It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Perhaps it was because the hard work paid off that year, Dongshan Village had good weather and the harvest was exceptionally good.

At the end of July and the beginning of August, everyone had harvested the corn planted in Tiankeng Mountain and the village, and after paying taxes, the amount of food left at home was nearly twice as much as in previous years.

The villagers' apprehension about the conscription never materialized. Aside from a brief rumour at the beginning of the year, there was no further news from the county town. Perhaps the officials in the government had entertained the idea but, for some unknown reason, abandoned it midway.

Jiang Yan also followed the villagers to the mountains to pick wild fruits and chestnuts, dig holes and set traps. If he was lucky, he could bring back a few pheasants and rabbits, and everyone would share the meat to improve their meals.

She ran around every day, busy all day long. Finally, before the first snow fell, she saved enough food and firewood, hid in the house to keep warm for the winter, and took the opportunity to take apart the clothes left by her mother and mend them as new clothes for the next year.

If the harvest next year is as good as this year, she can use part of the food rations and dried vegetables to exchange for new cloth and make herself a new set of clothes, Jiang Yan imagined while sewing.

Unfortunately it backfired.

Dongshan Village had just celebrated a long-awaited lively New Year, but within two months, Grandma Juhua discovered that this spring was a bit dry.

The long-awaited rain did not arrive until the end of May.

The water levels of the two streams flowing out of Xiaoqing Peak have dropped visibly. The situation in Tiankeng Mountain is slightly better and not as severe as the drought outside the mountain.

But corn sowing requires moist soil, and wheat also needs water during the jointing period...

The people of Dongshan Village check the condition of the land several times almost every day, and if the land is dry, they carry buckets of water to water it.

They persisted until early June, when the wheat had just turned yellow. Grandma Juhua then told Jiang Wang to take people to harvest it quickly.

She was worried that heavy rain in the next few days would affect the harvest.

This time, Jiang Yan and Aunt Yu Qian's family lived very close to each other when harvesting wheat.

Jiang Nian brandished his sickle and walked closer to Jiang Yan while cutting wheat. He asked in a low voice, "Yanyan, Grandma Juhua said that it might rain heavily in the next few days and affect the wheat harvest. Do you see any signs of rain?

She is so amazing, I can only see the sun and can’t even find a cloud.”

Jiang Yan shook his head, indicating that he couldn't see it either.

She used to rely on the weather forecast when going out, and it seemed like the weather was against her many times. If the forecast said rain, she would take an umbrella but it didn't rain, and if the forecast said no rain, she would get soaked without an umbrella...

However, after following a weather blogger and following several extreme weather forecasts and reports, I realized that "sudden changes in the weather" really do exist.

Even if there has been a drought for several months, or in places like deserts with little rain and water, hail, heavy rain and floods can come at any time.

"There are probably not many people in our county as capable as Grandma Juhua. She said if it was going to rain hard it would definitely come.

I'm a little worried. What if the rain is too heavy and the mountains flood and we're all drowned? What should we do?"

Dongshan Village is located on the east side of the Qinshan Mountain Range, and the water vapor intercepted by the high mountains is easily retained and falls here.

If the flood rushed out from Xiaoqing Peak and washed away Dongshan Village without leaving a single tile... Jiang Yan had been feeling a little uneasy these days, and the more he thought about it, the more worried he became.

"It shouldn't be...right?" Jiang Nian looked at Jiang Yan's expression and became nervous as well.

"I shouldn't be so unlucky."

Jiang Yan made two "pooh" sounds, indicating that the unlucky words were invalid, and then said to Jiang Nian with a trusting expression,

"If anything bad happens, Uncle Jiang Fa and Grandpa Jiang Wang will definitely find a way to solve it. Let's get back to work first. Eating is the most important thing."

I thought they were tired, so I walked over and asked them to go to the shade of the tree to drink some water and rest, but I didn't expect Jiang Wang, who had listened to the whole thing, to say: "..."

Since the good things didn't work and the bad things did, he began to worry. After work, he would go to Wang Juhua to find out.