Rise From the Humble

Floods have been ravaging the south of the Yangtze River for five days. Most of the south is devastated. Almost no houses are leaking, and no walls are leaning. Buildings to the east and west are all submerged in a body of water with no boundaries. There are rafts of people passing between streets and alleys, and millions of victims have been displaced. .

What a miserable word.

The only good news is that the rain in the Jiangnan area has continued for almost a month, and it has finally stopped.

However, even if the rain stops, the flooding in Jiangnan has not been alleviated much. The water in many places is still several feet deep. For example, in Taiping County, which was severely affected by the disaster, even the Taiping County Government Office is still soaked by floods. Depending on the situation, the floods will not recede in less than ten days and half a month; and even if the floods recede, the flood disaster will not recede. Destroyed houses, washed away farmland, flooded property and food will be difficult to harvest, and millions of victims will be displaced. Crying for food, the road to disaster relief is long and arduous.

Jingnan County was one of the counties that was less affected by the flood and more effective in disaster relief. Many displaced victims from nearby counties fled to Jingnan after hearing the news. On the main roads leading to Jingnan, there were groups of victims one after another. There were even victims from one village fleeing to Jingnan together with their elderly and children.

Dazhuo Mountain spans the three counties of Jingnan, Tiantai and Taiping, and guards the main transportation route from Tiantai and Taiping counties to Jingnan. After the flood, victims passed by the foot of the mountain every day and fled to Jingnan.

Dachu Mountain is a mountain system, stretching for hundreds of miles, with dozens of high mountains, thousands of meters high, and majestic. Dachu Mountain is very famous in Taizhou Prefecture, but its reputation is not a good one. It is famous for mountain bandits. There are more than a dozen groups of bandits, large and small, in Dachu Mountain. They are notoriously difficult to deal with because they are not clean and uneasy. Because it spans three counties, if bandits are suppressed in Jingnan, they will flee to Tiantai and Taiping areas; if bandits are suppressed in Tiantai, they will flee to Jingnan and Taiping areas; if bandits are suppressed in Taiping, they will flee to Tiantai and Jingnan areas. Due to administrative factors, it is difficult for the three counties to jointly suppress bandits. They have only done so once or twice in the past ten years, but the joint suppression of bandits has not had much effect. Once the joint suppression of bandits is carried out, the bandits will go to the deep mountains and old forests. There are wild fruits and prey in the mountains, and the bandits will also If they don't starve to death, as time goes by, the three counties themselves will be unable to bear it. As soon as the three counties were withdrawn, the bandits came out of the deep mountains and old forests and resumed their old business, occupying the mountains and becoming kings.

People usually feel anxious when passing by the foot of Dachu Mountain, but now they are not worried at all.

Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. We are all victims of the disaster with nothing, and the bandits can steal a piece of it.

On this day, on a main road leading from Dachu Mountain to Jingnan County, a group of more than eighty people came.

The leader was a stout man in his fifties, with a short chin and black and white beard. He was dressed in ruffled brown and had half of his arms exposed. He was as strong as a cow, but he had some talent.

Following closely beside him was a young man. The young man was slender, wearing coarse clothes and a pair of sheepskin boots. Except for the sheepskin boots that were inevitably stained with mud, his clothes were neat and clean without a drop of mud, but his face was stained. Even though it was stained with a few pieces of mud, it could not conceal its delicate face. The eyebrows were as slender as a pair of daisies, the eyes were big and bright, the mouth was small, and the lips were red and the teeth were white.

How should I put it? The young man is a bit feminine, like a girl, with an oval face, like a fox turned into a spirit.

Of course, despite the portrait of a boy and a girl, no one looked at him twice along the way. Because he was playing with a dagger in his hand, flying in his hand like a butterfly in a flower.

The victims fleeing the disaster on the road have nowhere to hide and dare to look for trouble. Of course, there were also those who were short-sighted and teased the young man, but they were all quickly taught how to behave by the more than eighty strong men following the young man.

The more than 80 people following the leading man and the young man were all strong men, with their sleeves rolled up and shoulders exposed. They all looked like crabs, walking rampantly and swearing obscenely, but towards the two people in front of them. He was very respectful and surrounded the two of them, walking all the way to Jingnan County.

"Damn it, Nuwa Empress has finally patched up the sky again. The rain that has been falling for a few months has finally stopped. This month, my trousers are all wet." The man looked up at the sun in the sky and cursed.

"Hu Laosan, if you don't keep your mouth clean, I will ask your second brother to live alone with you!" The young man walking in front turned his head and smiled. The dagger in his hand rotated rapidly between his two fingers, making a dazzling circle in the sun. of cold light.

Although the young man deliberately made his voice rough, his voice was still pleasant to the ear, and he turned out to be a woman disguised as a man.

"Ahem, the young master's family is joking. We will not separate our families, even if we are beaten to death, we will not separate our families."

Suddenly the man laughed sarcastically, and even dared to cross his legs when walking, fearing that the young master's sword would not spare the two brothers.

A tall and thick-set man was as frightened as a dog with its tail between its legs at the girl's look and words.

Hahaha.

The strong man in the lead and other men couldn't help laughing when they saw this. They were so cheerful that they didn't look like refugees.

"Ruonan, we are almost arriving at Jingnan County, put away your fish dagger." The strong man in the lead reminded.

"I know, Dad. She's so long-winded, like an old lady." The girl rolled her eyes. Although she was mumbling, she was still very obedient. She held the dagger between her fingers and flicked it, and the dagger disappeared. She had it up her sleeve.

The burly man was told something by his daughter, and he smiled indifferently, his eyes full of love for the girl.

"Old boss, young boss, I just can't figure it out. We have a lot of future as bandits in the mountains. We eat big chunks of meat, drink from big bowls, share gold with big scales, and play hard." There was another man with a beard on his face. The man complained with a puzzled look on his face. When he talked about vigorously playing with women, he thought of what happened to Hu Laosan. He instantly stopped and swallowed the next few words, and then continued, " When we were in the mountains, we lived a free and easy life. The king of heaven was not as good as us, and even the emperors cried with envy. Why should we become refugees if we leave promising bandits alone?"

"That's right."

"It's so shameless for us to be bandits and be reduced to refugees. How can we still have the dignity to hang out in the mountains in Dalu?"

Several people in the crowd immediately responded.

"What a dog, Zhang Laosan, you still have the nerve to ask! You can't do anything, and there's nothing left to eat! The mountain torrent destroyed the village, and all the rations that were finally snatched out were chewed up by you group of foodies. If you don’t go down the mountain and become a refugee, you will go to hell and become a starving ghost. Besides, the fat sheep at the foot of the mountain have been flooded, and they have all gone to the flood refuge area. The fat sheep have gone to the flood refuge area, but we wolves have not gone. Flood refuge area, where are you going? Are you guarding the cottage to grab the refugees?! Will I be your father or mother if I take them back?!"

The leading strong man was very gentle to the girl, but to this group of rough men, he was extremely rough.

Of course, this is what rough guys do too.