Chapter 189 Tidal Wave

(I accidentally typed the wrong chapter. This chapter should be Chapter 187. Sorry! But it's very troublesome to change it, so I'll leave it as it is)

As the raindrops fell into the earth and flowed into the river, the flow of the river increased further.

Less than ten kilometers downstream of this river is the sea, so there will not be a special situation of sudden flooding due to blockage, and they have more buffer time.

The residents wearing thick straw hats held torches in the slightly wet fields in the light rain, relying on the light to find the dark green plants with needle-like slender leaves half a person tall. These semi-free-range gingers growing in the fields showed extremely amazing vitality.

There was no fertilizer, little watering, and only occasionally someone came to weed around these gingers.

The iron shovel in his hand dug up the surface soil, and then determined the approximate size of the ginger rhizome before digging it out of the soil with a shovel. Take out the whole ginger, cut off the part other than the ginger rhizome, and then put the rhizome into his back basket for storage.

The wound of ginger will automatically oxidize and scab, so it can be preserved for a long time.

This is how the ginger is collected.

They give priority to collecting ginger with the highest unit value and easy to find, and put carrots, which are less cost-effective, behind.

These hundreds of acres of ginger look a lot, but Liu Yansheng brought a full 300 people on this trip, just to collect all the plants and take them away in baskets before dawn. Two hundred and fifty people are responsible for collection, and a group of five is responsible for one acre. The remaining fifty people took the full baskets and ran to the other side of the river to put them down, and then came to carry the remaining crops and fruits.

It was just that the weather was not good. They were only halfway done when it started to rain. The soil that absorbed water became wet and sticky, and it took effort to walk, which greatly hindered the speed of the people rushing to harvest the economic crops on the other side of the river.

Liu Yansheng picked up a broken piece of ginger and put it in front of his nose to smell it. Then grind off its skin and put the remaining light yellow part in his mouth. The spicy taste immediately boosted his spirits.

This ginger can be sliced ​​and brewed into ginger tea, and some brown sugar can be added for flavoring.

After drinking a cup of hot brown sugar ginger tea, the chill brought by the cold raindrops will be immediately dispelled.

Liu Yansheng rubbed his hands. He had never drunk brown sugar ginger tea, but he had heard of this wonderful recipe for warming the body from the storyteller before, as if his body would warm up after being soaked in the rain.

"Team Leader Liu, all the big gingers here have been collected."

A farmer carrying a basket on his back quickly crossed the ground that had begun to accumulate water and ran towards the person in charge of them. He pressed his big straw hat and straightened the big straw hat that had tilted to one side due to running.

"Check the rest again, and the rest of you go to collect carrots. Don't go to the fields on the side close to the river. Be careful. Five people in a group will take care of each other."

Even if Liu Yansheng had never experienced a flood, watching the river flow from such a distance, he could imagine that if he fell in, he would be swallowed up by the turbulent muddy current in an instant.

Their act of rushing to harvest crops overnight was inherently dangerous, and the lord had also warned them to be extremely careful before taking action.

Liu Yansheng struggled to organize his words and conveyed what he wanted to say to the team leader who came to find him.

"Ah!"

Before they finished speaking, a scream came from the river bank, and everyone could vaguely hear the sound. Liu Yansheng was closer and could even hear the sound of objects falling heavily into the water. He was anxious and hurried over with a torch.

The drowning person was struggling to grab all the plants on the river bank, squeezed them into a handful, and held them tightly in his hands to prevent himself from being carried away by the river.

He knew very well that if he was swept away by the river, there would be no chance of survival.

Liu Yansheng's first thought was to find a branch thick enough to pull him up, but there were no plants here.

He didn't have enough strength to climb up by himself. He had already exhausted all his strength just to grab the reeds on the river bank to stabilize his body, not to mention climbing ashore by his own strength along these plants.

"He said he saw a ginger plant growing well on the shore and wanted to pull it up, but he slipped and fell down."

A farmer standing on the shore, who was obviously in the same group as him, explained to Liu Yansheng tremblingly.

Liu Yansheng resisted the urge to reprimand, and came to the conclusion that saving people was the most important thing, and the safety issue should be discussed after rescuing people.

Even if he was not the general team leader, he would not say it was too difficult to ignore the fact that he saw a leader who he had met at least once in his daily life falling into the water.

"Hold my hand, I will go down and pull him up."

Liu Yansheng gritted his teeth and said to the people standing behind him, asking them to hold his right hand and body, form a human ladder and go down to pull up the farmer who fell down.

There is only this way.

They also talked about human ladders and human walls in flood prevention, but there was no rope to tie them together, and human life was at stake.

When the leaders quickly formed a human ladder formation and prepared to go down to pull people up.

Wu Bai and the two guards almost ran to Liu Yansheng with big strides, panting. The rain almost soaked their bodies without any rain protection, mixed with the mud and sand splashed along the way, making them look particularly embarrassed.

"Wait, don't go on like this, ha..."

Wu Bai took a deep breath while untying the long rope tied around his shoulders. The thick rope was also very long and heavy, and it took two people to lift it.

"I saw it from above. Ha, tie your waist with a rope, don't get dragged into the water."

Wu Bai had been keeping an eye on the farmers who were harvesting. When he saw a torch fall into the water with a scream from the watchtower, he quickly determined that someone had fallen into the water. He immediately picked up the life-saving rope hanging next to the watchtower and ran towards the water point with all his strength, not daring to stop.

Wu Bai only had the idea of ​​saving people first in his mind, and never thought about the possibility that the person had been washed away and it would be useless for him to rush there.

In order to rescue people who fell into the water, Ji Lin promptly arranged strong hemp ropes that could be tied to the body in all places near water sources.

Be prepared.