The slight shaking on the ground continued, and the faint sounds became clearer and clearer.
Li Pingan finally realized that he was not hallucinating. The sound was clearly the roar of running water!
Zhang Xiaoshan stood up bit by bit with his dozing head. Li Erlin woke up with a start, and Zhang Yu also woke up... In a very short period of time, first the people watching the night stood up in shock, and then they couldn't sleep. Practical people, more and more people are waking up amidst the noise of panic.
Chen Dajuan hugged the sleepy Xinglong and Ruyi with one hand and asked, "What is this sound?"
Li Pingan swallowed hard, "Water, the sound of water, I'm afraid a flood is coming."
There is only one small stream in Xiaochen Village. Farmland irrigation and domestic water usually rely on this stream. Although the water level of the stream rose yesterday and flooded the farmland, there was no such big movement as now.
If this rumbling sound of water is not the passing of the flood, what could it be?
Li Ping'an didn't know what words to use to describe his current mood, scared, shocked, confused... and relaxed. Yes, easy. When the flood of worry really came, the heart he had been holding seemed to fall back to where it should have been.
The big hut had long been in chaos. Although the sky had not yet lightened up and no one knew the situation down the mountain, the noise coming from down the mountain was extremely scary.
Someone wanted to go down the mountain with a torch to have a look, but was stopped by Chen Song and others.
During the anxious waiting, the sky finally dawned. Looking down from the mountainside, I saw that everywhere under the mountain was turbid. The water seemed to have lifted up the entire ground. The original villages could no longer be seen. A little shadow.
For a time, many people sat slumped on the ground, their faces lifeless and their eyes motionless.
Everything is gone, the crops are gone, the house is gone, and their hard work over the past decade or so has now been washed away by this flood.
But the good thing is that life is still there, people are still there, no one is missing.
The people who were clamoring to go down the mountain to go home last night felt extremely happy after the emotions of shock and fear. If they had returned to live in the house last night, they might not have had time to wake up at night and the house would have been washed away by the flood.
Li Pingan seemed to have seen the Yellow River in his previous life, and he was standing on the edge of the Yellow River. But the difference is that in his previous life, when he lived in the South, he would only admire the magnificence of the Yellow River when he saw it, but now the scene in front of him made his hands and feet feel cold and shuddering.
The turbid water rushes forward, carrying everything it can carry away. The uprooted trees float on the water like a piece of grass. There are countless corpses on the water tumbling with the current, including animals and others. human's.
Not all of them were corpses. Li Ping'an also saw with sharp eyes that there were some people or animals on the water who were not dead. They were flapping their limbs desperately for a chance of survival. However, compared with the vast and raging flood, the creatures were still too small. Their desperate struggle had no effect. In the end, they either moved forward along the current, or sank to the bottom of the water, disappearing from Li Ping'an's sight.
Li Ping'an felt so congested that he couldn't breathe. He thought that he was struggling like this in his nightmare.
The crowd had already quieted down, and everyone looked sadly at the people or animals floating on the water, unable to cry or speak. They had already been shocked to the point of numbness. The so-called hell on earth was nothing more than that.
Purgatory?
Li Erlin lowered his eyes. Things that happened in the past two days flashed through his mind one after another, and the long-lasting memories of the escape gradually came to mind.
The next step should be the real purgatory.
"Mom, why is there a big river? Where does it come from?" Xiao Ruyi was very confused and couldn't understand why there was such a big river after waking up.
Chen Dajuan's eyes were filled with tears, and her choked voice was slightly trembling, "This is not a big river, this is a flood."
Xiao Ruyi blinked, "What is a flood?"
"A flood is a sudden flood of water that washes away all the crops and houses we planted..." As she spoke, Chen Dajuan couldn't continue and cried softly.
Little Ruyi hurriedly helped her mother wipe away her tears, "Mom, please don't cry. Ruyi doesn't ask anymore. Ruyi knows that Flood is the big bad guy!"
She was ignorant and could not understand what Flood was, but she knew that Flood must be the bad guy, otherwise how could her mother cry while talking.
Li Ping'an's hand was also grabbed by a small hand. He looked down and saw that it was Jixiang. Ji Xiang raised his little face and his big clear eyes were filled with tears, "Brother, was our home washed away by the flood? Do we have no home?"
Li Ping'an pulled the corners of his mouth, feeling that his mouth was dry and he couldn't make a sound. So he bent down and picked up Ji Xiang, and after a while he spoke with difficulty: "As long as my parents are here, our brothers and sisters are all here, grandma, aunts, uncles, they are all here, and all our relatives are here, how can we What if you don’t have a home? The house that was destroyed by the flood is just a part of the home. After the flood recedes, we can build the house and we can be like before."
Jixiang, who was a little confused at first, finally understood what Li Ping'an said after seeing so many relatives. The eldest brother is right. If the house is gone and built again, she can still play with her brothers, sisters, and younger siblings as before.
After listening to Li Pingan's words, Li Dalin, Li Erlin, Li Silin and Zhang Yu quickly looked at each other and nodded to each other tacitly.
Li Ping'an is right, as long as people are still there, home will still be there. No matter what happens next, they must do their best to protect their families.
After all, if the house is gone, it can be built again, but if the people are gone, it is really gone. No family is complete without one person.
After seeing the flood, people gradually returned to their places in the hut. There are dark clouds in the sky that cannot be dispersed, and there are sad clouds gathering under the roof. People were depressed, some were crying, and some were kneeling on their knees, praying devoutly to the mountain gods and God. Facing natural disasters, they were helpless and could only place their hope in the misty gods. All they wanted was peace of mind and peace of mind for their panicked hearts. Just have something to rely on.
Li Ping'an glanced around, and approached Li Erlin with a worried look on his eyebrows, and said softly: "Dad, now we are trapped on the mountain by floods. We don't know when the floods will recede. What Uncle Asong told you last night, you Do you have an idea?"
Li Erlin nodded solemnly, and then asked Li Pingan to call Chen Dazhu, Second Pillar and Three Pillars over. When Li Pingan came back with his three uncles, Li Dalin, Erlin, Silin and Zhang Yu were already sitting together.
As soon as the seven adult men gathered together, they walked out of the hut. When they saw Li Ping'an following behind them, they didn't say anything.
Stopping far away from the hut, Li Erlin explained the matter and then said his decision, "I think so. Now each family still has at least five buckets of food in stock. If you save some food, you can eat for ten and a half days." Yue, we don’t need to rush to give out the food. If the situation changes, we will immediately hand over all the remaining food without leaving any. Whether it is given to the village chief or the chief of the clan named Chen, they will distribute it. .”
