Chapter 15: The Flood Is Merciless
"You eat first, I'll go and bring food to my father-in-law." Before Hao Hao left, he didn't forget to give the two puppies something to eat, watching them eat sweetly, his hard work was not in vain.
"Dad, are you awake? I made something to eat, you eat something. Hao Hao stood outside the window and asked loudly.
It was raining heavily outside, and she said it quietly, Xu Laohan couldn't hear it, but it was too big.
"Wake up, you bring it in." Xu Laohan said
"Hmm." Hao Hao went in with a bowl.
"What's this?" Xu Laohan asked about the soft little dimple and big pastries in the bowl.
"I'm thinking about it myself, thinking that something soft fits your teeth, and I make some dessert for tea. This is still what I saw in a book, it is a kind of tea in Guangzhou, which is usually paired with tea, so I wanted to try it, but I didn't expect it to happen. Hao Hao had already prepared his rhetoric, and the refreshment culture in Guangzhou was very popular, but for the people who were hiding in the corners, these were all unfamiliar, so when they said it suddenly, they would believe it.
"And there are such." Xu Laohan was skeptical, but he couldn't help but take a piece and eat it.
"It tastes good, girl, you're getting better at running a house now." Xu Laohan said with a smile.
"Dad, if you like to eat, eat more, and I will make everything for you to eat in the future." Hao Hao looked at Xu Laohan eating happily and immediately said.
"Well, it's raining so hard, you can't do anything, you just fall asleep more, you can't be tired more just out of confinement, and it's easy to have back pain in the future." Xu Laohan looked at his daughter-in-law, there should have been someone to help her, and she was in pain, but unfortunately the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, so she lost her support early, and she was pitiful.
"Well, when Dad eats dinner, I will bring you food, and you are also asleep, I guess it will rain for two days." Hao looked at the sky outside, the sky was gloomy, and it seemed that the estimated time would not be short.
"I'll feed the sheep and chickens after I'm done, and I'll sleep later." Xu Laohan unconsciously ate another piece, which was neither sweet nor greasy, it was indeed delicious. It seems that people on the outside will really enjoy it.
"Put on your raincoat when you go out." Hao Hao remembers having a raincoat at home.
"Well, go ahead." Xu Laohan ate another one.
Hao Hao went out again, she hadn't eaten yet, so she hurriedly went in and took a bite, it was really delicious, better than what modern ones made.
"All at once." Hao Hao unconsciously ate a bowl, and sure enough, dessert can make people feel better.
Looking at the half-empty food, she glanced back at the baby again, and then flashed into the space.
The remaining land in the space, she will plant today, and the rest of the time will practice martial arts.
Originally, she planted wheat and rice, but today she will plant some of the things she wants most, such as peppers, cabbage, and so on.
Although there is space in it, it will not be able to stand up to the need for more in the future, so since it has been decided, then do it.
Before planting, she asked the ground to turn over the ground, pick up the grass roots inside, and then use a rake to hug it, and when the ground was leveled, she went to find some rapeseeds.
I thought there was no space in it, but after her unremitting efforts, she found a lot of usable rapeseed in a small corner.
She couldn't tell which one was which, so she grabbed a handful in a daze, then sprinkled a layer in the gouged ditch, and then leveled the land with a rake.
On the other side, as soon as Gao Shaoming and others arrived in Xia County, they immediately went to the disaster area non-stop.
The rain in the eighties was very heavy, and the manpower and material resources were not as good as in modern times.
A large number of people dispersed, and there were less than ten people on one street. The flood water rolled down to the low-lying areas, and many people entered on foot. Walking on the streets, people are flowing into the water and the water is waist-high.
Gao Shaoming followed an old public security officer about forty years old, and took five ordinary people, seven of whom ran across a street and went straight to the school not far away.
This school is a junior high school in the county seat, and students who live far away from home live on campus, so the heavy rain has trapped dozens of students living in the school.
"The students in Xiao Gao are all country children, and it is the first time to encounter such heavy rain, and it is inevitable to be frightened. The first thing to do at the moment is to find them, calm their emotions, and then slowly transfer. "The forty-year-old old public security officer is named Gao Jianguo, and he has the same surname as Gao Shaoming, and he is very optimistic about Gao Shaoming.
"Okay, Uncle Gao." Gao Shaoming replied.
"Tie the rope to the big tree in the doorway, and then you tie the rope to your body as well, and we grope our way forward." Gao Jianguo turned back to the other five and said.
"Got it." All five answered in unison.
The rain became heavier and heavier, and the ponchos on their bodies were blown away by the wind at some point, and the seven of them walked into the school with great difficulty through the flood.
It has only been four or five years since Gao Shaoming graduated, and this is the first time he has entered a small courtyard after graduation, and his heart is not at peace. But today he was not in the mood to care whether he was excited or not, he was thinking about the trapped children.
Just like myself back then, when the family was poor, and when it snowed heavily, he was the last to receive three meals a day, and then went to the hot water room to eat the hard and iron-hard nest.
It's still very sour when I think about it now.
"Xiao Gao is a dormitory there, you see that the water has overflowed the steps, quickly find something to support them and take them out." Gao Jianguo is also a hard-working person, he is still alone in his forties, and he has no partner to care about him, so he lives a boring, difficult and lonely life.
"Got it, Uncle Gao, I'm good at water, I can swim over and have a look, you wait here for my news first." Gao Shaoming casually touched a handful of rain and sweat, and without waiting for Gao Jianguo to speak, one swooped into the turbid water.
"Be careful." Gao Jianguo saw that Gao Shaoming had traveled far away, and he knew that he was too late to advise, so he reminded loudly.
On the other side, Hao Hao suddenly woke up somehow, looking at the heavy rain outside the window and feeling a little worried.
She got up and touched the child, then got off the kang and went out.
"Dad, are you resting?" Hao Hao asked outside the window.
"What's wrong with the woman?" Old Man Xu's voice sounded.
"I see that the rain is so heavy, I don't know if the sheep pen and the chicken pen are good?" Hao Hao couldn't help but ask again.
"I just built a floor, it's okay, it's getting dark, let's cook." When Xu Laohan heard this, he immediately said.
"That's good, Dad, do you want to eat noodle soup or dry mix?" Hao Hao asked again.
"You fry some shredded potatoes, steam some steamed buns, and that's it for dinner." Xu Laohan said again.
"Got it." Hao Hao turned around and went back to the room after hearing this.
This will make steamed buns and have to make noodles first, and if the noodles are made, it will take too long to make them. It's better to use dead noodles directly, and then make the filling richer.
"Big black and little black I want to make buns, what kind of stuffing do you want?" Hao Hao was so bored that he talked to the dog.
"Wang" The two dogs actually opened their mouths in response.
"You've become sperm." Hao said with a smile.
"Wangwang." The two puppies barked one by one. This made a noise to Xiao Tiantian, and she was scared and cried.
"We made a mistake." Hao Hao shook his hand, hurriedly ran to the kang and patted his child, until she stopped crying and fell asleep before she went to clean up the filling.
There is no meat in the space, only vegetables, and in this era, there are only potatoes and other wild vegetables for buns.
Cabbage and potatoes are trapped, and if you want to eat meat, you can buy them after a while when you earn money.
"Little black and big black, you grow up quickly, my desire to eat meat depends on you." Hao Hao washed the vegetables and turned back to the wolf dog with two ears and said.
"Wang," Da Hei shouted in a low voice.
"Learn to be smart, you drink milk every day, and you will grow up in less than half a year after eating." Hao said with a smile.
"Wang" Xiaohei crawled out of his kennel, ran to Hao Hao's side, grabbed her legs and shouted.
These two little wolf dogs were brought from the house, they were all fed by Hao Hao, and they were as attentive as taking care of children, can they not recruit dogs to be sticky?
Someone accompanied the time to pass quickly, and when it was completely dark, the buns came out of the pot.
It is said that Gao Shaoming jumped into the flood and desperately swam to the dormitory.
The dormitory was crowded with children, each with something in their arms, clothes, basketballs, and water bottles. I think it's all my cherished objects. However, they were all frightened, and one by one they shook their bodies, their lips trembled, and they begged for someone to come and save them.
Suddenly, a heavenly voice came through the window.
"Anyone?"
"Yes." The children replied babblingly.
"Don't move around yet, find the sheets and covers, tie them around your waists, and then come out one by one in order, and I'll pick you up outside the door." Gao Shaoming arranged in an orderly manner outside the window.
The flood water overflowed the steps and partially flowed into the house. The children scrambled for sheets and quilts and wrapped them around their waists. Then he who came near the door opened the door.
"Someone, the delivery board." Gao Jianguo hurriedly spoke.
"Okay." The five people behind him pushed out the assembled planks with their hands and feet.
"Shaoming, wait for uncle, I'll send you a board." Gao Jianguo held the board in his hand and walked towards Gao Shaoming step by step.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, the flood was still rising, and when Gao Jianguo arrived at the door of the dormitory, he was so tired that he was panting.
"Can planks carry people?" Gao Shaoming asked.
"Put the lightweight, short ones on them, and we'll drag the other children over while the flood has not yet overflowed." Gao Jianguo wiped the rain and talked to Gao Shaoming about his ideas.
"Okay. I hugged the smaller, the other hand in hand, around the plank, and I think it will pass quickly. Gao Shaoming put the nearest child on the plank, and about ten minutes later, everyone set off.
Gao Shaoming was still in front, pressing the plank, dragging another child's hand, and walked in the flood with difficulty.
The five people on the opposite side raised their hearts to their throats, watching them staggering through the flood and facing the torrential rain, walking towards them
"Pull the rope." Someone shouted.
"Pull, pull hard." Someone chimed in.
In this way, Gao Shaoming and the others arrived at a safe place without danger.
"Uncle Gao's children are sent to a temporary shelter, and I'll go see the others." Gao Shaoming untied the rope around his waist and said to Gao Jianguo, who was also panting.
"Okay, be careful, don't go too deep, don't go if you don't know, don't go if you don't know. Remember that you are young. Gao Jian's Chinese said earnestly.
"Got it." Gao Shaoming waved his hand and left.