Disaster Apocalypse: Farming, Family, and My Hidden Secret Space-Chapter 216: Gone.

Hua Chengtian instinctively wanted to refuse, but seeing the child’s clothes already soaked and the child’s resolute eyes, he could only compromise.

"If you want to help, then help. Besides, there’s not much work left. Later, we’ll add another layer of mud and put up a door for safety. It should be enough, and essentially there’s nothing to fear."

As for the mud, straw, and other materials, they were of course prepared in advance, neatly stacked bag by bag inside the cave.

The elders worked quickly. The fourth child and his sister took on the task of moving stones, while the second brother of the Hua family went to help father build the walls.

The elder of the Hua family, his wife, and the daughter-in-law were inside the cave doing more detailed organizing, adjusting the position of the things they brought, and then using oilcloth to completely wrap the shelves for storing grain.

Last night was too rushed and we only tidied up roughly. Even the beds were just the pre-made bed boards laid simply on the ground as they rested for the night. Now, the elder of the Hua family was carefully adding legs to each bed in the tents.

With the help of the children, Hua Chengtian finally enclosed the rocks outside the cave with stones, and to prevent seepage, the inner layer was covered with a thick layer of mud.

Whether living in the big cave or residing in the small caves, all the people of Hua Village spent the entire day maximizing their efforts to make their temporary spaces comfortable.

It wasn’t until the second day that the rain finally stopped pouring in torrents; although it was still heavy, at least it didn’t hurt anymore when hitting your body.

After being cooped up in the cave for a day and a night, someone finally couldn’t resist stepping out of the cave.

When they went up the mountain, although everyone brought a lot of firewood, the rain was pouring too heavily and too intensely. Who knew how long it would last, so their hearts wouldn’t be at ease without storing more firewood.

Seeing the rain lessening slightly, many people from the cave couldn’t hold back. They wore raincoats, put on straw rain capes, and took firewood knives, all ready to go out to collect more firewood.

Unfortunately, the mountain they were on had few plants and many rocks. Looking out, there were few trees to chop down, and the few were quite robust. The men from Hua Village couldn’t help but think about the neighboring mountains.

When they went up the mountain, they saw where the grass was lush, and firewood materials were abundant.

Seemingly by chance, they swept their eyes down the mountain, and the dozen or so men from Hua Village who went together were all wide-eyed and stunned.

Even through the dense rain, the white waves of water between the gaps of the mountains still clearly entered everyone’s sight, and even the foot of the mountain where they were was full of water.

In just one day, when they arrived, everything was fine. Many were so shocked that they were speechless.

"Flooded, all flooded," Lin Da mumbled in shock,

"Oh my god... it’s flooded up to the mountain," Li Xiaoliu from Wang Guihua’s family couldn’t help but exclaim.

Almost simultaneously, everyone’s faces turned pale. With water flooding up the mountain, one could imagine the state of their village and the conclusion for the entire Shanggu Town.

Amazed, scared, and relieved, they had no heart left to chop wood and hurried back up the mountain, especially near the village chief’s cave.

Eagerly wanting to share the news of the water flooding to the foot of the mountain with everyone.

"Our village is gone, gone, all gone, such great water, all flooded, flooded up to the mountain."

The ones who returned to the cave couldn’t help shouting, their faces indistinguishable between rain and tears. Some even broke down crying.

... Their home was gone.

"What... is it true what you’re saying?"

The cries of those who broke down quickly echoed throughout the cave, and more and more people gathered, many not even grabbing a rain hat as they rushed out of the cave to look down, only to be greeted by a state of collapse and crying.

All that could be seen was the expanse of white water, and even the trees below the mountain were only vaguely visible with their tops floating with the waves.

The houses their ancestors painstakingly built, their home was truly gone.

More and more villagers came out, and more sat on rocks weeping uncontrollably.

Even if they were mentally prepared, seeing water all over still couldn’t stop their hearts from feeling mournful.

For a while, throughout this section where Hua Village was located, there were cries everywhere. When the elder of Hua’s family, Hua Chengtian, and Hua Jin arrived, they saw the sight of everyone crying sadly in the rain.

The home they relied on for survival was completely destroyed, the impact was too great. Even as strong as the elder of Hua’s family, he couldn’t help but feel grief-stricken. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com

Great self-control told him that he couldn’t fall; seeing the grieving villagers, the elder of the Hua family choked up but couldn’t let everyone get wet in the rain.

The village was gone, the houses and belongings were gone, but the people were still there. As long as the people were there, anything was possible.

Immediately he pulled himself together, shouting loudly in the rain with his son for everyone to return to the cave quickly, practically shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Listen to me, listen to me... everyone return to the cave quickly, the rain is too cold and the temperature is getting lower day by day, we absolutely cannot catch a chill. It’s not like before; if we get sick now, there are no doctors to treat us. I understand everyone’s feelings and am also very sad, but sentiment won’t fill your stomachs or heal our hearts.

Yes, the disaster destroyed our village, but we are still here, we are all alive and well, and everything that could be moved has been moved to the mountain. We even have a place to reside. Think about how lucky we are compared to those who couldn’t get to the mountain in time. Therefore, we must live well. As long as we are alive, there’s nothing to fear. Later, Hua Village will exist again. Listen to me, hurry back to the cave and change your clothes, boil hot ginger soup and drink several bowls fiercely. We absolutely can’t get sick at a time like this."

The elder of Hua’s family shouted until his voice broke, pulling each person sitting on the mountain stone.

"Village chief, what should we do in the future?" In breakdown, someone couldn’t help but ask.

"Are you even a man? If you’re scared, just cut off those two things between your legs. What the hell are you afraid of? We have money, grain, and warm clothes; it’s just that the village and houses are gone, we’ll just rebuild them later." The elder of Hua’s family spat fiercely, scolding while shouting loudly.

And this speech finally woke the people of Hua Village from their trance.

They suddenly realized that although the village was gone and their homes were gone, they had grain, money, warm bedding, and clothes. What was there to fear?

Thanks to the village chief, they had saved up enough grain over three continuous quarters and, with purchases from a while ago, each household had thousands of pounds of grain stored. And this didn’t even include the thousands of pounds of dried sweet potatoes and potatoes, as well as thousands of pounds of fresh sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Sparing their resources, it was enough to sustain them for several years. Moreover, last year everyone also earned a lot, and as spring came, selling sweet potatoes brought in silver. Each household had dozens of taels of silver at least, some even had hundreds. A mud house cost only a few taels to build, and even a nice brick house didn’t cost more than thirty taels to build...

Thinking of this, many people wiped the water from their faces and stood up from the mountain. Except for those worried about daughters married away and relatives in other villages, the expressions on everyone’s faces looked much better.

Yes, compared to those swallowed by the flood, they seemed to be blessed with luck.

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