There is a white bone spirit in the village

Chapter 23

Most of the ancestral halls are made of wood, and the weather was mostly sunny a few days ago. The century-old wood is very dry. As long as she sets a fire in front of it, the guards will go to put out the fire. Chai's knife chopped off the lock handle - it shouldn't be difficult, because it has been in disrepair for a long time, and even the ancestral hall is dilapidated, not to mention the utility room, just now she pretended to follow a few women who wanted to hear the voice inside Looking at the door, the doorknob was already crumbling without her breaking it.At that time, Chun Xing can escape from the field road behind the ancestral hall before the crowd arrives.

The rabbit is anxious and bites, Lin Jiao doesn't believe that Chun Xing won't run away red-eyed once she has the chance.Anyway, that's all I can do.

Lin Jiao made up her mind and went home, sharpened the chopping knife, took out the small jar of lamp oil at home, cut off one of her oldest clothes, and pressed it into the oil jar with only a layer of bottom left to wipe it. Erase, and prepare the flint sickle and ignited straw, just waiting for the night when no one is silent.How do you know that the sky does not follow people's wishes? In the middle of the night, there is a big thunder in the sky, and the dark clouds pile up from nowhere, as if they are covering the top of the people. It began to rain.

This rain kept falling, and when it was dawn, instead of stopping, God seemed to have let go of the gate of the Tianhe River, and it fell harder and harder. Looking around, only the sky and the earth tightly wrapped by the pouring rain are left in sight.

Lin Jiao's arson plan aborted naturally.But she soon discovered that after dawn, it was no longer the spring apricot that was supposed to be sunk in the pond, but the wheat on the ground that quickly grabbed the attention of the villagers.

Just in the mature season, I encountered such heavy rain.If it doesn't stop, not only will the harvest be delayed, but the roots will rot in the water, and a good harvest will be ruined.So at noon, not only did no one remember Chunxing, but the whole family put on coir raincoats and rushed to their fields to dig out the ridges to release water, or simply scooped them out with a ladle, and even several households connected to each other. The family fought on the spot because of the drainage problem.

Lin Jiao went to the ancestral hall in coir raincoat, and saw that Yang Tongbao, who was guarding her, had disappeared. Instead, Zhao Di hid in front of the leaky ancestral hall porch and shrank her neck. When she saw Lin Jiao coming, she stared and said, "Why are you here?" ?”

Lin Jiao ignored her and waded into the utility room at the back. Seeing that the lock was still hanging on the door, she pushed open the crack and looked in. She saw Chun Xing was leaning against the corner of the wall, and when she heard the door rattle, she immediately opened her eyes wide in horror. eyes, probably thought that she was going to take her to Shentang.

"Hey, what do you want to do? Want to let her escape? No way!"

Zhaodi had already chased after her stepping on the water, yelling at Lin Jiao.

Lin Jiao turned around, stared at Zhaodi, and suddenly laughed sinisterly.

Zhao Di was taken aback, and said, "What are you laughing at?"

Lin Jiao said: "I laugh at you for not knowing when you are about to die. Let me tell you, Aunt Shi's family already knew about your plan to hit her son, and she was so angry that she wanted to chop you with a kitchen knife, but I stopped you. But She was furious and said she was going to find Mrs. Yang to announce you and ask her to marry you to Huang Erpi as his stepmother! Aunt Shi's family, who is her son, your brain is covered in shit Did you dare to hit his idea? I heard that the place where the yellow skin was covered by clothes and could not see the meat was covered with rotten sores. When the weather was hot, worms crawled out. The old lady saw him eat worms before. , and told her to eat when she was hungry, so she was so scared that she ran away with others, you just wait for bad luck!"

Zhaodi's complexion changed drastically, she shook her hands, and her tongue grew louder: "Mom, I don't want to marry Huang Erpi! I'm going to ask Aunt Shi's, please don't tell grandpa, I will never marry you again. Don't dare!"

Lin Jiao said: "My aunt told me, no wonder you used to hang around her all the time when you had nothing to do. It turned out that it was her son's idea. If you dare to go now, she will kill you if she sees it!"

Zhaodi's eyes were red, and she choked up, "Then what should I do..."

Lin Jiao smiled and said: "You look pitiful. Well, I don't care about villains. Although you pushed me before and spit on my back, I don't care about it. When I go back and see Aunt Shi's, I will help you." You beg for mercy, saying that you don't mean anything to Qingshan at all, it's just others talking nonsense. Do you think it's okay?"

Zhao Di hurriedly nodded, and urged, "Sister Chunjiao, I know you are a good person, please hurry up and say something for me."

Lin Jiao hummed, glanced at the door behind her, and smacked her lips. Zhao Di immediately begged with a bitter face: "Sister Chunjiao, I know you and Sister Xing are on good terms, and you two came from the same village. I don't have the key, and even if I had one, I wouldn't dare to let her go. The Taigong will kill me!"

Lin Jiao said: "Who asked you to let her go. I just came here to bring her some food for the sake of old love. Pass it in and I'll leave."

Zhaodi hurriedly backed away and said nothing, Lin Jiao pushed the door open as wide as possible, and handed the two steamed buns she had brought to Chun Xing, who had already leaned over after hearing the sound, seeing her looking ashen and desperate in the door, she leaned over He said in a low voice: "It's raining so hard, it doesn't look like it will stop for a while, the whole village has gone to the fields, you should be fine for the time being. I'll see if I can let you out later, you escape to the county seat first You can hide here for a few days."

Chun Xing's eyes rolled, and there was a light of astonishment in an instant.Lin Jiao guessed that she didn't know that she had followed her last time, let alone the business between herself and Luo Hu, so she didn't say much, she quickly turned around, took a look at Zhaodi, and asked, "You're also watching at night." with?"

"If no one comes, it's me," Zhaodi said flatteringly, "Sister Chunjiao, don't forget what you promised me."

Lin Jiao hummed, turned and left.

By the evening of this day, the rain was still falling without any abatement, but no one was going to the fields to drain water.The Taohua River is rushing, looking like a surging river from a distance, while the water level of the Longshun River has soared, and it has begun to overflow the river bank and flood large areas of fields.In the wheat fields near Lin Jiao's house, the water has reached the level of the field ridges and has covered the roots of the wheat stalks.

Lin Jiao waded through the water up to her calf on a branch and walked home slowly. Along the way, she saw many villagers living in low-lying areas setting up high tables to pile up old food at home, women driving pigs and sheep, and children holding chickens and ducks. , everyone is frowning.As soon as this one cursed the horrible weather a few times, the other quickly booed and said, "I've never encountered such heavy rain in my life. How dare you be disrespectful, please God open your eyes!"

Lin Jiao's house is relatively high, so there was no water in it. When I opened the courtyard door and entered, I saw Nobu's head was dripping with water, his face was full of distress, and he was sitting with two frightened hens on one left and one on the right. On the threshold, there was a little food left in the house piled up on the table, and the heart was heavy, seeing this scene, he couldn't help but smiled wryly.

"Sister-in-law, I just went out and heard people say that people in the lowlands have flooded their homes, so we should hurry up and pile up our things!"

Hearing Lin Jiao's footsteps, Neng Wu stood up quickly and said nervously.

Lin Jiao told him to put down the hen, and took a cloth towel to wipe off the water on his head and face, and said, "Don't worry, my sister-in-law won't sleep at night, just wait for the rain to stop."

The sky was getting dark gradually, and the torrential rain that had been raining for almost a day and night finally subsided, but before she had time to be happy, Lin Jiao immediately discovered another bad thing, the water level did not slow down as the rain decreased. Instead, it was rising rapidly, and had already flooded half of her yard.

Due to the sensitivity of her previous career, such an abnormality aroused her doubts.In such a situation, either the rainwater gathered on the mountain is still flowing to the low-lying areas, or there are some water storage works nearby, and now there is such a sudden rainstorm in decades, the water level is overflowing.If it's the former, it's okay, but if it's the latter, if the fortifications fall into disrepair for a long time and cannot withstand the flood and collapse, the consequences will be extremely serious.

Lin Jiao hurriedly asked Nengwu: "Awu, is there a reservoir in this area?"

Nengwu was startled: "Reservoir?"

"It's a big pond that can store water, and it can release water to irrigate the fields when there's a drought!" Lin Jiao hurriedly added.

Neng Wu thought for a while and said, "Sister-in-law, I remember when you asked me that. There is such a place in Yanhuipi a few miles away. I just heard that I was abandoned in my great-grandfather's generation. , The later county magistrates didn’t care about it. It’s been 50 or [-] years now? I remember that when I was young, there was a drought one year, and my brother went there with my father to fetch water. There is no water in other places. Only there is water at the bottom of the pit. Why are you asking this, sister-in-law?"

Lin Jiao's complexion changed slightly, and she said, "Awu, wait for me at home, don't go anywhere, I'll go out for a while, and I'll be right back!" After finishing speaking, she didn't even have time to put on the coir raincoat, picked up the branch just now and rushed out of the house .

The water on the village road was so deep that it did not reach Lin Jiao's knees. Lin Jiao took advantage of the faint skylight and leaned on a branch to go to the Stone Widow's house. When she met someone, she shouted, "Go back to half a moon." Go up the slope, there may be mountain torrents!" Stumbling to Widow Shi's house, she saw that her house was flooded with gold, and Widow Stone was driving pigs to her kang.Seeing Lin Jiao approaching, she immediately said, "A-Jiao, you are still in the mood to go shopping! Fortunately, the rain is about to be harvested, if you don't, I'm afraid you'll drive the pigs off the roof!"

Panting, Lin Jiao said, "Auntie, I'm useless to talk, everyone believes you. Tell everyone quickly that there may be a mountain torrent when the wild goose returns to Po, and tell everyone to hide on Banyuepo for the night first. If it's all right, Come back tomorrow!"

Widow Stone looked at her in surprise and said, "Gillian, are you confused? What nonsense are you talking about? Isn't this rain about to stop? The slope is so bare that there is no shelter from the wind and rain. How can you tell everyone to stay overnight? What about the food, pigs, and cows at home?"

Lin Jiao said anxiously: "Auntie, how dare I make fun of this? You see, the rain has lightened, but the water is still rising. Don't be afraid of [-], just in case. Nothing compares to human life. It's best to be okay, and it's too late Yes! Hurry up and go!" As he spoke, he dragged the stone widow out.

"Hey, how do you know!" Widow Stone yelled.

"I just took a nap at home and saw my mother-in-law who has gone. She told me! She also asked me to talk to you. If I don't tell what happened, she will come to you and me!"

Widow Shi had already been dragged out of the yard by Lin Jiao. Hearing what she said, oh my god, "Wait, I'll get a pot lid shovel to knock it on. It's no use shouting!"

(End of this chapter)