Chapter 43 Lou Yuncheng
Liu Shuang was actually happy. Her home was in Xiangzhou Province, where her parents and sister were also. Even though she would be very busy after being transferred back to the army this time and the mission would not be carried out in her hometown, she could still find an opportunity to go back.
But at the same time, she couldn't bear to leave the members of the rescue team who were fighting with her. They had been on the front line of rescue and had long been as close as brothers and sisters to each other.
She was also a little reluctant to leave Shu Fu, always feeling that it was not easy for her to live alone. In such a disastrous period, she was so young but living alone. She always looked quiet, but even when sitting in the crowd, she still felt lonely.
This feeling of loneliness was very subtle, not confusing, but just a little bit of alienation. Every time when she turned around and met her eyes, she would always smile at her gently.
If possible, she really wants to take her back to Xiangzhou Province this time, to her hometown Zicheng, where the altitude is more than 500 meters, there are mountains outside to block the view, and the rainstorms are not as frequent as here, so it is very safe now.
But no, Shu Fu and she have no direct relationship, and she has no right to take her away as a team member for the time being.
What's more, she had previously sounded out Shu Fu and she knew that she had no plans to leave Lou Yun City for the time being.
She also learned that Shu Fu had given up his pass to enter Xizhou Province. She and her friends were recognized as good citizens this time. They chose a small city called Zhicheng in Xizhou Province and submitted their application.
Shu Fu's name was not written on his application.
She gave up such a rare opportunity that everyone wanted to someone else.
In order to avoid forcing the other party, before writing the application, she even asked Cheng Yu to send a member of the rescue team to the hospital, hiding herself and conveying to Fang Xiwen that there was an opportunity to apply to go to Xizhou Province, which might be a second or third tier small city, and asked her if she was willing.
I submitted the application only after receiving a positive response.
Liu Shuang didn't quite understand why she didn't want to leave Louyun City. Just because this was her birthplace? But she no longer had any important relatives here, and even her friends were leaving soon.
The team members were on vacation today and didn't have to drive, so they all drank some wine. Liu Shuang originally wanted to drive on the way back, but he couldn't resist the other party's toast and drank a few glasses.
The team members all knew that her rank would be promoted after she was transferred back to the army this time, so they would not let her go easily. They all laughed and said that she had been promoted to lieutenant so quickly, and when they had a chance to meet again next time, she would have become a major. By then, they would have to stand at attention and salute her when they saw her from a distance.
Liu Shuang had never attended military school and joined the army late, only four or five years in total. Now he has been promoted to lieutenant so quickly, which is really enviable.
"You should also salute me now that you see me!" Liu Shuang smiled and quietly poured the wine they had poured back into their glasses. "Besides, it's not that easy to get promoted from lieutenant to major."
One team member was not convinced and pointed at Cheng Yu: "Captain Cheng has only been a captain for more than two years. Won't he be promoted to major when he returns this time?" Becoming a major at the age of 30 would have been almost impossible in the peacetime of the past.
"He's a captain! I'm only a lieutenant. Besides, he's older than me. He's already 30!"
Cheng Yu who was accidentally injured: ...
Liu Shuang coughed and immediately tried to save the situation: "I mean that Team Cheng is more mature than me. He went to the military academy and went to the border for a few years and made some great contributions..." She looked at the other team members and pretended to be angry to change the subject: "Are you comparing me with Team Cheng now? You are deliberately trying to sow discord between us!"
She said so, but in fact Liu Shuang was very confident in herself. If Cheng Yu gave her the same time conditions, she was confident that she would not be worse than him.
But she wouldn't take it so seriously, after all, everyone was just joking.
The team member who said this before was pushed to the front by several other people with a smile. Someone poured him a large glass of wine and asked him to drink it quickly to make amends.
The man cried out for injustice while being forced by the others to finish the wine. Then he was forced by them to give Cheng Yu another glass as compensation.
He complained: "You guys just want to get me drunk on purpose!"
A group of people were laughing and teasing him. Two teammates who didn't know much about the situation ran over from the other side of the table and asked Cheng Yu why he wanted to go back and not stay in Louyun City, since he had only been there for a short time.
"I'm not leaving so soon. I'll stay for a while." Cheng Yu said. Seeing Shu Fu looking at him intently, he couldn't help but move closer. "What's wrong? What do you want to ask?"
"So you're already 30..." She thought he was only 25 or 26 years old.
Cheng Yu: ...
The practice meal lasted several hours, and because only Cheng Yu and Shu Fu did not drink, they each drove a car to send the others who had been drinking back first. Shu Fu drove the jeep that Cheng Yu had driven earlier, and Liu Shuang naturally took the jeep she drove, while the others took the other car driven by Cheng Yu.
In order to facilitate the rescue team's previous water rescue work, Lou Yuncheng arranged dormitories in the eastern suburbs of Lou Yuncheng, on a hill near Dam No. 1. This is both safe and able to check the situation outside the dam in real time.
As the car headed east, Shu Fu could see the dam standing in the heavy rain at the end of the road as long as he looked up.
It’s still stunning when viewed up close, a very reassuring height.
Vehicles were prohibited from entering outside the rescue team's dormitory area. When they were almost there, Cheng Yu called Shu Fu and told her not to drive in, but to let Liu Shuang get off directly. He would drop him off and come out, and then drive her car to take him back.
"No need, Captain Cheng, I can take the bus back."
Not to mention Cheng Yu, Liu Shuang who was sitting in the passenger seat also disagreed: "It's raining too hard, and there's no bus stop nearby. Be obedient and let Cheng Dui take you."
Shu Fu looked at Liu Shuang, nodded at her, and at the same time nodded to Cheng Yu on the other end of the phone.
"Good boy." Liu Shuang praised.
Cheng Yu could hear Liu Shuang's voice and understood that it was her who persuaded him. He wanted to say something, but after a pause, he didn't say anything. He just said "wait for me" and hung up the phone.
Ten minutes later, Shu Fu parked the car and turned off the engine. Liu Shuang reached out his hand from the passenger seat and stroked her smooth black hair.
She still remembered the first time she saw Shu Fu, her hair was greasy and dirty, and it was obvious that she hadn't washed it for a long time. She looked dirty, squatting alone in a building that was about to be flooded. She looked so pitiful.
"Whether you decide to go to Xiangzhou Province, Xizhou Province, or stay in Louyun City, you must take good care of yourself. Most importantly, remember to contact me or Cheng Yu if you encounter any difficulties. Don't be afraid to trouble us. After all, we have experienced the great waves together and lived and died together."
Liu Shuang drank some wine, and the sharp edges on her body became softer. She looked at her like an older sister looking at her younger sister.
I feel relieved that she is living a good life now, but I also feel distressed that she is alone and has to rely on herself for everything. I also feel sad and reluctant for the upcoming separation.
Shu Fu looked back at her, nodded first, and then asked, "Why are you so nice to me?" They were only casual acquaintances, but he was very gentle to her from the beginning.
Hearing her ask this, Liu Shuang was stunned for a moment, then smiled again: "I don't think I have done anything particularly good for you..."
"You've been caring about me since the first time we met. You offered me water and were very friendly to me. Even when you wanted to take me back to the dormitory to take a shower and change clothes, you would consider my feelings and ask for my opinion first. You would remember what I said and even thought about taking me to Xiangzhou Province... Isn't this enough?"
Liu Shuang looked at her in a daze. She really didn't expect that she would remember these trivial things so clearly.
When a person is nice to another person, most of the time it is done willingly without thinking about what is returned. But if the other person silently remembers everything this person has done and gives affirmation, she will have a sense of satisfaction that everything she says and does has an impact.
She didn't know what to say. Fate is important between people. Some people may have known each other for a long time but their relationship is still average, while some people may feel attracted to you when you meet them for the first time and you can't help but want to get close to them.
How should I put it? Say she has a sister who is about the same age as her? Say she thought she was very well behaved and sensible when she first saw her and immediately reminded her of her sister?
She said that as she met her more and more times, she always felt that she looked familiar, as if she had met him somewhere before, not just in Suicheng...
Liu Shuang reached out his hand, embraced Shu Fu and patted her gently: "I just want to be good to you, there is no reason. Just like when you helped your former neighbor in Suicheng, was there a necessary reason? In the final analysis, you wanted to do it, you were willing to do it, you had the ability to do it, and then you did it. This is your choice, your true heart."
Shu Fu leaned on Liu Shuang's shoulder and patted him as well.
Liu Shuang's simple words "original intention" were like a powerful voice, dispelling all the residual sound that had been lingering in her heart for the past few days.
Yes, my true heart.
She will never forget her original intention. No matter what the circumstances, she will just be herself, discarding all noises and just being comfortable!
Someone knocked on the passenger seat's window from outside. Through the car window and the heavy rain, Cheng Yu looked at them with a complicated expression.
"Okay, I'm leaving. See you next time." Liu Shuang touched her hair again, pulled the raincoat from the back seat, put it on, pushed the door and got out of the car.
Cheng Yu gestured to Shu Fu, who was in the driver's seat, to move to the passenger seat, but she shook her head, saying that she would drive and asked him to sit in the passenger seat.
Cheng Yu took off his raincoat and got in the car. Before the car door closed, Shu Fu said loudly to Liu Shuang, who had not taken two steps out: "Sister Liu Shuang, I will definitely move to Shacheng in the future. I hope your family can move to Fengshang Plateau as soon as possible. See you there next time! Goodbye! Happy New Year!"
In the rain, Liu Shuang smiled and waved at her.
The car door was closed and the car started again. Shu Fu turned the car around and reminded Cheng Yu, "Captain Cheng, fasten your seat belt."
Cheng Yu didn't say anything, but silently pulled the seat belt and fastened it. After a long while, he finally couldn't help but ask: "Why is she Sister Liu Shuang and I am Captain Cheng?" Is it because he is 30 years old?
Shu Fu looked back at him and asked, "So, you want me to call you... Uncle Cheng Yu?"
Cheng Yu: ...
**
For the New Year’s Eve dinner, Zheng Feifei’s parents prepared more sumptuous dishes than before, and Shu Fu also brought richer gifts.
Zheng Feifei knew before that Shu Fu had changed the applicant to go to Zhicheng to Fang Erwen. She was unhappy for several days when she first found out about it. It was not until the other party promised that as long as there was another chance next time, she would definitely apply for a pass to Xizhou Province that she slowly accepted this fact.
After dinner, she asked Shu Fu to stay. Shu Fu thought that if the application was approved, there would not be much time for them to get together, so she stayed.
The two chatted until the middle of the night again, but it was New Year's Eve, and most people in Louyun City went to bed late. At midnight, Louyun City officials arranged electronic fireworks shows in several places in the city.
There was also a place arranged in the east of the city, but it was far away from Jixing Community, and it was raining heavily at 0 o'clock. Shu Fu and Zheng Feifei lay on the window and looked at it for a long time, but they only saw some vague changes in color.
Zheng Feifei was lying on the windowsill, looking disappointed.
"Let's do it next year in Xizhou Province. It doesn't rain there as often as here. We can just set off the traditional fireworks on New Year's Eve." Shu Fu comforted her.
"There's still a year left..." Zheng Feifei turned her head to look at her and asked, "Will you release the holiday with me next year?"
Shu Fu couldn't guarantee this, but Zheng Feifei looked at her expectantly, so she naturally wouldn't spoil the fun, so she nodded: "Well, let's release it together next year."
"Then it's settled! We'll set it off in Xizhou Province next year. We don't need to buy a big one, just a small one that can be held in the hand. It must be fun..." Zheng Feifei said, with anticipation and some sighs on her face. "Zhicheng is more than 3,000 meters above sea level. I don't know if we will be unable to adapt after we get there, especially my parents. It will be terrible if they suffer from altitude sickness..."
"I heard that if the application is approved, they will send us medication to prevent altitude sickness in advance, because by then the migration will be officially arranged, and all medical aspects will be coordinated..."
"Yeah." Zheng Feifei leaned towards Shu Fu, still reluctant to leave, "I really hope you can go with me..."
"Don't worry, Xizhou Province is also my dream place. I will go there, just a little later than you."
"So it's a date?"
"Yes, it's an appointment."
…
Two weeks after the beginning of the new year, Zheng Feifei received a notice that her application had been approved. As Shu Fu said, the medicine to prevent altitude sickness was distributed on the same day.
Two days later, the Zhicheng pass was delivered to their family. She was so excited that she didn't sleep all night and kept holding the pass to confirm that she was not dreaming.
The trip to Zhicheng was arranged quickly, just three days later.
Fang Xiwen also received a pass. She had been discharged from the hospital a long time ago, but she did not want to return to 1009. She simply took care of Wang Qian's funeral and went to the prison to see Zhong Li.
She knew that her behavior was stupid, but she still wanted to ask in person why.
Why could a sister and friend who had known her for such a long time and had been cared for and protected by her for so long hurt her without blinking an eye?
Why, after knowing her experience, a stranger who had never even met her gave her such a large sum of money and gave her the precious Plateau City Pass?
She is silly, but she is not stupid. Although the rescue team members who come to take over these matters always say that this is a subsidy from above, she is just an ordinary person and has made no contribution to the city. How could she possibly receive such a huge subsidy?
There were too many people like her who had moved here from other cities to seek refuge. Even if the government wanted to provide her with subsidies, they would only give her some food and water supplies. There must be someone behind the whole thing that she didn't know about.
But she tried many times and couldn't figure out who that person was.
Across the iron fence, the sneer on Zhong Li's face turned into crazy jealousy when she knew that she was about to go to the plateau city: "Why do you think you can get a pass? Why is your life always so good? Why can you always get what others can't get no matter how hard they try!"
Beautiful looks, a satisfying job, a handsome and well-earning husband, and generous savings...but she is still not satisfied. Every time they meet, she complains about her husband in front of her. But in Zhong Li's ears, these complaints are just disguised showing off!
Ask her why she was hurt?
There was no reason why. She just wanted to do it. "What I hate most in my life is people like you who pretend to be calm but actually like to show off to other women with your man. If you like to compare so much, why don't you find other men to compare with? Why do you always find me? You only dare to catch women, right?"
"Do you know what you are saying? Is this all you can see? Who is making the comparison now? And who caught whom and insisted on distorting the facts?"
"Of course it's you! You forced me to do this!"
Fang Xiwen looked at the malice and jealousy in the other's eyes, and finally laughed at herself. It turned out that Zhong Li had never regarded her as a friend from the beginning to the end. In the final analysis, it was just a hypocritical plastic sisterhood. It was just that in the past, in peacetime, the other party concealed it perfectly, and she did not see the truth clearly.
Fang Xiwen let out a long breath, feeling that the last heavy feeling in her heart had disappeared. Before leaving, she smiled at Zhong Li again: "I'm leaving, going to a safe plateau city to start my life again, and you, you can only lie to yourself and put the blame on others. But even so, you can't hide the fact that you are a murderer. You will rot in jail for the rest of your life, and don't even think about going anywhere."
This is no longer the peaceful times of the past. All kinds of punishments have been increased. Even if Zhong Li did not kill Wang Qian with her own hands, she would never be able to get out of prison again.
After Fang Xiwen finished speaking, she turned and left, even though Zhong Li cursed and insulted her with vicious words behind her back, without any ripple in her heart.
**
People who applied to move to the plateau cities have been looking forward to it for a long time. Many people have already packed their luggage and are just waiting for notification to leave immediately. Zheng Feifei's family is the same.
Their family didn't have a car, so they were arranged to take the same bus to Zhicheng. Migrants who had cars could choose to drive along. Driving by themselves was naturally more convenient, because they could carry more water and supplies. Those who took the bus had the same luggage limit as in the previous evacuations.
Nowadays, roads between cities are strictly controlled, and it is impossible to travel according to the navigation route as you wish as before. Trains are faster and safer than highways, so they will be arranged for people who are more in need, such as important scientific researchers, patients, the elderly and infirm, etc.
The highway migration team will be led and escorted by troops and rescue teams. If there are problems such as weather changes, shelters will be arranged immediately, so safety along the way is guaranteed.
The total distance from Louyun City to Zhicheng is more than 1,500 kilometers. If you are lucky along the way and do not encounter particularly serious weather problems, you can arrive there in about one day.
"Let me know when you get there." This was another farewell that Shu Fu experienced in a short period of time.
Because she was well prepared, she accepted it very calmly. Compared with Zheng Feifei, who hugged her and began to cry silently before leaving, she seemed too calm.
"We'll see each other again, I promise." Shu Fu reached out her hand and hugged Zheng Feifei tightly back, "See you next time, Feifei!"
The news that Zheng Feifei was safe came late at night on the second day after the family set out. The journey took more than 30 hours, with some minor setbacks, but they finally arrived safely.
A few days after Zheng Feifei arrived in Zhicheng, the weather in Louyun City was sunny for two whole days. The daytime temperature once rose to 28 degrees. Two days later, the temperature dropped sharply and heavy rain poured down.
In the waters outside the dam, huge waves were once again set off. This time, in addition to huge waves, waterspouts appeared again.
Two tornadoes also formed on the Yun River in Louyun City. The river water was sucked into the tornado. There were lightning and thunder near the waterspouts, and strong winds were roaring. The entire sky was as dark as ink, as if someone was undergoing a tribulation in the clouds.
The air raid sirens inside and outside the Louyuncheng Dam sounded again. No one could remember whether this was the sixth or seventh time in recent times. Most people were no longer so panicked. They stopped going out in time, hid indoors, closed doors and windows, turned off the power, and waited for the disaster to pass.
Shu Fu spent this day in her house on the drifting island as usual.
After the hurricane and huge waves passed, she went online to check relevant news. The official report said that the huge waves had an impact on a wider area, from the northeastern region of Huaguo, along the border between plains and hills, from the northeast to the southwest, the three major plains areas that have now become vast oceans, all of which have been hit by huge waves of varying degrees.
The hilly cities along this border line were directly hit by these huge waves.
The city that experienced the highest waves this time was still a city in Xiren Province, north of Muzhou Province. The highest wave peak reached 61 meters, breaking the previous record.
Fortunately, the construction progress of the dam in that city has been accelerated recently. When the huge waves hit, the effective height of the dam was higher than this peak value, and it did not develop into a dam waterfall incident like the previous one in another city.
Also because of the recent frequent achievements of dams, people living in cities in hilly areas have begun to yearn for cities with dams. Even though their cities are farther away from the flooded plains and currently have no worries about hurricanes and huge waves, they still actively use various means to express their long-cherished wish to the authorities in their city to build a dam as soon as possible.
Among these cities, some have actually considered and promoted dam plans.
After all, the rain has been falling, and the water level on the entire planet has been rising again and again, long exceeding the global sea level rise limit of 70 meters in the expert report.
When these cities announced the upcoming construction of bypass dams, the people were extremely delighted.
But the public did not know that not long after officials in these cities officially started this plan, they all received orders to suspend the plan.
The suspension order was communicated in secret, along with another order that was not made public.
The day after the huge wave subsided, Shu Fu's progress bar, which had been quiet for a long time, finally had a new task.
[Complete the check-in task at Jialefang Supermarket between 3:00 and 4:00 this afternoon to get a 5% progress bar for level 3 of the raft. (Current progress of level 3 of the raft: 70%)
Note: Failure to complete this task will deduct 30% of the progress bar. 】
Shu Fu:?
Was it her eyes that were blurry, or was it the laptop that was cramping?
It was the first time she saw such an outrageous discount multiple!
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