Chapter 72: The Intelligent Educated Youth 6
In the fields, because the team leader said "it feels like it's going to rain", everyone worked hard to move the grain into the granary.
It’s the last moment of my life. I can’t let you down at this critical moment.
Therefore, even though they witnessed the acrobatic performance, the three or five young men were only curious for a moment, and their minds soon became focused on the food.
We are all people who have experienced the three-year □□. These days, nothing is more important than food.
Even when Yan Xia was stunned, Tan Dazhi, who had already walked away with the sack on his shoulder, turned around and shouted, "Young educated youth, hurry up and move it!"
Yan Xia picked up the big sack that had fallen on the ground, and quickly caught up with the main force with his father and elder brother.
As for the matter of rain, others just guessed based on experience, but he now knew for sure that it was really about to rain.
That is, knowing this matter comes at a high cost.
Although Yan Xia's steps seemed to be quite fast, his thoughts had actually started to go astray.
Look at what he said at that time...Don't put everything on your head, something will happen sooner or later. Sure enough, his worries were not wrong.
Putting socks and clothes on your head is fine, but how can you put something weighing dozens of kilograms on your head? !
Thinking of this, Yan Xia moved his neck imperceptibly, and the sound of "click" seemed to still echo in his ears.
Fortunately, his elder brother reacted in time, otherwise he would have to die in public and die before completing half of the mission.
But if this is the case, can they legitimately change the world? ?
Um? ?
If you think about it this way, it doesn't seem to be impossible.
However, when Yan Xia felt the weight on his shoulders, this idea was instantly dispelled.
It would be a bit of a loss to just leave like this. They have all survived the most difficult days. Now they have to start all over again in another world. It is not worth it.
Besides, who knows what the new world is like? What if the conditions are worse than here? Wouldn’t that be like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons?
After thinking it through, Yan Xia's distorted thoughts instantly returned to normal.
He clearly remembered that he had put forward suggestions for revisions after the first world ended.
Considering that not all worlds in the Three Thousand Worlds have the weather forecast function, this setting can be retained, but it needs to be improved.
Brother Fo seemed to have told him at that time that he was already considering how to improve it.
Judging from the current situation, this function has clearly not been modified properly, but it was still installed.
When Yan Xia deeply felt that the always rigorous Brother Fo could also be unreliable one day, in a place where the three of them, father and son, could not see.
At the same time, Su Wenyin's arms were a little out of control. When she was putting grain into the sacks, she suddenly raised the shovel in her hand above her head and did not put it down for several seconds.
Su Wenyin: “…………”
Are you using a shovel to block the rain because you are afraid that lightning won't strike you?
Next to Su Wenyin, Ji Lanhui looked at the man for several seconds without making any move, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Su Wenyin was silent for two seconds: "My arm is cramping."
Ji Lanhui stepped forward and pinched him twice, but her expression was hesitant, as if she wanted to say something...
If you didn't lift it so high, your arms wouldn't cramp.
Su Wenyin understood it, but couldn't explain it.
Fortunately, this function is just a reminder and lasts for a relatively short time. After Ji Lanhui helped to pinch it a few times, Su Wenyin successfully put her arm down.
Not caring about the irrationality of this function, Su Wenyin swung the shovel so fast that sparks were almost flying. She had already given a warning, which meant that the rain was bound to fall.
From this perspective, although this function is a bit stupid, it is still very useful.
Although Yan Xia and her son are not in the same place, their ideas are in sync... This setting can be retained, but it needs to be improved.
Of course, this is all a matter for the future. Right now, the operation to harvest grain before the rain is proceeding rapidly.
Su Wenyin's movements, which were so fast that they could send sparks flying from the shovel, affected the people nearby, and a sense of tension came over them.
On the other side, Yan Xia and his team also moved quickly.
Just like that, some people were responsible for loading, some were responsible for carrying, and in the rush, it seemed a bit chaotic.
Before long, the sense of chaos became even more obvious, because just now, the sky had changed visibly.
The sun hid in the clouds, and the clouds turned gray in a short while.
At this time, no one said that it would not rain. In fact, no one had time to speak.
One by one, they were walking fast but now they were running, for fear that the rain would fall before the food was harvested.
Fortunately, Tan Kangshun has been the team leader for so many years and is still very capable. He discovered the problem early and took action early.
Only after all the grain had been stored in the warehouse did the rain begin to fall heavily.
We had already been doing heavy physical labor for several days, and this happened at the last minute. Everyone's tense nerves were broken at once, and they were so exhausted that they were huddled under the eaves.
"This is such a lousy weather, my legs are almost broken from running."
"Hahaha, Dazhuzi, you can't do this. My legs are still strong."
"If you have the strength, sit on the ground and don't move."
"You know what, this rain is quite cool."
"I don't know if other teams have finished collecting the crops. It will be difficult to deal with them if they are soaked in water."
"Oh, God is so cruel. Why is it raining at this time?"
The rain was getting heavier and heavier. Everyone was gathered under the nearest eaves talking and there was no way to go out.
Yan Xia and his two sons were also submerged in the crowd. Ms. Su was with a few female educated youth and aunts and was not around. The family could only talk to each other in their own sea of consciousness.
Only then did Ms. Su realize that her son had lost his life.
For a moment, Su Wenyin's emotion of not knowing what to say was mixed with a bit of relief. Fortunately, she was holding a shovel in her hand at the time. If she had put a sack on herself, she wouldn't know how to explain it to others.
Yan Xia also felt that although this function was much better than the weather forecast, it also had many hidden dangers. Since he had nothing else to do, he immediately went to find Brother Fo.
[Another person]: "Brother, have you ever tried to carry a sack weighing dozens of kilograms on your head?"
Some people's words were emotional and their meanings were not fully conveyed, which caused Brother Fo to reply quickly but express his incomprehension.
【Namo Amitabha】: "A new way to exercise?"
【Namo Amitabha】: "Respect and blessing."
Yan Xia: “………………”
The young man didn't notice what happened and he was very sincere.
Yan Xia was silent for two seconds and then switched to voice. The sixty-second voice package contained his short life in this world.
If one life counts as one lifetime.
Brother Fo, who finally understood the situation, was silent for a long time. He probably didn't expect that there was such a story behind lifting the sack.
Under the eaves, Yan Xia waited and waited until Brother Fo came back after investigation and said that this function was indeed not done well. When the body was assembled before, there were many functions set up, and it is inevitable that there will be omissions in technological operations, which led to the addition of settings that should not exist in this world.
Yan Xia was actually just asking this question out of boredom. Generally speaking, it's not a big problem, as you can always restart no matter how many times you die.
After Yan Xia chatted with Brother Fo for a while about the progress of improving this function, the rain outside became a little lighter.
Although they didn't stop, it was not impossible to run home quickly, and many people had already done so.
Everyone was already exhausted after a whole afternoon and wanted to go home to take a shower and have a good meal instead of hiding under the eaves with their neighbors to avoid the rain.
Besides, no one knew when the rain would stop, so as soon as it became a little lighter, the people around Yan Xia ran into the rain in twos and threes, heading straight towards their homes.
Next to Yan Xia, Xiang Ruicong and others were also discussing returning to the educated youth camp. Yan Xia looked left and right and asked his father and eldest brother: "Shall we go?"
I've walked a bit, and now the space under the eaves is quite spacious.
Yan Feiyue: "Let's go."
The father and his two sons were running in the drizzle. They had only been walking for a while when Ms. Su called out from behind: "Wait for me."
Su Wenyin ran while muttering, "What a horrible weather!"
The biggest disadvantage of rainy days in the countryside is that there are dirt roads everywhere. Every step you take will leave a bunch of mud spots flying everywhere, and there are potholes and small puddles everywhere.
They lived far away, at the foot of a remote mountain.
When the family returned home, their pants were in a terrible state and their calves looked as if they had rolled in mud.
Su Wenyin took a towel and said, "Let's boil some water and take a bath first."
By the time I finished washing, dinner was not ready yet, the rain started to get heavier and heavier, and the rain hit the leaves outside, making a crackling sound. It was a perfect time for sleeping.
We have just finished the autumn harvest and don’t have to go to work tomorrow.
While eating, Su Wenyin's tone was filled with extreme fatigue: "I feel like I can sleep until tomorrow afternoon, and I don't have to cook for myself in the morning."
Yan Feiyue followed closely behind: "You don't have to do mine."
Yan Xia looked at his elder brother, and his usually serious face showed a bit of vicissitudes.
Before Yan Ji could speak, Yan Xia said, "I understand. Whoever is hungry can do it themselves."
After he restarted, he had a brand new body again. The fatigue he felt in the past few days was much less, and he was not as tired as the other three people in the family.
But in this kind of horrible weather, there is nothing to do, it is really suitable for sleeping.
Unfortunately, the imagined scene of sleeping until the afternoon did not happen.
Midnight.
Yan Xia vaguely felt as if he was in a cradle, someone was rocking him, as if they were trying to rock him to Grandma's Bridge, right...
Why is there water under Grandma’s Bridge?
The water was dripping on his face. Yan Xia thought inappropriately that the boatman was a bit unqualified. The water was splashing on his face, and there was a tendency for it to get more and more, as if he was going to wash his face.
Yan Xia woke up with a start. There was a faint light coming from the darkness. Yan Xia blinked and felt that the boatman looked familiar. He looked exactly like his eldest brother.
Seeing that the man finally opened his eyes, Yan Ji said in a deep voice: "Get up, the roof is leaking."
Yan Xia: “???”
“!!!!”
Yan Xia's hazy eyes suddenly cleared up, and he sat up and looked...
My goodness, not only was the roof leaking, but it was also leaking onto his face. There was already a wet spot next to his pillow.
Not only was it leaking here, but it was also leaking at the end of his elder brother's bed. The quilt had been lifted up to reveal a basin, and it was obvious that he had been up for a while.
Yan Xia grabbed a piece of clothing and put it on, then got out of bed and asked, "When did it leak? There's no movement from mom and the others?"
As for when the rain would leak, Yan Ji was also woken up by the rain in the middle of the night, so he had no idea.
Yan Ji selectively answered: "No."
There was indeed no movement in the next room, so there should be no leak.
Yan Xia sighed, "You really know how to stir up trouble. You won't leak it sooner or later."
You disturb people's dreams in the middle of the night, may you be struck by lightning?
Just as Yan Xia was thinking this, there were two sudden "boom" sounds outside, a white light flashed through the window, thunder and lightning appeared together, sounding a bit scary.
Yan Xia: “…………”
What's going on? It's raining so hard that his bed is flooded, and he can't say a word? !
Yan Xia shut up, took the flashlight from his brother and shone it onto the roof.
The house has been uninhabited for many years, so there are many problems. When I cleaned it before, I didn't bother to clean the roof, so problems arose when it rained.
Water dripped into the basin, creating a small splash. After just a short while, the splash was growing bigger and bigger.
This means that I won’t be able to sleep tonight if it’s not fixed.
There were not many new tiles, so we had to make do with wooden boards and plastic wrap.
Yan Xia saw that his brother had already taken out the things he needed, and was ready to go out with them in his arms.
Yan Xia took two steps forward, lent a hand, and put the flashlight in Yan Ji's hand: "I'll go up."
It was raining heavily and there was thunder outside. If something happened to his brother, it would be a real disaster.
He is different, restarting is everything.
Yan Ji didn't try to be brave and turned around to move the ladder.
While the two brothers were having a restless night on this rainy night, in the Pingtan Brigade granary, the people responsible for guarding the warehouse tonight were Hu Dafeng, the son of the brigade secretary Hu Weizhi, and Li Xingchang, the youngest son of Old Man Li who was a few years younger than him.
After the autumn harvest every year, before the public grain was handed in and distributed, the brigade would send people to stand guard at night to guard the granary to prevent those with dirty hands from touching the grain.
Although stealing food is a serious crime these days and those caught will be sent to a farm for forced labor, in this extremely hard time when people can barely get enough to eat, there will always be people who want to get something for nothing and thus take risks.
There is a small house in the corner of the warehouse. There is nothing inside, just a small bed and a small table. People can lie down for a while, but it is not very comfortable.
Hu Dafeng and Li Xingchang didn't turn on the lights and talked in the dark, but even if they had a lot to say, they finished it by midnight.
The small room was very quiet at this moment, with only the sound of rain outside coming in. Hu Dafeng was bored and lay down at the door to look outside, but he couldn't see anything clearly. He was bored and started to count the raindrops by listening to the sound. As a result, at this moment, a snoring sound was heard behind him.
Hu Dafeng turned around and slapped the person behind him on the thigh. The snoring stopped abruptly. Li Xingchang was startled: "What's wrong, Brother Dafeng?"
Hu Dafeng: "I asked you to guard the warehouse, but you came here to sleep."
Li Xingchang touched his head, and a look of embarrassment appeared on his dark face in the darkness: "I'm just...too tired. I can't hold it anymore, so I'll just take a nap for a while."
Hu Dafeng: "When the sun rises, you can go home and take a nap as much as you want. Hold on now! It's raining so hard. Don't let people come and move the food away while you're still sleeping soundly."
Li Xingchang sat up, his tone showing the indifference of a young man, and hesitantly said, "It can't be possible? It's raining so hard, who will come? Brother Dafeng, you are just too nervous. I just closed my eyes and I am very energetic now. How about you close your eyes for a while and I will watch over you?"
Hu Dafeng: "What the hell! The more rainy it is, the more careful you have to be. Have you forgotten that last year the Dongfeng Brigade had hundreds of kilograms of goods stolen on a rainy day?"
The Dongfeng Battalion is quite far away from the Pingtan Battalion, but the loss of food is a big deal, so they still heard about it.
Speaking of this, there was clearly no one around, but the two of them spoke inexplicably softer voices.
Li Xingchang approached Hu Dafeng and said angrily, "They didn't catch anyone. I heard someone say that... the people guarding the warehouse stole the goods."
Hu Dafeng glanced at him and said, "Don't tell anyone about this. Didn't you hear that the two men guarding the warehouse almost hit their heads against the wall to prove their innocence?"
Li Xingchang also realized that he had said something wrong and smiled awkwardly: "I know, I was just talking to my brother."
"Tell me, who is so bold? Several hundred kilograms is enough for a person to eat for a year."
Hu Dafeng: "Who knows? Didn't the Dongfeng Squadron find out that there was more than one person?"
"Be smarter and stop squinting."
Li Xingchang gathered his clothes and said, "I know you're smart, brother. It's just that in this awful weather, it would be a pity not to use it to sleep. The hens at home are probably asleep, and there's probably no one awake right now."
What Li Xingchang and Hu Dafeng didn't know was that there were actually people who stayed up late at night on rainy days.
At the foot of the mountain, this remote place seems even quieter at night.
Yan Xia repaired the roof in the rain for a long time, and the noise of him and his brother was drowned out by the sound of rain.
On the small path not far from the house, three figures were moving stealthily.
One of the men, who had a pointed chin and was a bit short, slipped and fell to the ground, and couldn't help but shout.
The man standing in front of him shouted angrily: "You're going to die! Why are you shouting?!"
The man with the pointed chin and monkey cheeks got up and cursed, "Damn it, you fell on your butt and didn't say a word?!"
The man standing in front of him wanted to say something, but was stopped by the person at the back.
The man pulled the man with the pointed chin and monkey cheeks and said, "Okay, Wang Mazi, stop talking and leave quickly while the rain is heavy."
"You better watch your way, you can fall even on flat ground."
Er Laizi tutted impatiently: "It's none of my business if the road is slippery."
The three of them continued walking along the path in an unharmonious relationship. After Er Laizi slipped again, he became a little impatient and complained, "I say there's something wrong with you two. You have to fight on rainy days. Wouldn't it be the same if you found better weather? As long as you run fast, you can't be caught."
The man behind Er Laizi is called Xu Dazhui. He is the oldest of the three and has a bit of a leader's aura.
He and Er Laizi are both from the Xiangqian Brigade, and the other Wang Mazi is from the Dongfeng Brigade.
This was not the first time the three had worked together. They succeeded last year in the Dongfeng Brigade. Unfortunately, this year the Dongfeng Brigade was on high alert, and they observed for several days but did not find an opportunity.
Four or five people were sent to guard the warehouse alone, and some people were patrolling the team in the middle of the night. There were only three of them, so they could not lure people away and then pry into the warehouse to move a few sacks like they did last year.
They had to settle for the next best thing and run farther away, but this time it started raining heavily before they finished their journey, and the rain seemed to be going to cover all the rain for the next month.
Xu Dazhu was afraid that he would not find an opportunity later, so he decided to take action today. After all, he had been to Pingtan Brigade several times and knew some of the routes.
He was already unsure, and the rain was heavier than he expected. Xu Dazhu was also a little irritable. When he heard someone complaining in front of him, he immediately got even more annoyed: "Enough, stop nagging. It's come to this, do you still want to go back?"
How can we go back without getting food?
Er Laizi and Wang Mazi stopped arguing. For a moment, the only sounds on the path were their footsteps and the crackling sound of rain hitting the leaves.
Xu Dazhui walked behind and looked around. This was not the first time they had done something like this, so he was very cautious.
At this moment, not far away, a vague "dong" sound seemed to be heard, and there seemed to be a flash of light.
Xu Dazhu stopped and grabbed the guy in front of him and asked, "Did you hear any noise?"
The sound of the rain was so loud that he wondered if he had heard it wrongly.
Er Laizi was concentrating on his feet the whole time and didn't hear anything. "What's that noise? There's no one around here, not even a ghost. Did you hear it wrong?"
Wang Mazi, who was at the front, also said that he heard nothing.
The source of movement.
Yan Xia, who had almost repaired the hole, looked at the broken flashlight that had fallen to the ground in silence. At least he had held on for quite some time, so his death was worthy.
Yan Ji, holding the ladder, silently moved to pick up the flashlight that was no longer bright. He planned to repair it when he had time. Maybe it could still be used.
Without a flashlight, Yan Xia could only finish the work in the dark.
The houses in Pingtan Brigade are basically of the same style. The roof is in a gable shape, with a slope in the front and another slope in the back. This is so that rainwater can flow down from the roof better on rainy days instead of accumulating on the roof.
Yan Xia and his room correspond to the slope in front. He checked it before coming to repair it. Except for their parents' room, he didn't miss any other places.
The rain hit his face, Yan Xia half squinted his eyes, and felt like fucking mad. They were staying up late at night to fix the roof. They must be the only ones who were so miserable. In such weather, ghosts wouldn't come out, okay? !
On the other side of the roof that Yan Xia couldn't see, Er Laizi was also squinting his eyes and looking over here, "Is there anyone living in that house?"
Wang Mazi, who was at the front, heard this and laughed, "There's a ghost living here."
Xu Dazhui who was at the back paused. He was quite bold in other aspects. For example, he was the one who approached Wang Mazi and Erlaizi on his own initiative. He was also the one who made all the plans in advance last year. But outsiders didn't know that Xu Dazhui was quite afraid of things that could not be seen or touched.
Hearing Wang Mazi's nonsense, Xu Dazhu immediately got angry: "If you can't speak properly, just shut up."
Mixed with the sound of rain, his anger was not very obvious. At least Wang Mazi, who was at the front, didn't hear it. He said to himself, "Isn't that the widow Yang's house? Her husband fell to his death in the house, and she and her son died from eating poisonous mushrooms."
As he spoke, he didn't know what he remembered, and his tone gradually became obscene: "What a pity, that woman has a nice butt. I saw her from a distance before, and it made me feel itchy."
Er Laizi was not very familiar with the Pingtan Brigade, but when Wang Mazi said this, he also remembered this person, and both of them smiled a little obscenely.
Just at this moment, there was a loud 'boom' in the sky, and a flash of lightning streaked across the horizon, lighting up the dark village for a moment. At that moment, the three people clearly saw a human face on the roof!!!
It was a bit far away and it was raining, so I couldn't see what it looked like, but...
He is indeed a man!!
The three of them froze where they were.
The leader Xu Dazhu had no dignity, and his voice was trembling: "Then, then, then, then...what is that?"
Er Laizi was so frightened that his legs went limp, and he stood up with difficulty: "Is it, is it a person, a person?"
Wang Mazi no longer had the wretched look he had just now: "Did you see it wrong? It's so dark, where did this person come from?"
Just as he finished speaking, there was another flash of lightning. This time it lasted a little longer. The three of them saw at the same time that there was not only a human face on the roof, but also a pair of hands clinging there, as if they were crawling over to claim their lives.
“Ahhhhhhhh!!!”
"Ahhh!! I was wrong, I wasn't thinking about Widow Yang! Don't look for me!!"
The three people who saw it clearly finally couldn't hold on any longer. They collapsed to the ground screaming, still mumbling and admitting their mistakes.
On the roof not far away, Yan Xia finished the work but slipped and almost fell down. He had to grab the top pillar: "????"
what is that sound???
Why did he seem to hear... a man screaming? ?
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