In July, the rainstorm was impermanent, and Ye Tianmin, who had come out to recuperate, was often sitting at the door of the rented farmhouse courtyard by the strange weather this year, holding a large tea jar and wearing slippers, looking at the sky like an old farmer and worrying.

The rental yard is an old man surnamed Dai and his boss, the children moved away, the part-time workers who went out to work, and the yard surrounded by bungalows on three sides, leaving the old couple at home. It is said that they are reluctant to leave, this is the ancestral home of their family, although the years have changed, the two of them are left in the lively courtyard.

There are also some residents in the surrounding area, whose family conditions are similar to theirs, and most of the people who remain are elderly like them or unwilling to leave home, and some are slightly less capable and cannot find suitable jobs outside.

They can't even call this place a village, and the administrative jurisdiction is still unified in the front mountain. The young adults in the back mountains go out to work and are not at home, and they may come back during the Chinese New Year, and some only come back once in a few years. It is very quiet on weekdays, and standing on a high place overlooking it, it may still be a beautiful scenery in the eyes of the artist.

It's just that Ye Tianmin's feeling is a little bleak.

This is a scenic spot called Sifang Mountain in Jiangdu, the front gate is the gate of the scenic spot, and the road outside is also very spacious. The place where the old couple lives is the back mountain of Sifang Mountain, and if you want to enter here, in addition to the front mountain turned over, there is also a road from the foot of the mountain, but there are many bends and slopes, and there is a risk of landslides.

And after the road down the mountain comes up, it is a very narrow crack, it is already very difficult to build the road, a lane is difficult, there is a river channel flowing through the crack, the scenic spot is completely abandoned to the development of the back mountain.

There are only two options to get here, take a boat ride or walk along the path carved out in the crevice.

In addition to the farmland on the slopes on both sides, there are many scattered pieces of wind and rain orchids, very beautiful, very like a secluded place outside the world, I don't know how the ancestors here found, maybe it was from the front mountain over the mountain, or maybe it came in from the river by chance.

If it weren't for Peng Jun's accidental visit, it would have been impossible for Ye Tianmin to find it by himself.

When Peng Jun took Ye Tianmin in a small boat, he could clearly see the mud and sand at the bottom of the river, and there was a small fish that was only the length of a finger, shuttling freely in the river in groups. It is said that the river course is a waterfall that flows directly down to the mountainside of the Sifang Mountain, and finally flows through the villages below the mountain and then joins the river.

The hospitable old man doesn't charge money anyway, saying that the children are outside, they can live as long as they want, and the house is not empty yet, and it is useless.

Ye Tianmin didn't give it strongly, but asked Peng Jun to go out by boat the next day, and drove to the town below the mountain to buy some daily necessities and clothes for the old man.

The weather is fine, and sometimes I accompany the old man to the field, trying to follow the old man to learn the basic knowledge of knowing crops. When the old man didn't work in the field, he went to the hillside behind the house and set up a hammock to soak in the sun, and his mood was really relaxed.

After getting along for a long time, the old man sometimes took the initiative to chat with Ye Tianmin, although he didn't know who Ye Tianmin was, he could also see that the other man and woman were all following Ye Tianmin, although they didn't look like a pampered person with fine skin and tender meat, but they were definitely not ordinary people.

Maybe it's because the nature of chattering still has to remain, or maybe it's the natural advantage of women, but when they were unfamiliar at the beginning, there was more dialogue between Yang Momo and the two old men.

After getting acquainted, the old man and Ye Tianmin talked more.

Since late July, the rain has not stopped for a full day.

Ye Tianmin's more leisure time is to watch the rain under the eaves. The raindrops rushed straight to the yard dam in a line along the eaves, and the impact on those original small pits again and again seemed to be smashing deeper and harder!

Sitting under the eaves with the old man, drinking tea in the big tea jar, chatting while watching the sky. The old man surnamed Dai let out a long sigh while chatting, Ye Tianmin wondered what he was doing with a good sigh, and hurriedly asked him what was wrong?

The old man said, "I don't know how much land will be flooded this year!" ”

"Oh, how do you say that?" Ye Tianmin came to be interested.

The old man looked at the sky with his dim eyes and said, "You see this year's rain, it has been falling, and the rainfall is increasing day by day, the sinking of the land is slowing down, and the river is rising every day, so naturally there will be floods." ”

"How can you tell if the sinking of the land is slowing down?" Perhaps for an old farmer who has grown crops all his life, this is common sense. But for Ye Tianmin, he didn't know what to do, and when he heard the old man's affirmative statement, he asked patiently, anyway, he was chatting.

The old man said slowly: "If the soil in the field is not enough water, the soil will be hard; When the water is just right, the soil is loose; If there is too much water, the soil will be soft; When there is so much water that the ground can no longer be harvested, there is no soil, that is, pulp. ”

After speaking, the old man pointed to a small piece of land next to the courtyard dam, which is where some onions and garlic are usually planted for his own use, and said, "You see, has that piece of soil been mud all the time these days?" ”

The old man didn't say it, Ye Tianmin couldn't notice it at all, looked at it carefully, although he didn't pay special attention, but when he thought about it carefully, he could still remember that when the rainy season first came, the soil in that small piece of land was relatively loose when the weather was clear, but now it is completely hydrated mud, it should be the mud that the old man said.

"In the last few days, the rain has stopped, and the rain still can't sink into the soil, it has been going on for several days, and I am afraid that this flood is really coming." The more the old man spoke, the lower his voice became, full of sadness.

Although the current flood disaster will no longer cause the dispersal of wives and wives, some governments will intervene to reduce the damage. But after all, it affects the harvest, and farmers may not have a harvest in this disaster after months of hard work.

It's like the plan you worked so hard to make, looking at the manuscript that is about to be completed, I don't know which unlucky kick kicked off the power cord, and you sadly didn't save it in time!

The feeling of hard work and nothing at the end of the day is indescribable.

What's more, before the crops are ripe, there is no way to save them in time like computer files, and the so-called disaster reduction and stop loss is just to resume the next season's production as soon as possible.

Ye Tianmin was also speechless in the face of such a situation.

Not to mention individuals, even the entire human race is faced with such a disaster, in fact, it is difficult to have a way to change, at most to reduce losses.

When a typhoon enters, all you can do is to stay in a safe house as much as possible, close the windows and doors, but you can't control the things outside the house, this is the most real human way to deal with catastrophic natural disasters.

In the future, there may be other ways, but not now, except to protect yourself as much as possible, nothing else can be done.

The flood is coming, the dam storage is only a delaying measure, the rainy season is short, the flood time is short, and the flood can be gradually and slowly discharged, but the rainy season is long and the flood time is long, and the flood discharge is also necessary to do, and the flood discharge is once it cannot be diverted to a safe area, then it can only reduce the affected area.

Just as the old man predicted, the rain continued to fall every day. Occasionally stopped, Ye Tianmin deliberately observed the land, and it was really in a state of mud.

He thought about it carefully about the current Tianmin Group, don't worry about the Sage Home, although the vacation house is at the foot of the mountain, but first, the height of the house itself is up to 3 floors, and it also solidifies the land before and after, even if there is a flash flood and the drainage is not timely, it will not be flooded. The rest are in the city, don't worry, the logistics base ......

Thinking about it, Ye Tianmin also sighed, what's wrong with him! said that it was relaxing, but as a result, a rainy season came unexpectedly, continuously, and I began to be entangled.

Let's go down, let's go down, just watch the scenery under the eaves.

The rain and fog had completely obscured the distant mountains, and the line of sight could only see very close, and it was blurred outside the courtyard dam when it left this small courtyard.

Yang Momo, who hadn't gone out for several days, might be a little tired, and he also sat under the eaves with him, and the old man of the landlord went to the ground again, Ye Tianmin had accompanied the old man a few days ago, and knew that he was going to see if the drainage gap he dug was blocked by the washed soil.

Peng Jun was originally sitting in the West House, but a phone ringing broke the silence, which was particularly harsh in the rain, and several people who had been accustomed to the sound of the rain were attracted by this sudden abnormal sound.

After a while, Peng Jun walked out of the West House and said to Ye Tianmin, "Mr. Ye, we may have to leave." ”

"What's going on?" Ye Tianmin was not nervous, but Peng Jun squatted down, probably because he was afraid that the old lady in the house would hear it, and said in a low voice: "I was really right by the old man surnamed Dai, this year's flood is particularly severe, there is a catastrophic flood in Xijiang Prefecture, which is next to Nanyun Prefecture, and the 5th Army Corps has ordered all the members of a division to rush to the disaster area, and the senior staff officer said that some support may be needed from the Tianmin Group." ”

Speaking of which, Ye Tianmin also knew that it was probably the personal suggestion of the senior staff officer, after all, there were garrisons in the entire Xijiang Prefecture, and now the neighboring states had sent garrisons to assist, so it would really be a major disaster.

Looking at the sky, Ye Tianmin asked: "Is it sure that this world will go up the mountain?" ”

Peng Jun nodded, Ye Tianmin didn't say anything more, and asked Yang Momo to go back to the room to pack up the necessary items, and leave the rest to the landlord. In addition, put 2,000 yuan of fiat currency on the table, and told the old lady that we were leaving, and the boat by the river could not be used in this weather, so I could only walk along the river to the outside.

Then, he took Peng Jun's phone and dialed Zheng Lan's mobile phone, asking her to quickly learn about the situation in Xijiang Prefecture and prepare materials to go to disaster relief. Zheng Lan also reported one thing on the phone, Nanyunzhou and Jiangdu City just notified it, hoping that all enterprises would contribute money and efforts, and Tianmin Group had already arranged funds, materials, and donation funds.

As soon as Zheng Lan said about Lotte.com, Ye Tianmin interrupted and said that he would talk about it when he came back, now is not the time to talk about this.

Ye Tianmin heard that all kinds of disposal measures had been arranged, and he didn't ask for a specific amount, so he just let Zheng Lan implement it according to the plan.

Knowing that Wang Feiyu was in Jiangdu, she asked her to tell Wang Feiyu to book a hotel, and they left immediately. If nothing else, he will probably be able to return to Jiangdu tonight, the situation in Nanyunzhou Zheng Lan just looks at the arrangement, if nothing changes, he will contact Zheng Lan again in Jiangdu.