"Ding Dong! Ding Dong!"
Early in the morning, Su Keke and Grandma Qiao were still having breakfast in the restaurant when the doorbell outside the yard rang.
"Who would come to our place in such a hot day? Could it be that Grandpa Du got the protective clothing?" Grandma Qiao asked while taking a bite of the corn in her hand.
"Maybe it's true! I didn't expect the Du family to have so many connections."
Su Keke asked Grandma Qiao not to go out. She put on a sun-protective coat, a mask and a hat, and ran to the yard to open the door.
"Excuse me, who are you?"
Su Keke opened the gate and saw a woman wrapped even more tightly than herself ringing her doorbell.
"Hello, Miss Su. I'm Chen Ru, who lives in Villa No. 7. I came here today mainly to borrow some water. There is really not a drop of water left at home. Look at my lips, they are so dry that they are peeling."
As she spoke, Chen Ru took off her mask, revealing her slightly peeling lips to Su Keke.
"My daughter and husband are seriously dehydrated. If they don't drink some water, their lives will be in danger."
Chen Ru repeated to Su Keke exactly what she had just said to Qin Yufei in Villa No. 6.
She thought she could borrow a bucket of water here, but she didn't expect Su Keke to be as easy to fool as Qin Yufei.
"Sorry, I don't have water at home either. Please go ask somewhere else!"
Su Keke turned around and was about to close the door, but Chen Ru refused to give in.
"How can you be so heartless! It's not like I won't pay you back. I'll pay you back when I get some water tonight."
"Don't you understand what I'm saying? How can I lend you water if I don't have any?" Su Keke said coldly.
"Who would believe that you don't have water at home? Every time you go out to get water, I see you are always clean and fresh without any sweat smell. How can you be so clean if you don't take a shower every now and then in such hot weather? Besides, I just want to lend you a bucket of water, are you so stingy?"
With Chen Ru's loud shouting, Su Keke felt that she could be thirsty for a few days. Fortunately, the neighbors lived far away, otherwise, Su Keke would definitely be surrounded by people after she shouted like that.
Bang! Su Keke ignored her, raised her hand and slammed the gate shut, then went back into the house.
It's so hot today, who would have the leisure to argue with her at the door if their brain is stuck in the door.
"Hey! Hey...you are so...unsympathetic!"
Chen Ru kicked the gate of Villa No. 5 hard with her foot, and then Su Keke heard a low groan of "Ouch" from a distance, probably because she kicked a hard plate.
Chen Ru drove out for a run early in the morning and only borrowed a bucket of water from Qin Yufei. She refused everyone else's requests on the grounds that they had no water at home.
The only place she could go now was the Du family. Chen Ru returned to her car, which, without air conditioning, was already as hot as a steamer under the sun.
It's strange to say, it's only a little after 7 in the morning, but the sun has already come out and is as hot as usual at noon.
In order to save gasoline, Chen Ru did not turn on the air conditioner along the way.
When the car was moving, there was still a little bit of wind outside the window, but after it stopped, there was only rolling heat waves.
Her underwear was soaked with sweat. Chen Ru simply took off her hat and mask, and randomly grabbed the loose hair that was sticking to her forehead, which made her look more embarrassed.
She hoped that Mr. Du would lend her some water considering how miserable she was.
Last night, Chen Ru’s husband Mu Huashan had just fetched two buckets of water from the official water point at the foot of the mountain, but their daughter Fangfang secretly took them away to take a bath.
Her husband was extremely angry at the time, but there was nothing he could do as he only had one daughter in the family and she was usually spoiled.
In such hot weather, it would be uncomfortable for a girl not to take a bath for several days, so Chen Ru did not blame her daughter too much.
But there was no water. Last night, the three of them were so thirsty that their throats were boiling. So early this morning, Chen Ru wanted to borrow some water from her neighbor before the sun came out.
I just didn't expect the sun to be so strong so early in the morning.
After Su Keke returned to the restaurant, she continued to eat her vegetable pancake, which was made for her by Grandma Qiao early in the morning. It was delicious when paired with a bowl of refreshing mung bean soup.
"Is that Mr. Du's man outside the door?" Grandma Qiao asked casually.
"No!" Su Keke bit off half a vegetable pancake and spoke incoherently while chewing on it.
"Then who else? Xiao Qin from next door came to exchange things?" Grandma Qiao asked another question with some confusion.
"no!"
Su Keke swallowed the vegetable cake in her mouth and told Grandma Qiao about what happened when Chen Ru from Villa No. 7 came to borrow water.
"How can these people be so shameless, coming to borrow something and being so arrogant. Everyone is short of water now, it's a favor for us to lend it to her, and it's also reasonable for us not to lend it to her. Why is she blackmailing us with morality like this!"
After hearing this, Grandma Qiao was even more angry than Su Keke. These so-called neighbors in the villas were so far away.
He usually thinks he is a rich man and is superior to others. He is even dismissive of himself and Coco. Now that it is so hot, he has gulped down the drinking water distributed by the government and is still so arrogant when he asks others to borrow it.
"Just don't lend it! Why should we lend it to her just because she says so?" Grandma Qiao said angrily.
"I didn't borrow it. I don't care about her. It's so hot outside!"
Su Keke said with a smile while drinking mung bean soup.
After the two finished their breakfast, Su Keke took the fishing net to the space pond to fish. Grandma Qiao planned to make some sauerkraut fish for lunch.
Since they couldn't go out during the day anyway, the two decided to stay at home and cook some delicious food. The reason they stockpiled supplies so desperately before was to have good food and drink during the natural disaster.
Now Su Keke, Grandma Qiao and Tangyuan are staying in Villa No. 5. There is no house within a kilometer radius, so no matter how strong the flavor of the food is, the smell will not spread that far.
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People living on the 20th floor are also planning to move to lower floors because it is too hot on higher floors.
In the past two days, Chen Li and Meng Yi went to the first to third floors, where the flood disaster was most serious, and found that many empty houses with good locations had been occupied.
No one knew where these people moved from, and Chen Li and Meng Yi didn't recognize several of them when they met them.
However, the municipal government's announcement clearly stated that the ownership of these empty houses belongs to the government. Others who want to live there need to pay a certain amount of points as rent.
Meng Yi and Chen Li have also greeted the people above them. They will go and take a look first. After deciding which room to stay in, they will go to the official transaction point to pay the points, and then they will get the key.
As they looked along the way, they found that the door locks of several houses had signs of being pried open, which meant that these were obviously not houses that were exchanged for points.
"Should we report to the team first?" Chen Li asked Meng Yi close to his ear.
"No rush! Let's take a look around slowly and remember the houses whose locks were picked. When we go to the trading point to pay points tomorrow, we can ask whether these houses have been rented out. We'll see what happens then!"
Chen Li felt that what Meng Yi said made sense. It would be bad if he was wrong. Maybe they would be neighbors in the future.
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