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Volume 1: Who Rides the Star to Break through the Void Chapter 123: The world is ups and downs like running water

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    What was thrown next to Ye Chang was the eighth volume of "Xiu Xiang Three Kingdoms". The plot of Cao Cao using tricks to win over Xu Shu and Xu Yuanzhi was in this volume.  Wei Niang¡¯s intention is very clear. If Ye Chang doesn¡¯t obey, she will follow Cao Cao¡¯s example and use her family to coerce Ye Chang.  Although she only threatened with words, she had already violated Ye Chang's taboo, so Ye Chang's eyes suddenly became cold.  After telling her her plan, Wei Niang didn¡¯t bother to persuade her anymore and left the cabin.  Ye Chang looked towards the cabin heads on both sides and saw two barbarians guarding each side. Then, a big barbarian man came in and stared at him eagerly. If he forced his way in or shouted, he would probably be chopped into pieces with a knife.  "It's prudent to do it" Ye Chang didn't dare to take such a risk.  There was probably more than one boat, and Wei Niang never showed up again.  Although the Tang Dynasty was at its peak at this time, the official system was already broken. Therefore, although Wei Niang and her colleagues encountered inspections on the water on the way, they were all sent away with copper coins.  I was also very careful when docking along the way, mostly looking for deserted villages and villages to replenish some food and firewood.  Ye Chang left Chang'an after the city competition on June 6. He estimated that it should be June 7 now.  The ship was rocking violently, the cabin was dull, and the mat curtains that were used as a shield were motionless.  Ye Chang was sitting against the bulkhead and took a breath. Suddenly, he heard a loud noise.     It's thundering.  Ye Chang did not know that at this time, a thunder struck the Chaotian Gate in Chang'an, causing a huge fire.  This incident also became an excuse for some people in the court to criticize him, especially Zhang Pei, who directly said that it was Ye Chang's sorcery that caused the wrath of heaven and earth.  However, Ye Chang couldn't care about this matter for the time being. What he was thinking about now was how to escape from these barbarians. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Not long after, the thunder continued continuously, and then we heard the sound of raindrops hitting the canopy of the boat.  The boat began to rock violently, and Ye Chang could hear the whistling wind outside.  "Drop to the shore, dock to the shore" someone shouted in the wind and rain, probably the boatman on another boat conveying the order from Wei Niang.  Such strong winds and waves were enough to capsize their small boat.  Ye Chang was also secretly worried. It would be an injustice if he lost his life due to the capsizing accident.  The boat was sailing hard in the wind and waves. Not long after, Ye Chang heard the boatman's crying voice: "Oops, come on, come and help me." Ye Chang suddenly stood up, but the barbarian in front of him had a hand in his hand.  The barbarian sword was drawn out without hesitation.  "Idiot, do you want to die here together?" Ye Chang asked sharply.  This barbarian is a close confidant of Wei Niang and has always been with Wei Niang, so Ye Chang knows that he can speak Tang Mandarin.  "Don't move." The big barbarian man said coldly.  "Okay, if the boat capsizes, it capsizes. Anyway, I am proficient in water, and I am not the only one who drowns." Ye Chang smiled: "I just don't know how many of you know how to swim?" This question made the barbarian  The man was stunned.  ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????¡­  However, this is not a ravine in their mountains, but a vast river. "Especially your princess, if she falls into the water, will she be able to save herself?" These words shocked the barbarian man, although he himself was not afraid.  But I can't help but worry about Wei Niang.  "What's more, now that we are on the boat and there are so many winds and waves around us, are you still afraid that I will jump into the river and run away?" The last sentence made the barbarian man nod his head, and he asked: "What do you think we should do?" "Then what does the boatman say, we will do it.  No one on this ship knows as much as him about how to do it," Ye Chang said categorically.  "Come and help me, come and help me, hurry up and get to the shore." At this moment, the boatman shouted again.  This time, the barbarian man did not stop him. Ye Chang came out of the cabin. In the blink of an eye, he was completely drenched by water.  Looking at the past, I could only see silver threads falling from the sky and falling into the surging river. They could not even splash, because under the instigation of the strong wind, the river itself turned into huge waves, and their two small boats  , just like leaves, swaying in the wind and rain.  With such a wide river and turbulent waves, Ye Chang judged that this was still the Yellow River.  The boatman shook the stern of the boat desperately, but it had little effect. The waves still wrapped the boat and drifted downstream, and the distance from the shore did not become closer.  Seeing Ye Chang coming out with all the barbarians, the boatman shouted, and everyone went to help him shake the oar or get the oar.  Seven or eight people in a boat started working together, and the boat finally got closer and closer to the shore.  The other ship also followed the same example, but because of the strong wind and waves, the distance between the two ships became farther and farther. When they docked, the two ships could no longer see each other.  At this time, Ye Chang was exhausted. Fighting with the wind and waves was not an easy task, and the heavy rain also obscured their sight.  After docking, Ye Chang looked around?, There seems to be a small village in the distance, but it's not really clear.  "I don't know when the rain will stop. Let's go and take shelter together?" Ye Chang said to the barbarians.  "No, we have to go find our princess first." These barbarians are already a little anxious. Without seeing Wei Niang, they are like headless flies. But there is only one thing, they will not let Ye Chang go. They still have to deal with this matter.  Keep it in mind.  The boatman over there was wearing a raincoat and looking at his boat with a sad face, not paying attention to this place at all.  Ye Chang had no choice but to say: "Okay, let's look over there along the river bank. Maybe we can meet them." Leaving a barbarian to watch the boat, everyone walked down the river bank. Halfway there, they heard something behind them.  Someone yelled.  Ye Chang turned around and saw the boatman and the barbarian running towards each other. The road was slippery on a rainy day. The two fell several times, but they did not dare to stop at all.  "What's wrong?" Ye Chang asked.  ¡°Go quickly, go quickly, the embankment is about to burst.¡± The boatman¡¯s frightened words made Ye Chang¡¯s hair stand on end.  In his memory, there was no record of floods in the Yellow River in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, he was not sure whether what he encountered today was a major burst of the Yellow River's banks, let alone whether he could survive the breach.  The only thing that is certain now is that we must run as quickly as possible to a higher place.  "Hurry up!" Ye Chang shouted. Just as he was about to run to a hillock in the distance, he heard a clang sound beside him, and the barbarian's sword grazed his forehead and slashed. "Looking for our princess."  The big barbarian man said sternly.  "You just go and look for yourself, what do you have to do with me?" Ye Chang was anxious and couldn't care less.  He had no friendship with Wei Niang at all. He originally just wanted to use her to get cotton. But when Wei Niang tried to kidnap him and even threatened him with his family, Wei Niang's reputation with him even changed from being cold to cold.  hostility.  At this critical moment, it was really impossible for him to risk his life to save Wei Niang.  "The princess said, I can't let you go. If you want to leave, you have to die." Ye Chang was speechless. Why is this barbarian so stupid?  "However, facing the sharp sword and such a stubborn guy, no matter how eloquent Ye Chang is, no matter how many tricks he has, they will not be of use in a hurry.  Therefore, he could only be forced by this guy and run forward.  But the boatman ran away quickly. Behind them, a line of water gradually came, not very fast. It didn't look like a big breach of the embankment, but just overflowing.  At this time, the Central Plains had been suffering from drought for a long time. The city games in Chang'an City were, to some extent, just to beg for rain. The sudden heavy rain caught many places off guard.  However, when the soil is cracked and hardened and then soaked by water, it is easy for landslides and piping to occur.  In places where preparations are insufficient, embankment overflow is inevitable.  Finding that the embankment was still overflowing, Ye Chang felt a little relieved. It seemed that he could not find Wei Niang now. These barbarians would not let him go, so he had better find the barbarian girl first.  On the embankment, there was more than one place where the embankment overflowed, and water had to flow through many places. Seeing this scene, Ye Chang felt even more worried.  "I found it" The barbarians were still sharp-eyed. When they saw a ship in front of them, they couldn't help but cheer.  Ye Chang looked at the ship, but he was not so happy. There was no one on the side of the ship. More importantly, the ship had been pushed up the embankment by the waves.  "No one" When he got closer to the boat, the barbarian was stunned. The boat was indeed Wei Niang's boat, but there was no one on board.  Ye Chang also got on the boat, but he was not looking for anyone, but looked at a package in the boat and picked it up casually.  Inside is the food prepared by the barbarians.  "Go this way." Ye Chang tied the grain to his body, and then looked for the village he just saw: "Let's go quickly." "We are looking for the princess." "Idiot, how can your princess be as stupid as you?  With the heavy rain and rising water, she must have gone to higher ground for shelter. The village is near here, so hurry up and leave," Ye Chang shouted.  The big barbarian man who was guarding him especially didn't believe it: "Are you sure?" "Why did your princess invite me to go to Yue to analyze the imperial edict? Aren't I just smarter than you?" At this time, Ye Chang could only pull out Wei Niang's words.  Daqi: "At this time, if you don't listen to me, will you listen to you?" After saying this, the barbarians agreed. When Ye Chang saw that the barbarian man was relaxed, he took the lead and ran towards the village.  Unexpectedly, after only running a few steps, the big barbarian man caught up with him and slashed his body with the barbarian knife in his hand: "If the princess is not there, I will give you a knife." "You idiot, your princess walked in a hurry,  You didn't even bring the rice on the ship. If you don't go back and carry some, are you going to make her starve?  "Seeing him following closely beside him, Ye Chang felt extremely uncomfortable and shouted. "The barbarian man is indeed a bit stupid, but he is the most loyal to Wei Niang. He feelsWhat Chang said was so reasonable that he really went back to carry the food.  When he carried the grain and looked at Ye Chang again, Ye Chang's figure had disappeared into the rain.  "No, I've been fooled." The big barbarian man immediately understood that he had been pushed away. He was extremely angry and kept a close eye on him. He thought that no matter how cunning Ye Chang was, there was nothing he could do, but he never thought that he would kill him with just a few words.  Deceived.  But he didn¡¯t know that this was a small psychological hint from Ye Chang that made him make such a choice.  How could Ye Chang be sure to confirm the current location of Wei Niang? He chose that village just because it was close and the villagers must know where it would be safer.  In the heavy rain and strong wind, it is difficult to walk, let alone run.  When Ye Chang ran to the front of the village, he had already fallen like a clay figure. Looking behind him, there was no barbarian left.  "Bang bang bang" He rushed to a house at the head of the village and knocked on the door desperately.  A nervous voice came from the door: "Who is it?" "The embankment is overflowing, the embankment is overflowing," Ye Chang shouted.  Apart from escaping for his own life, he couldn't just watch the people in this village remain unaware of the coming danger.  "What?" The door of the house was opened, and a man came out in a panic, asking in a trembling voice: "What did you say?" "The river has overflowed its embankment," Ye Chang shouted, pointing behind him.  No need to point, the man just took a few steps outside in the rain, and he could clearly see a line of water rising slowly towards the village.  He was suddenly startled, turned around and ran into the house: "Come out quickly, go quickly, the water has risen and the embankment has overflowed." In a blink of an eye, the family was jumping up and down, and even Ye Chang broke into the yard without paying attention.  .  Ye Chang saw a gong hanging in front of the hall, stepped forward and picked it off, then grabbed a stick and started beating it with all his strength.  "Dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang." The piercing sound of gongs rang out. This sound exceeded the sound of wind and rain, and only the occasional thunder could cover it up.  At this sound, the whole small village was alarmed. People who were hiding in their homes to take shelter from the rain opened their doors and came out to take a look. Then the sound of crying for their fathers and mothers could be heard from every family.  "Who is in charge of affairs in the village?" Seeing the chaos here, Ye Chang grabbed a villager and shouted sternly.  "It's the fifth uncle, it's the fifth uncle." "Take me to see him." "I" "If you want the people in the village to survive, take me to see him." Ye Chang corrected the man, stared into his eyes, and  Every word is authentic.  Originally he thought this was just a remote village with not much population, but now it seems that there are forty or fifty households, at least two to three hundred people.  In this kind of village, there is no backbone, and everyone can only look after their own affairs in the face of danger, which will eventually cause many unnecessary losses.  He was so angry that the man actually took him to the only decent house in the village.  Although it was said to be a prosperous time at this time, in fact ordinary people were far from wealthy. After research by later generations of scholars, they found that at least 20% of the people had to endure cold and starvation.  At this time, the family was already in chaos. An old man directed five strong men to carry this and that. Ye Chang stepped forward and shouted: "Old man, are you the person in charge of the village?" The old man rolled his eyes at him.  "You foreigner, stay away and run for your own life." "You only care about your own family, but you don't care about dozens of households in the village?" "How can you care about so many people?" The old man pushed Ye Chang away:  "If you don't get out of here, I'll call my five children to give you a good beating." Ye Chang suddenly remembered that this was not a later generation with a strict basic social organization, but the Tang Dynasty. This old man only wanted to escape for his own life, regardless of other people in the village.  That was a perfectly normal thing. Even if there were heavy casualties in the village, no one would hold him responsible.  Seeing that he still didn¡¯t go away, two of the old man¡¯s sons came over with their eyes crossed and their hands crossed. One of them was impatient and even stretched out his palm to push Ye Chang.
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