Zong Weikang's eyes moved: "Yes, then wait a little longer."
He sat there quietly for a while, then stood up again: "Director, I'm going to go check on Zhiyi."
Yuan Yuanfang nodded: "Okay, please help me look after her and remind her to be more careful in her daily life."
Zong Weikang nodded: "Okay."
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Zong Weikan walked out of the cafeteria and went into the corridor accompanied by a patrol soldier. Yuan Zhiyi was singing in the broadcasting room inside.
Zong Weikang stopped at the door of the activity room and told the patrol soldiers: "I'll wait for Zhiyi here."
The office area deep inside was a strategic location, and was heavily guarded every time they went there.
But the activity room is different. It is a public area with no secrets. Anyone can come and it is a relatively safe place.
He was willing to stop here and wait, which would reduce the monitoring pressure on the patrol soldiers.
The patrolman who came with Zong Weikan said, "Okay, then Mr. Zong, please go into the activity room and sit for a while. I'll be at the door. When I see Yuan Zhiyi coming, I'll call her."
Zong Weikang nodded: "Thank you for your help then."
Zong Weikan entered the activity room, and the patrol soldiers were waiting outside the door, watching the people coming and going.
It was still early and there were not many people in the activity room. He sat on a bench against the wall. Next to him were two women who were picking fish bones.
Next to them was a large bag of various fish bone parts, and they were sorting the fish bones into several piles according to their strength and function.
You can see that the hard spines are in one pile, the slender ribs are in another pile, and there are thin bone slices, etc., all stacked separately.
When they saw Zong Weikang coming in, they greeted him curiously, "Is this big brother the negotiator from Haibao?"
Zong Weikang nodded politely: "Yes, you can say that."
One of the older women casually chimed in, "We've been negotiating for several days now. What's going on with you guys at Haibao? Why can't you reach an agreement? Our base is so great, why aren't you willing to come over?"
Zong Weikang smiled and said, "That's not the case. We had a very good conversation, and we talked about food, clothing, housing and transportation."
His tone changed: "The base has a comprehensive range of food, but the vegetables provided are quite limited. We have been here for a few days, and it seems that not everyone can eat them."
The older sister replied naturally, "Yes, that precious thing has to go to the malnourished skinny monkey first. Those people from the city are just skin and bones!"
Zong Weikang sighed, "Alas, some of us in the sea fortress are also malnourished. Our food consists of fish and seaweed, with no vegetables to eat."
The eldest sister didn't realize the implication behind Zong Weikang's words and continued to chat casually: "Haha, yes, if you come, you will also compete with us for vegetables. Then how long will it take to queue up for food?"
The other older sister who was sorting fish bones looked up at Zong Weikan with a bit more vigilance in her eyes.
Does this mean that Haibao is here to steal their supplies?
Zong Weikang felt her gaze and had a clue in his mind. From the first day they arrived at the First Base, when he saw the food in the cafeteria, he had been thinking about it.
The meal was good, but wasn't this kind of discriminatory treatment a potential risk? He could exploit this risk to create internal divisions within the First Base. If the First Base couldn't even manage itself, how could it possibly have the nerve to merge with Sea Fort?
"Uncle Zong, you came to see me?"
Zong Weikan was chatting with his elder sister in the activity room when Yuan Zhiyi appeared at the door.
She walked quickly into the activity room, sat down next to Zong Weikan, smiled at him, and asked with concern, "Uncle Zong, you haven't finished yet? Are the negotiations with the First Base not going well?"
Zong Weikan first looked at Yuan Zhiyi, and asked about her recovery from injuries and her daily diet with concern.
After listening to Yuan Zhiyi, he nodded: "That's good."
He then answered the question raised by Yuan Zhiyi earlier: "It's still under negotiation. There are some issues that have not been agreed upon."
It is not convenient to disclose the specific details, so I can only talk about it vaguely.
Yuan Zhiyi also knew something and was a little worried. "The temperature's about to drop significantly. Uncle Zong, please help me persuade Mom. I really think the First Base is great and won't put us at a disadvantage. Captain Zhou and Captain Ding think so too. They share their lives on the First Base radio every day. I think you can all hear it, right?"
Yuan Zhiyi has lived in the First Base for quite some time, and he really feels that even if the Sea Fort and the First Base are merged, there will be more benefits than benefits.
However, her uncle had always been a staunch independence advocate and was unwilling to merge with the First Base, so she didn't dare to persuade him too much.
Zong Weikang remained expressionless: "Negotiations depend on the circumstances of both parties. It's not something that can be accomplished by the factory director's unilateral efforts."
The conditions proposed by the First Base were so excessive. They wanted to place their people in the factory! Why? How good the First Base was was their own business, and had nothing to do with Sea Fort.
Their Sea Fort also has its own advantages. Moreover, he is now the chief logistics officer of the entire Sea Fort. Apart from the factory director and his wife, he is the only one who controls the resources of the entire Sea Fort. If the two parties merge, can he still keep this position?
The First Base will certainly accept all important posts.
He didn't want to. He had worked so hard to get this position and power, so why should he give it up just because the First Base came?
A merger? He disagreed.
Another person appeared at the door of the activity room. She walked in and smiled, "Zhiyi, you are here? The song you sang this morning was really beautiful."
Yuan Zhiyi looked at Shen Xingtang and rolled her eyes.
Before she came to the First Base, she learned a lot of false information from Shen Xingtang, which caused her to have such a deep misunderstanding about the First Base.
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