Shocking! My Rugged Husband is the Hidden Tycoon in the 70s Novel-Chapter 274: In Broad Daylight!

This rain was even fiercer than described in the books. The sky over Anguang County seemed to have ruptured, pouring water straight from the Heavenly River.

The crops in the fields, which were once plump with grains, with wheat and rice bowed low, now lay prostrate in the fields like drunkards.

With a straw hat and a raincoat, barefoot and with his pant legs rolled up high, Tang Quantong walked through the rural fields. One couldn’t tell if the water on his face was rain or tears.

"How about organizing the members to harvest? Say something!" Tang Quantong yelled angrily.

But no one spoke because no one had any idea.

Driven by some unknown mentality, Tang Quantong walked along Liaozhong Team’s field ridge and directly reached Shangjiang Team, where he saw yet another scene.

Compared to Liaozhong Team’s fields, which had harvested less than half, with large patches of rice lying prone, Shangjiang Team’s fields were much cleaner, with only stubble soaking in the rainwater, leaving people with mixed feelings.

Several families were settled in the brigade office, and Jiang Baohua was busy coordinating places to stay and meals, "The pots and pans are over there. You all need to negotiate among yourselves to queue up for cooking. After this rain, you should really repair your roofs; next time something like this happens, the brigade won’t handle it."

After saying this, he went out in a raincoat, meeting Tang Quantong and his group at the door. After a moment of surprise, since talking in the rain wasn’t feasible, he invited them into the office.

Seeing everyone was soaked, Jiang Baohua called Dong Liangcheng over to help light the kang heater, both to dispel moisture and to dry clothes.

Since Xu Qinghuan cured Dong Liangcheng, his intelligence developed quickly, and he became more reticent as he understood more.

After lighting the kang, he boiled a kettle of water and served each person, including Tang Quantong, a mug of plain boiled water before leaving.

"Baohua, your team escaped disaster this time. Have you gone out to see what’s going on with the other teams?" Tang Quantong asked sorrowfully.

Jiang Baohua shook his head, "I haven’t checked yet. The rain started last night, and there were many issues here, like leaking roofs in several houses that couldn’t be used, with food piled up in the warehouse. If it gets soaked by rain, it’d be a total waste."

"You’re only worried about leaks, but other teams haven’t even harvested their grain yet!" Tang Quantong lamented bitterly.

Jiang Baohua was at a loss for words. How could he manage all the other teams as just the leader of Shangjiang Team?

Finally, he could only say, "A harvester would really be great!"

Tang Quantong’s face looked even worse, "Baohua, I’m not here to hear you say that. What do you think, do any of the other teams have any remedy?"

Jiang Baohua, who had farmed all his life, knew this situation wasn’t unheard of, happening every few years, with the severity of loss being the only variation. There really wasn’t a good solution.

In this weather, grain soaked overnight by rain would sprout and be wasted.

When we talk about "emergency harvest," it’s about snatching sunshine from the skies!

"There’s truly nothing we can do."

Jiang Baohua was also quite upset, thinking of all that grain wasted like this. How would the county’s people survive in the future!

Everyone in the room looked at each other in silence.

The incessant heavy rain made everything impossible. Yesterday, Jiang Xingye planned to take Xu Qinghuan to the mountains today, but now those plans were dashed.

After eating, Chen Dewen grabbed the dishes to wash, while Qin Baifan and Qing Xiao played hide and seek in the house. Qin Baifan hid while Qing Xiao searched, and naturally, the human child lost. Then Qing Xiao hid while Qin Baifan searched, and again, the human child lost.

But both the person and the wolf played with great joy. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Speaking of which, Qing Xiao was also a juvenile wolf.

Xu Qinghuan handed a few pieces of fabric to Yu Xiaomin along with design sketches. She and Qiao Xinyu went to study making clothes while Xu Qinghuan still remembered to make pills for Xu Jianfeng. She grabbed some medicine and went to her room, planning to find time to make them in space.

Jiang Xingye followed her in and closed the door behind him.

"It’s broad daylight, why are you closing the door?" Xu Qinghuan was puzzled. Previously, he was always concerned about others talking, leaving the door open and keeping an eye outside even when doing bad deeds.

Now, why didn’t he care anymore?

Jiang Xingye stepped closer and grabbed her wrist, massaging it, "Is your hand still sore?"

Xu Qinghuan turned her face away, blushing with embarrassment, unable to help recalling last night. She couldn’t even hold it with her hand wrapped around it, needing his help to manage it.

Pulling her hand back sharply, Xu Qinghuan pinched Jiang Xingye’s cheek, "Why are you talking about this? What’s on your mind all day?"

"Thinking of you!" Jiang Xingye pulled her into an embrace, pressing her against himself, "All I think of is you!"

In broad daylight!

Xu Qinghuan didn’t dare move, but her breath was already unsteady, and she even felt an impulse to take him into space with her because there no one would disturb them.

So you see, from then on the emperor did not attend morning court sessions, and it becomes understandable.

The allure of beauty can lead to trouble.

Fortunately, the noises from outside broke up the moment, and soon Zheng Siqi and Dai Yifeng appeared in the courtyard, shouting, "Lao Jiang, Lao Jiang, Brother Ye, the brigade leader is calling you over. The house at the educated youth spot has collapsed."

This collapse had both good and bad sides.

The good was that hearing about the collapse, Tang Quantong no longer pressed Jiang Baohua for solutions, effectively warning Shangjiang Team to be prepared to aid other teams.

The bad was that now the young female educated youth had no place to stay.

The first to collapse was the makeshift room used for bathing on the west side of the female educated youth spot.

Earlier, Zhang Tieshan had secretly chiseled several holes in the wall for peeping, and although the educated youth spot had a tile roof, it hadn’t been repaired for years. With wind and rain, tiles shifted, exposing the beams.

Over time, the wood rotted.

As a result, once a beam broke, the tiles crashed down. The uneven stress caused the wall to collapse, pulling down the roof, crashing into the women’s sleeping quarters and taking down half the roof.

This half happened to be right over the kang on the west side, soaking the bedding thoroughly.

When Jiang Xingye came over, this was the scene he witnessed.

He couldn’t help but chuckle, "This is the youngest house age-wise with blue bricks and tiles given to you, yet it ended up like this?"

Perhaps Jiang Xingye, having reformed for a long time without oppressing or exploiting the people, with his greatest misdeed being setting a small haystack on fire and dragging out a pair of wild mandarin ducks, led to Lu Nianying having some misconceptions about him as a delinquent.

"Comrade Jiang, can you say this with a clear conscience? Is this house for educated youth the best one from the brigade? Everyone knows the house Xu Qinghuan lives in is the best one in the brigade. Hmph, she hogs all the benefits, while we take the blame, are we fools?"

Lu Nianying pointed at the rain-soaked clothes behind, "With the brigade providing us educated youth with housing like this, I’m the first to object!"