Originally, in the summer months of July and August, when there was a lot of rain, the river sometimes flooded, but it never reached the production embankment.

The old ladies of the village, taking advantage of the night, go to the river beach to burn incense and pray, praying for the river god to bless the people.

In less than two days, the river had reached the production embankment. The flood peak is fierce, the water is turbulent, and it makes a "wow" sound. The commune took action and organized the labor of the villages to help the villages in the river beach to strengthen the production embankment.

The school was supposed to open, but it also stopped due to the flood fighting. Principal Sun came and went home again.

Someone from the county armed forces department came, asked the old chief to go to the county seat to recuperate, and brought Youyou's father back. The old chief was resolute and said that he would not leave: "At the moment of crisis, I must not be a deserter." ”

The comrades of the armed forces department had no choice but to prepare two embankment houses for him on the embankment. And organized a group of militia to help Hantun strengthen the production embankment.

In front of Hong Feng, the people of Hantun Village panicked, and before everyone recovered from the joy of the harvest, they were overwhelmed by the surging flood, and everyone was in a mess, not knowing what to do.

At night, grandma hugged Yoyo and said worriedly: "Yoyo, grandma hopes that you are wrong this time, and it has come true without thinking about it." You are still young and don't know the truth of the ruthlessness of fire and water. If it weren't for the Yellow River, Grandma wouldn't have become an orphan, let alone get lost with your uncle and grandfather.

Child, grandma is really scared. We have only been stable for a few years, and just after a good year, we caught up with the Yellow River to flood again. It's all fate, they all say that people don't earn with fate, but I'm really unwilling. ”

Youyou grinned: "Grandma, what are you guessing and thinking, can you compare with the past now, you have forgotten, there are three sets of yards in our city, even if you add your uncle's house, you can't live in the house." What's more, what we have is money, didn't you say that we won't be able to use up this money in a few lifetimes? ”

Grandma slowly eased up, and when she heard Yoyo say this, she also relaxed.

"Why did I forget this, Yoyo, grandma still thinks that Hantun is home. The three courtyards in the city, grandma didn't regard them as her home at all. In my grandmother's heart, it was a place to rest. Kid, we've got to pick up the buried stuff, so let's put it in your space. ”

Yoyo knows grandma's thoughts, and what she is afraid of is that if the space disappears, all this will be empty.

"Grandma, this flood is coming quickly, and it is retreating urgently, the water is receding, we are still living here, things are still buried, and the water can't be washed away. ”

"No, we still have to dig it out, you haven't experienced it and don't know the severity of the flood, we live outside the village, if the water head is aligned, let alone the house, even the foundation of this house has to be flattened." ”

After grandma finished speaking, she didn't know what she remembered, and she trembled with fear.

Yoyo had no choice but to dig out the buried jar and put it into the space.

When I woke up in the morning, the flood water rose again. Uncle and grandfather were in a hurry, so he privately arranged for his aunt to go to Zhoulou and let her find a yard in her mother's house. This big family, if the embankment bursts, there will be a place to go then.

My uncle and grandfather then came to my grandmother and told her what he thought. "Sister, don't worry, my brother knows it in his heart, and it's all arranged. You hurry up and pack up, and it's time to move. ”

Grandma was worried: "Brother, let's say, what to do with these livestock to feed, who can put these livestock." "It's true, the pigs, sheep and chickens of the three families together have a big yard.

Uncle and grandfather were also worried: "It's okay for our family to say, Hongying's maiden home is in Zhoulou, and if it is close, it will be even more difficult for other people's families." If it doesn't work, let everyone sell the pigs, and now they are more than 100 catties, which is not much different from the national standard. I went to the leaders and let them take it, and let the patriotic people pull it to the food station with a tractor and sell it. ”

After my uncle and grandfather finished speaking, they left, and there were many cadres of the commune here, so I went to them to find a way. It's a pity that there are too many pigs raised in Hantun Village. Coupled with Shimiao Village, the two villages together have to have tens of thousands of pigs, all of which are more than 100 catties, and the food station really can't collect them.

Grandma now believes in Yoyo's words, and she knows that the flood will soon recede. Besides, every family in the village has a lot of dried alfalfa, enough to feed their livestock.

According to records, the only thing that withstood the test of the flood in 76 years was the defense of the typhoon. After the flood, the state built additional fortifications for the villages on the river beaches, not only in large areas, but also in the construction of houses on them.

Yoyo told her grandmother all these situations, and her grandmother saw that her uncle and grandfather were in a hurry, so she gave him ideas. "Brother, these pigs are only more than 100 catties, and it's a pity to sell them, besides, each family has enough forage, as long as they survive this time.

The defense platform in our village is higher than the embankment, so if it can't be done, we will gather the livestock of each family where to feed it first. However, we have to cover the pigsty quickly, in case the embankment bursts, everyone will have a place to go. ”

When my uncle heard this, he also felt that it was a solution, so he hurriedly went to discuss it with other village cadres. As a result, everyone in the village, except for the people who participated in the berm, went to build a pigsty on the fortification.

When the old chief saw it, he asked about the situation, and with a wave of his hand, he asked the bricks and tiles used to build the hospital and build a pigsty first. And let the county armed forces department send personnel to help the village.

With bricks and tiles, more trees in the village, and the militia dispatched, rows of pigsties were soon built on the open space of the defense platform, and the fodder stacks in the team were also poured onto the defense platform.

When the people of Shimiao Village saw Han Tun's actions, they also panicked, and they each thought of setting up a temporary residence on the defense platform. The leader of the county's flood control headquarters quit, found his uncle and grandfather, slapped the table and said that he was demagogic and had dissipated everyone's confidence in fighting the flood.

The old chief was more imposing than him, and when he went in, he said: "I arranged to build it, and I was prepared." ”

June 27 of the solar calendar is the first day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, and everyone can't take care of the New Year, not to mention the meat dumplings, which are dumplings stuffed with leeks, and many people don't care about the bag.

In the past two days, the monkey has come out, and everyone has not bothered to catch it, only the children go to touch a few in the evening, and the adults have not had time to do it, so they are busy cleaning up the house and preparing to move out.

The maiden families of the two aunts came to help the aunt and the Youyou family pack their things, but in order to stabilize the mood of the villagers, the uncle and grandfather did not let them move out.

The production embankment of Hantun Village, due to sufficient manpower and material resources, has withstood wave after wave of flood peak impact. However, at ten o'clock in the morning of July 2, the upstream production embankment burst, and the flood water roared "wow" and poured down the pond pit under the embankment.