At the same time, the members of Shishanling were crowded on the dam of the brigade, a group of people stood there in the rain, the men looked at the houses and farmland washed away by the landslide, their eyes were red, and they wanted to cry without tears, and the women patted their thighs and cried out to the sky and the ground......

The children who were lively and naughty in the past also snuggled up to their parents and siblings with tears on their faces.

Captain Zhou's wrinkled face like elm bark still had tears hanging on his face, he had mixed feelings in his heart at the moment, fortunately when the accident happened, everyone was scraping and cleaning the fungus in the brigade baking room, otherwise, I don't know how many casualties there will be.

What pained him was that the landslide had washed away nearly half of the houses, and the houses of more than 20 families were submerged by the mud washed down by the landslide.

What worries me is that the members who go out of the mountain to find the superior leaders, can they bring back the rescue materials? Food and clothing for hundreds of people, where does he come from? ……

Zhou Shishi's family and Zhou's father stood there stupidly, looking at the original home, which had been submerged by the landslide and became a ruin.

Xu Hongju hugged her youngest son and wept silently, her daughter Xiaoyu and her eldest son had tears on their faces, and they raised their hands from time to time to wipe their tears......

Wu Shuqun sat paralyzed on the wet mud floor, looking at the collapsed houses and washed away farmland, and burst into tears: "Oh my God, why don't you give us a way to live?" What did the mountain people do? Why is our life so hard? ......" saw darkness in front of him and collapsed to the ground.

Seeing that the days are improving, the family has hope. The sudden catastrophe completely knocked her down.

Zhou Dashan saw her languishing and fell to the ground, and hurriedly stepped forward to hug her: "Old woman, what's wrong with you?" ”

Zhou Shishi and Xu Hongju also pounced: "Mom, Mom, what's wrong with you?" ”

The three children cried in panic: "Grandma, grandma......"

Captain Zhou came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "Pinch her quickly!" ”

Xu Hongju hurriedly pinched Wu Shuqun's people, and shouted anxiously: "Mom, wake up, Mom, wake up, wake up......"

Wu Shuqun slowly opened his eyes and watched several people cry silently.

Captain Zhou said to a few people: "Hurry up and take her to the baking room, and I'll go back and ask your aunt to find clothes to change into for her." His family and a dozen other families were not destroyed by the landslide.

Zhou Dashan said in a dumb voice: "Thank you, uncle." ”

Captain Zhou waved his hand and walked towards home.

Zhou Shishi picked up the old lady and entered the baking room, where there were already more than a dozen women who had fainted from grief and had been woken up by pinching.

When they saw them come in, they let a clearing come out.

Xu Hongju went to pick up a bundle of firewood and grass and spread it on the ground, and Zhou Shishi put Wu Shuqun on it.

Wu Shuqun looked at a few people and said in a trembling voice: "Old man, stone, red orange, how will you live in the future?" ”

Zhou Dashan looked at her and whispered comfort: "Old woman, you want to have three long and two short, what do you let us do?" When the rain stopped, we went out to find our second brother-in-law and begged them to find a way for us. ”

Zhou Shishi also persuaded: "Mom, let's go find my aunt, find my cousin, find my second child, they will have a way." ”

"Yes, Mom, there will always be a way, if you have a good one, we will ......" Xu Hongju choked and couldn't speak.

Wu Shuqun looked at her grandchildren with a blank look, thinking of her sister's family and the second family in Dongshi, her heart rekindled hope, and she cried and nodded: "Woo... Woo... Luckily there's still them, woo... Woo......"

Captain Zhou went home and got his clothes and pants, and Xu Hongju helped Wu Shuqun to go to the room where the night watchman lived to change his wet clothes and pants.

Zhou Dashan said to him: "Uncle, we have nothing, the landslide has flooded all the food and things, what are we going to eat these days?" ”

"Yes, Captain, we didn't get anything out at all, and it was raining so hard that we didn't dare to dig in the mud and dig things out."

"Everything is buried in the soil, and we haven't even brought out a piece of red root, what will we eat in the future?"

The whimpering cries of the crowd rang out again.

Captain Zhou shouted, "I warn you, you are not allowed to go and dig things out." His gaze swept over the members present, "If you don't want to die, just listen to me, don't dig into the mud." ”

He is also difficult, it is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and the families who have not suffered from the disaster do not have enough food to eat. I can only take out the food in the storage room for emergency purposes first, and I can't watch everyone starve to death.

"Then what are we going to do, just starve to death like this?"

"Eat grass roots, eat tree bark?"

Captain Zhou raised his hand to interrupt the noisy speech below: "Wait for the big tree and them to come back, see what the leaders of the commune say?" If it really doesn't work, I'll open a storage room and take out the food and distribute it to everyone. Let's dig some wild vegetables, pick some pumpkin vines, dig some ginger taro, peel some elm bark and grind powder, and we can always get through this pass. ”

Big Tree is the eldest grandson of the captain's family. These dozens of families in Shishanling are more or less related to each other, and those who have not suffered from the disaster will never watch everyone starve to death!

Someone else asked: "What about the rice fields in the mountains that have been washed away by landslides below?" What will I pay for this year's public grain? ”

Captain Zhou Chang'an soothed: "Don't worry, everyone, the government will not ignore us, and when they come back, there will be news." ”

After hearing this, the people who suffered from the disaster felt a little more relieved, as long as they had food to eat, they were not afraid.

Before dark, the captain opened the storage room, took out a basket of red roots, and went home to scoop up some multigrain noodles and salt.

The people who were not affected by the disaster sent green vegetables, and each family evened a few mouthfuls of dishes and chopsticks, and the families of the victims used the big iron pot in the baking room to cook a pot of vegetable paste and eat the big pot of rice.

One hundred and ten people were half-satisfied, and the houses that had not been washed away were evenly distributed to everyone, and everyone slept on hay in the roasting room and the conference room of the brigade.

The night in the mountains was chilly, but fortunately there were bedding from the villagers, otherwise it was too cold to sleep.

Wu Shuqun opened his eyes, listening to the snoring sound and suppressed sobbing sound in the baking room, thinking of the suffering he had experienced in his life, and tears couldn't stop flowing.

In the middle of the night, the rain finally subsided.

Early the next morning, Wu Shuqun's family and the members of the affected society crowded under the eaves outside the baking room, looking at the rain and fog, hoping that the big trees would turn around as soon as possible.

In the afternoon, Da Shu and a few sturdy men returned to the stone mountain ridge with a big backpack and a wooden stick.

Everyone happily surrounded and helped to take the basket, and cheered happily when they saw the rice noodles in the basket.

The captain asked anxiously, "Big tree, what did the commune cadres say?" ”

Dashu wiped the rain from his face and pointed to the rice noodles in his back: "The commune cadres helped buy these rice noodles overnight, so you can open the storage room first, so as not to let everyone go hungry." ”

He took a breath and continued, "After they reported to their superiors, they immediately sent someone to send something to help the disaster. ”

A smile appeared on the faces of the onlookers.

(End of chapter)