portable space

Coming out of the space and placing Cai Yazhi on the kang, Zhang Taiping was about to walk out again.

Cai Yazhi quickly asked: "What else are you going out for?" She went out late, so she didn't see the pond water overflowing the shore, nor did she go to the river and see the big whirlpool in the river that cut off the river, so she didn't know

What did Zhang Taiping go out to do again?

"It's nothing. I'll go to the river to get the shovel and gourd back." Zhang Taiping put on his raincoat again and replied.

After leaving the door, I saw a flashlight swaying by the river where I put the gourd. I felt a sudden rush in my heart and hurried towards that direction.

When we arrived at the river, the person holding the flashlight heard the patter of rainwater under his feet and shined the flashlight in this direction.

"Is he the handsome man?" the old village chief's voice said.

Zhang Taiping looked into the river and saw that the whirlpool was still there. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Why are you here now, uncle?"

The village chief removed the flashlight from Zhang Taiping's face, shined it on the shovel by the river and asked, "Is this your shovel?"

Zhang Taiping nodded, suddenly thinking that it was the dark night that others did not have the same vision as him, and might not be able to see the nod, so he replied loudly: "Yes, Yazhi and I were worried about the pond overflowing, so we came out to take a look.

Yazhi accidentally sprained her foot, so we just sent her back."

"It's really easy to twist your feet because the floor is full of water. Is she okay?" the old village chief nodded and asked.

Zhang Taiping replied: "It's not serious, just rest for two days and it will be fine."

"That's good," the village chief began to tell the reason why he came here. "It rained too much at night and I was worried, so I got up to take a look. Who would have thought that the river had even submerged the road, and there was water everywhere and no people.

A place to put your feet. But the strange thing is that the rain has not stopped, but the water inside has become smaller, and the road surface has also emerged. I am afraid that the water has flowed elsewhere, so I will take a look along the river."

He shined his flashlight on the whirlpool inside and said, "I didn't expect this phenomenon to happen here. With such a big whirlpool, all the river water upstream seems to be sucked in."

Zhang Taiping echoed: "I was also surprised just now, so I took a look here."

The old village chief frowned and said, "Could it be an underground river? Just like the underground river in your pond?"

Zhang Taiping nodded and said: "It's possible."

"I just don't know if so much water flowing into the underground river will affect the well water."

"We'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out."

The old village chief sighed: "Well, we can only wait until tomorrow. The rain is really too heavy." After saying that, he turned around and left, but not in the direction of his home. It was obvious that he would still arrive there.

Look elsewhere.

Zhang Taiping looked at the back of the old village chief and made a slight noise. Grassroots cadres who serve people wholeheartedly like this are already rare. It is really a great blessing to have such a village chief in the village.

After waiting for more than an hour, when it was close to six o'clock in the morning, the thunder stopped and the rain also lightened down, leaving only a drizzle.

Zhang Taiping looked at the sky and saw that it was getting late, so he summoned the gourd out of the water. As soon as he thought about it, the gourd stopped sucking water, and the river water upstream began to rush down again. However, there was no heavy rain at this time, and the river would be overflowing.

It was getting smaller and smaller and was already within the capacity of the river, and could not spread to the roads on both sides of the river bank.

I grabbed the gourd in my hand and weighed it. It was still as light as before, as if so much water didn't flow here last night. I immersed my mind into the inside of the gourd. It was as calm, deep, blue, and nothing as ever.

A sense of vitality.

Not long after Zhang Taiping put the gourd into the space, a villager came up the river with a straw hat and a shovel. Even the person who slept deeply last night could feel the heavy rain last night. In the morning, the road was flooded by river water.

They were startled, and they all wandered around to look.

After returning home with the shovel, Cai Yazhi was still asleep. She was really frightened and tired after all the fuss last night. Zhang Taiping did not disturb her and quietly left the bedroom, followed by Wukong who was tiptoeing.

Just after washing their faces, a lot of little things came over to beg for food. Zhang Taiping flipped his hand and gave Wukong a big peach and gave Xiao Xi some strawberries. Two parrots who usually foraged for food by themselves also came to join in the fun.

Zhang Taiping also gave them two some strawberries.

It is estimated that no one in the family slept well last night, and they all got up early in the morning. The flaming red fox disappeared without a trace again. The three little foxes were so hungry that they kept chirping. Fan Ming was not there.

When I had time to wash myself, I went to the backyard to express some goat milk and came back to feed the three little foxes with bottles.

Zhang Taiping went around the garden again. The water in the pond last night was so wild that some of the lavender was submerged, but it was not too serious. The ground was completely soaked by the rain, and it was impossible to put a foot down.

What was brought up was a big ball of mud, which was really inconvenient to walk, so Zhang Taiping did not force his way into the ground to check.

When she returned to the house, Cai Yazhi had already gotten up and was making breakfast.

Zhang Taiping asked: "Why did you come down? How do your feet feel?"

"It's nothing serious. I just looked and saw that the swelling has gone down. I can't feel any pain when I step on the ground and don't twist my ankle at will." Cai Yazhi turned around and thought about Zhang Taiping and said with a bright smile.

Zhang Taiping asked Cai Yazhi to sit on the bench and forcibly took off her shoes to take a look. It was not because he had any bad habits, but because this was something he couldn't do carelessly. Although spraining his foot is not a big deal, if the treatment and rest are not adequate,

It will leave the root of the disease, which is what rural people call a "familiar injury". It will be easy to do it again in the future. If you are not careful, you will twist your foot again at the same place on the ankle.

After checking it carefully, I felt relieved. It was indeed nothing serious. The purple and bruises had disappeared, and there was no trace of any twisting last night.

After putting on her shoes, Zhang Taiping added: "Although it seems that there is no problem, you'd better rest for a few more days and stop walking around or doing any work in the past two days. Do you hear me?

"

Cai Yazhi's face turned red as if she had applied a layer of rouge, and she nodded gently when she heard this.

Fan Ming came in early and waited for Zhang Taiping to finish his work before asking: "Sister Cai twisted her foot?"

Cai Yazhi gently rubbed her hot cheek and replied: "I accidentally twisted it last night."

"I'll ask Grandpa Zhang to get some for you." He said and prepared to walk out.

Cai Yazhi quickly shouted: "No need, it's already healed." In her opinion, this was really a minor injury, and there was no need to bother with this or that. She was a little embarrassed.

Zhang Taiping knew that she didn't want to work hard for a small matter, and besides, there was really no big problem, so he said to Fan Ming: "Okay, no need, you will be watching over her these two days and don't let her run around.

"

"Yes!" Fan Ming raised her head and saluted with a military salute, then turned to Cai Yazhi, "Hehe, Sister Cai, you will be under my control for the next two days."

After breakfast, the light rain stopped. Although the clouds did not clear up immediately, a glimmer of light finally appeared in the sky.

Zhang Taiping headed towards the village to see what kind of damage the water had caused last night. Wukong also followed him out. He was smart enough to climb on Zhang Taiping's shoulders at the door to avoid getting caught in the muddy water.

Walking in the middle, followed by a lion.

Along the way, the road was covered with two to three inches of sand, which was the aftermath of last night's flood. When Zhang Taiping arrived at the door of the village chief's house, there used to be no one in this place with the most people.

The old village chief is no longer here.

Zhang Taiping asked strangely: "Auntie, why is there no one here today?"

"Did you know that I had a severe fever last night?"

Zhang Taiping nodded to express his understanding.

The village chief's aunt continued: "The water was really too big. Not only did it flood the road, but also the homes near the river in the north of the village were flooded."

Zhang Taiping thanked him and walked north in the direction pointed out. Although the village was far away from the hillside and was not in danger of landslides, it was inevitably close to both sides of the river. If the river water surged, it would be flooded. If it weren't for

Last night he got up in the middle of the night and did something, so it wasn't just two or three houses that were flooded.

From a distance, I saw a group of people gathered around a house, sighing. When Zhang Taiping walked up to him, the old village chief just nodded and said nothing.

Wang Peng came forward and said: "It rained heavily last night and it became wet! Does brother know?"

Zhang Taiping nodded. Their house was on a high ground in the south. The yard was still more than ten meters away from the river. No matter how big the water was, it could not flood the two houses. Wang Peng had nothing to do with this kind of house being flooded.

Personally, I felt that my voice was a bit too loud, but Zhang Taiping stopped me with his eyes and continued to speak.

I went to the house and took a closer look. It was not necessarily true that it was flooded. At best, the water had reached the inside of the house. But even this was not what these old earthen walls built in the early years could withstand. After being soaked by water, half of the wall was covered with water.

It's too soft, and I don't know if it can hold up the upper beams. Anyway, it's a dangerous building and cannot be inhabited.

Zhang Taiping felt a little lucky that his house was built with the earliest old bricks. It may not be as strong as today's blue brick and cement houses, but it is not afraid of rain and wind.

The owners of this house are an elderly couple. Their son and daughter-in-law work outside, leaving a grandson to be taken care of by the elderly. Now that something like this happened, the two elderly people couldn't handle it, so they could only call their son and daughter-in-law to come back. As for this

For two days of accommodation, I could only temporarily stay at my daughter's house in a neighboring village.

There are two other houses that have also been affected, but they are just so serious that people can live in peace of mind once the sun shines.

After comforting the two old men, everyone dispersed. When walking back, everyone was still discussing the matter. Many of them were worried about their own houses, and some were wondering whether it was time to build a cement bungalow.

The old village chief didn't speak during the whole journey, probably thinking about this matter.