Could this be considered experiencing the fun of camping? Although Yue Jiuyue didn't find it fun at all.
Back home, I put everything back in its place, and everything was back to normal.
The only exception was that the five elderly people were unwilling to come down with them and planned to stay there until the possible epidemic was over.
They are old and need less sleep; they wake up at the slightest noise. They happened to hear what Yue Jiuyue said this morning.
Epidemic...
They were already half-buried, so whether they were alive or dead didn't matter to them, but they couldn't let Yue Jiuyue's family be implicated.
Elderly people and children with weak constitutions are most susceptible to illness; everyone understands this. If an epidemic were to break out, these five old folks would definitely be the first to catch it, so they would absolutely not stay at Yue Jiuyue's house again.
Yue Jiuyue's family had no choice. Forcing things won't work. If they don't want to come back, then they don't have to. Anyway, the cave had been renovated by Lin Chaodong and his two brothers and was quite spacious and sturdy. It wouldn't be a problem for them to stay there for ten days or half a month.
Once the flood recedes and the epidemic doesn't break out, houses will definitely be rebuilt in the village. Although Yue Jiuyue hasn't seen it with her own eyes, with Lin Chaobei around, she still knows some of what's happening in the village. For example, when the whole village moved to live in caves, a small portion of the village's houses collapsed.
I just don't know what kind of houses the village is going to build. Thatched houses are out of the question; mud-brick houses are the most common, and brick and tile houses are rare. Will the village fund the construction? Or will everyone build their own houses? I wonder if there will be any subsidies from higher authorities?
Yue Jiuyue sat in front of the stove, tending the fire, her mind wandering to all sorts of random thoughts. After boiling plain water, she started boiling Atractylodes lancea soup, pot after pot. She took the opportunity to thoroughly clean the house, even sprinkling Atractylodes lancea soup in every nook and cranny, including the chicken coop, rabbit hutch, woodshed, cellar, and outhouse.
"Mom, there was a mouse hole in your house, I've blocked it up for you!"
The voice of the eldest brother, Lin Chaodong, came from inside the house. Yue Jiuyue instinctively wanted to refuse, but in the end, she didn't say "no."
Does she have to contradict herself by saying what she herself said?
"Okay, let's block it up."
Yue Jiuyue agreed verbally, but in her heart she was thinking about where to pour the bathwater tonight. She didn't want to sneak around using the excuse of going to the outhouse to pour out the bathwater again.
"Mom, what about the rabbits and chickens at home? Should we take them?"
Despite asking this question, Lin Chaodong was still quite reluctant to take action. After all, those animals could reproduce indefinitely. Chickens were fine; he could just buy another hen to brood with later. But if the rabbits were gone, then they were truly gone.
"It's best to burn them all. If you're reluctant, then take the chickens and rabbits outside and keep an eye on them. If anything seems amiss, burn everything that needs to be burned immediately."
The scope of "those that should be burned" is quite broad. It depends on whether they raise them now because there's plenty of meat to eat, or continue raising them and burn them all if they get an epidemic. That's their decision.
Hearing this, Lin Chaobei felt so heartbroken he almost cried.
For the past two months, he has been taking care of these poultry. He has been both their father and mother, looking after them to make sure they are not hungry or thirsty, not cold or hot, and cleaning up their droppings. In the end, they still couldn't escape dying!
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