Chapter 2: Climbing the Nine Peaks at Night

The kerosene lamps swayed the window paper, and almost every household crackled and cleaned up, and the pots and pans were reluctant, dragging the family to the top of the nine peaks.

This is the highest place in this area, and except for the paths that people tread all year round, the rest of the place is dense forest.

An Ran was carefully wrapped in linoleum, revealing only the upper half of his face.

Now she doesn't have the heart to take care of the farm, she's still so small, maybe she'll die here.

"Hurry up ahead! The rest is going to be drowned! ”

"Shun, Shun~, where are you."

"Mother, mother, woo woo-"

The flaming shouts came and went, as if they were about to rush forward.

There are more and more people climbing the top of the nine peaks, the trails are slippery, and no one wants to open a new road.

The mountain road is steep, and the road seems to have been thrown away by the rain and the friction of people, and some people have just climbed up and slid down.

Wang Yonglin held the rice bucket on his head, covered his wife and children underneath, and the toes of his two feet clenched the ground fiercely with every step.

"Dad, be careful!" Wen Zhuo saw someone rolling down in front of him and came straight towards them.

Wang Yonglin put the two ears of the rice bucket against the ground, and his feet used force to bring the person down.

"Thank you, big brother, thank you, big brother." After saying that, the woman hurriedly held the grain that had just been scattered with her hands, and put it in a bag mixed with the soil.

"What's going on in front of you, let's go, the water is going to overflow." Saying that, he rudely pulled the person in front of him.

Even on the mountain, you can faintly see that the place where they live has been flooded, and the water below the mountain continues to overflow.

The panicked people began to squeeze around, only to hear a frightened wail coming from behind, as if someone had been pushed down the mountain.

"Yongping, take it, this road can't be walked, go up from here, boys, follow closely." Wang Changyi took the initiative to take his family out on another path.

The dark forest could see nothing, and the thorny branches of the weeds scraped on their hands.

The men were in charge of clearing the way, the women were dragging food and goods behind, and the children held hands tightly.

The people behind couldn't see who went where, only that it was crowded towards a crowded place.

Everyone was soaking wet, waiting for the dawn to see what was going on, and now they were blind left and right.

Father Wang and his family leaned against a stone, neatly cut down the branches, supported the rice bucket, and laid a piece of linoleum.

"Zhenxiang, Fubao is fine." Daddy Wang never forgot his newborn granddaughter.

"Fortunately, your doll was born in the morning, if you are afraid that it will be difficult now."

The women took out dry cloths to wipe the water for their boys, and if they caught a cold in the mountains, they would get sick.

"Dad, when will this rain stop?" Wen Yuan watched as the rain gathered and flowed down the mountain.

No one knows when the rain will stop, and such a heavy rain has not been seen in many years.

Daddy Wang took off his worn shoes, scraped the heavy wet mud on the soles of his shoes with a tree branch, and wanted to smoke two sets of dry tobacco, but unfortunately they were all wet.

"Even if the rain stops, it will take two or three days for the water to recede, I don't know how many people will die, the lord in the Yama Palace will accept people, and the crops will not survive."

If the crops do not survive, it means that people do not survive.

An Ran was hugged by her mother, and there was no rain all the way, except that her whole family was wet, and the sound of wringing water could be heard.

Her small farm is level 10 and can grow wheat, rice, potatoes, tomatoes, sugar cane, and gold coins every time she harvests, and she wants to buy a chicken pen so that she can raise the cheapest chicks first.

No one slept that night, and the rain did not stop.

The only dry food that can be eaten at home is the coarse grain bun made at night, but it is Zhen Xiang who gave birth to a child first.

"I'll go out with Yonglin to see how things are going."

Wang Yongan took his fourth brother to the outside of the forest, and found a place with a good view, the water under the mountain became a lake, and the village in the past could not even see a shadow.

The road was full of trampled paths, and there were bowls and basins of grain wrapped in mud.

The people on this hill are all from several nearby villages, and now they are huddled on the mountain.

Of course, it was not only the people who were forced to climb the mountain by the flood, but also the animals, who cowered on the top of the mountain like the people.

The two of them told the situation outside, and it was estimated that the water had flooded most of the places near the Changshui River, including the county, and the people who fled from the village gathered on the mountain, and many people drowned.

"The third child, you take the second child to see what wild things are in the mountains, and they all run here to take refuge in the water, Chunlan and Cuiying go to find some wild vegetables."

Everyone did their part to find survival supplies.

But I heard a frightened shout, and a woman stumbled and ran.

"Dead man, floating ahead..., aha..."The woman was so frightened that she trembled when she spoke.

Originally, she wanted to find the red package that had fallen yesterday, which contained her dowry, but she saw a corpse floating in the water halfway down.

Father Wang looked back at the ladies in the family, told them to stay well, and sent the woman just now.

Dead people are inevitable, and now they are all saving their lives, no one wants to salvage, not to mention the danger, there is an epidemic above.

The people on the top of the nine peaks each occupy a clearing, and the water that can't retreat makes people restless, and if it goes on like this, it will be a battle of trapped beasts.

The people of the Wang family are all laborers, and when they came out, they brought very complete equipment, and the family was close together.

Daddy Wang is a person who has experienced strong winds and waves, and after this flood, the crops will have to be replanted, and there may be epidemics.

Enron's eyes were blocked by linoleum, and he could only hear the ticking sound, and the rain became lighter.

A few light coughs caught her attention, her mother should have a cold, the already weak is now worse, and I am afraid that she will fall ill in the future.

"Mother, I'll warm your hands." Wen Zhuo is a boy with a long body, and his body is like a small stove.

"My sister is so well-behaved, her face is flushed." Wen Zhuo likes to touch his sister's little face the most, which is soft.

In order to let the family eat hot things, Daddy Wang found a lot of wet pine needles and fallen leaves, and used a few rags as primers, and the wet smoke billowed and choked people's coughs.

This wisp of smoke attracted many people, who came to borrow the fire, and some even gathered in a circle through conversation, roasting their wet clothes.

The little Enron ate the milk nest in the sturdy linoleum wrapping, and heard the woman next to her whispering broken thoughts.

This tone is her second aunt is right, she hates these people who don't make a lot of effort and can only talk about it, she didn't pick up a single firewood, and when she saw that someone had a fire, she leaned over to pick up the ready-made.

Daddy Wang didn't say anything, and asked the conditional organized people to borrow the fire.

There are many people who think that wet firewood is not easy to burn, and the fire in Lao Wang's house is large, even if it is wet, as long as it is good to burn and bake for a while, the moisture can be burned, and they can talk about drying clothes directly on the spot.

A few women took advantage of last night's rain to cook a little wild vegetable paste, as long as it was warm, it was a little comforting in their hearts.