Lin Mai then left and went to the market to buy ingredients to prepare some delicious dishes for lunch.
Eating fat duck in summer can clear away heat and detoxify.
Lin Mai bought two fat ducks in one go and made two saliva ducks.
I ate one with Grandpa Fang at noon, and gave the other to Grandma Tian and her grandson in the afternoon.
By the way, take a look at their house to see if there are any hidden dangers when it rains so heavily. If there are any, solve them in time.
Grandma Tian, grandma and grandson, old and young, if something happens, they won't be able to handle it.
Fortunately, Grandma Tian and her grandson lived in a new house. The terrain of the new house was relatively high, and there were no hills behind it, so there would be no mudslides. Lin Mai felt relieved.
In the blink of an eye, two days later, the rain was getting worse and worse.
Lin Mai held an umbrella and looked at the Yudai River from a distance twice. The water level was higher each time.
She felt uneasy and went to the town government to report it.
However, the town government has no time to take into account the danger of the Yudai River because of the heavy flood control pressure on the upper reaches.
In addition, they do not believe that the Yudai River will be in serious danger.
In their eyes, the Yudai River is just a small river. There has been no danger before and it will not happen now, so they don't pay much attention to it.
However, documents were still issued to Yangliu Village and Yudai Village, asking village cadres to strengthen flood prevention.
Lin Mai had no choice but to drive a tractor and use his own money to buy a lot of sandbags at the state-owned battlefield.
In case of danger in Yudai River or Yangliu Village, sandbags can be used to reinforce the river bank.
After buying sandbags, Lin Mai drove his tractor to Yudai Village. He wanted to give the sandbags to them so that they could use them at any time when they needed them, so there would be no delay.
As soon as the tractor drove into the village, Lin Mai saw the whole village was in chaos.
Dong Keqiang and a village cadre wore raincoats and ran around the village with loudspeakers shouting, mobilizing young and middle-aged people to immediately gather at the head of the village to participate in the rescue operation.
Several village cadres also organized a large-scale evacuation of the villagers.
"Everyone, run quickly. Try to run to higher ground. The river embankment is about to burst in several places. If you don't run, it will be too late!"
Although the village cadres shouted at the top of their lungs, the villagers were reluctant to part with their chickens, ducks and pigs and tried to take them away, so they moved very slowly.
Several village cadres were so angry that they couldn't let go of this after all this time!
Lin Mai quickly drove the tractor to Dong Keqiang's side and stopped, and asked solemnly: "What's wrong? Is there a danger?"
Dong Keqiang was so busy that he originally didn't want to pay attention to her.
But when she saw her tractor compartment was filled with sandbags, her eyes suddenly lit up and she nodded: "Yes!"
Then he said: "Give us your sandbags first, and we will calculate the money and give it to you later!"
These sandbags were originally bought for them, so Lin Mai naturally had no objection.
The tractor was driven directly to the Yudai River so that the villagers could carry sandbags to reinforce the river embankment.
As long as the river embankments are strengthened, danger can be eliminated and the village can be saved.
The chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs raised by the villagers will not drown, and the food stored at home will not be washed away by floods.
In particular, it is possible to save the houses built with mud bricks, which can minimize the villagers' losses.
For the sake of the property of the entire village, the young men of Yudai Village, led by Dong Keqiang, braved the heavy wind and rain, carrying sandbags on Linmai tractors, and tried their best to stop the danger of the embankment bursting.
Lin Mai also jumped off the tractor and carried sandbags to fight the flood with them.
The villagers struggled for more than two hours and finally resolved the dangerous situation on their side. People from Yangliu Village were scratching their throats on the other side of the river for support.
There were not many sandbags left, so Lin Mai dumped all the remaining sandbags on the ground, ran to the state-owned battlefield again, and brought back another cart of sandbags.
The villagers of the two villages worked together to help Yangliu Village solve the dangerous situation.
Only then did Dong Keqiang take a breath, wipe the rain off his face, and enthusiastically stayed with Lin Mai for dinner, thanking her non-stop.
If she had not come to remind them before, these village cadres would not have been patrolling the Yudai River closely day and night in the past few days, and it would be impossible to detect the danger in time.
When they discovered the danger, the legs of several village cadres were almost weak with fear.
If the river embankment breaks, the villagers will not have time to retreat, and people will die.
It has been pouring rain for several days, and the temperature has dropped significantly.
Lin Mai only wore a dress, and it was wet from the rain, and she was shivering with cold.
If she hadn't been to help the villagers fight the flood, she would have driven the tractor back to Grandpa Fang's house to take a hot bath and drink hot tea to warm herself up.
After being frozen for such a long time, I feel dizzy and have no appetite left to eat!
So I firmly refused and drove the tractor back to Grandpa Fang’s house.
Seeing that her body was dirty and her lips were purple from the cold, the old couple quickly boiled ginger soup and bath water.
As soon as the ginger soup was cooked, Grandma Fang immediately served it to Lin Mai.
Lin Mai actually hates drinking ginger soup, but now he can't care less because he would be too cold if he didn't drink it!
She endured the heat and poured a large bowl of ginger soup into her stomach, finally feeling a little warmer.
At this time, the bath water was boiled. Lin Mai washed his head with hot water and poured himself a large basin of bath water.
Just when he was about to take off his clothes, Doudou ran in and said in a sweet voice: "Mom, can I rub your back?"
Lin Mai smiled and agreed.
She took off her clothes and got into the bath, feeling a stinging pain on the top of her left foot.
Lin Mai gasped, sat down in the bathtub, and stretched out his left foot.
It turned out that there was a wound on the instep of her left foot, probably caused during the rescue operation, but she didn't notice it at the time.
Now the wound is exposed to hot water, so it stings.
Doudou squatted at Lin Mai's feet, stretched out her little hand to carefully touch the wound, and asked distressedly: "Mom, does it hurt?"
"It just hurts a little bit, and it only hurts for a moment."
The little cute baby was relieved and rubbed her back vigorously.
Lin Mai took a long and comfortable bath in the hot water and finally recovered.
After eating the sumptuous dinner prepared by Grandma Fang, everyone sat and listened to the radio for a while and chatted for a while. Lin Mai felt tired and took the lead to go to bed.
After a while, the little cute baby also climbed onto the bed and fell asleep next to her.
Sleeping until midnight, Doudou was woken up by Lin Mai's moans.
She asked in a daze: "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
Lin Mai closed his eyes and said weakly: "Mom has a fever. Go and ask Grandma if she has any cold medicine. If so, give her two pills."
Doudou said obediently, got out of bed, and went to find Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang.
The old man didn't sleep deeply, so Doudou ran to knock on the door, and Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang woke up.
Grandpa Fang got up and opened the door. He lowered his head and asked in surprise: "It's midnight, why did you come here without sleeping?"
Doudou raised her little face and said, "Mom has a fever, so she asked me to come to my great-grandfather and great-aunt for cold medicine."
Grandma Fang heard it in the room and immediately got up: "I'll go take a look!"
When I arrived at Lin Mai's bed, I felt her body temperature. It was frighteningly hot. I quickly gave her cold medicine and ginger soup.
But Lin Mai just took cold medicine and drank ginger soup, and immediately vomited.
Grandpa Fang saw that it was not good, so he asked neighbors for help in the heavy rain and sent Lin Mai to the town health center.
The emergency doctor at the town health center did a preliminary examination and frowned tightly.
Grandpa Fang and his wife asked nervously: "How is Maizi doing?"
The doctor shook his head: "The situation is very bad. I suspect she has septicemia. She must be sent to a big hospital for rescue immediately. If she delays it any longer, her life may be in danger."