594 Flooding
Jiang Bilian's second uncle was poor because of his family, when he was working as an accountant in the county inn, he was looked down upon by the daughter of the owner and recruited him into the house, which is also the reason why he only had three daughters, but he did not dare to take a concubine, thinking that he had no son, he had some regrets in his heart, as soon as he heard that his hometown was flooded, he deliberately returned to the village, his brother and sister-in-law were deceased, but the two nephews and nieces were rescued, and he was unhappy to see that his nephew was doing well, and he was unhappy, thinking that his nephew was better than the son he bought outside, so he took Qingyang back to the county seat, but Jiang Bilian was left behind, leaving her to fend for herself. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
If Jiang Bilian, who had just been rescued, had a bowl of ginger soup, and then she was carefully recuperated, she would not have died of illness.
Jiang Ruoning searched in Jiangjia Village at the moment, and finally found a cloth bag in the closet of the collapsed house of the village chief's house, opened it and saw that there were dozens of taels of silver tickets in it, as well as a household post, on which the name of the village chief was clearly written, and the names of his son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter's family of six.
She sighed lightly, it would be better if she used her own, because the eldest granddaughter of the village chief was only eight years old, and she was not more than eight years old.
However, at this moment, she heard a cry of a girl from the village, "Dad! Mother! Grandfather! Eldest brother! Second brother ......"
Jiang Ruoning stepped on the muddy path and ran towards the village, but saw that on a hemp willow tree with a crooked neck, there was a little girl, she tied it to the tree with a cloth rope, Xu was afraid that she would be washed away when the water came, and a basket was tied to the tree.
"Sister Bilian! You're Sister Bilian! ”
Jiang Ruoning really didn't have Jiang Bilian's memory, and hesitated in her heart, "It's too dark, I can't see who you are, ...... you are"
"I'm Cuilian! Cuilian! ”
This is the granddaughter of the village chief's family.
"Why are you here?"
"When the flood came from the east, my father and mother asked the eldest brother and the second brother to climb the big tree over there, but I didn't want the elder brother to climb the tree and there were too many people to crush the tree, and they fell and were swept away by the flood. My father jumped into the water to save my brother, and my mother was anxious, she was afraid that I would not be able to hold on to the tree, so she tied me to it with a rope and left me a basket of fruits and steamed buns. My mother said, "If I'm hungry, I'll take it and eat it."
My mother said that the court would not ignore us, and would definitely send someone to save me, as long as I saw it, I would speak out, and they would find me. But I couldn't untie the knot tied behind my back, so I was always on this tree, and for the past few days, I ate steamed buns and fruits when I was hungry. ”
Jiang Ruoning asked, "Cuilian, what about the rest of the village?" ”
"I don't know, I've waited a few days, and I've only seen you. When the flood came, our family lived the farthest, so we escaped, but my father and mother were gone to save my brother, and my grandfather saw the flood coming, and he beat the gong with him, and he was washed away without a few sounds......"
Jiang Ruoning climbed the tree to untie the knot on Cuilian's back, but it was tied too tightly and couldn't be untied, so he had to take the scissors from the storage bracelet and cut them with a click. helped Cuilian down the tree, untied the basket, and said, "Let's go back to your house, you pack up a few clothes, there are no more people living here, let's go to a better place to live." ”
"Don't wait for my father and grandfather?"
Jiang Ruoning stretched out his hand and stroked Cuilian's head, "We can tell the county government that you are still alive, and when they come back, they will come to find us." I still have to find my family's household post, without which we can't go anywhere else to live. ”
Jiang Ruoning searched in the ruins of her house for a long time, but still did not find the household post, she sat on the ruins tired and sleepy, Cuilian found a few clothes by herself, but the clothes were already soaked, and they were all stained with mud, and they had to be washed before they could be worn.
"Sister Bilian, my clothes have to be washed before they can be worn, can you stay for two more days, maybe my father and mother will come back to me."
Jiang Ruoning smiled slightly, "Okay, let's stay for two more days, I still have to continue to find my family's household post, Cuilian, this is your family's household post and the silver ticket saved by your grandfather, I will wrap it in kraft oil paper as it is, you keep it, with this, your home is still there, understand?" ”
Cuilian asked: "If my sister can't find a household post, she won't have a home?" ”
"Pretty much."
Cuilian said: "That's not right! My grandfather said that if the household post is lost, as long as the village chief and the town's household guarantee write the "Deed of Guarantee", the official of the county government will reissue the "Deed of Guarantee" when they see it. ”
Jiang Ruoning has done fast hunting, and he also knows the truth of what Cuilian said, now don't talk about household insurance, even the village chief Xu was washed away by the flood, where did they find someone to show the "Deed"
Jiang Ruoning and Cuilian built a simple shed that can shelter from the wind and rain, and found some vegetable seedlings from the ground to make soup, because it is close to Dongting Lake, but wherever there is water, there are fish, Cuilian has watched her brothers catch fish since she was a child, and she will also catch them, and she caught a few fish in an hour.
Jiang Ruoning helped Cuilian wash her clothes, but Cuilian asked to wash the clothes of the whole family, even the bedding. The two of them became pulp washing girls, and after washing all day, they washed the clothes of the men, women and children of the Cuilian family, and dried them on the big tree at the entrance of the village.
In the afternoon of this day, Jiang Ruoning and Cuilian drank fish and vegetable soup when they heard someone shouting on the river: "Is there anyone else in this village?" Anyone? ”
After a while, Cuilianniang's voice came: "Cui'er! Cui'er ...... Cuilian ...... "She remembers that she tied the child to the tree, why is it gone, but fortunately there are many ropes at home, and this time she can come back alive, thanks to it."
Cuilian ran out of the shed and shouted at the river: "Mother! Mother! Niang ......" whimpered, waving her arms, there was a big official boat at the width of the river, and there were many awning boats and small leaf boats around, and on one of the awning boats, there was a woman with white flowers and arrowroot cloth on a blue background, wearing the same fancy turban on her head, "Cui'er! Cui'er! ”
"Mother! Father! Second brother...... You are all alive, Cui'er is so worried these days, I have been trapped in the tree for a few days, and I saw Sister Bilian come back. ”
Cuilian's parents and her second brother came back, that night, Jiang Anping and his wife jumped into the water to save their two sons, Jiang Anping dismantled his own door panel at that time, and after saving the second son, he helped him to float on the door panel, and told his wife to half pick up on the door panel, how Jiang Anping knew how to understand the nature of water, in the end he failed to save the village chief, and did not find the eldest son.
The officers and soldiers asked Jiang Anping: "Do you want your family to stay, or go to settle down elsewhere, the terrain here is too low, and I am afraid that it will not be safe." ”
Jiang Anping said: "My father is the village chief of Jiangjia Village, and when he is gone, I will stay here for a few more days, so that no one will come back to see anyone and no one will take care of him." ”
Jiang Ruoning asked the official and said: "My family's household post is lost, my father and mother are gone, I woke up and returned to the village, and I saw that there was my father's grave behind the village." I want to go to distant relatives. ”
Jiang Anping said: "Isn't your second uncle in the county seat?" ”
Jiang Ruoning said in a low voice: "When I was so sick and confused, I heard the second uncle speak, obviously I was still alive, but he told Qingyang that I was already dead. He is not a rare girl, and my second aunt will not tolerate me. When my mother was alive, she once mentioned that she had a distant relative and nephew who was an official in Jiangnan, saying that her name was Li Guan, and she was the most promising. ”
The official said in a deep voice: "Li Guan ......" and asked the people around him: "This name is so familiar, where have you heard it?" ”
"Isn't this the champion of the last session, this is a well-known talent in Jiangnan, the prefect of Qiantang, young and promising."
Jiang Ruoning continued to ask: "But my mother said that his mother's surname is Wu, and she was originally from Qingxi County, Fengtian Prefecture, and her family is a scholarly family. ”
Another officer hurriedly said, "Not bad! Not bad! It's all right, the distant relative you mentioned must be him. ”
"Can the two official brothers do the little girl a favor and help the little girl make up the household post, I want to leave Dongting and go to Qiantang to find the cousin of the Li family."
Jiang Anping said: "Bilian, do you really want to defect to distant relatives?" ”
Later, Jiang Anping's family always wanted to remember Jiang Bilian's whereabouts, but they couldn't remember who she was going to, and only vaguely remembered that "Bilian said that she was going to go to a distant relative of your mother's family, and it sounds like your mother and that distant nephew have a good relationship." "Who are the distant relatives, but they have forgotten their names, their identities and their names. Even if **** Yang grew up and knew that his sister was still alive, he couldn't find anyone.
Jiang Ruoning said: "My father and mother are gone, my younger brother followed the second uncle, rather than being treated by the second aunt, it is better to go to distant relatives, my mother often mentions Aunt Wu." ”
Jiang Ruoning left Jiangjia Village with the official on the same day, and there was a local county order on the official boat, and after hearing about her, he checked the household registration file, and there was indeed a person named Jiang Bilian in it, and copied her copy according to the content of the file, and wrote "deceased" in the column of her parents in the remarks How she died, and wrote the words "defect to the second uncle" in the column of her younger brother. Jiang Ruoning's one opened a single account post and stamped the seal of the county government.
Jiang Ruoning got the household post, took a string of copper coins from the storage bracelet, and hired a boat to go to Qiantang Mansion.
Along the way, chatting with the boatman, I learned that it was July of the fourth year of Jingwu, and it was three years before she fell into Crocodile Lake.
On the first day of August, she will not forget that day, the day she fell to Crocodile Lake and parted from him.
August 18 was an auspicious day for her and Li Guan to get married.
The wind blew whirring, and the voice of heaven came: "Girl, I will only give you a period of 100 days, and after 100 days, you will completely forget the past......"
"Why?"
"You shouldn't have borrowed the corpse with your previous memories, you shouldn't come to him again, and you want to renew your relationship with him."
One hundred days, a hundred days she will forget him completely.
Dongting rose a lot of water, Qiantang Mansion also rose water, I heard that three counties were flooded, Li Guan led 16 people with the government to disaster relief, and the government left Cui Qian.
When Jiang Ruoning was led to the backyard by the doorman, Cui Qian was sitting upright in the flower hall, holding a July and August child in her arms, looking Jiang Ruoning up and down: "You are from Dongting County?" ”
She was blessed, "Back to grandma, the girl is from Jiangjia Village, Wuyi Town, Dongting County, the family is completely flooded, and her father and mother are gone." ”
She didn't mention Jiang Qingyang's matter, and this mention would explain a lot.
"I'm not a grandmother, I'm the sister-in-law of the Li family, and my man is the long-term follower and housekeeper of Lord Li. I heard that you are a distant cousin of my family, but I haven't heard of it. ”
Jiang Ruoning's face was embarrassed, "My mother...... My mother and Mrs. Li are cousins, and I ...... My grandfather was originally the magistrate of Changting County, Jinling, when my mother was still a child, my grandfather was imprisoned for committing the case of embezzlement of ink, and my grandmother was gone in prison, so my grandfather and two uncles were assigned to Lingnan. My aunt was old at that time and left the cabinet early. Only my mother had a hard life, met people, and after several tosses, she later married my father.
My mother didn't talk much about these past events, but a few days before the water rose, she went out to wash her clothes and heard the cousin of the Li family mentioned in the village. At night, I was doing needlework with me, and suddenly I started to gossip, saying that she was the youngest daughter of the Wu family in Fengtianfu.
He also said that my cousin and aunt are a good person, and my son is so promising, I am afraid that there will be endless blessings.
My mother is arrogant in her bones, and she went to a small family as a girl in her early years, and she always felt that she couldn't get over ...... face" (to be continued.) )