Ancient natural disasters: The whole family traveled through time and was almost wiped out

Chapter 50

Jiang Xiubai had just started to gnaw on a chicken leg when a gong sounded. His father stood up suddenly, put his hand to his mouth and pulled it. He only had time to eat a piece of chicken skin before he was dragged out the door.

"I've been busy all day, Dad! Let me eat something! Dad!" Jiang Xiubai stumbled and almost cried out: "Mom——"

My chicken legs ahhhh!

"Be good, we'll eat after the meeting. I have a feeling this meeting must be very important! My memory is average, you come and help me remember it!" Jiang Yida dragged him away forcefully without saying a word. Jiang Xiu's pale and skinny body, like a chicken, had no power to resist at all.

"The village head's house is right next door. If you have forgotten anything, just ask!" Jiang Xiubai couldn't break free and could only kick his legs. He was really mad!

"You know nothing!" Jiang Yida started running.

The ancestral hall meeting is such an important event, of course you have to be present throughout it. If you can’t remember, let me ask you again, why don’t you wait until you die to eat it?

Jiang Xiubai nearly fell to his death. For the sake of his life, he had to run after them. Jiang Yipei watched the backs of the father and son getting farther and farther away, like they were being chased by a dog.

Old Master Jiang had been waiting in the ancestral hall. He was wiping the ancestral tablets one by one, muttering to himself that he would pray for the ancestors' blessings, hoping that their Jiang family would be healthy and safe during this rainstorm.

Other members of the Jiang family also entered the ancestral hall one after another, and each of them was required to offer three incense sticks in front of the tablets of their ancestors.

Then find a place to stay.

As more people came, they began to chat with each other, and the topic was all about the new thing of the day - the harvester.

Jiang Xiubai was the driver, and there were people around him, chattering and asking him all kinds of questions. He responded in a few words, glancing at the three animals and fruits on the table from time to time.

Woohoo, he is really hungry...

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"Apei is here." Old Master Jiang put down the last ancestral tablet he had wiped and waved to Jiang Yipei who had just arrived to come to his side.

Old Master Jiang is the youngest brother of Grandpa Jiang Lizheng, and the uncle of Jiang Lizheng. He is the most senior person in Jiangjia Village.

"Grandpa." Jiang Yipei helped Old Master Jiang sit down, and then helped Jiang Lizheng sit on the main seat next to Old Master Jiang, and he stood on one side. At this time, the ancestral hall, which was originally a little noisy, suddenly became quiet. Everyone looked at Jiang Lizheng and Jiang Yipei, mainly Jiang Yipei.

He just stood there, but gave people a sense of oppression.

He is indeed a promising young man who used to be an official!

Old Master Jiang looked at Jiang Yipei several times. Seeing that he had no intention of speaking, he couldn't help but say, "Apei, what did you say today about the heavy rain in March that the Imperial Supervisor mentioned? Tell us in detail what your plan is and what the plan is so that everyone can have a general idea."

Jiang Yipei nodded and said, "The Imperial Astronomical Observatory predicts that there will be a torrential rainstorm that will last for three months at the earliest in ten days and at the latest in fifteen days. Today, the yamen runners came to the village with the county magistrate's handwritten letter. Everyone has seen it. It is not false at all. So what I mean is that the village must prepare early, otherwise when the rain comes, everything will be too late."

"Oh my!" Old Master Jiang was so anxious that he almost slapped his thigh: "Just tell me what to do! Don't just keep preparing! What are you preparing for! You are so funny talking in official language at home!"

He was also anxious, and all the words in his mind came out without warning. It was too late to take them back, so he threw the jar into the air: "I am an old man, without brains, and I don't understand what you are saying. If you have something to say, just say it directly. You have read a lot, have a wide range of knowledge, and have been an official. Just tell us what you want to do and what you want the villagers to do. We are peasants, and we don't have brains. We can't think so comprehensively. You better pay attention! We will all listen to you!"

Old Master Jiang really couldn't be angry with him. This kid had been an official for so many years that he started to speak in a very different way.

Who are you guarding against!

Some of the more flexible people in the village, such as Jiang Yida, were the first to stand up and said, "Yes! Big brother, I will listen to you. What do you think we should prepare?"

"I also listen to big brother."

"We listen too!"

"And I!"

"..."

The villagers expressed their opinions one after another. They did not doubt the authenticity of the rainstorm. Those with quick minds would definitely want to follow Jiang Yipei's family, while those with simple minds would want to follow Jiang Yipei's family even more.

Admiring the strong is human nature.

The rather successful Jiang family is the target of Jiangjia Village's pursuit.

Seeing the scene he wanted to see, Jiang Yipei's smile was harder than AK's.

This old man!

Jiang Yipei really wanted to slap him in the face!

So presentable!

The road was paved under his feet, so Jiang Yipei naturally had to walk up. He stood in front of the ancestral seat with a solemn expression: "Everyone said they are willing to listen to my arrangements, but to be honest, I am afraid I don't have the ability to do so."

"You kid! You don't have this ability. Who else in the whole village has this ability?" Old Master Jiang was unhappy. It was time to be humble. He was going to die!

This is the truth and no one can refute it.

Jiang Yipei smiled helplessly: "Grandpa, I am really not being modest. I will not hide it from you. The situation in the future will be a hundred times or a thousand times more serious than you think."

He sighed, "You know, the continuous rainstorms for three months are just the beginning. Even if the rainstorms stop, no one knows when the water level will recede. After the flood, there will be a great epidemic. We don't know what will happen next. Frost is coming soon. The Imperial Astronomical Observatory has predicted that this will be a cold winter. It may snow here. If it snows, the winter temperature will be more than ten times colder than usual. It will freeze people to death!"

Jiang Yipei skillfully used the Imperial Observatory as a cover, which made the villagers feel disheartened.

Every time Jiang Yipei said something, the villagers felt their hearts sink. Just by listening, they didn’t know how they could live. When they heard the word “snow”, the tense strings finally broke.

"It's snowing?" The ancestral hall was in an uproar.

As a farmer who has lived in this southern mountain valley for most of his life and has never seen snow, I feel freezing just by hearing about it.

Old Master Jiang's lips trembled. As one of the few people in the village who had personally experienced the flood fifty years ago and had a vivid memory of it, Jiang Yipei's words immediately brought back memories that he did not want to recall.

That year, heavy rain lasted for more than a month and the village was flooded. The entire village moved to Yunling Mountain, which saved the people and prevented them from being washed away by the flood. But when the rain stopped, the water was still there.

After living in the cave for more than three months, the tribesmen began to fall ill one after another, and there was not enough food - the harvest from the fields was soaked before it could be harvested, and the new crops had not yet been planted.

By the time everything was settled down, more than half of the tribe members had died, and almost all the old people, children and women were gone.

"Brother Pei! You have to think of a way!" Old Master Jiang grabbed Jiang Yipei's hand and burst into tears: "We still have time, make full preparations, we must all survive this time! They are all your uncles and brothers, you have always loved your brothers, you can't just ignore them!"