Ms. Liu also sat up from her stool and listened to their discussion with her ears open.
Yang Ruoqing shook her head resolutely, "No, these four women are all relatives. Even if the first three are allowed in, the fourth one will find ways to beg them for help and go to the fourth house behind the village to pick up things."
"Ah? Can it still be like this?" Wang Cuilian didn't expect this.
Mrs. Liu spoke up: "It must be like this, this is human nature!"
What these words said made Yang Ruoqing couldn't help but take another look at her fourth aunt.
Mrs. Liu sat up straight and continued: "Since these four families are all relatives, and we are nose to nose, how can we have the nerve to refuse the request of the fourth family? They must have secretly gone to the back of the village to help carry things."
"What if something goes wrong? The water flooded the houses at the back of the village first. The water must be the deepest there. Qing'er cannot be released, not even one of them. This precedent cannot be opened!"
Ms. Liu was so speechless that she was even more determined than Yang Ruoqing.
Yang Ruoqing smiled appreciatively at Ms. Liu, then turned to Wang Cuilian and said patiently: "Auntie, I know you can't bear it when you see them begging. The more we do now, the less we can be soft-hearted. It would be better to be stronger." Protected them.”
Wang Cuilian had already understood the powerful relationship after listening to what Liu said before.
So when Yang Ruoqing said this again, Wang Cuilian naturally nodded repeatedly.
"I know."
Yang Ruoqing smiled and said: "I will ask the guards to register all their situations, and later I will arrange for people to go in and unify the rescue supplies. They will definitely not be put in piecemeal and messed up like this."
Wang Cuilian nodded again and said proactively: "I'll go to the door and tell them again, tell them not to rush or make a mess."
"Sister-in-law, you are as soft-hearted and thin-skinned as my third sister-in-law. I'm afraid you can't explain clearly, so I'll go with you!" Mrs. Liu put down her tea bowl and stood up from the stool.
"I'm going to talk to them and let them figure out whether a few bags of grain and a few chickens and ducks are more important, or whether their own lives are more important!"
Yang Ruoqing cast an encouraging look at Mrs. Liu, "Okay, then I'll ask my fourth aunt to lead the expedition."
With Yang Ruoqing's support, Mrs. Liu, the vanguard, was confident. She did not follow Wang Cuilian out immediately, but rushed in front of Wang Cuilian, rushing towards the entrance of the courtyard with great aura.
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Yang Ruoqing got up and went back to the bedroom in the backyard to get something. I don't know exactly what Mrs. Liu told the villagers outside. In short, when she returned to the main room, everyone outside had dispersed.
Mrs. Liu didn't come back either, but Wang Cuilian did.
She told Yang Ruoqing about the situation outside: "Your fourth aunt is really amazing. She immediately made those people speechless. Now everyone went to the entrance of the village to watch."
Yang Ruoqing smiled and nodded, "My fourth aunt is indeed very eloquent."
The most important thing is that she can spare her face and give her a chicken feather, which can really be used as an arrow.
After a while, Luo Fengtang and the others came back.
Everyone was soaked from head to toe, and there was no dry place.
Wang Cuilian quickly brought a dry handkerchief to Blacksmith Luo to wipe it, while Yang Ruoqing took Luo Fengtang back to the backyard to change clothes.
On the way, Luo Fengtang told her about the situation on the other side of the river embankment.
As she guessed, the river bank here was not broken by the water because it was very strong.
However, because the upstream collapsed, floods poured in on this side on a large scale, so this side was filled with water. The floods jumped over the dam and poured into the fields on both sides.
"The fields on the right side of the river dam going down to the foot of the mountain were not affected. The water poured back to the left, and a large area of crops was flooded. This year, the losses were huge."
"The water entered the village. When we rushed there, the water only reached our ankles. When we came back, it was already up to my knees."
Yang Ruoqing looked at Luo Fengtang's knees and estimated the depth of the water.
"Since the river bank has given up, what were you doing outside before?" Yang Ruoqing asked.
Luo Fengtang said: "We went door to door to check on the trapped villagers. Some people were so deep in sleep that they didn't even know there was flooding outside."
"When we came back earlier, we had carried some remaining old, weak, sick and disabled people out of the village and sent them to temporary resettlement sites first. Some people were still trapped. They couldn't get out by just carrying them. They had to come back and get a boat to enter the village."
Yang Ruoqing nodded, "Jingling and Baobao have prepared the boat and are waiting for you to come back."
Luo Fengtang's eyes lit up, "Jingling is really a treasure. The boat is so practical. When we came out, we passed by the pond before, and my fourth uncle almost stepped on the air and fell into the pond. There is vast ocean everywhere. It's great to have a boat."
Yang Ruoqing's eyebrows were curved, "Jingling is a lucky star. By the way, I used my iron and blood skills to suppress him at the resettlement site first. I'm afraid I've offended a lot of people this time."
So what if I offend someone?
Speaking of this, Luo Fengtang stopped and looked at her with admiration: "Earlier we were worried that there would be chaos in the village, but when we saw the guards guarding the village entrance, I felt relieved."
"We were busy on the front line, but the front line collapsed. Fortunately, you took care of the situation at the rear."
Yang Ruoqing's face turned a little red after being praised: "You have done a good job on the front line. It was the flood discharge from above that allowed us to be flooded. Okay, now that we have arrived at the door, we quickly went in to take a shower and changed our wet clothes. If we catch a cold, we will not be flooded." alright."
Luo Fengtang thought for a moment and said, "Just help me find dry clothes to change into. I won't take a shower. I will definitely get wet again when I go out soon."
Yang Ruoqing thought about it. The village was flooded, and the next step was to rescue and help the disobedient villagers transfer their property and materials, so he had no time to rest.
She found a set of clean clothes and handed them to him, and then took a large dry handkerchief to wipe him with.
When he packed up and came out of the bathroom, she sat at the desk with a book spread out in front of her and was writing and drawing on it.
"What are you writing in the middle of the night?"
He leaned over to look while wiping his hair.
Yang Ruoqing put down her pen and showed him what she had in her hand.
"Those careless people secretly moved their belongings to the village during the day. Now they were crying and making trouble and wanted to go into the village to get their things. I stopped them and registered them."
Luo Fengtang took it, glanced at it twice, and put it back.
He put the handkerchief aside, put on his shoes again, and said to her: "I'm going to find Jingling and the others to transfer a boat to the village. Bring me the booklet. Don't worry about the rest of the matter. Just go back to bed and sleep for a while." .”
"But I can't sleep." Yang Ruoqing stood up and came over to help him hold back his black hair.
"You have to sleep even if you can't!" He deliberately darkened his face.
Glancing at her swollen belly, he said, "You are pregnant now and cannot be affected."
Yang Ruoqing pursed her lips and smiled, "We'll see then..."
