Chapter 760 Boss, the two young masters ran away!
The continuously rising water level, the terrible wind howling from all directions, and the huge noise created by the interweaving of wind and rain became a heavy hammer that hit everyone's heart hard, making it difficult for anyone present to breathe.
The sandbags that had been urgently packed in advance were moved to the designated location, but due to the rapidly rising water level they had to be withdrawn again.
Lin Yun shook the water off his face and said hoarsely, "Boss, if this water can't be stopped, I'm afraid it will flood the city tonight before dawn."
In fact, although the water at the ferry has not yet surged into the city, the current situation everywhere in the city is already terrible.
The time is too short, and even if we try our best, the length and number of drainage channels that can be dug are limited.
The water in the city is already too deep to drain, and if the water from the ferry floods in again...
Lin Yun's face was pale and blue, and his lips kept moving but he couldn't make a sound.
Sang Zhixia quickly closed her eyes and said in a deep voice, "Don't panic."
"The more times like this, the more we can't panic."
If panicking could solve problems, there wouldn't be so many problems in the world.
Sang Zhixia quickly gathered her composure and decisively said, "Pull our merchant ships side by side at the ferry, connecting them with iron chains to form the first barrier. We'll hold them off for as long as we can."
In order to ensure the safety of merchant ships as much as possible, larger ships were transferred to the dock in advance to where they were anchored.
Lin Yun's expression changed slightly: "Boss, use the boat as a barrier, our boat will..."
"If it's destroyed, rebuild it."
Sang Zhixia said coldly, "There's a large ship blocking the way ahead. We need to seize the opportunity to build a pile frame with wooden beams behind the partition. Place the huge rocks close to the pile frame to prevent it from collapsing in an impact. Fill the pile frame with sandbags inside and around it."
"Pile up layers of sandbags to create a high wall at the ferry crossing so that the river water cannot overflow."
"No matter what, the flood must not advance another step before daybreak!"
Sang Zhixia gave the order decisively, and those who had panicked for a moment instantly found their backbone and quickly moved forward carrying all kinds of things in the even more powerful thunder and rain.
In order to bring merchant ships closer to serve as the first line of defense, the most important thing is to be able to pass through and to pave a path through the flooded areas.
This can only be filled with sandbags one after another.
It was raining heavily, and the men carrying the sandbags moved as fast as the wind, throwing the heavy sandbags into the bottomless water.
Repeat again and again.
Sang Zhixia knew that he couldn't contribute much at this time, so he found a relatively safe place that Diancui and others thought was relatively safe to take shelter from the rain.
There was a flash of thunder, and a cold white lightning bolt struck down.
Sang Zhixia subconsciously frowned and looked up, catching sight of a figure flashing past in the crowd, and her eyes suddenly narrowed.
Noticing Sang Zhixia's unusual behavior, Old Man Hua said anxiously, "Boss, you just need to stay here. It's really all right!"
"It's not safe ahead, you can't go any further!"
"So many people are pointing fingers at you, can you..."
"Where's the painted fan?"
Sang Zhixia walked forward a few steps with a tense face. When she didn't find the familiar figure, she suddenly raised her voice without warning: "Where's the fan painter?!"
"Bring me the painted fan. I have something to ask her!"
"Go!"
Sang Zhixia's rare loss of composure shocked everyone present.
Diancui reacted immediately and said quickly: "Master, please wait a moment, I will go right away..."
"Boss!"
A male voice came from a distance, penetrating the rain.
When Sang Zhixia saw Cheng Qi running towards him, he felt as if someone had poured a basin of ice-cold water over his head in the dead of winter, and his whole body was cold.
Cheng Qi was in a state of disarray. Without even stopping, he hurriedly said, "Boss, the two young masters are missing... They..."
"They weren't even hit by the Thousand Mile Drunk. They ran away shortly after leaving the Nanyun City Gate!"
When Sang Zhixia realized something, he already had a bad feeling in his heart.
But when he learned that his momentary premonition had become reality, Sang Zhixia inevitably felt a sense of absurdity in his heart.
Sang Zhixia said coldly, "With so many of you, you just watched these two guys run away?"
"You can't even take care of two kids? You're really embarrassing me!"
Faced with Sang Zhixia's unprecedented anger, Cheng Qi knelt down without thinking.
Cheng Qi said in a hoarse voice: "I have failed to perform my duties well. Even if the boss wants to kill me or chop me up, I will not complain."
"But the two young masters are missing and their whereabouts are unknown. I beg you to spare my life for now. Once you find them, I will die as an apology."
"What's the point of me wanting your life if you're missing?"
Sang Zhixia was so pissed off that she wanted to kick Cheng Qi out to carry the sandbag. She slammed the table and gritted her teeth, "Stop talking about that useless stuff!"
"How did the person get lost? Tell me quickly!"
When Sang Zhixia sensed that something might happen to Nan Yun, she had already decided to send these two little guys away.
In order to be on the safe side, Sang Zhixia took out the Qianlizui given by Old Qi and sent his most trusted confidant to do it.
Everything was going well until...
Cheng Qi said with a bitter face: "We thought the two young masters were under the influence of Qianlizui, but they were not knocked out at all. They were awake the whole time."
The two awake little rascals took advantage of the situation and pretended to be tricked. When they were taken out of Nanyun, they had pieced together the general truth from the conversation between Diancui, Chengqi and others.
Then the two guys ran away.
Upon learning that he had escaped from the temporary inn, Sang Zhixia said in disbelief, "Aren't you all here?"
"There were so many people following us inside and outside, how come it took us half an hour to notice?"
Cheng Qi's face twisted, and he closed his eyes with despair and said, "Skirt."
Sang Zhixia: "..."
Cheng Qi said in despair, "Once we noticed something was wrong, we immediately searched the area. We searched the surroundings three times, but the only suspicious items we could find were two skirts thrown in the grass."
In response to Sang Zhixia's silence, Cheng Qi dutifully took off the small bag on his back and opened it to reveal two skirts, one yellow and one purple.
Xu Mingyang and Sang Yanyou ran away disguised as women.
Sang Zhixia held her forehead wearily. Cheng Qi said with a strange, still dazed look on his face, "The two young masters guessed we'd pursue them once we discovered them, and they had the foresight to set a tripwire."
"Because of the two skirts that were lost from the innkeeper's wife's room, the people in the neighborhood were harassed and blocked by the locals. They threatened to take us to the authorities, saying we were twisted beasts and thieves."
The secret guards who had been loyal to the Xu family for a hundred years had never suffered such injustice.
Today has set a precedent.
Cheng Qi's face was filled with indignation as he spoke of this. "Not only did they steal the shopkeeper's wife's skirt, but within half an hour, they also snuck in to molest a flirtatious widow and broke into the bedrooms of two other women during the night."
"Not only that, the reason we were instantly targeted and surrounded was because Master Yanyou exposed us as a victim."
"Master Yanyou said that we were the evildoers who wanted to attack him, and he was very considerate and pointed out the hiding places of our guards."
"Then……"
"Then we were surrounded by the townspeople..."
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