Chapter XXVII
The torrential rain continued until the second half of the night, Qingyun did not let Ziling cook dinner, the master and servant ate a few pastries, fed Doubao and then lay down.
After sleeping too much during the day, Qingyun opened his eyes and watched the thunder and lightning that swept by from time to time outside, and suddenly heard a rapid knocking sound, and the sound was under the window.
"Madam, the river is rising, I think it will overflow in a short time, what is there in Madame's workshop outside that is afraid of wetness?"
The eager voice of the plain-clothed girl came from outside the window, and Qingyun sat up suddenly, and after being stunned, she hurriedly said, "Please come in and talk." ”
Ziling yawned and got up to open the door for Su Yi, and was really startled to see that she was soaking wet.
Qingyun hurriedly greeted him, "Plain girl, where do you see the river rising outside?"
"Less than three feet from the door, the workshop has been flooded."
Qingyun's face was pale, and it took a while to stabilize his mood, and he blessed Suyi, "Thank you Suyi girl, there is some firewood piled up in the workshop, just wait for the weather to dry, you and the girl in Caiyi still move to the main house, the terrain here is high, and you can't fill the water for a while." ”
When she built a house, she thought that the houses in the village were low, not only dug the foundation, but also raised the foundation by two feet, which was unique in the whole Liujia Village.
Soon the Suyi sisters moved to the main house, and Qingyun instructed Ziling to clean up one of the suites inside, and the two of them rested there temporarily.
There was no sleep, the master and servant sat worriedly until dawn, the sound of wind and rain gradually became quieter, and at two o'clock in the morning, finally the rain passed and the sky cleared.
There was some water in the yard, Ziling brought a ladder and wanted to climb the wall to look outside, but Su Yi stopped her, only to see her jumping up lightly, and stepping on a big tree outside the wall on her toes.
Qingyun secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the courtyard wall was made of mud, soaked in water for so long, the foundation has long been unstable, Ziling wants to rush up, maybe he will be hit by the wall and buried underneath.
After a while, Su Yi jumped down and ran over to Qingyun and said, "The village is completely flooded. ”
Yes? Qingyun was stunned.
The river that runs through the whole village is called Bishui, and she doesn't know where it flows, but most of the houses in the village live by the water, and it is easy for such a heavy rain to drain smoothly.
What can she do? To save the whole village, I am afraid that I will be powerless, so I can only wait for the river to recede before we make a discussion.
I didn't eat dinner yesterday, there was ready-made meat at home, Qingyun asked Ziling to make a fire, and simply made a pot of meat porridge.
After noon, the river gradually receded, and the alluvial sediment outside the iron gate was cleaned up by plain clothes.
Su Yi said with a smile, "Thanks to my wife, it seems that my two sisters will not be able to leave for a while, so don't be polite, madam, otherwise it will be uneasy for the two of us to stay here." ”
Qingyun was not hypocritical, he cleaned up the mud and sand at the door with the working house, and saw Liu Xigui coming over with muddy water from a distance.
"Who are these two......?" Seeing a stranger appear, Liu Xigui was startled and looked at the plain clothes with a cold face in surprise.
"The two girls are temporarily staying at my house, uncle, have you come to me for something?"
"Oh!" Liu Xigui retracted his eyes, sighed and said, "Qingyun, you also saw that our village was hit by a disaster, and the big guys got together to discuss, and wanted to borrow some food from you for relief, like Zhang Cripple's house, the flood washed away the house, and there was nothing at home, you can't just watch everyone not save it, right?"
Qingyun was stunned, Liu Xigui was forcing himself to open a warehouse and release grain, but isn't this what the government does? What does it have to do with her?
Besides, why do they sit together and discuss how to calculate themselves? She also relied on her own ability to achieve today's wealth, so why should she use food to help others?
"Uncle, you also saw it, my house is the closest to Bishui Bay, and my house was the first to be flooded, and all the grain was soaked in water, how can I borrow this kind of food to get out?"
At the beginning, Song Qingyun was in trouble and was driven out of the house by Liu Wang's family, and no one in Liujia Village came forward to help him say a fair word, but now he thinks of himself when he suffers a disaster, how can there be such a good thing in the world? .
Zhang Cripple's family was affected by the disaster, she could help, that year was besieged by wild wolves, Zhang Cripple took his eight-year-old son to give himself courage, this kindness she remembered in her heart.
Forget about others, Liu Xigui didn't take less bribes from himself, but he did things that were perfunctory, it was rare that his son and daughter-in-law were worthy of deep friendship, and if he wanted to help, he would help them, as for the others, she didn't have the leisure to care.
Liu Xigui heard the meaning of her words, and immediately elongated his face.
"Qingyun, last year, you brought over thirty stones of grain from your house, everyone saw it, and now I ask you to take out a little bit to benefit your neighbors, this is a good thing to accumulate virtue and do good, you can't refuse."
The words are really nice, there are a few big families in the village, why don't they "accumulate virtue and do good"? Let her fill the mouths of these white-eyed wolves with a woman's family?
Qingyun pointed to the west wing room that was still soaked in water and said, "If you don't believe it, go and see, those rice have to be taken out to dry, I think it will take three or five days in this weather, uncle, you go find some people to help me clear the open space in front of me, otherwise how can there be a place to dry the rice?"
What? Liu Xigui was dumbfounded, he was sent to ask Qingyun to hand over the grain, why did he have to find someone to help her family work in the end?
Liu Xigui blew his beard and stared back, Su Yi pursed his lips and smiled, and said to Qingyun approvingly, "I didn't expect you to be very witty." ”
What a wonderful person, it seems that he has been in the palace for too long, and he has forgotten that the master is in the people, this Song Qingyun is really clever, no wonder there is such a big deal in his hands.
"Let the plain girl smile." Qingyun had a faint smile on his face, but his eyes were full of gloomy clouds.
Su Yi looked at it in her eyes and was slightly surprised.
No one in the village came to help her dry the rice, so when Suyi saw this, she and Caiyi carried all the grain that had not had time to be put on the kang to dry.
When it got dark, Qingyun sent Ziling to send a bag of rice and some meat to Zhang's lame family, and when she came back, Ziling said proudly, Meng Shi couldn't say anything excited, and kowtowed to Qingyun to the south, saying that if you come to work again, you don't want Qingyun's salary.
Su Yi saw all this in her eyes, and wondered if what happened a year and a half ago was true, is this Song Qingyun the person King Jing is looking for?
After a busy day of back pain, fortunately, the sensible Doubao understood that it was not easy for her, and she didn't make trouble all day, after putting him to sleep, the big iron door was slapped with a bang, Doubao was scared "wow" and cried, and the angry Ziling pushed the door and scolded.
The person who came was Liu Changlin, followed by Liu Xiqing, who couldn't kick a fart.
"What are you going to do?" Zi Ling blocked the door angrily and asked with a cold face.