Chapter 27 The streets were flooded
"I'm not sleepy. It rained last night at midnight. I slept enough before this." Jing Yi said, and went to the kitchen to boil some water.
Jing Er sat down opposite Xie Zhizhi, staring at her seriously, and said in a serious voice: "Sister Xiao, this room is leaking. Should we buy a better four-story house or just make do with it until we leave the imperial city?"
Jing Er has been thinking carefully about how much silver he brought with him and whether the gold is enough.
"Buy a house? If not, this one is good. The leak can be fixed." Xie Zhizhi thought that if there was a hailstorm in two days, all the houses in the imperial city would be damaged. Of course, she couldn't buy it. She also had a lot of land deeds, but there was no need to move.
Hail was falling. The more luxurious the imperial city was and the higher it was built, the more dangerous it was. There were not many houses around here, only two or three thatched houses, which made it convenient for them to go in and out without worrying about being hit by bricks.
Jing Er heard this and said: "I will go out and buy some materials to replenish them later."
"No, I'll take care of it later." Xie Zhizhi walked out the door and looked up at the gloomy sky outside, which was exactly the same as yesterday afternoon.
The water at the door was above my ankles. Rainwater mixed with yellow mud was rolling down the steps. The rain must have stopped for about two hours.
It seems that this is a prelude to the coming of hail, but the temperature is not very cold.
When Xie Zhizhi was reading, she didn't know the specific weather conditions in the palace, but she knew that it would hail in two days.
She turned around and asked the cold noodle beauty who was standing behind her and was a little taller than her, "Has it ever rained so heavily in front of the Imperial City?"
"It has been dark since half a month ago. It has been gloomy all day long. It rains heavily every one or two days, each time getting heavier. Yesterday was the heaviest. It was like a large basin of water pouring down, not a drizzle. Sister 께, do you think there is something strange?"
Jing Er found that Sister Xiao's thoughts had become more organized since she woke up in the woods. It was probably because the general had said a lot of words to Sister Xiao in her dream to comfort her and untie her knot.
After listening to Keiji, she realized that natural disasters did not happen all at once.
Everything was planned.
The truth is, no one knows whether it will rain again tonight, and whether the rain will get heavier.
Fortunately, the house is on a slope, otherwise it would have been flooded with the amount of rain rushing down.
In this case, the imperial city will not be spared.
Xie Zhizhi thought about not going into the space tonight and wanted to experience it firsthand, so she suggested, "I don't know if it will rain tonight. If the temperature drops, we should buy some thick sheets and cotton quilts."
"Probably not, the sky outside is quiet, but sister Xiao is right, we should buy more daily necessities and food to stock up, in case it rains so heavily that we can't even go out on the street." Jing Yi made a pot of tea and came out, holding a plate of osmanthus cake, and replied to her thoughtfully.
She walked into the house and sat down, drinking some hot tea. The high-quality Longjing tea tasted sweet and fragrant but not too strong, and the tea soup was clear and green. They had taken away all the stock from the General's Mansion. She laughed softly and silently.
"If you're hungry, eat something first." Jing Yi looked at her seriously with his round almond-shaped eyes. Seeing that she didn't move her chopsticks, he was worried that she was hungry: "So what are you going to eat for breakfast, Sister Xiao? I'll buy it for you."
Jing Er continued, "Yes, you can buy them in the west or north of the city. I have subordinates who are very fast in Qinggong."
"I'm not hungry yet. Thank you for your concern. Sit down and eat. Let's discuss something. The General's Mansion is no longer here. To prevent others from discovering our identities, please stop calling me sister. Numbers don't sound good. Do you have names?" Mainly because Xie Zhizhi was not used to it and felt awkward.
Jingyi rolled his eyes and said sheepishly, "Jingyi has no name."
Jing Er also smiled shyly: "Neither have I. We have been in the General's Mansion since I can remember."
Xie Zhizhi respected their ideas and asked softly with a smile, her dimples forming: "Do you have any names you want to come up with? For example, what characters do you particularly like?"
When asked this question, Jing Yi thought about it seriously.
Jing Er thought faster than Jing Yi and decided to say a word he liked: "Lan, it has both 껚 and wind, it is free and unrestrained, it belongs to... I like it."
Jingyi soon thought of the same thing, "I like the word 哲, it sounds very wise."
Jing Er glanced at her, and Jing Yi inexplicably thought of a sentence: Who would care about something if they lacked it?
Bah, bah, bah, she is not stupid.
Xie Zhizhi didn't expect that they liked the more gender-oriented words, which really fit the neatness of their one-on-two relationship.
"Okay! It's Jinglan and Jingzhe. I'm the eldest sister from now on!"
Jing Yi changed his name to Jing Zhe from now on, and Jing Er changed his name to Jing Lan from now on. The two looked at each other with bright smiles. From now on, we have names. They said in unison: "Okay, big sister!"
Xie Zhizhi picked up the disguise kit and suggested, "Let's go to the street and see what's going on."
She wanted to know the consequences of what she had done yesterday.
Also, will there be a phenomenon of awakening divine power after a rainstorm?
The three of them packed up, still dressed as women, and walked to the busiest street in the imperial city like three sisters going shopping.
It takes an hour to walk from there to the next room.
It was nearly nine o'clock when they arrived, and just as she had expected, the streets were flooded.
The streets that used to be bustling with magnificent teahouses, taverns, pawnshops, money houses, jewelry and clothing stores are now deserted, with only the workers moving tables and chairs and the owners cleaning the flooded houses left.
The big oil-paper umbrellas hung in front of the teahouses were blown to pieces, and the tables and chairs used to entertain passers-by flew onto the eaves. There were few people walking on the street, and some of the more capable ones had already cleaned up and opened their shops.
It will probably be some time before the rain stops, so there is not much water on the streets, as all the water has flowed into the big river outside the city.
Otherwise, no one can get in.
This was the first time Xie Zhizhi carefully observed this street. Although the original owner had been here countless times in her memory, she had never walked here before.
But it looks too bleak at first glance.
Prosperous?
It doesn't exist. The wood has turned yellow.
Probably the yellow mud from the hilltops washed down and mixed with the water.
"Last night's heavy rain flooded everyone's shops?" Jingzhe said with regret. He wanted to buy more things, but now it seems that he can't buy anything.
Jing Lan lagged behind the two of them for a few steps, asked a shopkeeper some questions, and now ran back to her and said regretfully:
"Sister... Big sister... The water level in the west of the city was very high last night. The shopkeeper said it was above our necks. The few people who were washed away are still missing. That place is close to the river outside the city, so let's not go there."
Xie Zhizhi was stunned. In the face of disaster, humans were like dust, powerless to resist. He remained silent for a while and asked them, "What do you want to buy? The east side of the city is high, so there should be shops open. Let's go buy something."