Now, the director of the Revolutionary Committee is busy, and other village leaders are also busy.
Only Zhao Xiangdong, the captain of the Haha Brigade, was happily drinking wine at home and watching the rain outside, not in a hurry at all.
Haha, the other people in the team were also relaxed. They had already got everything ready. What needed to be cleared was cleared, and what needed to be repaired was repaired.
Yang Mumu was moving the sandbags in the house to block the door.
After Gu Xingzhou finished his side, he ran over to help.
Yang Mumu simply gave the job to him and helped him hold the umbrella.
"Fortunately, you helped me raise the door with stones earlier. Now, if I put a few sandbags there, I don't have to worry about rainwater flowing back into the house."
"Well, I'll put a few more bags in. It's raining so hard."
"good."
Gu Xingzhou moved the sandbags skillfully.
Yang Mumu saw Song Yan coming over to help Liu Qingwan carry the sandbags. Looking forward, Xia Zhizhi went to help He Yuan carry the sandbags to the door. The two of them carried them very slowly.
Yang Mumu took a handkerchief and wiped the rain off Gu Xingzhou's face and body, then pointed over there and said:
"Hey, after I'm done here, go help He Yuan move some things over there, and call them over too. It's raining heavily now, so it's perfect for us to sit together and play, and then make something delicious together."
"OK."
After Gu Xingzhou put the last bag away, he took the umbrella from Yang Mumu and walked over there.
Yang Mumu went back to the house to prepare the things needed to make tea around the stove. This weather was the best for doing this. It would be most comfortable to sit together and chat and drink tea.
After a while, Gu Xingzhou came with Xia Zhizhi, He Yuan, Liu Qingwan and Song Yan. Everyone of them had something in their hands, and of course, some food was included.
Xia Zhizhi shouted happily inside: "Mu Mu, we are here!"
Yang Mumu waved to them, "Come in quickly, I've been waiting for you. Look, my stove is ready. Let's sit down and eat, play and chat."
"Here I come."
He Yuan ran in first with a plate of melon seeds and peanuts, and couldn't wait to put the food down and sit down.
The few people behind hurriedly put the things they brought on the table, and sat around the stove in the middle on stools.
Song Yan patted the box in his hand and said, "I brought some chess. If anyone wants to play, we can play a game."
"I'll do it."
Gu Xingzhou moved a small wooden board and placed it on the bench. The two sat together and started playing chess.
Yang Mumu and a few of her sisters sat together chatting, eating melon seeds, and drinking tea. Then Yang Mumu simply took out a ball of wool and started knitting a sweater. She was doing something with her hands, which did not interrupt the chat at all.
Liu Qing was knitting a sweater for the evening party, and there were sweaters in the house now. When she saw Yang Mumu knitting, she ran back to the house and got a ball of wool to knit a sweater together.
He Yuan doesn’t know how to knit a sweater. She looked at Yang Mumu on the left and Liu Qingwan on the right, feeling very curious.
"Wow, Mumu, Qingwan, you knit so beautifully. Can you teach me? I want to learn too."
"And me, I want to too." Xia Zhizhi didn't know how to do it either, so she quickly raised her hand when she heard He Yuan's words.
"Sure, come sit next to me and I'll tell you."
Yang Mumu took out four thick needles for knitting scarves from the bag of wool balls and handed them to He Yuan and Xia Zhizhi.
Liu Qingwan brought a stool next to him and said, "One of you can sit next to me, and we can teach one each."
"Then I'll sit next to Qingwan." Xia Zhizhi took the needle and thread and sat over happily.
With one-on-one teaching, the two of them quickly learned how to knit and only knew the simplest stitch. They were both very happy.
Yang Mumu gave them an old sweater and asked them to unpick the stitches and knit it for fun.
The two people were standing on the side, one making a ball of yarn and the other holding a sweater. After a while, they had taken the sweater apart and made two big balls of yarn.
Each person took a ball of wool and happily began to knit a scarf using the stitches they had just learned.
Yang Mumu and Liu Qingwan did not even need to look down, their hands were knitting very quickly, but their entire state was just chatting leisurely, and they were able to do two things at once, which made the beginners next to them very envious. After they started knitting, they did not dare to look up to chat, for fear that they would make a mistake or miss a stitch.
"How did you do this?" He Yuan clapped her hands anxiously.
"It's good once you've gotten used to it." Yang Mumu watched her pick up the needle slowly, one stitch at a time, and smiled, "Don't be impatient, take your time, knit a few more times, and you'll be able to do it, too."
Xia Zhizhi knitted enthusiastically: "I can now feel the fun of it."
Liu Qingwan nodded: "It's a good thing to feel the fun, and slowly your speed will get faster and faster."
"Then I'll weave slowly for a while." He Yuan slowed down and calmed down.
The two of them are quite talented. Before long, they both improved their speed and were able to look up and chat with each other. This progress made them like this activity more and more.
"Hey, I'm pretty good at this. I must knit a scarf for myself." He Yuan felt very accomplished and looked up at Yang Mumu. "Mumu, do you have any extra good yarn? Give me some. I want to start knitting one for myself right now."
"Yes, choose for yourself." Yang Mumu stood up and opened the closet. Seeing Xia Zhizhi beside him also looking eager, he waved at her, "Zhizhi, if you want, you can come over and choose. I have a lot of wool balls here."
"Haha, okay, okay, I need it, I want to choose, thank you Mumu."
Xia Zhizhi ran over happily. She and He Yuan squatted down and each chose a color. He Yuan chose gray and Xia Zhizhi chose black. They both held the ball of wool and took out money from their pockets and handed it to Yang Mumu.
Yang Mumu did not refuse and took the money naturally. The two of them became happier immediately. They took their own balls of wool and needles and started knitting with great enthusiasm.
We found something interesting to do, and every day when it rained, we all got together. The women knitted, and the men played chess and were responsible for cooking when the time came.
The heavy rain that had been falling for five days finally stopped.
Yang Mumu has finished knitting a sweater.
As soon as the rain stopped, Yang Mumu followed the captain and other team leaders to check various places in the team to see if there were any collapsed areas and whether any members were injured.
After the round, the members of the Haha Brigade were safe and sound. Only the water levels in the fields and the sea rose a lot. Several slopes close to the mountain were washed away by the floods coming down from the mountain. The entrance and exit roads of the Haha Brigade to the commune were blocked, and a section of the road close to the mountain collapsed severely.
The captain was not panicked at all. He ordered his men to clear out the collapsed areas in various parts of the brigade.
As for the road that was severely collapsed when the team was leaving, there was no rush. I went back and made a phone call. The telephone line had not been affected yet. After calling several times, I successfully got through to the commune.
"Director, the mountain road leading to and from our team has collapsed. We are requesting support from the commune leaders."
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