Gu Jingyun and the people from Qingxi Academy went down the mountain together, and when they reached the foot of the mountain, they met people from Songshan Academy.

Seeing Shi Wei, Zheng Xu was very happy, and asked, "I heard that you had a conflict with people from Changfeng Academy, who lost?"

Shi Wei said: "You must have misheard, we have always been friendly to others, how could we conflict with others?"

Zheng Xu couldn't understand his hypocritical appearance, curled his lips in disdain, looked at Gu Jingyun and said, "Brother Gu, I don't know if I'm free tomorrow, Xu hasn't thanked Brother Gu for his work today."

Gu Jingyun said indifferently: "It's just a matter of raising your hand, Yun has nothing important to do in the capital, Mr. Zheng can come anytime."

Zheng Xu is satisfied. It seems that Shi Wei failed to pull him over. It seems that Songshan Academy still has a good chance.

Knowing that Gu Jingyun was going back to Guangzhou for the exam, Shi Wei was not in a hurry. Although they only got along for half a day, Gu Jingyun was obviously a very thoughtful person, and the solicitation he and Zheng Xu just saved him some time for inquiring.

But Zheng Xu didn't know that he was full of confidence to come to persuade Gu Jingyun to join Songshan Academy. He planned to come to the door the next day, who knew that something unexpected would happen.

In the evening, it was still full of sunshine, and when it was just dark, you could even see a small crescent in the sky, but at 19 o'clock, the dark clouds covered the moon, and then the sky was as black as an overturned inkstone.

Of course, not many people noticed this at this time, because it was night, and it was normally dark, but now it was just a little darker.

But the wind gradually picked up, but not only did not blow away the feeling of being scorched by the sun during the day, but it became more sultry. When the wind became stronger and started to blow the leaves, everyone realized that something was wrong.

Thinking of the announcement from the Shuntian Mansion during the day, the people in the capital hurriedly took back the clothes and food that had been hanging outside to the house. As soon as they finished all this, there was a thunderstorm outside, the sky was flickering with thunder and lightning, and there was a sound of "cracking" thunder It seems that every sound is ringing in my heart.

The thunder continued for an hour, but not a single drop of rain fell. The people who could not sleep listening to the thunder could not help muttering to God that it does not rain when there is only thunder. Even brighter, the wind was so strong that it almost lifted the roof, and the rain from the sky was falling like a falling curtain...

Such heavy rain has never been seen by younger people.

Li Baolu sat up from the bed, regardless of putting on her coat, grabbed the umbrella in the house and ran to Gu Jingyun's room next door against the sweeping rainwater.

Gu Jingyun was sitting on the bed hugging the quilt, looking at the door with his brows together, he got out of bed and lit the lamp when he saw Li Baolu push the door in, and pursed his lips when he saw that her clothes were all wet.

Gu Jingyun found his clothes from the closet and gave them to her, "Change on quickly, be careful of the wind and cold."

When Li Baolu changed her clothes and came out, she saw Gu Jingyun standing in front of the window with her hands folded, looking out with a gloomy expression.

Li Baolu walked to him and looked out, the window was closed tightly, and the two of them could only use their ears to listen to the movement outside to determine what was happening outside. The crying of the child seemed to be the result of a rain leak in the house.

Among the many voices, Li Baolu could even faintly hear the rumble of the house collapsing...

This kind of rain will surely bring disasters afterward, and it is not known whether there will be plagues or not.

Fortunately, after going down the mountain yesterday evening, she turned to the vegetable market to buy a lot of vegetables and rice noodles, otherwise...

Gu Jingyun sighed, "There will be disasters in the capital, we try not to go out these few days."

Li Baolu nodded fiercely.

The rain did not stop until the second quarter of the second day (8:30), but the dark clouds in the sky still did not dissipate, but continued to wander in the sky, as if ready to come again at any time heavy rain.

Li Baolu opened the door and went out. The yard of their house was already full of water. She carefully waded through the water and walked to the kitchen.

Li Baolu breathed a sigh of relief as the rice, noodles, and vegetables in the kitchen were not damaged. Just in case, she carried everything back to her room and put it away before boiling water and washing rice for cooking.

There is a well in the yard. Li Baolu usually asks for water from there, and the well water is also sweet, but at this time the well water is so turbid that Li Baolu dare not use it directly to wash rice for cooking, so she settles it and boils it to dry it.

Gu Jingyun also rolled up his trouser legs to help, Li Baolu pushed him into the kitchen, "Don't come down, who knows if there are viruses in the water? You cook in the kitchen, and I will prepare the ingredients for you outside."

Thinking of Gu Jingyun's prediction that it will rain for several days, the kitchen may not be able to be kept in the future, so he said: "Take out the flour, let's prepare more dry food, and there is still water, so we need to burn more."

The young couple took advantage of the time when the rain stopped to work like two little bees. Gu Jingyun calculated with his fingers, and directly made five days' dry food, and then poured the boiled water into a wooden bucket to dry.

And Li Baolu handed over the kitchen to Gu Jingyun, and took a stick to unblock the drainage channel in the yard.

But that wasn't much use when the city's sewers were half-broken, at least not much of the water in the yard drained after she got the drains.

Because the whole street outside was soaked in water.

Li Baolu had just thrown away the water stick when there was a knock on the door.

"Who?" Li Baolu held the stick in his hand.

"Miss Li, the younger one is Li's Mansion, I'm here to send you and Mr. Gu some things under the order of my son."

Li Mansion?

Li Baolu realized that this refers to the Prince's Mansion, and hurried to open the door.

A coachman and a servant stood at the door, seeing Li Baolu hurriedly saluted, and then began to move things from the carriage to the house.

The servant moved and explained: "Qin Tianjian said that there will be more rain this time, and the young master is worried about the girl and Mr. Gu, so he asked the young one to bring some things over."

The things delivered included gourmet food, rice noodles, vegetables and meat, fruits, and even two baskets of charcoal.

Li Baolu was amazed at Li An's thoughtfulness, after thinking about it, she asked someone to put everything in the room where she lived.

Li Baolu looked at the things in the room and said with satisfaction: "Now we don't have to worry about food."

It rained intermittently for four days, half of the capital city was submerged in water, many houses collapsed, and many chickens and ducks were submerged in the water after death. Li Baolu dared not use the water from the well anymore.

Fortunately, Shuntian Mansion responded quickly. As soon as the rain stopped, the governor of Shuntian Mansion began to organize yamen servants to rescue the people and dredge the water flow.

Even if they were sitting at home, Li Baolu and Gu Jingyun could know what was going on from their neighbors.

Because of the shortage of manpower, the Governor of Shuntian Prefecture also borrowed many soldiers from the Xishan Camp to rescue the disaster. While draining water to save people, he began to recruit doctors from the capital to prevent the epidemic.

It is common sense that there must be a plague after the flood.

No matter the powerful or the poor, the epidemic can't be avoided for a lifetime. Therefore, the powerful and rich people in the capital are united unprecedentedly. They also want to contain diseases that have not yet occurred in their cradles.

Not many people even responded to the fact that the fourth prince asked people to blame the flood on the crown prince, saying that the crown prince could not satisfy the heavens and sent rain as a punishment.

Although it is important to bring down the prince, the lives of yourself and your family are also important.

Therefore, the governor of Shuntian government wanted to borrow troops to save people, and the Minister of the Ministry of War waved his hand, save!

The governor of Shuntian Prefecture wanted to use a place to house the victims, and the court was also responsible for their food and clothing, and he had to give the victims a bowl of medicine to prevent diseases every day.

The dignitaries in the capital, officials at all levels, and businessmen also donated generously, but within three days, order was in order, and not only the victims were well resettled, but the affected houses were also sorted out by the soldiers.

All victims who fell ill during the flood were sent to hospitals outside the city for centralized isolation and treatment.

If the family is worried about the patient, they can send someone to follow and take care of them.

And the patients whose treatment is ineffective will be cremated by the monks of Huguo Temple after death.

Li Baolu said in admiration, "This Shuntian governor has great talent."

Gu Jingyun nodded with a smile, "For an official to do his job, he is worthy of the heaven and earth, the community, and the common people."

Only then did the high officials in the imperial court notice Qiao Dongliang who had been serving as Yin of the Shuntian Prefecture for five years.

Not to mention that Li An is secretly trying to win this person into the prince's line, but the four princes are all gearing up and said: "This is a great talent, it would be a pity if I can't use it."

Immediately sent his confidants to recruit Qiao Dongliang.

Li An was more cautious, they were being watched by the emperor's people all the time, otherwise it would be impossible to hand over all the prince's ostensible power to Peng Dan.

They dare not make friends with courtiers blatantly.

So Li An only gave instructions to Peng Dan to help Qiao Dongliang more in the court, to build up his favorability first, and wait for the favorability to be maxed out before mentioning the matter of standing in line.

It seemed that the fourth prince's actions were too impatient.

This made the emperor who had been paying close attention to the flood in the capital very dissatisfied, because he didn't see any movement in the Prince's Mansion, but he saw the fourth prince's aides trying their best to get close to Qiao Dongliang.

Even thinking with his toes, he knew what the fourth prince wanted to do.

The emperor was very unhappy.

Qiao Dongliang was his man. After all, he was the mayor of the capital and the director of the Public Security Bureau. How could someone else hold such an important position?

Qiao Dongliang was born in a poor family, and the emperor let him walk in front of the imperial court as soon as he passed the Jinshi examination, and let him go to Dali Temple to observe and study. After three years, he passed the assessment of his ability before putting him in the position of Shuntian Fuyin.

Because of his humble background, he is low-key and clean, so he is still unmarried, and he has never been involved in the struggle between the crown prince and the fourth prince. The emperor is still very satisfied with this courtier.

The handling of the flood made the emperor more satisfied with him, so the fourth prince came to pry the emperor's wall at this time, which made the emperor very unhappy.

Even his favorite son, the emperor was not happy.

Whenever the emperor is unhappy, he likes to find things for his sons to do, so Li An came to Gu Jingyun with a face full of constipation, and said: "The emperor wants to go out of the palace to have fun with the people during Chongyang, and he will leave this matter to my father and uncle four. Jing Yun, you have to help me."

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