The weather was just as Zhu Pingan had predicted, after the sun set, the east wind picked up, the trees in the courtyard began to shake, the leaves clattered and swarmed, and the dark clouds in the sky gradually pulled in from the eastern sky like an infinite black curtain, soon enveloping the sky over Jingnan.
To be exact, it enveloped half of Jiangnan.
After the dark clouds enveloped the sky, the earth was instantly darkened, and the phoenix gradually grew larger and whistled, whining like a ghost crying and howling like a wolf, as if the devil had blown his horn to conquer the earth.
“The mountain rain is coming down.”
Zhu Pingan stood in the courtyard, his coat fluttering and curling, his hands with wide sleeves gathered behind his back, feeling the howling winds in the courtyard, looking at the dark, black clouds that were getting lower and lower in the sky, and could not help but sigh.
As soon as Zhu Pingan’s words fell, large raindrops the size of pea grains crackled and fell from the sky. Ta! Ta! Ta! The sound made by the raindrops crashing onto the ground was akin to the sound of a machine gun going off.
“Auntie, it’s raining outside, quickly go inside.”The voice of the bun’s little maid, Painter, rang out at the door, carrying the hem of her skirt and about to head out, with the air of “If you don’t enter the house, I’ll drag you in, Auntie.
“Coming.”
Zhu Pingan nodded and took a step towards the house.
When Zhu Pingan had just walked into the house, the sound of the rain outside had already changed from a “clattering” sound to a “clattering” sound.
It was raining heavily.
Zhu Pingan stood in the doorway and looked out, it was pitch black outside, it was hard to see in the distance, but close up you could vaguely see that the heavy rain formed a rain curtain, fiercely hitting the earth, on the roof of the house, on the courtyard wall, splashing a layer of white mist. Only when the rain is heavy to a certain extent can this flying mist landscape appear.
The small pools of water in the courtyard grew savagely at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in no time, the water flowed into a river.
While Zhu Pingan was paying attention to the rain outside, many people were also paying attention to the pouring rain.
“Why is this rain falling again, and it’s so heavy, this is not a good sign.”
An old man in the Jingnan countryside stood on his crutches under the eaves of his house, frowning as he looked at the pouring rain outside.
“Yes, the ten days of continuous rain has only stopped for less than two days, and this pouring rain has started again. Luckily, our Great Prefect has planned ahead for a rainy day and urged us to repair the dyke in front of the village.”
Another old man followed and nodded, thinking of the previous dyke that was full of holes, he couldn’t help but say with palpitations.
“Yes, it’s fortunate that our Magistrate had foresight. Our village that a few idle scion, do not know shit, yesterday also grinned know the county big master see a lot of strange, blindly direct the people to work, if it is not now dark, I have to lean on my crutches to go to their home, see if they still have the face of it, have to point at their noses scolded a pass can not be.”The old man on crutches couldn’t help but tap his crutches twice in anger at the thought of yesterday’s events.
In the neighbouring Taiping County Office, a banquet was being held to celebrate the new governor’s one month in office in Taiping County.
The new magistrate was sitting in the main seat, and all the magistrates and officials were gathered together. On the table, chicken, duck, fish, meat and other dishes were carefully cooked and popular, and two jars of Scholar’s Red Shaoxing wine were uncorked, emitting a mouth-watering aroma of wine.
This banquet was held after the release of the Yamen, the weather was still good, the sky of the fish scale clouds beautiful, so that the new magistrate poetry, on the spot made a “autumn title Taiping flying fish cloud” eight words, in the audience after all the people all clap their hands and praise, so that the face of the new magistrate to add a lot of light, the banquet into the good times.
Wine has not yet over three rounds, outside the weather on the steep colour change, first of all, the east wind, and then the dark clouds came from the sky, the sky darkened in an instant, and then it is the size of the raindrops began to fall from the sky down, and soon the size of the raindrops into a downpour of heavy rain, clattering down.
The new governor looked at the pouring rain outside the house, the wine and meat on the table suddenly did not smell good, the mood is also irritable.
The people in the audience did not understand why the mood of the county magistrate suddenly fell down, only the staff know the inside story.
The banquet ended hastily, the new governor of Taiping looked at the pouring rain outside with a gloomy face, not knowing what he was thinking.
“Dongweng, is it time to start flood prevention and flood control?”After several attempts to speak, the shogun finally couldn’t help himself and asked cautiously.
The front has been in a row for twelve days of continuous rain, and now it is pouring rain, this is not a good sign, the staff knows that the proprietor does not like this, but out of duty, or at the risk of touching bad luck, spoke out to remind. Jiangnan water town, also more flooding, had to raise attention ah.
“It’s late now, let’s see what happens tomorrow.”The new Taiping governor said expressionlessly.
Seeing this, the shogun stopped talking.
This heavy rain did not last long, in the new army barracks presided over the practice of Taizhou governor Tan Lun can not sit still, worried about this heavy rain may cause flooding, will be handed over to Zuo Zhen, he took a number of followers, braving the heavy rain in the dark horse galloped back to the Taizhou government office, go back to the presidency of the arrangement of flood prevention and flood control work.
Just when the practice, in order to avoid disturbances, better practice, the new army barracks will be selected in the mountains.
Dark and slippery roads, heavy rain, mountain roads are difficult to walk, Tan Lun rushed back to Taizhou government office, it is already late at night.
It was a heavy rain that stretched over half of Jiangnan, the pouring rain fell sharply and heavily, and the next day it still didn’t stop, and all the river systems in Jiangnan rose, and some rivers rose over their beds overnight, spreading out towards the dykes.
The rain fell sharply and heavily, with no sign of stopping at all, and even the slowest people were worried that if the rain continued to fall, it would be a disaster.
Only some children, barefoot and carefree, stepped on the water to chase and play, jumping and singing the nursery rhyme: the sky Wu Wu, want to fall rain.
Zhu Pingan got up early, put on his straw raincoat, took his horse, and took Liu Dazhou and others out to go to the townships below to inspect the rain. On this journey, Zhu Pingan clearly felt the power of this heavy rain.
Windy and rainy, dark and endless, this pouring rain fell as if the sky had leaked.
River, river, lake, face to face expansion, Jingnan every waters are in the rapid expansion of their power, expanding body, flooding the wild, not over the riverbed, beat the dyke, test the dyke’s ability to withstand.
Although in advance to do the flood prevention and flood control preparations, although visited a number of places, found that the situation of flood prevention and flood control are not bad, but in the face of this endless rain, Zhu Pingan still can not help but worry. In front of nature, human beings how small, modern can not put an end to flooding, more about the ancient times.
