Chapter 331

The candle flickered, and the shadows were heavy.

The cabin was dead silent, and the cold light reflected from the iron fence went straight to the bottom of the heart.

Ran Seeing Ran Zhongshi frowned, he really didn't expect Liang Qu to bring them such an explosive bad news.

"Give me the candle."

Liang Qu handed over the candlestick.

Ran Seeing Ran Zhongshi wrapped the light and approached the iron cage, dispelling the darkness in the cage.

Mossy dry grass was spread in the corner. Cheng Chong lay on it, his back slightly hunched, his hair gray, looking like an old jackal driven out of the tribe in the wilderness, hungry and wandering, his eye sockets protruding sharply.

"How old?"

"Fifty-six."

"Very old."

"When I first saw him, he was robust, his hair was black, maybe his dantian was broken, his heart energy leaked, and he became like this in less than a day."

"Except for oral testimony, is there any other evidence?"

"Yes." Liang Qu took an account book from his bosom, "I asked the Shahe Gang to submit all Cheng Chong's recent daily records and activities. I took the time to flip through it and found that Cheng Chong had bought twenty-six copies of Water Stone Root Raw Wood in the black market a month ago.

This wood has tenacious vitality, grows when it meets stone, expands when it meets water. Once it passes the twenty-day juvenile period, it will expand rapidly and can reach hundreds of times its original volume in two days. Except for this feature, there is nothing special.

Calculate the time, Cheng Chong should have used this method to collapse the Qiu Gong Dike, and planted it inside the dike when the rainstorm came.

We only need to send people to investigate the remaining traces on the Qiu Gong Dike, check whether there are corresponding plant roots in the stones, and whether they meet the traces of expansion damage, that is physical evidence."

"What about the people in the Hydrology Office? What's going on with the Water Rule Monument? Did he destroy it afterward?"

"These three points are unclear for the time being. Maybe they are dead, maybe they fled in fear of crime. I suspect that the Water Rule Monument was also tampered with early on, and it had internal cracks on the day of the rainstorm. With the ability of a martial artist, it is not difficult to damage the interior by hitting the mountain and hitting the cow."

After a long silence, Ran Seeing Ran Zhongshi sighed.

"Does Wei Shao know?"

Liang Qu shook his head: "I don't know for the time being. I have instructed the Shahe Gang to keep their mouths shut."

Xiang Fang Su asked: "Can the Shahe Gang's promise be trusted?"

Liang Qu said: "Cheng Chong destroyed the Qiu Gong Dike himself. Whether the Shahe Gang is clean or not, and whether they can be treated leniently, all depends on whether they helped capture Cheng Chong.

But whether they caught him or not is not what they say, it depends on my oral characterization. On this point, I think it is worth trusting."

Wei Shao doesn't know the inside story and won't take the initiative to coerce and lure.

In other words, the life and death of the entire Shahe Gang are held in Liang Qu's hands alone.

Therefore, at Liang Qu's order, the entire Shahe Gang spared no effort to coordinate ships for rescue, which was much more effective than simple military deterrence.

Xiang Fang Su nodded: "It's quite sensible."

"It's too damn!" Ke Ko Wenbin scratched his hair, pulling his hair roots painfully, "Aren't Lu Kaiyun and Ren Yipeng pure unlucky eggs? You didn't say you had an illegitimate child earlier?"

Wrong is wrong, who cares how you made the mistake.

The Qiu Gong Dike breach, not only does the River Earl's Office have to carry the pot, but Xu Xu Yuelong's line has to carry a big pot.

"At least Wei Lin doesn't know the inside story and can't use it to make an article. Liang Ashui won a time difference for us, which is the misfortune among misfortunes."

Ran Seeing Ran Zhongshi's eyes were faint, Cheng Chong lay in the corner motionless, unlike someone pretending to sleep.

Liang Qu asked: "What now?"

"Notify the Commander immediately, report to the imperial court, let Lu Kaiyun and Ren Yipeng go to Huaiyin Prefecture to plead guilty first, and then go all the way to Nanzhili, striving for lenient treatment.

Calculate the time, the building ship is on the road, Ko Wenbin, you vacate two empty ships, take people back the same way, send this person over first, and let Brother Xu Yuelong decide.

In addition, let the people of the Three Dharma Divisions verify the real cause of the dam collapse as soon as possible and extract the physical evidence."

The matter was urgent, Ke Ko Wenbin had no objection, turned around and left the cabin to coordinate the ships.

Several people returned to the deck.

Several soldiers transported the iron cage to the River Earl's Office official ship. The night was shrouded, and it didn't attract much attention.

After the handover, Liang Qu watched Cheng Chong being sent into the cabin, and felt relieved in his heart.

Okay, now no matter if Cheng Chong committed suicide or was murdered, any accident has nothing to do with him. The person responsible is transferred to Ke Ko Wenbin.

There are still supplies on the ship that need to be emptied. Taking this time, everyone returned to the cabin to study the sand table.

Liang Qu explained the role of the four-color flags and their respective meanings.

Ran Seeing Ran Zhongshi leaned over: "Is the content of the sand table accurate?"

Liang Qu took out several booklets from the drawer: "The terrain has 70% accuracy, which I made according to the map. The disaster situation has 95% accuracy. I admit that the marking is correct.

In addition, I planned several suitable disaster relief routes according to the location of each relief point and the distribution trend of the disaster area, ship transport scale, terrain and river channel, saving manpower and material resources as much as possible and improving efficiency."

The three took the booklets and flipped through them, becoming more and more shocked.

In this way, the three main tasks arranged by Xu Yuelong were all completed by Liang Qu!

Unbelievable, how many days from the breach to today?

Excluding travel and information transmission, it was completely a hand of bad cards played to the best effect, saving losses to the greatest extent.

A wise man appears, and a red dragon appears.

This scene, combined with Qiu Gong's affair, really has a decent look!

Ran Seeing Ran Zhongshi said good repeatedly, put away the booklets, his eyes shining: "Brother Xu Yuelong didn't look at the wrong person!"

"Luck makes it so, it just so happens that Shahe Gang leader Cheng Chong committed suicide, otherwise I wouldn't be so smooth."

Cheng Chong's behavior happened to make the entire Shahe Gang stand with Liang Qu, providing great help for borrowing ships and catching people. It is not an exaggeration to say that luck is good.

"You've worked hard, leave the rest to us, rest well, we built a camp near the Qiu Gong Dike, you can go there tomorrow."

Liang Qu didn't decline. All the basic events were solved, and he couldn't help much by staying here.

Under the night.

Two ships left one after another.

The Shahe Gang fleet led by Old Song merged with the River Earl's Office official ship and rushed to the next township.

With Ran Seeing Ran Zhongshi's help, Liang Qu could finally put down his worries and sleep well.

The sixth day of the Qiu Gong Dike breach.

The sky that had been overcast for several days finally cleared up, and thousands of rays of sunlight pierced the clouds, casting changing light and shadows on the vast flood.

In the evening.

Liang Qu was full of energy and took the pleasure boat back to the Qiu Gong Dike.

The dike bank was incomplete, yellow water was everywhere, and it was devastated.

The Black Water River surged all the way here, fighting the dike bank under the drumming of the whistling southeast wind, and the splashing water sprayed down like rain.

Ordinary people on the dike, against the wind and against the trend, were almost unable to stand firm.

On the open space to the right of the dike bank, white tents were heavy, and Yu Yu Dayi and Xu Xu Yuelong were presiding over the construction on the residual dike.

A large number of stone strips were transported past Liang Qu.

Each stone strip was chiseled with a tooth groove, and iron cramps cast from raw iron, large at both ends and small in the middle, were used. The iron cramp was the same size as the tooth groove.

The craftsmen placed the iron cramps between the tooth grooves and poured mortar made of glutinous rice juice and lime.

In this way, the stone strips can be firmly bonded together without leaving any gaps, completely achieving the effect of water not splashing in and needles not inserting in. Each iron cramp also has the name of the corresponding builder, which is convenient for accountability.

In fact, there are better materials for building dike dams, such as green gold stone, yellow hao stone, the strength is far better than ordinary stone strips. As for why they are not used, the reason is very simple—no money.

Disaster relief needs money, repairing dike dams needs money, and settling disaster victims needs money.

Given the current situation in Huazhu County, it is quite good to be able to raise money to build a dike dam.