Get that out of the rice so it can dry out! 
Rice is terrible at absorbing moisture and you’re just blocking any fresh air from being able to reach the moisture. This means that any moisture that does manage to evaporate can’t easily get out of the way. This leads to a higher local humidity level which slows evaporation.
Rice can’t pull any moisture out. All it can do is slowly try to absorb whatever moisture has evaporated and happened to touch the rice. But if the moisture has already evaporated then why do you need rice? The moisture is already off whatever you are trying to dry.
Once that happens you need to get the water vaper away from the device, circuit board, whatever. Otherwise the increased humidity just outside the device, circuit board, whatever slows evaporation.
Shake off any excess water and place it in front of a fan. This will help speed evaporation of any water the air directly hits and also helps to remove any high humidity levels directly above the surface of what you’re trying to dry. This speeds evaporation from surfaces not directly being hit by the fan air.
Any reports of rice helping things were done without control tests, without the same thing being done with a fan and no rice. Those items reported being dried by rice were drying in spite of the rice, not because of it. They would have dried faster without the rice blocking air to whatever they wanted to dry. Silica gel doesn’t work well either for this, it’s not designed for it.
I’ve done the tests.
https://www.reddit.com/r/electronic_cigarette/comments/4rzjjx/rice_doesnt_help_dry_anything/
https://www.reddit.com/r/electronic_cigarette/comments/4z5fp5/silica_gel_barely_helps_dry_anything/