The Cheng family was indeed as extravagant as Cheng Suming had said. After the earthquake, they ordered people to build a new water pipe from the artificial lake to the roof of the twelfth floor. They left two generators and two 200L oil drums for Cheng Wei, one generator for pumping water and the other for generating electricity. If Cheng Wei lived here alone, these two oil drums could support her for several months.

The two generators were placed in the innermost supply room. Cheng Wei also wanted to take a shower, so she took the key and opened the door of the supply room. Yang Wentao turned on the generator and told Sheng Youqing and his family to take a shower quickly because the generator that pumped water would be turned off in half an hour.

Sheng Youqing expressed his gratitude, turned around and asked Sheng's mother and Sheng Youbin to find clothes quickly and wash them for ten minutes each.

Si Nan knew that Yang Wentao was trying to save fuel, so in order to give Cheng Suming time to take a shower, she hurriedly found clean clothes in the space and went into the bathroom.

Seeing the hot water pouring out of her long-lost shower head, Si Nan felt like tears welling up in her eyes. She hadn't taken a shower for almost twenty days, and it was so difficult to take a hot bath.

After taking off her dirty clothes, she stood under the shower and scrubbed the dirt off her body.

The turbid sewage that had gathered at his feet soon became clear. Si Nan took a shower with hot water and stood in front of the rectangular mirror hanging on the wall at the entrance of the bathroom to check if there was any part of his body that was not clean.

The woman in the mirror had delicate features and a pretty face. Her skin had a rosy, white, and tender feel due to vigorous scrubbing. Her waist was slender, her legs were straight, and her upper body was soft, plump, and shiny.

Si Nan stood in front of the mirror for a long time and found that his two lumps seemed to be much bigger than before. Recalling that before the earthquake Cheng Su Ming always told him to give the white bread more time to ferment, his face turned red. He reached out to tidy up his wet hair, turned off the shower head, and turned to get the towel hanging on the bathroom door.

"Do you want me to help you wipe it?" The tightly closed bathroom door opened at some point, and Cheng Suming stood at the door with a towel in his hand and a smile on his face.

Si Nan was stunned, she turned her head to meet his eyes, and saw that his deep eyes were filled with intense heat, as if he wanted to devour her alive.

Si Nan's face flushed with heat when he saw his eyes like that. He remembered that twenty days had passed since the earthquake and they hadn't been intimate. He gritted his teeth and nodded softly: "Yes."

Cheng Suming's eyes flashed with a smile, he closed the bathroom door, turned on the shower, put hot water in the bathtub on the side and filled it with hot water. Then, in the midst of the steaming water, he held a towel and came to Si Nan, lowering his voice and said, "Anan, turn around, I'll wipe you slowly, no rush."

Two hours later, Si Nan, feeling sore and painful all over, was carried out by Cheng Suming wrapped in a bath towel.

He laid her sideways on the bed with her head slightly lowered to the edge, took out a rechargeable hair dryer, and slowly dried her hair.

Si Nan was tortured by him for more than two hours. She was tired and sleepy. It felt like he was venting all the anger he had accumulated over the past twenty days today. He grabbed her and tossed her around in various positions.

Although the generator outside was quite loud, when she thought about Sheng Youqing's family next door and Cheng Wei and Yang Wentao right in front of her, who were in the bathroom in broad daylight...she didn't dare to make any loud noise. She could only bite her lips and whimper softly, and her lips were swollen from biting herself.

Cheng Suming didn't know what was wrong with him today. He was not as gentle as before. He didn't dare to torture her too hard, fearing that she couldn't bear it. Today, he turned from a gentleman into a beast. He tortured her twice, but it wasn't enough. He wanted to do it again. She couldn't bear it anymore and cried and begged for mercy. Only then did he let her go.

She didn't have the energy to blame Cheng Su Ming. She accepted his hair-blowing service with peace of mind. Her eyelids gradually drooped and she fell into a deep sleep.

When she woke up again, it was already dark. She looked at the bright incandescent light above her head, a little dazed.

It has been more than two years since the natural disaster. She has long been accustomed to the darkness in Xingcheng after nightfall, without a single light. Suddenly, there were such bright lights shining on her, and she had a very unreal trance feeling.

"Anan, you're awake." The moment she sat up, Cheng Suming came over with a cup of hot water, "Are you thirsty? Drink some water to moisten your throat."

Si Nan was indeed a little thirsty, so he took the cup and drank it all in one gulp: "What time is it? How long have I slept?"

"It was around eight o'clock in the evening. You slept for six hours." Cheng Suming took the water cup from her hand and put it on the bedside table. "Sheng Youqing and the others are helping to wash vegetables and cook in Cheng Wei's room. Cheng Wei said we're going to have hot pot tonight."

"Eat hot pot?"

"Last Sunday was Chinese New Year, and we were all in the tent at the hospital, so we couldn't have a reunion. Cheng Wei said we should take this opportunity to have a good reunion today."

Si Nan looked at him strangely: "They were all busy and I was sleeping, so they didn't ask anything?"

"Yes, guess what I asked."

"My guess is bullshit!" Si Nan blushed and threw a pillow at him, saying, "It's all your fault. I'm so sore and achy now, and I feel weak all over. It's hard for me to even walk! I don't care. Put clothes on me and carry me to Cheng Wei's room."

"Are you sure you want me to put it on for you?" Cheng Suming pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and showed a meaningful smile.

"......" Si Nan was speechless. This man looked gentle and polite before, and didn't seem like a lustful person. Why has he become more and more indulgent recently?

She was wrapped in a towel, with nothing underneath, waiting for him to put on the clothes. She didn't know how many hours would pass.

Forget it, let her wear it herself.

Half an hour later, there was a knock on Cheng Wei's door.

Everyone was busy in the room washing and cutting vegetables. Sheng Youbin was not used to working with one hand yet, so he was arranged to sit on the sofa and watch the DVD that Cheng Wei had found.

Sheng Youbin saw that everyone was busy while he was playing alone. He felt even more depressed and felt like a useless waste.

He was bored and heard a knock on the door. He immediately stood up and said, "I'll go open the door."

Everyone followed his figure as he hurriedly opened the door, and after the door opened, they saw Cheng Suming come in holding Si Nan.

The man has sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, a slender body, and glasses that give him a sense of elegance and handsomeness. The woman has willow-shaped eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes, a slim body, and long black hair, giving him a sense of elegance and gentleness.

Both of them were wearing khaki Korean-style extra-long winter cashmere double-sided coats. The hug looked like a picture in a movie. They looked like a perfect match.

Just one glance and everyone's faces were filled with envy, and they all started to make teasing noises.

Cheng Wei placed the dishes and chopsticks on the dining table: "Sister-in-law, you finally got up, come and sit, the meal will be served soon."

Sheng Youqing brought the washed and plated dishes to the table: "My beautiful Si can't even walk, and needs someone to hold her, which shows how badly she was tortured. Si Nan, do you want your sisters to help you vent your anger?"

Yang Wentao didn't say anything. He placed a large alcohol stove on the dining table and brought over the hot pot soup that had been cooked in advance. He looked at Cheng Suming with admiration on his ferocious face. What he wanted to say was self-evident.

Sheng's mother helped Sheng Youqing serve the dishes. "Okay, stop talking. It's normal for a young couple to have a good relationship. I was also like that when I was young..."

When she reached this point, she thought of her dead husband, stopped talking, and became sad.

Si Nan's face was burning with anger after hearing what they said. Even though it was reasonable to do that in broad daylight, it still made him feel a little shy.

But just as Sheng's mother said, she and Cheng Su Ming were a legitimate couple, and it was reasonable and logical, so she put aside her shame, stared at Cheng Su Ming with a pair of bright eyes, and let him hold her and sit down.

Cheng Suming curled the corners of his mouth, carried her to a seat, and considerately took out a hot pot dipping sauce for her from the small condiment plates surrounding the alcohol stove, which was a combination of sesame oil, mashed garlic, and chili.

Before the Cheng family left, they spent a lot of money to buy a lot of generators, diesel, gasoline, cooking oil and other oils and stored them in the house. They were generating electricity to store the Cheng family's freezer for various meats, and also generating electricity to produce white light, allowing gardeners and servants to grow various potted vegetables and hydroponic vegetables. They lived a very comfortable life.

After they left, they left a copy of these things for Cheng Wei and placed them all in the room that served as a warehouse. There was a large refrigerator inside that contained all kinds of meat and vegetables.

On the table were chicken, duck, and goose meat that were common before the end of the world, beef and mutton rolls, beef rolls, beef and fish meatballs, various tripes, lasagna, duck intestines, ham sausages and other meat dishes, as well as winter vegetables such as spinach, cauliflower, cabbage, pea tips, lettuce, red and white radishes, etc.

There are many varieties of dishes, and although the portions are not large, it is still refreshing and joyful to see such sumptuous dishes after the earthquake.

The alcohol stove quickly boiled the pot, bubbles gurgled in the red pot, and the rich aroma of hot pot filled the entire room.

Everyone took their seats, and Cheng Wei called out to everyone, "Don't just stand there, just put whatever you want into the pot and eat it."

Everyone had been in a state of rest during this period of time and hadn't had a proper meal for a long time. So they didn't hesitate and put their favorite dishes into the pot.

Cheng Suming knew that Si Nan liked to eat duck intestines and tripe, so the first thing he did when he picked up the chopsticks was to pick up a piece of tripe, boil it, and put it in Si Nan's bowl.

Sheng Youqing also knew what Si Nan liked to eat, so she picked up a string of duck intestines, boiled them, and put them into Si Nan's bowl.

The two men sat on Si Nan's left and right, blanching the dishes and putting them into her bowl at the same time, and their chopsticks almost started to fight.

Cheng Suming said, "Sheng Youqing, you eat your own food. I'll heat up the food for Anan."

Sheng Youqing said with a sullen face, "I cook hotpot. I know exactly what dishes should be cooked at what temperature. When Si Nan came to my hotpot restaurant to eat hotpot, I often boiled the dishes for her. What do you, an outsider, know? You eat yours and I'll boil the dishes for Si Nan."

Cheng Suming frowned: "She is my wife, I am her husband, I should take care of her."

Sheng Youqing sneered: "She is my friend and my savior, it is normal for me to cook hot pot for her."

The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.

Si Nan, who was sandwiched between the two, stopped talking in time: "I appreciate your kindness, just eat your own food, I can heat up what I want myself."

Since she had spoken, Cheng Suming and the other man no longer argued about the matter. They just boiled some dishes from time to time and filled Sinan's bowl.

Si Nan was quite helpless. Her husband and best friends were all very nice to her, so she didn't dare to offend any of them and just ate everything obediently.

Cheng Wei took out juice and beer and poured them for everyone. She took a paper cup of orange juice, stood up, and stretched out her arm, saying, "Come on, everyone, let's toast. I wish us prosperity every year, peace every year, and that we can get together every year."

Everyone stood up and clinked their glasses together: "All the best!"

"Happy New Year!"

"May we never be separated, and may everyone be safe and sound!"

"I will."

Compared with the lively eating and drinking scene upstairs, the black-faced bodyguard relatives who were gnawing on dry steamed buns and eating thin porridge with little salt and taste downstairs did not feel very good.

The black-faced bodyguard is named Liao Tianzheng, he is 40 years old this year, he used to be a gangster, and he is also a private Sanda coach. He has been a bodyguard of the Cheng family for almost twelve years, which makes him one of the bodyguards who has worked for the family for a relatively long time.

Because of his considerable salary, he loves his wife more. His wife Ge Xiaocui has been at home taking care of the children, being a full-time housewife, and serving her parents-in-law.

On the surface, Ge Xiaocui is a good wife and mother, and she is easy to get along with. In fact, her family favors boys over girls. Her mother gave birth to five daughters before giving birth to one son. She has been puaing her sisters since they were young, asking them to take care of their younger brother. She sisters have really become brother-supporting demons. Whenever they have money and food, they all subsidize their family.

Before the end of the world, Liao Tianzheng had quarreled with Ge Xiaocui many times about supporting her brother. Ge Xiaocui always cried, made a fuss, and even threatened to commit suicide because of giving birth to children for him and taking care of her parents-in-law.

He was really scared of her troubles, so he just didn't bother to care about her. He left the money and grain matters to his parents and eldest daughter. Only then did Ge Xiaocui calm down a lot.

One month before the earthquake, Liao Tianzheng learned from the Cheng family that the next natural disaster might occur earlier, so he moved his family into one of the sturdy ancillary buildings where the Cheng family's servants and bodyguards lived. Fortunately, his family escaped the disaster.

Unexpectedly, on the eleventh day after the earthquake, after the Cheng family left, Ge Xiaocui took it upon herself to bring her mother's family, her five sisters and her brother-in-law's families, nearly fifty people, to this annex building to seek refuge with Liao Tianzheng.

Liao Tianzheng was so angry at that time, but he couldn't lose his temper in front of his mother-in-law and her family, so he could only take them in temporarily.

Because there were so many of them, after the Cheng family left, the remaining bodyguards, gardeners, chefs, drivers and the like all had their own relatives and family members, and everyone agreed that each person would occupy two single rooms at most, so Ge Xiaocui's family was divided into two groups and squeezed together with Liao Tianzheng's family of six.

With so many people living together and being noisy from morning till night, Liao Zhengtian, who already had neurasthenia and shallow sleep, was tortured to the point of having dark circles under his eyes every day.

This is not the most important thing. Ge Xiaocui's sisters, brothers and her family members had little food, and when they first arrived, they ate the food from Liao Tianzheng's family.

The grain was the thank-you grain given to him by the Cheng family. Originally, it would have been enough for his family to eat for half a year or a year. However, when Ge Xiaocui's relatives came, half of it was eaten up in less than ten days.

Liao Tianzheng's parents and eldest daughter were worried about the food, so they had a big fight with Ge Xiaocui yesterday and drove Ge Xiaocui's parents and brother's family, who were living with them, out of their room. They only gave them a ten-jin bag of flour and ten-jin rice, and left them to fend for themselves by scavenging for food in the ruins.

Ge Xiaocui's parents, brothers and sisters cried for a while but to no avail. Fifty people had no choice but to squeeze into a single room of less than 20 square meters.

Today's meals were cooked in a frugal manner, with each person having only one steamed bun and half a bowl of porridge to go with the meal. How could the Ge family, who had tasted the sweetness of life during this period, bear this?

Smelling the fragrance coming from upstairs, Ge Xiaocui's brother Ge Manfu threw away the hard steamed bun in his hand, stood up angrily from the crowded crowd and said, "Why can the people upstairs live in such a big VIP suite, eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks, while we have to squeeze into such a small room and eat food worse than pigs and dogs! I don't accept it!"

Ge Manfu was spoiled by his father and mother since he was a child. All the delicious food and drinks were given to him first. Ge Xiaocui and her five sisters could only eat the food he left when they were young.

Many times when he was unhappy, not only did they not get to eat the leftovers, but he also beat them with a stick to vent his anger. Ge's father and mother would cheer on them, saying that they deserved it because they had made their brother angry and that they should be prepared to pay the price.

Such a spoiled person will naturally become a thief and have evil intentions when he grows up.

Ge Manfu suffered many beatings and hardships in society, and was also imprisoned, but he still did not change his bad habits. He used various reasons to make his five sisters provide him with money and food, and subsidize him and support him. Every family member was tortured by him and suffered terribly.

Of course he couldn't see it, and it wouldn't matter if he did. In his eyes, according to the ideas instilled by his parents, his sisters were born for him and must obey him in everything.

No one knows if it was because of bad luck, dog shit, or a blind woman, but he married a wife, had a son, and spent every day at home beating his wife and child.

As soon as he stood up, his 35-year-old wife and his 10-year-old son reflexively moved aside and covered their faces with their hands. This was the sequelae of long-term domestic violence by him.

When the others heard his words, they kept silent. Only his gray-haired parents stood up and said, "My son, don't be angry. Calm down. The upstairs is where the eldest daughter of the Cheng family lives. The Cheng family left some supplies for her. It's normal for her to eat better than us."

"Young lady?" Ge Wanfu sneered, "It's been two years since the end of the world. What kind of young lady is she? I'm hungry and it's hard for me to live, so she won't be able to live well either! All of you get up, come upstairs with me, and kill them all. Then the big suite upstairs and the room dedicated to storing supplies will belong to us!"

Ge Manfu's four sisters, brother-in-law and their families remained silent. They used to hate Ge Manfu to death and wished this great oddity would die soon, but after two years of torture from natural disasters, their mental states had become distorted and abnormal.

Just as Ge Manfu said, why should they, nearly 50 people, squeeze into a small single room, eat poorly, sleep poorly, and even have no place to stay? But the upstairs people can live in such a large suite and eat hot pot comfortably. This is not fair!

Sister Ge hesitated and said, "The Cheng family treats the fifth brother-in-law well. They gave him a lot of supplies before, asking him to protect the safety of the eldest daughter of the Cheng family. If we kill people rashly, the fifth brother-in-law will definitely fight us." To read the novel, join QQ group 630809116

Second Sister Ge said, "Fifth Brother-in-law is so strong, he fights to the death. He has a good relationship with the other four bodyguards. If he sees us attacking Miss Cheng, he will definitely break our bones immediately."

Third Sister Ge: "Then what do you think I should do? I don't want to live in this cramped single room forever, nor do I want to go outside and look through the dead bodies. I'm afraid of contracting infectious diseases."

Fourth Sister Ge said, "That's easy. This morning I heard from Fifth Sister that Miss Cheng's gang will only stay here for a week. During this time, they will go to the ruins outside to look for supplies. We can pry open their room while they are out looking for supplies. When we get the supplies and occupy their place, we are outnumbered and have no fear of fighting them. If it doesn't work, we can also bring along the family members of the gardeners, servants, drivers, and chefs. Then we can divide the supplies together. If we work together, I don't believe that we can't deal with Fifth Sister-in-law and his gang."

Mother Ge muttered, "There are already so many supplies, but Miss Cheng and her group are still going out to look for supplies. I don't know what they are thinking."

Ge Manfu made the decision: "It's decided. Go and discuss this with other family members tonight. Once we've discussed it, we'll take action tomorrow."

Si Nan and his group were unaware that the people downstairs had already conspired to "rebel". After eating and drinking, they gathered in Cheng Wei's room to watch a long-lost DVD. By around 11 o'clock in the evening, everyone had almost digested the food, so they dispersed.

Because Si Nan slept too long during the day, he couldn't fall asleep at night. He tossed and turned in bed for most of the night and only fell asleep when it was almost dawn.

Seeing that she was not in good spirits, Cheng Suming took out the anti-swelling ointment and continued to apply it to her still slightly swollen lips.

Thinking that they were only going to the nearby ruins to check out the supplies today, they probably wouldn't be able to find any large amounts of supplies, so Cheng Suming asked her to carry everyone into the space. He said to her, "You, Weiwei, Aunt Sheng, and Sheng Youbin stay here to prevent others from snatching supplies. Yang Wentao, Sheng Youqing, and I will go out to check out the ruins of nearby shopping malls and commercial streets to see if there are any supplies that other survivors haven't found. If there are, we'll come back and ask you to help move them."

Cheng Wei said, "Why leave someone to watch over the supplies? There's no need. Uncle Liao Tianzheng is here to help me watch over the supplies. No one dares to come up and rob. Wentao and I left for more than a week ago. My supplies are fine. I want to go out with you."

"You must be on guard against others." The speaker was Yang Wentao. "Liao Tianzheng may be loyal to his duties, but don't forget that there are so many outsiders living on the two floors below. When there are so many people, they will have all kinds of ideas. It is inevitable that some people will have thoughts that they shouldn't have. If you and your sister-in-law stay at home, you can also deter those people with ideas."

Cheng Wei pouted: "Our Cheng family treated them well in the past, I don't believe they would have any other intentions."

Cheng Suming said: "Whether you believe it or not, I have a question for you. There are so many rotting corpses outside. They could be infected with bacteria and plague at any time. Are you sure you want to go out and look for supplies?"

Cheng Wei recalled the horrific scenes of rotting corpses she saw along the way back yesterday. She suddenly felt a chill all over her body and was unable to utter a word.