It started to rain the night Ji Mingyan and the poisonous lady watched the ants move.
Ji Yunxi and Wu Weian had already washed up and huddled in the room, busy with each other.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of rain outside the window, and it was getting louder and louder.
Wu Weian was sitting at the table, looking at the fallen trees outside, and suddenly thought of one thing: "Did you say the prince is back?"
Ji Yunxi flipped through the letters sent by Kaitai Village and Bu Village: "I don't know."
Wu Weian held a writing brush in one hand and rested his chin in the other: "I asked the prince to help handle a little more files. I guess the prince should still be in the palace."
Ji Yunxi glanced at him: "So?"
Wu Weian: "The prince's injury has not yet healed, and the heavy rain has not yet returned. As a current official, I am a little worried."
Worry
Ji Yunxi sneered.
Wu Weian tapped the five fingers on his chin and pondered: "Because of love and reason, should I go and pick up the prince?"
Ji Yunxi knew what Wu Weian wanted to do as soon as he heard it.
In the past life, in order to grab business, Ji Yunxi specially picked rainy days, soaked her whole body to deliver things to customers.
Those things are actually not very important, and they don't necessarily have to be delivered on rainy days. But Ji Yunxi did just that.
She raised her head, looked at the strong wind and rain outside, and said lightly, "The mansion is not far from the backyard, so your mansion must have an umbrella?"
Wu Weian nodded: "Yes."
Ji Yunxi snorted: "Prince is older than you and me, and if it rains, I know that I will bring an umbrella back. Even if you go, the prince will still get wet, why? And this is the point, why do you bother to go out for a while? trip?"
Wu Weian glanced at Ji Yunxi with a half-smile but not a smile: "Does Madam care about me, or is she afraid that I will steal the prince's heart and make the prince break up with your Ji family?"
Ji Yunxi raised her eyes to look at him, there was neither sorrow nor joy in her eyes, and her tone was cold: "I said I care about you, do you believe it?"
Wu Weian: "If I say I don't believe it, does Madam say, 'If you don't believe me, I can't help it'?"
Ji Yunxi shrugged.
Wu Weian finally got up: "I'm still worried about the prince, I have to go and see for myself."
Before this, Wu Weian was willing to support the prince, all because of the Ji family.
But in just a few days, Wu Weian felt that it was really good for the prince to be the emperor.
The nature of the prince, as long as the prince believes that he likes himself, then he will have no worries in his life.
Now the prince treats him entirely because he is Ji Yunxi's husband.
He didn't think about making himself more important than the Ji family in the eyes of the prince.
But it can't be lighter, at least about the same.
Wu Weian took an umbrella from the side: "In the rainy night, I really don't want to go out."
Ji Yunxi knew what Wu Weian meant, and when he heard the words, he poured a bowl of cold water on him: "It's just an unnecessary effort. There is a dispute between the Ji family and the Wu family. Your Highness must choose my Ji family."
Wu Weian chuckled: "Is the madam so sure? Would the madam come with me to pick up the prince? Otherwise, the prince will fall to me in the future, madam, you won't have time to cry."
Hearing this, Ji Yunxi withdrew his gaze: "Go away."
*
The candles in the room flickered, and the prince was concentrating on reading the Liangzhou dossier, reviewing it while reading it.
Today, although the crown prince has participated in the affairs of the DPRK, he has not actually had much contact with him, and only a few less important things, such as being responsible for some sacrificial ceremonies, and helping to deal with several major cases.
And like Liangzhou, who actually participates in the jurisdiction of a place, ranging from floods that are critical to the life and death of the people, as small as a certain catcher in the prefecture who wants to go back to his hometown to visit his mother, one by one, saying It is also the first time the prince has contacted.
He got carried away, from these small incidents, to see the entire Liangzhou city, he forgot the time for a while, and he didn't even use dinner.
Until the door was pushed open, Wu Weian appeared in front of him: "Your Highness, it's time for you to go back."
The prince raised his head subconsciously.
Seeing the rain on Wu Weian's body, the prince was startled: "Is it raining outside?"
Wu Weian nodded, wiped the rain on his head, and handed the crown prince an umbrella: "His Royal Highness, it's getting late, it's better to go back to the room early to rest."
Only then did the prince realize that the wound was aching and his stomach was hungry.
He took Wu Weian's umbrella, looked at Wu Weian up and down, and was startled again: "Why are you drenched like this?"
"It's raining a lot outside." Wu Weian said, "Xiaguan had already fallen asleep, but I was afraid that the prince had not yet returned, so I came to take a look. Fortunately, Xiaguan came, otherwise, how long would His Highness stay here? Your Highness, your arrow wound has not healed yet, so be careful."
The prince and Wu Weian went out together: "When I saw you today, I realized that it is not easy to govern the people's livelihood in a state. Gu just looked at it, and Wei'an, you have done a good job these days. You have done a good job of thanking the family. It's even better. Even if Gu is you, Duan Duan can't do this! You were seriously injured in the law field that day, and you were able to support yourself until Xie Bin's head fell. What is the small injury of Gu?"
Wu Weian heard the words and smiled humbly: "His Royal Highness praised it wrongly, this is the responsibility of the lower officials."
The two walked to the door, and the cold wind poured in, blowing their dresses flying.
Wu Weian opened the umbrella, and there was a hole in the corner of the umbrella.
He adjusted the umbrella cover and stepped into the rain curtain.
The manner is natural and generous, it seems that it is very common for an umbrella to have a hole.
The prince also opened his umbrella. His umbrella was intact, and the umbrella was larger than Wu Weian's.
The prince saw these in his eyes and was slightly stunned.
The crown prince has a distinguished status since he was a child, and there are not many people inside and outside the palace who want to flatter him and show all kinds of hospitality.
But the prince has always hated these things, and he prefers people who can do things well.
And this Wu Weian managed Liangzhou's affairs in an orderly and meticulous manner in just a few months.
He gave him a new umbrella on a rainy night, but he himself used the old broken umbrella.
The wind was blowing, and the prince's voice was intermittent: "Evian's temperament, how can you use this broken oil-paper umbrella?"
Wu Weian sucked his nose, which was red from the cold, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, the lower officials are different from the madams, and they have a poor family since childhood. It is a blessing to have an umbrella, not to mention just a small hole? When I inspected the dams in Japan, I also stopped by to see a few people. There are seven or eight people in a family, but there is only one umbrella. The adults are reluctant to use it and leave it to children and the elderly."
The prince was shocked for a while.
He hurriedly asked a few more questions, and Wu Weian answered them one by one.
During the conversation between the two, the prince found that he and this Wu Weian had unexpectedly identical political thoughts!
It's a bosom friend!
In just a few short steps, the side room arrived.
The prince was still a little reluctant, and he wanted to chat more with Wu Weian.
However, the person waiting at the door of the side room was Baofu.
Baofu held a bowl of steaming ginger soup in his hand, and said to the prince, "Your Highness, you are finally back. The lady is worried about you, and specially ordered the servants to bring the ginger soup over. The lady also said, Your Highness Surely dinner hasn't been eaten yet, the kitchen is already preparing food, and it will be delivered in a while."
For a moment, the prince felt warm in his heart: "Yunxi has been bothered."
Baofu looked at Wu Weian, with a hard squeezed smile on his face: "Uncle, Miss asked you to go back to the room to drink ginger soup as soon as possible after picking up the prince."
The prince who wanted to drag Wu Weian for a chat dismissed the idea, he said, "Weian, go back quickly, don't let Yun Xi wait for a long time."
Wu Weian: "..."
Did he make a wedding dress for someone
*
From this night onwards, the rain became heavier and heavier, and it never stopped.
A few days later, the city of Liangzhou flooded in. Fortunately, the dams in Liangzhou City were in good condition, and the deepest part of the city was only ankle-deep.
Wu Weian and the prince stayed together almost during the day, busy dredging the water in Liangzhou City.
The situation in the city is getting better and better. Although the rain is still falling, the water has never been higher than the ankle.
But the situation in Qinghe County was completely the opposite.
The magistrate of Qinghe County specially sent people to rush to Liangzhou to find Wu Weian.
In the palace, the prince sat on the main seat, and Wu Weian sat on the side.
The person who came from Qinghe County fell to his knees directly on the ground: "Sir! Qinghe County was flooded, the dam was washed away, and now the city is flooded with water! The county magistrate really has no choice, and specially sent a villain to invite Lord Wu is here to help!"
Wu Weian frowned: "Tell me carefully, where is the water level in Qinghe County, and how are the people?"
The man wiped off the water and said anxiously: "When the villain came, the water was already full to the shoulders of adults. The people whose houses were built high can only live on the highest floors. The houses with only one floor have been completely I can't live in. Many people have been taken in in the government office, but now there is not enough food, bedding, and manpower. Many people are trapped in trees, and many people have even been washed away..."
Wu Weian's brows darkened, this situation was much more serious than he thought-
When it rains, Ji Yunxi doesn't like going out very much.
She lay lazily on the beauty's couch, taking a nap while listening to the sound of rain outside.
Suddenly, Wanxiang came in a hurry: "Miss."
Ji Yunxi opened her eyes, but there was not much sleepiness in her eyes: "What's the matter?"
"This morning, the shopkeeper of Buzhuang found this letter stuck on the beam in the store. The letter was written by Miss." Wanxiang handed the letter up.
The rain outside the house was as dense as needles, and the wind was blowing, making a rustling sound everywhere.
A trace of coolness appeared in my heart, like the ripples on the water surface, expanding and expanding.
Ji Yunxi looked at the letter and did not dare to answer it for a while.
Wanxiang held it up respectfully, her face slightly puzzled: "Miss?"
Ji Yunxi closed her eyes, then opened them and reached out to take them.
She took it apart bit by bit.
The letter reads:
The truth about the death of Qingyuan Hou and his wife in Qinghe County
Ji Yunxi stared at those words for a long time.
She knew that there must be something strange about the death of her parents.
She held the thin piece of letter paper and was slightly ecstatic for a moment.
Qinghe County
Aunt Gui's natal family was Qinghe County.
But Aunt Gui Ji Yunxi asked Wanxiang to find someone to investigate the other side, and she went to see Aunt Gui in person.
Ji Yunxi was certain that Aunt Gui was fine. But why, this letter says the truth is in Qinghe County
Just when Ji Yunxi was thinking, Ji Mingyan and Ji Mingshuang suddenly ran in from the rain.
"Third sister!" Ji Mingyan always had a smile on his face, but rarely did he even smile at all. His tone was heavy, and just as he was about to show Ji Yunxi the letter in his arms, he saw that Ji Yunxi was also holding it in his hand. with a letter.
Ji Mingshuang, who was half a step behind Ji Mingyan, also had a letter.
The same letter, with the same words.
Ji Yunxi lowered her eyes, her eyes were cold.
The person behind this, for fear that Ji Yunxi would hide the letter from the two brothers after receiving the letter, even sent a letter to the two brothers.
What does this mean
Explain that Qinghe County is a trap.
Ji Yunxi was a little confused, so she first comforted the two brothers: "Sixth brother, seventh brother, don't be impulsive, we need to take a long-term view on this matter. Let me think about it, and you can go back and think about it."
Ji Mingshuang and Ji Mingyan said okay, and left-
That night, Wu Weian came back to his room very late.
But when they got to the room, Ji Yunxi hadn't fallen asleep, but sat upright on the beauty's couch in a daze.
Wu Weian paused, closed the door with his backhand, looked at her face, and approached: "But what happened?"
Ji Yunxi came to her senses from deep thought. She looked at his dull face and asked, "What happened to you?"
Wu Weian raised his eyebrows: "I asked you first."
Ji Yunxi: "You speak first."
Wu Wei settled down for a while, and said helplessly: "The prince and I are going to Qinghe County."
Ji Yunxi suddenly raised his head: "Qinghe County?"
"Well." Wu Weian walked over and sat down at Ji Yunxi's feet, "There was a flood in Qinghe County. The county has a population of more than 70,000, which is not a small number. Although I only have a supervisory role in Qinghe County, I am Still have to go check it out.”
"Prepare for the day tomorrow, and leave early the day after tomorrow." Wu Weian saw that she seemed a little dazed, so he said a few more words, "Don't worry, leave the day after tomorrow, and return in about two days. The prince and I just went through the motions and put the supplies and the cold. After the state army is sent to Qinghe County, it will not stay for long."
Ji Yunxi lowered her eyes and tickled the corner of her lips: "It's a coincidence."
Wu Weian: "?"
Ji Yunxi took out three letters from the side and handed them to Wu Weian.
Wu Weian looked at the letter in his hand, and his eyes were so deep in the rainy night outside.
Ji Yunxi said quietly: "This is to kill us all."
She crossed her legs and put one hand on her right knee, smiling, but her smile was frosty: "I really want to see what's going on in Qinghe County."
Wu Weian's eyes were very deep, he folded the letter back exactly as it was creased, and suddenly said softly, "If you want me to tell you, you and your two brothers had better not go."
Ji Yunxi hummed: "I know." She looked at him, "But the reason why I came to Liangzhou with you is to wait for this day."
"I can't help but go."
Ji Yunxi was decisive.
Wu Weian turned his head to look at her, raised his hand and smoothed the bun on her forehead, with a soft and casual tone: "Then go."
*
The next day, when it was still dark, all the people in the backyard of the Liangzhou government office were up.
Xuezhu has always been the first person in the family to get up, and he is wearing a bamboo hat to sweep the water.
The prince he swept first lived outside the side room. Because it was so early, the prince would definitely not get up. He could finish the scan before the prince woke up.
Unexpectedly, the prince actually got up!
The prince looked shocked: "Xuezhu? How did you start sweeping the water so early? Gu said that, when I woke up for the past few days, I found that there was not much water accumulated outside the courtyard. It turned out that you were cleaning the water for Gu every day? "
Xuezhu: "."
Prince: "You stand in the rain like this, but it's cold? Can you have breakfast so early?"
Xuezhu: "."
…
After Wu Weian finished his breakfast, he went to Liangzhou Granary with the crown prince under an umbrella.
They want to load part of the grain and grass in the granary and transport it to Qinghe County.
Li Yu waited by the side and asked respectfully, "Sir, how much rice do you need?"
Wu Weian looked at the bags of good rice in front of him, and was silent for a while: "Just pack a dozen bags."
The prince next to him heard it and hurried over: "I'm afraid a dozen bags are not enough." He asked the official, "How many bags of rice are there in total?"
Official Yu replied, "Go back to your Highness, there are six hundred and twenty-one bags in total."
The front was afraid of serious flooding in Liangzhou, so he stocked up a lot of rice.
But now, the situation in Liangzhou is good, and the people have a lot of food in their hands, so they don't use it much, and they are still piled up in this barn.
The prince thought for a while: "First pack five hundred bags and go."
Wu Weian stopped talking.
In the end, Wu Weian quietly left the granary and returned home while the prince was busy.
When he got home, he found that the car was also being loaded at home.
Na Baofu was directing people to move rice from the granary at home.
Wu Weian: "?"
He went to Ji Yunxi, who was packing in the room: "Why did you come back?"
"The prince seems to be doing better than me, so I'll leave it to the prince to preside over the situation." He looked at her, "Don't we need to keep some rice at home?"
Ji Yunxi said: "I will keep the amount for a month, and the rest will be shipped to Qinghe County."
In the last life, Ji Yunxi became famous and became a volunteer after having money and leisure.
She probably knew that there would be a shortage of supplies in such a natural and man-made disaster.
A little more luck in the past is always right.
*
On the second day, the group went to Qinghe County in a mighty way.
Wu Weian and Ji Yunxi shared a carriage, and Ji Mingyan, Ji Mingshuang and the prince shared a carriage.
Ji Mingyan and Ji Mingshuang were extremely silent since they got into the carriage.
The prince wanted to say something, but he didn't get much response.
In desperation, the prince could only close his mouth.
On this trip, Ji Mingyan brought a load of poison.
He swore that if he were to find the murderer of his parents, he would be so poisonous that he would regret coming to this world.
But Ji Mingyan never thought that what he saw would be such a Qinghe County.
The turbid flood rushes past, and the Qinghe County, which is built by the river, is horrific.
There are big trees, carriages, tables and chairs floating in the river, and even thatched huts rising from the ground.
The square-shaped house was also washed to the ground, and the river water poured directly into it.
There are countless people below, or clinging to the trunk of the tree, or trying to pull everything that can be pulled.
Their roars, hoarse voices, were drowned out by the howling floodwaters, and the people standing on the slopes and looking down could not hear them.
The densely packed people were like the densely packed ants that Ji Mingyan and the poisonous lady squatted on the ground to watch that day.
There was no road in front of the carriage, and the group stopped and looked down from a high place.
Soon, two or three people came running here, and their words were excited: "But Master Wu!!"
Inside the car, Wu Weian and Ji Yunxi looked at each other.
Wu Weian lifted the curtain and jumped down.
After a long while, he came back, stood under the car and said to everyone: "Now the rescued people are stationed one kilometer away, let's all go over first."
The carriage slowly went over there.
The garrison is an abandoned mine.
Many people were standing, sitting or lying on the ground in the mine.
One by one, wet clothes, trembling all over, clinging to each other.
It was still raining outside, and the branches in the mountains were so wet that water dripped from them, and there was no fire at all.
The sound of coughing came and went, and the atmosphere was dignified and uncomfortable.
As for Ji Yunxi and his party, who went in with an oil-paper umbrella, their clothes were still dry, and they were all fair-faced and decently dressed.
When the people saw the person coming, they raised their heads and glanced deadly, and then withdrew their gazes.
The magistrate of Qinghe County hurriedly greeted him.
During this trip, everyone did not reveal the identity of the prince, so the magistrate did not know the prince, so he only saluted Wu Weian: "Sir! You are finally here! This flood is a rare occurrence in ten years, and the lower officials really don't know what to do. , please let the adults make it clear!"
Wu Weian put everything in front of his eyes. He first sent a thousand Liangzhou troops to go down with the catchers of Qinghe County to fish for people, and then handed over the food and grass to the magistrate of Qinghe County, and said: "Such a large-scale flood will have Please help in the army. Have you ever sent a letter to the Linnan Army?"
The army in the city was small, and the Liangzhou army was no more than a thousand people.
For such a large-scale flood, only the military can be called upon for assistance.
The Linnan Army was the closest army to Qinghe County, with about 30,000 people.
The county magistrate said: "It was delivered a few days ago! If it goes well, it will arrive in two days."
Wu Weian nodded.
After two days, it was almost time for them to leave.
The prince couldn't help but interject: "How many people are there?"
The magistrate looked at the prince and looked at Wu Weian with some doubts.
Wu Weian said lightly, "This is the new Master Li that I invited."
The county magistrate snorted and replied respectfully: "There are about 3,000 people here. There is not enough space, and there are more than a dozen people, adding up to about 30,000 to 40,000 people."
Prince: "Isn't there another 20,000 to 30,000 people below?"
The magistrate was silent for a moment, then nodded.
There are countless people trapped below.
Yuan Guanshi, Xuezhu, Poisonous Lady, and the House Elder stood on the slope and looked down.
Ji Mingshuang and Ji Mingyan didn't know when to go down, and their figures were flying around, pulling people up from time to time in the surging flood.
The poisonous lady looked at it for a long time and asked, "Yuan Steward, can we go down?"
Yuan Guanshi said with a straight face, "Young Master never told me."
Xuezhu didn't speak, his gaze fell on the figure standing among the trees for a long time.
It was a boy of seven or eight years old, standing and waving, for fear that no one would see him.
Very annoying.
I want to pull it off.
Xuezhu pursed her lips, turned around and went back to find Wu Weian.
Wu Weian gave 'Master Li' to the magistrate of Qinghe County, and was planning to find Ji Yunxi who was missing.
Xuezhu stopped him: "Young Master."
Wu Weian didn't have the heart to listen to Xuezhu finish: "It's fine."
Xuezhu: "Oh."
Xuezhu immediately took the order and jumped down directly from the hillside, flying in the air, and then fell lightly in front of the tree like a swallow.
The boy who was still beckoning widened his eyes, looking at the man who flew over suddenly.
Xuezhu looked at the boy.
The boy was dirty all over.
Xuezhu paused, and finally reached out and carried the boy's collar, and sent the man to the shore.
But when it fell to the ground, the boy waved his hand subconsciously.
Mother told him before being washed away by the water, let him keep waving, don't stop, can't stop.
Xuezhu stretched out his hand, pressed the boy's still moving hand to his side, and said, "Okay, don't move."
The boy stared blankly at Xuezhu, and suddenly he took a breath and cried out with a wow.
Xuezhu frowned, and immediately took out a clean handkerchief from his arms and stuffed it into the boy's mouth.
Then he turned around and continued to fish for the next one.