Understanding the meaning in Shu Miao's eyes, Zi Li finally realized what was going on. He lowered his eyelids guiltily and took a big gulp of ginger soup to cover up his embarrassment.

"Ah, well, the captain is holding a meeting for them right now. I'll be there in half an hour... Ha Qiu!"

Before he could finish his words, he sneezed again.

Seeing that he looked like he was about to catch a cold, Shu Miao no longer expected him to bring a raincoat to his aunt later.

After confirming with him again that the aunt was definitely at the brigade headquarters, he put on the straw raincoat.

With the help of Zili, he rushed into the rain with a straw raincoat on his back.

Shu Miao, who was walking with his head down and his neck hunched, noticed out of the corner of his eye that there were still people draining the fields in the heavy rain, and his heart tightened.

Fortunately, after seeing several busy people in a row, all of them were gay men, she relaxed a lot.

No longer distracted by looking elsewhere, but always paying attention to the ground below.

There is no other way. There are only two sets of raincoats at home, and they are both adult sizes.

But compared to the wider straw raincoat in the backpack, the one she was wearing was obviously made according to the body shape of an adult woman.

Even though she had grown rapidly and was now about 1.35 meters tall, the straw raincoat still covered her calves.

It was indeed covered tightly, but because it was too long, it also affected walking.

Or they are worried that if they tilt their heads too high, the rain will slide down their cheeks and into their collars, so they can only lower their heads slightly, which makes their field of vision even narrower.

When she stumbled to the drying yard in front of the brigade headquarters, she realized that things had gotten serious!

At the entrance of the brigade, there was a large crowd of members wearing straw raincoats, and everyone had a look of worry on their faces.

While Shu Miao was watching, she did not forget to look around for her aunt. After confirming that her aunt was not in the crowd, her brows couldn't help but frown slightly.

After an unknown amount of time, someone finally couldn't hold back any longer and shouted loudly,

"Captain, who did you send upstream? Why are they so slow? We've been waiting here for ages and they still haven't returned."

Someone started a conversation, and the solemn and serious scene suddenly became noisy.

"That's right, Captain, why don't you send two more people to take a look."

"It's no use just waiting here!"

Shu Miao didn't hear what the captain said. In fact, if these people hadn't had such loud voices, she wouldn't even know what they were saying.

The heavy rain continued to pour down, and many members who felt that something was wrong with the rain came hurriedly.

During their conversation with their predecessors, Shu Miao roughly understood that everyone was worried about the heavy rain upstream.

If there is also heavy rain upstream, the village of their brigade as a tributary will definitely be affected!

If the riverside area is hit by floods and heavy rains, this season's rice harvest may be completely lost.

Because more than ten years ago, the Yanhe Brigade, which was still Yanhe Village, had suffered a flood disaster.

At that time, there was only a heavy rainstorm upstream, and the abundant water rushed directly to their Yanhe Village, washing away most of the paddy fields in the village.

Fortunately, there was no wind or rain in their Yanhe Village. Once the sun came out, the water receded quickly. Except for the rice fields on both sides of the river that could not be rescued due to severe waterlogging, the damage to the other rice fields was not too serious.

Even so, the villagers worked together to raise the rice fields to create a relatively large gap between the rice fields and the river surface.

There was no flooding of rice fields for more than ten years afterwards.

But I didn’t expect that this situation would happen again!

Originally, the brigade's farmland was damaged by disasters, and the public grain tax that needed to be paid would be partially reduced or deferred depending on the severity of the disaster.

However, the requirements for reducing or exempting the public grain task were too harsh. At least in several nearby communes, no brigade was heard of meeting the standards for reducing or exempting the public grain task after the disaster.

Most of them are about delaying the collection of public grain.

But after the brigade pays the public grain tax every year, there is very little left. If they need to set aside part of their food rations for several consecutive years to pay the public grain tax for this season, who can bear it?

As this concerns food rations for the next few years, the members are naturally worried.

Listening to their conversation, Shu Miao also became worried.

At this moment,

Boom——

Every time a loud thunder exploded in my ears, the house seemed to be shaking with the thunder, and the rain curtain became heavier.

The members rioted for a while, and soon, under the arrangement of the team leader, hid in an empty warehouse nearby.

Just as the team leader was busy calming the restless members, Shu Miao thought about it and did not follow the crowd, but went straight to the team office.

Fortunately, when the team leader came out just now, he cleared a path in the crowd, and Shu Miao hurriedly squeezed in along this path.

After finally squeezing under the eaves, I hurriedly clung to the window and looked inside through the torn window paper.

When I saw the crowded scene in the house, I was stunned.

I thought, are these old people so idle?

Even if they were worried about flooding, they wouldn't have kept so many people here, right?

Although she complained, it did not stop her from searching carefully for the aunt in the crowd.

Fortunately, these people also knew that standing would be an eyesore with too many people, so they just sat on the ground.

Just as she was about to check everyone in the room one by one, someone suddenly patted her shoulder.

Shu Miao was startled and turned around suddenly. Seeing that it was He Sheng, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, he was stunned for a moment.

To be honest, ever since the aunt brought the chicken soup back that day, she had never seen him appear in the Shu family again.

She thought that once the aunt had talked things out with him, the two of them would naturally "break up", so she was very surprised that he would actually talk to her.

But before she could speak, the other party spoke first with a serious face.

"Your aunt has already gone home, you should hurry home too!" He pushed her and kept urging her to leave quickly with his eyes.

Only then did Shu Miao notice that he was not only soaked, but also covered in large chunks of yellow mud. He looked so miserable, perhaps because he had fallen many times.

Although she was wondering why he was urging her to go home so anxiously, she thought that since the aunt had already gone home, there was really no need for her to stay here in the rain.

Although my body was not very wet, the humid air was indeed quite uncomfortable.

Although the autumn heat is still very strong at the beginning of autumn, the strong wind and heavy rain will make you feel a little cold after a long time.

Not to mention that she was worried about getting her pants wet, so she rolled up her pants legs to her thighs and wore straw sandals on her feet.

Just as she tightened her raincoat and walked back, she saw He Sheng, who had entered the office, running out again.

Afterwards, he rushed into the warehouse despite the heavy rain and said something to the team leader.

A loud uproar suddenly sounded, causing Shu Miao to stop involuntarily.

Then I saw the members wearing straw raincoats rushing into the warehouse, each holding a pickaxe and rushing into the rain.

The team leader put on his straw raincoat while shouting to the members,

"Everyone, stop gathering here. Hurry up and go home. Call all the men and women at home. Go quickly!!!"

"Boom—"

Another loud thunder exploded.