Wearing eighty books, the little widow turns into a rich woman

Chapter 414 Chapter 415 Natural Disasters 1
At the same time, members of Shishanling crowded on the brigade’s drying dam. A group of people stood there in the rain. The men looked at the houses and farmland destroyed by the landslide, their eyes were red, and they wanted to cry, and the women slapped their thighs and shouted for the sky...

The lively and mischievous children in the past also snuggled up to their parents, brothers and sisters with tears on their faces.

Captain Zhou's wrinkled face like elm bark was still dripping with tears. He had mixed feelings in his heart at the moment. Fortunately, when the accident happened, everyone was scraping and cleaning the fungus in the brigade's baking room. Otherwise, he didn't know that there would be casualties. How many.

What made him heartbroken was that the landslide destroyed nearly half of the houses. The houses of [-] or so families were submerged by the mud washed down by the landslide. How should the [-] or so families who lost their homes be resettled?

What is worrying is that the members who go out to find their superiors can bring back rescue supplies?Where does he come from for the food and clothing of hundreds of people? ...

Zhou Shitou's family and Zhou's father stood there dumbfounded, looking at the original home, which had been submerged by landslides and turned into ruins.

Xu Hongju hugged her youngest son and wept silently. The faces of her daughter Xiaoyu and her eldest son were covered with tears, and they raised their hands to wipe away their tears from time to time...

Wu Shuqun sat slumped on the wet muddy ground, looking at the collapsed houses and the washed-out farmland, crying: "My God, why didn't you give us a way to survive? What evil did the people in the mountains do? What happened to our days? Is it that difficult?..." His eyes darkened, and he collapsed to the ground.

Seeing that life is improving, the family has something to look forward to.The sudden catastrophe completely knocked her down.

Seeing her slumped to the ground, Zhou Dashan hurried forward to hug her up: "Old woman, what's the matter with you?"

Zhou Shitou and Xu Hongju also rushed over: "Mom, Mom, what's wrong with you?"

The three children cried out in panic: "Grandma, grandma..."

Captain Zhou came back to his senses, and hurriedly said: "Quickly pinch her!"

Xu Hongju quickly grabbed Wu Shuqun and shouted anxiously: "Mom, wake up, Mom, wake up..."

Wu Shuqun slowly opened his eyes, watching them weep silently.

Captain Zhou said to several people: "Hurry up and take her to the baking room. I will go back and ask your aunt to find clothes to change for her." The houses of his family and a dozen other families were not washed away by the landslide. destroy.

Zhou Dashan said in a hoarse voice, "Thank you, Uncle."

Captain Zhou waved his hand and walked towards the house.

Zhou Shitou picked up his old lady and went into the baking room. There were already a dozen or so women lying in the baking room who passed out from grief and woke up again after being strangled.

When everyone saw them coming in, they made an open space.

Xu Hongju came over with a bundle of firewood and spread it on the ground, Zhou Shitou put Wu Shuqun on it.

Wu Shuqun looked at several people and tremblingly said: "Old man, Shitou, Hongju, how are you going to live in the future?"

Zhou Dashan looked at her and comforted her in a low voice: "Old woman, if something happens to you, what do you ask us to do? When the rain stops, we will go out to find our second brother-in-law and ask them to find a solution for us."

Zhou Shitou also persuaded: "Mom, let's go to our aunt, cousin, and second child. They will find a solution."

"Yes, Mom, there is always a way. If you have a good or bad idea, we..." Xu Hongju choked and couldn't speak.

Wu Shuqun looked at her grandchildren eagerly, thinking of her younger sister's family and the second child's family in Dongshi, hope was rekindled in her heart, she cried and nodded: "Woo... woo... Fortunately, there are still them, woo... woo... "

Captain Zhou went home and brought his clothes, and Xu Hongju helped Wu Shuqun to the room where the night watchman lived to change the wet clothes.

Zhou Dashan said to him: "Uncle, we have nothing. The landslide has flooded all the food and stuff. What do we eat these days?"

"That's right, Captain, we didn't get any of our things out. It rained so hard, so we didn't dare to dig the mud and dig things out."

"Everything is buried in the soil, and I haven't even brought out a piece of sweet potato. What shall we eat in the future?"

The whimpering and weeping sounded again from the crowd.

Captain Zhou shouted loudly: "I warn you, don't dig things out." He glanced at the members present, "If you don't want to die, just listen to me, don't dig mud."

It is also difficult for him, because it is the time when there is no harvest, and the people who have not been affected by the disaster do not have enough food for themselves.We can only take out the food in the storage room for emergency, we can't just watch everyone starve to death.

"Then what should we do, just starve to death like this?"

"Eat grass roots, eat tree bark?"

Captain Zhou raised his hand to interrupt the noisy voices below: "When Dashu and the others come back, let's see what the leaders of the commune say. If it doesn't work, I will open the storage room to get food out and distribute it to everyone. Let's dig some wild vegetables. Pick some pumpkin vines, dig some ginger taro, peel some elm bark and grind it, and you can always pass this pass."

Dashu is the eldest grandson of the captain's family.The dozens of families in Shishanling are more or less related to each other. Those who were not affected by the disaster will not watch everyone starve to death!
Another person asked, "What about the rice fields in the mountainous lands below that were washed away by landslides? How will we pay for the public grain this year?"

Captain Zhou reassured: "Everyone, don't worry, the government won't ignore us. When Dashu and the others come back, there will be news."

After hearing this, the disaster-stricken people feel more at ease, as long as they have food to eat, they will not be afraid.

Before dark, the team leader opened the storage room, took out a basket of sweet potatoes, and went home to scoop up some miscellaneous grain noodles and some salt.

Those who were not affected by the disaster sent green vegetables, and each family shared a few mouthfuls of bowls and chopsticks. The people who were affected by the disaster used the big iron pot in the barn to cook a pot of vegetables and eat a big pot of rice.

The hundred or so people were half-fed, and those whose houses hadn't been destroyed distributed their quilts to everyone, and everyone slept on hay in the barn and the meeting room of the brigade.

The night in the mountains was chilly. Fortunately, there were bedding provided by the villagers, otherwise it was too cold to sleep.

Wu Shuqun opened his eyes, listening to the snoring and choking in the barn one after another, thinking of the suffering he had experienced in this life, tears could not stop flowing down.

In the middle of the night, the rain finally subsided.

Early the next morning, Wu Shuqun's family and the disaster-stricken members huddled under the eaves outside the barn, looking at the rain and fog, hoping that Dashu and the others would turn around soon.

In the afternoon, Big Tree and a few strong men returned to Shishanling with mud on their backs and sticks on their backs.

Everyone happily gathered around and helped to catch the sling, and cheered happily when they saw the rice noodles in the sling.

The team leader asked anxiously: "Dashu, what did the commune officials say?"

Dashu wiped the rainwater off his face, and pointed to the rice noodles on the back: "The commune officials helped buy these rice noodles overnight, and I asked you to open the storage room first, so that everyone won't be hungry."

He took a breath and continued, "After they reported to their superiors, they immediately sent people to deliver things to rescue the disaster."

The onlookers had smiles on their faces.

(End of this chapter)