Shufen went to turn on the lights in the dark. For she could clearly feel the wind and the fallen bamboos lifting the tiles, the torrential rain pouring down unobstructed, the rumbling thunder and lightning shining on the crumbling house.

However, the switch was repeatedly pulled and the lights did not come on – there must have been a power outage – and the raging wind had already hung up the poles and wires. The wind did not stop because of the torrential rain, and the sound of "crackling" bamboo and trees breaking, together with the sound of "whining" wind, resounded throughout Yangjiawan.

Shufenniang flashed a flashlight and came over to wake up the two children. Shufei hugged the second sister tightly and curled up on the side of the bed; Shufen stood beside the bed, by lightning, looking up at the hole in the roof, and then at the rain that was leaking in—it had already overflowed her ankles, and she was struggling to find a way out.

"Mother......" Shufei cried "wow", stepped on the muddy water on the ground and rushed over and hugged her mother tightly, "What is it?" Which one? Shufei, who had never seen such a formation, cried.

"Don't be afraid. Shufen, come over here, come to the hall! Mother stretched out her hand and pulled Shufen - in fact, Shufenniang had never seen this formation.

Yang Zegui had already lit a kerosene lamp in the hall with a slightly higher foundation than the sloping house, and the flame was blown in one direction by the wind that came in through the crack in the wall, and it was almost extinguished. Yang Zegui hurriedly covered the wind with one hand, and struggled with crutches with the other. He looked at the names of the ancestors and ancestors on the shrine, and the land gods enshrined next to it—the earthen wall had been soaked, and the water seeping in kept flowing down the wall—he shook his head—this is the heavens that are going to destroy Yangjiawan!

They didn't even dare to open the door, let alone think about how to escape—Shufen tried, and when she opened the door, it seemed that she would be swept away by the roaring beast. Under the lightning, the bamboo forest less than ten meters out of the stone dam was scraped off and fell to the cliff.

"Shufen, you pull your sister tight, stand here and don't move!" Yang Zegui gave the order. I didn't dare to open the door, and although the roof was in shambles, a large stream of water still flowed down the eaves to the front and back of the house. The ditch under the surrounding eaves must be dug wide and straightened out so that the water flows low, otherwise the rain will overflow the trenches and flood the earthen walls, and the whole house will collapse.

"Mother, go, give me a flashlight!" Yang Shuzi did not go out through the main entrance of the hall, bypassing the leaning house and the stove house, and went out through the back door. When Shufen saw her father leaving, she hurriedly used her two hands to protect the flames - the kerosene lamp, which was so simple that there was no lampshade, was just an inkwell poured with kerosene and inserted into a roll-rolled straw paper wick!

Shufenniang followed closely with a flashlight, and the firewood door that had just been opened was closed by the wind. The man took the cloak from the eaves of the steps, took the hoe, and walked to the back of the house with the cane. The back eaves of the houses on the top of the Yangjiawa mountain are generally longer than the front eaves, and they are lower.

Heavy rain had almost overflowed the grabens, and the narrow drip ditch could not meet such a large flow of water. The straw hat that Shufenniang had just put on was scraped into the ditch and swept away by the turbulent current! Yang Zegui handed the cloak to Shu Fenniang - this wind and rain, he couldn't wear it at all - he wielded his hoe, trying to throw the dug soil under his feet, and then Shu Fenniang quickly stepped on it, otherwise it would be washed away again. He threw away the wooden crutches, made crutches with the help of a hoe, dug a little and moved forward a little, the ditch became wider and wider, and the torrential rain intensified!

Shufei grabbed the corner of Shufen's clothes tightly, the sudden ghost weather made the two children shiver, and Shufen hurriedly freed up a hand to hug her sister.

"......Boom", a sound of the sky cracking resounded throughout Yangjiawan, and the "bang" water reverberated between Mao'er Mountain and Yantai Mountain.

"Oops...... Her mother...... The stone river weir collapsed...... Those families at the foot of the mountain may not be able to hear the sound with their backs to the mountain......" Yang Laosi immediately made an accurate judgment. Once that huge reservoir collapses, the villagers living at the foot of Mao'er Mountain will definitely be buried if they don't evacuate! He threw down his hoe and jumped over on one leg to pick up the cane. "You get dug up, I'm going to call someone......" A few dilapidated houses on the mountainside of my house collapsed at most, and those people by the stream would definitely die if they were buried by the mudslide!

Touching the dark, he wanted to wake up the closest neighbor to his house, Gui Yingniang's family, first - whose house would be like his house "roof leakage coincided with overnight rain"?

Shufei was so frightened by this resounding voice that she cried again. The father's decision to call someone came in from the back of the house. "Don't cry! Sister, you go to give your mother a flashlight, don't run, the rain is much lighter. I'm going with my dad! Shufen's decision made her sister a little incredible, and before she could react, the kerosene lamp was blown out by the wind, and the second sister had already found a faintly lit flashlight and pulled her sister to the back of the house.

Shufen and her mother exchanged a brighter flashlight and caught up with their father in the rain. The skinny Shufei was almost knocked down by the unbridled rainstorm, but she still held the flashlight and stared closely at the mother wielding the hoe.

On the top of Mao'er Mountain, there are also flashlights one after another, and the column-shaped lights and vine-like lightning are intertwined, and the heavy rain is like a devil dancing. The shouts of the people were drowned out in the sound of rain, thunder, and wind, and the people on the top of the mountain danced their lights to tell the people below that danger was coming, and the flashlights under the mountain also responded.

"Dad, be careful...... "Branches and bamboos block the road that should be familiar, this poor bay, because of the mountains have to live scattered, although they are neighbors, but the distance is not close!

"Don't go, I'll go, Dad!" The heavy rain has long drenched people into soup chickens, and the ground that has been loosened by the rain has been cut down and landslided. The Gui Yingniang who scolded the street in front of her house was blind and deaf and alone, and his son Yang Guiyong went to Linmu Township to buy pig breeds, as if he hadn't come back during the day - hateful gambler! Father's kindness Shufen knows, not to mention why bother with those in the face of this great right and wrong?

The sound of the torrent was getting closer and closer, and Yang regretted his decision—his crutch was stuck in the mud, and he couldn't pull it out at all, almost following the mud flow. He suddenly grabbed a small tree and changed his mind—he was here with a flashlight, and told Shufen to go down and wake up the blind man and carry it up—the old lady must not have woken up yet, or else she would have heard her trademark howl so close!

Shufen, who was drenched all over, pushed the door and entered Gui Ying's house by means of light and lightning - this old woman, she was so careless that the door was not latched at night, "Brother Gui Yong......" Shufen screamed loudly a few times, and when she entered the house, she couldn't see anything in the dark, but the terrible voice was getting closer and closer.

Shufen probably knew that the old lady was in the West House, and groped her way in to wake up Gui Yingniang, who was still asleep—this house was not much different from her house, and it was already full of water.

"What are you doing...... Did the thief steal from me, a blind old woman? The old lady yelled in a daze.

Shufen didn't care about listening to her so much, so she pulled her up and put her arm on her shoulder and left. "Wang Xianxiao, the reservoir has collapsed, run!"

As soon as the old lady heard that the reservoir had collapsed, she picked up a flashlight on the cabinet and broke free from Shufen's shoulder. "What about Yong'er......" She ran into the east room, stared at the remaining one eye, and realized that this kid didn't come back at all during the day when she saw her son was gone!

The terrifying rumble was getting closer and closer, Shufen grabbed Gui Yingniang and ran, but she didn't expect the blind man to slide to the ground all of a sudden. Shufen turned around, picked it up and left. I don't know what this thin old lady ate, it was so heavy, Shufen was pressed and couldn't move an inch.

Several other houses by the stream on the opposite side have been moved one after another. Yang Zegui was so anxious that he stood up on one leg, grabbed the crooked neck tree, and finally saw Shufen come out, and hurriedly illuminated the road with a flashlight. Shufen climbed up with difficulty, and the old lady insisted that she get down and walk, but Shufen ignored her at all.

The rain gradually faded, and the thunder and lightning hid tiredly. The torrent, mixed with mud and tree branches, rolled down the mountain, and the pillars of light on the mountain waved faster and faster. Everyone already felt that the tiger-like torrent had swallowed up the farmland and houses along the way.

Shufen used her last strength to climb the small dirt slope where her father was, and lowered Gui Yingniang down in the mud. The old woman cried hysterically, and saw the four tiled houses that had just been renovated being buried by the mudflow, and threw herself in a frenzy!

The three men didn't notice that the edge of the dirt slope had loosened, and the old woman didn't step on it and slid down. Yang Zegui, who was quick-eyed, threw the flashlight, grabbed her arm with one hand, and twisted the little tree with the other. Shufen's soul, who was lying on the ground, was frightened, and she also twisted the neck of a tree with her hands, and tried her best to help her father.

The flashlight fell down the slope into the mudslide, and the instant tumbling did not stop because the lights disappeared, but became more turbulent. The helpless Shufen knew that unless her father let go of his hand, he would ......

The old woman kept struggling, trying to stretch out her other hand to Shufen, but he couldn't see anything, and stopped struggling after grabbing it indiscriminately, and she was also waiting for a miracle to happen......

The night in City C was still hairy, and Fu Shun and Shu Fen found a place to live with the help of other "bangbangs" - but curled up with the others in the bridge cave by the river. The bridge is divided into "reasonable" areas - more than half of them are "men's areas" and half are "women's areas". The manager of this bridge hole is Scar Liu, with a big scar on his head, and he looks vicious - his territory is much "wider", and one person occupies a small hole in the bridge, and there is a decent mat.

Gui Ying also found a job under Scar Liu's arrangement, giving her a big backpack to carry fertilizer from the dock to the street. She is reluctant in every way, because this is not much more glorious than "begging", not to mention that she is tired to death!

Fushun rubbed his right shoulder, as if his arm was no longer his own. But he was thinking about the income of this afternoon-two yuan and nine cents, which was still with an injury, and when the wound healed, it must be much more considerable than this, so he fell asleep with peace of mind!

The next day, the river suddenly became turbid, and the water level rose a lot, and another Bangbang said, "I'm afraid it rained heavily upstream last night, right?!" ”