Ning Xi rushed down the mountain like a monkey, ran to the eye-catching big bell, and rang it hard without even taking a breath.
“Bang—”
“Bang—”
The sound of the bells resounded throughout the area, with echoes echoing everywhere.
The children on the drying yard felt it even more deeply, and felt like their ears were going deaf.
A child covered his ears and said, "Sandan, is this guy crazy? The secretary said that ringing the bell without permission will result in a deduction of work points."
Sandan: "She's not from our commune, so who's deducting her work points?"
The boy called Sandan was a little older. After he said that, he was about to put down the tools in his hands to stop Ning Xi from ringing the bell.
At this time, a strong wind blew over again. He shook himself and raised his head to look into the distance.
The sky began to overcast, and a dark cloud covered the top of the distant mountain and was moving towards this side.
"Don't worry about her, hurry up and harvest the grain!" Sandan yelled, and the children in charge of drying the grain quickened their work.
After sweeping and shoveling, the golden millet poured into the rice basket.
The members working outside the village also heard the bell. The key point was that the bell kept ringing, making them panic and distracted, and they had no intention of working.
The scorekeeper found the brigade secretary who was hoeing the ground and said, "Why don't we go back and see what's going on? I don't think the sound is just a kid knocking around randomly."
"Secretary, let's go back. Look over there, it's getting dark!"
"Maybe the kids are ringing the bell to tell us to go back and collect food. Let's go back quickly!"
The secretary was still a little hesitant. In the morning, the pigs in the pig farm went crazy, broke open the door and ran out. He and the members worked hard for a whole morning to catch them all.
I've already wasted the whole morning. If I go back now, I'm sure I won't be able to complete today's production task.
A scream was heard in the distance: "Ah! Why is this rat running around——"
Someone shouted back, "Where's the mouse? Kill it and eat its meat!"
There are mostly field mice in this field, and they taste delicious!
Hearing the mice running around, the secretary's eyes became more serious. He looked up at the sky and inexplicably felt that a disaster was about to happen.
"Let's go! Go back!" He picked up the hoe, stood at the edge of the field and shouted. The members of the cooperative immediately straightened up and followed him back.
Ning Xi kept ringing the bell here, and soon some elderly people who had not left their homes came.
"Girl, why are you ringing the bell? Stop it now, or the secretary will scold you when he comes back!"
"Little girl, stop knocking! You've made me deaf—"
Ning Xi's throat was about to smoke, so she stopped and shouted, "Auntie, there's a mudslide upstream of the river. Tell each other quickly and pack up your things and run south to the mountains!"
"Huh? What? Loach? Where are the loaches?"
These old ladies are quite old and their hearing has deteriorated significantly.
Ning Xi yelled in a voice they could hear: "Mudslide! Flood! It can wash away everything, houses, trees! The flood is coming, do you hear me?"
An old lady heard it clearly and breathed a sigh of relief. She comforted her: "The flood will come, but there is a ditch behind the house. It won't wash away the house."
"That's right, little girl, don't be afraid. When it rains, come to my house and take shelter."
After she finished speaking, no one took her words seriously. Instead, they went to help the children who were harvesting grain on their crutches.
Ning Xi knew that she couldn't make her point, so she continued to ring the bell and waited for the person in charge to come back.
Unfortunately, the rain came even faster!
As he was speaking, raindrops as big as beans began to fall, and it hurt a little when they hit his skin. Ning Xi ignored these little things and continued to ring the bell.
She didn't stop until a large group of people working in the fields appeared at the entrance of the village.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the ground was full of mud and water. However, less than half of the millet in the drying yard had been harvested. Some of the children who were harvesting the millet actually started crying and worked while crying.
In the heavy rain, howling is just a powerless cry.
The adults came over to collect the food, and two older men who looked like leaders found Ning Xi who was resting next to the big clock.
"Little girl, what happened? You don't look like you are from our commune."
Ning Xi was exhausted and said it again while panting.
The old man's expression changed, and he asked seriously, "How did you find out, young comrade?"
"Wild boars and other animals were running around in the mountains. I had good eyesight and saw from the top of the mountain that the river had dried up. The sky upstream was completely dark!"
"The flow is cut off? Oh no! Ring the bell, quickly!" The old man said as he got up and started ringing the bell hard.
The busy people could only hear the sound and wondered why the secretary was still knocking when he came back?
Some people hesitated, put down their work, and ran towards the clock.
"Come quickly! Everyone, come here! The secretary wants to say something!"
The old secretary shouted at the top of his lungs, "Now, immediately, run up the mountain!
Everyone, notify each other. Ma Er, Da Zhu, Qing Lai, if you three live nearby, hurry back home and tell everyone, then notify everyone else one by one, making sure every one of them is notified."
"Secretary, what should we do with the food? We will starve to death without it..."
"Is it more important to starve to death in a few days, or to be drowned now?" the old secretary yelled back.
"Everyone, please take less stuff with you and run quickly, otherwise it will be too late!" He had heard from the older generation that mudslides can wash away everything, and they come just as fast.
At this moment, another group of people rushed over from the end of the village. Ning Xi looked and saw that it was Chunfen and the military wives running down the mountain.
"Why are you here?" Ning Xi coughed twice after she spoke. Her throat felt like it was cut by a knife and was burning.
"Drink some water." Wang Ying was still carrying a kettle on his body, and he quickly unscrewed the lid and handed it to Ning Xi.
"We were worried and wanted to help if we could."
Time is life. Without saying anything more, they immediately told the secretary and ran to the members' homes to help.
The rain was pouring down and no one had time to look for their raincoats. Everyone ran home, and Ning Xi was the slowest walker.
Taking advantage of the rain, she stored all the rice covered with plastic sheets on the drying yard into the space, and spent star coins to upgrade the space to 10 cubic meters.
The rice filled the entire space.
She just didn't care about the rest of them getting wet.
At the beginning, she confiscated the food. One reason was that it was more important to call people back as soon as possible, and the other was that the children were all there and she didn't have the opportunity.
No matter what time, Ning Xi attaches great importance to her own safety.
After collecting the food, Ning Xi also rushed to the end of the village. She had to go up the mountain from the end of the village. There were already some fast people pushing wheelbarrows up the mountain.
“Wuwuwu——”
"Wow--"
The sound of rain, the shouts of adults, the crying of children, and the calls of livestock all intertwined together, creating a chaotic scene.
Ning Xi saw Zhang Xingxian running out of a house, carrying a three or four-year-old child on his back and another in his arms.
Soon a woman came out carrying a child on her back, supporting an old lady, and ran up the mountain behind Zhang Xing.
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