Hand over the golden finger to the country

It can't be such a coincidence, can it?He was just thinking about it in his heart, the lightning and thunder were too exaggerated!

Is the way of heaven in this world so terrifying?

Yan Yan withdrew his gaze towards the sky, obediently followed Zhou Zhou and the others to knock on the door.

As the rain became heavier, no one in the room responded, and the mood of the four became worse and worse.

Just when Yan Yan was about to say, "Why don't you climb over the wall and go in to hide first", the door in the yard creaked and opened.

An old lady with white hair squinted her eyes towards the gate, looked at Yan Yan and the others seriously several times, and shouted, "Did you get rich?"

Yan Yan shouted: "We are traveling merchants passing by. It is raining heavily outside. We want to borrow your precious land to hide from the rain!"

Yan Yan saw that the old woman had poor eyesight, so she yelled loudly on purpose. After hearing this, the old woman let out an "ah" and waved her hand: "Come in quickly! The door is unlocked, just push hard and it will open."

Several people smiled happily, pushed open the door vigorously, and hurriedly ran to the eaves.

"Don't lock the door, Fa Cai hasn't come back yet!" The old woman shouted to the last Qin Yu.

"Okay." Qin Yu responded, and ran over after closing the door.

"Hurry up, come in!" The old lady opened the door, beckoning Yan Yan and the others to enter.

Yan Yan and the others stopped being polite, entered the room, took off their raincoats and put them at the door, and sat beside a large table in the hall.

"It's raining heavily outside, are you all wet? Come and drink hot tea to drive away the cold." The old woman came over with a teapot and poured water for Yan Yan and the others.

"Thank you, we will do it ourselves." Zhou Zhou took the teapot.

Listening to Zhou Zhou's thank you, the old woman was both stiff and full of smiles, "You're welcome, you're welcome, sit down! ... I also said that you are all soaked, but I didn't expect you to be dry. This coir raincoat looks strange. , but it is very powerful."

The old man stood beside Yan Yan and the others watching them drinking tea, squinting his eyes and looking at Yan Yan's face, wondering where these people came from, they were all handsome and powerful.

Although the old lady talked a lot and liked to read about irrelevant things, she was very hospitable, and she boiled hot water and brought food, which made several people feel a little embarrassed.

After drinking hot tea and resting for a while, Yan Yan felt the chills in her body being dispelled, and her whole body recovered.

He sighed and looked at the old woman and thanked her earnestly: "Thanks to you, otherwise we would have no place to hide in this rainy day, and we will leave when the rain stops."

The old woman smiled and showed her eight teeth, "It's not too tight, I have a spare room here anyway, so I can live here as I like."

After finishing speaking, he thought of something again, put away his smile, and his expression became sad, "It has been raining for many days in a row during the recent rainy season. It finally stopped a few days ago, and it started to rain again today. I heard that there was a flood that flooded many people. Few people, really..."

Yan Yan and the others looked at each other, and tentatively said, "It seems that a village upstream has been flooded."

The old woman: "That's right, the city above was flooded when there was a flood. Many people escaped and many people were drowned. My children went to pick up relatives in the town ahead, and they should come back logically. As a result, It’s raining heavily again, and now I don’t know what’s going on.”

Looking at the worry on the old woman's face, Yan Yan thought of the corpse floating on the river before.

Yan Yan sighed in her heart, and could only pray that the family of this kind old woman was fine, and that there were no relatives and friends among those floating corpses, and she also prayed that the rain would stop soon and that there would be no more floods.

"The weather recently, eh—" Yan Yan began to inquire about the situation, "It's been raining for a long time, since when did it start?"

The old lady clapped her hands and said firmly: "At the beginning of this month! I remember clearly that we just finished drying the grain, but a heavy rain fell and it never stopped."

After some inquiries, Yan Yan and the others figured out the situation here.

This world is ancient, it is a place called Wanchao, Yuanguo, I don’t know about other things, because this is the easternmost part of the country, and it belongs to the area that the imperial court does not care about. Many old women don’t know.

And this rainy season, which started 20 days ago, has been raining continuously, breaking down river dams, flooding crops, and killing countless people.

This is not the most serious place, the most serious is a city upstream, according to people who escaped, the water directly covered the roof.

The ancient drainage system was not good, wouldn't flooding be a catastrophe?

It rained for longer and longer, hearing that the towns and villages upstream were flooded one by one, and many people in the old woman's village ran out to seek refuge, only those who were unwilling to leave and those who thought it was nothing serious.

Also, like the old woman's house, I went to find relatives in other villages, and waited for them to come and go together.

The situation is almost known, but Yanyan and the others have nothing to do, they can't help anything, they can only wait.

At night, listening to the still "splashing" rain outside, several people couldn't sleep well.

Fortunately, in the middle of the night, the rain became lighter and stopped completely by dawn.

The old woman woke up early, she came to the window and looked at the clear sky, smiling and muttering.

Yan Yan and the others didn't sleep in late, they got up early to help the old woman clean up the stagnant water in the yard, fill the water tank, chop firewood, sweep the floor and so on.

The old woman refused to let them help, but Yan Yan and the others did it faster than the other, which made her laugh and boast.

Breakfast is multigrain steamed buns and corn porridge, the corn porridge is thin like rice soup.Swallowing the steamed buns hurts my throat, I can't tell what it is made of, it's completely coarse grains.

However, none of them showed any strangeness or disgust, and they all ate it.

The four of Yan Yan knew that the newly harvested food at the old woman's house was wet by the rain, and there was not much food in stock before, and miscellaneous grain steamed buns were also one of the few foods at the old woman's house.

After eating, Yan Yan found a small bag of extremely crushed corn grits from the space station, and kept them in the back room as a reward for taking them in.

After saying goodbye to the old woman, they left the village with their raincoats and continued down to the mountain.

Seeing that Yan Yan and the others disappeared, the old woman went back to the house. After returning to the house, she found the fine corn grits on the table, and she was both delighted and sighed.

She twisted it a little with her hands and took a look, then laughed out of wrinkled faces.

Here, Yan Yan and the others rushed to the mountain with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Because it had just rained, the road was full of mud, and the shoes were quickly covered with mud.

The way of ancient times is like this, there is no way.

It took another day, and the four of them finally reached the foot of the mountain. Just as they were about to go up the mountain, Wen Xiao found signs of landslides on it.

"If we go up, if it's raining, we may encounter mudslides." Wen Xiao looked at everyone.

"It's hard to come here, and this is the end?" Zhou Zhou scratched his hair irritably.

"Then let's continue down. Didn't Grandma Sun say there is a city down there? Then let's go directly to the city." Yan Yan suggested.

Qin Yu nodded: "Yes."

"it is good."

"No comment."

Even in ancient times, there were always officials in big cities, and it was impossible to encounter a crisis without protective measures. It was definitely safer than being outside.

The few people left as soon as they said they would, and rushed to the city below without stopping.

They passed by several villages on the way, but they didn't go in to stop, and they drove all night.Fortunately, it hasn't rained again for the past two days, and Yan Yan and the others walked safely.

It rained lightly on the third day, but it was not a big problem. On the evening of the fourth day, several people finally saw the city gate.

"It's not easy, but it's here!"

Looking at the city gate in the distance, they saw hope. Several people rushed there, only to find that there were many people surrounding the city gate.

They dragged their families, old and young, a large family, some pushing carts, some carrying only baggage, and some lying on the ground half dead without carrying anything.

Qin Yu: "They are fleeing."

Yan Yan looked at the crowd of people around the gate of the city, and frowned slightly, "Are you not allowed to enter? In such a short period of time, it is impossible for the city to accept no more people?"

Wen Xiao looked somewhere, and sneered: "It's not that I can't take it, it's that I don't want to take it, look."

Yan Yan looked in the direction he pointed, and found that there were several officers and soldiers with knives blocking the way at the gate of the city. As long as someone handed over the silver taels, they would be put into the city.

If someone couldn't pay, or didn't give enough money, they would immediately turn their backs on them and push them aside after taking the money, no matter how much they cried.

If someone started making a fuss, the officers and soldiers pulled out the knives from their waists, pointed at the troublemakers and glared at them, and the troublemakers immediately stopped and did not dare to make trouble again.

Zhou Zhou: "Are they so arrogant? Is it their own pockets, or is it an order from above?"

"Just look at this upright appearance." Yan Yan sneered, as expected, such people are indispensable everywhere.

"Let's go in." Qin Yu took out a delicate wooden box from Space New through his backpack, which contained a set of four small and exquisite colored glass cups.

This is all specially prepared for the ancient world.

"Yeah." Yan Yan nodded, no longer looking at the group of unlovable refugees with sad faces nearby, and walked straight to the gate of the city.

"Hey! What are you doing?" The officers and soldiers immediately stopped Yan Yan and the others, and looked them up and down with their eyes.

At this time, Yan Yan and the others had already changed into robes. Although they were not as exquisite and luxurious as the ones they wore in ancient times, they were still very good clothes.

After all, the clothes that should be worn are also different depending on the occasion.

"We are traveling merchants, and we came here to do business, but unexpectedly, it was the rainy season." Yan Yan didn't bother to be polite to them, and directly took out the wooden box and handed it over.

"Please also give us a hand."

The officers and soldiers regained their spirits after looking at the delicate box. After opening it, they straightened their eyes immediately, "Glass cup?"

"Good eyesight, it's the glass cup, or our unique colored glass cup." Yan Yan smiled.

The four small cups are of different colors, both transparent and colorful. Even if they are placed in Languo, they are still good-looking cups.

The officers and soldiers closed the lid, grinned, and stretched out their hands in the direction of the city, "Come in, come in, I'll send someone to see you off!"

Someone came up next to them, enthusiastically led them into the city, and asked what kind of business Yan Yan and the others did.

"We do all kinds of business." That's all Yan Yan said, and he didn't let him get any other news.

The man had no choice but to send them in, followed them secretly, saw which inn they had entered, and trotted back.

After he left, Yan Yan and the others looked at each other with a smile, left the inn, and looked for the store again.

That night, the officers and soldiers delivered this set of valuable glazed cups to their boss, who in turn sent them to the city lord.

And the city lord sent the glazed cup to the prince who had just arrived in the city for disaster relief and flood control sent by the imperial court.

The prince looked at the glass cup in the box, his pupils shrank, and he almost threw the box out.

Damn it!How could there be glass here?It's so weird that there are strange people appearing?