With a "bang", the rumbling thunder almost exploded in his ears. Tian Cai was awakened by the sound. He opened his eyes in a daze and saw Mimi squatting on the head of the kang, staring outside with her eyes wide open.
Just then, a flash of lightning streaked across the sky, illuminating almost half the sky. About a moment after the lightning, a deafening thunder was heard.
"Ao" Mimi called softly towards Tian Cai, jumped onto the windowsill, stretched out her paws and slapped the window a few times. After trying several times, she couldn't close it. Then she turned around and called out "Ao" at her again.
It's been extremely hot recently, so Tian Cai always sleeps with the window open at night. Last night, the room was also stuffy, and she thought she would open it for a while and then close it, but she forgot about it when she fell asleep.
At this time, she could clearly feel that the air was much more humid. She closed the window and went back to sleep. Anyway, she had already made all the necessary preparations. Tian Cai patted the edge of her pillow, and Mimi jumped up and lay down obediently.
Listening to the sound of wind and rain outside the window, she didn't know whether the cat was asleep or not, but Tian Cai fell asleep quickly herself.
However, others who were woken up by the thunder might not be able to fall asleep again. Two flashes of lightning were accompanied by a strong wind, and raindrops fell down with the strong wind, hitting the window frames with crackling sounds, which made it impossible for people to sleep.
However, those who had not had time to close the windows could all feel that the moisture brought in by the wind made them feel extremely cool when blowing on their bodies, and the stuffiness of the past few days disappeared.
Many of the children who were woken up laughed happily after they got over their initial fear.
Zhang Defa sat on the kang with a worried look on his face. He glanced towards the window. There were no glass windows in the house so he couldn't see outside at all. However, the sound of the rushing wind and rain seemed to be hitting his ears.
Occasionally, lightning flashes across the sky, lighting up almost the entire house.
Although only for a moment.
Gao Huijuan sat up, draped over her clothes, and asked, "Isn't the rain too heavy?"
"This kind of rain comes and goes quickly!" However, Zhang Defa feels that there is too much rain this year. The last heavy rain has just passed and the temperature has been high for several days. When the crops in the fields were almost dried up, another heavy rain came.
Summer rain is always like this, coming in bursts. Zhang Defa sighed a few times and didn't take it too seriously.
But this time it seemed beyond Zhang Defa's expectations. The rain started to fall in the second half of the night and showed no sign of stopping until dawn.
Apart from the initial thunder and lightning, there was no more thunder and lightning afterwards. However, the sky was covered with thick clouds, and even when it was drizzling, it kept on drizzling.
Occasionally there would be a violent storm, and the water would flow as if someone was standing in the sky and pouring a basin down.
Tian Cai waited until the rain was lighter before he leaned over the window to look out. He felt a little regretful that he had not put his previous idea into action. If he had extended the eaves earlier, he wouldn't have to worry about how to get to the kitchen now.
After hesitating for a long time, she finally put on a straw raincoat and straw sandals and went to the kitchen. The accumulated water in the yard had already reached her ankles. When Mimi saw her coming out, she followed her out happily, walking in the rain with a proud and confident look, and shaking her fur every once in a while.
When it rains, Tian Cai reads medical books at home. The successful acupuncture she gave to Lu Qiuju last time made her more interested in learning acupuncture.
Tian Cai was obsessed with the 720 acupuncture points on the human body and which ones had blood vessels and important organs underneath. This was because the book said that there was no rigid requirement for the depth of acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine, but each acupuncture point had its own suitable depth range for needling, which was related to age, constitution, nature of the disease, location of the disease, etc. She absorbed all the information like a sponge.
With Tian Cai's current memory, she can remember all these things after reading them twice, but in order to avoid making mistakes when using them in the future, she recites them repeatedly and practices them on herself.
Once she focused, time passed quickly.
The rain suddenly stopped in the evening. The villagers were about to go out to see what was happening, but as soon as they left their homes, it started to rain again.
In the second half of the night, it turned into a heavy rain.
Mimi has been running out for most of the day these days, but she hasn't gone out since last night. She follows Tian Cai closely. When she reads medical books, the little guy lies on the mat beside her and sleeps. At night, she also follows Tian Cai to sleep.
In the early hours of the morning, the sharp-eyed and sharp-eared Tian Cai was awakened by a loud noise. She thought it was thunder again, and just as she fell back asleep, she was awakened by the sound of the door.
"Doctor Tian, Doctor Tian!" someone shouted outside, "Doctor Tian, open the door quickly!"
Tian Cai was still a little confused after opening his eyes. He woke up when he heard the knock on the door again. He hurriedly answered the call. He couldn't find a raincoat in the dark, so he simply grabbed a woven bag and put it on. He opened the door and asked, "What's wrong?"
The man wiped the rain from his face and said anxiously, "Old Ding's house collapsed, and several people are buried inside. The captain wants you to go with him to take a look."
Tian Cai was startled and quickly went into the house to get the medicine box and followed him to Lao Ding's house. "How is the person?"
"We've organized people to dig, but the situation isn't good. The two collapsed rooms happened to be where Old Man Ding and his eldest son and his family lived. The other rooms were fine, but they hadn't been dug out when I came. I don't know what's happening to them now."
This house of the Ding family is considered their ancestral home. Because the previous generations had few descendants, by the time of Old Man Ding's generation, he was the only son in the family, so naturally not many houses were built.
Later, Old Man Ding gave birth to four children in one go. When his sons were still young, it was fine as they could just live together. But when his sons grew up, they had to get married, and he couldn't live with his wife after getting married.
So Old Man Ding built a few new rooms next to the original house for his sons to use for their weddings, and he, Old Lady Ding, and the eldest son's family continued to live in the original old house.
The roof of the Ding family's house is made of straw, with a few tiles sparsely placed on it. It has been repaired in a timely manner in recent years.
I don’t know if it was because the rain was too heavy this time or the house was too old, but the wood of the beams was rotten. It was exposed to wind and rain for the past few days and suddenly collapsed in the middle of the night.
The sound Tian Cai heard just now was not thunder, but a house collapsing. It was just because her house was far away from here that the sound didn't sound that loud.
It was the other three sons of the Ding family who first discovered the situation and began to call for help in rescuing people.
Almost half of the villagers woke up, and Zhang Defa directed everyone to move away the broken beams, broken tiles, thatch and rubble.
They called out to Old Man Ding several times outside but received no response. Instead, a faint cry for help came from Old Man Ding's house.
Zhang Defa ordered those who arrived first to rescue those who could still make sounds, and those who arrived later to dig out Old Man Ding and his wife.
The first person to be dug out was Boss Ding, whose face was covered in blood. Tian Cai hurried forward to check on him. The man only looked seriously injured. Apart from a dislocated wrist, he only had a cut on his forehead.
It seemed that he was hit by a fallen tile and then was pinned under the beam, unable to move, which is why his face was covered in blood.
But she didn't dare to be careless, for fear of internal injuries.
Tian Cai carefully took his pulse and found that he was indeed fine. Then he simply disinfected and bandaged the wound and repositioned the dislocated wrist. Tian Cai then returned to guard the collapsed house.
By this time, most of her clothes were wet, and she had no intention of tidying them up.
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