Chapter 553 Extra: Prolonged Heavy Rain Causes Flooding
Seeing that Lin Luoxi had picked up every dish, the children finally smiled and began to eat the food in front of them.
"Wife, try this..." Xie Hanchuan wanted to show off, so he picked up a chicken wing, about to say something, but Lin Luoxi picked up a piece of chicken butt and stuffed it into his mouth.
"One should not speak while eating or sleeping." Lin Luoxi was afraid that Xie Hanchuan would say something that would upset the children.
"Honey, how did you know I like to eat chicken butts?"
Lin Luoxi's kingly gaze instantly captivated him, and for once, his mind clicked. He put the chicken wing into Lin Luoxi's bowl and began chewing vigorously on the chicken's rear end.
"I'm glad you like it!" Seeing that Xie Hanchuan had come to his senses, Lin Luoxi lowered her head and chuckled.
"Daddy, you have such heavy tastes!"
"Third brother, really! Why didn't you take the chicken's tail out when you made soup? Did you even clean it properly...?"
Seeing Xie Hanchuan's pained expression, Xie Zhichu felt that Xie Hanchuan wasn't disgusting enough, so she added this last sentence, making her a master of finishing blows.
"Ugh!" Xie Hanchuan, who was about to swallow, couldn't hold back any longer after hearing Xie Zhiheng's words. He turned his head to the side and spat out the chicken butt in his mouth.
"Haha..." Lin Luoxi could no longer hold back and burst into laughter.
She didn't do it on purpose; who knew the chopsticks would be so accurate, picking up the chicken's rear end in one go.
"Honey, have some crab..." To make up for her guilt, Lin Luoxi quickly picked up a big crab and put it in Xie Hanchuan's bowl.
"Thank you, wife." Xie Hanchuan breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the crab in the bowl and confirming that it wasn't a chicken butt.
"Daddy, eat some lobster! Today's lobsters all have roe!" Xie Zhili grabbed a lobster from the basin and stuffed it into Xie Hanchuan's bowl.
"Father, come and try the stir-fried vegetables I made."
“Father…”
Seeing Lin Luoxi serving food to Xie Hanchuan, the quintuplets also stood up and put every dish on the table into Xie Hanchuan's bowl.
"Okay, okay, everyone eat." Seeing his bowl filled with love, Xie Hanchuan grinned and ate heartily.
Even without servants to wait on them, a family can still feel warm and happy.
"Why is the rain getting heavier and heavier?" After finishing her meal, Lin Luoxi stood in the corridor, watching the rain pour down, as if the gods in the sky were dumping buckets of water. She frowned deeply.
“Oh dear, wife, as you said, it hasn’t rained in Quanzhou for half a year. We need a heavy rain to moisten the parched land.”
Xie Hanchuan didn't think anything of it. It rained this heavily in the summer before, so he was used to it.
"Hmm, I hope I'm overthinking it." After hearing Xie Hanchuan's words, Lin Luoxi also felt that there was some truth to it. She went back to her room and continued to do the accounting.
The children were very conscientious; they cleaned up the mess after dinner and went back to their rooms to read.
South of Quanzhou, after more than half a year of drought, the people finally got this heavy rain.
With the torrential rains that have been falling for a month showing no signs of stopping, the people are starting to panic again.
The parched fields were gradually filled with rainwater, and the water level in the river was rising, showing signs of flooding.
The people downstream could no longer sit idly by. They put on raincoats, grabbed hoes, and began to dredge the irrigation ditches to prevent the river water from spreading to the banks.
Looking at the relentless downpour, Lin Luoxi felt an increasing sense of unease.
Unable to sit still any longer, he donned a raincoat, disregarded the heavy rain outside, and plunged headlong into the scene.
"Wife, wife, it's raining so hard, where are you going?" Xie Hanchuan saw Lin Luoxi going out in a raincoat and became anxious. He picked up the raincoat from under the eaves and chased after her.
"Big brother, Father and Mother have gone out." Xie Zhichu, who was about to go out to relieve himself, saw Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan leave and shouted back into the house.
"What? It's raining so hard, what are Father and Mother doing out?" Hearing Xie Zhichu's words, Xie Zhiheng also ran out of the room.
When they came out, they couldn't see Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan anywhere.
"Let's go to the kitchen first and boil some water."
"I'll go prepare some ginger soup."
Going out in this heavy rain will definitely get you soaked to the bone.
As the eldest brother, Xie Zhili naturally had to make the arrangements.
"good!!"
Xie Zhiyan, Xie Zhiheng, Xie Zhichu, and Xie Leyao obediently followed Xie Zhili into the kitchen to help.
"It looks like the river embankment is about to burst."
Lin Luoxi, who had run away from home, followed Xie Hanchuan, the local magistrate Lin Wushi (renamed Lin Jinshi), and the constables, heading towards a small village near the river.
Near the riverbank, seeing the makeshift embankment about to be washed away by the river, I looked around and found that there were also many stones nearby.
They then had everyone find stones and use them to block the riverbank that was about to burst.
“This won’t do. We need to get the local people around us to work with us.”
Lin Luoxi and her group went to notify the village chiefs of each village downstream, asking them to lead the labor force of their respective villages to repair the river embankment and dredge the waterways.
Some people were responsible for filling sandbags, some for carrying them, and some for stacking them up.
Everyone was working desperately in the heavy rain to protect their homes.
Repairing the river embankment required a lot of stones, so Lin Luoxi used her personal space to go up the mountain with the stones and filled it with a lot.
When no one is around, place the stones on the riverbank and let the villagers come and pile them up.
Building a retaining wall with large stones is more effective than using sandbags. When the river level is too high, the water can seep little by little to both sides without affecting the villages on either side.
"What? Quanzhou is experiencing floods again?" Sitting in the high hall, Xiao Jingchen felt a sense of powerlessness when he saw Lin Luoxi's message delivered by a flying eagle.
He felt that this was a warning from God to everyone, and to him.
Otherwise, why would there be so many natural disasters this year?
They just experienced a snowstorm and then an earthquake in the north, while the south has been suffering from drought for more than half a year and is now experiencing floods. It's as if the heavens are going to kill them!
"Yes, not only Quanzhou, but also areas south of Quanzhou have been flooded. Although Princess Changping discovered it in time and led the local officials and villagers to raise the river embankments on both sides of the Meihua River, the heavy rain was too intense and still caused most of the damage."
Lin Wenqian saw the message Lin Luoxi sent him, which made him eager to return home.
Quanzhou is not only Lin Luoxi's territory, but also Lin Wenqian's root.
His family lives in Quanzhou, and he wants to go back to Quanzhou to visit them.
"In this way, ten million yuan in disaster relief funds will be allocated to Quanzhou to help the affected people."
"Your Majesty, ten million taels is a drop in the ocean..."
"How about we crowdfunding, so that everyone can contribute to Quanzhou?"
"When our capital was hit by a snowstorm, Princess Changping selflessly donated money and silver. Now that Quanzhou is in trouble, we should offer our assistance from all sides..."
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