Chapter 222: The Night of Fire (2)
The sun sets from one side of the sky, and the moon and stars rise from the other. Near Xiaoyingzhou, flames are burning on the water.
The earth had stopped shaking, and everything that could be seen in the darkness seemed to give a sense of disarray. Still burning on the surface of the lake was a large ship, which was empty of people, and the entire frame burned to pieces. The burning wreckage scattered around the flames, then vanished and annihilated on the water's surface.
The surrounding pleasure boats, each centered on this flame, escaped in all directions in the darkness, like a flock of geese that had been scattered, and the lights on the boat were spotted.
The Su family's small painting boat is also walking slowly on the dark lake, not far away is the picture of the big boat burning, floating dàng wreckage, a little farther away, there are soldiers with torches, saving people on Xiaoyingzhou to deal with the aftermath. Far and near on the water, there were still some boats looking for help, and shouts could be heard from the vast points of light. Ning Yi stood on the bow of the painting boat, watching the silhouettes of large and small ships go away.
The earthquake has stopped, and after the initial panic, most of the ships still rushed to the direction of Hangzhou as soon as possible. At this time, the West Lake is not the center of Hangzhou, but the suburbs, looking from afar, you can still see the outline of Hangzhou City, the light of the city reflects the night sky, but it seems, it is still much weaker than in the past, even if you can't see it in person, you can also think of the city at this time, it must be sad everywhere, a mess.
The sound of beeping fire, the sound of the boat propping up into the water, the sound of the water seemed a little empty. There were not enough people on this small painting boat to support the boat, and it was not very fast, Dongzhu, Su Wending, Su Wenfang and others also went to help.
In the previous chaos, the small painting boat was also knocked several times, but the boat was still sturdy and fine. When the night wind blew in this direction, the soft limb body came up from behind, and Su Tan'er hugged him and leaned against him for a while before reaching out to touch the bandage on his head.
"No rate, right?" "It's nothing, it's good that no one has anything to do."
"Well, I don't know what's wrong with Lu Dao's house, I'm afraid the house will collapse. Uncle Geng, they ............... "Don't think about it now, it's okay." Ning Yi slapped her hand, "The house may not all collapse, relax your mood, the night is still long." ”
"How could the dragon suddenly turn over......
"I don't know if it's going to happen, there may be another one in the evening, but it shouldn't be as powerful as this one. When we go back tonight, we have to clear our things and sleep in the yard, not in the bedroom. ”
"Xianggong also knows the way?"
"Zhilu Dao, rest assured, there is nothing to do." Su Tan'er leaned on his back and said "um", and was silent for a moment: "It's good to have you." This is the breath of their usual chatting on the balcony of the small building in Jiangning.
"It's the same." "When I was a child, I thought that even if I was a girl, I could do everything well alone, but after marrying my father-in-law, I gradually felt that the feeling of having my father-in-law by my side was different from a person. Being able to be with Xianggong is Tan'er's blessing. ”
"It's still the same, I'm a rich man, you're all raising it"
After Su Tan'er bumped into him, she paused for a long time, and said softly: "It's different." This is just a declarative sentence, there is no need to answer, the two stood at the bow of the boat for a while, Su Tan'er said: "I'll go to the back to have a look, Ning Yi nodded, and then left."
The night breeze was blowing, and the shore was about to get closer, Ning Yi sighed, this sudden earthquake was indeed an unexpected thing. After all, he has never experienced the earthquake, but he doesn't know what the magnitude of this earthquake is, it must be powerful, and he doesn't know if it is the epicenter here, after the earthquake, there are a large number of displaced people, just before the autumn harvest, Lao Qin went to Beijing, I am afraid it will be difficult to do again. However, most of the cities at this time were bungalows, and even if they were destroyed, the number and depth of the burial would be easier to rescue than later generations, and it was evening at the time of the earthquake, so most people should still be able to escape.
"Hey, copying poems is punished by God" sighed boringly, and in my heart I was expecting the prefect of Hangzhou and others to respond in a timely manner...
Last year, his booklet on disaster relief should have been distributed across the country, and most of it was an earthquake relief response.
The only thing to worry about is the growing Fang La in the west, his historical knowledge in this regard is not enough, I don't know if Lu Dao Fang La has called Hangzhou, in his impression, for the Liangshan Uprising is still relatively profound, but that is because of "Water Margin", and whether it is a book or TV, he has not finished reading it. Fang La's uprising was larger than that of Liangshan, but Hangzhou was an important town, and Fang La was suppressed quickly, so he thought that it should not be fought. And he didn't remember this earthquake, otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to come over with Tan'er in the first place. Time and space have changed, and it's useless to think about things that don't know the way, this thought just flashed in my mind at random. When she turned her head, she saw a thin figure standing on the side of the ship, and when Ning Yi looked over, she also looked over, it was Juan'er.
At this time, Juan'er was tiptoeing there to pick up a small lantern hanging on the ceiling, and she had taken it off, seeing Ning Yi looking at her, her body suddenly snorted, as if she was nervous and shrunk a circle, she held the small lantern in her arms, took two steps forward, and then turned around and walked away. Ning Yi knew that she was resting in the cabin just now, and she was curious about how her body was, but at this time, she was a little worried about whether she would be burned by the lantern.
However, when I recalled what happened when I saved people before, I really did something too much, and I inadvertently put my hand on the other party's mouth for a while, and when I reacted later, I felt soft, and I didn't know if I pinched it.
At that time, there was blood flowing on his head, and he reacted naturally, and after realizing it, he let go lightly, and then went to look at the surrounding situation, Tan'er and the others had strange expressions, but they didn't say anything. This matter can only be dealt with in this way, I am afraid that the damage to the little girl is not small, but the matter is urgent, and the most important thing at the moment is not to solve this matter, and the future problems can only be talked about later.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, artificial respiration, alas......
After that, the boat docked, and the release station on the shore for swimming in the lake was also in a mess, and found his own carriage, but the horse was gone, and it could not be pursued at this time. A group of people walked along the road towards Hangzhou City, and when they approached, they had already seen a big hole in the city wall on the west side, and when they entered the city gate, the fire was extended, and the ground was full of sorrow.
The city was full of astonishing desolation as far as the eye could see, and six or seven out of ten of the houses in the city had collapsed, and the shouts, screams, and weepings continued in patches.
Ning Yi found that what he had thought in his heart before still seemed optimistic, or because he had not experienced such a scene of death and injury on such a large scale after all, crying around, saving people, rescuing property, and the corpses and blood that appeared in his field of vision at any time still made him feel a little unbearable.
After all, this is because of the state of mind of the people of later generations, and it is not the time to think about this, the group passed through the city, rushed towards the side of home, and when they passed a waterway on the way, they found that the bridge had also collapsed, so they had to take a detour. There are wrecks and ruins everywhere around, and even in the waterways of the city, you can see floating corpses, and you can also see a few rich people who have seen on Xiaoyingzhou, they have already rushed back first, at this time, commanding the rescue of property and family, sergeants with torches ran over from the city, some of the injured cried and kneeling in front of their own ruins and called for help, and some neighbors watched and helped each other, saving their own family and then going to save other families, but in this case, manpower is still not enough anyway.
It has been more than half an hour since I returned to Taiping Lane like this. Most of his yard had also collapsed, and torches were burning around the rubble, with the dead and the wounded. Geng Huyuan was not injured, at this time, he commanded some family members to dig up the collapsed houses, and the scene of the entire Taisu Lane was basically not too bad, even if a few houses still looked intact, the tiles had basically fallen almost the same, I am afraid that no one dared to live. Seeing Su Tan'er, Ning Yi and the others coming back, some people immediately greeted them, and a few women were still crying, and they were the family members of the steward and the account room who came with them. In the midst of the ruins, three people were still crushed underneath the house, while many people outside were injured and two died.
"Save people." There was nothing to say at this time, Ning Yi just glanced at it, waved his hand, and then walked straight to the ruins, joining the ranks of carrying and excavating, Su Wending Su Wenfang may be more angry in Jiangning, but since he came with his sister and brother-in-law, he has admired Ning Yi quite much, and when Ning Yi passed, they also followed.
Half an hour later, the first aftershock came as promised, bringing more despair to this ruined city, Ning Yi rescued two people, but more buried people who were still not rescued lost their chance forever.
The night was still long, and the roar of the earth shook so loudly that the flames of the ancient city burned brighter than before, and the red light lit up the sky in the trembling light, and the birds flew in the night, sometimes like the horn of a jackdaw. There were two aftershocks that night, and in the second half of the night, looting began to appear in the city, and the officers and soldiers did not react for the time being, and in some places it was as miserable as a borderland, and the eastern part of the city was lit by the raiding of some outlaws, which was not extinguished until dawn. The next day, the whole city was still based on rescuing people and property in the ruins, and all kinds of news were coming one after another, quarrels and fights occurred due to the competition for property, and some outlaws and gangsters who had nothing to do began to take the opportunity to make a fortune, muddy waters, and the government began to try to organize order,
Clashes gradually arose, and several people were arrested and killed on the spot. Ning Yi went to inquire about the possibility of leaving Hangzhou, but the upstream of the canal channel collapsed and was blocked, and the waterway was temporarily suspended at this time.
In the afternoon, Qian Xiwen sent a steward to check on the safety of his side, Ning Yi gave a reply, and then asked Geng Huwei to pick a family to follow to Qianfu, and transported a large amount of grain back by carriage and then sealed it - Qian Xiwen is a big landlord here, and the grain at home is the most, and the earthquake may have damaged a lot of storage warehouses. But after all, he owes a favor, Ning Yi put forward a few measures in his letter to deal with the earthquake, but these are also in last year's disaster relief provisions, if the Hangzhou government does a good job, he will owe a favor after all. But there was no other way at this time.
However, the strength of the army and the Hangzhou government finally forcibly controlled part of the order, and a large number of corpses were transported out of the city and burned.
Then on the third day, the heavy rain fell, and in the fierce rain curtain at the turn of summer and autumn, the city of Hangzhou became a country......
In the evening of this day, on the road near Xuzhou, a galloping horse carrying a tired and dead knight on his back was still running lifelessly, carrying the knight's 800-li urgent proclamation that recorded the collapse of the southeast sky, and constantly approached the capital of the Wu Dynasty at this time, Bianjing.
The lonely horse is galloping, the sunset has sunk, and the night is approaching ......!.