Chapter 52: Collective Life
"Ah Qing, these are all prepared by you in advance?" Jiang knew that the incident was in a hurry, and it was impossible to prepare wine.
"Mother, remember that I have been ...... for the past few months. I've been on guard since the weather was out of the ordinary. Li Qing put away the wine and said to the Wang family: "Many things can't be taken out for the time being, please keep them secret, we just have these three boxes." ”
"Sister, don't worry, if you hadn't reminded us, we wouldn't have been able to rescue so many things, we only saw your family carrying three boxes up." Wang Hong and Wang glanced at each other and said.
The Wang family also brought the iron pot at home, and the men of the Wang family also came back in the evening, and everyone set up the suggested earthen stove and cooked a pot of miscellaneous stew.
The rain kept falling and it didn't go down. Because it was raining all the time, the whole world seemed dark and drowsy.
At night, everyone didn't have the heart to chat and laugh, so they divided the hay that Li Qing had hidden before into two piles, and slept separately between men and women.
Although there are no large beasts on the back mountain of Shilitang Village, it does not mean that the beasts in the depths of the Quanji Mountain Range will not escape. Therefore they were careful not to cause trouble.
At night, men and women alternately keep vigils, the men of the Wang family keep vigil in the first half of the night, and the Jiang family of Liqing in the second half of the night.
The next day, it was still raining, and it had been raining for two days and two nights.
This kind of rain for a day or two should not have flooded so quickly, and it is very likely that it rained early in the upstream area.
The flood peak in the upper reaches hit the downstream, directly submerging the entire Shilitang village. Although Shilitang Village is located at the foot of the mountain, it is in a depression, and the lower part is relatively flat and prone to water accumulation.
Li Qing can only guess like this.
It should be that there have been floods in the entire Ninghe River Basin, and floods are accompanied by mudslides and collapses, so this mountain may not be safe.
The most important thing is that this rain will stop at some point, and many things are limited by this heavy rain.
Jiang Kui was also anxious at this time, there were more than 100 people who followed at first, and then people found them one after another, and the entire team expanded to nearly 160 people.
He urgently organized a team of Orion families in the village to go down the mountain to grab some supplies and come back, but it was far from enough.
They have no medicinal herbs, many children and elderly people are sick because of the cold, and some people who have been injured by struggling in the water have not been treated in time and have developed high fevers.
The doctor in the village was not with them, and I don't know if they were dead or hiding somewhere else, or they didn't see anyone.
The mountain is lush with vegetation, but they don't know the medicinal herbs.
July is not the harvest season, and many of the fruits on the mountain are not ripe, and some do not bear fruit at all because of the heat. There are rhizomes of the plant, which some women pick every day.
It hasn't rained for months, and the wild vegetables don't grow luxuriantly, and there are silk thatchs everywhere, the kind that can't be eaten.
There is another thing that makes Jiang Kui anxious, Jiang Tangchen's branch has never been seen. Li Qing was the first to give an early warning and ran to the village to remind them to run. Alas, this junior is a good one, I hope they are safe and sound.
After another three days, the rain finally lightened.
Looking from the mountain, Shilitang has become an ocean, and you can only vaguely look at the roofs of each house. You can see how ferocious the flood was this time.
"It's gone, there's nothing, oh!" Some people knelt on the ground, hugged their heads and cried.
"Our home is gone, our home is gone." A little girl touched the trunk of a tree and looked at the yellow and red mountains below, with a mosquito-like sound in her mouth. Some of the boys who are naughty on weekdays also keep their heads down and don't dare to say a word.
Almost at the same time, all the survivors on the mountain looked down the mountain.
"Everyone, bye!"
Jiang Kui trembled and knelt down.
Regardless of whether the ground was wet or not, and the rain had not stopped, everyone knelt on their knees and put their hands on the ground.
"Woo woo, our home, our Shilitang."
"Oh my God, what mistake did we make to punish us like this?"
"God, please do it, retreat!"
Some of them wept and began to pray to God, and kept kowtowing and talking, and tears mixed with rain flowed into their clothes.
"Please, God, back the water! Shilitang is willing to pay tribute three times a year and repay his vows for a lifetime. ”
Li Qing followed the Wang family man to find the large army in the village, only to see everyone kneeling on the ground, crying out in pain. Some families didn't have time and only one or two escaped, and some people's lives were saved by others.
The three of them stood abruptly abruptly, as if they couldn't blend in.
Li Qing felt extremely uncomfortable.
Seeing that she was unwilling to see such a situation, Li Qing felt an inexplicable sense of guilt in her heart. Because she had a premonition that something was going to happen, but she couldn't say it, and if she did, she wouldn't believe it.
"Sister, the village chief is in front, let's go over." Wang Hong's husband Wang Xianmin said.
Li Qing nodded.
"Jiang Li's? It's great that you're alive. Jiang Kui couldn't help but smile when he saw Li Qing. If it weren't for Li Qing, Shilitang would have suffered more losses and more deaths.
This time, Li Qing is the great hero of Shilitang Village, and after the flood recedes, he must make a note in the ancestral hall.
I don't know what happened to the Jiang clan in Dayebai Village, Dayebai is on the other side of the mountain, and the terrain is slightly higher than Shilitang.
"I'm fine, and so are they." Li Qing glanced around and found several people lying dying in shelter from the rain under the rocks.
"Are they sick?"
"Yes, I've been sick for several days, and I can't be treated, so I can only drag it." Jiang Kui lowered his head.
"Why don't you go to the mountains to find herbs? Ordinary herbs can also be pressed for a few points. Li Qing asked.
"I've tried it, but it doesn't work, we people are digging in the ground, and we only know a few flavors when we come and go, and it's useless to try it."
Li Qing and them were half a pound and eight taels, and they confirmed that they were not people who studied medicine.
"I came here to tell Grandpa Jiang about something." Li Qing no longer looked at the patients, but turned to Jiang Kui.
"What's the matter?" After this flood incident, Li Qing's weight in Jiang Kui's heart has become a little heavier.
"After a few days of heavy rain, you can see that the rain is gradually decreasing, but there should still be some time before the flood waters recede, and during this time, we should pay special attention to beware of the plague, Grandpa Jiang is also a person who has experienced a lot of strong winds and waves, and I heard that a similar situation occurred more than 20 years ago."
Jiang Kui's eyes widened, he almost forgot about this stubble. After the flood, the five elements are disordered and the six qi are misplaced, which is most likely to lead to epidemics.