Chapter 58 - A Flood from Heaven

In response to an old saying, "If you are not afraid of the first cloud, you are afraid of the second day of the first month", since the second day of June, Lijiawa Village was shrouded in clouds, and almost never saw the sun again, for almost half a month, even if it did not rain, it was cloudy.

Yang Jinghui led the students in a disaster prevention drill, and the children went home to spread the word to the hundred, and the whole village realized the seriousness of the matter. The river slowly rose, but it did not reach the warning level.

The Education Bureau notified the county that the end of the primary school examination will be held on the 11th, near the end of the semester each class is busy reviewing, the preschool class has a holiday in advance, there are only three grades left in the school, today's weather is a little stuffy, the sun is rare to show a long-lost face, but although the weather is clear, it is not transparent enough, the sun in the gray sky is somewhat viciously scorching the earth, a morning time will be half a month to soaking the wet surface of the ground at once, the stuffy earth is like a stuffy pot, the willow leaves are wilting, and the cicadas are annoying.

The sweltering heat lasted until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at that moment Yang Jinghui was preparing to arrange some matters for the final exam, the sultry weather made people sweat, just get up and go to the cabinet to find materials and then return to the chair to make Yang Jinghui's T-shirt like washed. Suddenly, it seemed to be a little cooler, there was a hint of wind, Yang Jinghui looked out the window, the wind was blowing, the small pieces of paper on the playground were blown up, and then the leaves were blown happily, and then the whole branch was blown, and the original gray and hot sky did not know when a large cloud floated, coming from the southwest, and the eastern sky gradually became overcast.

Seeing this scene, Yang Jinghui hurriedly notified all classes to start the disaster prevention rehearsal, and within 15 minutes, all the teachers and students of the school gathered on the second floor of the tallest building in the village, a two-story village club, according to the route of the drill many times. At the same time as everyone left the school, the sky was changing, the gray sky was instantly dripping into the thick ink, instantly dyed, constantly surging, thunder and lightning, everyone just entered the club, the sky began to rain heavily, the heavy rain was like the sky sprinkled beans, the rain fell fiercely on the ground, bounced up a layer of white smoke, the rain became heavier and heavier, the rain became a line, and became a column of water pouring down from the sky, through the rain could not see the sight of a meter opposite, and could not hear the voice of the people close by. The road is now a small river, the river flows freely, converges to the low-lying place, goes straight to the school, the big river that has not reached the warning water level a few days ago, the river water soars, the river upstream sees the birth of a raging mud dragon roaring all the way more and more thick, like a wild horse is difficult to restrain it, the river flows to the straight corner, surging upward, like the waves crashing on the shore, one stream and two streams, one splash and two splashes, there is not too much danger to get out of the groove, go straight to the school.

When Yang Jinghui led the students to evacuate the school, Han Dakui and others also organized the villagers to gather here, except for Li Erqi and his wife, who were still herding cattle in the field, the other villagers all gathered, looking at the rain, everyone had palpitations.

There was a big flood, really a big flood, everyone looked at the rain outside that was still demonstrative, and the flood was surging everywhere and was frightened, and after a while, someone exclaimed that the two of them were back, and the two of them cried and wailed, as if they were dead and their father, "Captain, the big yak of my family called the water and ......ran away", her daughter-in-law counted him on the side, scolded him for not being productive, if she hadn't said that she had left the cow and ran, maybe even you would have washed away. Look at the second body with a tight pain, Han Dakui is angry and happy, isn't it good for people to live? Your little bit of knowledge, not as long as a girl, such a heavy rain, it's good that people can survive, someone has everything, you still think about those, the water didn't wash you away, you're not happy, isn't it, or you go out to find your yak again? Everyone laughed and came to comfort Ermu.

The rain fell quickly and went quickly, and after half an hour the rain subsided, and after another twenty minutes the rain stopped. It's just that nearly one-third of Lijiawa Village is soaked in water, the school can only see the roof, the river embankment is destroyed, and the river water is all out of the groove, including Han Dakui's house is soaked in water, Han Dakui led the village militia to command the resettlement of the villagers' residences, and now the whole village is a family, so the villagers returned home, and the villagers who did not enter the water accepted the villagers, and saw the true feelings of the world in the tribulation. Han Dakui solemnly emphasized that the families of the victims should not return to rescue items without permission if the flood waters do not recede, so as to avoid casualties.

Yang Jinghui and his colleagues, as well as a few children, were placed in Wang Xiaobao's house together, and everyone talked about the heavy rain and flood in the afternoon, and they were still afraid to think about it.

After the flood, the sky cleared, and it was hard to believe what had happened when you looked at the clear starry sky and the ruins on the ground. Everything in Lijiawa Village is destined to be sleepless.

Early the next morning, Han Dakui organized all the villagers to fight the disaster and save themselves, the flood gradually subsided, the yard was full of silt, the luggage was soaked in water, the food was soaked and swollen, the villagers saw that the family was devastated after the flood and the heart was painful, the dredging was unspeakably painful, the mud was mixed with water, as if there was a thousand catties of weight, not to mention sticking to the shovel, it was very laborious to insert a spade into the mud and pull it out, and the shovel would break if it was not strong, everyone encouraged, no one shouted tired.

The normal rainfall of the big river in Lijiawa Village should not appear in the river out of the trough, when everyone was struggling to clear the dredging in the morning, the town's telephone was broadcast, inquiring about the disaster, knowing that there were no casualties, the town asked the village to organize its own disaster prevention and self-rescue, the town will hurry up to Lijiawa Village, at the same time the town also said that a total of four villages suffered serious disasters, Shiqiao Village was the most seriously affected by the casualties, and the town is now going all out to rush to Shiqiao Village, Two villages in Guoma Township, located upstream of Lijiawa Village, were more seriously affected, and it was the river water in those two villages that swelled and the two streams converged into Lijiawa Village, causing the flooding in Lijiawa Village.

In the afternoon, the town sent a disaster relief team to begin to remove garbage outside the village, and together with the health and epidemic prevention personnel spraying drugs for sterilization, Han Dakui also had time to go outside to see the damage to the crops.

According to preliminary statistics, 17 households in Lijiawa Village were flooded, 50% of the farmland was out of production, and the property loss amounted to more than 40 yuan, and there were no casualties.