Defeat natural disasters with farming

The temperature in the cave became lower and lower as time went by, and at night, it was already so low that everyone began to shiver.

Mother Ye spread the straw on the ground, then unfolded the bedroll, and said to Ye Yu, "Come in and keep warm."

Just as Ye Yu wanted to go there, he heard a sudden quarrel outside. He followed the prestige, but because of the dark night, he couldn't see anything, he could only hear the sound.

First came a woman's voice fiercely, "Why do we have to live in a cave? Isn't the village nice? It's such a cold day, anyway, I don't want to stay any longer. Whoever treats the other is a fool. You all What a bunch of idiots to listen to a kid with a hairless head!"

Ye Yu didn't recognize who was speaking, but Mrs. Ye and her daughter-in-law recognized it just by their voices.

Sister Ye pursed her lips and said, "Isn't this Mrs. Li?"

The second sister-in-law Ye echoed: "That's right, this family offended many people when they first came to our village, and they haven't been allocated any land until now. It may be because of this reason that Mrs. Li always dislikes our family. I remember an apricot blossom once before. She was following Dr. Xiao Hao to recognize medicinal materials, so she took her granddaughter to say some nasty things, probably because the girl was dishonest and learned needlework at home, and she came out to show her face every day, and no one would want her in the future."

"I scolded her at that time. This person is a bully. Once I scolded her, she didn't dare to gossip again."

Ye Yu had heard of Mrs. Li's name, but he heard it from Ye Minghui, and what he heard was not good.

I said before that Yejia Village requires both men and women to go to school, as long as they are six years old, but Mrs. Li doesn't let her grandchildren go to school, no matter how much Ye Tongsheng's daughter-in-law persuades her.

You say she is patriarchal, she is not, no matter men and women are treated equally, they are not allowed to go to school, you say she is stingy, but the cost of going to school in Yejia Village is not much, basically every household in the village can afford it come out.

So until now Ye Yu didn't know the reason for her disagreement.

But this is not important, what is important now is Mrs. Li's family who are criticizing Sang Huai outside.

Ye Yu listened intently, and soon heard Xiaojiu Xing's voice, "Okay, don't make trouble here, Brother Gui, why don't you hurry up and take your mother back."

Another simple and honest voice that sounded should be Brother Gui, Li Gui, that Uncle Xing was talking about, "My mother is just worried about the chickens and ducks at home, or let us go back."

Hearing his words, everyone frowned. It seemed that the whole Li family thought so.

At this time, Ye Yu heard Father Ye's voice suddenly raised, "Who else thinks the same? Who wants to go back to the village?"

It is impossible for Mrs. Li's family to be so bold if they only have themselves. There must be others behind them.

Sure enough, Father Ye's words frightened many people. Li Gui hesitated for a while, but still said firmly: "There are no one else, we are just worried about our family."

"Do you think I don't know?"

Father Ye's stern face was very scary, coupled with his firm words, it immediately frightened Li Gui and the others.

Li Gui said: "We don't have any bad ideas, but we just don't understand why we live in a cave when the village is all right?"

After the torch was lit, Father Ye glanced over and knew about the other families that Li Gui was with. These people were the ones he had focused on recently, and they were the unstable factors in the village.

Just as he was about to veto them, his sleeve was pulled by Shen Fu behind him. He looked over without any trace, and saw Shen Fu shaking his head slightly.

This means don't stop them.

Ye Yu also came out at this time, and he said loudly: "Since you want to go back, go back, but the pigs, cattle and sheep in the village are all locked in the shed, and the only thing you can take care of is your own chickens and ducks."

This is to warn them not to use small hands and feet. Once the livestock in the village is found missing, no matter whether it is their cause or not, it will be covered on their heads.

After saying this, Ye Yu saw Li Gui's eyes flickering out of the corner of his eye, and he sighed in his heart, human nature is so.

"It would have been better if I said no earlier, it's moaning, whoever sleeps in the cave is a fool, let's go, pack up and go home." Mrs. Li pulled her grandson's arm, and immediately said impatiently: "Before the sky comes Heituo hurry down the mountain, this day is really a waste of time."

When the Li family went in to pack their things, other families hidden behind them also chose to leave the mountain one after another, most of them were merged into Yejia Village later.

Ye Yu couldn't hold back, and reminded them, "Don't go to the lake for your drinking water, try to go to the newly dug well in the village."

For the time being, he doesn't know whether the volcanic eruption will cause water pollution. If it does happen, the water source exposed to the ground will be the first to bear the brunt, especially the branch of the main river like the Liu River. Even the groundwater has the risk of pollution, but relatively It would be better.

Ye Yu didn't know if they would listen to him, but he had already given what he needed to say, and no matter what happened next, he would have a clear conscience.

When the mountain became quiet again, Shen Fu patted Father Ye on the shoulder and whispered to him: "Since you can't persuade them, why not let them go back by themselves. As the saying goes, good words are hard to persuade, damn it."

Father Ye nodded, "Let's go, let's go in and rest first."

The cave where Ye Yu is located is basically all the original villagers of Yejia Village. After so many years, they have convinced the village chief, so no one left with them. Instead, Ye Tongsheng’s daughter-in-law said angrily: “This group of people really don’t listen to persuasion. , can we still harm them?"

Others agreed one after another, and someone said: "I have to write them down, I don't know if they will become demons again."

Father Ye replied after hearing the words: "Leave this matter to us. It's getting late, you should pack up and go to bed quickly. There are people on guard here at night, so don't worry about safety."

While complaining about the group of people who left, everyone walked towards the place where they slept at night.

Ye Yu lay down in the bedroll, stepped on the hot water bag on the sole of his feet, then heaved a sigh of relief, rolled over to Chu Xufeng's side, and said to him: "Today's incident is not necessarily a bad thing, I can see the village sooner. The unstable factors in the environment are better than sudden accidents at the end."

Chu Xufeng tucked the corner of the quilt for him, "It's true, you can pay more attention in the future."

Ye Yu sighed and continued: "I'm not sure if the volcanic eruption will affect our village, I can only say that I hope it won't."

"Looking at the direction of the volcanic eruption, it should be the capital city, oh no, it's Wangsi City now, and it should be most affected there."

After a volcanic eruption, a large amount of harmful gas will be ejected, combined with rain clouds, it is likely to form acid rain, which is corrosive, and once it falls, it will cause serious damage to fields and buildings.

In this way, what they will have to face is the bare land and the harsh climate environment, and even the severe situation of reduced food production.

Chu Xufeng has been listening carefully to his thoughts, Ye Yu looked at him like that, and laughed while talking, "Okay, don't talk about it, what I said is somewhat unfounded."

"I like to listen." Chu Xufeng said seriously.

Ye Yu clenched his hands into fists and punched him, "I don't want to talk if I like to hear it, my mouth is almost dry."

After drinking a glass of water, the two of them retreated into the quilt and had a good night's sleep.

When Ye Yu woke up early the next morning, the entire cave was dark, only a few fires shone with light.

There is a pot on the fire, and the water they boil in the pot is brought from the village. After the pot is boiled, each person fills a pot, which is enough to last until night.

After washing, Ye Yu covered her mouth and nose and went out to take a look, only to see that the sky was gloomy, the gray clouds were extremely low, and there was a feeling that a storm was about to come.

"It's going to rain." After returning, Mother Ye handed the baked tender corn to Ye Yu.

"Yeah." Ye Yu thought to himself while eating the corn, he was afraid that his words had come true, and acid rain was probably inevitable.

For this reason, the sweet corn is a bit less attractive to him.

Under Ye Yu's worry, the rain finally started to rain in the evening. There were also small snowflakes mixed in the rain. The two mixed together and fell to the ground, smashing many small holes in the snow.

"Ouch." Ye Zhong, who had gone out of the cave, wrapped his head in his clothes and came back, "The rain hurts a little bit, and I saw a hole in Ye Zi."

Ye Yu was quite worried when he heard the words, "Will the roof of the village be smashed out of the hole?"

Mother Ye comforted him: "Our roof is very strong, it's fine."

His house and the collective buildings in the village were all built later, and they will be stronger in comparison, but those houses with wooden roofs are not necessarily the case, and they may even collapse, especially if you don’t pay attention to the construction of the house of those people.

There is also the livestock in the village. Ye Yu can only rejoice now that they were afraid that the livestock would be frozen, so the several shacks were built very solidly.

The pattering rain had turned into a rain curtain at night, and no one dared to go out again. They all huddled in the cave and lit the fire to keep warm.

"I don't know when the rain will stop." Ye He said worriedly.

"It shouldn't be long before it rains." Ye Yu broke the sweet potato in half, gave half to Chu Xufeng, and replied, "I guess it will stop tomorrow, and even if it doesn't stop, it will become ordinary rain."

Now there is no environmental pollution, and only relying on the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides produced by volcanic eruptions, this acid rain will not last long.

"That's good." Hearing these words, Ye He felt a little relieved.

The rain outside the cave gradually fell to the ground, forming puddles of puddles after puddles, which flowed down from low places.

Tick, tick...

Ye Yu's ears were filled with the sound of rain falling, which caused him to stay up all the time. Finally, in the middle of the night, because he was too tired, he squinted his eyes and fell into a half-sleep state, only to be woken up by the continuous roaring sound .

He was startled for a moment, and immediately opened his eyes and looked out of the cave. The sound seemed to come from the village.

The torches were lit one after another in the cave, and everyone was woken up, and there were endless inquiries, "What's wrong?"

But no one knows what happened.

After this incident, Ye Yu couldn't sleep anymore because of worry, he sat up with his clothes on, and looked out with frowned.

He thought that he would have to go back to the village no matter what at dawn. The dozens of people who went back last night didn’t know what the situation was like now, and the condition of poultry and livestock was also worthy of their concern, especially the ones in the trough. The feed does not know whether they have eaten it or not.

Compared with these things, even the vegetable plot at home is a trivial matter.

The next morning, everything went as Ye Yu expected. Although the rain hadn't stopped, the rain was no longer acid rain, but ordinary rain, and there was no burning sensation when it fell on the body.

After eating sweet potatoes, Ye Yu wore a coir raincoat and Chu Xufeng went to the platform on the mountain. From a distance, the two of them saw that the erupting volcano had subsided, and if there were no accidents, it should not erupt again.

"Go back to explore the road first, if everything is fine, we can move back." Ye Yu said to Father Ye after returning to the cave.

"Okay." Father Ye called Ye Zhong, "Let's go back."

"Hey." Ye Zhong responded.

As a result, as soon as they stood at the entrance of the cave, they saw a group of people coming here wading through the water.

This group of people were the villagers who had returned to the village by themselves before. Ye Zhong just wanted to ask why they came, when he saw Mrs. Li jumping in front of Father Ye, pulling his clothes and crying, "Hurry up and save people, save me!" Son and grandson."

"What's the matter?" Ye Zhong asked in wonder.

The villagers standing aside bowed their heads when they heard this, and it took a while for someone to say in shame: "I don't know why a few houses in the village suddenly collapsed last night, and there are still people living inside."

Now they really regret not listening to the village chief and staying in the cave honestly. They stayed in the village in fear for the past two days, especially after several houses collapsed. In the house, I was afraid that I would also be buried under the ruins. You must know that those who have been buried under the ruins are probably in dire straits.

Father Ye and Ye Zhong looked at each other, and Father Ye said decisively, "Hurry up and take people back to the village."

Ye Yu and Chu Xufeng also followed back. Ye Yu breathed a sigh of relief the moment he saw the wall. It may be because the acid rain didn't last long, so the solid inner wall was not smashed out of the hole, and it still stood stubbornly. .

However, several parts of the outer wall collapsed. Ye Yu went to look there, and quickly came to the conclusion that it should be due to the construction process. The wall at that place was thinner than other places.

But it doesn't matter if the wall is down, as long as it rebuilds next.

As for the other collapsed buildings, most of them were the houses of those who didn't care about building houses. Those who cared more bought cement and green bricks from the village. The houses built in this way took a long time and cost a lot, but the construction cost After it is finished, it is strong enough to not be afraid of acid rain for a day or two.

Ye Yu can actually understand those people. It was useless to build a good house when the weather was so hot. After all, no one would have thought that such a situation would happen.