"Ah? You said this small river is the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou?" Chu Qian opened her mouth wide in surprise, wishing she could swallow an egg directly.

"Well, it's a fake Grand Canal. Wife, if you give you a boat, you can directly arrive outside your community by boat. Moreover, this is not a small river ditch, okay, look at this embankment, look at this river channel, it's not a small river ditch."

Chu Qian was speechless and pointed to the river under her feet and said, "Brother, let's not be funny, okay? If this is not a small river ditch, what is a small river ditch?" Now Chu Qian has learned to be mean, and a Tianqu accent comes out.

The two of them are located on the east embankment of a river. The embankment is very high and steep, and the river channel looks quite wide. However, there is almost no water in the river channel. Only a stream of water less than three or four meters wide flows slowly at the bottom of the river channel, and the color is a bit scary, black...

Although men and women in love have low IQ, their ability to resist freezing is excellent. Tianqu in January is the coldest time of the year, and the temperature during the day is only above two or three degrees, but this cannot be a couple waking outside.

The community where Liu Mo'ang's grandparents lived was next to the Grand Canal, and the straight line distance from the Grand Canal dam was less than 500 meters. At noon the next day when Chu Qian arrived in Tianqu, after having a meal at Liu Mo'ang's grandparents' house, she was pulled here by her boyfriend. However, when Lao Liu introduced the river to his girlfriend, she was directly questioned by her girlfriend.

"Cough cough..." Old Liu couldn't help but coughed a few embarrassingly.

If you look at the levee, this river can indeed be called a river. But if you look at the water in the river, then forget it. The water in the stinky ditch is more water than in this river.

No wonder Chu Qian doesn’t believe that the river under her feet is the Grand Canal with a thousand-year history.

"My wife, I can't blame me for this. The water shortage in the north is far less than that in your place. Moreover, the water source of the Nan Canal from the Yellow River to Tianjin comes from the Zhanghe River and Weihe River, especially the Zhanghe River. In the past, the water volume in this section of the canal was still very large and it had to be flooded in summer. However, since the Yuecheng Reservoir was built in the upper reaches of the Zhanghe River in the 1960s, the water volume in the southern canal has been reduced day by day. I remember when I was a child, my uncle took me to the canal to play, and the canal was flooded in summer. But since I was in the fourth or fifth grade of elementary school, there was no flood here again, and the water volume was also getting smaller and smaller. In the past few years, a rubber dam was built upstream, which killed the water flow, and there was no water here. Now you see this situation."

Chu Qian was stunned for a moment, then said, "This seems wrong? Why don't you have water here? Isn't the East Line of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project just the Grand Canal of the Beijing-Hangzhou?"

Liu Mo'ang nodded, "The East Line of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is indeed on the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, but the problem is that it has not been built here yet, so the Yangtze River cannot pass for the time being. Well? It seems that I can't say that. Every winter, the canal will flow water, as if it is to supply the Yellow River water to Tianjin..."

The two people's knowledge of water conservancy is limited to famous water conservancy projects such as the South-to-North Water Diversion or the Three Gorges Dam. But if they were asked to tell them the specific details of these water conservancy projects, they would be just a rolling pin and no idea about fire.

"Liu Mo'ang, what kind of bridge is the north?" Chu Qian asked, pointing to an iron bridge across the Grand Canal to the north.

"That is the canal bridge of the Shide Railway. The railway from Tianqu to Shijiazhuang is here. When I was a child, my uncle took me here to play. Look, look at the train, which is heading towards Shijiazhuang." In the distance, a train was struggling to pull the long body and slowly running on the rails. The unique sound made by the electric locomotive motor can be heard clearly even if you stand here.

Chu Qian turned around and pointed to a bridge with three piers to the south and asked, "What kind of bridge is this bridge? Why do you have three piers?"

Liu Mo'ang turned around and looked at the bridge, with a smile on his face, "This bridge, can you guess what kind of bridge it is?"

"It looks like this bridge is very historical, and it should be abandoned, right? I saw a lot of pipes on it, is it a water supply pipe or a heating pipe?"

"Heating pipes. Look at the big chimneys and cold water towers over there, that is the Huaneng Tianqu Power Plant. Part of the steam generated by the power plant enters the city through these pipes. It heats the city in winter and provides heat to some factories that need steam in normal times."

"What kind of bridge is this?"

"This bridge is a long history. Well, I'll do it. If I'm not wrong about this bridge, it should have a history of 108 years."

"Ah? One hundred and eight years? Then didn't this bridge exist in the Republic of China era? Liu Mo'ang, tell me, what kind of bridge is this bridge?"

"This bridge is the canal bridge where the Jinpu Railway crossed the Grand Canal in Tianqu. It was built by the German devils."

"No way, this bridge is the railway bridge of the Jinpu Railway?"

"Although it doesn't look like it, I can tell you exactly that this bridge is the railway bridge of the Jinpu Railway built by the German devils back then. Well, when the German devils and British devils built the Jinpu Railway, it was not called the Jinpu Railway, but should be called the Jinzhen Railway, which was from Tianjin to Zhenjiang. It started to be built in 1908 and opened to traffic in 1912. Later, the Jinzhen Railway and the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway were connected, and finally it was renamed the Jinpu Railway."

Chu Qian nodded. There is a humiliating history about the end of the Braid Dynasty. Anyone who has been to school knows it.

"After the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Russian devils, British devils, Japanese devils, and German devils have been coveting China's territory. At that time, the Russian devils occupied the Northeast, but the Japanese devils did not do it, so the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904.

As a result, the dog bites the dog's hair, and the Japanese devils eventually drove the Russian devils away and occupied the Northeast.

I won’t say anything about the British devils, that’s the worst. As for the German devils, they are not bothered and do not leave. They regard Dongshan as their forbidden property.

At that time, the Braidi government wanted to build the Jinzhen Railway, and it happened to pass through the territory of the British devils and the German devils. So the British devils and the German devils took the right to build the Jinzhen Railway. The German devils were responsible for building the Beijinpu Railway, and the British devils were responsible for building the Nanjinpu Railway. This bridge was built by the German devils when they built Beijinpu."

Liu Mo'ang slowly told some of the things about the Jinpu Railway that year. Chu Qian was also a little depressed when she heard it, "If you fall behind, you have to be beaten. The Braided Dynasty back then... Alas, I won't say it anymore, I feel uncomfortable when I mention this."

The wind was quite strong on the river bank. The two of them felt a little cold after standing here for more than ten minutes, so they got on the bus and walked back along the asphalt road on the river bank.

This asphalt road has only been built for a few years, and the road is not wide, so both cars have to slow down when they meet. However, the scenery on both sides of the road is still good. The Grand Canal is on the right, the left is a flat farmland, and there are some villages in the distance. On both sides of the road are dense locust trees and willow trees.

It's just that it's winter now, and all the trees are bare and look a little depressed.

"Did you see that rubber dam? It was built seven or eight years ago. At that time, we wanted to store water for the city and form a landscape river in the city." Lao Liu said while driving, pointing to the light blue rubber dam not far ahead.

Seeing this rubber dam, Chu Qian understood why there was so little water in the river channel I just saw, because the water in the river was intercepted and killed by this rubber dam.

"My uncle said that a lot of things happened when the rubber dam was built. Because to build this rubber dam, the river water had to be cut off and a drainage channel. As a result, after the river water was cut off, many nearby villagers were digging treasures here."

"Treasure digging? Are there any treasures in it?"

"Well, there are indeed treasures. Don't forget that Tianqu was an important port for canal transportation back then. After Zhu Di, the Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, moved the capital to Yanjing, this was the top port in the country. All the ships transported from canals were here. There were also many ships sunk in the canal back then, so there must be treasures in this river. In the past, Japan wanted to clear the canal for us for free. Although the Japanese were free, they said that the things dug out of the river belonged to them. The country did not agree, so the Japanese had no choice."

"Well, I have heard of this statement, too." Chu Qian nodded.

"Actually, there is something in this river. Did you see the road bridge in front? My uncle said that when the bridge was built, the river water had been cut off. At that time, many people were digging treasures in the river. It is said that one of them had dug out gold ingots."

"Really or not?" Chu Qian was a little disbelief.

"It should be true. It seems that not only people have dug out gold, but also people have dug out porcelain. They are all things pulled on the ships that sank in the Grand Canal. Many of us locals know about these things."

After a pause, Old Liu gradually slowed down his vehicle and pointed to the rubber dam and said, "When the dam was built, many people nearby came to dig treasures. At that time, the digging of pits under this section of the river was full of pits. My uncle and I came to see it specially. What did I encounter when we came here?"

Chu Qian tilted her head and looked at her boyfriend and shook her head.

"That time, my uncle and I stood here and watched the people below dig treasures. As a result, a woman and a man dug too deep. These two should be a couple. The pit collapsed directly and they were both buried."

"Ah?" Chu Qian was startled.

"This is what I saw with my own eyes." Liu Mo'ang vowed, "Fortunately, there are workers who are under construction around and many treasure digging people. These people soon began to rescue them. When 119 came, the couple was dug out, but the man was already suffocated to death, and the woman was lucky enough to survive..."

"Oh, why bother with this? Does the construction site manager ignore it?" Chu Qian sighed.

"Haha, what's the use of slaughtering? They are all nearby villagers, who can manage it? It is said that another treasure digger was buried two days later and it was not able to survive. Since then, police have been on duty on this construction site every day, so no one went down to dig for slaughtering treasures. But this rubber dam has already taken two lives!"

Chu Qian let out a long breath and shook her head and said, "This is a murderous rubber dam..."
Chapter completed!