Chapter 205

The next day, the heavy rain outside was still falling, as if it had been choking for a whole year. Now it was hard and happy, and it was urgent and heavy.

On the third day, early in the morning, someone wanted to go to the opposite cave to pick vegetables. As soon as he opened the thick curtain of the cave, he suddenly found that the water in the valley was almost at his feet!

"No! The water is coming in! The river is in

The cry of panic attracted everyone. Everyone was shocked to see the water coming in at the entrance of the cave.

Originally, the barren Valley has become a turbulent river. The water splashes against the wall. From time to time, water splashes into the cave, leaving a pool of water stains on the ground.

It's still raining heavily outside, and the rain is pouring into the river, constantly contributing to the height of the river.

"Will we be flooded here?"

"Patriarch, what should we do?"

Compared with the previous drought, plague and mountain bandits, this little thing is nothing at all.

After a brief surprise, everyone soon regained his composure and discussed what to do.

The patriarch pondered for a while and said, "it's estimated that the rain can't stop for a while. Five men, put on coir raincoat and go out with me to have a look."

A moment later, the patriarch took five men out of the cave and climbed up the hill from the fast river. All of them were wet through.

We watched eagerly as they climbed up the mountain, because the cave hindered our view. Soon we could not see these people.

However, Li Changting and Li Jing, who are the most skilled in martial arts in the village, have all gone. Everyone is not worried about the safety of the clan leader.

As soon as we went, we didn't see the patriarch until noon.

He went out dry and came back wet. When he entered the cave, all six of them were dripping water, even their hair was wet, so there was no dry place in the whole body.

"Go back to take a bath and change your clothes!" Cried Aunt Li anxiously.

The patriarch wiped the rain on his face and said with a smile, "I haven't been in the rain for a long time. It's so cool!"

Everyone urged the patriarch to go back and change his clothes. Don't get cold again!

Fortunately, some of the men who went out had expected that they would cook the water ahead of time. They went back to take a hot bath, poured a bowl of thick ginger soup, and then nestled on the Kang to warm themselves.

An hour later, the patriarch called for a meeting.

"We climbed all the way from the hillside to the top of the mountain, and the hillsides on both sides turned around. The rain washed a lot of soil down, and the soil under it was a little soft. I doubt that there might be a landslide. Of course, it's not necessarily there, it's just possible."

"In addition, we followed the river and went over the mountain in front of us. We had a look on the other side. The water potential there was stronger than here. There were a lot of mud, stones and branches in the river. All of them were blocked at a fork. But if the water potential increased again, the water level here would certainly rise. It would be sooner or later that we would submerge."

When the patriarch finished, everyone frowned. If the water flooded in, they would have to move away. But where could they move when the rain was pouring?

The village has been burned. Can we dig the cave again now? And they moved, the weather is not warm, there is no Kang is also a hard thing.

"Patriarch, what do you say to do?"

Everyone looked to the patriarch for help and trust.

The patriarch said: "my way is to block the entrance of the mountain, so that the water doesn't come in. The bathhouses on both sides are dug from the outside. You don't have to worry about them, but the big mountain cave and the latrine on the opposite side can only let them go. The bamboo basket in the big mountain cave is put in the cave here first, and the latrine is dug again."

Look at the entrance of the cave. Fortunately, for the sake of concealment, the entrance is not big. It should be possible to block it tightly with stones or boards.

"It can't be stopped." Xu Qing said in a voice, "you can't see it. Although the entrance of the cave is small, the wall of the cave near the outside is very thin. Once the water rises as high as the cave, the water pressure will squeeze through the wall."

"Then we have to fill this cave and leave a passage to draw water." Someone suggested.

Everyone glanced at the cave in front of them. The cave was not so big at first. They dug and widened a lot in the back. If they buried it, it would be a big project.

The patriarch looked at Xu Qing and said, "ah Qing, just tell me what you can do for reference."

Xu Qing frowned: "I do have a way, but I don't know if it's feasible. It's better to block than to dredge. You must know that the end of this cave is the underground river. The crack is 100 meters deep, no matter how much water is poured in, it can hold. So I think it's better to dig a ditch from the entrance of the mountain to the crack. If the river flows in, the water will flow directly along the ditch into the crack, so that we won't be flooded. "

In front of his eyes, the patriarch patted his thigh and said, "that ditch has to be dug deep and wide! Dig down obliquely and dig through the crack directly! "

"Yes, dig ditches! Why didn't I think of it! "

Everyone suddenly realized that this method is really good."But once the river is too turbulent and the wall of the mountain is penetrated by water pressure, we may still be flooded, so we need to dig ditches and reinforce the wall of the cave," Xu said

The patriarch nodded: "yes, yes

Xu Qing then said, "but these are just to prevent our side from being flooded. There's nothing we can do about the opposite cave."

There are hundreds of bamboo baskets in the mountain cave opposite. In winter, we planted some cold resistant vegetables, but most of them were frozen to death. Now most of the bamboo baskets are empty, so we wait for the spring weather to warm up before planting.

The ditch is dug from the entrance of the mountain, so the bamboo basket on the opposite side must be moved quickly before digging.

Li Changting had just put on his cotton padded clothes. Not long after, he went back to change his autumn clothes and trousers. The current was too fast. Several men held hands and began to drip.

The distance between the two caves is six meters. There is no such long board to build a bridge. At last, we found out all the long bamboo poles in the village and built a long bamboo raft. The two ends of the bamboo raft are fixed at the entrance of the mountain with ropes, so that we can cross the river on the bamboo raft.

The current just passed the bamboo raft, and it was more stable when they stepped on the raft. They took off their shoes and socks, rolled up their trouser legs, and quickly moved their bamboo baskets from the opposite side to the spare cave.

At this time, the ice that we tried our best to store before is not only useless, but also takes up space.

Only when the ice was thrown away could there be a place to put the bamboo baskets. After struggling between the ice and the bamboo baskets for a while, everyone finally decided to throw the ice away. Anyway, there was still water in the underground river at the driest time. Now they are not short of water. What they lack is food.

In the early spring with cold air, everyone was busy and hot. In one afternoon, they emptied the big cave opposite and moved all the useful things.