Although Yao Cuihua's family rushed to harvest all the summer crops before the rain, they spent a lot of money before and after, and ended up being paid attention to by her mother's family, and Yao Cuihua was almost sick.

Every night, he said bad things about the old man and their family to the Bai Ai family by the pillow, saying that if they didn't help their family, their family would not have spent so much money unjustly.

It is also distressing to spend such a large amount of money to love the family, and they are very dissatisfied with the old man when they are instigated by their daughter-in-law like this.

Bai Aijia secretly gritted his teeth, old man, they must not ask him for anything, he will not be able to save him at that time.

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After a few days of careful consideration, and after discussing with Shi Lei for a long time, Bai Aiguo and his wife decided to let Shi Lei repeat it.

As Bai Mengdie said, even if you repeat a year, you still can't get two books, but it's definitely no problem to take three books, but if you get two books, Shi Lei's future will be brighter.

In this era, the cost of repeating is very low, as long as you pay a borrowing fee.

However, Shi Lei is not a city hukou, and if he borrows it in the city, he has to ask someone to get in.

Bai Aiguo transferred his hukou from the countryside to his name.

When he returned to his hometown to change his household registration, the old man learned that Shi Lei was going to repeat his studies, and he was speechless for a while.

But for the sake of the child's better future, he still nodded and agreed.

Only then did Shi Lei's household registration be transferred to the city, and the rainy season also arrived as scheduled.

The downpour continued for several days, and the entire Jiangcheng became a vast ocean.

The people of Jiangcheng are accustomed to seeing this kind of terrifying scene, and the class photos are on the songs, but the water is too deep and many bus routes are forced to stop.

Bai Mengdie's breakfast stall can support two large umbrellas that Bai Aiguo bought from Hanzheng Street, and he barely insists on business.

But the food stalls are not good, people can't sit down to eat, even if they hold an umbrella, it's useless, the rain will still be blown into the umbrella by the wind.

Although there is a breakfast business to support, there is no need to worry about livelihood, but not being able to become a food stall means that the income will be reduced by at least tens of thousands this month.

Bai Aiguo and his wife pray every day that the rainy season will pass soon.

Bai Mengdie's house has no TV, so she can only listen to the radio.

The water level in Jiangcheng on the radio is urgent every day, and Bai Mengdie suddenly woke up to the fact that this year is 1998, and Jiangcheng has encountered the second highest water level since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The main embankment of the Yangtze River in Jiangxia District, Jiayupaizhou Bay, Hubei Province, which is close to Jiangcheng, suddenly collapsed due to long-term immersion.

As a result, a large number of civilians have been displaced and even killed or wounded, and the officers and soldiers who have rushed to rescue and provide disaster relief have also been sacrificed.

The reason why she didn't think about it at first was because she was too young to remember.

Although when he grows up, this major event must be understood as a Jiangcheng person, it is not his own personal experience, and he is not deeply impressed.

The rainy season lasted for a long time in '98, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to set up food stalls for this month.

Bai Mengdie thought that the last time it rained heavily, the business of selling braised vegetables in the vegetable market was not bad.

I thought to myself, with such a heavy rain, the food stalls can't be sold, but you can rent a stall in the vegetable market to sell braised vegetables, and you can have some income.

As soon as she told Bai Aiguo and others about her thoughts, the whole family was very supportive, but she didn't know if the stall in the vegetable market that couldn't be rented out was rented out now.

Bai Mengdie immediately acted and went to the vegetable market accompanied by Shi Lei.

Seeing that the stall was still empty, the brother and sister were overjoyed and turned to find the market manager.

They happened to be greeted by the uncle of the market administrator who had a relationship with them before.

The uncle of the market administrator recognized Bai Mengdie at a glance, and asked kindly, "What?" Do you want to rent a stall to sell braised vegetables?

I won't take your money today, just go ahead, and if anyone troubles you, you can come to me. ”

Then he added: "Girl, you've lost a lot of weight!" ”

Bai Mengdie touched the big face of the silver plate, and laughed twice: "Uncle, today is not just a half-day rent, I plan to rent for a long time." ”

The uncle of the market administrator said: "We rent it here for half a year, and the location of that stall is not good, eighty yuan a month, and four hundred and eight for half a year." ”

Bai Mengdie paid the money very happily, and the market administrator's uncle also issued her a receipt.

The brother and sister held umbrellas, waded through the stagnant water and returned home, telling Bai Aiguo and his wife that the stall was done.

During this time, you can't sell food stalls, so you don't need to do vegetable barbecue anymore, you can vacate the big room, put two rows of stoves against the wall, at least 16 stoves, and at the same time can marinate 16 varieties of marinated vegetables.

After the family discussed the varieties of braised vegetables, Bai Mengdie asked Bai Aiguo to bring in the ingredients of the braised vegetables before five o'clock in the afternoon every day, marinate a batch in the middle of the night, and drag the marinated vegetables to the vegetable market at six o'clock to sell.

If it sells well, let Bai Aiguo buy another batch of marinade before noon and sell it.

Bai Aiguo immediately went to the meat to add meat ingredients, and specially asked people to give a few large pieces of ice to ice the meat to prevent it from spoiling in the heat.

Bai Mengdie concocted all the brine to be used tomorrow, and Bai Aiguo and his wife could directly marinate the marinated vegetables in the middle of the night.

The family went to bed at seven o'clock in the evening, and at one or two o'clock in the morning the next day, Bai Aiguo and his wife got up lightly and went to the rental house to start busy.

The two of them first cleaned all the ingredients that came back from the meat union yesterday afternoon, and then Tian Chunfang blanched the ingredients together in two pots.

Bai Aiguo cooks the stove and puts the blanched ingredients into the brine.

After everything was done, the husband and wife went back to sleep.

I slept until half past five, and the whole family was busy.

Bai Aiguo, father and son, took the marinated vegetables out of the brine, packed them all in a basin, and transported them to the vegetable market on a tricycle.

Bai Mengdie's mother and daughter are still selling breakfast at the door.

At about half past six, Shi Lei came back to eat breakfast from his father and son.

Tian Chunfang asked anxiously: "How is the business?" ”

Shi Lei smiled helplessly: "Mom, it's so early, there are not many people buying vegetables, how can you see if the business is good?" ”

He took the breakfast, rode the tricycle and left.

On rainy days, not only can't you do food stall business, but even the early business is worse by 20%.

There are many people who are reluctant to buy breakfast in the heavy rain and cook a casual meal at home, and some young people don't eat at all.

Bai Mengdie also adjusted for this situation and reduced the number of breakfasts, anyway, their family usually sells until nine o'clock in the morning.

After closing the stall, Tian Chunfang remembered the braised vegetable business, and despite Bai Mengdie's persuasion, she came to the vegetable market.

Seeing that her braised vegetable stall was crowded with customers, Shi Lei's father and son were busy like octopuses, and a heart was put into their stomachs.

Before eleven o'clock, the braised vegetables were almost sold, Bai Aiguo left Shi Lei alone to guard the stall, and he went to the meat union to get a batch of goods back to stew.

At 6:00 p.m., close the business and come back to count the turnover.

On this day, they made a net profit of more than 1,000 yuan, which is not much worse than setting up a food stall, and the family is very happy.

Although the flow of people in the vegetable market where Mengdie's family sells braised vegetables is not small, there are already three shops that sell braised vegetables, which are in a saturated state.

Originally, the competition between the three of them was fierce enough, but now Bai Mengdie's pickled vegetable stall has almost stolen all the business in just a few days, so you can imagine how much the three stall owners who sell pickled vegetables hate Bai Mengdie's family.

But I can't help it, I can only stare at their business is booming, who called their pickled vegetables not as delicious as Bai Mengdie.

Two days later, the flood control situation became more and more severe, and the community cadres held loudspeakers in the community to mobilize young and strong men to take the initiative to go to the community to sign up for volunteers to fight the flood.

Many young and middle-aged men who could not go to work or were laid off due to heavy rain flocked to the community to sign up.

Bai Aiguo and Shi Lei are all gone, and it is incumbent on them to defend their homeland!

Originally, Bai Aiguo only planned for him to go alone, leaving Shi Lei to take care of the family's business and the two women.

But Tian Chunfang and Bai Mengdie said that they could take care of themselves, and they could even handle the family's business.

Bai Aiguo asked Shi Lei to sign up with him.

In order to take care of the father and son, Bai Aiguo specially asked the community cadres to arrange his father and son in a team.

Other people's families usually only have one man, but the Bai family has two men, which made the community cadres very moved, so they agreed to Bai Aiguo's small request.

Bai Aiguo's father and son went to the front line of flood fighting, Tian Chunfang picked up the girder of the family, pushed a tricycle every day, dripping with stagnant water to get goods from the meat union, and Bai Mengdie was responsible for selling in the vegetable market.

As soon as [tick fo] was over, business had to stop, and sacrifices had to be made for the sake of the homeland.

The whole city is a vast ocean, and the vegetable market is not immune, but the water is not deep, but it is also half a foot.

Bai Mengdie stood in the water all day, and every day when she came back, the skin from her calves to her feet was soaked in white bubbles and wrinkled.

But she never complained, she remembered Paizhou Bay in her heart, Paizhou Bay had become a hell on earth in her previous life, and she hoped to stop it in this life.

But the communication network in this era is far less than in the previous life, and Bai Mengdie doesn't know how to send this news to the flood control headquarters.

And even if she contacts the flood control headquarters, she still has to convince people that what she said is true.

So what does she have to say to convince people that what she says is about to happen?

Bai Mengdie thought about it for several days and thought about it so much that her head was about to burst, but she didn't come up with a good solution, and finally simply kicked the problem to Chen Ziqian and gave him a headache.

Of course, she couldn't have told him that she had crossed over, so she knew that Paizhou Bend would burst in a week's time.

She said that she dreamed that Paizhou Bay had burst the embankment, which was so scary, and she always felt that it was her sixth sense.

Chen Ziqian reassured her that he would prevent her dream from coming true.

Bai Mengdie was a little relieved.

Chen Ziqian put down the phone and told Grandpa Chen that he was going to fight the flood, and he was going to the section of the river embankment in Paizhou Bay to guard the embankment.

When Jiang Yingyue heard this, she strongly objected, saying that his father had donated 10 million flood funds to the flood control headquarters, and there was no need to contribute if he paid for it.

But Chen Ziqian insisted on going, and Grandpa Chen stood on Chen Ziqian's side and supported him to fight the flood, saying that a good boy was born to shoulder the heavy responsibility of protecting his family and defending the country.

Jiang Yingyue couldn't resist with one enemy and two enemies, so she had to call Chen Junnan for help, hoping that he would persuade her father-in-law and son not to let Chen Ziqian go to fight the flood.

Chen Junnan pondered for a long time, and also stood on the side of his father and son.

Jiang Yingyue was so anxious that she cried on the spot, saying that their family only had Chen Ziqian's single seedling, what if they went to fight the flood?

Chen Junnan only said lightly: "Many of the soldiers who participated in the flood fight were only children. ”

Jiang Yingyue immediately stopped crying.

Chen Ziqian went to Paizhou Bay as he wished, and patrolled the river embankment with a group of volunteers every day against the storm, and immediately reported to his superiors once he found danger.

Bai Aiguo's father and son were strictly guarded on the embankment of the Moon Bay section not far from their home.

A few days later, the flood peak upstream and the local heavy rain caused the river to exceed the warning line by several meters, and the river level was higher than the road in the city, so the gate had to be closed.

Bai Aiguo, father and son, and a large group of volunteers carried 180 pounds of sandbags to the gate.

The upstream flood peak was surging, one wave after another, and Shi Lei and several volunteers were unfortunately swept away by the waves.

Bai Aiguo didn't care about anything, jumped into the river to save him, and soon disappeared into the raging waves.

With tears in their eyes, the other volunteers continued to block the gates, and now that they have no manpower to save people, it is more important to save the whole city.

At around 6:00 p.m. that day, the mother and daughter took the stall and went home together in the wind and rain.

When she returned to the community, Bai Mengdie saw that there were people exercising in the water, laughing and feasting, and she was not affected by the flood at all.

Bai Mengdie thought that these ordinary citizens had such a good attitude and could laugh happily, because someone was carrying the weight for them.

Thinking of Bai Aiguo's father and son who were fighting the flood on the front line, Bai Mengdie's mood became heavy.

When the mother and daughter returned home, they didn't have time to cook dinner, and a few community cadres came.

The faces of those community cadres became more serious than the other, and Tian Chunfang and Bai Mengdie couldn't help but be shocked.

Tian Chunfang asked nervously, "...... you What's the matter? ”

A community cadre held her hand tightly and said in a sad tone: "Xiao Tian, no matter what I say next, I hope you are strong." ”

Tian Chunfang is not a fool, and now that she has said this, she naturally guessed a few points, and asked in a trembling voice: "Is there an accident with patriotism or something happened to Lei Lei?" ”

The community cadre looked so unspeakable, and after a while, he whispered: "His father and son have both had an accident......

Tian Chunfang's face turned white at first, and then her eyes rolled and she fainted.

Fortunately, several community cadres had taken precautions and hugged her in time, otherwise she would have to fall to the ground.

When Bai Mengdie heard the bad news, she also wanted to faint, so that there would be no pain.

But she can't faint, Tian Chunfang is more fragile than her, she has to take care of her, and she also wants to know how Shi Lei's father and son had an accident, and whether there is a chance of survival.

With the help of several community cadres, Bai Mengdie carried Tian Chunfang to the bed, pinched her hard, and woke her up.

After Tian Chunfang woke up, she cried bitterly, and everyone present was sad when she saw it, and cried when she heard it.

Bai Mengdie patted her on the back, comforted her a few words, and asked the community cadres what happened to Shi Lei's father and son.

A community cadre roughly told Bai Mengdie what had happened.

knew that there was a lot of luck and little luck, but Bai Mengdie still comforted Tian Chunfang, saying that Shi Lei's father and son might escape from death.

Tian Chunfang nodded tearfully.

In fact, she also knew in her heart that no matter how good the water nature of Bai Aiguo's father and son was, it would be difficult to survive in such turbulent conditions.

But she still gave herself hope, hoping that Bai Aiguo's father and son would return alive.