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Chapter 42: Scars in the World (2)

Boom, not thunder, but a rushing craze.

The black mud was like an evil dragon rushing out from underneath, sweeping everything tyrannically.

Houses, trees, soil, people...

The turbid torrent seemed to surge down from the sky, almost flooding everything between heaven and earth in the blink of an eye, unstoppable.

Sizhou Prefecture Chief Zhang Wenxu stood on the city wall, looking at the boundless flood in confusion, trembling all over.

The entire Sizhou has become a marsh country. In addition to this higher city wall, even the treasury of the government office has been submerged in the flood.

Boom, a sound.

A house was swept under the city wall by a flood, and after the collision, it slowly fell into mud and water, turning into pieces.

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Looking up, a black dot disappeared into the flood before it even struggled, and could no longer see it.

And those people who wail in the flood...

Zhang Wenxu didn't dare to look again and closed his eyes.

"Sir, Sir!"

A yamen runner-run team, carrying a team of yamen runners in hand in the wind and rain, walked from a distance with difficulty.

Zhang Wenxu looked at him blankly, full of numbness.

"Sir!" The head of the ban wiped away the mud and water from his face and said gasping, "The villain pulled a boat over, are you going to get on the boat?"

"Arriving on the boat? Where are you going?" Zhang Wenxu said blankly, standing in the wind and rain like willow catkins in the wind and rain. "Where is the magistrate?"

"The Master of the Mansion is still on the side of Gaojiayan, there is nothing wrong there!" The head of the troupe walked over and shouted, "Sir, please protect you and go. If the flood comes again in a while, you will be in trouble!"

"Where are you going?" Zhang Wenxu was still stunned, "I'm leaving, what should the people do?"

"How can you care about those things at this time!" the head of the troupe shouted, "Go away!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Zhang Wenxu suddenly burst into laughter, which made the surroundings stunned.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

I don’t know if it was tears or rain, but it kept dripping along Zhang Wenxu’s forehead.

"Hahahaha!" Zhang Wenxu laughed louder and louder. He looked up at the dark sky that was still venting heavy rainstorms, and suddenly shouted loudly, "The heaven has no virtue, which makes the world devastated. The heaven has no eyes, and the heaven has no words!"

"This nerd!" The head of the yamen runner cursed in his heart, "When is it now? I'm still scolding God!"

Thinking of it, he shouted, "Sir, let's go!"

"Let's go?" Zhang Wenxu punched the city wall, then waved his hand weakly, "You guys go!"

"Huh?" Ban Tou and the people around him were stunned.

"I am on the order of the emperor to the emperor!" Zhang Wenxu slowly took off his official hat, then swung it, and the hat was caught in the rolling flood without any turmoil. "I have failed to protect the safety of the people in one place, and if I escape alone, I would be even more sorry for the conscience of heaven!"

"Sir!" The yamen runners in the ranks were shocked.

In between, Zhang Wenxu had already climbed up the city wall and stood tremblingly in the wind and rainy world.

"If you can't defend your territory, then I will live and die with Sizhou!"

Zhang Wenxu murmured with tears on his face, and then looked back at the yamen runners beside him, "Tell Lord Zhang, please take a step first. Look for him... I hope he will do it!" Then, he shouted in the direction of the capital, "Your Majesty, I'm going first!"

"grown ups....."

In the screams of the yamen runners, Zhang Wenxu draped his hair and covered his face, and was carried into the rolling waves, and was swept away in an instant.

"Sir?" The head of the yamen runners were stumbled against the city wall.

"Boss, what should we do?" A yamen runner shouted in panic.

"How the hell do I know what to do..."

Suddenly, another heart-wrenching cry was heard.

"master!"

Everyone looked up. Zhang Wenxu's old servant and the book boy climbed up the city wall at the same time, "Wait for me!"

Plop!

Plop!

Two splashes of water flew in a flash, and two lives disappeared into the wave of floods.

"Boss, what should we do?" A young yamen runner cried out.

"We were born and raised here!" The head of the yamen runner was weak and smiled bitterly, "How can we ignore the elders and fellow villagers and seek to live alone!"

As he said that, he waved his hand powerlessly, "Your lord has been killed by the country. Even if we villains survive, they are still sinners. The court's laws..."

"Boss!"

The yamen runners exclaimed in unison, but it was too late.

The head of the ban also fell into the flood, missing.

~~

Boom, thunder rolled, and the rain between heaven and earth fell like a waterfall.

In front of me, the water of the Huai River flowed, and the tide of anger surged, hitting the towering embankment one after another.

"grown ups!"

A civil servant covered in mud fell down, fell down and got up again. He walked to the Sizhou prefect Zhou Huai with both hands and feet, and cried, "Sir, news comes from Sizhou, our Sizhou... is over!"

Zhou Huai had no expression on his face and stared at the surging waves in the river in front of him.

"Sir, our Sizhou is over..."

"It's over?" Zhou Huai's eyes were filled with no color, like a dead person.

But the next second he suddenly became fierce and shouted loudly, "Sizhou can be finished, but not here!" As he said that, he gritted his teeth and shouted, "Then is my Daming Ancestral Tomb, where the fortune of the Emperor and Ming Dynasty is, and the land of the ancestors for thousands of years!"

As he said that, he began to run around the dam and shouted, "Come on, all the civilians are coming up! Strengthen and strengthen, and if there is a leaking place, all nine tribes will be killed..."

"Sir!" The civil servant grabbed Zhou Huai, who was already in a mad state, and cried, "Isn't Sizhou not help?"

"Save?" Zhou Huai sneered, "How to save Sizhou? Tell me how to save it?" As he said, he stuck the civil servant's neck with his backhand and shouted, "Tell me how to save it? Who will save it?"

"Sir..." The clerk's face turned red and he couldn't speak.

"Tell you!" Zhou Huai fell into a madness, "If you can't save it, you can't save it! If the city is destroyed, you can build it again, if the crops are gone, you can plant it again, if the animals are gone, you can raise them again, if the people are gone, you can regenerate again!"

"The Ming Dynasty's Ancestral Tomb cannot be misunderstood. If the flood disturbs the ancestral tomb, you and I will be sinners!"

"We are already sinners!" The civil servant suddenly cried, "Ten thousand people in the city! There are countless peasants in the countryside!"

"There is no way!" Zhou Huai shouted, "The heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things as straw dogs..."

At this moment, a man always ran from a distance in a mess and shouted loudly, "There is a crack in the dam on the south side!"

Plop!

The civil servant fell to the ground, while Zhou Huai ran away like a wild beast with red eyes.

Then he stopped suddenly and shouted, "Block the news and don't tell anyone about Sizhou, just say that Sizhou is safe and sound!"

~~

On the embankment, large tracts of sandbags and soil were swept away by the flood, and the surging waves made people unable to stand.

Compared with the power of heaven and earth, human power is extremely pitiful.

"Don't run!" Zhou Huai shouted loudly and kicked a farmer like a headless fly.

Then he resolutely carried a sandbag, jumped into the water with a thud, and shouted, "Come on, follow me and block this hole!"

Countless people flocked to the front after a brief shock, whether it was civilians, officials, soldiers or officers.

They all shouted at the top of their lungs, "Clut up this hole!"
Chapter completed!
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