small black spot. He sighed, and said "Daya Wang, Xilin Village" twice, recalling her appearance just now. Although the clothes are crude, the person is very pretty, especially when he talks to himself, his eyes are bright, and he is talking nonsense, but he really doesn't believe it.Where is Ken just letting it go, he has already decided in his heart to go back and send someone to look for it.If it's a fool to find it, then forget it.

Yang Jingxuan followed Li Guantao to come to Yanlaipo again today, seeing that it was almost noon just now, fearing that he would not be hungry due to his age, he went to the post where the horse stopped to get dry food and water, when he met a man riding a fast horse from the county government office. The family members said that the king of the state capital and a group of officials knew that today was the boss's [-]th birthday, so they rushed over to pay their respects, and his wife ordered him to invite the boss back to the Yamen.

Yang Jingxuan naturally knew about Li Guantao's [-]th birthday today.But he himself didn't care at all, he just said that he would eat a bowl of birthday noodles made by his wife when he came back at night.Mrs. Li scolded him for being a donkey, but let him out, and told Yang Jingxuan to take good care of him before leaving.He has been an official in the court for many years, and although he has been demoted because of the crown prince, his prestige has not declined. Now the fourth-rank magistrate Wang Suqian in the state capital was still his student back then. Not a reason.

Yang Jingxuan asked the family members who came to report the news to wait for a while, then went down to the dam to find Li Guantao, and saw him talking to a person from a distance, because most of the person's body was blocked by his back, he didn't pay attention at first, just thought it was him. It was talking to locals you met nearby.When he got closer, he saw that the person had turned around and rushed away in a hurry, he looked like a woman, and felt a little familiar, immediately thought of someone, wanted to take another look, but the figure had disappeared behind the stone beam.

Yang Jingxuan suppressed his doubts, and went to Li Guantao to express his intentions. Seeing him shaking his head and smiling, he said: "Differences are not conspiring with each other. Although he is my student, he just parted ways. I am only an old man now, how can I be worthy of those people?" Congratulations from not far away?"

Yang Jingxuan continued: "If you don't have anything to go to the Three Treasures Hall, why don't you go back and see what they intend to do?" Seeing Li Guantao pondering for a moment, he nodded in response, before turning around, he glanced at the stone beam where the woman disappeared just now, Then he took the opportunity to ask: "Just now I saw that your lord seems to be talking to a woman?"

Li Guantao stroked his beard and laughed, "That's right. I'm about to tell you. Just now, I met a woman who talked eloquently about water conservancy and sand control. I was about to ask in detail, but she ran away suddenly. I asked her name , she only said Wang Daya of Xilin Village. You send someone quickly, oh no, it’s better for you to find it yourself, I’ll wait for your news at night.”

Yang Jingxuan knew that he was devoting himself to controlling the water, and he was even more thirsty for those who could be used.Just now, I thought that the figure from behind was Lin Jiao, but after hearing what he said, her doubts were instantly dispelled.Maybe it's just similar people.She should be busy going to the city to open a shop now, how could she know water conservancy and sand control, and even come here to talk to the county magistrate?

Yang Jingxuan listened to Li Guantao's brief description of her appearance, saying that she was a young girl, because her head was wrapped in a cool handkerchief to cover her bun, so she couldn't tell whether it was a girl or a woman, so she agreed to do it immediately, and helped Li Guantao climb onto the horse. He went down the mountain with Pinggang, handed it over to the family at the foot of the mountain, and after parting, he followed the previous order and went to Xilin Village to find someone.

How fast you show, how fast you die.Lin Jiao knew this principle well in her previous life, so she has always been cautious, no matter how proud she is, she will never forget her appearance in front of others.But now, she found that she was careless and fell into this pit.She felt that she should not have come to this place at all today.Anyway, the mouth of the dam has already been closed once, so as long as no one is out of their minds to block it, there should be no accidents in the future.It’s really better to have nothing to worry about, and it’s better to lie down and sleep at home and grow dicks when you’re full, rather than crawling here sweating under the sun. When I got to someone, I felt speculative, so I said a few words quickly...

Well, she admitted that it was because she had a superficial illness and couldn't help but want to show off, so she opened her mouth to answer the question.But she really thought that the other party was just an ordinary country old man. After all, it was not easy to find someone here to listen to her opinions on this aspect, so she improvised a few words.Unexpectedly, the other party was the county magistrate Weng, and he almost bumped into Yang Jingxuan.Her luck is really not ordinary, so good that even God can't see it and wants to trip her up.

Think about it, if someone or Yang Jingxuan found out that she knew this, and went to show off in front of the magistrate, how would she explain it when asked?The last time it was said that her mother-in-law Ding had a dream, but this time she still had a dream?She couldn't even say it herself.If I keep asking, I'm afraid that she will be exposed as a fake Chunjiao.She had just gotten the first pot of gold in her life with great difficulty, and she was planning to make a fortune silently and live a stable and prosperous life in the future, and she didn't want to be put on fire and become a turkey because of being in the limelight.

Lin Jiao couldn't stop regretting, and when she got off the mountain ridge, she rushed towards Taohua Village without stopping. She only hoped that Yang Jingxuan didn't recognize her, and she hoped that County Magistrate Li couldn't find someone to rest her mind, so that she would be fine and everyone would be fine. Actually not good.Turning a corner, I suddenly saw a few children chasing something with stones and sticks in front of them, and then they formed a circle laughing and laughing, and got closer, only to hear two screams, a dirty dog The black puppy suddenly limped out of the encirclement and headed straight for Lin Jiao.Lin Jiao took a closer look, and felt that it looked familiar, and then she recognized it, as if it was the one that was rescued in the flood two months ago.At that time, when she fell into the water because of chasing the puppy, the little thing lost her hand and disappeared, thinking that it was very likely to be crushed by mud and rocks and died underwater. It's so depressing today.

When the black dog arrived in front of Lin Jiao, it seemed to recognize her, and suddenly howled twice as if asking for help, and ran behind her and pulled her trouser legs vigorously.Several children were already chasing after them out of breath, yelling at the puppy non-stop.

Lin Jiao looked down at the puppy, thinking that it was fate that they could meet again under such circumstances.I happened to be about to open a shop, and it would be okay to raise a watchdog, so I protected it a little bit, took out the dry food I brought from the basket, handed it to the children and said, "This is my dog. I lost it some time ago." Do you want pancakes? If you want, take it, don't some old men embarrass a dog, are you ashamed?"

When the children saw that there was something to eat, they immediately reached out to take it and scattered.The little black dog seemed to know that it was time to meet a nobleman, whimpered and acted like a baby, and then circled around Lin Jiao's legs non-stop.

Lin Jiao squatted down to check, and saw that one of its hind legs had been wounded by animal traps. The wound was deep with bones, and it had rotted and pus.The locals have the habit of setting traps on the mountain to hunt.It has been trapped by animal traps, it can be seen that it was on the mountain some time ago.Animal traps are generally very strong. It is extremely rare for a trap of its size to be able to escape down the mountain after being caught.I also saw that apart from being a little dirty and a little thinner, it seemed to be in good spirits.The claws are shiny, and the eyes are dark and moist, and the eyelashes are fluttering, looking at him.Heiteng didn't see it clearly last time, but now it has a few crescent-like white hairs growing on its eyebrows, which is very beautiful. When I lifted its hind legs and looked at it, the male laughed out loud and poked it. forehead, and said: "I will call you Tiger King from now on."

The Tiger King was very clever, seeing Lin Jiao pointing to the basket on the ground, sticking out his tongue and licking her hand flatteringly, he immediately jumped in and lay down.Lin Jiao took the basket and continued to go to Taohua Village.

After Yang Jingxuan separated from County Magistrate Li, he immediately went to Xilin Village.

Xilin Village was twenty or thirty miles away from here. When he arrived, the sun had already set in the west. As soon as he entered the village, he asked people about Wang Daya.Most of the villagers here know him and know that he is looking for someone, how can they not help?He asked all the way from the beginning of the village to the end of the village. Seeing that it was getting dark, no one knew who Wang Daya belonged to, let alone anyone who fit his description, so he had to leave.He knew Mr. Li was eager to seek talents, so he went to the nearby villages of Huangtang and Meixi to ask the patriarchs one by one, and finally found Wang Daya - but she was really stupid, sitting on the threshold and tilting her head. Drool, but in his teens, he must not be the one who talked to Mr. Li during the day. Seeing that it was late at night, although he was very disappointed in his heart, he had no choice but to find here first.

(End of this chapter)