Shao Shengan looked back immediately: "Uncle Song, you are telling me off. I didn't know that when the higher-ups send relief supplies, they also check whether the residents are native to this building. Do non-native residents mean they are not Chinese and deserve to starve to death? The list is for fifty people. Now there are only three floors left in our building, with a population of thirty-four. The supplies should be distributed based on the number of people. Thirty-four people are more than enough to share these supplies!"
"The rest—"
"The rest can be confiscated and saved up to a certain amount before being redistributed."
Song Jianmin wanted to refute, but he couldn't say anything that would let others starve to death. He stammered, "Then, how can the rights of us indigenous people be protected? We could have been given more supplies to store..."
Zheng Tiehui tried to smooth things over: "Let's talk it over and make sure we don't hurt each other's feelings. What you said makes sense. I think we should take the middle of the two plans and divide it according to the number of people. However, we should also take the feelings of the indigenous people into consideration and give them more. Only when we help each other can we live longer in the future. Those who agree with me, Zheng, please express your opinions and let's take the things home quickly. I'm afraid that people from other buildings won't get boxes and will swim over to ask us for them."
"What you said makes sense..."
"Then——"
"How should the indigenous people be divided?" Qiao Qingqing walked in. "By the address of their registered residence?"
Zheng Tiehui's pupils shrank slightly, and he heard Qiao Qingqing continue to say: "I remember that Uncle Zheng, your family's household registration has long been moved to the West City Villa. Strictly speaking, your family is not considered aboriginal."
"Qingqing, you don't know this. Haha, my parents' generation's household registration was settled here. This is the root of our family."
"So that's how it is. It seems to work this way. Then Uncle Zheng, your nanny can't be counted as a head. Uncle Song, your mother is not on your household registration. The old lady's household registration should be in her hometown. And your grandmother Wang's family--"
Grandma Wang, who was listening anxiously nearby, finally seized the opportunity and quickly agreed: "That's right, my granddaughter, grandson-in-law and their children are also my relatives, and the blood relationship couldn't be closer. My granddaughter's household registration was here before she got married, and she didn't move her household registration after she got married. You can't say that she is an outsider just because she got married and had children! Isn't she an aboriginal anymore!"
Old Master Wang tapped his cane and said, "The country must save every citizen. At this time, we must all work together. I would say we should divide it by headcount! As for the rest, listen to Xiao Shao and save it. We can divide it up when we have enough."
Zheng Tiehui stopped talking, and Song Jianmin opened his mouth but couldn't refute.
That's how it ended up.
The remaining supplies were still in the box, and Qiao Qingqing offered to let her family keep them: "If there is any shortage, please come to me. I can take the responsibility!"
The words are so powerful that people can't help but believe them.
"Then I'll leave it at your home, Xiao Qiao. This is everyone's life-saving food, you must take good care of it, haha." Zheng Tiehui said with a smile.
Dragging the box home, Qiao Songzhi sighed, "Even distributing supplies can be so troublesome. It's just like the intrigues on TV."
"We're just getting started. Now everyone is still concerned about their reputation. In the future, it won't be resolved with just a few words." Qiao Qiao Qingqing asked Shao Shengan to put the box in the corner of the living room. Shao Shengfei looked at it curiously. Qiao Qingqing coaxed him: "Brother, this box is in your care. Don't let others open it. Got it?"
This is really an interesting task. Shao Shengfei nodded seriously: "Don't worry, sister, I won't let the bad guys open it!"
Afterwards, Shao Shengan asked Qiao Qingqing why she wanted custody of the box. Qiao Qingqing smiled faintly and said, "If it's ours, I can really guarantee that no one will steal the things. If it's someone else's, there will be endless lawsuits in the future. Besides, Zheng Tiehui wants to gain the right to speak here, and we in 801 can't let him get his wish. If he keeps control of us, we have to have some influence."
Shao Shengan tried to adapt himself to the new rules of this building. After careful consideration, he realized that his wife's approach was right. They were on the eighth floor, which was the safest place. They had already made preparations, so they would not have a bad life in the future. If they wanted to protect their family, they must first build their influence - even if their family had no intention of becoming the local tyrant of this building.
"Uncle Zheng, was it like this before?" he asked.
"Yes." Qiao Qingqing nodded. "During the period of airdrops, sometimes the supplies were at our house, and sometimes they were at his house. He asked me for them and said he wanted to take them down for distribution. At first I didn't refuse, so he treated me well. He guarded the eighth floor well, so I benefited from it. But controlling the distribution of relief supplies was not enough for him. He had great ambitions and wanted to allocate the resources of this building and distribute them reasonably."
Seeing Qiao Qingqing's eyes gradually turn colder and revealing a cold and cruel look in them, Shao Shengan's heart trembled. He took a deep breath: "What else did he do?"
Qiao Qingqing came back to her senses and quickly comforted him: "Don't be angry! There's nothing to be angry about! I retaliated at that time, and no one dares to bully me." Zheng Tiehui jokingly said that he would introduce Qiao Qingqing to Song Jianmin's son Song Jintao, and said to Qiao Qingqing, "It's good to have a man in the family." Qiao Qingqing was disgusted at the time. Unexpectedly, Song Jintao took it seriously and wanted to force himself on her.
"I chopped off his hand, and for a long time afterwards, Zheng Tiehui's face turned stiff when he saw me."
Shao Shengan's face was so dark that water could drip from it. Zheng Tiehui obviously regarded Qingqing as a resource to be distributed. In his previous life, when he was not at home, Qingqing was actually bullied like this!
Qiao Qingqing sighed, "I don't want you to be so angry, but I have to tell you this. I want you to know who you can cooperate with in this building and who you need to be on guard against. The Zheng family is not a bad person, but Zheng Tiehui likes to control and establish his own authority. Be careful not to be led by him. More people will come to Grandma Wang's house downstairs in the future. Grandpa Wang's nephew and his family will also come to take refuge. It will probably be in the next two days. By then, including her own grandchildren's family, there will be nearly 20 people. Their family doesn't cause trouble, but they will lend a hand when they can. They took me in after our family was robbed. 702 is Grandpa Tian and Grandma Tian. Their children did not show up after the natural disaster. Later, Chen Binggang and his family moved in to 602. They are very good to Grandpa Tian and his family. Although the family is a bit fierce, I think they are grateful people."
"It's okay. I got it. I'll be more careful about Zheng Tiehui and the Song family downstairs next time."
“You don’t have to worry about the Song family. We live here as a family for the rest of our lives. He won’t dare to have any bad intentions. They will move out after the sixth floor is flooded. We won’t have anything to do with them in the future.”
Shao Shengan nodded, but didn't say what he was thinking.
"Sheng An, this is just the beginning." Qiao Qingqing looked at her husband tenderly.
Shao Shengan hugged her and rubbed his head against her temples: "There will be a day when it will end. Let's wait for that day together."
Grandpa Wang's nephew and niece-in-law, as well as his nephew's son and his family, and his married daughter and her family, came over by speedboat the next day and three days later respectively.
They were brought here by a rescue team, who said they were originally going to send them to a shelter designated by the government. However, they had inquired about the conditions there before and found out that the conditions there were very bad, with large groups of people living together, the public toilets full of stench, children making noises and babies making noises every night, and people quarreling every day. The water would not recede in a short time, so no one wanted to live there permanently.
So we took refuge at Grandma Wang's house. Even though we lived in the living room, it was more comfortable than living in a shelter.
With nine more people in the building at once, the relief supplies were consumed even faster.
The planes did not deliver supplies every day. From the first day of the delivery, they delivered supplies every other day. A piece of compressed biscuit could last a day, and barely last two days. After a long time, people had no strength. But Qiao Qingqing knew that improvements would be made in the future. After the rain stopped and the supply ships were in place, the amount of relief supplies sent by water would increase.
Every time supplies were distributed, Qiao Qingqing would patiently ask Shao Shengan to take out the boxes in his custody and count them for them.
Grandma Wang waved her hand: "Don't bother! You girl, how can you be so naive! Moving here and there will only be troublesome, don't move!"
"It's better to order a little, so that we can all feel at ease."
There are many more children in the building. They are innocent and lively. They are happy that the school is closed and they can play in the water. The building is filled with children’s cheerful laughter all day long, which is in sharp contrast to the sad faces of the adults.
Attracted by the children, Shao Shengfei's heart was also floating, and he wanted to go out and play.
Shao's mother didn't agree to let him go out to play. Her eldest son was mentally ill and had been bullied by other children since he was a child. When he was in his hometown, the child lived with the couple in the factory dormitory. As they were old employees, everyone was more tolerant. But Shao's mother was afraid that the city children would not be familiar with her son, and her stupid son would be wronged.
"It's better not to go. The water is deep and dangerous. Big brother, you want to play in the water. I'll use the fishing rod to fish for you, okay?"
There are fish in the water. You can often see small wild tilapia turning over in the stagnant water and then quickly disappearing again.
Shao Shengfei had never fished before, and his parents never let him go near the water alone. He was very happy to hear that he could fish, and he immediately agreed. Qiao Qingqing took out two fishing rods, made her own bait, and taught Shao Shengfei how to fish.
The balcony and terrace at home were sealed off. She only left an escape hatch on the side of the balcony, which was made of aluminum alloy anti-theft material. She opened the escape hatch and moved a long bench for the two of them to sit side by side. Qiao Qingqing threw out the bait and waited patiently for the fish to bite. Shao Shengfei couldn't sit still many times and twisted his buttocks, but he was so gentle and well-behaved that he didn't dare to yell at Qiao Qingqing. He just whispered to her, "Sister, where are the fish? Why haven't they come?" As long as Qiao Qingqing coaxed him and said they would be there soon, he would continue to sit obediently.
It was a bad start today and I didn’t catch any fish.
Shao Shengfei also comforted Qiao Qingqing not to be sad, saying that it was dark and the fish had gone home to sleep.
The next day, Qiao Qingqing became more and more courageous. She didn't believe that she could catch a few stupid fish with her homemade fishing net in her previous life, and she couldn't catch a single fish in this life with all the fishing rods and baits.
After three hours of hard work, the first fish was caught. It was only the size of a palm. Shao Shengfei was so happy that his cheeks flushed and his eyes were bright with joy.
"Sister is so awesome!" he shouted.
Qiao Qingqing turned around and saw Shao Shengan looking at her with a smile, and she couldn't help but smile too.
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