Mrs. Xie has someone to accompany her, and she also has a new pastime, and the people in the third room of the Xie family can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, Mrs. Xie is an elder, and it is a proper rule for the juniors to go to her every day to settle down in the morning and dusk. But if she has nothing to do and is interested, she has to pull you to talk non-stop, and you can't bite the bullet and say that she wants to leave. But if you really stay with us, how much will it be delayed? Even if you are a junior and make amends again and again, so that you can leave to do business, she will say that you are not filial. How many honest people in this room can withstand this kind of accusation? Except for Xie Mulin, who really didn't care and dared to go back, everyone else couldn't stand it. Even if he is as cheeky as Xie Huizhi, he is actually a good child in his bones.

It's okay now, Mrs. Xie can pass the day just by chatting with her nephew and daughter-in-law Liu about the gossip rumors of the major households in Huyin County every day, and she is still unsatisfied, and she always says that she wants to stay with the Liu family for dinner. And what about the Liu family? also took advantage of Mrs. Xie to kill time and divert attention, so that she always thought about her son who had just gone to school, and didn't know what to do at home all day. At noon, the lunch of the elementary school students is used in the clan study, and there is a long attendant waiting for her, so she doesn't have to worry about it. When she went home in the evening, she could still get two dishes from Mrs. Xie from time to time to take home to add food.

Mrs. Xie is still very generous to the people she likes. Although now it is not as generous as before, she rarely appreciates valuable things such as gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin, but now she looks at Liu's eyes, and it is common to appreciate two dishes, a bag of tea, two catties of candy and pastries, etc., anyway, they are all from Wen's filial piety, and she doesn't need to pay out of her own pocket. One day, the Liu family coaxed her to be happy, and she would give the Liu family two pieces of old clothes and shoes that she didn't like.

Those clothes and shoes are all good materials, good workmanship, but the color and pattern are old-fashioned, Liu Shi does not dislike it at all, take it home, do not wear it yourself, change it slightly, and honor your mother-in-law or mother-in-law is also good. With the real benefits, the son also adapted well in the family studies, and the husband was happy in foreign affairs, the Liu family liked to come to Mrs. Xie more and more.

Xie Mulin looked at it coldly and found that the Liu family acted very measuredly, even if he wanted to make the old lady happy, he would not say anything that should not be said. Out of the door of the third room, she will not spread any of Mrs. Xie's remarks to the outside world. That's pretty good. Xie Mulin even felt that it was beneficial for the Wen family to associate more with such people with outstanding emotional intelligence, so he persuaded the Wen family to be closer to the Liu family.

Wen originally liked Liu's family, and when she saw that her daughter also recognized this sister-in-law, she was even happier in her heart, not only did she thank the old lady for sending anything, she didn't stop it, and even paid out of her own pocket and gave Liu a lot of gifts, including Liu's mother-in-law and sister-in-law Yingying. Liu understood this and controlled his mouth more strictly. Sometimes Mrs. Xie said smoothly and made some unfavorable remarks that were unfavorable to the Zongfang, the Song family, and her daughter-in-law and grandchildren, and she would also persuade her tactfully to make Mrs. Xie calm.

In fact, Mrs. Xie did not dislike Liu's point, she always felt that she was not as good as the friends she knew before, but thinking that those friends had already changed their faces now, in a rural place like Huyin, there was no one else who could chat with her, and Liu's also knew many gossip and anecdotes in the rich families of Huyin, which was even more rare, so some small problems were not unbearable. She continued to talk and laugh with Liu, and when she was happy, she also rewarded as usual.

Mrs. Xie's life is becoming more and more relaxed and happy, but God's temper is becoming more and more strange and unpredictable.

The time is about to enter October, the weather is getting colder and colder, and it seems that winter is about to begin, but the rain in the Huyin area seems to be falling non-stop, and it has formed a freezing rain, which is cold and wet, making it more and more unbearable.

The water level in the river is also gradually rising, and it is close to the danger line. Bad news came from Huzhou City upstream, saying that several river embankments had burst in the Dongtiaoxi basin, and although the situation was not too serious, it only flooded some farmland and houses, and killed three or five people, but many of the affected people fell ill from freezing and cold. Immediately afterwards, the situation in the area around Taihu Lake was also urgent, saying that the lake was overflowing, flooding the tidal flats near the lake, and the government quickly organized the people living on the shore to evacuate, and also used tributaries and canals to discharge floodwater to relieve the pressure of the flood. When the news reached Huyin County, everyone became nervous.

It has been raining for days, the water level in the river is already high, and the upstream is flooding, can the embankment in this area resist it? Everyone was affected by the disaster eight years ago, and they are especially afraid that the disaster of that year will come again. At this time, not only did the county officials and officials in the county government move, and they went to the countryside to inspect the situation of the embankments along the river and urge the local officials and people to strengthen the embankments, but the large households in the county also strengthened flood prevention measures on their own sites as a precaution.

The Xie clan is naturally no exception.

The embankment at Xie Jiajiao has already been reinforced, the drainage ditch has also been paved with cement, and it has been properly dredged and cleaned, plus the clansmen patrol and clean back and forth every day, and there are also people on duty at night, so there is no danger for the time being.

It's just that on the side of Zhushan Academy, the situation is a little bad. Seeing that the floods have become a disaster this autumn and winter, most of the students in the college are from the surrounding areas, and their families have recruited people back one after another, whether it is to help the family resist the disaster, or the family is worried about the safety of their children, they are destined not to participate in the flood prevention work of the college.

The academy is not in the county seat, it cannot be protected by the city walls, it is next to the river bank, and there is a part of the area that is not high, and it was flooded eight years ago. For the safety of the teachers and students, the Song family in the second room had already informed the Confucian scholars in charge of the academy and asked everyone to withdraw from the dangerous area and no longer use the school building for the time being. However, the academy itself occupies a large area, and is next to mountains and bamboo forests, so if the rain is too heavy, there is also a risk of mudslides, and there must be patrols day and night. Now that more than half of the students have left, most of the teachers are weak and weak readers, and a considerable number of elderly and hired local hired workers have gone back to their own homes to work.

Niu Daru and Yang Yiquan had to take a boat through the increasingly turbulent river and go to Xie Jiajiao to express their feelings to the Song family and explain the current predicament of the academy. At this time, they could only ask the Xie clan for help.

Xie Xianzhi and Xie Jinzhi were both students of Zhushan Academy, and the latter was also the heir of the Song family.

Wen had just received a message from a tenant farmer and lamented that the weather was bad this year and he could not replant a new crop of vegetables after the autumn harvest. And Xie Mulin heard a not very good news from his third brother Xie Huizhi.

On the other side of the Xie family's old house, there seems to be an outbreak of the epidemic. More than fifteen of the wounded soldiers of the Jinshan Guard who were recuperating in the old mansion had fallen ill, and they all had symptoms similar to wind cold, and they looked a little more powerful than the ordinary wind cold, which was particularly easy to pass.

Xie Mulin immediately became vigilant: "Do you know what symptoms the patients have?" ”

If it's the flu, it's troublesome!