Everyone slept soundly that night. Lin Xiazhu was woken up by Xiao An. Xiao An got up to go to the toilet and found something was wrong. When she went downstairs, she found that the shop was flooded.
So he immediately ran upstairs to call Lin Xiazhu, "Sister Xiazhu, there's a flood! Everything's submerged..."
Lin Xiazhu, who was still dreaming, was stunned for a moment when she heard the shout. She immediately jumped out of bed, rushed out of the room, and shouted loudly, "Wake up, everyone! Get up and move your things!"
It was Lin Xiazhu's roar that woke up most of the shop owners in the town. When they got up and saw that their shops were flooded, they started making a huge fuss. Everyone woke up and began to salvage their belongings.
Houses on both sides of the river that are close to the river were basically flooded. The town's streets are also close to the river, which is why they were flooded. Houses on higher ground were not affected.
However, there are still many adobe houses, and many of them are built at the foot of the mountain. The continuous rain caused landslides, and these adobe houses suffered.
This flood had a relatively severe impact, with many people's houses damaged by landslides, but fortunately there were no casualties.
"The items on the shelves are okay, but everything on the floor is flooded and will probably have to be thrown away." Lin Xiazhu looked pained; it was all money at stake. She regretted opening a grocery store and instead selling snacks, where flooded tables and chairs wouldn't have affected her at all.
Finally, after packing everything up and moving it to the second floor, everyone was trapped upstairs until 10 a.m. the next day when the river receded.
At this moment, Yan Xin subtly spoke to Lin Xiazhu, "Speaking of which, you didn't experience any of this in your past life, so how come you didn't have any sense of vigilance?"
As someone who has been reborn, how could she not even remember this little bit of prophetic ability, or was she deliberately not saying it?
"What are you guessing? I've never experienced a flood, at least not during the years I lived in town." Otherwise, how could she not have prepared?
"Okay, okay, don't be so gloomy. Although the goods were damaged, it's not too serious, less than two thousand yuan, right?" Yan Xin saw that she had a tense face and began to comfort her.
“You’ve lived here for several years, you must know the value of two thousand yuan now, which is equivalent to tens of thousands in the future.” Lin Xiazhu glared at her, annoyed.
"...What's done is done, so we have to think positively. The river has receded now, so everything's alright." Yan Xin touched the tip of her nose, and seeing that she was ignoring her, she stopped trying to make things awkward and went downstairs.
After the flood, families whose houses were damaged had to start building new ones. Some young people went out to work and sent their wages back home, so they mostly built brick houses. However, some families with poorer conditions built mud houses.
Lin Xiazhu's new house was unaffected, but a lot of goods were lost, especially a sack of peppercorns that was flooded, which was the biggest loss.
If a shrewd businessman were to do that, he could dry the waterlogged peppers in the sun and then sell them. However, Lin Xiazhu is clearly a conscientious businessman and would not do such a thing. She would rather earn less than sell such inferior products.
However, she felt a lot of resentment inside, and she couldn't feel at ease unless she vented it, so she bought several fishing nets and started fishing every day when the weather was good.
There were so many fish in the river in the summer, and since she was on summer vacation, she put all her effort into fishing on this side of the river. She cut down a lot of bamboo and nailed it together to make a bamboo raft. Every day, she would row the bamboo raft and diligently fish.
They caught quite a few fish for her, two small ones and one big one. She could catch two or three big fish a day, but she caught a lot of small fish, getting at least a bucketful every day.
If someone wanted them, they would sell them; if they couldn't be sold, they would eat them themselves. The big fish were used to make soup, and the small fish were mixed with flour and fried. However, because they were fishing so frequently, they couldn't keep up with the demand, so Lin Xiazhu dried the fish.
In short, all the fish in the river were afraid of her this summer. What did it have to do with them? When it rains and floods, can the fish control it?
Before they knew it, it was the end of the year again. The houses in the county town were all built, and they were just waiting to be renovated next year. Lin Xiazhu paid for the construction of the houses. The money earned from the grocery store and clothing store had not been touched. It was only a little over 10,000 yuan, which was not enough to build four buildings.
When Yan Xin found out, she became anxious. "What do you mean I didn't contribute a single penny to the construction of the house? I didn't get a share of the apartment in the county town. I've been helping out at the shop, which is always busy. You're the one who usually takes care of everything, except for the money from the clothing store, which I'm saving. You're saying I didn't spend any money?"
"Don't get excited. The land and buildings are all mine. You didn't get any of them to begin with. You've definitely put in a lot of effort running the shop, and I'm not denying that. So when we move to the county town, we'll definitely give you a place to live, and we can also give you a smaller shop to continue running your business."
She specifically reminded her not to get her hands on the house, because it was impossible to move to the county town for the time being.
"We agreed to move to the county town once the house was built, how can you go back on your word?" Yan Xin cried in anger.
"No, you misunderstood. What I said before was that I would have to wait a few years, until I graduated from elementary school, and only if I could pass the entrance exam for the junior high school in the county. If I didn't pass, then I would have to go to the county to study for high school. Don't worry, I will definitely pass the high school entrance exam."
Yan Xin: "..." What use is she if she can't even get into a top-tier junior high school? She has to get in.
"You can ask me anything you don't understand." She graduated from a prestigious university; she doesn't believe she can't teach an elementary school student.
"Didn't you attend night school in your past life? You were a college student, so how could you not be confident about getting into a junior high school in a county town?" Unbelievable.
Lin Xiazhu glanced at her indifferently, "Isn't it enough that I've already returned it to the teacher?"
Actually, she was always first in her grade, and occasionally second, because Xiao An would sometimes take her first place, which made her quite frustrated.
Well, actually she was confident. She was worried that Chacha wouldn't pass the exam, so she was still hesitating. What if she and Xiao An graduated first, and Chacha didn't pass the exam?
Of course, if you have a house in the county town and move your household registration there, you can still go to junior high school in the county town. However, Chacha doesn't seem to want to go to school in the county town.
"Actually, I wanted to go to the county town, where the teaching quality is definitely better than in the town, but Chacha said she didn't want to go to the county town." Lin Xiazhu told Yan Xin about this.
Yan Xin then went to talk to Lin Chacha, and took her upstairs to her room to talk alone. There were two chairs in Yan Xin's room, and after sitting down, Yan Xin asked directly.
"Chacha, the house in the county town has been built. We can move in next year after it's renovated. You've been to the county town before. It's much better than the town. You can earn more money there. Others want to go but don't have the chance..." Yan Xin listed a bunch of benefits of going to the county town, hoping that Lin Chacha wouldn't hold her back in this matter.
"The county town is actually quite chaotic, not as quiet as the town. There are karaoke bars and dance halls in the county town, and a lot of hooligans. Fights often break out." This is what Zhang Yu and his brothers told me.
Karaoke is a place for singing. Dance halls have singers, but they are a mixed bag of people and are not good places. Besides, if you go to the county town, you can't go into the mountains. If you don't go into the mountains, how can you dig for ginseng? If you don't sell ginseng, how can you build houses?
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