Originally, Xie Beichen was a little worried that Ruan Yu would be disappointed and sad, so he quickly added, "But, Dad said that the reason for the cancellation is because it is confirmed that the pole test will definitely be resumed around the second half of next year!"
"That's really good news."
What Xie Beichen didn't expect was that Ruan Yu was not depressed or sad. Instead, she and Ouyang Mingnuo who was standing next to her seemed to be greatly relieved.
"Ayu can now rest assured and take care of her pregnancy, which will give her plenty of time to prepare for the review. When the exam resumes, she will have more and better options."
Ouyang Mingnuo smiled and said to Ruan Yu, and at the same time, as if he just remembered something, he turned to look at Xie Beichen: "Oh, yes, I haven't told you yet!
We just asked Aunt Du at the entrance of the village, and she said that Ayu is pregnant with twins!"
"...!!"
Xie Beichen was simply stunned.
Ruan Yu felt that Xie Beichen seemed a little strange today, since he knew that she was pregnant with twins.
It would be fine if he just walked with his hands and feet mixed together a few times, but he would sit there in a daze and grin foolishly from time to time, which looked creepy.
Ruan Yu thought about it, but couldn't help but move closer to her mother-in-law, muttering to her in a low voice, "What happened to Beichen?"
"Ignore him, Huanxi is stupid!"
Ouyang Mingnuo glanced at Xie Beichen who was walking out hand and foot, and couldn't help but laughed in disgust: "How about I make you some noodles with chicken soup later in the evening?
Or cold noodles and chicken soup alone? "
"I think we should make cold noodles. It's hot, and I'll add the tender cucumbers that Sister Liu Ye brought me this afternoon. I'll cut them into shreds and mix them with the noodles."
Ruan Yu thought that cold noodles would be more refreshing in this weather.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law discussed it together and quickly prepared dinner and placed it on the small table in the yard.
The weather in July is like a child's face, changing at any time.
The sky was clear a few days ago, but suddenly it started to rain heavily.
The rain started that evening, and by the next morning, the sky and the ground were connected into a line, and it rained heavily for half the day.
It rained too heavily today, so Xie Beichen did not go to the army, but stayed at home to check on his house.
Fortunately, the house was renovated last year, and Xie Beichen arranged to replace the roof with new tiles at the beginning of the year, so even though it was raining heavily at this moment, it did not have much impact on their home.
The drainage ditch behind the house was clogged with fallen leaves. Xie Beichen put on a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat, and spent the whole morning with a shovel and hoe, and finally dug the drainage ditch clear.
With such heavy rain, what I am most worried about is the crops in the fields.
The old branch secretary got up early in the morning and went to the fields. By noon, almost all the able-bodied men in the village had gone to the fields to help drain the water and clear the ditches. No matter what, the farmlands must not be flooded, as this was related to the harvest of the entire brigade in the coming year!
Originally, according to everyone's thinking, such heavy rain would not last for a few days.
But what no one expected was that the heavy rain would last for three whole days.
There were several families in the village who were poor and lived in low-lying areas. Their adobe houses were half collapsed by the flood, so they had to move to an empty house in the educated youth site at relatively higher terrain overnight for emergency treatment.
The old branch secretary looked at the incessant rain, and was so worried that he could only sit at the door of the main room and smoke bags of dry tobacco.
No one wants to see such a natural disaster.
Ruan Yu was also sitting in the main room, looking at the rain curtain outside and couldn't help feeling worried.
"If the rain continues, the river nearby will overflow the dam."
In fact, what Ruan Yu was more worried about was not the river water here, but the reservoir above that they had not yet completed!
The new reservoir dam has not been fully completed yet, but with the current amount of rainfall, can the old embankment of the old reservoir withstand it?
"Normally, there shouldn't be such heavy rain in Kaoshantun!"
Ouyang Mingnuo also frowned as he looked at the rain and fog. This was the Northeast, not the watery south where floods and waterlogging disasters were common.
A few days ago, she talked about this matter with Aunt Hongying. Aunt Hongying also said that people in recent generations had never heard of such heavy rain here!
"I am not only worried about the crops in the fields, but also the dams of the reservoirs."
Ruan Yu raised her hand and drew a simple diagram on Ouyang Mingnuo’s knee: “Look, this is the Baiyunshan Reservoir that we repaired before, and we want to expand it.
However, due to time constraints, the project has not yet been completed. The water storage safety of Baiyunshan Reservoir still depends entirely on the old dam.
I heard from the old branch secretary yesterday that this kind of rain has actually been falling in the upper reaches of the Hunhe River for quite a few days.
If the dam of the reservoir fails and collapses, the several communes and villages nearby will probably be affected.”
"There is no other way now. We can only hope that God will stop the rain soon."
Ouyang Mingnuo looked at the dark sky outside the door and felt that her words were not very confident.
"The terrain here is relatively high. If it were lower, I'm afraid..."
Before Ruan Yu finished speaking, she heard someone outside running and shouting while banging a gong, "Something's happened. Laborers from every household, get your hoes and shovels ready and come out to help!
Come out and help quickly!"
"I'll go and ask what's going on."
Xie Beichen obviously heard the noise outside, so he put on his hat and walked out while comforting Ouyang Mingnuo and Ruan Yu.
Not long after he left, he turned around and walked back, saying to Ruan Yu and Ouyang Mingnuo, "It's over at the reservoir. They said the dam can't hold up and they need help to reinforce it.
People from several nearby communes have been mobilized, and the labor force of every household has to go up."
Xie Beichen didn't say anything, he put on his raincoat when he entered the house, picked up his shovel and walked out without stopping: "Mom, Ayu, I'll go to the gathering first.
You guys should have a good rest at home. It's raining heavily outside, so don't go out!"
Ruan Yu nodded and did not stop Xie Beichen's decision, but just told him to be careful.
Almost all the villagers in Kaoshan Village, regardless of gender, who were able to move out, carried their weapons and went out. Everyone gathered together and quickly ran towards the Baiyunshan Reservoir.
Not only Kaoshantun, but almost all the labor force available in the nearby communes was invested in the construction of the dam.
After all, everyone knows that the dam must not collapse at this moment!
Once the dam breaks, thousands of acres of fertile land downstream will most likely have no harvest this year!
What’s even more terrifying is that the properties of the villagers in several nearby villages will also be washed away by the roaring flood!
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