It’s hard to break a phoenix’s destiny

Chapter 336: Heaven’s Secret Reveals the Emperor’s Appearance

The weather has been cold recently, and the handymen at the North Fifth Institute planned to take this opportunity to clean up the icehouse in preparation for storing new ice for use in the coming year. When they opened the icehouse door, unexpectedly, more than half of the large ice cube inside melted, and all of it mixed with ice water flowed out.

The icehouse was built in the upper reaches of the Luo River northwest of Luoyang. It was originally intended to facilitate the selection of clean Luo River water for ice making. Now that it has been poured, all these ice cubes have fallen into the Luo River water and flowed down quickly along the Luo River water.

The most prosperous market in Luoyang is built along the Luo River. In order to expand the area, many shops have built wooden houses on the gentle Luo River by driving pilings and building wooden houses to expand their business area.

For so many years, even if the Luo River water freezes or there are drifting ice, it has no impact at all.

But who knew that this time it would be huge ice blocks rushing down the current.

Amidst the shouts of the Beiwusuo handymen, some store clerks discovered this situation and quickly used long poles or wooden sticks to push the large ice blocks away from the wooden pile foundations of their stores to avoid the risk of being hit.

But Zanxiang Pavilion was not so lucky.

It is located near a bend in Luoshui. When it was first built, I felt that my house was nothing more than rouge, gouache and other light things, so other people built five or six ground stakes in the river, while his family only built three. The wooden piles used are also one-third narrower than others.

At first, some people questioned whether their building would have safety issues, but his boss felt that it was just a place for ventilation and viewing. Most of the items were placed in front, and there would not be too many people standing there on weekdays, so There will be no problem.

The reason was simply that the cost of construction was too expensive and he was reluctant to part with it.

Over the past year, the struggle for imperial power has entered a fierce stage. Luoyang is under curfew at every turn, and many shops have closed and gone to the countryside to escape. A rouge and gouache shop like his couldn't make any money, so he dismissed all the staff three days ago, closed the shop, and said he would close down and come back next spring.

The drifting ice slid rapidly along the Luoshui River and hit the wooden piles below the shop near the water. The first piece made a huge noise, and the second piece hit with greater force, and the wooden pile broke immediately; the third and fourth pieces came one after another, how could the three wooden piles withstand such an impact? The force completely broke, and the storefront of Zanxiang Pavilion also fell into the Luo River.

But the weird thing is that this is a bend in the Luohe River, and the big ice block is stuck. In other words, even if Zanxiang Pavilion fell into the water, the broken wood did not flow down and was jammed behind the ice.

This is bad now.

The Luo River water is running water. After it was blocked here, the water level in the upper reaches immediately rose, and the water overflowed onto the streets. But what is more dangerous is not these, but if it is not cleared in time and accumulates to a certain extent, the drifting ice will rush downstream, and all the shops and homes on both sides will suffer.

The weather is getting colder and colder. If it gets flooded again, it will really make things worse and life will be even more difficult.

Someone ran to the Beijun Mansion to report the news.

They did not dare to seek help from Zhang Fang's army, but only people from the Northern Army Mansion.

Qin Chaoge was still in Yizhuang, and Mao Hongbin could only take people to see the situation by himself. Fortunately, the Yang brothers came back, and he took the two of them and ran to the scene.

Yang Xiankang is an action person. When he saw this situation, he knew that if he didn't deal with it, something big would happen. He picked up a long pole from someone else's hand and poked the big ice block hard, but it didn't move. He planned to jump onto the big piece of ice closest to the river bank, and then push another piece of ice with his bare hands.

Yang Xianyong felt that it was too dangerous to do this, so he grabbed his brother. His idea was to light torches to burn large blocks of ice, speeding up their melting. People from the Beijun Mansion and people from nearby merchants were all busy, looking for torches and rags. It was extremely chaotic.

But at this moment, Yang Xiankang had jumped on top of the big ice block, leaned down to take a look, and shouted in surprise: "What is this? Get a fishing net quickly! Hurry up!"

Everyone looked into the river and saw that the water level there had risen. Because there was accumulation of debris, they couldn't see clearly what was there. It was just a large area of ​​darkness.

At this time, a brave man also jumped on the big ice block and looked down with Yang Xiankang. The man couldn't help shouting out in shock: "Oh my God! Is it a person? Why do he have eyes?"

It didn't matter what he shouted, it frightened people on both sides of the river.

There was no fishing net to be found for a while, and someone actually carried a door panel over.

Yang Xianyong was worried about the safety of his second brother, so he and two other military guards from the Northern Army Mansion put the available door planks on the big ice blocks, and then tied them all with long cloth strips, and also asked Yang Xianyong to Xiankang and the other man were tied around their waists.

Yang Xiankang was very courageous. He took off his clothes, lay on the big ice block, and reached out to fish out the things in the water. Fortunately, he moved quickly and his hands were steady. He moved the thing in the water into his clothes, and worked hard with the other guy to lift the thing up.

Yang Xianyong stood on the shore and stretched out a long pole, allowing the two people to quickly return to the shore.

Just when Yang Xiankang stepped onto the shore, the big ice block suddenly loosened and quickly slid downstream. The crowd held up long wooden sticks and shouted wildly, pushing the big ice block as far as possible to the middle of the river so as not to hit the wooden piles of the building.

What a mess.

Zhang Fang's garrison saw this situation and joined in. Finally, there is strength in numbers, and the large ice cubes are gradually melting, becoming less threatening. After passing through a prosperous commercial district, the river gradually widened and the crisis was relieved.

Most people also gathered here at Zanxiang Pavilion to help clean up debris in the river. Even more people gathered around Yang Xiankang to see what he was carrying from the river.

The clothes were spread on the ground, and there were some dead branches and sawdust, but it could be seen that this was an old turtle, the size of a large iron pot for cooking with firewood. If Yang Xiankang and the boy were not strong, Can't even lift it up. But it is also very possible that this old turtle resisted the big ice block, causing the river to become seriously blocked.

Anyway, the old turtle lay there motionless.

Someone among the onlookers was sharp-eyed and asked, "What's on the back of this turtle? Why does it look like it has a nose and eyes?"

"Let me just say, it looked like a person lying in the river just now. It really scared me to death." The guy who was with Yang Xiankang said loudly and patted his heart to express fear.

Someone went to bring some river water and poured it on the old turtle's back, and some brave ones took a bamboo brush used for cleaning toilets to clean the turtle shell on its back.

Soon, a human face appeared on the turtle shell.

Some of the onlookers exclaimed again: "Could this be a leak of heaven's secrets, a miracle? The arrival of the emperor?"