Giving birth to a child is similar to suffering a serious injury, and it requires sufficient cultivation. However, babies cannot be separated from the care of their mothers, so most of them cannot rest properly. Within three days, Ting Fang had two huge dark circles under her eyes, and she couldn't take care of her image at all. It was at this time that the flotilla arrived in Nanchang.

Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province. Compared with the famous Jiujiang and Jingdezhen, it seems to be not very famous. As a capital, it is naturally prosperous. However, after the natural disaster, all prosperity disappeared like a cloud of smoke. Tingfang was on the Gan River, looking at the decomposing corpses on the mudflats, which were due to the expansion of the gas in the body after the death of the animal. The tragic situation after the explosion of inflation. The capital is still unable to clean up, and the surrounding areas can only be digested by nature.

Xu Jingchang looked at everything in front of him with a headache, where did he go to find a relatively clean place for the mother to recuperate? The boat gradually approached the shore, Xu Jingchang took a deep breath, and said to Ting Fang, who was standing beside him: "I'll take someone down to contact my grandfather first, and you can rest in the cabin for the time being." I will come to pick you up again after finding a place to settle, and I must not disembark easily. After we go down, you go back to the river, form a defensive position, and beware of the river bandits! ”

Zhou Patrol said: "Although I am incompetent, I can still report a letter." According to the villain's observation, if the guest of honor is on the boat to take care of the county lord, I can take someone to report the news. Jiangxi waterways are vertical and horizontal, and the wharf is uninhabited, so you must be cautious. Affair. Besides, the wharf has been destroyed, and our big ships can't dock. Let's wait until I get on a small boat and find out the situation. ”

Xu Jingchang nodded: "That's very good." After finishing speaking, he began to command the fleet, put on a confrontational formation, and at the same time sent Zhou Patrol and others off the ship. In the chaos, no one noticed that a flexible sound and shadow slid into the Ganjiang River and silently approached the main boat.

The supreme consul of Jiangxi is the political envoy of Bu, and Jiangsu and Anhui belong to the same two rivers. Governor-General's jurisdiction. Due to the poverty and turmoil in Jiangxi and Anhui, the governor often lived in Jiangsu, and Jiangxi and Anhui gradually separated from the two rivers. The control of the governor, each in its own right, has effectively become a prince. Despite being poor, he was living well on his own turf, and of course, this was before the great floods.

On the day of Guanyin's birthday on June 19, the 58th year of Tianyou, the torrential rain in Jiangxi did not stop, and the flood swept most of Jiangxi Province with lightning speed. Chen Fengning, the political envoy, only had time to organize the residents to take refuge in high places. However, the torrential rains washed away the land, and countless residents who had managed to escape the floodwaters of the river were hit by flash floods, killing and injuring countless people, and some of their bodies were even washed into the Yangtze River and perhaps the sea. The lively city of Nanchang suddenly became a hell on earth, and people were dying all the time for various reasons. To be alive becomes the greatest luxury.

There were a lot of horses in the palace of the political envoy, and the Chen family even took the master and the slaves, and the whole family fled in the torrential rain on horseback, and ran all night before narrowly avoiding the flood. Those who survived the flood receded from hunger and cold, and those who survived, regardless of whether they were rich or poor, were crazy to grab food everywhere. In the summer heat, after the rainstorm and the cloudy sky without the sun appearing, people watched the millet begin to mildew, watched the plague epidemic, and watched people they knew or did not know die of diseases caused by drinking unclean water. Despair hung over everyone's hearts, and those who survived began to flee, picking fruit and picking tree bark and gnawing grass roots, and everything that could be eaten became food. Those who remained in Nanchang were only women and children who could not escape. All the banks of the Yangtze River have been affected by disasters, and they can't help when they go to the province for help. Originally, the locust plague in May transferred grain to the north, and the grain in the Yangtze River basin was only enough to satisfy the stomach, where is there still surplus grain to rescue?

The government soldiers had already been scattered in all directions, and all those who could escape fled. Chen Fengning, as a political envoy, could not escape, so he could only do his best to rescue the disaster with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Organize the victims to collect food as much as possible, in order to survive the difficulties, and wait for the imperial court to rescue. But there was no rescue, and for nearly two months, people kept running out, but no one entered Jiangxi. The fish in the river are about to be fished out, and the birds in the mountains are dying. Chen Fengning bit the wild vegetable dumplings and slapped half a bowl of gruel into the bowl of his frail old wife: "Eat more, eat enough to fight the disease." ”

Chen Fengning's wife's maiden name is Jiang, and she is known as Mrs. Jiang from the second grade. In the past, she was full of pearls, but now she only has a thorn hairpin cloth skirt, and her face is sallow due to illness and hunger, and there is no trace of a noblewoman. The thin hand pushed the bowl and said, "Drink, you still have to work, I just have to be idle, not hungry." ”

Chen Fengning refused to accept it, the more extreme the situation, the more precious his relatives felt. Reason told him that he should give up his old wife and live as much as possible for himself in order to earn more benefits for the Chen family, just like those strong men who fled with their sons and left their wives and daughters. However, he couldn't give it up, even if he knew that if he continued to consume two people, they would probably die. After the flood, the political envoys lost too much authority, and although they could have organized the victims to help themselves, they had no one to support. Two old men could starve to death at any moment by the rebellion of their slaves, because it was difficult for them to find food themselves. No one wants to be a sycophant at such a time, and for Nanchang now, survival is the most important thing.

At present, everyone knows a little about medical science, Chen Fengning knows that the old wife only needs a little medicinal materials to be cured, but the crude medicine shop has been soaked in the flood, and in the entire Nanchang City, no one has time to go up the mountain to collect medicine for them. The servants of the house did not even recognize the treasures in the grass. Chen Fengning handed the porridge bowl to his wife's mouth again, but Mrs. Jiang gritted her teeth, closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.

Chen Fengning choked up and said, "Don't be angry, the porridge is still enough to drink." ”

Mrs. Jiang did not answer.

Chen Fengning continued: "When the weather is warm, the mountains and rivers are all eaten. No one in our family knows how to hunt, I think the people are good, and they have meat. ”

Mrs. Jiang sneered: "Meat? Where will the old, weak, sick and disabled who remain in the city get meat? Even if you catch a sparrow, you have to use millet to lead it. The man who lost his conscience and left after beating the easy-to-beat beast, what else could the rest of the people have? The court is just pretending to be dead, I heard that the silt is the fattest, hurry up and replant something, there will be a harvest this autumn. I didn't know that I hadn't seen anyone for two months, and I was leaving our life and death to death! ”

Chen Fengning hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't worry! Don't fret! Annoyed and exhausted! ”

Mrs. Jiang relieved a little and said, "Fortunately, Aman followed her sister-in-law away, if she came to Jiangxi...... the consequences would be unimaginable!"

Chen Fengning saw that Mrs. Jiang couldn't pretend to be able to do so, so she immediately handed over the porridge bowl again. Mrs. Jiang picked up the bowl and drank it all in one gulp, still feeling panicked in her abdomen. She was born rich and noble, how could she have lived such a life without oil stars at all. He put down the bowl and said, "Are you really not leaving?" ”

Chen Fengning smiled bitterly: "I can't go, I said that you should go first, but you don't want to, so you have to stay and suffer." Millet is afraid of soaking, but silver is not afraid. You went down the river with the money, but you arrived in Songjiang in a few days. If you have money, you can go north and go home immediately. You just said Aman, her body bones, do you say that she is alone without a father? Or is it better that my father and mother are gone? Besides, it may not be okay for me to stay. But you have a bad body, and you are all messed up with me. ”

Mrs. Jiang said lightly: "It's too late to say anything, there is no boat now." ”

Chen Fengning: "......"

It's been two months since I helped myself, and there is nothing going on outside, and the old couple is relatively speechless. The weather is hot, the cicadas are chirping, and the noisy people are upset and irritable. Chen Fengning sighed deeply, the rescued food is getting smaller and smaller, how should the women and children in a city be? The land of plenty is empty because there is no seed. Has the court really forgotten them? What's going on in Anhui? What about other realms?

At this moment, the manservant in the house stumbled in and said, "Old lady, there is a Zhou Inspector outside who asks to see you." ”

Chen Fengning was overjoyed, and said to Mrs. Jiang: "Is it from the imperial court?" Please! Saying please, he rushed out with his feet upside down, and bumped into Zhou Patrol in the hall.

The hall was soaked in water, all muddy, and unusually dilapidated. Inspector Zhou shook his head secretly in his heart, how can the county lord live? It is where the county lord lives, and the little boy can't live there. Do you want to build a house now? When Chen Fengning came out, Inspector Zhou hurriedly returned to his senses and said, "Xiaguan meets your lord!" ”

Chen Fengning faced. smiled and helped him up: "Don't be polite, the inspection is on the order of the imperial court to provide disaster relief?" ”

Inspector Zhou shook his head: "Xiaguan was originally an inspector of East Lake, and now he is the honor guard of the lord of East Lake, and he has not officially handed over yet, so they still call me an inspector." This time, the county lord heard about the big water in Jiangxi, and he was in a hurry, so he specially transferred more than a dozen boats of supplies into Jiangxi. The lower official dares to ask, how is the old lady? ”

Chen Fengning stayed for a long time, the county lord of Donghu is Tingfang! The boy remembered the two old bones. There are tears in his eyes, Aman is not raising a girl in vain! Seeing that Inspector Zhou was still looking at him, he hurriedly replied, "Madame is fine." "At least alive.

Zhou Patrol breathed a sigh of relief, listened to the gossip all the way on the boat, and knew that although Tingfang was a concubine, she had a very good relationship with her mother. It's best if the grandfather and wife are fine. Then he said: "The county lord is also here, but the Nanchang wharf is washed away by the water and cannot be docked." Please also ask the boss to find a clean place to live, the county lord originally planned to come to Jiangxi to give birth, but was blocked by the flood and gave birth on the road. ”

Chen Fengning almost jumped up in shock: "What?" Lu Lu Lu was born on the road? Why did she come to Jiangxi with a child? ”

Zhou Inspector was afraid that the partition wall would have ears, and said vaguely: "The county lord's filial piety is commendable!" ”

Chen Fengning's eyes froze: "What's going on in Beijing?" ”

Zhou Patrol looked left and right, Chen Fengning simply pushed open the window, and said to no one else: "There is a change in Beijing?" ”

Zhou Patrol nodded: "Yes, I don't know the specific villain." The county lord is not just here to give birth. ”

Nonsense! Who travels thousands of miles to give birth to a child, is he sick! Chen Fengning knew that Ting Fang was her daughter's top child, and she was anxious again: "Is the county lord okay?" What about children? ”

Zhou Inspector said: "The county lord is just tired with the children, and there is nothing beside him." Is there a place to stay in the house? It's not a matter for the county lord to float on the boat, and he has been worried about whether there are Jiang bandits, and he asked the adults to arrange a place to live. ”

Chen Fengning paused for a while: "Nanchang does not have a vassal king, it is actually a mansion without the rank of a county lord." It's too late to repair now, if the county lord doesn't dislike it, he will temporarily live in the yamen of the political envoy. It's a bit ugly, but there are two clean wells. "It's nice to have good wells after the famine.

Inspector Zhou hurriedly said: "That villain will go back immediately to report to the county lord." "I saw that the sky was about to get dark, and I was afraid that there would be a situation in the night, so I walked away neatly. 166 Reading Network