There are supermarkets all around here, but they're always barely doing any business.
With the continuous rainy weather, the supermarket's business had finally picked up, but then they couldn't restock.
Isn't that infuriating?
Xu Lai paid the bill amidst the shopkeeper's complaints, and then she and her second uncle put their raincoats back on, each carrying a large bag of snacks as they braved the rain to leave the supermarket.
Back home, after taking off their raincoats, Xu Lai and her second uncle went to the bathroom to take a hot shower.
After changing her clothes and emerging refreshed from the bathroom, Xu Lai briefly recounted her experiences at the supermarket to her parents and younger brother.
"Fortunately, thanks to our family's Torelai, we have a space and have stockpiled so many supplies. Otherwise, we probably wouldn't be able to sleep at this time!"
After hearing her daughter's description, Song Qiu'e unconsciously reached out and touched her own heart, sighing with great relief.
Unlike his wife, Xu Haiguo was not sentimental. As a man who was often away from home, his experience was naturally different from Song Qiu'e's.
After listening to his daughter's words, he knew that if the rainstorm got any heavier and the supermarket ran out of things to sell, things might not be so peaceful anymore.
Therefore, he will need to spend more time exercising and practicing martial arts in the future.
This family has an elder like his second uncle, a daughter and a minor son, and a wife. He can't afford to fall down!
If the sky before that period was like a sieve with countless tiny holes, then the sky after that period is like a huge hole that has been smashed open by a large rock.
The rain was getting heavier!
The municipal meteorological observatory immediately issued a red alert for heavy rain.
The rain flooded one floor overnight.
The municipal government also launched rescue measures, but the area affected by the torrential rain was too wide, and the rescue workers were simply overwhelmed.
As a result, the central and municipal governments issued a series of decrees calling on citizens to help each other and encouraging everyone to help themselves!
They also posted numerous tips online on how to save themselves during torrential rains and floods.
Xu Lai's apartment complex is located on higher ground, but the floodwaters outside have submerged half of the first floor.
Residents living on the first floor of the building appealed to the property management and residents living on the upper floors for help.
Property management staff are not professional rescuers. With the floodwaters rising rapidly, the staff who are forced to stay in the community can only persuade and reassure everyone in the work group.
Xu Lai had just finished half an hour of boxing practice, and after sweating profusely, she drank most of a bottle of mineral water, then picked up her phone, half-lying on the sofa, and started scrolling through messages in various group chats.
In the property management group.
Yu Cheng, the property manager who persuaded the uncle's family to rent apartment 502 downstairs last time, was very enthusiastic. He braved the rain, rowing a rubber boat with a bunch of keys, shuttling between the buildings in the community.
Currently, some floors in this community are still high-rise buildings that have not been renovated and are not inhabited.
He figured that since no one lived in these unfinished houses anyway, it would be a good opportunity for the residents on the first or second floor to move into these bare houses.
Xu Lai thought the young man meant well. Some of the more flexible first-floor residents quietly moved into unfinished apartments on higher floors with their families and the things they had salvaged.
However, some residents living on the lower floors are dissatisfied.
"What?! This house is completely empty without any renovations, how can anyone live here?"
"That's right, there's no water or electricity, nowhere to sleep, and we can't even cook!"
"I don't care! My family pays so much in property management fees every year, you property management company have to find me a place with water, electricity, and a bed!"
"..."
Looking at the unreasonable demands of these people in the community's property management group, Xu Lai couldn't help but shed a tear for the kind and helpful property management staff.
Sure enough, at first, Yu Cheng, the baby-faced property management staff member, patiently persuaded these people in the group chat whenever he had a spare moment.
"Please don't be angry, everyone. You're just temporarily taking shelter in those empty houses to avoid the flood. Please make do for a couple of days, and maybe the flood will recede!"
As a result, the baby-faced property management staff's enthusiasm and patience did not earn them any gratitude.
Some homeowners living on lower floors, despite their arrogance, even went so far as to criticize him in the group chat, saying things like, "My child has never lived in such a bad house before. Anyway, I don't care, you have to find us a better house!"
"That's right. Many of the residents in our high-rise buildings have extra rooms in their homes, and we're willing to pay to rent them out for a few days!"
Although Yu Cheng had a good personality, his good intentions were taken for granted by these arrogant business people, which made him so angry that he simply gave up and stopped caring.
In the end, those few homeowners who couldn't bring themselves to lower their standards either paid rent or appealed to the emotions of having young children at home, and successfully moved into the homes of those homeowners living on higher floors.
"How about we let those families with children stay in the living room for a few days?"
Song Qiu'e is a soft-hearted person.
When she saw a video in the property management group showing a baby crying loudly from a flooded resident on the first floor because there was no hot water to make formula, she couldn't bear to watch anymore.
Xu Lai listened to her mother's words and said helplessly, "Mom, it's easy to invite these people in, but hard to send them away!"
"In their previous life, these people initially moved into the homes of kind-hearted people under the guise of renting, but as the torrential rains intensified and food and other supplies became extremely scarce, they took it for granted to eat other people's food and even kicked out the kind original residents!"
"Even worse, some have even killed the original residents!"
Xu Lai's words were anything but polite.
As a housewife, Song Qiu'e had never experienced the deceit and treachery of society for decades.
The worst evil I've ever encountered in human nature is listening to some old lady talk badly about someone behind their back.
So when she heard what her daughter said, her face turned deathly pale.
Xu Jiangming stayed in the Kunlun Mountains of Tibet and served as a soldier from the age of eighteen.
Back then, the region wasn't as stable as it is now, and he personally witnessed how some wicked people did inhumane things.
He was the first to agree with his eldest granddaughter's words: "Lai Lai is right. The world is in chaos. People who seem nice on ordinary days are capable of doing all sorts of bad things just to have food and drink and to survive!"
Xu Haiguo has worked hard outside for many years and has met all kinds of people. Although he saw that his wife was a little embarrassed by what his daughter and second uncle said, he did not comfort her for the first time because he loved his wife.
Not to mention the future, even in unofficial historical records, there are accounts of people resorting to cannibalism during times of famine in order to survive.
What does humanity matter when faced with survival?
He needs to make his wife understand this!
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