Chapter 294: Chapter 49 Evolution! Ping’an Town Gradually Becomes Stronger
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In a life-and-death moment, Wang Shouzhe’s mind raced.
He looked at Liu Ruolan with a face full of fondness and depth: "I truly adore my wife’s cooking skills. If you cook for me every day, how could I possibly control myself? Wouldn’t I end up overeating? Over time, it would surely be bad for my health. Wouldn’t it be like plotting against your own husband?"
"Therefore, my wife should cook occasionally, so I can have something to look forward to."
The coldness on Liu Ruolan’s face gradually dissipated, and she gave Wang Shouzhe a happy sidelong glance: "Husband really is talented. Even your compliments are so breathtaking and inventive."
To divert Liu Ruolan’s attention, Wang Shouzhe wrapped his arm around her waist and whispered: "I’ve been away from home all these days, and many things have been inconvenient. I haven’t experienced my wife’s ’Profound Water True Technique’ in quite some time."
Liu Ruolan’s pretty face flushed slightly, and she whispered: "I also haven’t checked my husband’s ’Eternal Spring True Technique’ cultivation progress for a while. It’s just that the two children are still studying in the next room..."
The couple had been away on business for too long, and hadn’t monitored their studies in a long time, which led the little ones to completely let themselves go, now catching up in haste.
The little troublemakers are indeed troublesome.
Wang Shouzhe regretfully shook his head, just as he was about to focus his attention on the sand table.
Liu Ruolan, however, blushed and bit her lip, saying, "Oh well~ they’re not falling behind in schoolwork just for one or two days. I’ll ask Qiao’Er to look after the kids, and we’ll go to the Water Moon Celestial Pavilion to train~"
"Alright. Fine then."
After some consideration, Wang Shouzhe decided he couldn’t really argue with Liu Ruolan, and followed suit as she wished.
Half an hour later.
In the study.
Wang Liyao and Wang Zong’an, the siblings, were earnestly working on their homework with serious expressions.
Mother did say she would come check the homework later.
Even at their young age, they had already learned to read the room, understanding that they would rather offend their father a hundred times than provoke their mother’s anger even once at home.
Therefore, they wrote diligently, putting in a great deal of effort.
However, they had waited for a long time, and there was no sign of their mother coming to check the homework.
"Aunt Qiao’Er," Wang Liyao blinked her beautiful eyes, full of doubt, "could it be that mother has gone to train with father again?"
"Well..." Qiao’Er broke out in cold sweat, chuckling dryly as she explained, "Miss and Sir are both Celestial Prides; it’s only right for them to train hard."
The siblings looked at each other.
Alright, today’s homework was done for nothing again.
Once the parents start training, they probably wouldn’t return for two or three days.
"An’an, let’s go, sister will take you out to play," Wang Liyao suddenly lit up.
"Um, sister, isn’t this a bit inappropriate?" Wang Zong’an felt a bit guilty.
He wasn’t as bold as his sister.
"What are you afraid of? You know our parents well enough; they’ve just found a place to hide for some peace and quiet,"
Wang Liyao grabbed Wang Zong’an and strutted out, casually adding, "Aunt Qiao’Er, you must cover for us."
Qiao’Er looked speechless, grumbling inwardly.
Miss, Sir, how many years have you used that excuse? Even the little miss can’t be fooled anymore. Could you come up with something new?
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In the following days, the weather continued with heavy, continuous rain.
The water level of Anjiang kept rising.
Wang Shouzhe received information that several low-lying areas along the middle and lower reaches of Anjiang had already experienced flooding, leading to waterlogging.
Since Changning Guard is on the north side of Anjiang, with steep coastal terrain and a higher inland topography, as long as the drainage is handled well, it wouldn’t flood easily for a while.
However, Ping’an Town predominantly has hilly terrain with many low-lying areas, making its overall elevation much lower than the north side of Anjiang.
This is also why no one has come to cultivate the land in Ping’an Town. If it were a good piece of land, it wouldn’t have been left to Ancestor Zhou Xuan.
Nevertheless, for the Wang Family, Ping’an Town is their foundation, and there’s no choice but to manage it carefully.
Water management projects are never a matter of a single day. Since arriving, Wang Shouzhe has never relaxed on this front.
The dredging and filling at Zhuwei Lake was just the beginning.
Over the years, he has continually worked on dredging rivers, opening water channels, strengthening embankments, and constructing flood discharge gates, among other tasks. This downpour is precisely the time to test the arrangements he has painstakingly made over the past eight or nine years.
The entire Wang Family, and even many collateral branches of the Wang Family, participated in this flood prevention work.
The foremost is the embankment along Anjiang.
From Ancestor Zhou Xuan’s time, the construction and strengthening of the embankment has been ongoing. Every year, part of the manpower and resources would be spent on it.
By the time of Wang Shouzhe, even more emphasis was placed on the construction and reinforcement of the embankment along the Ping’an stretch of Anjiang.
Currently, besides wealth, the Ping’an Wang Family has another powerful tool in their hands, the legendary foreign cement.
Simply mixed with gravel and water in certain proportions, it becomes the famed concrete.
However, the time left for Wang Shouzhe was too short, and currently, only the most dangerous sections have been built with stone slopes and concrete embankments, roughly accounting for just one-third of one hundred fifty miles.
But even so, compared to the original embankment, the flood resistance capability is incomparable.
Wang Shouzhe braved the rain, inspecting the embankments along the way.
As the water level rose, some previously relatively safe embankments now had some hidden dangers. He immediately dispatched clan members to organize tenant farmers and commoners to temporarily reinforce those embankments.
At the same time, he also inspected the flood discharge gates.