Qi Su Niang saw that Chen Niangzi was in a broken shape and her life was on the verge of death, and her heart was cramping, and Chen Niangzi was in her mind to treat her injuries, feed her, change her clothes, provide her with food and drink, and be able to continue her life; taught her to read, advance and retreat, and all kinds of affairs, so that she could enter the WTO; to seek citizenship for her relatives and be accommodated; Thousands of affection, all kinds of kindness, all kinds of eyes, finally knelt down in front of the bed, crying loudly: "My life is given by the eldest mother, and I will eventually return it to the eldest mother's ---" Before the words fell, Chen Niangzi's body was soft, and she died.

Aunt Qi cried so much that her liver and intestines were broken, although Qi Su Niang felt dizzy and full of sorrow, but she stood up more and more, staggered out, and fetched water to wipe her body and collect the funeral for Mrs. Chen.

A few days after the funeral, the three members of the Qi family were still full of sadness, the sky suddenly changed, the torrential rain continued, and the flood season in the south of the Yangtze River arrived. The Qi family couple thought that according to the previous years, but the water was fifty miles, they did not panic, but they did not expect that in the blink of an eye, the mountains shook, the river soldiers, Yunding drove back and forth, and the sound of gongs was shocked, it was the Yellow River that took Huai again, broke the Gaojiayan embankment of the Qinghe River near Huai'an, and the water of Hongze Lake backflowed, and the south section of the Cao River was within a radius of 100 miles, all of which became Zeguo.

The three members of the Qi family heard the water police, and they didn't care much, so they snatched the ancestral tablet and some belongings, and hurried to Gaoyou City, and the flood behind them was overwhelming, and the village was submerged in a blink of an eye.

Along the southern section of the Caohe River, the flood is monstrous, and the victims are millions. The flood in the north blocked the road, and the victims who escaped from the flood in Huai'an, Yangzhou, Changzhou, and Songjiang were all ragged and blind, and they dragged their children and daughters to the official road to Jiangning City in the south.

The sun was about to set, and the night wind in early autumn was already a little cold, and the trees on the side of the official road that had been stripped of their bark and leaves were shaking in the wind with their white branches.

Qi Su Niang gritted her teeth and gave the thin donkey a whip, the thin donkey seemed to be drunk, swaying left and right and dragging the broken cart and walking a few steps, Qi Lady on the cart groaned and murmured: "His father, his father." Qi Su Niang's chest ached, wiped a handful of sweat, pressed the tattered cotton wool on her body tighter for her, and said softly: "Mother, Dad, he went to the front to find food for you." You sleep a little longer and he'll be back. Aunt Qi seemed to smile, and then fell asleep again.

The victims walked for three or four months on the official road leading to Jiangning, like locusts crossing the border, eating all the wild vegetables, tree bark, and grass roots. Qi Suniang did not hesitate to join a group of displaced people composed of villagers surnamed Gaoyou Qi, Song, Chen, and Wang, walking in groups and grabbing food in teams. Although she is a woman, her strength is not small, and she is extremely brave, she carries a copper chisel with her with her, and for a can of wild vegetable soup, she dares to be a killer in the eye, all in a life-changing frame, and she does not want to be faced, she is used to tricks, she does not talk about the slightest rules, and idle men do not dare to approach her, but she also kept the sick Aunt Qi, and has the nickname of "Qi Big Worm".

In November and February, he entered Jiangning City, but the weather was already too cold, Qi Su Niang seized a sheltered position in the Guandi Temple in the west of the city, placed Qi Da Niang, and went to the soup kitchen to grab gruel every day. Aunt Qi was still sick, shivering under the rotten cotton wool, and screaming "His father, Qiang'er." ”

Qi Su Niang slowly fed Qi Aunt porridge, coaxed her to sleep, took off the shabby cotton clothes on her body and pressed it on her feet, and looked coldly at the more than a dozen homeless people who were laughing in the corner of the other end of the Guandi Temple, those men spoke with a Qinghe accent, they were already hungry and thin, but they could still see the tall and strong figure, and from time to time they turned their heads and stared at each other with the Gaoyou homeless people, and occasionally their eyes fell on Qi Su Niang, but they were slightly pity.

"Su Niang, strike first." The boss of the Gaoyou regiment is a man in his forties, named Wang Dawhip, who was originally in the dart bureau to catch a big car and palm the whip, there is no martial arts, a long whip in one hand but practice makes perfect, pointing to the east and west, and so on idlers can not get close, and later because of the enmity with others, lost his job, he did the Cao Yun sailor, and also learned a few tricks.

He was familiar with Qi Hu, and for the sake of relatives and friends, Su Niang was useful, so he took care of it very much, and he also taught Su Niang a few tricks.

Qi Su Niang snorted and said with a smile: "Uncle Wang, are they from Qinghe County?" Wang Dawhip nodded and said: "Gaojiayan is under the jurisdiction of Qinghe County, and there are a lot of people from Qinghe, and a few of them snort: "I used to fight with us on Caoshang." ”

Qi Su Niang didn't bother to pay attention to the enmity between the sailors from all over the country, her eyes slipped to the black cotton wool under those people, and said with a smile: "Their things can also be used." He turned his head to look at Aunt Qi and said, "The weather is cold, and my mother will inevitably need two beds of floc to survive the winter." ”

Wang Dawhip glanced at Aunt Qi and sighed: "Your father didn't save you in vain, although he was pressed under the rocks, it was not easy for you to protect your mother desperately." His expression couldn't help but be a little sad, and he said: "Qi Qiang, that kid doesn't know where he has gone, and he still has his life." After a pause, he said: "I don't know if the actor is in Jiangning, if you find him, you will have something to rely on, and you are engaged to be married." ”

Qi Su Niang was a little stunned for a while, Fang remembered that she had a betrothed father-in-law, her hand unconsciously stretched into her arms, touched the small rosewood box, finely sanded with a smooth texture, gritted her teeth, and whispered: "Just tonight." ”

Ren is how many beds Qi Su Niang snatched back, Qi Auntie didn't survive this winter, before she died, she seemed to understand that her husband was gone, only worried about her son Qi Qiang, grabbed Qi Su Niang's left hand wrapped around the splint, and said with tears: "My son, I've suffered you." Wait for your brother to come back, no matter what he does, find a poor daughter for him, start a family, leave some incense for the Qi family, and live a lifetime. And he smiled and went away.

Qi Su Niang couldn't cry anymore, but knelt in front of the corpse in a daze, stretched out her right hand, and stroked Aunt Qi's thin face blankly. Outside the Guandi Temple, firecrackers rang out in Jiangning City, and there was a loud cry: "Your Majesty, the Emperor is here." ”