Ling Xiao sighed and shone the flashlight over there. A tall waterwheel could be vaguely seen in the darkness.
"The water truck hasn't collapsed yet. We can wait until daybreak to go there. It has rained all night and it is not safe. Who knows if the water tank is full?"
He was afraid that the bridge would collapse, as it had done many times before.
Although it is made of cement slabs this time, it is not as strong as a bridge irrigated with cement.
As soon as Ling Xiao finished speaking, he heard a clanging sound in the distance.
Both of them couldn't help but stand up and swept the flashlight over. The waterwheel that was there just now disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Meng Qidi felt so distressed, this was really a hundred dollars wasted...
"Don't be sad, as long as you are okay."
Ling Xiao comforted her softly, feeling fortunate that he had stopped her, otherwise someone would have been in danger.
Meng Qidi sighed and didn't dare to go over there again.
"Xiao Qi, Ling Xiao, come in quickly, there is a water leak in the room." Wang Jinhua's anxious voice sounded in the room.
Meng Qidi and the other person looked at each other and almost forgot about the house!
The two of them were in such a hurry that they really didn't pay attention to the house. When they entered the house, they saw puddles here and there.
The old lady's room has four or five leaks, and their room also has a few...
All the buckets, basins and even enameled steel ladles available at home were used.
After all the trouble, it was already dawn. Ling Xiao looked up at the roof and sighed.
"It's been raining for a few days, and the tarpaulin on top is probably torn. The roof needs to be repaired."
Meng Qidi pursed her lips. It was useless to repair it. It was impossible to repair the roof every time it rained, right?
After a moment's silence, she looked at Ling Xiao and said, "Let's rebuild the house. We have saved a lot of money these days."
She still had money in her savings account, so she had to buy a house, otherwise she couldn't go on like this.
"If the rain gets any heavier, the house will probably collapse."
Ling Xiao looked at her for a long time and nodded gently. Rain was okay. If there was a lot of snow in the winter, it would probably collapse. The bamboo house was not fireproof and unsafe.
Meng Qidi wants to build a house, and Wang Jinhua is a little worried. What should she do if she doesn’t have enough money?
Let Ling Xiao go to cook, Meng Qidi plans to go out and take a look. The waterwheel has collapsed, and her pond cannot be washed away.
The fish can be raised again if they are gone, but nothing can happen to the lotus roots, so she has to open all the drains.
"Be careful, don't get too close to the water." Ling Xiao warned worriedly.
She walked out of the house holding an umbrella. There was water everywhere at the door. Meng Qidi looked towards the stream and sure enough, the water there had overflowed.
The waterwheel was washed away without a trace, not only could the canal not be seen, but even the concrete bridge over the stream was no longer known whether it was still there.
The water overflowed from the bridge, but other creek dams were not flooded because the bamboo she planted upstream protected them. The creek dams downstream were relatively high, so the water did not overflow.
Meng Qidi breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the loss was not too big.
I looked over at the pond. The water level had risen a lot. The outlet below was no longer visible. It was full of water. I could vaguely see lotus leaves floating on the surface of the pond...
Ling Xiao was worried about Meng Qidi, so he ran out while the fire was burning and the porridge was cooking. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Meng Qidi at the door.
"Why is the water so deep?" Meng Qidi couldn't help but ask.
There is a big river on the other side of the hill opposite. The stream next to their house should come from the big mountain behind. The mountain is full of big trees.
Logically, it couldn't have rained so heavily. The water wasn't so deep and yellow yesterday.
Ling Xiao shook his head. He rarely stayed at home and really didn't know the reason. The reservoir was not near their home.
"There is a reservoir in the mountains, and it's probably full." Wang Jinhua's voice rang out.
Meng Qidi paused, "Does anyone in the village know about that reservoir?"
There is a reservoir in the mountains? The water can overflow, and the most worrying thing is that the dam will break...
Wang Jinhua shook her head. “I guess not many people know about this. It was dug by the older generation. They were originally going to build a hydroelectric power station, but they didn’t know why they abandoned it. It’s been decades.”
"What's wrong?" Ling Xiao asked hurriedly.
Meng Qidi pursed her lips and said, "Don't blame me for worrying too much. If it's true as mom said, the reservoir has been unattended for decades, and it rains heavily, it's hard to say whether the dam will break."
Ling Xiao glanced at the gray sky, then at the rushing stream, "We all need to pay attention to the situation today and be ready to retreat at any time."
"Where to retreat?"
“On the top of the mountain!”
Ling Xiao pointed to the hill next to them and said that it was impossible to go to the village, so they could only go to the hill.
Around twelve o'clock in the morning, Ling Xiao came out after dinner and exchanged places with Meng Qidi, letting her go into the house to rest. At this juncture, no one dared to be careless. If they found that the water level was rising abnormally, they had to retreat.
A few minutes later, Ling Xiao's anxious voice came from the door, "Xiao Qi, help mom and Xiao Chengzi go up the mountain, and don't worry about the things."
Meng Qidi's heart skipped a beat in the room. She quickly put all the electrical appliances and things in the room into the space, then came out and hurriedly helped the old and the young who were walking out.
Ling Xiao was already limping over with a cane. He walked so fast that his umbrella was blown over by the wind and his body was instantly wet.
After sending the old man and the young to the middle of the mountain, Meng Qidi told them to climb up slowly and turned around to pick up Ling Xiao.
However, she was frightened by the scene below. She threw away her umbrella and quickly slid down to the foot of the mountain.
Ling Xiao had a bad leg. Just as he reached the foot of the mountain, he saw Meng Qidi sliding down desperately, and he subconsciously turned his head away.
But in the blink of an eye, the water behind him had risen, and the house was instantly flooded over the door and into the house...
"What are you doing? Hurry up!" Meng Qidi shouted anxiously and pulled Ling Xiao up.
When they climbed to the top of the mountain, they were soaked. When they looked back at home, the flood had already reached halfway...
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