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With his life at stake, Wang Shouzhe's mind was spinning rapidly.
He looked at Liu Ruolan with a pampering and deep look: "I really like my wife's craftsmanship. If you do it for me every day, how can I control it? Don't you let me overeat? As time goes by, it will be bad for your body, isn't it murdering your husband?"
"Thus, it is enough for the lady to cook occasionally, and this can also make my husband think about it."
The coldness on Liu Ruolan's face gradually dissipated, and she gave Wang Shouzhe a happy look in her pretty eyes: "My husband is indeed talented, and even the compliments are so thrilling and ingenious."
In order to divert Liu Ruolan's attention, Wang Shouzhe grabbed her waist and said in a low voice: "I've been going out these days, and everything is inconvenient. I haven't learned the lady's 'Xuan Shui Zhen Jue' for a long time. .”
Liu Ruolan blushed slightly, and said in a low voice, "Maybe it's been a long time since I checked the progress of my husband's 'Changchun Zhenjue', but the two children are still studying in the study next door..."
The couple had been away on business for too long, and they hadn't done their homework for a long time, which caused the two little guys to let themselves go. Now they are trying to make up for their progress.
Bear boy is really troublesome.
Wang Shouzhe shook his head regretfully, and was about to focus on the sand table.
But Liu Ruolan blushed, bit her lip and said, "Forget it~ Anyway, they didn't delay their homework for a day or two, I told Qiaoer to take care of the child, let's go to Shuiyuetian Pavilion to practice~"
"okay."
After Wang Shouzhe thought about it, he still couldn't beat Liu Ruolan, so he followed his advice.
After half an hour.
In the study.
The siblings Wang Liyao and Wang Zong'an are doing their homework with serious faces.
Mother said that she would come to check homework in a while.
At a young age, they already know how to read their words, and they know that they would rather offend their father a hundred times at home than make their mother angry once.
Therefore, they worked hard and wrote very hard.
However, after waiting for a long time, my mother did not come to check my homework.
"Aunt Qiao'er." Wang Liyao blinked her beautiful eyes and said suspiciously, "Isn't Mother going to practice with Daddy again?"
"This..." Qiao'er was sweating coldly, and explained with a dry smile, "Miss and uncle are both arrogated to heaven, and they should work hard to cultivate."
The siblings looked at each other in blank dismay.
Come on, today's homework was done for nothing.
Father and mother did not come back for two or three days after practicing this practice.
"An'an, let's go, my sister will take you out to play." Wang Liyao regained her spirits all of a sudden.
"Well, my sister is not very well." Wang Zongan felt a little guilty after all.
He is not as bold as his sister.
"What are you afraid of? It's not that you don't know your parents, they just thought we were an eyesore, so they went to find a quiet place to hide."
As soon as Wang Liyao grabbed Wang Zong'an, she swaggered out and said, "Aunt Qiao'er, you have to help us cover up."
Qiao'er was speechless, and her heart was buried.
Miss, uncle, how many years have you been using that excuse? Even the little lady can't hide it, can you introduce the old and bring forth the new
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In the next few days, the weather was heavy rain again.
The water level in Anjiang keeps rising.
Wang Shouzhe received information that in the middle and lower reaches of Anjiang, many low-lying places have encountered floods, forming internal waterlogging.
Because Changningwei is in the north of Anjiang, the terrain along the coast is steep and the inland terrain is also high. As long as the drainage is proper, it will not be flooded for a while.
In fact, the terrain of Ping'an Town is mostly hilly, and there are many low-lying places. The overall terrain is much lower than that of Anjiang North.
That's why no one has ever come to open up wasteland in the area of Ping'an Town. If this place is a good land, how can we get Patriarch Zhou Xuan's turn
But for the Wang family, Ping'an Town is their foundation, and they have no choice but to manage it carefully.
Water conservancy projects have never been a matter of one day. Traveling so far, Wang Shouzhe has never relaxed about it.
The dredging and filling of Zhuwei Lake is just the beginning.
Over the years, he has been constantly dredging rivers, developing waterways, consolidating embankments, building drainage gates and so on. This torrential rain is also the time to test his hard work over the past eight or nine years.
The entire Wang family, and even many collateral descendants of the Wang family, participated in this flood control work.
The first to bear the brunt is the Anjiang embankment.
Since the ancestor of Zhou Xuan, he has been constantly building embankments and strengthening them. Every year, a part of manpower and material resources are invested in it.
When Wang Shouzhe came here, he paid more attention to the construction and consolidation of the dikes in the Ping'an section of Anjiang.
In addition to being rich, today's Ping'an Wang family also holds a big weapon in their hands, which is the legendary cement.
Simple gravel cement, mixed with water according to the proportion, becomes the famous concrete.
It's just that the time left for Wang Shouzhe is too short. So far, stone slopes and concrete embankments have only been built in the most dangerous sections, which only account for one-third of the 145 miles.
But even so, compared with the original embankment, the flood resistance ability is no longer the same.
Wang Shouzhe checked the embankment all the way in the rain.
As the water level rose, some of the originally safe embankments became hidden dangers. He immediately dispatched his tribe to organize tenant farmers and civilians to temporarily reinforce those embankments.
At the same time, he also checked the drainage gate.
On Earth, some drainage gates use high-power pumps to pump water. It is not difficult to make a simple water pump, but the difficulty is that there is no electricity in this world.
However, human wisdom is infinite.
In this world, there are naturally some irrigation waterwheels.
Wang Shouzhe has done a lot of work over the years, which naturally includes researching improvements to the waterwheel with professionals.
Among the three major drainage gates, the Fenggu Gate located at Fenggu Farm was built by Zhou Xuan's ancestor.
In the past eight years, Wang Shouzhe has repaired and rebuilt the gate many times, making it a major drainage outlet.
Today, there is a "water dragon array" on the left and right sides of the tall gate.
"Water Dragon Formation" sounds very nice to say, but it is actually a large waterwheel with a relatively simple structure.
When the river water flows, it will push the water wheel like a small Ferris wheel to rotate. The rotation of the water wheel works on a reciprocating pump with a simple structure through the more precise and durable bearings and gears made by the refiner.
And this reciprocating pump will pump the water in the gate to Anjiang.
The waterways in the gates extend in all directions, connecting all the waterways and lakes in Ping'an Town.
Wang Shouzhe has a lot of knowledge about the earth. Although these are not the scope of his proficiency, he knows the general direction, and there is no shortage of smart craftsmen and craftsmen in this world.
The current "Water Dragon Formation" came about under the cooperation of the hatchback.
Of course, this large waterwheel is not placed directly in the river channel.
Wang Shouzhe drove piles on the edge of the river, and built a large foundation with concrete, etc., forming a figure-eight-shaped channel corridor with a wide front and a narrow back with the bank of the gate.
In this way, more water can enter the bell mouth, and as the rear channel narrows, the water flow speed will be faster, generating more power for the waterwheel.
At the entrance of the corridor in front of the waterwheel, there is also a two-foot-wide winch lifting gate. When the waterwheel is not needed to operate, the water flow can be cut off only by lowering the gate.
In addition, there is also a grid of iron bars at the bell mouth to intercept all kinds of larger garbage or ferocious aquatic beasts washed down by the water flow, so as to prevent damage to the waterwheel.
The two water dragon array projects at the Fenggu gate are very simple in principle and structure, but it took Wang Shouzhe a full five years to communicate with craftsmen and refiners, constantly trying and improving with small structures, and they were officially put into construction after they were perfected. Tens of thousands of dry gold.
Of course, the effect is also very obvious.
The person in charge of managing this gate is a capable collateral descendant of the Wang family. As soon as he saw Wang Shouzhe, he came up to meet him, and said excitedly, "Patriarch, the two water dragon formations are operating very smoothly."
The huge waterwheel rotates stably in the turbulent waterway. It seems to be slow, but in fact its speed is not slow. It only looks slow because of the relatively large outer circumference of the waterwheel.
Driven by the waterwheel, water spewed out from the mouth of the pipe aimed at Anjiang, like two large white water dragons.
Such a scene is the reason for the name of the Water Dragon Formation!
"Mark at 12 o'clock. Once the water dragon array breaks down, repair it at all costs."
Wang Shouzhe was quite proud when he saw that the water dragon formation, which he had worked hard for many years and invested huge sums of money, was playing an active role.
He regards Ping'an Town as his territory and his home, so he will try his best to build it like an iron bucket, hoping that it can survive various natural disasters.
It has been calculated before that when a large water dragon array is running at full speed, it can drain about 200,000 cubic meters a day.
And there are a total of six such water dragon formations at the three drainage gates. Running at full speed, it can drain about 1.2 million cubic meters a day.
Sounds like a big number.
But in fact, taking Zhuwei Lake as an example, the water area of Zhuwei Lake is about 10,000 mu, and when it is full of water, there will be about 28 million cubic meters of water.
These six large water dragon formations are operating at full speed, and it will take more than 20 days to empty Zhuwei Lake!
Not to mention, the water content of large and small rivers, canals, and small lakes in Ping'an Town.
It is also because of this that before the rainy season comes every year, the six water dragon arrays have to start running in advance to lower the water level of the rivers and lakes in the entire Ping'an Town, so as to prevent the embarrassing situation that there is no time to drain the water when the flood season comes.
And it is still raining now, even if most of the rainwater is absorbed by the land or enters the groundwater and other channels, it is not a small amount for the remaining small part of the water to be discharged into the river.
It is also because of this that even with the six large water dragon formations operating at full capacity, the water in the river is still rising a little bit.
Slowly, but still rising.
Fortunately, the drainage began before the rainy season, which kept the water level in Ping'an Town at a low level. Otherwise, maybe many wheat fields have already been flooded with river water.
Wang Shouzhe had a serious expression on his face.
After all, six water dragon formations are still too few.
Even if this year's flood season is far worse than the two floods in history, it is almost at the limit of the water dragon.
It took eight years, but the water conservancy project gradually built was still in its infancy. Wang Shouzhe thought to himself that once the flood season was over, investment in water conservancy construction would have to be increased again.
Anyway, the entire Ping'an Town now belongs to the Wang family, and no matter how much they invest, it is only a long-term investment. If there is one less flood, it will pay off.
In the next six or seven days, the entire Wang family led 40,000 people in Ping'an Town to fight against the intense flood.
At this time, no outsider can help Mrs. Wang.
After all, the flood season is fierce, and everyone is threatened by floods.
During this period, gaps appeared in three embankments, and the situation almost got out of control. Wang Shouzhe and his wife even sat on the front line and devoted themselves to fighting the flood.
In the face of the majestic power of nature, they who are only at the Lingtai stage can play a very limited role, but with them in charge, everyone has a backbone. With the concerted efforts of the members of the Wang family and all the townspeople, they blocked the gap time and time again, preventing the flood from happening.
finally.
After the weather cleared up for two consecutive days, the turbulent water flow in Anjiang finally slowed down a bit, and the total water level began to drop slowly, dropping by more than half a meter in two days.
This also shows that the flood season has finally passed.
This also means that Ping'an Town has successfully survived the catastrophe this time, and has survived the flood season that is most prone to floods.
However, everyone in Ping'an Town still did not relax their vigilance, and they still worked together to consolidate the weak points of the embankment to prevent repeated flood seasons.
In this way, another few days passed.
The water level in Anjiang continued to drop, and the water gradually calmed down.
The flood season finally passed completely, and Ping'an Town immediately fell into cheers and celebrations.
This time the flood season is fierce. If it were ten or twenty years ago, flood disasters were almost inevitable and would cause great damage.
But this time, except for a certain reduction in production after waterlogging in some areas, the overall grain production has remained at a relatively high level.
Most importantly, only a few people died during the flood season this time.
This is a great victory!
Although Wang's prestige in Ping'an Town has already exploded, after this time, the popularity of the people has risen to a higher level again.
There were celebrations everywhere in Ping'an Town, but Wang Shouzhe and his wife were paralyzed in the house and did not go out for two full days.
They are all exhausted.
It was not until two days later that Wang Mei, Wang Shouzhe's confidant "love general" came secretly to report on his work, that Wang Shouzhe managed to cheer up a little bit.
Wang Shouzhe met Wang Mei secretly in the study.
As he flipped through the various information that Wang Mei had sorted out, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Hehe~ After so many years, he has let go of so many baits, the man behind the scenes sixty years ago finally couldn't hold back, and showed his flaws!
Next, I'm afraid there will be another storm.
The entire Changning Guard is probably about to enter into a sudden change.
"Wang Mei, thank you for your hard work." Wang Shouzhe glanced at Wang Mei with a slightly complicated expression.
The reason for her complicated expression was because of her dress today.
Her attire is obviously similar to the strong uniform style of the female disciples of the Zifu Academy, with a heroic appearance and a soft beauty.
The main thing is.
Her magical make-up technique has reached the stage of innovation.
She is wearing a ponytail, her eyebrows are slightly raised, her face is frosty, and she is valiant and heroic, as if she has the temperament of a certain senior sister and goddess.
Throwing her to the academy, she must be another popular goddess senior.
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