My village can't be like this

Chapter 461 Heavy Rain

Although Ding Yi is a wealthy boss, he has no airs and has long been involved with the villagers.

"Grandma, come and deliver red eggs to your family."

When entering someone's yard, the old man calls him grandpa, the old woman calls her grandma, and the one with a small mouth calls the sweet one.

In the past, people in the village would give red eggs to every family during the full moon, usually two per family.

Because eggs are still a good thing nowadays, and making red eggs is not easy.

It's not just a matter of wiping it with red paper to make it red. Instead, it needs to be boiled with red yeast rice to boil the egg shells red.

This kind of red egg will not fade when you hold it, and the red layer will not soak into the eggshell.

But Ding Yi is a very wealthy guy, and he rounded up all the eggs in Zhang An's family in one go.

After going back, I cooked them for a whole day before turning all the eggs into red eggs.

So every time he went to a house, he would give eggs according to the number of people in the house.

Anyway, no matter adults or children, if you have one, it’s really generous.

"Okay, okay, wait for me here."

Grandma happily took the red egg from Ding Yi with a smile on her face and turned back to the house.

The village has long been buzzing about the fact that the Ding family has given birth to a fat boy.

After all, Zhang An's aunts are the intelligence chiefs in the village. As long as they know something, it can be spread to the whole village in less than two days.

Of course, they are not indifferent to right from wrong. Basically, they don't go out when bad things happen, and good things spread thousands of miles.

Not long after, grandma came out of the house, holding a small bowl of rice with a dollar stuck in the rice.

The rice represents Baijia rice, and the money is the legendary Baijia money.

This is a long-standing tradition in Changqing. Anyone who has a baby will take the initiative to deliver red eggs to their door before the full moon.

If you accept someone else's red eggs, you have to return a small bowl of rice.

As for money, it all depends on your own wishes. Of course, normal people will give you a few cents. It doesn’t have to be much money, as long as it meets your heart.

The host cannot be dissatisfied with the small amount of money, because it is prayer money for the child, and it will eventually be used to buy cloth to make clothes for the child, so some people in the past would also return a small piece of cloth.

It's just that in recent years it has become less popular to buy cloth to make clothes. Instead, Baijia money is used directly to buy clothes for the children.

Ding Yi didn't know this before he came, but he should have asked the elders before coming here.

So now I open the bag and wait for grandma to pour the rice from the bowl into the bag.

While the grandma poured the rice, she also said blessing words to the child.

The general idea is that the little one will grow up safely and healthily, will be successful in his studies in school, and will be a top scholar in the exams.

The money put in the rice cannot be taken out now. We must put everyone's thoughts together and wait until the full moon to take it out to buy clothes for the children.

"Thank you, grandma, for your kind words, Old Chrysostom."

Ding Yi doesn't care about money, but since people have such intentions, they have to keep it in mind.

In this way, the three of them took hundreds of red eggs and distributed them door to door in the village.

In fact, not everyone in the village knew Ding Yi, and a few of them had nothing to do with him.

But this is a happy event, so it doesn’t matter whether you know someone or not, you should go there to avoid others thinking that you look down on them.

After visiting all the houses in the village, there weren't many red eggs left. Instead, the bag Ding Yi brought over contained more than half a bag of rice.

There are actually less than a hundred households in Changqing Village. Although many households have been divided into households in the past two years, there are only ninety households at most now.

Whether it's food for a hundred families or money for a hundred families, it's unlucky if you don't get it together.

Therefore, most people not only go to their own village, but also go to their maternal home to ask for good luck.

Of course, there is no need for Ding Yi here. Their family is huge and there are many relatives, and there is more than enough for a hundred families to just put them together.

After Ding Yi went back in the afternoon, Fatty Lu also went back with the car the next morning.

During this period, he collected a lot of fish in the village, and he could basically receive a cart in two days.

However, after harvesting for a period of time, the stamina seems to be lacking these days, and I can only receive a few hundred kilograms of fish every day.

This was a bit too little, and it wasn't worth waiting for him here. Moreover, he had been here for a long time, so he simply didn't accept it and went back.

On a June day, the child's face is always cloudy and uncertain, making it difficult to guess whether he is crying or laughing.

When Fatty Lu left the first day, the sun was still bright and the sky was cloudless and blue.

The weather was actually not bad the next morning. Although the sky was a little cloudy, it was still a good weather.

But in the afternoon, God suddenly changed his face.

When the fireball-like sun was still hanging high in the sky, several thunders that shook the sky suddenly exploded.

As soon as the thunder exploded, Zhang An felt that something was going to happen, because he had not seen such a bolt from the blue for many years.

And when the thunder exploded, he seemed to feel that the house was shaken.

Sure enough, within ten minutes of this bolt from the blue, the sky that had been shining brightly just now suddenly turned dark.

Standing in the yard, you can see that the entire sky is covered with dark clouds. At a glance, you can also see rolling black clouds in the sky.

"Xiao An, something is not right today. You should go to school quickly and take a look and bring Xiao Ying back first."

Not only Zhang An felt something was wrong, Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo also felt it.

After living for so many years, I can tell at a glance that I am going to get wet.

After explaining to Zhang An, Zhang Jianguo took the family's big dog and ran to the mountains to drive back the family's livestock.

Wang Fang stayed in the yard and packed up all the things that needed to be collected and went home.

Sure enough, on the way to school, Zhang An heard his old uncle Zhang Jianwen start shouting with a loudspeaker, asking the villagers in the fields to come back quickly.

In fact, when he heard the thunder just now, he wanted to notify, but the thunder was rolling at that time, and it was too dangerous to use a loudspeaker.

Now after waiting for a few minutes and no thunder was seen, he quickly informed everyone.

The sky is completely dark now. Although it is only two or three o'clock, it is no different from seven or eight o'clock in the evening.

No matter the students or teachers in the school had any intention of continuing the class, they all stood at the door of the classroom and looked at the sky.

Perhaps because they heard the loudspeaker shouting in the village, the school also directly told the students to get out of school and go home quickly.

Of course, the teachers' minds were still on the line, and they only let the students in the village go, but they didn't dare to let go of the students from other villages. For those students who are far apart, if there is a big thunder or heavy rain when they are on the way, the consequences will be unimaginable.

If he stayed at school, he would at least have a place to stay and be safe.

Zhang An came to the school and all the teachers were evacuating the students.

The students who were let go may have felt that today was abnormal, so they lost their usual playful temper.

Carrying my schoolbag, I ran all the way home without stopping at all.

"Let's go home. Today, I'm afraid it's going to be bad."

Arriving at the office, Zhang An found Su Ying.

Since it got dark, other teachers were busy evacuating students.

Su Ying wanted to help, but with her big belly, it was really inconvenient and dangerous to herself.

So other teachers persuaded her to stay in the office to avoid students bumping into her.

"Yes, Teacher Su, I definitely won't be able to attend class today. We are here to watch. You should go back quickly."

Nowadays, most middle school teachers live in the school, and only Su Ying lives outside the school.

At this time, the teacher would definitely stay and watch the students, but since she got many benefits from staying at Zhang An's house on weekdays, and it was really inconvenient for Su Ying, everyone asked her to go home with Zhang An quickly.

Su Ying also knew that she couldn't be of much help here, so she didn't lose her temper and went home with Zhang An obediently.

After leaving the school, thunder sounded again in the sky, like an ancient beast roaring.

Because it was dark, Zhang An directly picked up Su Ying and strode home.

As soon as I got home, rain began to fall from the sky amidst the rolling thunder.

The raindrops were so big that they made a crackling sound when they fell on the ground.

The cement floor in the yard has been exposed to high temperatures from the sun.

When the rain falls to the ground, you can still clearly hear the "hissing" sound.

If the rain was lighter, you might only see raindrop marks on the ground, as well as steamed water vapor.

But now, before the water vapor can be seen, a deep layer of water has accumulated on the ground.

Soon, the raindrops in the sky turned into water columns, crashing directly from the sky to the ground, reaching people's ears, it was so deafening.

The rain came very quickly, definitely not more than a minute.

Standing at the door, Zhang An could no longer hear any other sounds. There was only the sound of heavy rain and majestic storm howling in his ears.

"It seems like our chickens and ducks can't be saved. This thief is going to start torturing us after we have only had a few good years."

Next to Zhang An, Wang Fang's eyes became dull as she listened to the bursts of thunder thundering against the clouds in the sky.

When the thunder sounded just now, she found that many of the chickens and ducks in the pen had been frightened to death by the thunder.

Poultry like chickens and ducks are inherently timid, and usually a thunder would frighten several of them to death.

Not to mention today's shocking thunder, which only happens once in decades.

The thunder in the sky was still pounding non-stop at this moment, and I was afraid that not many of the chickens and ducks at home would survive in the end.

"Mom, there's nothing anyone can do about this. Let's raise it again later. It's too humid here. Let's go indoors first. With such heavy rain, there will definitely be a power outage later. We'd better find the candles first."

The rain outside was so heavy that even the entrance of the courtyard, which was only a few meters away, was blocked by a heavy rain curtain.

No matter how good Zhang An's eyesight is, he can't see anything clearly at a glance. Everything he sees is water.

The rain on the ground, as if to show off its wildness, fell heavily to the ground and splashed high from the ground. On the walls under the eaves, more than half a person's height was already wet.

The lines in the mountains have always been very fragile. Normally, there will be a fault and power outage during a heavy rain.

Today's heavy rainstorm makes it even more hopeless.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhang An finished speaking, the light bulb that was on in the room flashed twice and then went out.

Wang Fang quickly found a candle and lit it. Zhang An closed the front and back doors, and the family sat together around the candle.

Maybe it's because of the sound insulation of the walls and doors, so the sounds of heavy rain, thunder or strong wind outside are much quieter.

But despite the heavy rain and thunder outside, Zhang An felt very peaceful inside at this moment.

Because no matter what happens outside, he can't stop it. The important thing is that his relatives at home are safe and sound by his side at this moment.

For an ordinary ordinary person, this is enough.

In fact, Zhang An was not very surprised when the weather changed today.

After all, he had always thought that there would be heavy rains and floods this year, so he had always had an early warning in his mind.

Although he couldn't remember when the floods started, he had been preparing since June.

Whether it is grain, oil, rice, noodles, or firewood and fuel at home, we have already prepared enough.

So what the family has to do now is to wait for the heavy rain to subside.

"Dad, the rain today must be the heaviest since I was born."

Although the family was sitting together, the atmosphere became a little negative, perhaps because of this sudden natural disaster.

Zhang An didn't like the current situation very much, so he took the initiative to find a topic to divert the family's attention.

"Not only in the past 20 years, it should be the biggest flood in the past 40 to 50 years. When I was young, there were floods, but they were not as serious as today."

As Zhang Jianguo spoke, his eyes gradually became immersed and he began to recall the past.

"I don't know when the rain will stop. Listening to the commotion outside, I'm afraid it won't be possible today. If God suddenly comes like this, several villages downstream are probably in danger."

Wang Fang thought that after only a few minutes of rain, a layer of water more than half a foot deep began to pile up in the yard. Now that it had rained for such a long time, the river was probably going to flood up.

"At times like this, we can only rely on our lives. If we can take care of ourselves, the smoke is coming out of our ancestors' graves. Fortunately, our houses are halfway up the mountain. Even if it rains for days and nights, it won't flood us. "

Zhang Jianguo rarely fell into deep thought. He had not smoked for a long time and found a cigarette in his hand. He probably gave it to someone he met outside today.

I wanted to put it in my mouth and light it, but I immediately remembered that my daughter-in-law was pregnant with my grandson next to me. I immediately rubbed the cigarette back and forth with two fingers to break the cigarette into shredded tobacco.

Everyone actually knows that in such a heavy rainstorm, something will happen to some families.

Even in Changqing Village, there must still be some people trapped in the mountains who cannot come back.

But what can you do? At this time, you can basically only control yourself.

(End of this chapter)