Chapter 35: The Flood
"Boss, I want to open it, people have no money and nowhere to spend, life is the most important thing, even if nothing happens at that time, these things can be used, our cloth bag is also sewn, and now we will divide the things." Li Qiu said generously.
Li Wenshi took out the sewn cloth bag, and when Li Chengqiang and the two brothers saw it, they liked it, so they wanted to try it on their backs immediately.
"What's going on? Look, isn't it pretty? Li Chenggang proudly turned around in front of the family with his backpack on his back, making the family big and small, and they all said yes.
"Cheng Gang, you put the bag down, I'm going to put something in." Li Sun stepped forward and ruthlessly pulled down Li Chenggang's proud backpack, but he couldn't, Li Chenggang could only put it down obediently.
The backpacks of adults and children are almost the same, with a copy of common medicine, two pairs of shoes for each person, a new set of kudzu cloth clothes, a bamboo tube of water, a flint and a fire sickle, a sickle and a kitchen knife for self-defense, and they are ready to load dry food.
"This copper coin of 500 Wen per person, when the time comes, I will sew a sealed pocket in your underwear, don't take it out until the last resort, you all bring a clean underwear later, I and the eldest and the second daughter-in-law will sew it for you, Yangqing, Wenshui, Wenqiu, the three of you will go to make dinner first, and continue to work after eating." Li Qiu said the next arrangement.
"Okay, it's all up to your mother, let's continue to grind rice and flour, make bamboo rafts for the rest of the time, stay up late at night and continue to make dry food, now time is life, and I don't know when the danger will come, I hope it doesn't appear." Old Man Li then commanded.
Li Yangqing and the three of them entered the kitchen and began to wash rice and cook, and they were going to make something good tonight, "Let's eat fried meat with Houttuynia cordata, steamed corn, and kudzu root soup!" ”
"Okay, listen to my sister-in-law." Li Wenqiu had no objections.
After a few steps of burning the fire, washing vegetables, cutting vegetables, washing rice, and putting on the pot, dinner was prepared in half an hour, and the three of them served the food to the hall and put it down, and Li Wenqiu went to the utility room to call the busy old man Li to eat.
"Let's eat!" After Mr. Li finished speaking, he took the lead in moving the chopsticks, everyone gnawed on the cakes for a day, and did so many things, they could eat a good meal at night, they could comfort some tired body and mind, everyone ate exceptionally sweet, and the plates on the table were eaten cleanly, burping and shy.
"Oh, I'm so full of food, and my stomach is so supportive!" Li Chenggang touched his round stomach and shouted.
"You kid, it's you who eat, and it's you who supports it!" Li Sun helped his son touch his stomach to relieve it, but he helplessly blamed.
After resting, the women started to make dry food again, Mr. Li took Li Yangming and Wenshan to pack rice, and Li Yangde took the two brothers Li Si and Li Chenggang to make bamboo rafts.
The family was busy until midnight, and finally finished, and put three sacks of rice in two back baskets, as for the kudzu root, it was really not loaded, but it was loaded with a back basket, a large bamboo raft with a length and width of two zhang, equipped with a safety rope made of hemp rope, with seven poles, and tonight out of the pot more than a hundred flatbreads, except for today's food, each person packed more than a dozen cakes into the cloth bag, and everything was wrapped in a layer of oilcloth outside.
After the thing was done, Mr. Li reminded everyone to be vigilant at any time at night, the river at the entrance of the village had risen a lot, "You will each put the cloth bag at the head of your bed later, and put the oil coat and hat in the house, and sleep in your clothes, as soon as there is any movement, quickly get up, put on your shoes and take your things to the hall to gather, and go to sleep quickly!" It's been two nights. Old Man Li waved everyone and went to sleep.
I was really tired these days, I fell into bed and snored, covered my head and slew, the storm outside the house has not stopped, all the sounds have disappeared, I can only hear the sound of rain and wind raging, the night is getting deeper and deeper, the people in the village are sinking into sleep, and the sound of "...... bang" is faintly coming.
"Ah...... Yes....... The screams rang out, more and more sounds came out, the chickens in the house crowed a few times and then there was no sound, the old man Li felt shallow, got up and woke up, opened his eyes, and was startled, the house was flooded, and the water was almost on the bed.
"Hurry up, get up, it's flooding......." Old Man Li woke up Li Qiu beside him, Li Qiu was still a little confused, rubbed his eyes and looked at the room, "Ah...... The water is coming, the water is coming, everyone get up. The two old men were extremely agile, they turned over and got out of bed with cloth bags on their backs, and everything else was flooded, and they didn't know where they had drifted to, and they couldn't find them, so they could only go out barefoot and go out in the dark to wake up the others.
Old Man Li's screams had already woken up most of the people in the room, and they all got up and packed themselves up to enter the hall, and as soon as they arrived in the hall, they saw that everyone else had gotten up.
At this time, the water had already reached his waist, "Dad, I can't see you clearly, you guys get on the bamboo raft, hurry, go up, it's too late, you don't want anything else, carry a cloth bag." Li Yangde stabilized the bamboo raft and urged the people in the family to get on the bamboo raft, just went up, a big wave came, the bamboo raft had been pushed out of the yard by the water, Li Yangde only had time to pounce on half of his body, the lower half of his body was still soaked in the water, and he grabbed the rope tightly with his hands.
The courtyard wall made of bamboo has collapsed, and everyone has no time to reflect, so they can only hold on to the bamboo raft with both hands, the pole is gone, and they have no time to speak, the water has already flooded everyone's heads, Li Yangde raised his neck hard, "Are you all here?" I can't see it, you guys quickly report your own name, hurry up. Li Yangde squinted his eyes and shouted eagerly, in the dark night, he could only faintly see shadows, and there was water all around, and he could only vaguely perceive that there were people around him.
"Li Yangming, here."
"Ahem, Li Wenqiu."
"I, I, Li Chenggang, I'm so scared, mother."
"No, don't be afraid, mother."
"Cheng Gang, I'm grandpa, are you okay? Don't let go? ”
"Brother Chenggang, I'm my brother."
"Grandpa Li, I, cough, I'm Wenshui."
"Kids, my old bones can't hold on."
"Mother, you must hurry up, you must hurry up! I'm the eldest daughter-in-law. ”
"Sister, you have to hold on too! I am your brother Wenshan. ”
"Puff puff...... Brother Yangde, I, Li Si, and my younger brother are all here, and we are next to each other. ”
"I'm Li Wendong, Daddy, I'm on it."
After a while, seeing that no one made a sound, Li Yangde recalled the voice just now, and silently counted in his heart, no, no, recall again, why didn't he hear Xiaomei's voice, "Xiaomei, Xiaomei, Yangqing, are you there?" Why didn't you make a sound? ”
"Little sister, little sister, Yang Qing, are you there? In the words you say a word, please. Li Yangde asked again, waited anxiously for a while, and saw that no one answered, and the voice he was expecting never appeared.
"Little sister."
"Yangqing, you speak."
"Sister-in-law."
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The people lying on the bamboo raft also shouted anxiously, recalling that they heard the voice just now, over and over again, no, no, still no, Li Yangqing didn't speak.
"O old man! You guys, did you hear Yangqing's voice, didn't you? I'm old and can't hear you as well, right? Li Qiu confirmed without giving up.
"Mother, don't worry, let's think about it again." Li Sun comforted.
"Mother, it's a pity, third sister...... The third sister is really not on it, hey....... Li Yangming sighed in a low voice with a crying voice.
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, she's not here, woo woo woo ......."
"Wen Qiu, don't patronize and cry, you must hurry!" Li Wenshi was also anxious when he heard his daughter's cry.
"Ah...... Yes...... Sister-in-law, sister-in-law don't die, I don't want it. Li Cheng began to cry at first.
"You are all calm and calm, I believe that my little sister will be safe, she is so smart." Li Yangming comforted himself.
"Yes, yes, yes, your little sister has been taken care of by the gods, a person with auspicious nature, a great fortune." Li Qiu listened to Li Yangming's words, and muttered in a low voice as if grasping the last straw.
After listening to the words of everyone on the bamboo raft, although he was anxious in his heart, as the backbone of the family, he couldn't panic first, and his face was not obvious, so he could only say with a hard mouth: "Don't panic, hurry up the bamboo raft, the first task is to save your own life, so that there can be a day of reunion with Yangqing, we live, there is hope, understand?" I don't know where we've drifted now? Save your strength to find a way to do the next thing, I have confidence in Yangqing, and you must also have confidence, don't move now, lie down and hold on, and wait for dawn to talk. ”
Li Yangqing was sleeping next door to Mr. Li's old men, maybe he was too tired these days, so he slept very deeply, and the sound of water flooding into the house did not disturb the sweet dream, until he heard the sound of talking and shouting in the hall, and he was woken up.
Seeing the water next to the bed, he immediately woke up and got up with a cloth bag on his back and prepared to run out of the house, but he was small and short, and he slept alone, unlike other rooms where there was an adult by his side, and he tried to get into the water, and he didn't stand firm all of a sudden, and was washed down by the impact of the water, and finally stood up by grabbing the sheets, and the water had reached the heart position, and he didn't dare to move, so he could only climb into bed again, "Dad, mother, brother,......。 "The names of everyone in the family were shouted again, or it may be that the water was too loud, and the people outside didn't hear it, and no one responded, so I had no choice but to figure it out by myself.
Looking around the house, the darkness was very blurry, and I could only vaguely see a lot of things floating in the house, but the box on the cabinet next to the bed had not been flooded, so I quickly jumped on the cabinet and opened the box, there were only a few clothes inside, Li Yangqing quickly lay down and covered the lid, leaving a small gap.
There is no way to hide in the house, dragging through the gaps can only watch the water come up little by little, listening to the sound of "bang-la-la" water, the wooden box was finally washed into the house and floated, Li Yangqing's heart suddenly relaxed, "Fortunately, fortunately, the people are small and lightweight, this is a temporary small wooden boat." ”
"Bang bang bang ......." Something fell off the lid and hit the lid, "Oops, something must have fallen from the roof, the house looks like it's going to collapse, there is no choice but to pray for water to wash the box out of the house." ”
Li Yangqing prayed silently in his heart, the water waves were louder than a while, the house finally collapsed, seeing a mud wall facing the box smashed, "click", the sound of the box lid shattering, the box was smashed into the water with Li Yangqing, Li Yangqing was a little dizzy on the spot, and thought to himself: "Fortunately, fortunately, there is a box to help hold it up, otherwise it will be smashed to death by the wall, it is to die this time, is it possible to return to modern times, continue to play computer games and enjoy a good life." ”
With the rupture of the box, Li Yangqing's brain was a little dizzy because of the impact, and his body gradually sank into the water, and when it was a little difficult to breathe, a mouthful of water choked into his mouth, his limbs twitched instinctively, and the person also woke up.