Chu Tianqi hurriedly got up, got off the ground, put on his slippers, walked to the window, lifted the curtains and looked out. A bolt of lightning swept by, and a huge curtain of rain fell from the sky, knocking on the glass and the ground, making a "horn" and "whoosh" sound. Then a rumbling sound came, shaking people's hearts.

The heavy rain is here again, and it is the second time that it is last year. For Qingniuyu, where precipitation is scarce all year round and there are nine droughts in ten years, I am afraid that such a thing will happen once in a hundred years, and it will take at least forty or fifty years to appear.

Chu Tianqi tentatively opened a crack in the door, and suddenly, a cool breeze came in with a curtain of wet and cold water, splashing on his bare ankles and small legs. Without the slightest hesitation, he resolutely closed the gap quickly. Lift the curtains again and observe the situation outside. Under the background of lightning, the rain falls on the ground and splashes from time to time, and the bubbles can be clearly seen in the places where the water has accumulated.

At this level of rain, if it rains for more than half an hour, I am afraid that flooding will occur. If it takes a little longer, the villages between the two mountains may be flooded again. Tall crops are likely to lodging in large areas, and low vegetables will be muddy by the impact of the sludge. It is not known how useful the canals used for irrigation and flood water can be. I don't know if the newly built school buildings and the repaired and reinforced old houses can withstand this kind of storm.

Chu Tianqi looked at the time, it was almost four o'clock in the morning. In the summer, at this point in the past, the sky should have gradually brightened from night. However, today it is still so dark that if you don't look at the time, you think it's midnight.

Looking at the overwhelming rain outside, Chu Tianqi's mind couldn't help but be upset, and he didn't feel sleepy. He turned back to the bed, pulled the lamp cord, and suddenly, the incandescent light bulb emitted a dazzling white light, which made his eyes uncomfortable for a while. He walked over to his desk, sat down in his chair, lit a cigarette and smoked it.

In the rising smoke, Chu Tianqi began to consume time. Sit and take a few puffs, then stand up again, pacing back and forth for a few puffs. In this way, he smoked three cigarettes without stopping, and then two more intermittently, and half an hour passed, but the rain outside showed no sign of abating. Chu Tianqi's worries were even worse, he knew that it was certain that several villages would be flooded.

It was already half-past four, and the black tone of the sky outside had faded. Chu Tianqi took out his mobile phone and started making calls, he wanted to ask a few village cadres what the situation was like there. After making three calls in a row, there was no movement in the phone, and he noticed that the phone had no signal at all, and it must have been rain or lightning that broke the mobile phone signal receiver.

By almost five o'clock, it was already half-light, and the rain was still falling, and the rain seemed to be lighter. Chu Tianqi couldn't wait, took the umbrella and propped it on his head, opened the door, and rushed out.

Quickly cut through the rain and fog, turned into the corridor, put away the umbrella, and came to the door of the township chief's office. Chu Tianqi raised his right hand and knocked on the door, and the sound of "tuk tuk" echoed in the empty corridor.

After knocking three times in a row, Ning Junqi's voice came from inside: "Who?" Her voice was full of vigilance and boredom.

In the early morning, the sky was not bright, and it was still raining heavily outside the hospital. The girl who was alone in the room suddenly heard a sudden knock on the door, and it was strange that she was not nervous.

"Me. Chu Tianqi replied.

"Chu Tianqi, is that you?" Ning Junqi asked.

"Yes, who am I or not?" Chu Tianqi hurriedly replied.

"Oh mom, it scared the hell out of me. Ning Junqi's voice revealed the ease after being nervous, mixed with some residual palpitations. She continued, "What are you doing early in the morning?"

"What can I do? It's not a job yet. Chu Tianqi said impatiently, "Open the door quickly, I'm going to go in and make a call." ”

"Use your mobile phone to call, do you have to come to me?" Ning Junqi said puzzled.

Chu Tianqi said: "If the mobile phone can be called, what am I doing here with you, isn't there no signal?"

There was a pause inside before Ning Junqi's voice came out: "You wait a minute." After speaking, I heard the sound of walking, the sound became smaller and quieter, and there was no movement.

After a while, the door opened a crack. Through the gap, Ning Junqi's face can be seen. Chu Tianqi didn't wait for the door to open wide, and squeezed in through the gap. Ning Junqi hurriedly dodged to the side, so that he was not bumped in, and when Chu Tianqi came in, he closed the door.

"Why are you like this? Rampage, no manners, no manners. Ning Junqi scolded from behind.

Chu Tianqi didn't answer Ning Junqi's words, walked straight to the desk, came to the table, and threw the umbrella on the ground. Then, press the hands-free button on your landline and dial out a few digits.

I dialed three numbers in a row, but there was no sound. When dialing the fourth number, a long "beep ......" sound was heard. The first time no one answered, the second time a man's voice came out: "What is the matter?"

"Uncle Liu, I'm Tianqi. Chu Tianqi hurriedly said.

After hesitating for a while, there was a voice: "Tian-Qi, why do you use this number? Isn't this the number used by Township Chief Ning's office?" The person who spoke was Liu Danian, the party secretary of Liulinbao Village.

"I'm in the mayor's office. Chu Tianqi replied.

"Township Chief's Office...... So early, why are you in the township chief's office?" Liu Danian's voice was full of doubt.

"I'm calling you, why are you talking so much?" Chu Tianqi said unhappily, "Is it raining heavily there, what is the situation now?"

Liu Danian's voice suddenly rose up: "It's big, it's too big, I haven't seen such a heavy rain in the past twenty or thirty years." Now the river loop in the village is flooding, I just went out to see, the river wave is four or five feet high, the river water is yellow and clear, there are small trees floating in it, and you can see the tumbling big stones. The families who were close to Pogen had already gone to other people's houses, and the water that came down from the mountains had entered their homes. Wubaohu Yan Ergen was going to run up the mountain, but fortunately I happened to see it, or his old legs and crotch, and the mountain was slippery, so he wouldn't have fallen. ”

Chu Tianqi interrupted Liu Danian's words and said, "I'm asking ......."

As soon as Chu Tianqi said three words, Liu Danian intercepted the words again and said, "Your family is fine, I went to your house just now, the old sister-in-law, that is, your mother, opened the door for me." Your house is not flooded, and the family is safe, by the way, Lirui is also at home, you can rest assured. ”

Of course, Chu Tianqi was also worried about his family, but what he wanted to ask was not at home. Let Liu Danian make such a stubble, he almost forgot what to say. He spoke into the phone and said loudly: "Uncle Liu, let the village cadres work harder, go door to door, if there is a dangerous situation, you must help deal with it in time, and you must ensure the safety of the villagers." The telephone in the village should also be kept open at all times, and if there are any special circumstances, call the township in time, call the fixed one, and the mobile phone will not work. ”

"Okay, Township Chief Chu, on behalf of all the village cadres, I promise you and the township that I will absolutely guarantee the safety of the elders of the village. There will also be a special person guarding the phone in the village, and the telephone line was broken just now. ”

Chu Tianqi said loudly: "Okay, very good." On behalf of Township Chief Ning, I would like to verbally commend you for your conscientious and responsible attitude, and hope that you will make persistent efforts to share the worries of the party and the government. The organization will not forget the comrades who do practical things. ”

Liu Danian's excited voice came: "Township Chief Chu, please tell Township Chief Ning." The members of the Liulinbao team must live up to the high hopes and entrustment of the township chief and you, carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of hardship and death, and put the ......"

"Uncle Danian, I still have something to do here, hang up first!" Chu Tianqi hung up the phone in time and stopped Liu Danian's words later, otherwise, I don't know how many quotations he will recite!

Ning Junqi said with a "giggle" smile: "Why do you two seem to be talking to each other? It seems that your village is really talented, and your performance is no worse than that of the actors in the city." ”

Chu Tianqi replied: "Liu Danian is that kind of person, he likes this kind of exaggerated encouragement, and when he hears such words, he is like being excited. At this point, he corrected, "What about the son-in-law? What are you kidding? When others bury me, it becomes the material for you to make fun of me." ”

Ning Junqi smiled "hee-hee": "Liu Danian himself said that it was your father-in-law, why did he rely on others again." ”

"I'm not going to be bored with you, let's get down to business. Chu Tianqi's face turned pale and said, "If it goes on like this, the people should suffer again." ”

"Yes, I also woke up when it just rained, I really don't know how long this rain is going to be?" Ning Junqi said solemnly, "I'm afraid that crops and vegetables will be affected, right?"

"That's for sure, and it's good that there is no hail, otherwise the vegetables, especially the big leafy vegetables like Chinese cabbage and cabbage, would have suffered even more. Chu Tianqi replied, "Even other food crops will definitely be affected." Crops such as millet, corn, and sorghum will have lodging in eighty percent. ”

Ning Junqi said worriedly: "This is not the main thing, I hope there will be no casualties." Teacher Chang Wen in Gangou Village has been injured for a year, and she still has to rely on a wheelchair and crutches to move?" Speaking of this, she said again: "By the way, the school building has just been built, so it will be fine, right?"

After Ning Junqi said this, Chu Tianqi also became worried, and said, "Probably not, I'll call right away to see if there is any situation?" After speaking, he continued to dial the landline number on the table.

Chu Tianqi dialed the phones of all the remaining villages again, except for Xiaoying Village, the rest of the villages could not be reached, and it was estimated that the telephone line was broken.

Sitting on the chair, Chu Tianqi leaned back, leaned back on the chair, sighed, and said, "Fuck, what can I do?"

After Chu Tianqi finished speaking, he couldn't hear Ning Junqi's echo. He looked up and saw that she was staring at him with wide eyes, so he asked puzzledly, "What's wrong?"

"You, why are you dressed like this?" asked Ning Junqi with his hand pointing at him.

Chu Tianqi glanced down at his body, big trousers, two tendon vests, and nothing, so he replied: "What's this? I usually wear it like this when I get off work? It's not like I haven't seen it before." ”

Ning Junqi blushed and said: "You don't look at what time it is, you still appear in my house dressed like this, if someone sees it, I don't know what it will be." ”

Chu Tianqi thought about it and felt that Ning Junqi's words were also reasonable, so he didn't know how to answer for a while, so he looked at Ning Junqi. She was wearing pale pink pajamas and pajamas, with a looming hood looming from the inside of her blouse. Chu Tianqi couldn't help but move his throat and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Seeing Chu Tianqi's appearance as Brother Zhu, Ning Junqi was about to get angry. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.