Xu Zhaodi didn't want to trouble the young comrade. He must have been very tired after guarding the door with his eyes open all night, and he had to follow her to the town early the next morning.
"No, I'll go in the morning."
The young comrade was just confused, but still went to the back room to get her a backpack.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome, sister-in-law."
The young comrade looked at Xu Zhaodi's back with a confused look on his face.
Xu Zhaodi found some oil paper that she had saved up and wrapped the backpack tightly.
A backpack, just filled to the brim.
She looked and saw it was past four in the morning.
After sleeping for two hours, we set out to bring them food.
Chen Jianguo hadn't slept for two nights. When they arrived in the town, many roads had been flooded.
The water was waist-deep. Most of the houses in the town were made of adobe, and some had already collapsed.
Everywhere there were the sounds of women wailing and children crying.
Soon, they were involved in the rescue.
The town is low-lying, so it is easily flooded.
Chen Jianguo said: "When saving people, you must also ensure your own safety. If any of you dare to be careless, I will deal with you later.
And, no one can be left behind, is that clear?"
"yes……"
The water flow on the road was very fast. When Chen Jianguo led people into the house to rescue people, an old lady cried while holding the only ten kilograms of food in her home.
The grain had just been harvested this year, and the team had not given them any food yet, so the most expensive things in the house were all on the kang.
"Auntie, why are you the only one in your family? Are there any others?"
"Oh my comrade, my family has gone to visit relatives. What should I do? When they come back, the house will be gone."
Chen Jianguo looked sad. Natural disasters cannot be prevented, so the most important thing is to save your life first.
"Auntie, I'll take you to a safe place first."
"Comrade, I don't want to leave. This is my home. If I leave, I'll lose my home."
Chen Jianguo removed the door panel and placed it on the water.
"Auntie, if this house gets soaked any more, it will collapse. Your family will be really sad if they don't see you when they come back.
Come out with me now."
As Chen Jianguo spoke, he placed all the old lady's pots, pans, and a chicken on the wooden board.
The old lady wailed.
"Oh my God, how can you rain so heavily?
Who has such a huge injustice?"
Just as the old lady finished her words, a piece of the wall in her house fell off with a click. She seemed to be startled and leaned towards Chen Jianguo with a cry.
Chen Jianguo held her hand with one hand and supported the wooden board with the other. After everyone was seated, he pushed the board out of the room.
Before the two of them left the yard, the house collapsed with a loud bang.
The mud and water hit Chen Jianguo, and with a loud rumbling sound, many comrades came over here.
Zhou Yiwei stood aside, looking at the situation in front of him, his deep eyes gloomy.
When he saw Chen Jianguo and the villagers come out safely, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
But please don't get into any trouble.
Chen Jianguo moved the people to a safe place. Committee member Zhou shouted to Chen Jianguo, "Jianguo, take a few people to check the granary. The village head and the commune leader are both at the granary.
The granary is safe for now, your mission is to protect it."
"Yes, I got it."
Chen Jianguo looked back at his men and shouted, "Follow me, squad one and squad two, and protect the granary."
We need people, and we need food.
Chen Jianguo led a group of people to the granary. The terrain near the granary was high and the flood soon came up.
The village chief and the commune captain dug a canal next to the granary, trying to divert the water through it, but the speed was too slow.
When the branch secretary saw this group of people, it was as if he had seen a life-saving straw.
"Comrades, you are finally here.
The granary is about to be flooded, what do you think we should do? "
"Fellow countryman, do you have a nylon bag?"
"Yes, yes, yes. Nylon bags are used to hold food. What are you going to do with them?"
"Fill the soil and sand and surround the granary first."
When the branch secretary heard this, he said anxiously, "That won't do. This is to load grain. If it's used to load sand, there won't be any grain left."
Chen Jianguo was speechless about this idea, but the soldiers and civilians were one family, so he couldn’t lose his temper at this moment, but he couldn’t help but yelled: “The situation is urgent, do you want food or bags?
If you don't bring it, when the flood gets higher, I think your granary will be washed away."
The team leader said anxiously: "Yes, Secretary, please take it out quickly, it will be too late if you don't take it out now."
The branch secretary stamped his feet in anxiety, but finally took out the nylon bag.
Chen Jianguo led people to fill sand into bags, and others followed suit.
I worked like this until the next afternoon, for more than thirty hours without a break.
Xu Zhaodi slept for two hours. After waking up from her sleep, she got up, wiped her face casually, took a big black umbrella and carried a backpack, and went out. She met Li Wenhui downstairs.
Li Wenhui has already settled the child.
"Girl, what's in your backpack..."
"I was worried that they didn't have enough food, so I steamed hundreds of buns last night."
Li Wenhui admired him but at the same time, she felt remorseful and guilty.
Why didn't she think of it?
To put it bluntly, even if she thought of it, she wouldn't be able to steam so many steamed buns with all the coarse grains and fine grains at home.
"Sister, I didn't think of this. I'm really sorry."
"Don't say that, let's go."
The reason she didn't tell anyone else was because she knew that such behavior would put invisible pressure on other family members in the compound.
"Let me carry it."
"It's okay. It's not a big deal. When you get tired later, you can carry it."
The rain had been falling for two days and two nights, and it had finally stopped.
Both men were wearing cloth shoes and their trouser legs were rolled up to their knees.
It was not yet completely light, and not long after I left the compound, I could hear the sound of rushing water.
The two walked forward for a short distance when they heard the sound of a car behind them.
Xu Zhaodi and Li Wenhui were standing on the sidelines when they saw a military off-road vehicle approaching from not far away.
The car stopped when it passed in front of them, and a young comrade got out of the car. Xu Zhaodi had seen this man before, and he was Commissioner Zhou's driver.
The driver had said bad things about Xu Zhaodi in front of Commissioner Zhou before. After being criticized by Commissioner Zhou, he was deeply impressed by Xu Zhaodi.
He got out of the car and walked to Xu Zhaodi and said, "Sister-in-law, where are you guys going?"
Xu Zhaodi didn't expect him to stop the car suddenly, let alone get out, so she hesitated for a moment.
"I'm going to the town ahead to deliver some food to everyone. Do you want to go to town?"
"Yes, I'm in town to help. Sister-in-law, get in the car and I'll take you across."
"Then I'll trouble you."
Xu Zhaodi politely got into the car with Li Wenhui.
After the driver got in the car, he looked at Xu Zhaodi twice more through the rearview mirror. He had to admit that this woman had changed a lot and her vision was very different.
At this critical moment, she can be so generous. Just for her behavior, he will admire her for the rest of his life.
Normally it only takes ten minutes to drive to the town, but it had been raining for the past two days, making the road difficult to drive on, so they were a few minutes late.
As soon as Xu Zhaodi got off the car, she was led by the driver to come before Committee Member Zhou.
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