Chapter 331: Space, one for everyone
Qiao Lan told Lao Guo to speak up if he had anything to say.
Lao Guo blushed, "Well... I want to open a hot pot restaurant in Qiao Town, on the food street. I wonder if it's possible..."
"Of course you can! Uncle Guo, your cooking skills are amazing. The aroma from one pot will spread ten miles away. The whole town will be craving it!"
"Well...but I'm not considered a resident of this town. If I open a shop here..."
Qiao Lan smiled. "You're worried about that? To be honest, I have some ambitions for the development of this town. I want it to be the most prosperous and developed place among the nearby towns. Why would I restrict non-townspeople from doing business? Of course, anyone can come. We haven't allowed outsiders to do business yet because the overall environment isn't particularly safe yet. We can't let people who don't know our background to stay in this town. But you're different. You're an old acquaintance and an old friend."
Qiao Lan immediately told Lao Guo the locations of several small shops that had recently been renovated in the food court and told him to go and look around and open a shop in any of them. The rent was free for a long time, and she could help him with the ingredients.
Lao Guo was very moved and a little overwhelmed.
He said apologetically, "I'm not a resident of this town, and I'm occupying your shop... Xiao Qiao, from now on, whenever you and your friends come to eat at my shop, I'll give you a free meal, forever."
"Uncle Guo, don't be so polite. But, are you not going to do the investigation anymore?"
Qiao Lan was curious.
When Ye Qi's base opened, Lao Guo was one of its staunch followers, proactively taking on the dangerous duties of perimeter reconnaissance. Although he was previously just a small-time restaurant owner, he was quite sentimental. His words showed that he admired Ye Qi greatly, and his work enthusiasm was much stronger than before.
Why do you suddenly want to open a restaurant?
"Fuck, investigation is my job, I'll keep doing it."
Lao Guo said that he opened the hotpot restaurant not for himself, but to provide a way out for his wife and daughter.
He worked as an elite soldier at Ye Qi Base. His wife and daughter, who were not superpowered, did the manual labor of ordinary people. It was tiring, and they didn't earn many contribution points. Their family's standard of living depended on his elite contribution points.
"A few days ago, when we were on patrol, another companion died." Lao Guo whispered to Qiao Lan.
Their outer patrol team covered an area of 100 miles outside City C. The terrain was complex, the situation even more complicated, and it was quite dangerous. Attacks by mutant creatures and stray survivors were commonplace, and deaths were also common.
Lao Guo didn't want to give up his duties out of fear of death, but he also worried about what would happen to his wife and daughter if he died one day. The base would take care of the martyrs' families and arrange for lighter labor, but his wife and daughter had no special skills or techniques, so they would have to work for the rest of their lives.
It would be better to open a shop in Qiao Town and do my old business.
"Uncle Guo, no need to say more, I understand." Qiao Lan assured Lao Guo that he would be allowed to run the store, and even if he was gone, his wife and daughter would continue to run it.
She directly wrote a property rights document and, as a lord, gave the shop and land rights to Lao Guo permanently.
"If your daughter has descendants in the future, this shop can be passed down and will always be yours. If I have children and grandchildren in the future, they will have to recognize your family's ownership."
Old Guo was shocked and quickly refused.
"How can this be... Xiao Qiao, I'll just rent the shop. I can't take it. I can't..."
"Why not?" Qiao Lan stuffed the document into Lao Guo's arms, "Here!"
Old Guo had made sacrifices before. Giving him a piece of land and a shop was no big deal, but Qiao Lan still felt it wasn't enough. When she became wealthy and her territory flourished, she would give many gifts to her friends and family.
"Uncle Guo, close your eyes, calm down, and stabilize the energy fluctuations." Qiao Lan suddenly became serious.
Old Guo didn't understand what was going on, so he quickly did as he was told.
After a moment, his eyes widened in disbelief.
"This...Xiao Qiao, this..."
"This is for you. Uncle Guo, it will be convenient for you to carry things with you when you go out next time."
Lao Guo couldn't help it and tears fell again.
Qiao Lan gave him a portable space! It must be about 20 to 30 square meters, like a small warehouse, and it can hold a lot of things!
"Xiao Qiao, I really can't accept this. How can this be..."
Qiao Lan said, "Don't refuse. Not only you, I've already given it to several people. My space is very large, so it won't affect anything if I cut some off and give you some. Uncle Guo, you're welcome. I want you to work hard with the space! If everyone works hard, I, the lord, can live a comfortable life, right? You take care of the space, and let me exploit it."
Lao Guo wiped his tears and smiled: "Then... then I will let you exploit me as you please!"
When he left, he took the property rights documents and half a portion of the hotpot with rice that Qiao Lan had given him.
Back at the base dormitory, I took out the hot pot and ate it with my wife and daughter. The three of us cried while eating it. This was something they had made before the end of the world. It was their own cooking. I didn’t expect to be able to eat it again.
"Sister Qiao Lan is so nice. When the hotpot restaurant opens, I will send her hotpot every day." Lao Guo's daughter promised.
"I don't know when we can open the shop." Lao Guo's wife was a little worried. Although she had a shop, the ingredients needed for the hot pot were hard to find during this period.
Lao Guo said that he had seen Ye Qi looking for ingredients everywhere before, and he used his contribution points to exchange some with Ye Qi, so he could go to the warehouse to get some at any time. In addition, there was a food store arranged by Qiao Lan on the food street, which was specially designed to facilitate the acquisition of ingredients by various shop owners and stall owners, and they could exchange them for contribution points and town coins.
"I can also do some searching while I'm out on patrol," Lao Guo said to his wife and daughter. "Xiao Qiao has taken care of the town. We even have a food court. It won't be hard for us to open a store. Follow her, follow Chief Ye. As long as we work hard, our lives will definitely get better and better."
"Yes!" The wife and daughter nodded with tears in their eyes.
They didn't eat all of the hot pot; each person only had a little. They divided the rest into several portions, giving one to Ye Qi and Xiao Detachment's Lao Song and other management members, and a few to close friends at the base. When they heard that Lao Guo was going to open a hot pot restaurant, everyone expressed their support, and some even said they would help Lao Guo find ingredients in their free time.
There were so many people in the base and the town, and while I wouldn't say everyone was kind, most of the core circle had become accustomed to helping each other. They were all friends who shared life and death, working together to rebuild their lives. The bonds between them were closer than the pre-apocalyptic friendships, far closer.
This intimacy has driven the rapid development of the town and is the cornerstone of the overall atmosphere here.
Those who like to find fault will not be able to cause any trouble in such a warm and positive atmosphere.
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Qiao Lan's space was not only given to Lao Guo, but also to many of his companions.
Wen Jiaojiao, the old chef, Fu Xingyuan, Hou Tian, Xiao Detachment, Zhao Hui, Xiao Zhang, Zhou Ping, Feng Feng, Han Ying... and a series of relatives, friends and comrades-in-arms, even the crown in Su Town were given a space by her, almost everyone had one.
Her control over space has become more and more exquisite, and cutting and giving gifts is effortless. Three hundred acres of space, no matter how much you give away, it will never be enough.
When elite subordinates emerge in the territory town in the future, she also plans to give them space as a reward.
Doctor Zhao Hui, the guy with fire spurting from his armpits, was very excited after getting the space that day and kept showing it off to Ouyang Mo.
"Look at this medicine box. I'll collect it! Hey, it's gone, right? Look again, I'll release it! Ha, it's released! How about it, isn't it amazing? From now on, when we go around to rescue the wounded and sick, we won't have to carry such heavy medicine boxes, instruments, and drugs. Put them all in my space, and you can put yours in my space too. I'll help you carry them! Miss Qiao is so amazing, so great, so generous, so..."
"You're too noisy." Ouyang Mo asked him to leave. "I'm writing medical records. Stop making noise."
Zhao Hui ran out laughing, "Okay, okay, I won't disturb you. Why are you so sullen? I think you're just jealous. Hehehe, it's your fault that you haven't awakened yet, otherwise Miss Qiao would definitely give you a space."
The door closed and the room became quiet, but Ouyang stopped writing the medical records.
Who made me not wake up? He smiled bitterly.
If he also had special abilities and energy fluctuations, Qiao Lan would definitely give him space, just like he gave all his other friends...
He looked up at the ceiling.
He shamelessly squeezed into the second-floor building and deliberately chose this room on the first floor because it was directly opposite Qiao Lan's room.
This feels very close to her.
If he could also be given space, then they would definitely be closer... There would be a special connection between them, and that sense of closeness would definitely be unique.
Unfortunately, no. It has been a year since the end of the world, and he has not awakened yet.
Many, many people in the world haven't awakened, but he doesn't want to be in the majority. He's done so many good things, saved so many people, and good people are rewarded, so why hasn't he received the reward of fate? Why hasn't he had the good fortune of awakening?
It's like...
He had such a strong desire to save the world, and wanted to use his hard work to save more people, to get good rewards for his family far away, and to bless them to be safe... But a year later, Head Nurse Chen had already contacted her lost daughter through official channels, but he still hadn't received any news from his relatives!
"I've always had bad luck."
Ouyang Mo threw down his pen and sighed.
Bang!
The door was pushed open hard and hit the wall.
Ouyang Mo frowned and looked at Zhao Hui who had returned. "Open the door quietly, don't disturb the people upstairs..."
"Forget the door! Ouyang! Ouyang! Oh my God! Come with me quickly, you won't believe your eyes, hahahaha!"
Zhao Hui grabbed Ouyang Mo and swept him away like the wind.
Ouyang Mo wanted to resist, but there was no way. Zhao Hui was an awakened person and was naturally much stronger than him.
He was dragged outside and forced to run all the way out of town.
Feng Fengchang's plane was parked not far away, and he was leading two people towards the town.
"Look! Do you recognize the person over there?" Zhao Hui let go.
Ouyang Mo froze instantly.
“Dad…Mom…?!”
Feng Feng, how did you fly a plane to bring his parents here!
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