The vast flood swallowed up everything it could see, as if nothing could stop it.
A woman whose head was submerged by the flood held her child tightly, but because of suffocation and exhaustion, she slowly loosened her grip on the child's collar.
Little one!
Just as she was about to leap forward to grab the child with bloodshot eyes, another wave came crashing down, and she couldn't touch her child anymore...
She has lost her home, her child’s father, and her child. What’s the point of living?
“Wow—”
I saw a tall man picking her up from the flood and bringing her to high ground, while another man, who was extremely handsome even with his face covered in mud, was holding her child in his hands!
"My dear!" The woman rushed over and hugged her child tightly.
Lu Zhixing let go of his hand and looked at the flood gloomily. If it weren't for the excessive corruption of officials along the river, how could the dam collapse so quickly?
"Liu Bai, immediately order someone to dig a ditch in the southwest corner to divert the water." Lu Zhixing clenched his fists, suppressing the urge to go find Song Yushu. "Push the provincial capital over here. I want to hear how they're preventing floods!"
The governor, who was about to flee, was pressed forward, and his fat body formed a sharp contrast with the pale and skinny refugees around him.
Lu Zhixing kicked him to the ground, and the fat white Zhoufu instantly turned into a pig in the mud.
"Your Majesty, spare my life, Your Majesty, spare my life." Zhou Fu climbed up tremblingly, but he did not feel that his death was imminent. He even brought up the name of Prince Yu, "This humble official is acting in accordance with the orders of Prince Yu——"
What responded to him was the cold blade of a sword. Lu Zhixing directly drew the sword from Liu Bai's body and cut off the Zhoufu's hair bun with a single hand. "Do you think I care whose orders you follow?"
Lu Zhixing was well-known in the Dayan Dynasty for being uncontrollable. Whether in the past or now, even if he was blind, the Empress Dowager and the old master of the Lin Mansion would protect him well.
The governor was now truly frightened. He kowtowed repeatedly in the mud, "Prince, spare my life!"
Zou Licheng, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War, who had been standing by and watching coldly, stepped forward to stop Lu Zhixing. "Your Highness, just return this rat to the Ministry of Justice. For now, it's better to build the dam and dike first."
Finally, under the persuasion of Zou Licheng and Liu Bai, Lu Zhixing did not kill the provincial governor. He stood on the high ground, at the forefront of the dike construction. Seeing that a prince could lead by example, the people present were full of energy.
Liu Bai worked with the soldiers to build the dike, and only occasionally returned to Lu Zhixing's side. He glanced at Lu Zhixing's face and said, "Your Highness, what about Eunuch Song—"
Lu Zhixing closed his eyes, feeling helpless, and murmured, "Ashu will wait for me, he will."
In Humboldt County, hundreds of miles away, Song Yushu had just fished Lu Yanzhou out of the water.
She was a good swimmer, and when the flood came, she used the force to swim to a higher place. However, when she turned around, she saw Lu Yanzhou floating in the flood.
Xia Xingde, who was originally beside Lu Yanzhou, also followed Song Yushu to climb to the higher ground.
The two exchanged glances, and Xia Xingde retreated. Even if he knew how to swim, could he save Lu Yanzhou from this flood? His own life was more important!
"If the prince dies, you will not survive either!" Song Yushu looked around and found a soldier with a bundle of ropes on his body. She immediately wrapped one end of the rope around herself and tied the other end to the soldier. She jumped and jumped into the flood again.
Seeing that Song Yushu was about to reach Lu Yanzhou like a fish, Xia Xingde, who had recovered from his shock on the high ground, rolled his eyes and approached the soldier who was tied to one end of the rope.
He didn't want Lu Yanzhou to die, but he wanted Song Yushu to die. The lame leg reminded him all the time.
"The flood is so fierce, I'm afraid neither of them will survive..." Xia Xingde glanced at the rope around the soldier's waist, and everyone understood what he didn't say afterwards.
The soldier looked at Xia Xingde in shock. Xia Xingde was the secretary of the Crown Prince's Mansion. Logically, he should have valued Lu Yanzhou's life more than his own.
Xia Xinde suddenly came to his senses after being looked at by the soldier. Without Lu Yanzhou, he would be nothing, and he might even be buried with Lu Yanzhou!
"Hurry up and save him! Why are you looking at me?" Xia Xingde could only raise his voice to hide his guilt. He was just blinded by a ghost and did not want Lu Yanzhou to die.
The surrounding soldiers snorted in their hearts, lined up in a row, and held the rope tightly. Some soldiers even followed Song Yushu's example, tied the rope and jumped into the water.
Because the flood was so powerful and flowed so fast, Song Yushu tried to grab Lu Yanzhou several times, but was always washed away. Seeing that the length of the rope had reached its limit, Song Yushu could only struggle to untie the rope.
He held the rope with one hand and held Lu Yanzhou tightly with the other.
Just as the next wave came, Song Yushu had no choice but to let go of the rope and hugged Lu Yanzhou with both hands.
Lu Yanzhou was about the same height as Lu Zhixing, and with the weight of an adult man, Song Yushu couldn't hold him up with one hand.
Just when Song Yushu and Lu Yanzhou were washed away by the flood, a soldier grabbed them.
Then another soldier who jumped down also grabbed them. With the strength of two soldiers, they were finally pulled ashore.
"Someone come! Imperial physician! Where is the imperial physician!" Xia Xingde pushed Song Yushu away, hugged Lu Yanzhou anxiously and started shouting.
Watching the imperial physician and soldiers carrying Lu Yanzhou to a higher place, Song Yushu coughed twice and spat out the water in his mouth.
At this time, a hand was placed in front of Song Yushu. She looked up and saw that it was the sword-wielding guard beside Lu Yanzhou.
"Thank you." Song Yushu stood up with his help.
"I originally thought you were just a eunuch who used your beauty to please men, but I didn't expect you to have such courage." The guard with a sword came from a famous family, and usually he had a cold look even towards Lu Yanzhou.
Thank you so much, Song Yushu's mouth twitched, and just as he was about to answer, he turned and left.
Song Yushu rolled his eyes, rested for a while, and then took the token to find the soldiers and local officials. The flood came quickly, and it was necessary to dig channels to drain the water in order to reduce the damage to the flooded areas.
For several days, because Lu Yanzhou was frightened and unconscious, Xia Xingde rushed to take care of him and even did not let Song Yushu get close to him, so Song Yushu simply went to the front line of flood control and lived with the soldiers to fight the flood together.
Suddenly one day, a soldier who was originally guarding Lu Yanzhou came running over, shouting, "Oh no! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been kidnapped!"
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