Chapter 13: Voluntary Convenience Service Station?
The Red Star Lake is wide, and the area next to the military factory is only the shallowest and smallest.
The deepest place is more than fifty meters, and even where the iron box is hidden in the reed marsh, the water is more than thirty meters deep.
Fortunately, dams have been built, so even if the water rises, there will be no problem here.
But what if the water comes from underground?
It’s just like in many rural areas near the river in the north of the city, every year when the river water thaws, water will bubble out of the cellars in the houses.
Lu Qiaoge pondered for a moment and whispered, "I heard that the opening mechanism is the warehouse where the steel billets were originally stored. I don't know the exact location, but as long as it is opened, the lake water will come in, unless the entire warehouse is blown up."
Lu Qiaoge looked at the dumbfounded Old Lu and said nonchalantly, "Actually, I didn't understand it either. Dad, don't you think it's weird? I was listening on the other side of the wall, and when I turned around, it was empty. I didn't see anyone."
Lao Lu grabbed a handful of hair.
My mind is a little confused by what my daughter said.
"Anything else?"
Lu Qiaoge shook his head: "No more."
Old Lu stood up. What should he do about this?
Lu Qiaoge yawned. "I feel like it's probably those retired old men who love to tell stories talking nonsense. Maybe I walk slowly, and when I turned around, they had already gone home. Dad, I'm sleepy. I'm going to bed."
After saying this, Lu Qiaoge went straight back to the bedroom without caring about how Old Lu reacted.
Nothing else matters. I think the Military Representative Office and the Security Department can find out.
The main thing was the severe storm a week later.
But this is nothing more than doing one’s best and leaving the rest to fate.
Lu Qiaoge flipped through the books Director He gave her: 100,000 Whys, Fun Mathematics, and Beautiful Ocean.
The 100,000 Whys of the 1970s are different from the 100,000 Whys of the future.
This book is pretty hardcore.
The only thing I’m missing is teaching you how to poke a plane with a bamboo pole.
Lu Qiaoge flipped through the pages with great interest and finished reading it before he knew it.
She has always read very fast, almost able to read ten lines at a glance.
The military factory has a stable supply of electricity, but in this era as a housing estate for family members, power outages are common.
When the power went out, Lu Qiage had almost finished reading and was wondering when to go to the research institute.
But after a while, he felt sleepy. The tabby cat jumped in from the window and huddled beside Lu Qiage. Lu Qiage stroked it unconsciously a few times. It was furry and soft. Soon, both the man and the cat fell into a deep sleep.
Old Lu tossed and turned, and Meng Xia was annoyed: "Why don't you sleep? Aren't you going to work tomorrow?"
Old Lu didn't tell her the truth and could only close his eyes and pretend to take a nap.
Who did Qiao Ge listen to?
How come I can only hear the voice but not see the person?
Old Lu is also a straightforward man. He doesn't think about things he can't figure out. The key point is the severe storm that will happen a week later.
Well, think of a way to tell Lao Jia.
He is the deputy chief of the security department, so he can also take care of this matter.
——
After Lao Lu specifically stopped Lao Jia in the cafeteria, he pulled him to a corner and sat him down. He lowered his voice and said, "I want to tell you that there may be a very severe storm in our area in a week. Do you want to prepare in advance?"
Lao Jia was stunned for a moment: "The weather forecast didn't say that." Then he remembered that the weather forecast was sometimes inaccurate, so he asked hurriedly: "Where did you hear that?"
Then he remembered Mrs. Lu: "Did my aunt tell you?"
Mrs. Lu only stayed in the city for half a year and spent the rest of the time in the countryside. She was very good at predicting the weather.
Old Lu nodded vaguely.
——
Lu Qiaoge was woken up by his third sister.
She sat up and glanced out the window with a confused look.
I don’t know what time it is, but the sun is already high in the sky.
Alas, her vigilance has been lowered, otherwise she would have noticed Lu Qiaoling coming in.
It turns out that a comfortable environment makes people lose their fighting spirit.
"Second sister, we have all finished lunch and you are still asleep. You are so lazy."
Then he turned and walked away, still mumbling, "In the countryside, there was often not enough food to eat. Why am I still like this after returning? Am I born to be hungry?"
Lu Qiaoge: ...
The harvest in my hometown has been poor in recent years. Every late spring and early summer, many families have no food to eat.
But the Lu family in the city had two more mouths to feed, so Old Lu and Meng Xia had to go out to borrow food.
After she washed up, she wandered to the kitchen.
There is no shortage of salt, sauce and vinegar.
Food...only a bowl of millet and half a bag of cornmeal.
Although it is a bungalow, the yard is too small to grow vegetables, so I only planted some green onions in a wooden trough in the corner.
There is half a bowl of animal oil in the cupboard.
No eggs and no meat.
The Lu family always has to endure these few days at the end of the month.
In fact, it’s not just the Lu family, many families are like this.
Lu Qiaoge drank a bowl of cornmeal porridge and ate a steamed bun with pickles. Speaking of which, his sister-in-law's cooking skills were really good.
But this steamed bread is too rough.
Feeling of pain in throat when swallowing.
Today Meng Xia and her friends were making matchboxes, and Lu Qiage is becoming more and more skilled at it.
Meng Xia didn't expect her second daughter to be so fast. She said happily: "Qiao Ge's hands are so flexible and she works really fast. I'll do more tomorrow."
Lu Qiaoge wasn't sure if he could stick to pasting paper boxes at home.
Comrade Meng Xia had already been dissatisfied during these two days of strolling.
If grandma hadn’t said that she had broken off the engagement and was in a bad mood and needed to vent, she might not have been able to leave.
Thinking of this, Lu Qiaoge put down the paper box in his hand and said, "Mom, I want to go to the street office to get a letter of introduction."
Meng Xia heard about Lu Qiaoge's plan yesterday and felt that she was being asked to do a thankless job.
The old ladies in the family compound are stingy, miserly and fussy.
No matter how you change it, they will feel at a disadvantage.
And if I really bring it back, will it offend the grocery store?
"Will it work?" Meng Xia asked worriedly.
"I'll try. It's okay if it doesn't work."
——
Lu Qiaoge really went to the street office.
She asked Director Hu to write: The responsible comrade of the Guzitun Brigade would like to introduce Comrade Lu Qiaoge and others from the Xiangyang Sub-district Office Voluntary Convenience Service Station to your place to handle the exchange of vegetables and supplies.
Director Hu asked Lu Qiaoge in confusion: "Why didn't I know that our street office has a voluntary convenience service station?"
Lu Qiaoge smiled with curved eyebrows: "This is what I think. No matter what I do, it will be smoother if I have a title. Besides, this is voluntary. It exists when it is useful, and it will be put aside when it is not. It does not affect anything without the establishment, employees, or salary."
At this point, Lu Qiaoge paused, looked at the gray-haired Old Hu, and said obediently: "Of course, Director Hu, if you feel it is inconvenient, you don't have to write it."
Director Hu blinked his eyes.
Looking at the energetic Lu Qiaoge, I thought to myself, many people say that Lu Qiaoge must have cried and lived a life worse than death after breaking off the engagement, but isn’t this state pretty good?
There is no problem with this letter of introduction, he can issue it.
Director Hu readily opened the letter of introduction, stamped it with the official seal, and handed it to Lu Qiaoge: "If it works, then it works. If it doesn't, come back. Don't make any mistakes."
Lu Qiaoge: "Don't worry, I remember all the terms in this regard."
(End of this chapter)
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