"Miss, this matter is finally over, but I heard that there was a bloody storm in the capital. Usually some sanctimonious officials embezzled a lot of gold and silver. Long Yan was so angry that he chopped off the heads of many corrupt officials. "
Wen Yuan didn't think it was a big deal, "Whoever walks by the river without getting his shoes wet? Do you think those are the only corrupt officials at the feet of the emperor? Some people can't move. One move affects the whole body. The emperor knows better than us."
"I heard that an adult was so frightened that he had heart palpitations and was frightened to death."
Yo? Is there such a thing? This was the first time Wen Yuan heard about it, and he immediately became interested, "Who is it?"
"Miss, you must know Master Shen, the censor." It turns out it's him... so it's not surprising.
This person usually doesn't know how to be cautious when doing things, but Wen Yuan didn't expect that he was so timid and was scared to death.
Chunhua continued: "I heard that the imperial court confiscated a lot of silver from those officials' homes and put it into the national treasury. It seems that many adults are about to be promoted."
"Ignore them, let's just live our happy life here."
But these peaceful days are destined not to last long.
And the happy days that Wen Yuan talked about ended completely after five days.
It was the rainy season, and it rained heavily for five days in a row.
Feihua City is low-lying and surrounded by mountains, so it is easy to cause water accumulation and landslides.
Wen Yuan looked at the pouring rain and secretly worried in his heart, "What should I do? If it continues like this, I'm afraid the people in the city will be in trouble..."
"Miss, things are not going well. The water in the river has risen and has now reached the streets. Now the low-lying areas in the city have been flooded. Go and have a look!" Chunhua sent news from outside.
Wen Yuan thought for a while and quickly summoned all the secret guards in the princess's mansion. "Follow me. There must be many people affected by the disaster outside. Do you know if you can save any of them?"
Her princess mansion is located some distance away from the center of the city where people gather, and the terrain is high, so the flood has not reached her yet.
When Wen Yuan and others arrived, half of the houses there had been flooded. "How could it be so serious..."
Some people were sitting on their roofs waiting for rescue, but many more may have been washed away long ago.
"First think of a way to rescue the surviving people to safety."
The current situation is not what Wen Yuan is most worried about. What she is most worried about is the plague after the heavy rain ends... If it really happens, a large number of people will die.
The rain gradually lightened up after a day, but it was still raining and the ground was not clean.
Wen Yuan took her people to dredge the river in person, but she didn't expect that something more powerful was waiting for her.
"Hey! Look! The ripples in this water are so abnormal!"
A group of people looked in the direction the woman was pointing. The river water had long turned into a muddy yellow, and they couldn't see anything underwater at all, but they could indeed see abnormalities on the water's surface.
The man was no longer surprised, "When the water rises, there will be some big fish that are rare to see. Is there anything strange about it?"
Where they were, they couldn't really see what was going on in the water, but the people on the top of the mountain who were responsible for observing the surroundings could see clearly.
The man listened to everyone below talking about what big fish there was in the water, and curiously looked down there.
The strange ripples on the water seemed to indicate that there were some strange creatures under the water. He looked closely and saw only a row of black scales emerging from the water. The scales were as big as a human palm. You can imagine how big they were. fish.
I wanted to explain the situation here to the people below, but before the man could speak, the strange black fish raised its head out of the water.
The group of people didn't notice that the fish's kiss was very prominent, which was very different from ordinary fish, and its big mouth was full of sharp teeth. The man felt bad and quickly asked the people underwater to come ashore, "Come up quickly. Ah! The strange fish in the water is approaching you! Come up quickly!"
But the people below couldn't hear his voice clearly, and thought he was communicating with them by seeing the strange appearance on the water surface.
"Ah, yes, yes!" The people below echoed.
A woman next to him approached him and asked, "Did you hear what he said?"
"No."
"Then your answer is so similar?!"
"Just pretending."
The woman gave her thumbs up, "You are better, brother."
Before the people above could rush down to disperse them, the strange fish had already swam close by, and with a flick of its tongue, it swept away the nearest man, "Ah!"
Only then did everyone realize something was wrong, "There is a monster in the water! Get up quickly! Get up quickly!"
Keren had obviously come ashore, but the thing under the water stuck out its long tongue and swept the person away again, "Get away from the water! Go, go!"
Leaving the place near the water, a group of people were in shock, "Let's go find Princess Xianyang and report this matter to her."
After living in Feihua City for so many years, this was the first time they saw such a long-tongued monster.
Now it seems that only Princess Shunyang can control this monster.
Several people came outside the princess's mansion, but there were so many people gathered here that they couldn't squeeze in at all.
"Why are you so crowded? I know you are in a hurry, but you still have to queue up." Occasionally, if I move too far forward, I will be told by the person in front.
But now was the time when the water was rising, and there was no time to delay the matter. One of them suddenly fell to the ground and twitched. Wen Yuan noticed the situation here and asked his people to carry the man over.
But as soon as he reached the front, the man immediately became lively, "Princess Xianyang." He knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to Wen Yuan, "I have no choice but to listen to what happened to me. matter."
Wen Yuan frowned, thinking that there must be a reason for the incident, so he asked his men to comfort the people who were cut in line. He heard what he said: "Just now, a group of us were dredging the river by the river, and a strange fish unexpectedly appeared and killed us. My companion dragged it down into the water. The tongue of that strange fish can be extended very long! And I saw the scales of that thing, which are big and hard. You really need someone to see it."
This is not the first time Wen Yuan has heard about strange fish today. Just now, a man also said that he saw a big black fish in the river.
But... this man said that his companion was swept away by a strange fish. This should be true. Wen Yuan made a prompt decision and asked someone to follow the man to the riverside to see if they could find anything.
At this time, the owl also came back from the other side of the river, holding a scale as hard as human teeth in his hand, "Princess, look at this... I picked it up when the water receded. From here Judging from the scales, there may be something in our river..."
Wen Yuan squinted at the scales on his hands, "Take your men and go to a higher place to see if there is anything strange on the river, and inform everyone not to go near the deep water area."
This is not a trivial matter. If unknown creatures really appear, it will be very dangerous for everyone.
She remembered that Chi Zhaoyue was very good at water, "Ayue, can you go into the water and have a look? You can also use magic in the water, which is relatively safe."
"This water is too turbid. Even if I am underwater, I can't see clearly. Now I just need to concentrate the people on high ground. It seems that something new has arrived during this flood."
On that day, Wen Yuan moved all the people to the mountain behind. There was a huge cave on the mountain that could accommodate many people. "In order to prevent people from approaching the water, everyone will make do in this cave for a while, and we will check later." Once this comes out, we will repair the house for everyone, and everyone can go home."
Although they lived in the mountains, Wen Yuan gave them no less food and drink. The children also had sweets to eat, and even the elderly and pregnant women had eggs to eat every day.
However, the rain suddenly became heavier again. Wen Yuan was worried that someone would be swept away by the strange fish again, so he sent people to look for them every day.
But after a few days, no trace of the strange fish was found, but Wen Yuan also saw the monster hidden in the water.
Although only a little of the dorsal fin is exposed out of the water, people can still feel the size of this thing. "I have never heard of this thing..."
At least in the twenty-six years of her life, she had never heard of such a strange fish with a long tongue.
One night, Shen Huaiyan found an ancient book and put it in front of Wen Yuan, "This is a mountain and river spirit recorded by previous generations. Look at this."
"Longnose eel..." It does record a huge strange fish, and the basic description is consistent with the information Wen Yuan and the others currently have.
She continued to look through the ancient books. It clearly stated that this thing had ceased to exist long ago. How could it appear in Feihua City again? "But didn't it say that they had disappeared in the water long ago?"
"Did they hide to better reproduce, or did they really disappear?"
Wen Yuan couldn't answer this question. She only knew that this kind of thing was not suitable to appear here. "If they can't eat people, what will they feed on?"
"Anything edible in the water..."
Yes, anything edible in the water. What if such a huge fish eats everything edible in the water?
It is impossible to determine how many such fish there are. If they were in large numbers, Wen Yuan could not imagine what kind of irreversible damage they would cause to the waters of Dragon Kingdom.
"But we really have no way to determine the number of these strange fish, and we don't know their habits... We can only make plans after the water recedes."
Now there was only this way. Wen Yuan looked at Shen Huaiyan's face in trance, and suddenly forgot all the things in front of him.
"What's wrong? Look at me like this..." They don't know yet that Wen Yuan has recovered his previous memory. If they knew, Shen Huaiyan would definitely not miss this opportunity again.
Wen Yuan smiled and turned his face to the side, "It's nothing, I just think you look like someone I know, but that person seems to have slowly faded in my mind, and I gradually forgot about him."
