After getting the vegetables and things back home, Lu Xuewei and Aunt Xiu got busy.
The two were busy there, but Chen Yang received a call from Long Danyang.
"Are you free? If you are free, come to the town hall in the new town..." Long Danyang said over there.
Chen Yang said oh and drove to the new town.
Because of the heavy rain, there were not many people walking around in the streets of New Town.
But I have to say that the new town is very well designed. Although it rains heavily, there is no accumulation of water on the streets. All the rainwater is naturally drained into the river.
It has to be said that the design at that time was well done, which is why it had such an effect.
The old town is different, there is water everywhere.
Chen Yang walked inside and saw Long Danyang.
"Is it cold?" Seeing Chen Yang's face turning red, Long Danyang closed the door and turned on the air conditioner.
"It's okay..." Chen Yang sat down, poured himself a glass of boiling water, and then asked, "Is something okay?"
"Yes..." Long Danyang smiled bitterly, "Isn't the Qingming Festival coming soon? At first, we were thinking of telling the villagers not to burn paper, but now with the heavy rain, there is no need to do so.
If this continues, let alone burning some paper, even if you deliberately burn the mountain, you may not be able to burn it."
Chen Yang couldn't help but said speechlessly: "It is true, and I don't know why, the rain is so abundant this year. By the way, have you ever visited the old town..."
"Here!" Long Danyang stood at the window and looked across and said, "Look, the water level there is already very high. If it continues like this, I'm afraid the old town will be flooded."
"That's right!" Chen Yang nodded and said, "I think you should make some plans. I'm afraid something like this will really happen. Floods are still very scary. Otherwise, you should hurry up and tell them.
If it is really possible, we should be ready to evacuate people at any time."
Long Danyang nodded and said: "We have already made a plan. It depends on whether it will rain again at night. If it still rains, we will have to evacuate people to the new town."
"Do you need anything from me?"
"No need..." Long Danyang shook his head and said, "Our town can do this well, but with this weather... I'm always a little worried, it feels so unusual."
Chen Yang understood that she actually came to him because she wanted to tell him this.
Maybe it's just a matter of talking.
"Indeed..." Chen Yang nodded and said, "You have been here for several years. This year's weather should be the most abnormal, right?"
"Yes!" Long Danyang nodded and said, "I've also been paying attention to the weather in other places recently, but to be honest, it's not just here, it's all over the country... No, it's like this all over the world. It seems like there's something missing from the sky.
It’s like a hole, and it keeps raining here, and we don’t know what’s going on.”
Chen Yang smiled bitterly.
This is true.
In fact, Chen Yang has also paid attention to the temperature changes throughout the hinterland, but he could only pay attention to it and found that it was indeed different.
The world seems to be a little different now. Everyone has a lot of rain.
I have heard about floods in many places.
And it's still going on.
If this continues, I don’t know when it will be over.
Chen Yang pondered for a while and then said: "There is such a big water now. Anyway, you should tell everyone in our town, let everyone be careful and be ready for contingency at any time!"
"Yeah!" Long Danyang nodded, "By the way, the water is so heavy now, the boats have stopped, right?"
"Stop!" Chen Yang nodded and said, "The boats in our village have stopped, and we can only come in by land. Some transport ships in Longshan Town have also stopped, and now the goods can only be transported by land."
"Well!" Long Danyang said helplessly, "I really didn't expect this... I don't know how long it will last. Okay, anyway, you should pay more attention to yourselves."
"OK!"
After chatting with Long Danyang for a few more words, Chen Yang hurried back.
Tomorrow was the time to go to the festival, and he didn't have much time to take care of these things.
When I got home, I found that there were many people at home.
More and more people are helping.
The next day, I officially went to the memorial service.
In fact, at that time, Chen Yang mostly went to worship and sweep by himself. After all, although there were many people in his family descended from the same ancestor, there were not many people who were actually related to these three generations.
Later, because everyone's living conditions improved, they merged into one group to hold memorial ceremonies.
After taking the blood paper and other things and carrying a load, Chen Yang led a large group of people out to sweep the grave.
Tomb sweeping is a laborious job, and young adults like Chen Yang have to carry a load, which contains chickens for sacrifice, pig tails, some wine, paper, paper money and other things...
In addition, there are some young people holding sickles, ready to go to those places to cut branches and other things.
It can be said that it was very lively.
Moreover, if you go up and down the mountain, after you find the tomb, you have to cut down all the branches and grass in front and behind the tomb.
After cleaning it, burn some paper money or the like on it.
Don't tell me, it's just so tiring.
Of course, Chen Yang is quite familiar with doing this.
After going around in this circle, I would finish sweeping at noon, and then have a big meal.
Chen Yang's work has always been worth mentioning.
Whatever is delicious or expensive is put on the dining table.
This time they visited the grave, and there were eight tables of people gathered together, which was a very large number of people.
Fortunately, Lu Xuewei and the others came to help, otherwise Chen Yang would not have been able to entertain so many people.
By around three o'clock in the afternoon, everyone had finally left and the place was almost tidied up.
Chen Yang took out the burden again, took the wine and the sacrifices and placed them inside.
Lu Xuewei and Xiuyi took up their umbrellas, and they followed Chen Yang up the mountain again.
This time the target is just Chen Yang’s parents.
In fact, they have already offered sacrifices once before, and even the above things have been taken care of.
But there were too many people, and Chen Yang wanted to come over again to pay homage to his parents.
After arriving again, Aunt Xiu went down to burn paper and Lu Xuewei laid out the sacrifices.
Chen Yang looked at his parents' graves, tears slowly filling his eyes.
He looked at the clear river water below and said slowly: "Dad, Mom, I'm here to see you!"
Everything is in silence.
As the Qingming Festival passed, the Qingming atmosphere gradually passed, but the rain never stopped.
On this day, Long Danyang's voice could be heard above the old town.
"Listen to me, everyone, there will be heavy rain tonight, and the old town should be flooded. We have arranged cars in the town, and we will drive to the streets in the center of the town soon. Please put everything on the streets away.
Take it back to your home and bring your things with you. I will take you to the new town. You should do this immediately. Hurry up..."
In fact, everyone expected this. After all, the weather these days is indeed not good and the water level is still rising, so the town often reminds them.
Now that Long Danyang said this, everyone has officially started to move.