Eternal Day
Tonight's banquet must not be tacky.
Wang Gao went to the warehouse in person to select some cigarettes, alcohol and tea. He picked up Moutai and felt that this wine looked too social and utilitarian, and did not quite fit the tone of an immortal living a carefree life. So he replaced it with osmanthus wine that he had brewed himself and was given to him by an old subordinate.
Just before the banquet started, he felt that the packaging of the osmanthus wine looked too cheap, as if it was deliberately being neglectful and unwilling to serve good wine, so he changed it to Maotai.
At this time, Li Zhicheng brought Zui Huayin to the door.
As soon as I opened the bottle cap, I smelled a strong aroma of wine accompanied by the scent of unknown flowers, which was very intoxicating!
Upon hearing Mr. Li say that this was the immortal's favorite wine to drink before traveling, Wang Gao immediately made the decision, and Li Zhicheng naturally stayed here to keep him company.
At seven o'clock, it's time for dinner.
Jiang Miao and the Immortal King appeared at the entrance of the inner circle gate on time, and were politely invited into the villa by the guards who had been waiting there.
The Immortal King's attire today is no different from before, he is still wearing a Taoist robe and a Taoist bun on his head, which is so convincing with his handsome face. He is even more handsome than the immortal in the sculpture.
Especially when he saw Wang Gao, he was seen stunned for a long time, until Wang Xiangbei beside him reminded him and he kept saying that it was out of control.
"I thought the Immortal Master would be a Taoist priest in his 40s or 50s, but I never thought he looked so young."
Wang Rong got angry after hearing this. It turned out that her grandfather had always thought that the person she wanted to forcefully marry into the family was an old man!
Hearing this, Su Heng raised his eyes and glanced at everyone, and said lightly: "I am indeed not young."
Just when Wang Gao wanted to ask the immortal how old he was, Jiang Miao tried to smooth things over: "The Taoist master has profound Taoist skills and has taken good care of himself, so he looks young."
Li Zhicheng received her eye signal and quickly asked the guests to sit down.
The only ones who came to entertain guests today were the Wang family, Mayor Wen's family, and the newcomer Li Zhicheng, making a total of ten people.
The host and the guest took their seats, and the guests came in, drinking and chatting happily.
"Thank you for your advice on the acid rain. Otherwise, our base would have suffered more casualties and not even an acre of good farmland would be saved." Wang Gaoduan raised his glass, "I'll drink first, please feel free to drink."
Mayor Wen also said, "I'll follow suit. I'll be busy later so I'll need your help to measure it."
Su Heng took a sip of wine and said in a mysterious way according to what Miao Miao had told him beforehand: "These are all the instructions given by the hexagrams. I just interpreted them and have no other achievements. You two are too kind to praise me."
Being able to understand what God means is a skill!
Wang Gao stood up and filled the cup for the Immortal Master himself: "Hey, Immortal Master, you are too modest. Come on, let's drink and eat."
There were polite greetings on one side, but the atmosphere was full of tension on the other side.
Wang Rong and Wen Ruya are the daughters of the base director and the mayor respectively. They are both representatives of strong personalities in the second generation in the inner circle. They mainly adhere to the principle of "no king meets another king" and their sister circles have no overlap at all.
Since moving into the base, Wen Ruya has been working in the base to improve her reputation and political achievements, and she looks down on the lazy Wang Rong.
Wang Rong also hated the hypocritical and pretentious Wen Ruya, and secretly despised her for doing so much just to help her brother.
Everyone in the base office knows that Young Master Xiang Nan is doing very well as a secretary for the base commander. Even the deputy base commander has to be polite to him when he sees him.
After three rounds of drinks, Wang Gao saw that the immortal was only drinking but not eating. He thought that the meal might not be prepared properly, so he asked the servants to prepare a few more vegetarian dishes, but the immortal still did not show any interest.
Jiang Miao, who had been eating, saw this and quickly said, "The Immortal has a special physique. He doesn't drink easily outside, and he never eats. Now that he is willing to drink, Grandpa Wang has prepared a very good feast."
Wang Gao glanced at the food on the table: braised beef, garlic prawns, steamed spareribs, blanched choy sum… These dishes would be considered a good feast even if they were served before doomsday. However, there was no desire in the immortal's eyes from beginning to end, which showed that he was really not interested. He was indeed an immortal.
Everyone was having a great time at the dinner table. When the dinner was about to end and the servants were bringing the fruit plate, there was a sudden noise outside the door, which attracted the attention of everyone in the room.
As the host, Wang Gao's face darkened: "What happened? I wonder why we couldn't even stop the distinguished guest from visiting today?"
Adjutant Li walked in from outside: "It's a young man of about 18 or 19, who wanted to see Miss Jiang."
"See me?" Jiang Miao stood up immediately, "I'll go take a look."
The only person who could enter the community and the inner circle gate at this time was Fang Yang, who was going to come to the deputy base commander's house tonight to give Young Master Kang extra lessons.
Jiang Miao left, and Su Heng also stood up. However, Mayor Wen had not yet finished the most important thing for the day, so he hurriedly pulled him back and said, "Master, are you in the mood to help me today? It's not a big deal."
Less than a minute later, Lieutenant Li came back with a message: "Miss Jiang said she had something else to do, so let's eat first."
Su Heng frowned, but ultimately did not interfere with her decision. He sat down in a bad mood and drank one glass after another.
Outside the villa, Jiang Miao heard Fang Yang say anxiously as soon as he arrived: "Oh no! Your sister, the little girl we met in Jiang's Mansion last time, is now trapped in Kang Weiguo's room!"
Jiang Miao's eyes were wide open with anger. He left a word to Adjutant Li and followed Fang Yang to Villa No. 2 to kill!
"What's going on!" Her face was solemn and she walked quickly, asking Fang Yang about the whole thing while jogging.
"I went to Kang's house for extra lessons tonight. I taught Master Kang in the room for half an hour. I was so angry that I felt dizzy. I wanted to go downstairs to ask their servants for a glass of water. I was standing at the corner at the time. I could only see that there seemed to be guests in the living room. Before I went back, I saw one of the women leave first, and Kang Weiguo was holding a little girl's hand and walking upstairs!"
"I had a feeling that something was wrong, so I subconsciously hid myself. From the gap in the partition, I saw that the little girl's face looked familiar. When I heard her voice, I matched her with the girl from two or three years ago!"
As they were talking, they arrived at the door of Villa No. 2. Fortunately, the distance between the two villas was only three to five minutes, and they almost ran over in less than a minute.
"Who are you? This is Captain Kang's home—"
Jiang Miao didn't say a word. He kicked the two guards at the door, snatched the guns from their waists, and rushed into the house.
If Wang Gao's home features a Chinese classical literary style, Kang Weiguo's home is a European palace. Even the ground that was destroyed by acid rain has been rebuilt to its original state.
Fang Yang trotted ahead to show the way. As soon as he entered the hall, he heard an old woman in the living room shouting, "Teacher Fang, where have you been? Our Kang Kang is looking for you to correct his homework... Who are you? Teacher Fang, why did you bring someone in so casually?"
Mrs. Kang stood up in a flash, and swiftly called out to people left and right, shouting, "Help, come here! Robbers broke into our house and you didn't react? Be careful or I'll have my son fire you all!"
Several servants, together with the personal guard who was standing guard at the door and was kicked over, immediately followed Old Lady Kang upstairs.
As soon as I went up, I saw Jiang Miao kicking the door.
"Don't go over there, old lady! They stole our guns!"
"What! What about my son?"
The door was so solid that even though she had evolved into a natural supernatural power through the elixir, it did not move at all after she kicked it with her feet.
"Stand back!" Jiang Miao aimed his gun and fired a few shots to empty the magazine. He made a honeycomb hole in the door lock and kicked it before opening the door in the smoke.
The people outside were afraid of the gun in her hand and dared not come forward, but when Kang Weiguo heard the sound of kicking the door, he left the disheveled girl behind and took out the weapons in the room and pointed them at the door.
In the room, the little girl hid behind the curtains because she was timid and afraid. She looked out timidly. When she saw her sister standing outside the door with a gun, she could no longer hold back her grievance and burst into tears: "Sister Miao! Woo woo, I'm here, I'm Feifei!"
"Don't be afraid, my sister is here."
Feifei choked up: "Don't, don't come in, he has some in his hand, some in his hand..."
As if threatened, Feifei remained silent and dared not speak. She could only shake her head desperately to tell her sister not to come in.
It would be strange for a deputy commander who was born a soldier to not have a gun.
Jiang Miao looked around and saw a little boy peeking out of the room at the end of the second floor, looking timid. She walked over quickly and grabbed Kang Jian who was trying to escape by jumping out of the window.
He lifted him up in the air like a chick and brought him effortlessly to the door of his father's bedroom.
"What are you doing! Let go of my precious grandson!"
Old Mrs. Kang wanted to rush forward to save people, but was held back by the guards and servants behind her. She shouted, struggled, and cursed, and fell silent the moment Jiang Miao raised his gun.
He had just fired a gun, and the hot muzzle was still against Kang Jian's temple. Even though he had long thought of committing suicide, he couldn't help feeling scared.
Mrs. Kang's tone even changed: "If you have anything to ask for, just tell me. Why, why do you want to kill someone? Do you think you can leave the base if you kill someone?"
"Deputy Base Commander Kang." Jiang Miao had the bargaining chip in his hand, so he dared to kick the door open completely and slowly walked into the bedroom. "I didn't intend to come to your house today. I just came to pick up my sister."
Kang Weiguo hid behind the display cabinet and watched Jiang Miao bring his son in. He said angrily, "Miss Jiang, it turned out to be you. I am so sorry for not welcoming you from afar."
Jiang Miao sneered: "It seems that Deputy Base Commander Kang is a little confused about why I am here."
The little girl over there was still trying hard to hold back her sobs and trembling. Kang Weiguo felt guilty for the moment and said awkwardly, "Can't we all put down our guns and talk it out nicely?"
"Okay." Jiang Miao didn't come here to cause trouble today. She was just afraid that this bastard would be quicker than her and cause irreversible consequences, so she beat him up, stole the gun, and kicked the door open without hesitation.
"Three, two, one."
The two men put down their guns at the same time. Old Mrs. Kang quickly snatched her grandson away, holding him aside and crying and cursing.
"Sister Miao!" Seeing that the situation had eased, Feifei ran out from behind the curtains, threw herself into Jiang Miao's arms and cried at the top of her lungs, obviously frightened.
Jiang Miao half squatted down, with a stern face, and silently tidied up Feifei's torn collar and messy ponytail, before letting Fang Yang take everyone back to Villa No. 58 first.
If Fang Yang had not been a tutor in the Kang family, if he had not met Feifei by chance, if the base commander had not invited her to a banquet at the villa tonight.
There was no way Jiang Miao would know about this, nor could she arrive in time. The consequences... she simply couldn't imagine it.
He’s only fucking ten years old, what a beast!
Fang Yang took the little sister away, and no one on the stairs dared to stop them. They could only watch them leave.
Jiang Miao rubbed his wrist after seeing from the window that the two people had already walked out of Villa No. 2.
Kang Weiguo thought he was unlucky and said, "Miss Jiang, I am also wrong in this matter. Besides, how could I know that she is your sister? I didn't succeed anyway, so how about I make up for your trespassing into a private house today..."
She punched Kang Weiguo on the chin, and his fat body fell to the ground. The floor shook, and his jaw was dislocated immediately. Even his screams were intermittent, as if coming from his throat and nasal cavity.
Old Lady Kang exclaimed: "Little bitch, how dare you hit my son! He is the commander of the base, how dare you hit him?"
Jiang Miao kicked again. In the apocalypse, there had never been such a bloated stomach!
There was constant wailing from the ground. Old Mrs. Kang wanted to come forward to stop it but she didn't dare to. She could only cry and wipe her tears on the ground.
On the contrary, Kang Jian sat on the ground and watched Jiang Miao beat his father with interest. There was not even a trace of heartache or fear on his face.
After a few punches and kicks, Kang Weiguo was already covered in bruises. Jiang Miao did not hold back his strength, but he did not intend to continue hitting him either.
She stood up and shook her hair before warning him: "Remember this lesson. If you let me encounter this kind of thing next time, no matter if she is my sister or not, as long as she is a minor, I will not let you go!"
After she finished speaking, she glanced around and everyone around her tacitly made way for her.
There is no way, some people can't be defeated. The most important thing in life is to know the times.
After Jiang Miao left, Kang Weiguo lay on the ground crying out in pain, unable to utter a complete sentence. His entire body ached, as if all his internal organs had been beaten upside down by her!
“…&*￥%…@#!…” The old lady Kang next to him was crying so loudly that the guards could not hear what Kang Weiguo was mumbling. They could only help him up and put him on the bed, and then quickly called for a military doctor.
Coming out of her son's bedroom, Mrs. Kang had a vicious look on her face: "Breaking into my house to hold my grandson hostage and injuring my son is simply lawless and arrogant! Go find Adjutant Tian, I want her dead!"
Jiang Miao had a gloomy face. He adjusted his expression when he returned to No. 58 and walked in with as gentle a look as possible.
There is no way she would let Kang Weiguo, this scum and beast, go.
This kind of beastly garbage will only bring disaster to the world if it remains in the world, so it is better to kill it.
But now he is in the base, and he is the deputy base commander. If he is killed openly, Jiang Miao will not be able to stay in this place any longer.
Moreover, even if we report it to the base commander, he will just be trying to smooth things over. It would be better to beat him up first to vent our anger and remove the suspicion of him causing his sudden death in the future.
Even if others doubt her, she can still say, "I was already venting my anger by beating someone up at the time, and besides, the beast didn't really succeed, so why should I go to so much trouble to kill a base commander? It's like risking my life."
In the eyes of this group of people, especially those male superiors, yes, none of them succeeded, beating him up was enough to vent their anger, how could they possibly scheme to take his life.
What Jiang Miao wanted was to convince them with their logic.
It’s just that we need to wait for the right time to let this heavily protected deputy base commander die suddenly.
Before that, Jiang Miao had to ask who brought Feifei here.
After all, for a little girl like her, it was difficult for her to even enter the No. 58 residential complex, let alone Villa No. 2 in the inner circle.
"Sister Miao." Feifei breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her sister come in. Her tense mood also eased a little. She sat on the sofa with tears on her eyes.
When Fang Yang saw his sister coming back, he knew that the two sisters had something to say, so he didn't stay any longer and quietly closed the door and left.
"Are you scared, Feifei?" Jiang Miao gently massaged the top of her head with his fingers to relieve her tension.
Feifei fell into her sister's arms and nodded sullenly, "I was scared. That fat uncle was so scary. He said he would take me to the toilet, but when we got to the room, he said that in their house, you have to take off all your clothes to use the toilet. I didn't believe him, so he said he would teach me in person."
She was only in the second grade before the apocalypse, and she has never been exposed to this information after the apocalypse. What is the difference between her and a blank sheet of paper?
Jiang Miao sighed and could only say that it was a blessing in disguise. The young Feifei was just frightened by the bad guy with a ferocious face, but she had no idea of the meaning behind this malice.
When she grows up and finds out, the harm to her will be less.
"Then can you tell me how you got into this community today?"
Feifei was a little scared. After thinking for a moment, she whispered, "Sister Yuan brought me in."
Jiang, Yuan.
Hearing this name, Jiang Miao even felt a bit absurd.
Feifei is also her cousin. They have watched the apocalypse together since they were young. Why would it come to this?
"Eat something first." Jiang Miao took some snacks, mostly meat snacks like beef jerky and squid shreds. After she filled her stomach, she took her sister to send her home.
On the way, Jiang Fei, who hadn't eaten snacks for a long time, was jumping up and down because he satisfied his appetite. Until he returned home with Sister Miao and saw Sister Yuan's surprised and disappointed face, the fear of being controlled by the bad uncle and unable to move slowly crept up in his mind, and he huddled and hid behind Sister Miao.
“Fei Fei!” Uncle San stepped forward and hugged his daughter, raising his hand to hit her, “The world is so chaotic now! How dare you be so playful and run around everywhere and not come home yet!”
Jiang Miao grabbed his uncle's hand and asked, "Which room is yours?"
The trapped uncle didn't understand what was going on, but he still pointed to the smallest room and said, "Here, this is it."
Jiang Miao sent Feifei into the room and gave her a big bag of snacks and storybooks. "Play in your room now. I'll chat with your dad."
Feifei looked at her father and then at her sister, and nodded sensibly. Everyone, especially Jiang Shuyi, was extremely jealous. He had disliked many of the snacks in the bag before, but he hadn't eaten them for a long time since the doomsday!
Jiang Miao is so biased, he is biased towards his third uncle and his family!
Uncle San looked at Jiang Miao's serious face and felt that something was wrong, but he still followed her wishes and let Feifei go back to her room to play.
In the simply decorated living room sat everyone in the Jiang family except the eldest uncle.
Jiang Miao looked around at everyone, and when he saw Jiang Yuan's guilty conscience and evasiveness, he couldn't hold back any longer and slapped her.
"What are you doing!" Tian Meizhi was shocked as she held her daughter in her arms. "This is your own sister, and you actually hit her!"
"I'm going to hit her!" Jiang Miao suppressed his temper, looked at the group of people as calmly as possible, and asked his uncle: "Before your daughter came back, what did Jiang Yuan tell you about the reason why Feifei was not at home?"
"What?" Uncle San was a little confused. He recalled and said truthfully, "Yuanyuan said that when she came back, she saw her sister ran out to play. She wanted to call her back for dinner but she didn't... Wait, how do you know it was Yuanyuan who told me that?"
Jiang Yuan huddled in her mother's arms, biting her lips and not daring to look at anyone.
If things had succeeded, her parents, aunt and uncle would have tried their best to persuade uncle for the sake of benefits, but, but things hadn't succeeded, so it was over.
Jiang Miao turned around and said, "Uncle, do you want to guess where I saved Feifei?"
Without waiting for the person opposite to speak, she sneered: "It's in Kang Weiguo's room, the master bedroom."
"What...what do you mean?" Uncle San was caught off guard. He looked at Jiang Miao and then at Jiang Yuan. He seemed to understand something, but he didn't dare to think about it too deeply.
"Luckily I got there in time. Feifei's hair was just a little messy. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to stand here and tell you this in a stable mood."
The most terrifying guess in his mind did not come true. The third uncle breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed to the ground. The second uncle Jiang Bin looked incredulous, looking at his daughter and then at the third uncle.
Only then did I remember that today was the day Jiang Yuan was supposed to go to Chief Kang's house, and she came back so early.
"You! Is it you?" Uncle San recovered and rushed to Jiang Yuan with great anger, grabbing her collar, "Fei Fei is only ten years old, ten years old! She is your biological sister, how could you bear to let her go to that kind of place!"
But Jiang Yuan still insisted: "In five months, she will be eleven years old, which means she will be twelve years old according to her lunar age. In some places, she will be thirteen years old if she is two years old according to lunar age! Thirteen, in ancient times, she could get married!"
Such shameless words made Uncle San slap her in the face. Jiang Yuan fell to the ground exhausted, and the slap marks on both sides were symmetrical.
Jiang Yuan's cheeks were swollen and blood oozed from the corners of her mouth. She was even hoarse when she spoke: "What's wrong? We are both daughters of the Jiang family. I can do it but she can't, right? Third uncle, if I hadn't sold this body, would you and your daughter be able to enter the base and live in a house!?"
Jiang Bin shouted, "Don't talk nonsense! How can a girl say such things in front of her elders and brothers and sisters?"
After hearing what her father said, Jiang Yuan wanted to laugh even more: "Hahahaha, Dad, you persuaded me for three or four days outside the base. If I didn't agree, you would drag the whole family to death. Then when you blamed me for the fault, it seemed like you were not yourself anymore. Do you know how I lived in the Kang family? You took all the things I sold and gave them to Jiang Shuyi. Did you leave any for me?"
"Jiang Yuan! Don't be so shameless!" Jiang Bin jumped up as if his tail was stepped on. "He is your younger brother, he is younger than you, and he will marry and have children in the future! How can you compare with him?"
In the past, Jiang Yuan never believed that her family actually favored boys over girls. Her family never restricted her from buying any bags or luxury goods. They even asked her to spend more so as not to embarrass herself in front of other ladies.
When the family's resources were so tight that it was difficult to even provide for one person, the parents' favoritism was fully demonstrated at this moment. They were even willing to squeeze out all the value in her to provide for her only son in the family.
"Yes, I can't compare, but I'm not the only girl in the family. Why should I be the first to make sacrifices?"
Uncle San was so angry that he was shaking: "That's my daughter! She's still a minor and doesn't understand anything!"
"I fought for her. The officer said that if possible, she could be raised in his home, educated together with his son, and have food, clothes and a big house to live in. What's not good about that? I asked her if she was willing before we left!"
Jiang Miao couldn't help but kick him: "Is that what you call asking? That's called lying! Is Feifei an adult? Does she have the ability to distinguish right from wrong?"
Jiang Yuan felt so much pain in her chest from being kicked that she lay on the ground in despair. She bit whoever she caught like a mad dog that had lost its mind, and pointed her spearhead at Jiang Miao again: "Do you know? The person I hate the most since I was a child is you. You are obviously the granddaughter of my grandparents, so why do I always bring you with me to show off when I go out? Is it because you are the child of the eldest family and I am the child of the second family!"
"Shut up!" Uncle Er was furious. "What does this have to do with you? Aren't your grandparents good to you?"
"Of course not. When you were a kid, you stole grandma's jade bracelet to show off. After you broke it, you were afraid of being exposed, so you bought a fake one worth several thousand yuan to replace it." Jiang Miao curled his lips, "You didn't think that a bracelet with a value hundreds of times different could fool grandma, did you? Grandma didn't say anything just to protect your face and not to embarrass you by making a big fuss."
"Ah?" It was a matter so small that it was difficult to even recall it.
"Don't you remember?" Jiang Miao sneered: "During the Chinese New Year that year, grandma wanted to remind you and deliberately gave you this fake bracelet as a New Year's gift. You were smug and lucky that this matter would never be discovered. From then on, grandpa and grandma were naturally disappointed in you."
Jiang Yuan stood there in a daze, not knowing where to start.
It's such a small thing. The bracelet only seemed expensive when you were a child, but when you grow up, you will find that it's only about four or five hundred thousand. Is it necessary to make a fuss with a child like her?
This group of people are stupid and bad. Jiang Miao really has no interest in staying here any longer, so he just said to his third uncle: "Fei Fei is your daughter. It's up to you how you deal with this matter. If necessary, I can provide some support." This means that the power to deal with Jiang Yuan should be given to Jiang Fei's guardian.
The third uncle stood there dejectedly, looking at the indifferent eldest sister, the begging second sister-in-law, and the guilty and evasive second brother, and said loudly: "Move!"
He and Feifei couldn't stay in this place anymore. They had to leave no matter what and get back the money they had paid in the first place!
Before leaving, Jiang Miao learned from their quarrel that the house was bought half by their eldest aunt and third uncle, and their second uncle relied on his daughter to obtain the qualification for the family to enter the base without spending a penny.
Therefore, the only ones who Jiang Yuan said were squeezing her and wanting to drink her blood were Jiang Laoer's family.
After leaving the Jiang family, Jiang Miao thought about his third uncle's style and felt that with his temper, he would not let Jiang Yuan go so easily. So he returned home with a heavy heart.
At home, Su Heng, who had already finished the banquet, was sitting on the sofa. When he saw her come back, he anxiously asked what happened.
But this matter concerned Feifei, so Jiang Miao didn't say much. He only said that he wanted to take Kang Weiguo's life and didn't say anything more.
Kang Weiguo was one of the commanders of the base, so it would certainly not be easy to take his life without making a fuss, and it couldn't be done now. He could only wait for a few months until the Kang family gradually forgot about the matter, and then take action.
He turned around and asked what happened at the party after she left.
Su Heng said, "It's nothing serious. Someone kept asking me to tell his fortune, and I thought he was annoying, so I left. When I walked out, he told me that I was just a fraud."
"Well, don't worry about it." Mayor Wen has not been promoted for several years, and he has no impression that no official can be promoted. "Next time he asks you about this, just say that it is very difficult to maintain the current situation, and it is almost impossible to get promoted. He didn't want to say it the first few times because it was embarrassing, and you insisted on asking."
However, regarding the next natural disaster, Jiang Miao felt that eternal daylight was not a particularly cruel disaster. At most, it would cause endocrine disorders and circadian rhythm disorders in the human body. It was a chronic disease that would not take the lives of too many people. He did not intend to use Su Heng to warn everyone in the base.
The eternal night after the eternal day is what requires extra vigilance.
Evil will always continue to ferment in the darkness.
The next day, Uncle San came to the Wuba Community to find Jiang Miao and said he wanted to borrow money.
The eldest sister and the second brother could not come up with so much money at once, but they could not continue to live in such a house. The only solution now was to borrow some money from her relatively wealthy niece to solve the urgent problem.
Of course, he also promised frankly that since he had to raise a daughter, it would take longer to repay the money, so interest could be added.
In fact, she still had some favors towards her uncle's family in her previous life, but she had always been clear about gratitude and resentment.
No matter how much supplies we give them in the early days of the apocalypse, they may not be able to hold on. It is better to wait until the base is stable and then give them a house so that they can have a place to settle down.
Thinking that Feifei would soon enter puberty and it would not be good for her to live in the same room with her father, he asked Director Li of the Government Affairs Center to help the father and daughter find a second-hand house.
However, the location is a little far away, on Fifth Street, but it is close to where my uncle works, so it is pretty good.
A week later, when the property ownership certificate was received, Uncle San was still a little bit unbelievable. Jiang Miao said calmly: "I just feel sorry for Feifei. You just need to take good care of her in the future."
But Jiang Miao specifically told him not to tell his second uncle and eldest aunt about the house purchase, and just say that he rented it. If those two knew that he didn't get this good deal, they might even block their door and make a scene.
When I finished my business and came out of the government service center, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.
At eight o'clock, the sun was still hanging brightly in the sky, and the blue star seemed to have stopped rotating, forever frozen at this angle facing the sun.
People on the street might find it strange that it suddenly gets dark so late when summer comes. Only Jiang Miao knows that the eternal day has arrived.
After she said goodbye to her uncle and returned home, the first thing she did was to cover the saplings and vegetables in the yard with black plastic bags.
Then he installed black lacquered curtains in her and Su Heng's rooms, the kind that could block out 99% of the sunlight.
Although eternal daylight does not seem to be as directly harmful to the human body as earthquakes and acid rain, the sunlight lasts for such a long time, not even 24 hours but as long as a year!
People's biological clocks, work and rest schedules, endocrine system and other functions that require circadian rhythm regulation will be disrupted.
Acne, hair loss, and insomnia are just minor issues, but there are many people who suffer from depression, endocrine disorders, and cancer.
Therefore, even when it is bright outside, you still need to maintain your day and night habits to sleep in order to ensure that your body functions properly.
After finishing the housework, Jiang Miao went to Grandpa Wang's house to stay overnight. Heng said something strange about the weather, and then came back to prepare for bed after maintaining his character.
If people initially cheered for the benefits of polar day, such as longer daylight hours and faster crop growth, there would be no need to stay up late to work overtime, and two fixed groups of workers could take turns to go to and from get off work.
But problems arose in the long run. For example, the municipal government and the base office had to spend more manpower and resources than before to maintain order within the base, many shade-loving plants could no longer be grown, and more than half of the food types were reduced.
By the next day, everyone in the base was talking about this strange incident!
The sun didn't set all night last night, and there is no sign of it setting until today!
Some people couldn't sleep because of the light, and the price of curtains, a dispensable daily necessity, suddenly soared. Jiang Miao had a lot of curtains stockpiled in his space, and he thought that it would be useless to keep them anyway, so he might as well exchange them for some contribution points.
After coming out of the community, she originally wanted to go to the department store to ask the teller inside if they would accept curtains, but the teller inside now was a bit like the salespersons of the supply and marketing cooperatives in the 1970s and 1980s. Not only did they have bad tempers but they also ignored people and looked like they were not afraid of losing their iron rice bowl. No wonder the middlemen who had disappeared for a long time and were banned in the base have become active again!
"Comrade, you are here to sell curtains as well, right? Would you like to see mine? I have extra curtains at home that I can't use. How about I sell them to you at a lower price? They will definitely be cheaper than here."
As soon as he walked out of the department store, Jiang Miao was stopped by a middleman and asked to count secretly.
She raised an eyebrow: "Okay, I'll go take a look."
After leaving Municipal Street, Jiang Miao asked, "May I know your boss's name?"
The man played dumb: "What boss? I just have some extra curtains at home that are useless, so I thought of exchanging them for some food and clothes. Comrade, if you are not sincere in buying, don't waste our time. Goodbye."
The man tried to slip away after he finished speaking, but Jiang Miao grabbed the back of his neck and pulled him back: "Don't worry, I'm not an undercover agent here to expose someone."
He said awkwardly, "Comrade, you are joking again. What do you need to report about me?"
It seemed that he had to say something real, so Jiang Miao asked, "Do you know Mr. Xiang Jie? He and I are old friends, and I came to him because I also have a large number of curtains in stock, and I want to sell them to him at a low price for convenience and peace of mind."
"Oh, you told me earlier, it turns out he's one of us!" He was beaming with joy, "Boss Xiang is my boss, he's just around here, I'll take you there!"
Of course it is much easier to get things done if you have acquaintances.
I haven't seen him for more than two years. After several rounds of natural disasters and frequent business trips, Boss Xiang looks seven or eight years older.
His eyes lit up when he saw Jiang Miao: "Miss Jiang! It's been a long time since we last met! You are still so young and beautiful!"
"Hello, Boss Xiang. It's been a long time since we last met, and your business is growing bigger and bigger." Jiang Miao greeted Boss Xiang and went straight to the point when talking about the curtains.
Now Xiang Jie is preparing to start his business again with this. Naturally, the more supply the better. With tens of thousands of people in the base, there will be no worries about selling.
During the negotiation, Jiang Miao also learned an important piece of news, that is, the boss was also doing some small business in the base, mainly collecting things that the rich people in the 58th District needed, and then selling them to them at a higher price to make a profit from the difference.
Jiang Miao thought of the small blue pills whose main ingredient was sildenafil that were stored in the space. They were really suitable for Kang Weiguo!
Thinking of this, she leaned over and whispered, "Boss Xiang, I have something rare here, I wonder if you can sell it?"
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