Kaifeng Chengnan, Taixue.

Taixue Xuezheng Cai Yingwen also heard the thunder.

It was so late at night, but he couldn't sleep.

Uncle Cai, who loves poetry, has always liked autumn the most.

The great scribes of the previous dynasty and the present dynasty have contributed to the autumn with many poems and songs that are either lofty or gorgeous! It's enough for Uncle Cai to copy them one by one and dedicate them to his ex-wife.

Among them, Uncle Cai likes the sentence in Bai Juyi's "Autumn Rain and Night Sleep": After the lights go out, sleep in the sound of beautiful rain.

Mr. Lotte, who has always been easy to understand when writing poems, said rightly, there is rain on the autumn night, and it is just right to fall asleep.

If there is a beautiful woman snuggling next to the pillow, with soft skin and fragrant sideburns, it is really more beautiful.

Speaking of beauties, recently, his ex-wife Shen Fuzhi's attitude towards herself has obviously changed, and there are signs of ice melting. So, this autumn, for Cai Yingwen, is more beautiful than in previous years.

However, Cai Yingwen's good mood was broken by a call from his former Bole and Hubu Shangshu Cai Jing a few days ago.

Cai Shangshu instructed Cai Yingwen to find a few students with excellent pen skills in Taixue, write a few good articles, and spread them in Kyoto, waving the flag and shouting for the "great plan to return to the river" advocated by the New Party, and also let the officials see how much the white-clothed scholars who represent the future power of the empire support the determined innovation of Zhang Dian and others.

Cai Yingwen sent off his fellow townsman and Bole official politely on the surface, and when he came back to sit alone and ponder, he was at a loss.

is not just because he is worried that Shen Fuzhi will decide that he is going to flatter the New Party, but also because Cai Yingwen is unwilling to do what Cai Jing said in his heart.

Cai Yingwen lived in Zhangzhou when he was a teenager, and when he was young, he went to Qiantang, no matter where he was, he was deeply impressed by the Xia Xun he saw over the years.

It wasn't until Cai Jing brought him to Tokyo that he realized that compared to the flooding of the Yellow River, the floods in the south were nothing more than a drop in the bucket.

During the reign of Renzong, the Yellow River burst its banks, turned to the north, passed through Jizhou, and entered the sea from Hebei. At that time, many courtiers believed that this was the power of the heavens, and when they complied with it, after the failure of the Jiayou attempt to lead the Yellow River back to its original path, the "Northern School" gained the upper hand. However, in the Shenzong Dynasty, with the popularity of the Fa-changing faction, the "Huihe faction" became tough again, and in the next ten years, the imperial court used manpower to forcibly force the Yellow River, which had been diverted, to return to its original path and flow east into the sea, but failed again and again.

Cai Yingwen knew that after the official family was in power, the dispute over returning to the river became white-hot again. Zhang Dun, Cai Jing and others insisted on leading the Yellow River back to its original path, while Su Zhe and others resolutely objected, and Su Zhe was demoted like his brother Su Shi, which had a lot to do with his inheritance of Ouyang Xiu's views and the fact that he could not change his course in a letter.

Cai Yingwen also did not approve of returning to the river. He is too studious and righteous, and he does love to sing the wind and the moon on weekdays, but he is not a nerd. He is even less blindly following the New Party's self-confidence that is invincible and full of challenges to all things in heaven and earth. Facts have proven that "man will conquer the sky" brought about by partisan strife will not only cost the people and money in the end, but is also very likely to bring about a devastating disaster.

Encourage students to go to school one after another? This is not an impossible task for him Cai Xuezheng, but a task that he does not want to complete.

However, it has rained heavily in the past few days, and Cai Xuezheng has been even more irritated by the matter of returning to the river, how can he still "sleep in the autumn rain"!

Tonight, when Cai Yingwen was tossing and turning, he suddenly heard bursts of thunder in the distance.

This, this is not the time of stinging, how can the thunder hit so deafeningly!

Cai Yingwen got off the bed, and just put on a robe and wanted to go to the window to see what was going on, but the door was slammed.

He opened the door, and Yang Weng, the original official of Yao Huan's family and now an errand boy in Taixue, rushed in with rain.

"Xuezheng, it's not good! Hair, hair! ”

"Huh? What the? ”

"It's watery! The Bianhe River and the Cai River are all broken! I patrol the courtyard tonight, because I think about such a heavy rain, where is not leaking, flooded books, so I went to the attic to check around, but when I looked at the third floor, I saw, I saw that outside the city in the west, the wall had collapsed and the house had collapsed! ”

Cai Yingwen had goosebumps on his back, and he suddenly realized that where was the thunder in the distance, it should be the loud sound of the building toppling and the roaring flood weaving together!

"Yang Weng, go, go and wake up the students, don't sleep, I'm afraid that Bianjing will be in a big disaster!"

……

East of Bianjing City, north of Cross Street, the bow and crossbow courtyard.

Shao Qing, who heard the "thunder", looked up and saw a towering ancient acacia in the middle of the material greenhouse.

Without hesitation, he threw himself up the tree.

Ye Rou exclaimed: "Shizi! What are you going to do? Can thunder go up to a tree? ”

"It's not thunder!"

Shao Qing threw her a sentence briefly, and without any delay under his feet, he climbed the high branch of the ancient acacia on the ground.

The locust tree, which has not yet fallen its leaves in a large area, is like a canopy with a luxuriant canopy, which is good for Shao Qing to block three or five points of rain, so that he can gaze into the distance.

He saw a thrilling sight.

There is no curfew in the Great Song Dynasty, and Kyoto is so prosperous, it is this rainy night of Chongyang, and the city is still lit up everywhere.

However, at this moment, the strings of huge lanterns, like halberds sinking into the sand, fell down one after another, floating in the streets and alleys of Bianjing City, which suddenly became Zeguo.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of thunder became louder and louder, and the image of a collapsed house on the outskirts of the distant city soon appeared on the edge of the inner city in the west. Faintly, there seemed to be a bridge over the Bianhe River in the west of the city, like a scattered kite, which was washed away by the rushing river.

Shao Qing lived in Yanjing City as a teenager, and he only heard Han officials say that the Daimyo's mansion had been flooded by the Yellow River, but he had never seen it with his own eyes.

For the first time, he knew that water was more terrifying than wind, fire, thunder and lightning, and thousands of troops!

He was stunned, and Ye Rou shouted in a panic from under the tree: "Shizi, Shizi, the head of the courtyard, the head of the courtyard is flooded!" ”

Shao Qing came to his senses and quickly climbed down the ancient acacia.

As soon as he hit the ground, he was also shocked, but in a moment, the water had already soaked under his knees.

Shao Qing instructed Ye Rou: "Quick, take me to the house where they store the French diagram!" ”

Under the command of the calm male voice, Ye Rou felt a little more settled.

She handed the key she took from Yang Yu to Shao Qing, carried the lantern herself, and tried to resist the resistance of the water, leading Shao Qing to the depths of the courtyard.

However, it will pass through the outer courtyard, and the water will not reach the thighs.

Shao Qing stopped and asked, "Where is that Yang Yu's house?" ”

Ye Rou was stunned and pointed to the hut with the lights on behind the patio in her left hand.

Shao Qing stuffed the key back into Ye Rou's hand and said decisively: "You go to find the picture, I'll get him out first." ”

Ye Rou was puzzled and raised her voice: "Shizi, it's all this time, leave him alone!" ”

"I'll do whatever you want you to do!" Shao Qing's angry shout was stronger than Ye Rou's refusal, "He is unconscious, he will die in the water!" I said, I will come to Kaifeng and not kill innocent Song people! ”

Reflecting the faint light of the lantern, Ye Rou was so frightened by Shao Qing's suddenly hideous face that she almost cried, but the surviving consciousness told her that crying, disobeying or cowardly at this time would anger Brother Xiao even more.

She turned around and walked across the water without looking back.