When Wu Qiang heard that he was here to deliver supplies to them, he immediately smiled.
Because I was too happy, I didn't react at the moment to help.
Seeing this, Fu Shi hurriedly said: "Don't stand there dumbfounded. They're already here, so help carry the supplies up there."
After being reminded, Wu Qiang reacted and quickly motioned for everyone to help.
"Oh, oh, yes, yes, let's help together."
Later, the folks from Jianshan Village also joined in. With more people and greater strength, each person moved some, and two-thirds of the supplies were moved in one trip.
Tao Qiqi left a few people to look at the bamboo rafts and other supplies, and she herself followed the large team into the mountains.
After walking for about a quarter of an hour, they finally saw the cave where the villagers had taken refuge.
This cave is said to be a cave, but it is better to say that it is a naturally formed nose cave, or a nose cave that is transparent from north to south.
It's bright inside, and it can provide shelter from the rain, but it doesn't block the wind.
Both ends are empty, and the wind is pouring in. In this winter, even a temperature of more than ten degrees can make people stupid.
Fortunately, the villagers are not stupid. After settling here, every household built a lot of shelves, and then hung wet quilts, cotton-padded clothes, cotton trousers, etc. on the shelves, making each house look like a family.
The same as the small tent in the unit.
In this way, you can keep out the wind, and secondly, you can dry wet quilts and clothes.
It was just because the rain was so heavy when we moved the position that the quilt and clothes were soaked through. Even if it blew like this, it continued to rain from time to time in the past two days, and it would not be dry for a while.
Even some quilts that were still dripping because it was too cold in the mountains in the morning were frozen into ice cubes.
Although it was noon and the ice had almost melted, Tao Qiqi could still see the water dripping from the quilt.
Putting down the supplies, the villagers finally saw a smile on their originally gloomy faces when they saw so many supplies delivered.
Everyone was very excited.
But Fu Shi didn't see Village Chief Wu, so he asked, "Where is your father? Why didn't you see Village Chief Wu?"
At this time, the village chief's wife came over and said: "Yesterday after we escaped to this cave, many people were infected with fever at night. My family knows some medicine and took some people to the nearby area with the village doctor in the morning.
I went to collect herbs. I should be back soon."
"Ahem——"
"Cough cough cough——"
After the village chief's wife finished coughing, she quickly looked at her son and said, "Qiangzi, go nearby to see if your father is back, and ask him to come back quickly."
"Cough cough cough——"
"Okay." Wu Qiang responded and hurried to find his father.
Fu Shi saw this and saw that many villagers had gathered around him, so he quickly turned sideways so that everyone could see Tao Qiqi behind him.
Then he said: "This is our Mr. Tao. The supplies sent this time were also collected through donations from the folks in Changdao County organized by our son in Changdao County. Let us tell you the details."
After saying that, Fu Shi walked completely behind the scenes, and then followed everyone to unpack the materials.
Tao Qiqi didn't waste much time here. After explaining the source of the supplies to everyone, she quickly asked the villagers to collect clean clothes and quilts first.
It may not be guaranteed to have one set of people.
Only those who must come out to work can be given a complete set.
After all, there are only so many ordinary people donating materials, but the demand reaches eight villages.
Therefore, we can only wrap some small children, a few boys or girls in one quilt, or bring the quilt back to the whole family and wrap them together.
And this is also temporary, now they still have charcoal.
Each family can get a few kilograms of charcoal and burn it slowly over a wet firewood for a whole day. After a whole day, the quilts and clothes surrounding them can be dried.
Then they can put on their own clothes.
As long as you persist through this wet and rainy day, and wait until the weather clears up, things will gradually get better.
After distributing all the clothes and quilts, Village Chief Wu happened to bring everyone back.
His son had already told them everything exactly on the way.
So as soon as Village Chief Wu came back, he took Fu Shi and expressed his gratitude.
Fu Shi felt very embarrassed and was about to explain when the village chief's wife came over and smiled.
"Old man, if you want to thank me, you should thank Mr. Tao and all the folks in Changdao County. Mr. Tao organized everyone to raise these things."
Seeing everyone finally put on dry clothes, quilts, cotton and cloth, Village Chief Wu was moved to tears.
"Thank you, thank you Mr. Tao, thank you to the folks in Changdao County, they gave us warmth. When we get through this difficult time, I will take everyone to thank them. Thank you Mr. Tao too. Mr. Tao is really a good person.
Man. Great good man.”
"If Mr. Tao hadn't arranged for people to come over that night to help ordinary people like us escape to the mountains, we might not have seen the dawn of the next day."
"We fellow villagers in Jianshan Village cannot repay Mr. Tao for his great kindness. Please accept Mr. Tao's obeisance from us."
After Village Chief Wu finished speaking, he led the entire village to kneel down.
The scene is not much worse than that of ministers kneeling down to worship the emperor.
The only difference is the environment.
Seeing all the villagers kneeling down, Tao Qiqi felt mixed emotions in her heart and felt unspeakably sad.
No matter when or where, natural disasters are merciless, but people are sentimental.
As long as everyone works together, there is no disaster that cannot be overcome.
"Village Chief Wu, please get everyone up quickly. The materials, clothes and quilts donated this time have been distributed to everyone, but you need to arrange the food."
Tao Qiqi pointed to the grain placed behind her as she spoke, and then continued: "You decide whether you want to divide it according to the situation of each family, or whether we all get together to eat a big pot of rice during this period."
"There is also charcoal. It has been raining heavily recently, and the villagers have been hiding here without dry firewood to burn, so we have also donated some charcoal. When we burn charcoal, we can not only dry clothes and quilts, but also put some wet firewood next to it."
"Although it's not much, it should be able to burn for a while if mixed with firewood and burned slowly."
"Also, take a look and see if there is anything else you are missing, such as medicinal materials. You can tell us what you are missing. Then we will buy it for you. I also have some medicinal materials. Let's see if there is anything you need."
When talking about the medicinal materials, Village Chief Wu immediately nodded: "Okay, okay, yes, yes. We need some medicinal materials to treat fever, cold, and cough. In this way, I asked the village doctor to write a list,
Mr. Tao, please help me buy some."
When the village doctor next to him heard this, he took out his pen and ink and started writing the list without waiting for Village Chief Wu to arrange it.
Tao Qiqi then said: "Okay, then Village Chief Wu will ask the villagers if there is anything else missing. We can prepare it together."
Village Chief Wu thought for a while and replied: "There is no shortage of other things now. We have clothing and food. Only medicinal materials are in shortest supply. There are quite a few sick villagers now."
As soon as Village Chief Wu finished speaking, he heard someone shouting next to him.
"It's not good, it's not good, Shunzi's wife is about to give birth. Doctor Wu, Shunzi's wife is about to give birth."
Upon hearing this, Dr. Wu, who was writing a list, quickly put down the brush in his hand and walked to Shunzi's house.
At this time, Tao Qiqi's system also rang.
【New system task.】
[Please ask the master to deliver the baby to Shunzi’s wife. The task requires that the mother and child are safe.]
As soon as she heard about this mission, Tao Qiqi knew that Shunzi's wife might have a narrow escape from death this time.
