bookrandom Chapter 29 Yuan Dutou is very upset
Chapter 29 Yuan Dutou is very upset
I was sleeping soundly in the middle of the night when I was suddenly drenched by the rain and struck by lightning.
Although it was nothing serious, Yuan Dutou was still very upset.
He shouted at that side, and then asked his men to start counting the number of people.
The exile journey was long, and it wasn't that they didn't bring umbrellas, but in such heavy rain, umbrellas wouldn't have made much of a difference.
They needed to take a headcount, so they overcame the difficulty of lighting torches. The rain was so heavy that even with umbrellas to protect them, the torches flickered on and off.
It was not known how long it took, but the officers finally began to count the number of people one by one.
Shen Yitian squeezed to the end of the line in the dark before the inventory was completed. She had a flashlight in her space, but it would be too conspicuous to use it now, so she could only walk in the dark.
She stumbled several times and almost fell over the short distance.
When Xiao Yu and another officer were counting the number of people and came to her, they looked at her suspiciously, wondering where she suddenly took out an umbrella from, but they didn't ask any more questions.
However, Shen Yitian's mouth twitched slightly when she saw Xiao Yu and the officer's angry heads.
Then she saw the people from the Song family's main house gathered together, with the two sisters-in-law, Aunt Song and Aunt Song, supporting the old lady. But the firelight was obscured by the heavy rain, and she could only see that the old lady's head seemed to be drooping, but she couldn't tell whether she was awake or unconscious.
However, she couldn't help laughing when she saw the hair of the Song family's eldest branch blown up by lightning.
It seems that she was not mistaken in what she heard before. Some people were indeed struck by lightning, and quite a few of them.
Covered with a raincoat and holding an umbrella, Shen Yitian instantly felt much better. Compared to the eldest member of the Song family who was struck by lightning, she had protected herself much better.
Yuan Dutou walked out from under the tree holding an umbrella, stretched out his hand to feel the rain and frowned.
It was raining heavily. They were now halfway up the mountain, with a relatively open hillside next to them.
If a mountain with few trees is suddenly hit by heavy rain, it is very easy for mudslides to occur.
Even if there were no mudslides, the rainwater from the mountain would flow down the hillside and they would not be able to continue resting here.
But traveling in the middle of the night was very dangerous, and for a moment he was a little embarrassed and didn't know what to do.
Shen Yitian was very anxious looking at the rain. She was afraid that even though she had escaped the thunder, she would not be able to avoid the landslide.
The landslide was a bit serious, but the rain was heavy. Based on her previous experience of surfing, didn't floods, landslides and mudslides occur in this kind of weather?
Just as she was hesitating, Yuan Dutou suddenly called her.
"Hey, Miss Shen, come here for a moment."
Shen Yitian was startled when her name was suddenly called, but she quickly responded.
"Were you the one who told me it was going to rain?" Yuan Dutou asked.
He remembered that he seemed to hear someone asking in a daze before going to bed. Now that he recalled carefully, the voice was very similar to Shen Yitian.
Shen Yitian pursed her lips and thought, what's the point of asking now?
I complained in my heart, but I still replied: "Yes, I asked because I saw the moon was covered by dark clouds."
When Yuan Dutou heard this, he felt so regretful that his intestines almost turned green.
If they hadn't been so tired that they just wanted to rest and hadn't taken this statement seriously, they wouldn't be trapped in the mountains by the heavy rain.
This was not the first time he had escorted exiled prisoners, and he had encountered heavy rain on the road before, but he had always been accompanied by his predecessors and had never been in such a mess.
Now that he had encountered such a thing for the first time, it was obvious that he lacked experience.
Just like now, it was raining heavily and he didn't know whether he should stay here or continue on his journey in the dark.
So, without knowing why, he subconsciously asked, "So, do you think we should stay here or hurry on?"
Shen Yitian was stunned when she heard this, her eyes full of confusion.
Why would Yuan Dutou ask her this question out of the blue? Does she look like someone who knows a lot about this kind of thing?
Just as her mind was wandering, the system that had been silent for several days suddenly jumped out.
[Alarm, this place is dangerous, please evacuate as soon as possible.]
"What danger?" Shen Yitian hurriedly asked in her mind.
But that system was obviously not one for chatting. It only continued to broadcast the danger twice and then stopped talking.
Shen Yitian bit her lip. She remembered that in the past, when this system issued a task, it would only say it once, and it was very frugal with words.
Now it has reported danger three times in a row, probably because this danger will endanger her life.
So he made up his mind and took over Yuan Dutou's words and said, "It's very dangerous here. We have to leave."
"But it's dark and the road is slippery..." Yuan Dutou looked at the elderly, weak, women and children, feeling very uneasy.
"If we stay here and something really happens, I'm afraid no one will be able to escape." Shen Yitian said in a serious tone.
Yuan Dutou was originally hesitant, but after hearing what Shen Yitian said, he immediately made up his mind and started making arrangements for the officials.
"Come, take out all the torches and light them. One person will hold an umbrella, the other a torch. Divide the exiles into groups of two, and we will continue on our journey."
When the exiles heard his arrangements, they immediately began to complain.
"How can we travel in such heavy rain?"
"Yeah, I can't even see the road clearly. What if I roll down the mountain?"
The people in the main branch of the Song family were complaining even more. Song's mother and several other sisters-in-law had already discovered that something was wrong with the old lady, and they could only support the old lady while she stood there.
If we were to hurry on our journey now, wouldn't someone have to carry this old woman on their backs?
Even though the old lady was useless, she was quite heavy. Even carrying her on his back on a normal journey was difficult, let alone in this situation.
"Why don't you wait until daybreak before leaving? It's raining all the time, and there's no place to take shelter if you keep going."
The prisoners complained repeatedly, but Yuan Dutou did not change his mind.
"Stop arguing and find some shelter first. Rocks could easily fall here, so we need to leave. Otherwise, it will be too late to leave if we encounter one."
He just looked at Shen Yitian and said, "You have an umbrella too?"
Shen Yitian pursed her lips and said nothing.
She has more than just an umbrella. She has many umbrellas in her space. However, those umbrellas are all foldable umbrellas and cannot be taken out and used.
Fortunately, Yuan Dutou didn't think of asking more questions. He also guessed that the umbrella was probably sent by the person who had previously sent her donkey meat.
"We don't have many umbrellas. Come with me. I'll use the torch to explore the way and you can hold the umbrella for me."
His tone left no room for doubt, and Shen Yitian could only purse her lips and agree.
But just as she walked over, the torch in Yuan Dutou's hand was extinguished by a burst of rain.
"Damn rain." Yuan Dutou cursed, but he could only take out the tinder and light the torch again.
But after going back and forth several times, they couldn't get far before the torch was extinguished again.
[Alarm, this place is dangerous, please evacuate as soon as possible.] The system's voice sounded again in my mind.
This time, the reminder seemed much more urgent than the previous three times.
The system's speaking speed did not change, but Shen Yitian felt that they had to leave here as soon as possible!