My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 113 The Flood

   "It's better if it rains here. I'm afraid there will be problems in the upper reaches of the Jinshui River. Otherwise, the water will rise and it won't be able to stop it."

  Liang Hongyu also leaned against the door and sighed.

It's not just them who have this concern. This day, Wang Laishun, the party secretary, can't sit still. The water level of the reservoir is rising too fast, and it almost reached the warning line overnight. He also panicked, shouted several times with a loudspeaker, and asked people to pack up and run to the county seat.

   Now there is no other way to do it.

  The embankment of the county town is built high, and the old city walls are surrounded. The terrain is much higher than their small basin in the mountains.

Their village is not only low, but also close to the reservoir. The rain is getting heavier and heavier. If the embankment is broken, there is nowhere to run. You can only soak in the water and wait to die. At that time, this place will become the most dangerous place. .

   "Uncle Fugui, hurry up and pack up and leave, the village chief said, it will be too late if you don't leave."

   As soon as Chen Ling took the cow out of the backyard, Chen Yuqiang, wearing a raincoat, kicked mud and water and ran to call him.

   "Understood, have you packed your things?"

   "Oh, it's too late, so I took the money and passbook with me, as well as a few pieces of clothes, but I don't dare to pack any more."

   Chen Yuqiang said, and Wen Li and Wen Li hugged Xiaosen and walked to the alley: "I'm going to see Anda and my mother, uncles, hurry up."

   "Fine, we'll be leaving soon."

At this time, Wang Susu also packed up at home, packed up, and carried a basket with Qin Rongxian and Liang Hongyu. Everyone was full of things, and asked Chen Ling to wrap the money and passbook with oil paper, and simply put on rain boots. and a raincoat, led a cow and a dog, and drove out of the village.

   In this case, you can't use an ox cart. If you are not greedy and use an ox cart to pull things, sometimes you will lose more and be more dangerous when you encounter deep water or muddy roads.

   "If I had known it earlier, I would have listened to the rich and noble. The rain had lightened for a while a few days ago, so we should leave. At that time, you two don't have to rush back to the county seat. Now you have to trouble the young couple to follow along."

  Liang Hongyu was very annoyed and remorseful.

The heavy rain had stopped for a long time on the eighth day of June. Chen Ling said that they would take Wang Susu to take them back to the county seat. They were afraid that it would be too much trouble for Chen Ling, so they didn’t have the nerve to agree. Who knew that the rain started to fall again that night, and it has not stopped until now.

   "It's okay Auntie, it's not too late to leave now, as long as we're all right, nothing else is a problem."

  Chen Ling shook his head with a smile, he was fearless, he had already made preparations, and he also received everything that could be collected in Dongtianli.

The remaining chickens, ducks, rabbits, and quails were also picked up by Wang Susu and placed in a basket, and hung on the sides of Xiaobai Niu's body. At this time, the chickens and ducks were also very honest. It didn't move much, but it saved a lot of trouble.

   As for other things at home, if you can't bring them, you can't bring them, it doesn't matter.

When a few people walked to the entrance of the village, the sky was getting dark. It was after 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Looking up at the dam, there were many people in the rain. People begging God and worshiping Buddha, scolding mothers, little babies crying, all kinds of people. The voices were mixed, and the mother-in-law refused to leave, reluctant to let go of the things at home, crying and grabbing the ground.

"“ 哩 ... 俺 “啊 哈 ... I ca n’t pass this day ...”

   "My house...my family's food...is gone..."

  The wheat was sun-dried in the threshing farm and it didn't take long for it to go home. It would be flooded before the money was sold. Thinking about this loss, anyone would be distressed to death.

   "Oops, hurry up, don't cry, you'll die if you don't."

   "Didn't you hear it, the water in Dayan Pond started to flow out. You can see that this reservoir is very dangerous. If the embankment is broken, there is nowhere to run."

   A man shouted at the top of his voice, then dragged his mother-in-law and carried the baby on his back, burying his head in the muddy water that was almost knee-high.

Every time it rains heavily, every household in the village will dig trenches outside the front yard for fear of being flooded, and drain the water into the Dayan pond. The Dayan pond is next to the primary school and has a length and width of nearly 100 meters. Water storage is not a problem, who knows. It's been filled with rain now, and it's pouring out.

   "Susu, move the basket forward and let Uncle Qin and Aunt Hongyu ride on the cow. The road on the dam is slippery."

Chen Ling glanced at the reservoir. The clear water in the past was already turbid and turbulent, and it was almost a foot above the warning line. This was the Jinshui River's continuous injection of water, and the water level was rising so fast that it made people jump. of.

The farmland on the north side of the dam is also a vast expanse of ocean, with rushing water everywhere, half of the trees are submerged, and no corn seedlings can be found. Looking at the past, the old river bay at the foot of the mountain has also spread out, and it is a problem sooner or later that the foundation of the greenhouse left by Chen Erzhu will be washed away.

   "Little Bai, be obedient, let your uncle and aunt go up."

  Wang Susu comforted the little white ox in a soft voice. Her own ox had a weird temper. No one would touch it except Chen Ling and her, let alone ride it. It was a dream of spring and autumn.

It's just that the situation is too urgent now. The water level in the reservoir is about to rise. If you don't go, you can't go. Seeing that Wang Susu couldn't persuade him, Chen Ling had to lean over to comfort him for a while, guaranteeing that it was only this time. Only reluctantly let Qin Rongxian go up.

  Chen Ling fastened the basket to the cow, put Wang Susu on his back, and strode forward in the muddy water.

   Now, the speed on the road is much faster.

  The mountain road is difficult to travel, and the rainstorm is like note.

  Wang Laishun was worried that it would be too dangerous to walk along the mountain, so he tapped the washbasin and kept shouting, and gave instructions in front of everyone to stop the mountain road.

   "Everyone, don't go to the south mountain road. Let's take a detour from the east side road and go directly to the old city wall in the county."

   "Far away, stay away, be safe."

   It's all like this now, and the villagers don't have any opinions.

   It’s just that this road is not only far away, but also narrow and muddy due to the dirt road, and there are small puddles everywhere.

This road is full of potholes and bumps. In the 1980s, many people robbed the road. Especially when the corn grew tall, it was covered by a blue gauze tent. No one knew where the bandits were hiding, and they had to be worried. , so that fewer and fewer people dare to take this road.

By the end of the 1980s, after Chen Erzhu, his father, and the people who contracted the reservoir in the county repaired and widened the mountain road twice, no one walked from this side. The road was difficult and unsafe. How could there be a mountain road? Come with peace of mind.

After nearly two hours of difficult trek, the usual half-hour journey was completed. The villagers finally arrived at the old city wall of the county town. They said it was the old city wall. In fact, the city wall is also very spacious. When it was opened to traffic, the men, women and children of the whole village stepped on the solid ground, and they felt a lot more at ease, and the crowd followed.

However, it didn't take long for the county to see signal flares being launched one after another into the sky, flickering in the sky on the rainy night. Many villagers didn't have this knowledge and didn't know what it meant. They all seemed very flustered. Asking questions, it was not until Wang Laishun shouted twice that everyone knew that this was the county's warning, worried about the danger of flooding, and urgently notified the villagers in major villages and towns to evacuate.

   "Bah, we still have to wait for them to inform us. We don't even know how we died when we wait for them to inform us."

   "That's right, we don't understand the semaphore that sends out this **** day. We can't expect anything like a bunch of pigs."

   Some villagers were swearing, covered in mud and water, obviously they could get here, and they didn't know how many falls, and they were suffocating in their hearts.

   "Fugui, call on Jusheng, we will go to Lijuan's house tonight."

   At this moment, Wang Lixian squeezed in from the crowd and came to call Chen Ling.

   Wang Lixian's sister, Wang Lijuan, lives in the east of the city and lives on the edge of the northeast corner of the county town. If the water rises, it will not be affected. It is safe to go there.

  Wang Lixian came over with his front foot, and Wang Jusheng hurried over with his hind foot, saying that he would take the two to his aunt's house.

   "If you want me to see, just go to our house, our house is close and there are many rooms."

  Liang Hongyu saw these two people calling Chen Ling and had a good impression of them, so she said with a smile.

Only now Wang Lixian and two people knew that Chen Ling also had relatives in the county seat, so they hurriedly waved their hands. They still regarded the old couple as Wang Susu's family relatives, so how could they be embarrassed to go: "Fugui, if you have a place to go, then my two Just go first."

   "Don't go yet, you are unwilling to go, let Liu Nier, Dandan and the big boys go, the rain is so heavy, don't let the family suffer too."

  Chen Ling saw that Liang Hongyu had let her go home, and couldn't care less.

   But the two still refused, turned around and waved their hands and hurried away.

   "It's two men with temperaments."

  Liang Hongyu nodded approvingly, Chen Ling had two real friends, she was rather happy.

  Chen Ling smiled helplessly. After all, he didn't go to his own house, and he couldn't persuade him. Now he can't go to the small courtyard in the south, so he can't explain it to Wang Susu, so he has to go home with the old couple.

   However, they didn't go very far, Heiwa and Xiaojin raised their ears, trotted to the edge of the city wall, and barked wildly in the direction of the village. After a while, the local dogs and animals that came out of the village also barked uncomfortably.

  Chen Ling knew that something must have happened, so he found a big rock on the side of the road and stood on it, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance.

His eyesight is much better than that of ordinary people, and now he can see clearly from a distance at night. In addition, it is on the city wall and has a wide field of vision. They did not enter the city from the mountain road, and there are no particularly high mountain beams to block their sight. At a glance, I basically see seven, seven, eight, eight...

Chen Ling saw that the water in the reservoir was still overflowing through the heavy rain curtain, but the dam was still strong, and it did not break on the spot, but the flood was still turbulent after it passed over the dam. The waves three or four meters high looked like Thousands of horses galloped toward the village and farmland.

But fortunately, there is only a large amount of water now. Since the reservoir did not break the embankment, the impact momentum was not as violent as it seemed. After watching for a while, Chen Ling found that the flood water was very gentle when it reached the position less than half of the house, and the water level of the reservoir also The rise is not as fast as before, which means that the upper reaches of the Jinshui River are mostly overflowing, which diverts some of the pressure.

   Under such circumstances, there is a high probability that the dam of the reservoir will not collapse, that is, the disaster situation of the upstream **** will definitely expand.

   "How are you rich? Can you see what's going on?"

  Qin Rong came over and asked a question first, and other villagers also looked for a place to look in the direction of the village, but they couldn't see anything clearly, so they all looked over at this time.

Chen Ling shook his head: "I can't see it, but my dog ​​is very smart, and usually doesn't bark. Now we can't hear a particularly big movement, and it is estimated that the embankment will not burst. It should be that the water has overflowed the dam. Nothing, they won't bark."

After hearing this, the villagers raised their throats. Of course, they knew that Chen Ling's dogs were very intelligent. It was only after they barked a few times that the dogs and animals in the village started to get restless, but now they can't hear the rumors from the village. If there was a particularly loud noise, it really shouldn't be the embankment breaking.

But even if the embankment doesn't break, the loss is big enough when the flood rises up and drowns the village. Thinking of this, one by one stomped their feet in a hurry, twitched in distress, and the women began to cry again. What's the use, nothing can be done.

   I only disturbed many residents who lived not far from the city wall and came out with flashlights to see. They were also shocked when they saw the dark crowd, and only after asking clearly did they realize that they were here to avoid disasters.

   "Yes, I heard that the Nansha River is rising, and the Jinshui River will definitely not be able to withstand it."

   "Do you all have a place to go? If not, come to my house for a drink of hot water first."

   Those with good intentions took the villagers to their homes, but now the situation is messy, and no one cares, just let the little dolls follow and drink a bowl of hot water to warm up.

   "If you have relatives in the city, go to your relatives. It's dark and the road is slippery, so be careful and don't be reluctant to turn on the flashlight. Those who don't have relatives in the city are behind me, and I'll find someone to arrange a place for us to live."

  Wang Laishun shouted again. The old man shouted at his throat all afternoon, and his voice became hoarse. Now Wang Jusheng is still by his side to help him shout.

So a group of people walked along the city wall mightily and into the city. Fortunately, halfway through, they met Zhao Dahai and the people from the power supply bureau drove the old liberation and pulled a few cars full of people, and drove into the city from the mountain road. , they recently erected high-voltage power lines in Jinmen Village and Taoshugou. The men, women and children in the car were all villagers from these two villages.

   These two villages are small, and they are not as crowded as Chenwangzhuang when they add up, and a few cars can be packed full of people.

   When they saw Wang Laishun, they came down to say hello, saying that they were driving fast, and they would drive to the government soon, and they would notify someone to arrange them at that time. Then Zhao Dahai squeezed through the crowd and looked around. After finding Chen Ling and Wang Jusheng, he trotted over and pulled them into the car, but both of them had a place to go, so they didn't follow him, just said to wait until everything calmed down to get together again.

   After a lot of noise, the villagers finally settled down.

Chen Ling and his wife followed Liang Hongyu and Qin Rongxian back home. This is also a small courtyard, similar to the one in the south of the city rented by Chen Ling. There are quite a few. At this time, Chen Ling didn't have the time to look around. After finishing packing and putting things away, the two simply washed their bodies with hot water in the upstairs room arranged by Liang Hongyu, and then went to bed.

   After dawn the next day, the rain finally eased and became a drizzle. The old couple breathed a sigh of relief and got up to clean up the leftovers in the yard, while Chen Ling got into the kitchen and helped tinker with breakfast.

   "A Ling, the village is flooded, what should I do with the fry at home?"

  Wang Susu also went downstairs after washing up and came to him very worried.

   She still misses the red eel seedlings at home. The two big fish sell for more than 10,000 yuan. Even if the small fish grow up, even if the price is not so expensive, it must be higher than the average fish.

   "Don't worry, the fry will be fine. I pressed the lid of the water tank tightly without leaving any cracks. Even if our house is flooded, they won't be able to escape."

Chen Ling comforted him. In fact, these things had already been sent to him in Dongtianli, and there were a bunch of things left in the woods. They were scattered in the city twice before and after the Dragon Boat Festival. , but now this situation is not bad, at least there is no need to struggle.

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