There is an almost natural tacit understanding between Zhang Hongcheng and Chu Miaohong. They will not ask each other's secrets, but just wait for the other party to share them with them willingly.
(The reason why Zhang Hongcheng was reluctant to break this tacit understanding was that after reading the original novel, he had clearly taken too much advantage of his fiancée.)
Chu Miaohong withdrew her gaze from the water birds on the lake. She looked at her fiancé beside her and finally, with a hint of uneasiness, said the words that she had been holding back for a long time.
"Hongcheng, didn't you tell me before that what you hate most are women with saintly personalities...right?"
The word "Virgin Mary" was taught to Chu Miaohong by Zhang Hongcheng in private. If you want to marry a woman, you must be on guard against the Virgin Mary. This is a necessary ideological education process before marriage.
But he didn't nod immediately.
Chu Miaohong hesitated for a long time before she leaned her head on his shoulder and started talking about something.
"I don't know whether I should do this or not, because it might be a bit risky..."
Zhang Hongcheng hugged his fiancée lovingly.
Needless to say, the reborn fiancée must have remembered something.
Her moral values drove her to do something, but her usual nagging and her reason warned her not to act rashly.
Zhang Hongcheng thought it was a very good thing that she was willing to open up to him.
His fiancée has changed a lot compared to the original novel, which makes Zhang Hongcheng secretly feel a sense of accomplishment.
"It's okay, just tell me first..."
As a doctor, Chu Miaohong's daily concerns are mostly related to her profession.
Before her rebirth, Chu Miaohong, who had just returned to the city from the Northeast, had no time to catch her breath before her grandfather, who had just resumed work, took her to Zhucheng and Xiayu, which were near Hangzhou.
From 1975 to 1977, Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, continued to send medical teams deep into the countryside of Zhucheng and Xiayu.
The source was the cholera outbreak in Zhucheng and Xiayu in June 1975.
The epidemic lasted for three full months, but its aftermath extended into the 1980s.
What Chu Miaohong has been hesitating about recently is whether or not to give them an early warning.
But she also knew that it would be hard for people to believe her letter of unknown origin.
The most likely scenario she could foresee: the other party didn't believe it, but would frantically pursue any clues about her after the incident actually happened.
Chu Miaohong is not alone now, she has a promising fiancé by her side.
"In ten days at most," Chu Miaohong sighed, "cholera will officially break out."
(A true story.)
Zhang Hongcheng kissed her lovingly.
She seemed so worried about this little thing. Could it be that I had indoctrinated her too much, causing her to regard the Virgin Mary as a monster?
"To disregard the safety of oneself and those around you, and to blindly act out of kindness when conditions do not allow, is the true saint."
“If you can do things quietly and keep yourself out of it, then what you do can be called wise.”
"I know I have to discuss this with my husband and give him a reward!"
"Oh, what do you mean by husband or not? (Meimei, who was reborn in North America, of course understands this term) Don't kiss..."
That night.
It was a dark and windy night, and a pair of dark shadows appeared by the West Lake.
Two letters without any fingerprints were stuffed into the iron mailbox at the entrance of the Overseas Chinese Hotel.
The envelopes and stamps were of the most ordinary kind, and the letter paper in both envelopes was a piece of printed paper from another time and space.
The wording and sentence structure in the letter are all in Mr. Hu's style and have nothing to do with Zhang Hongcheng and Chu Miaohong.
The fat man is undoubtedly quite qualified as a tool.
There are many foreign guests staying at the Overseas Chinese Hotel. Someone chose to deliver the letter here, which clearly meant to confuse people.
In fact, Zhang Hongcheng and his fiancée sometimes have surprisingly similar ideas.
What Chu Miaohong wanted to do but hesitated to do, Zhang Hongcheng had actually done once in private a long time ago.
Although he is not a saint, he cannot really stand idly by when he knows that a disaster will happen.
Let me ask you, if you were reborn before the Wenchuan earthquake, who could remain indifferent?
As the train they were on slowly pulled into Huacheng Railway Station, two letters were spread out on a table in a heavily guarded compound in the capital.
"Everyone, the letter has appeared again!"
"The letter was still sent in Hangzhou. We initially suspect it came from a guest at the Overseas Chinese Hotel. We are currently investigating the source."
Sitting in the main seat was a man in his fifties.
He stared at the contents of the two letters intently, not thinking at all that this was a prank.
As early as the content of the first similar letter they received after the New Year was confirmed, their highly confidential working group was established.
The room was completely silent, and everyone had a frown on their face.
Until a man in his fifties asked.
"How's the army doing?"
"All participating troops have already marched into Zhucheng and Xiayu overnight."
"Where's the medical team?"
"The support team from Beijing has already taken off by plane, and medical teams from all over Zhejiang Province will be in place by tomorrow at the latest."
"How are the bleaching powder and alum prepared?"
"The current volume is not enough, but the Ministry of Railways has reserved capacity in advance and will let our trains go first."
The man silently lowered his head to look at the photo tucked between the cover pages of his notebook.
That was a photo of him and another comrade when they were young.
His comrade was the first leader of this working group, but he committed suicide by shooting himself in Haishi, Northeast China at the beginning of the year.
In the first warning letter, they were told a week in advance that a major earthquake would occur in Hai City in February.
The geological department also agrees with this view.
Unfortunately, after seeing the devastated post-earthquake scene and the nearly 7,000 casualties, his old comrades still believed that this result was due to their own lack of attention.
(Historically, the number of casualties was over 29,000.)
"The issues in Zhucheng and Xiayu are easy to deal with. The biggest problem now is the once-in-a-century flood in Henan Province in August mentioned in the third letter!"
"It's better to believe the Executive Yuan's decision than not to believe it!"
"Over the course of two months, all the embankments of the reservoirs and rivers surrounding M Store were raised by three to five meters and reinforced! The dredging work on the reservoirs and rivers continued day and night!"
"The water conservancy shortcomings pointed out in the letter must be rectified on time!"
"Move all the granaries to higher ground!"
(This paragraph is a historical reference: In August 1975, Typhoon No. 3 made landfall in Fujian Province. Far from weakening, the typhoon barreled straight into the Central Plains. In Zhumadian alone, rainfall in three days exceeded the total of the previous three years. Two large reservoirs, two medium-sized reservoirs, dozens of small reservoirs, and two detention areas collapsed within a matter of hours, trapping millions and killing over 26,000 people.)
(Book friends may have guessed that this is a small foreshadowing for Tangshan in 1976. It is the author's little thought and has little to do with the main plot.)
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