Chapter 271: Chapter 272: My Daughter Made the News Chapter 271: Chapter 272: My Daughter Made the News “Everyone, co and see, my daughter is in the newspaper.” Mrs. Xu, holding the newspaper, rushed into the workshop.
Hearing his wife’s clamorous voice, Mr. Xu furrowed his brow, looking puzzled at his eldest son, “What is your mother shouting about?”
Xu soon went to listen and quickly returned with a face full of surprise.
“Dad, sothing big has happened, my little sister is in the newspaper!” Xu’s face bead with joy, looking proud.
Mr. Xu, who was still learning how to repair machinery, didn’t catch on until soone reminded him and he ca back to his senses.
“Captain, your daughter made it to the newspaper?”
“What? She’s in the newspaper?” Mr. Xu reacted and quickly walked towards Mrs. Xu.
Seeing his wife, he snatched the newspaper from her, put on his glasses, and began reading carefully, his smile growing broader as he read.
“Captain, what does it say in the newspaper? What remarkable thing has Yingying done now?”
By this ti, everyone had grown accustod; the captain’s daughter was always up to sothing impressive—just hearing her na ant she must have done sothing great.
A look of excitent took over Mr. Xu’s fatherly face: “My daughter has sold our Food Factory and Textile Factory’s products to the Friendship Building.
Do you know what the Friendship Building is for?”
Everyone looked puzzled. The Friendship Building sounded similar to the Departnt Store—could it be a place that also sold things?
If it was just about selling things, it wouldn’t be so impressive since Departnt Store was already selling products from the Food Factory and Textile Factory.
Unable to watch any longer, the deputy captain urged, “Brother Jianguo, stop beating around the bush and just tell us all about it.”
Mr. Xu laughed heartily, “Friendship Building is exclusively for selling goods to foreigners.
It’s not easy to get in there; us people from Hua Country can’t even enter. Those who can enter are big foreign business tycoons.
Even Magic City Food Factory’s products can’t get in there, but our products did, and that tells you how impressive our Food Factory is.”
Everyone finally understood Mr. Xu’s words and their faces filled with shock followed by joy.
With everyone smiling broadly, droplets began to splatter across the courtyard floor, one after another.
Then, following the flashes of lightning, the rain started pouring down like crazy.
Suddenly, the heavens and earth seed separated by a layer of gauze, hazy and chaotic, the rain grew heavier, as if soone was dumping large buckets of water from above, and the raindrops hit the windows, creating a crackling sound.
This sent a shiver through everyone’s hearts.
Initially, Mr. Xu hadn’t paid much attention, but rembering his daughter had been concerned about the dam lately, his heart suddenly clenched.
Since the ti his daughter fell into the river and woke up telling them about a grand dream she had, Mr. Xu sensed sothing was off—perhaps it wasn’t just a dream, maybe his daughter could predict future changes.
Looking at the torrential rain outside the window, Mr. Xu’s face was full of worry.
The people in the workshop, however, smiled at the heavy rain, “It’s finally raining. It’s been over a month since the New Year without a drop, if it didn’t rain soon, the crops in the fields would suffer a drought.”
While they now had jobs, the farrs still depended on the weather.
If the heavens were kind and provided favorable winds and waters, their farming would face less hardship and yield more crops.
But facing a drought or flood could lead to a year with no harvest.
No crops affected more than just the local villagers; the food for city dwellers also ca from their rural areas.
But as the rain grew heavier, turning from tight droplets to a torrential downpour, it seed as if the heavens had sprung a massive leak, water cascading down furiously.
Everyone’s faces suddenly changed.
The older elders looked grave. “This rain doesn’t look like a good one.”
The speaker was the oldest elder in the village, who had experienced a famine when he was young. At this mont, he looked out at the heavy rain with a heart full of panic, hoping it wasn’t as he feared.
Mr. Xu, too, wore a worried expression. “Uncle Xu, when do you think this rain will stop?”
Grandpa Xu was the oldest person in the village and usually took on the task of weather forecasting.
After all, country people had no televisions or radios, literally no tools to check the weather, they completely relied on observing the sky for their daily activities.
Uncle Xu walked to the front door, looked up at the dark clouds in the sky, and frowned even deeper, rembering Yingying had asked to check the dam—could she have known sothing?
That girl was clever; she might have heard so news from sowhere.
Uncle Xu looked at Mr. Xu with a complex expression on his face. “Jianguo, take to find Yingying.
Everyone else, hurry ho.”
While the rain has not yet collected enough to hinder travel, those who can go ho should hurry; otherwise, with so many people trapped in one village, there wouldn’t be enough food, and the situation would beco even more severe.
The others, upon hearing Grandpa Xu’s words, felt a sudden pang of alarm. Those from outside the village dared not ask further and dashed ho through the rain.
The remaining villagers, with grave faces, looked at Uncle Xu. “Uncle Xu, what’s wrong with this rain?”
Uncle Xu remained silent.
This made everyone even more afraid.
“Uncle Xu, please tell everyone what’s going on,” the crowd was desperate.
The worry was evident on Uncle Xu’s weathered face. “I dare not discuss this matter privately, we’ll see in a few days.
Jianguo, let’s go to your house first; I have sothing to ask Yingying.”
Mr. Xu guessed the gist, and the others weren’t fools either.
Who hadn’t been a disobedient child, scared by the elders at ho?
Everyone vividly rembered the flood in Yu County decades ago, which had destroyed houses and subrged nearby villages.
“It’s alright, we’ve all built new houses this year, all two stories, and they’re sturdy, there definitely won’t be an issue,” one of the villagers said, trying to reassure everyone.
Hearing this, everyone felt reassured. Indeed, the new houses were solid.
Mr. Xu hurried ho with Uncle Xu, followed by Mrs. Xu, Mr. Xu’s younger brothers, and their cousins.
When Uncle Xu saw Yingying, he directly asked, “Yingying, when you asked us to check the dam earlier, did you already know about this heavy rain?”
The rest looked at Yingying in shock.
How could she have known about this, she wasn’t an immortal.
Yingying nodded. “Mr. Xu is right. I had been on a business trip out of town and happened to see a weather forecast on a TV, saying it would keep raining in our region.
It even ntioned heavy rain; I wasn’t sure if it was true, but I know how crucial the dam is. My dad is the team leader, and I’ve been imrsed in this since childhood.
So, I reminded my dad to be cautious with the dam, but I didn’t know anything beyond that.
Did Mr. Xu notice anything?”
Uncle Xu, hearing Yingying’s explanation, sighed. He had been overthinking.
“I can tell from the sky that this rain won’t stop anyti soon, at least for a week.
If it continues to be this heavy, our crops will definitely be flooded. What will we do then?”
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