Start Ancient: Take your family and lie down in the natural disaster to win

Chapter 285 285. Resilience

We never know how far human resilience can reach. Even if we are very sad, it still does not affect our confidence in building a home after the sadness. Not many of the remaining villagers who were able to return to Shangqin Village alive soon started to move. , cleaning things out of the mud at home.

I really dug out a lot of things. Although most of them were damaged, I pieced together some of them that were still usable, and the unusable ones could be used as firewood.

"Mom and dad, look," Qin Ming held up a bowl with a cracked mouth and showed it to Qin Dagen of the Li family, finally seeing a trace of happiness in his eyebrows.

"That's great, that's great, keep going, maybe there's more below..." Mrs. Li's eyes lit up, encouraging her son.

I knew it was too late when the flood came, and I left in a hurry. Except for the most important food, I didn’t bring many things with me, including only enough bowls and chopsticks. If they hadn’t been washed away by the water, they would still be under the mud.

Li's heart finally relaxed a little as she discovered more and more useful things.

"My dear, come here and take a look," followed by Qin Dagen's voice.

"What?" Before Li passed, the two brothers Qin Lu and Qin Ming rushed over happily. "Mom, it looks like our oilcloth, well rolled up." Qin Ming shouted happily to Li.

Mrs. Li also came over in a hurry, looking at the oilcloth rolled into a large roll, the corners of her mouth finally raised.

"That's great, our tarpaulin hasn't been washed away and is still there."

Who among farmers can live without oilcloth? This roll is the largest piece in the house. Sometimes I only have time to bring two smaller rolls with me. The larger one is too heavy and is left in the woodshed.

"Let's dig together." Li couldn't bear it anymore, so she picked up the hoe and started digging together.

The two adults worked together quickly, and soon a bundle of oilcloth was dug out. Although it was wrapped in a thick layer of mud, it still looked intact.

Qin Shu, who was digging his own beams, couldn't help but come over to take a look. However, his hopes were not too high. After all, he had been soaked in water for a year and a half. Even though the appearance looked intact, he was probably already soaked to death. .

He just looked at the happy family and didn't say this.

Soon the silt on top was slapped away, revealing the tarpaulin underneath.

Only then did Qin Shu realize that the outer layer was actually an oilcloth bag. He really didn't know this. Although he helped collect the oilcloth during the busy farming season, it was his father who took it away in the end, because studying was not only the trivial chores at home during the busy farming season, but also the father's. Mom basically doesn't let him touch her hands, and she doesn't have time to let him touch her hands.

If this is the case, some of the oilcloths inside might actually be usable, and Qin Shu also raised hope.

Qin Dagen here couldn't wait to open the oilcloth bag, but the outer layer disintegrated with just a little force.

"Ah..." Qin Lu and Qin Shu couldn't help shouting in disappointment.

"It's okay, the oilcloth daddy wrapped it tightly, maybe the contents inside are still good." Qin Dagen was not disappointed. In fact, he had expected it, but since he collected the things himself, he had great confidence that the contents inside should not be damaged.

Then as the first, second and third layers were peeled off, it was obvious that the inside was getting stronger and stronger. Qin Shu's eyes, including those of Qin Shu, became brighter and brighter, and his mood became better and better.

After everything was untied and unfolded, the remaining piece was actually more than three feet long. It was already an unexpected surprise, even more joyful than Qin Ming's discovery of a bowl.

Immediately afterwards, everyone moved faster, and more and more things were dug out from the mud in the house, including the two pine wooden boxes that Mrs. Li had given her as a dowry. Although they were completely covered with mud, they were indeed intact. Mrs. Li was very happy. I literally cried with joy.The box was well sealed. After opening it, I actually found a few pieces of clothes that were still completely soaked and two old quilts. Although they looked a little worn out, they could still be used as mattresses after drying. No one is stronger.

He spent the next few days digging through the mud at home and found a lot of things.

Li's dowry box, three plates, four bowls, a few pickle jars, and small clay pots. Although they are more or less damaged, they do not affect their use. Some rusty farm tools, and more The firewood and damaged furniture in the woodshed were not completely washed away.

The most surprising thing is that the cellar of the house was dug out.

Regarding this point, I have to praise Qin Dagen. No matter how tight the time was, he never forgot to tie up the cellar entrance with an oilcloth, press it down with a large stone slab, and then cover it with a thick layer of soil, in order to prevent the cellar entrance from getting wet. Flooding, I didn’t expect it to actually work. Although it was inevitably damp inside, there really was no water in it.

This was the happiest thing since coming down the mountain. After all, they were walking too fast and it was impossible to take away all the food at home. They couldn't take it away without large livestock.

So the family used the fastest speed to hide some of them in two large tanks in the cellar. Like the cellar entrance, they were tightly sealed with oilcloth and covered with big rocks and covered with wet soil.

Looking at these grains and seeds that were a little damp but not moldy, the Qin family finally felt that there was hope for the future, and the sorrow on the family's face finally disappeared.

If you have food, you won't be afraid of starving to death. If you have seeds, you won't be afraid of not growing food. Coupled with the wild vegetables they have dried from the mountains these days, and the dried fish pickled with the last bit of salt, life is finally looking forward to.

With food, the family is more motivated and can clean up the house faster. Although the roof is gone, the walls are still intact. It is not difficult to build a simple roof with a little repair and tidying as long as there is wood.

The family of five spent several days simply capping the three rooms of the main house with the wood collected and the dry grass collected from the good mud.

This scene is not uncommon in Shangqin Village. The returning villagers are working hard to find real objects, digging for excavable land, and building a place for themselves.

After these days, a few families came back intermittently, and then no one came back again.

Shangqin Village cannot be said to be a big village, but it is still a village with dozens of families. However, there are less than twenty families who have returned, and some are even alone.

Even if there is only one person, we still have to work hard to survive.

At this moment, it doesn't matter who owns whose house. As long as it's an ownerless house, almost all of it is occupied by people who have returned. After resting, they finally have a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

Although life is hard, you have to survive.

If you want to survive, you must have food to eat, and nothing more than planting food as soon as possible.

Whether you are powerful and wealthy, or you are an ordinary person who relies on wild vegetables for a living, the next most important thing is to grow food.

To grow food, you must have grain seeds. Not everyone is like Qin Dahe, who has the foresight to make sufficient preparations, but grain seeds have to be obtained, so everyone has to focus on the government.

I don’t know if it’s useful, but I have to go and have a look. Maybe I can meet a kind-hearted rich man selling grain or something.

So, almost as soon as they settled down, everyone seemed to have agreed to go to the town, as close to the city as possible.

(End of this chapter)