Chapter 51: Countermeasures
Wu Guifang and his family were hiding in a cave four or five hundred meters high, and after a month of pouring rain, they didn't feel anything else.
However, the villagers who live at the foot of the mountain and have never been relocated have a much deeper understanding.
In those few nights, it was pouring rain from the sky, and it was getting more and more ferocious.
They can't do anything but hide in their homes.
They can't get out if they want to.
Because the rain outside was so heavy, when it hit people, it hurt very much. Moreover, they can't open their eyes and see the road in front of them clearly when they go out.
Even if they were wearing robes, they couldn't go out at all under the rainstorm and thunder!
Moreover, one by one, they have to worry from time to time about whether their houses will be blown down by the wind and trampled by the torrential rain under the strong winds, torrential rains, and lightning and thunder. When the thunder in the sky falls, will it accidentally ignite the thatch and wood on the roof?
The people they hide in their homes are always on the lookout for themselves. They didn't sleep during those nights.
Some of them were a little more alert, and when the rain was a little lighter during the day, they would take one or two of their sons to a place a little higher up, look around, and patrol everywhere.
It also happened that there was such a family in Jiajialing, and when the family was in the daytime, they took their eldest son to the orchard on the mountain to find something to eat.
Just as they were about to pick up some fruit on the ground to eat, they heard an earth-shattering roar.
Then, the father and son saw from a distance that less than 200 meters away from their Jiajialing, there was a mountain with a slightly steeper slope, which collapsed directly.
The mud was accompanied by the flood, and it rushed directly into their Jiajialing. Soon, their crimson torrent rushed into the distance carrying all the houses, everyone, and everything in Jiajialing.
Seeing this scene with their own eyes, the father and son had no other way but to shout hoarsely.
Even if they are water-sensitive, they know that they are in the torrent of mud, wrapped in a large pile of dirt, and they can't save their loved ones.
Although these things have been happening for five or six days. But when they think about it now, it's like a nightmare.
They can't accept the facts.
Because this reality is too cruel.
Those relatives who get along day and night, where they are now and where they are going, they actually have a general understanding in their hearts.
However, they still had a chance to do so.
I feel that my children, relatives, and clansmen are still alive.
It was not without floods in this place before. They had heard that some old people who had experienced floods would hold the trunks of trees in the water, float in the river for a few days, and then slowly dock to the shore.
As long as people climb ashore, they can actually survive.
Seeing their relatives washed away by a torrent of dirt with their own eyes, they can only keep hoping in their hearts that all of them will ,...... They should all be alive by now!
They're still alive and well.
Jia Jialing suffered heavy losses this time. Of the one or two hundred households, there are only about 10 left.
As for the situation in Wujia Village, it is actually similar.
All Wu Hongsheng could see were acquaintances with more than a dozen old faces.
Landslides, mudslides, floods in those days,...... Wu Hongsheng has not experienced it, nor has he seen it with his own eyes.
He just waited for the rain to stop and the sun came out outside, and when he went down the mountain, he saw the jaw-dropping scenes.
What used to be a beautiful village is now in shambles.
The laughter and laughter of the past have now become lonely and desolate.
Seeing that they were male or female, old or young, they all had a bitter face, sighed, or cried for their father and mother, wailed and cried, sat on the ground and sighed, God is going to kill them......
Wu Hongsheng suddenly felt that these days, the people of Li have lived too hard.
It's no wonder that Qu Yuan always mourned the difficulties of people's livelihood back then.
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Such a big thing happened, and the people who are now left in Wujiacun and Jiajialing can only unite and prepare to build a joint residence together on the high places on the mountain.
Now they only add up to more than 200 people. And Wu Hongsheng has more than 30 people. Moreover, there are especially many young and middle-aged men.
In an agrarian society with poor living conditions, young men have always been a particularly important force.
There are many men in Wu Hongsheng's family, so he naturally has some right to speak.
Some people went, in the cave where Wu Hongsheng now lives. However, the four caves connected together could not accommodate nearly 300 villagers at the same time.
Under such a situation, Wu Hongsheng first proposed that they must build a strong and reliable residence on the mountain.
Because according to the past experience of the old people in the village, after a catastrophe, there will definitely be mountain bandits and displaced people who have lost their land and have no way to survive.
Everyone in the mountains knows that the mountain bandits and homeless people kill people without blinking. In order to fill their stomachs, they often run around some villages and kill a few children to eat.
If there are more of them, the scale of their meetings is hundreds of people, thousands of people, or even tens of thousands, constantly impacting villages one by one.
Then, like a locust crossing the border, it ate everything that could be eaten.
In addition, in the interior of the mountain bandits, as soon as they fall, as soon as they fall, they immediately become the prey of others!
Wu Hongsheng fled from the north more than 40 years ago. I think back then, when his family set off to migrate, there were six or seven hundred people.
However, after coming to this place, their people became very few.
As soon as he thought of the things he had experienced back then, Wu Hongsheng began to organize all the survivors to carry the big stones on the mountain, cut down the trees on the mountain, and constantly dig trenches and traps.
Wu Hongsheng now wants to build a small fortress that can defend against the enemy.
Although Wu Hongsheng knew in his heart that he could keep his peace for a period of time by hiding in the cave.
However, he is not particularly sure how long he can keep his peace.
He needs a force.
He needs a lot of young adults to take advantage of.
And Wu Hongsheng's thoughts, Wu Guifang is also very clear.
She knew that there was power in numbers. It's a good idea to build a small fortress together to protect your life and property.