The late Ming Dynasty in the living room

Chapter 103 Teacher Pan draws the river with one stitch
Teacher Pan said she understood.

To show caution, she took out her mobile phone and took a picture over Laishui County, and then used a photo tool to mark Erpokou with a five-pointed star.

Then she hurried to class.

Today's third and fourth periods are public classes for parents. Those people raise their hands actively and like to talk at length (to express themselves for their children or a beautiful matriarch), so Teacher Pan said that the get out of class might end a little later. .

"Don't just stand by the river, try to stay as far away from the river bank as possible." Teacher Pan finally reminded.

Then Lao Liu came back on horseback.

It is said that all 70 waterwheels have been installed, and carpenters are now doing final reinforcement inspections on the waterwheels.

Counting the time spent on the road, Fang Yu, together with Sun Chuanting, Yang Wenyue, Gao Jie, Min Wenggong... and Queen Zhang, who had just finished two classes, headed to the Juma River.

These big guys are ordinary and even lonely inside the iron wall.

But now we have to go to the Juma River, which is more than 20 miles away, so we definitely can’t go alone.

This is both disgraceful and unsafe.

They deliberately avoided making a scene in front of Fang Shenzi, but even if they removed the honor guard and cut down the escort by more than half, the total number of escorts, soldiers, affairs officers, subordinate officers, etc. walking on the road would still be seven to eight hundred.

This could not be simpler. There is a Ming Dynasty emperor's wife, a governor of the three sides, a governor of Baoding, a deputy general of the Jizhou army... there are many sets of teams.

In fact, this was already against the rules. If the civil servants in the court knew that they were so "rash", they would definitely report them to the emperor.

Such a large group of people walking on the road is very eye-catching. When we arrived at the Juma River, we found that there were even more people here.

As Fang Yu glanced around, he felt like he was going on a National Day trip and there were huge crowds of people.

There were hundreds of official craftsmen here, as well as five working groups of county citizens who helped set up waterwheels and build blacksmith workshops, as well as officers and soldiers from the granary garrison camp.

Now there are new officers and soldiers guarding the river, and behind them are gathered a lot of villagers.

Some of these villagers wanted to take some time to carry water, and some simply stayed here to watch the fun because they didn't think they could carry water.

In addition, how could there be no response from the county to such a big movement by the river?

When Fang Yu and the others came over just now, there were already many idle people following them. (Actually, they came here to see if there were any job opportunities...)
Fang Yu even saw a few people who looked like city squires in the distance. They spread out a table in the shade and placed refreshments on the table.

There was a young boy running around in front of me, a maid fanning behind me, and a squire sitting on a chair leisurely...

Fang Yu's eyes twitched as he watched. Who did he think Teacher Pan was?
Well, except for Sun Chuanting, Empress Zhang and others who knew a little better, no one else had any idea what this was going to do, or what kind of shocking scene they were about to see.

According to the notice from the county magistrate, they only knew that the Juma River would be filled with water at noon today.

So many people behind them craned their necks to look into the river to see if the water had started to rise now.
Well, there are many smart people hiding under the trees with broken umbrellas.

They thought that the county magistrate had gone to the camp to pray for rain again, and there would be an epic rainstorm later. Otherwise, how could the river be full?
Amid such great expectations, time has quietly arrived at noon.

However, when I looked up at the sky, the sun was still shining brightly, and there was not a single dark cloud.

Looking at the riverbed, it was still dry, with no signs of rising water. The "audience" waited patiently for another two-quarters of an hour, and gradually, there were more voices in the crowd talking.

"It seems that the water will not rise. I have already said that this is unreasonable. How about we go back first?"

"Maybe the god is not at home now, so we have to wait a little longer."

"It seems that the county magistrate is not sincere. Asking for rain is not so easy, just like asking the Dragon King earlier..."

Min Wen Gong followed at the end with his county government officials. Some people did not see him, and some were not very afraid of him.

In short, his face turned dark when he heard these words, but it was difficult to react because of the situation.

Fang Yu knew that Teacher Pan should still be at school, so he was not in a hurry.

Seeing that Queen Zhang and Sun Chuanting had been waiting with them for a long time, it was naturally very uncomfortable to wait under the sun.

Sweat had broken out on their foreheads, especially Queen Zhang. She refused to hide under the canopy umbrella, and her face was now slightly pale... Could she be suffering from heatstroke?
Even so, these big shots did not show a trace of impatience. They knew that as long as Fang Shenzi stood here, then Pan Niangniang (the magical power) would definitely appear.

In contrast, the villagers who were stopped became very anxious.

They originally only believed five points about the rising water in the Juma River, but now it was obviously past noon, and there was no movement in the river.

So inevitably there was a commotion, and someone begged the officers and soldiers: "My lord, you see the sun has already set to the west and it's past noon. Why don't you just let us go down to the river to fetch water."

"My lord, please let us pass. The crops in the fields cannot wait."

It's a pity that the officers and soldiers were not moved at all. The adults were all guarding there. They didn't say anything. Why are you so anxious?
Hong Qi was different from them. He didn't complain at all and wasn't impatient to wait.

He has put down the bucket because he believes that the water in the river will definitely rise... The official's words cannot be trusted, but the Fang Dong family has come in person. Since he is here, the rising water will definitely be correct!
There were his son and mother-in-law beside him. The mother-in-law was still angry with him, but she couldn't help it after all.

She said with a bad face: "I heard that only two miles of the road upstream were closed, and many people went upstream."

Although she didn't say it explicitly, her meaning was very clear, that is, she wanted Hong Qi to stop hanging around and go upstream to fetch water.

It is said that the upper reaches is Qifeng Pass. These people are really not afraid of any hardships in order to carry water.

Hong Qi ignored it at all. He said: "Don't worry, the water in the river will rise later and it will flow directly to the crop fields. We don't have to carry water."

The mother-in-law couldn't believe it. She thought he was afraid of the hard mountain road. She rolled her eyes at Hong Qi and wanted to grab the burden and carry it herself.

At this time, someone was heard saying in surprise: "Look at the sky! Look at the sky!"

The man's voice trembled as he spoke, and he obviously saw something that shocked him to the extreme.

Hong Qi and the woman who was snatching the bucket both looked up at the same time, and then they could no longer take their eyes away.

The "buzzing" chatter of thousands of people at the scene seemed to have been cut off by a sharp knife, and they became extremely quiet for an instant.

People by the river, people in the military camp, and people sitting under the trees eating refreshments all keep the same posture: looking up at the sky.

(End of this chapter)