The blessing of the splendid farm family is married to the world

Chapter 165 Disaster
An Xu also saw the partridge, and she ran over with a big package in her arms.

"Where's Daoxiang?" An Xu asked without seeing Daoxiang.

"Behind," said the partridge.

Before the words fell, another huge wave came from the north covering the sky. Although there were various buildings blocking it, when they reached the second floor where An Xu and the others were, they still swept their feet and fell.

It's as if someone poured a basin full of water from the sky, with huge potential energy, just one click, this brick and tile building inn in the north has a tendency to crumble.

Bricks and stones kept falling down, and the original water hit the ground, which immediately made many people unable to get up, and the water rushed forward, engulfing many people who could not stand at that moment just now. .

The water was too strong.

Even half a month of torrential rain could not reach this level.

In the fast current, the inn was shaking. Zong Che held An Xu tightly with one arm, and said to the guards in the corridor, "Push out the door panels."

The corridor was also filled with water, and the newly removed door panel could be easily pushed outside.

There were other guests stranded on the second floor, as well as people from Dai's house and guards. Seeing this, they all hurriedly removed the door panels.

Zong Che stretched out his hand to hold down a door panel that was pushed out along the water, threw it onto the fast-flowing northerly water that had already fallen on the ground, and immediately jumped down with An Xu in his arms, barely standing on the door panel.

Seeing what the lord did, the guards in the back followed suit one after another. Partridge, Dao Xiang, and Yan Diu and Yan Zhun brothers were all brought down.

Although the inn was trembling, it didn't collapse after everyone got down.

After Dai Ji and those people jumped down, they didn't leave immediately. They wanted to wait for the water to recede and pick up their belongings.

The two brothers went to the northern border this time, not only brought a lot of silver notes, but also a box of gold, which was 100 taels.

An Xu didn't understand why the members of Dai's family didn't hurry up and walked along the water. He held his only bag and Xiao Wang in his arms, and reminded: "Master Dai, let's go."

Before the words fell, another wave as high as just now hit.

If you want not to be swept away by the water, you need to quickly swim out of the falling range after the water comes down.

Or hide behind huge bunkers.

But the fierce water has come in three waves, and many strong houses are in danger of being washed away.

The Dai family couldn't care about anything else for a moment, and first went to the pillar to hug them.

Even if the house is in danger of collapsing, it is better than being swept away by the flood.

The water came from the north, and the rich and powerful families of the Jiping Mansion all lived in Beicheng, and the overwhelming water took the lives of many people in one fell swoop.

After rushing to Nancheng, there was no water from top to bottom, but many ordinary houses were uprooted by the raging flood in just an instant.

Zong Che asked everyone to hold on to the door panels and float along the water, drifting through the streets, big and small, filled with the sound of howling and shouting, the sound of babies and children crying incessantly.

There are also people who, like them, hold on to things that can float and float along the current.

During this time, An Xu saw several large wooden basins, and all the people sitting in them were children, and even two or three-year-olds wrapped in quilts.

Most are unaccompanied by adults.

From time to time, exhausted people are swept away by the water.

This scene, like a hell on earth, made An Xu's eyes hot, and his face was already full of tears when he wiped it.

She didn't know why she was crying, and for whom she was crying. She saw so many people dying in one breath, not one or two, but hundreds or thousands.

It's hard not to be afraid, not to feel bad.

Zong Che has been holding An Xu's shoulders tightly all the time. When he went to the main road of the South City, he saw the open South City Gate like a bridge hole, and his eyes turned cold.

The turbid water engulfing the trees and human bodies from the north rushed out from the south gate of the city like rushing water to release a flood.

Zong Che looked to the north, there was no more rushing water, but there was still water pouring in here.

This flood is man-made.

The target is the people in the entire city of Jiping Mansion.

The morning glow appeared in the east, and the water potential gradually decreased. Half of the sky was covered in red in the east, which made the scene here feel more like the end of the world.

No one noticed the sudden storm, and now the entire Jiping Mansion was paralyzed, and the court officials did not know how many lives were lost, let alone the soldiers who could be called to rescue the people.

They found some pillars in the south city that hadn't been washed away, and three planks surrounded one pillar.

Zong Che said: "Stay here for a few hours first, wait for the water to calm down, and then go north."

Obviously, the water comes from the north, that is, the opening to the south, so even if the north will be flooded, it will not be as serious as here.

Seeing the torrent rushing past the south gate, Dai Ji calmed down a little and shouted, "Lord Zong, what do you think is the flood?"

It's not the flood season at all, and the treatment of the embankment of the Qingmo River has been keeping up with it in the past two years. How could there be such a large amount of water?
"This flood seems to come from the sky," Dai Lun hugged a pillar, and tried to fix his lower body on the door panel, almost crying, "here must be punished by heaven again."

It seems that he has also heard about the fox's den dug out of the embankment.

The guards here tied the door panels to the pillars with the ropes they found along the water. An Xu stretched out his hand and called Yan Dial and Yan Zhun who were next to him to come over and be with her and Zong Che.

Today's craftsmen are all real people, who make products with heart. This door panel is so solidly inlaid by them that there is no gap, and it can support a weight of several hundred kilograms without any problem.

Yan Dig looked at the distance between the door panels on both sides, sat down and moved to the side, letting his younger brother pass first, and then he passed.

Once here, Yan Diu handed the bundle in his hand to An Xu: "Sister-in-law, eat cake."

An Xu took it over and took a look. They were all the pancakes given by Mrs. Lin when they went out. These days on the road, they ate a lot of tricks, so they never thought of eating the pancakes given by Mrs. Lin.

Unexpectedly, the strict sundials were left on.

As expected, these pancakes were not moldy at all, but they were hard and dry. Eating them alone would make your teeth crumble.

An Xu took one and handed it to Zong Che.

The most important thing now is not what to eat, but what to drink.

Zong Che said: "Don't worry, the water flow will stabilize at noon at most."

Dai Ji reprimanded his younger brother who spoke indiscriminately, and said, "Lord Zong, what should we do now?"

Zong Che said, "Wait."

Wait?
Dai Ji thought to himself, what's the use of waiting.

Gradually, more and more people who were lucky enough to save their lives on the floating object came to Nancheng. Seeing their behavior, many people followed suit.

It is more difficult to float out along the water, and then back and forth, even if the home is washed away, I don't feel at ease.

Some, like Dai Ji, have gold and silver hidden in their homes. At this time, they are anxiously watching the flood on both sides, hoping that it will fade away soon.

Dai Ji always felt that waiting was not an option, and said: "Master Zong, there are three thousand local troops stationed in Jiping Mansion, and the barracks are near the Qingmo River. Let's send a few people from both sides and paddle to the north to have a look. .”

Zong Che pointed to the northwest direction: "When the last wave of water came in the early morning, I observed that it was coming from the northwest. Is the barracks near there?"

Dai Ji thought about it carefully, and it was true that the Jiping Mansion military camp was also outside the northern city, and they were probably more seriously injured than the people in the city.

Moreover, the governor's mansion is in the city, and all the officers who have money in their hands will make their homes in the city.

"Is it really a disaster from heaven?" Thinking of this, Dai Ji couldn't help looking up at the sky.

"Master Dai has personally experienced the battle, don't you feel that the current situation is very similar to the water attack?" Zong Che's words immediately interrupted those who were whispering after hearing Dai Jizhi's words.

"Lord Zong, do you think such a rapid flood can be handled by manpower?" Dai Ji asked.

Zong Che said: "This kind of flood can only be accumulated by manpower first, otherwise it will require extremely heavy rainfall that is rare in a hundred years."

Dai Ji couldn't make up his mind, and asked him to create such a big flood, he didn't know where to start.

"Now, we just have to wait and see if the magistrate or the officials of the prefect's yamen have escaped here. Such a method is impossible to form without infiltrating into the river engineering." Zong Che said slowly.

An Xu found a package of plums she made from the package that the partridge handed over, and put them away, planning to eat one for each person when they were thirsty.

At this time, many jars floated in the water.

"Miss, it's Fang's canned food." Partridge shouted.

There weren't many cans, and they should have been washed out of the ones displayed in the shop. After all, this thing has some buoyancy, and there are jars with their mouths exposed, spinning and drifting with the water.

An Xu didn't have time to think about how much the Fang family had suffered, so he hurriedly ordered the guards: "Get a few jars quickly."

The guards of Dai's family had already untied the rope and rushed over, and caught a lot. Seeing that the Zong family's side had not caught much, and seeing the expression on the face of the adults, they even came out in two jars.

As for the other people hiding here, there are almost no people with more manpower than them. Although they are also eager for the cans in the water, no one dares to grab them.I only dare to pick up an altar that floats to my side.

Those who can survive until now are all living with their brains.

After all, no one had Zong Che's idea. When they saw the water coming, they all ran out. They didn't know that the water was rushing from above, and they were shot on the ground in an instant and couldn't get up.

Because the water came from the north, quite a few wealthy people in the northern city died in an instant.

When the water washes over the houses and pavilions and spreads to the east, west and south, the potential energy is greatly reduced, but there are too many ordinary houses in these places, and there are some poor people's gathering areas, and their houses can't withstand it at all. Such a large amount of water energy.

So in these places, there are still many injured people.

If you do a statistic, in the half an hour just now when the fire broke out, thousands of lives may have been taken away.

How ruthless water and fire can be, those who have never seen it will never understand.

At the Qingmo River embankment outside Beicheng, a man stood on a platform several feet high. This is an observation platform he suggested to build last year, which can detect flood conditions in time.

(End of this chapter)