Chapter 147 Wildfire
Fu Baiwei was pulled out by her parents, who wanted to take her home by force.
"Come back with me! Your sister lost a lot of weight and almost had a heart attack during the time you were away. How can you be so heartless and hang around outside?" Fu Baiwei's father Fu Bihui grabbed her hand and left without saying anything.
After hearing this, Fu Baiwei couldn't stand it anymore and pushed her parents away, "Enough! What does my sister's heart attack have to do with me? What does her weight loss have to do with me? Since you hate me so much and only like my sister, why don't you just live as a family of three? Why do you want me to go back?"
"Mom, didn't you say that I like to look dead when I get home? It's better for me to die outside and never come back. Then why don't you just treat me as dead now?"
"Dad, didn't you also say that I'm a girl with a broken palm, and that I'm unlucky for my father, mother, and relatives? Then why did you let me go back? Aren't you afraid that I'll kill you?"
Before he finished speaking, Fu Bihui slapped Fu Baiwei in the face with a slap. "You unfilial daughter, who allowed you to talk to us like that!"
"We fed you, clothed you, and raised you, and this is how you repay us?"
I would rather not have parents like you!" Fu Baiwei covered her face with tears.
"How can you, an unfilial daughter, talk to us like that?" Fu Bihui was furious. "We fed you, clothed you, and raised you, and this is how you repay us?"
"I would rather not have parents like you!" Fu Baiwei covered her face with tears, "From the moment you let me be washed away by the flood for a bag of supplies, I already had no parents!"
Fu Bihui and his wife were so angry that they were shaking all over. "You want to break off relations with us, right?"
"Yes! We should have severed our relationship long ago!" Fu Baiwei said resolutely.
"Okay, okay! You have grown wings and dared to disobey your parents like this. Don't even think about severing ties with me!" Fu Bihui shouted angrily, "I gave birth to you and raised you. My blood flows in your veins. If you want to sever ties with me and your mother, you have to see if the law agrees!"
"Then go ahead and sue me! You haven't reached retirement age yet. Even before the natural disaster, the court would not have ordered me to give you pension now." Fu Baiwei seemed to have been deeply hurt. After saying this, she resolutely left her parents behind.
Fu Bihui and his wife were unable to enter the residential complex and were so angry that they started making a scene at the security booth.
When Xia Xiaoman saw the hysterical couple in the security booth, he inexplicably thought of his parents whom he had forgotten for a long time, and he didn't know whether they were still alive.
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Fu Baiwei's parents made a fuss at the gate of the community for several days. After finding out that Fu Baiwei had a boyfriend who was quite capable, they kept blocking the gate of the community to harass Fu Baiwei.
When Fu Baiwei was young, she also enjoyed the love of her parents. She couldn't be as cruel to her parents as Xia Xiaoman, so she could only hide in the community and try to avoid meeting her parents.
After hiding for four or five days, Fu Baiwei's sister realized that her parents were harassing her, so she dragged her sick body to persuade her parents to go back.
When Fu Baiwei heard that there was a thin girl at the door, she guessed that it was her younger sister Fu Qingning.
She had no hostility towards Qingning. Her parents' partiality was not caused by Fu Qingning. Sometimes, Fu Qingning would persuade her parents to be nicer to her. But her parents insisted on their own way, regardless of her feelings or Fu Qingning's feelings.
When Fu Baiwei reached the gate of the community, Fu Qingning had successfully persuaded her parents to leave. She turned around and saw Fu Baiwei, so she asked her parents to stay where they were and walked over.
"Sister..." Fu Qingning raised the corner of her mouth and forced a smile, "Sister, are you living well here?"
Fu Baiwei was silent for a while, then nodded and said, "I'm fine here. The people in the community are very nice to me, and my boyfriend is also very nice to me."
Fu Qingning murmured, "That's good, that's good."
"Sister, I'm sorry..." Fu Qingning's eyes were red, "If it weren't for me, my parents wouldn't treat you like this... I'm really sorry..."
Fu Baiwei said, "What my parents did has nothing to do with you, you don't have to apologize."
Fu Qingning shook her head. How could it have nothing to do with her? If it weren’t for the heart disease, her parents wouldn’t be so partial to her.
"Sister, don't worry! I've already told my parents that they won't bother you anymore. You must be careful when you're out there alone. I'll go back first, or my parents will be worried."
"Wait!" Fu Baiwei took off the crossbow and arrows from her body and stuffed them into Fu Qingning's arms. "Take this. You are weak and cannot win a fight with others. If you are in danger, use the crossbow to shoot them."
Hearing her caring tone, Fu Qingning burst into tears. She didn't want to make Fu Baiwei worry, so she nodded randomly, holding the crossbow and ran back to her parents, taking them away.
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The panic brought by the eternal night made everyone try their best to collect cold-weather supplies. In just a few days, a large area of trees on the mountain were cut down, revealing the bare loess slope.
Xia Xiaoman, who didn't have to work, stayed indoors and built two more kangs at home.
With this experience, the two kangs she built later were perfect. One of them was built in the living room, and she also built two stoves next to it, one for boiling water and the other for cooking. In this way, she didn't have to run to the kitchen to cook when the weather was cold.
After the night fell, the temperature dropped significantly. When I went out to get water, I saw that many people had changed from short-sleeved shirts to long-sleeved shirts, and some people even put on a coat to feel warm.
We were queuing to get water when suddenly someone in the crowd shouted, "Fire! Look over there, there's a fire!"
Xia Xiaoman was startled by the sound, thinking that the community was on fire. She looked up and found that it was a forest fire in the distant mountain.
The mountain was covered with dead wood that had been dried out by the extreme heat, and the fire spread quickly, burning a large area in a short time.
Xia Xiaoman looked at the large area of forest that was on fire and felt a little regretful. If so much wood had not been burned, it would probably be enough for her to use for several years.
Fortunately, because everyone wanted to stockpile fuel wood during this period, all the forests near the residential areas were cut down, and the fire did not burn into the floating city area.
Unfortunately, the fire was too big and it was very difficult to put it out. The government organized tens of thousands of people to put out the fire. It took more than ten days to cut a firebreak and put out the fire.
Over a dozen days, the wildfire burned countless trees and caused huge losses to the floating city.
And in these short ten days, the temperature has dropped a lot.
The temperature was getting lower and lower, as if constantly urging everyone that they didn't have much time left and had to prepare for the cold winter as soon as possible...
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