The sky changed suddenly, and the village was full of people hurrying home.

Hail clanged everywhere, and in a moment, the road was covered with ice hockey balls, as big as a fingernail and as small as a soybean.

The grass on both sides of the road was smashed crookedly, and the leaves and stems were broken.

The grass under the tree is a little better, and the leaves are miserable, and the connecting rods and leaves fall in a row. Zhao Ke's sister and brother paid attention to their feet, ran home, it was not safe to stand under the eaves, and they would not be smashed again when they stood in the door.

"It hurts." Zhao Feng rubbed the sore place and asked with concern, "Sister, are you okay?"

Zhao Ke looked at the almost white yard and the hail that was still falling, and whispered: "I don't know how the seedlings in the field ......"

Zhao Xinshan's family——

Zhao Rui and Zhao Yunyun brothers and sisters ran home, and Li Cuihua and Zhao Rui's daughter-in-law Qu Qianqian looked around the two nervously.

"Didn't smash it, did you?" Why is it suddenly raining so much ice and snow......"

Zhao Xinshan stood under the eaves, ignoring the ice and snow smashed on his legs, looking at the sky with a frown, holding a cigarette in his hand but not smoking it, clutching it to pieces.

Zhao Yunyun coquettishly said to her mother: "It hurts." "

Li Cuihua rubbed the place where she was fingering, rubbed it a few times and couldn't hold back, and patted her gently: "I don't want you to do anything at home, run out every day!"

Zhao Yunyun glanced at her father under the eaves, and said loudly meaningfully: "We are not playing blindly, we are all for the good of the team." ”

Li Cuihua slapped Zhao Yunyun again, telling her not to be angry with her father, and then turned her head and saw Zhao Xinshan wearing a straw hat and raincoat, and asked anxiously: "It's hailing, why are you going?"

"You don't care." After Zhao Xinshan finished speaking, he walked into the hail quickly and left home.

Li Cuihua was helpless, "This person is really ......" Zhao Yunyun answered, "Old stubborn." "What do you say?" Li Cuihua pinched her. Zhao Yunyun pouted, "Originally." ”

"That's your father, you brothers and sisters follow outsiders and work against your father, are you reasonable?"

Zhao Rui said: "It's not about it, I really think the drainage canal is useful, but why don't they agree?"

It was cloudy outside, and the wind and rain were coming, Zhao Yunyun was very naïve, "Eh, anyway, it's good to wait for the rain, and when the drainage channel is ineffective, it will be clear at a glance, it will definitely convince them." "

And Zhao Xinshan ran all the way to the edge of the field outside the village with hail, saw a large area of seedlings lying on the ridge, picked up a few broken seedling stems, and squatted on the ground uncomfortably motionless, letting the ice and snow fall on his body.

A few more men ran out of the village, looking at the situation in the fields, and their hearts ached.

"Why is it smashed like this!"

"It's hard to look like ...... this year" "This thief God!" What can I do......"

The crops are their lives!

If something goes wrong with the crops, it kills them.

God suddenly came so suddenly, the peasants had no choice but to admit it, and the only thing they could do seemed to be to pray that the natural disaster would pass quickly.

After another ten minutes, the hail finally stopped, but the sky was still overcast, and the mood of a group of people when they checked the condition of the seedlings was as cloudy as the sky.

However, after checking, only a small part of the broken ones are broken, and most of the seedlings are falling off the leaves or lying down, and they should still be alive if they are on the dung. In this way, the damage is not too severe.

Everyone was a little happy.

"Luckily." "Take care of it, the autumn harvest should be able to guarantee the delivery of grain."

As he spoke, the heavens and the earth suddenly brightened, followed by a loud "boom".

"It's raining!"

The sound of dense and huge rain was accompanied by overwhelming raindrops crashing down on the earth. Zhao Xinshan and others hurriedly went home.

Zhao Xinshan's family——

Li Cui took a towel for Zhao Xinshan and asked him, "Is Miao okay?"

"It's okay, pour a little, wait for the rain to help."

Zhao Yunyun quietly squeezed her eyebrows, but she didn't dare to let her father see it.

Zhao Rui asked, "Dad, have you seen the drain?"

Zhao Xinshan said coldly: "No." ”

When the other members went home, it was almost the same scene.

Even though the body under the coat was drenched in a short distance, none of them paid attention to the drain, and none of them thought that the rain would be more stressful than hail.

It's just raining, it hasn't rained in any year, so there's nothing to worry about.

At the same time, Zhao Ke, who was sitting in front of the stove pit and burning the fire, looked at the rain outside from time to time.

Yu Xiulan took a shovel and stir-fried in the pot, and said, "It's dark in the cloudy room, what's the matter."

I couldn't see clearly, and the school couldn't go to class, so Principal Gu dismissed the students. "

Zhao Ke asked casually: "Is Shugen'er still alone at school?" She unconsciously poked the bean stalks with a burning stick and shoved it into the pit, her eyes still staring out.

The rain has only been falling for less than half an hour, and in the wooden barrel under the eaves, the accumulated rain has already passed half....

Yu Xiulan said: "Before I came back, I saw Teacher Wu asking him to go home together. ”

Zhao Ke should be absent-minded, "That's ......"

"Fire! The fire is going out!" Yu Xiulan raised her voice, "What do you want?"

Zhao Ke came back to his senses, couldn't sit still anymore, poked a handful of bean straw, stuffed it into the stove pit, and then stood up, "Mom, burn it yourself, I'll go out." "

Yu Xiulan asked urgently: "Why are you going?"

Zhao Ke didn't answer, and while wearing raincoat and boots, he called Zhao Feng to go out with tools.

Yu Xiulan watched the two of them run out against the rain, and got angry, "It's raining so hard, what are you running out!" Zhao Ke and Zhao Feng didn't look back, and their figures quickly disappeared into the rain. Zhao Jianguo came to the kitchen.

Yu Xiulan was angry, and caught him annoyed, "Look at your seed!" Restless day by day. ”

"I can't give birth alone...... Zhao Jianguo was glared at, and hurriedly said, "Don't care about these two restless children, I'll help you light the fire."

The "restless" Zhao Ke led Zhao Feng and ran to the west of the village in the rain.

When they reached the vicinity of their grandmother's house, they saw that the ditch they had dug had been filled up, and the rainwater continued to pour into the puddle in the middle from all sides.

Zhao Ke walked in tentatively, not past the instep, not over the ankle...... The deepest part has accumulated up to the calves, and according to this amount of rainfall, it is only a matter of time before the rain continues to fall, and the water will flood the yard of my grandmother's house and flood the school and health center.

"Sister!" The rain was so loud that Zhao Feng could only shout loudly, "There is also water in front of my uncle's house!"

Zhao Ke wiped the rain from his face and shouted: "You go to their house and call someone, let's dig the ditch out." "The village won't let them dig, and they'll dig too.

Zhao Feng ran to Uncle Yu and Third Uncle Yu's house without saying a word.

In just a few minutes, the water line went up more and more along the boots, Zhao Ke wiped his face again, turned around and waded out of the puddle with a little difficulty.

The water was deep and turbid, Zhao Ke couldn't see the road conditions on the soles of his feet clearly, even if he was careful, his feet slipped and he couldn't control it.

Anyway

After getting almost wet, Zhao Ke didn't struggle, closed his eyes and mouth, covered his ears, and was ready to plant himself in a puddle and get up again.

Just as she was about to pour into the water, a tall figure rushed into the water area and grabbed her. Zhao Ke didn't enter the water, and he also made the rain all over his face, and he struggled to open his eyes. It's Fu Zhiqing.

Zhao Ke wanted to open his mouth, but he took another mouthful of rain, but his hand regained his footing with his strength, and he spat out the rain with his side head.

"Director Zhao." Fu Hang said loudly in her ear, "Lin Zhiqing and I came over to help dig the ditch!"

Zhao Ke didn't say those superfluous words, only greeted him and Lin Haiyang by the puddle, "Let's go-"

The three of them walked forward together and joined Zhao Feng, the two uncles of the Yu family, and the five cousins.

At that time, the village was not allowed to dig because it had to be dug from the middle of the road, and now that the rain is so heavy, the houses are flooded and scolded, so there is no need to hesitate to start drying.

Lao Wang's family -

As the family sat down to eat together, Aunt Dong listened to the deafening sound of rain outside and said, "It's really raining." ”

Wang Changhe said disapprenorovingly: "It hasn't rained for so long, the fields are dry, and the rain is good, just moistening the ground." "

Boss Wang responded: "It's been too hot lately. ”

Aunt Dong saw her third son Wang Xiangquan quickly pouring chopsticks to pick up rice, and couldn't help scolding: "You starve to death and reincarnate as a ghost~ Eat so fast." "

Wang Laosan concentrated on picking up the rice in his mouth, and he didn't have time to talk to her at all, a bowl of rice was quickly finished, the dishes and chopsticks were put down, and he hurriedly said: "I'm done eating, go out." "

He took the cloak and put it on his body, put on a straw hat and was about to leave. Aunt Dong put down the bowl and chased after him, "What are you doing!"

"Boss Yu, the ditch has not been dug yet, there must be water, I'll help."

"When it's raining, everyone else has to stay at home, who's stupid to run out?"

"Director Zhao will definitely take care of it."

"She's in charge of his business." Aunt Dong was even more unhappy, "What are you tossing around blindly on a rainy day!"

Wang Laosan didn't bother to say more to her, pulled her hand away, and rushed out directly.

Aunt Dong'er's scolding was isolated in the rain.

Wang Laosan directly joined the ranks of digging ditches, and then spontaneously came to many young people in the village, and Zhao Rui and the four educated youths from the Zhiqing Point also ran over in the heavy rain.

The soil was soft, and it was easier to dig than when it was dry, and a group of people worked together to quickly dig through the ditch in the north of the old locust tree. The water in the village kept flowing to the ditch, but the rain kept falling and the puddles were in puddles

The stagnant water is not less at all. The ditch was not deep enough, and now it has accumulated half a pit of rainwater, and even the water level is visibly accelerating to rise.

Zhao Ke wiped the unclean rain on his face, and didn't care about eating a mouthful of rainwater, and shouted at everyone: "The rain is too big!" You have to dig through the front, otherwise it will overflow and pour into the village, and the house will collapse if it is soaked in water for too long!"

Zhao Feng took the lead, "Sister, let's dig it!" Zhu Jianyi and the other boys echoed him: "Yes, sister, let's dig it!"

Uncle Yu, Third Uncle Yu and others also responded.

There was no objection, Zhao Ke waved his hand and shouted: "Then go!" Everyone responded together, carrying tools and walking outside the village.

Zhuang Lan and Su Limei were walking extremely hard in the heavy rain, and Zhao Ke dragged the two of them, "Don't go, you two!" Director Zhao, I can do it!" Zhuang Lan was reluctant to leave the team, "Let Limei go back!"

Su Limei didn't want to, "Why should I go back, I don't!"

Zhao Ke glanced at Zhuang Lan's thin body and shook his head, "Let you go back!"

The two hurriedly spoke: "Director Zhao ......"

Zhao Ke waved his hand, "The roof of the house has not been repaired, is it leaking?" It just so happens that you two go to my house and ask my dad to prepare some cold warming soup for everyone. "

Fu Hang turned around and persuaded her: "You can go back too, just have us." "

Zhao Rui and others also reacted, Zhao Ke was also a lesbian, and persuaded her not to go. Uncle Yu even directly used the tone of order: "Zhao Ke, go back quickly." ”

There are also a lot of things in the village, Zhao Ke thought about it, and agreed to come down to Zhao Rui

and Fu Hang shouted: "Brother Rui, you arrange people!" Fu Zhiqing, you tell Brother Rui how to dig clearly!

The two nodded.

Zhao Ke told again: Pay attention to safety, don't fall!

The crowd agreed, "Don't worry." ”

The group walked away, and the rain curtain cut off the view.

"Let's go back."

Zhao Ke turned his head to look at the ditch that was getting fuller and fuller, and then dragged Zhuang Lan and Su Limei back from left to right. The three of them went around the old locust tree, and several people were busy working by the pigsty. When they saw Zhao Ke, they were all overjoyed, Director Zhao!

The pigsty was covered with a fully enclosed roof, but it was ajar on both sides, and the rain still fell into the pigsty, and now the piglets were all shivering in the water.

Now they're installing the flap.

Three of the five breeders have husbands, only Uncle Zhu and Brother Chang Shan came to help their daughter-in-law, and there is also a custodian He Dongsheng with bad legs.

Zhao Xuanzhu'er went to dig a ditch, but the sixth uncle didn't come to help Zhao Pingping, and Jin Li's husband Fan An didn't come either.

The wind and rain were too strong, and the station was unstable, and it took two or three people to work together to install a baffle, and Zhao Ke and the three of them helped together, and it was still very difficult to install it. At this time, a few people came from the village, and Su Limei was pleasantly surprised, "Is someone here to help?!"

The others looked over with delight.

However, what they ushered in was not help, but an accusation against Zhao Ke.

Zhu Jianyi's father and mother questioned Zhao Ke: With such a heavy rain, why did you let my son go to the river to dig a ditch? Zhao Pingping, Zhuang Lan, and their happy hearts instantly cooled.

Other parents ignored it and questioned Zhao Ke one after another-

"It's not like it hasn't rained, it's raining a little bit, isn't it?" What if I fall into the water?" If something happens to my son, why should you accompany him!"

Zhao Ke also knew that he was working outside on a rainy day, and he was a little embarrassed, so he explained to them: "We have dug near the river before, and we will not dig near the river."

"I don't care where you dig, we all endured it before, it's raining heavily, it's just not good!" Right! No way!

Gotta get my kids back!" Zhao Ke, don't read a little book and don't know what your surname is!"

The blame continued.

The rain slid down his cheeks, blurring his eyes, Zhao Ke couldn't bear it anymore, pointed at the ditch and shouted: "Are you blind!" Can't you see how heavy the rain is!

In the ditch, the water surface is only thirty or forty centimeters away from the edge of the ditch, and the rainwater is still pouring in.

Zhu Jianyi's father and mother were even more angry when they saw the water, you still let my son pour it in such a heavy rain......

"We're all pouring it!" Zhao Ke pointed to the person next to the pigsty again, "It's you who are expensive!" We are saving collective property! What are you doing? If you have the time to accuse me, can't you do something serious!

A group of club members were stunned by her yelling.

They had just come out angrily to look for their children, and had not noticed anything else, only to see that the group at the pigsty were all looking at them dissatisfied, and only then did they notice the situation of the pigs.

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He clearly scolded Zhu Jianyi's father and mother, but the other people's faces were a little ashamed, and the arrogance of the clamor all went down.

Zhao Ke ignored them anymore and beckoned the others to hurry up to the baffle. The members looked at each other and hurried up to help.

In the end, there is a lot of power, and soon the baffle will be safe, and Zhao Ke doesn't care whether those members go outside the village to arrest people, and leads Zhuang Lan and Su Limei back to her house.

Zhao Jianguo boiled a large pot full of cold warming soup, and gave each of them a bowl first.

Cold or not? Yu Xiulan looked at the soaked pants of the three of them, she felt distressed, and quickly changed her clothes after drinking, the little girl was so cold that it was a lifetime thing.

The three of them were so cold that their lips were blue, and they obediently listened to the arrangement.

Before dark, the people who had dug the ditch returned.

Everyone was drenched, shaking their hands or standing or squatting on the ground to drink the cold soup. Zhao Rui said to Zhao Ke: Don't dig too deep, simply dig to drain the water, and we'll come back first.

As long as you can drain water.

After the others finished drinking, they went home, Fu Hang took a step slower, and said to Zhao Ke: The silt may block the ditch we dug.

Zhao Ke said: "The village is not just our village, we have done our best to achieve this, the rain is not light at all, it is not safe to go out at night, let's talk about it tomorrow."

Fu Hang nodded and left Zhao Ke's house.

Zhao Xinshan's family——

When Zhao Rui returned home, he was greeted by his mother and wife for warmth. The room was filled with smoke, and Zhao Xinshan was holding the cigarette between his fingers, his face expressionless. Li Cuihua urged Zhao Rui: "Go back to the house and lie down under the covers, and the kang is warm." ”

After Zhao Rui and his daughter-in-law entered the house, Zhao Xinshan listened to the roar of the wind and rain, and was silent for a while, in the end, the responsibility of the captain and the importance of the crops prevailed, and he reached out to get the raincoat that was still dripping.

Li Cuihua heard the sound of the door closing, and as soon as the person was gone, she chased to the door and shouted several times, but she didn't stop anyone. Zhao Xinshan walked into the fields outside the village with one foot deep and one foot shallow, stepping on the mud, his feet became heavier and heavier, and his heart became heavier and heavier.

When I got to the fields west of the village, the land that was often flooded did not become a depression as in previous years.

Zhao Xinshan followed the flow of rainwater in the ditch to find the edge of the ditch.

All the water from the ditches flows into the drains, merges into a stream, and flows downstream. There is nothing more convincing than the truth, the ditch does drain, and Zhao Ke is right. Zhao Xinshan's lips trembled, silently.

past

If there is heavy rain in the year, many old houses will seep rain. But a few days ago, many families have repaired their houses.

It rained heavily for several hours today, and the people who had repaired their houses were still lying down peacefully even though they couldn't sleep because of the noise of the rain.

Like Wang Yinghui's house, Song Rui looked at the roof happily, "Mom, our family is not leaking rain at all this year!"

Wang Yinghui nodded lightly, she didn't have to get up in the middle of the night to get water, and she felt comfortable.

And the roofs in the village are old, but no matter how Zhao Ke persuades, the people who don't repair the house will regret it when they see the rain outside the house and the rain inside the house.

I knew it would be like this, so I listened to Zhao Ke.

The Qian family——

The section of the house where Old Man Qian and Mrs. Qian live is an old house, and it has been watered for so long, and the rain seepage is quite serious. Old man Qian was lying alone on the kang and couldn't get drenched in the rain, driving Mrs. Qian to the ground, didn't you see the rain? Don't pick up anything yet!

Mrs. Qian put on her shoes and went to the ground, came in with various containers to receive water, listened to the ticking voice, and muttered: "If you listen to Director Zhao and repair the house, it won't leak rain."

Old man Qian was instantly angry, grabbed the bowl on the kang to catch the rain, and threw it at her, "Lao Tzu's home, Lao Tzu loves to repair or not, it's not your turn to teach me a lesson!"

The bowl smashed on Mrs. Qian's shoulder, and the rain wet a large piece of her back.

Mrs. Qian covered the painful place with her hands, her eyes were sad, and she whispered: I just said it casually.........

"You don't look at what you are, and you still want to stay in this house, just shut your mouth!" Old man Qian was furious, without a trace of human touch, "You are not allowed to go to the kang tonight!"

Next door, Qian Jun pretended to be asleep and ignored it with his eyes closed.

Even if Mrs. Qian was bitter for his cold-bloodedness in her heart, she was used to obeying her husband, and it was too cold at night, so she sat on the ground by the kang. The wind was raging, accompanied by the torrential rain, the branches of the trees swayed with the wind, and the black shadows of the trees roared to the windows like man-eating monsters in the rain. The small "click" sound in the house could not attract the attention of the Qian family in the slightest under the sound of rain.

Boom –

"Ahh

Mrs. Qian woke up, her face was cold, and she subconsciously touched her face. Full of water.

The lightning swept across the rainy night, and Mrs. Qian saw the light clearly. The roof on the kang has collapsed! Smashed the old man with money!

The entire kang surface was full of broken clods, but Mrs. Qian sat on the ground and didn't hit it at all.

Retribution...... Is it?

Mrs. Qian was stunned

Looking at the person on the kang with only the upper half of his body exposed, he seemed to be stupid.

His son Qian Jun ran over, and when he saw this scene, his eyes were split, and he trembled and stretched out his hand to probe his father's snort. Angry......

His legs went limp, and he shouted, "Help!" Help!"

Mrs. Qian woke up, rushed over and didn't dare to move the old man casually, and said tremblingly: "Jun'er, go find someone, find a doctor, yes, find Zhao Jianguo......

Qian Jun ran out, fell several times, and was covered in mud, and finally found Zhao Ke's house, shouting "help" outside the hospital. The rain was so heavy that Zhao Ke's family and even Zhuang Lan and Su Limei, who were staying at Zhao Ke's house, didn't sleep deeply, and they were all woken up by shouting. Zhao Ke and the others didn't move.

Zhao Jianguo quickly got up and got dressed, carried the medicine box and ran to his house with Qian Jun.

Zhao Feng also accompanied his father, and when he arrived at the Qian family, he found that the roof of their house had collapsed, and he went next door to find Zhao Xuanzhu'er and his son to help.

Several people were busy for a long time, and finally rescued the old man Qian carefully.

Old man Qian was smashed into his lumbar spine, and Zhao Jianguo's medical skills could only help him fix it and prescribe him some painkillers.

Even if it is good weather, it hurts the lumbar spine and tosses it to the commune and county, and it may be injured and injured, not to mention the heavy rain now. The Qian family can only resign themselves to fate.

It rained all night, and the next day, the village learned that the roof of Qian's house had collapsed and injured the old man. For a while, people who have repaired their houses but have not repaired their houses have palpitations when they look at the rain that still stops.

Why is this rain so heavy?

The more fortunate they are, the more frightened they are, and the more frightened they are.

People who have never repaired their houses are more and more afraid that their family will be like the old Qian family, and they regret it more and more, why didn't they listen to Zhao Ke. But that's not all.

It was as if there was a big hole in the sky, and the rain was pouring down continuously.

The gloomy sky made people panic.

The clothes and quilts are all damp, and even the firewood is not easy to ignite.

Zhao Ke didn't expect the rainstorm to be so heavy, and the members of the Zhao Village production team, who originally thought it was no big deal, were completely panicked. When will the rain stop?

What to do with the crops?

If they can't get food, how will they live next year?

And the drainage canal they dug really began to silt up as Fu Hang said.

The ditches in the fields need to be dredged, and the drainage ditches between the ditches and the river channel must also be cleared.

Zhao Ke found Zhao Xinshan again.

She didn't show a hint of smugness on her face, and said matter-of-factly: "

Now that the drainage channel is not flowing smoothly, it is better to dig a drain from the mouth of the ditch to help drain the water.

The rain will carry the soil from the fields into the ditches, and people will have to be arranged to dredge the ditches.

"The amount of rain is too big, the ditches are too small, and the drainage is too slow to sit idly by, and we have to expand the drainage as much as possible." Uncle, there are not enough people.

Zhao Xinshan's mouth was full of bubbles, he closed his eyes weakly, opened them again, and said in a dumb voice: "Go, go to the brigade headquarters." ”

Ten minutes later, the brigade's horn sounded, and Zhao Xinshan's hoarse voice resounded throughout the village: "Attention all members!" Attention all members! The children of our village have left a way for our crops to live, and the drainage canal is useful! We can't give up! Those over the age of fifteen and under the age of fifty-five, as long as they can move, all of them will gather in the brigade!"

"I repeat again...... Assemble in the brigade!"