Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 98 Dunhua Ancient City

Someone came in with a lunch box. It was already past lunch time and Yu Jingyan probably didn't even have time to eat breakfast.

Come on, set the table on the small kang in this house for dinner. Yu Jingyan and Qiao Lili shook hands and sat sideways on the edge of the kang facing each other.

"I'll give your money back to my father when I get back..." Ask his father to pay it back? His father's national treasury is cleaner than his face. If a mouse goes around his private treasury, he will cry and leave.

"Let my mother..." Her mother was rich. She had been doing disaster relief work in the past two years and had almost spent all her wealth. When he came, she gave him 100,000 taels and said that it was gone. She would keep the rest for marrying her son's wife.

"I'll pay you back, but you have to wait..." He also had money, but the money was spent like water to build canals, reservoirs, dams, and sluice gates. It was not enough to just hunt down corrupt officials, so he emptied his pockets cleaner than his father's.

"What's there to pay back? Just consider it as my disaster relief." In recent years, everyone's money has been used for disaster relief. No one is rich. There's nothing to pay back? It's all money spent on the people.

"Then I have to give you credit."

"That's possible." Because of Bai Junzhe's matter, her reputation was more or less affected. Even if she didn't care, she didn't want to leave Yu Jingyan with something to be criticized, so she decided to save her reputation bit by bit.

We have finished lunch now. Please remove the dishes from the table and wipe it clean.

Yu Jingyan spread out the map of the area on the table and said to Qiao Lili, "Ali, I really want to thank you this time."

He pointed to a place on the map and said, "Because you told me that after the Mengli Ganjiang River bursts its banks, the flood will cause a mudslide in the Panshi Mountain and bury the entire Huaijiang Beach."

"I will look for the cause from the result. Where will the mudslide come to Huaijiang Beach? Where will the mudslide form on Panshi Mountain? Where does it correspond to the location of the Ganjiang embankment? Guess what?"

"I searched the dam nearby and found two ant holes that were leaking. A thousand-mile long dam collapsed because of ant holes. If we can't reinforce this area in time, the scenes in your dream will all become reality tonight."

God knows how Yu Jingyan felt when he saw the ant nest on the embankment. He was so scared. Fortunately, he believed his little A Li. If he didn't take it seriously, then thousands of lives would disappear from this world tonight.

Including him and the fifty-four people he brought with him.

After learning that all twelve villages had been evacuated, Qiao Lili felt relieved, because no matter what, as long as the people were saved, it mattered.

She liked looking at maps. Although she had lived a lifetime, she had not been to many places. Coming here was the farthest place she had traveled in her two lifetimes.

"Is this Ganjiang River?" Qiao Lili pointed at the curve on the map.

"Yes, this is Panshi Mountain, this is Huaijiang Beach, and we are here now." Yu Jingyan pointed at each place and explained to her.

"Where did the people from those twelve villages go?"

"Here, they are placed in several villages around here." Qiao Lili carefully identified, "This village, the ox cart that was sent to me last night belongs to the owner of this village."

"This is Shijia Village. Their village also resettled two villages in Huaijiang Beach."

The villages in Huaijiangtan are relatively small, with an average of only a few hundred people in each village. Due to their low terrain, they are often flooded, so they are not as well developed as villages in higher terrain.

"What is this place after the Gan River flows over Panshi Mountain?" Qiao Lili felt that it looked like a small town.

"This is the ancient city of Dunhua. Do you know the ancient city of Dunhua?" Yu Jingyan asked Qiao Lili, as if he would talk about it in detail if she said she didn't know.

"Is there anyone among us from Dayan who doesn't know about the ancient city of Dunhua?" Qiao Lili asked back. Although she seldom goes out, it doesn't mean that she is ignorant.

Dunhua Ancient City has a history of thousands of years and is the legendary holy country of Haidong. Most of the buildings in the inner city are ancient buildings, mainly made of stone, carved with various patterns and shapes, and built into houses, including houses, shops, workshops, academies, government offices, and so on. These buildings have a simple and heavy charm under the erosion of time. Walking in them is like talking to history.

The buildings in the outer city present a scene of gradual evolution from generation to generation. Some are built with ancient stones, some are built with modern blue bricks and red tiles, and some are built with wooden mortise and tenon joints and carved beams and painted rafters. These buildings are mixed together, giving a sense of the leaps and collisions of time.

Dunhua Ancient City is also a famous birthplace of Buddhism. On the peak of Jiuding Mountain in the west of the city sits the largest Buddha statue in the Dayan Kingdom, the Jiuding Mountain Giant Buddha.

It is a bronze seated statue of Sakyamuni, with the Buddha's head cast in gold. The Buddha's body is ninety-nine feet tall, sitting on a twenty-nine-foot-high lotus throne. The Golden-crowned Buddha towers into the clouds, looks solemn and dignified, with an upright posture and a kind face, giving people a feeling of tranquility and peace.

It is said that as soon as people enter the ancient city of Dunhua, they will see the calm and peaceful face of the Golden Tripod Buddha. He is smiling and saving all living beings, making people unconsciously enter an extremely pure state, as if they can find a spiritual home and true peace here.

It is said that in the ancient city of Dunhua, people do not pick up things on the streets and do not lock their doors at night.

It is said...

Qiao Lili looked at the location of Dunhua Ancient City on the map, and suddenly had a bad feeling. "A Jing, how many days has this heavy rain lasted in the Ganjiang River Basin? Will it cause the river to flood?"

"We have blocked the dam on Rock Mountain. Is the ancient city of Dunhua downstream in danger?"

"What is the topography of Dunhua Ancient City like? What is the quality of the embankment?"

Several questions were thrown out one after another, and Yu Jingyan's brain was a little stuck. "I just patrolled to Huaijiang Beach and haven't reached Dunhua Ancient City yet."

"But go and talk to the water chief and several officials from the Ministry of Works who went there yesterday."

"The geographical location of Dunhua Ancient City is very low. It is a plain half-surrounded by several mountains. After the Gan River flows through the ancient city, it flows into the sea."

"The ancient city has mountains, water and land. Crops will not be reduced in yield due to drought because there is water from the Ganjiang River for irrigation. They will not be flooded due to heavy rain because the water can be drained into the sea. Therefore, Dunhua Ancient City is very rich."

"I went to Dunhua Ancient Town three years ago. If the Ganjiang River bursts its banks at this section, perhaps only the giant Buddha on Jiuding Mountain will remain."

“The loss is incalculable.”

The two of them suddenly fell silent. You could hear a pin drop in the room. The tense atmosphere was so intense that even the temperature in the room dropped a lot.