The heavy rain came unexpectedly.
After confirming that it was already daybreak, it was still terrifyingly dark outside, so Mayberry lit a candle and went to the main room.
After opening the door to the main room, the candle flame was blown out by the sudden rush of wind. Meiberry raised her hand to cover it before raising her head and fully seeing the situation outside.
The thick and continuous dark clouds seemed to be just above his head, teetering on the verge of collapse.
Occasionally, lightning flashes in the surging dark clouds, and the deafening sound of thunder makes people's hearts tremble.
Mei Mei looked back at the sky, and saw the rain falling under the eaves of her house, as if someone was squatting on the roof of their house and pouring it down with a basin.
Because the water in the yard had not had time to drain away, more than an inch of water accumulated in the yard.
Fortunately, the room is more than a foot higher than the yard, otherwise, their house would be filled with water this time.
However, since the yard was flooded, Meiberry looked at the small vegetable garden in the center of her yard. Well, it was completely soaked.
"oops!"
Not to mention the vegetable garden, Mei Pei suddenly thought of her sheep and mules, and quickly rushed to the entrance while wearing a dripping bamboo hat hanging at the door.
When she arrived at the entrance, Meiberry saw clearly that sacks of sand and gravel had been piled up here to prevent flooding.
There were even a few piled up at the entrance of the sheepfold and outside the mule tent. Under the secondary protection, the little animals at home did not get wet.
Even the egg-laying fighting chicken hanging in the chicken coop above the sheep pen is in good spirits at the moment.
Seeing this, Mei Berry was completely relieved.
"Ouch! What are you doing, Berry? Come back quickly!"
Hearing the voices of her parents, Mayberry turned around and saw the two of them, who seemed to have just taken a shower, standing under the eaves and waving to her.
After stepping on the water and rushing back, Mei Liang was pulled into the kitchen by Wei Meili, where she wiped her body with hot water and put on clean clothes.
At this time, Mayberry learned that the couple got up and worked before dawn after the heavy rain last night.
Those sacks of silt were obtained by Mei Youqian when he first came here.
It turned out that I disliked the roughness of the fence in the backyard and wanted to get some sand and mud to paste it up at home.
It turned out that I had forgotten to paste the wall, and I remembered it again when it rained.
After arranging the small animals and other things at home, her parents unclogged the ditch again and drained the water blocked in the yard from their backyard.
But even so, the rain still fell faster than it leaked from the ground.
After the family washed up again, Wei Meili ordered a pot of spicy radish and egg rice noodles.
After grabbing a few cloves of pickled garlic, the family had a hot breakfast in the pouring rain outside.
After dinner, looking at the heavy rain outside, the Mayberry family sat together again and talked about the heavy rain.
"It's raining too fast and too hard. Fortunately, the terrain here is high, otherwise it would have been flooded!"
Mei Youqian, who had been busy for half the night, suddenly felt something.
"That's what you said. When we lived in Jinshui Village, it rained heavily for several days before flooding occurred. Even then, it didn't affect us. Don't exaggerate."
Wei Meili couldn't help but roll her eyes when she heard Mei Youqian's words.
Just hearing Wei Meimei's words made Mei Bei even more worried.
Precisely because the small-scale flood last year did not have much impact, Mayberry couldn't help but think about why the flood in the original book had such a huge impact.
"The heavy rain of this scale won't last long, right? It will last longer than the one last year, and the damage will be wider?"
"I'll go, right?"
Mei Youqian and Wei Meili couldn't help but look horrified at Mei Berry's guess.
"Then...isn't this too outrageous?"
Just as Meiberry and the others were worried about the future of this heavy rain, another group of people had just arrived in Fucheng despite the wind and rain.
"Oh, you guys... hurry up and drink ginger tea. Even if you move, you can't be in such a hurry. You entered the city as soon as the city gate opened this early in the morning. Doesn't that mean you went up the mountain all night in the heavy rain yesterday?
How dangerous!
Can you guys bear it? Can Mr. Xue bear it? And this child..."
Shopkeeper Ma looked at a group of people appearing in front of him wet, especially Mr. Xue and his adopted son Tian Qi. The old man and the young one looked very pathetic with their languid looks.
Shopkeeper Ma said to quickly ask the waiter to bring the hot ginger tea.
She personally distributed ginger tea to everyone, and then she looked up at the heavy rain outside, and couldn't help but mutter: "Are you desperate for your life? Leader, you are too, risking going up the mountain in such dangerous weather... "
"It's more dangerous down there."
After taking the ginger tea, Wang Beigu drank it all in one gulp, with an ugly look on his face: "Originally, we planned to go up the mountain today, but who knew that it suddenly started raining heavily last night.
Yi looked at the sky and said that the heavy rain would not stop in a short time, and something would happen sooner or later if he stayed down there. "
Lin Shoucai, who was suddenly called, was taking the ginger tea from shopkeeper Ma. Because of Wang Beigu's words, he took away a wave of knives while taking the tea.
Lin Shoucai smiled naively at Shopkeeper Ma and said, "I have no intention of deceiving the leader. I have learned some skills in reading the weather from a traveling salesman. It's raining a lot these days!"
"Originally... I wanted to go to Xianyao from Jinghu Pass. Now that it's raining, walking by the river is obviously not a good choice. I will follow Mr. Xue here first and make plans later."
Hearing Wang Beigu's words, Mr. Xue became angry. After drinking the ginger tea, Mr. Xue, who almost felt that his old bones were numb from the cold, finally regained some strength and started to deal with the people present.
He first scolded Wang Beigu for forcing him to close the hospital despite his wishes and bringing him and Tian Qi to the house.
Even though he and Tian Qi were being carried on their backs this night, even though they were wearing thick clothes and raincoats, they couldn't withstand the pouring rain!
Then he scolded Wang Beigu for how he could suddenly transfer his power to Xianyao.
Have you forgotten Xie Changxuan's instructions?
Oh, after being scolded by Mr. Xue, Wang Beigu then remembered that they forgot to tell Mr. Xue that the person they were looking for Xie Changxu had found, and he was in Fucheng.
"What the hell?! Are you telling me such a big thing now?!"
Mr. Xue stood up suddenly. Xie Changxu had been looking for his adoptive father's bloodline. How could he not know?
He even looked forward to finding it. Lihu Town was not only his hometown, but also Lao Xie's. He even sometimes wondered whether the medical clinic he ran would one day have someone who looked similar to Lao Xie. People come for consultation?
When Lao Xie passed away, he was still thinking about this matter. He didn't even see the child. Lao Xie happily said that he would let the child recognize him as his adoptive father in the future.
As a result, in the blink of an eye, his adopted Tian Qi would buy him a roast chicken. This verbally adopted adopted son has not yet met anyone!
"Too many things happened some time ago, I forgot."
Mr. Xue didn't accept this reason. This person would tie him up to Fucheng, but he actually forgot to tell him that he had found someone? !
Seeing Mr. Xue looking impatient to meet someone, Shopkeeper Ma quickly persuaded him to stop.
"Mr. Xue, Mr. Xue, listen to me, I'm fine in Fucheng, and I won't leave. Why don't you take a hot bath quickly, let's eat something hot, and then have a good rest. I'll wait until the rain stops." Just take you there?”
"No! I'll go when the rain subsides!"
Once Mr. Xue makes up his mind, no one can pull him back even if he has eight horses.
However, the rain has not gotten lighter after five days in a row.
It wasn't until the sixth day that the sky suddenly cleared up when no one expected it.
The Mayberry family was cleaning up their yard that had been hit by rain when they were interrupted by a panicked knock on the door.
Mei Bei thought it was Mei You who was here, and excitedly rushed to open the door. When she opened the door, she saw a familiar yet unfamiliar face.
What looks familiar is: Yo! Isn't this Dr. Xue?
What's strange is: when she looked carefully, she saw that this old man was smiling so much that his teeth were exposed. He was completely different from the poisonous-tongued and serious Mr. Xue in her memory, wasn't he?
"granddaughter!"
Mayberry:?
Mr. Xue: Damn it! Your dad is here!
The Mayberries: Who are you?
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