"Die before you get out of school······" Xu Rui covered his head, and was inexplicably a little glad that he wanted to refuse him: "I found out that when you brag B, it is really catchy, and your acting skills are so good" Xiang Que waved his hand shyly, and said: "Hand is born, hand is born" The river section below Taohuayu in Zhengzhou, Henan Province is called the lower reaches of the Yellow River, starting from the downstream section of the river except for the south bank of Dongping Lake to Jinan is low mountains and hills, all rely on the embankment to keep the water, the Yellow River region often has flood disasters in history, the river embankment does not play much role at all, and a big flood is out of control.
In recent years, because of proper management, the number of floods has been reduced a lot, not to the extent of more than 10,000 casualties, but a small range of floods will still make many people along the coast die, in addition to other reasons, accidental sinking of ships, etc., there will be a lot of dead bodies in the Yellow River every year, but unless the dead bodies in the Yellow River are found on the spot, otherwise as long as they are separated by a few hours, the corpses will be taken away by sediment and water flow There is no way to salvage.
So from ancient times to the present day the Yellow River There is no way to verify how many corpses and bones there were.
The Yellow River is a relatively tossed river, in addition to frequent floods, because of climate warming, drought, vegetation destruction, the Yellow River will often be cut off, that is, the water flows and then disappears.
Generally speaking, this mother river of China is very restless and capable of tossing, which often makes people in the Yellow River valley panic.
It is now more than half of June and will soon be July, and the precipitation in the lower reaches of the Yellow River has begun to decrease this year, and the flow of water has been cut off again after three years.
Taohuayu, the lower reaches of the Yellow River, was cut off this year.
There is a peach blossom village near Taohuayu, there is an old man in his fifties in the village, no one remembers the big name, the people in the village call him Daddy Xu, Daddy Xu is not from Peach Blossom Village, he moved to the village more than 30 years ago, and then took root for more than 30 years and never left Open.
Daddy Xu is a very strange person, he is a lame man who walks 1.61.7 meters, when he was young, he had a bit of Fu Hongxue's demeanor, and when he was old, he became an old lame.
He lives alone in the village near the bank of the Yellow River, built a thatched house, usually rarely interacts with the villagers, eats and lives alone, self-sufficiency seems to live an isolated life, basically does not talk to people, the silence is a bit outrageous, it is said that when he was young, he was also a talent and had a relatively stable job, that is, in a sluice gate in the lower reaches of the Yellow River to watch the sluice gate, he used to earn more than 500 yuan a month, and this salary standard is now basically equivalent to the level of senior white-collar workers.
Although he is a lame man, he earns a lot, so at that time, many people introduced objects to Daddy Xu, and the big girls in the eight villages were brought to show him a lot, but every time Daddy Xu shook his head silently, and none of them agreed, no matter how smart the girl was, he just didn't do it, and then there was no more over time People introduced him, and he was single for more than thirty years.
Although Daddy Xu's temperament is eccentric, but he is not bad, because he earns more money in the village, plus he doesn't spend much money, it seems that he saves a lot of money every year, so Daddy Xu often sponsors the villagers in the village, whoever has a problem, he tries to help, The elderly have no money to see a doctor, and the children have no money to go to school, he will help, even if life is good now, there are few real difficult households, and Father Xu often takes out his salary to buy things for the lonely and widowed elderly.
Someone once asked him, why did he take out all the money he earned, and what if he raised it in the future?
At this time, Daddy Xu would say lightly with a mouthful of teeth yellowed by tobacco: "When I am old, I don't need to be raised, and it's useless to keep the money" Although Daddy Xu is very good, the villagers are not very willing to contact him, because whenever someone approaches him, he will always feel that his body is very cold, even if it is a dog day when you stay with him for a long time, you will have this feeling, if it is at night If so, the degree of coldness will be more obvious, and the villagers also found that Daddy Xu's eyes are abnormally gloomy, and staring at you for a while can make people can't help but break out in a cold sweat, so for more than 30 years, the eccentric Daddy Xu has become a mystery in the eyes of the villagers.
The day, in the morning.
Father Xu had just walked out of the house with a pair of cloth shoes and a dry tobacco pouch in his hand, when a man in his thirties wearing a white shirt hurriedly rode a motorcycle to find him.
"Daddy Xu, Daddy Xu, the Yellow River has been cut off," the man in the white shirt shouted at a distance from his neck.
Father Xu asked, "Broken?"
Broke last night?
” "Well, it was cut off last night, the water flow began to decrease a few days ago, and it officially began to break last night" The man who spoke was from the lower reaches of the Yellow River water station, that is, Daddy Xu's colleague.
"Let's go, go to the water station" Daddy Xu limped on the motorcycle.
This kind of water station will be built in every basin and section of the Yellow River, mainly to intercept the flow, store water, intercept debris and other functions, Xu Lao Dad has been working in this water station since he moved to Taohua Village more than 30 years ago, and has never stopped.
Ten minutes later, the motorcycle arrived at the water station, and after getting out of the car, Father Xu limped quickly towards a big iron gate next to the water station: "You go back, I'll go down by myself" "Hey, you're always careful, be careful," the middle-aged man reminded him and left.
The big iron door has been rusted, it is obvious that it has not been opened for a long time, the door is wrapped with iron chains, in addition to rust, there is moss produced by the tide, the iron chain is very thick and heavy, dozens of catties are all wrapped around the iron door.
Father Xu took out a key tied to the belt of his trousers from his body and opened the lock on the iron chain, and then pushed open the big iron door and walked down.
Don't look at Daddy Xu as a cripple, but his legs and feet didn't seem to cause him any inconvenience when he walked, and he was very brisk when he went down the steps.
After walking for a while, it was dark under the steps and he couldn't see clearly, so he turned on the switch and turned on the light.
After walking a few more meters down the steps, a closed gate appeared in front of me again, this time not an iron gate but a heavy wooden door, with many confusing characters carved on it, a bit like the kind of ghost drawing.
Strangely, the heavy wooden door had clearly been eroded by water and moisture for a long time, but it had not rotted away.