Chapter 34 Flood (1)
After Liang Xianyue sent everyone away, she realized that her mouth was dry and her throat was about to smoke.
Zhen Min quickly poured her a cup of honey linden flower tea, Liang Xianyue drank it all in one gulp, and said after a while, "You guys remember what I just said?" Zhen Min nodded: "I
'll Standing aside and listening, I remembered everything. The method you said of using mineral water bottles as life jackets is really ingenious, and our family has a lot of empty mineral water bottles." Liang Xianyue's family bought several tons of mineral water before the blizzard. When they were in the city, everyone went out to dig snow water, and they stayed at home to drink mineral water.
Later, when I returned to Liangjia Village, I drank mineral water for a while at first. Later, I found out that the well at home had been drilled deep and was not frozen, so I drank the well water again.
In this way, I also saved a lot of empty mineral water bottles. Zhen Min is in charge of the supplies at home, whether it's empty cans or mineral water bottles, she keeps them properly. These are things that can be used in daily life by changing them casually.
Thinking of the mineral water bottles filled with several sacks, big and small, Zhen Min felt relieved. At that time, she didn't have time to buy swimming rings and rubber boats. Fortunately, she could make a life jacket with mineral water bottles. Liang Xianyue was still on the island. Made boats.
Thinking of the birch bark boat, Zhen Min asked Liang Xianyue: "Can that boat be taken out? I can swim with your dad, but you are half a landlubber, and you can't do a few splashes with a mineral water bottle life jacket, right?"
She As soon as Liang Xianyue mentioned this, she was a little worried, who made her not a good swimmer. Liang Xianyue said: "No matter how good you two swim, the flood is different from the swimming pool and the calm sea. No one is allowed to enter the water. The three of us will take that boat together. If others see it, If you ask where the boat came from, just find any reason to confuse it, it's just a boat, not a yacht."
Liang Kangshi said aside: "In the past few days, let's put all the things in the house, and put away the food in the wing room. Get up, the coal and firewood in the barn have also been received in the island, and we will keep the amount burned in the past few days. As soon as we find something is wrong, Yueyue only needs to put away a few cupboards and her own bed, and then we will immediately Run outside."
"Where are you going?" Zhen Min asked. Their house has only one floor, and it would be fine if the flood level was low, but if it was high, it might flood her house to the top, and she definitely couldn't stay there.
"Shall we go to fourth grandpa's house?" Liang Xianyue suggested. "The fourth grandpa's house is a small two-story building, and the terrain of his house is not low. I remember that there is a room on the second floor with a concrete roof and a granary on it, right? That must be the highest place near our house." The fourth
grandpa Two years ago, the family built a new two-story building. The practice here in Liangjia Village is to build a flat-roofed wing room in addition to the main house. The wing room is used to store sundries on weekdays. The roof of the wing room can be used to dry food and enjoy the shade at night in summer . In fact, the main reason is that the cost of tile roofs is much higher than that of cement roofs, but cement roofs are cold in winter and hot in summer, and the comfort of living is not as good as that of tile roofs. But there is no need for people to live in the wing room, so every family has a bungalow like this.
"Yes," Liang Kangshi echoed, "We couldn't leave fourth uncle and fourth aunt behind. The old man has slow legs and can't move quickly like us. It would be more convenient to move to the roof of our own house." Two problems were solved at once
. . Liang Xianyue relaxed a lot, thinking about what else she didn't expect. "If we are with fourth grandpa and fourth grandma, we won't be able to go in and out of the island. The chickens and ducks in the yard..."
Liang Kangshi said that this is not a problem: "I have always thought it was troublesome to feed the chickens, and I always forgot to feed them. I have already done it." Two automatic feeders. I tried it once. The jars are filled with feed, which can make the chickens and ducks eat less for at least three days. But they can't let them out to let the wind out. It's not easy for people. It doesn't matter if the chickens and ducks suffer a little bit.
The three of them got together and discussed some details, such as what to eat and drink during the days when they avoided the flood, etc. After discussing the rules, Liang Kangshi got up and went to the fourth grandpa's house. He had to say hello to the two old people, and Let them guard against these, and climb to the roof as soon as they find something wrong.
Liang Xianyue plans to enter the space to make another birch bark boat. If the flood water rises higher than the second floor of the fourth grandpa's house, then they will have no place to stay. Liang Xianyue's current small boat was too much for their family of three to take. She couldn't leave fourth grandpa and fourth grandma alone, so she wanted to build another boat for emergencies.
Zhen Min called Liang Yueyue before she entered the space: "There is one more thing I forgot to mention just now, we store all the things at home in the space, what about Xiao Hei?" Liang Xianyue just wanted to say Xiao
Hei Hei also sent Hei into the space, but after thinking about it, he paused again. Many people knew that they had a puppy at home, and the puppy disappeared when they were avoiding the flood, and when the flood receded, the puppy appeared safely. Getting out of a boat is even more strange.
"Xiao Hei, just come with us." Xiao Hei is about four months old now, much bigger than when he first came to his house, but he is still a half-sized puppy, and a bigger backpack is enough Fit it. It was wronged that it was squeezed with their family on the small roof of the fourth grandpa's house.
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Liang Kangshi came back from the fourth grandfather's house, and his complexion was not very good.
"What's wrong, Fourth Uncle doesn't agree?" Zhen Min thought to himself, no, Fourth Uncle has always been very talkative, and this is a matter of life and death, so he won't embarrass them on this kind of matter.
"It has nothing to do with fourth uncle, I think it's getting hot too fast. I walked on the snow outside, and the top layer of snow melted into water, and it was half-melted snow and water all the way to my ankle. Mix together."
Liang Xianyue had just returned to the space and finished the birch bark boat, and heard Liang Kangshi's words as soon as he came out. She continued: "Have you looked at the thermometer outside? What's the temperature outside now?"
Liang Kangshi didn't pay attention to look at it. It happened that Liang Xianyue planned to go to the wing room to collect the food inside. The temperature has risen rapidly these days. Yue is afraid that the temperature will break through 0 degrees when he wakes up from sleep. The frozen meat, jelly tofu and frozen dumplings in the wing room should be melted, so the things inside are almost packed, and the freezer in the space is tightly packed. There are no gaps, so I finally put these things in. Now there are only some rice noodles and corn dregs for chickens and ducks left in the wing room.
The thermometer was hanging outside the window, Liang Xianyue looked at it, it was 3 degrees. She watched it several times, and murmured: "It's really zero."
She suddenly had a bad feeling that there might not be much time left.
Go to put away the things in the wing room first, Liang Kangshi slapped his head: "I forgot to take care of Fengzi's house, there are a lot of things in the house he just rented." "Let me go and collect it. Dad, do you
have The key to his house?" Huang Yifeng went back and forth between the city and Liangjia Village, bringing Liang Xianyue's family a lot of new news from the city, and he also gave them one of his generators. The relationship between the family members is so good, and they promised to help take care of the things at home. Liang Xianyue simply packed Huang Yifeng's things into the island space for storage, otherwise, after the flood, at least half of his belongings would have to be thrown away.
"Yes," Liang Kangshi turned around, "I'll go get it."
Huang Yifeng's rented house is only two or three minutes away from Liang Xianyue's house. The weather is warm, and many people have stayed at home for a whole winter, and now they come out bask in the sun. The snow was still piled high, only the upper layer had melted, and the ground was covered with water, so they simply sat on the wall of their own house and talked to each other.
Several nearby families knew that Liang Kangshi's friend had rented this house, so it was not surprising to see him come.
"I'll come over to see if there are any mice in the house, so as not to damage the furniture." Liang Kangshi opened the door while explaining.
"In such a cold winter, the mice froze to death." Someone said with a smile.
"That's not necessarily the case," the person next to him retorted, "Rats are the four pests, and their vitality is tenacious."
Liang Kangshi didn't answer their words, and led Liang Xianyue into the door. They collected the luggage brought by Huang Yifeng in threes and fives, and closed the doors and windows tightly, and then came out after locking them.
Liang Kangshi looked at the doors and windows of his house, and he had an occupational disease again. He commented: "The doors and windows are newly replaced, and the quality is good. Liang He is quite filial to the elderly. The new windows can keep you warm in winter." Liang Xianyue asked
. : "Can the doors and windows prevent water from seeping into the house?"
"That's definitely not possible. The seepage will definitely seep, it's just the difference."
On the way home, Liang Xianyue took a step and suddenly paused. He looked suspiciously at his feet.
"What's wrong? The socks are wet?"
"No," Liang Xianyue hesitated, wondering if the feeling just now was an illusion, "I feel like I've sunk down a little bit, and I feel like I've stepped on the void." Liang Kangshi took two steps: "How could I step on the void?
I Didn't you feel it?"
"Let's go back first."
On the way home, this feeling reappeared several times, and Liang Kangshi also felt it. Sometimes when one foot falls, the entire snow surface will sink a bit. It's not the feeling of stepping on the soft and melted snow on the surface, but the heavy snow under the feet, all falling down. Because this feeling overlaps with the feeling of stepping on the soft snow, it is not so abnormal for a while.
Liang Xianyue has been thinking about this matter since she was lying on the bed at home.
Suddenly, she sat up stiffly: "I thought of it!"
"Now that the temperature is rising, the part where the snow surface is in contact with the air melts first. In fact, it's not just this place. The part of the snow is also slowly melting, and only the middle part is the last to melt. So after the bottom part melts, we will have a feeling of stepping on the snow, because the bottom part is empty!" Zhen Min understood
, And gave an example: "It's like when spring comes, there will be a snow shell left in the snowdrift floating on the melted water, and the snow below will melt quickly." "Almost,
but if the snow is not thick enough, the upper middle The lower layers will melt together, but at different speeds, it's not so obvious."
Liang Kangshi frowned so much that he could kill a fly: "That is to say, the snow in contact with the ground has melted a lot, so we can walk on it. There will be a feeling of stepping into the air."
The snow is melting much faster than they thought, which is not a good sign.
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Another morning, the temperature was 7 degrees Celsius, which was the temperature in the early morning, and it would only be higher at noon.
Liang Kangshi noticed that water began to seep into the yard from the side of the fence. The ground became wet first, and soon the water poured in in small streams.
"Pack up your things quickly, let's go to the fourth uncle's house!"
Liang Xianyue and Zhen Min hurried into action. They took the things they had prepared yesterday, carried Xiao Hei in their arms, and climbed up the ladder to the enclosure wall. The snow outside sank more than one meter deep in one night, and the upper layer of snow completely melted, broken ice and melted snow The water flows together.
Liang Xianyue stretched out her hand to touch down, the snow water was icy cold, she shivered, and released the birch bark boat.
"Don't jump in the water, the water is too cold."
Each of the three of them was carrying a large backpack, and Liang Kangshi had a thick blanket tied to the side of the backpack. Xiao Hei was hugged by Zhen Min, and looked at the stranger curiously world.
Liang Xianyue guessed that the upper and lower layers of snow had already melted, and the lower layer of snow was flowing, and the solid ice compacted by the snow had no foundation, and would soon be active. Taking advantage of the thick ice and snow in the middle layer and the calm water on the surface, they hurried to the fourth grandpa's house.
Rowing to the fourth grandpa's house, the two old people also noticed something was wrong. Although they didn't go out the gate, the snow in the yard had piled up to the top of the first floor. They moved to the second floor these days, and the first floor was gone. Sunny basement. When I woke up this morning, the fourth grandfather found that a lot of water had seeped into the first floor. He lit a candle and looked out the window. The solid snow was half-melted now.
He remembered Liang Kangshi's instructions to himself, and hurriedly asked Fourth Grandma to climb to the roof with the packed things.
When Liang Xianyue's family came, the fourth grandpa was stepping on the ladder, handing the quilt to the fourth grandma on the roof. The cement on the roof was very rough. When they looked at Liang Kang, they hadn't come yet. Fourth Grandpa felt that there was still enough time, so he ran up and down to carry things.
In this short short distance, the water seemed to rise. The boat passed the courtyard wall of the Fourth Grandpa's house smoothly, and came directly under the ladder set up on the platform on the second floor.
"Kangzi, where did you get the boat?"
"My friend Huang Yifeng sent it to me last time, and there were rumors in the city that there would be floods this spring, so he got me a boat." Liang Kang asked four Grandpa hurriedly climbed to the roof and told him if he needed anything to get home, and he went to get it.
Liang Kangshi's friend is a very capable person, and the business is also big. The fourth grandfather no longer doubts, but for a moment, he feels that the rubber boats and assault boats are used now. Rarely seen anymore.
Liang Xianyue took the lead and climbed up to the roof, where she was going to pick up the family's luggage. First carry Xiao Hei up, then the quilt, blanket and backpack, and finally the whole boat. Fortunately, the birch bark boat was very light, and Liang Xianyue's strength was far beyond ordinary people. With the cooperation of several people, the boat was also moved to the roof.
The fourth grandfather weighed one of the backpacks they brought up, surprised and said: "Why is it so heavy?"
Liang Xianyue took a look: "The package is mineral water. The snow is clear now, and the flood is rushing After that, it will all be mixed, and there will be all kinds of germs in it, and the well water at home will not be drinkable for a few days after the water recedes, Fourth Grandpa, have you stored any water?
" I haven't had time to bring it up from the vat of rice wine at home."
Liang Kangshi called Liang Xianyue from under the ladder to pick up the things, and she stretched out her hand and said: "The things are heavy, you should support the eaves, don't be caught It's shaking."
Liang Xianyue put a few things handed up behind him, and there was a 5L bucket of drinking water inside. Zhen Min and Liang Kangshi moved a lot of things up under the command of the fourth grandma. The water rose quickly, and the snow water had already risen to the second floor during the time of carrying things. Liang Kangshi was wearing rain boots, and the icy cold water overflowed his insteps. He turned his head and said to Zhen Min
: "We can't move any more. Let's lock the doors and windows of the fourth uncle's house and go to the roof."
Anxiously poked his head, wanting to see when his parents would come up.
Seeing her parents climbing up the ladder one by one, Liang Xianyue breathed a sigh of relief. In Zhen Min's hands was a bundle of strong ropes, and she tightly tied the birch bark boat to the granary on the roof of the fourth grandfather's house.
There is a mountain behind Liangjiacun, maybe it used to have a name, it seems to be called Yunshan, Liang Xianyue can't remember it clearly. Because in the years since he was born, no elder has ever heard the name of this mountain in detail. A mountain is a mountain. People in Liangjia Village call it "Houshan". up the mountain."
The people of Liangjia Village don't seem to have a strong affection for this mountain. Liang Xianyue figured it out when she grew up. It is also next to this mountain. Linshan Village is allocated flat land at the foot of the mountain, which is fertile and flat. The land is almost all terraced fields reclaimed from the mountains, which is not only barren, but also unable to adapt to mechanized planting.
There are more snakes, insects, rats and ants, and the land yield is not high. This mountain does not seem to have brought any benefits to Liangjia Village, and now, they have to be wary of the coming of mountain torrents.
But having said that, it is precisely because of the lack of grain that the people of Liangjia Village have the habit of building large granaries. The circular granaries should be suspended below to prevent insects and rats. Also very beautiful.
The granary in Liangjia Village is very perfunctory, as long as it can frame the grain, it doesn't even need a roof at all, just covering it with two layers of rain cloth is enough. But after all, this can't resist the rats from harming the food, so everyone moved the granary to the roof in unison.
After autumn, the grain is threshed, put directly into snakeskin bags, and pulled to the roof of the house by a block of pulleys. When the weather is fine, it will be dried for a few days before being packed into a simple granary on the roof.
The granary of the fourth grandma's house is even stronger. I don't know what it was rebuilt. It is in the shape of a cuboid, with a strong metal frame and a fishing net inside. The eyes of the fishing net are smaller than the corn, and the corn will not leak out.
Now the granary is empty. Zhen Min tied the boat to the thickest iron ledge, and shook the granary vigorously, but the granary stood still, and it didn't look like it was empty at all.
The fourth grandma said on the sidelines: "The last time Kangzi came to our place, he went to the roof to look at the granary, and moved a lot of stones into it."
Liang Kangshi and Liang Xianyue brought up the ladder at this time, and put it on the ridge of the granary and the tile-roofed house next to it. Secure the corners formed.
"In case the water rises to the roof, we can still climb to the granary to hide, if even the granary is submerged..." Liang Kang looked at the boat tied to one side.
Zhen Min took out two homemade backpack life jackets and handed them to Fourth Grandpa and Fourth Grandma, telling them to keep them close at hand. Let me first ask Liang Xianyue to talk about the two methods of making life jackets. The method of stuffing small mineral water bottles into the clothes will take longer to prepare, fearing that the two old people will not be able to react for a while. It is more convenient to modify it with a backpack, as long as it is carried on the body.
Liang Xianyue kept staring at the water surface, she found that there seemed to be a small eddy in the water. Xiao Hei also imitated her appearance and looked with his head, but was strictly taught by Liang Xianyue that he was determined not to approach the eaves.
Xiao Hei left aggrieved.
Although several people were temporarily sitting on the dry and flat roof, they were all worried. How high will the floodwaters rise? When will it retreat? Even after the flood recedes, what will happen to the soaked home?
After another ten minutes, Liang Xianyue stood up suddenly and asked everyone to listen. "Is there any noise?"
The fourth grandpa and fourth grandma were a little deaf because they were old, and they both said that they didn't hear anything. But as the sound became louder and louder, even the ground shook slightly, and no one could ignore these signs before the flood.
The deep sound was like thunder, and the water on the ground rose at an extremely fast speed, mixed with large pieces of crushed ice. Ice is larger than water, and with so much ice in the water, the water will only rise higher.
Where Liang Xianyue could not see, the raging flood poured down like a herd of wild horses carrying stones and broken tree trunks, destroying everything that passed by. Those sturdy trees have grown on the mountain for decades, their roots are gnarled, and they go deep into the ground several meters deep, but they are vulnerable to the flood, and their trunks are soon broken, and they are swept in to join the ruthless flood team.
The surging flood swept Liangjia Village from the back mountain, and the huge ice cubes and tree trunks in the water slammed into the houses at the foot of the mountain, shaking the ground.
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The current was getting faster and faster, and Liang Xing felt that he was about to lose his footing. He handed the things in his hand to his wife Cai Yan who had already climbed up to the roof, and urged his son to climb up quickly. Seeing that his son had climbed the ladder, he quickly followed his son up the ladder, but when he was halfway up, he felt the shaking of the ladder, and Liang Xing yelled in his heart that something was wrong.
The current was so fast that the ladder was about to be toppled over!
He looked back hastily, and it turned out that the gate of his house, which was buried deep in the snow in the winter, was knocked open by the flow of water. Water more than two meters high flowed out along the gate.
The son also found that the ladder was not stable, and he shouted in a trembling voice: "Dad, climb up quickly, the ladder will be washed away!" while struggling to climb up.
Liang Xing followed closely behind, and just as his son had already climbed onto the eaves and stretched out his hand to the anxious Cai Yan, the ladder jerked violently and tilted violently. Liang Xing didn't know where the strength came from. He suddenly supported his son's buttocks and dragged him upwards. Liang Ming narrowly managed to climb to the roof again, but Liang Xing carried the overturned ladder and walked along the water. drifted away.
"Liang Xing! Liang Xing!" "Dad!" Cai Yan and Liang Ming yelled sadly, until they could no longer see Liang Xing, they crouched down on the roof with their heads in their hands.
This kind of situation also happened in the homes of many villagers in Liangjia Village. Some of them were reluctant to part with the things at home. Even if they found that something was wrong, they couldn't help moving the hard-earned food and water-resistant furniture to the roof until the first wave of floods swept away. Coming, it was too late to resist.
There are also some people whose homes are low-lying. Although they have rushed to the nearby high places as soon as possible, it is very difficult to move in the water. Before the largest flood reached the village, the water had risen to a depth of nearly half a meter. These melted snow waters are freezing cold, and people's feet will soon cramp when standing in them. When the current is getting bigger and bigger, it is very difficult to stand still in the water, let alone move forward with difficulty.
Many people fell into the flood due to exhaustion. They waved their hands desperately, trying to hug things around them, but the flood was several meters deep, and almost all the trees in the village were cut down and burned as fuel this winter. .
As far as the eye can see, there is devastation and despair everywhere.
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Liang Xianyue looked at the sundries that quickly floated through the water, including broken furniture, heaving and struggling livestock, and even... people. A ruthless behemoth devours everything.
Xiao Hei's cry became more and more uneasy, and Zhen Min, who was holding it, obviously felt that its small body was shaking, so he hugged him even tighter.
Several people watched this scene in silence for a long time.
After a while, the fourth grandma said with a trembling voice: "This, this is terrible! Can those people who were washed away by the water survive?" Liang
Xianyue took a deep breath: "Yes, wait until the downstream terrain In a flat place, they might be rescued." She said something that she didn't quite believe, her hands trembling unconsciously.
After another half an hour, the rising speed of the water slowed down, and the current was not as rushing as before. It seemed that the worst flood that came down from the mountain was over. Liang Xianyue helped the fourth grandma to sit down, and if she kept staring at the water, she was afraid that everyone would go crazy.
Only one member of Liang Xianyue's family kept an eye on the water, while the others sat and rested. The moment she sat down, Liang Xianyue realized that her legs were a little weak, and she was just holding on.
If they didn't notice the signs of the flood, would it be...
She shook her head and threw away those uneasy thoughts, unscrewed the thermos in her backpack and asked the two old people if they wanted some water. The water backpack in her house is not filled with mineral water bottles, but with large and small thermos cups and thermos jugs.
Because I don't know how long I will stay on the roof, it is very likely that I will spend the night. Although the temperature at night is not as cold as in winter, the night in early spring is not easy. A sip of hot water can at least warm my stomach. When Zhen Min got up this morning, she turned on the hot water, which added milk powder and sugar, which can replenish her physical strength to the greatest extent.
Fourth Grandma couldn't drink anything and refused. Fourth grandfather was a little thirsty, so Liang Xianyue poured him a cup. He was also surprised: "Is this milk?"
"No, powdered milk."
At this moment, Liang Kang, who was observing the water surface, suddenly stood up and waved his hand towards the distance. Float here.
When these people got closer, Liang Xianyue could see clearly that the reason why the wooden cabinet was able to approach them against the direction of the water flow was because a man in the water was desperately pushing the wooden cabinet. He looked like he was about to lose strength, and the time spent underwater was getting longer and longer.
Liang Kangshi took the long wooden sticks and bamboo poles placed on the roof and stretched them towards them. The man had hope, and he continued to push the wooden cabinet with all his strength.
The wooden cabinet came to the side of the house. At this time, the water surface was less than one meter away from the roof of the second floor of grandma's house. The woman in the wooden cabinet quickly stood up, lifted the child on one side and handed it to Liang Kangshi. Because of her action, the wooden cabinet tilted violently, and some water entered.
Zhen Min took the self-made backpack life jacket and threw it to the man in the water. "Put it on quickly, I don't think you can last long, we will pull you up immediately."
The man struggled to put on the backpack with empty mineral water bottles in the water, and finally he would not be submerged by the water from time to time.
Liang Xianyue stretched out her hand towards the woman, and said to Liang Kangshi who was on the side, "Let's pull him up together."
The woman was standing on the wooden cabinet and it was easier to pull him up. It took a lot of effort to get the man out of the water effort. The man couldn't hold on any longer, and finally swam to the edge of the eaves under the heart-piercing encouragement of his wife and daughter and was dragged up.
This family is also from Liangjia Village. The woman is Liang Xianglan, a native of Liangjia Village. Her husband Tao Yongji is from another village. Their daughter Tao Wenwen is nine years old.
They tore down the door of the wooden cabinet at home and sat in the big wooden cabinet. The wooden cabinet happened to be pushed by the water and stuck on the corner of the eaves of other people's house. Only then did they survive the strong flood. Seeing that the current was not so urgent, Tao Yongji jumped into the water and pushed his wife and daughter to find a place to stay.
The entire Liangjia Village was covered in a vast ocean, and many houses were flooded so that the roofs could not be exposed. He searched around, almost running out of strength, and was in a hurry, finally saw Liang Kang in the distance and waved at them, and then rushed over.
As soon as the family of three stepped on the roof, they collapsed to the ground. Tao Yongji wanted to kowtow to them, but was helped up by Liang Kangshi.
"Your clothes are all wet. Take them off quickly. You can't cure a cold now." Tao Yongji's family also brought some simple luggage. Liang Kangshi saw that there was a thick blanket besides a big bag. "If your blanket is not enough, our family can lend you one."
"That's enough, I'll take off the wet clothes first." Tao Yongji's wet clothes stick to his body and it's uncomfortable. After traveling in icy water for so long, he His lips turned purple from the cold, and his body was shaking non-stop.
Zhen Min poured him a cup of hot water from another thermos filled with purified water.
"Drink some hot water first."
With no dry clothes to change, Tao Yongji could only sit there wrapped in a blanket. His wet clothes were spread flat on the roof, and the sun was still shining at the moment, so he might be able to dry some clothes. Because Liang Xianglan and her daughter had been sitting in the wooden cabinet, their clothes were still dry, but their shoes and trouser legs were wet.
Fortunately, there is still the sun. Liang Xianyue thought in her heart, compared to the flood caused by the torrential rain, at least what she encountered was snow melting on a sunny day. The roof is dry and the sun is warm. The absence of all-pervasive raindrops and the damp smell caused by the darkness is their greatest luck in this misfortune.
Liang Xianglan comforted her daughter in a low voice who couldn't even speak because she was afraid. Zhen Min came to him and showed Tao Wenwen Xiao Hei in his arms.
Xiao Hei had already recovered and was no longer afraid. It looked at Tao Wenwen with bright black eyes, and yelled crisply: "Wow!"
Tao Wenwen's dull eyes became brighter. She stretched out her hand towards Xiao Hei, and touched its head carefully. Xiao Hei turned his head to avoid Tao Wenwen's hand, but put his little paw on her outstretched little hand.
Tao Wenwen felt the coolness of the puppy's paw pads, then turned to look at his worried mother and trembling father, and burst into tears as if waking up from a dream.
The fourth grandma said on the side: "It's good to cry, it's good to cry out." Seeing the child's stupid look just now, I was really worried that she would be frightened.
Tao Wenwen cried for a while, and ran to Tao Yongji's side. When she was sitting in the wooden cabinet, she saw her father sinking in the water several times. Each time, she had the illusion that her father would never float up again, and would just disappear forever. She held Tao Yongji's cold cheeks with her hands and whispered, "Dad is not cold, I will cover it for you."
"Dad is not cold." Tao Yongji said with a smile. He just regretted that he didn't bring an extra set of clothes. Now that his clothes were wet, it was too inconvenient to move around under a blanket. But he recalled that when he found out that there was a lot of snow pouring into his home, every second was extremely precious. He and Liang Xianglan opened the cupboard door, hugged the blanket, and brought some food by the way. There was really no time to think so thoughtfully. up.
There were three more members on the roof, but one was very cold and the other had to appease the children, so it was Liang Xianyue's family who were staring at the water.
With her back to everyone, Liang Xianyue silently stared at the apricot tree in the fourth grandma's house that was submerged to the point where only half of the top of the tree remained.
Tao Yongji asked tremblingly: "Will the water flood the roof?"
No one wanted to hear this, but Liang Xianyue still said: "Yes. According to this speed, if the water does not recede, before evening It will rise to the roof."
"Then what should I do?" Liang Xianglan's face was full of panic, they were finally rescued, but in the end they were not really out of danger, their wooden cabinets were gone, if the water flooded the roof, But what should they do as a family?
"Get your wooden cabinet first." Liang Xianyue found a bamboo pole and handed it to Liang Xianglan.
Liang Xianglan wondered: "But the wooden cabinet was washed away by the water?"
"No, it was a mess at the time, but I saw it from the side. Your wooden cabinet was trampled over and sank into the water. There was an apricot tree right in front of it, which blocked the wooden cabinet from being washed away by the water." There was an apricot tree just outside the door of the wing room where they were, and it grew very tall, even taller than this two-story building.
Liang Xianyue was also thinking about what to do when the water rose. She prepared two small boats that could carry her family and two elderly people. As for this family, there was no place for them on the ship, Liang Xianyue hoped that they would also have the ability to save themselves.
When Liang Xianglan heard it, it was as if she had grasped at straws. Their big wooden cabinet was of good quality. It had been soaked in water for a long time without getting any water. If it was picked up, it could still be used. He saw the small boat tied to the granary, and silently estimated the number of people that the small boat could carry, and found that no matter what, it couldn't hold so many people. Since his family is an outsider, of course they would not take the number of people on the boat. Give it to himself first, so he can't do anything.
Now that the wooden cabinet is still there, Liang Xianglan seems to have grasped at straws. He quickly took the bamboo pole and stirred it under the water. The wooden cabinet gradually broke away from the stuck place and slowly floated towards the surface of the water. Liang Kangshi and Zhen Min also came to help. Tao Yongji wanted to get up, but Zhen Min persuaded: "There are enough of us. If there are too many people , we can't
stand here."
It's not too embarrassing." Their family will rely on this family's help no matter what, so they don't have to be brave, remember this love, and they will repay ten times in the future.
Tao Yongji knew that his wife cared about him, and he was wrapped in a blanket, so it was really inconvenient to find the wooden cabinet. He called Wenwen on the side: "Come to Dad, don't go to the water."
Several people fiddled with it for more than ten minutes, and the wooden cabinet was getting closer and closer to the roof, and finally reached the place where they could reach it with their hands. place. But there was still a distance of nearly half a meter between them, and the wooden cabinet was very heavy, and the back of the wooden cabinet was still exposed on the water, and there was no place to grasp it. Several people tried several times but failed to lift the wooden cabinet up.
This is the edge of the roof, and it is easy to fall headlong if you use downward force, and the scene is stalemate for a while. Liang Xianglan thought for a while and said: "It's too dangerous to lift the wooden cabinet. Thank you for your help, but it's not worth the risk. I think I'll use a bamboo pole to fix the wooden cabinet here so that it won't be washed away by the water. If the water rises , the wooden cabinet floated up, so I can help keep an eye on the water."
Even though she said that, Liang Xianyue's family didn't really turn around and leave. They tried a few more times, but they really couldn't get it out, but if they let go, the wooden cabinet would be easily washed away by water. What Liang Xianglan said might really be the only way.
Tao Yongji asked the fourth grandpa and fourth grandma to take care of Tao Wenwen. The little girl is very well-behaved, neither crying nor making trouble. The fourth grandma liked her very much, and felt sorry for him that this kind of thing happened to him at a young age, so she agreed wholeheartedly.
Tao Yongji was wrapped in a blanket and crouched by the eaves, and together with Liang Xianglan, they separated each other with a bamboo pole.
Live in a wooden cabinet. The water was a lot calmer than when he swam over, and he didn't feel much resistance when the bamboo pole went down.
It should be that the most urgent flood has passed, and the rest of the water is slowly rising up.
He hoped that the water would rise a little so that they could get the big wooden cabinet, but he was afraid that the water would rise too much and they would lose their only shelter.
It is best if the water just rises a little below the roof, which is the best of both worlds. Tao Yongji had a sweet dream.