The rural life of a peasant girl

Chapter 126
"What a big water!" Suho shouted.

Su Ling also felt something, but fortunately no disaster was caused!What a stroke of luck.

As the saying goes, fire and water are ruthless. Both water and fire are terrifying, but no one can deny that they are also beautiful and have great charms, especially for human beings.Almost everyone has the experience of playing with fire or water when they were young. Even if they are warned by adults that it is dangerous and should not be touched, children cannot resist the attraction.

Beautiful and dangerous things often have a great attraction for human beings.Just like the river flowing in front of you, although the river is muddy, the rolling waves are also charming.

Su Ling looked upstream, and the first thing he saw was the stone bridge where the official road crossed the river.That bridge is a flood bridge, and the river has already submerged the bridge deck. Only by observing the slightly different water waves can we judge the location of the bridge.

Further upstream, because no embankment was built, the river surface was scoured extremely wide.On the river bank in twos and threes are the children of the village.Everyone rolled up their trouser legs, some children only wore straw hats on top of their heads, and some even had their heads bare, without umbrellas.There is no coir raincoat on his body, just letting the scattered raindrops hit his head and body.Some brave children even went into the water to test the depth of the river.

Huaxi Village has a radius of hundreds of miles.There are no big rivers, and the children can only get a little taste of the charm of the big river going east through the flooded river.

Su Ling withdrew his gaze, lowered his head, and looked at a certain place on the river without moving.After a while, Su Ling felt that the river was still, but she was moving.

Su Ling secretly smiled.Just look up.Like just now, if she persisted for a while longer, she would definitely faint.And this kind of small game is also loved by the children of the farmers.Sometimes, they will gather together.Standing in the river, it is a competition who can last the longest.There is also a game that is to float on the water, using stones to see who can play more. When Su Ling is bored by himself, he will bring Su Ho and the others out to play the game after dinner.

They can play such a simple game for most of the day without getting bored at all, instead enjoying themselves very much.

"Our father is back." At this moment, Su Ho called out to the other side of the river.

Su Ling followed Su Ho's gaze and looked over.I saw Father Su wearing a straw hat on his head, walking across the river along the embankment towards the Manshui Bridge on the official road.

As soon as the rain started to lighten just now, Su's father came out and took a few long-term workers to check the fish pond and lotus pond.The water in the fish pond and lotus pond also rose, so they took advantage of it.Use buckets to scoop water out. Although there is an embankment, you are not afraid that the fish ponds and lotus ponds will be flooded by the river water, and you are also afraid that the water in the lotus ponds and fish ponds will overflow and the fish inside will swim out.

Father Su has just finished his work and is walking home.

On the other side of the river, the water in the fish pond and lotus pond was almost full, and the water surface became a little cloudy.The situation in the fish pond cannot be seen clearly here, but the situation on the other side of the lotus pond can be clearly seen.

Many lotus leaves and flowers were flooded, and some were interrupted by wind and rain, but the situation did not seem to be serious. There were still a few long-term laborers scooping water out with buckets.

At this time, Father Su came back by wading through the water on the Manshui bridge.

"Father, how are you doing?" Su Ling rushed up to meet her and asked.

"It should be fine." Father Su said.

Su Ling took a look at Su's father's expression, believed it, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief.

A few people walked home.

Su's father said that he had chatted with two long-term workers who were in charge of the fish pond and lotus pond just now, and also asked some old farmers in the village how to do it.

"This rain is just like this, and it won't be too big if it rains again. Our river embankment is well repaired, so it's safe."

Sure enough, as Father Su said, the rain continued for a while, and the sky gradually cleared up. In the evening, a rainbow appeared in the sky.

It's really a rainbow, Su Ling's eyes widened.In her previous life, except for the few years when she was a child, it seemed that she had never seen such a beautiful rainbow.No, to be precise, even the less beautiful rainbows have never been seen again.No way, the air pollution is too serious.

Su Ho raised her hand and was about to point to the rainbow to speak, but her hand was photographed by Su's mother beside her.

"Don't point your fingers at that." Mother Su said.

Su Ho stuck out his tongue, and obediently put away his hands.

It seems that there is such an old custom, saying that you should not point your finger at the rainbow after the rain, otherwise bad things will happen.There are also many people who say that the little finger of the rainbow will bend when they talk about it. No one can tell the origin of this old order. Everyone only remembers this taboo.

After the storm, the sky will be clearer.This statement is true not only figuratively, but also in nature.

The day after the rain stopped, it was a bright and sunny day.

Su Ling went out again and came to the riverside.After only one night, the water surface was still very wide, and the water level didn't drop much, but it lost the power of yesterday's rolling waves, and the water flow became calmer.

On the official road, there are already pedestrians, carriages and horses walking around.The Manshui Bridge still hasn’t come out of the water, and the drivers who drive the car will jump out of the car when they walk to the river. First, they will ask the people next to them whether the bridge can be walked, and then they have to go into the water to try it out. Drive the car across the bridge.

Even so, the handlebar style did not dare to sit on the shaft of the cart, but carefully led the way by pulling the reins of the mule and horse in front, for fear that if one accidentally stepped on it, it would fall into the river.

Su Ling originally planned to cross the bridge and visit the fish pond and lotus pond, but Su's father and Su's mother firmly stopped him.

"If your father brings people over there, you should stay at home. We also have a lot of work at home, so you can help out at home." In fact, Su Ling can't be used to do the work at home!It's just that Su's mother was worried that Su Ling would find an excuse, and Su Ling knew it well, so she didn't insist on going there.

There are also flowers, trees, fruits and vegetables that have been knocked down and bent by wind and rain in their yard, vegetable garden, and the entire manor, and these must be cleaned up.The Su family's yard is not like other rich and noble families. There are some flowers and plants in it, but very few. Su's mother still thinks that some fruits and vegetables are more realistic, and Su Ling has no objection to this.

When I woke up in the morning, I still felt that the air was full of humidity. After noon, the moisture seemed to be absorbed by the sun, but the ground was still wet.

Aunt Liu took a few little maids and took the Malan rope and the prepared wooden sticks, straightened the squashed loofahs and wax gourds, and tied them to the supporting wooden sticks.Don't look at some of these melon seedlings looking miserable now, they will be able to stand up again in a short time without delaying anything.

(End of this chapter)