While we were leisurely waiting for the rain to stop on the mountain, things were not so easy in the village.
There were already forty or fifty people in the warehouse taking shelter from the rain. All the food, bedding, and valuable items from each family were brought over and piled neatly in a corner.
Everyone sat on the ground, talking about the rain, talking about the ground, and worrying about the house.
This is also their entire life content.
Wu Yang brought a bag of ginger and borrowed Li Laoshi's pot to make ginger soup for everyone to drink to ward off the cold.
Seeing that everyone was cold, Xu Genyou simply boiled a big pot of ginger soup, added slices of shallots, and everyone drank.
Amid the noisy crowd, Ms. Qin was sitting in the outermost circle of the barn, wrapped in rain gear, head buried and pouting like a quail.
She had no shame to huddle with others to hide from the rain, but the shack was about to collapse because she couldn't hold it up, and her son Xu Genqing couldn't really leave her alone. He was so desperate that he just carried her here.
But there were people everywhere, and Qin felt embarrassed, so she sat outside, letting the wind and rain hit her, and half of her body got wet.
Xu Genqing's eyes were so angry that he said, "Mom, you are not ruining yourself, you are tormenting me. If you catch a cold, where can you find a doctor to give you medicine?"
Mrs. Liu came over with a bowl of ginger soup: "Sister Qin, don't compete with yourself, and don't let your children worry. If you catch a cold like this, you will be the one who suffers."
Mrs. Qin glanced at her and muttered: "I want you to pretend to be kind. When I was beaten, I didn't see you come out and say a nice word!"
Mrs. Liu was a good old man, not as generous as Mrs. Qin, so she only urged her to drink ginger soup to warm her body: "Village Chief Jiang is a good person. That was before, and now is now. If you are wrong, admit it and don't get angry with her."
Mrs. Qin couldn't stand the cold, so she moved her buttocks and said, "She is used to tormenting people and would like to kill them."
Ms. Liu has a good temper but has moral principles. She knows that wrong is wrong and even wants to expel her own daughter-in-law.
Now I couldn't stand it when I heard that Mrs. Qin was clearly misbehaving and being a weirdo. She muttered and stood up: "If you don't want to drink, then just drink! Anyway, if you die, you will fill your own hole. It has nothing to do with other people. If you die, The village is now quieter.”
When Mrs. Qin heard this, she became anxious. She took a few sips from the ginger soup bowl and said angrily, "I won't die. It's just like Mrs. Jiang's wish."
There was another person further away than Qin, who also had his head buried and his butt stuck out, pretending to be dead, but he couldn't get any leisure even by pretending to have dead ears.
Xu Gensheng squatted beside him and muttered: "Master, why are you doing this?"
Xu Changming's shack collapsed.
He was pulled out from inside and brought to the warehouse.
Xu Changming closed his eyes tightly, pretending that he did not hear.
But in the world, it seems that Xu Gensheng has a mouth, and he keeps showing off all day long.
"Grandpa, I told you before that Aunt Jiang learned a few tricks outside, but you didn't believe it.
What now? No matter who is the village chief, as long as there are tiles above his head and dry ground under his feet on heavy rainy days, he is a capable person! "
"There are no distinctions between men and women among capable people! Don't you think so?"
Xu Changming's old face twitched, and he couldn't tell whether it was white, black, or gray. He just wished he could stop his grandson's mouth.
It rained heavily all day and all night, and at dawn, the dripping gradually became smaller.
Seeing that the rain was about to stop, everyone who had been hiding from the rain all night in the warehouse came out.
They are worried about their land and houses. Although they have a place to take shelter from the rain, all their wealth is outside.
There was no need to wait for the village chief Jiang Zhi to come over to supervise and lead. Tian Gui, Xu Genyou and other eight people took the initiative to check the situation in the village.
In addition to seven or eight houses with leaks, two thatched sheds collapsed.
Because of the rain leakage, everyone had already gone to the warehouse. The collapsed shed did not hurt anyone and needed to be rebuilt.
The rest of the shacks are only slightly leaky and can only be repaired.
Tian Tao stood outside her shack, first opened the tightly covered rabbit pen, fed the rabbits grass, and then let the chicks out to feed.
The Tian family raises chickens and rabbits.
Although the rabbit pen is built outside the shack, Tian Gui works carefully.
The bottom of the pen is piled with stones, and the top is covered with bamboo to contain the chickens.
In this way, the rabbits below can neither dig holes to escape nor worry about wild dogs jumping in and biting them.
The chickens living on the second floor can also be ventilated.
It started to get windy yesterday, so the top of the bamboo cage was covered with tree sticks and firewood. No matter how heavy the rain was outside, we didn’t have to worry about getting wet.
Seeing that the rabbit was well, Tian Tao chopped up the vegetable leaves, mixed them with rice bran, and sprinkled them on the ground. The little chickens came out of the cage and ate happily.
She looked to the side, turned around, ran back and whispered to her mother: "Mom, the shack next to it collapsed. Fortunately, people left, otherwise they would have been buried inside."
Tao'er Niang was tidying up the bed quickly. When her daughter heard about the Qin family's house next door, she glared at Tian Tao: "Don't talk behind people's backs. If your father hadn't built his shed well, he wouldn't have been able to withstand the rain." , you didn’t notice that the feet of our shed also got water.”
Tian Tao kicked the soil on the ground to cover the water stains, wrinkled her nose and said, "My father has learned his skill in building sheds. My family used to live in a shack, and my uncle and third uncle lived in a house."
Tao'er Niang's face paled a little when she mentioned the past.
The three brothers used to live together. The old man in the family said that the house was too small to live in, so he forced himself and Tian Gui to move out and live in a shack on the ground the day after they got married. He said that it was spacious and would not delay working in the fields in the morning and evening.
I lived here for more than ten years. All farm work was taken care of by the family, and several children were born and raised in the shack on the ground.
The eldest daughter is now eleven years old and still lives in a shack.
If his parents-in-law hadn't told him that Tian Tao was getting older, he would have gone out to get married early, and he and Tian Gui had not thought about becoming outsiders.
Now it seems that it is good to be a migrant, even though you have no relatives and no one to rely on, you will still eat vegetables.
At least the three children can have enough to eat, and they no longer have to worry about their sisters-in-law rolling their eyes because they eat too much. They don't have to worry about having to listen to their mother-in-law bang pots and bowls when it's time to eat, and they don't have to worry about that dark face that has never relaxed.
Now Tian Gui can get closer to other people in the village, and the female village head is also a good person. Within a few months, the villagers have food.
Taoer Niang touched her bulging belly, sighing and feeling happy at the same time.
While working as a refugee in Xujia Village, my belly, which had been silent for several years, turned out to be pregnant again.
This child came at a really bad time. The war was in chaos, he was still living outside, and he didn't have enough to eat.
But Tian Gui said several times that this child is blessed, and since he is here, he must take good care of him.
Others say that children bring their own food when they are reborn, but Taoerniang never believes it.
She gave birth to three children, and when the family complained that there was not enough food, the children suffered from overeating.
But since she was pregnant, Tian Gui went to buy food for the first time. He couldn't even enter Lihua Town, but he met the village chief.
When I came back, I could work again in exchange for food, and my family never ran out of rice or noodles.
Although the food is still mushy porridge, I can feel full after every meal.
Tao'er Niang now truly believed that this child came with his own food rations, so he no longer had to worry about being scolded and reincarnated as a starving ghost.
