Jinling sells many golden caves, and the so-called book apartment opened by Mingyue in the suburbs is one of the best. From the outside, it seems to be a scholarly courtyard, with exquisite landscaping, the east wind swaying the weeping poplar line, the gossamer pulling the peach blossom pieces, and the bead curtain covering the hibiscus surface.

These "hibiscus noodles" are all elegant, no less than the daughter of a family who is full of poetry and books, and has a thousand kinds of grace, all kinds of charming, like weeping willows before the evening breeze, on talent and skills, each has its own merits, but they also have one thing in common: expensive, more expensive than the Oiran lady of the Qinhuai River.

Mao Xiang's brows were tightly locked, he didn't bother to look at these women who seemed to be tall but were actually lowly, he went straight to an elegant house, which was burning with a strong lily incense to hide the smell of blood and medicine.

"Lord Mao." Ji Gang, who was recuperating from his injuries on the bed, saw that his boss was coming, and quickly climbed down and knelt down.

Mao Xiang asked, "There are injuries there?" ”

Ji Gang pointed to his left leg, "The wood that was blown up pierced is still not hurting the bones." ”

Mao Xiang asked, "The whole army was wiped out, and you escaped alone?" ”

Ji Gang sighed: "Probably, my subordinates have a big life, and when the bottom of the boat was bombed, he was at the railing outside, holding an oar and floating downstream. ”

Mao Xiang looked at Ji Gang's face carefully, seemed to recall something, and asked: "When the Captain's Mansion was still there, I ordered two teams of people to go to Shaanxi to inquire about the details of Miss Wang's family in the spice shop, is it you who escaped alive and came back to report the news?" ”

Ji Gang nodded, "It's a subordinate, so the merit has been promoted to a small flag." ”

Last year, he fought to the death against the eunuch Pu Buhua of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in Jiushan Mountain, and this kid also retreated, he was really a blessed general, no matter how he tossed it, he wouldn't die. Mao Xiang said: "Tell me all the details you can think of......"

In Fengyang City, Xu Miaoyi was waiting for a wide coat, and when she saw Mingyue standing at the door, she turned around and asked, "Do you really want to stare at it even taking a bath?" ”

The bright moon stood still like a beauty lamp, "Sorry, yes." I just received the news that the suspects who escorted Miss Surveillance were all wiped out, and only Ji Gang fled back, and Lord Mao said that Miss Xu couldn't have an accident and would protect Miss Xu to return to Beijing at all costs. ”

"It must be the same people again, they like the dead the most, because the dead are the safest." Xu Miaoyi took off her robe and jumped into the bathtub,

In an instant, Mingyue's pupils shrank into the eye of a needle.

Xu Miaoyi soaked in the hot water and thought: Thinking that I haven't made a move yet, those people panicked first, do they think I found something? In fact, I have been tracking down so far, the clues are always interrupted, almost nothing, and the emperor dislikes a lot of things, why do they always stare at me......

Just as he was thinking, suddenly there was a commotion outside. Mingyue hurriedly draped the robe on Xu Miaoyi's body and waited for it. However, this time there was a false alarm, and it was not Xu Miaoyi who infiltrated the assassin here.

Xu Miaoyi looked out the window, and two embarrassed brocade guards rolled off their horses and were taken away by the prince's people.

Xu Miaoyi's eyes were sharp, "These two brocade-clothed guards followed King Yan back to the lonely village for disaster relief, they looked in a hurry, it must be that King Yan had an accident!" ”

Xu Miaoyi went to the prince's tent and was stopped at the door, Xu Miaoyi looked at the soldiers of the East Palace coldly, "You know who I am, right?" ”

The soldier said: "Miss Xu, please go back, this is the prince's camp, and you are not allowed to enter unless you have an edict." ”

Xu Miaoyi returned to her tent and said to Mingyue: "The prince deliberately avoided it, there must be a reason for it. You and those two people who reported the news are all Jinyiwei, how about helping me inquire about □□ news?" ”

Mingyue said, "Okay." ”

Mingyue agreed so happily, Xu Miaoyi was surprised, she thought Mingyue would refuse!

Looking at Xu Miaoyi's puzzled gaze, Mingyue said: "We, Jinyiwei, only listen to the emperor's orders, and the emperor wants us to protect the safety of the crown prince and King Yan." ”

Mingyue soon brought □□ news, and Zhu Di really had an accident......

Let's talk about the honor guard of King Yan and the disaster relief team's mighty "return to the hometown", the monks of Longxing Temple and the villagers discussed how to welcome the arrival of the prince.

The biggest official in the township is Master Ma, who is an official in Guanglu Temple, and he has never seen such a mysterious big man as the prince. The respected lieutenant asked the villagers to kneel on the ground and not look up, saying that the emperor was the true dragon son of heaven and the incarnation of the five-clawed golden dragon. The princes are all silver dragons with four claws, and they see who is afraid.

The monks in the temple repeatedly told that it is disrespectful to look directly at the dragon, and to drag it down and cut off the head, if the dragon is summoned, just kowtow and answer yes, and the others are not allowed to say more, not to see more, so as not to collide with the nobles.

The witch doctor in the village actually said that unmarried women can't look at the head of the silver dragon, and the dragon has horns on the head, and whoever sees it is pregnant......

Anyway, it scared the people in the village, especially the unmarried woman, who wished that they were born blind, and they were afraid of seeing the true body of the dragon. Although they couldn't see King Yan himself, the people in the village were still very happy, and they talked until midnight before falling asleep.

What the lonely villagers don't know is that a catastrophe is coming. In the early hours of the morning, there was a loud thunderclap in the sky, and the villagers turned over from their dreams and continued to sleep, thinking that it was just a torrential rain and thunder.

However, a heavenly river mixed with mud, water, sand and stones on the mountain almost fell from the sky, and swept towards the village like a violent water dragon! Everywhere you go, it's an ocean!

When Zhu Di's guard of honor and disaster relief convoy arrived at the lonely village in the morning, he did not see the expected golden wheat fields, the vegetable fields lined up in rows, like soldiers, and the villagers toiling in the fields.

What he saw were vanished villages, monks rowing boats to retrieve corpses in the water, and some elderly and weak women and children.

"Nope! Impossible! I obviously guarded the river embankment, why was the lonely village flooded? Zhu Di couldn't believe everything in front of him, the earth movement and the Huai River water had not yet defeated this man, watching the land he had worked so hard to turn into nothing overnight, and the mulberry fields turned into the sea, he couldn't accept this cruel reality at all.

The white-headed Li Chang walked over with a crutch and cried: "It's all my fault, blame me for being too greedy and not listening to the temple's dissuasion......"

It turned out that when Fengyang was moving, the people in the village happened to be basically working in the fields, and there were only a dozen injured people, and two frail old men were stoned to death, which was relatively light. But the ground movement caused the upstream creek to be diverted, and the collapsed rocks blocked the mountain to form a dammed lake.

At that time, the monk on the pagoda of Longxing Temple found this dammed lake and suggested that the head of the lonely village should ask the villagers to evacuate quickly, and then go back after dredging the dammed lake and solving this hidden danger. However, Li Chang walked up the hill with a pestle, and saw that the dammed lake was not big enough to flood the village, and he felt that the village was harvesting wheat, so it was a pity to evacuate at this time, and the ripe wheat rotted in the ground.

Farmers work hard all year long, waiting for the harvest, and if they give up at this time, it is equivalent to giving up their own children, which is really unbearable.

So the chief asked the old and weak women and children in the village to go to Longxing Temple for temporary refuge, and the young and middle-aged laborers still lived in the village to facilitate harvesting and storing wheat. As a result, the dammed lake collapsed, and the flood fell from the sky, washing away the earth and rubble that had been softened by the earth's movements, forming a terrible mudslide that washed all the way and strangled all life.

As a result, the strong labor force of the lonely village was almost completely wiped out overnight, leaving only the desperate old and weak women and children.

In the muddy field, a pair of big gray geese flapped their wings and quacked, and their buttocks were sunk into the mud from the bottom, and their wings were covered with mud.

Zhu Di felt familiar, and suddenly remembered something, he ripped off the gorgeous python robe, threw away the jade crown, stepped into the thigh-deep mud, rescued a pair of geese, and the big gray goose that survived the catastrophe plunged into the muddy river next to him to bathe, clean up each other's feathers, and soon the big gray goose became a big white goose, which was the goose that Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyi used to raise to watch the door.

When Xu Miaoyi rushed to the lonely village of Longxing Temple, her ears were full of the desolate cries of lonely widows and young children, which was unbearable.

Zhu Di looked at the village filled with mud and rocks on the pagoda in a daze, and Xu Miaoyi slowly approached and held his hand.

You don't have to look back to know who it is, only Xu Miaoyi will hold his hand so generously. Zhu Di held Xu Miaoyi's hand tightly, and Xu Miaoyi felt pain when she shook it, but she didn't say anything.

Zhu Di's eyes were red and his voice was hoarse, "They all say that it is a natural disaster, but I would rather be a man-made disaster, because a man-made disaster can still find the culprit and pay for the crime with death." But in the face of natural disasters, I couldn't do anything and only saved a pair of big white geese. ”

Xu Miaoyi comforted: "You have guarded the Fengyang Dam and saved tens of millions of people. ”

Zhu Di shook his head self-deprecatingly, "I was wrong, I told the prince before that if the river keeps soaring, I can only sacrifice Fengyang to discharge the flood to save the many people and fertile land downstream." But looking at the tragic situation of the isolated village, I suddenly understood that I made the proposal to release the flood so quickly because in my heart, human life and land were just cold numbers, and it was an obvious and wise decision to use a few to protect the majority. ”

"But if I had to choose now, I wouldn't have been so decisive. I am a human being, the people I know and care about in my life are actually very limited, the vast majority of people are just a group of vague outsiders to him, and I only care about a little bit of people, but will I sacrifice them to protect the majority of those who are vague? ”

Zhu Di pointed to the gray and hazy land in the distance, "The lonely village people who died in their sleep are the people I know." I know their joys and sorrows, the dog in the West Village just married his daughter-in-law in the spring, and the dog egg pestered me to learn to hunt, because his daughter-in-law was pregnant and always wanted to eat meat. ”

The dog's eggs were buried under the mud, and his daughter-in-law fainted from crying, and the fetus was not saved. When I saw them die and heard the cries of these women and children, I asked myself, if I had stayed in the lonely village, would I have been able to save them? Even if the Fengyang River embankment is not protected, the flood is monstrous? But I know the dogs, and I know every strong laborer here, and they have all worked in the fields with them. I don't know the people in Fengyang City, I don't know any of them. Miaoyi, how do you say to choose? ”

The people of the lonely village, not only Zhu Di knows, Xu Miaoyi is also very familiar, listening to Zhu Di's remorse, Xu Miaoyi's face is cold, I don't know when she burst into tears, she hugged Zhu Di, choked and said: "Don't force yourself to choose, there is never an if in this world." I've also experienced tragedy, I've condemned myself, and I've imagined what would happen if this way, if that? After a long time, it becomes a demon in the heart, and it is difficult to get rid of it. In fact, these are useless, and the only way to solve the pain is to face it. You are not alone, and I will always be with you, just as you have always been with me. 166 Reading Network