Liu Renci was sent to Yongzhou three years ago to serve as an assassin, and now the three-year period has expired, and he has returned to Beijing with his family to report on his work.

He came from a poor family and had a simple family, only an old wife and two sons.

The eldest son is 20 years old and is an official in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the second son is 15 years old and is studying in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Liu Renci set out from Yongzhou to return to Beijing a month ago, and was escorted by 10 officers and soldiers from the Yongzhou government office.

The old husband and wife were accustomed to simplicity, only one carriage of luggage and four old servants, and the officers and soldiers escorting each rode their own horses.

After a long journey of more than 20 days, I arrived at the Lincheng Tai'an in the capital.

Where did I think, as soon as I entered Tai'an, it began to rain endlessly.

The two-day journey took four days because of the autumn rain.

Finally entered the boundary of the capital, but the rain became heavier and heavier, and some people destroyed the embankment privately, and the flood formed.

Liu Renci and his entourage were trapped near Anping County.

Fortunately, he was escorted by ten officers and soldiers, and although he was trapped, his life was not in danger.

When Liu Renci and his wife were protected by the officers and soldiers to a safe place, Liu Renci was heartbroken when they saw that the farmland that was about to be harvested and the people's homes had turned into a country.

Standing beside him were ragged people, weeping over the flooded farmland.

In order to survive, many people had to flee to the capital, wanting to find an errand in Beijing to support their families.

However, these people who left temporarily were all strong and strong, but the weak, old, weak, sick and disabled could not walk.

Seeing the emaciated people huddled around each other to keep warm, Liu Renci was heartfelt and planned to stay and temporarily settle these people.

In the past two days, more and more displaced people have gone to the capital, and there may be trouble in the capital by then.

He stayed to appease the people here for the time being, and when the court had disaster relief officials coming, he would transfer the matter here to them, if the court handled it well, I am afraid that someone would come to answer it in a few days.

For this reason, Liu Renci also sent two officers and soldiers around him to Beijing to report the situation here to the yamen of the capital.

In order to resettle the victims, Liu Renci temporarily requisitioned the mansions of wealthy families in high places, and donated the food he brought with him to make porridge for the victims.

But his little food didn't last for two days, and it was completely eaten by the victims.

Liu Renci couldn't, and spent a lot of money to buy grain from rich households.

But he is a clean official, even if he spends all the money to buy a house in the capital, it is a drop in the bucket for disaster relief, not only that, I heard that he has food here, and the victims from all over the world have gathered.

Rao is Liu Renci has tried his best to manage these victims, but under his nose, there are still many dirty and dirty things happening.

Seeing that tomorrow morning, the gathered victims will not even have a mouthful of gruel to drink.

Liu Renci couldn't, so he decided to risk crossing the flood and go to the high-ranking and noble Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing for help, so that these Zhuangzi could donate food and materials to reassure the people.

It was already late in the morning on a rainy day, and it was dark all day.

Early in the morning, as soon as there was some light in the sky, Liu Renci took two old servants and two officers and soldiers to set off on horseback to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing.

To get to the outskirts of Beijing, you have to cross a flooded waterway.

It took half an hour for Liu Renci and his entourage to rush to the waterway of the flood.

If you cross this waterway, you will be able to reach the suburbs of Beijing, which are not severely affected.

The waterway was originally an unknown river on the outskirts of Beijing, less than two meters wide, but now it is twenty or thirty meters wide!

It turned out that the wooden bridge over the creek had long since been washed away.

The flood is fast, and it is difficult to cross this flood river safely.

On the other side of the river, there were many people in the capital who were watching the excitement at this time, and they felt the magnitude of the flood.

On this side of the river, the depressed life is devastated, as if there are two worlds.

However, since Liu Renci planned to go to the outskirts of Beijing for help, he was not completely unprepared.

Liu Renci said to the old servant behind him: "Lao Hai, let go of the goshawk!" ”

The half-white-haired old servant nodded, released an eagle from the burlap bag on the horse's side, and then tied a hemp rope to the eagle's feet, and then the old servant made a few movements towards the goshawk, raised his hand, and released the goshawk into the sky.

The goshawk with the twine on it flew to the other side.

Yongzhou is remote and dry, where the Hatu people live, they believe in the eagle god, have a hand in eagle training, and almost every household has an eagle.

Liu Renci went to the local government to be an official, and also asked the old servant Ah Hai to learn from the locals to raise one, but he didn't expect it to be used here.

The light rain did not affect the flight of the goshawk, and soon the goshawk flew to the opposite side.

Ah Hai waved to the people on the other side, and the people watching the tide on the other side carefully untied the hemp rope on the goshawk's talons, and then saw the note on the hemp rope.

I found a literate person and read the note, and everyone was stunned.

This is to help them hold the hemp rope in place, and then the people on the other side will use this hemp rope to wade through the flood and come to their side.

Knowing this, someone immediately helped tie the hemp rope to a big tree not far away and fix it, and then waved at Liu Renci and his party.

The people on the other side helped fix the ropes, and Liu Renci asked the officers and soldiers to take down the wooden basins and barrels they brought.

Then each person stepped on a wooden basin or barrel and with the help of a rope, intending to float through the raging flood to the other side.

An officer and an old servant took the lead, Liu Renci was in the middle, and an officer and soldier were left behind, leaving an old servant to guard the place and guard their horses.

The people on the other side watched Liu Renci and his party move this way with the help of hemp rope in great danger.

Suddenly, a violent wave of the flood knocked over the wooden basin under the feet of the officer and soldier who was the leader, and the officer and soldier staggered, their hands hung on the rope, and their weight pulled the rope into a terrifying arc, which instantly affected several people behind them.

Fortunately, the old servant Ah Hai, who was behind the officers and soldiers, was witty and caught the officer and soldier in time, and then asked the officers and soldiers to step on his wooden basin with their feet.

This officer and soldier are strong and fast, so as to avoid the rope from carrying too much weight and causing accidents.

The people watching on the other side saw this scene and raised their throats, and cheered for Liu Renci and his party.

When the five of them floated to two-thirds of the waterway through the wooden basin and barrel, suddenly a group of homeless people sprang out from the place where they started!

This group of displaced people were in shabby clothes, covered in mud, and dirty with no facial features, and they had obviously been affected by the disaster for many days.

They stayed nearby, just looking for an opportunity to go to the other side, but the flood was turbulent, and they had no chance at all, and they had the courage to wade directly across the river, and they were already submerged in the flood.

They hid in the shadows and had already seen Liu Renci and his party.

They also saw the method of Liu Renci and his entourage crossing the river, and they could not bear it at this time.

Seeing that Liu Renci and his party had passed two-thirds of the way, they immediately rushed in the direction of the old servant left behind.

After rushing over, these homeless people grabbed the rope directly and did not step on anything to float on the water, so they had to forcibly wade across the river.

In a short instant, more than a dozen homeless people grabbed the rope and threw themselves into the flood!