Chapter 127 Wei Shengxue: Do you need disaster relief?
"Congratulations to the Immortal Master for coming out of seclusion."
As Wei Shengxue opened the gate, she saw Liu Ji and the others standing outside. Everyone bowed their heads, prompting her to glance up at the sky, which was pitch black.
Yes, it was late at night.
"Why am I here if you don't take a rest?"
Liu Ji immediately understood her displeasure and dismissed the people behind him with a wave of his hand, leaving only a few trusted confidants to accompany him.
"The Immortal Master has been in seclusion for over half a month. Now he looks radiant. I believe his merits must have been fulfilled..."
"Stop, talk properly," Wei Shengxue interrupted him. "Kuaiji County borders the Baiyue people. Are there any resettlement areas nearby?"
Her words were a little vague, but Liu Ji understood them. He quickly picked out a place in his mind. "Wushang County, under the jurisdiction of Kuaiji Commandery, has many villagers who have left the mountains and settled there."
"What's the terrain like over there?" Wei Shengxue asked, pondering the information provided by the system.
Liu Ji pulled up a map in his mind, quickly located the terrain there, and replied, "It's similar to a basin, surrounded by mountains. Transportation is not very convenient, but the farmland is quite fertile."
“The traffic is bad.”
Wei Shengxue unconsciously played with a flower at hand while thinking.
If they wanted to develop and build there, they had to first build a road there. She pondered for a moment. Basins are low-lying areas, surrounded by mountains and difficult transportation, and therefore require greater economic efficiency. It's a perfect place for experimentation.
"Let's go take a look first."
"Yes, I'll go down and prepare first." Liu Ji bowed and retreated with his men.
The county magistrate was going out and was not sure whether he could come back within three to five days. He had to explain the work clearly. He left Luo Qing, who was most convenient for him, to take charge and accompanied him. He also went to the pearl breeding base overnight to summon the manager to explain the matters.
"If you have any urgent matters, you can go to the government office and find County Magistrate Luo Qing."
After working non-stop for two or three days, I finally finished the work.
Liu Ji was about to go back to the house to wash up and then go find the immortal, but who knew that just as he entered the house, the weather outside changed suddenly and dark clouds pressed down.
Crackling...
Liu Ji threw on his clothes and pushed open the window a little, only to be met with a furious storm. The gusting wind blew his hands aside, and if he hadn't stepped back in time, the window would have hit him in the face. Even so, the rain, carrying grass and dust, still poured down on him head and face.
"Pah, pah, pah, what kind of awful weather is this!" Liu Ji closed the window with his backhand and wiped the dirt off his face. "Well, my shower was wasted."
He was too lazy to ask someone to change the water, so he jumped back into the tub, rinsed himself quickly, dried himself, and changed into new clothes.
If you can't keep an appointment on time, you should report it to the immortal.
As soon as he went out, the wind was so strong that it almost blew him away.
"What the hell is this weather!"
Liu Ji hugged the pillar of the corridor, and the windproof cloak on his body was dancing wildly around his neck, pinching him so much that he rolled his eyes.
Luo Qing, who came to report on his work and take shelter from the rain, skillfully took a posture to avoid the wind, and flexibly pulled Liu Ji over to squat against the wall. Due to the barrier between the two walls, the two could barely communicate normally without even their voices being blown away.
"Heavy rain and strong winds are coming, sir. It's best if you don't go out recently. Also, prepare for disaster relief."
What?
Liu Ji didn't react.
According to his experience, such strong wind and rain would generally only last for less than half an hour, or half a day at most. The river water would rise significantly, but it would definitely not reach the point where disaster relief was needed.
"The rain continued for days, and the river rose ten feet, submerging houses and burying crops." Luo Qing took a deep breath, pulling himself out of his memories. "At the worst, hundreds of hectares of farmland were like a vast ocean."
hiss--!
Liu Ji took a breath, horror evident in his eyes.
"So serious?!"
“It wasn’t like this last year!”
"The Immortal Master didn't say anything!"
Such a serious natural disaster will never be concealed due to the kindness of the immortals.
Luo Qing looked indifferent. "It happens every year. Storms and waves come from the sea. Will the Immortal Master still blame the Sea God for us?"
They are not the kind of people they are, and it is not worth it for the other party to risk offending their colleagues and warn them.
"No." Liu Ji was silent for a long time, then shook his head and denied it. "The Immortal Master is not that kind of person. If there really were a disaster, she would never sit idly by."
"Go ahead and count the supplies needed for disaster relief. Regardless of whether this disaster will occur or not, you must prepare in advance."
He stood up by holding onto the wall and said, "I'm going to find the immortal."
…
"What a storm."
Wei Shengxue opened the window, and the hazy green light blocked out the flying rocks and branches, allowing raindrops as big as beans to filter in.
It was not the misty rain that she liked, nor the rain hitting the banana leaves that she had seen so many times, but a downpour that was like a big hole in the sky.
Watching this scene, her eyes were filled with worry. "System, does this look like the scene I predicted?"
It was the same heavy rain, the same dark sky, which made people's hearts ache.
[Not likely.] The system directly denied her guess.
But this ruthless voice actually brightened her mood. "What's wrong?"
[One is the abnormal weather after the earthquake, and the other is the heavy rain brought by the summer typhoon.]
The system unfolded a real-time map in front of her, on which a swirling cloud was moving along the coastline of Kuaiji County.
"typhoon!"
It's so close to my face, no wonder the reaction is so intense.
"Why didn't you remind me?" Wei Shengxue frowned. She was focused on how to earn more merits, and the sea couldn't earn her merits, so she really didn't notice it.
But the system is now capable of monitoring the sea surface as well, so it didn't find anything.
[I...this system doesn't pay attention either.]
[Your advancement was unexpected, I was so scared I didn't have time to care about others.] And those typhoons happen every year, and last year's clone didn't give any warning.
As if to fill the loophole, the system worked quickly based on the collected data and updated the typhoon's movement path on the real-time map.
【According to my calculations, it will head north next.】
Weishengxue still has great confidence in the system's computing power. Since it says so, it means that this is the biggest possibility.
"The typhoon's passage will have a significant impact on the coastal areas." Her face changed. "Is my pearl base still standing?!"
The system scanned the area and said, "It's still there. It's not a cultivated seawater pearl. Why are you worried? It's soaking peacefully in the lake."
[You might as well worry about it. Schistosomiasis is getting worse again.]
Wei Shengxue wasn't too worried about this. "I've already provided the solution, the prescription, and the herbs. Now it's up to time. You can't expect me to ripen all the pumpkin seeds needed by the millions of people in the south."
This is not realistic.
What's more, she does everything, and being too dependent on her will only harm them.
"I'll go check out the situation outside."
In the videos she had seen on Starnet before, when a typhoon passed, the wind was so strong that it could directly blow away the big trees. Given the quality of the houses here, how could they withstand it?
…
The rain was pouring down. The locals, who had lived in Kuaiji for a long time, had long been accustomed to such weather. They had been watching the sky for half a month. A few days ago, after the crops were harvested, they watched them closely, not daring to miss a moment. They hurriedly took advantage of the sunny weather to dry, pack, and move them up the mountain.
"The rain came earlier this year than in previous years. Fortunately, we have the blessing of the immortals, and this year's crops are ripe early, otherwise they would all rot in the fields." Carpenter Zhang returned home with his tools. The umbrella he held up was completely useless in such weather, and half of his body was soaked.
"What are you mumbling about standing at the door? Come in and wipe it." The wife took out a linen cloth and pulled her husband in from the doorway. As she wiped, she complained, "This is such awful weather. Chew a couple of slices of ginger later, or you'll get sick and it'll be troublesome."
Carpenter Zhang took the cotton cloth and carefully wiped his food dry and laid it out before swishing the last two handfuls around himself. "It rains this summer, and this year is the best yet. The government built the roads, so even the heaviest rain will only wet our clothes. And the crops are all harvested. If it's anything like last year, I'd be crying out to the heavens and the earth."
"That's true. Thanks to the immortal's grace, otherwise the crops would have rotted and we would have had to become refugees."
Carpenter Zhang agreed, quickly stripped off his clothes, and went into the house to take a shower and change clothes.
That night, the rain continued to fall, with no sign of slowing down.
"If it keeps going like this, the river will burst its banks."
Carpenter Zhang slept restlessly. He got up several times at night to check on the wooden barrel in the yard. The barrel, which he had just emptied before going to bed, was already two fingers high.
He paced around the house restlessly for a few times, and the slight noise woke up his wife who was living with him. "Are you still worried?"
She propped herself up and sat up, reaching out to hold his hand. "If you're worried, go to the village chief's house and take a look. You might not be the only one in the village who's worried. Go and take a look."
Carpenter Zhang then put on his straw raincoat and walked into the rain.
In the past two years, there have been job openings everywhere, and with so many villagers working away from home, each household pooled their money to buy half a truckload of fairy mud, mixed it with sand and water, and paved the village road. Ditches were also dug on both sides. The muddy ground, which used to be ankle-deep, now only has a thin layer of water on the concrete floor.
Carpenter Zhang walked in the dark on the water towards the village chief's house.
Oh, by the way, he can see at night thanks to the radishes blessed by the immortals. Each one is as big as an arm, and he eats them in a row in the yard all the time. He used to be blind at night, but now he can see.
The more I think about him, the less anxious I become.
The immortal is now in Kuaiji County, so how could anything happen to them?
"Village Chief, I'm here..."
"Sanwazi is here, come in quickly! I knew you couldn't stay home." A middle-aged man opened the door and pulled him in. "Tomorrow, we'll go check the river. If it's not good, the whole village will run to the mountains. The cave we hid in a few years ago was cleared out by my uncle and his men a while ago."
"Thanks to the blessings of the immortals, the crops have grown early this year. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to run away just for those few plots of land."
"Who wouldn't? Now that the crops are harvested, everything else is free to move. Sanwazi, you should hurry back and ask your wife to clean up the mess, and prepare food for the cattle and sheep in advance. We need to be ready to take refuge in the mountains."
Carpenter Zhang hadn't even sat down when he was pushed out the door and urged to go home and pack up.
…
Just as the system said, the typhoon began to move northward the next day, and the rain outside the window also gradually weakened accordingly.
Just when Wei Shengxue breathed a sigh of relief, the rain began to fall again.
"If it rains like this for another two days, the river will overflow its banks."
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