CHAPTER 403: CHAPTER 402: HEAVEN WANTS TO RAIN

After the four people left the train station, they briefly said goodbye and took cabs one after another. Teacher Zhang and Zhen Yu each went home, while Mr. Fang rushed with Han Mingyue to the long-distance bus station!

This was because the route from Qi City to Laha that doesn’t go through the highway only has national roads, and it even passes through a few counties and towns, including some sandy and rural roads! In previous years, there had been incidents where rain had washed out roads, so Mr. Fang didn’t dare to delay, fearing that the rainstorm would stop them halfway and delay their return home.

Standing in front of the glass door of an internet cafe and looking at the heavy rain pouring outside, Zhen Yu suddenly realized that it was now May 1998!! A catastrophic flood, one that occurs once in a hundred years, was about to arrive after her middle school exams!

Although Zhen Yu was reborn, she neither had the ability to summon wind and rain nor had extraordinary powers like having three heads and six arms! She didn’t possess superhero powers to save the world. For someone like her, a common citizen, recklessly making predictions would most likely lead to being taken in for a ’tea-drinking’ session...

Thus, before this disaster arrives, Zhen Yu couldn’t muster any semblance of the saintly sense of duty to take the world’s sufferings upon herself. All she thought about was how to preserve herself and those around her!

As the saying goes—do what you can with the abilities you possess!

Zhen Yu in her past and present life had always recognized this and diligently practiced it!

She knew that in this world riddled with holes, many had their own trump cards, and she wasn’t the only one. She understood that even if a savior did appear, it definitely wouldn’t be her! For a middle school student like her with little influence, the only option was to helplessly watch the flood happen. After all, it’s inevitable like the rain falling or someone getting married. Even if Zhen Yu had a system capable of elevating her to the pinnacle of life, what could she do? She could only let it be! Turn around and no longer fret...

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Zhen Yu remembered, after the flood receded, the news had mentioned that the fields near Qi City had suffered greatly in the flood, but the safety of the people in the city was well-secured; only some bungalows and ground floors of buildings were waterlogged or stores along the streets got soaked. Only low-lying regions of Qi City’s subordinate counties and farm brigades saw houses washed away, but higher terrain areas like Laha had no casualties.

So for those she cared about, Zhen Yu wasn’t worried. Instead, she recalled how during that summer vacation in her previous life, the sky outside her grandfather’s window hadn’t cleared up for over a month, and they had eaten boiled saltwater noodles for more than two months. And then, she thought that notifying everyone to fill up their fridges before the flood hits was the real deal!

Also, there was the matter of Han Mingyue bringing Han Jiayang to spend the summer in Qi City. She needed to get the keys first so she could move their luggage in advance! Otherwise, once the heavy rain started, it would be difficult to move stuff! Naturally, the most important thing was to urge Han Mingyue to start her journey immediately after her middle school exam was over! Because if there was any delay, the roads might be blocked...

Zhen Yu had a lot on her mind, so she ended up standing in the same spot for quite a while.

Li Si’er, unknowing of when she arrived, stood beside her and stared at the heavy rain outside with worry, saying, "It’s almost summer, if our shop caught such a rainstorm during the summer renovation, that would be terrible! At the least, we wouldn’t be able to work for three to five days! And if it continued to rain..."

Zhen Yu didn’t really listen to what Li Si’er said after that! It was this moment that she suddenly realized how foolish it was to have planned the renovation of the second floor during the summer vacation! Once the storm started outside, where was she to find someone to work? Even if she found someone, they wouldn’t be able to work! Everything would be drenched, and the walls wouldn’t dry...

After careful consideration, Zhen Yu decided to immediately move the renovation of the second floor up the schedule! She aimed to ’finish the battle’ by the middle of June!

"Brother Si, later post a notice! And inform Old Wang as well, we’ll start construction here next Monday!!

Li Si’er, surprised, said: "This early?! Why the sudden decision to start early?"

"Because of the rain..."

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The rainstorm lasted a day and a night.

Not until the next morning did the rain lighten, but it still continued to drizzle non-stop.

Holding an umbrella, Zhen Yu leisurely made her way to school, but even until the morning self-study session started, she hadn’t seen Lu Huai enter the classroom. Only then did she realize something was amiss! After scanning around, she had an idea in her mind.

So it turns out she’s the only one from the competitors sitting in the classroom at this moment!

"Must have been the heavy rain blocking the way..." Zhen Yu guessed quietly.

Her guess was quickly confirmed, but Zhen Yu didn’t expect there to be a little side story in between.

As soon as the early self-study session ended, a female classmate walked up to Zhen Yu’s desk.

"Zhen Yu! Why did you come back alone?!" The question sounded almost like an interrogation, and Zhen Yu looked up at the girl, not wanting to deal with her at all.

"I’m talking to you! Why did you come back alone?! Where are the others?"

Zhen Yu still ignored her, not wanting to waste her breath on someone who doesn’t know what manners are.

"Are you mute! Or do you dare do but not admit?! Clearly, a whole group left together, and yet only you came back! Did you—"

"What did I do? Did I secretly harm the whole group?" Zhen Yu retorted sarcastically: "Young girl, have you been watching too many horror movies?"

The girl choked for a moment, then emphasized, "I think you definitely know something! Speak up! Why haven’t they returned?! Also! Did you sneak back here on your own?!"

Zhen Yu didn’t want to argue with this moron, just when she thought ’Better to act rather than blabber’, Teacher Liu, the homeroom teacher, walked into the classroom.

"What’s going on here? Why are you all gathered up?"

With one sentence, the gossipy students scattered instantly.

"Students! The competition team led by Director Sun has been delayed on the highway due to the heavy rain, and they will return a day later than scheduled. Everyone, no need to worry."

The murmuring students: "..."

Suddenly felt like laughing, what to do?

"Zhen Yu, come with me."

Zhen Yu stood up composedly and followed Teacher Liu out of the classroom.

The moment the two left, the classroom buzzed with whispers.

"Man! I was almost conspiring just now! Now that I think about it, it was so unlikely!"

"I was also getting chills! Turns out it was just the rain blocking halfway!"

"I thought there was some serious conspiracy too! Now, well..."

The girl who questioned Zhen Yu stayed silent, her face turning alternately pale and red with the buzzing voices around, and it took her a while to calm down.