Bachelor

Chapter 440 Breaking the Embankment ([-])

On the same night, Suining County Government.

Miss Fang felt a little worried when she saw her father rushing into the rain with heavily armed yamen servants.According to what Fang Yong just said, the gangsters on the embankment were so vicious that they dared to kill Fang Yong and the government officials, so there was nothing they could do.

Father... will father be all right?
Speaking of it, he is just a scholar, a civil servant with no power to restrain a chicken!
Probably seeing Fang Weiyi's pale face, Fang Yong also knew that Fang Shangzu's visit to Fangzhi County was extremely dangerous, but this was the fate of the court.Even if it was replaced by another party as the magistrate, when encountering such a thing, he would have no choice but to turn back.

But couldn't bear to see Miss Fang's expression like this, Fang Yongqiang raised his spirits and said: "Miss, don't worry so much, no matter how cruel the villain is, does he still dare to attack the master? Do they want to rebel? Isn't it afraid that the court will find out and punish you?" Their three clans?"

It is a serious crime of treason to attack a county magistrate.

Hearing what Fang Yong said, Fang Wei felt a little relieved.

She walked back into the house and poured herself a cup of tea, trying to moisten her dry throat that was about to smoke.She has a habit of drying out her throat when she is nervous.

But because he was too nervous, his hands trembled uncontrollably, and the tea kept sloshing out of the cup and landed on the poem written by the magistrate above the case.

Fang Yong watched Fang Wei grow up. Fang Yong had no children. Although he was Miss Fang's seventh uncle, in his heart, he regarded Fang Wei as his own daughter.

Seeing Fang Wei so nervous, Fang Yong felt sad.He was very dizzy from blood loss.But at this moment, he had to raise his spirits and talk to her.

If this person is nervous, you have to talk to her to distract her.

Seeing the tea falling on the paper, Fang Yong glanced at it and said with a smile, "So it's a new poem written by the master. It's wonderful, really wonderful." At the north and south of the throat, Guanliang drives the torrent day and night, vividly depicting the throat of the Qingjiang River and the canal, and the transportation between the north and the south. The master is worthy of being a scholar in the two lists. This poem is written with high spirits. Sun and Yang."

The Sun and Yang mentioned by Fang Yong are naturally Sun Dan and Yang Shen, the two great talents of this dynasty.

Hearing Fang Yong mentioning Sun Dan, Fang Wei regained his energy, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Daddy's poems and articles are naturally good, but compared to Sun Dan, they are much worse. In terms of aspects, I also talked to Daddy, Sun Dan The phrase 'Luohong is a ruthless thing, it turns into spring mud to protect flowers', hey... who can write such lingering poems, I don't know what kind of person it is?"

Speaking of this, Fang Wei felt a little crazy: "If I can meet the great talent Sun, it will not be in vain to come to this world. Fang Wei's body is not broken, and he knows his fate is not long. See him before you die."

Seeing what Fang Wei said, Fang Yong didn't feel a little sad, and comforted him: "Miss, didn't Mr. Li say that your illness only needs to be taken care of carefully, and you may not be able to live forever... Eh, the rain seems to have stopped."

Fang Wei was still immersed in Sun Dan's poems, but didn't realize that the rain outside had stopped, and murmured: "Lianzhong Sanyuan, the number one scholar of the Ming Dynasty must be a romantic figure like Qin Guan and Liu Yong. I don’t know when I can see him? However, there is a saying in the ancients that it is as good as seeing each other. There is no one who can be the number one scholar in Jinshi who has not been in poverty for decades. Take my father, who is also in his 30s Unexpectedly, he won the Jinshi prospect when he was almost forty. Come to think of it, Sun Dan must be an octogenarian this year. Since ancient times, a talented person is like a beautiful woman, and the world does not let the world see her gray hair."

Fang Yong was very dizzy, and his eyes were a little blurry, but he still managed to lift his spirits and smiled: "Since ancient times, beauties are like heroes, and they are not allowed to show gray hair in the world. How did you say that they turned into geniuses? In fact, Miss is wrong. Then Sun Danzhong was only 16 years old when he was a candidate, and he was only [-] years old when he was the champion, but now, he is only a young man in his early twenties."

"Si!" Miss Fang's face suddenly turned rosy, blushing with excitement, and she couldn't help asking: "Uncle, this Sun Dan must be a handsome young man."

Fang Yong doesn't know what Miss Fang is thinking.Miss Fang stayed in her boudoir, and after studying for so many years, she was determined to marry the talented young man.It's just that she is not healthy. Although Mr. Li said that if she takes good care of her, she can live for many years, but who can say for sure in this period.Therefore, Fang Zhixian never thought about finding a husband's family for the young lady.

However, which girl does not have spring, this is also a natural law.

Fang Yongdao: "In the selection of officials in the Ming Dynasty, there are certain requirements on the appearance of officials, and even those with ugly appearances cannot be officials. Sun Dan is the number one scholar, and he is an editor of the Imperial Academy who is with His Majesty. He must be a person with extraordinary appearance. handsome man."

Miss Fang blushed even more: "It must be."

Fang Yong said again: "Speaking of this Sun Jingyuan, in fact, he is a person who doesn't like to be in the limelight. He only stays with the emperor and doesn't have much contact with courtiers. Therefore, not many people have met him. I don't know what he looks like. However, Miss, you don't have to worry. I heard that Sun Dan will come to Huai'an soon."

"Ah, Sun Dan is coming to Huai'an?" Miss Fang let out a low voice.

Fang Yong nodded: "I heard that the imperial court sent him to Nanzhili to inspect the province's education administration, and presided over the Huai'an government's government examination. He has been inspecting county schools in various counties in Huai'an in the past few days. It is reasonable to go to Suining."

"Come to Suining, come to Suining!" Miss Fang's eyes were full of crystal light.

Fang Yong said with a smile: "Actually, when the time comes, Miss will probably be disappointed."

Fang Wei was a little surprised: "What do you mean?"

Fang Yong replied: "Miss only loves the beautiful and timeless writing, and I have also read a lot of Sun Jingyuan's writing. In fact, Sun Dan's poems and essays are grand and magnificent, and I don't think you will like them. For example, he passed by in the south this time. I wrote a Laoshan song when I was in Laoshan, but it is not the kind you love so much."

"Oh, Sun Jingyuan has a new work. Let's celebrate the New Year." Fang Wei was very pleasantly surprised.

Fang Yong cleared his throat and read: "Mount Lao is [-] feet high, and Cui Wei is in the east. Look down at the sea and see the sun and moon, and look up at the vitality enveloping Hongmeng."

"Okay!" Before Fang Yong could finish reading, Miss Fang cheered loudly: "You are so imposing, you have to be a man to do it. Uncle, you continue."

"The secret caves in Youyan are difficult to form, and the smog gathers thousands of peaks. The Hualou alone collects all the mountain scenery, and each one is full of beauty. The giant peaks are the most powerful, and there have been no traces for several years. In the end, the ravines and gullies connect with each other."

Ms. Fang gave a cheer, her eyes seemed to drip water: "Who says I don't like that kind of grand poems and articles, others must be able to write them! As far as I am concerned, I am a literati, If you write clear and euphemistic poems, it can be eye-catching. But once you write something like Lao Shange, you don’t have Sun Jingyuan’s kindness and tolerance, and you will naturally groan without illness. Well, well, Sun Jingyuan is worthy of a generation of Wenzong!"

Sun Danruo would feel ashamed when he heard Miss Fang's praise here.In fact, this prison mountain song is also plagiarized.Copied from Gu Yanwu's poem of the same name.It was when he was passing by Shandong, he wanted to climb Mount Lao for a moment, but the county magistrates and literati in Laoshan found out, and they all came to meet him, and asked Sun Dan to give him a poem, so that he could engrave it on the cliff for eternity commemorate.

Sun Dan also had no choice but to take out this poem to resist.

Gu Yanwu's poems are naturally nothing to say, and this Laoshan song alone can be regarded as the first peak of Ming poetry.

"The cloud is that Lao Tzu has been here, and later there is Huangshi Gong in Jibei. It is now known as the God's House, with a high structure to stay in the Immortal Palace. I heard that Dongyue Taishan is the largest, and Yu Emperor Chaiwang Qin Huangfeng. It goes straight to the east for thousands of years. For more than a mile, the shape of the mountain continues to connect to the void. From then on, the mountain lies on the right of the sea, and it is completely in the domain of the world. The outer islands are countless, and there are many fish and dragons. The temples of the Eight Gods are inside, and gold and copper are often placed in chess."

Fang Yong was still reading slowly, but Miss Fang saw that the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end.

Not only Fang Yong, but even Ms. Fang was so overwhelmed by the majestic verses that she couldn't breathe. She just felt that the Great Wall of Seven Characters seemed to turn the entire East China Sea upside down, trying to overwhelm everything.

At this point in righteous thoughts, suddenly, a loud explosion sounded from afar.

Fang shook his body, his face became white, and the gauze on his forehead was bleeding again: "It exploded, it exploded!"

Miss Fang Weifang also realized that something was wrong, she screamed: "Daddy!" and was about to run out of the house.

Fang Yong grabbed Miss Fang: "Don't go, don't go, the dam will burst soon, miss, run for your life!"

"Daddy, Daddy!" Fang Wei was still screaming, but tears poured out like spring water.

At this time, as the sound of the explosion fell, there was a dull rumbling sound of water.It got louder and louder, until in the end, it covered up all the sounds.

The people in the city probably sensed something was wrong, and thousands of chaotic voices sounded: "The flood is coming, the flood is coming!"

"Help!"

"Run away!"

Fang Yong stomped his feet anxiously: "Miss, what time is it? The water has already come down, so how do you go to find the master? Hurry up, pack up, let's run away."

Miss Fang still refused to give up, she firmly grasped the door frame: "Grandpa let go, I'm going to find Dad."

Fang beat his heart with urgency, tilted his head, and fell to the ground with a plop.

Fang Wei hurriedly helped Fang Yong up: "Uncle, what's wrong with you?" Tears couldn't stop falling on Fang Yong's face.

Fang Yong woke up suddenly, and struggled weakly to get up from the ground: "Miss, stop making trouble, pack up your things quickly, let's escape first, and find a chance to rejoin the master later."

Only then did Fang Wei calm down, nodded, and gritted his teeth: "Okay, I'll get ready." After speaking, he hurried back to the back room.

At this time, the sound of water and the cries for help outside became louder, "The wall of the north gate has collapsed, hurry to the south!"

Fang Yong just felt that the time was so long, he was anxious to walk around the room.

After a while, Miss Fang had already changed into a Confucian scholar's robe, and ran out with a package in her hand: "Uncle, where are we going?" Know what kind of mess it will be.She was originally a weak girl, but she was born with a beautiful face. If she ran out rashly like this, she didn't know what would happen to her.

Therefore, she still changed into men's clothing, packed up some soft clothes, and ran out.

Fang Yong opened his mouth and was about to reply when he heard a "Boom!" The yellow turbid current washed away the wall of the yard.A two-meter-high wave rushed into the house in an instant.

Fang Wei only felt that his eyes went dark, and he couldn't see anything.I only felt that ferocious force lift myself up and slam into the back.

She didn't know what hit her, she just felt the pain in her back was unbearable, and she almost fainted.He wanted to open his mouth to shout, but when he opened his mouth, a stream of cold river water poured in.

Just trying to poke her head out of the water, her eyes lit up, and she took a fresh control to pour into her nose, and then she woke up.Looking down, it turned out that in the panic just now, she just hugged a big wooden beam and was swept out by the current.

Looking back, the flood had covered the roof, and the entire city of Suining had been swallowed by the flood.

Miss Fang was drenched and shivering from the cold.However, the torrential flood was rushing in front of my eyes, a lot of sundries were floating on the water surface, and there were victims struggling to swim in the water.

"Uncle, uncle!" Fang Wei shouted anxiously when he realized that Fang Yong was gone.

But he called a few times, but no one answered.

Could it be that Uncle Seven was also killed?
Thinking of Fangzhi County, where life and death are unknown at this moment, Miss Fang felt a pain in her heart, and couldn't help crying loudly: "Daddy, Daddy, Seventh Uncle, where are you?"

Just as he was crying hard, suddenly, a hand stretched out from the yellow water in front of him, and grabbed the wooden beam fiercely.Because of the excessive force, the wooden beam rolled, and Miss Fang almost fell into the water, and she couldn't help screaming loudly.

"It's me, it's me." The owner of that hand poked his head out of the water, but it wasn't just the hand, but who it was.

Fang Wei was greatly surprised and couldn't help but choked up: "Uncle, I thought you already..."

"It's okay, I can't die yet." Blood gushed out of the gauze on Fang Yong's head, and it was still dazzlingly red under the moonlight: "But... it seems that I can't last long." Fang Yong felt his body was weak It was so severe that I couldn't help but close my eyes several times.

"Uncle, you have to persevere. If you leave, what should I do?" Miss Fang cried even louder.

Fang Yong's face turned blue, obviously unable to hold on anymore.His own body knew that he was washed by the water for a long distance just now, and he didn't know how many hard objects he hit on his body. His body was hot and painful, and he must have suffered a serious internal injury.If it was someone else, he would have died in the water long ago.But he couldn't worry about Miss Xia, so he stubbornly supported it until now.

Seeing Fang Wei crying, Fang Yong shouted: "Don't cry, I have something to tell you."

Miss Fang was stunned and quieted down.

Fang Yong gasped for breath and vomited blood: "Miss, you have to listen to everything I say now. Looking at the situation, the master's side is also in danger. This time the Yellow River's embankment collapse was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster. Just now Because I was afraid that the master would be worried, I didn't say a word."

Fang Wei had tears in his eyes: "Uncle, tell me."

Fang Yong: "When I was on the embankment, I met that gangster surnamed Gan once before, and I knew him."

Miss Fang was shocked: "Who is he?"

Fang Yong: "It's Gan Bida, the eunuch in charge of the Nanhe Hedao Water Transport Yamen, a celebrity under Mr. Huang Jin's subordinates. When I went to the Hedao Yamen for business, I saw him from afar." Having said this, he paused for a moment, anxious Said: "There is a big problem with the Suining river defense project. Eunuch Gan and Wang Shu ate black money in it, and were sued by the imperial envoy. In order to hide the evidence, they simply blew up the embankment. As long as they blow up, the embankment will be destroyed by water." If you rush away, there will be no evidence."

This sentence was truly earth-shattering, and Ms. Fang was so shocked that she was speechless.It took a long time before she cried out in grief and indignation: "Desperate, deranged!"

Fang Yong shook his head sadly, "Gan Bida is a ruthless person. When he came to Nanhe, in order to rectify the order on the canal, he massacred people. The Cao Gang didn't know how many people died in his hands. Now, for the sake of Protect yourself, I'm afraid the master will also be broken in his hands."

"Daddy." Miss Fang cried again.

Fang Yong: "Don't cry, don't cry, listen to me. You should go to Huai'an immediately to find Sun Dan. Now, Wang Shu and Gan Bi are working together. If you want to bring them down, you have to go to Sun Jingyuan, and only he has this ability."

"Wang Shu, Gan Bida!" Fang Wei almost gritted his teeth.

Just after saying this, suddenly, a big log slammed fiercely along the current.

Fang Yong yelled: "Miss, be careful!" With a strong hand, Fang Wei and the wooden beam she was lying on were pushed away.

I saw that the big log just hit Fang Yong's vest.

Poor Fangyong didn't even have time to let out a scream before he was crushed into the water by the whole log, and he was no longer seen.

"Uncle, uncle!" Fang Wei shouted loudly.But what answered her was the sound of rumbling water, and the turbulent torrent was all in front of her eyes.

She couldn't do anything, she had to lie on the wooden beam, floating aimlessly with the current.

In a blink of an eye, she floated out of the city.

Looking back, the whole of Suining has become a country, only the tower at the south gate can barely reveal a line of roof.In the moonlight, the shadows of people like ants were lying on the ridge of the roof.

The water was so cold that it froze into the marrow of the bones.

At the beginning, Miss Fang was still crying loudly, but later, her voice became hoarse, and when she opened her mouth, she spat out a mouthful of thick blood.

Then there was an uncontrollable cough, as if he wanted to spit out his heart and lungs.

She felt a chill in her heart, knowing that her tuberculosis had relapsed again.

I don't know how long it has passed, and how far it has drifted.At the beginning, she was shivering from the cold, but later, her body was completely numb and she felt nothing.

"It looks like I'm going to die here today. The road to the Underworld is so crowded, can I still find my father and uncle?" Fang Wei's heart turned cold, his eyes darkened, and he fell into the water.

I don't know how long it has been floating, as if my body hit something, Fang Wei suddenly woke up.

At this time, someone screamed overhead: "Master, it seems that he is still alive, the scholar in the water moved just now."

An old man's voice sounded: "It can be seen."

"It's true."

The owner: "Save him and come up, hey, he is probably a scholar from Suining. After this flood, Suining's reading seeds can be regarded as wiped out, and I don't know how many people are still alive."

A penny stretched out: "Scholar, hurry up."

(End of this chapter)