flstandardbreds Chapter 173
Chapter 173
Dong Qingqing stared at her seriously: "I saw Dong Jianhua die with my own eyes."
She didn't look at Zhou Shuwan's reaction after hearing this and turned away.
Zhou Shuwan looked at her receding back, guessing the cause of Tung Chee-hwa's death, but she also thought that she was willing to save Dong Qingqing only because she seemed to see herself who was imprisoned in her.
She wanted to help her, not because she was Tung Chee-hwa's daughter, but because she was a woman, a woman who was in a weak position in the end times.
From now on, their lives will have no intersection.
Dong Qingqing arrived at the nearest shopping mall near Dongyuan Community. Her family owned a shop there. She had heard her mother and Xinglong discussing late at night how to hide the smuggled supplies in the shop and then quietly move them out later.
She went to the fifth floor, but did not go to the shop. Instead, she went to the corridor of the mall's warehouse and found her own room. It was very hidden, and it was deliberately decorated to be exactly the same as other walls. If you don't look closely, you can't tell that it is a warehouse at all.
She took a key and opened the warehouse door.
She found this key by sneaking into her own home in the community.
The warehouse was half-full of out-of-season clothes. She looked inside and, sure enough, underneath the large cartons of clothes, she found twenty boxes of compressed biscuits, canned food, and about thirty bottles of purified water.
They have only been away for a few days, so they shouldn't have stocked up so little supplies.
Dong Qingqing searched back and forth and finally found more than a dozen boxes of instant noodles and four or five boxes of hot pot ingredients on the ceiling.
She was overjoyed and quickly climbed up the ladder to carry the cardboard box down.
She moved five boxes of instant noodles and more than a dozen boxes of compressed biscuits, left the rest as they were, and locked the warehouse door.
After looking left and right, he still felt uneasy, so he took great pains to move a cabinet placed against the wall next to him here.
After she felt that everything was safe, she moved up and down twice and left.
After returning home, Aunt Song was surprised to see that she had brought back so many supplies. She whispered, "Where did you get so many supplies?"
Dong Qingqing said, "When I was at home, I heard my mother and Xinglong discussing it. I knew where they hid the supplies. So today I went to try to look for them. I didn't expect it to be so easy to find."
Aunt Song's eyes widened: "They hid it?"
Dong Qingqing nodded, not wanting to dwell on the matter further, and changed the subject: "I'm going to take two cartons of instant noodles to the property management tomorrow to see if they can find us a new house. We'll pay the rent as usual every month."
Aunt Song nodded repeatedly: "Yes, this is serious business. It would be too troublesome if several families lived together. It would be best if we could live in our own house."
Nowadays, instant noodles are considered a relatively precious commodity. They taste good, are filling, and are very convenient.
Dong Qingqing estimated that two boxes would probably be enough.
Save the rest and exchange them for other supplies later.
As for Zhou Shuwan, she went out at night to meet up with her cousin Tao, cousin Zhipeng and others.
Because the community is going to build a plastic greenhouse, in addition to planting boxes, it also needs high-quality plastic sheets, the more the better.
When Xue Tao was in the county town, he worked in a plastic products factory.
No one uses these things during the flood season, so there must be a lot of them piled up in the manufacturer's warehouse.
He wanted to take a few people with him to bring back a batch of goods to exchange for supplies.
In Dongyuan Community, apart from the three relatives who have the closest relationship with each other, everyone else can only be considered strangers who nod to each other.
My aunt and uncle's families helped a lot in helping me settle down in Dongyuan Community.
Therefore, the Xue family naturally notified the two families this time, as well as the Qi family.
They need to go from the city to the county town, which is about 70 to 80 kilometers round trip. The distance is long, and they also need the help of Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu who have strong martial arts skills.
In the end, six people, including Zhou Shuwan, Qi Mingyu, Xue Tao, Xue Dong, Zhipeng, and Xiaofei, went. Each of the four families rode a motorboat and brought an inflatable boat.
We agreed on a time in the evening and gathered outside the framework building.
Then they set off in a grand manner.
Now the Xue and Zhong families practice archery at home. Xue Dong and Zhipeng are also members of the gate guard shift in the community. They are no longer the archery novices they used to be.
After riding for about fifty minutes, we arrived at the county town.
Compared with the urban area, the county town is more desolate and dilapidated.
Except for the newly built elevator buildings on the outskirts of the county town, the city center is full of low-rise private courtyards and six-story old communities, so at a glance, there are only low two-story buildings floating alone on the water.
This place was not the center of the tsunami at the beginning, but it was finally swept away and some buildings collapsed.
The houses I passed by were all dark, and I didn't know if anyone lived there.
Everyone was silent and on high alert.
Xue Tao took them past the county town and to a more remote newly developed area.
All the new factories and companies built in the county town later were built here.
They found the plastic products factory. Except for a few buildings still standing, the rest of the factory area had been completely submerged in water.
They left two people on top to watch the boat, while the others put on diving gear and went into the water.
In the factory warehouse, we found a lot of plastic sheets, all stacked together.
The third factory room further in is full of plastic pipes used for decoration, which will also be useful when building houses on the base in the future.
When Zhou Shuwan and others were transporting plastic sheets to the water surface, they collected a large part of the plastic pipes into the space.
She went to the first factory room again and put away all the inconspicuous plastic sheets piled at the innermost part of the room.
Only then did he go outside and bring a thick stack of plastic sheeting onto the boat.
The group went back and forth four or five times, filled the inflatable boat with stuff, tied it tightly with ropes, and put some stuff behind the motorboat. Then they locked the warehouse door and left.
There are so many plastic sheets here. They just discussed it and felt that each community and resettlement site will definitely consider building plastic greenhouses in the future.
They might as well take the opportunity to stock up on more plastic sheets and exchange them for supplies later.
So, after sending the plastic sheet back, they came a second time.
However, the journey back this time was not so smooth.
Perhaps the sound of the motorboat was too harsh in the quiet night, so someone in the county town noticed them.
When they returned for the second time, they were halfway to the county town, about ten miles away.
Several people were speeding along on their motorboats when Qi Mingyu, wearing night vision goggles, suddenly shouted a warning: "Stop! There's an ambush!"
Zhou Shuwan was also wearing night vision goggles, and he had already noticed a thick cable blocking the way about seven or eight meters ahead.
In an emergency, how can you stop a speeding motorboat?
Zhou Shuwan shouted: "Slow down and turn!"
She slowed the motorboat down, turned right, and passed the boatload of plastic sheets right along the edge of the cable.
Qi Mingyu turned left, holding the steering wheel with one hand and throwing a dagger with the other, and the dagger went straight into the chest of the man pulling the cable.