Chapter 50
50
The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier. Shen Yuntang had fallen asleep. Cheng Yeran was not that seriously ill, but he felt very uneasy listening to the sound of rain outside.
If the rain continues at this rate, will there be a flood?
It didn’t matter if the house was washed away, since he wanted to tear it all down and rebuild it anyway, but what about the wheat in the fields? What should I do if the vegetables in the yard and the chickens and ducks at home are washed away by the water?
Those were all planted by him and Shen Yuntang after he traveled through time. He put in so much effort and sweat, and he would be miserable if he didn't get any harvest!
He didn't care about too much and ran out to pull all the vegetables in the yard and carry them into the house. Originally, he wanted to carry them into the kitchen where it would be warmer with the stove burning. However, the roof of the kitchen was leaking and the accumulated water on the ground had spread into the kitchen.
The room they lived in was higher than the kitchen and had a higher foundation, so the water did not enter.
He took a look, rushed into the house with the vegetables, and went to catch the chickens and ducks in the house.
He suspected that the village often flooded, otherwise the house would not be built higher than the kitchen and woodshed.
When he went to the chicken coop, it was flooded. He was quite agile and drove all the chickens and ducks into the house.
Shen Yuntang had a severe headache, and in a daze he felt as if a chicken was standing on his head and scratching his scalp. He thought he was hallucinating because of the pain, but when he opened his eyes he actually saw a little white rooster standing on his head and scratching his hair.
He remembered this chicken, the chick that hatched from the egg, whose yellow fluff had already shed and whose white feathers had just begun to grow.
Cheng Yeran has always treated this chick as his baby. He often takes it out to pet and hug it. He even gave the chick a name, Cheng Xiaobao.
"Why did you bring Cheng Xiaobao into the house?" Shen Yuntang wanted to grab the chicken on his head, but was bitten. He quickly withdrew his hand and saw Cheng Yeran busy maintaining order in the house.
"Why did the chickens and ducks come into the house? Am I dazzled?" Shen Yuntang rubbed his eyes, thinking that he might be hallucinating due to the fever.
"It's raining heavily outside, I'm afraid they will drown." When Cheng Yeran saw the chicks on his head, he hurried over, picked up Cheng Xiaobao and put him on the ground.
"Children should not make noise when adults are asleep." He first taught Cheng Xiaobao a lesson, and then said to Shen Yuntang: "If the rain doesn't stop, we will all have to run to the roof. If it doesn't work, we have to go up the mountain. Has there been a flood here?"
Shen Yuntang was a few beats slow to react. "It happened once five or six years ago, and it destroyed all the crops."
Cheng Yeran calculated the time and said, "It's almost time to harvest the wheat. If all the wheat is washed away, then all our work will be in vain! How can you remain so calm?"
Cheng Yeran thought Shen Yuntang's reaction was very strange. He felt that Shen Yuntang was the kind of person who would care about the crops even if he was confused due to being obsessed with food.
"There won't be flooding this year, but there will be some hail." Shen Yuntang was so sleepy that it was difficult for him to open his eyes, let alone think. He accidentally blurted out what happened in his previous life.
He only remembered that it hailed on this day in his previous life, but he forgot the exact day. After he married Xia Xiaowu in his previous life, although he did not have to work in the fields, he had to cook for a family of more than a dozen people, wash dishes and clothes for more than a dozen people, clean the yard, take care of the vegetable garden, and feed the family's livestock. He was still washing clothes at home on the day of the hail. After it rained, he hid in the house, but was scolded by his mother-in-law, who said that it was not worth hiding in the house for such a small amount of rain, and drove him outside to continue washing clothes.
Fortunately, his clothes were washed after the rain got heavier. Not long after he entered the house, he heard his mother-in-law cursing outside, saying, "Damn it, it's hailing, what should we do with the crops!"
Later, he heard his father-in-law come back and say that the loss was not big, and he seemed quite happy.
Talk about
, it should be nothing.
Shen Yuntang never cared about this small hailstorm in his life.
Cheng Yeran looked out the window and saw many rice-sized hailstones falling. "Ah! It's really hailing! How can it hail in summer?"
"Because it snows in winter." Shen Yuntang spoke incoherently and fell asleep after saying the last word.
Cheng Yeran couldn't help but be amused by him. How could he be so cute? He was so soft even when he was talking to people.
Since Shen Yuntang said that he wouldn't have a boil, he also planned to take a nap. His head just felt heavy and he was sore all over after being tired for a while. However, his condition was much better than Shen Yuntang's. Before lying down on the bed, he took his temperature and it was 37 degrees, which was not bad.
He closed the door and lay on the bed listening to the chickens and ducks clucking under the bed. He didn't think it was noisy and it actually helped him sleep.
But just before his eyes were about to close, he suddenly thought of something, opened his eyes abruptly, sat up and looked at Shen Yuntang lying beside him, "How did you know that there would be hail this year?"
Naturally, he didn't get any answers. Shen Yuntang was sleeping very soundly, and he couldn't force a patient out of bed to ask questions. He could only suppress the doubts in his heart and lie down again.
Could it be that Shen Yuntang is also a time traveler? But as a time traveler, Shen Yuntang can clearly know what the weather is like today?
Is the world they live in a novel? Has Shen Yuntang read this novel before? But they are so familiar with each other now. If Shen Yuntang really is a time traveler, why not tell him?
He had already told Shen Yuntang about the time travel, why did Shen Yuntang still hide it from him? Shen Yuntang should just treat him as an outsider.
The effect of the medicine was taking effect and he felt sleepy, but he felt very aggrieved. How could Shen Yuntang do this? It's so unfair that I asked him about his secrets but didn't tell him my own.
He sadly pushed a cock that had flown onto his stomach under the bed, turned over and looked at Shen Yuntang, raised his hand and gently touched the hair on his forehead, "How can I get into your heart?"
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The two of them slept for the entire afternoon. When they woke up in the evening, Cheng Yeran was almost recovered. Shen Yuntang's fever had subsided a little, but he still felt weak and listless.
Even so, he still wanted to make dinner, but Cheng Yeran stopped him, "What else are you going to cook? Let's eat instant noodles."
Cheng Yeran didn't dare to say that he would cook. If they ate the meal he cooked at night, it would not just be a small matter of catching a cold. They might even be poisoned to death.
He was very self-aware and dug out some instant noodles from under the bed. "Although it's a bit perfunctory to give this to a sick person, it's better than nothing."
After making two bowls of instant noodles, he thought of something and went to look through the pile of express deliveries.
The snacks he bought arrived, including a box of canned fruit.
"Come, have a can of canned yellow peaches. I heard that canned yellow peaches can cure colds." Cheng Yeran sat down beside the bed and took a spoon to feed him.
"I can still eat." Shen Yuntang's fingers felt weak and he felt like he had no strength to hold the spoon. He looked at the peaches in the bottle that were cut in half, even the pits were removed, they looked very juicy and tempting.
"Try it." Cheng Yeran helped him unscrew the lid of the can and handed it to him.
Shen Yuntang took a bite of the yellow peach. It was crisp and the juice was very sweet. Originally, his mouth had no taste due to his illness. The noodles he had just eaten had no taste and he had no appetite at all. However, eating this canned food whetted his appetite.
"How is it? Is it delicious?" Cheng Yeran asked him.
"Very sweet." Shen Yuntang likes to eat sweets, but sugar is a luxury for him. In the past, he could only eat two pieces of candy during the Chinese New Year, and he rarely drank sugar water at home.
He had only drunk sugar water twice when he was sick as a child, and those sugar waters were very bland, unlike the soup in this can, which had a sweet and thick taste, which was his favorite taste.
"Sweet, right? Our future fruits are all tastier than your ancient fruits. All your fruits are sour, astringent, small, and unpalatable." Cheng Yeran couldn't help but talk nonstop. "Last time I saw an old man selling peaches on a shoulder pole on the roadside. I bought a few from him. The one I brought back last time, I saw that the old man had bought it with great difficulty. Who knew it was so unpalatable? It almost made my teeth sour when I took a bite. And you still say it tastes good? I'll have to buy you some future fruits to try some other day."
Seeing Shen Yuntang's listless look, he quickly stopped the topic: "Do I talk too much? My agent used to say that I don't talk much. Really, I didn't talk so much before. I don't know why, but when I'm with you, I talk nonstop."
"I'm not annoying you, just keep talking, otherwise the room is too quiet." Shen Yuntang thought of something and looked around the room, his eyes meeting those chickens and ducks wandering around on the floor, "Why are they still here?"
"We can't go out or put our feet down. The ground is all muddy and their nests are full of water. It would be great if we could lay a cement floor, but if we lay cement, we have to explain where the cement came from. It's so troublesome." Cheng Yeran just wants to live a simple life and doesn't want to complicate things. "Let's lay bricks so that it's easier to clean, but will my pants get wet when I step on them..."
As he was talking, he felt that he was wasting time. Why did he never stop talking and all the things he talked about were meaningless. However, he felt very comfortable and happy chatting with Shen Yuntang. It was a feeling he had never had with anyone else.
The next morning was a sunny day, and Shen Yuntang recovered from his illness. He felt it was so magical. He thought he was going to die yesterday, but he was well today. He only took one pill, and this pill was more effective than taking many days of medicine. The most important thing was that the medicine was not bitter! People in the future will be so happy.
He followed Cheng Yeran to drive the chickens and ducks back to the yard, but there was a lot of chicken and duck droppings left in the house, which gave Shen Yuntang a headache.
Cheng Yeran couldn't handle the cleaning either, so he just kept busy behind Shen Yuntang. Shen Yuntang was very annoyed, "I'll finish now, let's go check if the wheat has been flooded."
They heard Aunt Li next door yelling early in the morning that the vegetable garden at home was soaked and rotten. Fortunately, Cheng Yeran pulled out all the vegetables at home, otherwise they would have been soaked and rotten too. They had to eat them quickly because the rain had stopped and the temperature had risen again, and the vegetables could not be kept.
When the two went to the fields, they heard many villagers crying and shouting along the way, saying that their wheat had been soaked by water. The hail only lasted for a short time and did not have much impact. It was the rain that had a big impact.
The fields in the village were also divided into different levels, some were high and some were low. Those in low position were soaked and rotten, but the location of their fields was okay, and their wheat was stronger than that of other families, so nothing happened.
But the fields of Shen Yuntang's parents were not so lucky, and almost one-third of them were lost.
But one third was considered lucky, as other families lost half of their crops, or even all their crops were destroyed.
The Xia family’s fields have the best location in the entire village, and there is almost nothing to do there.
Listening to the crying and shouting of the villagers, Shen Yuntang finally understood why his mother-in-law and father-in-law were so happy in his previous life. It turned out that they were gloating over other people's misfortune.
At this time, the villagers were in a bad mood, especially when they saw that Cheng Yeran's wheat was fine, they became even more angry.
There was nothing serious about Xia Xiaowu's fields, but the wheat of Xia Xiaowu's family grew similar to that of other families, not as outstanding as that of Cheng Yeran's. Besides, Xia Xiaowu was going to be an official in the future, and they couldn't afford to offend him, so they took out their resentment on Cheng Yeran.
At first, only a few people grumbled and complained, asking why Cheng Yeran's fields were fine. Later, more and more people came to complain, saying that it must be that Cheng Yeran's wheat sucked their family's luck, so their wheat grew so strong, and the wheat of other families died!
"I know you are very sad, but how can you blame our family for the natural disaster?" When Cheng Yeran first saw everyone crying so sadly, he felt sorry for other families. He felt very uncomfortable and thought that the ancient people were really pitiful. Such a small natural disaster left so many people without food to eat, but as soon as he got emotional, he was scolded by this group of people.
"What natural disaster? I think it's a man-made disaster! You made our family go hungry, so I will make your family go hungry too!" Several angry villagers lost their minds and rushed over to pull up the wheat in their family.
"Just because you are pitiful, I should be scolded? Do I owe you this?" Cheng Yeran was speechless, and stood in front of his own field. "I'll see if any of you dare to touch my wheat. If I can't pull out your wheat this year, I will pull it out next year, the year after, and every year! No one will live, let's die together."
The villagers were stunned by his words. Surely this madman Cheng Yeran could do such a thing?
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As it turned out, the villagers suffered a loss in their harvest this year, but only one or two families suffered complete losses, and the rest still had enough food left to get through the new year.
They will have to live in the village in the future, and if Cheng Yeran destroys their crops, they will not be able to survive.
At this time, an old man ran over from the field next to the Cheng family. The old man was talking in a weird way, as if he was not in his right mind. He stopped everyone and said, "Don't touch the Cheng family's grain, or you will be punished by God. Yesterday I saw the Li family secretly plucking the Cheng family's wheat. As a result, they had just plucking two grains when hail started to fall from the sky!"
The old man was talking about Aunt Li's son. He heard Aunt Li scolding Cheng Yeran and Shen Yuntang every day, so he developed a prejudice against Cheng Yeran and wanted to do something bad secretly.
Moreover, no one in the village dared to provoke Cheng Yeran. If he did, he would become the most powerful person in the village. He thought that was too awesome, so he must try it.
As a result, hail started to fall from the sky after he had just pulled out two. He was very scared. By chance, he was seen by the mentally ill old man, who rushed over and beat him, saying that it was all his fault and that the whole village was being punished by God.
When the villagers heard what the old man said, they started talking about it. Although the old man was not in a very good mental state, he had never told any lies.
The villagers looked at the Cheng family's wheat, which was stronger than that of other families, and their recent good fortune. One aunt shouted, "The person that the Cheng family kid saved last time couldn't be a deity! Otherwise, how could that person appear in the village for no reason? None of us saw him, but the Cheng family kid did. This must be a divine fate!"
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