Chen Caichun and Chen Shuangchuan have one for each other, Chen Shunan has one for each person, and the Yang family has also torn half of it, and the rest is still wrapped, ready to wait for Chen Shiyou.

But at about one o'clock, Chen Shiyou came back, twisted his clothes and shook his head and said, "No, the deep places are up to my chest, and I didn't dare to go in again." The sluice gate has been opened, but the water is too deep to be left for a whole day. ”

After discussing for a while, Chen Shiyou and Yang went to the village chief to have a look, and the little ones asked them to go to their grandmother's house to live for a few days.

"Know the way, right?" Chen Shiyou was a little worried, "Caichun has to take care of his younger brothers and sisters." ”

Chen Caichun pulled Chen Shunan with one hand and Chen Shuangchuan with the other, and then nodded solemnly.

Grandma's house Chen Shuang is used to going, and it is not very far away, and this road is all official roads, except for a few places, there is basically no place for stagnant water, but there is nothing particularly difficult to walk. It's just that from time to time, I saw people with sad faces walking by, and Chen Shuangchuan felt a burst of fear, if the water rose a little higher and more fiercely, then where could they run?

"Third sister, will this water still rise?" Chen Shuangchuan couldn't help but ask.

Chen Caichun noticed that Chen Shuang's hand was a little shaky, not only her, but even her own hand was a little shaky, thinking of the flood yesterday, she felt afraid, they actually walked over so safely, in such a dark night, such a narrow path, they were still intact.

"What do you say, as long as the tide does not rise, it will recede, and there will be people in the yamen who will come to repair the embankment, don't think about it." At this time, Chen Shunan was the calmest one, looking at the two sisters who were very tired, thought about it, took out a baked cake from his pocket, handed it out, and said, "Hurry up and walk after eating, maybe you can catch up with the meal." ”

Chen Caichun took it quite happily and divided it into three parts, just stuffed it into his mouth, and suddenly got angry again, and took a big bite angrily: "You obviously ate one just now, how can you have another one, my mother is really eccentric!" ”

After staying at his grandmother's house for three days, Chen Shiyou asked someone to bring a message and said that they would stay for a few more days, but his grandmother lived with his uncle, and his family was not particularly good.

Chen Caichun's personality is the most hot, and he almost jumped up and scolded back several times, but he was stopped by Chen Shuang, Chen Shunan suggested that he should go home early, thinking about it, it has been three days, and the water should have receded, so he came out of his grandmother's house and went home.

Although it has been left for three days, there is still a lot of water in the low-lying areas, the soil has not been completely dried, and the water surface of the nearby river is level with the road, and it looks as if the river has doubled in width all of a sudden.

Chen Shiyou and Yang were cleaning up at home, and the water actually overflowed to the second floor, even if Chen Shiyou worked hard to drag the two baskets to the second floor, in the end they did not escape the fate of being melted by the water, leaving a thin layer of silt, which looked particularly miserable. On the first floor, because there is a threshold blocking, the water has not yet receded, and the husband and wife are scooping water out of a bucket of water, and they were a little surprised to see the three sisters and brothers suddenly go home, but they didn't say much, nodded and said, "Come and help." ”

The family worked hard all day to clean the house, but the ground downstairs was paved with mud, and it was soaked in water for three days, and it was very muddy, and it took a long time to dry and firm again, and it was no longer sticky to the soles of the feet when stepping on it.

Even so, the disaster in Chenjia Village was relatively light, but the seawall that collapsed was almost directly facing the waves, and it is said that several were swept away on the spot, because there were not a few houses and trees that were destroyed.

Because of this big flood, all the salt accumulated before was melted by the water and returned to the sea, Chen Shiyou was anxious for several days, and later learned that the yamen issued a notice to exempt taxes for a year, but the food for disaster relief is not here, and there have been natural and man-made disasters in the past few years, and there are always places where the disaster is more serious.

As soon as this notice came out, while breathing a sigh of relief, Chen Shiyou also felt worried, although the salt tax was exempted, but for the salt households, it may not be a good thing, the salt households could not engage in other industries, and all the salt produced could only be sold to the salt department, and the salt department was charged at half price when the tax was exempted, that is, the amount of salt was not less, and the money received was less than half.

Where the sea water flooded, most of the crops were poured, and even the grains were not harvested, and the acre of cotton land where the Chen family had just grown cotton bolls was all down at once, no matter how to clean up, the green leaves were still gradually yellow and withered, and the hope of the Chen family slowly withered.

The salt is gone, the cotton is poured, and after the flood, the life of the Chen family is sad all of a sudden, and Chen Caichun's short-term job has been dismissed again, and it seems to be worse all of a sudden, even if a few small ones are very sensible not to eat well, not to dress well, and try to help with work, for this poor family, it is just a drop in the bucket, and it can't change the miserable situation at all.

Because of this tragic situation in this flood, not only Chen Shiyou's family, but also the Su family who ran the school was also quite difficult, they had no land at home, and they all lived on tuition.

There was no way to do it, so the Su family had to entrust relatives and find another job, and after more than a month after the flood, the Su family moved gloomily.

Chen Shunan went to see him off that day, and when he came back, he memorized several books and talked about what Su Mu gave to Chen Shuang. Chen Shuangchuan refused to accept it at first, but Chen Shunan said with some sadness: "I don't know if we can meet again in the future......"

Chen Shuangchuan took the book silently, took out the book he got at the beginning, and compared the handwriting, you can know that he was deceived by Chen Shunan that time, and the book of poetry was simply sent by Su Mu, and he turned a page casually and read a sentence: "The north wind is cool, and the rain and snow are cold." I felt unlucky, and turned another page.

"Yanyan is flying, and the pond is feathering." Chen Shuang put down the book, suddenly understood Su Mu's intentions, lowered his head, two faint red clouds just flew on his face, and soon disappeared again, this is really the same as what Chen Shunan said, and he may never see each other again after that, he closed the book and carefully pressed it to the bottom, as if he had forgotten it, and he hadn't read it for a long time.