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The rain continued to fall.

It's never sunny. After a few days, people's worries still happened.

"No, no, ma'am, it's broken."

Shen Jingli was playing with a cloth ball when Li Qi ran in flustered. He looked flustered, with rain behind him and his hair dripping wet on both sides.

"Fourteen?"

"The master went to the gate of the city for inspection." Li Qi gasped and sat on the chair beside him, carrying water to drink. "The second master took Chen Jian to help. Ma'am, is the flood going to flood the whole city?

"It depends on the circumstances. "Natural disasters are unpredictable, and he can't guarantee anything.

Shen Jingli bowed his head and teased the child. The little guy did not know what happened outside. He was very happy holding the cloth ball. Occasionally he thought of Shen Jingli, he reached out to him for a hug. He also called out cleverly, "armywood hug."

He touched the face of the little guy. He thought he was playing with him, so he stretched out his little white hand to grab his hand. When he caught it, he laughed happily.

After the dam broke, the water level rose rapidly and spread to the low-lying areas like thousands of horses galloping. Soon, all the fields near the river were covered by the river, followed by the nearby farmhouses, one by one houses. Finally, only a roof appeared, and the fields and roads below were completely invisible.

The flood is ferocious. It devours what it meets, the people who have no time to take refuge, the poultry that is too late to take away, and all kinds of pots and pans. The flood comes to the Fucheng city. When it meets the masonry wall, it is washed away. The water level rises inch by inch, and it slows down when it reaches the half wall height, which makes people feel a little relieved.

Magistrate Liu walked around the house impatiently, his hair was almost gray.

The rain was getting smaller, but it was still falling. The smell of rain mixed with a smell of mud, lingering for a long time.

"The water is coming, the water is coming, the big water, we are going to be washed away

"Woo, woo, woo Sobbing We're going to drown. Help, I don't want to die yet... "

"We can't escape. The flood will submerge the whole city, and we will all be drowned."

"Mom, Dad, I don't want to die. Come and take me home In the front yard, Liu Zhifu's head was white, but his backyard was like a fire. People kept picking on things, spreading news of the flood, and wantonly exaggerating it, causing panic among the people. Everyone in the house was thinking about how to escape.

Liu Zhifu's wife, Han Shi, hastily packed up her private house, and quietly went to the warehouse to take some good things. She hid the burden nervously, and then went to the front yard with a heavy step.

Magistrate Liu has been in the hall for dozens of times. Now, he is like an ant on a hot pot. He is anxious to turn around in groups. At first, King Jing inspected the canal dam. He cleared up the evidence of his corruption at the first time, and found several trusted water conservancy masters to deceive him. But now that the heavy rain has broken the dam, King Jing will definitely investigate this matter again. So, he is corrupt The situation must not be covered up. In addition, he did nothing in this flood, and his black hat may not be able to keep.

"Master, what's going on outside? Is this flood really going to flood the whole river city? " Han's face was haggard, and her eyes were uneasy. She walked in with the help of her servant girl

she had lived for so many years, but she had never encountered such a disaster. Her heart simply could not bear it. Looking at the equally gaunt magistrate Liu, she felt more panic.

"How do I know what's going on?" All the officers and soldiers in the city were sent away by King Jing, and no one came to report to him what was going on. Now he was caught in the dark and could not make out what was going on.

Being scolded by magistrate Liu for a while, Han felt a little aggrieved, but she did not dare to show it. She had to stand aside with a white face.

"Ah

A scream came from the backyard. Magistrate Liu's face was dark, he shook his sleeves and walked towards the backyard.

The backyard was a mess, and all the aunts, maids and wives were walking around. Some screamed, some cried, some wanted to run, some sat on the ground with their legs paralyzed with fear.

the magistrate Liu couldn't help but feel up at the scene. "Come on

he yelled to stop the panic of the people. They looked around in panic and focused their eyes on him, feeling that he was more terrible than the flood.

"Master The two boys ran over and knelt in front of magistrate Liu.

"I'll drive out those troublemakers to the master." He pointed to a few more out of control excited people, very angry way, "my officer is not dead? What's the trouble here?

among the people accused, there was a beloved aunt. She came to beg for mercy, master. Please spare me this time. I dare not

Now that the city gate is blocked, the people of the whole river city are not allowed to go in and out at will. If she is driven out, where can she live?The magistrate Liu glanced at the package she held in her arms and sneered, "the contents of this package may be enough for you to live for the rest of your life. No one dares to talk about love. A few boys, with a straight face, drove the nine girls out of the house.

Those who were driven out of the house knelt down at the gate of Liu's residence and cried for a long time. But now, in this critical moment of panic, everyone is busy how to protect their lives. Who is in the mood to interfere with the affairs of the magistrate's family.

The men cried for a long time, but when they saw that no one paid attention to them, they begged to the Mu family and Shen Jingli.

Shen Jingli hesitated for a moment, arranged for them to live in Chuang Tzu in the east of the city, and sent a batch of linen cloth to rush them to make a batch of ready-made clothes. If they want to stay in his place, they must live a thousand lives. He does not accept people who eat and drink for nothing.

On the seventh day of the closure of the city by the flood, the heavy rain for several days finally stopped, and it took a few days for the raging flood to subside. As soon as the flood subsided, Mu Chen and Xu Yanlin rushed out of the city to transport grain. They knew that if they did not transport the rice grain to the city as soon as possible, the people outside the city would rob them when they were hungry.

When people are hungry, riots start.

It has to be said that Shen Jingli is very farsighted. He bought a large number of fields near Jiangcheng. Only two-thirds of the grain produced in all the fields was sold, and the remaining one third was stored. After the next season's grain output, another batch of grain was stored and the previous batch was sold at a low price.

Now, rice straw is a third of their life.

They brought back 24 carts of rice and white flour, as well as five carts of grain. Shen Jingli always considered more than them. He was not only worried about the flood, people did not have food to eat, but also worried that after the flood, people would not have food to live again. For Bai surname, who was robbed by the flood, those carts of grain seeds symbolized hope. With these kinds of grain, their future life would be Only then has the expectation.

King Jing was looking at the grain and grain varieties that Mu Chen and Xu Yanlin had brought back. He patted Mu Chen on the shoulder with great satisfaction, "zi'an, you have done well."

Without this batch of grain, no matter how good their flood control is, the people in Jiangcheng will not have a good life in the future.

14、 I used to look down on you. You didn't just know how to fight. "Xu Yanlin rushed up and punched Mu Chen in the chest.

Mu Chen smiles, where is his credit? If Shen Jingli had not insisted on buying land to store grain, and had made people rush to collect grain in the rain, they would have to wait for the imperial court to open warehouses for disaster relief or watch the people starve to death.

Jing Li suggested that we organize refugees to build river banks. "He really picked up a big treasure." young and strong men work in groups to reorganize villages destroyed by floods and build river banks. Women, old people and children help to take care of the injured refugees in the refugee camp, and let them rely on their own labor to get rice and grain. This will be more orderly. "

It is Shen Jingli's original words that people should not blindly rely on the government's relief. Sometimes the court is unreliable.

Hearing this, King Jing and Xu Yanlin looked at Mu Chen's love together, and could not help but feel a little embarrassed. Their two big men thought less than a couple in the inner house. King Jing put up a shed to give porridge at the gate of the city. Because the regulations were read first, all the refugees were in good order, and no one dared to recommend and fight for it.

"Mother-in-law, you should be careful. You'll have porridge again in the evening." Looking at the gluttonous old woman, Li Qi with a slightly helpless smile to remind.

When he was young, he had never encountered such a harsh situation and did not know what it was like to be hungry. Looking at these refugees, he could not help but feel a surge of sympathy.

Magistrate Liu stood in the dark, looking at the orderly refugee team, his face was red. A kind of uneasiness and fear came, and he felt a bit ashamed.

Because of the name of King Jing, many rich families have built houses to offer porridge, and have sent their servants to help keep the streets clean and safe.

The flood washed away the farmer's hard work for a year, along with their families. A few of them continued. A flood left them destitute, but begging from others was shameful.

King Jing's policy of receiving food through labor skillfully satisfied the people's self-esteem. They felt respect, instead of being a fawning dog, they had to face the sympathy and pity of others.

Therefore, King Jing became a living Bodhisattva in the hearts of the people in Jiangcheng. Every day he worked hard, he would have food to eat, and he could earn a certain amount of grain or grain. King Jing specially asked people to help them sort out their homes and build houses. Half of the money was from the government for disaster relief, and the other half was for them to write an IOU and register it in the Yamen and pay it back next year.

Under the well-organized planning of Jingwang and others, the relief operation was very successful, and the problem of refugees was solved as soon as possible, so as not to let them take refuge everywhere and affect the people in other cities.

After the incident, King Jing wrote a memorial to the emperor, saying that the flood disaster was the least affected, thanks to the Mu Chen and his wife, who suggested that they should give porridge to relieve the disaster and pacify the people, so as to survive the disaster with the lowest loss. Of course, he also added a copy of magistrate Liu to the memorial, which made him guilty of being an official and sentenced to exile On the northwest borde