"The flood has indeed brought us a lot of losses, but for the Xijiang River this may be an opportunity, after the flood the state and the province must be in terms of funds and policies to our Ningling and our Xijiang tilt, if we can grasp this opportunity, it is not a good opportunity for development." Zhao Guodong took a deep breath and stared ahead, "The losses caused by disasters can only be recovered through development, this is my idea, and I also made this opinion clearly when I reported to Premier Wen." ”

Luo Yucheng and Rong Sheng were both pondering the meaning of Zhao Guodong's words.

In fact, both of them were extremely shocked by Zhao Guodong's almost miraculous prediction, on the district government's subsidy to reinforce the Wujiang River embankment and the district finance to fully fund the rebuilding of the Yuexiu River embankment, there is considerable opposition within the district party committee and district government, and this kind of waste is almost the same, whether it is Ling Xiao or Wang Yi or He Tong, Shi Gang, and Rongsheng on the district government's side, but Zhao Guodong doesn't know how to persuade Zeng Lingchun, As a result, the opposition voices that originally wanted to resist this practice were forcibly suppressed, and now all this seems to reflect Zhao Guodong's foresight and foresight.

Although the official data on the number of dead and missing persons in Dongjiang District and Canghua County have not yet been released, it can be expected that the number of dead and missing persons in both Dongjiang District and Canghua County will not be less than 30 or 50, and Xijiang District has demonstrated the leadership and organizational ability of the Xijiang District Party Committee and District Government with no deaths or disappearances.

Yan Rantian, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee, who came with Vice Premier Wen, spoke highly of the performance of Xijiang District in disaster prevention and relief, and made an unprecedentedly severe criticism of the disaster prevention and relief situation in Dongjiang District, and clearly asked the relevant departments to seriously find out the cause and investigate the responsibility of those responsible.

Both Luo Yucheng and Rong Sheng know that Zhao Guodong has successfully won the affirmation of officials at all levels, including the vice premier, with his performance in this flood battle, although it is not clear the attitude of Ning Fa and Ying Dongliu, but the hard facts in front of him are enough for anyone to admit that the cadres and masses of Xijiang District have performed well in this flood, and what is the source of the outstanding performance of the cadres and the masses, of course, is the effective leadership of the district party committee and district government headed by Zhao Guodong.

In this case, the front of this home. It is also a matter of time before the gang is promoted and reused, including Luo Yucheng and Rong Sheng, the leaders of the district party committee and the district government have no objection to this understanding, and Rong Sheng even doubts that this guy will directly replace Shu Zhigao or at least Jin Yongjian's status.

Just when everyone's mind is still on how to resist. At the time of the flood relief, the secretary of the district party committee was already thinking about how to take advantage of the various opportunities that the flood may bring to develop the economy of Xijiang, such a large leap in thinking and working methods made Luo Yucheng and Rongsheng a little unable to adapt to it, this guy is too smart to brain, so that it is difficult for others to catch up with his way of thinking, so he can only follow his work ideas step by step and strive to catch up.

There are still a lot of people holding on to the embankment. Above, especially inside and outside the embankment near Canghua, there are still quite a lot of militia reservists who are paying attention to the changes in the water situation at any time, and the flood outside the embankment from the south has reached a depth of more than one meter, but as the rain stops, the water level of the violent Yuexiu River has finally stabilized and is not rising, which makes everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and the sky that has been hazy for many days seems to have finally become brighter, although there has not yet been a clear blue sky, but this is already a good omen.

Just when Zhao Guodong and a few people noticed that a brigade was driving up along the embankment. When driving, there was a sudden noise on the embankment in front of the upstream, which suddenly attracted the attention of Zhao Guodong, Luo Yucheng and Rong Sheng.

"What's going on?" A few people and a dozen or so reservists stationed on the side. The militia all stood up and looked ahead, and soon all eyes were focused on a dark shadow that rose and fell on the wide, undulating water.

Some people in front of them followed and ran down, and the dark shadow in the middle of the river. Let everyone be heartbroken!

Approximately from the riverbank. A hundred meters away, two human heads attached to a log were flowing down the river in the water, the flow speed was quite fast, almost in the blink of an eye, the black shadow had floated to the area that was almost parallel to Zhao Guodong and several others, and from a distance, it could be barely distinguished that it should be two women clinging to a wooden beam, maybe because the floating time was too long, maybe there was no strength to call for help, and the figure with the undulating waves seemed so isolated and helpless.

A hundred meters may seem light, but in such a flooding situation, no matter how good the water is, you would not dare to take such a risk.

A few kilometers down from here is the confluence of the Yuexiu River and the Wujiang River, which means that it may take about ten minutes for you to be swept into the mighty Wujiang River, and at this time it is close to evening, and being swept into the Wujiang River can basically announce that you don't want to climb ashore again.

Most of the dozen or so people who followed them were reserve militiamen, and although they were chasing, none of them easily jumped into the water to save people. In this extremely bad and dangerous water situation, everyone knows that once you go, you may not be able to come up again, and righteousness and courage are often based on the premise of ensuring your own life.

Zhao Guodong hesitated for a moment and then began to quickly strip his pants, Luo Yucheng, Rongsheng and several militiamen around him were taken aback, "Secretary Zhao, what are you going to do?" No, this is too dangerous, there is the mouth of the Wujiang River below, and the water flow is too fast! ”

"Don't worry, I have faith in myself!" Zhao Guodong looked quite calm and calm, a distance of one hundred meters plus the speed of the water flow, there is indeed a great risk, but it is not unsure, Zhao Guodong knows his physical potential, it may be easier to save Gu Xiaoou that year than now, but that is after he has been swimming for a long time, and he still maintains a relatively good physical fitness at this time.

Seeing that Zhao Guodong quickly took off his clothes, several other militiamen who ran up also began to undress, and a district party secretary dared to do so, and several water-based experts who had no bottom in their hearts were a little impulsive to try.

"Don't have too many people, the water flow is too fast and too fast, this is not to have good skills, but to have good physical fitness, don't go down if you are too old and have poor physical strength, so as not to cause unwarranted sacrifices, two or three people are enough, I am telling the truth, this is not the time for personal heroism, you should also be responsible for your own life and family!" Zhao Guodong took off his trousers and shoes quickly, and took a deep breath, "If you are not absolutely sure, don't go into the water, it's good for everyone!" If you really want to go into the water, pay attention to protect yourself! ”

"Secretary Zhao, there are life jackets here!" When Zhao Guodong was about to jump into the water, someone next to him shouted.

"No need, the life jacket will slow down!" Zhao Guodong stretched his body, and a beautiful fish jumped into the water, "Leave what they need!" Also, prepare ropes and lifebuoys to go downstream and get ready to respond! ”

Just as Luo Yucheng and Rongsheng were stunned, Zhao Guodong had already made a decision and completed the preparations and jumped into the water in just a few tens of seconds.

When Luo Yucheng and Rong Sheng held their breath and watched Zhao Guodong finally get out of the muddy water ten meters away, the two found that their hands were already clenched tightly.

As Zhao Guodong entered the water, there were finally three militiamen who were quite confident in their swimming skills and physical fitness took off their clothes and jumped into the water, and the entire embankment was as dead as if it had fallen into an empty field, everyone subconsciously clenched their fists, stared wide-eyed, followed several figures floating down, and breathed with the ups and downs of the figures.

More and more people were running down from the upstream, apparently all of them had noticed the scene, and the station wagon that was slowly coming up from the downstream seemed to have noticed the situation as well, stopped, and several people got out.

"What's going on?"

"Two people were washed down from the upstream, and it seemed that they couldn't stand it anymore, Secretary Zhao and a few of them jumped into the water to save people! It's too dangerous, and the Wujiang River estuary is below! The person who answered looked impatient, shook off the mouthy rapper who wanted to ask again, and ran straight down after the others.

The mouthy rapper's eyes lit up when she heard this, as if she had discovered some wonderful theme, and hurriedly ran downstream with the crowd, while asking, "Hey, what kind of secretary is this Secretary Zhao?" “

"What secretary? Of course, we are the secretary of the Xijiang District Party Committee! I didn't expect Secretary Zhao to be so bold and his swimming skills to be so good! I hope he succeeds! A young militiaman ran with a red face, and said with some remorse: "Alas, my swimming skills are so bad, or I must go down!" ”

When the woman who was thrown away by the young militia heard this, she was shocked, and hurriedly ran to the driver's seat of the station wagon, "Master Zhang, Master Zhang, turn around quickly, go down and chase down, today we are going to pick up a big news, hurry, hurry!" ”

The station wagon driver is also a veteran, a beautiful backwards, quickly turned around, pulled a few reporters who had just had time to carry the camera, and roared downstream.

Zhao Guodong naturally didn't know that he had been locked by the camera on the embankment, and at this time he was fighting with the waves with all his body and mind.

When he went into the water, the wooden beam overtook his parallel line and quickly floated downward, and he didn't feel it on the shore, only when he got into the water, Zhao Guodong realized how fast the flood flowed and how powerful it was.

In this state, only freestyle is the most suitable and fastest swimming style, Zhao Guodong jumped up and raised his gaze to determine the general direction of the target for the last time, then threw himself into the water and spread his arms to paddle downstream along the current.

Zhao Guodong knew that from his own water to the mouth of the Yuexiu River flowing into the Wujiang River, it was only a few kilometers, that is to say, maybe he and the wooden beam and the two lives carried on the wooden beam would be washed into the Wujiang River in one or twenty minutes, and the Wujiang River is now the most ferocious time, and a few kilometers further down is where the Cui River flows into the Wujiang River.

And the sky is getting dark, if you really want to be swept into the Wujiang River, the night will also swallow up the two people who don't know how long they can support it, and you want to find traces of these two people on the wide Wujiang River, which has reached thousands of meters, is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack.

If you want to save people, you can only pull them ashore before entering the Wujiang River in this short twenty or thirty minutes.

It only took Zhao Guodong a few minutes to swim to the wooden beam, and sure enough, there were two women, it seemed that they should be mother and daughter, one was probably in her thirties, and the other was a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old.

When Zhao Guodong rushed closer, perhaps for the first time he felt the hope of survival, the nerves that were originally highly tense suddenly relaxed, and as soon as the little girl's hand was loosened, she was swallowed by the big waves at once.

There was a sudden scream on the shore.

Zhao Guodong, who was taken aback, dived into the water with a fierce son, stretched out his hand to both sides, and when his right hand touched an object, he quickly turned around and kicked his hands to catch it, and then struggled to pounce out of the water, the girl was already gray, and she was choked and coughed, Zhao Guodong didn't dare to relax her, so she could only hold her up and put her next to the wooden beam, and her mother was so anxious that she couldn't stop shouting.

"Hold on!" Zhao Guodong struggled to send the girl to the wooden beam, signaled the other party to hold it steady, and then turned to the other side, and began to push the wooden beam to the shore hard, but the power of the ups and downs of the water is too great, and the strength of one person is quite limited, Zhao Guodong has exhausted his best efforts, and the flow direction of the wooden beam finally began to shift to the shore, but at this speed, it will rush across the Wujiang River estuary before it reaches the shore.

What made Zhao Guodong feel relieved was that the three militiamen who followed him arrived at his side two or three minutes later, and the four people surrounded the wooden beam and began to push the wooden beam closer to the shore.

When Zhao Guodong and the others were finally trapped by the lifebuoy with ropes thrown from the embankment less than three hundred meters away from the mouth of the Wujiang River, the four people who participated in the rescue almost collapsed on the ground as soon as they climbed the embankment, and in just over 20 minutes, it was like draining all the energy of the four people, and the faces of the four people were almost dull gray, and their chests rose and fell violently like a pulled bellows, and one of them even spasmed all over his body because of excessive force. Together with the two mother and daughter who were also in a semi-comatose state, they were rushed to the hospital.

"Secretary Zhao, Secretary Zhao!" Zhao Guodong almost half-lay on the seat of the car and returned to the district party committee and district government building, and before he got out of the car, a station wagon followed closely behind the Mitsubishi off-road vehicle and chased in.