Chapter 301, Watertight
Without asking what Jiang Ran meant by her last words, Huo Lingyin took her to the room where the coffin was placed.
Pei Xiao just came out from inside.
The red in his eyes had not faded. When he looked up and saw Jiang Ran, he subconsciously turned his face to the side and said in a hoarse voice: "You're here."
Jiang Ran didn't expose his little trick. She took something out of her bag and handed it to Pei Xiao: "This, Si Xu asked me to bring it to you."
The blue reagent was within reach, and Pei Xiao widened his eyes slightly.
"This is……"
"Si Xu said that with this thing, at least in some matters, you will have more initiative."
Huo Zhigui was dead, and now that Pei Qing was marrying into the Shi family, the Huo family had no reason to stop it.
Once the Shi family takes over the Dongchao base, Pei Xiao's power in the Dongchao base will be immediately dispersed. It is still unclear what the Shi family's plans are. Right now, Pei Xiao needs a bargaining chip to negotiate with Pei Qing.
It is enough to compete with the Shi family, or even better than the Zhaoyang base.
"Don't be moved. There were originally three reagents. Si Xu gave you one, leaving two for later use. He didn't lose anything." Jiang Ran half-jokingly said, "Chu Yuan said that if Pei Shuai doesn't listen to your advice, you should drink the reagent in front of him and piss him off to death."
Pei Xiao, who was originally somewhat moved, said: "..."
He took the reagent and carefully put it away: "Thank you."
Huo Lingyin knew that Si Xu and Jiang Ran were going back to Beichen Base to find Tu Su. She was puzzled by the man's move to give her the reagent: "Once Mr. Tu Su has determined the use of the reagent, it will be meaningless for Pei Xiao to have it."
Once Tu Su confirms whether the reagent is a virus vaccine, Beichen Base will put it into use immediately.
By then, the weapon in Pei Xiao's hand would be of no use.
At the very least, its value will be greatly reduced.
"It's okay," Jiang Ran said. "Once we get from here to Beichen, and after Mr. has checked the efficacy of this reagent, the general situation in Dongchao should be clear."
Cooperating with the Shi family is a decision Pei Qing must make in the short term.
He wanted to marry Shi Yujiao as soon as possible. If he kept flirting with her from a distance, the Shi family would not agree.
"I think Shi Yujiao is quite impatient." Jiang Ran muttered, "I just don't know what Pei Shuai's plan is."
She looked back at the study on the other side of the corridor and sighed: "Captain Pei, I hope you don't need this thing."
If we really use the reagents as bargaining chips, even if we win, there will be no need to stay in this Dongchao base.
Pei Xiao was also looking at the study, his eyes obscure and difficult to read. After a long moment, he sighed: "Mother has passed away. If father really..."
"Um, Captain Pei, I don't mean to gossip about your family affairs." Knowing what the man was thinking, Jiang Ran interrupted his mumbling and said bluntly, "It's okay for Pei Shuai to marry again, but he absolutely cannot marry into the Shi family."
Huo Lingyin nodded vigorously: "Yes, I just don't like Shi Yujiao."
Jiang Ran thought more than Huo Lingyin: "The Shi family's rise was too sudden. I don't believe they don't have any strong support behind them. No matter who is behind the Shi family, I think they have bad intentions."
Pei Xiao and Jiang Ran had similar thoughts: "I understand."
Hearing Secretary Jin's voice coming from the living room, he straightened his clothes and whispered, "I'm going to take care of some business first - Lingyin, entertain Miss Jiang well."
"Well, I'll take Ranran in to see my aunt off for the last time."
…
Because the ice coffin was parked, there was no glass headlight overhead in the room, so the light was very dim and the temperature was low.
When Huo Lingyin stood up after bowing three times solemnly, Jiang Ran had already taken out the bouquet of flowers from her bag and placed it in front of the ice coffin.
"I don't know what kind of flowers Madam Pei likes, so Si Xu got me two of each."
The scent of lilies wafted through the room. Huo Lingyin's nose twitched, and she was surprised: "There is something like this in Si Xu's space?"
"His space has everything." Jiang Ran said, "I heard him say that it is to ensure the continuation of natural life."
"Uh?" Huo Lingyin uttered a single sound of doubt.
"He collected seeds of various plants and vegetables in the space. If one day humans are unable to compete with the zombies and can only retreat to the base, at least they can guarantee the most basic supplies."
Of course, there are still many natural lives that are heading for extinction in this disaster. Preserving seeds means preserving hope.
"If the disaster is over one day, Si Xu said, he will plant jasmine flowers in front of the house we live in."
"He likes jasmine?" It was truly fate, Huo Zhigui liked it too.
"No." Jiang Ran didn't know she had thought so much, "He said Jasmine is easy to raise."
Huo Lingyin: “…”
After chatting for a while, Jiang Ran walked to the door, looked around, and closed it: "Huo Lingyin, let's get down to business."
The real business - the enemy who killed Si Xu's father.
Huo Lingyin guessed from her actions that she already knew the man's identity. She smiled bitterly and said, "Do you think Si Xu will seek revenge after knowing who that man is?"
Jiang Ran asked back: "He's not even interested in that person's identity. Do you think he'll seek revenge?"
Huo Lingyin was silent, not knowing how to evaluate Si Xu's behavior for a moment.
"But then again, I'm quite curious." Jiang Ran asked an irrelevant question, "How do you know something that even Pei Xiao and Huo Zhigui don't know?"
Huo Lingyin curled her lips: "Of course I overheard it."
She had indeed overheard it, so she was so angry when she learned from Huo Sichan that Pei Qing actually wanted to divorce and remarry.
"Uncle Pei... maybe he really does have some affection for my aunt, right? Or maybe it's for the sake of the Pei family's dignity?" Huo Lingyin sighed, recalling the conversation she overheard. "Si Xu's father was named Si Yue, and he was my aunt's classmate. Back then, my aunt was naive and brought him back to the Huo family once. Although Grandpa didn't say anything on the surface, he was actually unhappy with my aunt's decision."
Since it is a marriage, it must have its value.
Huo Zhigui's marriage has never been in her own hands.
"After the Pei family learned the news, Aunt Pei's father came to the Huo family himself, and then..." Huo Linyin paused.
Jiang Ran raised an eyebrow: "It's pretty much what I thought."
"That time, Uncle Pei accompanied my aunt home, and I heard him talking to Grandpa. Grandpa praised him for doing a flawless job and not letting my aunt find any flaws... I thought it was strange, so I asked my dad, and he briefly told me what happened."
“…”
Huo Lingyin looked at the sleeping woman in the ice coffin and said with a wry smile: "Jiang Ran, tell me, does Pei Qing really love my aunt?"
He was so deliberate in marrying this woman who didn't love him. Was it because he loved her too much?
"True love?" Jiang Ran sneered, "If it's true love, Pei Wan'er would have jumped out from a crack in the rock?" How can a man who can't control his lower body have the qualifications to talk about true love?
(End of this chapter)
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