239. Flood
"It's all relatives, where is it bothering!" Miao's distorted expression pleased the Lin family, you joined your niece to squeeze my daughter and told my daughter to go early, but now I can't stand it after a few words? Hmph... If I find out that my daughter's death is really related to you, see if I don't peel your skin! Thinking of this, the Lin family hated in her heart, Fang Yue's untimely death was a scar in her heart, although there was no evidence, but there were many deeds that showed that the Fang family's miscarriage and death were strange. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The yard that Yao Keqing cleaned up was fine, because the yard was big, so I directly asked the four sisters of the Yao family to live in it together. Because it was raining, it was inconvenient to clean up the house, so the Miao family lived in the east wing of the Lin family's courtyard.
They didn't bring anything, and the Lin family commanded their subordinates to find them here and there, and they were busy for a while, Yao Keqing suddenly stepped forward and said to the Lin family, "The princess is afraid that she hasn't gone far yet, do you want to send a few people to take a look?" And the eldest cousin, do you also want to send someone to chase it back?"
"You're right, the princess has to send someone to take a look! Forget about your eldest cousin, he rode a horse, at this time, he was afraid that he would have walked dozens of miles earlier, and it would not be far from the capital at this time!" Lin nodded again and again, and immediately assigned people to find Princess Duanyuan. Princess Duanyuan came out of the micro-suit, there was no princess's guard of honor, and there were no guards to escort her, and now it was raining heavily outside, if there was an accident, then they would be to blame.
"The royal courtyard is not far from here, maybe the princess has already gone to the courtyard!" Yao Keqing said again.
The Lin family also thought of this, so they divided two groups of people to look for it.
It didn't take long for the people who went to the other courtyard to come back first, and sure enough, as Yao Keqing expected, Princess Duanyuan found that it was going to rain not long after she went out, so she turned back to the royal courtyard.
Knowing that the princess was fine, and also sent a female official to thank the Fang family for their care, the Lin family was relieved.
And when the Miao family learned that Princess Duanyuan did not return to Beijing, but stayed in the courtyard to avoid the rain, they immediately became happy, glad that they insisted on staying, the Fang family courtyard is close to the royal courtyard, if the princess stays for a few more days, doesn't it mean that Sister Rou'er will have the opportunity to meet the princess?
This rain came quickly and fiercely, but in an hour, half a foot of water accumulated in the yard, and Lin looked at the rain more and more worriedly, such a heavy rain, if it continued to fall, I was afraid that it would be affected.
Until midnight, the rain did not abate, and the middle-aged servant woman braved the rain overnight to dig a ditch in the yard to drain it, otherwise the water would overflow into the house.
Time passed a little bit, and the rain was still falling, Lin Shi's heart became more and more uneasy, she remembered that the upper reaches of the Yuliang River were dammed, so the Yuliang River could be so smooth when it flowed through the capital. But now that the rain is so heavy, if the embankment is overflowing or even collapsed, then the people in the lower reaches of the Yuliang River will be bad, and what is even worse is that the people who are now on summer vacation in the courtyard on the bank of the Yuliang River will be too late for everything as soon as the flood comes.
Lin felt uneasy when he thought about it, so he arranged for a sturdy male servant to go to a nearby house to inform him, and at the same time called someone to come in to prepare, just in case of a flood.
As the saying goes, what is afraid of something, the Lin family has just prepared, and the servant sent out to report the news came back soaked, "The flood is coming, the slave has not yet arrived, and on the hill in front of me, I saw from a distance that the house on the other side of the river was washed away by the water, probably the embankment collapsed!"
Because she was in a hurry, the servant finished her words in one breath, but Lin didn't hear anything else, she still heard the keywords "the flood is coming" and "the dam has collapsed".
He immediately ordered, "Go and inform everyone in the courtyard, go to the back gate immediately, and don't bring anything! Then move the lotus picking boat in the warehouse to the back mountain, and we will go up the mountain!"
In the face of the disaster, Yao Qishen could no longer care about being angry with Yao Keqing, as soon as he heard the letter from the Lin family, he ran to find Yao Keqing, at the critical moment, Yao Qishen subconsciously felt that Yao Keqing was the most reliable.
"Grandmother, don't go up the mountain!"
Lin Shi was puzzled, "The mountain is high, and you can hide from it when the water comes!"
"This mountain is not a stone mountain, just a mound, it has been raining for nearly four hours now, the mountain has long been soaked and softened, maybe when the mountain will collapse, it is more dangerous to go up the mountain!"
Yao Keqing reminded him, and the Lin family also thought of it, and hurriedly called people back, but he didn't know what to do, there were wolves in front and tigers in the back, did he have to stay in the courtyard and wait for the flood to come?
"Then what should I do? I can't leave, I can't stay..." Lin was so anxious that the flood was coming, but there was no way to escape.
"Grandmother, don't worry. Yao Keqing reassured, "The terrain in this area is open, the courtyard is some distance from the river, and the foundation is several zhang higher than the riverbed, it has not rained for a long time ago, the water level has dropped a lot, and the embankment in Zhangzhou does not store much, even if the embankment bursts, the flood will not come too violently, but the mountain collapse is more dangerous!"
The reason why the embankment was built in Zhangzhou was also to slow down the flow rate of the Yuliang River through the capital, so the water storage performance was average, which Lin felt reasonable, but he still did not dare to stay in the other courtyard.
"Is there a place in the courtyard with high terrain and a solid foundation?" Yao Keqing asked, Fang's home is big, Yao Keqing has not finished shopping, so he is not particularly clear about the buildings in the garden.
"Yes!" Lin said, "The stargazing tower in the southeast corner has ten floors, and the lower three floors are made of stone, where are we going!" "There is a patriarch of the Fang family who is quite good at the astronomical calendar, so he built the stargazing tower, but I didn't expect it to come in such a handy now." After saying that, he gathered everyone together and went to the tower without hesitation.
"By the way, did the princess send someone to inform her?" Princess Duanyuan came out of Beijing in the name of the Fang family's character practice, and at this time she lived next door to the Fang family.
"When it was about to get dark, Mama Mei went in person, and the princess rested in Fenglintai tonight, which is the highest place in the royal courtyard, and it should be out of the way!"
Miao, who rushed to hear the news, was so frightened that he was half-supported and half-dragged by the two mothers-in-law, and he was still dragging Yao Kerou, who was also trembling, Yao Kerong and Yao Keyi sisters supported each other, and Yao Kemeng was tightly glued to Miao's back.
Everyone waded through knee-deep water, and walked to the stargazing tower with difficulty, Yao Qishen, as the only man, took the lead in opening the way in front, Yao Kemeng was young, and he stumbled and stumbled, and finally walked to the stargazing tower by his mother-in-law.