Defeat natural disasters with farming

The village formed a new team, Ye Hai and Ye Zhouyuan formed a group, they are responsible for guarding the main gate today, and they only need to guard for an hour before changing shifts.

Because the tower has a roof, it is not exposed to the sun, so it is not very hot. After Ye Hai returned home, he fetched a basin of water from the well and washed it for a while to cool down a lot.

Mrs. Ye handed him the towel in her hand, looked at the sky and said, "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and tomorrow is the first day of Chinese New Year. I didn't expect this year to go by so quickly."

Old man Ye laughed and said, "That's right, you have to eat something good for the New Year's Eve dinner. In the evening, you can cook the fish that the eldest daughter-in-law sent over. Is it the so-called surplus every year?"

Aunt Ye nodded when she heard this, "I remember that there is also a piece of bacon at home, and it is another good dish to stir-fry with dried bamboo shoots."

You must have a good New Year's Eve dinner, and I hope you will have a good year in the coming year.

With a good vision, the Ye family began to prepare for the New Year. The daughters-in-law cooked in the kitchen, and the men brought their children to post Spring Festival couplets. This year's Spring Festival couplets were written by Ye Yu himself.

"Intensive cultivation and careful cultivation will lead to a good harvest, and the years of diligence and thrift in housekeeping will last for more than a year."

He has practiced calligraphy for several years, and although he is not as good at writing as Ye Tongsheng, he can still be said to be full of ink and ink, at least it is more than enough to write a pair of Spring Festival couplets.

Father Ye pasted the Spring Festival couplets on the door, and praised: "Brother Bao is visible to the naked eye, the more you write, the better."

Before Ye Yu could reply, Ye Jing raised his head and boasted proudly: "That's right, Mr. Ye is always praising Brother Bao for being the most talented student he has ever met."

"What about you?" Ye Laoer, who jumped off the stool, asked quietly, "Did Ye Tongsheng praise you?"

Hearing this, Ye Jing looked at the sky and the earth but didn't look at his father, causing the rest of the people to laugh.

After pasting the Spring Festival couplets at the gate, they each went to the room to paste blessing characters. These blessings were also written by Ye Yu, and then cut out of lotus flowers. The ink was smooth and full on the door.

Ye He looked at the word "Fu" and suddenly said, "I want to eat sticky bean buns." I don't know how he associated the word "Fu" with sticky bean buns.

Today is Chinese New Year after all, so his father didn't scold him, he thought for a while and said, "Speaking of which, we haven't made sticky bean buns this year, so we need to make a few, enough for a meal."

The old lady Ye who came out of the kitchen happened to hear this, and replied: "There are still a lot of yellow rice noodles and red kidney beans at home, I will make some for you to satisfy your gluttony."

"Milk is the best!" Ye He cheered.

The family didn't eat anything during the day, and they waited until night for the New Year's Eve dinner. Did the rooster survive? It was made into a small rooster stewed with mountain delicacies. There was also a pickled salted fish and a braised pork dish on the table. The vegetables were green vegetables. Tofu is very refreshing.

It is said to be rich, but it is not as good as last year.

Ye Yu took a sticky bean bun from the curtain and put it in a bowl, sprinkled sugar on it, and started to eat it after the surface of the sticky bean bun was evenly coated with sugar. It tasted soft and sweet, and it was still warm.

Mei Zizi finished a New Year's Eve dinner, except for the head and tail of the pickled salted fish, there was nothing left of everything else.

Especially the sticky bean buns, two of them just finished eating.

Just after eating, before they started to clean up the bowls and chopsticks, Ye Yu saw Xiaomi raising his head vigilantly, circling the food bowl anxiously, barking twice from time to time.

He was very puzzled, and he couldn't help squatting down to comfort him: "What's the matter?"

Before he finished speaking, Ye Yu suddenly felt a slight shaking under his feet. He was taken aback for a moment, then jumped up immediately after realizing the reaction, and shouted loudly at his family: "Dilong turned over! Run!"

Father Ye's reaction was the quickest. He picked up Ye Yu, dragged the people and ran out. Most of the others didn't react, but they ran out after seeing their movements. Xiaomi was no exception. It still ran the fastest one.

It was just a slight tremor at first, and Father Ye had time to run and shout to remind other people in the village, but it didn't take long before the tremor became more intense, and they didn't have time to talk anymore, so they concentrated on running towards the flat place.

The most flat place in the village is the ancestral hall. Although they fell several times on the way, they finally arrived safely. The more violent shaking of the ground made Ye Yu frowned tightly. He wanted to vomit but couldn't. Discomfort.

As the rubble fell, Father Ye and Mother Ye hugged Ye Yu tightly, and the three of them hid under the thick pillars of the ancestral hall. They could only hear the rumble of the house collapsing and the screams of panic coming from nowhere. .

I don't know how long it took, but the movement caused by the earthquake slowly stopped. Ye Yu moved his hands and feet, realizing that he was not injured, so he slightly opened his eyes and looked outside, only to see dust floating in the air, even The sky was covered, and everything was gray.

"Second and third, are you all right?" Old man Ye shouted, spit out the dust from his mouth, and he was followed by Ye's family.

"I'm fine, father and mother, are you okay?" Father Ye stood up slightly, he was worried about Ye Yu standing by himself, so he simply carried him on his back, and then took Mother Ye's arm to join the family.

As soon as Mrs. Ye saw Ye Yu, she quickly took him over and looked at his whole body carefully. She was relieved that she didn't see the wound.

Not long after, Ye Lao Er and the others also came. Except for Ye Jing who accidentally fell when running out and broke the skin on his leg and arm, the rest of the family were not seriously injured.

"What's going on here?" Boss Ye was so anxious that sweat was dripping from his face.

"Don't worry about what's going on, hurry up and see what's going on in the village." Mrs. Ye rested her waist with one hand, panted and said, "I don't know if our house has collapsed."

Seeing this, Ye's mother supported Mrs. Ye, and asked worriedly: "You have a back problem again?"

"Maybe it was stretched just now." Mrs. Ye sat down slowly according to her strength, and rubbed her waist.

Just as Father Ye wanted to go out to have a look, there was another shock. Now no one dared to move around, they honestly stayed in the ancestral hall for a stick of incense.

After the aftershock passed, Father Ye and the others couldn't wait to run out.

As soon as he saw what the village looked like after the earthquake, Father Ye's heart sank inch by inch. Almost one-third of the houses in Yejia Village collapsed to the ground, even if there were a few houses that did not collapse, there were cracks.

There was a sound of crying and howling along the wind, Father Ye gritted his teeth and cursed secretly, then staggered to avoid the debris on the road and trot towards the village chief's house.

The village chief's house was built with blue bricks and tiles, so it was quite strong, and it was one of the few houses in the village that did not collapse. But at this time, the whole family knelt outside the house, crying terribly.

Village head Ye was no exception, they all said that a man would not flick his tears lightly, but he was kneeling on the ground crying until his heart broke, and Father Ye's eyes were slightly red when he heard the cry.

After a while, the village head's wife, who was crying out the name of her youngest son, passed out without mentioning it.

"Mother!" The eldest son of the village head's family quickly took his mother.

Village head Ye wiped his face and ordered: "Take your mother to the ancestral hall to rest for a while."

"What about you, dad?"

"I am the village chief." There was firmness in his hoarse voice.

After watching his family members leave, he turned around and discussed with Father Ye, "Let's go and count how many people in the village...are still alive."

Father Ye sighed heavily, and the two of them walked around the whole village, feeling a little more fortunate in their hearts, probably because every household was eating New Year's Eve dinner when Dilong turned over, so they started running out the moment they felt the shock, only three A third was crushed under the rubble.

Young and middle-aged adults who were not injured were individually selected by the village head Ye, and asked them to help rescue the villagers who did not escape in the village.

The old, weak, sick and disabled were sent to the ancestral hall, where they were taken care of.

When Ye's father followed Village Chief Ye to rescue in the village, Ye Boss and Ye Lao Er had already returned home. Fortunately, their house was strong enough, except for the shed in the backyard that was knocked down, other places were in good condition, oh No, one of the six sheep in the family had its leg broken, and the other had died after being smashed to the head. The remaining chickens and ducks were also terrified and shivered in the ruins.

The room was full of dust, the bowls and chopsticks were dropped on the floor, the big pot made of ceramics was smashed into petals, and all kinds of objects were not in their original positions.

Seeing this, Boss Ye picked up the pannier that had fallen on the ground and shook it. After shaking off the dust, he put some urgently needed things into it, such as dried sweet potatoes to eat, towels and so on. Stay in the ancestral hall for a while, fearing that there will be aftershocks in the future.

Ye Laoer was not with him. He went to the backyard to clear a space for the livestock, and poured water and feed into the trough.

When he came back, he discussed with his brother: "I think our two sheep have to be slaughtered as soon as possible, and the one with the broken leg probably won't live long."

"It won't work today, let's wait until tomorrow to see if there will be aftershocks at night, if not, come back directly tomorrow."

The two quickly reached a consensus, and each of them carried a basket on his back and walked carefully around the bricks and stones on the ground to the ancestral hall.

At this time, the ancestral hall was crowded and noisy, the wounded were in the hospital, and the people whose family members were buried under the ruins were crying. Coupled with the sweltering and hot weather, it was hard to breathe.

Fortunately, the two Doctors Hao are safe and sound, and they are treating the wounded one by one, but in the absence of herbs, the most they can do is to sprinkle a layer of medicinal powder on the wound, or fix the wound with a wooden board.

After Mr. Ye came in, he put the basket aside, and whispered to Mrs. Ye, "The third brother is in the village with the village chief."

She nodded to show that she understood, then took out a towel from the basket, submerged it in the basin, wrung it dry and applied it to Ye Yu's face.

Ye Yu was sluggish at this moment, probably because of the dust in the air that caused him some difficulty in breathing, and there was always a stuffy pain in his chest.

Seeing this, Mother Ye was worried, and looked up from time to time to see if the two Doctors Hao were free.

On the other side, Dr. Hao had just fixed a villager's broken arm with a wooden plank when he saw Mother Ye waving at her. She wiped off her sweat and strode over.

"My mother's waist is uncomfortable." Seeing her coming, Mother Ye said hastily, "I guess she stretched it when she escaped."

When Mrs. Ye heard this, she waved her hands and insisted: "I'm fine, let Brother Bao take a look first."

Ye Yu was still a little conscious, and just as he moved the corner of his mouth to speak, he saw Doctor Xiao Hao's hand on his wrist, so he had no choice but to shut up.

Doctor Xiao Hao looked normal, and it took him a while to make a diagnosis: "This child is allergic to dust, and I don't have herbs at hand now, you can cut a piece of clean cloth and cover his mouth and nose to prevent dust, so that he will feel better. "

Then she checked Mrs. Ye's pulse again, and it was still the same old problem, so she had to rest.

Mother Ye followed Doctor Hao's advice when she was young, and tore a clean white cloth and tied it around Ye Yu's nose and mouth. I don't know if there was a psychological effect. Ye Yu did feel better, at least her breathing was much easier.

It was late in the evening when the earthquake occurred, and after such a long time of tossing, it is estimated that it is already late at night, and the movement in the ancestral hall is getting smaller and smaller, and many people are slowly falling asleep.

"Hey, let's sleep for a while." Mother Ye spread the mat on the floor and coaxed, "You get up tomorrow and we can go home."

Ye Yu couldn't help but want to laugh when he heard his mother coaxing the child, but just as he opened his mouth, he sucked in a mouthful of dust, so he coughed non-stop.

"Slow down." Mother Ye hurriedly opened the water bag, which contained freshly cooled white water. She brought the water bag to Ye Yu's mouth and fed him some water.

"It's okay, I just accidentally choked on it just now." Ye Yu regained his strength and waved his hand and said, "Mother, don't worry."

Mother Ye nodded when she heard the words, hugged him and leaned against the pillar together, the mother and son gradually closed their eyes and fell asleep.

Before closing his eyes, Ye Yu was still worrying about whether there would be aftershocks and whether his father would be injured in the village, but as soon as he closed his eyes, his physical and mental exhaustion surged up, causing him to lose consciousness immediately. Into dark sweet dreams.

This time he fell asleep without even noticing the movement of the outside world. Ye Yu didn't wake up until the second half of the night when there was another aftershock and Ye Mu carried him to the open space outside the ancestral hall.

Father Ye was so anxious that his face was covered with sweat, he hurried over to take Ye Yu from Mother Ye, and he was relieved to see that everyone in the family was fine.

"Why did it shake again?" Mrs. Ye couldn't help trembling slightly when she heard the cries of the villagers in the open space.

No one knew the answer to this question, and no one could answer her.

The corners of Father Ye's mouth twitched. He thought of the villagers who had been crushed under the collapsed houses and hadn't had time to rescue them, so he closed his eyes again.

It took him a while before he said, "Go ahead and rest."

But no one felt sleepy anymore, and they all huddled up in the clearing until the sun rose the next day.

After dawn, Mrs. Ye stood up and moved her hands and feet, and then cooked porridge with a few daughter-in-laws in a clay pot, and put a handful of dried sweet potatoes in it. After being frightened, eating a hot meal will make people feel satisfied .

The small pottery pots are kept in the ancestral hall all the time and do not belong to their family. Therefore, after cooking the porridge and washing it, it is the turn of other people to use it. Some families whose houses have collapsed cannot get food out, so they temporarily eat with other families.

Dried sweet potatoes are very sticky to the teeth, but when cooked in porridge, they become soft and glutinous, and the bite is full of sweetness. After drinking a bowl like this, people will be refreshed.

Ye Yu blew on the hot sweet porridge and thought to himself, indeed, sweets can stimulate the secretion of dopamine.

After finishing the porridge, Father Ye wiped his face with water, cheered up and said, "We will go to the village to save people, and there are still two families that have not been rescued."

These two families are poorer families in the village. They lived in two yellow mud houses, which were not strong enough, so they collapsed the most. Those two families were the Wu family and the Wang family.

All the uninjured young and middle-aged people in the village were divided into two groups, followed by the village chief and father Ye to rescue people. Father Ye was in charge of the Wu family. He looked at the collapsed Wu family and ordered with a frown, "Clean up everything first. .”

Maybe they were lucky, and when they were halfway through the cleaning, they heard a small sound coming from below. Ye Mingde quickly put his ear to it, listened carefully, raised his head after a while, and said excitedly, "There are people below!"

"Quick, quick." The others moved faster, and quickly cleared a hole.

Ye Mingde poked his head to look down, and saw a dusty girl who was pressed under the wooden beams, but still alive, her eyelashes moved after being exposed to the sun, it was Laidi.

The beam was pressed against her leg, several people worked together to lift the beam, and then Ye Mingde carried Laidi out of the ruins. Laidi's face was pale and her breathing was weak, but fortunately her chest was still heaving. At this moment, Xiao Hao The doctor took her over and hurriedly began diagnosis and treatment.

After Laidi was rescued, they started beating again, hoping that the people buried inside could hear the movement.

In the end, those of the Wang family and Wu family who were still alive were rescued, but there were also those who were not rescued.

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Ye Yu was wearing a dark blue shirt standing on the top of the hill, watching the cigarettes lit up in the cemetery one after another, his eyes were sore.

Mother Ye put her arms around his shoulders and stood with him for a while.

In this earthquake, a total of seven villagers in Yejia Village died, including four with their own surnames and three with other surnames.

"Brother Shu!" Someone suddenly exclaimed, and Ye Yu quickly looked over, only to see Wang Shu, who was kneeling in front of the tombstone, shook twice and fell directly to the ground.

Everyone helped him up in a hurry, some poured water on his face, some fanned him, and some pinched him with their hands, and it was hard for him to wake up.

The aunt next to him persuaded him: "You have stayed up for three nights, why don't you go back and rest for a while."

Wang Shu's body is thin and pale, and he wears sackcloth and filial piety, short on the left and long on the right, tied at his right waist. It is enough to see that he is guarding the spirit of a female elder. His mother is one of the three people with a foreign surname who died due to the earthquake.

He shook his head, pursed his lips and said, "My father is still lying on the bed, and I am the only one who can give my mother a ride."

That's true, the others didn't persuade them when they knew they couldn't be persuaded, but they just took care of Wang Shu a little bit more.

The other two deceased people with foreign surnames belonged to the Wu family, they were Mrs. Wu and her son Wu Dalang, which is also a strange thing to say.

The Wu family did not allow women to sit at the table for the New Year’s Eve dinner, so they had to ask them to eat leftovers, so there were only Wu Dalang and Wu Shitou in the main room, and the main room was the most severely collapsed place in their house, and the father and son were crushed under the beams Among them, Wu Shishi was lucky. The beams and the earthen wall formed a triangle, which protected him. Wu Dalang was not so lucky.

Mrs. Wu was unable to be rescued because of inconvenient legs and feet.

On the contrary, the mother and daughter were feeding the chickens in the front yard. Except for Laidi, who was resting in the house because of discomfort, her leg was injured, everyone else was fine.

I don't know if it's an evil that comes with evil.

After coming out of the ancestral hall, Ye Yu frowned as she looked at the devastated village. The wall that took so much effort was built in vain, and a full third of it collapsed. Most of the houses in the village were uninhabitable. , even if it looks good on the outside, no one knows if the foundation has been damaged by the earthquake, or if it will suddenly collapse in the middle of the house.

What's more important is that the earthquake even changed the terrain. Originally, the Liuhe River was shaped like an "L", but the earthquake changed it into a "Shang". There is a gap half a meter wide, and it is easy to fall in if one is not careful, leaving no bones left.

And I don't know what the outside world is like.

Ye Yu thought of this, his eyes flicked across the ants crawling on the ground, and suddenly remembered something strange, logically speaking, animals should have omens before an earthquake, such as chickens and ducks not returning to their nests, chickens crowing in the middle of the night, dogs barking, etc. , but when the earthquake happened, only Xiaomi had a slight reaction, while the other animals were not at all strange.

He walked home while thinking, but on the way he saw the village chief's grandson rushing to Dr. Hao's house. Seeing this, he sighed again. The youngest person who died was the village chief's youngest son, and the village chief's wife was old After giving birth to a young son, the body was not very strong at first, and now he encounters the sad news of a white-haired man sending a black-haired man. It was a day of tears, and he couldn't even drink the medicine, and he was haggard in just a few days.

This is a heart disease, and Dr. Hao is helpless.

Ye Yu sighed again, feeling that he had sighed more times than before.

Mrs. Ye was cleaning the house at home, when she saw Ye Yu coming in, she asked him, "Where's your mother?"

"Second Master's house is busy, my mother went to help." Ye Yu replied.

The second master was the one whose leg was broken by the locusts. Because of this, he was dying when he was rescued from the ruins, and he passed away not long after. The two of them were related by blood, so Ye Mu Gotta go and help.

"Okay, then go and rest for a while." After finishing speaking, Mrs. Ye lifted the wooden board covering the well and looked inside, only to see that the water inside was muddy due to the vibration, and it was not usable for the time being. .

Everything in the house needs to be cleaned up, especially the sheep with the broken leg. If it is not slaughtered, it will die, but the one they killed before has not been eaten, and there is no way to save it in such a hot day, which makes them anxious.

In the end, the second sister-in-law Ye came up with an idea. She suggested making mutton into smoked meat. The method is also simple. You only need to use the smoke of a wood-fired stove for a period of time, and a layer of smoke will form on the surface of the mutton, which is equivalent to a protective layer. This way the meat can be preserved for a long time.

In addition, you have to beware of the cellar collapsing, and the things inside have to be removed first. All in all, there are many things.

However, it is not without good news. The weather has gradually cooled down since the day before yesterday, and today it is already the usual autumn temperature. At least there is no need to worry about heat stroke and dehydration.

Ye Yu opened the curtain and walked into the room, yawning slowly. He has been sleeping poorly recently and always wakes up in the middle of the night. I don't know if it's because of the earthquake.

He was just lying on the bed when he suddenly thought of something and opened his eyes suddenly. Since the house may be rebuilt at home, why not just make cement out of it. Now the wall is fixed with glutinous rice mixed with lime mortar, which is stronger than pure lime mortar Bigger, but far less than cement.

Moreover, the raw materials needed to make cement are available now, and there is no need to look for them. The only thing to worry about is that the temperature of the charcoal is not enough. You need to find a coal mine to mine coal, and then make a furnace by the way.

Ye Yu flipped through the books in the space, and soon found what he wanted, about the production method of the furnace, and even included detailed drawings.

He looked at it with one eye and two lines, and then firmly remembered it in his heart.