Another rainy season. ...

Plums in the south of the Yangtze River are ripe, and the rainy season comes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The so-called rainy season is actually a monsoon airflow passing through this place, bringing a period of rainy weather. Because now is the season when plums are ripe, the so-called "it rains in the Huangmei season"; Also, during this period, the air humidity is high, the weather is extremely sultry, clothes and everything are prone to mildew, and "mildew" is homophonic with "plum", so people call it the rainy season.

I grew up in Jiangnan, and my home is near the Yangtze River. The water towns in the south of the Yangtze River always seem to give people the impression of "small bridges and flowing water, misty rain" or "land of plenty, no worries about eating and drinking". Scholars and poets all like to hang around here and sing here. "Half-baked spring water and a flower city, there are thousands of misty rain and darkness." "Rain hates clouds, and Jiangnan is still called a beauty. Shuicun fish market is a lonely smoke. " Even in the rainy season, it rains quickly, which makes people moldy, and it is also a poem in the eyes of poets. Zhao Shixiu sang "It rains at home in Huangmei season, and frogs are everywhere in the grass pond." How much leisure does he have in Athena Chu? Yichuan smoke, full of wind, plum yellow rain. " After Huangfusong left, he still remembered in his dream that "the plum blossoms in the south of the Yangtze River are ripe, and the night boat flute is raining" ...

These are all beautiful. If it doesn't rain so hard and last so long, it can be regarded as a poetic embellishment of life, reading with the rain outside the window; Sleeping with the sound of rain, dreaming distant and gentle dreams; Think about where to go for a walk after the holiday in the near future. ...

Light rain is pleasant, but heavy rain will be a disaster. It rains when plums are yellow. If it rains for a long time, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River will suffer. For example, this year's rainy season came earlier than in previous years, and the rain was heavier than in previous years. It has been dark and raining since June. The weather forecast on the mobile phone will always be rain tomorrow, rain the day after tomorrow, rain, light rain, thunderstorms and heavy rain in the next fifteen days. I finally predicted a cloudy or sunny weather forecast. It was cloudy at that moment, and it was raining all the time. It seems that it has accumulated for less than half a year. After entering June, I poured out all my worries and had a good time.

God is happy, but human beings are unlucky frequently, and Anhui has suffered great misfortune in misfortune. Due to the continuous heavy rain, the water level of the river has soared. There is serious water accumulation in Shexian city. On the day of the college entrance examination, teachers and students could not enter the examination room and had to postpone the examination. Baiguoshu Village in Huangshan City was even besieged by floods, and Anqing and Funan had to open floodgates for flood discharge. Large areas of farmland were flooded and houses were washed away. ...

In order to fight floods and provide disaster relief, China People's Liberation Army (PLA) rushed to the front line, working day and night to reinforce the dam and help residents live a peaceful life. They were covered in mud and bruises. These news are always worrying and these videos can't help but make people cry.

I come from Anhui, too. When the rainy season came, I was having classes at school. Wake up every morning and look out the window. It's cloudy again It is still raining! Even if you fall asleep at night, you will be awakened by the rumbling thunder in the middle of the night. I can feel lightning streaking across the night sky with my eyes closed. The dark room lit up for a while, then returned to the darkness, and so on. The rain outside the window is getting worse, scratching, as if it had fallen from the sky. The camphor trees in front of the balcony are whistling in the wind and rain, which always makes people feel that they are going to be chopped. The next morning, the leaves fell to the ground, and all the branches broken by the wind and rain were immersed in the water.

I didn't know that my uncle had organized the flood fighting until I came home from vacation. The water level of Lianzhou and Huayang sluice has risen to more than 20 points. If the dam is not raised, it will flood, and our place is in Wang Yang. Armed police have also come, and every household can provide labor, and if there is no labor, it will provide materials. Dayu tried three times to control the water from entering the house, but his uncle stayed at home for more than a week. My little cousin (my uncle's son) is an intern in Hefei, and has also participated in flood fighting training, saying that he is always ready to go to the front at any time. Grandma is old and in poor health. Sitting at home watching the news, she has to worry about both the big and the small, and she is in a flurry all day.

Fortunately, the dam was reinforced in time, and then the rain stopped and the water level receded. When he saw his uncle again, he looked haggard, as if he were ten years older at once. He said that he can't relax now because of the flood control.

I asked my grandmother, did we have floods here in the past?

Grandma said that she sent it once when she was a child for more than five years (1950s), and the flood broke through the dam and flooded the second floor of the house. There was no flood after that, but several years later, in the rainy season, it rained heavily. People are worried that the dam will burst, so they are ready to take refuge with their families at any time. No one is willing to lose the wealth of his life unless he has to. Moreover, there was no government organization at that time, no PLA soldiers helped to transport materials, and no one would arrange accommodation for the victims. You're on your own.

1975, another rainy season. I don't know if the dam will collapse, but it's raining too hard. Just in case, my grandmother put the food and clothes at home on a scooter and took them to my aunt's house in Houshan-my aunt is my father-in-law's sister. The back hill is too high for the flood. But it's seven or eight miles away from us. At that time, it was all dirt roads, walking back and forth, separated by a river. On the way back, grandma met the fleeing crowd and her two daughters, my mother and my aunt, who were caught in the crowd. Soon after she left, it was said everywhere in the village that the dam was going to collapse! The dam is going to collapse! People took everything they could and ran for their lives. That year, my mother was only seven years old and my aunt was only five years old. She can't carry heavy things. Seven-year-old mother with a bell, five-year-old aunt with a shoe-like reed, followed the crowd to find her mother.

Actually, I experienced something similar when I was young. I don't remember what year it was. My brother is still in infancy, and I probably just walk steadily. It is still such a rainy season. My grandmother holds my brother in one hand and me in the other. She walked to the back hill step by step, handed us over to her aunt, and then walked home. The next morning, she came to see us again and sent some food and vegetables to my aunt, hoping that she would take good care of us. She went back again, and if the dam collapsed, they fled here again.

I experienced such a thing more than once when I was a child. I have been living in my aunt's house and didn't come back until after the rainy season. Fortunately, the dam didn't break in those years, but it rained so hard that the fields were flooded. Cotton is dead and there is no source of income; Without rice, even eating is a problem; There are no corn, soybeans and mung beans. We can't relax before the rainy season. When adults settle down in their small homes, they will be busy transplanting rice seedlings and planting late rice. Clean up cotton fields, plant sesame seeds that are drought-resistant and easy to live (because the weather will get hot after the rainy season), and live on them in the second half of the year.

Later, life became better and better, and the dam by the river was also very strong. It is rare to see such a continuous rainstorm when the rainy season comes again. I grew up and studied outside all the year round, and some things gradually faded away with the passage of time. I only remember one year when I was studying in Hefei. As the summer vacation approached, my mother called me and asked me not to go home for the time being. I wonder why the most ruthless person who usually urges me to go home doesn't want me to go back. She said that it was raining heavily at home, the front and back of the house were white (dialect, meaning a piece of Wang Yang), and there was water on the road, so the car couldn't get on the road at all.

That year was 20 16, and this year is 2020. It's another rainy season, and it's also a continuous heavy rainfall. Many places have been seriously affected, and those disastrous years that I have forgotten have been recalled. I know that when the plums in the south of the Yangtze River are ripe next year, the warm and humid air from the southeast monsoon will pass through the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which is another rainy season. I hope the disaster will not happen again. Plum yellow rain is poetic. I hope it will be poetic from now on, and there will be no more suffering.