"Let me take a look!"

Chen Li put down the potatoes in his hand and was the first to run to the gate, looking into the corridor outside through the cat's eye.

It was dark outside, but a few blurry figures could still be seen. They were all holding flashlights, and it seemed that they were holding something in the other hand. What exactly was it? Chen Li really couldn't see clearly.

"Is there anyone coming out to visit at this late hour?"

Chen Li muttered something.

"What do you mean by visiting?" Lu Mei asked.

Chen Li walked back and told everyone what he had just seen.

"So strange?"

Lu Mei and the others were also confused, but they didn't have time to think about it for the time being. They had to clean the house before dawn, otherwise it would be impossible to do so as the temperature rose during the day.

When the two families had just finished cleaning and gone to bed, people started leaving the two houses next door one after another.

"Old Chen, did you hear any noise at the door?"

Lu Mei moved her face towards the fan and asked.

"Don't worry about the noise, just go to sleep. Aren't you tired after a busy night?"

Chen Da mumbled a few words and fell asleep.

"Just sleeping! We just moved here, so we should be more alert."

Lu Mei glared at Chen Da who was sleeping soundly beside her. She felt that men were just too careless and not reliable at all. She should still pay attention to the people next door.

After all, this is the end of the world, so we must be on guard against others. I probably won't meet good neighbors like Coco and Aunt Qiao again in my lifetime.

I will try to buy a tricycle when I get my salary at the beginning of next month. Then I will go to Lanshan Villa District with Shi Huan and others to visit Aunt Qiao and Coco.

…

Lanshan Villa District, Villa No. 1.

The men that Du Huairen had sent out to make contacts in the past few days have all returned one after another, and he actually got in touch with a friend who had previously provided various protective clothing to the government.

Du Huairen asked his youngest son Du Yichen to prepare a seven-seater van filled with rice, potatoes and various compressed biscuits.

Just in case, Du Yichen took his men over early in the night to exchange a large truckload of protective clothing with his friend.

These protective suits were made just before the natural disaster, and only two truckloads were rescued during the flood.

Mr. Du’s friend thought that these protective suits would be wasted, but he didn’t expect that he could actually exchange them for a truckload of food.

There were two kinds of protective clothing in the truck that Du Yicheng drove back. One was the highly corrosion-resistant one that Su Keke had mentioned. Wearing this kind of protective clothing would not hurt you even if someone threw sulfuric acid on you. The other was protective clothing for various infectious diseases.

Du Huairen collected half of the protective suits and stored them away first, and exchanged the remaining half for drinking water with Su Keke.

He always felt that this little girl Su Keke was of some importance. Not only could she get arms, but now she could even get the much-sought-after drinking water.

So there must be a reason why she is stockpiling protective clothing, so I should just do the same.

The next evening, shortly after the temperature dropped, Du Huairen sent someone to inform Su Keke that the protective clothing she wanted had been found.

Su Keke and Grandma Qiao put on sun-protection clothing, masks and hats and drove to the Du family.

There were quite a lot of protective suits on half a truck. Su Keke followed Butler Song to take a rough inventory and found that there were about 3,000 sets of anti-corrosion protective suits and more than 5,000 sets of virus protective suits.

"How much drinking water does your old man want to exchange?" Su Keke asked.

Su Keke was sweating all over her face when she went into the truck to check the goods. After she came out, she felt a little bit of cool breeze.

Butler Song did not directly answer Su Keke's question, but turned around and glanced at Du Yichen outside the car.

"Let's go to the villa, and the old man will talk to you in person." Du Yichen said formally.

The big truck was parked on the grass in front of the property management office, not far from Du Huairen’s Villa No. 1.

After counting the protective suits, Du Yichen took Su Keke and Grandma Qiao to Villa No. 1 to meet Du Huairen.

Su Keke and Du Yichen haven't met for a long time. Ever since Bai Wei came to make trouble, Su Keke has been deliberately avoiding Du Yichen. Later, because it was extremely hot, rich people basically didn't go out.

This time, because of the exchange of drinking water, the two of them had reconnected. Su Keke was just as open and frank as before. However, Du Yicheng seemed much more reserved and not as outgoing as before.

The two of them didn't say anything else except how to exchange the money. It was like two good friends who suddenly had a quarrel and neither wanted to apologize first.

Seeing the water shortage, Du Huairen felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.

He felt that natural disasters might continue. Although he had stockpiled a lot of supplies, they would eventually run out.

Take drinking water for example. No one expected that the extreme heat would come so suddenly, and the water they had stored was suddenly in short supply.

He really needs to start saving money now, otherwise his whole family will one day have to line up to receive government relief food.

Now besides water, electricity is what he uses the most. He does have a way to buy gasoline, but it requires a lot of supplies. According to the living habits of his two prodigal sons, even if there are a lot of supplies, they will not last long.

Now we need to save not only water but also electricity. But in such a hot day, not to mention the two spoiled children Du Yifan and Du Yicheng, even Du Huairen himself can't stand not turning on the air conditioner.

So Du Huairen thought of letting Du Yicheng and Du Yifan's families live together in Villa No. 1. This way, not only can everyone enjoy the air conditioning, but also reduce the electricity consumption of the other two villas.

However, as more people come, more conflicts arise.

The eldest daughter-in-law Ouyang Manman has never been able to please her mother-in-law, and she and her younger sister-in-law Bai Wei dislike each other.

After she moved in, she basically stayed in her room except for eating.

Bai Wei is very active. When she has nothing to do, she would accompany Old Madam Du to watch movies and eat melon seeds in the screening room in the basement.

When Su Keke entered Villa No. 1, only Grandpa Du and Du Yifan were waiting for them in the living room.

"Ms. Su and Ms. Qiao are here! Please take a seat! Please take a seat!"

Du Huairen stood up from the sofa with a smile, raised his hand and invited Su Keke and the others to sit on the sofa opposite.

Du Yifan, who was sitting on the single sofa on the other side, was still reading a comic book with great interest, and he didn't notice that Du Huairen was glaring at him sharply.

"Grandpa, you don't have to be so polite. Just call me Keke from now on." Su Keke and Grandma Qiao sat down opposite Du Huairen calmly.

Grandma Qiao didn't say a word the whole time, but just nodded to Du Huairen as a polite gesture when she sat down.

She didn't get involved in matters that required negotiation. She came along because she was worried about Coco going out alone at night.

"Okay! Then call me Coco!" Du Huairen smiled happily. After asking Butler Song to bring a pot of tea, he started talking about business.

Du Yichen sat directly on the single sofa opposite his brother.

Everyone was seriously discussing how much drinking water should be exchanged for half a truckload of protective clothing. Only Du Yifan was like an outsider, stuffing beef jerky into his mouth while reading comics, and laughing out loud when he saw something funny, oblivious to everyone around him.