Everyone knows that the eldest son of Zeng Bu, the envoy of the Privy Council, Zeng Ti, stood on the bamboo row with a blue face.

This bamboo row is my father's right-hand man in front of the palace, the big official pressed the middle official, the middle official pressed the small pawn, and it was dragged to the gate of his mansion in just half an hour.

At that time, the sky was only bright, and Zeng Bu, who had not slept all night, was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Wei, sat in the hall and said to Zeng Ti: "Go and find your brother." ”

My father's words were not urgent, but they were cold.

When people speak, they are cold, more urgent than urgent, and have a strong sense of oppression.

Zeng Ti dared to delay, wrapped himself in a thick robe, took the two strongest family members in the house, and followed the two forbidden soldiers who rowed bamboo rows to go to Guozixue.

Zeng's mansion is in the residence area of the dignitaries on the edge of the palace, and the water around it is not deep, but when it only crosses Liangmen West Street, the carriage can no longer move.

The two soldiers unloaded the bamboo raft from the frame, threw it into the water, and went up to try it. The commander went directly to get the military supplies, what is there to say, the big raft is on the water, more stable than a carriage.

The housekeeper stepped forward with the big man in his arms, while wrapping a fox fur collar around his shoulders.

The Double Ninth Festival has entered the late autumn, the frost has fallen on the solar terms, and it has rained for the past few days.

Zeng Ti was wrapped in fur at this time, although he was not so cold that his teeth were fighting, but he was really anxious in his heart.

In his own generation, speaking of four brothers and three sisters, his father and mother can also be regarded as children under their knees, but most of them are released as officials, or follow the husbands who are released as officials, and there are very few people in Beijing. The eldest grandson of Zengfu, that is, his eldest son Zeng Ke, was originally with his fourth uncle Zeng Wei as the young strength of Zengfu, and he was useful, and he didn't want to be involved in male fetish.

Now, in his twenties, the future is promising, but only the younger brother Zeng Wei is left.

No wonder last night, when he heard that there was a flood in the Bianhe River and the Cai River, my father immediately got up and planned for a while, so he sent his relatives out of the rain to knock on the door of the house of the deputy marshal of the palace.

Zeng Ti rode on a bamboo raft, and the farther south he went, the more frightened he became. He, the second generation of Tokyo officials who have lived a peaceful life for decades under the shadow of his father, has never seen Kaifeng City show such a miserable appearance.

The streets are like a river, more than half of the houses are destroyed, and the forbidden army who is holding up the fence is about to make an "oops" sound, and it turns out that they have stabbed the soft corpse lying under the water.

Zeng Ti's mood became more and more restless.

Along the way, whenever he saw the officials of the military patrol shop, Zeng Ti ordered the forbidden army to ask about the situation of Guozixue in the south, as if he was afraid that when he arrived in person, the scene would be too much beyond his expectations.

It took an hour to walk so hard to the bank of the Bianhe River, and the family saw that the middle-aged man looked exhausted, and did not dare to take risks, so he found a restaurant with a large appearance, which was still standing safely in the water, and showed Zeng Ti's identity, first by the shopkeeper to place Zeng Ti and a family Ding waiting upstairs in the restaurant, and the other tried to cross the river with the forbidden army, and went to the south of the city to inquire about Zeng Wei's safety.

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In the crossbow courtyard, when Shao Qing set up the second bamboo raft in the dark night, Ye Rou lowered his voice from the side: "Shizi, such a toss, the water is cold, he seems to be drinking and medicinal power has subsided, and he is about to wake up." ”

Shao Qing wiped a handful of rain from his face and said, "The key has been tied back to him?" ”

"It's back."

Shao Qingdao said: "The rain has stopped, and the water outside is heavy, but it is not as safe as the bow and crossbow courtyard." When you were still here with him, you said that you could not pull him up to the roof, so you set up a raft to save yourself, and there should be no flaws. Lu Gang, you and I rowed this new raft and went out to save people, so that he would not wake up and see us. ”

Lu Gang responded, but Ye Rou's heart was gloomy.

At this time, she didn't dare to say things like "the daughter of the world, why bother to save the southerners", let alone ask where he actually wanted.

Out of the bow and crossbow courtyard, Lu Gang understood in his heart and said: "Sir, let's go to Qingjiangfang?" ”

Lu Gang is also the nephew of the Han official of the Liao State, and he has been with Shao Qing in Kaifeng for five or six years, and he is also the only subordinate who knows that Shao Qing has the Song woman in his heart.

Shao Qing nodded, his face sinking like water: "Paddle faster." ”

The bow and crossbow courtyard came out to make two bends, and it was a north-south horse street, which looked like a wide river at this time.

But Shao Qing and the others couldn't get up quickly.

On the top of the ruins on the right side of the street, people called for help one after another, begging Shao Qing and them to cross themselves and their families to the high-rise building on the left side of the street.

It is indeed concentrated here that Fan Lou, Zhuang Lou, Guanyin Temple, etc., shopkeepers and monks and nuns also brave the autumn cold in the morning light, back and forth to save people.

How could Shao Qing bear to refuse, and rescued Lu Gang all the way, and finally drove across Mahang Street and came to Qingjiangfang, it was already past the beginning of the morning, although the sky was full of gloom, the sky was bright.

Shao Qing looked at the water surface that had overflowed the wood-carved lotus flower on the pillar, and his heart was cold.

He said to Lu Gang: "Row in." ”

Lu Gang didn't dare to say much, so he just did it. I poked around with bamboo all the way, but I didn't poke anyone underwater.

The alley was quiet, and when he arrived at the small red door that had already been opened by the Shen family, Shao Qing shouted loudly: "Second sister-in-law, Yao Niangzi, Meituan, Ruzhou......"

He called several times, but no one answered.

Before Lu Gang could react, Shao Qing jumped into the water with a puff.

Lu Gang exclaimed: "Sir, you don't know water." ”

Shao Qing grabbed the edge of the bamboo raft, a little embarrassed, and shouted angrily: "Won't you and won't?" There's a raft here, what's the panic! ”

He tried, and it was okay, the water was up to his neck.

But at this moment, Shao Qing was even more nervous.

If the water was so deep at the beginning of the flood peak, then when the Bianhe River burst its banks last night......

Thinking of this, Shao Qing pulled the muddy water in a hurry, carried a heart, groped, explored the three rooms carefully, and folded them to the stove to see.

Nothing was found.

They must have been alert and had escaped from the alley to find another place to take refuge on higher ground.

But will it be that there will be more agitated currents in the streets outside?

Shao Qing had just returned to the patio and climbed onto the bamboo raft, and when the two were about to row out of the hospital, Shao Qing suddenly shouted "stop".

He saw that among the stone cracks in the courtyard wall and the thatched grass covered by the top of the wall, there was a black beetle lying on its stomach.

Take a closer look, it's not the shrimp that Yao Huan raised.

There were baskets and wooden basins floating on the water, Shao Qing asked Lu Gang to hook them, caught the crayfish into the wooden basin one by one, covered them with the basket, and put them on the raft.

Out of the alley, Shao Qing asked Lu Gang: "If it were you, how would you escape?" ”

Lu Gang pondered for a moment and said, "The south is the Bianhe River, and it will definitely not go south." If you go north, you won't go northwest, there is the imperial city, how can people go up. Sir, I didn't see them all the way to Mahang Street. There are Shangqing Palace and Lijing Gate in the east, and I just heard a few people in the restaurant say that many people ran over there at night and rowed over to see? ”

Shao Qing felt that this idea was very reasonable, so the two of them went to the recording street again.