The work is to build the roof things with ropes from the ground to the roof, it is still boring, the most difficult thing is to work against the scorching sun, the first day to Li Jun did not wear a straw hat, after a day's work, the whole face of intuition was sunburned, and when I returned home at night to wash my face with cold water, I felt that my face was hot and feverish, and I took a mirror to look at it, and my face was red.

Grandma looked at Li Jun very distressed, and shouted to her father: "Why did you let the child work again?" Look at the child to the sun. ”

Father didn't say anything, Li Jun hurriedly said: "Grandma, my dad asked for my opinion, I went voluntarily, it's okay, when I go tomorrow, I won't wear a straw hat to the past, I won't be too sunny, I'm a man, I can't bear this bit of pain and pain, how can I face more difficult things in the future." ”

Grandma stroked his red face, with a look of love and distress, but she didn't say anything more, and after a while, she went back to her house and took out a few cakes for Li Jun, and made sure to let him make up for it.

The next morning, Li Jun got up from the bed with a sore body, but saw that it was raining outside again, the sky was overcast, and the rain flowed down from the tile ditch on the roof, Li Jun walked to the window and looked at the whole world immersed in the endless rain curtain, and couldn't help but feel relaxed, after all, I did a day's work yesterday, and I was still very tired to say that I was not tired, and I couldn't work today, and I was happy to rest for a day.

It rained for almost half a day, and after Li Jun woke up at noon, the rain gradually became smaller, and the streets outside were full of water.

After the rain, the sky finally cleared again, Li Jun began his work to repair the roof again, and after a few days, the initial soreness disappeared, and the skin was completely tanned, which was completely darker than last year in Beijing, when he was still able to walk in the shade of the trees, and this time it was completely in direct contact with the sun.

Li Jun also gradually adapted to the rhythm of this kind of work, at noon with his uncle and a few brothers in the employer's house to eat, some employers also provided a few bottles of wine, so several people also drank a glass together, although the days are hard but there is no lack of simple happiness.

In the middle, Yuan Yamin called to ask if she had gone to work and where she went, Li Jun told her that she was in the surrounding village, and she immediately had no interest, after all, for a place where she often lives, everyone will feel that it has lost its freshness and become boring.

July passed in such days, the weather became more sultry, every day Li Junjue's own clothes will be thoroughly soaked in sweat, the body is like taking a bath, slimy and uncomfortable, every day after work when Li Jun goes home with cold water to thoroughly rinse his body several times, and then lie comfortably on the bed, blowing the fan, listening to music.

Usually at this time, his mother will come over and say to him: "It's about to be a senior year of high school, and part-time work is a part-time job, and I can't put down my books. ”

Li Jun had no choice but to take out a book from his schoolbag, leaned on the head of the bed and looked at it absentmindedly, while his mother turned off the tape recorder he turned on, and then turned around and went out to clean up the housework.

August began, the rain began to come continuously, the weather forecast was also shrouded in thick clouds throughout North China, and Li Jun's work could no longer be carried out, and he was at home every day reading and reviewing.

The rain outside the window was sometimes big and small, but it hardly stopped for a day, and the bearing capacity of the fields was completely gone, the streets were full of stagnant water, and it was really boring to read a book, Li Jun moved the bench and sat in the gate hole, watching the dirty water on the street being driven by the occasional passerby, gently swaying, and the various leaves and straws floating in the water looked even more chaotic and dirty.

My father sometimes stood in the doorway and looked at the water outside, worried that the crops in the field would be soaked to death, and my mother still went to work in the store every day, and at the beginning she could still wear rain boots, and when she arrived, she could only wear sandals and wade through the water.

Several large puddles in the village were finally filled with rainwater, and one day my mother came back to say that the water in the puddle next to the store had overflowed, and the whole village was almost completely sunk into a sea of water.

Then there was a blackout, because many of the wires in the village were exposed, and the electricity was also cut off to prevent the risk of electric shock from contact with the water, and at night the whole village was shrouded in darkness, and every house was lit with candles, and small dim flames flickered, barely illuminating the room.

His mother no longer urged Li Jun to study, and at night he always leaned on the head of his bed, completely immersed in the darkness, listening to the rustling rain outside and quietly thinking about his thoughts.

It rained for almost half a month, and the sky finally cleared again, but news began to come out that floods had occurred in many places, and the reservoir in the upper reaches of Shijiazhuang had seriously exceeded the water storage capacity that could be carried, and the floodgates were about to be opened.

When I was in junior high school, there was also a flood discharge, but the amount of water was very small, the Hutuo River used to have a little bit of water storage, Li Jun and his friends also secretly went to the river to catch fish behind their parents' backs, but the whole childhood to the present memory, the Hutuo River is basically dry.

After all, it has been raining for almost half a month, and the rain in the middle of the next few days can be expressed by heavy rain downpour, and the weather forecast is that the entire Shijiazhuang area is full of rainy weather, so it is still possible to release a large amount of water from the reservoir, and now the main thing is that the water absorption capacity of all places has reached the limit.

The news was finally confirmed on the news, the reservoir has been opened to release water, and a notice has been posted in every village, telling the villagers to stay away from the river and try not to go to the river to watch and fish in the river for their own safety.

Li Jun didn't care about whether to release the water, and he didn't have a little concept of how big the water was, but his father was very worried, always afraid that the water would be too big and flood the fields next to the river in the north, but Li Jun felt that the embankment was so high, and now the whole river was empty, and it was impossible for so much water to overflow the embankment; And he is worried that if the river is full of water, how will they go to school, and now they go directly through the ditch to go to school, and the road will be cut off when the water comes.

One night, Li Jun listened to the rumbling sound slowly approaching from a distance, jumped from the bed to the ground, found that the light in his parents' room was also on, walked to their room and asked, "Dad, what is the sound, it sounds scary." ”

"It's okay, it should be the river coming down, you go to sleep, but get dressed, and if something happens, I'll tell you to get out of the house." His father's voice was still a little worried, Li Jun sighed, went back to his room and woke up his younger brother who was still asleep, and let him get dressed, but the younger brother was not worried at all, muttered and put on his clothes and fell asleep again, but Li Jun couldn't sleep anymore, listening to the sound of the water constantly tumbling and flowing downstream.

Until the sky was dark, Li Jun finally couldn't hold it anymore, and fell asleep again, and when he woke up, he stretched his waist and walked to the window, and saw his father riding into the yard, so he walked out of the room.

After his father put the car up, Li Jun saw that his father's face was normal, so he asked cautiously, "Dad, did you go to the river to see?" Well, there shouldn't be much water, right? ”

"I'm also worried that the water will overflow, I went to the river embankment to see, many people are also as worried as me, you haven't experienced a big flood, you don't know how terrible it is." As he spoke, his father lit a cigarette and took a deep breath, his face solemn as if he was recalling the terrible past.

"The water this time is not small, it is almost the same as the river embankment, there has not been such a big water for so many years, and I don't know what happened to the villages in the downstream river, I haven't seen water for many years, and people's minds are paralyzed." The father also ignored Li Jun and went back to the house by himself.

The water is flush with the river embankment, how big the water is, Li Jun is also a little worried, because he was so small when he walked in the river, and for him, a landlubber, such a deep water is really terrifying.

Before the start of school, the water has flowed a lot downstream, and finally it has become a lot smaller, but there is still a lot of water in the river to go to school, and it is impossible to wade through the river by yourself.

When Li Jun, Gao Qi and Yang Xinli rode to the river, there was already a long queue in front of them, and because school was about to start, the children on the east side of the river had to cross the river on bamboo rafts.

Looking at the wide river surface rippling blue waves, Li Jun was a little dizzy, although there is a river in his hometown for so many years, but it is only a dry river full of yellow sand, and now such a large water surface is in front of him, but it is another landscape.

Finally lined up the three of them, Li Jun nervously pushed the bicycle onto the bamboo raft, the bamboo raft shook with his movement, he felt cold sweat in his palms, and carefully stood in the middle of the bamboo raft and did not dare to move, but Gao Qi shook from side to side with a big grin and laughed and teased Li Jun.

"Young man, look at you like this, I've never seen such a big water before, but don't be afraid, my skills are still no problem, when we were young, we still had water in the river, and then the upstream reservoir was built to block the water, and our Hutuo River slowly broke off, and the happiest thing when we were young was that a few friends came to this river with bare butts." The old father and son holding the bamboo raft saw Li Jun's nervous expression and enlightened him on the side, holding a long bamboo pole to the river, and the bamboo raft slowly headed towards the center of the river.