Holy Bone

Chapter 377 The eighth prophecy mural!flood!
On the Yinyi River outside Fucheng.

Ships are like shadows.

With Furui falling from the sky in recent days, the grain harvest has been bumper, and the mountains are full of precious medicinal materials. As more and more people get the news, the number of boats to and from Fucheng is doubling every day.

The broad river was crowded with ships and masts.

Those merchant ships came with full loads and came back with full loads. The wharf was full of heat. The porters unloaded the goods such as cloth, spices, and porcelain brought in from other places. Going down, carrying bags of newly collected rice and medicinal materials, he hurriedly loaded the goods to other places, so as to catch up with the next shipment.

There was even a shortage of porters on the wharf for a while, and the major chambers of commerce rushed to increase the price to hire porters. They all wanted to unload and load the goods as soon as possible, and made several trips to resell the goods from the two places.

The little labor cost of hiring a porter, in the face of the huge profit gap of reselling back and forth, turned into a petty profit.

Even those wharf porters who usually fight for territory and fight for a merchant ship, face so many merchant ships that are crowded, there is not enough manpower, so they have no intention of fighting. Get up at the dock to move goods and make a fortune together.

No matter who has a wife and children to support, now there is endless work to do, and businessmen are willing to pay more for labor, the money is endless, who is willing to cause trouble and fight for land.

What is the cheapest in Fucheng now?

One is food, and the other is medicinal materials.

The grain merchants and drug dealers in Fucheng have made a lot of money in the past few days, and they are making a lot of money every day.

What's more, because the merchant ships were not enough, the goods couldn't be transported out. The wealthy merchants of the chamber of commerce bought all the private boats, even the fishing boats. In big money.

In Wuzhou Mansion these days, not only merchant ships from other places come and go, but there are also a lot of passenger ships.

The appearance of those passenger ships is very different from that of merchant ships. Passenger ships do not need to hurry up. In order to maintain stability and reduce violent turbulence and seasickness, most of them are flat-headed ships.Although the wave breaking effect of these bows is poor and the speed cannot be increased, the advantage is that the hull is stable and the shaking of the hull is minimized.

As soon as these passenger ships landed, bearers, wheelbarrow drivers, and coach drivers ran over to solicit passengers.

Some sons, scholars, old men and women who just got off the boat were surrounded by people to solicit customers before they had time to see clearly the bustling city.

These outsiders had heard of the auspicious omens in Wuzhou's prefecture, and all rushed over to see the spectacle.

At this time, it is not surprising that Fucheng is overcrowded. Restaurants, tea shops, restaurants, cloth shops, and jade shops are full of tourists from other places. Even temples and Taoist temples are particularly prosperous these days.

Who would have thought that just half a month ago, the crops in Fucheng were in short supply, the people were in dire straits, and it was difficult for the people to even drink saliva.

They all say whether a place is prosperous or not, first look at Goulan tiles, second at Huajie Liuxiang, and third at brothels. Now these places in Fucheng are full of foreign businessmen and tourists, spending money like water, and the girls are busy day and night. It is also open during broad daylight.

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On the Yinyi River, where water transportation is prosperous in Wuzhou Prefecture, and ships are crowded, a merchant ship with a deep draft and a full load of goods returned to the voyage. Amid the shouting and shouting on the river bank, the trackers pulled the rope and slowly went upstream.

The backs of those trackers were tanned and tanned. They bent their bodies, carried stiff ropes, and limped forward on the rocky shallows. Blood marks were worn on their bare arms by the ropes. With the scorching sun and sweat in summer, it brings a sharp pain.

It's not that they don't wear clothes, and the children at home are still waiting to be mended. How many clothes can the poor people have to withstand wear and tear?

Hey, hey, the chanting of these trackmen and men sounded in the empty valley on both sides of the river, and the merchant ship full of goods was struggling to go upstream. Suddenly, with a bang, the head of the merchant ship hit something in the river and turned over. Make a small wave.

"What was the sound just now?" A boatman ran to the bow to have a look.

But immediately, a panicked cry sounded from the bow, and the boatman screamed in panic that there are dead people in the water, there are dead people in the water.

"Uncle Guizi, what's the matter?" A slightly thinner tracker on the shore raised his arm and wiped the sweat from his face, asked with a dark face to an uncle in his thirties, and continued to bend his knees Bending back to pull the boat.

The skin on the back of the tracker was severely worn all the year round, and he was only a teenager in his tan.

The middle-aged man in his 30s called Uncle Guizi has a calm personality. He continued to pull the boat with a heavy hemp rope on his back, and said without looking back: "Many people die every year when the boat capsizes in the Yinyi River. Floating dead."

"Don't look around, we are about to pass the sharpest bend in the river, hurry up and finish this trip, there are still endless merchant ships behind, Wu Zi, haven't you been clamoring to save enough money to be filial to your mother? Is your mother going to the city to see a doctor?"

Oh...Wu Zi responded, and looked in the direction of the merchant ship for the last time curiously, but he was surprised: "Why is there fog on the river!"

Fog?

Before Uncle Guizi could react, the hemp rope on his back tightened suddenly, as if being dragged by a powerful giant hand. At this moment, the Yinyi River flowed backwards, and the water level of the river dropped rapidly. Even the thousand caves that were originally hidden under the big bend were exposed, and all the boats on the river were taken away uncontrollably by the backflow of the river.

The trackers on the shore were all lowering their heads to pull the boat, and didn't notice the strangeness on the river for the first time. In an instant, these trackers lost their balance and fell heavily to the ground, dragged by the reins on their backs and flew into the Yinyi River.

"Uncle Guizi!"

A teenager named Wuzi subconsciously reached out to grab Uncle Guizi who was brought down by the reins, but even he was taken into the Yinyi River.

There was a sound of falling into the water. The trackers on the shore were either smashed to death on the mountain wall or brought into the river. They desperately called for help, and were taken away by the back tide along with the boats. At this moment, the river was stained red with blood.

At this time, there were crying and screams on the Yinyi River, but before the government could react, the backflow of the river surged back up quickly, and after falling and rising, the flood flooded the sky and capsized all the boats on the river .

The flood came very quickly, reaching Fucheng in the blink of an eye, sweeping away the people on the pier and the military barracks outside the city. Wherever the flood passed, there were floating corpses and howling screams everywhere.

At this moment, the city is in chaos.

The people ran into the city in panic, and the panic that had just subsided for a few days when the Dragon King went ashore began to spread rapidly across the city again.

There were screams and cries everywhere, and people ran towards the city stepping on each other, but they were soon swept away by the river flooding into the city, and their heads were bleeding.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this situation is a purgatory on earth.

The gate of Bailong Temple, which had been closed for more than a month, was opened wide. The abbot of Bailong Temple hurried down the mountain with hundreds of monks to rescue people. Together with the abbot of Bailong Temple, there was also a monk Qianshi from Chengguo Temple in Jingcheng.

The first place that the thousand stone monk left after leaving the Paradise of Heaven was to Bailong Temple.

At this critical moment, other temples and Taoist temples all over the city also opened their doors to help the homeless people. A large number of monks and Taoist priests came out of the temples and Taoist temples to cooperate with the government to rescue people everywhere.

Only the Taoist Temple of the Five Viscera, which is located in a remote location, has kept its door closed, and there is no one in the temple.

(End of this chapter)