Chen Fu slapped his face and turned sideways to the other side.
Forget it, why bother with an ignorant woman
Seeing Jiang Sanlang, Chen Fu hurried over and asked, "Is Yingbao okay?"
Yingbao got caught in the rain yesterday and was soaked all over. He was really worried that the little kid would get sick.
"It's OK, Uncle Chen, don't worry." Jiang Sanlang looked across the stream and said, "Wait until the rain is a little lighter, and then quickly pull the cart over."
Chen Fu nodded, then frowned and said, "I don't know what's going on with the old village. Jiaxing and Jiazhen, those two damn guys, refused to move to Nanpo when I asked them to. I think they are courting death!"
Jiang Sanlang said nothing.
I have done my best. It is up to them whether to listen or not.
By noon, the rain finally stopped and the stream water level weakened a lot.
Chen Zhu and Chen Yin asked several villagers to pull two carts over, and then transported the two coffins into the house and found a small room to store them.
At this time, many villagers from Xicun carried their bags and drove their cattle and sheep up the south slope and lived in the thatched huts that had been built earlier.
After a night of heavy rain, the water level of the Chuan River rose sharply and almost overflowed the river bank.
The timid villagers were frightened. As soon as the rain stopped, they hurriedly packed up their things and took their parents, wives and children to the south slope.
There were also people who did not believe in it, such as Chen Laoshuan. He stood at the door of his house and looked at the villagers who were moving away, sneering in his heart.
"Everyone's brains are broken, huh!"
He turned back to the house and said to his wife Chen Fengshi, "Which year does the river not flood? Some people believed the nonsense of Jiang Sanlang. I don't know what he was up to. He asked everyone to move to the south slope to live."
Chen Feng was a little uneasy, and said to her husband: "The rain yesterday was really scary. I didn't dare to sleep all night."
"Isn't it stopped now?"
Chen Laoshuan sat down on the kang, picked up the teacup and took a sip: "It's just that there's a little water in the house. Isn't it like this every summer? You, don't believe everything you hear. If there is a real flood, we can go to the town, or even directly to the county town."
The water flows from west to east. We have a horse-drawn carriage, so we don’t need to cross the bridge or the river to go to the county town. We can just take the carriage.
He didn't believe that even the county town was flooded.
After the rain stopped for a day, it started raining again at night.
Since there wasn't much thunder, no one paid attention to it.
In the second half of the night, Han's son Xubao kept crying, so she found a tinder and lit a candle.
I got off the kang in a daze and wanted to help my son pee, but I stepped into the water.
"Ah!" Han screamed and looked down, only to find that the room was full of water, already reaching her ankles.
Han was frightened and waded through the water to the door and opened it.
Streams of water rushed in continuously, shocking Han so much that he took a few steps back.
"Mom! Mom! The house is flooded!" Han shouted towards her parents-in-law's house, "Get up quickly!"
After shouting several times, he finally woke up Chen Laoshuan and his wife.
Chen Fengshi quickly got up from the kang, found a tinderbox and lit the oil lamp, and the room was filled with rippling light.
"Oh no! What should I do?"
Chen Feng was horrified and hurriedly looked for shoes to wear.
Fortunately, there was a pedal next to the kang, so I put my shoes on the pedal, but they were all wet.
Chen Fengshi put on her wet shoes and waded out of the house.
Chen Laoshuan also got off the kang and came to the door.
Under the light of the oil lamp, the yard was full of water and it was still raining.
"What should we do? It's really flooding!" Chen Feng was panicking and turned to her husband for advice: "Why don't we go to town?"
Chen Laoshuan looked at the dark sky and sighed, "We have to wait until daybreak to go. How can we go in the dark?"
"Well, then I'll pack my things first..." Chen Fengshi hurriedly ran to pack her valuables.
Silver, clothes, jewelry boxes, as well as house deeds and land deeds, nothing can be left behind.
But the more I packed, the more things there were, and even three big bags couldn't hold them all.
Han waded over and saw her parents-in-law packing up their things. She knew they might be going to the county town, so she went back to pack up as well.
I finally waited until dawn.
Not only did the rain not stop, it got heavier.
Chen Laoshuan put on a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat, opened the gate, and saw the water rushing outside like a wild horse breaking free from its reins.
He cried out inwardly, "Oh no!" and returned to the yard.
He went to the stable, led out the old horse, and put the shaft on it.
He also told his wife to put all the bags into the carriage.
Han Ju's mother came out holding an umbrella in one hand and a bag in the other and asked, "Dad, where are we going?"
Chen Laoshuan: "Go to the town first. If the town is also flooded, go directly to the county town."
When Han heard that they were going to the county town, she was very happy.
My husband has passed the county exam and has now gone to the provincial capital to take the prefectural exam. He will probably be back soon, and then our family will be reunited in the county capital.
She was so fed up with the countryside that she didn't want to stay there any longer.
It would be great if I could take advantage of this flood to escape from this place.
Han put the baggage into the carriage and went back to pick up her son Xubao.
Chen Laoshuan glanced at his daughter-in-law's back and frowned.
"Dad! Where are you going?"
Chen Changhai, the youngest son of Chen Laoshuan, waded over and saw his father leading the carriage towards the gate, and asked.
Chen Laoshuan: "To town. I was just about to pick you up. Have you packed all your things?"
The eldest son and the youngest son live not far away, just a few steps away.
Chen Changhai: "Everything is ready. Dad, you don't have to go pick it up. I'll go get my sister-in-law and the others to come over."
"Okay, go quickly. The water is getting higher and higher. Don't get trapped here." Chen Laoshuan urged his son.
Chen Changhai responded and turned back.
He first went to his eldest brother's house to tell his eldest brother's sister-in-law and asked them to pack their things quickly, and then he went back to pick up his wife and children.
His wife, Cui, carried their son Chen Kang tightly on her back with a cloth belt, holding her husband with one hand and holding an umbrella with the other.
"Husband, how many people can sit in my parents' carriage?"
Chen Changhai held two large bags in his arms and said, "It doesn't matter how many people it can hold, just you and Akang can sit on it."
Cui: “Oh.”
The two of them finally reached the old house. Chen Changhai stuffed the two bags into the carriage and sent his wife and son onto it.
After a while, Chen's wife, Zhao, wearing a straw raincoat, also came over with her ten-year-old son.
Chen Changhai then sent his little nephew and his mother Chen Fengshi into the carriage, and then led the carriage out.
Han chased after them, holding Xu Bao in her arms, "And me."
Chen Laoshuan said coldly: "Leave Xubao to your mother and just follow behind the carriage."
Seeing that her eldest sister-in-law was also wading through the water, Han had no choice but to hand her son over to her mother-in-law.
The carriage moved slowly, but the water flow became faster and faster.
Han was holding an umbrella and almost fell down several times. Fortunately, her sister-in-law Zhao pulled her up.
Passing by other villagers' houses, someone asked, "Changhai, where are you going?"
Chen Changhai: "Go to town!"
The town is a little higher than here, so it should not have been flooded.
The man said, "It's not safe to go to town, it's better to go to Beishan to take shelter."
Chen Changhai said unhappily, "Your family is building a house in Beishan? It's raining so hard, are you going to stand in the rain?"
He really regretted not going to Nanpo with Chen Changsheng to build a house, otherwise he would not have run around like a refugee.
What if the town is flooded, and we only have one horse-drawn carriage, how can we get to the county town