Not long after the Liao delegation left, a drizzle began to fall in the sky.

The water level of the Bianhe River outside Kaifeng City is frightening, as if it has returned to the time of a few days ago.

The docile Bianhe River once again turned into a water dragon that made people's faces change dramatically, making the tall embankment tremble incessantly, and then silently cracked a small gap, which made people frightened.

Even though the rain stopped in the past few days, cement and sediment were used for emergency repairs, but the new cement has not yet dried, how can it work?

The place of Chen Bridge is also the place where Song Taizu's yellow robe was added. You can clearly see the levee coming and going, and the busy crowd walking on it.

A magistrate's expression was very serious, his dark and thick eyebrows were frowned together, and he shook his head slightly almost every time he walked for a while. The situation is not optimistic!

Not far from the embankment, there is also a dragon king temple.

Covering an area of about ten acres, the temple gate faces north, and there is a stone tablet. It is said that on the night after Song Taizu's yellow robe was added, there was a yellow dragon flashing here. So people built a dragon king temple here!

Therefore, the temple wall is also inscribed with the handwriting of Song Taizu. At this moment, there are many old people who are kneeling down here and praying for the flood to go away.

Zhu Zilong is also in the Dragon King Temple, the top of the hall is covered with cobwebs, but he can still see clearly on the two pillars, each coiling a dragon. There was once a sage who said that if the water rises to the Dragon King Temple, it is the Yellow Dragon Dancing, the will of heaven is irresistible, and the world will be in chaos.

When he was young, Zhu Zilong had not yet come out.

In the distance by the river, a thunderous roar rang out, and its voice trembled and angry: "Bastard thing, bastard thing!" God, why is this so? ”

Hearing this, Zhu Zilong led people to rush out of the temple in a hurry. I saw a huge wave rushing over the embankment in the distance in front of me, tearing open an even more terrible breach. In the blink of an eye, countless flood fighters disappeared into the flood.

The county commander of Xifu County in Kaifeng raised his hands and roared to the sky, and then jumped into the rolling waves.

"Huh? Help! Yang Zhi on the side shouted, almost wanting to rush out. But let Zhu Zilong stop him!

He still asks for mercy, and if he does not, the crime of dereliction of duty alone will bring disaster to the whole family. Now, only one of them sacrificed him, but he saved his wife, children, and family from disaster. You saved him, but you hurt him! Zhu Zilong's face was bruised.

When Yang Zhi and the others heard Zhu Zilong say this, their faces were silent, and a sad but helpless emotion immediately drifted away. In the distance, the water of the Yellow River, which rose to the sky, had long engulfed the small sacrifice of the county order and disappeared without a trace.

"Lord Wang's place is not safe, let's go back to the highlands in Kaifeng City quickly, right?" Yang Zhi pleaded.

"Yes, I can only withdraw. Not only must we withdraw, but the people must also withdraw, and there will be gains and losses, and there will be gains and gains. Zhu Zilong turned his head to look at Kaifeng City, and the spire of Kaifeng Huguo Temple loomed.

The direction of the tower of Huguo Temple, is one of the highest terrain near Kaifeng, the tower is located in the northeast corner of Kaifeng City, built in the first year of Emperor You of the Northern Song Dynasty (1049), because it is built in the Kaibao Temple, it is called the tower of Kaibao Temple.

I think it could be used as a temporary resettlement place for refugees. It's just that with so many refugees, are they really all resettled?

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Not long after Zhu Zilong and his party returned to the city, the Yellow River burst its embankment...... The Dragon King Temple is submerged in it!

Many villages outside the city were directly submerged in the floodwaters, and countless villagers struggled in the water with everything they could float. When some branches can't bear the weight of a few people, those people even fight in the water to survive.

In the face of death, any act of kindness has become a legend, and in order to survive, blood flowers float in the water from time to time. Some of the survivors began to become vicious.

And on some of the small floating branches, there were rats squatting everywhere, and snakes swam by from time to time in the water. But at this time, the snake was in no mood to catch and eat those mice, just to save energy and swim to a safer place.

As the flood increased, more and more dead bodies and dead pigs appeared on the river. There were even many dead cow corpses, and some of the people holding the driftwood, and the people on the shore, all had even more sad faces when they saw these dead cows.

Modern people regard the giant panda as a national treasure in later generations, but in ancient times, the giant panda was not a rare thing, and any antler velvet and tiger whip can be eaten as long as you have the ability.

But there is an animal that you can't just kill and eat meat even if you raise it from childhood to adulthood. Unless it is sick and dead, old and dead, you can eat its flesh. This animal is a cow!

As early as 3,000 years ago in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the lofty status of cattle had been determined, and at that time there was a provision that "princes do not kill cattle without reason". The same is true of the Song Dynasty.

Only when the ruler sacrifices to the ancestors of heaven and earth with the prison will a few adult cattle without disease be killed.

In the Han Dynasty, there was such a provision that "the king law prohibits the killing of cattle, and those who commit the prohibition of killing will be punished", and those who commit suicide without official permission will be beheaded. Even in the Song Dynasty, it was a capital crime not to kill a cow, but it was inevitable to be imprisoned for thousands of miles.

Cattle are the lifeblood of the common people, and now the village is flooded, and so many cattle have been drowned in vain, which really makes people's hearts hurt.

Don't think that those are the bad habits of the old society, even if you step into the new China, beef is not something that ordinary people can eat.

In 1955, the State Council also issued a special directive to "prohibit any organ or farmer from slaughtering cattle without permission". "In the case of serious circumstances, the necessary criminal punishment shall also be imposed". It wasn't until February 1979 that the rules were relaxed!

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Unlike a few days ago, only a few villages were flooded, today's embankment burst directly flooded ninety percent of the villages outside Kaifeng, and the number of people affected was only tens of thousands, or even more than 100,000.

The few survivors who survived the hard struggle on the river looked with hostility at those who were not from the same village.

In the face of life, don't mention any friendship and kindness.

When the flood water diverted, some of the people who were immersed in the river waited until they reached the broken embankment. Some of the people went up to the riverbank, and some of the survivors, who looked at the ragged people with green eyes on the riverbank, but gave up going ashore here.

In a year of great calamity, the disaster is terrible, and others are even more terrible.

Some people forcibly take away young children, women and children, or sell them into brothels, or into slavery, in short, as miserable as they want, and most of them are even more unclear.

A woman who was ignorant carried her son to the riverbank, and immediately surrounded a group of scoundrels, screaming in fright. Her man had drowned in the river to save them. It's really helpless now!

"Bold, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, dare to rob the woman, take it for me." Suddenly, a small group of soldiers poured out from the direction of Kaifeng, and the bearded soldiers who took the lead shouted before they arrived.

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