Then, he exclaimed, "Huh? The direction of the water flow has changed!"
Everyone was astonished, "It really is!"
I didn't notice anything for the first few days, I just felt the water flow was slower, and I thought it was because the ice and snow had frozen the water in the cold weather. But I didn't realize that the water flow had quietly changed.
Previously it was flowing from east to west, but now it's flowing from west to east. Liao Fusheng's heart skipped a beat, and he said, "Could it be that the floodwaters are starting to recede?"
"Why don't we go back and check the water level markings we put up before?" Li Ruo said.
Suddenly, someone screamed, "A corpse! A human corpse!"
Li Ruo ran over, her eyelids twitching, "Have you noticed that this person is a little different from us?"
With high eyebrows, deep-set eyes, dark skin, and a thick beard, and wearing a short jacket and blouse, "he looks like a Western Rong person," Liao Fusheng said.
Everyone was shocked again. "The water came from the west, but there's no reason why it would bring the corpses of the Western Rong people so quickly."
Liao Fusheng examined him and said, "He must have died the day before yesterday. Look at the calluses on his hands, don't they look like the hands that held a bow and arrow? He also had knife wounds on his body."
Li Ruo looked over and said, "They are soldiers."
The two men then exchanged a glance, their expressions turning grim. Liao Fusheng spoke first: "The Western Rong are about to attack."
Everyone wanted to collect the dead animals and eat them, but Li Ruo wouldn't allow it, fearing it might cause a plague. In many natural disasters, plagues are caused by eating rotten animal carcasses.
She told everyone to continue building sheds to grow oyster mushrooms, and then went back to tell Xie Xiaoshui about the water flow and the Xirong people.
Xie Xiao went to Beishan and Qinghuashan, he should be back by now.
As soon as he returned to Ziyang Peak, he saw Xie Xiao leading Er Gou and the others up the mountain. When he saw Li Ruo, he quickened his pace and was about to hug her, but she dodged him, saying, "I have important business to attend to."
Xie Xiao's mouth twisted slightly. This woman, she missed him terribly even though they hadn't seen each other for a day. She didn't seem to miss him at all.
"Didn't you notice that the water flow was the same when you came back?"
As soon as she said that, Xie Xiao realized, "No wonder we came back a little faster than we went there, because Beishan is northwest of General Mountain."
Everyone immediately checked the water level again, but it didn't seem to have changed much; it probably just needed time.
Xie Xiao's heart was beating a little fast, because in his dream the flood would not start to recede for another year. Could it be earlier?
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