Chapter 56

The hail fell all night.

It rained for three days and three nights.

"Master, the Jinzhou embankment has burst!"

He was sent by Shang Yueyue a few days ago to check the progress of the grain transported by Jinxiu Villa, and after Jinzhou burst the embankment, he went back to Liuzhou for the first time to report to Shang Yue.

Shang Yuyue didn't have much emotional ups and downs, and only responded lightly: "I know, you go and rest." ”

After the wind went down, Shang Yueyue got up from the edge of the table, picked up the long flute next to the bed, and stood in front of the window, "Qingyu Case" came out of his fingers.

The trajectory of history is slowly advancing, she doesn't have much ability to prevent a natural disaster, and she doesn't dare to say that Jinzhou and Liuzhou will break the embankment in May, whether anyone believes her is still the same thing, what she is afraid of is that the final result will come out, and she will be detained as a demon.

Huaguo's disgust and hatred for demons and evil spirits has reached an outrageous level, once they are identified as demons, they will be punished by a thousand knives first, and then burned alive before their last breath is broken.

Shang Yuyue clenched his fists, hoping that the food would alleviate some of the deaths and avoid a large-scale outbreak of the plague.

Preferably, don't pass it to Liuzhou.

The sound of the flute in "Qingyu Case" suddenly cut off, and Shang Yuyue put away the flute and said in a deep voice: "Nian Nu, take me to a place."

There is nothing she can do in Jinzhou, but in Liuzhou, some casualties can be avoided.

Three days later, the heavy rain continued.

When the news of the Jinzhou embankment burst reached Liuzhou, Chen Shaoyou took the officials in the yamen to inspect the embankment in Liuzhou, worried that the embankment would be overwhelmed, and he formulated a set of rapid projects to strengthen the embankment.

However, it was too late after all.

Before the project was carried out, the embankment had already burst.

Fortunately, Chen Shaoyou had evacuated the crowd around the embankment when he got the Jinzhou embankment, so the Liuzhou embankment burst without any casualties.

Those people who were once reluctant to move away looked afraid, and went to the yamen from the civilian area where the yamen had been resettled, knelt in front of the yamen and shouted: "Thank you Lord Chen for saving your life." ”

At that time, Chen Shaoyou was arranging the next step to save the embankment, and when he heard the shouts of the people, he shook the pen for a moment, and then continued, and ordered the little servant auspiciously: "Tell them that the people who bought their houses are several major merchants in Liuzhou, and the list has been posted in the new notice of the Yamen, and they will go to thank these merchants if they want to thank them." As for the silver taels spent on food in their resettlement area, it was Shang Jinyan who paid for it. ”

The pen in his hand was finally put down, and Chen Shaoyou remembered that day, Shang Yuyue went to his mansion overnight.

The skirt of the light purple dress was wet by the rain, and when she saw him, she changed her smile from the past, and she said solemnly: "My father has someone doing business in Jinzhou, and there is news in Jinzhou just now, the Jinzhou embankment has burst, and there are countless casualties." ”

The Jinzhou embankment was built later than the Liuzhou embankment, and it was built stronger than the Liuzhou one. The amount of water in Jinzhou is not as large as that in Liuzhou, and the dams in Jinzhou have been destroyed, so how long can Liuzhou be safe?

He rushed to the yamen overnight to arrange things that should be built to fight the flood, and in case of emergency, the evacuation of the people living near the embankment became the first priority, but those people did not think that the embankment would burst at all, and they were unwilling to leave one by one, and finally the common people proposed that unless the yamen paid a high price for silver to buy their houses and fields, they would never move.

Chen Shaoyou checked the treasury of the yamen, and the silver taels in the treasury were not enough at all, and the request to the prefect to request the allocation of silver was refused, so he contacted the major merchants in Liuzhou.

There are a few small merchants who are either unwilling to offend Chen Shaoyou, or are kind, so they give out a little silver, as for those big merchants, none of them are willing to give money.

In the end, it was Shang Jinyan who came from Ningcheng in a hurry, bringing 100,000 taels of silver.

With Shang Jinyan taking the lead, Mrs. Ma also gave out 50,000 taels of silver, followed by Splendid Villa, and like Shang Jinyan, she also gave 100,000 taels.

With these three giants, there are more merchants who want to give out money later.

The evacuation of the people was resolved, and the people were placed in a temporary resettlement area, and the money spent on eating and drinking was paid by Shang Jinyan.

Chen Shaoyou pinched his eyebrows, although he was tired, there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, that night, before leaving, she said: "As long as there is silver, nothing is difficult." It just so happened that my dad didn't have much of anything, just a little more silver. ”

"Your father doesn't have so much money as to give it to people at will."

When she heard him, she chuckled, "He has a daughter who plays with silver as a stone thrown into the water." ”

Chen Shaoyou's words were passed on to the people outside the yamen by auspiciousness, and the people kowtowed again to see the newly posted notices, and when they saw the merchants who paid for it, many people talked about it.

Some people say that these people are charitable, and some people who know the inside story say that it is because Shang Jinyan took the lead, and those who were good friends with Shang Jinyan followed the money, and some people even said that those merchants who paid later saw that everyone had donated, and they couldn't get over it if they didn't donate.

Opinions differ, but there is one thing that the people do not dispute.

That is the name of benevolence and benevolence.

First, he took the lead in donating 100,000 taels of money to help the yamen evacuate the people, and then arranged for the evacuation of the people's food and silver taels.

Those evacuated people were grateful to Shang Jinde.

The name of the great benevolent business is spread in Liuzhou.

Because of the breaking of the embankment, Chen Shaoyou was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground all day long, and compared with his busyness, Shang Yuyue was particularly leisurely.

On this day, Shang Yuyue was doing needlework in the boudoir, and Shang was humble and accompanied by him.

I drank pot after pot of tea, went to the toilet again and again, and said a bunch of good things, but Shang Yuyue never paid attention to it, and what to do was still done.

"Ning Bao'er ......"

Shang Jinyan touched the tea in his belly, flattering and aggrieved, "Are you still angry?" ”

The corners of Shang Yueyue's mouth twitched, and she put down the needle and thread in her hand, "Daddy, how many times have you said this?" ”

When did he coax her not to be pitiful and ask for her sympathy? When is it not a sentence "Ning Baoer, angry?" ”。

Shang Jinyan said it smoothly, and she heard that her ears were calloused.

Shang Jinyan smiled, "Isn't this that I don't know how to coax you?" ”

On the same day, when Chen Shaoyou asked the major merchants to discuss donating money to buy buildings near the embankment and move out of the people, Shang Jin didn't think about it and said that he was in Ningcheng, and he didn't go at all, and he didn't plan to donate a tael of silver at all.

It was Shang Yuyue, who found the money manager in the account room, and almost took a knife to the neck of the money manager, and then spent 100,000 taels of silver, and then she took the 100,000 taels of silver ticket and put it in front of Shang Jinyan: "Daddy, did you take out the silver and send it to the yamen in a beautiful manner, or did your daughter take the silver ticket and quietly send it to Chen Shaoyou?" ”