Rain started pouring again.
Su clan got message from Capital to gather supplies and close gates.
Those that were laughing secretly of those that didn't sell their grains now gritted their teeth and bought it back for three times the price.
Who had family savings took half to buy more food, more chicken and so on.
They as well spread the word, so some belieed it, some didn't.
Lin village suddenly had over two hundred households but to Su Fei's surprise, there is no panic, no looting, no aggressive behavior.
Those that came were all close family members of current village.
Unfortunately, from Qian village only third brother came and even his mother refused, noatter how much he begged.
In the end both brothers choose to bow and kowtow until their heads bleed and she finally agreed to stop them bleeding to death.
The brothers were now shocked and chose to follow their brother up that made houses for them. Of course, his mother had own house, but for his brothers he built unly two room house like many so their families again had to scramble together.
The food, animals, anything useful was taken up and just as they slept first time in their beds, they heard huge sound and came out.
Outside the rain stopped long ago and huge full Moon was shining over terrifying sight.
Whole village could see huge wave swapping literally over whole valley.
Tsunami.
Su Fei's hear shook. Tsunami. How big of shake it had to be to make a sweetwater Tsunami?
She glanced towards hills where Su clan had homes and saw that water really reached almost to the village but calmed down after swallowing whole villages,towns and surroundings.
In creepy silence only calm water could be seen. Nothing else.
Hills, mountains and various places were now like islands in endless sea.
She could have gone to Capital that was in higher region and didn't have to deal with this, but she still refused.
There will be mess soon.
From memories she inherited, she knew that this happened as well thousand years ago and water left after they dig canals towards the sea.
Right now, half of the country is under the sea, water from north is still flowing down, it will take decades for this water to leave, leaking whole land under in something worse.
Swamps.
It took them hundreds of years to turn swamps into good land and it happened again.
Seeing now steady line on the side of mountain, Su Fei went back into house tirh her crying sister. "We did our best to save as many people we can. We are not gods. Please understand one important thing, someone fate it's in own hands. Su family warned whole region. They knew. And theyade own choices. Let's go sleep. We are safe now."
Her words in this silence made everyone to think about it. Their hearts were heavy as their families, friends, people they knew were all under the water.
Next morning she woke up by cries of people.
As expected some were lucky and got saved by grabbing things to pull them up. Even few children were saved, but not more than dozen soaked people.
Su Fei saw village elder bringing her two girls and she sneered. "Do I look stupid to you. They are from Liu village, not from Su. What, only because we two are orphans we must save people even if they have living relatives?"
They could only shut up and bring girls to unwilling relatives that could only grit their teeth and agree.
The two girls numbly just followed to unknown people home and were thrown into a shed.
Suddenly they got straw for bed, old blavket for cover and two sets of clothes each.
Villagers each gave something you them.
So Liu family could only agree.
Beating up orphans is seem as disgrace so they didn't do such a stupid thing. They sent girls to nearby forest yo gather wild vegetables and Su Fei was there as well, surrounded by bunch of people.
"Everyone, now that flood came, many small animals can get caught. Don't catch them all as we need steady supply of food. You see these white mushrooms on trees, they are safe to eat. Only those! Those colorful mushrooms are highly poisonous. Do not eat them. Understood? I want men to gather the colorful ones around village and burn them. The less chance that someone by accident eat it, is better. Now there are no physicians. Who can save your lives?"
Everyone was hot with truth. Health is now wealth.
No physicians means they can die even from cold. People started cutting trees for firewood.
Those that were saved got one toom homes for free built by village.
Things were going on and the ewo girls went down to water and sighed. As expected, water was currently brown, green and gray.
Luckily this village had own well and there was small steam from natural well half hour away from village.
Few people chose to start building home close to that well, which is actually not a bad idea.
Another part of new ommers found different wells much further away and moved slowly there, slowly leaving the village.
Of course, the houses are left empty and those that had bigger families exchanged with them for small bag of food.
Every handful of grains could he said to be worth now pure gold.
The five families of Su clan gathered again in middle of village and included now Su Fei in their conversation.
Others only listened as they knew that they were saved by these people.
"Replant trees that were cut. We don't want landslides or we will all die. The big meafown near the stone wall can be separated into plots. Let's plant winter wheat before winter comes. I fear..."
Yes, people might think, wait minute, how come north has spring and it's already harvesting season?
Because on north summer is just few months a year. Rest of year is wintertime.
While here the summor is almost over, there it only started getting warmer.
The plants have different growing period as well. It was hard living in those countries but people still survived their for thousands of years.
And here Harvesting Celebration is inid of year. Somewhere in July.
After days of rain, sun came right back, causing many plants to shine in bright green.
Heat became crazy as now moisture was not far and many were eyeing calm water but seeing the color, no one dared to jump inside.
Ten days later five floats could be seen going towards their village.
Su MeiMei almost started crying as she saw her grandfather. "Grandpa!"
Yes, they all survived. No he had no plan leaving Peach village, now called Su village.
Who can stop them now?