Doomsday foresight

The earthquake lasted for a long time, and it didn't stop until a month later. Fortunately, Yecheng was not the center of the earthquake, and apart from the collapse of some old houses at the beginning, there was not much loss.

Just after the second wave of earthquakes, Jinxi's heart calmed down, and there was no premonition of danger. After discussing with the sixth uncle and the others, everyone began to rest the house, because the houses that collapsed in the earthquake had to be rebuilt. Finish before the cold weather.

After inspection, more than a dozen houses in the village have completely collapsed, and seven or eight houses need major repairs. Thanks to the new houses built before, they are very strong and there is not much damage.The Jinxi family's house has just been repaired, and it hasn't been damaged.

Jiang Chen took people to the top of Dongshan Mountain to have a look. He didn't know if the earthquake damaged the mountain or if the underground waterway changed. There was a three-eyed spring in the lake on the top of the mountain, and the water gushed out every day without interruption. After several days of observation, it did not weaken. There are more and more water gushing out. The water in the lake on the top of the mountain passes through the gap on one side to form a waterfall. It falls from the mountain and falls into the depression below the mountain to form a lake. Part of the water gushes out along the other side of the depression. More But it flows through Yecheng.

This is not going to work. The terrain of Yecheng is not low. The water flows from the outside of the inner city, then flows away from the west, flows into the fields outside, and flows in all directions along the ditches irrigated before. It can still flow in a day or two. In the last month or two, the water should have flowed back.They don't know when the water will flow. If it keeps flowing like this, Yecheng will also be submerged.

Originally, Jinxi was thinking about building a moat, but who would have thought that the water might become a disaster, so dredging the waterway is the most urgent thing.

They found a few engineering design experts in the city, made several plans, and finally they chose one. I don’t know when the three-eyed spring will flow. It’s just that they need to make non-stop preparations now, so they need Lead these springs to a river to let them enter the circulation, but they also found a hot spring in the three-eyed spring. Although this hot spring has a temperature that is neutral to the other two springs, it is not hot. , but there is an advantage that the water is running water and it will not freeze in winter at a certain temperature, which is quite good.

According to the design, they will dig a moat outside the outer city. In order to ensure that the water in the moat will not freeze in the cold winter, the moat must be dug deep and wide. With this moat, the safety of Yecheng will be increased.

In addition, to prevent the sudden gushing of spring water and cause the river to flood, they also used the terrain and the previous ditches to lead out two small rivers. These two small rivers are very useful. Irrigation is always inconvenient in hot summer and requires a lot of manpower. , These two small rivers will also be irrigation springs in the future, and the fields surrounded by these two small rivers will be reclaimed when there are enough seeds and manpower. Before that, people in Yecheng only need to set fire to the sky in spring and autumn to prevent large trees from swallowing up the land. .

These projects are very large. Fortunately, there is enough food in Yecheng. They can reduce the time for hunting and looking for food, and concentrate on construction. The soil dug from the moat can be used to build houses and burn bricks. Now there is a brick kiln in the village. There is another one on the west side of Dongshan. Where the cement is burned, the cement is not as good as the previous cement. Fortunately, they are not demanding. There is a coal mine in a town not far from Jinxi and their hometown. There is a lot of coal stored there and a lot of it was shipped back last year. People don’t like burning coal very much. Last winter, a family got a coal stove. Although they had a chimney, they almost died of gas poisoning because of poor sealing. The temperature of the coal is high, and the pot used for cooking is easy to burn out. Compared with burning corn sticks or corn sticks or wood I got from the mountains, I have more firewood to burn now.In the end, only brick kilns and cement kilns were used.

The moat was dug before the arrival of September. It is 20 meters wide and [-] meters high. There are seven water outlets leading to the inner city, connecting the original pools in the inner city to form several inner lakes. These inner lakes are used for Fish farming, this running water can also increase the temperature of the inner city in winter, even a degree or two is good.

The moat also has a water outlet that is connected to the outside. This is the water channel for irrigation of the outer city. The irrigation canal has not been dug yet, and this is still under design.After all, some grains require more water and others have less water storage, so we cannot treat them equally.

The moat flows out of Yecheng from the west, and the outer one mile has also been reinforced and paved. Then, according to their design, several low-lying areas not far from the city were excavated to form seven large lakes. These seven large lakes were originally very low-lying areas. It's not too far away. When the lake is full, the water will flow along the waterway to the original small river, and then follow the small river to the distance.The waters of these lakes are not connected in a straight line, they are just diverted according to the terrain, and they were named Qixing Lake. Jinxi suddenly thought of the reeds by the sea. I don’t know if they still exist. Here, the area around Qixing Lake can also be used as a pasture.

There used to be a lot of farmland around Qixing Lake, but now although there are many weeds and plants, there are not many tall trees. If you get some grass seeds and scatter them, it may become a grazing land with rich water and grass.

After the moat and the water channels of the outer city were sorted out, the gates were opened and water was released. The water flow was not small compared to the wide moat and the water storage capacity of Qixing Lake outside. Although it was increasing every day, However, it was known that the water level did not increase after a month, and it was more than one meter lower than their original prediction.

"I want to go to the seaside." That night Jinxi was washing his feet, Jiang Chen came in from the outside, took off his coat and said to Jinxi.

"It's still shaking from time to time, so let's wait." Jin Xi frowned.

"I think it's all right. I want to take a few people to ride horses. I'll go back after seeing it. The first snow has fallen, and the road will be even more difficult when it snows in the future. The road is covered by snow and you can't see anything."

Jiang Chen said, took a stool, took off his socks, and stretched his feet into the footbath.

"It's getting cold." Jin Xi wiped his feet with a towel as he spoke, then took his slippers to the outhouse to heat the wall and picked up a kettle from the stove. The water is enough for the whole family, and it is convenient to use it anytime on this small stove.

Added some hot water to the footbath, "How about I go with you." Jin Xi said.

"No, I'll just go and have a look and I'll be back in a week at most. You haven't stopped this summer, so you have a good rest at home. I think grandma is a little uneasy these days, so you should spend more time with them."

Jin Xi sighed, "Then you have to come back quickly." He didn't expect the earthquake to scare the old man and the old lady. Originally, Jin Xi came back suddenly, and everyone knew there was a disaster, but they didn't expect the earthquake to last for so long , and it seemed that the source of the earthquake was in the sea to the south, not far from the castle, and the old couple were terrified.Even if he didn't say anything, Jinxi said once or twice before that he didn't know what happened to the castle, but his grandparents told him not to go there again, and the villages around him had enough salt for a long time.

"Do not worry."

Jiang Chen left at the end of September, and took ten people on horseback. These horses were bought by Ye Qiu and the others before. Maybe the horses are very practical. Ye Qiu and the others didn't get much in exchange. Now the entire Yecheng There are only fifty horses, which are managed by Sai Yin's father, and he doesn't dare to use them very much, hoping to breed more.

Just three days after Jiang Chen left, Yecheng began to flee, many of them were from the Yan County base, because they passed the Yan County base on their way to the castle, and they were the first to contact the Yan County base, and the bases on both sides are still friendly, especially Ye Many of the cattle in the city were exchanged from Yan County.

They will not accept people from the Yanxian base, mainly because Yecheng also needs to expand and the population needs to increase, but these people cannot enter the inner city. On the one hand, there are not so many houses in the inner city. What kind of house to build.If you don't know the situation of these people, you can't let them in rashly.

Now that the weather is cold, these people can't let them live in the wild. Ye Qiu is very good at managing internal affairs now, and has prepared large tents for a long time. Each of these tents can accommodate twenty people. The people are warm and cotton Quilts, the cold in early winter can still survive.Now, except for a few people like Jinxi, whose evolutionary direction has developed to improve the ability of foresight in the head, other people's physique is good, and even children can run wildly outside in a small padded jacket at minus ten degrees.

The people settled down first, and then registered, and let them learn the rules of Yecheng clearly.

The registration is very troublesome. In addition to the most basic things such as the name and family relationship of the registered personnel, the private property of these people must be registered. Ye Cheng will not be greedy for the property of these people, but he is not being taken advantage of and treats everyone equally. Now these people are not Ye. People in the city can't enter the inner city yet, so everything Yecheng provides is paid for. Of course, if you have nothing, you can use labor to pay for it. Yecheng has a lot of work.As for those who have supplies, they also need to pay some taxes under the protection of Yecheng.It's fairly equal, and all the required benefits are listed in a table.Not only that, but the division is very detailed, as if the elderly and children who are incapable also have some specific arrangements.

It was already mid-October when Jiang Chen came back, more than a week later than what he told Jinxi, he came back at night, not only did he bring back ten people, but also brought back more than 50 people, ten of them A few were from the original castle, and the fifty or so people looked numb.

Jiang Chen asked them to put them to bed and eat first, then went home with Jinxi, and when they got home, grandma had already cooked the meal, Jiang Chen went to the kang and ate two big steamed buns without saying anything.

"I'm starving to death." Jiang Chen said while eating the third steamed bun.

"Is there any dry food?" Jiang Chen and the others brought a lot of food because they didn't know how many days they had been there.

"I ran out of food early, and I have to rely on hunting for the past few days." Jiang Chen pouted his nose, "You can't even imagine what happened to the seaside?"

"What's wrong?" Jin Xi asked.

Jiang Chen shook his head and sighed for a while, "It's too miserable. The harbor base is gone, and the entire base is buried. No one escaped."

Jin Xi gasped, "No way."

"Look at the people I brought back today, apart from the dozen or so people from the original castle, the others were picked up from the base in Yan County. Originally, the old people you left behind just left the cellar for two days. The people were released, and those people didn't do anything to the people who stayed behind when they came out. They just wanted to occupy the castle, so they kept some of them guarding, and the rest went back to the harbor base. No one took what you said seriously. As a result, there was an earthquake. No, it can’t be said to be an earthquake. It seems that the plate moved suddenly. The seaport base was built between several mountains, but it was crushed by a mountain. I went to see it, and there were some traces I can’t even tell. Hey, there are tens of thousands of people there.” Jiang Chen sighed.

Jin Xi's complexion was not good either, he really didn't expect such a result, if he knew it would be like this, he would bring those people back no matter what.

Suddenly, Jiang Chen looked at Jin Xi with an incredulous look, "Jin Xi, do you think you have a lucky star?"

"Huh?" Jin Xi was stunned.

"Do you know how these dozen people survived?"

Jin Xi shook his head.

Jiang Chen shook his head with a smile, "Do you know what the first thing I felt when I saw the castle?" Jiang Chen said as he pinched the water glass, "It's like seeing a miracle. You will know me when you go to see it later What does it mean."

In fact, the more difficult Jiang Chen got, the more he lost his mind. The impact of the entire earthquake was too great. Even the base in Yan County was completely buried under the ruins, not to mention the sea further south. Many mountains collapsed or rose up, and Jiang Chen couldn't even find his way there.He and his men first found the seaport base, which was completely buried underground. Except for some large rocks, it was impossible to tell that it was the seaport base, so they did not report any hope of the existence of the castle.

A miracle happened like this. When they climbed another new mountain peak, they saw the castle standing on the high mountain. The dragon plundered the castle where the princess lived, high above and surrounded by cliffs.The hill where the castle is located turned out to be a 500-meter-high mountain.

"It's unbelievable. The castle we built is fine. The peak is the original hill. After being pushed up by the earth's crust, the ground is actually a thick layer of rock. The whole mountain is like a stone mountain. I remember when we laid the foundation. It seemed to hit a rock, and I thought it was a big underground rock, but I didn't know that there was a rock layer under the mountain."

"Is the damage to the castle serious?" Jin Xi was very happy to hear the news.

Jiang Chen shook his head, "It's okay. Maybe we built a beehive around the castle. The damage is not serious. It's good to take a little rest. The passage on the third underground floor collapsed. Other than that, it's the well, which is the same as our east mountain. It seems that there is too much water coming out, and the water is only two meters high from the wellhead, so I’m afraid it will freeze in winter, so I don’t know if it will help if I deal with it before I come back.”

"Since the castle is fine, why did you bring these people back?" Jin Xi remembered many people they left behind.

Jiang Chen grimaced, "It's good for them to be honest in the castle. Those people left the castle and took most of the food left in the castle. After the first wave of earthquakes, the people on the castle were also scared. The mountain was pulled up suddenly and there was no road around it, and it was standing there alone, the group of people were scared a lot and went to the seaport base, who would have thought that the earthquake took so long and those people were gone.”

Jinxi sighed.

"Not only that, the entire coastline has retreated more than ten miles. I also saw two tsunami are still very strong, but the threat to our castle is not so great."

"Back more than a dozen miles." Jin Xi opened his mouth, "Is the reed bush still there?"

Jiang Chen nodded, "Yes, many of them are gone, so that's nothing. The reproduction is fast, I think it won't be long before there will be another piece."