The village chief's wife, soaked to the bone, ignored her husband's words and went back inside to change into clean clothes before coming out again and looking up at the sky.
The rain was pouring down as if the sky had been torn open, and the water was cascading down. It was quite alarming to watch. The village chief frowned and spoke with some concern.
"Oh dear, if this rain continues like this all day, the crops in the fields will probably be flooded..."
Hearing her husband's words, the village chief's wife's eyes were filled with worry.
"Yes, this rain does look a bit strange. I've never seen it rain this heavily before. It's like someone is pouring buckets of rain down from the sky..."
As the night passed, the rain showed no sign of letting up, and the village chief grew increasingly anxious.
Now he thinks that it's okay if the crops are flooded. After all, everyone followed Han Yi's lead this year and planted chili peppers, and they all made a lot of money. Even without those crops, they wouldn't go hungry. But if the houses are flooded and collapse, that would be a real problem.
Of course, this isn't the worst of it. Their village is located near a mountain, and if a mudslide were to occur, the entire village would likely be destroyed...
Thinking of this, the village chief could no longer sit still. He decided to call a meeting with the villagers to discuss how to deal with the rain disaster, but before he could even get up, there was a knock on his own door.
"Village chief, village chief, something terrible has happened! My house has collapsed because of the rain..."
Upon hearing this, the village chief was startled. He didn't even bother to put on his raincoat before rushing forward to open the door. Seeing who it was, he hurriedly asked.
"Are people injured...?"
"No, we saw something was wrong, so we rushed out..."
The man who came was Chen Dahuzi from the village. His family had lived in a thatched house for many years. A few days ago, they made some money selling chili peppers and thought about building two mud-brick houses. But before they could even finish making the mud bricks, the house collapsed in the rain.
Hearing that everyone was alright, the village chief breathed a slight sigh of relief, but as he passed by, thinking about the situation in the village, his heart couldn't help but tighten again.
Most of the villagers lived in thatched huts. In fact, the entire Zhushan Village, except for Aunt Han Yi and the village chief's house, consisted of thatched huts. Judging from the rain, it seemed that not only Chen Dahuzi's house had been damaged by the rain.
Sure enough, just as the village chief was about to tell Chen Da Hu Zi to go back and bring his family over to take shelter from the rain at his house for the time being, and to discuss the rest after the rain stopped, he saw several more families coming from not far away. Before they even got close, they shouted at the village chief.
"Village chief, something terrible has happened! My house has been flooded and collapsed..."
“My house was also flooded and collapsed…”
As the families arrived, the village chief frowned more and more deeply. There was nothing he could do; his house was only so big, and he couldn't possibly fit so many people inside…
Han Yiyi sat by the window, watching the rain that had been falling for a day and a night without showing any signs of letting up. She felt a little uneasy. Although her house was a brick and tile house, it was the closest to the mountain behind it.
If a mudslide or landslide occurs, her family will be the first to suffer.
She stood up and opened the door, when a gust of cold wind rushed in, making her shiver. It was June, and the weather felt increasingly abnormal.
Looking up at the sky, Han Yiyi saw that it was covered with dark clouds, with lightning and thunder. The rain showed no signs of letting up and seemed to be getting heavier. Han Yiyi felt increasingly uneasy.
She went back inside, put on her raincoat and straw hat, and then wanted to go out to check if there was anything unusual about the mountains behind her. At that moment, she was very grateful that her two children had been left in Kyoto.
Just as he finished putting on the bamboo hat, Yun Xiao took it off and put it on his own head, then spoke.
"You stay home and stay put, I'm going to see you..."
Han Yiyi dared not let this young master see it, and hurriedly tiptoed to retrieve the bamboo hat.
"No, no, it's still me..."
Before Han Yiyi could finish speaking, she slipped and fell straight at Yun Xiao, knocking him to the ground.
Of course, Yun Xiao wasn't that flexible; he was deliberately tackled like that.
Yun Xiao was already a head taller than Han Yiyi, and the eaves were slippery from the rain. When Han Yiyi stood on tiptoe to reach the straw hat on Yun Xiao's head, she somehow slipped.
Looking at the person lying on his chest, Yun Xiao's smile stretched from ear to ear. Worried that Han Yiyi would notice something was amiss, he quickly put it away, thinking to himself, "It seems this trick really works."
It turns out that Yun Xiao deliberately spilled a few drops of oil in the corridor when he was serving breakfast that morning, hoping to be a hero and save Han Yiyi when she tripped and fell. That's why he followed Han Yiyi everywhere that morning...
Han Yiyi was unaware that she had been tricked by Yun Xiao. Seeing that she had tackled him, she quickly stood up.
While apologizing, she reached out to help Yun Xiao up. Yun Xiao, however, seized the opportunity to grab Han Yiyi's hand, grinning and saying, "Yiyi, are you throwing yourself at me?"
Hearing Yun Xiao's words, she knew he was acting crazy again. She rolled her eyes at him, not wanting to pay any attention to this "ignorant of human suffering" young master. So she simply reached out and pulled the straw hat that Yun Xiao had been pressing down on her head, turned around and went out the door...
Because he used too much force, he tore off a lot of the hair from the person on the ground, causing him to scream in pain again, but the corners of his mouth were turned up in a smile.
Seeing that the person had already strode out the door, he quickly grabbed another straw hat and followed after him.
Stumbling along, they circled the back mountain twice. Feeling there was no immediate danger, they prepared to return. But as soon as they turned around, Han Yiyi felt a sharp pain in her ankle. Looking down, she felt the hairs on her body stand on end.
A bright red snake was tightly coiled around her ankle, its head raised high and its tongue flicking out.
Han Yiyi turned pale with fright and almost fainted. She tried to shout for help, but found that her throat was blocked by something and she could not make any sound. Her whole body also felt slightly numb.
Yun Xiao, who was standing to the side, was also frightened by this sudden scene and turned pale. Judging from the color of the snake, he knew that it must be poisonous.
Before he could think, he reached out to grab the snake. As soon as he got close, it bit him hard. Seeing Han Yiyi's pale face, Yun Xiao ignored the pain and forcefully pulled the thing off Han Yiyi's ankle.
As the icy touch disappeared, Han Yiyi seemed to regain some of her senses, only then did she hear the electronic voice repeating incessantly in her ears.
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