Sister He, who was surrounded in the middle, listened to the noisy voices and raised her loudspeaker to ask them to be quiet and queue aside.

She worked in the subdistrict office, and she was the one who notified the news about the distribution of supplies. The people who were arguing were not stupid, and they didn't want to offend anyone, so they quickly fell silent.

Sister He cleared her throat: "There must be a reason for the official arrangement. We follow the rules and we can divide it how we want. There is no need to hurt the peace over this matter!"

"I know it's not easy for everyone, but difficulties are temporary! If you're short of water or food, you can just exchange things with your neighbors. Let's help each other, and things will get better soon!"

Someone echoed loudly: "Sister He is right! As long as we get through this period, are we still worried about not having water to drink?"

The atmosphere is no longer tense.

There are many people who are inspired, but the majority of residents are still silent and have a pessimistic attitude.

Chi Yue and Wen Qizhou kept a low profile, neither participating nor refuting. As soon as they got the supplies, they called Yuan Chuan to leave the rooftop.

Clinker, they are still being targeted.

"Xiao Wen." The old lady, who was slightly shorter and had shrewd eyes, pulled her grandson to stop them.

She smiled with a smile on her face: "Can you lend me two bottles of water? My grandson needs to drink milk powder every day, and there is not enough water at home."

Chi Yue raised her eyebrows: "Who are you?"

"My surname is Wang, and I live on the sixteenth floor." Mrs. Wang knew that she had been married for less than half a year, so it was normal for her to not recognize the whole person.

She acted like an elder: "You are marrying the right person! Xiaowen is very kind-hearted and has helped me several times."

"So, do you want to kidnap him with his kindness and morality? Let him give you the water that you can't buy for free?"

"It's unfair! What I just said was borrowing! It's not like I won't repay it, so why did it become moral kidnapping when it came to your mouth?"

Chi Yue sneered.

Before she could speak again, Wen Qizhou, who was begged for mineral water, asked calmly: "How long will the loan be borrowed? How will the interest be paid?"

"You still want interest on two bottles of water?!"

"Mineral water is now worth more than RMB, shouldn't it charge interest? Is it possible that you still want to get away with nothing?"

Mrs. Wang was confused.

She was the one who said he borrowed the money, so she couldn't change her story in front of them. She changed her mind and immediately pushed her grandson out.

The boy who had received "education" at home stepped forward and hugged Wen Qizhou's thigh: "Uncle, I want to drink milk powder!"

He was clearly in elementary school, but he kept asking for milk powder, as if he was being spoiled by his family to the extreme.

"It's not my business?"

"I want water." Seeing that being cute was of no use, he pulled out his usual trick: "If you don't give it to me, I'll cry for you!"

"It's up to you." Wen Qizhou had no patience for a child who had been taught bad things, and pushed the other person's hand away with a cold face.

The little kid cries when he says "Wow".

Mrs. Wang sang again, hugging her grandson and saying shamelessly: "Xiao Wen, you have to give me an explanation today! Otherwise, you will never stop beating my grandson to tears!"

"Pa--"

Chi Yue slapped her in the face, held her collar, and said with a sinister look: "Is this statement enough?"

"You, you bastard, dare to hit me?" Mrs. Wang, who was slapped in the face by a junior for the first time, tried to pull Chi Yue's hair.

She was so overwhelmed with anger that she didn't even realize that she was no match for Chi Yue.

He was so arrogant for just a moment before he was pinned to the ground and slapped several times by Chi Yue, without the ability to fight back.

"Why don't you continue scolding?" Chi Yue let go of the other party's collar and smiled: "I thought you were so capable."

The dizzy Mrs. Wang said nothing.

The grandson standing behind her, seeing her in such a mess, was too frightened to come close, let alone cry.

"What's going on?" Four college students living in 2603 went downstairs with supplies. A girl with shoulder-length hair looked at Chi Yue accusingly: "How can you beat an old man?"

"She's a bitch."

"...No matter what unhappiness you have, it's wrong to take action." As she said this, she bent down and helped him up.

Wen Qizhou clearly noticed that there was a flash of disgust in the eyes of the other party looking at Chi Yue.

He frowned his clear eyebrows: "Do you know the whole story? Don't you think it's ridiculous to preach?"

"Even if it's her fault, you're too harsh, right? At her age, what if something goes wrong?"

"Isn't it you?" He held Chi Yue's wrist and squeezed it gently, saying in a sarcastic tone: "You can take care of her."

"you……"

"Little girl, mind your own business." Yuan Chuan really couldn't bear her attitude of unilaterally judging right and wrong, and raised his chin towards the window of the corridor: "We are not near the sea here."

The short-haired girl's face turned red.

Her boyfriend and another couple were trying to persuade her tactfully, and Mrs. Wang kept saying "ouch", so she ignored the argument and started talking to Mrs. Wang.

"Old lady, let me take you home." She supported the other person, deliberately using their "evil" to set off her own kindness.

Chi Yue didn't even look at her.

She said hello to Yuan Chuan, pulled Wen Qizhou, who was still rubbing her wrist, out of the corridor and went home to turn on the air conditioner.

"Yue Yue." Wen Qizhou placed the squeezed juice in front of Chi Yue, lowered his eyes and asked, "How were they in their previous lives?"

"Looks like he's dead?"

In their previous life, they had no generators, so when the power went out in Suishi City, they followed the residents of other buildings to the subway station to escape the heat.

When she came back during the heavy rain, she found that many residents in Yujingwan were missing, and she had not seen Mrs. Wang and the short-haired girl.

Chi Yue collapsed on the lazy sofa: "The situation is different now. I really can't say what will happen to them in the future, but that girl will definitely be skinned by Mrs. Wang."

"It's easy to peel even one layer of skin." He ate the unsqueezed apple: "A personality like hers is too easy to get into trouble."

In peacetime, meeting people who are nosy and criticize others easily can cause accidents, let alone now.

Many people look calm on the surface, but in fact they have firecrackers buried deep in their hearts, ready to explode at the slightest moment.

I'm really worried, but no one wants to listen to long explanations, and even "I'm sorry" won't solve the problem.

"That's what she deserves." Chi Yue never sympathized with people who couldn't handle things clearly, not to mention that the short-haired girl was malicious towards her.

She glanced at the clock on the wall and saw that it was still early, and said softly to him: "I kind of want to watch a movie."

"What genre do you want to see?"

"comedy."

Wen Qizhou inserted the USB disk that downloaded the movie and TV series into the projector, turned off the lights in the bedroom, and found a comedy to watch.

The opening song filled the entire bedroom.

They gradually became immersed in it, sometimes being amused by the plot, feeling very relaxed, and forgetting all the bad things.

*

Mrs. Wang, who was beaten, did not come up to cause trouble. She acted as if nothing had happened and maintained a strange harmony with them.

Yujingwan is also a friendly and peaceful state.

Until the supplies were distributed on Friday, the "rats" hiding in the dark took advantage of the residents not being at home to do the immoral thing of picking locks and stealing. The so-called friendship and peace no longer existed.

"Mom──"

A shrill cry came from the 19th floor.

Chi Yue and Wen Qizhou, who were about to go home, heard the sadness in each other's cries and hurried downstairs to see what was going on.

The door of 1903's room was open, and the gray-haired old lady fell beside the shoe cabinet with a fruit knife stuck in her chest. The carpet was stained red by the blood gushing from her body.

Behind her was the messed up living room, with tables and chairs tilted here and there, and grains of rice scattered on the floor could still be vaguely seen.

After a moment's thought, one can guess that the old lady was probably killed after a fight with others after being robbed.

Her son burst into tears.

Neighbors who followed the sound and saw the old lady's miserable state of death were frightened even those who could not bear it.

"Who did this? Who did this?!" A friend who had made friends with the old lady rushed over, crying and cursing at the top of his voice: "This is a life! Is there any more law?"

"Just wait for me! I'll go find the police tomorrow and I'll definitely catch you damn beasts!"

The atmosphere became increasingly heavy.

Wen Qizhou, who faced the deceased directly for the first time, couldn't bear to look at it anymore. He held Chi Yue's hand tightly and walked upstairs without saying a word.

When he got home, he stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, listening to the roar coming from the buildings opposite, and took out his cigarette case and lit a cigarette.

Chi Yue stared at his back.

Thinking back to her past life, when she first saw someone being killed, she felt extremely unwell and couldn't even sleep well.

He was also very uncomfortable at the time.

But he remained silent, digesting his uneasiness about the future alone, staying with her every step of the way and helping her adjust her mentality.
To be continued...