The three brothers and sisters arrived home on the front foot, and the heavy rain on the back foot came down.

This rain has been falling intermittently for more than half a month, not only has it not stopped, but it has a tendency to get heavier and heavier.

Li Qiusui's side of the house is on higher ground, and it is a brick house, except for a little tide in the house, it is quite stable.

Li Sanzhu took his father, brothers, nephews and nieces to the house in advance, but he didn't have to worry about not being able to live, in the first two years, including the pharmacy, he built a lot of houses, and a large family lived together, which was not crowded.

It was dark outside, as if someone had poked a hole, and a large family had no intention of doing anything else, so they gathered together and had to look in the direction of the village from time to time.

Lijia Village is close to the foot of the mountain, Li Qiusui's house is the highest position in the village, all the way down the slope, there are other people's houses built in the low-lying place. When the rain is urgent, the ditches in the village have no time to drain, and the water coming down from the mountains is gathered in one place, and the low-lying houses can be regarded as suffering, and most of them are adobe houses, some of which have been in disrepair for a long time, and if the water is soaked, it will collapse!

No one dared to go to the village these days, the water flooded the road in the village, the water overflowed the feet and necks, and by memory, there were still people who dared to go to their own homes to see, and at this time the water could not see the depth, and no one dared to take risks.

The village is some distance away from Li Qiusui's house, and looking in the direction of the village, the entire village is almost flooded, and only the roofs of some houses can be faintly seen.

The drought in the first two years only passed, and as soon as Li Zhenzhen said that there was a flood, no one questioned it, almost all believed it, no matter what her original intention was, whether it was for fame or not, and how much profit she got from it, but she really helped many families and even saved many lives.

The villagers went to the mountain in advance to find a cave to hide from the rain, and also transferred the family's food and belongings in advance, so that the personnel were safe, and the loss was extremely low.

Liu and Li Sanzhu sighed, "Such a heavy rain, it has been raining for so many days, thanks to Li Guangping's family, otherwise how would this day go on?" ”

If the village did not dig so many drainage canals in advance, the surrounding counties failed to jointly clean up the river, once the rainfall was too heavy, it was too late to discharge, once the embankment burst and there was a flood, it would not be just a soaking house, and people would not know how much to fill in.

Li Sanzhu also sighed, "Yes! Now this is a blessing, most of the houses that collapsed are in disrepair, and when the flood recedes, the adobe is rebuilt, and the sun is shining for a few days, or it will not be long before people can live there. ”

Everyone stood at the gate of the courtyard, which was the highest and had no shelter, so that they could see the whole village clearly.

Ma Yanzi pushed the door out and saw that there was someone here in Li Sanzhu, so he came over to gossip.

People who are usually out of tune seem to be worried at this time," ...... Didn't Zhenzhen of the Guangping family say that the rain should stop in the past two days? Why is it still dark and dreary, how can it look like you want to stop? I see that if the rain continues to fall, even a few households on our side will be flooded! ”

The old house was also flooded, and the house collapsed? It's too far away to see clearly.

If the water recedes, there will be endless pick-ups outside the house.

Li Sizhu is the most impatient to do that, he and Ma Yanzi are the old sons of the family, and when they were young, some people in the village talked about the two of them together.

He felt that he was much better than this person, and it was not pleasing to the eye when he looked at the horse, "You also said that it was these two days, isn't it time yet!" Don't you see the rain getting lighter and lighter? Take advantage of the fact that you have to be idle in the past two days, why don't you hurry up and recuperate, many people's houses in the village have collapsed, don't you have to help? ”

Ma Yanzi also didn't want to see Li Sizhu, he didn't like to do the work at home, but he never hesitated to make efforts to earn copper plate work, Li Sizhu, there were few children in his pocket, and he liked to go to the county seat.

"Of course I'm going to take a hand! It's just that I'm wet everywhere, my heart is stuffy, and I can't sleep well. It's just that you Li Sizhu has no heart and no lungs, and you are still worried about nourishing your spirit! Hey, where is Uncle Guangping, I'll go to his family Zhenzhen and ask ......"

Where is Li Guangping's family?

In Li Zhenzhen's memory, after this rain, the terrain of the county town was not higher than that of Lijia Village, and the disaster situation was not stronger than that of Lijia Village.

Although Li Changqing was admitted to Xiucai, their family's conditions are a little better than most families in the village, but if they provide a scholar, not to mention the efforts of the whole family, there is really not much surplus.

It is said that the poor show talents, the rich raise people, this is not empty words.

It's obvious that if you want to be admitted to Xiucai, how many people can be willing not to continue to take the exam, not to mention the costs of making friends and socializing, the books and ink have to go up to a higher level.

Xiucai, in the eyes of the countrymen, there are countless benefits, such as tax exemption, but in the city or even in the town, Xiucai is not uncommon, some wealthy merchants, who have not yet used your place, will not give gifts too expensive.

Lifting people is different, whether you continue to take the exam or not, you are qualified to be an official, which is valuable, and it is common for wealthy merchants to come to give gifts. Under the regulations that explicitly prohibit officials from doing business, receiving gifts is considered an upright way to accumulate wealth.

Therefore, Li Changqing, a talented talent, has weight in Lijia Village, in the county seat, it is not that Li Zhenzhen deliberately revealed that she has the ability to predict celestial phenomena, Li Guangping went to the camp with great difficulty, and it was wishful thinking to worship the county master who was born in the same Jinshi as a teacher.

As for the county magistrate, the parents of a county, the officials appointed by the imperial court, the successive disasters in Linshan County, with Li Zhenzhen's advance prediction, the people are truly exempted from the suffering of displacement, and the performance is bright, which is to be promoted.

The magistrate of the county was promoted, and Li Changqing benefited, and there was a mutually beneficial relationship here.

To get back to the point, since Li Guangping got on the relationship of the magistrate, he has also opened his eyes, and he will not trouble people for such a small thing as hiding from the rain.

Moreover, Li Guangping is still the patriarch of the Li clan, and when his family goes to the county seat, he must first settle the people in the clan, and their family has not yet purchased a house in the county seat, so if they really want to go, they have to rent, and he can't bring all these clansmen. The family sat together to discuss and stay in the village, which can be regarded as sharing joys and sorrows with everyone in Lijia Village.

Li Guangping's family also bought mountain land, found a suitable place to dig a cave, and the family hid in it for more than ten days, but fortunately, a lot of dry firewood was prepared in advance, and the cave was damp and cold, and the family was roasting around the fire.

Ma Yanzi got a lot of lotus leaves to drape on his body to keep out the rain, and when he found Li Guangping's side, his body was almost soaked, and it was very cold, so he wanted to get into it and hide from the fire.

Li Changqing's father stopped the people, "The cave is small, and the old people and children are crowded together, so I don't invite the Yanzi brothers in." ”

The horse walks and pouts, breaks the cave, as if it is rare!

He poked his head out and shouted to Li Guangping in front of the fire, "I said Uncle Guangping, it's all on the fire!" Your parents are so talented that they are young men, how can you be wronged all the time? Why do I have to take you to the county seat to hide? ”

This person is so virtuous, Li Guangping is too lazy to worry about him, he didn't answer the words of the horse walker, and asked: "It's raining so hard, you don't stay at home, why are you running here?" ”