When they got down to the sixth floor, they saw a group of men gathered together in the lobby, making a fuss.
Xu Lai, holding a beer, staggered through the crowd and saw five or six men pinning a man and a woman down.
Xu Lai looked closely and realized that the man was Xu Yongqing and the woman was Xu Qiong.
"Haha, it's really more fun doing this with siblings!"
As one of them spoke, he leered and reached his hand inside Xu Qiong's low neckline to grab her breasts.
"Hey Mr. Chen, it's no fun playing by yourself, let me join in the fun!"
Another bald middle-aged man squeezed next to Xu Qiong and directly tore off her already meager top.
Seeing that Xu Qiong and Xu Yongqing, who were pinned down by the man, looked like lifeless rag dolls that had been played with by those stinky men, Xu Lai finally felt relieved and withdrew.
After returning from the Samsung Gang, Xu Lai made a special trip to 502 to personally tell her great-uncle and great-aunt about her cousin's time in the Samsung Gang.
"Oh, my child, I'm going to fight these beasts..."
Seeing Huang Cuicui rushing downstairs like a madwoman, Xu Lai finally returned home satisfied.
"Hey, have you heard? The family downstairs in 502, the one whose son and daughter were taken away by the Samsung gang, I heard that the brother and sister became playthings for others at the Samsung gang's club!"
"Oh, this is too tragic!"
"I've heard that's not all; some perverts even publicly harass those brother and sister!"
"Sigh, that couple in apartment 502 were so pitiful. The woman couldn't take the shock and rushed into the water yesterday, where she drowned!"
In the hallway, a group of people were chatting animatedly in a circle.
When Xu Lai heard that Huang Cuicui had drowned, her first reaction was that it was too easy for her.
Since Huang Cuicui drowned, Xu Zhen, who has always been lazy and selfish, has become somewhat dazed and confused.
Thinking back to their previous life, the family's tragic situation shows that they have not yet repaid enough in this life.
Since that incident, Xu Lai has not made any further inquiries about the Xu Zhen family.
Life went on like this, neither exciting nor dull.
Seven and a half months later, one year and one and a half months after the torrential rain disaster, the heavy rain that had been falling steadily finally began to subside.
Touching the nearly one-year-old dumpling, which already weighed over thirty pounds and was almost half a meter long, Xu Lai sighed deeply. This torrential rain disaster was finally about to end.
As the rain subsided, the residents in the building were in relatively good spirits. After all, during such a severe rainstorm, the rain would sometimes stop for a couple of days before starting again.
It wasn't until they saw the floodwaters outside getting shallower that everyone could no longer contain their curiosity and started standing in the hallway every day, talking with their neighbors about when the torrential rain and flood would end.
With something to look forward to, even though they went hungry twice a day, everyone's mood and spirits were much better than before.
The neighbors also reduced their wariness of each other, and those who were relatively close to each other started chatting and talking together.
Every day at dawn, Xu Lai and the others could hear voices outside. The children had food to eat during the day, and after their meal, they had some energy to laugh and play with each other.
This is a completely different world from the lifeless atmosphere of just half a month ago.
When they had nothing to do, the two old men from the Xu and Xiao families would often go to the hallway to play chess or Go with the other old men.
One year, one month, and twenty days after the devastating rainstorm, good news came from outside.
The soldiers who supported the flood discharge area in the lower reaches of the Changyan River will be returning to City C in two days.
The news caused an uproar among the city's residents.
The return of the People's Liberation Army soldiers proved that their city was finally under someone's control.
Their leader has returned, and the good days for those wicked people who do evil are about to end.
For several days in a row, the people used their homemade rafts and other water transport to wait for the soldiers on the streets.
Two days later, the People's Liberation Army soldiers, whom the people had been eagerly awaiting, finally returned.
Both the Xu and Xiao families rowed their rubber boats out to meet them.
On the main streets of the city, the floodwaters have mostly receded, leaving behind mud and other debris up to an adult's knees high.
Those without rafts or rubber boats simply stood in the mud, wearing their shoes, to greet the People's Liberation Army soldiers.
When the People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops appeared on the streets, bulldozers cleared the way, and the PLA soldiers rode in large military trucks, slowly entering the city behind the bulldozers.
The scene was filled with the sounds of gongs and drums, creating a lively and festive atmosphere.
After 30,000 People's Liberation Army soldiers entered City C, they joined forces with some staff members of the City C government to immediately begin post-disaster cleanup work in City C.
In order to clear the mud and garbage that the floodwaters washed into the city as soon as possible, they also issued a notice requiring all men under the age of 50 and over the age of 18 in every household to participate in the post-disaster cleanup work.
Xu Haiguo from the Xu family and Xiao Rui from the Xiao family are both on this list.
However, the people were hoping that life would return to normal as soon as possible, and all the elderly who were able to move, as well as the teenagers and women, actively participated.
Even though the Xu family knew that an extreme heat disaster was coming in a few days, Xu Lai, Xu Jiangming, Song Qiu'e, and Xu Chao still took whatever tools they could and joined in.
If the city is not cleaned of silt, garbage, and the bodies of humans or animals that have drowned before the onset of extreme heat, an epidemic could easily break out.
Finally, after five days of hard work by 30,000 soldiers, government staff, and the city's residents, the garbage and silt in City C were cleaned up.
To prevent the outbreak of plague and virus, the officers and soldiers also arranged for people to disinfect every corner of City C every day.
The military and government also arranged for personnel to repair the pipelines supplying electricity, gas, and water.
However, because much of the equipment was soaked and destroyed by the torrential rain and floods for a long time, it is difficult to restore such a large-scale project to normal without replacing a large amount of equipment in a short period of time.
After the rain stopped these past few days, the temperature has slowly started to rise.
To keep a close eye on the rising temperature, Xu Lai even took a thermometer from her spatial storage and placed it at home.
The temperature on the thermometer suddenly rose from 22 degrees to 35 degrees.
Even on the day one year and two months after the torrential rains and floods struck, a sun the size of a washbasin appeared in the eastern sky like a scorching fireball.
"Hey, look! The sun is out!"
"The sun has finally come out..."
After a year and two months, the sun finally appeared in the sky in its entirety.
The people of City C all rushed out of their houses and cheered at the sun in the sky.
They sang, danced, and some of the older people even knelt down in front of the sun.
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