When lightning flashed last night, the people from the old Song family also got up to clean up the firewood.

And waking up in the middle of the night and then falling asleep immediately is undoubtedly not an easy task.

When the embankment of the river was washed away and the rolling floods rushed into Songjiagou, everyone in the village was soon alarmed.

As the flood rushed in, the adobe houses that had been in some years were washed away in a short while.

Although the old man Song’s house was not a brick house, the walls were made of stone.

But if the wall is soaked in water for a long time and is impacted by waves of water, even the stone wall may collapse.

In this case, the best way is to get out of the house and find a safe place to avoid it. But the problem is that water is all in the village, and the water is three or four hours deep.

The water flow from the collapsed dam on the other side of the river is still rushing towards this side. When you go out of the water, who can guarantee safety?

If you are accidentally swept away by the water, it will be really fatal.

Of course, the most important thing is that Song Laoer's wife Wang Ying'er is now erecting her big belly and has reached the stage of labor.

At this time, there was no such statement as expected delivery in later generations.

Even an experienced midwife is only invited to the house when the mother has a stomachache. It is purely vague to predict when the mother will give birth.

Wang Ying'er is about to give birth. If she gets wet in the rain, what if there is anything wrong with it, it will make their family regret it for the rest of their lives.

Song Laoer and Wang Ying'er have been married for many years, but Wang Ying'er has not been moved. Now he is finally going to give birth, but he is not negligent at all.

However, the water was three or four feet deep and had already flooded into the house and was about to flood the kang.

"Dad, mom, the water is almost flooding on the kang, what are you doing?"

Song Laoer looked at the rising water level, and was so anxious that he hurriedly discussed with his father and mother.

"Hurry up, move the bench at home onto the kang, then remove the door panel and place it on the stool, so that your wife can sleep on the door panel!"

Old Man Song quickly came up with a way to deal with it.

Don't say, this method is really quite like that.

After listening to his father's method, Song Laoer turned around and rushed out of the door, rushed to remove the water from the yard.

He sent two door panels back to the house together.

Although the door panel is soaked in water, it is still very suitable to apply it by wiping it and applying a thin quilt on it.

After Song Laoer finished all this and helped Wang Ying'er to the door panel for only a moment, the flood that flooded Songjiagou had already flowed through the Songjia kang.

By this time, everyone could only stand on the kang.

sleep?

Don't even think about it!

Even if you don’t care that the kang is wet with water, the water is very cold and people who are soaked in the water will not be able to withstand it.

"The head of the country, the terrain of our village has been flooded. I'm afraid the villages below have been washed away, right?"

Song's mother looked at Old Man Song sitting on the bench, and sighed, "You said, why are God angry?"

Old Man Song sighed and said, "Who knows this?"

"But, speaking of this, it should have nothing to do with God!"

"If the river embankment was built stronger and the river embankment was not washed open, how could our village be flooded?"

When the river embankment was washed away, the village just blocked it up. However, there was a severe drought last year, so naturally no one cared about the river embankment.

Now, this is the first heavy rain since summer. Although the rain is indeed a little heavier, the rain has broken through the river embankment, which is really too unsolid.

But the river bank had been washed open and the water had flooded the village, and nothing to say was useless.

After heavy rain overnight, nearly half of the house in Songjiagou collapsed, and many people could only temporarily hide in the ancestral hall of the Song clan.

The ancestral hall of the Song clan is located to the west of Songjiagou Village. It is leaning against the gravel drying ground and has a higher terrain.

...

When it was dawn, the heavy rain stopped and the sun came out, Songjiagou was still soaked in water.

There is still a constant stream of river water flowing out from the gap in the river bank.

A villager with good water quality in Songjiagou wades by the water. After seeing the situation on the river bank, the patriarch of Songjiagou rings the gong and everyone has to move to the ancestral hall.

The gap on the Dahe embankment will not be blocked, and the flood that floods Songjiagou will not retreat.

If the house in Songjiagou is soaked in water for a long time, it may collapse in the end.

The villagers in Songjiagou are not allowed to transfer to the ancestral hall.

As a pregnant woman who was about to give birth, Wang Ying'er enjoyed a special treatment. She was carried by Song Laoda and Song Laoer on the door panel and sent to the burger drying ground in front of the ancestral hall.

The rain is clear and the sun is bright.

But for the flooded Songjiagou people, their hard days have just arrived.

Every household was flooded, with food soaked in water, and basically wet clothes and bedding. The worst thing was that they temporarily lost the house to shelter from the wind and rain.

Although it has already started summer, it has rained so hard that the temperature at night may not be very high.

So, every household was moving things from home and finding a place to dry clothes and bedding.

In addition, men have to find wood to build a shed.

It's clear now, and there are not many dark clouds in the sky, and the sun shines. But yesterday it was also a good day. Who would have thought that a heavy rain suddenly fell at night?

...

Songjiagou is busy with the resettlement after the disaster, while the villages below Songjiagou are crying. Because of the low terrain, when the river flows, these villages are truly suffering from floods.

Most of the houses were washed down in an instant, and many people didn't even have time to react, either being flooded by the collapsed houses or being washed away by the water flow. Only a few people survived this natural disaster.

It was already half an afternoon when the county magistrate of Pingyuan County received reports that the river had collapsed and flooded several villages.

The county magistrate who received the news immediately arranged for the yamen in the county and the soldiers guarding the county to go out for rescue.

Unfortunately, the water flow is too fast and the rescue ships and staff are too few. It is really a drop in the bucket for saving the people trapped in the water.

The county magistrate had no choice but to find Mr. Zhou, hoping that the old man would come forward and mobilize the army under the King of Zhennan to come and help with the disaster relief.

"I will try my best!"

Mr. Zhou didn't dare to make a promise. After all, the main force of the army under the King of Zhennan had already set out, and it is still unknown how many people remained in the military camp.

Even if the King of Zhennan agreed to send troops, he would have to send troops.

"Old man, at least four villages in Changping Town have been completely flooded, and more than 300 corpses have been found!"

The county magistrate of Pingyuan County looked sad.

As a parent official in Pingyuan County, he never thought that such a natural disaster would occur during his tenure.

It is summer now. If the bodies of people who drowned cannot be collected in time, it may cause a plague.
Chapter completed!