Chapter 132 Change
"A married girl is like spilled water"
Although Jiang Weimin didn't see anyone, he also thought of the time when his daughter got divorced. But he could control his own people, but he couldn't control the legs and feet of others.
"If he wants to come, he can come. We just don't provoke him. As for the rest, I believe your sister can handle it."
Back then, his daughter could turn his son-in-law into his ex-son-in-law. Now, he would not doubt his daughter's decisiveness.
During this period of time, Jiang Weimin's impression of his daughter has been refreshed many times.
Before the disaster, his daughter was no different from what he remembered. Aside from the fact that her decisive divorce surprised the whole family, her life at home after the divorce was no different from before.
When his daughter said she wanted a divorce, Jiang Weimin and his wife actually didn't agree at first.
Because the two have been together for almost ten years and everything has been fine. Even if they can't reach an agreement on the issue of children for the time being, it's not to the point of divorce, right?
It’s not that he and his wife don’t care about their daughter’s mood and grievances, but they are afraid that she will make a decision on impulse and regret it later.
But after trying to persuade her several times, they saw that their daughter was really sad and determined. In addition, they also felt that what her in-laws did was inconsiderate, so they finally stopped persuading her and took their son to help her go to her in-laws' house to deal with the divorce matters.
Of course, divorce is not something that can be negotiated in a day or two. The negotiations lasted for more than three months on and off. Finally, at the insistence of the daughter, the two parties went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a divorce certificate.
Although the divorce was successful, Jiang Weimin could see that his son-in-law, Xiaoguan, was actually unhappy at the end of the negotiations. Besides the two families discussing things together, he also made frequent private visits to the village to try to smooth things over.
Perhaps influenced by his attitude, or perhaps because they felt they were in the wrong, the in-laws eventually softened their stance. However, they had already made their decision and naturally wouldn't change their minds just because of a momentary change in attitude. Therefore, the marriage ended in divorce.
It was also during that time that Jiang Weimin witnessed his daughter's decisiveness. However, her subsequent behavior at home made Jiang Weimin feel that her decisiveness was short-lived, and her daughter remained the obedient and sensible daughter who obeyed them in almost everything.
Until the end of the world began, when their family encountered a train.
Jiang Weimin gradually felt the changes in his daughter.
Although his daughter originally lived at home, Jiang Weimin could sometimes feel that his daughter seemed to be isolated from the family.
Compared to her son Jiang Dong, her daughter rarely directly participates in family affairs and rarely makes decisions directly. When faced with family matters, Jiang Dong may make decisions directly, but she has never made a decision on her own and always discusses it with her family first.
And this situation seemed to have been happening all the time in his memory.
Sometimes when he thinks about this, Jiang Weimin feels depressed.
In his life, he and his wife had only two children, a son and a daughter. Although his daughter was married off, in his heart, both children were equally important. In fact, because his daughter was his first child, as a new father, he poured even more affection into her.
He raised both children equally, sending them to school, though neither was particularly academically inclined. Later, when his daughter wanted to learn baking and open a cake shop, and when his son wanted to sell cigarettes and alcohol in the city, he supported them both, without any bias.
Although traditional sayings like "raising sons is a way to provide for one's old age" and "a married girl is like spilled water," Jiang Weimin never treated his children differently. When his son got married, he contributed part of the money to buy a house, and when his daughter got married, he also gave her a substantial dowry as a private gift.
It was precisely because he felt that he had treated everyone equally that he felt uncomfortable when he realized these things.
He could feel his daughter's feelings for them and knew that she really treated them as a family, but that distant feeling still made him feel very sad.
But in recent times, she has clearly felt that her daughter has changed.
When faced with matters concerning the whole family, she would still seek the opinions of her family members, but would not completely let them make the final decision. She would express her own opinions and even argue for them when she felt she was right.
Perhaps it was because the existence of the system and the train gave her confidence that she began to truly regard herself as a member of this family, and even acted like the head of the family.
But the former head of the family, Jiang Weimin, was happy and relieved about the changes that took place in his daughter.
Therefore, Jiang Weimin was not worried at all about his son's problems.
After listening to his father's words and thinking about his elder sister's personality, Jiang Dong was no longer worried.
"Then I'll go find my eldest sister and see if I can get a few more people on the bus."
Jiang Weimin looked up curiously, "What's wrong?"
"There have been more and more passengers lately, and the dining car is also packed with guests. The few people we have now are already overwhelmed. Xiao Li, Brother Wu, and our fellow chef have already been working overtime for three days in a row!"
Jiang Dong started kneading dough as soon as he got to work today, and then he kept getting food. Now the arm that holds the spoon is still sore.
"We young people have been arranged to work overtime these past few days, but if things continue like this, Grandpa Xia and my mother will definitely be the first to collapse."
When Jiang Weimin heard this, he urged, "Then go quickly!"
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At midnight, the train flew across the deep blue sky.
Jiang Qian, who was on duty at night, reclined on the sofa. After letting the system send out the letter she had written during the day, she quickly and peacefully fell asleep.
What she didn't know while she was already asleep was that within the ten minutes after she sent the message, several bases with stations were in an uproar.
But tonight, for many people on the ground, it is destined to be sleepless.
It was clearly early in the morning, but the meeting rooms in each base were still brightly lit.
Looking at the large screen in the conference room showing the same densely packed small boxes as in the last meeting, everyone perked up.
In a small town in J City in the coastal area, Gao Zhe, the supreme commander of the temporary base, had just finished his last meeting and made arrangements. He was about to go to the office next door to rest for an hour, but he was awakened by his subordinates on duty just as he lay down.
Gao Zhe entered the conference room while adjusting his attire. The large screen was already on, the signal connected, and he could see notifications of new participants joining the meeting one after another. Within a few minutes, other colleagues in important positions at the station also arrived one after another.
"What's going on?" Before the meeting even started, someone asked, yawning and covering their mouth. "Didn't the meeting just end? What happened?"
Yawning is contagious, just like a cold, and the meeting room was suddenly filled with yawns.
"I had just finished swapping shifts with Lao Geng when they suddenly woke me up from the dormitory. I thought it was those bastards from the sea coming again!"
"No, you and Lao Geng just dealt with them last time. I don't think they dare to come over anytime soon."
Although J City is located on the coast, it is not very large and has a small population. It was only in recent years that it was upgraded from a county to a city due to its relatively good economic development. However, even after becoming a city, the administrative area has not changed, and the population remains the same.
Therefore, compared with several large cities along the coast, J City became the best choice for the rescue team to temporarily station.
J City is located in a hilly coastal area, not particularly low-lying, and was therefore not significantly affected by the previous rainstorm. Also, because the population density is low, rescue efforts are relatively easier than in other areas.
Compared to inland areas that rely on the land for survival, J City can rely on the sea for its livelihood, so the demand for food is not high.
So in addition to the local population who came to seek refuge voluntarily and were rescued, they even had the ability to accommodate people from other nearby areas.
However, fortune and misfortune go hand in hand. While enjoying the benefits of coastal areas, one must also face their drawbacks.
In the past two months, several nearby coastal cities, including J City, have been harassed from the sea more than once.
Before the rainstorm arrived, although the higher-ups didn't make the prophecy public, they did keep the subsequent series of measures they took known. Of course, such a major move couldn't be concealed even if they wanted to.
Of course, the higher-ups didn't intend to conceal it, and even when reporters from various countries asked at a press conference whether the evacuation was a sign of war, they made the prophecy in a joking manner.
After all, all of humanity is a community with a shared future. If we have to face a catastrophic future, the more people there are, the better.
As soon as word of the operation spread and the evacuation of Chinese citizens began, spies stationed in their own countries spread the news. Unfortunately, no one seemed to believe or care. Other countries were more inclined to believe they were trying to provoke a war than to believe a futile natural disaster.
Rather than believing in this ridiculous natural disaster, they were thinking more about how to create public opinion to gain an advantage.
Finally, when the last wave of evacuation planes and fleets sent from the country returned, they received the news that most foreign areas had fallen.
Compared to them who attached great importance to prophecies, the situation faced by foreign countries who were completely unprepared was even more severe.
The large countries across the Pacific are sparsely populated and, despite being affected by the rainstorm, some ordinary people had guns and the means to resist, so the overall situation was relatively good at first. However, due to the government's lack of timely control and the misuse of guns and ammunition, the situation worsened.
The nearby island countries are closer and have received more news.
The island nation had a small land area but a large population, mostly concentrated in a few large cities. The previous torrential rains had already caused significant flooding and inland waterlogging, and then, with the appearance of zombies, the cities fell.
There was no safe place on the island, so more and more survivors fled to the sea.
At first, most people just wanted to hide for a while and didn't plan to stay at sea forever, so they only brought a small amount of survival supplies. But later, they found that while they were hiding at sea, the situation on the island had already gotten out of control...
Their hometown is no longer safe, but has become a breeding ground for zombies and viruses. The situation is irreversible and no one can return. These people have become like duckweed on the sea...
Those who lost their homes deserve sympathy, but these people should never have sailed across the ocean to their territory. If they were just looking for supplies, it would be fine, but these people have no humanity at all, indiscriminately attacking normal people and zombies for their own safety!
How can this not make people angry!
【Author’s words】
The content of this chapter is complete!
I haven't been in a good state recently and my typing has been very slow. I spent the entire afternoon and night trying to write this little bit.
I was wondering if I could code out the first half of the next chapter!
I won’t give you an update on when the next chapter will be updated. I’ll just post it as soon as I finish writing it.
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