Chapter 20: The Flood

This time, thanks to Xuanyuan Chen, he took precautions and saved Aunt Wanliang. Just when Wanliang and they moved to Liuyun Pavilion for a month in a row, not only did the sky not stop raining, but it became more and more intense. Finally, in early September 162, the most serious flood broke out in the area of Zhoushan in the more than 100 years since the founding of the Xuanyuan Dynasty. Ten of the fifteen villages under the jurisdiction of Lianggu Town alone were flooded, including Qingshui Village. There are more than 1,000 victims in Lianggu Town alone, as well as victims in other towns in Zhoushan, and even some areas of Yuanlu adjacent to Zhoushan have been flooded, and the flood has caused thousands of families to be displaced, tens of thousands of people have been left homeless, and the death toll has exceeded 10,000. How powerless people are in the face of natural disasters!

Because the flood was too serious, after the local officials reported the disaster to the imperial court, the ruthless Emperor Wu actually issued an "edict of guilt" on the second day, and actively allocated funds for disaster relief, and also appointed Du Heng, a scholar from Hanlin, to go to the disaster area to investigate the disaster situation and supervise the disaster relief. What Du Heng didn't know was that he had just led the order to the Zhoushan disaster area on the front foot, and his only daughter Du Lianyi secretly followed him to Zhoushan because he was worried that Xuanyuan Chen would follow him on the back foot. Lianyi thought about the last time she went to mourn her eldest cousin, on the grounds of accompanying her aunt who was too sad, and after separating from Brother Chen, she stayed in the Xinwang Mansion for more than half a month and couldn't wait for Brother Chen, who went out of the house that day to say that he was going to do something, to return to the house, so last time, she was full of expectations until the day she returned to Yandu, she couldn't see Brother Chen, who was missing her heart, this time there was a catastrophic flood in Zhoushan, she must go to see if Brother Chen is okay?

In the event of such a catastrophic disaster in Zhoushan, King Xin, as the king of Iban, had to work with the imperial court to provide disaster relief. This time, King Xin appointed Xuanyuan Chen to participate in disaster relief. A month later, Xuanyuanchen, with the assistance of Du Heng and local officials, arranged and organized a series of measures such as embankment repair and dredging. This has led to a sharp rise in the death toll of the victims, and the people are personally panicking. For this reason, Xuanyuan Chen is also anxious.

It was night, after dinner, Wanliang, who couldn't sleep, was picking shoes, and suddenly Xuanyuan Chen, who hadn't seen him for several days, walked in, looking a little tired. "Awan, I haven't seen you for many days, I miss you so much. Do you think I am? Xuanyuan Chen hugged Wan Liang from behind.

"Who has time to think of you." Ah Wan deliberately duplicity.

"Don't have time to think about me? So who do you have to think about? Say, who do you think? Xuanyuan Chen said deliberately, and went to scratch Wanliang's itch.

"Hehehe...... Don't scratch it...... Hehehe...... I miss you...... "Wanliang is most afraid of being tickled."

"That's pretty much it. Awan, tomorrow you and your aunt don't go to the porridge shed to give porridge in person, I will arrange someone else to go. Xuanyuan Chen said softly.

"Why? Now everyone is busy with disaster relief and is short of manpower, anyway, my aunt and I have nothing to do at home. Wan Liang disagreed.

"Awan, this time you just listen to me and stay at home for the time being, don't go out. Now many of the people outside are infected with the plague. This plague is ferocious, spreading extremely fast, and no doctor can prescribe an effective prescription to control the ......," Xuanyuan Chen patiently explained.

"There is no way to control the plague, and the victims are all crowded together, so wouldn't it be easy for those who are not infected with the plague to be infected?" Wan Liang said worriedly.

"There is no way, there are too many victims to be properly resettled for a while, and at present, the only way to isolate the victims infected with the plague is to isolate them." Xuanyuan Chen was also quite worried.

The two chatted for another quarter of an hour about the disaster victims, and Xuanyuan Chen rambled twice more and asked Ah Wan to try not to go out of the Cloud Pavilion from tomorrow, not to go to the soup kitchen in person, and not to contact the disaster victims. In the end, after a long kiss, the two parted and went to bed.

The next day, Xuanyuan Chen finished breakfast and asked Wanliang again not to go to the soup kitchen and not to contact the victims, so he went to continue to solve the problems of the victims.

However, Wanliang didn't listen to Xuanyuan Chen's words, and soon after he went out, he still went to the porridge shed he had built as usual to give porridge to the victims. Today, she did see that many of the victims had symptoms of high fever, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, dizziness, and stenchness. Wanliang was also helpless in this regard, so she could only ask the doctor to prescribe some Chinese medicine to prevent the plague and boil it and distribute it to everyone to drink. Just as Wanliang was busy after finishing the porridge and helping to boil the medicine, a sentence suddenly sounded in her ears: "You are the future princess?" Wan Liang looked back at the person who spoke, and saw a beautiful girl of about eighteen or nineteen years old in a gold and white striped epiphany rain silk brocade skirt staring at her with an unkind frontal attitude, her eyes seemed to be full of jealousy and hostility.

The person who came was Du Lianyi, she came to Zhoushan quietly this time, and lived in the Xinwang Mansion for a month, and she didn't even see Brother Chen, and she was most angry that she learned from her aunt a few days ago that Brother Chen was about to get married. This made her feel like a bolt from the blue, and after so many years of waiting, she saw that it was about to become a bamboo basket for nothing. She didn't believe it, and wanted to ask Brother Chen in person, but she couldn't see anyone; I ran to ask my uncle, and my uncle said it was true. She wanted to see what kind of woman seduced her brother Chen. finally sent someone to find out that the woman was giving porridge on the street of Lianggu Town, and at this time she finally saw the true face of the woman's Lushan, I have to say that the woman does have a face that makes the woman jealous, and her facial features are impeccable, no wonder she charmed Brother Chen, who is not close to women, Du Lianyi thought to herself.

"Girl, do you have something to do with me?" Wan Liang wondered, remembering that she had never seen her.

"I am Brother Chen's childhood sweetheart, and I am Brother Chen's future concubine. Brother Chen just saw that you were beautiful, so he was confused for a while. You are a country girl who is not worthy of Brother Chen at all! You'd better leave Brother Chen by yourself, and stop dreaming of being a princess! ......" Du Lianyi said unceremoniously.

"You are bold! Knowing that it was the future princess who still spoke like this! When did Shizi have a childhood sweetheart? Why didn't I hear from the son? Xiao Cui, who was standing on Wan Liang's side, couldn't listen to it anymore!

"Shut up! My young lady didn't talk to you! Lian Yi's maid beside her said fiercely.

"You ......" Xiao Cui was about to refute it, but Wan Liang restrained her, and then said without humility or arrogance: "I am a country girl!" Whether you are worthy of Chen or not, it's not up to you to decide! It's not up to you to decide whether you want to leave him or not! If the girl comes to me on a special trip, you have already said that there is nothing else, the girl can leave, we are busy, not as idle as your eldest lady. Wanliang has never been a soft persimmon, so after speaking, she ignored Du Lianyi and turned around to continue to help boil the medicine.

"You! ...... "I didn't expect her to be a well-spoken fox, Lianyi was so angry that she suddenly approached Wanliang two steps, and was raising her hand to slap Wanliang hard. Suddenly, Xiao Cui grabbed her raised arm and pushed hard, Lian Yi let out a scream of "ah" and fell into the mud.

"Miss, are you alright?" Zhu Tao hurriedly ran over and helped Lianyi up.

"You! ...... "Lianyi, who stood up again, felt that her arm hurt so much, how could that maid have more strength than a man." said that she didn't win Wanliang, she didn't fight, and she was still embarrassed in front of so many people, she was really angry with her! He stomped his foot and turned away. Zhu Tao naturally followed behind Lianyi.

came to Du Lianyi's episode, and it didn't affect everyone anything. Two hours later, after the busyness of the Wanliang maid's family, the boiled decoction was finally distributed to the victims. At this time, the doctor came up with a way to say that washing the street with lime water could slow down the spread of the plague, so Wanliang immediately did it with the maid. Looking for lime, mixing lime water, and then washing the streets with lime water, after such a busy turn, it was evening when Wanliang returned to Liuyun Pavilion. I was a little tired today, so I went to bed after dinner.

Xuanyuan Chen walked to Wanliang's room and saw her lying flat on the bed, already asleep, seeing that she was so beautiful even when she fell asleep made his heart move, and couldn't help but kiss her cherry lips.

What made her face itch, Wanliang closed her eyes and stretched out her hand to brush it, and continued to sleep, why is her face still itchy, and she brushed it with her eyes closed, and repeated it several times, and finally opened her eyes in a daze, it turned out that the culprit was Chen. Annoyed with him, dissatisfied, and vaguely shouted: "What are you doing? ”

"Awake?" Xuanyuan Chen said with a smile, and suddenly his face suddenly became serious again, and then said with a bit of reproach: "Didn't Awan tell you not to go to the soup kitchen in person?" Why did you go again today? Do you know how worried I am? In just a few days, thousands of victims have died from the plague, and the death toll is increasing dramatically every day, you will listen to me during this time, just stay in Liuyun Pavilion and don't go anywhere! "Now that the plague is spreading badly outside, he is always outside, and he doesn't plan to return to the Cloud Pavilion for a while, for fear of bringing the plague back. He was going to live in the mansion tonight, but the secret guard came to report that Wanliang had gone to contact the victims again today, and he was really worried about her.

"You're worried that I'm going out to meet your childhood sweetheart, right?" Wanliang Sleepy Worm was run away by Xuanyuan Chen, and suddenly remembered the episode during today's soup kitchen, and sat up and said sourly.

"What childhood sweetheart? Awan, what are you talking about? Awan, I'm really worried about you! What should I do if I come into contact with a victim and are infected with the plague? Xuanyuan Chen was a little confused.

"People say it's your childhood sweetheart! said that my country girl was not worthy of you, and told me not to dream of being a princess. Wan Liang felt uncomfortable thinking of those words.

"Who said that! Awan, no matter who says anything, don't listen to it! Just listen to me. Ah Wan, you listen to my Xuanyuan Chen swear: 'I only love Ah Wan in this life and this life, and I only marry Ah Wan alone, if I Xuanyuan Chen can't do it, I will be ...... by heaven'" Xuanyuan Chen said and raised a hand to make an oath.

Without waiting for Xuanyuan Chen to finish speaking, Wanliang quickly stopped his mouth from letting him say the words that cursed him, and said angrily: "Who wants you to swear!" I wouldn't listen to her. ”