They originally thought that Gu Yun was just an ordinary official, otherwise why would he work with them to build the dike?
Someone in the crowd sighed quietly, "So he is the young marquis of Annan Marquisate!"
Such royal relatives should have stayed in the capital and lived a life of luxury, but who would have thought that they were building the dam with them.
The man who had spoken to Gu Yun earlier took the lead and said, "Young Marquis is not afraid of hardship and hard work to repair the river bank with us, let's get started!"
Behind him, the hundred or so villagers who were forcibly captured by the officials had just walked to the river bank. They were all reluctant at first, but after hearing Gu Yun's words, they couldn't help but be moved.
No one wanted to see the tragic scene of corpses everywhere and epidemics raging everywhere, so everyone spontaneously went down to the river to help. With these one hundred people, the speed of building the embankment doubled. However, when the embankment was more than six meters high, someone found that there were not enough sandbags for building the embankment.
The excavated rocks were not smooth enough and it was difficult to avoid breaches, so the stones for building the embankment were piled up on both sides next to the sandbags to prevent the river water from washing away the mud and sand in the sandbags.
Gu Yun assigned some people to dig sand and transport it over, while the others continued to pile and build the embankment.
Liu Ziqi, who went to the city to find ropes, came back with a batch of iron chains that he had ordered people to make in the past few days.
Gu Yun was overjoyed when he saw the thick iron chain, and he called on everyone to use the iron chain to fasten the sandbags and stones that formed the embankment. A man who was good at swimming dived and locked one end of the iron chain to an iron pillar at the bottom of the river. Everyone pulled the chain hard, and then pulled the other end around the three-meter-wide embankment and retracted it to the iron pillar on the other side.
The river embankment was reinforced repeatedly in this way, but too few iron chains were produced. The Xiangyuan river embankment was more than 30 meters long, but only two-thirds of it was reinforced with iron chains. The remaining one-third could only be reinforced with ropes.
The ropes Liu Ziqi found from everywhere were of different thicknesses, so he asked someone to mix several thin ropes together and use them.
The water level was getting higher and higher, and the rain was getting heavier. People had to shout at the top of their lungs to hear each other when they were face to face.
The group worked together, exhausted, and finally reinforced the remaining dam with ropes. The man who was diving to tie the ropes opened his mouth and gasped for air. The rain fell into his mouth. Gu Yun patted him on the shoulder and said, "Good job!"
The man grinned.
Everyone looked at the reinforced river embankment, breathed a sigh of relief, and sat or lay in the muddy water beside the river to rest.
"Mom, the weather is bad. You and my younger brother should go to bed early." In Changkui County, Yu Jiao sent Liu Sanniang and her son to the house in Huaihua Lane. Looking at the sky outside, she said goodbye to Liu Sanniang.
Liu Sanniang glanced at the dark sky, then at Yu Qizhe, and said, "It's windy outside, it might rain heavily soon, why don't you stay in this house tonight?"
Yu Jiao shook her head, "Mom, we're leaving first."
Fei Ge looked at Yu Jiao reluctantly and said sensibly, "Sister, be careful on the road. If the rain gets heavy and you haven't gone far, come back."
Yu Jiao touched his head and walked outside with Yu Qizhe.
Yu Qizhe helped her get on the carriage, whipped the horse and drove quickly back to Qingyu Village.
As soon as we left the city, the rain became heavier. The rain hit the roof of the car, making a very loud noise, which sounded very scary.
The cold wind was raging, and the curtain was lifted up violently. Yu Jiao reached out to grab it, but the curtain was swaying in the wind and rain, like a running dragon.
The raindrops hit the back of her hand, causing some pain. Yu Jiao couldn't help but worry about Yu Qizhe who was sitting on the edge of the carriage, so she leaned over and said, "It's raining too hard, why don't we go back to Lihua Lane?"
Yu Qizhe looked back at her and grabbed the reins tightly with both hands, "I'll take you back."
He reined in his horse and was about to turn around. Yu Jiao understood what he meant, "Take me back? You'll go back to the village?"
Yu Qizhe nodded. Yu Jiao's actions in recent days indicated that there might be a flood. Now that it was raining so hard, he couldn't abandon his parents and sister, so he had to go back to the village.
He should have let Yu Jiao stay in Lihua Lane just now, but he was too selfish and always wanted Yu Jiao to stay by his side no matter what happened.
The hands that were chilled by the cold wind and rain were suddenly covered with a layer of warmth. Yu Qizhe looked down and saw Yu Jiao's hand tightly holding his palm. Her firm voice came to his ears, "Let's go back together."
Yu Qizhe turned around and looked at Yu Jiao who was sitting on the edge of the carriage. The rain made his vision a little blurry, but he could still see the warm and bright smile on her lips, "Let's go back to Qingyu Village together, let's go quickly."
Yu Qizhe's Adam's apple moved slightly, "Okay."
He held Yu Jiao's hand in his palm, held her hand with one hand, and whipped the horse with the other hand, heading towards Qingyu Village.
When they returned to the village, both of them were soaked. It was raining heavily and the whole village was shrouded in mist.
What was strange was that a group of villagers were wearing straw raincoats and standing in front of the Chen family's door, seemingly discussing something with Chen Gensheng.
Yu Qizhe glanced around and saw that his uncle Yu Qiaoshan was also among them. He was puzzled and drove straight back to Yu's house.
Seeing the two people coming back, Song hurriedly took a dry towel and asked them to wipe their bodies and change clothes, "I'll go make ginger soup for you."
After Yu Qizhe changed his clothes, Yu Mengshan said to him with some concern, "The old uncle of the Chen family said that this rain is of evil nature, and this time we need to use human sacrifices for the sacrifice."
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