Educated Youth in the Countryside: She is the Village's Embroidery Queen!-Chapter 440: Mudslide

The more you fear something, the more likely it is to happen.

The rain kept pouring, the wind growing stronger, and the courtyard quickly filled with water.

Ji Jian and the others returned home in the rain, the first thing they did was put on raincoats and hats, grabbed shovels like Yi Chichi, and cleared the ditches for drainage.

Amid the pattering rain, a deafening roar erupted.

The people working in the courtyard were startled by the noise and raised their heads in unison to look over.

However, the rain was too heavy to see anything, but it didn’t stop them from worrying.

"Where did that sound come from?"

Ji Jian shouted at the top of her voice.

The neighbor across the street looked worried, "I don’t know, it sounded like it came from the southeast. What kind of thing falling could make such a loud noise." 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

"A landslide caused by a flash flood."

Yi Chichi’s face turned pale, "The heavy rainfall forming flash floods can cause the already loose mountain stones to cause a landslide."

The noise of the pouring rain couldn’t block her voice from reaching people’s ears, and Ji Jian and the others fell silent all together.

After a while, a crowd flocked towards them.

"Xiao Yi, what will happen if a landslide comes?"

"The villagers will suffer."

Yi Chichi looked in the direction of the sound, "Does anyone know which production team is in the southeast direction?"

"The Da Yu Production Team."

The one speaking was Peng Liu, the wife of a regiment commissar, and she said urgently, "Da Yu has more than three hundred households, 26 educated youths, and they usually live by fishing and planting and tapping rubber. At the beginning of last year, they received a task to cooperate with three surrounding production teams to cultivate a mountain called Feifei Mountain to plant a type of fruit tree called yellow lemon..."

At this point, she exclaimed in shock, "Do you mean that a landslide occurred on Feifei Mountain?"

"Almost."

Yi Chichi wasn’t sure, she turned and walked towards the house, "If it’s true that a landslide occurred on Feifei Mountain, it is likely that all those production teams in Da Yu are affected."

"Where are you going?"

"I’m going to change my shoes to see if Old Wen and the others are involved in the disaster relief."

"I’ll come too, wait for me to go home and change my shoes."

"..."

What could Yi Chichi do, she could only agree.

Fortunately, they were quick at changing shoes, and within five minutes they regrouped.

Then, the group of people moved towards the camp.

When they were still a distance away from the camp, military trucks appeared, and the soldiers carrying shovels, saws, and other tools came out in line.

Ji Jian was invigorated, "Are they going for disaster relief?"

"Yes."

Yi Chichi responded, starting to search for Wen Shi’s figure through the rain and fog.

No sign of him.

Just then, Madam Lei’s eyes lit up, "Old Lei, over here."

Old Lei, who was speaking softly with Wen Shi, heard his wife’s voice and turned to look over.

"Old Wen, your wife is here."

"Huh?"

Wen Shi, whose attention wasn’t focused this way, heard this and also looked over.

Then, he waved at Yi Chichi, signaling her to go home.

"Wife, have dinner by yourself tonight, don’t wait for me."

He wouldn’t be back for a while.

As he spoke, the main team set off.

Yi Chichi urged him to be safe, and then stood with Ji Jian and the others, watching the main team leave.

The rain fell harder, the team moved further away, until they vanished from view.

None of the women would leave, instead, they stood quietly in the rain and fog for quite a while before starting to head back.

The atmosphere was overwhelmingly silent, yet the aura emanating from Ji Jian and the others was a mix of unease.

Seeing this, Yi Chichi took the initiative to speak, "School’s almost out; with this heavy rain, shouldn’t you go pick up the kids?"

"We should pick them up."

On normal days, they could come home by themselves.

Not today, with water accumulating everywhere, in some places nearly reaching an adult’s knees, letting the kids come back alone is a bit dangerous.

So, those like Yi Chichi without kids went home.

Those like Ji Jian with kids headed to school to pick them up.

In the evening, as expected, Wen Shi didn’t come back, and neither did Old Li and the others.

Ji Jian, worried, came to find Yi Chichi to talk, "Zhang Xin and the others have been mobilized."

"Normal!"

There’s bound to be injuries, and at such times, the importance of doctors becomes evident.

Military doctors after all, military first, medicine second.

A large operation without military doctors is impossible.

"Xiao Yi, do you think they won’t have accidents?!"

"Rest assured, they’re going for disaster relief, not fighting a war, there’s a safety guarantee."

Besides that initial booming sound, later on, apart from the sound of rain and wind, no other unusual noises were heard.

But that doesn’t mean everything is completely safe, injuries are unavoidable.

However, Yi Chichi didn’t say this, to avoid worrying Ji Jian.

"Wait for them to come home peacefully."

Ji Jian, "??? You can sit still?"

"I can’t."

But there’s nothing to be done, during such times, keeping themselves safe is not adding to the chaos.

"Just wait, we’re not professionals, can’t help much."

"How long do we have to wait?"

That’s a good question.

Unfortunately, she doesn’t have the ability to foresee the future, can’t answer that.

"They’ll come back when they’re supposed to."

Ji Jian’s mouth twitched, feeling awful about talking with her.

Anxiety wasn’t relieved much, but helplessness increased a lot.

"Forget it, I’ll go home and supervise the kids with their homework."

Yi Chichi, "??? Didn’t the kid go to school?"

"The teacher said to go after the rain stops."

However, the rain continued, and water on the ground would only increase.

Thinking of the water accumulation, she thought of something, "I think I should organize a group to dig ditches for drainage."

That’s a great idea, but, "Where to dig the ditches?"

"On the way to school."

The residential area doesn’t need their concern, there were leftover soldiers cleaning yesterday, the families have cleared the ditches in their courtyards.

Currently, the drainage is good, with no standing water.

Yi Chichi oh-ed, picked up the shovel by the door, "Let’s go, we’ll go together."

Need to do something, otherwise, uneasiness prevails.

Ji Jian refused her company, "You better stay home and watch the kids, ditch digging is not suitable for you, your hands will blister and get rough, not friendly to your embroidery."

Yi Chichi, "Can I refuse?"

"No!"

Decisive and indisputable.

Yi Chichi sighed, "Alright, I’ll watch the kids."

So, Ji Jian gathered the elder sisters to dig ditches for drainage, while Yi Chichi stayed home to babysit.

Luckily, the kids weren’t infants, they were all primary school students.

Apart from being too mischievous and talkative, it was still at an acceptable level.

Until—

"Aunt, come see what I found."

The Lei family kid, Lei Jianhua, shouted at the top of his lungs, startling Yi Chichi, who was in the kitchen preparing food for them, who came rushing out like lightning.

"What is it..."

The words ’thing’ didn’t leave Yi Chichi’s mouth as she saw the big toad clutched in the kid’s hand and got goosebumps all over.

What the heck, where did this come from?

"Just, just this one?"

"I have one too hee hee."

The Tang family’s little Niu Niu grinned with her missing front teeth, also holding a toad in her hand.