During this time, being in the rain is typically no big deal for a healthy person. It's summer, and even if it's pouring rain, it's not too cold. Wet clothes can be warmed with ginger tea to avoid catching a cold.
But Shuangshuang doesn't fare well in the cold. When her clothes get soaked, she feels the cold wind seeping into her bones, and it makes her shiver all over.
After changing into dry clothes and drinking a bowl of hot ginger tea, she finally felt much better, and the chill left her body.
In the following days, Shuangshuang persisted in staying by the dam as the torrential rains poured down. The water level had risen to the point of submerging the previous height of the dam, but fortunately, it had been raised higher, allowing it to hold off the floods.
The previously dug diversion canal proved useful as well. Even though the water level rose, the massive lake continuously stored the floodwaters, helping the dam withstand the impact of the deluge.
