The happy little days of the Ye family

The rain fell harder and harder, and the rainwater on the roof gathered together and flowed down the eaves, like a waterfall under the eaves.

The rain was so heavy that the water in the yard had no time to drain out. The water in the yard accumulated more and more, and it looked like a small pond at first glance.

Fortunately, when he was building the house, Mr. Ye specially asked someone to raise the foundation of the house, so that water did not flood into the house.

Not only has Ye's house turned into a small pond, rainwater has flooded into the house in some low-lying areas, and the water level in the river is getting higher and higher.

Mr. Ye thinks this rain is the heaviest rain in recent years.

The south is already humid. When it rains, even the air is humid. Mr. Ye quickly put away the honeysuckle again to prevent it from getting wet.

There is often a fire in the kitchen and it needs to be drier inside. Mr. Ye puts all the honeysuckle that has not been dried in the kitchen.

Mr. Ye looked at the rain falling more and more outside and felt very anxious.

The summer harvest is just over a month away, and now that it's raining heavily, this year's summer harvest will probably be even worse.

Due to the heavy rain in Taohua Village some time ago, the villagers picked a lot of mushrooms and bamboo shoots on the mountains and earned some money from Father Ye.

But it's not much. After all, there are more wolves than meat, and the little things on the mountain are not enough for hundreds of people in the village.

After this heavy rain, we can still pick a batch of mushrooms and bamboo shoots. Together with the honeysuckle grown by the villagers, we should be able to sell it for a lot of money.

Mr. Ye estimates that the money he earns should be enough to pay this year's grain tax.

Most of the elderly people in the village have experienced famine years, and every household has some food reserves.

The little food left in the fields, plus the food stored at home, should barely last until the end of the year.

Mr. Ye has given up hope for the summer harvest. He only prays for good weather in the second half of the year and a good autumn harvest.

There were still some unfinished honeysuckle on the mountain. Mr. Ye looked at the heavy rain outside and muttered:

"It's raining hard and fast, and a lot of honeysuckle on the mountain will probably be knocked down. All this is money."

When he thought of the honeysuckle that had been knocked down by the rain, Mr. Ye felt heartbroken. They were all in vain.

It rained heavily all morning and the yard turned into a small pond. Fortunately, the rain gradually subsided in the afternoon.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. It rained heavily again in the evening. The water in the yard was just drained out and turned back into a pond when I slept.

It rained heavily at night, and the rain fell on the roof, making a dripping sound.

It is said that it is easiest to fall asleep on rainy days, but with such heavy rain, many people are too worried to fall asleep.

The Ye family's house was newly built a few years ago. The roof is made of tiles. The roof tiles were inspected a few days ago, so there is no leakage in the house.

The Tang family next door was not so lucky.

Even though the tiles on the roof had been re-inspected a few days ago, after all, the house is old and there are many broken tiles on the roof.

There were many leaks in the house. Tang Xiaojing and Tang Shan took out all the basins and buckets that could be used to hold water in the house and placed them in the leaky areas to fill them with water.

Even the place where Dahuang and Xiaohuang slept was wet.

Tangshan looked at the rainwater leaking from the roof and regretted not replacing all the tiles on the roof.

Tang Xiaojing took the basin filled with water outside and poured the water into the yard.

Tang Xiaojing came back with the empty basin, put it back in its place and said to Tang Shan:

"Dad, I sold more than 100 rabbits in the past few days and earned seven or eight taels. I can also pick a batch of mushrooms after the rain."

"And we can harvest another dendrobium crop by the end of the year. How about we knock down this house and build a new big house by the end of the year."

Tangshan nodded, "Sooner or later the house will be built. If you build it earlier, you will suffer less."

Tangshan still has dozens of taels of silver on hand, and this house will be built by the end of the year.

The rain didn't stop for the next few days. The rain was sometimes heavy and sometimes light. When it was heavy, it was like there was a hole in the sky, and the rain poured down in basin after basin.

Whenever the water was about to flood into the house, the rain gradually became lighter. When the rainwater in the yard drained away, it continued to rain heavily.

Fortunately, it didn't rain heavily all day. Although the water level in the river remained high, it did not cause flooding.

In the lower reaches of the river, there are official patrols every day. If the water level is too high, people are quickly evacuated to a safe place.

Fortunately, when the river was dredged last year, the county magistrate ordered that the lower reaches of the river be widened.

The lower reaches, which suffered from frequent floods in previous years, were barely able to survive. Although no floods were caused, a lot of fertile farmland was flooded.

Not far from the river, villagers often howl and cry at the flooded paddy fields.

It rained heavily for several days. On the fourth day when the rain was heaviest, several old houses in the village collapsed.

Fortunately, it was daytime and everyone escaped, with only a few people suffering minor injuries.

The village chief placed the people in the ancestral hall, and then took people to other old houses in the village and brought the people to the ancestral hall and settled them there.

Ye Qingqing heard Mr. Ye talking about the collapse of several old houses in the village, and thought of the old house over there at the academy.

"It's been raining so hard these days. The old house over at the academy is in disrepair. Will it collapse too?"

Old Mrs. Ye thought that half of the old house had already collapsed. It had been very windy and rainy these past few days, so it was probably completely collapsed.

Mr. Ye also felt that the old house was in danger, "I will go to the old house to have a look after the rain stops."

It rained continuously for five days. It was not until the night of the fifth day that the rain gradually became lighter. It finally stopped when it was almost dawn.

After the heavy rain, the weather was very nice. When the rooster crowed in the yard, the sun had already come out.

The good weather that Ye Qingqing had not seen for a long time even felt that the sun was a bit dazzling.

After breakfast, Mr. Ye couldn't wait to take the men at home and hurried to the paddy field at home.

Mr. Ye arrived quite late. As soon as the rain stopped, many people rushed to the fields without eating breakfast.

The situation this time is better than the last heavy rain.

Although it rained heavily for several days, the grains on the rice were all in good condition, and only a few were knocked down in the fields by the rain.

Father Ye and Ye Donglin were left in the paddy field by Mr. Ye, who asked them to quickly drain the water from the paddy field.

Although there is no shortage of water in the paddy fields, you cannot always soak in the water. Occasionally, you need to drain the water out and let it bask in the sun.

Mr. Ye took Ye Xilin to the cornfield.

The situation in the cornfields is worse than that in the paddy fields. The strong wind will break a lot of corns.

The broken corn was cut down directly by Mr. Ye and Ye Xilin.

The two men carefully lifted the corn that had been blown down, and added a layer of soil to the roots.

Not long after the two were busy, Father Ye and Ye Donglin came over to help.

The family's long-term worker was also busy saving corn on the small back hillside.

After finishing working on the family fields, Mr. Ye took people up the mountain to pick mushrooms and dig bamboo shoots.

After working like this for half a month, after picking all the mushrooms on the mountain, Mr. Ye had time to go to the town to see the condition of the old house.

Sure enough, as Mr. Ye had guessed, the old house almost completely collapsed, leaving only the hall and two main rooms.

Although the house collapsed, there are still many intact blue bricks inside.

Mr. Ye went back and called the family's long-term laborer, and pulled the family's carts and donkey carts over to transport the bricks.

The hall and the two main rooms have not collapsed, and the roof and beams are still in good condition.

Mr. Ye had already taken a fancy to these beams, and together with the long-term workers, he dismantled all three beams and placed them in the cellar.

Mr. Ye also specially brought a lock and locked the cellar door.

The old man plans to take these green brick leaves back to build a pig pen.

The green bricks we brought back last time were used to build rabbit sheds, and these were just used to build pig pens.