The rain kept falling outside the window, and early the next morning, there was an anxious knock on the door.
"Mom, it's only six o'clock, do you always have to be in such a hurry? Wenbin and the others are not children. Are you worried that they can't take care of themselves?"
Yan Jin was helpless.
"I'm not worried about Wen Bin and Wen Yuan, but Wen Shan and Wen Xiu are girls. I'm worried that they will be bullied because of the chaos outside."
Yan's mother went upstairs before coming over. She saw that her eldest brother and the others had all gotten up and were gathering together to discuss picking up the children. The whole family had dark circles under their eyes. They were worried that they had not slept well at night.
Zhou Jiaoyang, who was lying on the bed, heard Yan's mother's anxious voice with a faint tremor, and it was hard to lie down any longer.
Zhou Jiaoyang left the room and asked: "Mom, which supermarket are the two sisters at? Have you asked my uncle about them?"
"I asked, it's at XXX supermarket." She asked in passing when she just went upstairs.
It was also because she got there in time. If it had been later, her eldest brother and younger brother would have gone out to pick up their two nieces in person.
The eldest brother and the youngest brother went to pick someone up, so it was better to go with her son and daughter-in-law to reassure her. The son and daughter-in-law had supernatural powers and had experienced a more cruel apocalypse, so they were much more capable than the eldest brother and the younger brother.
"Don't worry, we'll leave soon." Zhou Jiaoyang comforted her with a smile.
"Hey...Thank you, Mom, Yangyang."
Yan's mother is not the kind of person who only cares about her nieces and nephews and does not care about her son and daughter-in-law. She also made a decision after weighing it. If it really involves safety issues, she will not ask her son and daughter-in-law for help. .
Everyone is selfish, and she is no exception.
"Mom, what are you talking about? Why do I need you to thank me?" We are all relatives, not to mention she has other purposes.
"Yeah, why do we need you as an aunt? It's us who should be grateful."
Seeing her parents come in, Yan's mother realized that she had forgotten to close the door when she came in.
The conversation between him and Yangyang happened to be heard by his mother-in-law who came downstairs.
Aunt He Ru stepped forward and held Zhou Jiaoyang's hand, smiled and thanked her: "Yangyang, I'll leave you and Ajin to worry about my Xiaoxiu."
Zhou Jiaoyang didn't know how long it had been since her uncle and the others had been here. Her words were originally just to tell Yan's mother not to think too much, but after her uncle and aunt thanked her again and again, she realized something was wrong.
Uncle and the others must have misunderstood what she meant. Zhou Jiaoyang didn't want to do good deeds and have people misunderstand her.
"How come my uncle and aunt are just like my mother? They just said thank you to me and A Jin. Xiaoxiu and Xiaoshan are A Jin's biological sisters. Since I have married him, his sister is my sister. , how can such a trivial matter as picking up my sister home with just one sentence be worthy of your repeated thanks?"
Although Yao Shan and Yao Xiu are one year older than Zhou Jiaoyang in actual age, they are younger than Yan Jin. Don't I have to call them sister?
Seeing the sincerity on her face, He Ru felt relieved. As soon as they reached the door, they heard the words of their nephew's wife. They thought she was unwilling to help.
She had thought about it. If she didn't want to, she would ask her younger sister's family to borrow a rubber boat and go out to pick up the children. Originally, this matter was her own business and she shouldn't bother her nephew, nephew and daughter-in-law. They won't blame anyone if they don't want to help.
"Okay, then I won't be polite to you." He Ru patted the back of her hand with a smile.
"The two uncles and the two aunts will go over there and sit and chat with my mother. A Jin and I will go clean up and set off later." Zhou Jiaoyang retracted his hand with a smile.
Then he called Yan Jin and walked together to the room where the supplies were stored. The two of them went in just for show, and the things they actually needed were all in the space.
He took out two sets of raincoats and an eight-seater rubber boat. When he left the room, he pushed a box in his hand.
Although I haven’t checked how deep the water outside is yet, no matter how deep it is, the rubber boat will definitely be useful.
There are also yachts in Zhou Jiaoyang's space. In addition to the two large yachts that were smuggled in, after returning to China, their family purchased a single-decker, a double-decker and two smaller speedboats.
"I just went downstairs to take a look. The first floor has been half submerged. The water level is about two meters deep. You can't get out through the stair gate." Yan Zuoqi reminded him when he saw the two people coming out.
It's really difficult to get the rubber boat outside.
Yan Jin thought for a while and said, "Then go out through the window between the second and third floors. There happens to be a small platform outside the window for us to stand on. In this case, we can only inflate outside."
"Let's go and cheer up the rubber boat together," Yao Hong said hurriedly.
In urban areas, they are currently only suitable for using rubber boats, but it is too troublesome to inflate and deflate each time.
It is impossible to leave a rubber boat outside. If you leave it today, it will be gone when you look at it tomorrow.
"Then I'll trouble my uncle and uncle."
There was a power outage yesterday afternoon and the elevator couldn't be used. It was really troublesome for several grown men to carry a large box slowly from the 36th floor to the second floor.
If there were only two of us, A Jin, why would we need to go to such trouble? Just inflate it directly in the space and release it outside.
Sigh...that's the inconvenience of living with people you know.
It took almost ten minutes just to stand on the platform and inflate.
"Don't worry, we will come back safely." Zhou Jiaoyang sat on the rubber boat, smiling and waving to the elders.
As soon as she finished speaking, the rubber boat sailed out in a flash.
The rain was so heavy that it was impossible to drive the rubber boat any faster. The rain hit your face and you couldn't see the route ahead clearly. If you drove slowly, a lot of rainwater would accumulate in the boat in a short time.
The speed of the rubber boat is comparable to that of a bicycle. Every ten minutes, Zhou Jiaoyang will send a special power to the rainwater in the boat, turning the water into ice cubes, and then storing it in the space.
This rainwater does not have a disgusting odor. As for whether it can be drunk, Zhou Jiaoyang doesn't know. She only saves it because she wants to use it for cooling when the weather gets hot. At least it was made by her with extraordinary powers and cannot be thrown away. .
It usually only takes more than ten minutes to drive from the community where they live to the city, but it took them almost an hour and a half in a rubber boat.
The terrain of Jingxiu Garden is already higher than that in the urban area. The water level in their house has reached two meters high. In the urban area, it is even more serious. The first and second floors are completely submerged. I believe the third floor will not take long.
When he arrived in the city, Yan Jin drove the rubber boat under the eaves of the street to see if there was anyone in the surrounding shops.
But nowadays, apart from the sound of rain, the surrounding area is very quiet, and all the shops have been submerged. They can't see them if they want to see them. Even if they want to collect supplies, they have to go into the water.
