"What do you ask about?" Zhu Bajie looked at Mingyue Creek and didn't quite understand.

Could it be that this natural disaster can still be turned into a man-made frame-by-law?

Mingyuexi decided to go to the scene again to investigate the scene carefully.

Suddenly, there was a thunderstorm in the sky, and the downpour of rain swept into the dark clouds, and Mingyuexi sat under the promenade, watching the splash caused by the rain falling to the ground, and her heart was very anxious.

Coincidentally, she was about to go out and encountered a rainstorm that was rare in a century, and Mingyuexi felt that her luck was really not ordinary.

"Hey~" She held her face with her hands, braced her arms on her knees, and looked at the sky in distraction.

"Are you thinking too much?" Zhu Bajie gnawed on the duck's neck while cocking Erlang's legs, so comfortable.

Mingyuexi nodded, and shook her head again, making it a little confused.

After thinking for a while, she decided to go to Gu Yanbai and tell him about her confusion, maybe she could inspire a little.

Thinking like this, she held up her umbrella and went to Gu Yanbai.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor edict said, today there is a sudden flood in Ba County, and I heard that the people's hearts are not ancient, and my heart is cold, so I ordered Gu Qing to inspect the disaster on my behalf and clean up the filthy officials, and admire this."

"The minister will live up to the emperor's trust." Gu Yanbai held his hand in front of his chest, his eyes firm.

The eunuch of the Xuan paper decree walked to Gu Yanbai's side and attached it to his ear: "The earthquake disaster is not trivial, and I hope that the little marquis will do his best." ”

After saying that, the father-in-law left.

After receiving the holy decree, Gu Yanbai got up and saw Mingyuexi who came to look for him.

When Mingyuexi saw that he was holding the holy decree in his hand, she knew that he had something important to do, and planned to press the matter down and discuss it later.

"Looking for me?" Gu Yanbai put his hands behind his back and looked at Mingyuexi, whose shoes and socks were soaked, and was a little blamed.

"Huh? Oh, nothing, just come and see you. Mingyuexi prevaricated, her eyes glancing elsewhere from time to time.

"It's raining so heavily, why bother to make this trip."

Although he blamed her, Gu Yanbai patiently pulled her into the corridor, took off her coat, and covered her body.

"It's cold, don't freeze outside."

Mingyuexi nodded, then pointed to the holy decree in his hand, and before he could ask, Gu Yanbai said first: "Tomorrow I will go to Banba County to inspect the disaster, it may take a few days to go, and you will be at home these days." ”

Gu Yanbai explained word by word, Mingyuexi kept nodding, but her eyebrows were very entangled.

Gu Yanbai is leaving, the matter of the eldest princess may have to be shelved, and the most important thing is to deal with the disaster at the moment, so the matter of the eldest princess will be handed over to her and Lu Min'er first.

"That's right." Before Gu Yanbai turned around and left, he also asked Mingyuexi to take good care of Xiaoyaohou for himself, and Mingyuexi nodded and agreed without thinking about it in order not to worry him.

Before leaving, he went to visit Xiaoyaohou, and found that he sometimes had a high fever and fell asleep, sometimes sober and self-controlled, and finally understood, but most of the time he always fell sad because he remembered the matter of the eldest princess.

"Mr. Bian Que, I hope you must treat my father." Gu Yanbai looked at his father who was lying on the sickbed with a pale face, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Bian Que nodded, and secretly speculated in his heart that this Hou Ye's body is not weak, but he has suffered such misfortunes one after another, it seems that he is really unlucky.

At this time, Hou Ye opened his eyes and looked at Gu Yanbai, and said weakly: "Yanbai, you don't need to worry about me, just go and investigate the case, and your father will definitely get better." ”

After Mingyuexi heard this, she was very moved.

She is determined to find out the whereabouts of the eldest princess.

Everything was ready to go, and after Gu Yanbai once again told Mingyuexi to protect himself, he set off for Ba County.

Along the way, the rain continued to fall, but the speed of Gu Yanbai's march did not slow down, and everyone kept heading towards Ba County.

After a day's journey, the horse team finally stopped in Ba County.

Gu Yanbai looked at the scene in front of him, his brows furrowed.

The horses were starving everywhere they passed, and the fertile fields that had once been abundant were washed away by the floods.

"Send the order down, divide all the soldiers into three routes, one team to inspect the surrounding people, one team to settle down at the post station, and one team to follow me to the flood control levee."

"Yes!" After receiving the order of the little marquis, the whole army was automatically divided into three teams, and Gu Yanbai led the strongest team towards the embankment.

"Back to the little marquis, because of the topography of Ba County, the flood control embankment was built outside Tianshui Village." The entourage who followed behind Gu Yanbai explained to him the topography and style of Ba County, Gu Yanbai nodded from time to time, but his eyes narrowed into a dangerous arc.

The terrain of Ba County is quite high, and the flood control dam is built in the upper reaches of the river, and the flood will not break through easily, but the heavy rain for several days has flooded Tianshui Village, which is really strange.

He looked at the broken embankment and rubbed his chin: "Someone, send someone with good water to go down to the river to explore." Among the soldiers, a sturdy soldier raised his hand to check himself, Gu Yanbai glanced at him and nodded.

The soldier neatly stripped off his shirt, tightened the belt of his trousers, and jumped into the river.

After about half a pillar of incense, the soldier grabbed a handful of sand and stones and floated up.

After going ashore, he wiped his body with his clothes, and then held the handful of soil in front of Gu Yanbai.

"Sand?" Gu Yanbai twisted the tide sand with his hand, and the soldier nodded, panting and said, "My subordinates found that the bottom of this embankment is full of yellow sand, and only near the river surface is made of loess. ”

"Yellow sand." Gu Yanbai silently repeated, it seems that the construction of this embankment has some stories.

He patted the soldiers who were touching the water in the river, turned around and led the group back to the post station.

At that time, the officials of Ba County waited here for a long time.

Seeing Gu Yanbai's men, Liu Sheng, led by him, walked to the front and waited for the driver.

"Why don't you see the county order today, but you are waiting here?" Gu Yanbai looked at the crowd of sloppy, and his tone was not angry and arrogant.

"Back to the governor, the county commander is now in poor health, and the dam county was suddenly flooded, overworked, and now he has been sick and bedridden for a long time, thanks to the kindness of the governor, he specially sent a lowly post to wait."

Gu Yanbai sneered after hearing this, this county order is not leaky, it seems that it is indeed necessary to check it carefully.

"Go down first."

"Yes." Everyone was ordered to leave the post station one after another.

Gu Yanbai returned to the room and asked his subordinates to find the Ba County Zhiyi that the villagers wanted and take it out to look through.

He discovered that the levees had been in existence since the last dynasty, and that they had been flooded three times on the way.

Now, less than a year after the new county commander took office, the centennial embankment has been washed away.

It seems that there is something strange about this.

"How's it going, the new Governor is going to be able to handle it?" It is rumored that the county magistrate, who was sick in bed, hid at home and asked about what Liu Sheng saw in the afternoon.

"Lord Hui, Lord Governor seems to be very concerned about the disaster." Liu Sheng replied truthfully, but he despised this county order very much in his heart.

During his tenure, the common people were struggling to make a living, and finally a governor came and sent him to receive him in order to cover up the matter of the embankment.

"Keep an eye on the Governor." The county magistrate played with the peach beads in his hand, and his eyes were vague: "If something is leaked, you know what will happen." ”