The fat shopkeeper invited the accompanying officers and soldiers to eat porridge together. After walking for such a long time in the rain, I was already extremely cold. At this time, a bowl of thick, warm porridge was a life saver!
Only the young man leading the team stood under the awning without moving for a long time, looking at the girl in yellow who rolled up her sleeves and served porridge for everyone. He seemed to have not gotten over the shock.
Until she found him, she handed the ladle to the servant at the side and walked over: "Xing..."
As soon as Jiang Tang said a word, the man in front of her suddenly took a step back, as if she was frightened.
Jiang Tang:……
The smile on Jiang Tang's face faded, and his tone was thorny: "Captain Xing refuses to eat it, is it because he doesn't like it?"
The familiar tone sounded, and the young man finally had a sense of reality.
At the same time, it became more restrained.
Even though he had guessed that "Boss Jiang"'s appearance under the veil would not be too bad, he didn't expect that he would look so, so...
Xing Qige subconsciously wanted to avoid these clear spring-like eyes, but he still held back: "Did you already know that there would be a flood?"
Jiang Tang just smiled and didn't speak.
It was just this smile that made him angry for no reason: "If you knew it already, why didn't you tell me in advance..."
"I informed you in advance, will you believe me?"
Jiang Tang's words left Xing Qige speechless, as if he wanted to retort as before: "Whether you believe it or not, you should say it!"
But seeing this face that was too beautiful to be true, he, he couldn't say anything.
"Why don't you put on your veil?"
He said something quickly, but Jiang Tang didn't hear it: "What?"
"nothing."
Looking up again, the naive temperament of the young man has disappeared and he has become serious and steady: "The city of Huai'an has been severely affected by the disaster. Many houses have been destroyed by floods and the people are homeless. Please ask Boss Jiang to take in some of the victims. Xing Qige is here
Thank you!"
As he spoke, the young man raised his hands and bowed solemnly to the girl.
Even the officers and soldiers who were eating and cursing the weather subconsciously stopped and looked this way.
Xing Qige buried his head very low, and the scenes that flashed through his mind were all the tit-for-tat confrontations he had with the girl. The sharp blades that he thrust out turned into boomerangs and pierced back into his body.
When he thought about it today, he finally understood that everything the girl had done in the past six months was for today, and he, instead of helping her, he kept blocking her, looking for trouble, and almost missed the important event.
Now he is asking for help. He is really...
He pursed his lips and made up his mind: "I apologize to Boss Jiang for my past behavior, as long as you are willing..."
"Pfft~"
There was a chuckle in my ears, and the girl's soft and sweet voice rang in my ears: "It is my honor to do my best for the people. You don't have to be polite."
The cold hand was gently lifted by a soft little hand. Xing Qige subconsciously raised his head and faced the girl with a light and charming smile.
At that moment, his heartbeat, which had just calmed down, began to lose control again. Even the back of his hand that had been touched was so hot that it seemed he couldn't bear it...
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"Good news! Captain Xing has found a place to station himself. It is said that it can accommodate more than 3,000 people and has been moved there."
Cui Shuwang wiped the rain off his face and walked to Xiao Yinhan's side. They stood on the hillside with him and watched the officers and soldiers rescuing people in the river.
The surging river water seemed to come from the sky. There were countless corpses, house fragments, furniture, livestock floating in the turbid river water... There were people hanging on the branches on both sides of the river, waving their hands and calling for help; officers and soldiers kept going down to the river to save people.
Some people lost their strength and were washed away by the flood...
Xiao Yinhan looked at the scene in front of him, and it gradually overlapped with his dream.
In that dream, it was the same, floods, dead people, cries for help, heavy rain...
That overwhelming sense of suffocation swept over me, as if a devil was whispering in my ears:
It's all you, all because of you, these people will die!
it was all your fault!
"I'm talking to you. Do you want to go over there and take a look? In case..."
Cui Shuwang just wanted to pat the man who was standing lost in thought, but before his hand touched his shoulder, he disappeared.
When I looked again, he had flown from the hillside to a tree.
Then, he came back carrying something.
It wasn't until he returned to the hillside that he saw clearly that the "thing" Xiao Yinhan was carrying was a child.
"Before I finished speaking, you disappeared."
Cui Shuwang touched the child's head, comforted him not to be afraid, and called the soldier Jiang beside him to take the child to the temporary camp, where there would be people to help take care of him.
"The granary in Huai'an is well built. The spies we sent out came back and said that the granary is very safe. When the heavy rain stops, we can send people to get the grain back. Then the food problem will be solved for the time being."
After saying this, the man who had been cold and ignored everyone finally turned around, with rare appreciation in his eyes: "Well done."
"I think so," Cui Shuwang nodded subconsciously: "It's not just one place. I heard that many granaries have been reinforced in the past six months, as if they knew there would be floods early in the morning, and the grain and grass were removed..."
His voice stopped suddenly, and then he remembered that the first person discovered in Huai'an City was the one suspected of being Jiang Tang..."Boss Jiang"?
It’s really hard to pick up any pot!
Cui Shuwang regretted it and wanted to explain something, but the man flew into the river like a swallow again.
never mind.
"Everyone, cheer up. King Rong personally went down to the river to save people. We can't lose to him!"
With Cui Shuwang's words of encouragement, everyone realized that King Rong had really gone to save people.
What could be a better morale booster than this?
In an instant, the already exhausted officers and soldiers seemed to have been given a shot of vitality and once again threw themselves into rescuing people.
Some of the people who were rescued even came to save others after they recovered.
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With Jiang Tang's help, the victims were placed in the workshop one after another.
There is food, drink, and clothes to wear here. It really seems like it was expected early in the morning.
Knowing that these were all given by Boss Jiang, the people looked at Jiang Tang as if they were looking at a Bodhisattva.
Even Xing Qige looked at Jiang Tang with a somewhat complicated look: "There are still many places where there is no news. I am going to take people to continue the search and rescue elsewhere. The victims here will trouble Boss Jiang. I will leave some manpower for you,
To prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to cause chaos."
Hearing Xing Qige's words, Jiang Tang turned around and said, "Don't worry, sir, I will take care of it for you."
After a pause, her voice became softer: "Sir, take care."
Xing Qige unconsciously tightened his grip on the handle of the knife. Looking at the girl's gentle and calm face, he wanted to ask her why the boy who had always been by her side was gone.
But in the end he didn't say anything, he just looked at Jiang Tang with a deep look, then turned around and left with the others.