Chapter 57 Storm 1
This summer, there has been a lot of rain. Li Haoran and Ziyi had just deepened and widened the drainage ditches around the paddy fields when they heard the rumbling sound of thunder and the lightning flashing proudly everywhere.
"Fortunately we are back." Li Haoran said while looking outside at the cave entrance.
"That lightning is really scary." Ziyi thought, "If I'm still in the field and don't have time to return to the cave, it will be dangerous. I must think of a way to solve it."
"Yes! There are so many thunderstorms this summer. We didn't have farming before, and we basically stayed in the cave on rainy days. Now we have to go there to work every day. This problem must be solved." Li Haoran also felt that it would be unsafe if it was not solved.
"Find a place to build a wooden mud house not far from the field, where there is plenty of mud," Ziyi suggested.
"Okay. We can build a stove and prepare some food, so we don't have to eat dry food every time we go to work. The tools can also be left there and we don't have to bring them back." Li Haoran agreed.
Thunder roared one after another, and Li Haoran and Ziyi stopped talking, and their voices could no longer be heard.
"Ah!" The scream was so frightening that the thunder seemed to stop for a moment and no one dared to make a sound.
"Yike!" Ziyi ran towards Yike. This was Yike's voice.
Li Haoran also ran into the cave quickly.
Yi Ke, with a pale face, stood by the vegetable garden below the gap in the cave, holding the clothes he had just collected. There was a place to dry clothes. Yike was collecting clothes when she suddenly saw a bolt of lightning like a nimble snake, darting in front of her feet and just about biting her toes. Yike was so scared that she let out a scream.
Ziyi was the first to run in, holding the still-shocked Yike in his arms. He threw the clothes Yike was holding onto the table and checked Yike's entire body, repeatedly asking, "Are you hurt? Where does it hurt?"
Yike came to her senses at this moment and saw Li Haoran and Zhang Yuling surrounding her, with Ziyi touching her body randomly. She felt extremely embarrassed. She quickly held Ziyi's hand and said, "It's okay! Really! It was just that the lightning struck right next to your feet. It was almost there. I got scared. Haha!" "I'm glad you're okay. Yike, next time there's thunder, don't go to collect clothes. Just dry the wet clothes. A person can die if bitten by lightning. Don't go to collect them next time! I was almost scared to death. Lightning is the worst in summer." The aunt wanted to say more but was pulled away by Li Haoran.
Ziyi picked up Yike and carried him back to his bedroom. He put Yike on the bed and started biting him. The sound of his heartbeat was as loud as thunder outside.
Yike knew Ziyi was also scared, so she let him kiss her roughly.
After a long while, Ziyi finally let go of Yike. Seeing Yike's bitten lip, he said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Ke'er, I'm really too scared. I'm so scared of losing you like this. I'm really scared!"
"Don't be afraid! I will definitely stay with you until old age. I will never die before you. I will never let you experience that kind of heart-wrenching pain again. I will be with you for the rest of my life, okay?"
Ziyi seemed to understand what he heard, but it did not prevent him from understanding one sentence, which was that Yi wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. "Ke'er, I love you so much! I can't bear to leave you, and I can't bear you to leave me. I want to stay with you forever. You must remember to protect yourself in the future. Hide in your room when it thunders."
"Okay! I will hide in the room, and you too. We must all live well. It's okay, it's okay. There's no point in fighting, okay."
The two of them comforted each other in the room. Li Haoran and Zhang Yuling stood in their own room, looking through the window at the heavy rain outside pouring down from the big hole in the gap, hitting the vegetables in the vegetable garden hard, pressing the vegetables to the ground and hammering them into the soil.
The howling wind blew the raindrops, which fell on the stone walls, the walls and the roof of the bamboo house like countless bullets. Thunder rumbled and wind howled, as if the sky was about to collapse and the earth was about to fall apart, and life on earth was being ravaged wantonly.
Ziyi and Yike were also drawn out by the loud thunder and rain. They stood in front of the window, watching the violent storm and rain outside with their brutal and destructive power, and worried about the chickens and sheep in the bamboo forest.
"Brother Ziyi, do you think the chicken coop and sheepfold will be blown down?"
"That shouldn't be the case, right? We built it very solidly. The rice seedlings in the paddy field might be blown down, but luckily you reminded us to deepen and widen the drainage ditch, so as long as it's not flooded, we can just prop up the fallen rice seedlings after the rain."
"It was going to rain heavily after this morning, how could I not warn them if I knew so." Yi Ke thought to himself, "It's a pity that those living near the river mouth didn't take precautions in advance. I don't know how many people's homes will be destroyed by the flood this time. Oh! If I go and tell them, I will either be arrested and accused of disrupting social stability, or I will be arrested by those people and locked up in a mental hospital. It's better for me to hide myself."
Although the door of the cave tunnel was closed, the gap in the cave roof was too large, and the wind rushed in with rain, swirling and hitting the stone walls, blowing up the firewood piled on the stone walls and sweeping across the cave. The cave was filled with flying branches and leaves, and was in a mess.
I remember when I was a child, the adults scared us kids and told us that if we saw swirling wind, we should leave quickly, otherwise we would be in big trouble. I didn’t understand it when I was a child, but I realized when I grew up that it was a tornado that would blow children down and scratch them. If the wind was stronger, the children might be swept into the air and fall to their deaths.
The thunder and lightning had had enough fun and went on a journey somewhere else, taking the wind and raindrops with them. Old Man Sun came out again, full of energy, looking at the broken branches and leaves on the ground with a smile, as if it was none of his business.
The birds began to rebuild their nests. The crooked little trees tried to straighten themselves up, waiting for their wounds to heal. The sturdy big trees roared at the distant wind and rain: "Get lost! I'm not afraid of you!" They proudly stood up straight without moving an inch. The little grass with strong vitality struggled in the mud pit and poked its miserable head out.
Yike and his aunt Zhang Yuling cleaned up the firewood that was blown everywhere in the cave. Li Haoran and Ziyi hurried to check on the chickens and sheep in the bamboo forest. They found that the chicken coop and sheep pen were not seriously damaged. Only part of the roof was overturned. They quickly covered the fallen bark back.
"Yike, the chickens and sheep are fine. It's slippery outside, so don't come out. Uncle Hao and I will go check on the seedlings." Ziyi shouted outside the cave and left.
"I feel relieved now. I was really worried just now. There were so many chickens. If they were blown away by the wind, we would have less food." Uncle Hao's aunt Zhang Yuling said as they picked up firewood.
"It's so windy and rainy this time, I wonder what the situation is like outside?" Yi Ke said worriedly.
"There's nothing we can do about it. Natural disasters are unavoidable. Someone will come forward to deal with it."
"The government will be busy again this time." Yike recalled the scene in his previous life when people from all sides came to his aid whenever there was trouble, and he couldn't help but thank his parents for allowing him to be reborn in such a good country. No matter whether it is a natural disaster or man-made disaster, people should not panic. All they need to do is follow the government's instructions.
Now I am also grateful to the time travel god for not traveling to another country. Therefore, I still believe that no matter how difficult it is, people will be able to overcome the difficulties under the leadership of the government this time.
Li Haoran and Ziyi ran all the way, and when they arrived at the paddy field, they found that the water in the paddy field was flowing rapidly along the drainage ditch towards the stream.
Although the water level in the creek rose much higher than usual, the location of the paddy field was chosen at a higher place, and the drainage ditch was wide and deep, so the water in the field flowed out smoothly. The seedlings were not submerged, although they were leaning from side to side like unstable babies, they were still stubborn and refused to fall down completely.
Li Haoran, Ziyi and others went down to the fields, dug the outlet a little bigger to drain water faster, and straightened the crooked seedlings. The sweet potato fields and corn fields were the worst hit. Although there was no accumulation of water, the roots of almost all the trees were exposed, and the soil was washed away by the flood. The kudzu vine lay lazily in the mud, but it didn't seem to care, because its roots were deeply rooted in the soil and it was the least likely to get hurt. The fruit trees in the orchard have all suffered some damage, as can be seen from the fruits that have fallen to the ground.
"If Yi Ke saw this, she would be sad again, because she treasures these fruits very much." Li Haoran said regretfully.
"Don't tell her for now." Ziyi said.
A group of dying goslings emerged from the bushes, their wet fur sticking to their bodies. If Yi Ke were here, he would definitely laugh: "Look at them, they're soaked! Hahaha!"
"I thought the flood washed these little creatures away. They would cry without their little goslings. It turns out they are really smart and know how to hide in the bushes," said Li Haoran.
"Catch them. They can't run fast now. Catch them and raise them." Ziyi said.
So a game of "Eagle Catches Goose" began. However, there are two eagles here, two big men. The goslings fled in panic, but still couldn't escape the clutches of the "eagles".
The goslings struggled in Li Haoran and Ziyi's hands, as if to say, "It's not fair! You two eagles, we don't even have a mother goose, the game is not fair."
hehe! Fairness is written for the strong!
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