Ye Jianguo returned home when it was already completely dark.

The rain was not so heavy at this time, but it was still drizzling.

The children all went back to their rooms to sleep, and Miao Cuifang was laying the blanket.

"How's the situation in the village?"

"Three houses in the village have collapsed, and the walls of another seven or eight houses are crooked. There are only dozens of people living in them."

Ye Jianguo took off all his wet clothes.

Miao Cuifang: "Fortunately, our home is on high ground. I see that the road at the bottom has already started to accumulate water. If the rain doesn't stop, the house will be flooded."

Ye Jianguo: "Not only the house, but also the food in the fields, all gone."

Baishi Village originally did not have large tracts of farmland, and food was very scarce. Now after the flood, there is nothing left on the land.

Miao Cuifang was also worried: "Let's buy more food now. Although the price of food is high now, it will definitely be higher in the fall if we have a good harvest."

Ye Jianguo nodded and said, "Let's discuss it with my brother and buy it together."

Eating is a big deal, so naturally you can be careless.

He said slowly: "We have to save the money for the two children's education. Although the school will give subsidies if they are admitted to university, we can also make sure that the children live a tight life outside.

And second brother, those who have girlfriends outside, don’t always send money home, keep it for your own use in the future.”

Miao Cuifang: "I know all this."

For a moment, Ye Xiaoxiao listened to the sound of rain outside and felt a little confused.

It's raining.

The mining disaster described in the original book must have happened.

Although Ye Changqing did not stay in the mining area this time for various reasons, what about the others?

Many people died in this mining accident.

It rained for three days and half of the low-lying houses in the village were flooded.

There are nearly twenty families who now have no place to live and are crowded into the brigade's yard.

"Village chief, what should we do with our house? Everything is gone."

"The state can't control us."

Zhang Rengui also had a headache. "We are not the only one that has been hit by the disaster. Some places downstream have also suffered from floods, which are much more serious than our situation. Things have different levels of urgency. We can solve things on our own, but we are not causing trouble for the country."

"After the rain stopped, I hurried home to get my things so that the dangerous building wouldn't collapse and hit anyone."

"We have been living and eating in the brigade for the past few days. The food is provided by our village and is free."

Zhang Rengui's words finally appeased the group of people.

But he was even more worried, and discussed with the village party secretary whether he could go to the county town earlier to apply for relief grain. Seeing that there was no harvest this year, he had to make plans early.

The problem of flooding in the village has not been resolved yet, and bad news has come from there.

Because the road was easy to travel, the news of the Donggou mining area collapse did not spread to the village until seven or eight days later.

There were more than a dozen people in the village who worked there as temporary workers like Ye Changqing, and three of them died in the accident.

The mining area has now blocked the news, saying that it is investigating the accident.

The survivors of the village secretly ran back and told the news to the villagers.

When Ye Changqing heard the news, he was very depressed.

He even suspected that it was his own problem. If he had persuaded them more at that time, those people might have changed their decision and returned to the village with him.

Although Ye Changqing tried hard and this matter had nothing to do with him, he still felt guilty about it.

Ye Xiaoxiao knew what Ye Changqing was thinking.

I could only advise him: "Brother, it's a good thing you're back. Of course, our family must be suffering just like other families right now. We should think more about the good things."

Ye Changqing: "I knew all three of the dead people. Because they were temporary workers and not part of the official establishment of the mining area, they wanted to get more money, so they could only increase their working hours and do all the dirty and tiring work.

If I hadn’t tried so hard, I might be in trouble now.”

Ye Xiaoxiao: "It was just a safety error in the mine area. The family should be able to get compensation."

Ye Changqing shook his head and said, "There is not much compensation for temporary workers."

Ye Xiaoxiao immediately knew what to say, she knew too little about the situation in this area.

The mining area has not yet notified the victims' families of the accident.

The families of the victims in the village are ready to go to the mining area to find out what happened.

As someone who had left the mining area, Ye Changqing also wanted to help these families, so he took the initiative to ask someone to go with him.

The village organized two ox carts to take these people to Donggou.

The Ye family went to the village entrance to see Ye Changqing off.

Just after meeting up with the families of the victims, a woman with disheveled hair suddenly rushed towards Ye Changqing in the crowd.

"You! You must have known something in advance, so you returned to the village early! My Yusheng said that because you left, their shifts changed. If you hadn't left, my Yusheng would have died."

This emotional woman is Zhang Yusheng's wife.

The two were still exchanging letters a week ago.

Before, Ye Changqing was a team leader in the mining team. After he left, Zhang Yusheng took over Ye Changqing's position.

The team leader is exposed to more things than other people and needs to be more active.

Zhang Yusheng was one of the victims in this incident.

But his wife blamed all the mistakes on Ye Changqing, asking others to understand.

But after hearing what the other party said, the others looked at Ye Changqing with strange eyes.

Ye Xiaoxiao frowned.

Although this is nonsense, it can make the other party splash all the dirty water on Ye Changqing. Otherwise, the villagers will believe this statement and think that Ye Changqing has harmed people.

"Although your husband is dead, you can't keep messing around here. My eldest brother has been back for a month. Who could have guessed that there would be such a heavy rain?

The scheduling issue is more of my eldest brother's responsibility. Should everyone else except your husband die?"

Ye Xiaoxiao's words woke up the others, especially the person who secretly ran back to report the news.

"Sister-in-law Yusheng, this matter has nothing to do with Brother Changqing. Brother Changqing took care of us when we were in the mining area.

After the shift change, it was Brother Yusheng who took the initiative to ask me about the shift change. He said he wanted to buy me a silver bracelet. "

The young man's words made Yu Sheng's wife, who had just been roaring, speechless in an instant.

She sat on the ground paralyzed as if all her strength had been drained away.

In fact, she didn't know that Ye Changqing was innocent. She just wanted to find a way to vent.

The village chief Zhang Rengui shouted at the side: "Mrs. Yusheng, you are too emotional. If you really want to go to the mining area, you should stay at home first."

"I'm going to go, I'm going to go see Yu Sheng."

She is so pitiful that no one dares to say anything more about her.

Zhang Rengui and Ye Changqing went to the mining area with the victims' families, thinking that they had to get an explanation.

Watching the two cars of people leave, Ye Xiaoxiao and the others went back.

On the way back, the Ye family was relieved that Ye Changqing had left the mining area early.

But now they may be one of those sad families.