The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1646: Yes, There Is

Chapter 1646: Chapter 1646: Yes, There Is

"Has it hailed before?"

Hearing his muttering, Sui Zimo looked at him and asked.

"Yeah, it has hailed a few times before," the man nodded.

"I’ve encountered it twice myself, and according to my parents, they’ve also experienced it several times. But the hailstones back then weren’t big, the biggest were only the size of chicken eggs, and the smallest were like falling snow."

Nowhere close to this time, when several people have already been killed by it.

Unless they had nothing to eat at home, nobody dared to go outside, the most they did was replace the roof’s panels with new ones if they were not sturdy enough.

"I heard that before the hailstorm, there was a rainbow in the south of the city, is that true?" Lin Caisang asked.

"What rainbow? That was fog, wasn’t it?"

The man denied Lin Caisang’s words and spoke up.

He didn’t believe it was any kind of rainbow, and those living in the south of the city didn’t think it was a rainbow, either.

It was supposed to be pretty, but what’s pretty about it? At that time, it made them unable to even see the road clearly, and as soon as the fog dispersed, the hail started coming down.

And it kept getting bigger, truly terrifying!

"Miss, young master, that was definitely no rainbow, nor was it the beautiful landscape others have been talking about," the man’s wife walked in and said to Lin Caisang and the others.

"I was outside with the children at that time. When the fog came, we couldn’t see the road at all. My child even got hurt because he couldn’t see, and the wound on his face still hasn’t healed."

Yet, they hadn’t called for a doctor because there simply wasn’t time.

When the fog was thick, going out was useless since they couldn’t see the road.

By the time the fog finally cleared, the hail started, and it was severe. Who could go out then?

Even if they did go out, the doctor wouldn’t come in such weather. Only her husband had gone out a few times to chop some wood for the roof panels.

"They said the fog was colorful, but the color I saw was red; I didn’t see any other colors, only red," she said.

Hearing the woman’s words, Lin Caisang turned her head to glance at Sui Zimo, and at the same time, Sui Zimo was looking at her.

"Then it’s not a rainbow, but a strange fog," Lin Caisang said.

"May I ask you both, before the strange fog appeared, did anything unusual happen to the south of the city?"

She asked.

"Something strange?"

The husband and wife looked at each other, then both shook their heads.

"Nothing strange, everything was as usual, our county is very peaceful," said the man.

"Indeed, miss, we people in the county live a calm life constrained by ’celestial punishment,’ never stirring up trouble," the woman agreed.

"Truly nothing?" Lin Caisang asked again.

"Nothing."

"Really noth..."

The couple started to speak at the same time, but before they could finish, their son’s voice interrupted them.

"There is, there is!"

The little boy was not yet ten years old, and though his face was injured, over ten days had passed and the wounds had scabbed over and no longer hurt; he ran into the hall.

"How can you say there isn’t? Dad, mom, I saw Huzi pick up a colorful ball. He and several friends were playing with it, tossing it into the mud, then into the water.

Even when Huzi threw the ball into the fire, it didn’t burn up, it was so strange."