Chapter 310: Strong winds stir up dust
After entering the cave, Xia Xiaoman took out a flashlight and checked. Seeing that there were no loose stones and no signs of anyone having been there, he blocked the entrance with stones.
After plugging the hole, Maodan felt no wind blowing and was no longer restless. He shook off the mud and sand on his body and lay quietly in the corner. But judging from his erect ears, Maodan obviously had not completely relaxed.
Xia Xiaoman patted the mud and sand off his body, took out wood from the space and started a fire. When the fire started, he set up the iron pot to cook rice, and at the same time, he did not forget to throw two corns into the fire to roast.
When the rice was cooked and the corn was roasted, Xia Xiaoman asked Maodan to finish the rice in the rice bag first, and then threw the cooled roasted corn to him.
At the same time, in the floating city garrison.
The roofs of many houses were blown away by the strong wind, and Li Yu'e's house was no exception. She had just returned from Yancheng and had not had time to order tiles. The roof was covered with a layer of plastic, which flew away with a slight blow from the strong wind.
After Li Yu'e directed the gang members to compact and place the greenhouse materials that they had worked so hard to obtain, she asked everyone to go home, squat in a corner away from the wind, and wait for the strong wind to pass.
After arranging the people in the gang, Li Yu'e quickly ran home with the twins, collected all the salvageable items in the house and pressed them under heavy objects to prevent them from being blown away by the wind.
After packing up, she took two quilts and ran to a corner away from the wind with the twins. She stacked the two quilts on top of herself and the twins, so that if something was blown over and hit them, at least there were two quilts to cushion the impact.
The wind was strong, but not strong enough to collapse the houses. However, it carried a lot of sand and mud, so much that people could not open their eyes.
In such a strong wind, it was impossible to make a fire. When Li Yu'e and her friends were hungry, they would grope for the place where food was piled up, find a few sweet potatoes and eat them raw.
The sweet potatoes mixed with mud and sand didn't taste very good, but they didn't know how long the strong wind would last. In order not to starve to death, they could only swallow the sweet potatoes mixed with mud and sand.
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The strong wind blew for four days before it weakened a little. The sunset also disappeared completely in the strong wind, and the world became dark again.
Xia Xiaoman noticed that the wind had weakened and wanted to go back to the camp to take a look. She originally wanted to go back quietly alone, but Maodan insisted on following her, so she had to take Maodan back with her.
When Xia Xiaoman returned to the camp, he saw many people taking advantage of the reduced wind speed to run out and pick up various supplies that had been blown to the ground by the wind.
Xia Xiaoman avoided the crowd and returned to her home. The house was in good condition, only a flimsy window and the rainproof cloth on the roof were blown away by the wind, the walls and the fences in the fields were still there.
Xia Xiaoman was considering whether to take out the supplies from the space and repair the house like everyone else while no one was around. Suddenly, she saw a light approaching slowly in the distance.
Xia Xiaoman looked at the other person warily. When the other person came closer and saw her appearance clearly, Xia Xiaoman breathed a sigh of relief, "Sister Pei, it turned out to be you! I thought someone was coming to rob me."
Xia Xiaoman had a scarf wrapped around her face. Chen Peiqiong didn't recognize her at first. It was only when she saw Maodan next to her that she came over.
"Where have you been these past few days? I called you for a long time on that windy day but no one answered. I thought something happened to you."
Xia Xiaoman explained: "I went to the cave to avoid the wind. Before I left, I went to your house to look for you. I knocked on the door for a long time but no one came to open it. I saw that the wind was getting stronger, so I left first."
Chen Peiqiong said, "I was sending my classmates home at that time, so I was not at home."
After she recovered from her illness, she returned to school to teach. When it was windy, two students had not returned home yet. She was worried that something might happen to the students if they went home alone, so she escorted them home.
"I'm glad you're okay. Someone came to check in this morning and saw that there was nothing at your house and no one was there. They thought you had met with an accident."
Xia Xiaoman frowned when he heard this, "Has anyone been to my house?"
Chen Peiqiong nodded, "Yes! The new mayor is very efficient. When the wind died down, he immediately organized rescue operations and arranged for personnel to register the disaster situation. Someone came to register the disaster situation this morning, but you were not at home, so the staff came to ask me who was at home."
"Oh, yes. They also asked me if I had seen anyone come to your place to move supplies recently. They said you didn't have any supplies at home, and they suspected that someone took the supplies away while you were not at home."
Xia Xiaoman's heart tightened when she heard this, and she had an inexplicable bad feeling. Before she could think about it, Chen Peiqiong said worriedly: "Xiaoman, when you went to the cave, did you leave all the supplies at home?"
"No, I hid all my supplies." His mouth was faster than his brain, and the words came out before Xia Xiaoman could react.
"That's good. It would be such a shame if so many supplies were snatched away by others!" Chen Peiqiong sighed.
Xia Xiaoman felt a little confused. She always felt that if she didn't leave quickly, something bad would happen. "Sister Pei, I have something else to do. I won't talk to you for now." After saying that, she hurried away with Maodan without waiting for Chen Peiqiong's response.
On the way back to the cave, Xia Xiaoman repeatedly pondered what Chen Peiqiong had just said.
There is nothing wrong with what Chen Peiqiong said. The new mayor has just taken office. In order to win the hearts of the people and for political achievements, it is normal for him to send people to check the disaster situation as soon as the wind speed subsides.
I found out that there was no one at her house and no supplies, so I asked the neighbors nearby and checked on her situation.
But for some reason, Xia Xiaoman felt very uneasy. This uneasiness reached its extreme, making her feel as if there was a poisonous snake hovering behind her. If she was not careful, she would be bitten by the snake.
Maodan seemed to sense his master's uneasiness, and did not make any trouble along the way. He quietly followed Xia Xiaoman back to the cave.
In the cave, Xia Xiaoman sat in front of the fire, staring blankly at the flames, still pondering what Chen Peiqiong had said in his mind.
After thinking for a long time, she put out the fire, put away all the things that shouldn't be there, and then took out the crops she had grown in the field this year and piled them in the cave.
Looking at the piles of supplies, Xia Xiaoman felt a little relieved, so she planned to take Maodan back to the camp. As soon as she reached the cave entrance, she didn't know what she thought of, so she turned back, took back the supplies she had just taken out, and replaced them with the house that Heizhu Village had originally placed in the cave.
After taking out all the supplies stored in Heizhu Village, she put the grain harvested this year on top and also rummaged around a bit to make it look like someone had rummaged through it.
Then she walked out of the cave and sealed the entrance, then took out the tricycle and pushed the fully loaded tricycle back to the camp.
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