When Uncle Dong Pianfang shouted, Wang Ke looked back and saw that the black donkey that Uncle Dong gave to the reconnaissance team was also gone. It turned out that it was tied next to the light pickup truck of the surveying and mapping team.
Could it be that yesterday, when Uncle Dong said he wanted to kill the donkeys, all the donkeys were so frightened that they ran away en masse?
"Over there!" In the hazy drizzle, the village chief saw the group of donkeys lying on the haystack over there, lying leisurely in the rain, gnawing grass.
"Let's go, let's kill two people first." Uncle Dong Pianfang said, he had made up his mind to leave his small family to take care of everyone. Being able to save the lives of the whole village with these dozen donkeys is more important than anything else.
Uncle Dong Pianfang took several comrades from the village and walked towards the group of donkeys. But just after walking a dozen steps, he started talking.
"Hey, what's going on?"
I saw several long cloth bags beside these donkeys, each bag containing hundreds of kilograms of corn. Uncle Dong had a sharp eye. He had packed these corns in the warehouse and was going to sell them at the market. It was delayed because of the rain, but now it is being moved here.
It was wet from being soaked in water. Could it be that these donkeys ran back to carry it? If that's really the case, that would be amazing.
The leader was the black donkey from Wang Ke's reconnaissance team. This donkey was chewing the grass in its mouth unhurriedly. He glanced at everyone arrogantly, looking indifferent. The four to five hundred kilograms of corn in front of us, if we budget carefully, we can eat it for a day without any problem.
Wang Ke, who followed, saw this scene and immediately guessed what was going on. The donkey took the lead and ran back to Uncle Dong Pianfang's house under the cover of night. By some mistake, he opened the door of Uncle Dong Pianfang's house and brought back the packed grain. Although it has been soaked in water, it is food after all, which is simply unbelievable.
What Wang Ke doesn't understand the most is that donkeys are afraid of water. This black donkey dared to lead a group of donkeys into the water, which showed that he was as lawless as Gu Maolin. But the intelligence of this donkey can no longer be explained by human nature. It is simply a magical donkey! A thinking donkey, a rebellious donkey.
How did this donkey think of getting food? Did they understand the conversation of their owners and kill them when they knew there was no food?
Even a donkey can think, but the men in this group couldn't think of exchanging these grains for their lives. Wang Ke patted his head and realized. Why not organize some good water-based people to collect food from the houses of fellow villagers who have not collapsed? Wang Ke patted the black donkey's head excitedly and quickly asked everyone to carry the grain back to the house.
Wang Ke discussed these ideas with Uncle Dong Pianfang and the village chief. Everyone thought this was a good idea. Immediately, more than ten young and middle-aged people with good water ability were selected from the whole village. They removed several door panels from the primary school and tied them into rafts, preparing to start the difficult journey of grabbing food in the flood.
The current flood speed is somewhat fast and cannot go very far. Wang Ke first thought of the village chief's house. The house of the village chief's house was tall and large. In addition to corn, there was also some wheat stored in the house, weighing more than 2,000 kilograms, but it should all be soaking in water at the moment.
"I'll take you there!" the village chief said immediately upon hearing this, and rolled up his trouser legs to get into the water.
Wang Ke said: "Don't worry, we need pockets. First find a place to dump these bags of corn, and then we will pack them."
This is true, even though every family has pockets, with such a large amount of water, no one knows where the pockets have floated. Thanks to the bags of corn that Uncle Dong Pianfang had packed in the bags in advance, otherwise even if the grain was found, there would be no way to transport it. So, everyone immediately carried the bags of corn to the place where the reconnaissance team lived, poured them on the Kang mat, and freed up the bags.
Then, except for Section Chief Chang Gaofeng, the "Thunderbolt Survey Team" and everyone else split into two groups and swam towards the village chief's house.
After much effort, more than a dozen people finally pushed the raft made of two door panels into the small courtyard of the village chief's house. I tried to find a way to open the door of the village chief's house. At this time, the flood had almost reached the door. During the flood, the young man, led by Wang Ke, dived into the house and touched the grain tank under the water. After diving into the water again and again, I finally put the corn and wheat soaked in the water into bags, and then transported them to the door panel outside the house. Several round trips. Finally, more than a thousand kilograms of grain was brought back to the primary school.
At the same time, two pots were uncovered in the kitchen.
With the valuable experience of the first time, there will be a second, third, fourth...
In just over half a day, Wang Ke led the ten young men to obtain more than 10,000 kilograms of grain. Although the heavy rain did not stop and the floods continued to rise, before more and more houses collapsed, the whole village except for There are also some grains similar to the salty goods hanging on the eaves, as well as some edible vegetables, including some livestock and poultry that were too late to be moved, including the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in the canteen. In short, as long as it was something that could be eaten, burned, worn, or used, no matter whose family it belonged to, we collected them all. For a time, the elementary school was like a market, and all the uncles and aunties who could not go into the water were collected. They began to build dams, build mat sheds, kill pigs and sheep, build pots and stoves, cook and boil water in the primary school, and live a real collective life in the people's commune.
The first day passed like this. The self-rescue in Nanshao Village was in order. It was not a big problem to persist for ten days and a half.
The rain finally stopped, but the flood momentum remained unabated. You can often see trees, furniture and some floating objects mixed in the flood water, all of which are passing by quickly and getting more and more fierce. Although some houses did not fall down, they were hit by things washed down from upstream, and they made dull "dong-dong" sounds from time to time.
The floods in the upper reaches are not small. Nanshao Village is like the mouth of the upper reaches where the dike breaks. Almost all the water from the western mountainous area is poured down from here.
Looking at it, the entire Nanshao Village was submerged in the flood, and only a little of the treetops of all the big trees were exposed. Most of the house walls have collapsed, and even if they have not collapsed, only one roof is exposed. Waves of flood peaks have turned a corner in front of the primary school, and some have overflowed the depression on the north side of the village, rushing towards the Juma River. and go; while more people circle here, go around the south end of the hillside and then turn back.
Climbing up the hillside from the back door of the primary school, I saw vast oceans to the east, south and west, nothing but floods. The family is gone, and there is no hope for the crops in the fields. Everyone is worried. How will they live this year?
And Wang Ke was worried about more than that. When he was free, he thought more about whether Gu Maolin's letter had been delivered? Have the ammunition depot and barracks been saved? Have the people in the villages in the middle and lower reaches of the Juma River been saved?
At present, a primary school without communication is an isolated island, and all it can do is wait for rescue. From yesterday afternoon to now, it has been more than 24 hours. Wang Ke and his reconnaissance team have barely slept a wink, and their clothes have never been dry. The quilts in the room have long been given to pregnant women and children in the village.
"Squad Leader Wang of the People's Liberation Army, Lao Dong, let's go back. Let's take off our clothes, bake them, and eat something else." The village chief urged on the side, and he actually did the same.
Wang Ke, the village chief, Dong Pianfang, the Communist Youth League secretary, and Section Chief Chang Gaofeng have become the leadership collective of Nanshao Village's flood relief headquarters, and within this collective, Wang Ke has become the unyielding supreme commander.
From the initial evacuation order, to the transfer to the primary school, sending people to deliver letters, grabbing food in the water, and organizing self-rescue, basically the whole village got to know the reconnaissance squad and the squad leader Wang Ke.
As soon as they returned to the primary school, the reconnaissance team, the village chief, Dong Pianfang, and Section Chief Chang were surrounded by the villagers. Some took off their clothes, and some brought corn dregs porridge.
"Hurry up and eat something, change out of your clothes and dry them out. We still have tasks to do in the evening." Wang Ke ordered everyone.
The wet clothes that he changed into were immediately taken away and baked by Uncle Dong's wife, daughter-in-law Cuilan and others. Wang Ke's clothes were the worst, and there was a big scratch on his back, but that was not important anymore, it was important. What's special is that except for Gu Maolin, everyone in his class is here, as well as all the young and old men in his class and the whole village.
Looking at Wang Ke and all the soldiers in the reconnaissance team, they are all wearing clothes that still have the body temperature of the fellow villagers, and are tied with a belt around their waists. They are all rural boys.
"Song Ruimin, Niu Suozhu." Wang Ke shouted
"Here!" they both responded in unison.
"After eating, you two will each take a recruit and take turns on duty, changing every two hours. The first is to check the walls and water conditions to prevent water from pouring into the school; the second is to check the fire conditions to prevent fires; the third is to check the inside of the school Safety, including livestock. Now the four of you are the guarantee of life and safety for the whole village."
"yes!"
As Wang Ke said these words, the village chief, league secretary and Section Chief Chang kept nodding. If it weren't for the People's Liberation Army, I don't know what Nanshao Village would be like.
"Squad Leader Wang of the People's Liberation Army, you don't have to work so hard. We can also organize some people in our village and let's take turns."
"Yes! We will select 20 people to form the sixth class and join you." Uncle Dong Pianfang was not only excited, but also heartbroken.
"Uncle Dong, village chief, and section chief Chang, I think your task now is not light. I suggest that the village chief and section chief Chang sit here and take command, set up a headquarters, and take turns on duty. Uncle Dong and I, now There is one more important thing.”
"What's going on?" everyone asked.
"So many people are now gathered in primary schools. The food has been soaked and the water is unclean. The most important thing now is to prevent diseases. And after the floods, we must also prevent epidemics. We need to build health clinics and conduct inspections, especially for children, Elderly people and pregnant women. Pay special attention to those with fever and abdominal distension. We want to inform everyone not to drink raw water, and all water must be boiled before drinking."
"Yes!" Uncle Dong Pianfang slapped his thigh, "Although I thought of it when I came out, the things I brought were very limited. The most lacking thing now is the medicinal materials, which are all soaked in water."
"This is not urgent. We will find a solution after dawn tomorrow. Now we are doing rounds of inspections first. Those who can be seen will be seen on the spot. Those who cannot be seen or are seriously ill will be gathered here at the headquarters. We must not cause large-scale infection. "Wang Ke said.
"This method will work." Uncle Dong Pianfang responded.
"Village Chief, now you have to arrange for people to build separate toilets for men and women at the back of the primary school. Our original toilet has been soaked with water and needs to be knocked down and sealed to prevent sewage from overflowing and affecting the hygiene of the primary school."
After Wang Ke finished speaking, he suddenly felt that his throat was itchy, he felt dizzy and almost fell down.
