Chapter 14 Knock on the door and ask for accommodation
The strong convection that can attract the attention of the superiors is indeed extraordinary.
All night long, the screaming of the kettle on the windowsill never stopped.
Xia Xiaoman slept very uneasily that night. The intermittent thunder scared her so much that she almost had a heart attack.
I ate too spicy food last night and my stomach feels uncomfortable.
Xia Xiaoman took care of her personal hygiene with a black plastic bag, tied the bag up and threw it in the corner of the balcony.
After washing up and eating a bowl of light wontons, I went to Room 704 to find Ye Xiaojie to learn Sanda.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw a crowd of people in the corridor. Xia Xiaoman slammed the door shut with lightning speed and took out two large solid wooden wardrobes from the space to block the door.
At the same time, there were frequent knocks on the door.
"Little girl, open the door! I'm Uncle Wang from Room 402. Our house was flooded, and I want to stay at your house for two days! I can pay for the room!"
"I can also pay for the room, 500 a day, I have cash! Little sister, please open the door and we can discuss it."
"How dare you ask for five hundred dollars? Little girl, I'll give you one thousand, one thousand a day!"
"Get lost! I'm still paying one thousand a day. Can you come up with that now? Everyone can write a bad check. I'm still paying ten thousand a day."
"Beautiful lady, don't listen to them. They are just trying to trick you and write you a bad check. I have some gold here. If you stay with me for a few days, I will give it to you!"
“…”
There was a lot of chatter outside the door, all of them were people asking for accommodation.
Xia Xiaoman was very upset and took out her phone to ask Sun Qing what was going on outside. But she turned on her phone and found that there was no signal and she couldn't even send a text message.
Just when I was feeling annoyed, there was a loud bang on the balcony window.
Feeling something was wrong, Xia Xiaoman walked to the balcony and discovered that it was the neighbor 703 who was knocking on her balcony window regularly with a broom.
Her balcony and the balcony of 703 are on the same wall, separated by a distance of two or three meters.
Xia Xiaoman opened the balcony window, and the rain instantly hit her face, making her look like a drowned rat.
Zhou Qiuyang put his hands together and made a trumpet shape, "Don't open the door! The fourth floor is flooded, and those in the corridor are all residents of the fourth floor!"
The wind and rain were too strong, and there was thunder. Zhou Qiuyang had to repeat it twice before Xia Xiaoman could hear what he was saying.
She asked politely, "How are you and Sun Qing?"
"They tried to break into Sun Qing's house last night, but were beaten up by Sun Qing and Ye Xiaojie and kept quiet. I blocked the door with a refrigerator, so those people couldn't get in."
Hearing Zhou Qiuyang's words, Xia Xiaoman scratched her head. She didn't sleep very well last night, so how come she didn't hear any fighting outside?
Could it be that there are too many things at the door, blocking out the sound?
"Room 702 opposite you has been occupied by Room 404. Those men are ferocious and look like they are not easy to deal with. You should be careful when you go out." Zhou Qiuyang closed the window immediately after sharing the information. He was afraid of being struck by lightning if he was a second late.
Xia Xiaoman sighed. Since she couldn't go out, she could only entertain herself at home.
Yesterday's fight made her realize her own strength.
In the past, when she was in the village, she relied on her strength and often fought with people of the same age in the village.
With no one to protect her, she fought without regard for her life, and the villagers did not dare to kill her, so she always beat others until they cried for their parents.
But it’s different for people outside. If their interests are involved, they can hack her to death.
It was only when she saw Ye Xiaojie and Sun Qing’s skillful moves yesterday that she realized the gap.
Unable to go out to learn Sanda from Ye Xiaojie, Xia Xiaoman simply exercised at home.
In the morning, I do high leg raises, jumping jacks, and horse stance to train my lower limb strength. In the afternoon, I do push-ups, mineral water bottles, and handstands to train my arm strength. In the evening, I do plank support and crunches to train my abdominal strength.
If your arms are sore and your calf muscles are stiff, you can use medicated wine to wipe and massage them, or apply plaster to relieve the pain.
As long as you don’t die from practicing, practice until you die.
Unable to bear it any longer, she thought back to the time when her parents sold her to an old bachelor as a wife in high school. She was determined to persevere even if it meant gritting her teeth and would never go back to that small mountain village!
I sweated profusely all day long, and all the moisture accumulated in my body from the flood was completely discharged.
…
The sky seemed to be torn into a huge hole, and heavy rain poured down like a waterfall.
The street seemed to have turned into a raging river, with huge waves hitting the walls along the roadside.
The flood rose at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in just one day, the water reached the fifth floor.
In the middle of the night, Xia Xiaoman was awakened by a hurried knock on the door.
"Xia Xiaoman! I know you are in there. I am Qin Yali. Please open the door. The fifth floor is flooded. I have no place to stay for the time being. Can you let me stay at your house for a few days?"
Qin Yali never got tired of repeating the same words over and over again.
Xia Xiaoman took a deep breath and shouted at the door: "My house is also flooded. Can't you see the water seeping out of my door? Go and stay upstairs. There is no room in my house."
"We can't go up to the 8th floor. They installed an iron door at the entrance of the stairs. We can only go to the 7th floor."
Xia Xiaoman: “…”
Damn, the people on the 8th floor are so cunning. They installed an iron door without telling anyone. I should have installed one if I had known.
Qin Yali was still knocking on the door. "Xia Xiaoman, if you don't want to stay with me, forget it. But can you give me a pack of sanitary napkins? I'm having my period."
As a woman, Xia Xiaoman understands very well how painful it is to have menstruation without sanitary napkins.
She started menstruating in junior high school, and her parents refused to buy her sanitary napkins, so she put a thick layer of toilet paper on her underwear, which often got her pants dirty.
When her classmates saw her blood-stained pants, they would laugh at her behind her back.
Thinking of her past experiences, Xia Xiaoman still felt a little sad.
Because I’ve been caught in the rain, so... tear the umbrella into pieces!
"I'm sorry, I have my period every four seasons. I just had my period last month and my next period will be in two months, so I don't have sanitary napkins at home. You can use a tissue to pad it!"
Qin Yali: “…”
"How can I put the tissue in? Xia Xiaoman, can you be a little compassionate? We are all women, and you won't even lend me a pack of sanitary napkins?"
Xia Xiaoman was firm in her attitude. "I am cold and heartless. I am a woman without sympathy. I won't give you even a pack of sanitary napkins."
Just kidding, the corridor outside is full of people. She can guarantee that as long as she opens the door, Qin Yali will immediately push it open and break in.
Moreover, she clearly remembered that Qin Yali bought a box of sanitary napkins online at the beginning of the month. She should have stockpiled them during the shopping festival. How could they be used up so quickly? Even heavy bleeding would not use so much.
Qin Yali was so angry at Xia Xiaoman's stubborn attitude that she cursed and kicked the door angrily.
Xia Xiaoman was too lazy to pay attention to her. She ran to the balcony and knocked on the window of room 703 next door with a stick, asking Zhou Qiuyang to inform Sun Qing not to be deceived by Qin Yali in the name of borrowing sanitary napkins.
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