After a while, both of them sat down, and Zhao Yurou gasped and said, "Don't fall asleep and plant yourself in the water, let's tie our braids to the tree." ”

"Okay, I'm really sleepy, and I'm hungry." Hao Jiaqi pushed her glasses and grabbed the braids behind her in her hands.

While the two were talking, they suddenly heard a loud "bang" from the village, and a yellow pillar of smoke rushed into the sky. It turned out that the ancestral hall in the village collapsed in the water. The house has been soaked in water for so long that the gables are all soaked. I heard only the sound of continuous sounds, the continuous collapse of houses, and the rise of several pillars of ash one after another.

Hao Jiaqi was frightened, opened her mouth for a long time, and said with a crying voice: "I knew that I wouldn't run away like this, and I said that I would send a lot of water, but Wang Zhishang said that it was okay." ”

Zhao Yurou stretched out her hand to pat Hao Jiaqi, constantly comforting, she felt feverish and dizzy, and gradually leaned against the tree and fell asleep.

I don't know how long I slept, Zhao Yurou was woken up by Hao Jiaqi, and listened to her in a daze: "Yurou, look, what is that, could it be a boat?" ”

Zhao Yurou rubbed her eyes, looked in the direction of Hao Jiaqi's finger for a while, and said disappointedly: "It doesn't look like a boat, but there are people moving inside." ”

After a while, the black thing floated closer along the current, and the two of them saw that it was a large wooden trough for feeding the cattle, and three people were sitting in it. One was a man of about thirty years old, with a black and red face, a bare back, a stick in his hand, and sweating through the water.

A woman of twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a small baby in her arms, sat in the middle of a wooden trough. Her jet-black hair was tied in a small bowl at the back of her head, and her muddy cheeks were stained with wet tears.

The water continued to seep into the trough, and half of the trough had accumulated, and the wooden trough was shaking. The woman clung to the child in a panic and cried out, "Father, the water is almost full, what can I do?" She patted the child who was about to fall asleep, lowered her head and began to cry.

The man was even more anxious, and he threw water outwards vigorously, and said impatiently, "Alas...... Crying and crying, what do you say, if we sink, the three of us will die together. ”

"Hey, fellow, paddling this way!" Zhao Yurou swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, moistened her dry and smoking throat, and shouted loudly......

The sun is sinking in the west, and the western sky is rendered a red glow. In the distance, apricot yellow sets off blue in the sky. In the gaps of the clouds, blue lines are revealed, which are extremely vivid.

Huddled in the tree, the woman pressed her cheeks against the child's hot face, who was already asleep and smiling sweetly. She couldn't help but feel sad for a while, and sighed softly: "When can I escape from this water hole, it would be nice to have a big ship in front of me, or I can see the land, and there is hope!" And our sister, I don't know where she has gone. As she spoke, her eyes moistened again.

The tree was small, and the man tied himself to a branch, and was still sitting in the wooden trough, and when he heard his wife say this dream, he shook his head lightly, and continued to splash water outward in a muffled voice.

"When the water goes down in two days, we will be saved." Zhao Yurou took out an elm leaf from her pocket and said, "Eat something, it has to be for this little child." ”

The woman took it, thanked her for a long time, put it in her mouth and chewed it slowly, and said, "This water will go down in two days?" My child's father said that it might not be ten days and a half months? ”

Yes! Zhao Yurou and Hao Jiaqi were taken aback, the hope that had supported them was suddenly shattered, and they immediately felt hopeless and dazed in their hearts.

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The endless yellow water was covered with gray waves, and several full-fledged flat-bottomed boats flew on the water. One of the first ships hung a large flag, some old and damaged, with a big "Yang" character on it, fluttering in the wind.

A small fortification was built in the bow of the ship with sandbags, and an old-fashioned water-cooled Maxim machine gun was propped up. Yang Tianfeng sat on the Taishi chair at the bow of the boat, holding a knife, and posed majestically.

Ask for the people's life, find the Japanese theory, Qulong Town will not pay food. That's right, this reason is very good and very popular with the people. Thinking of the scene when he was leaving, the victims who got the news gathered at the pier to see them off, and then thought of the expressions of the militia soldiers who followed firmly, Yang Tianfeng smiled slightly.

They are all local villagers, and they all have relatives who have been affected by the disaster, so they don't talk about any national righteousness, but only talk about future survival and belly problems, which can stimulate the emotions of all people at this time.

It's just that this flag has some that, Yang Tianfeng tilted his head and looked, this is a holy relic that Mrs. Yang has treasured for many years. This flag was hung when the militia first started, and it was also carried when it fought viciously with bandits. Although it is old and broken, the symbolism is not trivial. On the pier, he saw with his own eyes the excited expressions of many middle-aged people when they saw this flag, and some even shed tears.

"Where have you got? Don't go in the wrong direction. Yang Tianfeng looked at the white expanse around him, and there was no reference, and the original river embankment couldn't be seen clearly, so he couldn't help but open his mouth and ask.

Xiao Si walked aside, asked the boatman, and came back to say, "Young master, don't worry, they are all old-fashioned, and they can't go wrong looking at the sun and stars." In front of it is Xiaowang Village, and you can see the county seat in more than an hour. ”

Only then did Yang Tianfeng see that the boatman wearing the hat was an acquaintance Zheng Laocheng, and couldn't help but smile and nod.

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"Giggles." The child laughed happily and scratched with his little hands, and everyone else was worried, but he was still carefree. There are also advantages to not being sensible, at least he only knows how to be happy when he is full.

The woman gently squeezed the child's little hand, sighed long, and looked into the distance again, hoping that the great ship of her imagination would appear, or that a piece of land would float by.

"Hey, look, look." The woman suddenly shouted.

Several people looked up, and they all showed joy in unison, a large ship at first only showed its mast, and then showed its whole body, getting closer and closer, followed by one, two, and three in turn......

"Hey, hey, help!" Hao Jiaqi shouted loudly, and then the people on several trees saw the savior and shouted chaotically.

Yang Tianfeng raised the binoculars, looked carefully at the people calling for help, and identified several acquaintances, and finally located on Zhao Yurou.

The big ship continued to follow the course, which was a rule set in advance, the big ship was a combat ship, a guide ship, and the task of saving people belonged to the small and medium-sized ships behind. This is how they came all the way, and no one recognized that the woman on the tree was actually the third young woman.

"Yes, it's the Yang family's ship." The boat got closer and closer, and Zhao Yurou's eyes widened, her mouth was open, but she couldn't make a sound.