Chapter 68 Borrowing a Car (33)
Lan Jin wanted to take the elevator, but there were still so many supplies to carry that it would definitely attract attention if someone saw them. Even with the spiritual spring water, she wouldn't be able to carry them from the first floor to the 32nd floor through the emergency passage. After thinking it over, she said, "Wait a minute. I'll find a car. We'll put all the supplies in it and then park in the parking lot. We'll take the elevator up in the middle of the night."
But speaking of cars, the flood was so severe before, where could we find cars to use?
Lan Jin said, "I can get it. There's always a place that's not flooded. You go back first. I'm sure I can get it before they get off work."
After the two men divided the supplies in the truck, just as Huang Jinghe was about to go back with his share of supplies, there was a quiet knock on the door.
Bang bang
The two knocks on the door were quite gentle, but the person outside did not speak after knocking, which made Lan Jin feel that something bad was going to happen.
Normally, after knocking on the door, regardless of whether there is a response or not, someone will usually shout, "Is anyone here? I'm from XX."
In the past, community staff would ask this question when they came to her house, and Huang Jinghe would also say this when he came to see her, so Lan Jin felt at ease opening the door.
But this person didn't say anything, just kept knocking on the door, which reminded her of the two knocking incidents during the poisonous fog.
Lan Jin looked at the door without moving, so much so that Huang Jinghe, who was about to leave, stopped in mid-air and didn't move at all.
Huang Jinghe, like Lan Jin, really didn't like the sound of knocking on the door.
'Bang, bang'
The knocks on the door were much louder than before. Even from inside the house, the two of them could vaguely hear the voices outside muttering, "That's not right. I just saw someone go in, a man and a woman. Why didn't they respond?"
Huang Jinghe opened his mouth and asked in a low voice, "Sister Lan, do you want to open the door?"
Lan Jin pursed her lips and whispered back, "I don't know anyone here, so it doesn't matter whether I open the door or not, so I choose not to open it."
But Lan Jin didn't open the door, so Huang Jinghe couldn't get out. He put down his supplies and sat on the sofa in the living room.
But who knew that the person outside the door didn't want to give up. The knocking on the door before turned into a kicking sound. The strength of the sound scared Lan Jin so much that she shuddered. What does this person mean by making trouble at her own door? She rushed to the door, opened the other door and shouted directly: "Why are you kicking? This is my door. If you want to kick it, kick your own door."
The person outside the door thought no one was around, so they moved a little too loudly. Unexpectedly, Lan Jin yelled out, startling her as she was about to leave. She also had a bad temper, so she immediately responded, "Why are you pretending to be dead when you're home?"
"It's my own door. I can open it or not. It's none of your business. If you kick my door again, don't blame me for being rude."
After Lan Jin finished speaking, he slammed the door inside. With a bang, the woman outside the door was furious. But the point was that she hadn't said what she wanted to say yet. But now both of them were quarreling, and she didn't want to continue to get angry.
When I got home, the man in the house asked, "What's wrong with you? I just asked you to borrow a car, but why did you get into an argument with someone?"
That's right, this woman was eyeing Lan Jin's camper van. She had seen that Lan Jin's van could hold a lot of supplies, and she wanted to borrow it so she wouldn't have to carry them by hand. However, she was turned away before she even opened her mouth.
The woman vented her frustration and then said, "If you want to borrow it, go ahead and borrow it. I'm not going anyway. That woman is so hard to talk to. She's obviously at home but she's pretending not to be. She definitely doesn't want to lend it to me. She's really stingy."
Men and women have completely different ways of thinking. He said, "You didn't even tell her what you were going to do. How did she know we were going to borrow a car? Why didn't she lend it to her? I think your knocking on the door just now was also problematic."
In short, the woman did not do a good job, but the man did not want to go to borrow it himself. After all, it is okay to blame others, but it is absolutely not okay to make himself suffer.
Taking advantage of the time when the woman went home, Lan Jin asked Huang Jinghe to go home quickly, while she went out for a walk, found a deserted place, took out the RV, and then parked it in the underground parking lot.
She waited for a while, until around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when a call came to Huang Jinghe.
When Huang Jinghe arrived in front of the RV, he was shocked and said, "Wow, this car is too big."
"That's right. Let's put the supplies here and park them in the underground parking lot first. We'll move them upstairs at night."
They had already moved a lot of things before. Although the supplies in the two trucks were not conspicuous, they had actually moved a small corner of the warehouse. So if they stuffed another RV with supplies, they could actually fill half of the remaining things in the warehouse. Lan Jin said, "My friend is worried that the RV will attract attention and won't let me drive it in front of people. What do you think? We can find a place nearby, use our trailer to tow it out, and then drive it to the parking lot."
Huang Jinghe said, "Don't bother. The car is parked right here. We can just use the two small trailers we had earlier and tow it directly to the parking lot. Let's tow it now. But Sister Lan, is Qiao Qiao okay at home alone?"
Ren Siqiao must have stayed in her space, but Lan Jin told Huang Jinghe that she locked him in the master bedroom, with toys and snacks, and Nana to keep him company, so it didn't matter if she was away for a day.
But this was before that woman knocked on the door. Now that that woman was knocking on the door, what if she didn't give up and kept knocking on the door? Huang Jinghe said worriedly, "Sister Lan, why don't you stay home with Qiao Qiao? I can carry these things here by myself. When Qiao Qiao and everyone else are asleep in the middle of the night, we can come and move them upstairs."
"That's impossible. There are so many supplies. You must be working so hard. Don't worry, Qiao Qiao is brave. It's okay." Lan Jin pretended to think for a moment and then said, "I just want to finish it quickly. Even if I'm afraid it will only take one day, you can move it by yourself if you work hard, but you won't be as fast as two people. Let's not argue about it. Let's work together and finish it quickly."
Since Lan Jin said so, Huang Jinghe naturally did not force it, but the car must have been driven out. After all, it saved time and effort. He used the method Lan Jin had mentioned before, which was to park the RV near the supply and marketing cooperative, and then use two small trucks to tow it to a nearby RV. Then he parked the RV in the parking lot. Huang Jinghe stayed in the RV until dark, and Lan Jin came down to help him move the supplies.
She naturally accepted Huang Jinghe's kindness and felt that the child was really well raised.
(End of this chapter)
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