Lu Xiuzhi finally looked forward to Qi Health's letter, and attached to the letter was a photo of him standing next to the Dajiefang car. The letter said that their troops were about to complete their mission and would be transferred back to the mainland, and that everything was fine with him, but he was only transported in the rear and did not have to go to the front line to fight, so that his family could rest assured.

Lu Xiuzhi finally showed a long-lost smile, and the whole family seemed to hear the sound of the glacier breaking, and laughed, and the Qi security guard even jumped up and howled twice.

Qi Youheng deliberately took the letter to Taiping Village to read it to his father, and the old man Qi looked up with a trace of self-satisfaction that others could not understand, looked up and looked at the portrait on the wall, and said to his son: "Let your daughter-in-law put her heart in her stomach, don't cry and chirp every day, and look depressed." The child is designated to be able to make meritorious service and come back! Just say I'm talking about the ground! ”

Qi Youheng nodded again and again.

Shen Mengxi sat on the bicycle girder and followed, and the old man Qi looked at his granddaughter and became even happier, "Zhuzhu has grown up in the past six months!" Grow meat too! You two have learned to feed your children! ”

Qi Youheng smiled bitterly and nodded.

The old man Qi asked Qi Baokang about the college entrance examination, and then talked to the old son about the rise of the river, "I look at the beginning of this year, this year of rats, always does not stop, it is not good to have a big flood this year, your house is a brick house built last year, the water is not afraid, it should be brought together, it should be brought together, clear the vegetable cellar as soon as possible, and get the canopy up, don't wait for the matter to come to an end, you can't open it." On my side, there is your eldest brother, you don't have to care. ”

Old Man Qi's house was in 82 years, on the original foundation, the expanded brick house, the terrain is also high, and he is not afraid of heavy water. Most of the houses were mud houses from many years ago, and if there was a piece of wood wrapped around it, it would definitely collapse.

"I'll go to the village chief's house and chat. You two will leave after eating. After speaking, he didn't wait for his son's reaction, got up and left.

At the end of July, the water level in Heilongjiang repeatedly rose, and the cement trestle used to load and unload coal and timber along the river was about to be submerged. Several passenger ships and military boats docked on the shore looked as if they were parked on the top of the dam, and when they walked down the street, they could see the hull from a distance, and they could only feel indescribable strangeness and fear.

Everyone was uneasy in their hearts, but no one said it clearly, and every family was silently preparing for the disaster, some sent the elderly and children to relatives in other places, some put valuable things in the ceiling, and some moved everything to relatives in Nanshan.

The county party committee has set up an emergency flood control headquarters, and a large number of personnel have been dispatched from various units, and a large number of soldiers have also been dispatched to participate in the construction and reinforcement of the embankment.

The Qi family lives by the river, and they can hear the roar of tractors bulldozing the dam day and night.

Qi Youheng was also transferred to flood control, and he did not return for many days, and Lu Xiuzhi was alone in all the affairs of the family, but fortunately, with the assistance of Qi Baoping, he carried the small pieces of furniture, bedding, and clothes to the ceiling, and the large wardrobe and sofa could only be resigned to fate. Shen Mengxi also packed up the small items, and Lu Xiuzhi scolded the second son when she was very tired, "You can't catch him when it's time to employ people!" ”

Shen Mengxi also felt that Qi Baokang was too much. Although Qingfeng Forest Farm is also near the river, the terrain is high, and there is no risk of embankment breaking. During this special period, when he heard the news, he should hurry back to the county to help, instead of so-called adjusting his mood in the forest farm.

At this time, it was during the summer vacation, and Lu Xiuzhi seriously warned several children in the family, especially the old Siqi security guards, that they were absolutely not allowed to swim by the river, otherwise they would lose their legs!

Qi Baoan swore that he would never go to the riverside, "I'm stupid, the water is so muddy!" ”

"How do you know Huns? Did you go to the dam to see the water? Lu Xiuzhi accurately caught her son's language loophole.

"No, no, no! I looked through the binoculars, and the river was floating with messy things, and it must have been muddy! Qi Baoan hurriedly defended.

"If you dare to go into the water, I can kill you!" Lu Xiuzhi warned again uneasily.

Qi's house is too close to the river, the weather is unusually hot, Qi Baoan uses the pressure well every day to make cold water, pour it on his body to take a shower, and then climb on the roof of the partial building, look at the water level of the river, and count from the telescope how high the red bricks piled on the shore are left.

On this day, he went to the ceiling to play again.

The ceiling had already been arranged by Qi Baoping, the electric light was pulled, the luggage was placed on it, and the rice, flour, grain and oil were also carried on it. The Qi family house is a two-family building, more than 60 square meters, only two bedrooms before and after, a living room, a kitchen, and a side building of more than 10 square meters on the side, they are called the door bucket, and the two doors open the door in the door bucket.

The ceiling on the ceiling is interconnected with the next door, Qi Baoping used canvas to pull a curtain between the two houses, and the Han family next door also moved the items to the ceiling, the ceiling is like an attic, usually no one will arrange the ceiling, just put some things that are not needed. Now that it is arranged, it makes Qi Baoan very curious, and he likes to play in the ceiling when he has nothing to do.

Shen Mengxi only heard the sound of banging above his head in the room, and the laughter of giggling, it must have been the two of them Qi Security and Han Dong next door who opened the curtain in the middle and ran back and forth at both ends. Shen Mengxi was really speechless, he was fifteen years old, why didn't he show any signs of maturity. She was really worried that Qi Security would leak down from the ceiling and fall to the ground in the next second.

Suddenly, there was a whistle outside the gate, and the sound of the ceiling died down, and Shen Mengxi saw the Qi security guard quickly coming down from the ladder in the side building, and shouted at the next door, "Emergency assembly!" Running out of the gate in a few steps, Shen Mengxi chased out to see that the Qi security guard had disappeared.

In the evening, Lu Xiuzhi came back from work, made a simple meal, and began to make camellia noodles. She put the dry flour in a basin and steamed it in a large pot for half an hour, when it came out of the pot, the flour was already a lump.

Once cooled, roll out the flour with a rolling pin and stir-fry in a pan over low heat with butter until golden brown.

The house was full of fragrance, Lu Xiuzhi brewed a bowl for each of her third son and daughter, added a spoonful of sugar, tasted it herself, and told Shen Mengxi, "Don't drink too much, heartburn." ”

Thinking of his old son, "What about the security guard?" ”

"Didn't look." Qi Baoping said.

Shen Mengxi suddenly remembered, "In the afternoon, he was playing in the ceiling, and when he heard someone whistling, he ran out. ”

Lu Xiuzhi put the rest of the camellia noodles aside to dry, and suddenly felt furious in her heart, "This dead kid won't go to the river to take a bath, right?" ”

"No, now the water is so big, and the security guards are not stupid!" Qi Baoping comforted his mother, "I'll go out and look for it." ”

As soon as I went out, I heard someone from the Han family next door shouting, "People are drowning by the river!" Then there was the sound of hurried footsteps and ran away.

The bowl in Lu Xiuzhi's hand fell to the ground with a snap and shattered, his hands were not washed, he turned his head and ran out, Qi Baoping and Shen Mengxi also ran out, Qi Baoping still remembered to lock the door of the house.