It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Jiang Wang arranged to go to other villages to notify them and ask the aunts whether they wanted to go up the mountain to avoid the disaster early the next morning.

It's dark now and it's very unsafe with so few people on the road. If I take a few more people with me, it will delay the wheat harvest.

At night, everyone worked in shifts of two hours. To save time, they did not go home to sleep, but spread straw under the trees beside the field and lay down on the spot.

Li Yue was responsible for setting up a pot to boil water and provide meals by the field.

At dawn the next day, Jiang Da took Jiang Yan to the surrounding villages to update the weather conditions.

These villages had just heard Wang Juhua's news that it would rain heavily the day before yesterday, and with the confirmation of the elders in the village that it would rain, they were now busy harvesting wheat.

Just one day later, Jiang Yan brought news that it might start raining that night, and the rain would be heavier than in previous years. There was also the possibility of a flood that would flood the house.

When this forecast came out, many people listening in the wheat field felt that Wang Juhua was being outrageous this time.

After asking Dongshan Village about their plan to hide in the mountains, he became hesitant again.

One is that, as Dongshan Village said, the water might be coming from the mountains, which would make it very dangerous to stay there. Unlike Dongshan Village, which is close to Qinshan Mountain, they are quite far away, so the risk of flooding may be smaller.

Furthermore, there are no streams or rivers flowing through the village, so people have to walk far to fetch water or draw it from the well, and the water may not reach the village when it rises.

The most important thing is that their land is relatively high in Rongcheng County. If it really floods, they don’t know where to hide.

As for the aunts who asked whether they should go home to avoid the disaster, some felt overly worried and didn't want to go back, some had their parents-in-law still around and hadn't decided whether to go back, and some felt that going into the mountains to avoid the disaster was unreliable and wanted the people of Dongshan Village to evacuate...

Time was running out, and no matter what they finally decided, Jiang Da and Jiang Yan didn't have much time to stay and persuade them.

Just a reminder not to sleep too deeply during the rainy nights and to be more careful. And then ask the aunts who want to escape with the Dongshan villagers to return before the twilight hour tomorrow, as that is the time for the last batch of Dongshan villagers to evacuate.

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It was just noon when Jiang Da and Jiang Yan rushed back to the village.

During the next two hours, the sun was too strong to do much work, so Jiang Wang asked everyone to go home and pack up the important things, and then send them to the cave along with the newly harvested wheat half an hour later.

The people of Dongshan Village have been traveling this road to Tiankeng Mountain for more than a year. The time it took has been reduced from more than one hour and two quarters of an hour to less than one hour.

After putting everything away and taking a short rest, it was almost the evening hour, just in time to start harvesting the wheat.

The whole village worked together and finally completed the wheat harvest before midnight.

As for the corn that was not yet ripe, they could do nothing about it and could only rely on God's blessing.

Everyone rushed back home and packed up their belongings to take up the mountain in the dim light of torches.

Jiang Yan walked around the room.

First, food... The 130 kilograms of corn, wheat, and soybeans she'd saved last year had already been delivered to the mountain by noon. The remaining bags of dried goods like bamboo shoots and wood ear mushrooms, the remaining vegetables from the fields, and jars of salt and sauce for seasoning were now placed with the pots, pans, and other utensils, waiting for her to carry them up the mountain tomorrow morning.

Then there were the clothes... Jiang Yan packed the reed quilt and clothes for all seasons tightly together. Nothing could be left out. If they were lost or destroyed, she wouldn't have the money to buy new clothes anytime soon, and she would be left with nothing to wear.

Then the things I used... the kitchen knife, sickle, hoe, tinder, torch... were all put into the small box.

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Jiang Yan packed up everything she could bring from home before going to bed and falling into a deep sleep.

In her dream, she had already moved all the things up the mountain and was fully engaged in the wheat harvesting work in Tiankeng Mountain.