Occasionally, someone would look back, take a look at the five large ships behind them, and then turn their heads again, with determination in their eyes.

For money!

After a long while, Zhu Houzhao and others fell off the boat. Liu Jin and Gu Da were carrying a bag of grain each, with expressions of mourning, while Zhu Houzhao had a firm look on his face, without the slightest intention of shrinking.

To quell the rebellion!

The water transport in Linqing has been shaken and the river channels have collapsed, and the water flow has poured in. The road is full of mud and the journey is very difficult.

Once we were far away from the water transport area and walking along the official road, we could see some damaged farmhouses in the distance.

This situation becomes more serious the further you go southwest. After another four days of walking, most people's faces are already dull. In the past four days, they have experienced six aftershocks, and they will still panic at the beginning.

But after six times, I got used to it.

If you were in a mountainous area, perhaps an aftershock would cause countless boulders to roll down, but this area is located in a plain with almost no mountains, and when you enter Puzhou, there is not even a mountain.

Except for the shaking of the ground aftershocks, as long as there are no buildings around, there is no danger. At most, you will fall down and be bitten in the mud.

For example, most of the old doctors who were thrown down while sitting in wheelbarrows were all old and found it difficult to bear the pain of such a long journey, so they had to be pushed.

But the absence of mountains does not mean there is no danger. At this time, we are approaching Puzhou, which belongs to the alluvial plain of the Yellow River. There are no highlands, and it is even located right at the waist of the Yellow River.

Everywhere you look, there is mud. Every person's face and body are covered with mud when they walk.

By the time we arrived in Puzhou, the city of Puzhou, which was at the epicenter of the earthquake, was already a vast expanse of water. There was water everywhere, houses were all collapsed, and even the city walls had collapsed.

The water from the burst Yellow River continued to pour into the city, and then surged out from the city. The water was filled with swollen and turbid bodies of countless humans and animals.

The imperial doctors sitting in wheelbarrows vomited when they saw this scene. They were from a medical family, and their position as imperial physicians was inherited. They had never seen such a hideous and terrifying corpse.

Everyone was silent and just tried to walk as high as possible, but the water was still flowing. Xia Yuan's face had long turned pale. He had participated in several volunteers and had seen the appearance after several earthquakes, but

He has never seen such a scene.

The collapse of the earth is already a huge disaster, but the flood is the huge boulder falling from the sky, weighing down the weight of life. This flood does not even give people a chance to save people.

How to save this? The water is probably more than half a meter deep. This is still the seventh or eighth day after the collapse.

The water depth is still more than half a meter.

Then how deep should the water be when the earth collapsed?

Even after the earthquake, the houses collapsed and the people trapped inside were lucky enough to survive. The water from the Yellow River that followed followed and the people were drowned inside.

This Puzhou City may have been a dead city for a long time.

The more he thought about it, the paler Xia Yuan's face turned. He had yet to see a living person.

He didn't know what kept him going, maybe it was the lucky belief that if he went to higher places, there might be living people there.

After walking for more than ten miles, we finally saw a village. Although all the houses there had collapsed and it was muddy, more than a dozen people could be seen sitting on the ruins.

Everyone's eyes lit up when they saw this scene, and they seemed to be rejuvenated. Even Wang Shouren, who had always been taciturn, became excited at this moment, and tears even welled up in his eyes. He pointed at those people and wanted to say something.

, but was speechless.

Xia Yuan had already opened his lead-filled legs and ran in that direction.

PS: These two chapters are both large chapters with more than 4,000 words, so they seem to be two updates, but in fact they are the same as the previous four chapters, and they can be read more coherently.

If you gentlemen think that two chapters of eight thousand words are more appropriate, I will publish all chapters of four thousand words in the future.

And some people also suggested that I combine the two chapters into one.
Chapter completed!