At this time, the village chief not far away stepped forward with a big stick and struck the "monster" on the black head accurately.
Although Mrs. Zhang didn't understand the situation, she reacted quickly enough and knelt down to the village chief on the spot, "Village chief, don't hit me! I'm a big tiger girl!"
"Big Tiger Girl?" The village chief raised his eyebrows and looked at her with a complicated expression, "What do you want to do dressed like this? Steal things?"
"Who wants to steal? Am I that kind of person?" Old Mrs. Zhang trembled and pulled off her hood, mumbling: "Yanyan said I looked like her aunt. She was afraid, so I thought about covering her face.
Isn’t she not afraid anymore?”
The corner of the village chief's mouth twitched, "You can't think of such a bad idea..."
It was late at night, when the night was dark and windy, and a monster suddenly appeared with its head covered and its eyes exposed. Yan Yan didn't know whether he was scared or not, but the others were almost scared to death.
Mrs. Zhang was most afraid of the village chief's mouth. She drooped her head and took the initiative to admit her mistake: "Don't say anything. I won't wear it anymore. I'll cover my face next time I see Yan Yan, okay?"
"Why are you so serious? Yanyan is afraid of you, can't you just stop running in front of her? You are wearing a hood and covering your face, what are you going to cause trouble?"
The village chief waved his hand at her in disgust, "Stop fussing, go back to sleep, we have to get up early tomorrow and be on our way."
After saying that, he dropped the stick and turned around to leave. Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned his head, a bright light suddenly flashed in the night sky, followed by a dull rumble of thunder.
The village chief was confused. What's going on? It's going to rain?
Everyone in Yaoshui Village was also confused. They were fine and didn't encounter any bandit bullies. Why did it suddenly thunder?
Is it really going to rain?
The drought has been going on for so long that no one can believe the fact that it will rain soon. Everyone is in a daze, as if they are living in a dream.
Mrs. Shu was the same. When she heard the thunder, her first reaction was to see Yan Yan.
Xiaotuanzi didn't seem to realize what happened. He blinked and asked, "Grandma, what are you looking at me doing? Aren't you going to sleep?"
Mrs. Shu pointed to the gloomy sky, "It thundered, what did you let it do?"
"No..." Yan Yan scratched her cheeks with an innocent look on her face.
As he spoke, the wind blew in the wilderness.
The coolness of the night wind blew away the heat lingering on the earth, attracting a thin and silky autumn rain.
When the cold rain fell on their faces, everyone woke up as if from a dream - it turned out to be raining.
The rain I had been waiting for for more than a year came without any warning.
So the team that had just prepared to take a break got busy again, pulling tarpaulins to cover food supplies, gathering bedding, and building rain shelters...
The rain fell thicker and thicker, and the whole night was foggy. The coldness coming from all directions made people shiver.
The children couldn't bear the cold, so they were immediately stuffed under the tarpaulin by the adults at home.
The little ones were covered with oilcloth, but their heads were sticking out dishonestly. The hair on their foreheads was soon covered with a layer of wet moisture.
When Mrs. Shu saw it, she pushed them back one by one like a whack-a-mole, "What's so good about it raining? Isn't it too cold?"
Yan Yan nodded, "Leng, I won't watch anymore."
As soon as he finished speaking, the chubby paw hanging by his side was immediately held by Qingbai, "I'll help you warm your hands, they will be warm."
Seeing this, Qing Feng on the other side was not willing to be outdone and quickly held Yan Yan's other hand, "I'll help you warm it too."
Mrs. Shu touched their hands. Yanyan's hand was the hottest, and the two ones next to her were cooler than the other, so she just warmed their hands...
"Stand still and don't look out. Grandma will go find clothes for you." The old lady warned, turned around and rushed into the rain again.
Behind the oilcloth shack, men from Yaoshui Village were chatting in the heavy rain.
"This rain has come at a really bad time. If it had rained two months earlier, we wouldn't have had to go out so hard to escape." Old Man Shu wiped the water off his face and said with a sigh.
"Uncle, have you forgotten where we are standing now? This is the north of Qizhou, and there is no shortage of rain here." Gang Jing Shu Changshun spoke.
Old Man Shu glared at him, "What do you want to say?"
"I didn't want to say anything, I just wanted to remind you that even if it rains here in the second half of the month and floods occur, it has nothing to do with our Tongzhou City."
Old Man Shu: "..."
There is no time to talk today.
The village chief responded at the right moment and said: "It doesn't matter if it rains or not, we have already come this far anyway. Let's keep going wherever we need to go. Don't even think about turning back. Qizhou is right in front of us. How can we turn back?"
"I just complained casually, how can I really turn back..."
Old Man Shu scratched his head, turned around and sneezed loudly, "Hey, it's getting cold today. I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going to find some thick clothes to wear."
"It seems a bit cold." The village chief rubbed his arms that were stiff from the cold, and transformed into an old woman again——
Carrying his broken gong, he reminded everyone to add more clothes and quilts and try not to catch the cold and delay their journey.
Shu Changshun curled his neck and hid under the oilcloth to reply to his father's words: "I still need to add a quilt. Where can I sleep with the water in this place?"
The rain came suddenly. By the time they took measures, the ground was already soaked. The tarpaulin they brought with them was not enough. After they built a small nest for the children, the adults took the rest.
With just those two pieces of cloth, I couldn't care less about my feet than my head. Where could I sleep?
The village chief looked at the row of heads under the oilcloth, and rubbed his face helplessly, "Why don't you sleep standing up, just for one night, and we'll talk about the rest tomorrow."
"Then what if the rain doesn't stop until tomorrow?" Shu Changshun was still reluctant.
This traitor!
The village chief shouted loudly, "I asked you to talk more, I asked you to talk more!"
In order to avoid his father's slap, Shu Changshun ran around in the crowd like a monkey. The funny way the father and son chased each other made a group of people laugh.
In the end, Old Man Shu imitated the village chief's usual tone of dissuading fights, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Be patient, your own son can still be strangled to death?"
It was okay not to persuade him, but after persuading the village chief, he became even more angry, "If you could have pinched me, I would have pinched you a long time ago. If you pinch me to death, you will be obedient, and I can live for two more years!"
Shu Changshun retorted in a low voice: "Then you must be able to make a living."
Other families have many children, but his family only has three brothers and sisters. Isn’t it because they don’t have the ability to make a living?
This sentence made the village chief angry again, and he jumped up and down chasing him. The villagers stopped trying to persuade him and happily crowded around to watch the fun. From time to time, they even added fuel to the fire for fun.
It's nice to see a bully being beaten.
A group of people stood under tarpaulins all night, and the rain continued all night, with no signs of stopping until dawn.
Old Man Shu rubbed his red eyes and said goodbye to the old man beside him: "It's dawn, my good granddaughter should wake up, I'm going to make breakfast for her! It's better for you people without granddaughters to have nothing to do.
You don’t have to do anything, it’s really enviable.”
Old man Tang: "..."
Isn't she just the granddaughter? It's like no one else.
"Crescent Moon, are you awake? Grandpa is here to braid your hair!"
Tang Yueya, who had just opened his eyes, jumped up after hearing the words, holding the box containing the headband and stuffing it into Yanyan's bed.
The village chief, who had no granddaughter, looked around and saw that his unlucky son was angry again. He grabbed him and scolded him again.