Having seen off Qiangqiang and Professor Zhang, Yun Shuangshuang began keeping a close eye on the weather again, constantly monitoring the water level that had accumulated on the ground to the point of submerging a person's calves, to see if it continued to rise and how quickly.
Faced with such heavy rain, the villagers, who initially felt everything would be fine and went about their daily lives leisurely, could no longer sit still. Recalling the government's previous request for them to construct bamboo rafts, they suddenly burst with enthusiasm to make them.
Now that the ground was already flooded, men and relatively healthy women donned rain boots and raincoats, braving the downpour to rush into the bamboo grove to cut bamboo and continue making the rafts.
