At the end of summer, there was a heavy rainstorm every evening, and the grandfather and the men in the Zhuangzi began to worry again.

The grandfather chatted with his eldest son gloomily: "Ben Sheng! In previous years, there were no such frequent riots! I'm going to have a game every day, I'm afraid I can't stand it! ”

The uncle comforted his father: "Dad! Don't worry, as long as the upper reaches of our river are fine, our family will be fine. One storm at night can drain the water away overnight and flood our house. ”

Grandpa sighed and said, "What I'm afraid of is upstream!" Every time there is a big flood, it is like this, for seven or eight days in a row, there is a heavy rainstorm every day, and then there is a flash flood upstream, and our family is miserable, at the big bend of the river, the water will not flow away for a while, and it will spin around us, and the house is a piece of down! ”

The uncle asked puzzledly, "Dad!" I've never been able to understand that the mountains to the west are quite far away from our home! Why is it that when there is a heavy rainstorm on our side, there will be flash floods on their side? ”

Grandpa shook his head, "I don't understand this either!" I just heard from the older generation that the summer rainstorms in our family are all moved from the northwest, and if we have a heavy rainstorm here, it means that there has been a bigger rainstorm in the northwest. ”

When the uncle heard this, he became nervous, "Dad! Is it necessary to notify everyone to pay attention early and be vigilant at night!? ”

Grandpa nodded and praised his son: "Ben Sheng! You're right! In the future, you will be in charge of the affairs of the clan, and I will be relieved. We have to say hello to our own Zhuangzi, and we also have to say hello to the neighboring Zhuangzi, and the people who are too low-lying are persuaded to move to higher places. The people of the adobe houses persuaded them to move out and borrow someone else's house for a few days. They can't be called a great drought or a great snowstorm. They all dodged, but let the little waterlogging lie down. Isn't it? ”

The uncle nodded again and again, "Yes!" Yes! Dad was thoughtful. Then I'll go and inform them, and by the way, arrange for someone to go to another Zhuangzi to say hello. ”

"Hmmm! Go ahead! "Grandpa waved his son to do things! He himself was lying on the bamboo chaise longue with his eyes closed, designed by Erya, Uncle Xiaohu and Uncle Xiaohu.

He lasted three days in a row. When it rains every day, I don't sleep well, and I always worry about flash floods upstream. Although their Zhuangzi houses are all brick houses with stone foundations, they are not afraid of flooding. But most of the villages next door are still adobe houses! If someone's family has a mistake, he will feel uncomfortable.

Ay! When people are old, they can't see the pain of life and death!

At Xiaohu's house, the uncle asked Erya and Xiaohu: "Is the water in the reservoir and dam on the other side of the river going to be released?" ”

Xiaohu turned his head to look at Erya, Erya thought for a while, and replied to the uncle: "Let's let it go!" There was a heavy rainstorm on this day. It still feels quite scary, if it becomes a big flood, our family's middle rice field will be flooded. ”

Uncle has always planned to release the water, but he thought about asking Erya's opinion, after all, in his opinion, Erya and Xiaohu are the real masters. "Hey! Then hurry up and put it away! Xiaohu also go, you strong men, can pull the water valve! ”

Xiaohu followed the uncle to the uncle's house. He also called Daman, Dahong, and Xiangzi to go to several reservoirs to pull the gates.

When I came back. I was informed by the uncle, and they also helped to go to other villages to greet and help arrange accommodation.

For nine days in a row, there was a heavy rainstorm every day, and then it stopped. It was sunny for two days, and there was no light waterlogging. The water didn't rise either, and everyone thought it was okay.

In the early morning of the third day, there was an alarm from the upstream to beat the gong, followed by the sound of the gong in the village. They ran out of the house in fear, and the families moved their own boats. Although it will be overhauled and brushed with tung oil before the rainy season comes every year, there is no need to check it at all. But there are still those who are careful, and they have to check before, after, left, right, and right. When the inspection was done, he lowered the boat on the highest dirt slope of the village, and took the child and the woman there.

Uncle Xiaohu hurriedly ran over, he was worried that Xiaohu and Erya had not experienced this kind of flooding, and they didn't know how to deal with it, so they ran with torches!

Erya was still standing in the yard in a daze, and when she saw the uncle coming with a torch, she asked anxiously, "Uncle! What's going on? I didn't see a big flood! ”

The uncle saw that Xiaohu had already set up the boat and put it in the yard, so he answered Erya's question with some confidence: "The water has not yet reached our house, and it was like this in previous years. ”

Erya asked the stupid word again: "Then what if the distance between the villages is too large and you can't hear the sound of the gong?" ”

Uncle smiled: "There is a big clock!" As soon as the bell rang, it could be heard for dozens of miles. Two times, two times, three times in a row, is the meaning of warning! ”

Erya really wants to admire, the wisdom of the ancients is far higher than that of modern people! Their alarms are much more effective and intuitive than the phone calls and loudspeakers of later generations. She was originally careless, but she was also nervous by the rapid and piercing sound of the gong.

The uncle was about to go back when he saw that he didn't have anything to worry about, and before leaving, he explained: "When I see water entering the yard, I will all sit in the boat, and don't stay in the house, do you know?" Don't worry about the things at home, if it's gone, it's gone! You can still earn it in the future, as long as you are good! Do you know? ”

Er Ya and Xiaohu nodded again and again, and after the uncle left, they put Wen Chao and Wen Yue, who were still asleep, into the boat, let Xiaolong sit in it, and take them with them.

Erya was a little worried, so she put them in the yard and said to Xiaohu: "Xiaohu, either we will take them to a high place, right?" ”

Xiaohu shook his head: "That's it, it's okay!" Now if you move over, I'm afraid that the flood will rush over suddenly, but it will be dangerous! ”

Erya was shocked into a cold sweat, yes! Now is the time when the black reaches out and can't see the five claws, if that's the case, there will be no chance of saving it!

Xiaohu arranged for Wen Chao, Wen Yue and Xiaolong, and went out with torches to help other people's families.

The people of the Northland, holding torches in their hands, stood in the middle of the drying field in a panic, and the uncle stood opposite and said to them loudly: "Don't be afraid! The flood has not yet come, and now you are with me. Hurry up to the high dirt slope and stand. ”

With trembling legs, they followed the uncle to the dirt slope, which was full of children and women with torches, and a dozen small boats with two spikes were placed next to them.

Then someone came with a lot of straw ropes on his back, and the uncle arrived at the dirt slope. He took the rope and gave it to the people of the north, and when he had finished sending it, he said to them in a loud voice, "If the water is too deep, go up to the tree and tie yourselves to the tree, and wait for us to come and save you." This flood will pass quickly, in a day at most! Do not be afraid! ”

When they saw that many children and women were here, they were much more settled. Seeing that the people of the Southland have arranged well, they are not so afraid!

It is said that time is time-consuming, but in fact, this qiē is only a few minutes. It was still dark, and suddenly someone in the distance shouted that the flood had come down, and from time to time I heard the rumbling sound of the earthen house collapsing.

At dawn, Erya stood on the wall of her yard and watched the flood in the distance. and rice paddies across the river. Because there is a big bend in the river from Wangjia Zhuangzi, and the bend is facing the rice field of Erya's family.

Unfortunately. The flood water rushed straight to the woods of Erya's house, and then rushed to the drain, and soon the water overflowed the dam and rushed towards the rice fields. Er Ya slapped his head with both hands, I'm damn! This season, Daobai is busy!

The flood that didn't have time to go down. Just stay at the rise of Wangjia Zhuangzi. Soon, the drying field of Wangjia Zhuangzi was flooded, and the water upstream was still rushing down, and the children on the high slope pointed to the haystacks floating on the flood and shouted: "Look! Look! There's a big rooster on that haystack. ”

Another child. Pointing to a floating roof with a shivering black dog on the roof, "Look! There's one there, too, it's a dog! ”

Then there was a rumbling sound of the house collapsing not far away, and a woman looked in that direction and said, "That's the Li family Zhuangzi, I don't know whose house has fallen again." ”

At this time, Uncle Xiaohu in the south called Uncle Qiang, the daughter-in-law of his family, and suddenly asked a woman in the north, "Sister-in-law!" Did you bring out all your things? ”

"Bring it! We didn't have anything in the first place! Do you want to use it? ”

Uncle Qiang's daughter-in-law shook her head hurriedly, "No! I'm just worried that my old house will collapse, I'm afraid that your things won't be taken out, and it will be gone by then! ”

A few people on the side were also woken up, and they all asked the clansmen in the north around them, if they had brought things out. When I heard that I had brought it with me, I was relieved. Then he looked around about the floods.

The men in the Zhuangzi supported the boat in pairs, and salvaged at the bend, where a lot of sundries were left, to make way for the flowing water.

The dog that has always resisted the living is no longer afraid of the living, and when the little tiger dragged the grass roof to another place with a hook, the dog standing on the top of the grass looked at the little tiger on the boat pitifully.

Xiaohu looked at it very pitifully, as if talking to someone, and told it: "If you don't bite someone, I'll save you." ”

The dog seemed to understand what Xiaohu meant, so he lay down, put his head on his paws, and looked at Xiaohu quietly!

Daman smiled and said to Xiaohu: "People have agreed, you don't want to push the small basin over!" ”

Xiaohu put down the wooden basin prepared in the boat, pushed it with a hook, and said to the black dog: "Jump in yourself!" ”

When the dog heard Xiaohu speak, he stood up, but he didn't understand, but he just watched Xiaohu not move, and Xiaohu said again: "Jump!" As he spoke, he tapped the rim of the basin with a hook.

The dog didn't know if he understood, or if he was used to being fed in the dog basin, so he really stepped forward and put his head into the basin, smelled it, and then really jumped into the basin and let Xiaohu pull it back.

Because Wangjia Zhuangzi is a big bend in this river, many people who have been washed into the water upstream will have a chance to be rescued here. In addition, the grandfather of the Wang family Zhuangzi was a kind-hearted person, and when he first escaped and settled down, he didn't know it. The first time he encountered a major flood, there was one who could be saved, but because he was not prepared, he was not saved, and then he was taken away by the water, and my grandfather blamed himself and suffered for several years.

Since the first major flood, my grandfather has prepared a boat for his family to escape, a boat to salvage debris, and a wooden basin that is sometimes needed to save people.

Later, he really saved many people who were washed away by the water upstream, and it was also because of the life-saving grace of the Wang family's grandfather that the upstream came up with that way to call the police. Over the past hundred years, Wang Zhuangzi has experienced countless floods, large and small, and in addition to losing some belongings, no one has ever lost his life. (To be continued......)