493. Homecoming

Beichi County is lucky, although the county magistrate has not had time to count the total population of Beichi County, but he also knows that Beichi County has escaped this disaster.

There are those who are lucky, and there are those who are naturally unfortunate.

With the exception of the two prefectures, which were almost razed to the ground during the ground movement, all other prefectures and counties suffered huge losses in the floods.

In many places, the water has reached the roof by the later stage, and most of the houses have collapsed due to the large area soaked in the water and the soaking time is too long.

By the time the people returned to their homes, except for a few who were relieved, most of their houses were uninhabitable, either half-collapsed or completely collapsed, in short, suffering heavy losses.

The only consolation is that as long as they were transferred in advance, at least their food and property, as well as their daily necessities, were finally saved.

It's just that after the flood, many people's savings for many years may be wasted, and a house even the worst adobe house needs a few taels of silver.

Not to mention the adobe-brick mixed or pure brick house, there is no more than ten or twenty taels that cannot be built at all.

This result made many people can't help but feel sad.

Not only these, but even the number of casualties in these prefectures and counties is far more than that of Beichi County.

In addition, many prefectures and counties did not bury the exposed corpses of decomposing maggots as soon as possible, leaving them to the wilderness.

Especially the people in Fucheng County, they are used to sweeping the snow in front of their doors, and many people simply turn a blind eye to the corpses, in their minds, they are already miserable, where is there any other energy to care about other people's affairs.

Anyway, the people in official uniforms can't help but ask, and besides, the matter of collecting corpses is what they should do. By the time the government was in place and normal operations were resumed, the bodies had been exposed for a few more days, which also laid the seeds for what happened later.

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Qingyun Village.

With the opening of the road, Qingyun Village also began to be completely busy.

Almost every household in Qingyun Village will return to their village with their relatives to help them clean up the mess.

In the room, except for a kang, all the others that can be lifted out are lifted out, exposed to the scorching sun for a few days, and the houses that need to be renovated are helped to be renovated together.

They are all men who are used to doing work, as long as it is not a large-scale damage, they can still do simple renovation of the house.

As for the few collapsed houses, there is no way, so I can only ask a special master to rebuild them.

Therefore, it was not long before a group of people led by Du Craftsman and other craftsmen and masters instantly became sought-after fragrant buns, and after they repaired their homes, they began to get busy non-stop after the kiln factory started.

It is worth mentioning that the craftsmen did not raise the price because of the sought-after like other masters and craftsmen, but lowered the price one level lower than the usual price, which also made many people who collapsed the house grateful.

Xiao Qi also returned to Hedi Village at this time with his father Qiu Jing's uncles and the children and grandchildren of the Wei family, and as for Brother Yu and his nephews, they all returned to their respective Yue's houses to help.

Qiu Jing came over cheekily, in fact, if you want Xiao Qi to say, this person just doesn't know how comfortable it is to stay at home.

Qiu Jing: ...... What should he do when he encounters such a dull girl?

After coming to Hedi Village, to be honest, Xiao Qi breathed a sigh of relief.

The situation was not too bad, and perhaps it was because they came back a day late, but the road was almost all cleaned.

The sound of tidying up was heard almost from every house, and the carriage still saw several collapsed houses, and in each collapsed house someone was cleaning up.

Either way, as long as the person is safe.

Xiao Qi went to his uncle's house first with his father and Qiu Jing.

The moment they opened the door, fortunately it didn't make them too sad.

Visually, it seems that everything is fine with the house at present, even the fruit trees in the yard look very good, there is no listlessness, very sluggish signs, and the fruit on the trees is at least still hanging.

Xiao Qi glanced at these fruit trees, and estimated that it might have something to do with the fact that she occasionally kindly poured a drop of space water into each fruit tree in the past.

After all, along the way, she had seen a lot of listless trees, which had already performed relatively well.

Of course, the yard is inevitably messy.

There was timber and timber everywhere, so that the first thing everyone walked in the door was to start. Collect all kinds of timber and lumber in the yard.

Fortunately, after so many days of exposure, these materials have dried out, and they just need to be cleaned up.

After everyone's efforts, within half an hour, the courtyard was cleaned up.

Next, the eldest uncle and the eldest cousin and nephew couldn't wait to open their own doors.

Taking the key to the door of his grandfather's and grandmother's room from his uncle, Xiao Qi opened the door.

The moment I opened the door, my heart was completely relaxed, and except for a few mud, everything else didn't look bad.

As long as the room is thoroughly cleaned and cleaned and dried in ventilation for a few days, it can be lived.

Fortunately, because I had prepared in advance, not all the furniture was damp.

Next, Xiao Qi and Brother Qiu began to move out all the furniture in their grandfather's and grandmother's room, and for a while, the front and back courtyards of the uncle's house were full of furniture.

In the empty room, there is only one brick kang left, but fortunately, it is made of bricks and stones, and there is no damage, only a few fires need to be filled in, and the inside of the kang is almost completely dried.

The next thing is to clean up, all the mud in the room has to be cleaned out, and the layer of lime on the bottom wall that has been soaked in water has been all blistered, and some of it has been peeled off automatically, and the lime on the wall needs to be replaced.

The walls of all the rooms need to be replaced, and the uncle's sons have also been separated a few years ago, so the amount of work is still not small.

Fortunately, my uncle's family has a strong population, so it is not too difficult to do.

As for the materials, they are naturally pulled from the Lu family, and now you can't buy the materials even if you have money.

After such a large-scale flood, whether it is a business or a variety of workshops, if you want to return to normal, it is impossible to do it without half a month.

As for the support from other provinces, it can reach all prefectures and counties, and the days are not much different.

Of course, it can also be sorted out while living, although it is not sorted out once and for all, but it is much better than living in a shack and setting up a tent outside.

Grandma's family and even the in-laws of the Lu family naturally don't have to worry, the Lu family has these materials.

Because of the ground movement, their family prepared a lot of materials needed to build a house in advance, among which lime was stored a lot in advance.

Of course, through the discussion between the grandfather and the little uncle, it was finally decided to provide them to the more than ten households in the village who had no houses to live in at half price.

Why is it half price? You must know that Shengmien, Doumiqiu, according to Grandpa, can't let the villagers have the mentality of getting something for nothing.

You must know that a set of brick and stone houses will cost at least twenty or thirty taels, which is really not much at half price.

And the most important thing is that the other people in the half-price village can still understand, after all, this is a big disaster, and if it is free, there is no guarantee that the villagers will not have other ideas.

Of course, all the silver taels collected were handed over to the little uncle, the village chief.