Floods have been ravaging the south of the Yangtze River for five days. Most of the south is devastated. Almost no house is leaking, no wall is leaning, and buildings to the east and west are all submerged in a body of water with no boundaries. There are rafts going between the streets and alleys, and millions of victims are victims.
Displaced.
What a miserable word.
The only good news is that it has been raining in the Jiangnan area for almost a month, and it has finally stopped.
However, even if the rain stops, the flooding in Jiangnan has not been alleviated much. The water in many places is still several feet deep. For example, in Taiping County, which was severely affected by the disaster, even the Taiping County government office is still soaked by floods. Depending on the situation, there is no
For ten days and a half, the floods will not recede; and even if the floods recede, the flood disaster will not recede. The destroyed houses, washed-out farmland, and flooded property and food will be difficult to recover. Millions of victims are displaced and desperate for food.
The road ahead is long and arduous.
Jingnan County was one of the counties that suffered less damage during the flood and was more effective in disaster relief. Many displaced victims from nearby counties fled to Jingnan after hearing the news. On the main roads leading to Jingnan, there were three or five victims one after another.
Groups, or even a village, of victims fled to Jingnan together with their young and old.
Dazhuo Mountain spans the three counties of Jingnan, Tiantai and Taiping, guarding the main transportation route from Tiantai and Taiping counties to Jingnan. After the flood, victims passed by the foot of the mountain one after another every day and fled to Jingnan.
Dachu Mountain is a mountain system, stretching for hundreds of miles, with dozens of high mountains, thousands of meters high, and majestic. Dachu Mountain is very famous in Taizhou Prefecture, but its fame is not a good one. It is famous for mountain bandits.
There are more than a dozen groups of bandits, large and small, in Dachu Mountain. They are notorious for being difficult to suppress and uneasy to deal with. Because the area spans three counties, the bandits in Jingnan will flee to the Tiantai and Taiping areas.
When bandits were suppressed in Tiantai, they fled to the Jingnan and Taiping areas. When bandits were suppressed in Taiping, they fled to Tiantai and Jingnan areas. Due to administrative factors, it is difficult for the three counties to jointly suppress bandits. In the past ten years, there have only been one or two joint efforts to suppress bandits.
There was not much success. As soon as the bandits were jointly suppressed, the bandits went to the deep mountains and old forests. There were wild fruits and prey in the mountains, and the bandits could not starve to death. As time went by, the three counties themselves could no longer bear it. As soon as the three counties withdrew, the bandits
Coming out of the deep mountains and old forests, I started to resume my old business, occupying the mountains and becoming the king.
Usually when passing by the foot of Dachu Mountain, people would feel anxious, but now people are not worried at all.
Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. We are all victims of the disaster with nothing, and the bandits can steal a piece of it.
On this day, on a main road from Dachu Mountain to Jingnan County, a group of more than eighty people came.
The leader is a stout man in his fifties, with a short chin and black and white beard. He is dressed in terry brown and has half of his arms exposed. He is as strong as a cow, but there is a lot of talent behind him.
Following closely beside him was a young man. The young man was slender, wearing coarse clothes and a pair of sheepskin boots. Except for the sheepskin boots that were inevitably stained with mud, his clothes were neat and clean without a drop of mud, but his face was stained.
Even though it was stained with a few pieces of mud, it was still difficult to hide its delicate face, with eyebrows as slender as a pair of long black eyebrows, a pair of big and bright eyes, a small mouth, red lips and white teeth.
How should I put it? The boy is a bit feminine, like a girl, with an oval face, like a fox that has become a spirit.
Of course, even though the boy looked like a girl, no one looked at him twice along the way. Because he was playing with a dagger in his hand, like a butterfly wearing a flower, in the palm of his hand
Flying in.
The victims who were fleeing the disaster on the road were unable to hide, so they dared not look for trouble. Of course, there were also some who were short-sighted and teased the young man, but they were quickly taught how to behave by the more than 80 strong men following the young man.
Behind the leading man and the young man were more than eighty men, all of whom were in their prime, with their sleeves rolled up and shoulders exposed. They all looked like crabs, walking rampantly and swearing obscenely, but towards the two people in front of them.
He was very respectful and surrounded the two of them, walking all the way to Jingnan County.
"Damn it, Nuwa Empress has finally patched up the sky again. The rain that has been falling for months has finally stopped. This month, my trousers are all wet.
The two brothers have never lived a clean day." A man looked up at the sun in the sky and cursed.
"Hu Laosan, if you don't keep your mouth clean, I will ask your second brother to live alone with you!" The young man walking in front turned his head and smiled, and the dagger in his hand quickly spun between his two fingers, making a dazzling circle in the sun.
of cold light.
Although the young man's voice was deliberately rough, his voice was still pleasant to the ear, and he was actually a woman disguised as a man.
"Ahem, the young master's family is joking. We will not separate our families, even if we are beaten to death, we will not separate our families."
Suddenly the man laughed sarcastically and even dared to cross his legs when walking, fearing that the young master's sword would not spare the two brothers.
A tall and thick-set man was as frightened as a dog with its tail between its legs at the girl's look and words.
Hahaha
The strong man in the lead and other men couldn't help laughing when they saw this. They were so cheerful that they didn't look like refugees.
"Ruonan, we are almost arriving at Jingnan County, put away your fish dagger." The strong man in the lead reminded.
"I got it, dad. She's so long-winded, like an old lady." The girl rolled her eyes. Although she was mumbling, she was still very obedient. She held the dagger between her fingers and flicked it, and the dagger disappeared.
She had it up her sleeve.
The strong man was told something by his daughter, and he smiled without taking it seriously, his eyes full of love for the girl.
"Old boss, young boss, I just can't figure it out. We have a lot of future as bandits in the mountains. We eat big chunks of meat, drink from big bowls, share gold with big scales, and play hard." There was another man with a beard on his face.
He complained with a confused look on his face. When he talked about vigorously playing with women, he thought of what happened to Hu Laosan. He instantly stopped and swallowed the next few words. Then he continued, "Let's
The days we lived in the mountains were a life of leisure and leisure. The king of heaven was not as good as us, and even the emperors cried with envy. Why should we become refugees if we leave promising bandits alone?"
"That's right."
"It's so shameless for us to be reduced to the status of refugees as bandits. How can we still have the dignity to hang out in the mountains of Dachu?"
Several people in the crowd immediately responded.
"Damn it, Zhang Laosan, you still have the nerve to ask! You can't do anything, and there's nothing left to eat! The mountain torrent destroyed the village, and all the rations that were finally snatched out were chewed up by you group of foodies.
If you don't go down the mountain and become a refugee, you will go to hell and become a starving ghost. Besides, the fat sheep at the foot of the mountain have been flooded, and they have all gone to the flood refuge area. The fat sheep have gone to the flood refuge area, but we wolves have not gone.
Flood refuge area, where to go? Are you guarding the cottage to snatch refugees?! Will I snatch them back to you to be your father or mother?!"
The leading strong man was very gentle to the girl, but to this group of rough men, he was extremely rough.