Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 1228 Heavy Rain Begins Again

The weather was just as Zhu Ping'an expected. After the sunset, the east wind picked up gradually, the trees in the courtyard began to shake, and the leaves of the trees danced wildly. The dark clouds in the sky were like a boundless black curtain, gradually falling from the east sky. Pulling it over, it soon enveloped the sky over Jingnan.

  To be precise, it covered half of Jiangnan.

  After the dark clouds covered the sky, the earth became dark instantly, and the phoenix gradually grew bigger and roared, whining like ghosts and wolves, like the devil blowing the horn to conquer the world.

   "The rain is about to come and the wind is all over the building."

  Zhu Ping'an stood in the courtyard with his clothes fluttering and his hands and sleeves folded behind his back. Feeling the howling wind in the courtyard and seeing the black clouds getting lower and lower in the sky, he couldn't help but sigh.

  As soon as Zhu Ping'an's words fell, large raindrops the size of peas fell from the sky. clatter! clatter! clatter! The sound of raindrops hitting the ground was like the sound of a machine gun.

"Grandpa, it's raining outside, come in quickly." Baozi's little maid Hua'er's voice sounded at the door, and she was about to go out with her skirt in her hand, as if I would drag you in if you don't come in .

"coming."

  Zhu Ping'an nodded, and walked into the house.

  When Zhu Pingan just walked into the house, the sound of the rain outside had changed from "da da" to "hua hua".

  It is raining heavily.

Zhu Pingan stood at the door and looked out. It was pitch black outside, and he couldn't see clearly from a distance, but he could vaguely see it when he looked up close. The heavy rain formed rain curtains and beat the ground fiercely. There was a white mist. Only when the rain is heavy to a certain extent can such a foggy landscape appear.

  The little puddles in the yard grew wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after a while, the water flowed into a river.

  While Zhu Ping'an was paying attention to the rain outside, many people were also paying attention to the torrential rain.

   "Why is it raining again? It's still raining so heavily. This is not a good sign."

  An old man in the countryside of Jingnan leaned on a cane and stood under the eaves. Looking at the pouring rain outside, he frowned.

   "Yeah, the continuous rain for more than ten days stopped in less than two days, and the pouring rain started again. Fortunately, our county magistrate took precautions and urged us to repair the dam in front of the village."

  The other old man nodded, thinking of the dikes and dams that were riddled with holes before, he couldn't help saying with lingering fear.

"Yeah, fortunately our county magistrate has foresight. Those idle young people in our village don't understand bullshit, and yesterday they were ignorant, and the magistrate magistrate ordered the people to work blindly. If it wasn't dark now, I would have to Go to their house on crutches, see if they still have face, you have to point their noses and swear at them." The old man on crutches thought about what happened yesterday, and couldn't help knocking on his cane twice angrily.

  The adjacent Taiping County Government is holding a banquet to celebrate the new county magistrate's one-month tenure in Taiping County.

  The newly-appointed county magistrate sat at the main seat, and the subordinates of the yamen gathered together. The dishes such as chicken, duck and fish were well-cooked on the table. Two jars of champion red Shaoxing wine were uncorked, exuding a mouth-watering aroma.

The banquet was held after the release of the yamen. The weather was fine at that time, and the fish-scale clouds in the sky were so beautiful that the new county magistrate became very popular. Everyone clapped their hands and praised, which made the face of the new county magistrate a lot of honor, and the banquet was very good.

Before the wine had passed the third tour, the weather outside suddenly changed. First, there was an east wind, and then dark clouds covered the sky. The raindrops became torrential rain, and it started to rain.

  The new magistrate looked at the pouring rain outside, the wine and meat on the table suddenly tasted bad, and his mood became irritable.

  Everyone in the room was puzzled why the county official suddenly became depressed, only the staff knew the inside story.

  The banquet ended hastily. The new magistrate of Taiping looked at the pouring rain with a gloomy expression, not knowing what he was thinking.

   "Dong Weng, do you want to start flood control?" After several times of hesitation, the staff finally couldn't help it and asked cautiously.

It has been rainy and rainy for twelve consecutive days, and now it is raining again. This is not a good omen. The staff members know that the boss does not like this, but out of duty, they still take the risk of bad luck and warn them. road. There are also many floods in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, so we have to pay more attention.

   "It's too late now, let's see the situation tomorrow." The new Taiping magistrate said with a blank expression.

   Seeing this, the staff stopped talking.

Not long after the heavy rain fell, Tan Lun, the prefect of Taizhou, who was in charge of military training in the new army barracks, couldn't sit still anymore. Worried that the heavy rain might cause floods, he handed over the affairs of the new barracks to Zuo Zhen. Then, braved the heavy rain to smear the slander, he rode his horse back to the Taizhou government office, and went back to preside over the arrangement of flood control and flood control work.

   It was just that when the army was training, in order to avoid interruption and better training, the new army barracks were selected in the mountains.

  It was dark, the road was slippery, it was raining heavily, and the mountain road was difficult to walk. It was already late at night when Tan Lun rushed back to the Taizhou government office.

This was a heavy rain that stretched over half of the south of the Yangtze River. The torrential rain was heavy and urgent. The next day it still didn't stop. The river systems in various places in the south of the Yangtze River were flooded, and some rivers swelled over the river bed overnight. Spread towards the dam.

  The rain was falling fast and heavily, and it showed no sign of stopping at all. No matter how dull the people were, they were worried that if the heavy rain continued, it would cause a disaster.

  There are only some children, carefree and barefoot, chasing and playing in the water, jumping and singing nursery rhymes: the sky is dark, it is going to rain. Grandfather raised his **** to dig taro, digging and digging, digging and digging, digging a tail of spinach, grandpa wanted to cook salty, grandma wanted to cook light, and the two smashed together to break the cauldron.

  Zhu Ping'an got up early, put on the coir raincoat, led the horse, and took Liu Dadao and others out to inspect the rain in the towns below. Along the way, Zhu Pingan clearly felt the power of the heavy rain.

  The wind was heavy and the rain was heavy, the sky was dark and the ground was dark, and it was endless. This torrential rain seemed to be leaking from the sky.

  The surface of the river, the river, and the lake are all expanding. Every water area in Jingnan is rapidly expanding their power, swelling their bodies, appearing wild, submerging the river bed, and beating the dam to test the bearing capacity of the dam.

  Although preparations for flood control have been made in advance, and even after visiting several places and finding that the flood control situation in various places is not bad, Zhu Pingan still can't help worrying in the face of this endless heavy rain. In the face of nature, human beings are so insignificant that floods cannot be eliminated in modern times, let alone in ancient times.

  (end of this chapter)