Chapter 18 The Beginning of the Shower
At the beginning of the shower, outside the long pavilion and by the ancient road, there was no one in the grass.
Although the rain has gradually stopped, the sea surface of the East China Sea is still choppy. The seabirds, who didn't know where to hide under the sea cliffs just now, came out again and flew in the wind.
More than a dozen human corpses were rising and falling in the rolling waves of the offshore sea, and occasionally seabirds stopped on them, grooming their feathers with their sharp beaks, and occasionally pecking at their claws. It may have been that they tasted it gradually, and they chirped as they pecked, as if they were proudly calling for friends, and more seabirds fluttered their wings and flew in.
The sea had already submerged the beach and surged under the seawall, and the back waves pushed the front waves and beat the front waves against the seawall in front of them, which was made of a mixture of stones and sand, and rolled up thousands of piles of snow.
There was no trace of any land creatures on the seawall, only some small and small fish and crustaceans in the sea were caught in the irresistible monstrous waves and washed up on the seawall, and some of the fish were still trying to jump, as if they wanted to return to the sea; And more of the fish have long been motionless, dead hard, their bodies are full of falling scales, and the gray pale of the dead fish's eyes is a trace of blood red, and it is a painful struggle before death. But the tiny shellfish and some of the mollusks survived, moving little by little on the seawall, and some of them had crossed the long distance of the embankment and reached the edge of the seawall, and fell like dumplings into the turbulent water, and disappeared in an instant.
The water was still slowly rising, and the water surface was getting closer and closer to the platform at the top of the seawall, and there was only about two feet left to pass by.
"This, this is the wine in my house, Wei Cheng has been to this pavilion." In the pavilion on Huaguo Mountain, He Zhizhou, who had just sat down on a stone bench, picked up a wine jug on the stone table in front of him that others had forgotten, took the lid of the pot, and saw that the wine inside was full of wine without moving, and it was exuding a mellow aroma of wine, and suddenly stood up again.
"It's really good wine, but I can't say what it tastes like." Master Li, who was sitting on the side, took a deep breath, and without looking back, he waved his hand and greeted Li Yunsheng, who was standing by the pavilion behind him: "Yunsheng, come here, pour wine for Lord He." Lord He, don't be impatient, maybe Gongzi He was originally gathering here with his friends, and he happened to smell the movement in the water curtain hole below, and this group of people had already gone down the mountain. ”
"But, but my groom clearly reported that he saw with his own eyes that my son was in the hole when the water curtain cave collapsed."
"Maybe he's old and dizzy, and maybe he's wrong. Lord He still relaxed. Come, come, since it's the wine in the adult's house, then I can drink it with confidence, hahahaha, Lord Zhizhou, I respect you, please. Master Li raised his head and said that he would do it first as a respect.
Master He had a somewhat depressed face, picked up the wine glass in front of him, and looked at Li Yunsheng, who was standing aside after pouring the wine: "Come on, come on, Yunsheng, you also sit down and drink two glasses together."
"This ......" Li Yunsheng looked at his uncle general with some hesitation.
"Yun Shengna, Lord Zhizhou will let you sit down. Don't look at me, sit down, Lord He praised you in front of me just now. ”
"Thank you Lord Zhizhou for your love." When Li Yunsheng heard this, he bowed to He Zhizhou with his fists, walked to the stone table in two steps, and sat down on a stone bench.
At this moment, there was a sudden shout with a crying voice at the bottom of the mountain: "My lord, my lord, my lord, my lord, I'm late."
I saw a person stumbling on the ground and coming to the outside of this pavilion, "poof", kneeling on the ground, leaning over and crying: "Master, young master, young master, he, he, he's okay?"
"It turned out to be Master Yuan, you are here." Master He silently tilted his neck, drank the wine in the cup, put down the cup, Li Yunsheng on the side quickly bowed down and stood up to fill it, and poured wine into his uncle's cup, then poured a small half cup into the cup in front of him, gently put down the wine jug in his hand, stood up and walked out of the pavilion, leaned over and stretched out his hand to help Master Yuan.
"Don't, don't help me, don't help me, I'm ......" Master Yuan hit his head on the ground, feeling that someone was about to help him up, and hurriedly opened his mouth to refuse with a crying voice, twisting his body indiscriminately, and he was about to throw himself to the ground.
"If you want to kneel, let him kneel." Master He drank the wine in the cup he had just poured in one sip, and with a "snap" sound, he put the wine glass on the stone table, and with a "click", the wine glass shattered into several pieces of porcelain, and a wisp of red blood flowed out of his palm.
"Lord He, you, your hand is injured, and this is bleeding. Yunsheng, do you have that golden medicine on you? Seeing this, Master Li also stood up.
"Uncle, Yun Sheng came out in a hurry today, and he didn't have that golden medicine with him."
"Then hurry down and look for it, see if anyone else has it on them, go back quickly, and let someone fetch some hot water to send it, go quickly."
"Yes." Li Yunsheng straightened up, his legs habitually retracted, one stood upright, turned around and ran down the mountain.
"Master Yuan, no one seems to have seen you in the two groups of people who come and go to Huaguo Mountain, where are you hiding from the rain and drinking tea to rest? You came out early in the morning. Master He looked coldly at Master Yuan, who was lying outside the pavilion, got up, put his hands behind his back, and walked out of the pavilion slowly.
"I, I'm ......" Master Yuan got up slightly, and for a while, he opened his mouth and stammered.
"You, what are you, you useless mash. Hurry up and go to the bottom of the mountain to carry stones for the officer. Master He walked up to the master who was lying on the ground, and while saying coldly, he raised his foot and kicked it out.
"Ah......" with a painful cry, Master Yuan finally threw himself to the ground. But he didn't care about the pain of that kick, he got up with a rolling belt, and bowed back again and again: "Yes, yes, master, adult, the little one will go, this will go ......."
Master Yuan said in a loud voice, turned around with his head down in embarrassment, and ran down. While running, he raised his hand to wipe the mud and sweat on his face with his sleeve, and secretly rejoiced in his heart that this level was finally cleared first.
"Let Master Li smile, there is no one who is capable around me." Lord He turned around and said to Master Li, who was walking out of the pavilion.
"Master He is too modest, this Master Yuan is usually old and resourceful, I have always heard of it. Besides, my son, a few days ago, when the Governor was in Haicheng to observe the two worship ceremonies of the Shangsi Festival and attend those public events, I could hear the meaning of his appreciation for He Gongzi in those words. The old man is really envious of adults, there is a son like this, what more can the father ask for. ”
"Lord Li praised it falsely, but the dog's life and death are still uncertain, how can he be talented now? If the skin does not exist, the hair will be attached?" Master He said, raising his hand and wiping the corners of his eyes.
"This? Don't worry about it anymore. The rain is no longer falling, except for the rain stored in the thick leaves on the mountain that will fall with the wind from time to time, other problems such as landslides, with the soldiers' years of experience in building the East China Sea dam, it is not worth mentioning, and the progress of this rescue will be further accelerated. I see you and me, now we still go down to the scene, and you will command and dispatch it in a unified manner, and I will pry the stones and dig the soil together with those sons and daughters under me. This official is from the army, and he can't use his brain to read since he was a child, and now although he is a few years old, he still has the strength to do so. ”
"How dare you bother Lord Li to do it himself, you are going to torture me. Lee-sama, please. Let's go down together, the class of officials I brought are also under the dispatch of Lord Li, Lord Li has been guarding in this Donghai town for many years and has rich experience, how can I be compared to the foreign transfer officer who only came to take office at the end of last year? I'll leave it all up to you. When Lord He said this, he actually bowed down to the ground.
"Lord He, don't be like this." Lord Li hurriedly stepped forward to help He Zhizhou: "Let's go, Lord He, let's go down the mountain together." If those boys see that we are not there, they will steal some lazy tricks and walk around. ”
"Master Li, please."
"Ho, please."