"Let's ask Sun Wei to find out what's going on when we get back tonight," Xu Lin said, looking in the direction Wang Jing had left.
When she got home, Zhou Pin wasn't back yet. She had already told him that she would leave work early that night and might get home before him, so he wouldn't have to pick her up from the store.
Although Zhou Pin wasn't involved in the store's affairs, he insisted on picking up Xu Lin from the store every day after get off work so they could go home together, which made the store's employees very envious.
As the year draws to a close, the base is worried that temperatures may be similar to those during the coldest periods, so it needs to prepare contingency plans in advance. All departments at the base are busy preparing.
Xu Lin took out vegetables from her spatial storage to prepare for hot pot. Just as she finished preparing the ingredients, Zhou Pin returned.
"Why are you back so late today?" Xu Lin asked.
"I have something to tell you," Zhou Pin said to Xu Lin as he came to the dining table after washing his hands.
"Is it about Wang Jing?" Xu Lin asked.
"You know?" Zhou Pin was a little surprised.
"I don't know, I just saw her when the store was closing. She was dressed alright, but she wasn't with anyone I knew, and we didn't talk much. Jingjing said that Sun Wei saw her at a private base manager's dinner party a couple of days ago, but he didn't see anyone else," Xu Lin stated.
“I was talking to the new private base leader today. When we finished, I saw her greeting him at the door. Then I asked around and found out what was going on, so I came back late,” Zhou Pin said.
"What did you find out?" Xu Lin asked.
“She used to be the base manager’s maid, but later the base manager took a liking to her and made her his concubine,” Zhou Pin said succinctly.
"That's it? Can you be more specific?" Xu Lin pressed.
"That's all the information I've gathered. I'll ask around again tomorrow for more details, but I suspect she and Zheng Ming's family of four joined this private base together. Wang Jing became a maid, while Zheng Ming and the others did other jobs. Later, Wang Jing became a concubine, and then Zheng Ming and the others disappeared," Zhou Pin said.
Time was limited, and Zhou Pin didn't know much, so he could only wait until tomorrow to see what Li Jingjing had to say.
The water boiled, and the two began to eat hot pot. The base's grain and vegetable cultivation and animal husbandry were now quite advanced, able to meet the survivors' daily needs. Therefore, occasionally eating hot pot was considered a luxury and not something to attract much attention.
Two days later, Xu Lin compiled the information she had gathered from Sun Wei and Zhou Pin.
After leaving the Beijing base, Li Jingjing and Zheng Ming's family of four originally planned to head to the Northwest base, but they were robbed on the way and left penniless, so they had no choice but to seek refuge at a private base.
The base's leader was a wealthy businessman before the apocalypse, involved in shady businesses. After the apocalypse, he gradually built his own base, mainly collecting resources and occasionally engaging in robbery. He lived a pretty good life.
However, the base chief is over 50 years old and still has no children. His wife was originally quite assertive and controlled her husband strictly. In the post-apocalyptic world, women are generally in a weak position, so she can only gradually accept her husband's behavior of taking a concubine to have a son.
She was afraid that having a mistress who was difficult to control would threaten her position, so she personally took charge of choosing a wife for her husband, and that's when she set her sights on Wang Jing, who came to work as a maid in the house.
Whether Wang Jing did it voluntarily or under duress is unknown, but in any case, she has now become the base chief's concubine.
Speaking of this private base manager, he's quite a capable man. In his youth, he followed the path of a gangster, and in middle age, he started using his connections from his younger days to engage in shady businesses, skirting the edges of legality. In this apocalyptic world, he used his accumulated wealth to establish his private base, wielding absolute power.
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