Chapter 15: Flash Floods Kill Lives
In the mountains, during the rainy season, flash floods are occasionally raging. This is natural sense.
This summer, the weather began to be irritable, with sunny and rainy weather, high and low temperatures, especially the continuous accumulation of rain, sometimes washed out mountains and collapsed houses. The mountain people are miserable. This year is a year of flash floods that are rare in a century.
This morning, the rain stopped. However, the sky was overcast, thunder rolled from time to time, and lightning streaked across the silent sky. Although it was daytime, God's face was still gloomy.
Nong Wangnian looked outside the house, went out and looked at the sky, he was a little restless, and he was still at ease with his tea garden......
So, Nong Wangnian simply put on rain gear and went out and walked into the reckless mountains.
His wife shouted, "Old man, forget it, don't go up the mountain." ”
Nong Jingtang also shouted: "Father, don't go." ”
Nong Wangnian seemed to pretend not to hear, and strode quickly towards the tea mountain where he had been worried about it for several nights......
At this moment, his wife threw out a sentence: "This stubborn old man! ”
After going out, Nong Wangnian walked a small flat road, followed by the mountain road along the way, rugged and difficult, he walked deep and shallow, climbed up, and when he reached the steep place, he used his hands and feet together, or held the trunk of the tree, or pulled the green vine, and went up the mountain. He was anxious to know the current state of the tea plantation, but he couldn't move quickly: muddy, slippery......
Usually more than an hour on the mountain road, today, he walked for more than two hours. At this time, he finally staggered and climbed to Tianxin Rock Tea Mountain.
As far as the eye could see, the mist of the rain was dense and heavy, like a white quilt covering the tea mountain, and he seemed to have entered the world of fog, and he unconsciously said to himself: This fog is thick enough.
The fog accumulated by the rain under the mountain runs up the mountain, superimposing the fog on the mountain for a long time, forming a mystery of the fog.
He walked through the rain and fog, like a small black dot that could easily be overlooked...... The black figure swayed up and down, left and right in the white fog, like a flowing black Go piece in the tea mountain, drifting uncertainly.
He walked up and down the mountain, and the rain-washed tea trees were green and dust-free, shiny and shiny, and it was tempting to look at. Seeing that the tea garden was still fine and had not been hit by the continuous rain, his heart was full of calm, so he prepared to go down the mountain and go home for lunch.
On the way down the mountain, there are often crumbling earth and gravel piled up on the side of the road, weeds are chaotic, and the larger stones are left alone in the valley and in a mess. This is supposed to be the result of the rain washing away the other day.
Nong Wangnian walked and watched, and his heart was full of anxiety. Farmland has been washed away, houses have been washed away, so this anxiety comes from the huge loss of mountain people.
At this time, Nong Wangnian just marched into a valley, God said to turn his face and turn his face, suddenly, lightning and thunder, a torrential rain hit, a little later, he walked to a hillside, the soil layer was obviously soaked by the rain for a long time and soft, at this moment, in an instant, the merciless torrent poured down, carrying a huge energy to come, just like a disaster from the sky......
Unsuspected, the muddy torrent mixed with gravel rushed at him, roaring like a wild beast, and swept him into it, swept into the torrent of gravel and earth, and the sudden torrent swallowed him up......
At the last moment, in the last moments of his life, he struggled, he resisted stubbornly, he struggled to survive......
However, in the face of nature, at this time, the manpower was minimal, and after all, he could not compete with the power of the flash flood, and Nong Wangnian unfortunately died.
A sudden flash flood took away his life that was about to usher in a brilliant life.
When it was time for lunch, the family had not seen Nongwangnian come back, and they were very anxious, and it stands to reason that they should have come back a long time ago.
Nong Jingtang's mother was a little uneasy, so she asked her son to hurry up the mountain to have a look.
Nong Jingtang took a shortcut and hurriedly climbed to the tea mountain, but he didn't see his father, and he panicked.
On the way down, the mountain road was slippery, and he stumbled down the mountain. In a mess of mud halfway up the mountain, he saw the familiar rain gear, so he hurriedly ran over, but there was no trace of his father.
Nong Jingtang panicked in his heart.
So, he followed the direction of the torrent, looking down one foot at a time, and after a while, he found his father's body resting in a pile of mud.
Nong Jingtang ran over despite the muddy water, no, it should be said that he threw himself over, kneeling on his legs in the cold mud, and he was crying for a while...... For him, it was like five thunderbolts.
I don't know how long it took for Nong Jingtang to carry his father home step by step.
When the family saw it, they were filled with grief and immediately cried. The death of Nong Wangnian is like the collapse of a mountain in the farmer's house.
It was when the farmer was thriving, but the farmer was killed for no reason by a ruthless flood.
A sudden catastrophe has caused the farmer to suffer a catastrophe!
For the first time, Xu Caiyun learned the bad news and was overwhelmed with grief!
He hurriedly put down everything he was doing and hurried to the farmhouse. In front of the mourning hall of Nong Wangnian, he kowtowed and cried: "Brother, you died so miserably! "How can you say that you can just leave?"
Xu Caiyun couldn't kneel down in front of the spirit of Nong Wangnian, and no matter how others persuaded him, it was useless.
At this moment, he and Nong Wangnian have been brothers for more than ten years.
Those warm past events appear in front of me one by one, suddenly like yesterday.
Those who worked together flashed in the tea, which lasted for a long time, and the fragrance overflowed, never dissipated.
All of this, at this juncture, is really real and dreamlike for Xu Caiyun......
Mr. Ji also came spontaneously, his face was solemn, his expression was sad, and he said, "I want to give my brother a ride!" "It's a pity that we have one less tea master in Nanyi County!"
For a time, Nong Wangnian's relatives and friends came to mourn, not only sad, not only regretful, but also deeply regretful that Nong Wangnian left like this!
Nong Jingtang wore linen and filial piety, knelt in front of his father's mourning hall, mother and son both cried like tears, and his wife and children accompanied him, grieving......
Three days later, the farmer buried Nong Wangnian on the family's grave. Nong Jingtang erected a bluestone tablet for his father, which has four words: "A generation of tea gods"!
And the fluffy yellow dog whined a few times from time to time, and after everyone heard it, they felt uncomfortable for a while.
Nong Jingtang's mother was so grief-stricken that she couldn't afford to fall ill. Soon after, he also died.
Nong Jingtang was hit so hard one after another that he was in a trance all day long, he couldn't keep up his spirits and had no intention of doing things. It is no wonder that in a short period of time, the parents have left one after another, and the depth of their grief can be imagined. Xu Caiyun was distressed and anxious when he saw his depressed appearance, but he couldn't think of a good way for a while.
After some more time, Xu Caiyun suddenly enlightened: there was nothing else, only to change his attention and alleviate his pain by being distracted. Only in this way can Nong Jingtang be able to get out of the abyss of grief.
So, Xu Caiyun consciously or unintentionally constantly arranged for him to run around for business, or led him around to relax, and enlightened him with his heart. In short, cheer him up as soon as possible!
After going back and forth, Nong Jingtang gradually woke up and finally slowly came out of his heavy sadness. When he turned around from the pain, he also realized: he can't go on like this anymore, his son is young and needs to be raised, the tea garden can't be abandoned, tea making is still waiting for him, and the family still has to live.
At this time, Nong Jingtang had no choice, he had to carry this home that was almost collapsing!