After drinking the porridge, Gu Qiao was about to clean up the dishes, but Liu came to help.

"I'll do it." She was so enthusiastic that she was a little too enthusiastic. Gu Qiao was not very comfortable and had to let her wash the dishes.

Mrs. Gu said again: "Look, what food do you want to get for Gao?"

"Just this porridge, I'll send it to her later." Liu replied.

Gu Qiao didn't pay much attention to what they said. She just looked at the rainy and floods outside the door, and her mood was like the gloomy sky, very heavy.

The flood blocked the road, and Gu Qiao's family didn't know the situation in the village, so they could only stay at home and monitor the increase in the water level in the yard in real time to facilitate their lives to escape at any time.

Mei asked Gu Qiao to change to dry clothes. Gu Pozi and Mei were both women, so they could only find clothes to change to Liu and Gao. As for Gu Kang and his son, they could only rely on the stove to dry clothes.

Gu Qiao was trapped at home and had nothing to do, but she was still thinking about her chickens, ducks, pigs, and went to catch rice bran and feed the chickens and ducks.

Mrs. Gu cooked pig food.

Because the trough of the pigpen was flooded, Mrs. Gu could only feed the pigs with a bucket, guarding the piglets to eat, and after eating one, let the other eat it. Although it was a little troublesome, it solved the problem of the pig's feeding.

In the afternoon, while Gu Tuo and the others were there, Gu Pozi's family went to sort out the problem of landslide in the back mountain.

Gu Tuo helped Gu and Mrs. Gu rebuilt the ceiling of the slid cellar, and then several people dug the soil that had slid into the main house.

After finishing the organization, the few people were so tired.

Mrs. Gu pulled out a few cabbage plants and picked cucumbers to make supper.

After dinner, everyone discovered that sleeping had become a big problem.

Gao's first finished giving birth and occupied a bed.

There were only two beds at Mrs. Gu's house. Mrs. Gu carried the bedding down and squeezed the bed with Mei and Gu Qiao, and then asked Mrs. Liu to squeeze with Mrs. Gao.

As for Gu Kang and his son, there was a difference between men and women, so they had to stay in the kitchen.

It just so happened that the father and son also had to take turns on duty.

Fortunately, it was not cold at night, so Gu Kang sat on a low stool and dozed off. Gu Tuo went out at any time to check the water level to prevent sudden water surges at night.

Gu Kang slept for a while, and then changed Gu Tuo. The father and son took turns to observe the increase in the flood.

Although Gu Pozi and others fell asleep, they were not sleeping soundly.

The bed was already very crowded, and Gao's children were crying intermittently all night. They finally fell asleep and were woken up. In addition, they were already feeling uneasy and worried that the flood suddenly surged like last night. So when they woke up the next day, they all had dark circles.

Fortunately, the night was spent safely.

Not only that, the flood has also receded a little.

"Mom, the rain has stopped!" Mei preached excitedly.

Although the sky is still very gloomy, the rain has stopped, which is a very good signal.

By noon, the flood had already left the yard.

Mrs. Gu came to the gate of the yard, stood on the ridge of the field, looking at the vast ocean not far away, worried.

"It's all over..." She sighed heavily.

All crops are submerged.

"My fish..." Gu Qiao also frowned.

The bamboo fence at the fish field at her doorstep was washed away by the flood, and some of them were even washed away directly.

The peach trees she planted on the ridge of the field were not blown away because she was dangling with stones, but many weeds were hung on the ropes connected between the peach branches and the stones, so that the peach trees could not bear the load and were uprooted, and then floated in the flood with the weeds on the ropes.

As for her fish, such a big flood, I have long known where it was washed away.

All the efforts of their family were wasted in this flood.

Gu Qiao couldn't help but squat down and felt unprecedentedly discouraged.

When I think of the little dumpling being washed away by the flood, it is so bad that I feel sour and astringent.

Mrs. Gu reached out to touch her head and sighed.

"Grandma, what should I do?" Gu Qiao spoke helplessly.

"What else can I do?" Mrs. Gu's hands were warm and dry, stroking her head one after another. Then she looked into the distance and said calmly and firmly, "The only way is to cheer up and fuck it again."

Upon hearing this, Gu Qiao turned his head and looked up at Mrs. Gu.

Mrs. Gu lowered her head and smiled at her, saying, "A year ago, wasn't our family also poor? It's just a start. What's more, our family's poultry and livestock are still alive now, we haven't reached a dead end, right? Even if one day we really have a dead end, as long as people are still there and as long as these hands can move, we will definitely be able to struggle to find a way out, right?"

Gu Qiao blinked, and felt the tenacity and tenacious power from her grandmother's firm expression, and immediately stood up involuntarily.

Mrs. Gu patted Gu Qiao on the shoulder, "Let's go, the flood in the yard has receded, we have to clean up the yard quickly. Otherwise, when the flood in the fields recedes, we will have to be busy replanting, and we are afraid there will be no time."

Gu Qiao nodded. Although she was still thinking about Xiao Tuanzi's death, she also understood that fantasy was useless.

She immediately fished up the peach tree, put it aside, and then followed Mrs. Gu into the yard.

After the flood faded, a thick layer of yellow mud was left in the yard. Mrs. Gu used a bucket to fetch water from the well and then used it to flush the yard.

Although the yard is also muddy, the mud was tamped hard with a tamper, so it was very flat and solid. Once you rinse it with well water, the yellow mud on the surface will be washed clean, leaving only the originally solid, black-brown ground.

In order to prevent the shoes and socks from getting wet, Gu Pozi and Gu Qiao changed into straw sandals. Gu Pozi hanged water to the ground, while Gu Qiao was responsible for cleaning with a broom.

Gu Kang and his son were helping to chop firewood. Gu Kang saw this and prepared to help Gu Qiao, but was rejected by Gu Qiao and Gu Fanzi.

"Don't worry about us, this is not a big deal." Mrs. Gu preached.

"I'll do it!" Gu Kang insisted.

Living in other people's houses like this, he takes up other people's houses and eats other people's food. No matter how shameless he is, he will no longer feel embarrassed when he is saved by Mrs. Gu's family.

Mrs. Gu insisted, so she had to give him the bucket.

As a result, Gu Kang poured water, Gu Qiao and Gu Ma Zi swept the floor together, which was much faster.

After cleaning up the yard, Mrs. Gu had to sort out the duck nest under the granary.

The treatment of duck nests is much more complicated. First, remove the baffle and brick surrounding the granary, and then shovel out the stove ash and straw below.

It just so happened that there were so many people who were good at working, and everyone worked together. In the afternoon, not only did the duck nest be cleaned, but the feces under the chicken nest were also cleaned.

Next is the pigpen.

First, clean up the yellow mud in the pigpen, and then pour the flood of pig manure overflowing from the septic tank into the fields.
Chapter completed!