Twelve years of Yongchang.

The scorching sun is scorching, flowing gold and stones, and under the high heat, the earth cracks inch by inch.

In Daning, millions of miles of mountains and rivers have fallen into a long-term drought. Among them, the two prefectures of Jibei and Jizhong, which are also known as the "granaries of the world", are particularly drought.

Shen Yanfeng, the assassin of Jibei, strengthened the city defense, expressed his feelings, and begged the court to relieve the disaster and comfort the people, so as to live the people of a state. However, months passed, and not a single grain of rice, not even a single word of news, returned.

Natural disasters have not been done, and for a time the people have been displaced, and countless people have been violently corpsed in the wilderness, and even worse, they have been revealed.

The season has changed from spring to summer to autumn, and the drought has not eased.

In previous years, the grass was exhausted, and the leaves fell to know autumn, and they were completely gone. The edible roots and bark, and even the Guanyin soil have been dug up cleanly, and the inland rivers and lakes in Jibei Prefecture are dried up, and seeing that winter is coming, everyone knows that the following days will be more and more difficult.

Jibei Prefecture in the disaster is like a lonely boat on the sea, helpless and crumbling in all directions.

On the twenty-fifth day of September, the air was clear and frosty, and the cold wind was howling.

That night, Yuan Ben, the former soldier Cao joined the army and is now the leader of the rebel army, led a righteous army composed of more than 10,000 refugees. The materials, weapons, and even the army that he was responsible for managing in the past have all become the support of the rebellion today.

Shen Yanfeng held on to the city and refused to surrender.

The two sides were at a stalemate, and after all, they met each other.

The roaring wind broke through the shouts of killing on both sides, and there was a "click" in the sky, and suddenly there was a thunderstorm.

Both the offensive and defensive sides were stunned for a moment.

After waiting for half a year for the rain, it just came? If there is rain and water, there will be life, so there is no need to fight?

It is better to be a peaceful dog, not to be a troubled world, the most of the rebels are the wandering refugees, and a very small number are the soldiers who originally followed Yuan Ben. For most rebels, who would want to participate in the rebellion even if there was even a slight chance of survival? Before fighting, I just heard that there was food and water in the Assassin's Mansion, and only when I fought could I live.

Yuan Ben snorted coldly, urging the servants to attack the city quickly, he was different from others. There was no turning back from the bow, and from the moment he stood on his own, he had no way out. The world is in chaos, and no one can count on it except himself. If you can occupy Jibei Prefecture in one fell swoop now, you can use it as a stronghold and then take Jizhong.

Only then can you have a bargaining chip and continue to deal with that person.

If he can't take it, then his family doesn't have to live.

There was another thunderclap, heavy and dull, and it brought out a lot of rain.

It's really raining.

The city was cheering, but the battle continued.

The rain became heavier and heavier, dense as a broken thread jade bead, but in a moment, it turned into a torrential rain.

It seems to make up for the rain of the past half a year, as if someone is holding a water scoop and splashing water on the top of everyone's heads, under the rapid wind and rain, the water flow quickly gathers, and in the middle of the night, Xiaoyue Lake, which has been dry for a long time in the northern suburbs of the city, has been half filled.

The people in the city who still had a breath were all rejoicing, hugging their heads and crying, but at this moment, a loud noise came from the city gate, accompanied by panicked shouts, they knew that Jiyang City had been breached.

The people began to scatter and flee.

A thin woman, with dripping sideburns and soaked sackcloth, did not look abrupt among the skinny people.

But she was still holding a girl in her hands, and she was holding a toddler in her arms.

The baby's swaddling clothes show a corner, and you can see at a glance that it is the softest plain yarn, produced in Songjiang County, Yunzhou, and can afford to use such fabrics to make swaddling clothes for a child, how many people can there be in this Jibei Prefecture? What's more, although the girl she was holding in her hand couldn't see her face clearly and was dressed in tatters, she didn't look half thin.

After more than half a year of drought, how many people can be so glamorous and have flesh on their bodies?

The woman seemed to sense that something was wrong, and gradually distanced herself from the crowd, so that everyone else was exhausted, and even if anyone noticed their differences, they did not bother to delve into them.

Using the plain yarn that the rich businessmen and giants can't use to make baby swaddling, the identity of the three people in that line, everyone on the road has guessed that they are not far from ten.

But more is better than less, and escape is the most important thing at this time.

Behind him was filled with the sound of the righteous army rushing and plundering, occasionally mixed with a few mournful screams, which made people even more panicked......

"The city is broken!"

"The city is broken! Shen Tingshi and his wife died in the city! ”

The woman stumbled in fright, slipped under her feet, and almost fell to the ground. The newborn baby seemed to feel something, and let out a slight cry, but the girl was ignorant and did not know whether to be happy or sad, and let the woman pull her forward.

The rain became heavier and heavier, and the sky was cloudy and white, but there was no light.

The woman ran away with her two children, and hurried through the secret passage out of the city, until she saw a pool of water in front of her, and then she reacted, and she ran to Xiaoyue Lake in a panic.

The rain poured into the lake, slamming into the lake, forming a blister bigger than a baby's fist.

The woman wailed, she hadn't seen Xiaoyue Lake for more than half a year, and the rain was so strong that it wouldn't be long before the whole lake would be filled.

God really doesn't want to give people a way to live!

After a long drought, when the frost fell, there was a sudden torrential rain. The drought has been alleviated, but it seems that there is another flood.

The wailing, the crying, the fleeing, faded away; The water level at Xiaoyue Lake is still rising.

The woman licked her lips and sucked the rain from her face, but she never dared to stop, she still had some strength compared to the other people. Because of the birth of this baby in infancy, the Thorn Mansion left her with the only half of the Thai grain. But these strengths were not enough to last long, the cold rain hit her body, and a cold wind blew like a piercing knife, and she immediately shivered.

"Whoa......" The woman heard her panting getting thicker and thicker, and the shouting behind her was gone, but it seemed that something was approaching, and if it weren't for her excellent ears, she wouldn't have heard it, but through the heavy rain, even if she heard it, she couldn't hear it clearly.

The child in her arms chirped like a cat's meow, and the woman shuddered, and her pale face turned blue. She knew what it was — it was the sound of horses' hooves!

Someone must have gone to the rebels and denounced themselves! Kill a thousand knives!

But she couldn't run, not to mention that she still had two burdens.

What to do?

She stopped, and the girl stopped, and the woman looked down at the girl she was leading: a face was wet with rain, wet hair pressed against the scalp, a pair of eyes bright and large, and the eyes were even darker and fuller, but such eyes were not half bright, like a shell without a soul.

There is beauty in the emptiness, but there is no soul.

She's ten years old, and she's not short.

Before, she had been tightly protected by that assassin Shi Daddy, and it was difficult for her to see each other, but now, her hands and her life were tightly held in her hands. This feeling......

The woman remained motionless, trying to find a reason, in ordinary years, she must have offered her well, but now...... What else can this fool do but drag down himself and his brother's life?

The sound of the swaddling clothes became quieter and quieter, and the woman's feet seemed to be filled with lead.

A bolt of lightning snapped down, illuminating the struggle and hesitation on the woman's face.

She hugged the child in her arms tightly, as if holding the last of her conscience, but, gradually, the sound of her heartbeat overshadowed the panting, and finally calmed down.

The woman heard her voice, as soft as usual: "Girl, I'm sorry, for your brother's life, Gui Niang can only do this...... If you want to blame, blame this world! ”

The world has always been inferior to men to women.

Otherwise, a month ago, she would not have drowned her own daughter with her own hands. If you haven't experienced life and death, you haven't experienced a catastrophe, anyone can be a good person with a smile, but once a disaster comes, a good person will not live long. There are no good people in the world.

The rain continued unabated, and Xiaoyue Lake was about to overflow, and the woman who called herself Gui Niang stretched out her five fingers and compared them in front of the girl's eyes, and the girl didn't blink her eyes.

Seeing this, Gui Niang turned her heart sideways, used her strength, and pushed the girl into the lake.

If you stay and be caught by the rebels behind, I'm afraid that life is worse than death, but it's better to be like this.

The world attaches the most importance to male heirs, I heard that Lord Shen is a person from the Marquis Mansion in Beijing, as long as he escapes the pursuit of this group of rebels, with the seal and reward from his wife, he will definitely be able to find a good place to live and live, and he will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.

No more hesitation.

With a "poof", the girl's small body fell into the lake, leaving only a circle of rippling water, and the little sound was soon drowned in the rain.

Gui Niang tightened her swaddling clothes, turned around and rushed into the rain, leaving the entire Xiaoyue Lake behind.