Cuihua continued: "In more than four days, the wind has stopped, the rain has stopped, and the clouds have dispersed, revealing a moon, clear and clear. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe situation in the village is invisible, only those who are close to the people's mound, and those who hold the door panels or tables, chairs and benches, float to the minbu, and they all go up to the minmo. There are also the people who live on the people's mound, and they use bamboo poles to catch people, and they also catch a lot of them, these people have their lives, take a breath, think about it, the family is gone, only themselves, and none of them are not crying bitterly. Calling dad and mother, crying husband, hurting son, a cry, more than 500 miles long, you always look miserable! ”

Cuihuan continued: "On the fifteenth day of June, my girls were in the shop at the south gate, and in the middle of the night I heard someone shouting: 'The water is coming down! When everyone heard this, they all got up quickly. It was a very hot day, and most of the people were wearing coats and trousers and sleeping in the courtyard. When the rain comes, they go into the house; As soon as he slept and fell asleep, he heard the shouting outside, and hurriedly ran out into the street to see, and the city was opened, and everyone looked out of the city. Outside the city circle, there was a small mound, which was used for pouring the mouth every year, and the mounds were more than five feet high, and these people went out to guard the mound. At that time, the rain had stopped, and the sky was still overcast.

"For a moment, I saw people outside the city, desperately looking at the city and running; And he saw that the magistrate did not sit in a sedan chair, but ran into the city, and went up to the city wall. I heard a shout: 'People outside the city, don't move things!' Tell people to hurry into the city, and the city will be closed, and you can't wait! We also went to the city walls to see, and many of us were packing mud in cattails to block the gates. The county lord shouted in the city: 'All the people have entered the city, hurry up and close the city,' and there was a bag prepared in the city, and when he closed the city, he folded the back of the door with a dirt bag.

"I have a second uncle Qi who lives outside the city and also goes up to the city wall, at this time, the clouds have returned to the mountain, and the moon is very bright. My mother saw Second Uncle Qi and asked him, 'What's wrong with this year?' Second Uncle Qi said, "Not really! In previous years, the mouth was poured down, and the water came down, and the initial rise was not more than a ruler high; When the head of the water arrived, it was only more than two feet high, and it was not more than three feet; It doesn't take more than a meal to eat, and the head of the water will pass, and it is only two feet of water, this year's water is really domineering! As soon as it came, it was more than a foot, and in a flash, it was more than two feet! The county lord sees that the momentum is not good, I am afraid that Xiaobu will not be able to hold it, so he will ask people to hurry into the city. By that time the water was almost four feet long. The eldest brother hasn't seen him for the past two days, do you dare to be on Zhuangzi? But I'm worried! My mother wept and said, 'No! ’

"At that time, I only heard a noise in the city, saying, 'Little Devil! Xiao Bu is full of grin! The people of the city shouted and ran down. My mother sat down crying and said, 'I'm going to die here and not go back!' I couldn't help it, so I had to cry next to me. I only heard people say, 'There is water in the crack of the city gate!' And so many people ran away, whether it was a house, a shop, or a shop, and they grabbed the bedding as the bedding, and the clothes as the clothes, and they all took them to the gates and stuffed them. After a while, I took the clothes from the clothing shops on our street and the cloth from the cloth shops and stuffed them in the cracks of the city gates. Gradually, I heard, 'It's not water!' Then he cried out, 'I am afraid that the dirt bag is weak, and I am afraid that it will not be able to stop it!' This is to see how many people come to my store to carry the grain bags and look at the city gate to fill the hole. For a while, I looked at the emptiness; And the paper in the paper shop, and the cotton in the cotton store, and they were cleaned again.

At that time, the sky was clear, and my mother was crying and fainting. I also tried to, so I had to sit on the ground and guard. I can't stop hearing people say, 'This water is amazing!' The house outside the city is past the eaves! Isn't this head more than a foot deep? I've never heard of such a big water! Hou Wei was still a few guys in the store, and came up and took my mother back with me. Back in the store, it doesn't look like it! I heard the man say, 'The whole sack of grain in the shop has filled the hole in the city gate, and the loose grain in the hoard has been robbed by the disorderly people. Only those that were spilled on the ground were swept away, and there were two or three loads of grain. There were two old mothers in the store, and their family was also in the countryside, and when they heard that there was such a big water, they must have lost their lives, and they cried and wanted to die and not want to live.

"It wasn't until the sun was crooked that the guys woke my mother up. Everyone drank two sips of millet porridge. My mother woke up, opened her eyes, and said, 'Where is the old grandmother?' They said: 'Sleep in the house, and do not dare to alarm the old man.' My mother said, 'I have to ask him to get up and have some food?' When he went inside, he didn't know that he was not sleeping, but he was scared to death. I touched my nose, and there was no breath. My mother saw it, 'wow', ate two mouthfuls of porridge, vomited out with a mouthful of blood clots, and fainted again. Thanks to an old Wang mother, she rubbed herself on the old grandmother, and suddenly shouted: 'It doesn't matter! It's hot in my heart. He was busy blowing mouth-to-mouth, and shouted to bring ginger soup quickly. In the afternoon, my grandmother also came, and my mother also came, which was considered a safe family.

"Two men spoke in the front yard: 'I heard that the water under the city is four or five feet, and I am afraid that this old city for many years will not be able to hold it; If you enter the city, I am afraid that there will be no one alive! Another fellow said, "The county lord is still in the city, so it doesn't matter." ’”

The old cripple said to Ren Rui: "I also heard, who came up with this idea, what kind of book is it, do your brother know?" Ren Rui said: "I am from Geng Yin, this is an ugly year, I also heard people, I don't know if it's true." It is said that it was Shi Junfu's Shi Observation and Creation Proposal, and it was Jia Rang's "Qia Hece". He said that Qi and Zhao and Wei took the river as the border, Zhao and Wei were close to the mountains, and the land was low, and they made an embankment to go to the river for 25 miles, and the river reached the Qi embankment in the east, and Zhao and Wei were also embankments in the west, and they went to the river for 25 miles.

"On that day, Si Dao was in the courtyard, and he pointed these words to everyone, saying: 'It can be seen that the distance between the two embankments was fifty miles during the Warring States period, so there was no river trouble. Today, the distance between the two embankments is only three or four miles, that is, the distance between the two embankments is less than 20 miles, compared with the ancients, less than half, if the people are not abolished, the river will be broken. The palace guard said, "I understand this." It's just that this embankment is full of villages, all of which are anointed land, so shouldn't it destroy the production of tens of thousands of families? ’

He also pointed to the "Policy for Governing the River" to show the palace guard, and said: "Please look at this paragraph and say: "If the ugly will say: If the tomb of Guo Tianlu in this corrupt city is tens of thousands, the people will be resentful." Jia Rang said: "In the past, Dayu controlled the water, and the mountain tomb was destroyed by the roadway, so the dragon gate was chiseled, the valve was opened, the pillar was broken, the stone was broken, and the nature of the heaven and earth was broken. "And he said: "If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan", and the palace guard thought that the people in the embankment. It's a pity that the tomb is produced, doesn't it hurt people's lives every year, this pavilion once and for all. Therefore, Jia Rang said: "The Han Fang system is thousands of miles, how can it compete with the water for a place, this merit is established, the river is stable and the people are safe, and it is safe for thousands of years, so it is called the best policy." "The Han Dynasty square system, but thousands of miles, is not yet suitable for fighting for land with water; Our country has a system of tens of thousands of miles, and if it fights for land with water, won't it make the former sages laugh and the future generations? He also pointed to Chu Tongren's criticism of the cloud: "The three policies have become a canon that is not published, but since the Han Dynasty, the people who govern the river have also made decisions. Sad husband! Since the Han, Jin, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, all scholars know that Jia Rang's "River Governance Policy" is equal to the biblical legend. "If Gong Bao can do this best policy, won't Jia Rang have a confidant after 2,000 years? Meritorious bamboo silk, immortal! Gong Bao frowned and said, "But one important thing is that I can't bear the current net worth of these hundreds of thousands of people." The two priests said: 'If you can do it once and for all, why not pay another sum of money and send the people out?' The palace guard said, "This is the only way to do it." Then I heard that 300,000 pieces of silver had been raised to move the people, but I did not know why they had not moved. ”

Ren Rui said to Cuihuan: "What happened later? You say. Cuihuan said: "Later, my mother made up her mind and listened to him, when the water came, I drowned!" Cuihua said: "Then I will also be in Qidong County next year, and I will live in the north gate." The north of my third aunt's house is close to the people's house, and the shops on the street outside the north gate are neat, so the two small houses behind the street are not small, and I heard that they are the top of one zhang and three. The terrain over there is high, so the north gate does not overflow. On the sixteenth day, when I went to the city wall, I saw that there were many things floating in the river, and there were also chests, tables, chairs, and benches, and windows and doors. The dead man, not to mention, was floating all over the river, not far away, not far away, and no one cared about fishing. If you have money, you want to move, but you can't hire a boat. ”

The old man said: "What about the ship?" Where did you go? Cuihua said: "I was taken by the official and sent steamed buns." The old man said: "Who will you give the steamed buns to?" What do you want these ships for? Cuihua said: "The merit of steamed buns is great!" The people on the Zhuangzi, more than half of them were washed by the water, and there were a few and a half, all of them were people who were in a hurry, and when they saw the water, they went up to the roof, so there were always hundreds of dozens of people on the roof in each Zhuangzi, and there was water on all sides, so where to touch and eat? Some were hungry and jumped into the water to commit suicide. Thanks to the members of the Futai faction, they drove the boat everywhere to deliver steamed buns, three adults and two children. The next day, another commissioner took them to the north shore in an empty boat. Isn't that a great thing? Who knows that many of these bastards are squatting on the roof and refusing to come down! When I asked him why, he said that there was a Futai in the river to give him steamed buns, but when he arrived on the north bank, no one cared about him to eat, so he starved to death. In fact, Futai didn't send it after a few days, and they still starved to death. You say these people are not muddy? ”

The old cripple said to Renrui: "This thing is really ridiculous! It is not a historical observation, although it can be known, but the owner of this discussion is not a bad intention, and there is no private opinion. Just because he can read, he is not sophisticated. Wrong gestures. Mencius therefore said, 'It is better to believe in books than to have no books.' 'But the river workers?' The major events in the world are worse than those who are traitors three or four times out of ten; Those who are worse than the unsophisticated gentleman are six or seven out of ten! Then he asked Cuihuan, "Did your father find it later?" Or was it washed away by the water? Cuihuan put back her tears and said: "Isn't that going with the water!" If you live, can you not come home? "Everybody, sigh for a moment.

The old cripple asked Cuihua again: "You just said that he will be next year, but I am afraid that there will be no more of this year, what is the reason for this?" Cuihua said: "Isn't my father dead?" spent an extra hundred or dozens of dollars in the funeral; The day before yesterday, my mother gambled money, and lost two or three hundred dollars by rolling the dice. A total deficit of more than 400 hangs, this year's year, is unpassable. So the former son planned to sell Huanmei to Kuai Er's bald family, and the benefits of this Kuai Er's fame were not available for a day. You have to use fire chopsticks to burn people. My mother asked him for 300 silver, and he gave 600 yuan, so he didn't say it, you always think, how many days can there be until the year? This day is getting tighter and tighter, if it comes to the end of the year, are you afraid that he will not sell? This sale, Cuihuan is enough for him to feel uncomfortable. ”

The old cripple listened and was silent; Cuihuan only wiped tears. Huang Renrui said: "Brother Remnant, I just said that I want to consult with you about their affairs, and this is exactly why." I think it's pitiful to see an honest kid sent to the ghost gate. Counting the matter of only three hundred silver, I am willing to give half of it, and find a few friends to make up for that half, and your brother can also give a few taels at will, no matter how much. But I can't bear this name, if your brother can get him back, it will be easy to do. Do you like it? The old man said: "This is not difficult. As for the silver, if your brother is willing to give half of it, that half is my brother's money. It's not appropriate to get married to someone else, but I can't want him, and I have to think about it again. ”

When Cuihuan heard this, he hurriedly jumped off the kang, kowtowed twice for Huang and Tie Ergong, and said: "The two old men and bodhisattvas, life-saving benefactors, are willing to spend money to rescue me from the fire pit, no matter what I do, girl, old mother, I am willing." There's just one thing I have to be clear about: I don't blame my mother for being beaten so often, it's really my own offense. At the beginning, my mother was so hungry that she sold me to my mother, and I got twenty-four hangs, and Xie Zhongren and other items went to three or four hangings, but only twenty hangings fell. Then in the spring of last year, my grandmother died, and the money was gone, and my mother led my little brother to beg for food. I am the only one left, a little brother, who is six years old this year. Thanks to an old neighbor, Li Wuye, who now lives in Qihe County and does a small business, he took him there and gave him something to eat. But he who is not enough to take care of himself, where can he be satisfied? Getting dressed is not to mention. So when I was in the twenty-mile shop, I met a hospitable person and gave him a hang of 800, and I saved a 3,000 taels for a month or two and sent it to him. Now that the two masters have rescued me, if it is nearly two or three hundred miles to the left, then I will not talk about it, I can always save a few dollars and send it to him; If you want to go away, please ask the two gentlemen to always think about it, and allow me to take this child with me, or store it in the temple in the nunnery, or find a small family to raise it. The ancestors of the Tian family for a hundred generations, they are all grateful for the grace of the two masters, and they will definitely repay you two! Poor my Tian family is the root and seedling of this line! ......" When he said this, he began to cry bitterly again.

Ren Rui said: "This is another difficulty. The old cripple said: "It's not difficult, I have my own way." Then he shouted: "Miss Tian, you don't have to cry, just make sure that your sister and son don't leave for the rest of your life." Don't cry, let us make up your minds; If you make us cry, we won't have a good idea. Don't cry! Cuihuan listened, quickly held back her tears, and kowtowed a few times for each of them. The old cripple hurriedly picked him up. Who knew that when he kowtowed, he used too much force and touched a big bud on his forehead, and the bud broke again and bled out.

The old cripple helped him to sit down and said, "Why did you come here?" Then he gently wiped the blood from his forehead and let him lie down on the kang, and then he came to Renrui and consulted, saying, "When we do this, we should divide it into a precedent and a precedence: the first step is to redeem him as the first step, and the second step is to choose a match for him." There are two layers to the redemption process: the first step is to take the private business; Umpire is the second step. At this moment, if someone else gives him six hundred hangings, we will call him tomorrow and send six hundred hangings first, and then add more, such people should not be too cheerful; If you are happy, he will feel that the strange goods are to live in. At this moment, the price of silver is 700 yuan for two hangings, and 300 taels can be exchanged for 810 hangings, and even all the expenses must be enough. Look at the tone of his family: If you are not stubborn, you will naturally be private; If you suspect that you are cunning, you will ask Qihe County to judge him in court, but he still ends up privately, why do you think it is? Ren Rui said: "Extremely, extremely!" ”

The old man said again: "Of course, the elder brother has no reason to be famous, and the brother can't give his full name, just say that he is doing it for a relative." Wait until the matter is done, and then reveal the purpose of matching; Otherwise, the leader will not let go. Ren Rui said: "Very good." That's a good idea. The old man said: "Half of the silver is for you and me, no matter how much you use, it is this division." But all I have in the basket is quite insufficient, so I want to ask your brother to cushion it; When you get to the provincial capital, I will pay you back. Ren Rui said: "It doesn't matter, redeem two emerald rings, I can't use the money here." As long as things are done, it doesn't matter if my brother doesn't pay it back. The old cripple said: "You must pay it back!" I still have more than four hundred pieces of silver in Yourong Hall. You don't have to be afraid that I can't afford to get out, and I won't have anything to eat if I'm afraid of harm. Don't worry. ”

Ren Rui said: "That's it, get up early tomorrow, and ask them to call him to lead the family." Cuihua said: "Don't shout when you get up early." Wake up early tomorrow, my sister and son must go back. You always get up early and shout. If they had known this, he would have hid his sister in the country; If they talk about plates, they will be at his disposal, and besides, they who smoke opium will not get up early; It's better to call our sister and son in the afternoon, and then call my mother, then you won't be afraid of him. Just one thing: don't say what I said: Sister Huan is a person who has been exalted, and I am not afraid of him, I still have to live in the fire pit for two years. Ren Rui said: "Then naturally, do you still want you to say it!" Tomorrow I will go to the county yamen first, and by the way, I will bring someone to send me. If your mother is to blame, I will first hand over Cuihuan to someone to take care of him, and then there will be a legal system for him. Saying that, everyone liked it very much.

The old cripple said to Ren Rui: "They have already agreed, probably so, but what about the case you mentioned earlier, I don't feel at ease." Are you telling the truth or not? I'm so relieved to say that. "I don't know what's going on, but let's listen to the next breakdown. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. (To be continued.) )