Chapter Forty-Seven: The Crossing of the Flood Peak

The ink-colored clouds suppressed the Jing Barbarian sky, as if it was about to fall from the sky, so depressed that the entire Jing Barbarian land was depressed. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the edge of the river, the waves roared angrily, and it was the time when the wind and waves were surging.

All the fishermen who lived by the river were ordered to go out fishing, and all the boats that crossed the river were also ordered to stop operating and not be allowed to carry passengers.

However, there are also people who are anxious to cross the river on the other side of the river and want to go home to see what is going on, anxiously waiting for the heavy rain to stop and refusing to leave, and there are also fishermen and people who take risks on the riverside to catch fish and shrimp washed ashore by the wind and waves in order to make a living.

"Grandpa, look, is this a puffer fish I picked up!"

A little girl of nine or ten years old, dressed in shabby clothes and combed in a double bun, stood by the river, holding a round fish like a tadpole, with a white belly, and a blue and black fish with small spines on her back.

"Girl, hurry up, puffer fish is a good thing, it can be sold for a good price, put it on!"

The old man commanded his granddaughter to pull all the fish he caught into a bamboo basket by the river, and said happily to the others, "Although the weather is bad today, it is a good time to pick up the leaks. ”

"Yes, let's catch more!"

"Once in a year!"

The poor people who fished together nodded their heads, no matter how big the wind and waves were, but the smiles on their faces did not decrease.

Sun Shuao, who was in charge of inspecting the flood season of the great river, rushed forward with the men of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, stopped them, pointed to the triangular wooden stake buoys floating in the middle of the river and the wooden stakes of the police boundary on the bank, and ordered loudly, "Don't you see the water level of the police line? It's almost past the line! Come up for me!"

The old man stood in the shallow water of the river with one foot, stood on the shore with one foot, smiled and pointed a finger at Uncle Sun Ao, and then pointed to the fish and shrimp that rushed to the shore by the river and begged, "Official, let's catch it again, just catch it, this is a good opportunity that is difficult to sew in a lifetime, so many fish, if you don't pick them up, what a waste!"

The little girl also followed him to stand in the shallow water, carrying the puffer fish with a net, and blinked her round eyes when she heard the words, and begged pitifully, "This official, you can let me and my grandfather finish picking up these fish before leaving! This is our ration for the next month!"

When the other people saw that the people from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division had arrived, they rushed to speed up the action of catching fish in their hands without saying a word, and they were afraid that if they were slow, they would never have a chance again.

In today's world, grain production is not high, and fishing boats are required to go out of the river to fish, unless ordinary people go into the mountains and forests to fish in small rivers and streams, it is difficult to see this natural delicacy for a year, let alone buy it.

"No, you guys don't want to die!"

Uncle Sun frowned and said, "The court has issued a flood control order, which strictly prohibits approaching the riverside. If you don't stop, I'll arrest them all. ”

Hearing this, Lao Jiang hurriedly nodded, "Okay, let's stop now!"

But as soon as he finished speaking, the little girl was about to catch the last net of fish and go ashore with the puffer fish in her arms, when a big wave hit in the middle of the river, and she saw the little girl and a dozen people behind her, swept away together.

Suddenly a cry sounded by the river, "Grandpa, save me!"

"Help!"

"Save my granddaughter!"

"And my daddy!"

"My daughter-in-law was swept away!"

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Some people wanted to jump into the water to save them, some people were stopped, the old man even lay on the riverside and wanted to pull his granddaughter up, and some people wanted to find wooden sticks and used sticks to pull back those who did not roll away, but the waves were too big, and a few people opened a few feet away in a blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Uncle Sun Ao scolded loudly, "Haven't all the others come ashore for me, and then go down to a few people who can swim in the water to save people with me!"

"Also, find two or three fishing boats, a few of them have already rushed too far!"

Hearing this, the little commander of the Five Cities Terracotta Division said, "Captain, these people are looking for their own death, we don't care, such a big wave, our brothers may not be able to come back alive at that time!"

The people who followed him nodded one after another, "That's it, this year's Hong Feng will cross the border soon, this is not a joke! ”

"In previous years, these people were also looking for death, so let's not meddle in our affairs and arrest all the remaining disobedient ones!"

"That's right, Lieutenant, you won't dare to arrest them!"

Uncle Sun frowned when he heard this, although their words were suspected of being greedy for life and afraid of death, but if people want to save them, they must stand up, otherwise they will save one and more people and put themselves in danger, then it will not be over.

"You are soldiers, and you eat the taxes paid by the people, so you should protect the people, not just say this kind of bastard talk that ignores the people!" A voice interrupted him from behind, "Come on, find a boat for me immediately, go out to save people, if there is no boat, Jing'an immediately ordered our Cheng family's big boat parked by the river to go out to search for the people who fell into the water!"

"Yes!

Jing'an immediately turned around and headed in the other direction along the river with a wave of secret guards, stopping two or three large ships by the river in the distance.

"And all the people are not allowed to step on this police line!"

Cheng Jia pointed to a row of police boundary posts that he had set up along the riverside overnight, and said to everyone, "Those who are in transgression, all of them will be given work for relief, and join the team of repairing the embankment until the end of the flood season!

"Yes, Lord Right!"

Although the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division were reprimanded, they did not have the slightest complaint in their hearts, and quickly pulled the old man and them aside, and temporarily requisitioned civilian boats by the river to rescue people.

When the old man saw that it was Cheng Jia and heard his identity, he didn't expect that this person who often came and went in and out of Wanji Wonton was the right disciple of the dynasty, and shouted again and again, "Please save my granddaughter...... Little Lao'er doesn't dare anymore! you can arrest me and do coolies......

When the rest of the people heard this, they also begged, "My lord, save my father and daughter-in-law!"

Hearing this, Cheng Jia looked at the old man who was already covered in mud standing in the crowd, "Don't worry, we will definitely save your relatives!"

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, ......"

The old man got his assurance, and he was very grateful.

Although he had only spoken to this noble man a few times, he intuitively felt that he was a good official.

All the people seemed to see a glimmer of hope, and they all turned their eyes to the young man in civilian clothes standing on the riverside.

Cheng Jia was followed by Bu Yin and Gong Nian, Bu Yin looked at the dark clouds on the river, and said loudly, "I'm afraid this heavy rain won't stop for a day or two, Cheng Youtu has to step up more in addition to flood control, otherwise my Chu country will have a hard time this year." After finishing the words, he sighed, "In this troubled world, natural disasters, wars, and years after year, when will it be the end!"

"This year, we will definitely get through it, never like last year!"

Cheng Jia's brows furrowed when he heard this, and he looked at the river and set off a big wave in the sky, like a roaring sea beast, the small fishing boat looked so small in the five hundred zhang wide river, it seemed that it would overturn at any time, and the fishermen and soldiers who rocked the boat swam desperately to the people who fell into the water in the wind and rain, and their faces were straight, thinking that even in the future of two thousand years, helicopters, yachts, and various sea, land and air transportation and rescue tools could not prevent the flood from transiting.

Floods continue to cause great suffering to a country, not only in terms of economic losses, but also in the loss of homes and loved ones when the floods come......

For the first time, the fat face of the male lost year also tightened, watching another big wave coming, the fishing boat almost capsized in the wind and waves, and finally narrowly avoided it, and then finally rescued the first person, "It's done, it's done, it's been rescued, that little girl!"

Then one by two, three, time passed little by little, and all the people who fell into the water were rescued, and even the people who were in custody were grateful to Dade.

"Thank you...... You are such a good person!"

It's just that a burst of horses' hooves rushed into everyone's sight by the muddy riverside, whipping the horsewhip vigorously in the rain, and shouting, "My lord, it's not good, the embankment on the Jianghan Plain has burst!"