"Uncle Zhang, are you home?"
Tang Li, carrying a bag of freshly made dumplings copied from her spatial storage, arrived at Zhang Yan's residence on the second floor.
Zhang Yan's home was on the second floor, directly opposite Li Guilan's.
After the floodwaters receded, the authorities requisitioned the houses on the 17th floor to resettle disaster victims, and he had returned to his own home.
Tang Li knocked on the door for a long time and called out several times before hearing footsteps.
"Coming."
Zhang Yan opened the door and asked, "Is that Xiao Li? Why are you suddenly looking for Uncle Zhang? Have you made up your mind to join our 'Self-Rescue Alliance'?"
"No, it's almost the beginning of winter, isn't it? I came to bring you some dumplings."
Tang Li said, handing the bag of dumplings in her hand to Zhang Yan.
Zhang Yan accepted the dumplings with a mixture of doubt and suspicion, asking curiously:
"Beginning of winter... bringing dumplings? Isn't that a northern custom?"
"Besides, the beginning of winter isn't until the day after tomorrow. Why are you bringing dumplings today?"
"Xiao Li, you're not looking for Uncle Zhang to help you with something, are you?"
Tang Li smiled upon hearing this, "As expected, nothing can be hidden from Uncle Zhang."
"Come in first."
Zhang Yan said, opening the door wide and inviting Tang Li into the house.
After entering, Tang Li glanced around the room.
The layout of the room was the same as in her previous life.
"Sit here for a while, I'll get you a cup of hot water."
Zhang Yan said as he headed towards the balcony.
With the power out, all electric heating devices were unusable, and they could only rely on fires for warmth.
However, in a confined space, burning fires could easily lead to carbon monoxide poisoning.
So Zhang Yan had set up a brazier on the balcony for warmth, breaking through the ice outside the balcony window for ventilation, and periodically breaking off newly formed icicles to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.
At the same time, it could also be used to heat water and cook.
After the last great flood and thunderstorm, almost every household had made such preparations.
Therefore, this power outage did not cause too much impact.
The reason he had opened the door slowly just now was also because he was on the balcony.
Seeing Zhang Yan leave the living room, Tang Li did not sit down. Instead, she quickly walked to a cabinet and opened a drawer.
As expected, she found what she was looking for inside.
She took out a large bunch of keys, put them into her spatial storage, copied them, and then returned the original set to their place, closing the drawer before sitting on the sofa.
When Zhang Yan came out again, he only saw Tang Li sitting obediently on the sofa, completely unaware that Tang Li had gone through his drawers.
"Here, drink some hot water to warm yourself up."
Zhang Yan placed a cup of hot water in front of Tang Li and asked, "What did you come to Uncle Zhang for?"
Tang Li then recounted what had happened at her doorstep.
"Uncle Zhang, although children are ignorant, peeing at someone else's door is still not a good thing. It's one thing for parents not to discipline them, but to not even allow anyone to say anything, it's truly..."
After listening, Zhang Yan also nodded, "Indeed, they did the wrong thing. Uncle Zhang will have a word with them later."
"Alright, then Uncle Zhang will take his leave."
Tang Li said, exchanged a few pleasantries with Zhang Yan, and then left Zhang Yan's house.
Upon returning home, she copied the bunch of keys from her spatial storage.
This bunch of keys was the spare key for all the homes that had joined the "Self-Rescue Alliance" and all the official resettlement houses.
Because they were afraid that if something happened, it would be troublesome to break locks, a copy of these keys was left with Zhang Yan.
In her previous life, Tang Li had also left a copy of the keys with Zhang Yan, so she knew where they were kept.
However, in this life, Tang Li's own house keys were still in her possession.
These keys were all labeled with door numbers, and Tang Li quickly found the key to the door of the house opposite hers.
Soon, the second freezing rain outside stopped.
Although many people had prepared for this freezing rain, it still caused some losses.
Some people, with a侥幸心理, thought that this freezing rain would be like the previous natural disasters, and there would be no problems after it ended, so they went out.
Others were looking for friends and relatives who had gone out before and lost contact, or wanted to quickly melt the icy coats on their friends and relatives, and were still lingering outside.
These people, who had no time to escape the freezing rain, were frozen by this second freezing rain.
Tang Li did not go to the supermarket again.
After dinner, she went to bed.
And she set an alarm for 1 AM the next morning.
Although that family was only discussing how to plot against her and had not yet acted. In this life, they had not yet caused her any substantial harm.
But with the memories of her previous life, Tang Li knew the character of this family.
Tang Li knew that it was only a matter of time before they made a move against her.
In this life, Tang Li did not want to waste time on them.
Rather than waiting for them to make a move and then dealing with them, it was better to strike first and nip the potential threat in the bud!