Chapter 528: The landslide has fallen
At the same time, another place was suffering from disaster.
The world is impermanent. One second heaven on earth, the next second may become devastated.
"Mother! Wake up, mother! A little girl's milky voice resounded throughout the world, but Rao's heart-rending cry could not wake up her mother, who was lying on the ground and closed her eyes forever.
Although the girl's cry was distressing, everyone had no time to take care of her. Those who had escaped stared blankly at the razed ground in front of them, who had slept peacefully in their homes for the first two hours, and had become homeless refugees two hours later.
No one can withstand such a blow, the dearest loved ones pass away, and some people even become crazy because they have no way to recover from this blow.
A landslide occurred in Taoyuan last night, turning a small town that was once a paradise into a barren mountain range almost full of loess.
"Mother, it's raining heavily." The little girl lay on the bed, listening to the sound of the rain outside, and holding her mother's hand with some anxiety.
Her mother was sitting on the bed and was sewing a piece of clothing that had been damaged by her daughter's playfulness and mischief, and when she heard her daughter say this, she put down her needlework and reached out to pat her daughter's head.
"No matter how heavy the rain outside, it won't scare you into the house, don't worry, go to bed quickly, it's not early, Ming'er, my mother and your father are going to the market to buy something, what do you want to buy?"
Listening to her mother's soft voice, the little girl's brows furrowed, and she bit her fingers and began to think about what she would bring back tomorrow.
"A-Niang is eccentric, she only brings things to her sister, not me." The youngest son woke up passively, muttering to their mother.
Their mother smiled and looked at the two children with satisfaction, she began to sing and coax the two to sleep, and saw the children's sleeping faces slowly falling asleep, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
However, not long after she lowered her head, she heard a sound like thunder.
She frowned slightly, stood up and opened the window, but she didn't expect to see an apocalyptic scene.
The torrent of mountains like a flood beast swept towards them overwhelmingly, and the screams were instantly drowned out everywhere they went, and many people were still there
In his sleep, he didn't have time to escape, and he was buried under the dirt forever.
Her lips trembled, and she hurriedly woke up the two children, and hurried out with them.
"Quick! You two hurry up and run to the highest place, and don't stop! Mother is going to call you Daddy! She was full of panic, but she had to force herself to calm down at this time, and when she had finished speaking, she immediately grabbed them and ran to the highest room in her own pavilion.
The two children woke up from their dreams, still unaware of what had happened, and the world seemed to have changed dramatically.
When the sky was bright and the first rays of dawn shone on the child's face, the girl hugged her brother in horror as if she had just woken up from a big dream, looked at the mess under the balcony, and cried out.
The reason why they survived was probably because their family was rich enough, the study was built with three floors, and the building was solid, and they ran to the top, so they barely survived.
The girl was horrified to find that she and her brother seemed to be the only ones left in their family.
"Brother, where is my mother? Where's Daddy? Where did they go? The girl asked anxiously, clutching his brother's sleeve tightly.
The boy's lips trembled, he clenched his fists tightly, his eyes red: "Brother will take you to them." ”
Heavy rains overnight eroded the mountain, and the townspeople of Taoyuan Town had cut down trees uncontrollably, resulting in loose soil in the mountain, which eventually erupted under the erosion of flowing water.
Presumably this is nature's revenge.
The building of the study was already crumbling, and the two of them rushed down in a hurry, but they didn't expect that when they were about to reach the first floor, the stairs in front of them had been washed away by the past torrent, leaving behind the floor as if it were flat ground.
The two of them ran out of the house, and the previously clean and tidy streets were covered with dirt and dirt, and the piercing cries pierced people's minds.
"Mother!" The girl's shrill voice broke through the air, and she saw a hand, as if it had broken through the ground, standing on the ground, with the jade bracelet she was most familiar with.
After the well-wishers next to him helped him dig out their mother-in-law, he sighed helplessly until he said, "The festival mourns and changes." ”
The brother behind her stood in place, looking at all this in disbelief, and for a moment his heart was sad, but it was only ten
The back of a child of a few years old looks like a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties at this time.
Since then, the landslide has killed thousands of people in Taoyuan Town, and the whole country mourns.
However, only three days have passed since this incident, and another magistrate reported that there was a big flood in the place, and the reservoir mouth burst the embankment, and hundreds of people had been washed away in just a few days.
Gu Ziyuan sat on the dragon chair with a gloomy face, looking at the Manchu Dynasty civil and military who were kneeling on the ground, and his heart was tired for a while.
"Prime Minister, what do you think?" Gu Ziyuan pinched his eyebrows, and there was a trace of fatigue between his eyebrows.
When the prime minister heard the emperor call his name, he hurriedly took two steps forward and lowered his body, and replied respectfully: "According to what the minister has seen, these two natural disasters are really strange, it is better for Your Majesty to send someone to relieve the disaster first, and then we will consider the matter in the long run." ”
"However, it was the heavy rain in Taoyuan Town that affected Ling'an, coupled with the negligence of local officials in the management of household registration, that led to this flooding. There is a saying that the embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the anthill. The prime minister had only said a few words, and immediately someone heard that something was not quite right, and immediately stood up and confronted him.
The prime minister raised his head and looked at the person who refuted him, and saw that the person was Song Yuyu's Shang Shuling who was following Gu Ziyuan's side, so he lowered his eyes slightly: "The minister is just talking about his own opinions, it seems that Lord Shang Shuling also has something to say." ”
"Minister." As soon as Shang Shu Ling Fang spoke, he heard Gu Ziyuan say: "It's quiet, I will arrange someone to go to Ling'an tomorrow for disaster relief, and now I will retreat from the dynasty first, and the prime minister, the servant of the ministry will retreat from the dynasty and then I will study." ”
As soon as the words fell, the eunuch pulled his throat and asked the ministers to retreat.
The prime minister took leave first, and rushed to the prime minister's mansion one step in advance.
In the carriage, his smile widened in circles like ripples.
God is helping him this time. First there was a landslide in Taoyuan Town, and now it is a flood in Ling'an County, and natural disasters are one after another, as if someone in the dark wants to help him.
"Arrange someone at once, and I will take him to His Majesty's imperial study tonight. Let him read through the Yin and Yang Mind Method, so that he will not be able to say something when he gets it. The prime minister did not go to the imperial study immediately, on the contrary, he went back to the mansion first, and after explaining some things, he entered the palace slowly.