Witnessing this scene, Qiao Songzhi's heart beat fast, but she said nothing. She looked around, picked up the shovel for loosening the soil, and followed him out.
Outside the door.
"Xiao Shao, you can't be so selfish. Everyone is in trouble now, so help if you can."
Shao Shengan looked coldly at Zheng Tiehui's family and Chen Binggang's family outside the door. There were more than a dozen people blocking the door tightly.
"Xiao Shao, I wouldn't be so shameless under normal circumstances, but I have no choice. The elderly at home can't stand the cold anymore. I just found out that you have floor heating at home. I don't ask my whole family to move into your house for warmth, but can you at least take in my elderly and children?"
"Impossible." Shao Sheng'an still shook his head, "I don't allow outsiders to enter my house." He wanted to close the door, but Zheng Tiehui squeezed the door to prevent him from closing it, and looked at him disappointedly: "Xiao Shao, you are too selfish. You can't bear to watch others freeze to death! Open the door first, and let's go in and talk. We are all neighbors, there is nothing to be ashamed of."
Others also pushed and shoved, and kept blaming each other.
"That's right. I've never seen such a selfish person. He enjoys himself at home and has the heart to watch others suffer." This sentence was spoken by a man at the back of the crowd. Shao Shengan didn't see the person, but he felt that the voice was familiar.
When Qiao Qingqing came over, she immediately recognized the voice. She knew exactly what was going on, nodded to Shao Shengan, and opened the door wide.
The next moment, the sharp blade chopped on the security door, and the sturdy security door made a harsh sound, leaving a white mark on the door surface.
All the noisy sounds stopped.
Qiao Qingqing smiled slightly: "Want to come in and talk? Sure, come in." Qiao Qingqing's move was so intimidating that Zheng Tiehui, who was squeezed in the front, immediately took several steps back.
"Would you like to come in again?"
"You, you--" Zheng Tiehui's face looked extremely ugly. Looking at the white marks on the door, his heart couldn't help but tremble.
Is Qiao Qingqing crazy? She's going to use surgery right now?!
"Xiao, Xiao Qiao, don't get excited. Why are you holding a knife? We just want to talk. We are neighbors..." Chen Binggang was also frightened. Although he runs a farm and has seen many pig slaughtering scenes every day, it does not mean that he can calmly accept a sharp kitchen knife waving in front of him outside the slaughterhouse. It is too dangerous!
"Am I excited? I don't think so. I'm just treating you the same way you treat my husband." Qiao Qingqing gestured with a kitchen knife, and the smile on her face disappeared. "You blocked my door and pushed my husband, and do you expect me to be nice to you?"
As he said this, he chopped the door hard with the kitchen knife again. The security door made a loud noise and Zheng Tiehui and the others retreated again.
"Xiao Qiao, put the knife down first. It's too dangerous."
"If you are not a resident of the eighth floor, please leave immediately. Otherwise, my kitchen knife will not have eyes!"
Qiao Qingqing deliberately waved the kitchen knife, and Chen Binggang and the others hurried down the stairs, running so fast that the iron door clanged. She looked behind the crowd, and the person who was fanning the flames was indeed Song Jianmin.
That’s right, that was the resident on the sixth floor who had moved out long ago. What role did Song Jianmin play in this incident?
Finally, Zheng Tiehui and his family were the only ones left in the corridor on the eighth floor.
Miraculously, Zheng Tiehui's expression adjusted, and he said with a little apology and helplessness: "Xiao Qiao and Xiao Shao, this is really a misunderstanding. You two young couples are really too impulsive. It's so embarrassing to end up like this. Let's talk it out."
"Was it Song Jianmin who instigated this? Was it he who said that we have floor heating at home?" Qiao Qingqing interrupted his performance and asked directly.
She didn't think that 701 downstairs would tell this story, so Song Jianmin who appeared here was a problem. At that time, she was renovating her house, and the workers were coming in and out, and the materials were coming in. Anyone who was interested could find out. Zheng Tiehui had used her water tank to test her before, but Zheng Tiehui probably didn't know that her house had floor heating at that time, otherwise he would have come to her house on the first day of the big drop in temperature.
Zheng Tiehui said hurriedly, "Don't blame Jianmin. He was kind-hearted and wanted everyone to help each other and tide over the difficulties. Alas, this matter is also my fault. I failed to stop them. If I had known earlier, I would have come to you to talk first, which would have been better than causing the current situation. The world is in such a difficult time now. Everywhere is flooded. There are only two floors left in our building. If you don't unite and quarrel at this time, it will hurt the harmony."
"It's better not to be so friendly." Qiao Qingqing raised her voice, deliberately letting the people who hadn't left downstairs hear it. "From the beginning of the flood to now, our family has done everything we can to support our neighbors. Kayaks, speedboats, and diving equipment were also bought by my family, so I took the payment at the beginning, but I didn't count it carefully later. How many times has my speedboat picked up and dropped off neighbors? When the temperature dropped sharply, my family gave each neighbor a bundle of plastic film to wrap the windows. A few days ago, we also gave 701 and 702 a pair of skates. In terms of neighborly friendship and harmony, our ability is limited. I believe that my family has done everything we can. Today, you blocked my door and forced Sheng An. You didn't care about our old friendship first, so I don't need to be polite to you. Uncle Zheng, don't use your righteous set to block my mouth. You are also responsible for what happened today. Your rhetoric just now only makes you look particularly hypocritical. I want to vomit after listening to it."
Her words were powerful and showed no mercy to Zheng Tiehui. Zheng Tiehui's face turned green when he heard the end.
“I, I—”
"This door was paid for by my family, and you compensated my family. Now I will return the money to you, and I want to take down this door." Qiao Qingqing winked at Shao Shengan.
Shao Shengan had no room to play and could only stand beside Qiao Qingqing to support her. When he saw that she had assigned him a task, he immediately understood and turned around to call for help: "Dad! Bring the toolbox from the utility room, we're going to take down the door!"
Mr. Shao and his men had listened to the entire process at the door and were already extremely angry. Upon hearing this, Mr. Shao immediately responded and went back to get the toolbox.
Zheng Tiehui could never have imagined that things would turn out like this, and he never expected that Qiao Qingqing's family would tear down the door without any room for negotiation.
"Qingqing, don't be impulsive—"
"Move aside a little and don't knock on my door." Shao's father pushed forward angrily, and Zheng Tiehui had no choice but to move aside.
Shao's father was used to working, and he had done door repair work before. The tools turned like flowers in his hands. After a while, Shao Shengan cooperated with Shao's father to dismantle the iron door at the staircase and reinstalled the door at the door of Qiao Qingqing's house. In this way, other people on the eighth floor can come in and out at will, but if they want to knock on Qiao Qingqing's door, this iron door is the first line of protection.
"Songzhi, look at this, what's going on? Please try to persuade them. Young people shouldn't act on impulse like this."
Looking at the bare staircase, Zheng Tiehui felt very uncomfortable.
He is a man with a sense of crisis, otherwise he would not have moved back to this old house without an elevator when the villa area was just flooded, and spent a lot of money to install anti-theft doors and windows. He anticipated that there might be unrest in the future and was afraid that petty thefts would disturb his family. This iron door at the entrance of the corridor was a pleasant surprise. He had originally wanted to get it, but the iron door he had ordered had problems on the way. The store asked him to go and pick it up, and the store would find time to send someone to install it after he brought it back.
The store owner was in trouble, and no matter how much money he offered, they couldn't spare the time, so he had no choice but to go himself. Since his son couldn't be called, he thought of asking Shao Shengan to go with him, after all, the neighbors could also enjoy the benefits. As a result, there was an iron gate next door, which saved him the trouble of going out again. It wasn't until today when the iron gate next door was to be removed that Zheng Tiehui regretted it!
He was the one who organized today's incident, and he was the one who opened the iron gate to let the neighbors swarm in, but the neighbors directly cut off the source of the trouble. From now on, won't anyone be able to get close to his house?
Seeing Qiao Songzhi coming out, Zheng Tiehui hurriedly called her.
Qiao Songzhi replied: "You were the first to be unkind. This door is blocked here. If you wanted to mediate, you wouldn't have let so many people go up to the eighth floor to block my door. I know what you are thinking. You just want to use your power to pressure others. I tell you, although it is true that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, but I would rather not have a neighbor like you who has bad intentions in your heart!"
Unexpectedly, Qiao Songzhi was so tough. Zheng Tiehui felt extremely ashamed and could not stay any longer, so he returned home with a gloomy face.
After the door was fixed, Shao Shengan locked the iron door with a slam bang. The family entered the house and closed the triple security door. All the disturbances outside were blocked out and could no longer affect them.
In room 701 downstairs, Grandma Wang’s door was always closed.
Wang Jiale and his friends gathered at the door to listen to the noise outside. They heard the chatter of people talking, complaining and grumbling outside. They winked at their family members and everyone went back to the living room.
It was really cold in the living room. Grandma Wang was sitting next to the brazier to keep warm. Several children were around her. Her sickly great-granddaughter was coughing with her hands covering her mouth.
"Are you still arguing?" Grandma Wang asked, patting her great-granddaughter's back gently.
"We were chased down by Xiao Qiao and the others, grandma. It seemed that Xiao Qiao had used a knife, and they were all scared."
"Xiao Qiao can use a knife?" Grandma Wang was surprised. "It can't be Xiao Shao who did it. Did you hear it wrong?"
"Grandma heard it right, Qingqing did it, I saw it too." Wang Jiaxin had a complicated expression, "I didn't expect Qingqing to be so brave."
"Qingqing must have been pushed into a corner. Qingqing is so gentle and has such a good temper, but she actually resorted to surgery." Grandma Wang still found it unbelievable, but after thinking about it, she understood.
"No wonder Qingqing is angry. They are too aggressive. There were rich and poor people in the past. Can we use morality to force the rich to give away their wealth to support the poor? It's not possible. It's the same now. Some people are lucky, so they naturally live a more comfortable life. This can't be achieved by being jealous. As a person, you can only rely on yourself. If others are willing to help, it's a favor. If they are unwilling to help, it's also right. Besides, Qingqing's family has helped the neighbors a lot. We should be conscientious."
Uncle Wang nodded: "Auntie is right, that's why we didn't agree to go upstairs with them just now. Well, if we do this, it will be difficult to be neighbors in the future."
Chen Binggang was also worried. He returned home with a frown on his face. The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. He slapped his thigh hard and said, "I was used as a gun by Zheng Tiehui!"
Song Jianmin squeezed into the crowd to fan the flames, and then ran away when he saw that the situation was not good. He also met Zheng Tiehui by chance and casually mentioned the floor heating. Although 802 did not take in his family, at least they lent them a speedboat to move. At that time, 801 did not even answer the door, and Song Jianmin had some resentment towards 801. He and his family now live in the city hall, and their lives are very ordinary. When he saw Zheng Tiehui, he couldn't help but think of what his wife said, so he told Zheng Tiehui about the floor heating in 801, just to make things difficult for 801.
The plan failed, and Song Jianmin ran away very quickly. When Zheng Tiehui wanted to look for him, where could he find him?
The residents of Building No. 4 in Jinyuan Community, who had always lived in harmony, had a rift on this day.
In 801, Qiao Qingqing put away the kitchen knife and said with a smile: "Why are you all looking at me? Are you scared by me?"
Shao Shengfei exclaimed: "My sister is so fierce, bang bang! She cut the door with a kitchen knife!"
His face was full of longing, and Qiao Songzhi hurriedly said, "You can't learn this!"
"Will it offend the neighbors?" Shao's mother said worriedly.
"It's okay. If we don't offend them, our family will have to bow our heads, and there will be endless troubles in the future." Qiao Qingqing was very calm. The order is still there, so what if they are offended? As long as they dare to fight her with a knife, she will dare to accompany them. She is not afraid of using a knife, and she will not worry about the obstacles they may create in the future. She knows in her heart that she will have to go through this sooner or later, but she didn't expect the opportunity to happen today and it would be Song Jianmin. She is fully prepared. Her family's life in the future will not be much better or more comfortable, but it will be better than many people. Now it has floor heating, and she plans to turn on the air conditioner in the future. Will she be restricted every time? Is she afraid of being discovered and dare not use the prepared equipment, making herself and her family suffer?
If you dare to use it, you can protect it. Being timid is not Qiao Qingqing's experience of surviving the apocalypse for ten years.
"It'll be my turn next time." Shao Shengan just said this to Qiao Qingqing.
The experience just now made him realize more clearly that force is really the most effective way to solve the problem now. When he opened the door just now, he didn't think much. It was Zheng Tiehui knocking on the door outside. He opened the door without even looking through the peephole. He didn't expect that he would be in such a difficult situation after opening the door. So many faces, so many mouths spewing accusations and complaints, Shao Shengan knew that he couldn't go on like this, so he decided to close the door, but it turned out that he couldn't close it at all!
It was Qingqing's knife that scared them away. No more words were needed and they were all scared away.
Shao Shengan increasingly understood the rules of survival in the apocalypse from Qiao Qingqing, and he decided to carry weapons with him in the future.
"Okay." Qiao Qingqing smiled.
"I'll do it, I'll do it!" Shao's father said hurriedly, "I'll do it next time! I look darker and more fierce, so they must be more afraid of me."
"I'm also very fierce, let me do it!" Shao Shengfei said quickly.
"I just hope that we won't encounter this kind of thing in the future, and everyone can live a good life." Shao's mother sighed.
"Who doesn't want to live a good life? If someone bullies our family, we have to fight back, otherwise others will think we are easy to bully." Qiao Songzhi patted Shao's mother's hand, "Don't be too scared, there are so many people in our family, we are not afraid of them."
Facts have proven that the soft are afraid of the hard, the hard are afraid of the tough, and the tough are afraid of the desperate.
Qiao Qingqing's heroic act of chopping the door with a kitchen knife greatly shocked Zheng Tiehui, Chen Binggang and others.
In the next few days, Qiao Qingqing's family lived a peaceful and stable life, and no one came to disturb them. Chen Binggang went to discuss with the Wang family of 701, and he did not dare to accuse them of holding back on the benefits, so he discussed in a nice tone whether they could let their elderly and children stay overnight at the Wang family.
Wang's family is large, and this house only has two bedrooms and a living room, so it's too crowded to live in. Family members can be more intimate when they squeeze together, so what's the point of adding a few outsiders? No, it's too crowded and inconvenient.
The Wang family refused. Wang Jiale believed that his family was in the same camp as 801 upstairs, so he took this opportunity to express his position. He insulted Chen Binggang and said that Chen Binggang was not honest. He dared not get too close to the Chen family, otherwise, if the Chen family blocked his door one day, he would have deserved it and would have been asking for trouble.
"I, I...it was a misunderstanding!"
Chen Binggang was ashamed and angry, but Wang Jiale didn't care whether it was a misunderstanding or not. He still remembered the scene when Chen Binggang and others came to his house and asked them to go up to the eighth floor to force Qingqing. At that time, Chen Binggang and others were united in hatred and had a strong confidence. He didn't dare to talk more at that time, and locked the door without even leaving.
The chain reaction caused by a bad move made Chen Binggang even more upset.
He didn't really want to make enemies with 801 at the time, but out of practical considerations, 801 was so small, how many more people could it accept to stay overnight? It's not that he couldn't see Zheng Tiehui's plan, but if he didn't fight hard and suppress 801 for the sake of justice, how would his family benefit? The law does not punish the masses, and if he wanted to get some benefits, he could only pretend to be instigated and cooperate with Zheng Tiehui.
Normally, the family in 801 was so easy to get along with. They were a couple from the countryside with a silly older son. Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengan were a young couple and were usually very friendly to their neighbors. Qiao Songzhi was even better. When her husband was stolen away by a rich woman, she didn't hear any noise coming from 801 upstairs, which showed that she was also a soft-hearted person. But this time, the whole family was so tough. He felt extremely embarrassed for Zheng Tiehui who was in the middle of it when he saw the iron door being dismantled and reinstalled on the eighth floor in the corridor.
But he had no right to laugh at Zheng Tiehui. Chen Bing had just been escorted out by the Wang family and felt that he was already embarrassed enough at this point.
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