Chapter 531: Dialogue in the Rain

However, there was no need for Baifeng to explain. Fortunately, only a small portion of people were spreading this kind of news, and since they also felt fear and dared not speak recklessly, the speed at which news in Huaxia spread was relatively slow, so it had not yet caused too much of an adverse impact.

In a situation like this, there was no need for Baifeng to rack his brains to think of some excuse to fool the ignorant people; he only needed to let those intelligence personnel, who were ordinary people themselves, use their own mouths to refute and scold, for the stronger side will eventually be victorious.

In the afternoon, after the hottest part of the day had passed, a gust of strong wind blew, and Baifeng's heart immediately sank into ice. What he feared most was happening. He hurriedly gathered the nearby people and told them to quickly open the water channels in the Rice fields. The Rice could not be soaked any longer; even if it didn't rain, they could just irrigate it again, but they absolutely must not let it soak in the water for another day.

Once the wind rose, dark clouds gathered toward them at a speed visible to the naked eye. The distant mountains had already been dyed black by the rain, and they were still moving toward them.

Everyone knew it was about to rain, so most people still ran toward their own fields. The wheat had been drying in the sun for half the day and had already stood back up quite a bit; what remained was because the silt was too thick, and it couldn't stand back up for the time being.

For the dry land, all everyone could do was quickly dig the drainage channels well. Baifeng knew that this kind of weather was prone to thunderstorms, so in the morning, he had arranged for people to teach everyone to quickly dig a drainage channel in their own fields. Whether the water gathered together and went to their Fish Pond, or left the city and entered the river, in short, the water could not be allowed to stop in the fields.

Baifeng had only been watching for a moment when the rain began to fall. Large raindrops smashed onto the ground, wetting a patch, and then immediately began to fall at an even faster and more extreme speed; one could even feel the weight of the raindrops hitting one's body.

Accompanied by thunderstorms, the rain soon plunged the entire city into a curtain of rain. It was no longer possible to see what the situation was in the distance. Baifeng was hurriedly dragged and pulled by his guards under the eaves of a house. This was someone else's house; Baifeng had been worried, so he had left his office.

Many people in the rain were uneasy and insisted on standing in the rain to watch, but more people knew the urgency of the situation and hurriedly ran toward home, not forgetting to pull along those who were standing in the fields with tears in their eyes as they ran.

Slowly, many figures appeared in Baifeng's field of vision. Perhaps as they ran, they would be slipped by the mud and fall, but they still hurriedly got up and continued to run; after all, the sound of thunder exploding in their ears was truly a bit terrifying.

The owner of the house whose eaves Baifeng was using to shelter from the rain returned. In the rain, he only thought it was an ordinary person sheltering from the rain, because he had intended to run to a closer house to shelter, but after he ran under the eaves and used his hands to wipe the water from his head and face, he saw that the person standing there was Baifeng.

He was stunned for a moment, then immediately knelt to pay respects to Baifeng. Baifeng told him to get up quickly. Seeing him covered in mud with clothes soaked through and sticking to his body, Baifeng told him to go back and change his clothes quickly so he wouldn't get sick.

That man glanced at Baifeng's equally soaked clothes, still answered timidly, and then pushed open the courtyard gate and went in, but he did not close the courtyard gate.

The guard was a bit worried about Baifeng and asked him when they would return. Baifeng looked up and continued to watch the Heaven: "No rush, no rush."

Soon, the house owner came back wearing dry clothes. A woman, who should be his wife, used her hand to hold a piece of animal skin over her man, and the house owner held a heavy straw raincoat in his hand.

He walked up to Baifeng and said somewhat anxiously: "King, please put on the straw raincoat and go back quickly. This rain is too heavy, and your clothes are still wet. I am short in stature and do not have dry clothes that you can wear, so you should also go back and change your clothes quickly; you must not catch a chill."

Baifeng refused his kindness. In the pack on the guard's back was an umbrella that the house owner could not buy, because under the eaves, the rain could not reach them, and an umbrella was indeed of no use in such a rainstorm. So Baifeng did not let the guard take it out.

Baifeng asked the house owner with a heavy expression: "How much land does your family have?"

The house owner was poked in the waist by his wife, and only then did he hurriedly answer: "King, my family has thirty-four and one-third mu of land, thirty mu of dry land, and the rest is water land."

"Is the grain harvested in a year enough to live on?"

The house owner answered respectfully: "It is enough, and I can even save a lot of grain. I came to Huaxia relatively late and it took many years to earn this much land. This year I also cleared a lot of wasteland, but I cannot afford to hire tenant farmers, so it hasn't been planted yet this year."

Baifeng pointed to the water accumulating more and more on the ground: "How was the disaster situation in your fields last night?"

The house owner also sighed: "I'm afraid the harvest won't be good this year. The wheat fell all over the ground. I stared at it for almost a day, and it was finally almost back up, but now it has started to rain again. This weather, how can it be like this?"

Baifeng asked without turning his head: "Why do you think this rain is falling? Is it because I killed the bear and angered the Giant Bear God?"

The house owner was so frightened that his hand shook, and the straw raincoat almost fell to the ground. His tone was very weak: "No, it shouldn't be like that, right? A dead bear, no matter how big it is, if it had the ability to bring down natural disasters, would it have been killed by people?"

Baifeng was also gratified to hear this: "That's right, what a simple truth. Rain, no matter how hard it falls, isn't it still just rain? Before I killed the bear and the tiger, wouldn't there have been rainstorms? In the past, our lives were harder than this, and when we suffered disasters, didn't we still survive? I don't believe that this year's rain can destroy my Huaxia."

The house owner's answer received Baifeng's affirmation, and he spoke with more confidence: "Exactly, exactly. At worst, we'll just endure hunger this year and wait for next year. If it's the same next year, we'll dig for wild vegetables and eat tree bark. I've been eating these every year since I can remember, and haven't I lived just fine? I believe this year will definitely be fine."

Baifeng nodded with gratification, seeing that the rain had no intention of stopping at all, and the dark clouds were still thickening, with lightning flashing continuously and intermingling with the sound of thunder; you couldn't tell at all which clap of thunder was produced by which bolt of lightning.

The water on the ground was also accumulating more and more. Baifeng also felt that he could not continue to stay here, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to get home. So he had the guard open the umbrella, and the other guard borrowed the house owner's straw raincoat, promising to return it tomorrow. Just like that, the three of them stepped into the accumulated water and moved forward in the heavy rain.

The house owner and his wife watched Baifeng go away. A gust of wind blew by with rain, and he felt his clothes get a little wetter. He immediately took his wife into the house; he only had this last set of dry clothes, and they could not get wet again.