Sick Man Turns Out to be a General

Early in the morning, when the sky had just begun to brighten, a mournful scream pierced through the clouds from the Mu Family courtyard.    

Shen Jingli hugged the child in his embrace and coaxed him. Then, he said to a maidservant, "Go to the front courtyard and take a look.    

Without waiting for maidservant to investigate, Lee Qi hurriedly ran in and reported to Shen Jingli: "Madam, that coral really isn't a peaceful person. It has only been a few days since it came to our residence, and you already want to crawl into Master's bed …"    

Listening to Lee Qi's colorful speech, Shen Jingli understood the cause and effect of the matter. Last night, Coral saw Mu Chen entering the study room, so she ran out to climb onto the bed in the middle of the night. When she woke up, she discovered that the person lying beside her was not Mu Chen, but rather the attendant beside him.    

The woman really had an empty face and no brain.    

Shen Jingli frowned and handed the Hou over to Nanny Jin. He said to Lee Qi: "You come with me to take a look."    

Lee Qi was happy to watch the show, so he naturally led the way in the front.    

"Wuu …" Woo woo … * "Sob, sob …"    

Before they had even entered the courtyard, they could already hear from afar the intermittent moaning of a woman, sounding incomparably mournful.    

"Weeping, what are you crying for? Tell me, how did you get into the study? How did he end up with the pillar? Are you trying to seduce him? " The one who was lecturing was the pillar's mother. It was the woman they had bought after arriving in the city.    

"Wuwuwu …"    

Coral did not speak, but continued to cry.    

Shen Jingli led Lee Qi through the door. The moment Coral saw him, she immediately pounced on him and hugged his leg, and shouted loudly: "Madam, you must seek justice for the Coral. The Coral was framed by someone …"    

"What is it? You don't mean to say that it was my post that dragged you to the study? Are you dead? Others can drag you along just because they want to? " Pillar's mother was surnamed Li and was known as Li mama. She was older than Nanny Jin by a few years, had a forceful personality and refused to be taken advantage of.    

Coral was speechless. Last night, when she saw Mu Chen return, she didn't go back to her room, and didn't notify the Madam either, instead, she went straight to the study room. She thought he would stay in the study room, so she dressed up and ran over to seduce him.    

She truly felt wronged. She started to wail, crying her heart out.    

"Madam, you must uphold justice for our pillar. Our pillar is an honest man, how could he do such a thing?" "Madame, it must be because this little bitch is too despicable. She can't endure the thirst in the middle of the night and finds comfort in a man's bed. This rich man's singer is the most unrestrained, thinking all day about how to climb into Master's bed …"    

"Madam, you must uphold justice for my pillar." Li mama also howled. Her aura was even stronger than coral.    

This damned old woman actually dared to say such things to her. She really wanted to tear her mouth apart, and she really did throw herself at Senior Servant Li, to start a fight with her.    

Shen Jingli looked at them coldly. He shook his head, the way Madam Liu saw people was really bad, this kind of brainless woman actually dared to send her to tempt Mu Chen, was she not afraid of something bad happening?    

Not feeling sorry for the others, he turned to Pillar and asked, "Did you succeed last night?"    

The young man was only 17 years old. Hearing these words, he shyly lowered his head and replied, "Done."    

"In that case, are you willing to take her as your wife?"    

The pillar opened his eyes wide and looked at Shen Jingli in disbelief. How could he marry such a beautiful girl?    

"No, I don't want to marry him …" No matter how foolish she was, she would not pick a useless servant. She did not want to live a life of suffering and suffering.    

"No, my family's pillar cannot marry a scourge like that." Li mama also did her best to oppose it.    

The two women disliked each other and began to fight again.    

Shen Jingli ignored them, and only looked at the pillar. "You decide for yourself, just that, if you marry her, you cannot stay in this house, but I will compensate you with three hundred silver."    

Pillar was still young and didn't understand anything about emotions. He only thought that Coral was beautiful and her voice was pleasant to hear, which made him very happy. He nodded. "I want to marry her."    

"I don't want it, I won't marry him …" Coral screamed hysterically.    

"He destroyed your body. If you don't marry him, who else can you marry?"    

Shen Jingli no longer cared about the Coral Blossom's shouts, he immediately ordered his men to drag her down.    

Three days later, the pillar took the three hundred silver from Shen Jingli and left the Mu Family with his mother.    

On the day they left, it began to rain as fine as a piece of wool. The rain was very light, and could not get wet even after covering the umbrella. However, the rain did not stop for an entire day.    

It was always raining in the south during summer, so when it started to rain, it would never stop. Shen Jingli sat inside the house, listening to the cheers from the coral reef outside, and could only laugh it off.    

The rain continued for seven days without stopping. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and as soon as the windows were closed, the floor was soaked. It felt like it was going to get wet no matter how you wiped it off with a dry cloth.    

During this time, Liu Jing came over and specifically apologized to the couple for the matter with the coral. He said that he did not discipline them well, gave them trouble, and even gave them a large gift, a jade ruyi of good quality.    

After that, they heard that Coral had been brought back to the Liu residence, and that the pillar had been knocked out a few times. After that, no one paid any more attention to what happened.    

Standing by the window and watching the rain dripping down from the roof of the building onto the large banana leaves, the sound of the rain made Shen Jingli feel very restless. He thought of his field, he still had some crops that he had yet to harvest, he thought of the dam that had problems with, his field was just downstream of the dam, if the dam collapsed, the water would wash over his field, and all the crops in the field would be harmed.    

The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became. Eating was such a troublesome matter, and he had no way to control the weather and make it last forever like spring.    

Even in the 21st century, in the era of advanced technology, there was still a food crisis and a flood of drought. There were still people who starved to death because they could not even eat a single mouthful, let alone the ancient era where knowledge was lacking.    

He sighed as he counted the food and silver he had accumulated in his heart, hoping for some peace.    

Mu Chen returned from the outside with his straw cape and bamboo hat, and Shen Jingli immediately went to welcome him, "How's the situation with the dike?"    

He felt uneasy, as if something was about to happen.    

"Not very optimistic." Mu Chen's face became gloomy, the embankment was a rotten piece of work, it could not stop the impact of the water, if the rain did not stop, the embankment would collapse, and the people living in the depths of the canal would face troubles.    

"Is the problem serious?" He gripped his hand nervously. He could feel the slight coolness of his fingertips.    

"I'll take care of it."    

The more he said that, the more worried he became. He was afraid of what would happen after the heavy rain. What about his fields? Where would the people who lived on the land go? Once the canal was broken, the water would rush into the fields and the people would live in their homes, and the disaster would not be small.    

The people around the canal would lose their homes and be displaced, and the relief of the imperial government was something he could not count on.    

"Fourteen, transfer a few hundred people to me. Find the people on the manor or the people from the King Jing who have nothing to do, make them stay there for me." He was prepared.    

"What do you want?" He could transfer people, but he couldn't just do nothing, right?    

"I don't know." He looked at him and paced around the room.    

"Alright, I'll prepare the person for you."    

"..."    

Everyday, Mu Chen would leave the city to check on the situation of the dike. The dike was even worse than he had imagined, and minute cracks had already started to appear on the dike, and the King Jing was ordering the constables to carry the sandbags over to rectify the situation, but he was afraid that the aura of the flood would be too strong, and the sandbags were not able to defend themselves at all.    

Every day, Shen Jingli would anxiously circle around, telling Mu Chen to quickly send people to give it to him. He had to go and collect all the crops in the fields.    

"Jinglee, the rice is not fully cooked yet, are you not in too much of a hurry?" He knew he was in a hurry, but he couldn't rush to the doctor.    

"Do you know how long that dam will last? Once it breaks the bank, all my crops will be gone? Do you know how many people those crops can keep from starving? " It was because he understood the importance of food that he was worried.    

"Alright, I'll transfer you right away."    

"Tell them to hurry up and take back the crops in the fields. The rice should be dried, not placed on the ground for fear of wetting up …"    

He felt like an old woman, and he actually didn't want to worry about it. He just wanted to be peaceful in front of the lazy, but … He raised his head to look at Mu Chen, then turned back to look at Hou'er who was playing with Lee Qi on top of the Arhat Bed.    

"Fourteen, do you know what will happen once the river wall breaks?"    

Mu Chen frowned, this was what he was worried about.    

"You know, the riverbank is unstable. If the rain does not stop, the riverbank will collapse sooner or later." His face was grave. He had never thought of himself as someone who worried about his country, but he had crossed over after the earthquake. He had an inexplicable fear of the disaster caused by the natural disaster.    

"You should evacuate the people first, especially the people at the riverbank …"    

"However, the commoners might not be willing to leave. After all, before the flood, no one believed that the riverbank would not be able to stop the flood and that no one would be able to leave their homes easily." How could he not be worried? During this period of time, he had been visiting the city every day because he was worried that this rain would cause a disaster.    

"So, what we need to do now is not only to harvest the food, but also to find a way to minimize the losses when the flood strikes." Shen Jingli scratched his head, feeling that he would turn bald sooner or later. He told Mu Chen all of his thoughts, including notifying the people outside the city to take preventive measures, to prepare a large number of sandbags at the city gate to protect it from the flood, and to have the citizens prepare wooden buckets to escape, and even find a few tall villas to serve as refugee camps. He also told the people outside the city to gather medicinal herbs and food after the disaster …    

Mu Chen looked at him, a hint of pleasant surprise appeared in his eyes, and he suddenly hugged him, and said: "I'll go see the Duke, I'll immediately make the arrangements."