PFC Chapter 145 The Continuous Heavy Rain
Chapter 145 The Continuous Heavy Rain
Zhang Hua, this greedy woman, is still thinking about adding more money. She wants to squeeze money out of me.
I saw her greed and warned her that it was enough.
Zhang Hua immediately started to argue that her child was only one year old and that the milk powder could be stockpiled for a year, but she had changed her mind and didn't want to exchange with us! She still wanted to get revenge on me.
I was a little speechless, but this time we really needed her help, so we had to accept whatever conditions she offered. She had the final say.
Let me show you how much money you want.
Zhang Hua was still making a fuss, saying who still regards money as money now? Unless you are willing to give me something practical, your family always cooks meat every day, so you can exchange it for pork, because the rice has just been distributed to every family, so her family is not short of rice.
I smiled mockingly: "It's just meat, I'll give it to you!"
I asked Lin Lin, who came with me, to go home and fetch more than ten kilograms of pork. I picked up the pork and shook it in front of her. The woman who was attracted by the pork never took her eyes off the meat in my hand.
In the end, she used more than ten kilograms of pork to exchange for a can of milk powder, but why was the can of milk powder she took out so small? It was much smaller than I imagined.
After I took the pearls home and looked at them for a long time, I realized that this was a 150-gram trial pack. This woman, Zhang Hua, gave me the smallest amount of milk powder to send me away, which made me so angry.
Grandpa said that this can of milk powder can only be used for a few meals, and advised me not to be angry with that woman and to find a way to buy it tomorrow.
I thought that no matter how heavy it rains tomorrow, I will go out. By the way, there is also a kayak that Xiaobai bought last time in the space. This guy is a meticulous person. When he heard his sister say that the disaster was coming, he had a sense of crisis during the dry season and bought supplies for the rainy season and winter.
Xiaobai was very proud and felt good about himself, and said he wanted to go out with me tomorrow.
Fortunately, we finished the sealing work on the 16th floor in these two days, so it was just in time.
After boiling water and filling a bottle of milk for the baby to drink, she finally fell asleep quietly. Everyone sighed: She finally stopped crying!
We all felt much calmer.
My younger sister Zhenzhu asked me: "Brother, you said her last name should be Wang, but I think if we want her to be raised in the future, shouldn't we let her take our last name?" She added
"Because our family all have the surname Huo, if she were to have the surname Wang, when she grows up, would she find out that we are not her real relatives?"
I said, "We will have to tell her our life story sooner or later. But I agree to let her have the last name Huo."
We all looked at grandpa, waiting for his decision.
Grandpa thought for a moment and replied, "This child should be my great-grandson, so let her be surnamed Huo. We will raise her well in the future. But when I am old, it is mainly you, Xiaofei, who will take care of her. You have a great responsibility, so you can give the child a name."
I sighed. How come I have a child even though I haven't been in a relationship yet? I felt a little uncomfortable, but then I thought, who cares if I don't? I'd better give her a name that's easy to raise. I said, "I hope she will know how to be grateful in the future. Let's call her Huo Muen."
Everyone agrees
In the evening, when my younger sister came to look through the storage cabinet in the lounge of my space again, she was surprised to find two cans of camel milk powder in one of the compartments!
She immediately took it out and showed it to me, and complained to me, "Brother, we are at a disadvantage. If we had known that we could find this thing earlier, why would we have to find that greedy woman downstairs and give her so many things in exchange for a small can of milk powder?"
I also took a look excitedly. This can is really big, weighing 500 grams. I looked carefully and saw that the package said "health care products for the middle-aged and elderly". I couldn't help but frown. Isn't this a health care product for old men and women? Recalling the various substandard products sold in health care stores before the disaster to fool the elderly, I don't know what these people's health care products are made of!
My little sister opened a box and smelled it, and then she argued with me, "It smells like milk powder. Even if it's not camel milk, it must be milk powder. Let's save it for little Muen. It's time to stop being so picky."
We didn't have any baby clothes, but there were some old bed sheets in grandpa's space warehouse, so we took them. Bian Hui also came over and said she would cut some small clothes for the baby. Grandpa thought they could also be used as diapers. Although such a young child could wear diapers, it would be bad for the child's buttocks.
Who will watch over the children at night? This job is hard. Grandpa wanted to take it on, but we felt that he was too old to use up his nerves and body like this. Although Bian Hui was sensible, she and Zhenzhu were still children after all. We could only watch Lin Lin, Xiao Bai and the three of us take turns staying up late to accompany them.
People who stay up all night will not have the energy to do anything else the next day. Fortunately, grandpa and Bian Hui had nothing to do during the day, so they took turns looking after the children.
Although the rain outside is not so heavy, it has been falling for two days. Looking at the road conditions outside, I began to get nervous. My younger sister and Duanmu Qing went out by helicopter. How can they come back in such weather? Such heavy rain is not suitable for flying. Will they be trapped in the capital?
After breakfast, I was planning to go out and get some milk powder.
At this time, someone knocked on the door. It turned out to be the old couple who lived on the second floor who came upstairs to see me. I asked what was going on in confusion.
At first I thought they came to me because no one was fetching water for them. The day I came back from the hospital, I explained the plight of Wang Musen and his wife to the owners in the building who needed water delivery. My cousin Wang Mubai couldn't help fetch water either. Maybe they were afraid that I would argue with them for compensation, or maybe they were afraid that I would send Mu En back. Grandma took Wang Mubai and ran away from the community with the money in her pocket. Grandma knew that it would take at least several years for me to get 200,000 yuan by giving her 5,000 yuan a month. What's more, the Liu family thought that I didn't have much money to squeeze out of me. In the chaotic times, I didn't have a job to support a large family. I guess I was a poor guy.
The two elderly people living on the second floor are both over 70 years old. The grandfather's surname is Shen. Sometimes when I meet him when I go downstairs, I politely call him Grandpa Shen. His wife's surname is Liu. It is said that her son has settled abroad and will never come back. They originally had a live-in nanny, but she was fired and driven away by Grandma Liu a few days ago, saying that the family does not have enough food to feed so many people.
The old couple had a quarrel over this matter. Grandpa Shen didn't want to let the nanny leave, but grandma disagreed.
Now that the nanny left, their lives fell into trouble. They could neither work nor cook. The rain this time flooded the first-floor hall and was almost reaching the floor of their house. It seemed that their house was about to be submerged by the flood.
The two of them had no other choice but to come to me for help.
Although the two elderly people had savings, they had no one around them and their lives were still very hard. Grandpa Shen climbed to the 16th floor and rested for a long time before he recovered. He looked at me with confused eyes and sighed, "I'm old and useless."
After listening to what Grandma Liu said, I thought about it and realized that there is actually no one living on the eighth floor of this building. How about I go to the property management and ask you to move to the eighth floor for a few days?
Grandma Liu and Grandpa Shen nodded quickly to express their gratitude.
I thought I had to go out in the rain, so I took out Xiaobai's kayak, put on my raincoat, went downstairs, and after a lot of effort I arrived at the property management office of the community.
After we found the property, we discovered a very serious problem: the property was deserted, with no one there. Our residential information was soaked in water and had apparently become waste paper!
Well, a house worth more than one million dollars is just gone. If one day the world recovers from the disaster, will we no longer be able to recognize our house as ours?
Forget it, don’t think too much about it. Since no one is in charge, just move out!
Song Jue volunteered that he could pick the lock. I asked him if he was a bad boy and where he learned the technique of breaking into houses and picking locks.
Song Jue complained, "Brother, don't you know that the lock core of the door lock is also made of metal? Can't I just make a metal key by pressing the gap?"
I am really envious of what he said. I'll have to keep an eye on you in the future, otherwise you'll make mistakes easily.
These houses are all ready for move-in with basic decoration, but before moving in, Lin Lin and Xiao Bai simply cleaned the rooms, and then the three of us hurriedly helped the old couple move their luggage to the eighth floor.
After finally packing up, I planned to go out and find Brother Xiao to ask if I could buy some milk powder.