You've been reborn and you're going to go farm?

"Under the combined influence of an upper-level trough and warm, humid air currents from the southwest, from tonight until the next three days..."

"Heavy rain to torrential rain is expected in all districts of our city... A yellow flood warning has been activated."

"Urgent flood prevention notice... Ensure the safety of life and property."

Outside the window, the rain was pouring down.

Two beams of light flashed, and a bread truck stopped in front of the house.

Jiang Lin got off the bread truck, raindrops pelting him, his T-shirt instantly soaked. He shouted to Lin Tao in the truck, "Drive slower!" and then ran into the house in the rain.

Hearing the noise, Xu Rong came out and saw Jiang Lin. As she handed him a towel to wipe the raindrops, she asked, "Aren't you in school? Why are you back again?"

Jiang Lin wiped the rain off his face: "I asked Teacher Liang for leave. I'll stay home these next few days because it's raining."

Jiang Jiahe's lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but he swallowed his words back.

He couldn't find fault with his son's recent behavior.

Xu Rong said, "Oh dear, it's rare for you to come all this way... There's no food left, but there's some cold rice. I'll go heat it up for you."

Jiang Lin said, "Mom, don't worry about me, I'll go make some fried rice myself."

Ten minutes later, Jiang Lin, holding a bowl of fried rice, sat under the eaves. The wind was howling, and the rainwater on the eaves in front of him had formed a straight line, splashing up and wetting most of the threshold.

He sent a message to Jiang Ye, ate a mouthful of rice, and kept his eyes on the land plot status on the panel.

The rain hadn't been falling for long, and the fields, having been prepared beforehand, were in good condition.

The two of them finished the rest of their meal, went inside, and filled out the two forms that Director Liang had given them.

His situation is already underway and aligns with policy trends, so getting subsidies shouldn't be difficult.

At 11 p.m., after finishing my phone call with Jiang Ye, the rain outside was still pouring down. Just as I was getting ready to rest, the lights outside the window suddenly came on.

"Crack!"

"Rumble..."

The dull rumble of thunder made the whole house resonate.

Jiang Lin glanced at the panel again as usual, and a red warning appeared at the edge of the plot of land to be jointly cultivated.

[Flooding risk, please clear the blockage promptly!]

He rolled out of bed, hung up his headlamp, and was looking for his straw hat when Jiang Jiahe appeared beside him.

"Want to go see it?"

"Um."

He nodded, went straight to the back of the pigsty and took out two straw hats. The father and son then carried hoes and went out the door.

The rain poured down like a waterfall, the raindrops pattering against my straw hat.

The two first looked at their own hillside land. The situation was okay. Due to the terrain and the fact that the Jiang family had previously cleared the surrounding ditches, the water in the land was now flowing out along the ditches.

The beam of the headlamp shone on the ground, and the small ditch where Jiang Lin used to catch eels was now partially flooded, gradually showing a tendency to spread into the fields on both sides.

The two waded through the mud and water, making their way towards the joint planting area. After more than twenty minutes, they could see the rain curtain in the distance, and a light was flickering.

They must have seen the two beams of light over here, because the other beam also came over.

As they drew closer, Jiang Lin recognized the other person—it was Li Shujie.

"Secretary Li!"

Li Shujie was also quite surprised, not expecting that the father and son would actually come down from the hillside.

"It's been raining for several hours. I just saw a lot of weeds and bamboo shoots in the ditch by the door, so I came to take a look."

Jiang Lin nodded and said in a loud voice, "My old man and I were worried, so we came down."

The surging water in the canal was already a muddy yellow color, indicating that silt had been washed down from upstream.

This irrigation canal was built with large stone blocks and runs directly through several villages. When the fields are short of water, they rely on the water inside for irrigation, and at the same time, the water in the fields also has to flow away through it.

The irrigation ditch, which is more than half a person high, is not cemented at the bottom and is easy to clog. Although Li Shujie and his men have dredged the section in their village, the villages upstream are not as diligent.

Jiang Lin first went to check the area marked on the panel. By then, the ground was already visibly flooded.

On the other side of the irrigation ditch, weeds and branches were tangled together with plastic sheeting, forming a blockage that caused the water level in the ditch to rise and overflow back into the fields.

With this amount of rainfall, if it had been any later, most of the land would probably have been flooded.

"We need to clean up all these branches and plastic film."

"Otherwise, not only will the water not be able to be diverted out, but the water in the ditch will also flow back in!"

Jiang Lin shouted, and the Jiang family and the others put down their hoes and started pulling up the branches in the ditch.

"I'll lend you a hand."

Li Shujie hooked the other end of the branch with his hoe: "One, two, three!"

"Hey!"

"Help!"

Seeing that he couldn't pull it up, Li Shujie jumped into the ditch. He stumbled and almost lost his balance as the water reached his thighs.

"Slow down!" Jiang Jiahe roared, "You're in your fifties, don't you know your own strength?"

"It's alright, it's alright, it won't be washed away."

He reached underwater and cleared away some of the tangled weeds and plastic.

"There's another rope here!"

"No wonder it couldn't be pulled!"

He shone his headlamp into the water and pointed to the underwater rope above his head.

Jiang Jiahe, carrying a hoe, said, "Move aside."

After waiting for him to step aside, Jiang Jiahe dug straight down with a hoe.

"Thump..."

The hoe missed its target and instead struck a tree branch with a dull thud.

Li Shujie reached out his hand: "Come on, come on, you can't see clearly up there, give me the hoe!"

Jiang Jiahe was also unconvinced, so he jumped down as well.

The two people, whose combined age was over a hundred, began to secretly compete with Jiang Lin on the other side.

Jiang Jiahe said coldly, "Move aside, there's no room for two people."

Li Shujie scoffed and stepped back a little. Jiang Jiahe grabbed the tip of the hoe and this time saw where the rope was.

He dug horizontally a couple of times, and with a splashing sound of water, the rope finally broke.

The two of them worked together to push the branch blocking the ditch up.

With a "whoosh," the blocked water swept the mud, sand, and weeds downstream, and the water level at our feet dropped rapidly.

The water that had flooded into the ground found an outlet and began to flow out into the main canal.

Jiang Lin used a hoe to clear away the mud, sand, and weeds that had flooded in. As the water receded, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Shujie and Jiang Jiahe climbed up, soaked to the bone, mud mixed with rainwater dripping down their trouser legs.

"It's all clear now, it's all clear now!" Secretary Li dipped his feet into the ditch and rinsed the mud off his pants.

"It still needs someone to keep a close eye on it!"

Jiang Jiahe looked at the upstream location: "Let's go up two more steps and see."

"Let's go!"

The three of them walked upstream for several hundred meters until they reached the border of the village.

"Looks like tonight should be fine!"

"Hurry up and take Jiang Lin back to take a shower and change his clothes, so he doesn't catch a cold."

"I'll keep watch for the rest of the night tonight."

Li Shujie, carrying a hoe, patted Jiang Jiahe on the shoulder.

Then a muffled clap of thunder sounded, and all three of them instinctively flinched.

Jiang Lin said with lingering fear, "Li Shujie, you should go back and change your clothes. It looks like this rain is going to last for several days, it won't be over in just one night."

Li Shujie laughed: "Okay, okay, I'll call them all tomorrow and make a schedule!"