Chapter 35 035

"Clean up now, just in case."

"When the water really entered in the middle of the night, I was in a hurry to rescue things. Xiaotao is fine, but what should I do if grandma bumps into it?"

"Anyway, it's just tonight. Tomorrow depends on the situation. If you have nothing to do, move back. It's not a trouble."

Whoever it is, who is suddenly invited to live in someone else's house must hesitate, Cao An continued as the grandparent and grandson asked each other and discussed with each other.

Jiang Tao was convinced by his second sentence.

A seventy-year-old lady, no matter how strong her body is, she has lost the agility she once had. Compared with the safety of her grandmother, the embarrassment of causing trouble to her boyfriend who has only been in love for less than two months is nothing.

She made the decision for her grandmother: "Let's do it this way."

Grandma looked at Cao An: "Is it convenient for your family? If it's not convenient, it's easy for us to find a hotel for one night."

Jiang Tao also looked over. Although she knew that Cao An had a house, she did not rule out the possibility that his parents would stay there for a few nights.

Cao An: "It's convenient. There are two bedrooms vacant. There are beds, mattresses, and pillows. Each of you brings a set of sheets and quilts, and a few more sets of clothes."

Grandma: "Okay, then I will cause you trouble."

After all, it was my granddaughter's boyfriend, and he was warmly invited, but she insisted on staying in a hotel, and she was very polite, which seemed hypocritical.

Now that he has decided to move, there is no need to waste any more time. Cao An asked Jiang Tao to pack her things, and he followed grandma to help.

The continuous sound of the rain made Jiang Tao flustered, and she felt an inexplicable sense of urgency and uneasiness about escaping disaster. If water really flooded the house, how much damage would it cause?She is not afraid of sanitation and cleaning after the water recedes, but she is afraid that the house will be so bad that no one can live there anymore.

It's no use thinking about it now, so Jiang Tao suppressed his thoughts for the time being and went into the bedroom.

It sounds simple, but when you really have to do it, you realize how trivial the task is.

In addition to packing a suitcase to take to Cao An's house, she also needs to move those daily necessities that are worthless but can't be put in place at random, such as the small items in the bedside table, such as the sundries under the bed, including the cloakroomClothes and shoes on the lower layer should also be transferred to the upper layer.

After standing blankly for dozens of seconds, Jiang Tao exhaled and walked towards the bed in the middle.

She folded the quilt and sheets first.

Fortunately, it was summer, and the quilt was very thin, and together with the sheets, it only occupied the bottom layer of the suitcase.

As soon as it was put in, there were two knocks on the door. Jiang Tao looked up and met Cao An looking at her bedroom.

At this time, Cao An naturally had no intention of spying on his girlfriend's room, looked around and said, "Just pack your suitcases and valuables, and tidy up the living room when you're done, and I'll take care of the rest."

Jiang Tao nodded.

Cao An went to grandma's side again.

Grandma usually keeps a lot of large bags, such as the ones left over from buying four-piece suits and quilts, including some bags that Jiang Tao brought back from college.

All the quilts and clothes in the bedroom that cannot be taken away are stuffed into these bags.

Cao An is then responsible for putting these large bags on the top shelf of the wardrobe and the top of the cabinet.

Three heavy wooden beds were also erected sideways by him, and if they could submerge half of them, they would not submerge the entire one.

The remaining sundries such as small electrical appliances, photo frames, books, and pillows were placed on the solid wood dining table, and large electrical appliances could not be moved, so they were all unplugged.

He can support four Jiang Taos by himself. He walked around in different rooms, working from six o'clock in the evening to half past eight in the evening, and finally finished his work.

Cao An went outside to drive, trying to park the car in front of the unit.

Jiang Tao and grandma stood side by side in the porch, watching the small house that was so warm during the day become messy everywhere, as if the end of being flooded was inevitable, the always optimistic grandma sighed.

Jiang Tao pinched grandma's shoulder: "It's okay, as long as we are all well, at worst, we will come back to clean up after the rain stops."

Grandma turned her head and saw her granddaughter's pale face, obviously she was also feeling uncomfortable, but she tried to comfort her pretendingly.

The door of 102 on the opposite side suddenly opened, old man Li walked out frowning, and saw the open door of 101, the two suitcases behind the grandfather and grandson, several large bags, and the messy living room.Is it like this? Are you going to move?"

At this time, Cao An also parked the car outside the unit door, leaving a distance of about one meter in between.

Grandma explained: "Xiao Cao was worried that the house would be flooded at night, so he advised us to stay with him for the night. I think it's raining too much. You should call Zhiyong and ask him to pick you up. Prepare in advance.So, it’s best to be fine, and don’t panic if you have something to do with your safety.”

Thirty years old neighbor, grandma didn't mean to show off at this time, she just hoped that old man Li and his wife would also be more cautious.

Old man Li hesitated to speak.

Grandma Li came over and thought it wasn't that serious at first, but she couldn't help being shaken when she found that Jiang Tao's grandparents had cleaned up the house like that: "Forget it, let me make a phone call too, in our broken community, the upper floors only need to worry about travel troubles, We who live on the first floor really have to prevent water from entering.”

The couple closed the door and prepared to go. Cao An got out of the car and stood between the car and the door of the unit holding an umbrella, letting Jiang Tao and the others get in the car first.

Grandma sat in the co-pilot seat, Jiang Tao sat in the back row, and there were three bags on the chair next to her.

Cao An gave up the umbrella completely, and put two suitcases and two large bags into the trunk.

When he got back to the car, his body was dripping with water, he took a towel and casually wiped his hair and then his face.

It was raining heavily, and the light in the car was dim. The man who was always neatly dressed had a mess of wet hair on his head, and his profile seemed to become more fierce and vicious.

He cared about grandma first, and then tilted his head to look at Jiang Tao who was leaning in the back seat: "You're not wet, are you?"

The fierce face made his eyes dangerous, but Jiang Tao only felt relieved at this moment.

If there was no Cao An, and something really happened at night, even if she and grandma could move to a hotel safely, the process would be extremely embarrassing.

It is said that love should be romantic and pure, and should not consider too many practical factors, but the sense of security that Cao An brought to her tonight is deeper than the throbbing brought by what he said and the flowers he sent.

Those are more like adjustments in life, the icing on the cake, but the romance seems vain. Cao An's busyness tonight is the real thing, which is more proof that he has her in his heart.

"No, what do you do?" Jiang Tao looked at him worriedly.

Cao An: "It's okay, I always take a bath in cold water in summer."

After speaking, he checked the road conditions before and after again, and started to turn around.

Jiang Tao looked out the window, and as the car turned, waves of water pushed out from both sides, and some rushed in through the gap in the unit door.

In just over two hours, the stagnant water outside has deepened again.

The bell rang, Jiang Tao took out her cell phone, it was my aunt's call.

"Taotao, it's raining here. I heard that our house is bigger. Is there water accumulation outside?"

"Well, my grandma and I are worried that there will be water in the night, so we will live outside tonight, don't worry."

"Okay, that's good, safety first, are you staying in a hotel?"

Jiang Tao looked at her boyfriend who was concentrating on driving, and she was embarrassed to admit it, so she hummed.

My aunt didn't doubt it either, and chatted for a few more minutes before hanging up.

She then relayed her aunt's concerns to her grandmother.

Grandma could only hear Jiang Tao's voice just now, asking: "Does she know that we are staying at Xiao Cao's house tonight?"

Jiang Tao: "No, she thought we were staying in a hotel."

Grandma laughed: "Then why didn't you correct me? Didn't Xiao Cao's good deeds tonight be in vain?"

Cao An glanced at the rearview mirror of the car. Unsurprisingly, the girlfriend in the back row had flushed cheeks, like a peach that could change color according to the external environment at any time.

"She's thin-skinned, don't tease her."

"Yo, my grandmother has become an outsider instead, and you have to protect her."

Jiang Tao turned her head to look out the window, as if she couldn't hear anything.

On the way out of the community, Jiang Tao found that several residents on the first floor were moving, which showed that everyone had a strong awareness of disaster prevention, and the street and urban management also sent people to work in an orderly manner.

When the black jeep drove off Fuxing Road, the water on the road became shallower and shallower.

As if all the heavy things had passed, grandma chatted with Cao An: "Which neighborhood is your house in? Is it far away?"

Cao An: "Beside Emerald Lake, you can drive here in 20 minutes without traffic jams."

Jiang Tao's heart skipped a beat, Emerald Lake?The two had been there several times on a date, but Cao An never mentioned that his home was nearby.

But Jiang Tao soon understood that the ceiling of housing prices in this city was around the Emerald Lake, and Cao An was not a show-off character.

Before the blind date, the head nurse introduced Cao An's family conditions. The two of them knew this well, but Cao An never made a point of expressing his wealth.

The information that grandma cares about is that Cao An usually picks up his granddaughter by car, and has nothing to do with dropping by.

"I don't know what Xiaotao thinks. I'm very satisfied that you detour to see her off every day." Grandma said with a smile.

Cao An said with a smile: "The main reason is that I am used to getting up early and have free working hours. This is really not worthy of your praise."

Grandma: "Okay, I'll just praise you for loving the house and for being so kind to me, too?"

Cao An looked in the rearview mirror again.

The eyes of male and female friends met in the mirror, Jiang Tao quickly avoided, Cao An continued to pay attention to the road conditions.

The speed of the car was slow on rainy days, and I arrived at Cao An's residential area after nine o'clock. The car lights flashed past the landscape stone erected outside the residential area, and the four characters "Emerald Jiayuan" were engraved on it.

The whole community is only separated from the nearby scenic spot Emerald Lake by a spacious and quiet road.

The car drove into the underground garage, and the sight was filled with the atmosphere of a high-end community.

Jiang Tao looked down and saw her wet and reflective sandal uppers, and a cheap packing bag full of things was placed on the floor mat between the two seats next to her.

I knew that there was a huge gap between the two families, but tonight was the first time felt it so clearly.

The car stopped, Cao An got out of the car, and asked Jiang Tao and grandma to push a suitcase, and he was responsible for carrying those irregular bags.

He is the master, leading the way with two bags in his hands.

The access control is all intelligent visual access control, smooth all the way.

Grandma looked around everything generously: "The decoration here is really good, more luxurious than those big shopping malls."

Cao An: "My grandfather said the same thing. He also said that wool comes from sheep. The better the decoration, the more real estate developers can earn from us."

Grandma was amused and laughed.

Cao An looked at Jiang Tao, Jiang Tao lowered his eyes, not as comfortable as grandma.

Cao An lived on the sixteenth floor.

The elevator has arrived, and the decoration style of the elevator hall is the same as that of the lobby below, low-key and luxurious, with one household on each side.

There are some things that cannot be concealed, and the more you avoid them, the more you care about them. Cao An smiled and introduced to grandma: "The community here was built when I graduated from university. Two houses on the same floor have been settled for me.I have decorated it to my liking, and the other one is to keep it as a wedding room, and then decorate it before the wedding, but it has been vacant until now, and I don’t know when it will come in handy.”

Speaking of the latter, he looked at Jiang Tao unabashedly.

Jiang Tao's discomfort turned into embarrassment under his gaze.

The grandma smiled and smoothed things over: "It's not a waste to be vacant. The current housing price has doubled compared to that time, right? It's your grandfather who has vision."

Cao An acquiesced, and brought his grandfather and grandson to the gate of 1601.

Grandma is still joking: "I live with an odd number when I'm single, and live with an even number when I'm married. Is that what you mean?"

Cao An: "Yes, that's what I thought at the beginning."

Jiang Tao glared at him quietly, and he was really good at coaxing grandma.

The three entered the door one after another, and Jiang Tao was the last.

Cao An turned on the main switch, and the dark room instantly brightened like daylight. The light-colored marble floor, as smooth as a mirror, continued from the entrance to the curved French windows facing south. The two light brown background walls of the living room were illuminated by the white ceiling and lightingBright, it not only gives people a deep and elegant impact under the light luxury style, but also does not lose the tranquility and warmth of life.

Just like Cao An, who looks fierce and cold, but has a gentle personality. He is daunting at first sight, but it is actually very comfortable to get along with.

Jiang Tao didn't dare to look more, for fear of accidentally revealing her likes, surprises, and other things.

Grandma let out a "wow" and praised Cao An sincerely: "Your decoration is beautiful, did you design it yourself?"

Cao An: "Well, civil engineering in college, in fact, I know a little bit about construction engineering and interior decoration."

Grandma: "It's not one or two o'clock. Hey, I'm not afraid of your jokes. I've never seen such a beautiful house before."

Cao An took out a pair of spare slippers, bent down and put them in front of grandma: "If you like it, go and have a look, Xiaotao and I will pack things."

Grandma: "Then I won't be polite."

The little old lady turned into Grandma Liu who had just entered the Grand View Garden, and happily went shopping.

Cao An took another pair of slippers and put them at his girlfriend's feet as well.

Jiang Tao looked at his face, which was less fierce and more handsome due to the decoration of this house, and laughed at himself embarrassedly: "Compared with your place, our house seems to be a slum."

Cao An: "You guys are home, full of spiritual wealth. My place is just a deserted empty house, all supported by money."

Jiang Tao glared at him for his obvious nonsense.

Cao An turned to look at his grandmother, rubbed her head with his hand, and said in a low voice, "Stop thinking about it, as long as you want, mine is yours."