It was already one o'clock in the afternoon when the convoy arrived at the West District Camp.
The food they brought was waiting to be cooked in the temporary canteen. As soon as the truck stopped, the person in charge of the West District immediately ran over to greet them and express his gratitude, and then organized people to unload the goods.
"Linglong, I'm going to the medical center to find my daughter. Let's meet here later." Director Yang got out of the car and left to look for someone.
Song Tao came over after unloading the goods and said to her, "Sister-in-law, please find a place to rest first. I'll go find Brother Yang and the others."
"Okay, go ahead. I'm going to the bathroom."
Taking advantage of the opportunity to go to the toilet, Gong Linglong went to the space, drank two large bowls of warm eight-treasure porridge, and ate two boiled eggs, finally soothing her stomach.
She was invisible when she came out, and added twenty or thirty bags of rice to the nearby granary. The granary in the west district was empty, and the only stock was what they had just transported. She didn't want to add too much, for fear that someone would notice anything unusual.
"Sister-in-law, Brother Yang and the others are ahead."
Song Tao hurried over to find her, smiling brightly, "Deputy Captain Jiang is here too. She and Brother Yang teamed up to haul supplies into the city this morning. They just came back and it seems like they're getting along pretty well."
Gong Linglong took out a pear from her pocket and gave it to him, with a smile on her face: "It's time to prepare the big red envelope."
"Sister-in-law, you eat. I'm not hungry." Song Tao didn't answer.
"Eat it, I just ate one."
There are actually quite a few fruits in the space, but it is not convenient for her to take them out, so she eats them alone during delivery, and only gives one or two to her mother at night.
When the two of them came over, Lu Jingyang had already gathered all the relatives. Everyone smiled when they saw Gong Linglong, "Hello, sister-in-law."
"Hello."
Gong Linglong smiled faintly as Lu Jingyang introduced them to her one by one, and she got to know them better.
The Zhou family's grandchildren had all seen her photos and heard their two aunts praise her. When they saw her today, they found that she was really different from most rural girls. Her temperament and elegant conversation made them feel a little ashamed of themselves.
In the following week, Gong Linglong and Song Tao formed a team to provide support in transporting supplies. Jiang Yun and Lu Jingyang partnered up to travel back and forth between the train station and the West District, and the two of them invisibly deepened their understanding of each other.
It has been a full half month since the earthquake. The officers and soldiers of the army and volunteers have done their best. After the representatives of the visiting group came to inspect the situation on the scene, the command ordered the volunteers to withdraw in batches.
Song Tao did not leave with his classmates. He planned to go back to Kyoto with his cousins to visit his grandparents, and then return to Tancheng to be with his parents after a few days.
When Lu Jingchuan and his men were ordered to retreat, it was Gong Linglong who led the convoy to pick them up. They were all exhausted and dirty, and had lost more than ten pounds since when they arrived. As soon as they arrived at the camp, they all took a quick shower and fell asleep on the simple beds.
The soldiers were the last to evacuate. The Gong mother and daughter and the soldiers' wives evacuated with them. The comrades from the civil affairs department returned to Seoul three days earlier than them.
After nearly two days of travel by train, we arrived in Seoul. The military district sent a car to the train station to pick us up, and many reporters from news media also came to interview us.
"Linglong, put on a mask."
Bai Shuixian came over in time to remind her daughter, and she quickly took a mask to cover her face.
Lu Jingchuan had been protecting his wife. When he heard what his mother-in-law said, he moved his body and quickly blocked her face to prevent the cameras in the hands of the reporters outside from capturing her face.
Gong Linglong quickly took out the mask from the space and put it on, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed. She looked up at the man and said, "Brother Jing, it's okay."
Lu Jingchuan put his arm around her shoulders and followed the crowd out, also taking care of the elders: "Mom, follow us."
While reporters were interviewing and taking photos in front, the deputy commander leading the team was interviewed and answered several questions related to earthquake disaster relief. Then he arranged for evacuation on the grounds that he urgently needed to go back for rest.
After returning home, the three of them quickly took a shower, ate the food that the sisters-in-law next door had brought back for them, and hurried back to the house to sleep.
I slept until the next morning, and when I opened the door, I received explosive news.
"Linglong, you reported it."
"Um?"
Gong Linglong was stunned for a moment, "What was reported?"
"Someone took a photo of you in the earthquake zone and it's now published in the People's Daily. The article praises you as the 'most beautiful military wife.'"
Jiang Yaping stuffed the newspaper into her hands. She actually didn't know many words, but she was sure that the person published in the newspaper was Gong Linglong, so she just called Hu Zi to help them read the contents of the newspaper.
Gong Linglong took the newspaper, opened it, and saw that her photo was on the front page.
"Linglong, show me quickly."
Bai Shuixian was obviously more anxious than her. When she came back, she was still worried about being photographed by reporters. She never expected that she would be photographed while in the disaster area.
Seeing that the photo above was of her profile, Bai Shuixian breathed a sigh of relief. Then, looking at the article below which detailed her name, affiliation, and identity as a military wife, her hands trembled and her heart sank to the bottom.
Lu Jingchuan had just come out and read the news at a glance. Seeing that his mother-in-law looked very unhappy after reading it, he quickly pulled his wife's arm and gave her a look.
Gong Linglong knew what her mother was worried about. She subtly supported her waist and said with a faint smile, "Mom, this reporter is quite good at taking candid photos. He took a picture of my profile, and it turned out quite nice."
"Yeah, it's pretty nice."
Bai Shuixian pulled the corners of her stiff mouth, looked up and said to the others, "Actually, the most beautiful people are the soldiers and volunteers who are doing the disaster relief work. Linglong is just an ordinary military wife, and she is a public servant. It is only natural for her to be on the front lines of disaster relief. She doesn't deserve such high honors and praise."
Seeing how humble and low-key she was, Jiang Yaping and the others finally understood why Gong Linglong was so outstanding. It was all thanks to her good education as a mother.
If this kind of thing happened in other families, it would have been publicized with great fanfare and everyone would have known about it. The person who was praised would have been so proud of himself that they would not be as humble and low-key as this mother and daughter.
"Jingchuan, go to the cafeteria and buy some breakfast. We won't cook it at home in the morning." Bai Shuixian said to her son-in-law.
Lu Jingchuan knew that she had deliberately sent him away because she didn't want him to know something. He sighed softly, went back to the kitchen to get his lunch box, and ran to the cafeteria to buy breakfast.
The mother and daughter briefly exchanged a few words with the neighbors. When they turned back to the house, Bai Shuixian's faint smile disappeared and her face was filled with worry.
"Don't worry, Mom."
Gong Linglong patted her shoulder soothingly, then slowly sat down opposite her. "We didn't expect you to be exposed in this way, but the timing is still appropriate. You've been hiding your true identity before, and we've already deployed everything we needed to do. Now that you've been exposed, we'll go public with our true identities as descendants of the Gong family and provoke them into action."
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