I survived with my sister in the doomsday

Chapter 86 Neighbors Downstairs

I originally thought that after arranging for grandma and her group to stay in the supermarket downstairs, we could have some peace and quiet for a few days, but I didn’t expect that even bigger troubles were waiting for us!

The quarrel last night alarmed the neighbors of the entire building. Our building has a total of 17 floors. Since the residential area is large and the price is relatively expensive in this garden community, not all residents are there. Several floors have no owners. The reason is that Xiaobai and I usually behave in a ostentatious manner. A while ago, Ding Dong’s renovation sealed off the entire floor. Many people have reported this behavior to the property management and asked us to rectify it. The property management also sent people to talk to us several times, but we quarreled them away because we spent more than 100,000 yuan on waterproofing the roof, and we also have solar panels. How can we let others go up there?

You can come up if you want, and we can share the waterproofing fee. Some owners have raised some requirements with us regarding fire protection, saying that the roof does not belong to our two families but to the residents of the entire building. We don't care, you can sue wherever you want.

Seeing our strong attitude, the property management didn't want to interfere. There is water shortage and drought now, and the property management has a lot of things to take care of, so we had to delay it.

The residents downstairs, especially the family surnamed Sun on the 15th floor and their neighbors across the street said that the two families on the 17th floor definitely have no shortage of water, because they can always hear the sound of water flowing through the water pipes. Our family must have stored a lot of water!

That day, Mr. Sun stopped me and asked me about this. I answered impatiently that we had enough water because our two families had vacated a room and made a reservoir.

He was not satisfied with this excuse and started to stare at us to see if we had fetched water.

When I found out that the 15th floor was always staring at us, I discussed with Lin Lin and Xiao Bai that in order not to attract attention, we should follow the others to fetch some water every day, just as exercise. I also told Feicui Xiaomei and her grandfather to save water as much as possible, and try not to take a shower when there is nothing to do, just wipe the body, it's better to be careful in this extraordinary period.

Xiaobai has strong legs and can run very fast, but he thinks the things he carries are too heavy, so I go along to exercise. The three of us take turns going every day. I remembered the camping luggage cart that Lin Lin and I picked up when we were at Shengbin Base. We stuffed it directly into Grandpa's space at that time. Now I've taken it out. This cart can hold five 20-liter buckets, so let's pull it.

The boy surnamed Sun saw my grandma and her group coming to my house yesterday, so he followed them and eavesdropped at the door. He heard my grandma say in the room that both families had enough water and food, so he became even more curious about how we lived and why we had so much food.

I even pretended to pass by my grandmother's house and asked what was going on in my house.

My grandmother, the old lady, was not stupid. She asked him who he was and what did our family's affairs have to do with him? She scolded the nosy grandson away with a bunch of rural old lady's traditional Chinese sayings.

During this period, there were long queues in supermarkets, and people began to consciously stock up on supplies. In order to control the flow of people, many large supermarkets limited the number of people who could buy. This caused most citizens to panic.

People who generally live in our building are from well-off families. As far as I know, many of them have live-in nannies at home. In fact, they are not short of food. It's just that supermarkets have started to limit the purchase of rice, flour and soybean oil per individual. There have been purchase limits before, but they could still be bought through various channels. This time there are real purchase limits. Supermarkets are supervised by riot police, and one person is not allowed to buy too much food at a time. This has caused people who originally have no shortage of food to panic, thinking that if they don't rush to buy, they will not be able to buy in the future.

Although the government said that supplies were sufficient and asked everyone to buy rationally, some people still grabbed most of the supplies. In particular, people living in our building and the rich, almost every family stockpiled grain, oil, noodles, meat and other food ingredients.

Prices are soaring, making it even more difficult for civilians to buy goods.

We have to say that Xiaobai was foresighted. At that time, it was relatively easy for us to buy rice and other ingredients, and the prices were not very expensive.

What bothered me most was that Wang Linbai would come upstairs and knock on our door almost every day, shouting that grandma asked him to come, and that grandma was hungry and had nothing to eat or drink, and asked me to bring something to her, otherwise it would be a great rebellion!

I opened the door angrily and asked him if there was a bucket in the place he gave you. You can use the bucket to fetch water.

Wang Linbo and I shouted loudly: Grandma said you have good water and she is not used to drinking that water, she wants to drink good water!

I figured my grandma came here from the countryside, having to eat only coarse food, so why couldn’t she get used to drinking the water distributed by the government?

Wang Linbai insisted that the whole family was hungry as they had not eaten yet.

Ask me for it with confidence.

When he shouted like that, the whole building could hear him saying that we have mineral water and other food at home.

I really want Feicui to send this family to heaven! In the end, I didn't want to argue with him anymore, so I took out a bag of 50 kilograms of rice and gave it to Wang Linbo, telling him that there was no purified water. This is the only bag of rice. Do you want it or not? Take it and leave quickly and don't bother me again!

After all, he was a country kid who had done rough labor. Wang Linbai picked up the 50-kilogram bag of rice, turned around and spat at me, cursing: You unfilial son who deserves God’s punishment!

I really wanted to kick him down from the 17th floor, but I finally held back my half-stretched leg...

After confronting him for a long time, I was noticed by the young wife on the 13th floor. They were a newly married couple and had a child last year. Now their child is just one and a half years old and the baby needs to drink milk powder. The young wife also complained that the water from the government water point was not clean, so she wanted to buy purified water for her child to make milk powder. When she heard that I had water at home, she came upstairs to buy my purified water. She said that the water in the supermarket was sold out and she had nowhere else to buy it. She also said that her husband was laid off recently and her family did not have much money at all. At first, she did not expect that the purified water would be sold out.

She also wanted me to pity her and sell her purified water at a lower price.

I said no, if you give a sweet treat to someone who wants to take advantage of you but doesn't want to pay more, she will take advantage of you countless times. I said you should go to the government. What problem can one or two bottles of water from my house solve for you? After saying that, I quickly closed the anti-theft steel door and ignored her.

Now that’s great, I’ve offended another family.

The next day, when I went downstairs, I met a resident on the second floor. He stopped me and said that he was the building manager elected by our building. His surname was Liu and he had fled here from another district after an earthquake.

Because the first floor of our house was originally a service floor similar to a hotel lobby, there should have been a property manager stationed here, responsible for receiving and sending express deliveries and providing services to residents. Now after the disaster, the property is short-staffed and the boss is too lazy to hire people, so the first floor has been vacant. Currently, Lao Liu's family belongs to the lowest-level residents.

Old Liu is about 50 years old, not tall and a little fat. He is well-dressed and wears a pair of glasses, looking very humble. He asked me how many people there are in our family so that he can manage them more easily.

I looked at him in annoyance, thinking, what can you do? Can you take care of food or drink? You are just pretending.

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