"The sun is out! The sun is out!" Cheers erupted outside while everyone was still asleep.

Yunqi quickly got up, dressed, and ran outside, without even considering Sicheng.

Seeing his wife run away, Si Cheng could only sigh helplessly, get up, put on his clothes, and follow her out.

Saying the sun came out is a bit of an exaggeration; we only saw some rays of light shining through the clouds, but that was enough to excite everyone.

People rushed out of their homes and spread the word, and more and more people joined the revelry.

"It's good to have sunshine!" Some of the village's elderly people even had tears in their eyes. "With sunshine, plants can grow, and we humans can have hope."

"That's great, we no longer have to live like rats in a stinking ditch, never seeing a ray of sunshine all day long."

"I'm going to stay outside today and feel the sunshine."

"It would be even better if it could rain. Otherwise, having sunshine but no water is a problem. The water level of the big lake outside has dropped so much. If it doesn't rain soon, we really won't survive." Seeing the sunshine, some people thought of rain.

Influenced by his words, everyone's initial excitement waned. If there was only sunshine and no water, then another disaster awaited them.

Yunqi knew that the natural seasons would soon return to normal, but she couldn't tell everyone directly. She could only say encouragingly, "The sunshine is back, and everything else will gradually recover. Don't you all feel that the air is much better?"

"While there's some sunshine now, everyone should quickly take out the items in their homes that need to be dried in the sun. Otherwise, we'll waste a lot of firewood every time we rely on drying them." The elderly Grandpa Qi and the others didn't know how long the sunshine would last, but they just wanted to make the most of it.

"Yes, it's been so long since I've enjoyed the smell of sunshine. I need to go spread out my quilts, otherwise they always smell musty." Fourth Aunt immediately turned around and ran home, with Yun Qiao carefully protecting her from behind.

Yunqi couldn't help but admire these elderly people, because she knew that after this brief period of sunshine, a long rainy season would follow, which would not only replenish the dried-up water sources in various places, but also awaken a lot of vegetation on the earth.

After this rainy season, everyone will find that the whole world has changed, and everyone has returned to a primitive society.

Jungles are everywhere, and danger lurks everywhere.

Even so, Yunqi prefers his future life, since no one wants to always face a gloomy world.

As expected, the sun hadn't shone on the earth for more than a few days before it started raining.

Several villages outside the main village, seeing that it was raining, began packing their belongings and stumbling back to their own villages along the muddy dirt roads.

But with the arrival of the rainy season, the roofs that everyone had built with straw began to leak.

This has stumped everyone. They can't find plastic or roof tiles now, but it's not a good idea to keep drizzling inside.

"Brother Cheng, I really can't take it anymore. It's okay for us young people to get a little rained on, but the elderly at home can't stand it." Yun Xun found Si Cheng early in the morning.

Although Si Cheng had secretly added a tarpaulin to the straw in his own yard, he was aware of everyone's troubles and had been thinking about the problem ever since the rainy season began.

Si Cheng said, "If all else fails, we can go to the city again. There should be some kind of awning or something there."

Yunxun said, "Then we have no way to bring the things over. Not only are the roads difficult to travel now, but it's also raining all the time. Even if we bring things, they will get soaked."

Yunqi said, "Every household should still have those bags that we exchanged from the city, right? We can sew them into raincoats or piece them together into tarpaulins to hang on the roof to reduce some of the rainwater getting in."

Yunxun said, "Now my family is regretting not replacing more. The ones we got before have already been taken apart and used to make down comforters and other things. They weren't even enough to make up the numbers."

When Yunqi heard him say that, he remembered when Yun Liping got married, she made a down comforter by combining a bag and a worn-out down jacket, and many people in the village followed suit.

Si Cheng was filled with regret. He had been so focused on hunting that he had forgotten such an important matter. "Call the young people in the village and let's go outside to cut some bamboo. Let's arrange the bamboo into a row, then mix some mud to cover it up. Let's build a shelter for the elderly in the village first. It should last for a while."

As soon as Yunxun heard that there was a solution, he ran out to inform everyone, even forgetting the straw hat he had brought with him.

Yunqi picked up the straw hat that had been left out, "This thing can't keep out the rain, and it's not as useful as a bamboo hat."

Si Cheng also remembered the bamboo hat, which was their main rain protection tool in the later stage of their previous life. As long as they had the raw materials, everyone could make one easily.

Si Cheng said, "I've been staying home to avoid the rain these past two days and almost forgot about this. I'll cut some bamboo later and we can weave a few sturdy bamboo hats."

Yunqi nodded. "We can also weave a raincoat. It's a pity we don't have palm leaves around here, otherwise a palm raincoat would not only be lightweight but also very waterproof."

Si Cheng also missed the old palm-leaf raincoats. They were taught to make them by an old craftsman in the south, and they made a living by making raincoats.

“When we have time, let’s go south. There are many things there that we don’t have here. If we can get some palm leaves, we won’t be afraid of even the heaviest rain. Most importantly, they’re durable and don’t break easily no matter how much we handle them. They’re much better than those plastic ones we used to have.”

Yunqi said, "It's not as simple as it sounds. I remember we've been struggling in the south for so long and we've never seen anyone go south. And after the rainy season, all the roads that were still there before have completely disappeared and turned into jungles. It's really hard to find them now."

If it weren't for the rampant growth of vegetation that completely disoriented them, their journey home wouldn't have been so difficult and dangerous.

Si Cheng also knew that Yun Qi did not want him to go further south, after all, there were still many dangers there, and one careless move could lead to utter ruin.

Calculating that Yun Xun and the others should have notified everyone, Si Cheng went to the courtyard, picked up a machete, gave them a brief instruction, and ran outside.

Seeing that he hadn't brought any rain gear and was just rushing out, Yunqi wanted to call out to him, but immediately stopped herself.

She still remembers how many people cheered in the rain when the first rain came down, including many elderly people and children.

I don't know if it's because of all the hard work we've done, but everyone's physical condition has improved a lot. Even after getting soaked in such a heavy rain, I didn't hear anyone complain of getting sick.