Although it was said that he was going to the city gate to see the situation of the refugees outside the city, in fact, there was no comparison with the past situation, and no one who really understood the situation here could be found for a while. Ning Yi could not generalize just by looking at the number of people.
Come to a conclusion. This time I went out mainly because I had been in Taiping Lane for several days, and now I planned to go out and see the situation in the city with my own eyes.
As an outsider in a certain sense, Ning Yi can view the chaotic scenes inside and outside the city as a simple disaster movie in most cases. In these years, as long as the order of the city still exists, no matter how tiring it is,
No matter how hard it is, it can't really hurt people with a certain family background.
But on the other hand, facing many desolate scenes in the rain, even Ning Yi could not help but feel compassion, just like the scene when Jiangning was closed due to floods last year. That time it was mostly famine, but this time the situation is...
Even more obvious are those who were injured during the earthquake, those who lost their property, or beggars and homeless people.
In such a situation, after being injured, a large number of people looked down on the doctor, let alone bought medicinal materials. Sheds were set up among the ruins on both sides of the road that had not yet been cleared, and everyone who lived in them looked desolate.
, some braved the rain to dig up the ruins of their homes. People who were seriously injured or had broken limbs were homeless. They hugged mats and hid under the low eaves, not knowing whether to live or die. This was already the aftermath of the earthquake.
On the fifth day, you might still be able to howl a few days earlier, but by this time, most people have been tortured to the point of being silent.
There are also children who have lost their parents, or beggars who were originally following their father or mother. Some are injured, some are not injured, some are shivering in the rain, some are hiding in sheltered places and curling up, and some are crying.
, but has already cried dumb. The extremely hungry children secretly went to dig through the ruins. If they could get some food, no matter what it was, they would stuff it into their mouths as soon as possible, but this was not the kind of food in later generations.
In an era of plenty, no one's home might have much food. More often than not, they would be chased and beaten out by others.
Boys and girls are the same under such circumstances. No one is cute, not cute at all. Life and reality cannot make such romantic or girly jokes here. Children living in the rain are just like wild animals.
Just like dogs. There are also people from slightly wealthy families who can feel some compassion after dealing with their own situations. But with the support of this kind of productivity at the moment, no amount of kindness is enough. The government or the Qian family are like
Large households will also give out some porridge and rice to save some people from dying, but this cannot hide the despair of a small number of people who have lost their future.
After all, this is the time, just like Hangzhou and Jiangning. If only a few dozen people freeze to death outside the city in the winter, it will be a truly peaceful and prosperous time. Ning Yi can basically understand it, but after all, he still feels a little heavy after seeing these things.
. This is only a situation that can be seen in the streets of the city. Although Su Tan'er, Xiao Chan and others also feel sympathy, they are used to it, and their mood is not as literary as Ning Yi.
After opening the window for a while and watching for a while, Xiaochan saw that Ning Yi looked serious and was not very interested. Xiaochan said softly: "Xiaochan was sold because her family was about to starve to death..." She just wanted to comfort her.
Ning Yi didn't show any self-pity. Ning Yi smiled. Su Tan'er took her to his side, let her rest her forehead on his shoulder, and then stroked her hair.
It is impossible to take a closer look at the plot outside the city. In fact, the increase in refugees in the past few days has surrounded at least several gates of Hangzhou City. The soldiers from the Wude Camp have already blocked the city gates. The gates are not closed.
But it is quite troublesome to get in and out. Ning Yi has the voucher from the wealthy family, but there is no need to go out. Their carriage and decoration will probably be surrounded by people as soon as they leave the city gate.
Ning Yi got off the car near the city gate and went to look there alone for a while. Then a vigilant soldier came over to ask. Ning Yi took out the Qian family's name tattoo, and the soldier walked away. At this time, the city
The environment outside the gate was harsh and muddy. Some soldiers set up tents outside the city to maintain order, mainly to keep the main road open.
The collapsed part of one side of the city wall is not far from here, and a large number of workers are working hard. At this time, the city is busy saving itself and cleaning up the mess in their homes. In fact, there are not many workers who can be hired, more than half of them
They must have been selected from the refugees outside the city. They are all men with some strength, who have a lot of money to make and take care of the food, so they seem to be very motivated here.
Just looking at it like this, Ning Yi understood it in his heart.
"Not only Hangzhou, Suzhou has also been affected. Too many people have been affected. If you want to take the land route, you may be robbed not far away. For the time being, we can only stay here and wait for the situation to get better..."
Back on the carriage, Ning Yi sighed and was about to let the carriage go back to Taiping Lane, but he heard the voices of people outside the city gradually rising in the rain, and he didn't know what happened. Ning Yi listened for a while, and there was a vague sound of someone.
They were shouting: "We want to see the prefect, we want to see the prefect..." Maybe the refugees outside were rioting.
When this happened, the Wude camp stationed near the city wall was not panicked. Ning Yi leaned out of the car curtain to take a look, and saw a general going up to the city wall for a while in the rain and fog. At the same time, a group of soldiers came over.
After watching the city wall construction site, a group of people were still stationed at the city gate, and another group of people rushed out to appease or suppress it. Several old people passed by near the city gate, and Ning Yi heard them say: "Oh, it's starting to make trouble again.
"
"It's not easy for them either..."
It seems that this kind of small commotion is not the first time. After a while, the commotion outside the city stopped. Ning Yi didn't hear any screams. It was probably not a bloody suppression of arresting people and killing people. It was so boring.
After watching for a while, Ning Yi waved his hand and ordered him to go back.
This afternoon, towards evening, the rain gradually stopped. The haze in the rain gradually faded, the air was fresh, a rainbow appeared in the sky, and the trees planted in Taiping Lane became greener, which seemed to indicate that this would happen.
The disaster finally had its initial respite, and then came the real aftermath and reconstruction.
Now that he understands that he has to live here for the time being, Ning Yi has started to plan for his family to live here for more than a month. For example, when the city gate is closed, during this period, the supply of various vegetables will probably be very high.
If it is broken, many people's cellars may have been collapsed. These things have to be considered. Of course, the Su family has just swallowed up one-third of the Wu family's property, money and goods. This is a time when they are extremely wealthy, and the Lou family has nothing to do with it.
With the estrangement, Su Tan'er can just abandon the business here. No matter what kind of high-priced rice and high-priced dishes, they can afford it, so the problem is not a big deal.
Originally, the hostility of the Lou family was one of the bigger problems, but the sudden earthquake should interrupt the other party's concentration. After the incident, even if the other party really had any bad intentions, people like Ning Yi could naturally take shelter.
For the Qian family, his gunpowder was also one of the preparations made considering the Lou family's problems.
Although he has experienced many things and has enough emergency comeback capabilities, Ning Yi is still keen on conspiracy, such as the operation of large amounts of intelligence information, such as higher-level power, just like Yang Wen-li in "The Legend of the Galaxy Heroes": to
It’s not that we don’t have enough troops, who likes to use cunning tactics? Here, with the few resources at his disposal, he foolishly fights with others. That’s a real fool. If the other party is really unwilling to do something, he will
It's just that after going to Beijing to handle the Lou family through Lao Qin, it was a smooth push without thinking.
So I arranged the chores at home with Su Tan'er in the afternoon. In the evening, Hangzhou was full of smoke - most of the wood and firewood branches were wet at this time - falling among the sunset and rainbow, it looked like a bustling big city.
Tribe. A dog running and barking after a rainbow on the road also looks lively and energetic.
"Actually, dogs are color blind... they can't see rainbows, they can just feel..."
Sunlight appeared for the first time in several days. The family gathered inside and outside the yard waiting for dinner. Ning Yi, Xiaochan and others laughed and talked about dogs. Several children also came over and asked various questions curiously. Su Tan'er
At this time, she was sitting in the ruins next to her unpretentiously, holding her cheek with her hands and smiling at the scene. At this time, she also slightly let go of her tense heartstrings for the past few days, and restrained her aura of a strong woman. She looked like a
A simple girl looking at her beloved husband.
What followed was a peaceful night, even more peaceful than the previous few rainy nights. Seven nurses led by Geng Huyuan at home took turns guarding the night. The city, which had been tired for several days, seemed to finally get a long-lost sleep.
Generally speaking, the fights and fights that could be felt in the city during the day and night in the past few days have subsided. However, in the middle of the night, there was a thief in a nearby street, and faint shouts could be heard.
The next day, the sun rose high.
Everything is going as usual. When the sun comes out during the day, everyone seems to be energetic when working. However, at noon, the hot sun has begun to evaporate the water vapor, as if the rainy season has been restored.
It was midsummer. In the afternoon, suddenly a group of sergeants came towards Taiping Lane. From a distance, they saw a group led by a young general. At this time, Ning Yi happened to be chatting with Xiaochan on the street outside, and took a look at the work around them.
The young general seemed to have asked one or two people on the street, and then looked over here. He saw Ning Yi from a distance, raised his head, and held the handle of the knife to come over.
It was Lou Shuheng who should have called him here to cause trouble... With just one glance, Ning Yi could probably confirm this. He sighed a little in his heart. In his original expectation, the legal system had not been taken into account in the first two days of the earthquake.
Well, if it were him, he would simply gather a group of people, disguise his identity, and come directly to kill dozens of people in his family, making it look like they were robbing things. Even if no one was killed, they would be beheaded, and there would be no way to hold him accountable afterwards.
But it seemed that the damage to the Lou family was quite severe, and they couldn't react for a while. If they came again at this time, the entire Taiping Lane people had temporarily united for the chaos in the city, so they had to use other methods.
The young general was about to come with more than 20 people. On the other side of the street, several war horses came galloping towards him. There were five knights in total, blocking the group. The leader was a deputy general, and the young general had a lower position.
, saluted quickly, and the two sides said a few words. The young general glanced at Ning Yi bitterly, and led the team away. Five knights came here. The leading deputy general got off his horse and bowed towards Ning Yi.
He handed over, but it was the soldier who fought with Ning Yi in Xiaoyingzhou a few days ago. It seemed that his name was Yuan Dingqi.
After a brief greeting, the other party did not pretend to be pretentious and said directly: "The young master of the Lou family has threatened to cause trouble for Mr. Ning among his friends, but Mr. Ning does not need to worry about this matter. Guests of Mr. Qian will never make things difficult for him in Hangzhou.
, when Commander Du heard about what happened today, he asked Yuan to bring this token to Mr. Ning. If someone from the army comes to make trouble again in the future, Mr. Ning can just take out the token and show it to others.
"
As Yuan Dingqi spoke, he handed a token with the word "Du" engraved on it to Ning Yi. Naturally, this was not an official token for mobilizing the army, but a private certificate dedicated to the current commander of the Wude Army. The commander's name was Du Hong.
The name is Ruofei. It is said that Commander Du knew some poetry and was a Confucian general. He and Qian Xiwen were masters and disciples. Even this word was given to him by Qian Xiwen. At this time, military generals were not taken seriously, and that general could
It is not easy to achieve the status of a scholar. I am quite proud of my status as a disciple of the Qian family. Although I did not know Ning Yi this time, I immediately sent someone to help.
Yuan Dingqi had a fight with Ning Yi on Xiaoyingzhou last time, and he was also a little curious about the fact that this scholar was good at martial arts. His boss was a martial artist who studied literature, which was called arty, and many people did it. Here, scholars practiced martial arts, and similar things were not the same.
Duo. Naturally, he asked a few more questions verbally, then smiled and said that he would like to ask for advice someday when he had the opportunity, and then took the person away without being too sloppy.
With this token, the possibility of the military system trying to cause trouble for me without any reason is not high.
On this day, this little episode happened. Time gradually passed, night fell, and gradually got darker. It was probably early in the morning, and some things happened unexpectedly.
When the commotion broke out, Ning Yi also woke up from the bed. Tan'er hugged him gently and refused to let go. He separated his wife's hand, put on his clothes after a while and went out. The city to the north was already burning brightly.
Red, it looks like the fire in the city on the night of the earthquake. The smoke obscured the night sky.
Geng Huyuan and others were also watching in the yard at this time. Ning Yi went over and took a few glances: "What's wrong?"
"I don't know why it started to burn..."
"The sound of putting out fires is so confusing..."
Various noisy sounds spread vaguely from the night sky. After a while, Su Tan'er, who had put on clothes, also came out. Chan'er rubbed her eyes and came out of the next room: "It just started raining, why is it so hot?"
ah?"
"Hopefully it's just a fire..."
Ning Yi frowned and said something.
But it wasn't just a fire.
As daybreak approached, the chaotic sounds became louder, and then suddenly someone came with the news: "The fighting started, the fighting started. Those people in the north of the city were fighting with the people from the Wude camp. I heard that people were killed.
Already..."
Yesterday, Ning Yi didn't hear much news in the city. After all, the heavy rain had just stopped, and everyone felt like they were waiting for something to be done. However, also yesterday, the army once again started collecting corpses for disposal. After all, the weather was hot.
It was too fast, and there were some minor frictions with the people in the north of the city who were already in mourning hall.
Then at night, a fire broke out. Several large and small mourning halls in several streets caught fire at the same time. Dozens of corpses that had been placed in coffins were burned. The fire spread and became unstoppable in a moment. Dozens of them were burned.
People were burned to death like this. This uncontrollable fire made everyone confused. Later, when someone came out and said that they saw soldiers from Wude Camp setting fire, people in several streets immediately started to fight with the soldiers who came over.
A conflict occurred.
People here don't know the situation over there yet, but it sounds like the situation has intensified as daybreak. Then the gongs and trumpets began to sound urgently, and riots began to occur in the city to the west. Ning
When Yi and others set up a simple defensive intersection at the entrance of Taiping Alley, the deputy chief hurried back, panting, and then saw more than a dozen Jianghu people armed with swords rushing from the intersection on one side, as if they wanted to directly
We must fight our way into Taiping Alley.
This incident happened suddenly. It seemed that some people who originally wanted to fish in troubled waters found an opportunity. The main force organized in Taiping Lane was the Liu Family Martial Arts School, but they did not come into close combat with those ten people. Ning
At this time, Yi and others could not distinguish any more, so they just grabbed the stone and threw it back. The two people were hit with bruises on their heads and blood flowed, and the other party ran away noisily.
"What happened?"
Ning Yi turned to ask, and the deputy was just in shock: "Something happened, something happened, there was a fight in the north of the city, people died..."
"I already knew that the person was dead, how could this happen?"
"A big shot died and the situation couldn't be dealt with. One...a deputy general went to comfort him and was accidentally killed. That deputy general, it seems, was named Yuan, Yuan Dingqi. He accidentally got into the crowd and heard that his head was injured.
Someone has been chopped with a knife... It's a red-eyed killing, there's going to be chaos... Let's quickly guard the intersection and don't let anyone come in..."
"One knife... cut it?"
Ning Yi was stunned for a long time, recalling that Yuan Dingqi, although his martial arts skills cannot be judged, but the opponent's skills should be higher than his own, and it is said that he is also very powerful. Such a person will be chopped down by some civilians in the chaos.
Got your head?
Ning Yi felt a bad feeling in his heart, and even couldn't help but smile. Such a person... made his neck feel slightly chilly.
Then, in the chaos, that feeling began to turn into reality. News came that the refugees at the west gate of the city took the opportunity to rebel. It was a real rebellion, but it failed. In the morning, they were blocked by the prepared Wude camp.
Outside the city gate, a message has been clearly conveyed.
On the seventh day after the earthquake, Fang La's men had already begun to gather together, and they attacked brazenly!
I always thought long live the KKK. It would be enough to have a fixed 3,000 words every day, which would last longer. But I kept accidentally adding 5,000 words, and when I saw it, it was two o'clock in the morning. I originally wanted to say that my birthday is tomorrow.
It also became today’s birthday...
Well, it’s my birthday today, and it’s really a complicated feeling. To use the old saying, I obviously didn’t do anything bad, but suddenly I’m one year older...
So, for the sake of my birthday, how about I give you something^_^