Chapter 82 Flexible Business Acumen
When we came out of the trading point, it was already past one in the morning and the streets were empty.
Xia Xiaoman rode her bike slowly home under the moonlight.
When they were almost reaching the residential area, a strong light suddenly shone from the opposite side. Xia Xiaoman subconsciously squinted his eyes and stopped the car.
There were messy footsteps coming from all around, the sound approached quickly, and dark shadows surrounded Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman's eyes flashed, he suddenly raised his bicycle and swept it around with force, then smashed the bicycle at one of the black shadows, then took out an axe and moved flexibly among the group of black shadows.
A series of screams came from the quiet alley, waking up the surrounding residents one after another, but no one was curious about what was happening outside. They all closed their doors and windows, pretending they heard no sound.
About ten minutes later, Xia Xiaoman rode his bicycle back to the community. Behind him, several bodies were lying in the alley, with blood all over the ground.
When I got home, I wiped my body with a wet towel, changed into a vest and shorts, and went back to my room to sleep.
Xia Xiaoman slept until 7 o'clock, and was awakened by the heat. She got up from the bed and looked back. There was a human-shaped watermark on the mat.
After a long pause, Xia Xiaoman lifted a corner of the curtain, saw the rolling heat waves outside, and closed the curtains with a serious expression.
It was too hot that day. The temperature outside was at least 40 or 50 degrees, and the temperature indoors was not much better.
Four of the chicks we raised at home died of the heat, and the remaining chicks and rabbits were all wilted, and I don’t know if they can survive.
"Sister Xiaoman! Are you home?"
Hearing Su Ran's voice, Xia Xiaoman fanned herself and went to open the door. "It's so hot, where else can I be if I'm not at home?"
Su Ran chuckled twice, "I saw you went out for a long time last night and didn't come back, so I thought you were not at home. Sister, do you have any prickly heat powder at home?"
"Prickly heat powder? Do you have prickly heat?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
Su Ran nodded with a bitter face, "Yes, not only me, Brother Yang also has prickly heat."
In such hot weather and without enough water for bathing, grease and dirt stick to the skin every day, making it hard not to get prickly heat.
Xia Xiaoman thought for a moment and said, "I don't have any prickly heat powder, but I have floral water. You can apply some floral water on it, it should be effective."
Su Ran's face lit up, "Floral water is fine too, thank you, sister!"
Xia Xiaoman went back to the house and took out two bottles of toilet water for him, "Use it sparingly, I don't have much left."
Su Ran nodded, "Sister, Brother Yang and I got a few broken fans, one of which is almost fixed, I'll give it to you later."
Xiao Zheyu did not take the generator he brought back with him, but placed it in the room he originally lived in. After repairing the fan and using the generator to fully charge the battery, they could temporarily achieve freedom for the fan.
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Around eight o'clock in the evening, Xia Xiaoman went downstairs with Su Ran and Li Yu'e to fetch water.
Su Ran said excitedly: "Sister Xiaoman, the fan has been repaired. Brother Yang is testing whether it can be used normally. If there is no problem with the fan, I will give it to you when I get back."
Li Yu'e, who was standing nearby, heard this and asked, "Can you repair fans?"
Su Ran nodded, "I was just figuring it out, but I didn't expect it to be fixed."
"That's amazing! Then you can bring back some broken electrical appliances and fix them. Then you can sell them and get some supplies in exchange."
After hearing what Li Yu'e said, Su Ran hesitated a little, "I don't think many people would buy electrical appliances. There is no electricity yet, so the electrical appliances can't be used after buying them."
Li Yu'e said angrily, "You are stupid! If there is no electricity now, will there be no electricity in the future?"
"Since there is no electricity now and no one wants those broken appliances, you can buy them at a low price and practice your skills. When electricity is available in the future, you can sell these repaired appliances at a high price."
"Otherwise, once the electricity is connected, how can you amateurs compete with those who specialize in electrical appliance repair?"
Su Ran nodded thoughtfully, "That makes sense. I'll go back and discuss it with Brother Yang."
Li Yu'e shook her head helplessly. She had the skills but didn't know how to use them. She deserved to be a worker.
Suddenly she thought of something, and went up to Xia Xiaoman and asked, "Xiaoman, do you know where I can get some fabric?"
Xia Xiaoman was puzzled, "What kind of fabric?"
"Any fabric will do, preferably something light and thin. I want to cut it into a vest with short sleeves."
Li Yu'e pointed to the people queuing in front of her and said, "Look, water is restricted now, so we can't wash clothes. Many people wear their clothes over and over again, and they are almost starched."
"We can work together to make some vests and short sleeves and sell them. We should be able to sell quite a few. Are you interested?"
Xia Xiaoman was stunned for a moment. Li Yu'e's brain was too flexible! If she wasn't about to move away, she might have agreed to cooperate in selling clothes.
"Sister Yu'e, I also want to cooperate with you, but we don't have the fabric, so everything is just empty talk."
Li Yu'e sighed, "There are definitely trading points, but they sell them at high prices, and the cost of buying them back to make clothes is too high."
Just as I was thinking about how to get the cloth, there was a sudden commotion ahead. A few people seemed to be frightened by something. They ran quickly to the back with buckets, looking back from time to time.
Li Yu'e stood on tiptoe and stretched her neck to look forward, only to see a group of people gathered together and two staff members squeezing in from the crowd.
"What happened in front?" Su Ran asked curiously.
Li Yu'e shook her head, "There are too many people, I can't see."
After a while, a woman covered in blood was carried away by a staff member, and another staff member dragged a male corpse, followed by three injured men.
After the staff walked away, Xia Xiaoman and the others were able to piece together what had just happened from the discussions of the onlookers.
The woman's name was Yuan Li, and the dead man was Yuan Li's husband Zhang Yong.
Before the natural disaster, Zhang Yong was a senior executive of a foreign company, and Yuan Li was a full-time housewife. They lived a harmonious life, with one of them working outside and the other inside. They were a model couple in the eyes of everyone.
But after the natural disaster, Zhang Yong, who had no idea about the daily necessities of life, became a waste.
He was unwilling to go out to salvage supplies, thinking that such behavior was not in line with his status. He was also unwilling to dig sludge, thinking that this was a job for migrant workers and that he, an elite white-collar worker, could not do such undignified things.
Zhang Yong is aloof, arrogant, and lazy, but Yuan Li did not abandon him. Instead, she tried her best to earn food to feed them.
But the water restriction made it impossible for Zhang Yong to maintain a decent life. So he tried every means to get more water, even at the cost of selling Yuan Li's body.
In his eyes, full-time wife Yuan Li needed to rely on him to work and support her, which meant that Yuan Li was his private property. He did not think there was anything wrong with exchanging Yuan Li for some water.
If Yuan Li was played badly, he could just change his wife. With his handsome appearance and unparalleled high education, he could easily find another one.
Yuan Li tried to resist, but was beaten every time.
It was not until today that she found an opportunity to kill Zhang Yong and injure the men who raped her.
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