This is a big anti-theft chapter, replacing the official update content tomorrow.

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Zhou Shixiang planned to perform military parade at the Yuexiu camp tomorrow, and invited the King of Tang and officials of the court, and the people of Guangzhou to watch the ceremony together. One is to improve morale, and the other is to shock the young people.

Most of the Northern Expedition Army was concentrated in Lianzhou, Yangshan, Qingyuan and other places. Currently, there are only the third town, the fifteenth town, and the cavalry of the Wang Fuchen Xinyi Town. Zhou Shixiang deployed and arranged the arrangements and ordered the third town and the fifteenth town to draw a brigade tomorrow, and together with the brigade of cavalry in the new town and his own Iron Man Guard to form eight square formations for the military exercise. Dong Changqing, the official of the Ministry of War, suggested that 500 students could be transferred from the Military Preparation Training Institute, and 500 young soldiers to participate in the military exercise together, and then the artillery of the third town and the fifteenth town were combined into a phalanx of artillery. This seemed to be crowded and armed, which would make the momentum stronger.

Zhou Shixiang adopted Dong Changqing's suggestion and ordered the generals and the military headquarters to prepare. Dong Changqing also organized people overnight to go to Yuexiu Camp to build a high platform for military parade. Before going to the palace, Duke Xiang of Song said to Zhou Shixiang that the hasty military parade was being performed. Before the training was completed, the team would see if it would be scattered. Don't lose your momentum, but instead make all officials laugh. Should you postpone the Northern Expedition for a few days and wait for the soldiers to train before performing the military parade?

Zhou Shixiang smiled and told Duke Xiang of Song that there was no need to worry too much. Now all towns are tightly involved in military training. The newly recruited soldiers and the Qing army surrendered soldiers were beaten out by big sticks. Even if they did not train, they would follow the training site on weekdays, and they could be called a mighty and majestic army.

Duke Xiang of Song basically didn't ask about the affairs of the army. Seeing Zhou Shixiang's confidence, he felt relieved and entered the palace with Yuan Kuoyu to inform the King of Tang that the Taiping Army was performing martial arts in Yuexiu's camp tomorrow and vowed to the Northern Expedition. He proposed to ask the King of Tang to watch the liturgy and see off the soldiers of the three armies.

During the last national supervision ceremony, Zhou Shixiang invited the King of Tang to parade at the East Gate. At that time, the auxiliary Lian Chengbi and others proposed that this move was inconsistent with the system. Later, there were discussions that the King of Tang values ​​martial arts and neglects of scholars, which made the King of Tang extremely unhappy. In addition, the personal army around him were all from the Taiping Army, and Zhou Shixiang used his personal army to suppress the common people, gentry officials, so he was quite dissatisfied with the Taiping Army. However, after Duke Xiang of Song explained his purpose, the King of Tang agreed to this request without hesitation, and was willing to go to the camp to observe the soldiers and see off the Northern Expedition to the soldiers. The Northern Expedition was related to whether Zhu Ming's country and country could be restored and whether the ancestor's foundation could survive. The King of Tang was dissatisfied with Zhou Shixiang, and at this moment he would never lose his heart. Regardless of whether Zhou Shixiang was the second Sun Kewang, at this time, he was the heaven of the Ming Dynasty and the only person who could believe and place high hopes on the Tang Dynasty.

After Duke Xiang of Song and others retreated, the King of Tang asked the princess to make a robe overnight and wait for the Zhou Shi to wear it with his own hands to enhance his reputation. The princess was also excited and said that the palace maids might as well embroider the robe so that each general would take one tomorrow, so that His Highness the Superintendent's sincere desire for the soldiers. The King of Tang agreed with a smile, but felt that it was inappropriate, so he found the eunuch of the rituals, Pan Yinglong, and asked him what he should prepare.

Pan Yinglong stayed in the inner court of Chongzhen in his early years and knew a lot about etiquette. He might as well give Zhou Shixiang golden armor, shangfang swords, silver armor of the generals of the army, and then soldiers to conquer clothes, and finally wine and food.

Giving gold armor, silver armor would make the King of Tang a bad idea. He had just supervised the country, and all the palaces were covered with grass, so where to find gold armor and silver armor. Pan Yinglong gave the idea, and ordered people to go to Zhou Shixiang’s Guangdong Duke’s Mansion to find dozens of armor. The latter one was painted with gold paint, and the rest were painted with silver paint to show gold and silver armor. In terms of the clothes of the soldiers, they symbolically wanted to get a hundred new military uniforms from Zhou Shixiang. Shang Fang Jian took a sword that Shang Kexi used back then. In the end, the wine and food should be given beef, but Guangdong prohibited the slaughter of plowing ox, so they ordered Guangzhou Prefecture to kill dozens of fat pigs overnight and prepare hundreds of jars of white wine to be used for tomorrow's reward.

The King of Tang kept sending people to ask for this and that. Zhou Shixiang was also funny. He felt like he was making money by himself and was a human being. However, he was not disgusted and ordered people to prepare one by one. In addition, at the suggestion of Hong Yuao, the Grand Secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the King of Tang issued an edict to re-establish the position of Grand Commander-General abolished during the Hongwu period to grant Zhou Shixiang. At the same time, Zhou Shixiang was appointed as the Prince's Young Guardian and granted the seal of the general of the army.

This incident surprised Zhou Shixiang. It should be noted that the Grand Governor during the Hongwu period was Xu Da, who was posthumously appointed as the King of Zhongshan after his death. Later, because the Grand Governor was too powerful, Emperor Taizu changed the Grand Governor to the Governor's Office while abolishing the Prime Minister's System. The descendants of the descendants were not allowed to recover again. Why did the Tang King restore the Grand Governor and grant him the title to himself?

Zhou Shixiang couldn't figure it out.

Gui Yongzhi guessed that the King of Tang wanted Zhou Shixiang to learn from Xu Da and be Xu Da. As for the restoration of the Grand Governor's Office, this was an optional thing. Now the military and political affairs are all from Zhou Shixiang's Military Commander's Office. Whether there is a Grand Governor's Office or not is the same thing. It was just that the other name of the Grand Governor's Office of the Duke of Guangdong was called the Grand Governor's Office. Zhou Shixiang thought about it carefully and thought that Gui Yongzhi was good at guessing that the King of Tang wanted to be Xu Da himself.

That night, except for the uninformed people in Guangzhou, all the yamen in all major and large, and the Yuexiu camp outside the city was also extremely busy.

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The next day, the King of Tang brought the cabinet and six important officials to Yuexiu Camp to watch the ceremony. After the palace attack case, almost no officials in the court who dared to oppose Zhou Shixiang were established. Those who dared to oppose Zhou Shixiang are now locked in prison, waiting for trial and conviction. Looking at the court, there is only one Shifu Lianchengbi, but it is obvious that the arrest of Zhang Xiaoqi and others made Shifu realize that he could not fight head-on with Zhou Shi, so he was very clever and did not object to the King of Tang visiting the ceremony in person, nor did he say anything strange. He also prepared to come to watch the ceremony early.

As before, Cifu's face was not good-looking, followed the Tang King gloomy, and said nothing to him with Duke Xiang of Song and Ding Zhixiang beside him. Guo Zhiqi ignored him, but he could say a few words to Hong Yuao.

On the viewing platform made by Yuexiu Camp overnight, the King of Tang stood in front, and Zhou Shixiang and Guo Zhiqi stood on both sides. The cabinet and members of the six officials, officials from all over the nine ministers, families of the big and small ministers, and the Taiping Army were placed on one side. The camp was open to the people, and the people who came to see the lively were blocked from the safe area, leaving a road about two hundred steps wide for the parade soldiers to enter the venue.

At the time of Si, the King and the assistant minister, who was in the white robe and yellow horse, rode his horse on behalf of the Taiping Army, and clamored to the audience and asked for an order: "Please ask Your Highness, the Superintendent, to parade!"

The King of Tang nodded excitedly, Zhou Shixiang waved his hand, and the sound of war drums suddenly sounded. Accompanied by the sound of desolate horns, waves of neat and dull steps sounded. More than 10,000 soldiers entered the stage in steps, cavalry and cannons in turn, shouting and killing. The vibration sound of the ground when the eight hundred iron guards entered the stage made the King of Tang excited. He only hoped that this powerful army could win the northern expedition, restore the Nandu, restore Xiaoling, and restore the capital...

After the military parade, Hong Shiming, the Minister of Rites, climbed up to the high platform with a familiarity and read out the Northern Expedition manifesto.

"On the ninth day of the seventh month of the thirteenth year of Yongli in the Ming Dynasty, the King of Tang of the State of the State issued an edict to Guangzhou: Now the Manchus are originally Jianzhou. They are raised by my emperor's ancestors and live in the left and right of Liao. After two hundred years of breeding, they are not bad! However, the dogs and sheep of the wild nature have been reborn and turned against each other. They do not want to repay the favor, and they become enemies. The old slaves are in chaos in Liaodong and the people are left behind. Hong Tai spread poison to the capital, and the common people are scattered. When the Fu (Lin) chief, he took advantage of my difficulties.

, dared to promote food. He whistled between mountains and seas, and the capital was occupied by the capital. He flew across the river and the three emperors were covered with dust. When Hu Qi arrived, he immediately slaughtered. The father and son were devastated, and the couple had no completeness. In the past, the places where the flowers of the world were all submerged in ghost territory; the places where the strings and songs were all transformed into ruins, and my clothes and hats were destroyed, and my hair was slaughtered. Therefore, the Yanhuang Miao people all wore the left side of the womb; Yao sealed the land of Yu, and the land was full of fishy smells. If the sage saw it, wouldn't he cry in Jiuyuan?!

Fortunately, the ancestors have a relic of their ancestors, and the Ming Dynasty has an unsuccessful fortune; and moreover, people's hearts are in the Han Dynasty, and China has to extend the principle. Last year, the victory of Chaozhou was awarded the title of the fake king; this spring, a battle in Liuzhou, and a group of thieves were killed. In two years, three provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang, and Guangxi were restored. Within ten months, it was planned to kill 100,000 real and fake captives. Now the captive forces are in decline, and they are trapped in Yan's corner, and the ugly are in panic. This is actually a good opportunity to clear the sea and sweep away the Hu dust.

Now, I ordered the Duke of Guangdong to conquer the general Zhou, and to carry 300,000 troops from the water and land, and to follow the heavens and respond to the people, and swear to the northern expedition. Soon, the three Chus will be restored and directly taken to the southern capital; the feces will be removed from the smell of smell and worship Xiaoling. The emperor comforted the emperor's spirit in the sky; the elders will restoration of the elders. Later, he will lead the troops north to suppress the evil forces; he will attack Huanglong and destroy the Huns. He will welcome the emperor to return to Shenjing, and pacify the people and share peace. Isn't it a pleasure?!

In the north, civil and military generals were originally innocent people in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, they were poor and poor, and they were entrusted with the captains. Charle would rather not be patient? If the conscience is still there, loyalty and filial piety are still there, return to the right and the evil is right, and the right is right. Those who come to the whole province will not be reluctant to divide the land; those who surrender in the state will have to rely on Jixun. Lead troops to surrender to the land and give up the number of people to the few; those who arrive in purity will be promoted to the top; those who arrive in purity will be promoted to the top; those who arrive in purity will be given the best; those who arrive in purity will be given the best; those who arrive in the world will be given the best; those who arrive in the world will be given the best; those who are in the world will be given the best; those who are still in the history of the country will be defeated by the king; once the heavenly soldiers arrive, they will be crushed! They will be killed and destroyed, and they will be detrimented for generations, so don’t say they will not be prepared! The order is issued to the far and wide, and all the people will know it!”

After the Northern Expedition was read, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers on the campus shouted long live. The King of Tang was stunned and wanted to refuse but failed. However, he was very happy and ordered to give wine and food to reward the three armies.

Later, three cannons passed by.

The horn hand raised the long horn high, "Woooo" a sad chirping, and the empty Yuexiu Mountain echoed. Under the dazzling sunshine, two red flags danced in the breeze, with eight big characters embroidered: "The Great Governor of the Emperor Ming Army and Horses" on one side; the other side embroidered the three big characters "Taiping Army".

The King of Tang gave the golden armor to Zhou Shixiang, and the silver armor to Ge Yi, Wang Fuchen, Qi Hao and other generals. Zhou Shixiang and other generals immediately put on armor. After Zhou Shixiang finished putting on armor, the King of Tang personally put on the robe embroidered by the princess for Zhou Shixiang, and the rest of the generals were also brought on by a special person.

"You will definitely be able to defeat the Tartars when you go to the northern expedition, and you will be able to suppress the Tartars and let them down!" The King of Tang was too excited and his speech was a little trembling.

Zhou Shi was wearing armor and was unable to kneel down, so he saluted and said loudly: "Don't worry, your highness, I will never let you down!"

After saying that, Zhou Shixiang walked off the platform, rode on the big green horse, and rode around the horse training ground, which attracted thousands of soldiers and the people around him to cheer.

Looking at the soldiers' tranquil military appearance and high morale, and listening to the deafening cheers, Zhou Shixiang's heart was full of passion and confidence. He raised his hand to greet the soldiers. The cheers immediately stopped, and tens of thousands of people were silent.

Zhou Shixiang didn't say anything, but started singing. He sang the Taiping Army song and the song of killing Hu.

Everyone did not expect that Zhou Shixiang would sing and was stunned for a moment. The King of Tang was also confused. In his mind, there was never any deeds of leading general Yu Dajun singing loudly before.

Guo Zhiqi and the others were also shocked, with strange expressions one by one. Someone thoughtfully explained the strange behavior of the Duke of Guangdong: After all, they were just scholars, with little knowledge and a young man, so they were inevitably rude.

Those who are not considerate regard Zhou Shixiang's behavior as a devil in the king's previous behavior and a decent act. No one knows what others think, but Ji Fu Lianchengbi must have thought so. At this time, Ji Fu's face was very distorted. If it weren't for the fact that there were people around him, he would have been unable to help but come forward and scold him.

Zhou Shixiang's voice was not good, but he sang very loudly.

“......

Holding a steel knife with ninety-nine, killing Hu Er before stopping;

I am a man, why do you make a horse and a cow if you are a Tartar?

The hero drinks all the wine in the bowl, and never looks back when the journey is thousands of miles away;

The golden drums roared together, and they would never stop until they broke the Yellow Dragon!”

Zhou Shixiang remembers this song of the Red Turban Army from that year and the Taiping Army song now. He sang it word by word, ignoring the strange gazes of the crowd around him. He only cared about the gazes of tens of thousands of soldiers in front of him.

The Grand Marshal sang, the Grand Marshal sang military songs!

The officers and soldiers on the parade were in full swing, and they sang loudly together.

"Clouds follow the dragon, wind follows the tiger, fame, wealth, and earth; look at the state of China, the suffering of the people, and the fertile land of thousands of miles is desolate; look at the world, all the barbarians, and the incomplete laws of heaven are repaired..."

The golden drums roared together, and the yellow dragon was swearing to the end!

The heroic military songs rise with the wind, float with the wind, and disperse with the wind.

No matter how absurd what Zhou Shixiang did, tens of thousands of men sang in unison, gave people the strongest impact. The officials and the people were also excited, and they could sing and yelled, and they could not sing and burst into tears.

Three hundred years ago, countless Han men sang this military song and advanced into Beijing, destroying the Yuan Dynasty!

Three hundred years later, this military song will witness the defeat of the Qing Dynasty and the unyielding Han family!

The King of Tang was also excited, ignored Junyi and shouted: "Go to drink!"

"Thank you for your wine!"

Zhou Shi took the wine bowl presented by the palace maid and drank it all, threw it to the ground, facing the north, shouted loudly: "The Taiping soldiers followed me to go to war, kill all the Tartars and then return to triumphant!"

On the ninth day of the seventh month of the thirteenth year of Yongli, the Duke of Yue Guo and the Grand Commander Zhou Shixiang led the army to the northern expedition, and the vanguard rushed straight to Shaozhou.

Since the fall of Guangzhou, officials from all over the country have been worried every day and are restless, fearing that a large and peaceful gang of Taiping bandits will come from the city gate after a night, and they will make their own heads move, which will also turn the wealth that they have spent all their efforts to accumulate into the thief's bag.

Fortunately, there were heroes in the country. After the powerful general Wu Liuqi, another hero appeared in Guangdong, but it was the Qianzong of Deqing Tang Sanshui. This person was very good. He killed the early thief leader Hu Quan of the Taiping gang with just 800 soldiers, and defeated the bandits. The bandit scholar was really scared by Tang Sanshui and could not stand in Luo Ding, so he had to lead the remaining thieves to abandon Luo Ding City and flee in a panic. It was a pity that God was not open to his eyes and actually asked the bandit scholar to escape from death. He captured Xinhui City like a blind cat hitting a rat, and since then he became a major concern for the Qing Dynasty.

King Pingnan died, King Jingnan surrendered to the thief, General Hahamu, Governor Li Rutai and others died one after another. For a moment, all the civil and military officials in Guangdong were frightened. Those who surrendered to the thief, those who abandoned the thief, and those who died waited for death, no one dared to have the courage to fight with the thief. In the end, the imperial army that had been waiting for thousands of hardships was defeated by the thief, and Prince Jian Jidu became the second prince of the Qing Dynasty to die after Nikan.

The arrogance of the thief and the losses of the Qing Dynasty have never been seen since the founding of the country! Just when everyone said that Shaozhou and Nanxiong would be out of protection, and officials of the two prefectures were busy packing up their fine lines and preparing to escape, good news came!

The person who reported the victory was Tang Sanshui, who was promoted to deputy general of Zhaoqing. He personally killed the bandits and persuaded the surrender in the camp and made a bold statement that "I was born as a Qing Dynasty person, but died as a ghost of the Qing Dynasty." Then he carried the coffin and personally supervised the soldiers in charge of the troops. From early morning to dusk, he was still standing in front of the formation without retreating, shouting "killing the bandits". His subordinates felt that the general was brave and everyone fought to death. He actually defeated the bandits with few victory and severe damage. He won Renhua and Yingde, and killed thousands of heads at the thief, and saved Shaozhou, a north-shangzhen town in Guangdong, in one fell swoop, which made the Taiping bandits no longer look north again.

It is reported that a saying among the bandits was left, "It is easy to attack Manzhou, but it is difficult to attack that bastard Tang Sanshui!" Some people even said that when the leader of the Taiping gangster, Xiucai, cried and cried when he heard the news of the defeat in front of him, he said to the thieves around him: "If there were one or two Tang Sanshui in the Qing court, wouldn't we die without a place to die!"

No one knows whether the rumors are true or false. After all, no one can confirm them personally to the thief scholar. However, one thing is clear, that is, the appearance of Tang Sanshui was like the Dinghai Dinghai needle in the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea, severely suppressing the arrogance of the Taiping Kou. Not only did it save the Qing Dynasty from entering Guangdong and the town of Shaozhou, but it also successfully locked the Taiping Kou in Guangdong, so that it would not have the opportunity to wander north to decay Jiangxi and even southern Zhili. This was a great contribution from the Qing Dynasty!

After hearing about the heroic deeds of Tang Sanshui, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty personally wrote the name of Tang Sanshui after Pingfeng, and was generously awarded the title of Guangdong Admiral. Later, he was given the title of Prince Shao Tutor and wrote the four words "Da Qing Tongliang" to Tang Sanshui.

It is even more popular among officials from the capital. The court intends to regard Tang Sanshui as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. If this matter is true, then Tang Sanshui will be the first Han person to be promoted to governor since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and it is even more enviable than the governors who came out of the Han army flag.

For the officials of Shaozhou and Nanxiong, the existence of Tang Sanshui is the guarantee of their lives. For example, the Bodhisattva who is still effective in the Buddha, is the great savior around them. If it were not for Tang Sanshui, Shaozhou and Nanxiong would have been defeated by the Taiping gangs long ago. How could they have their official positions and status today? How could they be able to maintain their own family and furniture?

The officials of both prefectures were scholars who studied hard on the books of sages. They were grateful to the young master Tang. Weng Tiren, the magistrate of Qujiang County, even established a ancestral temple for the young master Tang at the county middle school temple. They also set up a family temple at home, and prayed that the young master would live a hundred years of life and live in Guangdong forever. In this way, the magistrate Weng would be rich and prosperous in this life and no longer have the danger of losing his life.

However, starting from June this year, the Taiping gangs, who had been quiet for more than a year, began to take action against Shaozhou again. They plundered the countryside, surrounded the county town, and shouted that "the city would be massacred if they didn't open the city." As a result, Tang Sanshui led his troops to attack again, fought three times in succession, and defeated the Taiping gangs who came to attack. They even built hundreds of bandit heads to form a Jingguan at the junction of Shaozhou and Lianzhou to show their shock.

This move really worked. For more than half a month, no trace of bandits was found in the counties under Shaozhou. The Taiping gang on the opposite side became honest again as before. This made everyone think that the Taiping gang had gone to Guangxi and Huguang, and his arrogance was once again arrogant, and his military advance became more and more powerful. This time, the officials of the two prefectures who turned to Guangdong would definitely go north to the north. The thought of the rumors that the bandit army had feared Admiral Tang in the past were full of confidence, and they believed that as long as the Shaofu was in one day, the bandits would not dare to peek into Shaozhou.

A few days ago, news came from the capital that the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was preparing to personally enlist in the Guangdong bandits. The proclamation for the attack on the Guangdong bandits had arrived in Shaozhou, which made people excited and excited to read it.

"Since ancient times, only virtues lived in the world. Shang Tang was a man from Dongyi and inherited the Xia Dynasty. Although King Wen was a Western Rong, his destiny replaced Yin. My Qing Dynasty started in Shuobei and rose in Liao Zuo. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was confused and had lost its virtue. My Taizu rebelled in Fengtian and suddenly had all Liao. Taizong successively fought with the enemy and took over Mobei. When the enemy was trapped in Beijing, Chongzhen died, the Qing Dynasty promoted the righteous army and entered the pass to revenge. Therefore, the enemy was appointed as the leader, and the Chou died. The great achievements were brilliant. Isn't the destiny belonging to the Great Qing Dynasty? However, the Guangdong thief Zhou Shixiang was originally a scholar who was not a scholar, but did not think of the great Qing Dynasty, but gathered rogues and beg for chaos and riots. He entrusted the former Mingzong king to live in a fake title, gathered thieves, and killed all directions..."

However, just two days after the proclamation for the Guangdong bandits, Shaozhou Prefecture once again found that the Taiping gangs in Lianzhou were gathering on the border, and the momentum was even stronger than before. The Seizuo sent there sent a message saying that the thief scholar was going to personally lead the Taiping gang to the northern expedition. This news surprised Shaozhou and Nanxiong prefecture officials. Before the emperor arrived, the Taiping gangs took the lead in the northern expedition. If they really wanted to gather a large army to fight, Shaozhou was the first to be the first to be killed. Although the young master was brave and powerful, he was a living Zhang Fei, but after all, the troops were less than ten thousand, and the enemy was large and we were few. If we couldn't defend it, wouldn't everyone have their own lives?

While they were worried, officials from all over the world received an invitation from the Admiral Tang Sanshui, asking them to gather in Shaozhou Prefecture to celebrate their 40th birthday.

The army of Taiping Countries gathered and was about to attack. How could the Admiral still have the heart to celebrate his birthday?

Officials of all sizes were confused, and then a smart person analyzed that this was the Admiral who was confident and did not fear the bandits at all. He knew that we were worried and worried, so he used this name to make everyone feel at ease. After this analysis, the officials immediately understood that the Admiral was just trying to make everyone feel at ease. So, they prepared heavy gifts one by one and rushed to Shaozhou with big and small carriages. The Admiral was doing his birthday, but there was no reason to go empty-handed.

In September, Jiangnan is as changeable as the yellow plum sky.

In the dark night sky, a flash of lightning streaked across the sky, and heavy rain poured down.

The heavy rain covered everything, and the thunder that exploded was the sound of the rain.

The sky, the earth, surrounded by night, lightning, and the fields are vast and cannot see your fingers. The heavy rain caused the temperature in the mountains to drop rapidly, making people feel extremely chill.

There are not many houses on the mountain, and a few lonely houses are blowing under the storm. Looking weak, it seems that they will be blown down by the strong wind at any time.

There was a family of four living in a room. The sister hugged her younger brother who was scared by the thunder and hugged in the quilt. The mother didn't bother to comfort her children. Instead, she was anxious to pick up the water leaking from the roof with the bucket. Otherwise, it would not take long before the room would be turbulent.

The man was not idle, so after putting a bamboo ladder on the beam of the house, he climbed up carefully, holding a bundle of dry straws used by the house to make fire. The wind and rain outside were too heavy, and the man could not go out, so he had to repair it inside the house and just one night.

After a while of busy work, the three thrusts on the roof were finally blocked with straw. The man breathed a sigh of relief and climbed down the ladder. While wiping her husband's wet body with a towel, the woman complained why he didn't ask someone to make up for the house.

The man smiled, and his wife's complaints were not heard. After drying his face, he walked to the bed and looked carefully. Seeing that it was not hit by the rain, he couldn't help but feel relieved and pinched his son's little face, telling him not to be afraid, it was just thunder outside, not Ma Lao who came to eat children. (Author's note: Ma Lao, a kind of ghost who ate children in the water)

"It's raining a lot, and it seems that it's going to fall until tomorrow. When the sky clears, I'll go down the mountain to the town and ask someone to do it." The man walked to his wife and said softly.
To be continued...