Peony Overlord [Rebirth]

Summer is coming to an end in a blink of an eye. Runan in early autumn is too dry. It has not rained for two months. The sun is shining every day, and the crops in the field cannot drink water, and they are all sick.

"What's going on this year?" Shi Haoming gulped down a bowl of water and found that he was still thirsty, but Shi's daily supply of water is limited. Now, seeing that I have already swallowed a bowl of water, I feel embarrassed to have another bowl.

Chu Xinle took out the remaining water and handed it to him.

"Is it like this in previous years?" he asked.

Shi Haoming took the water embarrassingly, put it down after two sips, and said, "It will be like this at this time in previous years, but the time is not so long, and I don't know what's going on this year. Brother, don't you want to drink?"

Chu Xinle glanced at the water in the bowl, he was indeed very thirsty, but the people in this yard needed him to take care of them, if he didn't save himself, he wouldn't even be able to get out the water for cooking.

"No, I'm not thirsty." Chu Xinle waved her hand and refused.

Qingzhu Yulian went to cook, Huo Gang went to help in the kitchen in order to drink less water and did not practice swords, Shi Linling slept in her room.

"Fortunately, we have a river dug in Runan, which leads directly to the Ancheng River across the Guqu Pass. It is said that a lot of money was spent on the construction of the river. Shi and Hou spent half of the money on it, and they also collected other funds from Runan. The silver taels of several families and the people in the city are our lifeblood."

Chu Xinle's throat was a little dry. He swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva and asked, "Are you connected to the Ancheng River in Lin'an?"

Shi Haoming nodded.

"Then this length is enough to spend money." Chu Xinle murmured.

"Master!" Chen Fan ran in from the outside, his face was flushed because he ran too fast, he panted heavily, and saluted Chu Xinle.

"What's the matter?"

"The river in Runan is dry." Chenfan raised his eyes to Chu Xinle, and continued, "The people in the city have already started to be agitated. They were already frightened. Once the river is dry, they can't hold their breath anymore."

"Then who is appeasing the restlessness now?" Chu Xinle panicked for no reason, this drought was by no means sudden.

Chen Fan silently shook his head.

The meaning is clear, no one cares about it.

"Shi Enze doesn't care?" Chu Xinle slowly clenched his hands on his lap, he swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva, his voice trembling.

Chenfan sighed, glanced at Shi Haoming and shook his head at Chu Xinle in denial: "It doesn't matter, not only Shi Enze, Shi Zhenming and Hou Yingnan are also treated as invisible."

"It should be blocked in the middle of the river." Chu Xinle said.

Shi Haoming became nervous. He sat up straight, looked at Chu Xinle with a frown, and said, "If the river cannot pass through, the whole of Runan will die of thirst. Our Shi family and their Hou family will not survive either. Why didn't the owner order it to be dredged?"

Chen Fan also agreed: "Yeah, what is he thinking?"

The pot had already exploded outside, and the noise outside could be heard from Shifu, they were like a group of ants on a hot pot, without any clue.

"Such an excellent opportunity, if he doesn't use it to test it, wouldn't he be blind to God?" Xing Yanhong walked in from the outside, holding a bowl of water in his hand, without looking at Chen Fan and Shi Haoming, he went straight to Chu In front of Xinle, hand him the bowl in his hand.

"Where did you get the water?" Chu Xinle asked.

Xing Yanhong didn't answer, but ordered: "Drink."

Chu Xinle was naturally not obedient, so he asked again: "Where is the water?"

He looked firm and decisive. If Xing Yanhong didn't tell him, he would definitely not drink this bowl of water. Xing Yanhong looked down at him, sighed, and said compromised: "You are from Shifu."

"Shifu?" The three asked in unison.

"I'll tell you after you finish drinking." Xing Yanhong raised his eyebrows, and returned to his original frivolous appearance.

"..."

Chu Xinle couldn't say it, so she could only drink a bowl of water obediently, and her hungry and thirsty internal organs were nourished, and she felt much more comfortable in an instant.

Seeing that he had finished drinking, Xing Yanhong said: "There is a well in the corner of Shi Enze's courtyard. I don't know where it is connected. It is not the same as the river in Runan."

"That means there is water in that well?" Shi Haoming grasped the point.

Xing Yanhong acquiesced.

"Heh..." Chu Xinle laughed lightly, he looked up at Xing Yanhong, and Xing Yanhong was also looking at him, the two reached a perfect understanding at this moment, and jointly expressed the doubts in Chen Fan and Shi Haoming's hearts .

"He's probing."

"That's right." Chu Xinle stood up and straightened his wrinkled clothes. No one could have imagined such a severe drought. If you don't reach out for a long time, the people's hearts in Runan will be broken. At this time, as long as one person stands up to help them, that is the one who wins the hearts of the people. Shi Enza's move is really unique."

"Then second brother..." Shi Haoming got up suddenly, he looked at Chu Xin, hesitant to speak.

Chu Xinle glanced at him, then at Xing Yanhong.

Xing Yanhong smiled back at him, stepped out, and shouted to Lin Hao at the door: "Let's go, let's dredge the river."

Chu Xinle followed Xing Yanhong closely with his eyes, and when he was far away, he said to Chen Fan: "Let's go, we will go too."

Shi Haoming suddenly grabbed Chu Xinle's hand, nodded to him, and said, "I'll go too."

"No, you stay and take care of Lin Ling." Chu Xinle refused.

Shi Haoming was firm in his belief, he said: "It is enough to have green bamboo jade lotus and Master Huo here, second brother, I want to go with you."

A few people left Shifu and walked towards the river.

A circle of women surrounded the river, and when Chu Xinle walked in, she could see some brawny men with bare upper body carrying hoes and digging soil. The upstream of the river was closed by a lone bird, because the weather was too dry, and the boulders on the mountain did not stop them from sliding down. Block the river.

These stones are piled up here like a mountain, and the copper and iron walls are hard to shake. They can't be pushed by everyone, and they can only be chipped away bit by bit.

Chu Xinle didn't talk too much nonsense, he took off his outer shirt under the eyes of everyone, went down the river with Chenfan, and joined the stone-cutting team.

Xing Yanhong came ahead of them and had already picked up the hoe and was digging. The sun was fierce and his face was covered with fine sweat. When he saw Chu Xinle coming down, he frowned unconsciously, grabbed the hoe in his hand, and said, "Go up!" .”

Chu Xinle ignored him, and wanted to grab the hoe from Xing Yanhong's hand, but Xing Yanhong's arm was stretched out, and Chu Xinle couldn't reach it, so he turned around and snatched the hoe from Chen Fan's hand beside him, and began to chisel stones like the strong man next to him.

Chenfan looked at his empty hands, then at the two hoes in Xing Yanhong's hands, and stretched out his hand towards Xing Yanhong.

Xing Yanhong was in a fit of anger, he looked at Chu Xinle helplessly, then glared at Chen Fan again, although his whole body was getting more and more hostile, he still returned the hoe to him.

The scorching sun in early autumn felt like a blow to the head. They felt that their internal organs were dehydrated and shriveled while they were baking, and their heartbeat gradually slowed down. They had not had a drop of water for two days, so they faced the possibility of shock at any time, coma or even never waking up. They, the whole of Runan will face the tragic death of thirst.

Chu Xinle only drank the bowl of water that Xing Yanhong handed him for the past two days. The heavy load made him feel dizzy. Throwing down the hoe, he picked up Chu Xinle, grabbed the hoe in his hand and threw it aside.

"What are you doing!" Chu Xinle's face was livid and his lips were pale. The moment he was pulled up, he had no strength to resist, and his throat seemed to be coughing up blood, which was so painful.

Xing Yanhong had no expression on his face, and Chu Xinle was pulled out of the river by his arm. From this angle, he could only see the stern profile of Xing Yanhong. It was discovered in the water that Xing Yanhong was the eagle cub who had completely torn off its skin at this time, and the strength of his palm was stronger than Chu Xinle imagined.

He was dragged by Xing Yanhong to a thatched hut not far from the river. These days, almost all the strong men who dredged the river spent the night here. Now everyone is out, and there is no one here. There is a wooden barrel next to it, and there is still some water in it. , Xing Yanhong poured it into Chu Xinle's stomach, and then said: "You stay here for me."

"But there are not many people in Hedao. With the strength of us people, they are far inferior to the Xing family's army." Chu Xinle's angry voice became wet, and she gasped.

Xing Yanhong stood up, he was too tall, Chu Xinle sat on the haystack and could only look up at him.

"I'm going to find Shi Zhenming, his mother's grandson." Xing Yanhong said.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she turned around, she was pulled back by Chu Xinle: "You are completely exposed like this. Shi Enze and Shi Zhenming will never let you go back to Jiuyuan."

"Even if I fool around all day, they can't let me go back!" Xing Yanhong broke away from Chu Xinle's hand, and just about to leave, he turned back and squatted down, took out his handkerchief from Chu Xinle's arms and wiped it off for him Dirt on the face.

He joked, "Why do you wear it on your body every day without washing it?"

It was the first time for Chu Xinle to look so embarrassed. The two of them were covered in dirt, but the mud on Xing Yanhong's face made him look more handsome, but he was different. Chu Xinle thought, he is not good enough for this person .

Xing Yanhong wiped it carefully, and his fair face was exposed from the plaster. He satisfactorily held up that face and looked around. There was no mud, and then he let him go and stood up: "I should do these things, my darling." Le will wait for me in the house cleanly."

Chu Xinle clenched the dirty handkerchief tightly in her hand, she didn't speak from the beginning to the end, she still looked up at him, the sweat slid down her forehead, when he saw Xing Yanhong turned and walked out, the sweat dripped into his eyes, the stinging pain made him close his eyes Eyes closed, the next moment his lips were pressed, Xing Yanhong came back and gave him a comforting kiss in this dilapidated and dirty thatched hut.

Shi Zhenming and Hou Yingnan were sitting in the house drinking tea, Shi Enze was also in their courtyard, they were bored, as if everything that happened outside Shi's mansion had nothing to do with them.

Old Chen bowed his waist and walked in, explaining the outside affairs clearly.

Shi Enze smiled, and finally saw joy on his indifferent face: "Shi Jiaming and Xing Yanhong have already gone ahead of them, what is Shi Zhenming waiting for?"

Old Chen thought for a moment, then shook his head.

Shi Enze still smiled, raised his hand and drank the tea in one gulp: "He's really smart."

The moment Lao Chen came in, Ah Lei also came back and explained the matter.

Shi Zhenming raised his neck to move his shoulders back and forth, while Hou Yingnan was wiped away with a handkerchief by his servants, he seemed not as able to sit still as Shi Zhenming.

"It's time, it's time to come." Just as Shi Zhenming finished speaking, Xing Yanhong came in. He had already put on his shirt, but before he could wipe off the dirt on his face, his face was soaked in sweat and his face was covered with stains.

"Hey, isn't Xing San dredging the river in the east of the city? Why did he come to play with me?" Shi Zhenming asked innocently.

Xing Yanhong was not polite to him either, he snatched the untouched tea from Shi Zhenming's hand and sighed, ignoring Hou Yingnan, sat in a chair beside him, opened his face with a smile, and said, "Borrow someone from Mr. Shi." chant."

"This person is not borrowed casually." Shi Zhenming also smiled, glanced at Hou Yingnan who was still wiping sweat, and said, "Can't you ask me for this?"

Before Xing Yanhong could speak, Lin Hao and A Lei ran in from the house, and they both said at the same time: "Master, there is a fight over the river!"