When it was estimated to be noon, he lowered his head and finished eating two pieces of steamed buns, huddled in the haystack in the inner gate chamber, closed his eyes and rested for half an hour.

Until the dull sound of rain in his ears suddenly became louder and louder, and Ouyang Rong woke up in a daze.

"Master, let's..."

Liu Ashan, who hurriedly pushed open the gate of the gate, immediately saw the young county magistrate's dozing figure with his head lowered. He quickly shut up, stepped back quietly, and prepared to close the door.

But it was too late. In the darkness, a pair of slightly bloodshot eyes had already opened.

"What's the matter? Tell me."

Ouyang Rong stood up, patted the thatch on his buttocks, crossed Liu Ashan, pushed open the gate with his hands, put on his bamboo hat, and walked into the rain.

"Master, if you don't want to rest for a while, you didn't even close your eyes last night."

"It's okay, I'm already energetic. You're talking about it."

Ouyang Rong shook his head.

Liu Ashan kept up with the former who was taking the lead.

"Master, the sacks we brought have been used up. They have all been packed into sandbags and piled up over the dam...

"The brothers who were quarrying rocks and sand at Caifeng Mountain are all back. I sent them to Longbei Mountain to help carry bamboo and wood...

"In addition, according to your instructions, I found two fishermen among the villagers. They have some experience in weaving nets. They are teaching the women and children to use coarse cloth and linen to bundle rolls and weave fishing nets... These are almost ready."

Ouyang Rong listened as he walked through the gate and dam. The piles of sandbags he passed by made him feel quite at ease.

The water level continues to rise. If the Dickong Gate is in critical condition soon, these seemingly inconspicuous supplies prepared now are life-saving tools.

"Let's go and have a look at Longbei Mountain."

Ouyang Rong took Liu Ashan and others to Longbei Mountain, at a slightly higher location.

He paused for a moment, silently looking back, overlooking the sluice below and the surrounding tide dams.

Di Gong Gate does not mean that the whole gate occupies the entire Yuenv Gorge.

Although Yuenv Gorge is located between Longbei Mountain and Caifeng Mountain on both sides of the bank, it is relatively narrow.

But where in the world can such a large sluice span both sides of the gorge?

Di Gong Gate is composed of a sluice and a tide-blocking dam.

Its main body is a tide-blocking dam, which is made of stones and wooden piles and spans the entire Yuenv Gorge. As the name suggests, it is used for flood control.

The sluice is located in the center of the tide-blocking dam.

Although it is small in scale, occupying less than one-tenth of the tide-blocking dam, it is exquisitely designed and can block water in both directions, making it extremely useful.

It can block tides, release floods, drain waterlogging, etc.

To put it simply, when the tide in Yunmengze rises, the gate is closed to block the water; when the tide recedes, the gate is opened to release the water.

Currently, Yunmengze is experiencing continuous heavy rain and the water level is skyrocketing.

Naturally, the sluice gates can only be closed tightly. Together with the surrounding tide-blocking dams, they lie across the Yuenv Gorge to block the floods in Yunmengze, gain time for flood discharge, and protect Longcheng County downstream.

It is worth mentioning that the terrain of Yuenv Gorge is extremely interesting.

Longbei Mountain and Caifeng Mountain on both sides of the bank extend from the shore to the bottom of the river, with rocks protruding.

The rocks at the bottom of the river are like a tunnel, spanning dozens of feet.

Therefore, the terrain of Yuenv Gorge is extremely high.

It serves as the north gate water outlet of Jiubaili Yunmeng Daze.

Yun Mengze's relationship with it is like a teapot filled with water and its tilted teapot spout.

The water in the teapot is deep, but the water at the spout of the teapot is not deep.

Even if Ouyang Rong jumped directly from Di Gong Gate in the direction of Yun Mengze, he could easily dive to the bottom of the water.

Therefore, the Dickong Gate across the Yuenv Gorge naturally has an excellent water-blocking effect.

However, no matter how good the water-retaining fortification is, there is a limit, and it cannot withstand the unlimited rise of the water level...

Rumble——!

In the sky in the direction of Yunmengze, silvery-white lightning filled the sky early, and dull thunder came only after a while.

The rain suddenly became heavier.

Ouyang Rong suddenly came back to his senses, spread his hands to catch the rain, as if anticipating the rain, his eyebrows gradually wrinkled.

"Let's go to the camp to get the fishing net. It's time to use it."

Ouyang Rong suddenly turned around and dropped a word resolutely.

After burning incense, a group of people covered in mud hurried to the temporary camp set up on Longbei Mountain.

Liu Ashan and other men went to collect the fishing nets, while Ouyang Rong lingered at the entrance of the camp.

From time to time, he glanced at the stormy Yun Mengze in the distance, his brows a little uneasy, and he hesitated for a moment, then turned around and prepared to walk to the edge of the cliff to observe.

But at this moment, a girl's shout of surprise suddenly came from a tent in the camp behind him, causing him to stop in his tracks.

"Tanlang, are you okay?"

"Weila?!"

Ouyang Rong looked back and immediately spotted the familiar little figure not far away.

The elegant and slim-fitting maid uniform on Ye Weila's body was long gone, and she was wearing a coarse cloth suit suitable for work and travel like an ordinary civilian girl.

The girl seemed to have just walked out of the tent, holding a bowl of steaming ginger soup in both hands, looking at it with big gray-blue eyes.

This scene was a bit familiar, giving Ouyang Rong a sense of déjà vu at home.

But this is not Meiluyuan.

The pounding rain all around brought him back to reality, and he shook his head vigorously. He was not hallucinating.

Ouyang Rong's face was stunned for a moment, and then his voice became louder without realizing it:

"Why are you here? Who brought you here!"

"Don't worry, Tanlang. My slave is fine... You drink a bowl of hot ginger soup first to warm yourself up. You are already soaked. Tanlang has a root cause of the disease. Be careful of catching the cold again... The ginger soup has just been boiled and is ready to be delivered.

, it’s Nuer and Xiu..."

Ye Weilai's face was full of concern, and she accidentally said the last name in her hurry, her voice quietly becoming thinner.

Her small body moved secretly, covering the tent behind which the woman was hiding.

But Ouyang Rong had no intention of paying attention to this at the moment.

"What a nonsense!"

His heroic brows furrowed and he quickly stepped forward, ready to catch this skinny girl.

Ouyang Rong's reaction made Ye Weilai, who was familiar with his temper, shrink her head. The girl raised the ginger soup bowl with both hands and presented it to her. She stood there with her silver-haired head buried in her chest, looking pitiful.

Ouyang Rong was approaching, and he didn't know whether to be angry or laugh.

But at this moment, a thin-faced clerk suddenly ran up from the bottom of the mountain. He fell down at the entrance of the camp. He was panting and looked around.

When he saw Ouyang Rong's figure, the thin-faced scribe hurriedly jumped up and waved, shouting in panic:

"No, Mingfu, something serious has gone wrong. The wind was strong just now, and a big wave hit the sluice with trees and hard objects. The craftsman who inspected said that there may be a crack, and there is an undercurrent under the water. If we don't find a repair,

, it may collapse at any time!”

Ouyang Rong turned his face, his expression suddenly changed.

"Undercurrent? Oops!"

The uneasiness I felt not long ago really came true.

Having no time to care about the little girl's affairs, Ouyang Rong immediately left Ye Weilai behind, turned around and led Liu Ashan and his party to rush down the mountain.
Chapter completed!