It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

In the context of Dongshan Villagers, "very likely" means that it will definitely happen unless something unexpected happens.

Now that flooding is an established fact, we must do everything we can to reduce the losses.

Jiang Wang asked more carefully this time: "It won't rain tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, right?"

If it rains in the next two days, not only will we not be able to move the things in our houses in time, but we won’t be able to harvest all the wheat in the fields, and it’s hard to say whether the wheat we harvest can be dried.

If the sun doesn't come out and there's no place to dry the wheat, the wheat will get moldy and infested with insects, or even sprout, and the idea of ​​storing grain for the second half of the year will be completely useless.

Wang Juhua only gave a half-hearted reassurance: "If it doesn't rain tomorrow, there's a good chance it will rain the night after tomorrow."

……

If it rains the night after tomorrow, there won’t be enough time.

Let's not talk about moving for now. Even if the villagers stayed up all night to harvest the wheat, they would finish it by tomorrow night at the earliest. Drying it out in the sun would take another two or three days...

Jiang Wang wanted to ask Wang Juhua why she didn't remind him earlier that the rain might fall the night after tomorrow, so that he could arrange for everyone to harvest the wheat two or three days in advance, which would give him much more time.

But before he could even utter a word of complaint, he realized it was pointless. The wheat was still green at the time, so who would be willing to harvest it? They would definitely delay it as long as possible... Besides, no one had anticipated the flood.

Wang Juhua also realized that she had asked everyone to harvest the wheat a little late, and did not want to cause any misunderstanding, so she hurriedly explained:

"I hadn't thought about the possibility of a flood before. I had thought we'd harvest the wheat the day after tomorrow and put it indoors. It wouldn't matter whether we burned the kang to dry it or waited for clear weather to take it out and dry it in the sun."

Let’s leave this matter here and not mention it again.

The most important thing now is to mobilize the entire village, harvest wheat overnight, pack up luggage, and then move everyone into the caves in Tiankeng Mountain to avoid the disaster before the evening of the next day.

Yes, the Tiankeng Mountain cave. Although the flood is imagined to surge out of the mountain, and Tiankeng Mountain may also experience mudslides or rockfalls, the cave is located halfway up the mountain and the terrain is high, so the risk of disaster is very low if you hide inside.

This is the only disaster shelter that the people of Dongshan Village can reach.

Jiang Wang quickly told Wang Juhua, Jiang Yan and Jiang Nian about the arrangements, and then asked the two sisters to notify the villagers. He and Wang Juhua went home, grabbed a piece of steamed bun, a sickle, and went to the field to harvest wheat.

Knocking on every door to notify was too slow, so Jiang Yan and Jiang Nian, who had received the task, discussed it and then made a trumpet shape with their hands, put it to their mouths, and walked along the village road while shouting loudly:

"The village has notified us to hurry up and harvest the wheat in the fields."

"The village has notified us to hurry up and harvest the wheat in the fields."

"It's going to rain the day after tomorrow night—"

"It's going to rain the day after tomorrow night—"

"It's raining hard—there's a flood—"

"If the wheat harvest is not finished, there will be no food to eat——"

"The village has notified us to hurry up and harvest the wheat in the fields."

……

The tranquility of the village was soon shattered. The wooden door creaked and creaked, and even the wisps of smoke rising from the thatched roofs seemed to be blocked and twisted.

When they arrived at the door of Grandpa Jiang Quan's house, the little crybaby Jiang Ning was standing there waiting for them.

"Sister Yanyan, Sister Nian Nian, Grandpa asked me to ask you, why is there such a sudden flood?"

The door next door suddenly opened, and Grandma Sun Yun and Uncle Jiang He leaned out from the left and right to listen.

Jiang Yan and Jiang Nian explained, "Grandma Juhua can tell this rain will be much heavier than in previous years. Plus, our village is at the foot of a mountain, so Grandma Juhua and Grandpa Jiang Wang are worried that not only will the creek flood the fields, but also that a flood from the mountain might flood the village."

"So we plan to have everyone finish their work quickly and move to the caves as soon as possible to avoid disaster."

"Does this mean that our village will be flooded?" Sun Yun summarized the main idea.

"Well...it shouldn't...be that serious." Jiang Yan actually didn't know what would happen in the end.

"Oh, that's possible."

"Okay, I get it. Go ahead and shout." Sun Yun was as quick-witted as ever. "After the village has finished notifying, remember to ask your grandfather to accompany you to the other villages to tell them."

"Okay." Jiang Yan and Jiang Nian responded obediently.