Yanshi County Ling Bai Quan rubbed his forehead in distress and let out a long sigh.

Jiang Qing, the county next to him, also sighed in the same way.

"I'm afraid it's hard to keep this crown on top." Bai Quan sighed again: "Yanshi is the gateway to the Eastern Capital, and it is said that the sage intends to control the Eastern Capital again, but this incident happened

"How can this matter be blamed on the Ming Mansion, who would have thought that a rainstorm would reach the embankment of the Yellow River?" The county reluctantly comforted: "Besides, now that it is counted, it is only three villages that have been damaged, but there are only one hundred and eighty households, which is already the work of the Ming Mansion to maintain the river embankment on weekdays." If you really want to investigate, the water and land transport envoys will not be able to get out."

Now the water and land transfer envoy is still Wei Jian, he is winning the favor of the son of Sanlang, that is, Li Linfu has to temporarily avoid its edge, the Yellow River overflowing embankment is a natural disaster, if you want to top, it should be topped by this big head.

Bai Quan is not so optimistic.

Jiang Qing said that he had the confidence to say this, his father was Jiang Qinxu, the servant of the Ministry of Ancestors, and he originally said that he was going to confer Gong County Cheng, but then for some reason, he became Yanshi Cheng. Unlike Bai Quan, who has no backstage in the court, among the people promoted and recommended by Jiang Qing's father at the beginning, there are quite a few people who hold important positions in the court, so he is not afraid of this matter.

"Xiaoguan Village is the lowest, and it is the closest to the embankment, and the disaster is the worst here. When I came to visit, I didn't find a single person, and the whole village was gone, but I was afraid that no one would be spared. The messenger who led the team pointed to a waterway in front of the boat: "This village is in the worst situation. ”

"Alas"

Bai Quan sighed again, if he couldn't avoid it, he was afraid that this village would be destroyed.

Judging from the current situation, it is quite not optimistic, and the other two severely affected villages have not been completely submerged like Xiaoguan villages, and some people are waiting on the rooftops for rescue. Even so, more than half of the people in those two villages have drowned, and dozens of people are sick, and there are even faint signs of epidemics.

This is the situation that has occurred in the past seven days of the disaster, and if it spreads, the situation is unimaginable

But Bai Quan has nothing to do about this disaster, this is a natural disaster, not a man-made disaster, what can he do

"Hey, that's ...... Raft? There were people on the raft."

Just as he was worried, he suddenly heard the messenger cry.

Circumambulating a bush of treetops, a raft appeared in their field of vision, on top of which were five people, one of whom was holding a fence, and the other four were resting on the raft. In addition to the four of them, the raft also contained a lot of things, there were planks, there were baskets, and even a small dog, wagging its tail and barking at this side.

"Is it the people from the neighboring place or from this small village?" Bai Quan perked up a little and asked with a hint of hope.

The errand officer often goes to the countryside, squinted for a while, and then said happily: "Mingfu, it is from Xiaoguan Village, there are two I know, it is the fourth son of the old Guan Hui of Xiaoguan Village, we all call him Guo Shilang."

The news of "there are still people alive in Xiaoguan Village" made Bai Quan clench his fists tightly: "Call him to come close to answer, call him to come close"

The messenger shouted loudly, and the raft on the other side looked at the boat on this side, and also held it up, and in a short time the two sides were not far apart.

"The lord of the Ming Mansion and the county lord are here, and Shiro, you haven't come up to greet you yet," the officer shouted.

Guo Shiro had already seen the people wearing official robes on the ship, listened to the scolding of the messengers, and immediately saluted on the raft: "Situation four, meet the Ming Mansion and the county Cheng." ”

"You're from Xiaoguan Village?" Bai Quan didn't care to reply, and asked eagerly: "How many people died in the village, and how many survived?" ”

"Two people died in the village, and the rest of the people were unharmed." Kushiro replied.

"Poor, pitiful, only the two of you are left......" Bai Quan heard it, but when he said this, he immediately realized that something was wrong: "Only two people died?" You mean, only two people died in the village? ”

"Exactly, Ye Langjun came to warn in time, so the village had enough time to evacuate, and the two people who died refused to leave the house."

"Really...... Great, great," Bai Quan was overjoyed when he heard this, this was the best news he had ever heard in this sudden disaster

The rest of the villages near the Yellow River were more or less affected, and some of them had no casualties, but the fields were flooded, but several of the villages that were seriously affected by the disaster were all heavy casualties, and even more than half of them were killed or injured

How did Xiaoguan Village do this?

Bai Quan's heart was full of joy at this time, and he forgot to ask for a while, but Jiang Qing was still a little suspicious, and said, "Are the old and weak all right?" Where are the victims located? Also, how have you spent the past few days? Is there an epidemic? ”

This series of questions was thrown, Bai Quan nodded again and again, obviously all the questions he wanted to know.

"So that the two officials know that there are six sick people in the old and weak Central Plains, but they have been getting better in the past two days. In the past few days, we have relied on the food we brought with us when we evacuated, but now the food is also a little tight, so we have searched around to see if we can find something to eat. As for the epidemic, there is absolutely none."

After answering Jiang Qing's questions one by one, he salivated and said: "The two officials are here, there must be relief food?" ”

"I have asked the court to open a righteous warehouse." Bai Quan breathed a long sigh of relief, the situation in Xiaoguan Village was even better than the best he wanted to get, this is a real credit Originally, I was worried that he would be held accountable because of the overflow, but now it seems that there is no problem with passing the credit, at most he will be reprimanded by his boss.

But when he relaxed, he realized something was wrong.

The situation in Xiaoguan Village is too good, isn't it?

As they left, the flood waters rose, and not only did they evacuate most of the people, but they were also able to carry food to last for a few days – this alone was by no means something that ordinary people could have imagined.

At least the remaining villages that have escaped the flood have been left with almost no food.

Jiang Qing also realized this, and whispered to Bai Quan: "In this village, there must be capable people. ”

"Yes, there are sages in the township who shelter the neighbors." Bai Quan nodded: "Situation four, in your village, but there are virtuous people leading you, so you have to be like this, I don't know who this virtuous person is?" ”

The county order has the obligation to recommend the rural relics to the imperial court, and the situation of the village must be to make a name for himself in the case of the village, in this case, Bai Quan just wants to press all the credit on himself, it is impossible, it is better to have the merit of educating the people, and then get a merit of recommending the virtuous.

"Xianda? What is that? ”

The fourth is stunned, he is sharp-toothed, but he always has less knowledge, what is "virtuous", he really doesn't understand.

"It's just that there are some capable people in the village who have taken you to avoid the flood and made so many preparations." The officer understood, and drank a sigh.

"How can there be any virtuous man in our village, it is a Langjun surnamed Ye from a foreign country" Guo Si shook his head into a rattle: "He passed through this place by boat, encountered heavy rain on the way, and had to stay on the shore to avoid the rain, and then found that the water would overflow the embankment, so he arrived in our village." ”

"Ye Langjun?"

Bai Quan was a little disappointed when he heard that it was not the people under his rule, but what the situation in Xiaoguan Village was like, he still had to see it for him. So let him lead the way and go back to their temporary shelter.

Then he regretted it a little.

This situation is fourth, he can practice this pair of sharp teeth in a group of stuffy gourd-like villagers, relying on enough nagging. Along the way, Guo Si nagged about the situation of the past few days, the same thing, repeated several times, and showed from multiple angles and all-round displays, what this person thought at that time, how the other person thought, and what he himself thought. In his exhaustive process, Bai Quan and Jiang Qing found that only one person thought in his heart, and this fourth person would not guess.

That person is what he called "Ye Langjun".

"Why don't you tell me what Ye Langjun thought at that time?"

"How dare you, how can you?" Hearing such a question, Guo Si was surprised, and seemed to think that this question was very stupid: "What kind of character is Ye Langjun, like a fairy, what he thinks in his heart, where can a certain ordinary fool guess?" It's just an ordinary reader, but I'm afraid I can't guess ......"

Speaking of this, he looked at Bai Quan and Jiang Qing, knowing that he shouldn't talk too much, but he couldn't help but add: "I look at the two officials of the Ming Mansion and the county Cheng, I'm afraid I can't guess ......."

"Ha Lu Ha ......"

Bai Quan and Jiang Qing looked at each other and smiled, naturally they would not be as familiar as this stupid villager. Seeing that the two of them were not angry, Guo Si began to talk again, although he was wordy, but from his mouth, the two of them gradually heard how Ye Chang had led the victims of Xiaoguan Village to overcome the flood in the past five days.

"This Ye Langjun is really extraordinary." Jiang Qing said to Bai Quan: "Ming Mansion, a foreigner, can make the people of Xiaoguan Village so impressed, and not just one person, you see, every time the four praise Ye Langjun, several other villagers also nodded again and again."

"Well, and this Ye Langjun is planning far, arranging step by step, all of them are in the hands of Zhizhu." Bai Quan also appreciated it very much.

The two of them became more and more curious about Ye Langjun, and they didn't know what kind of character Lu Dao was to be able to do this.

When the fourth situation said that Ye Chang took them to set up a temporary shack to shelter from the wind and rain, they had already arrived under the temporarily resettled mountain. Bai Quan built a pergola with his hands, and when he looked around, he saw that a vacant land was opened up at the gentle slope of the mountain, and four rows of sheds were erected on the vacant land. Although simple, the sheds are neatly laid out and give the impression of orderliness at first glance.

According to the fourth situation, this shed is the lodging.

Outside these four rows of sheds, about 20 paces, there are obvious ravines, and the water around the sheds is discharged into the ditches, and then flows down the mountain and into the valley. Outside the ditch, there are several small sheds, which are "public toilets", that is, toilets for nearly 300 victims.

That Ye Langjun was very concerned about this, whether men, women or children, they had to go to the public toilet to go to the toilet, and those who dared to defecate in the open had to go hungry for a meal in addition to cleaning up the stains themselves, and those who reoffended would be whipped.

This regulation made Bai Quan and Jiang Qing a little puzzled, but I had heard it before, and every request of Ye Langjun had a deep meaning, but I was afraid that it would be the same in this matter.

"When I saw that Ye Langjun, I asked him carefully." The two discussed in a low voice for a while, but they couldn't think of a reason, and then Bai Quan said.

When the boat and the raft came to shore, they saw that the road under their feet was actually made of miscellaneous firewood and cushioned, so that they did not have to step directly on the mud. The two looked at each other again, and this detail surprised them a little: Could it be that Ye Langjun has a habit of cleanliness, so he did this?

At this time, it seems to be a bit of an abuse of people's power to let the victims do such things, right?

"Maybe this Ye Langjun is from a big family and is not used to muddy roads, so he has this order?" The two of them guessed in their hearts.

They are even more curious about Ye Langjun, those children from Zhong Mingding's food family, although they have considerable bearing and knowledge, but there are not many who can do practical things - they call these practical things "mundane affairs", and the officials who manage these practical things are called "turbid officials".

"Where is Ye Langjun?" Bai Quan was a little impatient to see Ye Langjun, and after walking a few steps, he asked Guo Si.

"If you want to ask, Ye Langjun patrols around every day, and sometimes he has to help himself." Guo Si looked at it, then pointed over there and said, "Oh, yes, isn't that Ye Langjun?" ”

Bai Quan and Jiang Qingshun looked for him, only to see a man, carrying a large bundle of firewood, walking cautiously on a gentle slope. Although the man was careful, his body was still covered with mud, and when he heard this side shouting at him, he looked here.

"Ye Langjun, the two officials of the Ming Mansion and the county are here," Guo Si waved his hand desperately and shouted.

Ye Chang heard that it was the county magistrate and the county magistrate, and he was happy in his heart, these two local officials finally appeared. Their appearance means that the Tang Dynasty has reacted, and the next disaster should be controllable.

He threw down the miscellaneous firewood on his back, walked over quickly, and bowed to the two: "A certain martial arts cultivator, Ye Chang, has seen two officials. ”

"Xiu Wu Ye Chang...... But a soccer player? Finally hearing the name of this Ye Langjun, Bai Quan was still thinking that this name was a little familiar, and Jiang Qing had already asked in surprise.

"A cheap name is insulting, it's just a mere one." Ye Chang said with a smile.

He was covered in mud, and this smile, although his eyes were bright and his teeth were white, still did not look like an image. Bai Quan also suddenly remembered at this time that this cultivator Ye Chang had become famous in the past year, and he had been given gold to return to his hometown as today's son, but he looked like this, but he couldn't see the rumored demeanor, let alone a fairy-like character in the four mouths

Ye Chang also knew that he was dirty, and it was not a gift to meet a guest, so he smiled and arched his hand: "The appearance of a certain person now is really not a gift to meet the two officials, wait a while, let me be rude for a moment." ”

When he had finished speaking, he turned and walked away, and in a few moments disappeared into one of the shacks. Bai Quan and Jiang Qing looked at each other, only feeling that this Ye Chang had a bit of the demeanor of a legendary hermit.