Sure enough, from last autumn until spring, not a single drop of rain fell from the sky. The surrounding land was so dry that it cracked. Even though people kept watering it manually or with oxcarts and farm machinery, they couldn't withstand the scorching sun's ability to absorb water.

Although the Ke family has temporarily entered the working class, they have dedicated most of their lives to the land. Looking at the sky, which is as clear as if it had been washed clean without a single cloud, they often sigh.

The scallions and vegetables that the old lady planted in the yard were all drooping, their leaves turning yellow and withered.

Prices rose little by little as the drought worsened. Just when everyone was worried that famine would strike again, the clouds began to thicken and gradually obscure the bright red sun, allowing everyone to breathe a sigh of relief and wait for the long-awaited rain.

But the heavens had been brewing this rain for too long. Finally, one afternoon at the end of May, the sky seemed to have torn open and tilted down, the rushing sound swallowing up all the noise and people's joy, and the rain curtain also blocked people's vision.

Around two or three in the afternoon, the classroom was quite dark, like five or six in the winter, and the lights had already been turned on.

The teacher's voice was drowned out by the sound of rain. Although the windows were tightly closed, rainwater still quickly soaked half of the wall through the window cracks.

Teachers and students had no interest in class and went straight to self-study.

Ke Meiyu let out a slight sigh of relief. She had been in the limelight quite a bit lately, even appearing in the provincial newspaper several times, mostly about her experiences and achievements in leading her students to learn foreign languages. One of her articles discussed drought and flood, proposing several practical solutions.

This article caught the attention of provincial leaders, as every sentence was excerpted from authoritative books, representing a plan that closely combined experience and theory. Regardless of how long the drought would last or whether it would be followed by floods, epidemics, or other unforeseen events, the leaders began making swift and decisive arrangements.

At least the impact of drought on crops will be reduced, and with the various drainage ditches cleared, we won't be in a passive position when floods occur.

In just half an hour, the students on the first floor of the school were forced to move to the second floor. The water level rose visibly, reaching above waist level in just two hours, and showed no signs of slowing down.

Ke Meiyu felt a little uneasy for some reason. She thought that her family had all come to the provincial capital, and that their house was a two-story building, so the tragedy of her mother being swept away by the flood in the article should not happen.

After all, she saved Ke's father...

Thinking of this, her eyes widened. No, Ke's father was indeed rescued, but at that time she was visiting relatives in He'an Commune. She had already managed to control the wild boar herd on the back mountain and ensured that the villagers had meat to store. However, he was still summoned by the plot to go hunting on the mountain with others. If Qin Yuanjiu hadn't arrived in time, he wouldn't have survived!

Although she had met with her parents last night, she still felt uneasy not seeing them now.

Ke Meiyu couldn't sit still any longer. She noticed that there were quite a few students who had come to take refuge on the first floor, making the classroom slightly noisy.

With her eyelids slightly lowered, she rummaged through a box full of talismans she had carved, including water-storing talismans, waterproof talismans, and water-purifying talismans that she had specially made to deal with the flood.

She secretly took out several talismans and layered them on the talisman bird, allowing it to become invisible and unafraid of rain as it went to find Ke's father and mother.

Ke Meiyu used a wisp of her divine sense to control the talisman bird to go to the second floor of the third canteen.

The entire school was shrouded in a misty rain. A strong wind, seemingly coming from nowhere, snapped a tree as thick as a leg by the roadside. The metal notice board rattled and swayed wildly in the wind, and various papers and bricks flew everywhere, creating a world of water.

The howling sound filled people with dread, not to mention the constant rumbling thunder and lightning.

The first floor of the third canteen was also flooded, and everyone hid on the second floor, watching with a mix of sighs and relief, occasionally lamenting the many disasters that had befallen this year.

The doors and windows were tightly shut. The talisman bird circled several times before flying in through the chimney, emerging from the water, and shaking off non-existent water.

It flapped its wings and went up to the second floor.

"Hey, isn't that Sister Tang's parrot? How did it get here?"

"The doors and windows are all closed tightly. Where did it fly in from, or was it hiding somewhere just now?"

"Yun Bao'er, your aunt didn't come to work today. Are you hungry and looking for something to eat?"

The talisman bird froze. "Where did Auntie go?"

The group, who had been worried about the heavy rain, relaxed slightly and started teasing the birds: "Oh dear, could this parrot be..."

The next word was unspoken: "The Ke family raises their children well; they're all college graduates, and even their birds are like three- or four-year-old children, able to ask questions."

They sighed for a while, and a kind-hearted auntie laughed and said, "Where do you usually go to have fun? You don't even know your auntie asked for leave?"

It tilted its head. "Are you taking leave? Where to?"

"I heard there was something going on back home, so I asked for leave and went back!"

Ke Meiyu's face suddenly turned deathly pale. She stood up abruptly. Sure enough, the power of the plot was too great; no matter how she tried to guard against it, things always seemed to converge at some point.

"Yu Bao'er, what's wrong?" Huo Chengfang asked worriedly.

“It’s okay, I’m worried about my grandparents at home,” she said, her lips pressed tightly together.

Ke Meiyu sat down again, maneuvered the bird to fly out of the canteen, and went to the family compound.

The entire first floor of the tenement building was flooded, and the families moved their bedding, clothes, and valuables to the second and third floors, using tables and chairs to prop up the railings in an attempt to block the rainwater from getting in.

The strong wind blew the tiles off the roofs of many bungalows, and the people had nowhere to hide.

Ke Meiyu didn't have the energy to care about this, and instead flew back to her own home, where she kept the doors and windows tightly closed as usual.

Using her old method, she manipulated the talisman bird to enter the house through the old-fashioned chimney, finally finding the two elderly people on the second floor who were anxiously waiting for their children and grandchildren.

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