Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Rumors Spread at the Front
"Good girl, look!" said a woman dressed in cloth, but still wearing a long dress today, holding the little girl at her side by the shoulders and pointing to the pier.
In the sky above the moat, about three feet away, a cloud descended, and then dripped down, and a graceful aroma of wine like wine but not wine floated out.
The little girl's eyes widened, and her eyes were full of the same color as the clouds, in fact, it was not clear at night that the clouds were the color, but the bright burning lights around her, and the slowly rising hole lights, lined the clouds with colorful glass.
She shouted happily, looking like she was about seven or eight years old, with a red knot rope tied behind her hair, much like a miniature version of red copper, but with a simple dress, her temperament was completely different.
The little girl and the woman had come from the street north of the city to-night, for they had heard the owner of the butcher's shop next to them talk about the miraculous things that had happened in the middle of the moat recently.
Or a vision, so to speak.
The child is always curious about the new, mysterious and beautiful things, and the woman can't resist the daughter's request, and the woman closes the weaving shop early this day, just to bring her beloved daughter to see the magical things she wears.
The usual elusive aroma of wine, today coincidentally revealed its true face, which fell from that cloud.
But where did the clouds come from, and why did it rain and dew here?
"Ran, slow down. The woman followed the little girl's joyful steps and walked towards the other side of the river, which was getting more and more crowded.
The woman's name is Zhang Wan, she is an ordinary weaver on Ling Tincture Street in the west of the city, every day she takes the clothes she sews at home and sells them on a small wooden shelf outside the house.
Three years ago, because her husband was unfortunately killed or injured in a mining accident, she and her daughter Zhang Lianyi have been dependent on each other so far, and she has survived the pensions given by those big people, and has always waited for her daughter to grow up, when the dowry was given, so that her daughter could live a better life in the future mother-in-law's house.
"Father, when I was a child, he told me a story about how when a person dies, he goes to heaven and becomes a cloud in the sky. The curtain turned back, and with her big watery eyes open, she said to the woman who had a few wrinkles on her face, but was still beautiful:
"Mother, you said that this cloud is the father?"
Zhang Wan doted on her daughter's head, then said with a short smile: "Maybe it's really oh, you talk to Yun Cai and see." ”
The crowd in front of them was almost full, and more and more people, seeing this miracle, came enthusiastically, and some people even began to stretch out their hands by the river guardrail, wanting to catch the falling rain and dew.
Finally, the mother and daughter squeezed to the side of a viewing platform, Zhang Wan looked at the cloud in her eyes, revealing a touch of sadness, but she hid it very well, because her daughter was still around.
The little girl looked at the clouds so directly, and finally closed her eyes and began to chant words, she actually knew that her father told a story to coax her for her grandfather, and this story was also false, but her father's intention was true.
As long as the hearts and minds are connected, maybe you can really pass through the shackles of time and space, entrust this cloud, and finally pass your thoughts to the other side.
Suddenly, there was a rush of horses' hooves, and there were armor-clad city guards on both sides, and they were violent, forcibly driving all the passers-by aside.
This is a piece of gossip in the market, after tea and dinner among mortals, rumors dressed in a mysterious cloak that no one will pay special attention to, but today it seems to be different.
Shen Chai and Xiong Yan stood on the other side of the river, looking at the soldiers who burst into the field, and their eyebrows couldn't help frowning, because both of them found that among the guards on horseback, there were actually cultivators!
What's going on? Is it because the strange things that have been rumored have finally been revealed, or because today is the Fengyuan Festival, but no matter which one it is, it doesn't seem to make sense.
"Get out of the way!" The city guards, along the river, harassed all the way, shouted: "Clear, clear!"
However, the next moment, something even stranger happened, the clouds slowly disappeared when the city guards intruded, and the smell of wine also disappeared, and many people who were already intoxicated began to rebuke and indignant.
"This is the Nine Heavens Goddess is angry!" someone shouted loudly.
Then some people reacted, and they all responded to it, scolding those city guards who didn't know how to taste, and colorful auspicious clouds came up from the sky to rain and dew for the world, and such rumors and rumors were passed on.
This story became more and more popular, and later I don't know how many versions of the story were added, and everyone knew about it, and it affected the woman's death until it gradually became silent and gradually dissipated.
Because at this moment, I don't know who shouted, as if there was really a fairy manifestation, the moat that was placed horizontally in front of everyone, which had always been calm, suddenly swelled, and the waves soared into the sky, only in an instant!
The waves are getting bigger and bigger, as if splashing a basin of cold water into the boiling water, and the surging waves are blown up for no reason, like a river dragon entering the sea.
"What's going on?" said the city guard, the leader on horseback, who had just arrived.
"Run!" "Run!" The people of the Imperial City, who didn't know what to do, looked nervous and frightened, and they were in a mess, crowded one after another, and ran back to the road.
The waves splashed on the outside of the parapet, and then broke through the railing of the embankment, and the force was so strong that it even slapped on the people who were close to it!
"Who opened the embankment gate of the central road!?" The general, looking at this chaotic scene, shouted loudly: "Hurry up and notify the embankment manager, if you don't want to die, hurry up and control the flow of water for me!"
A subordinate soldier, running from one side from afar, knelt on one knee and reported: "General, the floodgates on both sides have not been opened!"
The general blushed, looked at him and scolded, "Fart, tell me what's going on in this river?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a wave had rushed to the feet of its horse, and the frightened black horse neighed, intending to break free from the reins and run away, which seemed to be the extreme of fear.
When they came, they were even more chaotic, and the crowd was crowded, and several people had fallen, and before they could get up, they were trampled and fell down by the crowd behind them, and there was a cry of pain.
"Silence, don't mess up!" the generals on both sides scolded, waving their halberds.
"Curtain Yi, come to my mother's side!" the ordinary woman, separated by two or three people who had crowded past, called to her daughter.
"Mother!" shouted a girl of seven or eight years old, panicked and anxious.
However, before she could get closer, suddenly the mutation came again, and the little girl heard the sound and turned her head, her eyes full of fear!