Chapter 437 Dam Burst
The rain blurred Yu Tingfeng's eyes. He looked around while taking the sandbag handed to him by the person in front of him.
It was not until I heard the repeated calls of "Miss Feng" in the front that I knew the direction Feng Aoqing was coming from.
No one recognized Yu Tingfeng, so she could only look for them one by one.
So, Yu Tingfeng shouted, "I'm here!"
Feng Aoqing heard his voice and hurried over.
The Yu Tingfeng in front of him was no different from an ordinary citizen. His brocade clothes were covered with mud and his golden crown was lost somewhere. His hair was disheveled and his face was half mud and half sand.
If it weren't for his stature, Feng Aoqing probably wouldn't have recognized him.
She herself was not much better. Teng Zi's dress was clinging to her body, and the color was completely invisible.
But Yu Tingfeng saw the light in her eyes.
"Stand further away and go back up the slope!" Yu Tingfeng wanted her to go back, but he knew that Feng Aoqing would never listen to him.
Feng Aoqing took a few steps back, holding up her heavy skirt, as if she had obeyed.
Siyan looked around and saw that Yu Mingchang was not among the people around Yu Tingfeng. She went to look for him again and finally found Yu Mingchang among a few people.
"Oh my God! What are you doing down here? Go back upstairs! We'll be back soon!" Yu Mingchang also said the same thing.
"I'm not afraid, I can swim!"
"Is this a question of whether you can swim or not?" Yu Mingchang became anxious and his voice became louder.
Yu Yichen, who was beside him, did not see An Jinge.
Yu Yichen's heart suddenly rose to his throat. At a time like this, how could An Jinge not be by Feng Aoqing's side?
At this moment, Chang Huan came to look for Feng Aoqing.
When he walked over, he saw Yu Tingfeng was there too, and was scared to death.
"You two are trying to kill me! If you don't come with me, I will jump into the river!" Chang Huan cried.
The two did not respond.
"You two should at least stay in the guard room!" Chang Huan really had no other choice.
They could only follow Chang Huan.
"You two help here!" Yu Tingfeng ordered.
Yu Mingchang and Yu Yichen had just raised their feet when they heard Ling step into the mud again.
Seeing that they were determined to stay here, and that it was so wet, Siyan said, "Master, I'll go back and get some dry clothes and a raincoat."
She thought that as long as she was with Yu Tingfeng, her safety would be no problem. Now that An Jinge was gone, the master would be left in her care, and she had to take good care of him.
"Go! Bring the ones given to them as well, and we'll exchange them later." Feng Aoqing replied.
Yu Tingfeng embraced Feng Aoqing, who was walking with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and followed Chang Huan into the guard's room.
That was the most stable part of the levee, so the guard house was built there.
"The two of you rest here, I'm going out."
"You should take a rest too!" Yu Tingfeng called out to Chang Huan.
"If I'm not there, they will be distracted and I won't be able to do the work. Just standing there will be enough!" Chang Huan waved his hand.
Feng Aoqing picked up a straw raincoat behind the door and put it on him: "If you are going to stand still, you should put on a coat to keep out the rain and keep warm."
"Thank you, Miss! Don't worry, the gap isn't big, don't worry too much. I'll be there then."
There were only two people left in the room. Only when they sat down did they feel cold.
Yu Tingfeng stretched out his arms towards Feng Aoqing, and she threw herself over.
Feng Aoqing leaned on his chest, and the two of them felt much warmer together.
"We are like NPCs." Feng Aoqing said with a smile.
"What is that?"
"He's the kind of person who will have a mission once you get close to him."
Yu Tingfeng thought about it for a moment and nodded: "You should be the one. Whether I am by your side or not, I have tasks related to you."
"You can wait at the inn, why did you come here?" Feng Aoqing was puzzled.
"Everyone in this city is my people. You are willing to step forward for my people. How can I retreat?"
Yu Tingfeng gently stroked her cold face. Feng Aoqing looked at him and realized that his face was dirty.
So Feng Aoqing took out a handkerchief from her arms. It was wet anyway, so she wrung it dry and handed it to Yu Tingfeng to wipe his face.
He wiped it and saw that the white handkerchief had turned black. He was surprised: "Why is there mud on my face?"
"You've never even walked on mud, let alone worked! You're lucky you didn't fall flat on your face."
Feng Aoqing took the handkerchief, walked to the door to shake off the sand on it, then washed it with rain water before continuing to use it.
However, Yu Tingfeng saw her standing there in a daze.
Before he could ask, she rushed back, grabbed his hand, and rushed out through the side door with him.
Without asking, he saw the problem. The ground beneath his feet began to crack and fell into the churning river.
The places they thought were unstable turned out to be stable, and the places they thought were stable turned out to be unstable.
Everyone saw the guard's house and the section of embankment fall into the river.
Chang Huan didn't hesitate and roared, "Everyone! Retreat!"
During the day, everyone had practiced many times and ran according to the established route.
Yu Yichen and Yu Mingchang watched the house disappear, and then, as they were about to run in that direction, they were hugged by the people who were retreating.
"Take him away!" Chang Huan shouted.
Everyone gathered together to hold the man down. They wanted to resist, but knowing they were civilians, they couldn't use force. In the end, they were knocked unconscious and taken away.
Chang Huan walked last. He used up his last breath to command: "Blow up! The dike!"
After a loud noise, another section of the dike was blown open.
This was a plan that Chang Huan, Feng Aoqing and the people from the Ministry of Works had thought of in advance. Once the dam broke, they would blow up another section to divert the flood.
The villages in that direction have been evacuated and the crops have long been destroyed, so there will not be any greater losses. Instead, the main city of Jifeng can be preserved.
Siyan met Yu Mingchang and Yu Yichen who were dragged back halfway.
"Where's the master?!" She shook them both awake.
The two looked at her blankly, not knowing what to say.
Siyan seemed to sense something was wrong and was about to leave, but Yu Mingchang pulled her into his arms, leaned close to her ear, and told her everything that had just happened.
"It's okay! It will be okay! Master can swim! It will be okay!" Siyan said gritting her teeth.
"Master, you can swim, and you're pretty good at it! You'll be fine!"
"Sister can take out a boat! A boat! Don't be afraid." Yan Xiao remembered this.
"What do you mean by taking out the boat..." Yu Mingchang didn't understand what he was talking about.
"Don't worry about it. Everything will be fine!" Yan Xiao said firmly.
"Yes, our master, Emperor Yuanwu, has God's protection! Nothing will happen! If something were to happen, it would have happened when the child was three, eight, or ten years old! Nothing will happen for sure!" Yu Mingchang also said.
Yu Yichen had also calmed down. He found horses from somewhere, one for each of them.
"Let's go downstream and search along the road!"
"Yes! Let's go!" The four of them mounted their horses and galloped along the river.
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