Di Xue and Taylor stood on the roof, looking at the river in the distance, and their hearts rose and fell with the blue water.

As one of the tributaries of the Nalan River, the Lanjiang River is the largest river in Xiyue Province, since the Nalan River is diverted, it flows into the Red Sea of the Inland Sea after flowing into the Xiyue and Huana Provinces, there are 18 big cities on both sides of the river, and there are hundreds of villages and towns of all sizes.

The Lanjiang River is famous for its clear blue water as the sky, it is like a blue ribbon wrapped around the Xiyue Province like a crescent moon, and the place it passes through moistens countless green mountains and fertile fields, and it is rich and does not know how many people on the water.

However, nature's gifts to human beings are not endless, the most ruthless is heaven and earth, in the long years of time, the beautiful and rich Lan Jiang River sometimes shows its hideous side, bringing sad disasters to the people who depend on it for their livelihood.

The rain clouds have thinned out like a gray curtain covering the sky, and they are reluctant to pour down the last rays of rain to complete their mission.

The cloudy Blue River is no longer as blue as before, but has turned into a deep blue sea with the infusion of rainwater.

The rain line pierced into the deep blue river, and countless water halos danced on the river surface, and the blurred outline of the mountain shadows on the opposite bank seemed to meet the sky clouds.

At first glance, it is a magnificent and hazy beauty.

It's just that the scenery from a distance is beautiful, but the scene up close is sad.

The area near the riverbank of Wanghe Town has been completely submerged by the river, the river overflows the houses, the riverside places have flooded the roofs, the willows on the riverside are only a small section of the water, and the few branches are powerless to shake with the flowing water, and the yellowed leaves are blown down by the wind and rain from time to time, and then swept away by the rushing water.

The original embankment is long gone, and the flooded river water mixes with the mud on the bank to form a turbid yellow color, which is a stark contrast to the dark blue river in the distance from the perspective of Dixue and Taylor.

Di Xue couldn't help frowning when he looked at this scene, and said, "Didn't you say that the disaster situation was not very strict?" Most of the town was flooded, and it was not considered strict? He was in the underground world of Greenstrand when the rainstorm was at its largest, he didn't expect a rain to cause such a disaster.

Xu Bo also went up to the roof at this time, looked at the scene in front of him and sighed and said: "It's really not too strict, such a flood can only be said to be small and medium-sized, a few decades ago, there was a big flood in the Nalan River, there were five or six big cities on both sides of the Lanjiang River alone, and the villages and towns were completely washed away by the flood, and after the imperial statistics, there were hundreds of thousands of people who died." ”

Xu Bo is a native of the southern part of the empire, and he has not personally experienced the great flood in the north of the empire a few decades ago, but his generation has heard of the disaster of that year.

Di Xue also sighed, he had also seen the great flood a few decades ago, when the previous generation of masters of the Divine Law Academy had just passed away, and Master Tina had not yet achieved the realm of masters, and in the end, if it weren't for the empire from all over the continent to gather more than a dozen water system great demon masters to work together to cast the water system forbidden spell to disperse some of the rain clouds, I am afraid that the disaster would be even more terrifying.

In the face of heaven and earth, human beings are insignificant, and the forbidden spells cast by masters or a certain number of magisters may be able to change the weather or terrain in a small area, but no matter how powerful the power of magic is, it is impossible to affect the scope of an entire province.

Moreover, the magic pollution left by the forbidden spell is also very dangerous, and the place where magic was used to disperse the rain clouds did not fall for three years.

Di Xue pointed to the flooded house and said, "Is there nothing that can be done?"

Xu Bo shook his head: "I can only wait for the water to recede, fortunately, the rain has been much lighter, and the news came in the morning that the upstreams have stopped, and the only area around the fog forest is still raining, according to the magic prediction, the rain clouds in this area will last for a day at most, and when the rain stops, with the discharge of the downstream Xiyue Dam, the water level will also be reduced quickly." ”

Di Xue inquired about the disaster situation of other villages and towns, and learned that the affected villages and towns were all because of the topography, the terrain on the bank of the river is relatively low and are built according to the river, the summer rainy season has just passed, the water level of the Lanjiang River has risen, the rainstorm is too big and too sudden, the villages and towns have not had time to raise the river embankment to cause the scene of flooded houses, and most of the other villages and towns because of the far offshore, the river embankment is reinforced in time, so it has not been affected much.

Xu Bo continued: "In fact, the river flooding over the embankment is not the most dangerous place for flooding, the most important thing to worry about when a flood occurs is the epidemic that may break out at any time, the direct casualties caused by the flood are very small at present, but if the plague breaks out, it will cause terrible consequences if it is not controlled in time. ”

When Di Xue heard this, he asked, "How are the people affected by the disaster resettled?"

"The affected villages and towns have arranged for the affected people to live in the homes of people who have not been flooded, but the number of families that have not been affected by the disaster is limited, and although most of the villages and towns that have not been affected have received many people under the official mobilization, there are still some people who have been left homeless," Xu said.

For example, in this Wanghe town, there is only a small area on the north side of the country that has not been flooded, and the homes of the townspeople in this area are basically full, but there are still nearly 100 people camping in the open space in the northeast outside the town. ”

Di Xue was a little silent, many times even if there is a natural disaster, people are reluctant to leave their hometown where they have lived for generations, and not everyone can help others in a disaster, he can understand both of these points. All the Imperial authorities can do is to mobilize as much as they can, but if others are unwilling to leave or others to live in their homes, they cannot forcibly drag or stuff people in......

One last glance at Wanghe Town, which was mostly flooded by the river, there was nothing he could do to change the situation, so he and Taylor went downstairs and asked Xu Bo and Captain Richard to take him to the campsite of the affected people, Di Xue thought to himself, he was not capable of making the river recede, but maybe he could do something for these homeless people.

Previously, Di Xue and his party came from the official road in the northwest, and did not see the camping area located in the northeast of the town, Xu Bo and Richard had never been here, but they knew the resettlement location in the disaster report.

The mayor of Wanghe Town was a man in his thirties and forties, with short brown hair and a town mayor's uniform, and the mayor was standing respectfully on the side of the road, holding a black umbrella.

Mayor Johnson had long heard that a "nobleman" from Eternal City had come to the Fog Forest, and the Royal Guards and the Xiyue Provincial Army had been stationed outside the Fog Forest in the face of heavy rain in the past few days, just waiting for that noble man to come out of the Fog Forest.

Although he didn't know what the noble man was going to do when he entered the dangerous place in the fog forest, at this time, he heard that his subordinates reported that a team of soldiers in gold armor and red robes had come to Wanghe Town, and there were ten soldiers escorting a man and a woman riding together into Wanghe Town.

When he saw Di Xue's appearance, Mayor Johnson was even more shocked in his heart, it was really that one...... The black hair and blue eyes unique to the imperial family of the imperial family, about twenty years old, the escort of the royal guard, he didn't have to guess to know what kind of person came to his town.

Mayor Johnson trotted to Di Xue's horse, threw away the umbrella in his hand, and saluted solemnly: "Johnson Hoffman, the mayor of Wanghe Town, the third-order local consul of the Imperial Empire, saw His Highness, and Weichen didn't know that His Highness had arrived, so he was rude to greet him, and I hope His Highness will forgive me." ”

Consul is the title of an imperial official, a local official, a fourth-order consul is generally a village chief, a third-order consul is generally a town mayor, a second-order consul is generally a city lord, and a first-order consul is also a provincial governor.

Di Xue said gently: "Mayor Johnson doesn't need to be polite, it's still raining, so the mayor will hold up the umbrella." ”

Mayor Johnson didn't dare to look up at Di Xue, but Di Xue's gentle voice calmed his nervous mood a little, and his heart warmed even more when he heard Di Xue ask him to hold up the umbrella he had thrown away during the salute.

But after seeing that the guards and Xu Bo and other people accompanying him were all drenched in the rain, Mayor Johnson hurriedly panicked and said that he didn't dare to be rude......

In fact, the guards can't hold umbrellas and wear raincoats in order to maintain military appearance, and Xu Bo, Richard, Hansel, Gretel and others are all strong people who can fight and magic, this little rain is nothing to them at all, even if they are wet, the fighting spirit will be dry as soon as the magic is dried.

Di Xue was speechless, so she had to say it a few more times, and finally Gretel said impatiently: "If you want to support you, you can hold it, where is there so much nonsense when you hold an umbrella." ”

Mayor Johnson trembled and propped up his umbrella.

Di Xue sighed helplessly, being feared is certainly what many people want, but being in awe also means being alienated, and flattering closeness is just a fancy to his status.

Most of the people in the upper positions are very lonely.

Di Xue asked, "Are you from the Hoffman family?"

Johnson said: "Wechen's family is a division of the Hoffman family. ”

Di Xue nodded, and didn't ask any more, the Hoffman family is a big family in the empire, and it has a pivotal position in the imperial government and the opposition, and it is not surprising that a member of the Hoffman family is the mayor of a small town in Xiyue Province.

Johnson said, "I wonder what is the matter with His Highness's visit to Wanghe Town?

Di Xue said: "No need to arrange, just take me to the camping area of the disaster victims." ”

Johnson was a little surprised why Di Xue went to see the camping area of the victims, but he didn't dare to ask more, so he led the way to the northeast of the town.