"Thank you very much, Miss Zhao." In Hong Kong, nurses are usually referred to as "girls". So after Su Yun had finished the examination with Grandma Su, she pushed the wheelchair, smiled and said goodbye to Nurse Zhao Yinyin who was in charge of Grandma Su, then she and the two Wang brothers got into the elevator to go home.

"Wait, Susu, you haven't signed this form yet." Zhao Yinyin quickly called out to Su Yun and others.

Su Yun sighed in her heart, and resigned herself to signing her Chinese name Su Yun and English name "Mary Sue" on the form Zhao Yinyin handed over.

In the two-literate and three-lingual system implemented in Hong Kong, the two languages ​​refer to Chinese and English, and the three languages ​​are Mandarin, Cantonese and English. However, because we have not yet returned to the old days, the pinyin of names of people and places is often Wei's romanization. "Su" should be translated as "So" instead of "Su" in the Chinese national language.

Here lies the problem. The "Su" in Wei's Pinyin can also be transliterated as "Sue". In order to stand out and not mix with other students, the original student changed the spelling of her last name from "So" to "Sue", and then added her English name Mary... after spelling them together, everyone understands.

In those days, the word "Marie Sue" had not officially become a derogatory word. In addition, considering that this was the legacy of the original body, Su Yun finally did not change it: Forget it, as long as the shame is enough, any name can be a problem. Don't you see that Taishan Lu Shaolong in the kung fu movie and Beidou Lin Jingying in the zombie movie, one is nicknamed Xifeng and the other is stage name Fengjiao, but it does not prevent them from becoming the most manly and most secure men in the world in the minds of many people...

Today happens to be the 14th day of the seventh lunar month, so it is very appropriate to think of Uncle Ying.

It was almost dusk when they returned to the Camellia Building. When the patrol officer saw Su Yun and the others coming back, he immediately waved and said, "Okay, you're the only ones missing. We'll have to lock the door and not let anyone in or out."

"What's wrong?" Su Yun was a little surprised: she originally wanted to set up a stall in Yaliao Street tonight.

"Oh, you know, those grandpas and grandmas are superstitious. They say they have to burn paper on July 14th, and they insist that we don't lock the stair door to make it convenient for them to burn paper and worship gods. The Housing Department has long had strict regulations prohibiting the burning of paper on the stairs or in the corridor to avoid fire hazards. We have to quarrel with them every year!" The person in charge of patrol tonight explained helplessly to Su Yun and others, then took the key to lock the elevator door on the third floor, turned around and walked downstairs while locking the stair door.

"Every year, our downstairs watchman, Kang Bo, would go back to the countryside to burn paper and would not come back until the next day. It seemed that they locked the key chain in the drawer tonight again, and then said that they couldn't open the drawer because they didn't have the drawer key..." The two Wang brothers were used to the patrol officers' tricks of "persuasion".

"Then I'll stay in the house tonight and eat gum flowers." Since people here pay so much attention to traditional festivals, it is estimated that there will not be many people shopping in Apliu Street tonight, so Su Yun simply chose to do handiwork at home.

Thanks to Su Yun for not planning to go out tonight, not long after it got dark, raindrops as big as beans came down without warning, accompanied by a howling wind. For a moment, the whole world outside seemed as terrifying as the end of the world.

"The Observatory has hoisted the No. 8 typhoon signal!" As people shouted, people in the activity area in the corridor began to pack up their things and prepare to go back home.

With the help of the Wang family, Su Yun closed the window and turned to look at the two brothers Jia Ju and Jia Xiang who were squatting at the door watching the heavy rain: "Hey, why are you two so sad?"

"Alas, it's so rare that a No. 8 typhoon signal is hoisted, but we're all on summer vacation. What a waste!" Wang Jiaju said unhappily.

Su Yun was speechless for a while: Once the No. 8 typhoon signal is hoisted, all businesses and schools will suspend operations and classes until the Observatory announces that the No. 8 typhoon signal has been reduced to a weaker No. 3 typhoon signal, and then they will resume operations and classes. This is a rare opportunity for Hong Kong people, who live in a hectic pace of life, to have a "long vacation".

Because of this, the two good brothers who are not very fond of studying began to feel sad about this rare No. 8 typhoon signal.

"Although you didn't get the advantage, we did." Office workers don't have winter and summer vacations. The two older sisters of the Wang family who are already working passed by while packing their things and said with a smile.

Su Yun and the two sisters of the Wang family laughed at them for a few words, and then went back to the house to do handicrafts with Grandma Su.

It was not until the sound of wind and rain outside gradually died down that Su Yun looked up at the small clock on the table: Before he knew it, it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening.

"Grandma, it's half past eleven, get ready for bed!" Su Yun was afraid that Grandma Su would secretly stay up late to work in order to earn more money, so she always packed up her things and then sent Grandma Su back to her room to bed and covered her with a quilt before she felt at ease.

"Wait until grandma finishes making these two..." Grandma Su picked up two plastic flowers with a speed that was not in line with her age.

"No! Do it tomorrow! Be obedient!" When the old lady becomes stubborn, she is just like a child, but even harder to persuade than a child. After arguing with Grandma Su for many days, Su Yun has finally figured out the simplest and most effective method: push the person in the wheelchair to the bathroom door on the balcony.

Compared to the hard and simple 1960s and 1970s in the period literature I had read before, the Hong Kong River just across the river during the same period was so magical that it seemed like a future world. It was only 72 years ago, and the government had already taken the lead in changing squat toilets into sit-down toilets in the housing estates, using seawater flushing technology from salt and fresh water pipes, which was not much different from the modern bathrooms of later generations.

It is said that people's main needs are food, clothing, housing and transportation, so with the help of these measures that are technologically close to modern houses in later generations, Su Yun was able to quickly integrate into this old time as much as possible.

The wind and rain tonight have largely dispelled the unique humidity and heat of the southern summer, so when Su Yun packed up everything and prepared to take a rest, he only turned on the electric fan in Grandma Su's room.

The balcony door was open, and her room door was also open. The cool night breeze blew in, allowing the brothers Jiaju and Jiaxiang, who slept in her living room as "head of the room", and she in the room to enjoy the selfless gift from nature...

It’s definitely not because she wants to save some electricity bills!

This is called environmental protection!

However, in the middle of the night, Su Yun, who advocates environmental protection, was awakened by the heat.

I squinted my eyes and looked around. The sound of rain outside the window has become very faint. Moreover, it is so humid and hot now. Maybe tomorrow will be another good day.

The dark blue moonlight shone obliquely on the living room, and one could vaguely see that the two brothers in the living room had been woken up by the heat, and were turning around and fanning themselves with cattail leaves.

"Is there a power outage?" Su Yun pressed the light switch but there was no response. She couldn't help but ask in a hoarse voice, half asleep and half awake.

"It's like this every time there's a storm..." Wang Jiaxiang murmured, "I heard it's because the power lines are old and there's no money to fix them, so whenever there's a strong wind or heavy rain, there's a power outage."

It was really hot, so Su Yun got up from the bed, sat in the living room and planned to fan Grandma Su.

“No, no, I don’t feel hot here at all!” Grandma Su, who was pushed by the brothers Jiaju and Jiaxiang to the balcony door to cool off, waved her hands hastily, “Nannan, go wash your face quickly. You’re sweating all over. You’re going to get heat rash soon…”

Su Yun really couldn't stand the stickiness on her body, so she walked towards the wash basin in her slippers.

I had just wiped my face with a towel when there was a sudden noise outside.

"Hey, what happened?!" After opening the door and seeing many figures in the corridor, Wang Jiaju was afraid that there might be criminals like last time, so he did not open the iron gate but just stood at the door and shouted.

"Mrs. Chen on the 12th floor suddenly went into premature labor and is in a very dangerous situation now!" A neighbor passing by responded casually, then hurried forward.

Hearing this, Su Yun and others hurriedly opened the door and ran to the corridor activity area together with the Wang family next door.

"There's still no electricity! The elevator can't be used!" As soon as he arrived, he heard shouting from the front. Su Yun placed Grandma Su in a corner, turned to look at the neighbors, and hurriedly ran to the staircases on both sides of the corridor to call for help.

"Who are the two people in charge of night patrol tonight? Why haven't they come to open the staircase door yet?!"

"That jerk from Toilet dropped the drawer key in the toilet and flushed it away! Now we can't open the drawer or get the key to the staircase door!"

"You're a real jerk! You're dumber than a pig!"

"Hello, is there anyone downstairs? I just used my pager to call the radio station and asked them to help call a taxi! But I heard that there was a landslide on the side of the road, and it will take a long time for it to get here!" Another wave of voices came from the corridor upstairs.

"No, Auntie Chen's water has been broken for a long time. If we don't send her to the hospital, both her and the baby will be in danger!"

"If it really doesn't work, we can just break down all the staircase doors to save people, right?"

"Are you kidding me?! Who can afford these stair doors?!"

"If everyone chipped in a little, we could at least afford it. We can't just watch Mrs. Chen die, right?!"

What a mess!

Su Yun pressed her temples in distress, took a few deep breaths, put her hands to her mouth like a trumpet and shouted, "Everyone, be quiet! I have a solution!"

I was instantly overwhelmed by the noisy scene.

"What can we do?" Wang Jia asked in a hoarse voice.

Hearing that the method proposed by Su Yun seemed feasible, Wang Jiaju hurriedly led his family to shout together: "Everyone, be quiet! Su Su has a solution!"

"We savvy people can get through the gap in the staircase door! Let's all go up to the 13th floor rooftop and use the crane used to repair the water tank as a base! Everyone, take out your bed sheets and tie them into a long rope. Send someone to hold it in the corridor on each floor, and we will hang Mrs. Chen to the first floor!"

They shouted several times, with people passing the message up and down, and at least the chaos was temporarily stopped.

"Quick! Tell all the smart guys on the floor to go up to the rooftop, and the rest to go home and get bed sheets to tie the ropes!" As the situation was urgent, neighbors on every floor got to work.

"All men on each floor, come over and hold the rope together. Women, bring over any flashlights or anything else that can provide lighting! Quick!"

"Zhuzi, why are you holding those old sheets? The old ones are not strong enough. Go get those two new ones!"

"But weren't those two sheets just washed and dried, ready to be used?" Zhu Zai, who knew that his grandmother was a clean freak, felt a little aggrieved as he came over holding the old sheets.

"You can buy new sheets, but you can't buy back two lives!" Granny Zhu scolded her own child angrily, while still tying the sheets with her hands. "Oh, you don't need it here, I'll go get it myself! Hurry up and get through the staircase door to help Susu and the others!"

Seeing Granny Zhu hurriedly carrying two new sheets and joining the other housewives in tying the sheets, Zhu Zi also stomped his feet, nimbly slipped into the gap of the stair door and went up one level at a time.

When they reached the rooftop, Su Yun had already directed a large group of children to take the two first tied pieces of bed sheet ropes from the gap in the stair door and tied them tightly to the crane.

Carefully passing the dozen men at the rooftop staircase who were pulling the bed sheet rope that also served as the base, Zhu Zi wiped his face of what he didn't know was a mixture of sweat or rain, and took the initiative to pick up a bed sheet rope in front of the crane: "I'll pull this one!"

"Okay, I'll pull this one!" Wang Jiaju also hurriedly grabbed the other bed sheet rope.

Su Yun looked down and found that there were suddenly many bright spots around and below him. He was a little confused: "What is that?"

"It was the neighbors from the Lotus Building, Dianthus Building and other buildings next door. They heard about what happened to us and quickly opened the staircase doors and came over with flashlights to help us illuminate the area!" The drizzle and the noisy voices made everyone sound like they were shouting.

Su Yun nodded, and after checking the bed sheet ropes and the cranes on top, as well as the group of men pulling the ropes, to see if they were all OK, she began to command: "Release!"

"People on the twelfth floor below, catch it and tie it up!"

"Twelfth floor received!" Soon after this reply, a voice from the twelfth floor was heard coming down, "People on the eleventh floor below, take it and tie it up!"

After the feedback from the bed sheet ropes on the first floor was transmitted upwards through the layers, Su Yun took a look at the star-like lights spreading all the way down and the lights of the corridors in the surrounding buildings, and waved his hand heavily: "Is the twelfth floor ready?!"

"The twelfth floor is ready!" A response came quickly from downstairs.

Looking up, he saw that Mrs. Chen had been safely placed in a waterproof sleeping bag with a wooden board underneath. Su Yun looked over and confirmed with the people downstairs, then turned back again: "One, two, three! Get ready to lower her! Lower her!"

"One, two, three! Get ready to descend! Descend!" the people on the rooftop shouted in unison.

The bed sheet rope slowly moved down, and in the dim light, countless hands reached out from the tenth floor to catch the sleeping bag: "Tenth floor, safe reception!"

"Rooftop received!" Su Yun confirmed again and began to command again, "One, two, three! Prepare to launch! Launch!"

Ninth floor, eighth floor, seventh floor...

Sixth floor, fourth floor, third floor...

Second floor, first floor!

Until finally, cheers could be heard from below without having to be transmitted upwards through the floors.

Those bright spots in the rain, the dancing lights of thousands of homes on the distant buildings, the crowds running with kindness in the dim morning light, the wailing of the ambulance breaking through the rain mist, bringing the miracle of life of a new day.

This rescue operation, in which everyone worked together to overcome the difficulties, was said to be a typical example of the grassroots spirit of Lion Rock. Even the TV stations and reporters who interviewed the incident harmoniously and admiringly called it "the miracle of life born from 108 sheets."

Of course, that’s another story.

The double tension of mind and body made everyone in the Camellia Building scream out of breath. A large group of people collapsed on the spot to rest, gasping for breath.

Su Yun, the main conductor, was so exhausted that she had to lie on the railing and couldn't even get down: Fortunately, the finals were in two days, otherwise she wouldn't be able to bear it...

"Look, the sun is out!" A cheer came from the group of children.

“The rain has stopped too!”

The warm sunlight seemed to drive away the fatigue in his body. Su Yun stood up listlessly and looked up at the red sun above the distant mountains.

"Then, where is it?" Su Yun narrowed his eyes and pointed into the distance.

So Uk Estate is built on the hillside, with endless hills surrounded by green trees and houses. The scenery that looks unremarkable on weekdays seems to be coated with a layer of hazy and beautiful golden edge under the sunlight, which is indescribably charming.

"Children of your generation may not recognize it, but we lived at the foot of the mountain over there when we were young!" The men pulling the rope took a look and laughed.

"That's where the spirit of Lion Rock comes from—"

"The legendary Lion Mountain."