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Chapter 141
Liu Renci was dispatched to Yongzhou as governor three years ago, and now that his three-year term has expired, he returns to Beijing with his family to report on his duties.

He came from a humble family with a simple family consisting of only an old wife and two sons.

The eldest son is 20 years old and is an official in Suzhou and Hangzhou. The second son is [-] years old and is studying in Suzhou and Hangzhou. Now there are only old wives and servants around him.

Liu Renren returned to Beijing from Yongzhou a month ago and was escorted by ten officers and soldiers from the Yongzhou Government Office.

The old couple were used to simplicity, with only one carriage of luggage and four old servants, and the escorting officers and soldiers all rode their own horses.

After a long journey of twenty days, I arrived at Tai'an, Lincheng, the capital city.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered Tai'an, it began to rain endlessly.

The original two-day journey ended up taking four days because of the autumn rain.

After finally entering the boundary of the capital, it rained harder and harder. In addition, some people destroyed the embankment privately, causing floods.

Liu Renci and his party were trapped near Anping County.

Fortunately, there were ten officers and soldiers guarding him. 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 felt heartbroken when he saw that the farmland and people's homes that were about to be harvested had turned into a swamp.

Standing around him were people in ragged clothes, wailing at the farmland washed away by the flood.

The people who lost their farmland and houses became refugees. In order to survive, many people had to flee to the capital, hoping to find a job in the capital to support their families.

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

Seeing the thin people huddled together to keep each other warm, Liu Ren was heartbroken and planned to stay and temporarily resettle these people.

There are more and more refugees going to the capital in the past two days, and maybe the capital will be in trouble by then.

He stayed for the time being to appease the people here, and when the disaster relief officials from the court arrived, he would transfer the affairs here to them. If the court handled the situation well, it would probably not take a few days for someone to come to take care of him.

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

In order to resettle the victims, Liu Renci temporarily requisitioned the mansions of wealthy households in high places, and donated the food he brought with him to let his wife cook porridge for the victims.

But his little grain was eaten up by the victims within two days.

Liu Renci was helpless, and spent a lot of money to buy grain from wealthy households.

But he was an upright official, and even if he spent all the money he wanted to use to buy a house in the capital, it would be a drop in the bucket for disaster relief. Not only that, but hearing that he had food here, victims from all directions gathered here.

Even though Liu Renci had tried his best to manage these victims, many dirty things still happened under his nose.

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

Liu Renren was helpless and decided to risk crossing the flood to seek help from Zhuangzi who had high-ranking officials and nobles in the suburbs of Beijing. He asked these Zhuangzi to donate food and materials to calm the people's hearts.

The rainy day is already bright and late, and it is still dark all day long.

Early in the morning, just as the sky was getting brighter, Liu Renci set off on horseback with two old servants and two officers and soldiers to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing.

To go to the suburbs of Beijing, you have to cross the flooded waterway.

After half an hour, Liu Renci and his party arrived at the waterway of the flood.

As long as you cross this waterway, you can reach the suburbs of Beijing that were not severely affected.

The waterway was originally an unknown river in the suburbs of Beijing, less than two meters wide, but now it is 30 meters wide!

It turned out that the wooden bridge on the small river had been washed away somewhere.

The floodwaters were turbulent and it was extremely difficult to cross the flooded river safely.

On the other side of the river, there were quite a few people in the capital who were watching the excitement, lamenting the magnitude of the flood.

The desolate people on this side of the river seem to be in two worlds.

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

Liu Renci said to the old servant behind him: "Lao Hai, release the goshawk!"

The half-white-haired old servant nodded, released an eagle from the sack on the horse's side, and then tied a hemp rope around the eagle's feet. Then the old servant made a few moves towards the goshawk, raised his hand, and Let the goshawk fly into the sky.

The goshawk tied with hemp rope flew to the opposite bank.

Yongzhou is remote and dry, where the Hatu people live. They believe in the eagle god and are good at training eagles. Almost every household has an eagle.

When Liu Renren became an official there, he asked his old servant Ahai to imitate the locals and raise one, but he didn't expect it to be used here.

The light rain did not affect the goshawk's flight, 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 carefully untied the hemp rope from the goshawk's claws, and then saw the note on the hemp rope.

After looking for a literate person to read the note, everyone suddenly understood.

This is for them to help fix the hemp rope, and then the people on the other side will use this hemp rope to wade through the flood and come to them.

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

The people on the other side helped fix the rope, and Liu Renren asked the officers and soldiers to take down the tubs and barrels they brought.

Then, with a wooden tub or barrel under their feet, they planned to float across the raging flood to reach the opposite bank by means of ropes.

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

People on the other side watched Liu Renren and his party move this way with the help of hemp ropes in an extremely dangerous manner.

Suddenly a violent wave of the flood knocked over the wooden basin under the feet of the officer and soldier who was leading it. The officer and soldier staggered, hanging on the rope with both hands, and his weight pulled the rope into a terrifying arc, which instantly affected the following people. personal.

Fortunately, the old servant Ah Hai who was behind the officer was resourceful and caught the officer in time, and then let the officer step on his wooden basin.

This officer and soldier is physically strong and moves quickly, so as to avoid accidents caused by excessive weight on the rope.

The people watching from the opposite side raised their hearts when they saw this scene, and they all cheered for Liu Renci and his party.

When the five people floated to two-thirds of the waterway with the help of wooden tubs and barrels, suddenly a group of refugees jumped out from where they started!
The clothes of this group of refugees were shabby, covered in mud, and their facial features could not be seen from the dirt. It was obvious that they had 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 so fast that they didn't have any chance at all. Those who had the courage to wade directly across the river were already submerged in the flood.

They were hiding in the dark and had already seen Liu Renren and his party.

They also saw the way Liu Renren and his party crossed the river, and they could not bear it at this time.

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

After rushing over, these refugees grabbed the rope regardless of Sanqi 21, and did not step on anything to float on the water, so they forcibly waded across the river.

In just a short moment, a dozen refugees grabbed the rope and jumped into the flood!

(End of this chapter)