The power is out. That's the downside of living on a high floor; you have to climb a lot of stairs.
When they reached the 9th floor, they met an old lady who looked at the bag behind Bai Shuang.
"Girl, where did you buy this?"
"Are we out of rice today?"
"Doesn't the small supermarket in our neighborhood sell them?"
Old lady: "Oh my, you wouldn't believe it! When my son went to buy it, everything was gone, and people were even fighting over it!"
"Oh, I see." Bai Shuang continued climbing.
Old lady: "Oh, why did you leave..."
Upon reaching the fifteenth floor, someone called out again, "Young Miss!"
Bai Shuang turned around abruptly. It was a middle-aged man, around thirty-five years old. "Who are you?"
"Hi, miss, I'm An Ming, a surgeon at our hospital. We recently moved to a new location..."
An Ming was very excited. "Thank you, Miss. Luckily, I received your tip a while ago and stockpiled some supplies, otherwise we would have gone hungry with this rain!"
Bai Shuang never expected to run into a doctor from her own hospital here. "No need to thank us, we were just guessing."
Who knows when this rain will stop? Stock up as much as you can if you have the chance.
Also, please don't call me "Miss" anymore; just call me by my name.
"Alright then? You'll always be our lady. I've remembered what you just said."
If he didn't change his mind, Bai Shuang went along with it.
For Bai family employees, the Bai family has a strong sense of belonging and pride in being Bai family workers.
When Bai Shuang got home, she first put the snow leopard into the pet bathing room. This was a new appliance she bought at the electronics market today, an automatic bathing and drying appliance designed specifically for pets. Bai Shuang observed it from the side and once again marveled at human ingenuity.
Bai Shuang also took a nice hot bath to relax her muscles and tendons, then brewed a cup of snow lotus and ginseng tea with water from her spatial storage and sipped it while sitting on the sofa.
Tonight's dinner will be pineapple fried rice and watercress soup.
I gave the snow leopard a bottle of pet food and dog food, but it turned its head away. Oh well, it did us a favor today.
They added another cooked chicken leg.
I was eating while reading messages in the group chat, and everyone was complaining.
"Why is the rain getting heavier again! When will this ever end?"
"When will the circuit be fixed? My phone is about to die!"
"What are the repairmen doing? The power's been out for so long!"
A first-floor resident said, "If the rain doesn't stop, my house will be flooded. Upstairs neighbors, please have some kindness and let me stay here temporarily. I'll pay double the rent!"
Then there was silence; no one answered.
Resident on the 12th floor: "It's just my sister and me in my family, please stay at my place."
The first-floor resident repeatedly expressed their gratitude, saying, "Thank you so much, beautiful ladies! Our internet celebrity sisters are truly beautiful inside and out, with the hearts of bodhisattvas!"
Another family on the first floor also asked for help, but they never responded again.
The phone rang. It was Wei Zhen. "Shuangshuang, why isn't the rain stopping?"
When will this rain stop?
Bai Shuang: "Sister Wei Zhen, how would I know? I'm not a fairy."
I sent you a WeChat message last time reminding you to stock up, did you do it?
"I only stocked up on a little bit, enough for about a week."
My colleague said that was just the merchants spreading rumors; they just wanted to raise prices.
"Oh, is that so? I don't know anything either. I'm hanging up now, my phone's dead."
I have done my best; as for what they do, I can only leave it to fate.
The next day, Bai Shuang opened her eyes and the first thing she did was to look out the window. The rain was still pouring down, but there was no wind.
When I turned on my phone, there were very few messages in the group chat; I guess most people's phones were out of battery.
The few messages they received were almost all requests for help, asking who had rice, who had salt, or who they could stay at.
This is just the beginning! It'll only get harder from here on out! Never mind all that, let's eat first. Health is the foundation of everything.
Take out a bowl of bird's nest porridge, a plate of steamed dumplings, and a plate of cucumber salad. Snow Leopard is eating beef mixed with dog food today.
Bai Shuang told it, "Be a good girl, and I promise to treat you to the best food and drinks."
After dinner, I took the snow leopard for a walk in the space. The grass I planted a second time has already grown to the height of chopsticks. Before long, I can open the fence gate and seamlessly connect it with the acre I planted before.
The corn in this field is already ready for harvest, so it seems the grain crops will mature in about a month. The fruit trees planted earlier haven't borne fruit yet.
Bai Shuang collected all the corn and stored it in the villa. She also chopped up the straw with a silage machine to feed the animals.
Fresh corn is very nutritious. I cooked a big pot of it in the kitchen and can eat it for breakfast from now on. It tastes much sweeter than regular corn from outside.
You can also make corn juice, which is even sweeter and more delicious.
Upon exiting the space, they heard a knocking sound at the door. The snow leopard barked, and through the peephole, they saw a middle-aged couple.
"What is it?" Bai Shuang asked.
They are residents on the first floor, and their homes were flooded, so they came to ask if they could stay there.
"I do not agree to let you stay here."
Bai Shuang couldn't understand why, with so many residents from the 1st to the 19th floor, they would walk all the way up to find Bai Xiang.
"The girl on the 12th floor said you live alone, so we'll pay you double the rent. We'll leave once the rain stops and the water recedes."
The woman hurriedly explained.
It turned out to be that gossipy woman from the 12th floor. "I've already said I disagree."
Woman: "We live in the same building, we're neighbors, could you please do me a favor..."
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