Chen Ruoruo knew that something was wrong. This had never happened before. She walked over, but before she reached the door, Erhu ran over and blocked her way, preventing her from going any further. Dazhuang was guarding the door and shouting anxiously outside.
Chen Ruoruo looked at the two, reached out and touched their heads and put them into the space, then stretched out her consciousness and found that there were several people standing in front of Qianjin Gate at the stairs on the 17th floor.
"Aunt Liu, did you really hear the noise?" Li Jun asked Aunt Liu. He was a sturdy man with well-developed muscles. He had taken people out to collect supplies during the day. When he came back, he was dragged up to the 17th floor by the old woman in front of him.
"Of course, if you don't believe me, ask Xiao Sun. There must be someone upstairs. I didn't expect that they could deceive us for so long..." Aunt Liu said with certainty, and then looked at the girl in her twenties beside her.
"I heard it, a muffled sound, but I'm not sure if it came from upstairs," Xiao Sun said.
"Oh, it must be from upstairs. How can I, an old woman, lie?" said Aunt Liu.
"But before, we never saw anyone coming in or out..." Xiao Sun
"Who knows if this person secretly went out to find supplies without telling us, or if she already had a lot of supplies so she didn't need to go out at all..." Aunt Liu
"Aunt Liu, who can have so many supplies? Besides, it's so cold, and there's no water, electricity, or gas. I can't stay at home no matter what..." Wang Hong, who was standing behind Li Jun, said loudly with some impatience in his voice. He had finally come back and had a hard day's work, but he hadn't had time to rest properly, and he was dragged here. His wife Xiao Sun hurried over and pulled his sleeve.
"Yeah..." Several young people behind him echoed at the same time.
"Grandma..." A little boy pulled Aunt Liu's trouser leg.
"I really heard it, and haven't we never been to the 17th floor? What if... what if there are a lot of supplies?" Aunt Liu looked at Qianjinmen with greed in her eyes.
"..." The group of people were silent for a moment after hearing this. Indeed, none of them had been to the 17th floor.
"Isn't it impossible to get in? Don't waste your energy..." Li Jun said
"Yeah, it's not like we haven't tried this before, but we can't move it..." a group of people said, and then they walked downstairs one after another.
Seeing this, Aunt Liu had no choice but to follow the group back home. She took her grandson back to the 16th floor, Wang Hong and his girlfriend Xiao Sun returned to the 15th floor, and Li Jun took his brothers back to the floors below.
After returning home, Aunt Liu thought of the loud noise she had heard before and felt that she must have heard it correctly. In addition, she had carefully looked at the floor layout of their community these days. From the outside, it was obvious that their building had more than 17 floors. However, there was only 17 elevators and floors. There must be something fishy about this.
Although she had taken people upstairs to check more than once before, but always returned empty-handed, the noise she heard today made her firmly believe that there must be someone on the 17th floor. If there was someone, they would not have come out to look for supplies for such a long time, so there must be enough reserves to do so.
If those supplies were hers, Aunt Liu seemed to see the 17th and 18th floors filled with countless kinds of food. She was thinking of seeing her seven-year-old grandson sleeping beside her, his skin and bones showing. If she had those supplies, her grandson would not have to go hungry, and her son would not have to go out so hard every day to find supplies.
Aunt Liu's family was originally well-off. Her family had been in business for generations, so she had some wealth. She had lived to her age and had seen a lot of ups and downs in life. In her opinion, no matter how big the difficulties were, there was no problem that could not be solved with money.
As long as she didn't do anything illegal, she could use money to travel around. However, she never expected that one day, the truth she had always believed in would fall apart in just over ten days, and money would become worthless waste paper in this world.
The numbers on those bank cards are just numbers, and those properties and company shares are all worthless. In today's society, money can no longer be used to generate transactions. All items can only be exchanged through barter. If you want to survive, you have to exchange what you have for what you don't have.
Moreover, they had to pay so-called protection fees to the gangsters who broke into the area downstairs, otherwise they would not be able to stay here safely. Thinking of the difficulties she had encountered during this period, she couldn't help but shed tears.
"Mom, are you still awake?" After Wu Hao came back from collecting supplies, he saw his mother wiping her tears under the oil lamp and asked softly.
"Hao, you're back? Are you not hurt?" Aunt Liu quickly wiped away her tears and walked forward to ask with concern. Her son is now the mainstay of the family, and she can't afford to lose him.
"No, these are the supplies we collected today. You must be hungry, eat something quickly..." Wu Hao took out some bread and a few bags of sesame paste from his arms and gave them to Aunt Liu.
"Did they steal our things again?" Aunt Liu looked at the things in Wu Hao's hand and asked loudly with tears in her eyes.
"..." Wu Hao didn't say anything
"I'm going to go and talk to them. Is there any justice in this world? They're trying to kill our whole family..." Aunt Liu said as she was about to walk out the door.
"Mom, forget it, we can't beat them..." Wu Hao said, pulling Aunt Liu's arm.
"Oh my God, what a sin..." Aunt Liu looked into Wu Hao's eyes and immediately stopped crying. She sat down on the ground and started crying.
She had been pampered since she was a child and had never suffered any hardship. But now she encountered such a thing at the end of her life. Now there are only three of them, mother and granddaughter, and they are living a life of hunger.
"Mom, we didn't find much supplies today. I'll go out and look for more tomorrow. You and your son won't starve..." Wu Hao squatted down and said to Aunt Liu
"But this is not a long-term solution..." Aunt Liu
"There is no other way now. We can't afford to offend them. Once the official shelter is built, we will move out of this place and hold on a little longer..." Wu Hao said to Aunt Liu in a gentle voice. His originally handsome face had become haggard due to the cold wind, and his once strong body had become thin, but he still tried his best to hold on, waiting for the day when hope would come.
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