Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11122

Wanghai County, Changping Village.

Late at night, almost half of the people in the village were woken up by Yang Huazhong and Luo Fengtang.

On such a night in the first month of the lunar year, everyone had eaten and drunk their fill and gone to bed early. But when they were suddenly woken up, they felt a little resentful.

But because the other parties were the village head Yang Huazhong, Luo Fengtang, Da'an, and several village elders, even if these villagers had resentment in their hearts, they still dared not speak out.

However, when they heard the news brought by Yang Huazhong and others, all their resentment was scared away.

  He is so scared that he won’t be able to sleep even if you let him go back to bed!

"The river water has risen? I don't believe it. I want to see it with my own eyes!"

It was already the late night and the rain was still heavy, but the thunder and lightning had disappeared.

So a large group of villagers came to the river behind the village to check the water level.

Yang Ruoqing also came here with everyone wearing a straw raincoat. She also had no desire to sleep tonight.

Before coming here, she discussed it with Luo Fengtang and sent secret guards out of the village overnight.

In addition, Yang Ruoqing gathered together the twenty or thirty young and strong men from the village transport team and assigned them tasks.

After doing all this, she came to the river.

At this time, the sky was almost bright and hazy all around, but the rain was still falling, and the rain was slightly lighter than before.

Many villagers stood on the river dam, not only from Changping Village, but also from Lijia Village, Yujia Village and Hejia Village nearby...

Everyone looked at the rolling water in the river. The color of the water was exactly the same as the muddy water that washed down from the mountains.

"There must have been a flash flood in the mountains ahead, otherwise it wouldn't have turned out like this!" The experienced old villager observed the river water that smelled of mud and made a guess.

Yang Ruoqing saw that the water level of the river had risen a little bit. Compared with the height in the first half of the night, the water was now almost level with the dam, only about fifty centimeters away.

The distance is fifty centimeters. If the rain continues and the upstream continues to discharge floodwaters, the fifty centimeters will be reached in just half a day.

"We can't let the river water overflow the dam. If it overflows the dam and flows back into the crops, our harvest will be gone!" Yang Huazhong discussed with several village elders, and then quickly mobilized the villagers to go home and get hoes and shovels. Everyone came over to do two things along the dam.

One is to dredge those blocked parts of the river channel connecting the ditches and fields, dig out the aquatic plants and move away the stones, so that the river water can flow smoothly through the underground channels from the ditches and fields, thus relieving the pressure on the riverbed.

At the same time, every household, men, women, old and young, joined in the digging and continuously sent the soil to the dam to raise the water retaining height of the dam...

"It's too late to do these things. I don't know if it's too late!" One of the village elders looked at everything in front of him, worried.

Yang Huazhong said: "No matter whether it is too late or not, at least we have to do it. If we do nothing and just watch the water level rise, it will be even more annoying!"

Everybody agreed with what Yang Huazhong said. Although farmers have been counting on God for their food and hoping for good weather for generations, they have also never stopped fighting against God, various natural disasters and bad weather. In this harsh environment, they try their best to fight for a small piece of space for their survival!

This hope and struggle never stops. They use intelligence, collaboration and hard-working hands to create opportunities to survive and reproduce from generation to generation on this land.

This is also the fundamental difference between humans and other creatures.

"Qing'er, leave this to us. You haven't slept all night, go back and get some sleep!"

Luo Fengtang was always busy in the crowd, dispatching and directing. Sometimes he rolled up his sleeves and went into battle himself. He was strong and physically fit, and was a good leader in fighting. At the same time, he was also very efficient in doing the hard work of repairing bridges and roads, digging mud and building dams. He was as labor-intensive as three or five others! "You are so busy that you are almost like a spinning top. How can you still have time to come and care about me?" Yang Ruoqing took out a handkerchief and stood on tiptoe to wipe the sweat and mud mixed with rain from his face.

Luo Fengtang held her wrist and said, "I'll take you back. Go back and have some sleep. Don't worry about what's happening here!"

"No hurry, I'll go back later."

Just as he finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of buffalo coming from upstream in the river.

"Moo~"

"Tang boy, did you hear that?" Yang Ruoqing asked quickly.

"I heard it, it sounded like a buffalo." Luo Fengtang said.

Yang Ruoqing said: "I heard it last night, several times. What's going on?"

"Moo~"

A second cry was heard.

Although the sound was like that of a buffalo, we all grew up in the village and had heard the sounds of cattle and buffalo countless times.

"It sounds like a buffalo, but a buffalo can't make such a powerful sound."

Many villagers on the dam had heard the cry. They stopped what they were doing, or slowed down their work, and looked in the direction where the sound came from, talking about it.

"The noise was so loud, it seemed to be coming from the water."

"You are talking nonsense. What else can there be in the water except fish, shrimp and turtles? Besides, the riverbed in this section has dried up and cracked before the New Year. We have already eaten all the fish, shrimp and turtles. There is nothing left in the water!"

"You said there's nothing, so there's nothing? There's something in the reservoir!"

Just as everyone was arguing, the river, which was not too turbulent at first, suddenly became turbulent again. The water flowed continuously from the direction of Zhengjia Village, rushing downstream in the direction of Lijia Village like a mighty army...

"Come on, let's go and check upstream. I'm afraid the reservoir has broken!"

Someone suggested something, so some people stayed on the spot to continue digging mud to build a high river dam, while most people went upstream to look for the source.

Luo Fengtang wanted to continue to send Yang Ruoqing back to the village, but given the current situation, Yang Ruoqing would definitely not go back to the village.

"Tang Yazi, let's go and see what's going on!"

"Hey, I was worried that you couldn't handle the tiredness and didn't sleep all night..." Luo Fengtang was still struggling with this matter.

Yang Ruoqing said: "Given the current situation, I won't be able to sleep even if I go back. I might as well stay here and find out what's going on. Let's go, hurry up and follow me!"

Everyone walked up along the dam. They went up and the river went down, just like they were on a two-way road, the two sides passed each other.

At this time, it was already daybreak, and a lot of things were washed down from upstream on the turbid water surface, but most of them were leaves of water plants. Nothing related to human daily necessities was seen.

  This made everyone feel a little relieved. What are they most afraid of?

The most frightening thing is that the pots and pans, clothes, shoes and socks, and the floating villagers will be washed down from upstream. That would be a real panic!