Natural disaster at the beginning: I will lead the system to build a safe zone

A few days later, Shi Anan discovered a situation that she wasn't sure whether to consider as good news or bad news.

The good news is that the temperature has finally stopped rising. But the bad news is that it will continue to be this high for some time.

I don’t know when this will end.

Lingnan is a rainy and humid place, but during this period of high temperatures, not a single drop of rain fell from the sky. Even though there is plenty of water here, the land will still crack due to the extremely high temperature.

The crops in Guangming Village's fields were able to retain moisture thanks to the irrigation system rewarded by the system.

However, the village's cement floor is prone to cracks due to thermal expansion under such extreme high temperatures. In order to maintain the village's cement floor, Shi Anan and his team have to sprinkle water at least twice a day.

But even so, the water would evaporate quickly once it was spilled, and no matter how diligently they maintained it, some cracks would still appear uncontrollably in some places on the ground.

This made the people at the cement factory very sad, as their smooth and flat road surface now had flaws.

However, the cracks in the cement road can be repaired later. What Shi Anan is more worried about is that if the weather continues to be so extremely hot and it doesn't rain, it may cause drought problems.

Shi Anan also recently discovered that the water level in a river closest to Guangming Village was dropping very quickly. The source of this river was spring water flowing down from the mountains, which eventually flowed into the large lake behind the mountain.

If the water here dries up, the water level on the other side of the big lake will probably drop a lot as well, and that side is quite far away from them. If the river on their side dries up, it will not be accomplished overnight if they want to draw water from the lake.

Not only that, the water level of the existing well water in Guangming Village has also dropped a lot.

Fortunately, this area has been rainy and humid in previous years. Although the water level has dropped, it will not dry up directly and leave everyone without water to drink. However, with such weather, crop yields will probably decrease again.

If Lingnan can barely cope with the drought caused by extreme high temperatures, then the water shortage in the north or northwest with little rainfall is much more serious.

Far away in the northwest, in the mansion of the Lord of Liangzhou City, a man who was already a bit old but still handsome was yelling at his servants: "Why did you only provide so little water today? I want to take a bath, but this little water is not even enough to wash my face. Are you deliberately neglecting me?"

The servant's eyes flashed with contempt, but his face remained respectful: "Sir, due to the extreme high temperature recently, it has not rained for more than two months. Our northwest is already short of water. There is really not that much water available. Now the mansion is reducing water consumption. Please forgive me."

It's no wonder that the servants look down on him. Since this gentleman happened to flee to their northwestern Liangzhou City, he has won the heart of the daughter of the lord of Liangzhou City with his good looks. He also said that he was an official before. In the eyes of the servants, he is a gigolo who needs to be supported by their young lady.

Although their young lady lost her husband at an early age, given her status and position in Liangzhou City, it is not impossible for her to choose a young man to marry. I really don't know why she fell in love with this old man.

If it weren't for their young lady's preference, he wouldn't have endured his anger. Facing the drought, other masters reduced their bathing frequency as much as possible to save water, but this master bathed two or three times a day, and even then he complained that the water they gave him was not enough.

Shi Zhengde felt very aggrieved. He loved cleanliness. In such a hot day, if he didn't take a few more baths, his body would go bad.

These people were not clean themselves, but they looked down on him. How could the City Lord's Mansion not even have a drop of water? He felt that they were neglecting him.

Shi Zhengde felt sad for himself when he thought that he was a fifth-rank official in the Ministry of Works, but now he had fallen to Liangzhou and became the son-in-law of the city lord's daughter who was as stupid as a pig.

As for why he ended up here, it was a coincidence. He was with Shi Chengzhi and Fang when the tsunami occurred. He and Shi Chengzhi were lucky not to be separated, nor were they washed all the way to Lingnan, but were directly washed ashore.

Even Shi Anan, who has a system, couldn't help but admire this luck.

As for Fang, she was trying to protect Shi Chengzhi when the tsunami hit her, and her abdomen was pierced by a sharp object. She is probably dead now.

However, Shi Chengzhi had injured his leg before. Although it was healed and no longer affected his walking, the injured leg would still hurt from time to time, and it was easy to cause other diseases.

So even though he was lucky and his life was saved by Fang who risked her life to save him, he started to have a high fever after being in the water for too long. In addition, the medical conditions were backward and there was no good environment for recuperation, so he eventually succumbed.

Shi Zhengde was depressed for a while after his son, whom he had always placed great hopes on, died. But he always put his own interests first, and if sons and daughters could not bring him benefits, they were useless, so he quickly recovered.

By chance, Shi Zhengde, who was alone, came to the unfamiliar city of Liangzhou. Perhaps because the epicenter of the earthquake was near the capital, the disaster in Liangzhou was not too serious, and order was restored after a period of recovery.

But no one here recognized him as a fifth-rank official in the Ministry of Works. At the beginning, Zhengde struggled to survive in Liangzhou Prefecture for a while.

Maybe it was really because Shi Zhengde was good-looking and had always had lots of luck with women. Even after he went to Liangzhou and became poor, he was still noticed by the ladies of wealthy families.

The story takes place on a ridiculous afternoon. Shi Zhengde was planning to go to a bookstore to see if he could find a job copying books. After all, his handwriting was pretty good.

Just as the shopkeeper was holding his handwriting to observe, the eldest daughter of the City Lord's Mansion, Su Muya, appeared in the bookstore and was immediately attracted by the words in the shopkeeper's hand.

From Su Muya's name, we can tell that she is a person who admires elegant things very much. Unfortunately, her father and brothers are both military generals and are illiterate.

Although she claimed to be a talented woman, she was like an alien in Liangzhou Prefecture where the literary style was not popular. She couldn't even find a soulmate. When she was old enough, her father found a young man from a family of family acquaintances for her to marry. She thought she could live in harmony with her husband like in the books, but her husband turned out to be a simple-minded, strong and rough man. He was also unlucky and made her a widow at an early age.

Her father wanted to choose another husband for her, but after her previous marriage, she really had no hope for the men from Liangzhou. She thought she would spend the rest of her life alone, but she didn't expect to see such eye-opening words when she came to the bookstore today.

"Boss, who wrote this?" Su Muya asked expectantly.

When Shi Zhengde heard the voice, he looked back with some confusion, and saw a young girl walking in. The girl was dressed luxuriously, but her appearance and temperament were a little too ordinary to support the clothes.

Just as he was wondering who this woman was, the shopkeeper quickly put down the writing brush in his hand and came out to greet her with a shy smile: "Oh, what brings Miss Su here? There are new stories published today. Miss Su, do you want to take a look?"

Su Muya waved her hand, her eyes still fixed on the words on the table: "Boss, who wrote that calligraphy you are looking at?"

The shopkeeper looked at the words in confusion, pointed at Shi Zhengde, and replied, "This gentleman wrote it. He wanted to come to our bookstore to copy books, so he wrote a few words for me to see."

Su Muya then noticed that there was a man in front of the counter. She slowly moved her eyes upwards and finally landed on the man's face. She felt that she seemed to want to get married again...