In the end, Lin Wen got what he wanted and got the task of guarding the embankment of Changpai Village, and went back happily.

County Magistrate Zhao also specifically returned the 12 staff members who had been seconded from him earlier, but Lin Wen was indifferent to this.

After the flood control meeting, all the village and town chiefs had left, leaving only Changshan County Magistrate Zhao Anping and his secretary Xiao Zhang in the conference room.

Under the dim light, County Magistrate Zhao had been drinking tea silently without speaking. The conference room was quiet.

After a long time, Secretary Xiao Zhang couldn't help but say: "Sheriff, it's getting late, it's time to go back."

Sheriff Zhao nodded, but did not move.

After a while, he put down the tea cup and said slowly: "Xiao Zhang, do you still remember how Lin Wen became the mayor of Changle Town?"

Xiao Zhang thought for a while and said: "I remember that Xiao Lin's father died heroically in a desperate struggle with human traffickers to rescue the kidnapped children. He was later rated as a first-class brave man. His mother drove a barge to rescue the trapped children.

When she was in the flood, she was swept away by the big waves. Afterwards, it was estimated that she saved the lives of more than 1,200 people and was rated as a first-class heroine. Later, according to the opinion of the Governor-General's Office, Lin Wen was a descendant of the imperial hero and was transferred directly from the town.

The clerk was promoted to the mayor. He jumped 4 levels in a row!"

County Magistrate Zhao stared at the tea cup, as if he was in a trance: "Well, that was three years ago. I remember that Xiao Lin was too young at the time, and it caused a lot of controversy."

Xiao Zhang nodded: "Yes, but the authority of the Governor's Mansion needs to be pointed out by others? Haha!"

County Magistrate Zhao ignored Xiao Zhang's teasing and continued: "I have been working here for three years. Although Xiao Lin has no talent as an official, he has always been very diligent and never bends the law for personal gain. It is said that he has become more diligent in recent times. Everyone in Changle Town is

Full of praise."

Xiao Zhang bent down and whispered: "Sheriff, what do you want to say?"

Zhao Anping said calmly: "Do you think Xiao Lin is aware of this round of appointment plans?"

Xiao Zhang smiled and said: "This is impossible. The draft document is still in your safe. Except for you and a few people at the County Hall, no one else knows about it."

Zhao Anping sneered, but did not continue. Instead, he asked: "What do you think Xiaolin wants to do by being so active in defending the most dangerous areas?"

"I'm not just trying to gain credit." Xiao Zhang yawned, "Despite what he said beautifully, the most he can do is make repairs and do preliminary work. If the flood really comes, he will never go up the embankment."

Zhao Anping didn't speak anymore. He sat quietly in the dim light for a moment before standing up and saying, "Let's go."

"It's great, we can finally go back." Xiao Zhang suddenly smiled brightly, picked up his briefcase, and ran out in one step.

Zhao Anping looked back at where Lin Wen was sitting and left silently.

——

After Lin Wen returned to town, he read the flood prevention information he brought back that night.

The next day I took people directly to the embankment.

Although the Changpai Village Dike is called a Dike, it is actually just a short section of dry embankment that connects Qingfeng Mountain upstream and the high mountains downstream.

It was to the west of Changle Town, a bit far away, but Lin Wen didn't want to ride in that shabby car anymore, so he walked over there with 10 clerks who had just been transferred back.

There are still 2 people left for Xiao Li to sit in the rear.

In fact, if it weren't for his lack of skills, Lin Wen would have done everything by himself without wanting anyone else.

As soon as you get on the embankment, you can see the rolling river water coming from the sky. The waves are rolling and the water waves are terrifying. The river surface is at least 2000 meters wide and endless as far as the eye can see. On the other side are towering and steep cliffs. The blue-grey rock walls reach straight into the sky from the bottom of the river.

It’s daunting.

Humans here are so insignificant, like an ant next to the giant beasts of heaven and earth.

The only thing that could resist such a powerful flow of water was a section of earthen embankment that had been in disrepair for a long time. Water was emerging from the slope of the embankment everywhere, proving that there were dark holes under the water, several places had collapsed, and the river water had invaded the foundation of the embankment.

The 10 attendants all had pale faces and were trembling.

Lin Wen was overjoyed and had an excuse. He waved his hand and said, "It's dangerous on the embankment. You all should go down and prepare the earthwork, tie it up with woven bags, and prepare some bamboo cages filled with stones and reinforcement tools."

, put them all under the embankment, I will pick them up myself, and you don’t need to take care of the rest.”

The 10 clerks looked at each other, and one of them muttered: "Mayor Lin, this is not good..."

"It goes without saying!" Lin Wen said with a straight face, "If the mayor doesn't do dangerous things, who will do it? Is the mayor's salary for nothing? When encountering big and difficult things, the mayor doesn't charge forward and sacrifice his life for justice.

What’s the use of this mayor?”

For this reason, everyone no longer wanted to stay on the embankment for a moment. The fear of the rough waves crashing on the shore made them run down the embankment as if they were running away.

Lin Wen was left alone in the dusk of the sky and the earth, and in the roar of the roaring waves, he opened his arms and laughed: "I'm coming! Immortals and gods, tremble!"

Perhaps out of inexplicable gratitude, 10 people transported more than 200 bags of earth, more than 50 bamboo cages filled with stones, more than 20 anchor piles and a lot of tools in one day.

However, Mayor Lin did not go down the embankment all day long. He was carrying earthwork on his back and using shovel tools to reinforce the embankment.

This section of the embankment in Changpai Village is more than 200 meters long. Logically speaking, it is difficult for one person to complete the repair and reinforcement work, but in the evening they did not dare to say this because Mayor Lin had already carried more than 100 bags.

As the earth moved up, he held a shovel in each hand, like a mountaineer, walking quickly on the slippery and muddy embankment, as if he was carrying a bag of cotton on his back, and he transported the bag of earth from the embankment in just a moment.

Go to the embankment.

At this rate, we might be able to complete the embankment repair work before the flood season.

"Is this okay?" A clerk couldn't believe his eyes, "Is this something a human can do?"

"Is this man made of iron?"

"How about we go up and help him?" a small voice said.

"You have to go."

"I can't stand the sight of the river. It looks like a man-eating monster."

"How could such a thing happen before?"

"Stop talking! This is Mayor Lin's order! He arranged the work. If we don't move the earth, will Mayor Lin go to the village to dig the earth and then carry it back?"

"That's right, this is the work arranged by Mayor Lin! We must obey the arrangement and cannot be lazy!"

"More luck?"

"Let's go!"

By 9 o'clock in the evening, dark clouds were rolling in, and soon it started to rain heavily. It was too difficult to transport the earth in the rain, so the ten people decided to go back and rest first.

Before leaving, one person looked back and saw that the embankment was as dark as ink and could not see anything. He said to himself: "Mayor Lin has gone back a long time ago."

A bolt of lightning flashed across the river, illuminating the surface of the river. The water was rolling like crazy, making people wonder whether the paper-thin embankment in front of the 2,000-meter-wide river could block this terrifying force.

And above the embankment, in the heavy rain and under the lightning, there was clearly a figure, carrying something on his back, walking towards the slope of the embankment.

The lightning went away in an instant, and everything returned to darkness.

Huge fear surged into his heart, and the man fell to the ground and exclaimed: "The embankment, the embankment... there is someone on the embankment!"

Everyone turned around: "What did you say?"

"You're blind, there's a ghost in the dark space!"

"Hurry back and take a hot bath, I'm exhausted!"

The man was in shock and wondered if he was dazzled. It was absolutely impossible for Mayor Lin to still be on the embankment at this time. Even if he was Superman, he still had to light a lamp, right? Otherwise, how could he work in this pitch-black area?

Although reason kept denying it, the scene illuminated by the electric light was always engraved in my mind.

Contrary to what they thought, Lin Wen was indeed still on the embankment and did not feel any fatigue or hardship. He faced this terrifying power of nature in the storm without any timidity or fear. Instead, he felt as if he had arrived in the world of immortality in advance.

, that kind of excitement and trembling feeling was completely incomprehensible to others, and Lin Wen was completely immersed in it.

Of course, this is not a spiritual victory method.

In the first few hours, Lin Wen was so tired that he vomited blood. The road on the embankment was full of mud. It was soft when he stepped in and tired when he pulled it out. It was wet and slippery. A bag of earth weighed more than 100 kilograms. Carrying it on his back was like a mountain.

Like a mountain. If he didn't have faith to support him, he would have laid down long ago.

It took more than half an hour to get the first bag of earth up the embankment, and more than half an hour to find the hidden holes. Fortunately, Lin Wen still had enough brains to remember the methods of finding and blocking hidden holes in the flood control materials.

In order to prevent it from being washed away, Lin Wen specially found a location with a slow flow of water. The dark hole was also very small and was filled with just one bag of earth. It was probably just a small break.

After Lin Wen completed the reinforcement with a shovel, he instantly gained 1 point of good karma.

Lin Wen was shocked. In the past, he worked so hard all day long that he couldn't get any good karma. In this time, after more than an hour of hard work, he got only 1 point?

Although he had already guessed that repairing the embankment would be a great meritorious deed and should bring him a lot of good karma, he never expected that there would be so many?

"Calm down! Calm down! There may not be so many. I haven't gained any good karma after doing it for a long time. Maybe it's just a little bit short. How about making up for it now?"

The verification method is also very simple, he just needs to try again.

Despite the strong power bonus, due to physical limitations, it still took Lin Wen more than thirty minutes to carry a bag of earth on his back.

It took nearly an hour to find a particularly small dark hole, and after plugging it, I gained another 1 point of good karma instantly!

"Fuck!"

Lin Wenton beat his chest, regretting that he had not discovered this road to wealth earlier and wasted a lot of time.

Just when he wanted to seize the moment and keep working hard, he turned around and fell down on the embankment. Only then did Lin Wen realize that his entire shoulder was numb, his arms were shaking uncontrollably, his legs were as weak as cotton, and huge pain ran through his body.

"No, how can this be possible?"

Good luck was right in front of him but he couldn't find it. Lin Wen was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

"Get up, get up, get these broken legs up!"

Just as he was anxious to get angry, a white mist flashed before his eyes, and the Immortal Cultivation Panel came out again. The biggest change from before was that the number after the word "Good Destiny" with shining golden light became 10.

These are 10 points of good karma that Lin Wen gained after many days of accumulation and painstaking efforts.

"Why are you looking at this at this time? What am I thinking..."
Chapter completed!