The government directly distributed disinfectant powder to each household according to their assigned area.
After disinfecting the collected water with disinfectant powder and letting it stand for several hours, everyone boiled the water before drinking and cooking.
It is said that Xu Yongqing, who had just been rescued by the army, did not believe in superstition and complained: "Is it necessary to make it so complicated? After floods in ancient times, did people have disinfectant powder to use?"
As a result, the family boiled the water they brought back from outside and drank it directly. They even used the tap water from outside to wash vegetables. As a result, all three members of the family vomited and had diarrhea for almost a week.
Xu Lai told Li Qingya to go upstairs first. She drove the electric tricycle to a secluded place, stored it in her spatial storage, and then went home to find that the water coming out of her tap still had a strong smell of chlorine and chlorine compounds.
Given their current conditions, the simplest way to remove chlorine is to boil the water coming out of the tap.
"Let's continue using the water from the Lai Lai Space Well for our imported water!"
Grandpa Xu made the final decision.
Just like when he lived in the countryside, the village's tap water source came from a reservoir not far away.
Furthermore, the government also has a supervisory responsibility for this reservoir, which provides water to various villages.
This means that residents and businesses around the reservoir are not allowed to throw garbage in it, and they are even less allowed to discharge domestic water or industrial wastewater into it.
Therefore, there are actually requirements for the source of tap water.
The previous torrential rain disaster may have washed away some dirty and rotten things into the reservoirs that serve as drinking water for residents.
"No problem. I happen to have two large water storage buckets at home. I'll just take out the water from the space well every morning and fill the two storage buckets!"
Two buckets of domestic water, about half a person's height, are enough for a family to use each day.
Since everyone's taps have been set to supply water for one hour every morning at six o'clock, everyone's lives have become much easier.
The sun outside was as scorching as ever, and the temperature was as high as ever, but people could cool off by soaking in cold water when they felt hot.
No more worrying about not having enough water at home; you can drink as much as you want without worrying about dehydration.
But while the water shortage problem was temporarily solved, drainage became a major issue.
Sure enough, early in the morning, when Xu Lai was taking a walk downstairs with Wanzi on her back, she heard people arguing downstairs.
"You're so lazy you're practically a maggot! If I find out again that you're dumping dirty water directly out the window, and your garbage and dirty water are getting into my house, I'll dump the dirty water right into your house!"
The people downstairs seemed unconvinced and started cursing back with a sense of righteous indignation.
"I poured the dirty water out of my own window. Why did the dirty water go into your house but not others? Isn't it because your house has bad feng shui!"
Well, they're arguing about drainage issues again.
During the torrential rains and floods, people were afraid that the sewage would back up into their toilets, so every household blocked the drainpipes.
Moreover, the city's drainage system is clogged and broken in many places.
Residents with high moral standards will carry their wastewater down to the drainpipe and dump it.
People with no manners simply dump their household wastewater and garbage out of the window.
But why does this voice sound so familiar?
Xu Lai walked closer and saw that the two families arguing were Xu Yongqing's family of three and the couple upstairs.
Xu Lai still has some recollection of apartment 602, which is located upstairs from Xu Yongqing.
The house was inhabited by a couple in their thirties. The man, named Ou Tai, owned a boxing gym in City C and was also a boxing coach, teaching young people and children how to box.
Ou Tai's wife is named Zhou Lin, and she seems to work as an accountant in a large company.
At this moment, Ou Tai, a muscular man, stood at the door of Xu Yongqing's house with his wife, carrying a bucket of dirty water.
This family is absolutely disgusting.
They poured dirty water directly out the window, and there was even feces floating in it.
Just thinking about it made him want to throw up the breakfast he had just eaten that morning.
Xu Lai, standing at the entrance of the fifth-floor corridor, and Wanzi, who was in her backpack, were listening intently.
Suddenly, it was discovered that the residents of apartment 501 on the fifth floor, as well as those of apartments 503 and 504 across the corridor, had come out of their homes at some point and were gathered not far away watching the commotion.
After hearing what the man said, they all criticized 502, saying, "Your family is something else. You live on such a low floor, why don't you just carry your sewage down the drain and pour it into the sewer?"
"That's right, I often see residents living on the 10th or 15th floor carrying things downstairs to empty them!"
"That's right. At the very least, we can learn from the residents who live on the 25th or 26th floor and above. Since their floors are too high, they put their used solid waste in bags and take it down to the trash can. For washing, they filter the water with sand and then dump it down from the middle of the corridor!"
"What business is it of you gossipy people if our two families are arguing?"
Xu Lai overheard what her uncle had said.
However, this statement sounds quite logical.
Didn't her uncle become mentally unstable on the day Xu Yongqing and Xu Qiong were taken away by the Samsung gang, which was also the day Huang Cuicui drowned?
Xu Lai took a few steps toward the entrance of room 502.
From her angle, she could see that Xu Yongqing's door was open, and Xu Yongqing was standing at the front, with Xu Qiong and Xu Zhen standing behind him with their arms crossed.
It seems that her uncle's mental state has improved a lot since Xu Yongqing and Xu Qiong returned from the Samsung gang, and he no longer looks as neurotic as before.
"Exactly, did we pour the water close to the wall? How did the water end up in your house?"
Xu Qiong echoed Xu Yongqing with an expression that said, "It's your bad luck."
"You're just being unreasonable. The dirty water you poured out of the window didn't just get into our house; it also got into apartment 402 downstairs!"
Downstairs in apartment 402 lived an elderly couple in their seventies. Xu Lai seemed to recall her mother mentioning that the man's surname was Feng.
The elderly couple has two children who graduated from prestigious universities and have settled down in the United States.
She even remembered her mother, Ms. Song, mentioning the couple, saying that their children, who lived far away overseas, hadn't come back for several years, and that although the two elderly people were financially well-off, they seemed too lonely.
Whenever she cooked something delicious or refreshing, she would always share some with the two elderly people in the family.
Standing on the other side of Xu Yongqing, Xu Qiong, still with her arms crossed, looked at the young couple outside the door with disdain and said, "Why didn't they come when water got into room 402? This is probably something you made up out of thin air, isn't it?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Lai guessed the reason.
It's just that the two elderly people in apartment 402 are getting old, and their children don't live around, so they just tolerate these things as much as possible.
The boxing gym owner, Otai, clearly guessed this as well, but he wasn't stupid.
"When a scholar encounters a soldier, reason is useless!"
Since the other party is being unreasonable, what right does a boxing instructor have to reason with them?
He simply threw the full bucket of dirty water, still covered in oil and potato peels, directly at Xu Yongqing and the other two.
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