Chapter 22: The Flood
The light of the bonfire lit up as bright as day, and the guests and hosts enjoyed the feast, and everyone was excited by the good news from the village chief.
Their husbands, sons, and fathers, who had been away from the village for many years, were finally coming back.
The village chief had already drunk so much that his cheeks were red and he staggered a little. But he is still stubbornly pulling the descendants of the next generation, telling the history of the development of the village and his glorious story.
The small village they came to is close to Jingshui and is called Jingshui Village. However, it was not originally called this name, but Sunjiazhuang. The village is not big, but it is located on the road of the border fortress of the Xihe country, originally because the terrain is low and not next to the river of the Jingshui River, the rain is insufficient all year round, and the crops are not growing well, so it is sparsely populated.
More than a decade ago, local officials diverted Jingshui, which had been out of the way, to build a dam and recruit new villages. The surrounding villages are reluctant to leave their ancestral land. Only the village chief was the first to raise his hand, and went door to door to advise, leading the whole village to move to the embankment and change its name to Jingshui Village.
Since then, the water and grass have become abundant and prosperous, and people from many other villages have moved here.
It's just a short period of more than ten years, from the original barren to now becoming the best village in ten miles and eight townships, and the old village chief is very proud of the decision he made back then.
At the end of the campfire, the children were all taken home, and only a few sporadic people who were a little drunk were left, and Xiao Boran sat there happily, drinking the remnants of wine in their cups, and talking without a word.
"Their happiness is so simple." Some drunken people leaned on Xiao Boran's right shoulder, looking at the last remaining bit of fire after the bonfire burned out. The reason why she chose to live in this village was also because she was attracted by Aunt Li's enthusiasm and sweet potatoes from the beginning.
She had never seen such a pure person, like a mountain stream with a clear spring, rushing and clear. In the face of poverty and misery, we can always face life with the greatest enthusiasm and face people's hearts with the purest kindness.
This makes it extremely precious to learn to measure the true happiness of others from an early age.
"yes." Xiao Boran didn't turn his head to look at her, just raised the wine glass in his hand and drank the remaining turbid wine. The wine was the worst he had ever drunk, and there were still residues of sake lees in it, which was much worse than what he had drunk in the fairy world. But when you drink it in your mouth, it's a different kind of sweetness, and it has unprecedented stability.
In fact, it is very unwise to stop in one place, not to mention that this mortal immortal is afraid that it is several times more than Yun Yun, so it will be easier to be discovered. The stars in the sky corresponded to the number of immortals here, and he looked up at the stars in the sky, which were so numerous, bright and dazzling. But he also understood what Le Wuwu was thinking at this time, because it was not for him. In just ten days, he actually felt a sense of home in his heart, which he had not had in hundreds of years.
"If there is an afterlife, I hope I can be an ordinary person, live a simple and happy life like them, grow up in the company of my parents, grow old, and have children and grandchildren around my knees." She wanted to say that such a life was enough, but when she thought of her father and mother in the fantasy world, she didn't even have a chance to call "Daddy". The four words that life is enough to choke in my throat, but I can't say it anymore.
"I can't control the first half of my life, but in the second half of my life, as long as you want, you can do it in this life." Xiao Boran raised his left hand and gently patted the back of his head on his right shoulder, and gently rested his head on her head: "From now on, this is our home." ”
The light in front of Le Wuwu's eyes was a little blurry, probably because of tears. The tears just stubbornly couldn't bear to fall, and the scattered bonfires in front of me were smeared. There was silence all around, except for the occasional crackling of burning firewood and the sporadic chirping of insects waking up in early spring in the grass.
Home. She suddenly felt that in the process of escaping, although she had no fixed place, her heart was quiet at the moment.
When I closed my eyes, my cheeks were cool, and tears finally fell and crossed.
Is this her home?
The world is so big, and she only has him and this vast world from now on.
I don't know if it's a little sad, or I'm glad that the world is so big that he is by my side.
But for the rest of my life, it doesn't seem to be bad.
Spring is in full swing, and when the rainy season comes, the victorious team returns. More than 300 pioneer soldiers gathered in Jingshui Village, and the army and the people had fun for a while.
Among the three hundred pioneers, she saw the father of the sweet potato.
It was a burly middle-aged man. As she watched him cautiously pick up the sweet potato and hold it above his head, she remembered her uncle. When she was a child, she also looked at Leyun Le Xun, who wanted to be close to each other but seemed estranged, and got along like this, playing the high and high games that children often have.
One pretends to have never lacked companionship, and the other pretends to never grow up and still enjoys it.
This year's rain has been unusual, from a drizzle at the beginning to a heavy downpour in the next few days. Originally, it was ordered to set off on a three-day journey, and the soldiers delayed it again and again, and it dragged on for seven or eight days.
On this day, the sky finally cleared. Most of the people ran to the dam to see off the soldiers, and the village was quiet.
Joy and worry-free, as in the past, played against Xiao Boran. was thinking hard, suddenly heard a loud noise in the distance, the heavens and the earth trembled, and the chess piece in Le Wuwu's hand fell down, and it fell on the door of death with a click.
For a while, the situation that was supposed to turn around immediately ended up losing all the games, which is not a good sign.
The two hurriedly got up and left the hospital to check.
All I could hear was a rumbling in the distance, mixed with shouts getting closer. I saw some villagers running by, shouting as they ran.
"It's watery, run."
"The levee has burst!"
"The levee has blown up, help."
After the flow of people, I saw the boiling river rushing from a distance, like a cyan giant hand mercilessly patting it, and for a time the houses were destroyed, the walls were shattered, and they scattered and cracked away with the waves. Some people didn't even have time to shout for help before they were swept into the current.
Seeing that the river that covered the sky was about to wash away an old woman, Le Wuwu didn't have time to think about anything else, so he flew forward, held the stumbling old woman with one hand, and raised the other hand, and immediately an invisible barrier appeared, forcing the river to gradually retreat.
"Let's go."
But under the barrier, the people who escaped death seemed to be shocked by the scene in front of them, and they were stunned for a while, and no one dared to move half a step.
The water crossed the barrier, like the pouring rain that had slid down the eaves of the house a few days ago, crackling and smashing the ground.
As more and more water flowed, Le Wuwu couldn't hold on.
Seeing that the water was filling more and more, and the barrier seemed to be a little unbearable, he held his hands and shouted again: "Hurry up!" ”
Just when she wanted to twist her hand again and hold up all the floods above her head, Xiao Boran pressed her arm: "It will be discovered." ”
They are immortals, so even if they enter the water, they will not be hindered. If they want to save people, as soon as they make any big noise, they will be immediately noticed by the immortals here.
Xiao Boran continued: "They have their own luck, no matter natural disasters or man-made disasters, their fate should be like this. ”
Le Wuwu shrank his hand slightly, and muttered, "Is this fate?" "The barrier cracked and grew smaller, like a few oil-paper umbrellas under a heavy rain, and the flood water immediately poured down.
The people who had just escaped death reacted at this time, and one by one they immediately screamed and got up and ran forward.
Looking at the villagers fleeing in all directions and the flood that fell like a curtain of rain, she suddenly gritted her teeth, raised her hand again to support it, turned her head and said in an almost pleading tone: "But you said that this is our home." ”
Looking at Le Wuwu's appearance, Xiao Boran's heart trembled.
In fact, he knew that no matter what he said, he would definitely be saved.
Because this is happiness, respect for life and stubborn choice. He has no chance to sit idly by except to choose his peers.
Xiao Boran said gently: "Okay, save it that time." You're not in good health, I'll come. ”
After saying that, he hugged Le Wuwu with his left hand, and raised her arm with his right hand, and the invisible barrier immediately spread and expanded in the air, and all the water flowing on the ground also floated up and gathered into the air, as if the Jingshui River had been built in the air.
Le Wuwu turned his head and looked at Xiao Boran, who was looking up at the sky.
She had thought it would be just a spell to divert the river in other directions.
And he just helped her hold her hands, and he could wrap the entire stream of water flowing through the barrier.
The sun shone down through the turquoise water, and there seemed to be water streaks on his face swaying slightly. The entire strip of water that covers the sky and the sun is suspended in the air like this, how much spiritual power does it take to do this?
The villagers were also shocked by what was happening in front of them for a while, and they knelt on the ground and kowtowed and shouted: "O fairy, fairy! ”
Le Wuwu hurriedly leaned over the shoulder of the nearest person and shook it, "Tell me, what's going on." We're going to save people. What about sweet potatoes? What about the folks? ”
"Blown up, the dam exploded! As soon as the troops ran under the dam, the levee blew up. All 300 soldiers were drowned, and many were gone. ”
Le Wuwu was shocked, the sweet potato said before that he was going to send his father, but he was afraid that he would also be flooded near the army.
didn't care about anything else, beckoned the nearby villagers to escape from a high place, and grabbed Xiao Boran and disappeared.
Leaving a group of villagers, under the water cut off by the barrier, they bowed and kowtowed in the direction where they had disappeared, and called out to the gods.