Before noon, I heard a muffled thunder explode in the distance, and the rain that had been brewing for an hour poured down in an instant.

Ye Mu stood in front of the door and looked at the sky anxiously, Ye Chen tugged at her sleeve and said, "Mother, let's go back to the house first, Dad is fine." ”

"But I'm flustered, no, I have to go out to meet your father, it's been two hours, and I'm supposed to be back soon." Mother Ye turned around and was about to go back to the house to look for Lingyi, but saw her brother walking out in Lingyi.

"I'll go find my father, mother, you and my sister are waiting at home." Ye Jing walked out as he spoke, and Ye Chen hurriedly picked up the umbrella and followed.

"My brother and I will go to the village entrance to wait for Dad, you cook at home and wait for us to come back!" Ye Chen turned his head and hurried out as he threw down the next sentence.

Ye Mu frowned tightly and raised her voice: "The road outside is slippery, you come back!" ”

Seeing that both of them were out of the courtyard, Ye Mu anxiously walked around the house. From the moment her husband went out, her right eyelid kept jumping, and now the big one has not come back, and the two smaller ones have gone out again. She absentmindedly raised the stove, stir-fried the vegetables and cooked the porridge, and when she was idle, she could no longer suppress the fluttering eyelids, and gritted her teeth and followed her out with an umbrella.

Let's say that Ye Chen and Ye Jing walked all the way to the entrance of the village, Xiaohe Village is relatively low, every time it rains, the village will suffer, the more you go to the entrance of the village, the deeper the water will become, thanks to Ye Chen's house on the high ground in the west of the village, and the low terrain in the east, the rain is about to flow into the house.

Therefore, every household in Xiaohe Village must have a high threshold. When Ye Chen first came, he tripped over the threshold, and a small piece of his front tooth was knocked out. She was sad for a long time, and she felt sorry for herself every day in front of the water tank, and Ye Jing also laughed at her for talking leaky. Fortunately, the teeth were replaced later, and the broken front teeth were thrown into the ditch by Ye Chen, and the new teeth were white and shiny.

"Brother, this year's rain is a bit outrageous, and this road has become a river." Ye Chen rolled up her trouser legs and waded slowly in the water, the water had reached her knees, and the heavy rain hit the water like a torrent, splashing mud spots on her face. She clenched the umbrella in her hand, and felt that it was redundant.

Ye Jing hugged his sister's arm and frowned: "That's all there is at home, what do you say you are doing here, you have to be frostbitten." ”

"Aren't I worried about you, the two of us have a look for each other." Ye Chen raised his head and smiled.

Ye Jing saw that her sister's clothes were wet, her face was covered with rain, and her eyes were almost open.

Ye Jing grabbed his sister, took off his coat and draped it on her at once, and then continued to wade around her.

Ye Chen clutched his umbrella and leaned over to his brother, saying, "Brother, I'm not so squeamish." I don't ......."

"Let's go, there is a pavilion at the entrance of the village, wait for my father there." Ye Jing hurriedly interrupted his sister.

When I arrived at the entrance of the village, I saw that the pavilion was also flooded, and there were horizontal logs connected to the pillars on three sides, so standing on it could not only shelter from the rain but also look far away.

Ye Chen stood on the horizontal log, and the rain poured down from the eaves of the pavilion, like a waterfall. She didn't care about the rain, hugged the pillar and stood on tiptoe slightly to look at the entrance of the village. The road was gray, and I could only see the shadows of the trees, and I couldn't see my father's shadow for a long time.

Ye Jing came back from the entrance of the village with an umbrella and also stood on the crosswood, "Dad, I'm afraid I'm stuck in the middle of the road, and the water in front of me is even deeper." ”

"Wait a little longer, if my father doesn't come back in half an hour, let's go home and talk to my mother." Ye Chen shuddered.

After a long while, Mother Ye finally came over after wading through the water, and when she saw the brothers and sisters in the pavilion from a distance, she shouted loudly: "Ah Chen, Ah Jing, have you seen your father?" She quickened her pace, her brow furrowed, she couldn't care about the muddy water under her feet, she was soaking wet.

But the rain was too loud, Ye Mu's voice disappeared into the rain, and the two of them just looked at the entrance of the village, and no one noticed the mother behind them.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang by the river, and the whole pavilion shook. A thought exploded in Ye Chen's mind, she finally knew what she had neglected for a long time, she didn't have time to be annoyed, so she picked up her brother and ran to the side of the road. She remembered that there was an old willow tree at the entrance of the village, and she had to hurry up to climb it.

Before he could take a few steps, Ye Chen saw his mother standing ten meters away, as if she was stupid by the loud noise. Ye Chen's face suddenly became gloomy, he chuckled in his heart, and secretly screamed that it was not good, so he shouted loudly; "Mother, run, climb up the tree, the embankment has broken!!!"

Ye Jing also hurriedly shouted with all his strength; "Climb the tree, mother, climb the tree!!!" He hurriedly grabbed his sister's hand and ran desperately towards the willow tree.

Ye Mu seemed to hear the shouts of the two, she threw down her umbrella and ran to the side of the road.

The river behind him is like a beast that has broken out of the cage, roaring and rushing, the river is permeating the sky, if Ye Chen looks back, he will definitely feel that this picture is familiar, like the tide of the Qiantang River.

Unfortunately, she is busy climbing trees, but thanks to the fact that she has often followed the village children up the trees to pick fruits, it is not difficult for her to climb trees. Ye Chen glanced at her mother again, she was about to climb up, the tree seemed to be too slippery, and she was climbing very hard.

"Mother, grab the branch with your hand and climb up hard!" Ye Jing pulled his sister to the tree and shouted desperately to his mother.

The sound dissipated in the rain, and Mother Ye only heard her son say to her, "Climb quickly." She kicked up with her hands and feet, and finally climbed up a bit.

She was about to take a breath when the river suddenly flooded over. She hugged the tree tightly, and a wave slapped over, and the river instantly disappeared past her chest.

She heard the voices of the children, they were screaming for nothing, but unfortunately the water was so loud that she only heard the sound of the water. The rushing gravel hit her hand, and the pain in her heart made her shoulder shrink. She clung to the tree and couldn't let go, she thought. But there were more and more gravel, and the river was not over her head, and she leaned her neck to breathe, but after all, she had no strength.

Yes, she's just a sick and weak woman, and she doesn't have much strength. She turned her head to look at her children, but the rain was so heavy that she could only see the shadows of the trees. She closed her eyes, and in the darkness she seemed to see her husband coming, and she wanted to call his name again, but the river water poured into her mouth.

She couldn't hold on to the tree anymore, she didn't know anything, and she felt so miserable.

When Ye Jing saw his mother being submerged, he was about to jump into the water. Ye Chen hugged his brother tightly, "You calm down, if you jump down now, you will be swept away by the river." ”

"You let go of me! Mother is flooded, mother is flooded......" Ye Jing shouted hoarsely, the blue tendons on his forehead burst out, and he rushed forward regardless of it.

"If you go down, not only will you not be able to save your mother, you will also be washed away, I know that my mother is flooded, I know ......" Ye Chen felt that she couldn't hold her brother anymore, she thought that her mother was still drowning in the water, she felt unprecedented despair, and cried.

Ye Jing heard his sister's cry and gradually calmed down. He still has a sister, and his father is not there, so he has to take care of his sister. Ye Jing looked at his mother, and tears flowed out uncontrollably, "My son is not filial, my son is not filial!" He roared.

Ye Jing hugged his sister tightly, and the two curled up on the tree. The rain was still falling, they were all soaked, Ye Chen was shivering with hiccups, and her brother hugged her tighter, "Is it cold?" My brother is giving you the wind. The boy's voice was hoarse and tired.

Ye Chen took a deep breath, bit his lip, and said, "It's not a way for us to stay in the tree all the time, when it gets dark for a while, we will be frozen even if we don't freeze to death." ”

Ye Jing looked at the river under the tree, and said in a dumb voice: "The water is too deep, I don't know what is in it, I can't go down." ”

The two of them had to stay in the tree, and there was nothing they could do. I heard someone shouting the names of myself and my brother, and I saw Uncle Li next door rushing to the entrance of the village with a raft.

The brother and sister hurriedly responded: "Uncle Li! Uncle Li! We're here! ”

Uncle Li heard the cries of the two and came to the bottom of the tree, and the two carefully climbed down from the tree and landed on the raft.

Uncle Li struggled to stabilize the raft and said, "What about my sister-in-law?" I heard her say that you went to the entrance of the village to wait for Lao Ye, there was a big flood just now, and we lived high and escaped the flood. I couldn't see you left and right, thinking that I was trapped, so I rushed over. ”

"My mother was washed away by the water and rushed over there, Uncle Li, let's go and find it." Ye Chen pulled Uncle Li's clothes and pointed behind him, his voice choked.

Uncle Li sighed, propped up the raft and rowed in the direction pointed by Ye Chen.

They found that it was dark and did not find Ye Mu, but the rain kept falling, so they had to row back first.

When I got home, I saw that the water was only up to my knees. Unfortunately, when the river burst its banks, the force was too great, and most of the family's house collapsed. Because the Li family is blocked by the Ye family, the house is still intact. After Ye Jing entered the house and got some money and clothes, he went to Li's house with his sister.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw the Li family's lady coming out, and when she saw that her husband had come back well, her heart finally fell back into her stomach.

"Auntie." The brother and sister shouted in unison.

The lady of the Li family saw that the two of them were wet, and their clothes were full of muddy water. I looked back again, but I didn't see the Ye family's lady, and I immediately understood.

Before going out, the lady of the Ye family said that the two children went to the village to wait for their husbands, and they didn't feel at ease and wanted to go over to have a look. There was porridge still cooking on the stove at home, so I asked the lady of the Li family to help watch it, so I didn't put out the fire and hurried out.

The two families have been neighbors for many years, and they usually help each other, so they agreed, and asked their own mouth to show them the stove.

Later, there was a big flood, and his family hid because of the high terrain, but no one from the Ye family came back. I have to hold the raft to find it, I don't know what it's like outside, and the lady of the Li family said that she won't let her husband go. In the end, I couldn't help it, so I had to send him out.

Thinking of this, she sighed, "Poor thing, come into the house and wipe your body and change into clean clothes." ”