Hard work

Chapter 220 Disaster Victims
I don’t know if it’s really because of Changwu, the sky in Aozi Village is gloomy, black clouds have been pressing down all day, and the sky is very ugly. It’s the same during the day as at night, and I can’t see clearly around me at all. scenery.But even so, the rain still did not fall.

Lan Hua'er has been busy outside with Zang Lang all day, thinking that it's rare to have such good weather.Although there is not much sunshine in this weather, at least the rain has almost stopped. If this weather can continue until tomorrow, maybe the people in the village will be able to relax.

She looked at the field today. Although the field has been soaked, because Zang Lang is busy draining the accumulated water in the field every day, some crops still survived in the sky.

The situation in other fields in the village should be similar.

Those terraced fields on the mountainside had already dug drainage ditches, and the mountain was slanted, so there was no loss at all.Calculated in this way, the Zhao family still has more than enough to pay taxes this year.Maybe the food that I eat at home is tighter, but with the surplus food from the previous two years, life will not be difficult.

Most of the people in the village do not have mountain fields, but as long as there are crops alive in the fields, there is still hope.

Lan Hua'er was planning for the best, but she didn't expect Changwu to come back from the village chief not long after her home.Just as Changwu walked into the house, the rain outside started to crackle all of a sudden, and it was getting bigger and bigger, Lan Huaer was a little dazed seeing it.

Chang Wu was still smiling heartlessly beside him, "Hey, it seems that I'm lucky."

Lan Hua'er rolled her eyes beside her.She found that after Mr. Changwu appeared, she rolled her eyes more and more.

Although it would be a bit strange to say that this is a coincidence, Lan Huaer knows that some people may be born to attract rain everywhere, or just to attract sunny weather.Some people will rain when they go out, while others will go smoothly when they go out.It can't be said that there is any scientific reason, but it can't be said to be particularly supernatural.

Zang Lang has been busy working outside today, although he didn't get much rain, but in order to rush to dig drainage ditches in the field, Zang Lang has been busy working in the field all day, even with his physical strength, he was so tired that he was out of breath.Lan Hua'er felt sorry for him, so he didn't pay much attention to Chang Wu, and hurried to boil water and ginger soup for Zang Lang.

Zang Lang originally wanted to help Lan Hua'er with work, but Lan Hua'er pushed him into the room directly, and asked him to go back to soak his feet and wipe his body, and then come out to eat after cleaning up.Zang Lang still wanted to help, but was pushed back to the room by Lan Hua'er staring.

Chang Wu looked very interested, lying on the outside door frame, watching Lan Hua'er busy in the kitchen.

Lan Hua'er has never been in the mood to talk to him, and didn't know what to say to him, so she just stopped talking.Anyway, she also discovered that that gentleman is not a talkative person, even if he doesn't talk to him, he doesn't feel embarrassed at all, and she just goes about her own business.

Chang Wu had been looking outside for a long time before he told Lan Hua'er that the village head would send someone to deliver food, which was his usual food.

After Lan Hua'er finished cooking, Zang Lang also finished wiping his body.The three of them finished their dinner in a strangely quiet situation.After that night, Zang Lang became silent again in front of Chang Wu, and he didn't speak a word to Lan Hua'er during the whole meal.

On the contrary, Changwu looked up at Zang Lang, and shook his head slightly, "It's a pity. It looks good, but it's broken. But it's okay if it's broken, or it can't stand if it doesn't break. The original one is broken, let's start a new life."

Not knowing whether he really knew how to look at faces or was just trying to deceive people, Zang Lang nodded and looked a little shy and didn't speak.

After the rain stopped strangely for a day, it poured down again, as if it had never stopped.The only effect seems to be to make everyone rush to dig a drainage ditch for the crops in the field.

Lan Hua'er has never seen such weather in so many years since she traveled here.Not to mention her, the elderly in the village have never seen such rainfall.Everyone started to worry.

If at the beginning everyone was just worried that the heavy rain would make today's harvest bad, by now, everyone began to think that maybe there would be no harvest today.

This year is undoubtedly a year of major flood disasters.

Aozi Village, located halfway up the mountain, is relatively good.Because the terrain is relatively high, although many farmlands were flooded, at least the houses in the village were not flooded, and everyone could still live a stable life.Some low-lying villages outside are now completely submerged in the flood, but everyone in the village doesn't know it because they can't leave the village.

Even the village head became extremely worried.No one knows whether the imperial court will designate this year as a disaster year.If it is said that the land tax has to be paid on days like this year, there must not be many families in the village who can survive.

Just when the villagers in Aozi Village were worried about the weather, Aozi Village unexpectedly ushered in a group of victims.

If we say they are disaster victims, they are actually villagers from several other villages.Those villages are not very far from Aozi Village, only half a day and a day away. People from Aozi Village sometimes go there to visit relatives in the village, so most of them know each other.

Those villages were located at the foot of the mountain, and the continuous torrential rain completely flooded their villages.

"It's so miserable! The lowest place is almost flooded to the roof, and it's impossible to live there." Those villagers who traveled long distances from other villages cried and complained to the village chief of Aozi Village, "I can't live anymore. , please, let us live here."

They are all acquaintances, and they are begging to come to the door...

But in the current environment, no one can directly pick up someone to take care of.

Some villagers from other villages snatched some food from their homes when they fled. These people are easier to resettle, as long as they find a house with more vacant houses and let them live in it first.They all brought their own food, and they didn't need people from the village to give them more food.

But some people escaped from the flooded houses in the middle of the night.In a hurry, there was no time to grab many things. Some people even wore only a set of clothes on their bodies and were drenched all over. While trembling with their bodies, they begged Aozi Village to treat them. Take in.

"I've seen what it's like these years." The village chief looked at the victims surrounded by the victims while smoking a hookah, "I'm not the only one who can decide how to resettle you. I think it's good, you go to the village by yourself and find some familiar people to stay in. If the people in the village... After all, they all have to live, don't embarrass our village too much."

Those victims whose lips were bruised from the rain watched on the road as someone accidentally stepped on the wrong foot, fell into a ditch, and was swept away to unknown places by the surging flood from the mountain.

There was hopelessness in their eyes, some of them stayed in the yard of the village chief's house and refused to leave, while some began to walk slowly into the village, knocking on the door one by one.

Those disaster victims who brought their own food were quickly taken in. The price was that they had to pay their own labor and followed them to work in the fields every day.Even so, the victims are already very satisfied.Since their home was hit by torrential rain and floods two days ago, they have been wandering in the wild and drenched in the rain, without a place to rest.Now they can finally relax their nerves a little and get a good night's sleep.

As for those victims who didn't bring anything out, they couldn't even knock on the doors of the villagers in Aozi Village.

Lan Huaer looked out of the window at those desperate victims, but actually wanted to open the door to help them, or just provide them with a place to rest.But she knew that the situation at home no longer allowed her to do so.

Changwu is considered to be a person who brings his own dry food, and he can also get food supplies from the village head, so Lan Huaer doesn't need to worry about his food, and doesn't need to consider whether he should be driven away.

In addition to what he thought, the Zhao family now has three members.

Coupled with the continuous torrential rain in the sky, the people in the village were all isolated in the village. Apart from knowing some outside situations from the mouths of these victims, they had no way of understanding what happened in the outside world.She has to prepare for the change of flowers and dog eggs in the town, and one day she will come home because she can't live in the town anymore.

No one knows how long this torrential rain will last, and no one knows whether there will be a harvest this year.

She is a housekeeper now, so she must count food well.When she and Goudan were in the village before, if she accidentally ate too much, she could go to the village chief's house to get some food on credit.Now at this time, who dares to easily give you surplus food.Lan Hua'er reckoned that even if she took out cash at this moment, she would not be able to buy food.

Besides Gaihua and Goudan, she also had to think about Lan Du and Fang Ningai who had just arrived in the village. They probably didn't have much food in their homes.If she had to save her, Lan Hua'er would naturally choose to help someone she was familiar with.

Even Zang Lang said, don't open the door.No one knows what will happen to these victims after entering the door.When people can't survive, they can even eat people. Who can say what the disaster victims outside will do after they enter the house.

She could only say sorry in her heart to the victims who lingered outside, and closed the door tightly.

(End of this chapter)