Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11118

Yang Ruoqing is not like those weak women in the village. In such a situation, she would not let herself fall into such a dangerous river.

The water was so turbulent that even if she was a swimming champion, she would be like a dumpling if she fell into it, and there would be no room for her to perform well.

At the critical moment, she couldn't stop her body from sliding down the dam, but she threw the Nine-Bone Black Gold Whip in her hand with all her strength.

The river dam is not bare. There are some low bushes and a tree as thick as a child's arm.

The whip in Yang Ruoqing's hand hooked onto a nearby birch tree above her head and wrapped around it three times.

With the help of the birch tree, Yang Ruoqing's downward trend was stopped.

She breathed a sigh of relief, and exerted force with her fingers that were holding the whip, preparing to hold on to the whip and use the birch tree as a stake to climb up the dam again.

Just as I started to climb an arm's length, I felt a bad feeling coming from the whip above my head.

Yang Ruoqing took a look and was shocked. The soil beside the dam was collapsing due to being soaked in rain for too long. Not to mention climbing up with the help of the birch tree, the roots of the birch tree itself were loose. And with the weight of an adult like her, half of the roots had already come out of the soil...

  No, I have to climb up in one breath while the tree is still half buried in the soil!

Yang Ruoqing took a deep breath and exerted all her strength, her body leaping upwards a long distance, and now she was only an arm's length away from the dam.

At this moment, the birch tree could not bear the heavy burden anymore. Its roots were pulled out of the soil little by little, and the trunk of the tree slowly fell towards the river.

Having lost the support of her body, Yang Ruoqing paused in mid-air, and then fell down at an even faster speed...

She couldn't step on the dam to gain leverage, because the dam was all soft mud. Once she stepped on it, she would slide down faster...

The whip was no longer working and was about to fall into the river. The thing coming down from upstream seemed to be getting closer and closer, and a faint fishy odor could be smelled in the air.

Yang Ruoqing pulled out the dagger and stabbed it hard into the mud of the river dam.

When her toes were only thirty centimeters away from the water surface, her body just stopped falling.

"Qing'er, catch it!"

Previously, she was thrown down by the nine-bone black gold whip that was entangled in the birch tree. Amid the sound of wind and rain above her head, Luo Fengtang's voice was also heard.

Yang Ruoqing reached out and grabbed one end of the whip, and then Luo Fengtang on the dam exerted force suddenly, and she was finally pulled onto the dam.

She fell into his arms, and he hugged her tightly, looking her up and down with nervous eyes.

"Why are you here?"

Didn’t we tell her to stay at home? Why did she come out in such bad weather?

Yang Ruoqing could tell that Luo Fengtang's voice was impatient, shocked, and even mixed with anger.

"I'm here to give you a hand!" Yang Ruoqing said.

However, from the current perspective, not only has he failed to achieve his goal, but it has actually held him back.

"Have you seen my father?" Yang Ruoqing asked again.

Luo Fengtang was about to answer, when suddenly, his eyes passed over Yang Ruoqing's head and went straight to the turbulent water behind her.

He usually remained calm even when faced with a huge crisis, but at this moment, there were waves in his eyes.

Yang Ruoqing swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth, turned around, and followed his gaze towards the river behind her.

It would have been fine if she hadn't looked at it, but once she looked at it, Yang Ruoqing's pupils couldn't help but shrink and relax. The river was only six or seven meters wide, but the water flowing down from the upstream was not only turbid and smelly, but also had a lot of rolling white things in the surging waves.

"Is that... a dead fish?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

Luo Fengtang nodded, "Yes, there is no way all these dead fish are from the river."

Every year before the New Year, the water level of this river recedes to a level that is no longer enough to cover the calves. People from the surrounding villages would come here with their home-made scoops to scoop up every last small fish and shrimp in the muddy water and bring them home to put on the dinner table. Where did all these dead fish come from?

Moreover, these fish are all big fish, including grass carp, bighead carp, catfish... everything you can think of.

“Is it possible that the reservoir near Zhengjia Village upstream is about to burst?”

"It probably won't break, but the water level is definitely rising..."

However, the reservoir has a huge water storage capacity, which can irrigate farmland in dozens of villages. How could it be possible that the dam would break after just one day and one night of rain?

"Qing'er, let's leave here first and go home!" Luo Fengtang pulled Yang Ruoqing and left.

"Where is my father? Have you seen him?" Yang Ruoqing asked as they walked.

"Yes, I found him at Li Laoer's home in Lijia Village. I sent him back to the village along the path to the ridge. When I got to Jiayuan Daan, he said you had also come out, so I turned back to look for you!"

Dad is home?

That’s good, that’s good!

Yang Ruoqing's heart returned to reality.

Luo Fengtang took her by the hand and quickly went down from the dam and came to the ridge of the field.

Walk along the muddy path along the ridge towards Changping Village.

Her hand was tightly held in his palm. Although the wind and rain continued and the rain washed their tightly clasped hands, the warmth coming from his palm made Yang Ruoqing feel inexplicably at ease.

The two finally rushed back home.

At this time, Tuantuan and Yuanyuan had already gone to bed. In the main hall of the Luo family, Luo the blacksmith, Yang Huazhong, Yang Huaming, Wang Cuilian, Sun, and Da'an were all there.

Everyone was very anxious. Some were walking around in circles in the house, while others kept going to the door to look out.

The wind and rain outside were very strong. If the main room door was opened a little, the wind would rush into the house, bringing with it the rain, leaving a wet spot on the ground. So the door had to be closed again.

Sun was extremely worried. She saw the sand in the hourglass on the table falling down little by little, but Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang still hadn't come back.

She was always good-tempered and obedient to Yang Huazhong, but she could no longer hold back her temper. She stood up and complained to Yang Huazhong: "Look at you, you had to run out, making the children worry and go out one after another to look for you."

"It's already dark outside, and there's thunder and lightning and heavy rain. No matter how capable Qing'er is, she's still a girl. If anything happens to her, will you feel good about it?"

Yang Huazhong's anxiety and worry were no less than Sun's.

Especially after hearing Sun's criticism, Yang Huazhong felt even more ashamed and self-blame.

It's all my fault. I didn't listen to the advice and ran out to find out about Yang Huaming and the others. I was really the one who caused all this.

"Hey, I was impulsive and reckless today. Mother, you can scold me if you want. I accept it..."

Yang Huazhong stamped his feet, and when he got excited, he raised his big hand and slapped himself.