Thrown beside Ye Chang was the eighth volume of "Embroidered Portraits of the Three Kingdoms", the plot where Cao Cao used a trick to earn Xu Shu and Xu Yuanzhi is in this volume.

The meaning of the mother is very clear, if Ye Chang does not comply, she will learn from Cao Cao and coerce Ye Chang with her family.

Although she only threatened with words, she had already committed Ye Chang's taboo, so Ye Chang's gaze suddenly became cold.

Even if she told her plan, she didn't bother to persuade her, so she left the cabin.

Ye Chang looked at the cabins on both sides, only to see two barbarians guarding each side, and then a barbarian man came in and stared at him fiercely.

"It's prudent to do it......" Ye Chang didn't dare to take this kind of risk.

There was probably more than one boat, and then the girl never came forward again. At this time, although it was the prosperous time of the Tang Dynasty, the rule of officials was broken, so although there were inspections on the water on the road, they were all sent away by copper coins. I was also very careful when I landed on the shore along the way, mostly looking for the deserted villages and villages, and replenishing some food and firewood.

Ye Chang left Chang'an after the end of the city competition on June 6, and he estimated that the time should be June 7 now. The ship shook violently, the cabin was dull, and the curtain that served as a shield was motionless. Ye Chang sat against the bulkhead before he took a breath, and suddenly, he heard a loud noise.

There was thunder.

Ye Chang didn't know what to do, and at this time, a thunderbolt struck Chang'an's Chaotian Gate, causing a majestic fire. This incident has also become an excuse for some people in the court to attack him, especially Zhang Pei, who directly said that Ye Chang's demonic skills caused the wrath of the heavens.

However, Ye Chang couldn't take care of this matter for the time being, what he was thinking about now was how to get out of the hands of these barbarians.

With the sound of thunder, it was not long before the thunder continued, and then the crackling rain could be heard on the canopy. The boat began to sway violently, and Ye Chang could hear the whining wind outside.

"Dock, dock"

Someone shouted in the wind and rain, and it was probably the boatman on the other boat who was conveying the order of the mother.

Such a strong wind and waves were enough to ⊥ their little boat to capsize. Ye Chang was also secretly worried, if he lost his life because of the capsizing accident, it would be too unjust.

The boat struggled to move in the wind and waves, and it didn't take long for Ye Chang to hear the boatman's crying voice: "Oops, hurry, come and help me"

Ye Chang stood up suddenly, but the barbarian in front of him pulled out the brute knife in his hand without hesitation.

"Idiot, do you want to die here together?" Ye Chang asked sharply.

This barbarian is a close confidant of Huanniang and has always followed Huanniang, so Ye Changzhi said that he can speak the official dialect of the Tang Dynasty.

"Don't move." The barbarian said coldly.

"Well, the boat capsized and capsized, anyway, I'm proficient in water, and I'm not the only one who drowned." Ye Chang smiled: "It's just that I don't know how many of you know how to water?" ”

This question made the barbarian man stunned.

Knowing water is all water, white and barbaric, living by water, how can there be no reason for water. However, this is not a ravine in their mountains, but a vast river

"Especially your county lord, if she falls into the water, I don't know if she can save herself?"

These words shook the barbarian man, although he was not afraid, he couldn't help but worry about his mother.

"What's more, now that I'm on the boat, and there are so many winds and waves around, are you still afraid that I will jump into the river and run away?"

The last sentence made the barbarian nod his head, and he asked, "Then what do you say?" ”

"What the captain says, we will do, on this ship, no one knows as much as him" Ye Chang said categorically.

"Come and help me, come and help me, hurry to the shore," just then, the captain shouted again.

This time, the barbarian man didn't stop him again, Ye Chang got out of the cabin, and in the blink of an eye, he was drenched in water. Looking at the past, I saw silver threads falling from the sky into the surging water, and they could not even splash the waves, for the river stirred up huge waves by itself under the agitation of the strong wind, and their two small boats, like leaves, swayed in the wind and rain.

With such a wide river and turbid waves, Ye Chang judged that this is still the Yellow River.

The captain desperately shook the oar at the stern, but it did not have much effect, and the waves still wrapped the boat and drifted downstream, and the distance from the shore did not become closer.

Seeing that Ye Chang came out with all the barbarians, the captain shouted, and everyone either went to help him swing the oar, or went to get the oars. A boat of seven or eight people worked together, and the ship finally got closer and closer to the shore.

The other boat did the same, but because of the strong wind and waves, the distance between the two ships became farther and farther, and when they came ashore, the two ships could not see each other.

At this time, Ye Chang was exhausted, and it was not easy to fight against the wind and waves, and the torrential rain also obscured their vision. After landing on the shore, Ye Chang looked around, and there seemed to be a small village in the distance, but he couldn't really see it.

"I don't know when the rain will stop, let's go and take shelter together?" Ye Chang was kind to those barbarians.

"No, we have to find our county lord first"

These barbarians are already a little anxious, and they can't see Yu Niang, so they are like headless flies, but there is only one thing, they don't let go of Ye Chang, and they still keep this matter in mind.

The captain over there was dressed in a robe, and looked at his ship with a sad face, not paying attention to it at all. Ye Chang was helpless: "Okay, then look for it along the river bank, maybe you can meet them." ”

One of the barbarians was left to watch the boat, and the people went down the river bank to the river, and halfway through, they heard someone shouting behind them. Ye Chang turned around, only to see the captain and the barbarian rushing over, the road was slippery in the rain, and the two fell a few times, but they didn't dare to stop at all.

"What's wrong?" Ye Chang asked.

"Hurry up, hurry up, it's about to burst"

The frightened words of the captain made Ye Chang feel terrified.

In his memory, there is no record of the flooding of the Yellow River in the Tang Dynasty, so he is not sure whether what he encountered today was a major breach of the Yellow River, let alone whether he could survive the burst.

The only thing that is certain now is that you have to run as soon as possible, to a high place.

"Hurry up" Ye Chang shouted, and just as he wanted to run towards a slope in the distance, he heard a sound around him, and the barbarian's brute knife grazed his forehead

"Looking for our county lord," the barbarian man snapped.

"What do you have to do with me?" Ye Chang was anxious in his heart, and he couldn't care so much.

He didn't have any friendship with Wei Niang, he just wanted to use her to get cotton, but when Wei Niang wanted to kidnap him, and even threatened him with his family, Wei Niang's reputation in him even turned from cold to hostile. At this time of crisis, it is really impossible for him to risk his life to save his mother.

"The county lord said, you can't let you go, if you want to go, you can only die"

Ye Chang was speechless, how could this barbarian be a dead brain?

However, in the face of Xue Liang's brute knife, in the face of this kind of tenacious guy, no matter how good Ye Chang is, no matter how good he is, and no matter how many wisdom he has, it will not come in handy in his eagerness. Therefore, he could only be forced by this guy to run forward.

But the captain ran away as fast as he could, and behind them, a line of water gradually came, not at a very fast speed, and it did not seem to be a big burst, but only an overflow.

At this time, the Central Plains suffered from drought for a long time, and the city competition in Chang'an City was, to a certain extent, begging for rain, and the sudden torrential rain caught many places off guard. The soil is under cracks and compacts, and then soaked in water, which is prone to collapse and pipe surge. In places where there is insufficient preparation, it is inevitable that the embankment will overflow.

Finding that it was just a flood, Ye Chang was a little relieved, it seemed that he couldn't find his mother now, and these barbarians would not let him go, so he still found the barbarian girl first.

On the embankment, there is more than one place where the embankment appears, and many places have to be dripping with water, seeing this scene, Ye Chang's heart is even more worried.

"Front...... Found it"

The barbarian's eyes were sharp, and when he saw a ship in front of him, he couldn't help but cheer. Ye Chang looked at the boat, but he was not so happy, there was no one on the side of the boat, and more importantly, the boat had been pushed up the embankment by the waves.

"No one"

When they got closer to the boat, the barbarians were stunned, the boat was indeed the boat of the maiden and their boat, but there was no one on board.

Ye Chang also got on the boat, but instead of looking for someone, he looked at a package in the boat and picked it up casually.

Inside is the grain prepared by the barbarians.

"Go this way" Ye Chang tied the grain to his body, and then looked for the village he had just seen: "Hurry up"

"We're looking for the county lord"

"Fool, is your lord as foolish as you are, and when she sees the rain and the water rise, she must have gone to a high place to take refuge. Nearby, it's high where the village is, so don't go quickly," Ye Chang shouted.

The barbarian man who was guarding him didn't believe it: "Are you sure? ”

"Why did your county lord invite me to go to Yue Xi? Am I smarter than you? At this time, Ye Chang could only pull out the banner of the mother: "At this time, if you don't listen to me, do you still listen to you?" ”

When these words were spoken, the barbarians agreed, and Ye Chang saw that the barbarians were relieved, so he took the lead and ran towards the village.

Unexpectedly, Lu Dao only ran a few steps, and the barbarian man chased after him, and the brute knife in his hand slashed straight on him: "If the county lord is not there, I will give you a knife."

"You idiot, your county lord left in a hurry, and he didn't even bring the rice and grain on the boat, if you don't go back and carry some of it, will it make her starve?" Seeing him close by his side, Ye Chang felt extremely uncomfortable and drank a sigh.

The barbarian man was really a little naïve, but he was the most loyal to his mother, and he felt that Ye Chang was very reasonable, so he really went back to carry food. When he picked up the grain and looked at Ye Chang again, Ye Chang's figure had disappeared into the rain.

"It's not good, I've been fooled" The barbarian man suddenly understood that he was being separated, he was very angry in his heart, and he had been staring at it tightly, thinking that no matter how cunning Ye Chang was, he would have no choice, but he never thought that he would give himself up in a few words.

He didn't know that this was a small psychological hint from Ye Chang that made him make such a choice.

Where is Ye Chang sure to confirm the current location of Huanniang and choose that village, just because the village is close, and the villagers must know where it will be safer.

In the midst of the rain and wind, it is difficult to walk, let alone run. When Ye Chang ran to the front of the village, he had already fallen like a clay man, and when he looked behind him, there was not a single barbarian.

"Bang Bang Bang"

He rushed to a house at the head of the village and knocked desperately on the door. A nervous voice came from the door: "Who?" ”

"It's overflowing, it's overflowing," Ye Chang shouted.

Except to flee for his own life, he could not afford to watch the people of this village, unaware of the impending danger.

"What?" The door was opened, and a man came out in a panic and asked in a trembling voice, "What did you say?" ”

"The river is overflowing," Ye Chang shouted as he pointed behind him.

Needless to say, the man only walked a few steps outside in the rain, and he could clearly see a line of water slowly rising towards the village. He was suddenly shocked, turned around and ran into the house: "Come out, go quickly, the water is rising, the embankment is overflowing"

In the blink of an eye, the family jumped up, and Ye Chang didn't even notice when he broke into the yard. Ye Chang saw a gong hanging in front of the hall at a glance, stepped forward and took it off, and then grabbed a stick and began to knock it desperately.

"Dangdang Dang"

The shrill sound of the gong sounded louder than the wind and rain, and only the occasional thunder could hide it. In the midst of this sound, the whole village was alarmed, and the people who were hiding at home to avoid the rain pushed the door out to check, and then the sound of the family crying and calling for the mother sounded.

"Who is in charge of the village?" Seeing that there was a mess here, Ye Chang pulled a villager over and shouted.

"It's the fifth uncle, it's the fifth uncle"

"Take Me to Him"

"I ......"

"If you want the people in the village to live, take me to see him" Ye Chang straightened the man, stared at his eyes, and said word by word.

Originally, he thought that this was just a deserted village, and there would not be many people, but now, there are forty or fifty households, let alone two or three hundred. This kind of village, without a backbone, can only take care of each in the face of danger, and in the end, it will cause many unnecessary losses.

Angry with him, the man really took him to the only decent house in the village. At this time, although it was known as a prosperous age, in fact, the ordinary people were far from being rich, and later scholars found that at least 20% of the people had to endure cold and starvation.

At this time, this family was already in chaos, an old man commanded five strong men to carry this and that, Ye Chang stepped forward and shouted: "Uncle, are you the village manager?" ”

The old man rolled his eyes: "You foreigner, stay away, run for your life"

"You only care about your own family, dozens of households in the village, you don't care?"

"Where can you take care of so much" The old man pushed Ye Chang away: "If you don't get out of the way, I'll call my five children to give you a good beating"

Ye Chang suddenly remembered that this was not a later generation with a strict basic social organization, but the Tang Dynasty

This old man only cares about running for his own life, regardless of the people in the village, it is a normal thing, even if there are heavy casualties in the village, no one will hold him responsible.

Seeing that he didn't go away, among the old man's sons, two of them came over with their eyes and crossed their hands, and one of them was anxious, and he stretched out his palm to push Ye Chang