Black clouds rolled, torrential rain poured in, and the sky and the earth were white.

The wind howled, like a demonic sound, the trees were uprooted, and the heavens and the earth seemed to be dancing like a group of demons.

The storm broke out all day, the common people hid in the house and shivered, and the good men and women also burned incense and prayed for the dragon lord to quickly calm his anger.

The next day the wind was much lighter, but the rain showed no signs of abating. The second typhoon in the second year of Longqing was much more violent than the last one.

However, in such weather, there was a team of strong men, leading horses to trek with difficulty on the official road from Jiading County to Kunshan.

This is the embankment destruction task force sent by Xu Bangning. There are a total of twenty people, and Qing Yishui's well-trained sergeants are all his father's personal soldiers in the Nanjing garrison.

The little grandfather came to Huating for a meeting, and brought forty or fifty personal soldiers to strengthen the momentum, and half of them were dispatched at this time.

No matter how many people there are, it will be too dazzling.

These sergeants were all dressed in rainproof suits, leggings, and clogs, and walked very hard in the wind and rain.

A sergeant whispered to the leading officer: "Baihu, have we offended Steward Xu, this ghost weather is sending this drudgery." ”

"Less noise." Baihu wiped the rain from his face and said in a low voice: "This kind of weather is good for doing things." ”

"That's right." The sergeant nodded, and there was no one on the way, and the footprints were quickly washed away by the rain.

"But the boss, let's do this kind of immoral thing, aren't we afraid that we won't have a son?" Another sergeant asked.

"You can get your wife first and then worry about it." Baihu took a sip and said: "If you want to say that there is a lack of morality, who can compare to our grandfather?" The sea of evil that has been created in the past few decades has gone, and I haven't seen the two masters out. ”

A vulgar remark caused the sergeants to eat and laugh. But it also made them let go of their psychological burden.

"Yes, murder and arson of gold belts, repair bridges and pave roads without corpses. Let's go and pick up the embankment, and then go back to Nanjing directly to get the silver, and go happily, regardless of what kind of bird Kunshan looks like. ”

"Lao Tzu is hungry for Xiao Fengxi for a day, this time I have to go to her bed!"

"Look at your appearance, you can't get out of bed!"

"You just brag about it......"

Speaking of this kind of topic, the sergeants were not tired or cold all of a sudden, and they couldn't wait to put on their wings and fly to Kunshan and dig their damn embankment!

Moving forward for a meal, Baihu suddenly raised his hand to signal everyone to silence.

The sergeants followed the direction he pointed, and saw a long gray dragon stretching west from before them, all the way deep into the rain.

Kunshan has arrived.

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Everyone immediately stopped laughing and formed a group under the greeting of hundreds of households, leaving only two people who looked at the wind before and after.

A few sergeants took the ponchos and built a shelter to keep out the rain.

The deputy pulled out the map and unfolded it in front of everyone.

Baihu pointed to the winding Wusongjiang on the map and said: "Wusongjiang is in Kunshan for a total of sixty-two miles, with a total of four important sections, and Steward Xu ordered us to choose one or two places to start." ”

Saying that, he sneered and said, "But I'm not going to listen to him." When the newly built embankment is in the middle of the county, there must be people guarding those places, aren't we going to send them to death? ”

The sergeants nodded their heads in deep opinion. No matter how high the reward offered by the little grandfather, he must have a life flower.

"What are we going to do?"

"We take it by surprise and do it where it doesn't matter. As long as the chiseled embankment is long enough, the effect is the same, and the gods do not know it. Listen to him whisper to the people:

"But let's unify the voice, just say that the look around is too tight to start, don't tell me to leak."

"Baihu rest assured, you are good for the brothers." The sergeants hurriedly expressed their positions.

"Hmm." Only then did Baihu relax and continue to command: "So I'm going to do it here." ”

When everyone looked at the hundred households, it was located twenty miles away from the county, a place called Beitabang.

"Two days ago, I took a boat on the Wusong River and found that this place is turbulent, but it is quite secluded, and the people who patrol the embankment never come."

"And between the stone embankment and the river in Kunshan, there is also an earthen embankment. Every mile near and far, there are embankments to divide it into grids. It's like it's just designed for us. ”

Baihu smiled proudly and said confidently:

"When we get to the place, follow the drill, and in half an hour at most, we can retreat the same way. If you get separated, you will go from Jiading to Changshu via Taicang, and from there find a way to return to Nanjing...... Anyway, as long as they leave Kunshan County, they are helpless. ”

"Yes!" All the sergeants responded in unison.

Hyako stood upright, his deputy put away the map, and several sergeants also removed their ponchos.

"In case, if I say in case, it will fall into the hands of the people of Kunshan," Baihu's eyes swept over everyone sternly: "You are absolutely not allowed to betray the little grandfather." Otherwise, the death of one person will become the death of the whole family, remember! ”

"Understood!" The sergeants responded in horror, carried the equipment on the horse's back, and then led the horse to the forest next to the road and tied it, and then followed the hundred households into Kunshan County.

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When the typhoon hit, the people stopped working, and the boats carrying stones returned to the city.

Miwa had been idle for a day, and she couldn't stay at home, so today she took a friend two years younger than him out of the city to look for mice.

One is that all the rats in the city have been caught, so they can only look for them outside the city.

The second is such weather, when water enters the burrow, the rats can't stay, so they can only get out and run around. Let the rain pour again, it's much easier to catch than usual.

It's a pity that there are many people who have the same idea as them, and the two of them came out late, and they were picked up everywhere.

Miwa was angry and decided to go to the river embankment to catch it, but she didn't believe that any fool would run out twenty miles to grab rats with herself on a typhoon day.

The little friend thought this idea was very good, so he set off with Captain Mi in a majestic and high-spirited manner.

But halfway through, I regretted my bowels, and this road was too difficult to walk......

When the embankment was repaired before, tens of thousands of people pushed carts back and forth, and the road had already been crushed to smithered, and there was no time to repair it.

At this time, let the heavy rain soak, and it will directly become muddy soup.

The two children ran and played barefoot, accidentally fell and soon became mud monkeys.

"Woo." The little friend couldn't stand it anymore, so he sat in the pit and cried. "Report to the captain, I'm tired, I'm going home."

"If you go back now, you will have to walk ten miles, which is equivalent to walking twenty miles in vain." Miwa has been following her mother out of the boat every day for a while, growing into a big one, and shouting in the style of a child king:

"Six or seven miles further on, there is the embankment, which is more effortless. You can't even figure this out, how can you be my vice-captain? ”

"It's also the vice captain, and I don't even have a team member." The vice-captain rubbed his legs and cried.

Seeing that the people's hearts were a little scattered, and the team was not easy to lead, Miwa had no choice but to tempt with a bright prospect:

"How many rats are hidden in that earthen embankment, do you think? All this rising water has come out. Let the stone embankment be separated, and you can't run away. How many can we catch alone? You can eat the meat alone for several days. ”

"I want to eat meat...... "The vice-captain came to his senses, grabbed the captain's hand and stood up. The two of them formed a team, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and marched towards the embankment.

ps. Chapter II.