After settling the elderly and children in Shanxia Village, setting aside some bamboo charcoal to light fires for them, and instructing them to use the fire safely, Xu Yin dragged his heavy steps back home.
"Sister-in-law, are you crying?"
Third sister sensibly twisted a hot towel for her and wiped her face.
Xu Yin wiped her wet face and sniffed: "No, sister-in-law didn't cry, it was rain."
"Sister-in-law, please change out of your wet clothes quickly, you'll catch a cold."
"Sister-in-law, are you hungry? Third sister is going to serve you some rice."
"Sister-in-law, are you tired? Third sister will give you a pat on the shoulder."
Xu Yin's heart was warmed little by little by the Nuonuo voice of her third sister, and the little hands on her shoulders that couldn't hold her in place but were still trying to squeeze her.
"Thank you, Third Sister."
The third sister poked her little head out from behind her, with a warm and bright smile: "You're welcome, sister-in-law."
That night, Xu Yin couldn't fall asleep.
She thought a lot.
What should we do if the rain keeps falling and the widened river cannot carry it, and the river overflows the embankment and reaches Hope Village? Also go to the back mountain to find a cave? But there are so many caves in the back mountain for them to stay.
And Li Yuanjin... I don’t know how he is doing there.
I thought about it until late in the night and took a nap in a trance.
While she seemed to be sleeping and waking up, she saw Li Yuanjin's handsome face with a mischievous smile and a bit of hesitation. He said to her, "Take care, ma'am," and then disappeared lightly.
Xu Yin suddenly woke up from her dream. She sat up and clutched her dull chest, breathing messily. Cold sweat covered her back vest.
Could something happen to him?
She got up quickly, rolled up a simple bundle, then picked up her third sister together with the quilt, wrapped her in two layers of raincoat, and went to Lihua's house in the rain.
"Aunt, Third Sister, please take care of her. There is dry food for her for the past two days in the bag. I have to go out."
"Where are you going? It's not dawn yet! It's raining again. Do you have to leave now for something urgent? Then I'll call Feng Nian and ask him to go with you?"
Lihua Niang took the third sister, put it back inside Lihua's bed in the back room, and came out to talk to Xu Yin.
Xu Yin shook her head: "There are people in the village, so let them pay more attention. I will come back as soon as possible."
After saying that, I wrapped myself up tightly in my raincoat, tied my bamboo hat, and rushed into the vast rain...
Outside Tongxingfu City, it was raining heavily.
Thanks to precautions, the rivers in several villages have been widened and reinforced.
But after four consecutive days of heavy rain, sometimes torrential rain, the river eventually couldn't hold so much water, and it gradually overflowed the river bank, submerged the crop fields, and poured into people's homes.
Li Yuanjin immediately approached Tongxing Prefecture, hoping that the other party would send a group of people and materials to join forces with the soldiers to fight floods, rescue victims, and reduce losses. However, the prefect said that "there are many cases in the prefecture and they cannot allocate manpower." Prevaricate.
No one is willing to come out, how can we still expect supplies?
"If you don't want to save people today, no one will save you tomorrow!"
He looked at the magistrate coldly, raised his knife and cut off one side of the magistrate's hair. The magistrate fainted on the spot out of anger.
But there was no one in the government office, and Li Yuanjin had nothing to do.
He led his soldiers to move the affected villagers in batches to caves on the mountain, one person supporting two people.
But there are several families living in Xishan'ao. The location is remote and the terrain is relatively low. It's impossible to tell which is the road or the river when the water flows.
The soldiers had no choice but to dismantle the wooden wooden door in the camp and float it on the water to serve as a boat to carry them all the way to the rescue.
"Help--"
"Help-"
Villagers who couldn't swim were holding wooden basins and floating in panic on the water to ask for help.
An inexperienced soldier reached out to pull him up, but the villagers pulled him up, but he himself fell into the water.
"Ah poof..."
He spat out a mouthful of muddy water, raised his head and wiped his face, only to find that the wooden door had been floated away by the rescued villagers holding on to bamboo poles.
"..."
"Little Heizi! Catch it!"
Li Yuanjin saw this scene from a distance, called Xiaobing, and threw a bathtub towards him.
As a result, the soldier floated in place and did not move.
"What are you doing standing there! Get out of the bathtub quickly, it's going to float away!"
"General, general." The soldier's face turned pale, "My leg is cramped!"
"Damn it!"
Li Yuanjin jumped into the water and swam toward the soldier. After catching the man, he swam with him for a while and delivered him to the wooden door.
"General..."
"Can you support a bamboo pole while sitting?"
"able!"
"Okay, you go to the front and meet everyone. I'll go see if there is anyone else."
After Li Yuanjin finished speaking, he plunged into the turbid water and swam towards Xishan Col.
When we arrived, we found that there were still two families trapped in the flood, one of whom was a pregnant woman.
For some reason, he thought of his wife, imagining the scene of her being pregnant with his child and having difficulty moving with her big belly, and his heart was severely pinched.
He shook his head, wiped his rain-covered face, dismantled several wooden doors, and helped the villagers who couldn't swim up the wooden doors one by one.
The child sat in the tub and was pushed around by his parents who knew how to swim.
After sending these people away, he wanted to go to the village to check if there were any victims left behind. Suddenly, he heard a "boom" and a flash flood broke out.
The rapid stream carried a large amount of sand and rocks rolling down the mountain, forming a rapid flood.
Li Yuanjin secretly thought it was not good, and quickly turned around and moved the sandbags blocking the river water to block the direction of the flood, giving the victims who had not yet evacuated time to escape.
But the flood was so fierce that the stacked sandbags were washed away almost to the point of breaking through.
Li Yuanjin gritted his teeth and pressed the sandbag with his back, even if it was just to allow the torrent to take a detour and give him a few more breaths of buffering time.
But he had been busy for several days, and he was already exhausted, and he could not withstand the devouring force of the mountain torrent with his physical body.
Watching from a distance, the figures of the victims sitting on wooden boards or pushing wooden basins gradually became smaller and smaller until they were out of sight, and Li Yuanjin's consciousness gradually blurred.
That's it, he really couldn't hold it any longer.
Madam...I may fail you in this life...
"You idiot..."
Before he completely lost consciousness, he seemed to hear his wife sighing with a crying sound.
Xu Yin hugged the man across the waist, looking into the distance with her beautiful eyes to make sure that the victims had escaped from the Xishan Col. She turned away from the place and climbed up a big tree nearby.
"boom--"
The floods destroyed sandbag walls, collapsed shaky huts and mud roofs, and caused big trees to sway faintly.
The water level rose rapidly like a rising tide until it covered the roofs of houses and submerged short trees.
Xu Yin breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, there is a big tree with a thick trunk that requires two or three people to hug him, otherwise he would have to float up and down in the flood.
She herself had the ability to avoid water, and she felt like she was on flat ground in the water, but if there were more than one of them, she wouldn't be able to use diving.
The unconscious man took two health pills and a few mouthfuls of mountain spring water from the Lingxu Sect.
He took out a thick long-haired bath towel from the system warehouse and stuffed it into his clothes to absorb water, and wrapped him in a military coat. Then she hugged him tightly and probed his forehead from time to time, in case he had a fever.
Fortunately, this man is a tiger, and his body is in extremely good shape. Not only does he have no fever, but he can also hear slight snoring.
Was this... so tired that he fell asleep?
Xu Yin couldn't laugh or cry.
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