On the way back to Yu's house, Yu Qiaoshan and his companions saw many villagers going to the Qingshui River, and some people were shouting that the fields beside the Qingshui River had been flooded.
The ten acres of land allocated to Yu Qiaoshan were very close to the river. He said, "I'll go and take a look at the fields," and hurried towards the Qingshui River.
Yu Zhixing was not seriously injured and followed.
Yu Qizhe helped Yu Mengshan, Yu Jiao and Yu Zhizhou return to Yu's house first.
Seeing the miserable state of Yu Mengshan and Yu Zhizhou, Yu Ruhai hurried to find medicine for injuries and asked, "How is the third brother? Why did he start fighting?"
Yu Mengshan briefly told Yu Ruhai what happened in the third courtyard and went back to the house to change clothes.
Song had just finished cooking when she saw Yu Mengshan covered in mud. She got some hot water to help him wash his body, then cleaned his artificial leg and helped him put it on.
Yu Ruhai applied medicine to the injured parts of Yu Zhizhou's body, took out a bottle of medicinal wine, asked Yu Zhizhou to change clothes, and then sent it to Yu Hanshan.
When Yu Zhizhou came back after delivering the medicinal wine, Yu Qiaoshan and Yu Zhixing happened to come back from the Qingshui River.
"Dad, are the fields flooded badly?" Yu Zhizhou asked after the three of them entered the yard.
Yu Qiaoshan's face was full of worry, and he said anxiously, "The water is above my ankles, and I can't let it out."
The surrounding fields were filled with water, and the low-lying areas were also filled with water, so there was nowhere to drain the water from the fields.
Zhang and Song set the table in the main hall. Yu Qiaoshan and Yu Zhixing changed their wet clothes, came to sit in the main hall, and talked worriedly about the flooding in the fields.
Yu Mengshan consoled him, "Brother, my field is on high ground. If your field doesn't produce any harvest, you can still survive by eating the food from my field next year."
Yu Qiaoshan felt better now, but he was still uneasy when he heard the sound of rain outside, and he could hardly eat.
"We'll have to take it one step at a time. If God doesn't want us to have an easy life, then no one will have an easy life. This year is a year of famine." Yu Ruhai sighed, and then said, "Rest early after eating. In the future, we have to save food at home and save more food so that we can hold out for a while if there is a famine in the future."
Everyone in the room agreed with this statement. In previous years, when food rations were insufficient, they had to save money in this way.
Yu Jiao took a bite of the steamed bun and chewed it slowly. She had stored so much food, she would not let the Yu family starve. The only thing she was afraid of was that a flood would come and they would lose their lives.
In her previous life, which lasted for more than twenty years, she had never experienced a flood.
After dinner, everyone went back to their rooms to rest. Song stopped doing needlework, as she was prepared for the worst and was afraid of wasting money on candles.
In the middle of the night, lightning flashed through the darkness and thunder roared, as if it would strike the roof at any time.
Yu Jiao opened her eyes in the dark and felt the ground beneath her seem to shake.
Yu Fuling, who was lying beside her, sat up in shock and went to light the candlestick.
Perhaps the tinderbox was damp, as it wouldn't light up no matter what she did. Yu Jiao fumbled around in the bedside medical box and found the tinderbox that she had placed there early in the morning. She blew it up and lit the candle.
The dim light came on, and Yu Fuling's face turned pale. She said in fear, "Yu Jiao, you woke up too? The thunder was so scary."
Yu Jiao reached out and patted her on the back.
The voices of the Song couple came from outside, "Fuling, are you and Yu Jiao awake? If you can't sleep, come to the outside and let's talk."
Song was worried that the two girls would be scared, so she offered to accompany them.
Yu Fuling put on her outer clothes, got out of bed and put on her shoes, "Yu Jiao, let's go to the outer room and stay with our parents. I can't sleep with all this thunder and lightning."
Yu Jiao nodded, and she also put on her clothes. The two of them walked out holding the candlesticks.
Yu Mengshan and Song were also sitting on the bed in their coats. Seeing them coming, Yu Mengshan got out of bed, put on his shoes, and said, "Hurry up and get on the bed. You three will sleep together. Dad will be by your side to watch over you."
Yu Fuling took off her shoes and pulled Yu Jiao onto the bed. There was another flash outside the house. The white light broke through the window, brightening the house, followed by a loud thunder.
Yu Fuling shrank into Song's arms, "Mom, this day is so scary."
The door of the inner room rang, and Yu Qizhe came out neatly dressed with a sleepy look on his face. He must have been woken up by the continuous thunder.
"We haven't had such heavy rain in Changkui for decades." Yu Qiaoshan pulled a chair for Yu Qizhe and said.
Yu Qizhe was just about to sit down when he suddenly heard a muffled sound. It didn't sound like thunder, but rather like a huge monster roaring in the distance.
Yu Jiao's face suddenly changed. She got up from the bed and said quickly, "Hurry up and put on your shoes. Let's go up the mountain. Maybe the dam upstream has burst. We're going to be flooded."
Song and Yu Fuling quickly got out of bed, and Yu Qiaoshan and Yu Qizhe quickly ran to call Yu Ruhai and his wife and the people from the first house.
In Shangrao Village, which is adjacent to Qingyu Village, a flood nearly one meter high surged up at the end of the village near the river. The surging water swept toward the ground, making a roar like waves crashing against the shore, and continued to approach the entire village, roaring and raging, swallowing up the nearest houses in the surging water.
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