Fortunately, the villagers still listened to the secretary's words and there was no need to explain them one by one. They all ran up the mountain one after another.
"Have you all gone up the mountain?" The old secretary shouted while counting people on the way up the mountain.
Ma Er: "Secretary, I've been responsible for notifying everyone!"
Dazhu and Qinglai also replied, "We have."
"Let's go!" The secretary breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that the village below was covered in rain, he waited for a few minutes but no one came up, so he called a few people to go up together.
"By the way, have you seen the Heping family go up?" After catching up with the main group, the old secretary saw the woman carrying a child and suddenly asked.
"No."
"Neither did I."
"Hey - have the Heping family gone up yet?" someone shouted in a loud voice.
Someone quickly responded: “I didn’t see it!”
The old secretary's heart skipped a beat. He turned around and started to walk downstairs, but Ma Er grabbed him and said, "Secretary, where are you going?"
He asked the question even though he knew the answer, but the rain was getting heavier and water was starting to flow down the mountain road. They couldn't delay any longer.
"I'll go look for Heping's family. We can't leave him behind!" The old secretary also knew that the situation was critical. He couldn't let others risk their lives to look for him, so he had to go by himself.
"Don't stop me. I'm an old man and I don't have many years left to live. You guys, hurry up and follow. If anyone falls behind, help them."
Everyone going up the mountain holds a small stick, and they go in groups of two, with the stick holding each other in the middle so that whoever slips can be pulled up.
The rocks and wood stakes on this mountain are very sharp, and falling from them is no joke.
"Ma Er! You're responsible for the rear guard. No one is allowed to fall behind. Do you understand?"
Ma Er and his companions didn't want to leave, but the old secretary pushed them away. Ma Er then rushed into the heavy rain and soon disappeared from sight.
Ma Er wiped the rain from his face and said hoarsely to the two men who were still motionless: "Let's go! The wife and the child are still upstairs. If we lose them, they will have no way to survive."
Just as they climbed halfway up the mountain, they heard a thunderous roar coming from the distant valley. Everyone was stunned. Such a loud noise could not be caused by a simple flood.
"Keep going up!" Ma Er found a slightly open place, climbed up the rock and looked down.
I saw a huge black torrent rushing forward like a beast, destroying all obstacles in its way with great power.
Wherever it went, whether it was houses or trees, they all disappeared without a trace.
In front of it, houses are as vulnerable as paper.
The home that originally belonged to them had long since turned dark, and there was no one on the mountain road below.
"dad......"
Ma Er shouted silently, wiped hard from his face what he didn't know was tears or rain, looked away, jumped off the rock and climbed up the mountain.
"Please lend me a hand—"
Ning Xi was carrying one on each side and had two children tied to her back. She was covered in blood and was so tired that she was about to collapse.
I finally looked up and saw someone, but just as I was about to shout, the person ran away.
"Hey - lend me a hand, big brother!"
Ning Xi had already fallen behind because of the grain collection. Logically, she should have been fully capable of catching up, but she saw a woman with two children sitting motionless at the door of her house.
After asking, she found out that the woman had twisted her foot when she ran back from the fields and now she couldn't walk at all.
Originally, she wanted to ask someone else to take care of the child, but when she saw everyone carrying so many bags and each family had children to take care of, she couldn't bring herself to do it.
Besides, if she couldn't survive, who would the child be with? Who would help her raise the child...
Ning Xi wanted to ask where the man had gone, but when she looked up and saw the words "Martyrs' Home" posted on the door, she was speechless.
She went straight into the house, found a quilt, wrapped the two children tightly, tied them to her back, then silently carried the woman and ran away.
It’s all thanks to the Daliwan I chose.
As a result, as soon as he left the village, he was almost tripped by someone on the ground.
It was a familiar face—the old secretary.
There is a language in the world called speechless. These two words are the most appropriate to describe Ning Xi's mood at that time.
You are so old, why do you come back to cause trouble?
In the end, she accepted her fate, carried the man on her back and ran away.
The result is what it is now - she is carrying four people, two adults and two children.
One to four is not just talk.
"?" Ma Er was at the end of the team and always felt something creepy behind him.
He subconsciously recalled some strange legends in the mountains. Could it be that his father had come looking for him?
"Dad, everyone has their own destiny. I still have to take care of our mom, and your grandson and granddaughter. Don't come looking for me..."
After saying this, he quickened his pace and climbed up the mountain as if it were flat ground. In just a few breaths, he caught up with the main force.
Dazhu turned around and said mysteriously, "Second Brother, why do I feel like someone is calling me from behind?"
Thinking that the old secretary would definitely not come back, he always felt a little scared.
"I heard it too." Ma Er nodded.
"What? You all heard it? I heard it too!" Qinglai said loudly.
At this moment, a dark shadow suddenly jumped up from below. The three men subconsciously turned around and ran, but were caught.
"Are you guys blind? Come and give me a hand!" Ning Xi was stunned. Her throat was about to break from shouting, but these people ran faster and faster.
Ma Er only reacted after seeing her face clearly.
"Aren't you the girl who rang the bell? Why are you lagging behind?" In fact, he wanted to ask, are you a human or a ghost...
Ning Xi saw the terrified look on his face and didn't know what he was thinking, so she slapped him twice without saying a word.
"Ouch...it hurts! Why did you hit me?"
"It's okay to feel pain! I'm a human being! The old secretary is down there, hurry up and carry him up, I can't carry him anymore."
Ning Xi saw that it was relatively safe up there, so she put the old secretary and the woman under a small tree and let the woman look after the unconscious old secretary.
She wanted to come up and ask for help, but no matter how strong she was, her physical strength was limited, and she could no longer struggle.
"What? My dad's down there?"
"Your father? He's the old secretary, and he has an older sister."
Ma Er: "The old secretary is my father."
When they were working, the old secretary was very old-fashioned and would not let Ma Er call him dad until he got home.
"Dazhu, Qinglai, let's go, my father is still alive! Come with me to pick him up."
Ma Er led his men down the road and soon saw two people under a tree on the side of the road.
His father was unconscious, but still alive.
"Sister-in-law, you..."
"I twisted my ankle and can't move." The woman lowered her head apologetically.
She didn't want to cause trouble for everyone at this time. They had all decided that the worst that could happen was death, but she didn't expect that the female comrade was so strong that she actually carried her up.
Still carrying the old secretary.
Ma Er nodded to show that he understood. He carried his father on his back and asked Qinglai to carry her. Dazhu watched from behind and could help if there was any accident.
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