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Chapter 17 The Plague Strikes (1)
Just as Xiang Qing was sleeping comfortably in the cell with her two sons in her arms, a disaster outside struck the small town.

Just after the hour, the sky began to rain again, turning the quaint town of Tongcheng into a hell on earth.

"The mouth of the dam has burst!" A woodcutter who came down from the mountain with a load of firewood in the heavy rain walked to the embankment. He was frightened when he saw that the torrential flood had washed away the damaged mouth of the dam that had not yet been repaired. He even abandoned the firewood that he had cut down through all kinds of hardships, and ran away.

But how can manpower compete with heaven?
The rushing flood quickly caught up with him, and he was swept into the waves and flowed straight down.

"Save—" Before he could utter the fateful word, he had been swallowed by the flood, hit hard on the stone, and died.

The flood was like a beast, rolling towards the crops and fields, destroying the farmhouses, but all the houses on both sides of the river and nearby were submerged. Everyone was frightened and ran for their lives crying for their parents, but most of them could not escape the disaster. , only a small number of young, strong and long-legged young people survived.

It took a whole day and night for the rain to gradually subside and the flood to recede slowly. There were corpses lying, piled up, and buried all over the ground, which was unbearable.

Zhuge Ning held an umbrella and walked slowly among the corpses. The old people, children and women were all swollen and deformed from the bubbles. With a breath of grief, Zhuge Ning's heart felt uncomfortable as if being crushed by a boulder.

And Liu Yunhe in front of him didn't even open an umbrella, and braved the not-so-small rain to check the miserable situation step by step.

"Oh, Mr. Liu, why don't you take an umbrella, you're all wet, the road is extraordinary, hurry up and come here with an umbrella." Old Bu Shizheng came from the other side of the river embankment, and when he saw the imperial envoy inspecting in the rain, he was excited and overwhelmed panic.

Lu Bufan immediately brought an umbrella and opened it for Liu Yunhe.

"No need!" Liu Yunhe raised his hand to refuse, his voice was three points colder than usual: "How is the disaster?"

Lu Bufan looked at Liu Yunhe with admiration, put away the umbrella, and handed it to the yamen servant beside him.

"Read it quickly!" Lao Bushi immediately asked the master to read the calculated data to Liu Yunhe.

The master mourned and said: "In this flood, 110 houses were destroyed, 270 people were drowned, [-] acres of crops were damaged, and countless property..." After the master read, he burst into tears.

Can't his damn mother-in-law stay at home?He wanted to take his little grandson out to visit, but was washed away by the flood, wouldn't that kill him?
Liu Yunhe frowned tightly, and the fist behind his back was also tightly pulled to death. He was almost ready to overhaul the river embankment and prepared all the materials in the heavy rain, but he still couldn't save these lives in time. This time, he owed the emperor's favor and was ashamed of these common people!

"Second brother, don't do this!" Seeing Liu Yunhe's clenched hands behind him, Zhuge Ning hurried forward to persuade: "Natural disasters and man-made disasters, manpower can't resist at all, we have sent people to hurry up to transport materials overnight, but we still haven't been able to." We can catch up, we will do our best!"

They have only been here for three days, and they have not lost a moment in these three days, and they have suffered countless heavy rains, but in the end they failed to catch up. It is God who delays time, not them.

The old history also said: "Yes, Lord Liu, this matter is none of your business. I heard that those who rushed to work were exhausted... It's only because God doesn't have eyes..."

Liu Yunhe looked up at the gray sky and let the rain hit his face. After a while, he looked away and said, "When the water lessens, start working immediately!"

(End of this chapter)