Chapter 7: The Great Flood and Funeral
It rained continuously, and then it rained heavily, and it continued for several days.
Although the day was sunny during this period, the time of that moment was not enough for even two hours in one day.
In the past few days, because of the rain, the water level of the river in front of Shijia Village has risen, and the river is about to rise to the bridge deck.
There are those in the village who live next to the river, and the low-lying houses have also suffered, and the river water that flooded into the houses can swim fish.
Occasionally, some debris floats down in the upstream river from time to time, sometimes it is the branches and leaves, sometimes it is the pots and pans and clothes, and sometimes the floating corpses of chickens, ducks, pigs and other poultry can be seen.
Fortunately, I didn't see a humanoid corpse, which was a great blessing in misfortune.
Time passes by in these rainy days.
At the end of the month, the rain became lighter.
On the morning of the 28th market, the rain did not clear.
The fourth room of the Shi family ushered in a farewell here.
"I put all the dry food in the carriage in a food box, you can eat it when you are hungry on the road, I have prepared a change of clothes for you in the baggage, and the funeral is also packed in a lotus bag, Chunyu, the teacher has been so comforting in the past, don't rush back, the old man doesn't know how sad he is."
Huang held an umbrella by the door, and his beautiful face was full of bleak sadness and sadness at the moment.
She said weakly, "Unfortunately, Xiaozhu has a cold again, and it's not easy to rush on this rainy day, otherwise, I should go to Sifang County with you." ”
There is a cold water town between Sifang County and Muyang County, and the two places are about two or three hundred miles apart.
The family had a carriage, and the journey was not far away.
But helplessly, it was a continuous rainy day, Shi Xiaozhu accidentally caught a cold and got sick and had a fever, and the high fever lasted for a day and a night before it receded, but it can be regarded as tossing up and down the four rooms.
Coincidentally.
The little milk baby here in the Shi family is sick.
On the side of Sifang County, because of the raging floods, even the houses in the county town were overwhelmed.
This is the case in the county, let alone in the countryside.
Shi Chonglin's mentor Cai Yuanpei's family lived in Caijia Village, Sifang County, and the disaster was even more devastating.
Cai Yuanpei's family happened to be one of the affected households in Caijia Village this time.
That day, when the Cai family's house was overwhelmed, Cai Yuanpei was a guest at a friend's house in the county, only his wife Yu was at home, the house was because of the age, the rain continued to invade during this time, and finally couldn't bear the collapse, and the Yu family didn't have time to escape and was crushed under the rubble of the mound.
The rumor came to Shijia Village yesterday.
Because of Shi Xiaozhu's illness, Shi Chonglin lasted another night, and saw that the little girl's condition improved in the morning, so he was ready to set off under the urging of the Huang family.
"It's okay, when I tell the teacher the truth, he will understand."
Shi Chonglin gently patted the back of Huang's hand to appease, and then looked at his wife, looking at his eldest daughter:
"Sister, don't run around these days, I don't know what the situation is elsewhere, you stay at home and accompany your mother and Xiaozhu, wait for the Sifang County affairs, Daddy will come back to pick you up and take you back to the county, okay?"
Although Shi Chonglin is a cheap father.
But these days, Shi Yu enjoys the gentleness of the Huang family and the love of Shi Dad, so he is naturally very close to him.
In the past two days, Xiaozhu was sick, Shi Chonglin hardly slept much, took care of the children himself, and did not take care of the Huang family, and when the rumors from Sifang County came, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
It is estimated that there are no sick children of his own, so he has already planted his wings and abandoned Sifang County.
Uncle Jun, who was originally handsome and elegant, was tired at the moment, his beard was scumbag, and his eyes were full of thick red bloodshots, and he looked a lot older all of a sudden.
Shi Yu felt sorry for his cheap father.
Even if you want to toss, you won't lose interest in the rear at this time:
"Hey, don't worry, Daddy, I can save it. Just go, pay attention on the road, it's still cold, don't be greedy for drinking raw and cold water and raw and cold food. ”
"Okay, with your words, my father will be relieved."
Shi Chonglin nodded reassuringly, looked at Huang again, and then turned around and got into the car, took the horsewhip and prepared to catch the car.
Shi Yu looked at Huang with a reluctant face, and his eyes were full of worry.
After hesitating for a while, he hurriedly shouted to Shi Chonglin, who was about to leave: "Daddy, wait for it." ”
She took Huang's umbrella, ran over in the rain and finished the words in Shi Chonglin's ear, turned her head and went back to the eaves under the courtyard gate.
Shi Chonglin glared at his daughter in surprise, "Where did you come from these ways?" ”
Shi Yu was a little weak-hearted, hehe smiled before saying, "It doesn't matter where I came from, can I be useful?" ”
"Cheng, Daddy knows, don't worry!"
Shi Chonglin smacked his horse's buttocks, and this time he really left without looking back.
The carriage went straight and went on the river bridge and disappeared for a long time before Huang retracted his gaze.
"What did you just say to your dad? Mother still can't listen? ”
Shi Yu also slowly retracted his gaze, and the mother and daughter held an umbrella and went inside.
"It's not that I can't hear it, it's that I'm afraid that the wall has ears."
Shi Yu smiled, "Didn't I see the floating corpses of some poultry floating in the river these days?" The disaster in Sifang County is much more serious than ours, and it doesn't matter if it's a floating corpse of poultry or a corpse, if it's not handled properly, it will cause an epidemic! I've always read a lot of miscellaneous books, and I know some good ways to prevent and control the epidemic, so I used it for my dad this time, maybe I can come back with a good name? ”
This is not an alarmist statement.
In this flood, there must have been a lot of dead and injured birds in various places.
If there are many poultry carcasses floating in the river, it will be fished back and stewed when the rain does not know, but once there are too many of these poultry carcasses, if they are not handled well, it will develop into the spread of the epidemic.
It's even worse when you count the dead.
People in this era do not have the awareness of health popularization in the new era, and they don't know what bacteria are or what virus transmission.
Shi Yu didn't know how to analyze with Shi Chonglin.
She is also afraid that Shi Chonglin will have something to do, this cheap father is the pillar of the four-room family, and this will go to Sifang County, which is actually no different from going to the epidemic area.
The only thing she can do now is to let Shi Chonglin take precautions.
So she made a few random moves.
It is nothing more than to let Shi Chonglin buy a high number of liquor, which can play a role in disinfection and sterilization on this road, and can be used for hand washing, spraying, etc.
But as we all know, the best results can only be achieved when the alcohol concentration is seventy-five.
Shi Yu didn't know what degree the liquor was.
Therefore, in addition to asking Shi Chonglin to buy a high number of liquor, he also asked him to buy quicklime, which is generally mixed with a small amount of water to make it react into strong alkaline, which will become hydrated lime with sterilization and disinfection effects.
This program is the best in Sifang County.
As for whether this time and space knows this method, because the memory of the original owner is not related to this, and Shi Yu does not know.
Anyway, her mind is here, and she is worthy of her conscience.
In addition, she also suggested that Shi Chonglin and Cai Yuanpei propose that all the bodies of this waterlogging should be incinerated, only in this way can everything be done.
Shi Yu told Huang about this.
Huang nodded approvingly when he heard it for the first time, and when he heard that he was going to incinerate the body, his beautiful eyebrows frowned slightly:
"Incinerate the corpse, crush the bones and scatter ashes, I'm afraid your bad idea is going to cause a commotion for your father......"
"Why?"
The rain is full of confusion.
She doesn't understand, isn't it just to burn ashes?
Who in their time was not burned after death?
This is the loss of eating the fault line of history.
Living in the era of historical faults, not to mention Shi Yu's generation, even her parents' generation did not learn the history of the ancients, how do you know that the ancients paid attention to the body, hair and skin, and their parents should not be damaged?
Just in time, Xiaozhu woke up crying, and Huang didn't analyze much, and hurried into the room.
Leaving Shi Yu under the eaves staring at the rainy day for a long time.
For a long time, she spread her hands, "I don't want to do bad things with good intentions, right?" ”