Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Liu looked a little sad. She held the tea bowl and sighed softly. Then she said to Yang Ruoqing and the sisters Xiaohua and Xiaoduo in the room, "I know that I have a lot of bad habits and talk too much. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been punished by God to become a mute for a month."

"Even though my throat is healed now and I can speak again, my voice is not as good as it used to be. If I talk too much or shout too loudly, my throat will feel burning and uncomfortable."

"Ju'er and San Yatou often advise me that I should control my temper now that I'm old and shouldn't act like I did when I was young. I want to do that, too!"

"But the snoring, teeth grinding, and farting all happened when I was asleep. I really can't stop them!"

"I also care about my reputation, and I don't want to be treated as a stinky thing and despised by others, but I am powerless to deal with what happens after I fall asleep!"

"Don't say I can't take care of what happens after I fall asleep. Even if it was Mei'er, she farted and pooped today, her eyes were open, right?"

"She can't even control this with her eyes open, but the old lady doesn't say anything and doesn't think about it. Instead, she keeps blaming me, her daughter-in-law, for this. She's bullying me because I'm a weakling!"

"Aunt Si, what you said earlier all makes sense." Yang Ruoqing said, "So today you were outside the tent and I was inside the tent. You heard everything I said, right?"

Liu nodded vigorously: "Of course I heard it. It is because of what I heard that I feel that you are the one with the brightest eyes and the most correct ideas in this family."

"You can't say that other people are blind or have wrong ideas. Others don't have the courage like you, Qing'er, and dare not stand up and uphold justice in front of you. So, I am your fourth aunt and your elder, but I respect you the most. That's the reason!"

“Qing’er, you are this, this!”

Yang Ruoqing was amused when she saw Liu giving her a thumbs up. "Haha, I am your thumbs up? Fortunately it is your thumb, not your index finger."

"What?"

"Aunt Fourth, you always use your index finger to pick your nose and butt crack. If I were your index finger, wouldn't the smell be too strong?"

Liu was stunned for a moment, then she came to her senses and burst into laughter.

Xiaohua and Xiaoduo also smiled without saying anything.

Because when they listened to Liu and Yang Ruoqing chatting, they felt that all kinds of tiring words were coming out one after another.

"Okay, Fourth Aunt, let's make this a deal. It will probably take two or three days for the water to recede from the village. When the water recedes, you can go home and clean up your house."

"So, if you calculate it this way, we can stay in the pasture for a maximum of ten days, and basically everyone can go back to their homes, except for those whose houses collapsed, which may take longer to rebuild."

However, even if that were the case, people would probably move away from the pasture and return to the village to build shacks on higher ground to make do.

It is much more convenient to set up a shack near the village than to come to the grassland. By that time most people have evacuated the grassland, and only three or two families come here to live in tents. It is also deserted and they are probably scared at night.

After all, there have been many rumors about the grassland. The grassland is backed by the back mountain of Lijia Village and is not far from a place called Sishanao in Mianniu Mountain.

There is a sow spirit in the Four Cols. It likes to transform into a short and fat woman with a pig's head and a human body at noon, carrying a blood-stained wooden barrel in her hand, and come out to feed her pigs. When she meets a Shanren, a woodcutter, or a hunter on the road, she will open her bloody mouth and eat them one by one. Then she will use the human flesh to continue feeding her disciples... These rumors were passed down by the older generation in the mountains and outside the mountains. They sound weird and are often used by adults to scare naughty children.

The purpose is just like the Night Wanderer, to scare those children who like to cry and not sleep at night. If anyone does not sleep, the Night Wanderer will be listening at the window and will take the child away...

Although it is a bizarre legend, no one can confidently say that they have actually seen it with their own eyes.

But those who grew up near the mountains have been exposed to those bizarre things since childhood, especially those told by their elders with details, as if these were not legends, but a long-standing history, a real past that was questioned by people.

Therefore, out of awe for nature and the beautiful mountains and rivers, people would rather believe it than not. So under normal circumstances, people would not take the risk to hang out in those legendary "unclean places".

When the grassland was first built, evidence of a massacre that had occurred many years ago and the skeletons of villagers hiding in the cellar were dug out from underground.

Just under Xiaoduo's kitchen, there used to be a small temple built there to offer incense to the bones found under the cellar.

Later, the small temple was moved to the northwest corner of the grassland, and a kitchen was built above the original small temple (cellar).

The Kitchen God sits in the kitchen, and there is a blazing fire in the stove. Fire is yang, and the smoke from the three meals is used to neutralize the remaining yin and achieve a balance.

In this wave, disaster victims from several villages collectively flocked to the grassland for refuge. With more people, the yang energy became more vigorous. But if all these people left, and only a few villagers were left living in the empty grassland, that would definitely be scary.

Hearing that they were here, Liu hurriedly asked Yang Ruoqing about the flooding situation in the fourth room.

"Your house is a bit low-lying. The main reason is that the water from the big ditch between our two houses has flooded into your yard. When I came here this morning, I took a special look. The water in the yard was probably up to my thighs."

Yang Ruoqing actually didn't explain it in too much detail. Not only did the water in the big ditch overflow into the fourth room, but the Luo family's location was high, and there were two drainage systems in the yard. All the water was discharged into the big ditch and several small ditches behind the yard. The big ditch was connected to the pond downstream.

When the water flow is too fast and the amount of water is too large, the large ditch will not have time to drain it, and the water that overflows the ditch level will inevitably flow to the low-lying areas nearby.

And the fourth room happened to be right there.

Although the fourth room had considered this when building the house, it deliberately dug the foundation a little higher.

But please note that no matter how high the foundation is dug, the terrain of this area is step-by-step. If the fourth room moves towards Qingshui Town, the terrain will get lower step by step...

So many times, when locals speak verbally, they form a recognized consensus. When they say going to town, sometimes they say: I'm going down.

People like Xiaojie and Juer, when they return to their parents' home in Changping Village from the town, sometimes say: I want to go up.

  Their parents’ family would ask them when they would come back, and sometimes they would ask: When will you come up to visit?

That's the reason, so if the water floods four rooms, there's nothing we can do! (End of this chapter)