There is a word called Shu Dog Barking Day.
It means that the air in the Bashu Basin is humid, surrounded by mountains, and the water vapor in the plain is not easy to disperse. Dogs don't see the sun very often, and they bark strangely when they see the sun.
It is well known that central Sichuan is rainy, and the rainy season is long and long every year, especially in June, July, and August, when there are heavy rains from time to time.
Lin Siyi and the others were hunting mice, and they didn't want to see a drizzle, which of course had no effect on the immortals, and continued to act as planned. As a result, the drizzle continued for three days, and on the fourth day, the rainfall suddenly increased.
Night, small town.
The work of eradicating the rat infestation was coming to an end, and the effect was remarkable. The black-haired rats were locked within 60 kilometers, and all of them were exterminated. The small town belongs to Dujiangyan City, and the government urgently dispatched a batch of food to stabilize the situation, but many people still defected to their relatives and friends, leaving the city empty.
The street lights were dim, and the rain was pouring down. Lin Siyi and Fei Qin walked from the long street without getting wet.
Looking at the wet, cold and desolate street, the two felt a sense of restlessness inexplicably, as if the matter was not over yet.
"It's raining, it's been raining for a few days, right?"
"Well, in Dujiangyan area, there is not much rainfall in Rongcheng."
"I'm going back tomorrow, but I always feel that it's not appropriate."
"Me too, but I can't tell."
People with advanced practice will have early warning of whim, they are vaguely aware of some, but they can't see the situation clearly. The two walked until they reached the outskirts of the small town, and their hearts became more and more irritable.
Fei Qin suddenly said, "Shall we go to the Minjiang River and have a look?"
Lin Siyi was startled, and then said, "That's fine."
Saying that, the two flew away for tens of miles, and arrived at the bank of a wide river.
The Minjiang River flows from north to south through Maowen, Wenchuan, and Dujiangyan; then through Xinjin, Pengshan, Meishan, Qingshen, Leshan and other places, and finally flows into the Yangtze River. It is the most important water system in the Bashu Plain.
The famous Dujiangyan is built in the Minjiang River.
Everyone knows that Dujiangyan was built by Li Bing and his son, mainly consisting of Yuzui, Feishayan, and Baopingkou, as well as ancillary projects such as Baizhang Dike and Herringbone Dike.
Its existence directly makes the land of Shu "infiltrate with water when it is dry, and block the water gate when it rains. Floods and droughts follow people, don't know famine, there is no famine, and the world is called Tianfu." is working.
When it comes to Dujiangyan, Chinese people are all proud.
Lin Siyi and Fei Qin arrived at the riverside and looked out through the heavy rain. The torrential rain caused the water level to rise rapidly. The Minjiang River surged from the north, with a head of several feet, sweeping away many houses and fields on both sides of the river.
Water flooded the caves, and the harassing rats had nowhere to hide, so they had to climb over the dam and cross the mountains to enter people's homes, which was another wave of rat infestation. But these are normal voles, official organizations, mobilizing the masses can destroy them.
After watching for a while, the two simply flew into the air to have a panoramic view.
This time it was very clear that the terrifying waves rushed to Dujiangyan, the water potential suddenly decreased, and the cobweb-like canal system divided the flood water into two, two, four, and eight... When it reached Rongcheng, there was no harm.
The two of them landed on the dike of Yuzui, feeling the roaring and rushing turbid waves gently diverting under their feet, as if they were subdued dark giants. For some reason, a strange feeling of nostalgia suddenly surged up.
"Thousands of achievements!"
"It is indeed a thousand-year achievement!"
…
"It is raining again."
On the Bashan Mountain hundreds of kilometers away, Xiao Zhai stood on the Yunyu Tower, watching the lingering night rain, and sighed softly.
At this time, the Yunyu Building is no longer the three-story wooden building with three thatched huts. After accumulating prestige in the early stage, the Bashan faction finally ushered in some changes, the most obvious being the infrastructure. Although it is not as magnificent as the Shenxiao faction, it is not so shabby.
And behind her, three little radish heads are taking the exam.
Gu Xiaofei let go of the sect, Fang Yuan and Shui Lanshao stepped up their practice in order to hit the immortals as soon as possible. Qing Buzi has reached the Xiantian Realm and is practicing outside.
These three are newcomers who have only been in the market for a few years, Mi Bei, Mei Yibo and Zhong Wenjin.
Mei Yibo's real name was Mei Xiaokang, but Xiao Zhai hated that name so much, so he changed his Taoist name—well, it was drawn by lottery.
Their homework is to answer some Taoist scripture meanings or Taoist allusions, brushes and rice paper, neatly. As a top student, Xiao Zhai is also demanding on his disciples.
"Master, I'm done."
After a while, Mi Bei put down the pen first, and ran over bouncing.
Xiao Zhai glanced at it and said, "That's right, it's better than last time."
"whee!"
Mi Bei was very happy to be praised, so she watched the rain with Master.
The little man had just passed the railing, only one head was exposed, he tried his best to look out, and suddenly said: "Master, it's raining at my house too, it's been raining for several days."
"Your home, oh..."
Xiao Zhai remembered that the child's hometown was in a town in Dujiangyan.
"But I'm not afraid. I've been down there before, and it's fine. My mother said that because of the dam, it will protect us."
"What dam?"
Mei Yibo, who is from Xiaoxiang, also came to pass the papers.
"It's Dujiangyan. It has been built for thousands of years, but it has never breached." Mi Bei was full of pride.
"Thousands of years haven't broken my mouth, I don't believe it!" Mei Yibo curled her lips.
"It's true, it never broke!"
The two children began to argue, and finally let Xiaozhai judge naturally.
She was too lazy to coax the children, and threw them downstairs with each hand, but her heart turned around. The world is proud that Dujiangyan has not been broken for two thousand years. In fact, it has been broken, but it is not the main project.
In 1933, a major earthquake occurred in Diexi in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, causing landslides that cut off the Minjiang River into large and small lake groups. Later, the lakes collapsed, and the overwhelming flood flowed down the river. The waves were tens of feet high, and directly destroyed the Dujiangyan canal head hub.
Going further, there was a flood in the Tang Dynasty, and the Guankou section also burst embankments and damaged fields, causing a catastrophe.
Guankou is a town named because it is located at the mouth of the Dujiangyan irrigation canal. Du Fu wrote a poem "Stone Rhinoceros Walking", which roughly recorded the flood.
"How did you write this poem?"
Xiao Zhai thought about it, oh yes.
"Don't you see that the prefect of Shu in Qin Dynasty carved stones and stood up as three rhinoceros.
Although there is a law of disgusting victory since ancient times, the natural river flows eastward.
Shu people have boasted for a thousand years, and the overflow is not close to Zhang Yilou.
This year, it may be embarrassing to lose your household registration by filling your mouth. "
…
Lin Siyi and others didn't know this poem, so they reported the truth to the teacher after they returned to the monastery.
With Zhang Shouyang, Chao Kongtu and a group of people retreating behind the scenes, he is now the third abbot, that slippery fat man, a master of Fengshui and formations—Wang Ruoxu.
He is an innate cultivation base, not even a human immortal, but his prestige is quite high. He sorted out and reshaped the formation system in the world almost by himself, and all the monks in the world benefited from it.
Moreover, he has a smooth personality, is sophisticated, and handles all aspects very cleanly. Of course, he also knows that he is probably the last transition, and the next one will be handed over to his disciples.
But Lin Siyi said that after completing the task, he came to the back mountain alone to ask to see the elder.
To Lu Yuanqing, Zhang Shouyang and other gods, he described his discomfort in detail and asked them for advice.
After listening to the details of his trip to Bashu, Lu Yuanqing asked, "Do you know why the rat problem started?"
"I don't know, it just erupted suddenly from Qingcheng Mountain and quickly spread to the countryside."
"Mount Qingcheng is an important place for cultivation, how could there be a rat infestation?" Zhang Shouyang also asked.
"We went to visit the Tianshi Cave, and the abbot said that during that period of time, it was the time of fasting, and Qingcheng Mountain held a seven-day ritual, and a hundred talismans would be given away every day."
Lin Siyi paused for a moment, then continued: "Mount Qingcheng has a magic circle blessed by the Daoist Academy. No one from the outside world can enter, and neither can evil things. So people flocked here, tens of thousands of people, but nothing happened. But If there is a strange thing, there is one thing."
"Say it!"
"There was a believer named Wu Chao who couldn't even ask for seven days. Later, he met Yuanhe Taoist at the Feiyun Temple at the foot of the mountain. The Taoist pitied him for his filial piety, and gave him a self-made sickness talisman, and told him to hang it on the bedside. Who knows When Wu Chao returned home, he hid the talisman in the wall. Three days later, his mother died suddenly, and his father died soon after. Tianshidong went to investigate and found that the talisman had become a thing that was disgusting. Someone tampered with it, broke it on the spot, and brought it back to the temple for destruction. After more than ten days, there was no clue about what happened to Wu Chao, and one night, the rat plague suddenly broke out in the mountain. The situation was critical at that time. Don't think too much about it, Tianshidong also said later, maybe it has something to do with the thing that hates victory. The disciples also guessed that the target of that person was not Wu Chao, but Mount Qingcheng. The thing that hates victory should be very strange. Entering the mountain by himself, did not cause the magic circle to warn."
"How much damage has been done to the Tianshi Cave due to the rat infestation?" Zhang Wumeng asked.
"There is no Taoist body, but there is no food and all the farmland is destroyed."
"oh?"
Zhang Wumeng twisted his long beard and said: "If there is a grudge against Tianshidong, this revenge is too light."
"How is Shu now?" Zhang Shouyang asked again.
"The rat infestation has been eradicated, there has been continuous heavy rain, and the Minjiang River has skyrocketed, but it cannot reach Dujiangyan."
"..."
For a while, several people were thinking secretly. In this series of events, there is a faint line running through it, but it cannot be captured vaguely.
After a while, Lu Yuanqing and Zhang Shouyang raised their heads at the same time, their faces showing shock.
"Brother, did you find anything?" Sikong Chan asked.
"There is indeed some context..."
Lu Yuanqing nodded, telling a secret story of history, mythology and practice.
It is said that there was a man named Bie Ling in the state of Chu who fell into the water one day and was drowned. His body went upstream and rushed to Pi. As soon as they picked him up, he came back to life.
Emperor Wang (the one who became the cuckoo bird after death) heard about such a strange thing, so he called Bie Ling, and they had a very speculative talk, and made him the prime minister of Shu.
Bieling led the people to control the floods and gradually gained prestige, so Emperor Wang abdicated the throne to him.
After Bieling took over, he was called Emperor Cong, also known as Emperor Kaiming. Later, the Kaiming Dynasty moved its capital to Rongcheng, which formed the earliest prototype of the city.
Later, when Qin destroyed Shu, Zhang Yi carried out large-scale construction of Rongcheng. It is said that when Zhang Yi was building the city, he failed to stand up many times. Suddenly he saw a big tortoise circling around. The witch said, "Build it where the tortoise walks." Then stand firm.
In order to commemorate Zhang Yi, people built a Zhang Yi Tower on the edge of the Minjiang River, more than a hundred feet, overlooking the river from the mountains.
The person responsible for the construction is called Gongshuban, also known as Luban.
In the period of King Qin Zhao, Li Bing and his son built Dujiangyan, and the land of Shu became a land of abundance, without floods for thousands of years. As a result, in the Tang Dynasty, a flood suddenly came, the irrigation mouth burst the embankment, and countless fields were destroyed.
According to the Taoist classics, after the Gongshu Ban built the Zhangyi Tower, a wooden man carrying a load was buried in a secret place, and a grain of rice was placed on each side of the load to keep the balance of the wooden figure, and left a sentence: wooden People do not fall, and water does not approach Shu.
But in the year when Guankou flooded, before the flood, a large-scale rat plague broke out in Shu, and all the food that could be found was eaten up...