Lin Jian and Zhou Pu and Zhu Wuwei quickly whipped their horses and rushed to the Chaotianyi ferry at dusk.

Lin Tie was delayed for two days before and after the military camp in the north of Gutang County, and the fleet had already sent everyone to the south bank for resettlement, and the Dongyang returned to the north shore and docked at the Chaotianyi ferry to wait for Lin Tie to come and meet; Liu Yue'er and Xiaoman also came to the north shore with the boat.

In the past two days, Lin Lian has always been depressed in his heart, and when he saw Liu Yue'er, Xiaoman's charming faces and concerned eyes, his heart was warm, and he temporarily put his worries behind.

Lin Jian didn't know if Zhang Yubo was in Chaotianyi, so he sent someone to find it, he got on the boat, and the Dongyang went to the estuary to tidy up, and the second-floor cabin was paved with a brocade couch, thinking that he was taking special care of the second daughter. After riding a fast horse for more than a hundred miles, and having not been able to rest well these days, and with injuries on his body, Lin Jian sat on the brocade couch, smelled the aroma from the second daughter's body, and felt that his bones were about to fall apart, and asked, "Why did you come to the north shore?" I thought I'd see you tomorrow. ”

"Don't blame Sister Liu, I pestered Sister Liu to come over. I heard that you have an arrow wound on your right arm, and you can't eat and wash your face, Sister Liu and I can't come to serve you, don't you want to be hungry for one more day? Xiao Man said crisply, the corners of his small mouth were slightly upturned, his red lips were slightly open, and he reached out to wipe Lin Lian's cheeks and wiped off a layer of dirt, "Look at you, what are you dirty?" He didn't think Lin Lian was dirty, half of his body was leaning on him, and he playfully reached out and touched the stubble on his chin, and said, "No one is waiting for you to shave your beard." ”

"It's not like I'm injured on both hands," Lin Jian said, "Everyone has been in the dust these days, why don't I have the heart to clean up my appearance?" He said to Liu Yue'er apologetically, "I didn't expect Shiliang County to fall so easily, and I didn't send someone to the county to pick up your parents, brother and sister-in-law, will you blame me?" ”

"The most important thing is that you come back safely," Liu Yue'er whispered, she didn't say anything else, seeing that the white cloth on Lin Bin's arm wrapped in the wound was still oozing blood, and asked: "Why hasn't the arrow wound scarred yet, do you want to go back and let Wu Langzhong take a look?" Her mind has been tied to Lin Tie these days, and she is also worried about the safety of her parents, brother and sister-in-law, which is always not as good as her concern for Lin Tie.

"It's not a big deal, I rode over on a fast horse, and I accidentally broke my mouth." Lin Jian said that it is not a big deal for the wound to burst and bleed, and he is most afraid of wound infection and inflammation, but fortunately there is not.

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The person sent to find Zhang Yubo came back soon, Zhang Yubo was not in the post house for the temporary requisition, and said that he and Liang Wenbai, the county governor of Gutang, went to the sixteen miles in the west in the afternoon.

Lin Jian left a message for Zhang Yubo, and took a boat along the north bank of Chaotiandang to the west.

said that he was going to Sixteen Mile Pu to meet Zhang Yubo, and Lin Jian also wanted to take a boat to take a more serious look at the situation of the displaced people scattered on the river beach on the north bank of Chaotiandang.

Under the afterglow of the setting sun, from the mouth of the river to the west, the shacks of the displaced people on the river beach are continuous, and there are large areas of beach land to be reclaimed into fertile land.

Winter wheat, which is grown in Koto, is almost harvest season. During this period, a large number of displaced people gather after the New Year's Festival, and most of the reclaimed wasteland is spring wheat replanted after spring, which is only a foot tall at this time, green and full of vitality.

The reeds in the shallow water were knee-high, and seeing many people holding simple fishing gear and standing barefoot in the shallow water to fish, Lin Jian thought to himself that Li Zhuo had withdrawn the fishing donations levied by the Jiangning garrison after taking office.

If you don't think about the danger of the imminent flood season, at this time, Jiangning Prefecture and County urgently took many measures to alleviate the contradictions between the main customers, the local government and the displaced people, the survival difficulties of the displaced people have been alleviated, and the Yamen of the prefecture and county has set up porridge fields in Chaotianyi and Liuliupu several large homeless gathering areas, and seeing that there will be a harvest in the wasteland of the river beach, most of the displaced people who first come to the river beach to enclose the land will probably have the idea of breeding and settling here.

Along the periphery of the original river beach, the mud embankment built by the displaced people spontaneously is intermittently more than 20 miles long. Most of the river embankment breaks are streams and estuaries, and some areas build mud embankments into earthen enclosures to gather fellow villagers to live.

There are six or seven miles of waterway to the west from the mouth of the river, and the bright moon illuminates the river beach in a miserable white, and I can see many people's shadows walking in the mud bank in the distance.

Someone on the mud bank shouted to this side: "Can Lord Jinchuan Prison Lin be on the boat?" ”

It was Gao Zongting's voice, Lin Lian hesitated whether to let the boat go, and when he hesitated, Zhang Yubo also shouted on the embankment: "Lin Lian can be on the boat?" ”

I don't know how Zhang Yubo met Gao Zongting, Lin Jian asked people to put a light boat on the Dongyang into the water and pick up Gao Zongting, Zhang Yubo and others on the boat; The Dongyang has a deep draft and cannot dock, and there are two light boats on board, which can transport six or seven people or one or two thousand catties of goods up and down the Dongyang at a time.

Together with Gao Zongting and Zhang Yubo, there is also Liang Wenbai of Gutang Zhixian County.

Zhang Yubo and Liang Wenbo went to Shiliulipu to inspect the resettlement of displaced people, and on the way back, they met Gao Zongting, who inspected the mudbank of the riverbank.

"The moonlit night is clear and the breeze is blowing, Lord Zhang, Lord Liang, and Mr. Gao are really interested...... Lin Jian greeted the three of them onto the boat, and said with a confused smile, "There is also good wine on the boat, and the waves in the sky are not happy, I have people put the table on the deck, so interested, you don't mind having me alone, right?" ”

"What's the mood for? It's okay to take out the wine and food quickly, we are all hungry," Zhang Yubo and Lin Jian talked casually, looking at the beautiful woman reflected in the bright window of the cabin on the second floor of the tail cabin, and smiled heartily at Lin Lian, "If you want to say that you are interested, you are very interested, when can you eat your and Miss Liu's wedding wine?" Or is it just today? ”

Lin Jian has not yet married a wife, and Naliu Yue'er can't hold a public banquet as a concubine, so she can only be simple and convenient, and it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, and tonight's wine can be regarded as a family wine; Zhang Yubo has such a joke.

Lin Jian just smiled and said, "I don't have to invite you to drink." ”

Lin Lian can't be too contemptuous, Liu Yue'er.

Even if you can't invite a banquet publicly, you must ask a matchmaker to talk about the items, choose the date according to the eight characters, and prepare the bride price.

It's not that Lin Jian agrees with red tape, but Liu Yue'er is a woman with a traditional temperament, and practicing these etiquettes is to give her respect and comfort. What's more, Liu Yue'er's parents, brothers and sisters-in-law are all trapped in Shiliang County, and it is not the time to get married.

Zhang Yubo, Liang Wenbai, and Gao Zongting were all hungry, Liu Yue'er cooked a few side dishes on the boat, warmed two pots of wine, and set up a simple table on the deck, and Lin Jian accompanied them to eat and drink.

The boat returned to Chaotianyi, and Lin Jian took some food and sent it to the shore to fill the stomach of Zhang, Liang, and Gao's entourage.

If it weren't for the disturbance in Hongzepu, or if it weren't for the danger of the mud embankment on the north bank, it would be really freehand at this time with a clear breeze and a bright moon and a boat on the water.

"Mr. Gao saw a danger here, and after Mr. Gao mentioned it, I was also scared into a cold sweat...... "Zhang Yubo drank wine, and told Lin Jian why he and Liang Wenbo and Gao Zongting met the mud bank on the outside of the river beach, he pointed to the winding black shadow of the mud bank in the distance, and said, "We walked three or four miles, and the mud embankments we saw were very thin, and the water potential was not big at this time, and there was seepage on the inside of some embankments......

"Ahh Lin Jian pretended to be surprised and responded, his eyes looking in the direction of the mud bank and he was stunned.

Lin Lian didn't want others to know that this danger was raised by him and Gao Zongting, and Gao Zongting was afraid that he also knew the difficulties here, so he said this to Zhang Yubo and Liang Wenbai, maybe Gao Zongting deliberately pulled Zhang Yubo and Liang Wenbai to the mud bank to wait for him.

He turned his head sideways and said to Liang Wenbai, the county governor of Gutang, "Lord Liang, you really want to thank Mr. Gao." Hong Zepu will not make a mess, and there will be no big mess here. The displaced people will be washed by the flood, and the county will invite the squire to contribute food to comfort the victims. Washing away some homeless people can be regarded as relieving pressure in Fuli County. The current situation is different, everything on Jiangning's side is based on stability, and all of you have a consensus on this. If you really want to let these 100,000 or 200,000 homeless people soak in the water, and then wash away 35,000 people for adults, and then appease the homeless, I don't know; According to the Inspectorate, most of the people on the side suggested that one or two people's heads should be cut off to settle people's hearts. ”

Lin Lian's words were very polite, and it could even be said to be threatening, Liang Wenbai was annoyed in his heart, thinking that this swineherd maniac, a little nine-grade Confucian Lin Lang, really dared to say anything, and if he wanted to cut off the heads of one or two people, of course, he would cut off his Liang Wenbai's head.

Lin Jian is still good-tempered at this time, if he can make him willful, he can't wait to chop Liang Wenbai into meat sauce and throw it to the sky to feed Wang Ba, where are you afraid of offending him?

Liang Wenbo has been the magistrate of Gutang County for three years, and he is a native of Xinyuan County, Jiangning, how can he not know anything about the danger of the river beach on the north bank of Chaotianze? He knew that this place was dangerous, and he also allowed hundreds of thousands of displaced people to live here without guidance, and when the flood season comes, who knows how many creatures will be involved in the flood peak?

If Liang Wenbai is speculated with the most malicious thoughts, he is afraid that he hopes that there will be a flood that will wash away these hundreds of thousands of displaced people, so that he no longer has to worry about local security, no longer has to worry about the resettlement of displaced people, and no longer has to worry about the local gentry to hand over the papers.

Liang Wenbai's face was blue and red for a while, he had the highest official position and the oldest seniority here, but Li Zhuo, the representative of Gao Zongting, and Gu Wuchen on behalf of Lin Lian, Zhang Yubo was from Gu Wuchen's lineage, and if you want to talk about power, you can also say that Zhang Yubo is slightly worse than him.

The lid was now lifted, and he couldn't close it even if he wanted to. In the future, there will be a big mess in the riverbank, and it is impossible for him to push the head of the natural disaster. Whether it is Li Zhuo or Gu Wuchen, although they may not be able to cut off his head, they can still do it by ripping off the official robe on his body when he is in power.

Liang Wenbai was annoyed in his heart, but he had to stand up and thank Gao Zongting: "Thank you Mr. Gao for your insight, if it causes a big disaster, how can Wenbai face his father and fellow villagers?" How to explain to the imperial court? He was much older than Gao Zongting, Zhang Yubo, and Lin Lian, but he had to put down his posture at this time.