It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

On the morning of June 20, the 13th year of Jianguang, the villagers of Dongshan Village carried the wheat harvested overnight to Tiankeng Mountain, leaving a team of less than 20 elderly and weak people to rush to harvest on the plateau, while the others continued to transport the remaining food and packed luggage back and forth.

There is not much land available for cultivation on the Tiankeng Mountain plateau, and the Dongshan villagers are short of wheat seeds, so last winter there was only enough land for sowing on nine acres of land.

This greatly reduced the pressure on Jiang Yan and others to rush to harvest.

After the hour of You, a gust of wind blew up from Tiankeng Mountain, and a few dark clouds floated into the sky above and moved rapidly towards the depths of Qinshan Mountain.

Jiang Fa took a look at the sky and quickly organized everyone to move the harvested wheat into the cave.

After a year of farm work and mountain training, Jiang Yan can no longer walk on flat ground, but he has no problem carrying a load and keeping up with the pace of others without blocking them.

The wheat transport and final harvest took about half an hour. During this time, the entire Rongcheng County, including the Qinshan Mountains as far as the eye could see, was covered in thick, dark clouds. Muffled thunder rumbled continuously, and flashes of lightning flashed in the distance.

It was no longer dim outside the cave, but pitch black. The cave was lit entirely by torches and fires.

The people who went back to the village to move the goods were lucky enough to get back before dark. Now they are installing the cabinet frames on the assembly line under the command of Jiang Qi, reinforcing the wooden doors at the entrances on both sides under the command of Jiang Shun, and building kangs for drying wheat under the command of Jiang Quan.

Compared with the seven or eight thousand kilograms of wheat to be dried, the number of kang beds built last year and wooden cabinets and racks used for storage is seriously insufficient.

The newly installed door panels last year have begun to crack after more than a year of wind and rain. I wonder if they can withstand the increasingly violent winds outside.

Around the hour of Xu, accompanied by bursts of clearly audible thunder in the cave, Rongcheng County began to experience an extreme rainstorm that was rare in a century.

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At 9:00 on the second day, Jiang Yan took advantage of the time when the wooden door of the cave was opened for ventilation to observe the rain outside.

She usually stood at the entrance of the cave on the south side of the mountain, looking out at the lush green northern slope of Daqing Mountain. On clearer days, she could occasionally see squirrels hopping among the branches.

But now there is only white.

The rain was thick, and visibility was less than two meters. The mud in front of the cave entrance, which had been hardened by pedaling, was now covered with wisps of mud.

At noon on the third day, Jiang Yan stood in front of the cave entrance again to observe. The rain had subsided compared to the second day, and he could faintly feel the greenery on the Daqing Mountain.

At midnight on the fourth day, Jiang Yan faintly felt the ground shaking in his sleep. When he woke up, he could still hear the muffled thunder that continued to penetrate the wooden door.

Except for those who had good sleep quality and remained motionless, everyone else was woken up one after another and listened attentively to the noise outside.

"Yanyan, it thundered for such a long time today..." Jiang Nian lowered his voice and whispered to Jiang Yan.

"It's not thunder," Jiang Yan said quietly. "From the sound, it sounds like a flash flood."

Jiang Nian was a little scared and held Jiang Yan's arm tightly.

The faces of the villagers and the elders who rushed back to the village to avoid the disaster were filled with solemnity and worry, which was clearly exposed by the dim light of the torches in the cave.

But until the ground shaking and muffled thunder disappeared, everyone could only wait and no one dared to open the door to find out what was going on.

We waited in the cave for another two days.

At noon on June 25th, six hours had passed since the last vibration was felt in the cave, and Tiankeng Mountain seemed to have returned to calm.

Jiang Wang and his men knocked on the door regularly with wooden sticks until the clicking sound outside the door stopped, then they opened the door to check the situation outside the cave.

Three-quarters of the cave entrance is blocked by rocks and yellow mud that have slid down in recent days.

Looking out from the cavity at the top of the cave, you can see the clear blue sky and dazzling sunlight.