Compared to those thugs who used brute force, the two old men were much more accurate.
After a long back-and-forth exchange, Xu Lai's side unexpectedly gained the upper hand.
Seeing that three of their men had already suffered muscle spasms from the other side's stun guns, the thugs finally left in a huff.
"Xiao Jiang, are you alright?"
After the thugs' speedboats left, Xiao Shan noticed that Xu Jiangming's arm was bleeding.
"Second Uncle, are you injured? Is it serious?"
Upon hearing Old Master Xiao's words, Xu Lai, who was driving the speedboat, immediately stopped steering and turned to look at his second uncle.
When she saw his clothes stained red with blood on his arm, her heart leaped into her throat.
"It's nothing, I just accidentally got my arm slashed by a thug's knife!"
Xu Lai quickly reached into the backpack next to her and took out a pair of medical scissors, a roll of gauze, and a box of hemostatic and anti-inflammatory powder from the space storage.
"Second Uncle, let us treat your wound first!"
Xu Lai knelt down next to Old Master Xu, and the scissors cut away the clothes around the wound on his arm.
Looking at the knife wound that was about ten centimeters long, Xu Lai felt extremely distressed.
No wonder there was so much blood!
When Xiao Shan saw the wound on his old comrade's arm, he cursed under his breath, "Bastard," and rushed over to help.
Xu Lai carefully poured the anti-inflammatory and hemostatic powder onto the wound, and then gently bandaged it with gauze.
After treating the wounds, Xu Lai took out three bottles of energy drinks from her backpack, one for each of them.
After drinking the beverage, the three of them felt that they had regained a lot of energy.
Xu Lai returned to the driver's seat of the speedboat, started the engine, and quickly headed towards the Jinxiu Haoting residential area.
When they arrived at the apartment building, Xu Lai and Grandpa Xiao took the rice, flour, vegetables, and cigarettes and alcohol in a cardboard box that Grandpa Qin had given them to the third-floor stairwell.
After using the excuse of launching the assault boat, Xu Lai rowed the rubber boat back to the third-floor corridor.
"Miss, would you like someone to deliver something to your apartment upstairs?"
She was just about to ask the two old men to watch her things while she carried some things upstairs and asked the rest of the two families to come down and help her carry them, when unexpectedly, an elderly man who was nearly sixty years old and a young man who was around thirty years old came over.
"Hire someone to transport things upstairs?"
Xu Lai was stunned for a few seconds after hearing what the two said before she reacted.
She remembered hearing a while ago that a father and son in this building had started such a business.
Seeing that Xu Lai did not answer immediately, the young man quickly introduced himself: "My name is Lu Ping, and this is my father, Lu Yongbing. We live in Unit 2, Room 904 of this building."
As he spoke, the young man, fearing the young woman might worry about the reliability of him and his son, produced two ID cards and continued, "My son and I have been doing this job for almost a month now, and everyone has given us very positive feedback. These are our ID cards!"
Xu Lai took the two ID cards from the young man and looked at the information on them.
After confirming that there were no problems with the information, she returned the ID card to the young man named Lu Ping.
How much will it cost to deliver these items to the seventeenth floor?
“Young lady, my granddaughter is not even ten months old. We’ve run out of formula and can’t get any more. Babies have weak stomachs and can’t eat whole grains.”
"As for payment, could you give us a few pounds of flour later? My wife and daughter-in-law can make porridge for my granddaughter."
Xu Lai looked up and glanced at the ordinary-looking old man beside the man.
The old man had gray hair, dark skin, and a slightly hunched back; he looked like a countryman.
As he spoke, his face was filled with love for his granddaughter.
After he finished speaking, he and his son both looked at her with longing expressions.
It seems the person she's seeing today has a loving family!
"OK!"
Xu Lai seemed to see a chubby little girl happily drinking fragrant porridge.
So she agreed without even thinking about it.
"Thank you so much, young lady!"
Seeing that the young girl had agreed to their request, the father and son were very happy and quickly thanked her.
"Then you guys can slowly go upstairs from behind. My son and I will carry the things up first!"
After saying that, the father and son each put a bag of rice and a bag of flour on their shoulders and went upstairs.
Xu Lai wanted his second uncle to go upstairs and rest, but he firmly refused: "What if those people come? I want to stay here!"
Helpless, Xu Lai had no choice but to leave Grandpa Xiao and her second uncle to guard the things. Carrying a backpack, she picked up the expensive cigarettes and alcohol that Grandpa Qin had asked Manager Gu to send, and also carried 15 jin of pork upstairs with her other hand.
When the father and son came downstairs, they ran into Xu Lai, who was carrying large and small bags, going upstairs. The two of them quickly took the things from her hands.
"Oh dear, girl, we agreed that my son and I would carry all this stuff, so please give it to us!"
"Dad, there should only be one bag of rice and one bag of flour left in the third-floor hallway. Please take these upstairs, I'll take care of the rest!"
Feeling sorry for his father, Lu Ping took the initiative to take on the heavier tasks himself.
Seeing that the old man had taken the box and the bag of meat from Xu Lai's hands, Xu Lai simply went downstairs to help his second uncle upstairs.
The group went upstairs, where Xu Haiguo and his two companions, along with Xiao Rui and his wife, were staying at home. They noticed that Xu Jiangming's arm was bandaged and looked very worried.
"Are you in danger? Are you seriously injured?"
"We encountered some trouble on the way back. Xiao Jiang got a little injured, but Lai and I are fine!"
Old Master Xiao replied in a deep voice.
"I was wondering why we suddenly hired someone to help move things today. So that's why?"
Xu Haiguo, Song Qiu'e, and Xu Chao quickly walked over and surrounded Xu Jiangming.
Song Qiu'e, supporting Xu Jiangming's other arm, asked with concern, "Second Uncle, are you alright?"
Xu Chao was also distressed and kept asking his second uncle if it hurt.
Xu Haiguo was extremely annoyed: "I should have gone out with you today!"
"I only got a cut on my arm, why are you all so worried?"
As soon as Xu Jiangming opened his mouth, his tone seemed to suggest that his nephew's family was making a mountain out of a molehill.
Despite never having married or had children, he felt incredibly happy and gratified to see his nephew's family's genuine concern and care for him.
As a surgeon, Xiao Rui immediately stepped forward upon seeing Old Master Xu's injured arm and said, "Let me give you a quick check-up first!"
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