Marry a female star at a bargain price

Chapter 232 231. Qin Zhenggang is in trouble
"Crash..."

The heavy rain continues with no sign of abating.

Lin Xiao and Jia Minglu finished their dinner in the cafeteria, then held an umbrella and trotted back to the office building.

The rain was so heavy that even these two steps could easily get you soaked.

So everyone wore slippers and rolled up their trouser legs to their thighs, and many cadres even wore shorts - in this horrible weather, no one cared about their appearance or the image of the cadres.

The stationed unit has been working on flood prevention for five consecutive days, and everyone is almost going crazy.

Except for the time when everyone went home to get a few sets of clothes, all the cadres stayed at their units. During the day, apart from attending meetings, they patrolled and inspected the village, and at night they lived in the dormitory behind the office building.

Such flood prevention preparations that involve "everyone becoming a soldier" may seem unnecessary, but they are actually the result of painful historical lessons.

During the flood season in South China, either nothing happens, or if something goes wrong it's a big deal.

If an emergency really occurs, it will be too late to send a notice asking cadres to rush to the unit in time.

That’s why the town asked all the cadres to be on duty at their units in case of emergency.

It's not just Chaobai Town that is like this.

At this moment, almost all cities and counties in the province that have issued orange rainstorm warnings are on alert and ready for action at any time.

Lin Xiao and Jia Minglu came downstairs to the office building.

Qin Zhenggang was smoking under the eaves, exhaling slowly and staring at the dark clouds in the sky and the heavy rain in a daze.

The two greeted each other and Qin Zhenggang nodded.

The two looked at each other and decided it would be inappropriate to just skip the handrail and go upstairs directly, so they just stood there on the left and right.

"Oh, this is really weird!"

Jia Minglu suddenly sighed and said, "I saw on the news that the typhoon has passed through the coastal areas, causing many casualties and property losses, but it has finally come to an end. But here, the rain keeps falling, and I don't know when it will stop..."

Jia Minglu was really worried.

The main reason was that I had been living in the company for so many days that I felt smelly all over. The bed in the dormitory was too damp and it felt like I was sleeping in a bucket at night.

If he keeps wasting time like this, even if God isn't crazy, he will go crazy!
After hearing this, Lin Xiao glanced at Qin Zhenggang and saw that he was still frowning, so he said, "I guess it will stop soon. Didn't the Meteorological Bureau release the latest weather forecast this afternoon, saying that the rain is expected to decrease in the second half of the night?"

When Jia Minglu heard this, his voice became even louder: "You still believe in the weather forecast? Forget it! Three days ago, they predicted that the rain would get lighter, but what about now? It's getting heavier..."

When this is mentioned, Jia Minglu gets furious!
Lin Xiao was speechless.

Of course he knew that the climate in South China was changeable during the flood season and that weather forecasts were often inaccurate.

But after four full days of everyone's perseverance, everyone's psychological defenses were almost broken.

At this critical juncture, no matter how much resentment you have, don't take the lead in venting it. After all, God is unreasonable, and you have to endure it no matter how he acts like a spoiled child.

Who made you the leader of a township?

Lin Xiao wanted to liven up the atmosphere, but he was unexpectedly interrupted by Jia Minglu.

He was helpless and simply stopped talking.

Three men stood under the eaves, watching the heavy rain hitting the ground in all directions, creating a silver mist all over the ground.

At this time, a cadre ran down from upstairs to report: "Qin Zhen, the video system just sent a notice, and a dispatch meeting will be held immediately!"

After hearing this, Qin Zhenggang quickly looked at his watch and his expression became more serious.

Jia Minglu asked in confusion, "Aren't there scheduling meetings at 7pm every night? It's only 6pm now, what's going on?"

No one answered him.

Because everyone knows that the more urgent the scheduling meeting is, the more it means that there is important information to be released or important deployment to be communicated.

And now it seems that the rain does not show any sign of abating.

You will know that whether it is important information or important deployment, most of the time it will not be good news.

Jia Minglu and Lin Xiao looked at each other, and their hearts began to lift.

Several people hurried to the command center to attend the county's video dispatch meeting.

In the past, flood prevention and dispatch meetings were attended by Commander-in-Chief Qin Zhenggang and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Qiao Xuyang.

But now the flood situation is tense and all cadres are stationed in the units, so naturally this dispatch meeting has become a meeting for all team members to attend.

In this way, once the county makes any important arrangements, the town will not have to convey it again after the meeting.

Temporary scheduling will begin soon.

A few minutes later, the originally quiet conference room became even more gloomy. Apart from the urgent sounds in the video, there was only the crackling sound of heavy rain outside the window, which invaded the conference room densely.

The temporary dispatch meeting delivered bad news.

Just half an hour ago, a 4.7-magnitude earthquake occurred in a mountainous area called Niushan Town in the westernmost part of Nanzhou Province.

Although the magnitude of the earthquake was not large, the location was 300 kilometers away from Anyang County.

In theory, it will have little impact on Anyang County or even the entire Yizhou City.

But the tension lies in the fact that the mountainous area where the earthquake occurred is now in the midst of strong winds and heavy rains, and the flood prevention springs have already been stretched to the critical value.

This sudden earthquake is like adding insult to injury for the already tense flood situation.

There have been many casualties in the earthquake-stricken area.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the earthquake is likely to cause dam breaches and flash floods, which would be a devastating disaster for local people.

But for Anyang County and even the entire Yizhou City.

This breaking news is by no means just idle talk after dinner that has nothing to do with us.

The reason why the higher-ups held such an urgent dispatch meeting was to quickly convey the news and make emergency arrangements to all grassroots units before the earthquake news appeared on the Internet.

This is because the mountainous area where the earthquake occurred happens to be located upstream of many streams within Yizhou City.

Among them is Anyang County’s mother river – Chaoshu River.

This is why leaders at the city and county levels are so nervous.

Once a mountain torrent breaks out in the disaster area, or if flood discharge arrangements are made to ease the pressure of flood control, the surging water will most likely flow along the river all the way eastward towards Anyang County.

A distance of three hundred kilometers can be covered in less than a day.

In theory, the water system in South China is well developed, and even if flood water is discharged and diverted to various rivers, it will not cause much danger or pressure.

The crisis can be resolved easily.

But the problem is that due to the two-month flood season and consecutive days of heavy rain, the province's rivers, reservoirs, and ponds are now facing heavy flood prevention pressure, and water levels are approaching the warning line.

At this critical juncture, once the time comes to release floodwaters and divert water, no river can be guaranteed to survive safely without overflowing or flooding.

It's really come to that point.

What the city and county should do may not be to fight the flood with all their strength and protect the safety of the whole area, but to sacrifice some rice fields or even villages to discharge flood water and respond to the disaster on the premise of ensuring the safety of personnel.

Of course, this is still a relatively ideal situation where the danger is controllable.

If some unexpected crisis really happens...

It is hard to say whether the safety of the villagers can be guaranteed.

It is completely difficult to predict how serious the disaster will be and how wide its coverage will be.

At the thought of this, the situation at the command center became increasingly tense and serious, with everyone's heart in their throat.

Outside the window, the rainstorm was still raging mercilessly.

……

"Crash..."

After the scheduling meeting, there was a brief five seconds of silence in the headquarters conference room.

Five seconds later, Qin Zhenggang immediately reconnected the video systems of each village. The village with the malfunction directly made a WeChat video call to participate in the meeting, and then used five minutes to convey the situation of the county meeting.

After the communication is completed, the next step is to deploy the current key tasks.

The content of the work is not much different from the past few days. It is nothing more than paying more attention and being more vigilant. All cadres and village heads need to tighten their thinking valves, give up all fluke mentality, and devote themselves wholeheartedly to the most difficult and dangerous battle in this flood prevention campaign.

After the arrangements were made, the tension and solemnity in the conference room had sunk to the bottom.

Even the deputy commander-in-chief Qiao Xuyang, who had been very jumpy in the past two days, was now watching the situation with his eyes and nose, and tactfully ignored and said nothing.

Qin Zhenggang announced the adjournment of the meeting.

Everyone took immediate action, went deep into important locations in villages across the town, and began a new round of inspections.

At this moment, Anyang No. 1 Middle School.

It is summer vacation, and except for the senior high school students who have returned to school, the teaching buildings for the other two grades are empty.

Five consecutive days of heavy rain did not affect the closed remedial classes for senior high school students.

But just half an hour ago.

A 4.7-magnitude earthquake suddenly struck a town in the western part of Nanzhou Province. Once the news was released, it quickly attracted the attention of people across the country.

This news naturally reached the ears of the leaders of Anyang No. 1 Middle School.

In the past two days, leaders have been paying close attention to the flood situation and considering whether to suspend classes and allow students to leave school and return home.

After all, it was raining too heavily.

Teachers have difficulty commuting to get off work and there is water everywhere in the school, which poses certain safety hazards.

The heavy rain even caused great inconvenience to purchasing for the school cafeteria.

If the situation continues, students’ three meals a day will become a problem.

School leaders have been studying the suspension of classes and have preliminarily decided that once the county issues a red warning for heavy rain, classes will be suspended immediately. Students who can return home will go home, while those who cannot will continue to live in school dormitories.

Wait until the rain subsides and resume normal classes.

But the news of the sudden earthquake in Niushan Town forced school leaders to make a quick decision - to suspend classes now.

The news was quickly conveyed to the class teachers of each class, and then passed on to the classrooms where students were having evening self-study.

Of course, it’s getting late today, so we have to wait until tomorrow to leave school.

So the evening study continues tonight.

However, when the students heard the news, they had no intention of studying anymore. Their minds had already flown through the heavy rain outside the teaching building and into the outside world.

Class 50 of Grade is one of the only two innovative classes in the entire grade. The classroom is home to more than students with the best grades in the grade.

This class should be the one that caused the least fluctuation after learning the news of the holiday.

After the head teacher announced the news that there would be a holiday tomorrow, it only caused a brief discussion in the classroom, and then it returned to silence. The students continued to work on their homework in the ocean of piles of books.

Qin Jiapeng felt two vibrations in his trouser pockets.

He finished the final question in his hand before taking out his cell phone and found that it was a message from his girlfriend Chen Shuang.

However, this message was not sent to him alone, but to the "Cool Boy Fifty-Seven" group. In addition to the two of them, there were three other members in this group, namely Liang Tian, ​​Lin Yu, and Zhang Zihang.

The group was formed half a month ago when we met by chance at a hotpot restaurant.

The name of the group at that time was "Why do we have to know each other when we meet?"

Later, Liang Tian and Chen Shuang thought the group name was too silly, so they changed it several times before finally settling on "Cool Boys Fifty-Seven".

“Cool boy” is easy to understand.

Of course, the words originally read “cool boy and girl”, but Liang Tian was unhappy that “girl” had to come after “boy”.

After a meaningless argument, they decided that teenagers included boys and girls, so they simply changed it to "cool boys".

"Fifty-seven" means that the five people are of the same age, and they are all seventeen years old this year.

After breaking up that day, the five of them chatted a lot in the group.

Although the few people are not familiar with each other, Qin Jiapeng and Chen Shuang are best friends, and Lin Yu and Zhang Zihang are deskmates, so they are relatively familiar with each other.

But it's a bit awkward to get together.

However, young people all have a strange kind of stubbornness. The less familiar they are with each other and the more awkward the atmosphere is, the harder they try to find topics to chat about, as if whoever speaks less will lose.

In addition, there is a mischievous girl named Liang Tian from Jingzhou in the group.

With her leading the group, the other four all had a sense of awe and disobedience towards the girl from the capital, so this group formed on the spur of the moment was unexpectedly active on weekdays. It was only after Qin Jiapeng, Lin Yu and Zhang Zihang returned to school that the group became a little quieter, but there were still more than a dozen chats every day.

This time it was Chen Shuang who asked: "It's raining so hard that our village is flooded. Aren't you going to have a holiday?"

She then @ed the three boys in the group.

As a poor student in No. 3 Middle School, Chen Shuang naturally had no chance of starting school early. He had been working in a hot pot restaurant recently.

As soon as Qin Jiapeng took out his cell phone, Zhang Zihang replied first.

Soon after, Liang Tian also appeared, and the group immediately became lively.

Zhang Zihang: "Our teacher just announced that we're going to have a holiday. We can pack up and leave tomorrow. I'm so so happy!"

Liang Tian: "What good news! I don't know whether I should feel bad for you or be happy for you [laugh and cry][laugh and cry]"

Chen Shuang: “Hahahaha”

Chen Shuang: "No. 1 Middle School is a good school. They won't give students a holiday unless it's absolutely necessary!" Liang Tian: "I don't understand. Do good schools have to exploit students like this?"

Zhang Zihang: "[Sweating] Big sister, do you think this is your Jingzhou? You can get into a prestigious university with just a simple exam!"

Liang Tian: "Zhang Zihang!! I'm warning you!! It's hard to get into university in Jingzhou!! I'm under a lot of pressure studying too!!"

Zhang Zihang: "[I have behaved myself, please let me go]"

Qin Jiapeng: “[Covering mouth and laughing]”

Zhang Zihang: "Chen Shuang, your husband is here @Chen Shuang"

Chen Shuang: “[Chopping knife][Chopping knife]…”

Liang Tian: "Hey? You guys are on vacation, so before I go back to Jingzhou, can we still get together again?"

Chen Shuang: “You can have this!”

Zhang Zihang: "Sister Liang, are you going back?"

Liang Tian: "Yes, I didn't do well in the final exam last semester, so my mom asked me to go back a long time ago! If it hadn't been raining heavily these days and the planes hadn't been suspended, I would have been taking extra classes at home right now [I have to be strong]"

Chen Shuang: "It seems that Jingzhou's study pressure is not small!"

Liang Tian: "Yeah, we're all miserable high school seniors, so why would we know each other when we meet?"

Chen Shuang: “Hahahahahaha”

Zhang Zihang: "Sister Liang, I take back what I said... But in a year, don't go to the same school as me [嘚瑟]]

Liang Tian: "Why, are you so disdainful of going to the same school as me?"

Zhang Zihang: "How dare I?"

Chen Shuang: "Let's get down to business. Tiantian, when are you leaving? If we want to get together, we have to hurry up!"

Liang Tian: "My mom will have to buy me a ticket as soon as flights resume... I don't know when!"

Zhang Zihang: "Then I guess once the rain stops and we resume classes, it will be about time for you to leave!"

Chen Shuang: "Then let's do it in these two days, still in the same place?"

Liang Tian: "Okay, I'll find a way to get there via Ninghai, and I'll treat you this time!"

Zhang Zihang: "That won't work. You are the guest, we should treat you... Let Lin Yu pay the bill, he has money!"

Liang Tian: “[嘚瑟][嘚瑟]”

Chen Shuang: "Zhang Zihang, you can't betray your brothers like this [covering mouth and laughing]"

Chen Shuang: "But then again, where is Lin Yu? Why didn't he say a word?"

Zhang Zihang: “[Picture]”

Zhang Zihang: "He's pretending to be serious! This kid has been obsessed with studying lately. He looks like he's going to kick Tsinghua University and Peking University and beat Harvard University. It's not too long before he wins the top spot in No. 1 Middle School!"

Chen Shuang: "Zhang Zihang, you still have the nerve to laugh at Lin Yu. It's your senior year in high school, you should also work harder!"

Liang Tian: "Hahaha, your status as a top student is in jeopardy @Qin Jiapeng"

Zhang Zihang: "You're still blaming me, you better be careful or your husband will abandon you after he gets admitted to a prestigious university!"

Chen Shuang: “[Cleaning knife][Cleaning knife]”

Qin Jiapeng: “[grin][grin]”

Lin Yu: "Zhang Zihang, you kid, keep saying bad things about me [angry]"

Chen Shuang: "Lin Yu is here [grin]"

Liang Tian: "@Lin Yu, my practice banquet is for you, is there any problem? [fist]"

Lin Yu: “[OK]”

Zhang Zihang: “[Let’s have a big meal]”

Chen Shuang: "[Let's have a big meal]"

Liang Tian: "[Let's have a big meal]
Qin Jiapeng: "[Let's have a big meal]"

Lin Yu: "..."

The group cheered and the more they talked, the more excited they became.

Qin Jiapeng was a dull person by nature. After barely following the group for two rounds, he could no longer keep up with the pace.

Seeing that the conversation was getting more and more crazy, he took a moment to have fun and put away his phone.

Prepare to continue doing the questions.

But listening to the heavy and rapid rain outside the window, his mood became uncontrollably tense.

"Schools are closed now. It seems that the flood situation is really serious... I don't know what's going on with Mayor Qin!"

Qin Jiapeng thought to himself, feeling gloomy.

But he quickly let it go, focused his attention on the exercises, and started working on them attentively.

……

"Crash..."

The sky was dark and the rain continued to pour.

Ninghai, Geely Garden.

Liang Tian was still chatting with her friends in the group and didn't notice that her cousin Han Xixi had been standing inside the glass door of the balcony for quite a while.

The heavy rain continued for so many days, and earthquakes occurred in some places.

The extremely severe weather has put the entire province on high alert. My mother, Liu Liyun, has already retired from her unit and has also submitted an application for internal retirement to the organization.

But even so, facing such bad weather.

As the director of the old street office, she was still worried, so she drove to the unit in the rain after dinner.

Even though Han Xixi didn't know how serious the flood situation was or how scorching the situation was, just by seeing her usually calm mother panicking, she knew the situation was indeed not optimistic.

This made it difficult for her not to feel nervous.

Don't worry, Dad.

No matter how dedicated and responsible he is, he is, after all, the top leader of a prefecture-level city. The more serious and critical the situation is, the more he needs to be in charge of command and dispatch. In any case, it will not be his turn to go to the front line.

What Han Xixi was really worried about was Lin Xiao, who was the deputy mayor at the grassroots level.

The two hadn't seen each other for three days since last Sunday, when he hurried back to work in the rain.

It's not a long time.

But in the past when they were apart, at least they could contact each other through phone or video. But this time, Lin Xiao didn't even have time to video call her, and they could only chat twice a day on WeChat in the evening.

Xixi knew that he was working hard and couldn't bear to talk to him for too long, so she always ended the conversation in a hurry.

In three days, she didn't take the initiative to look for Lin Xiao once, for fear that he would be distracted.

She was really scared today.

That's why I sent a WeChat message to Lin Xiao after my mother left, asking him how he was doing.

It has been an hour since the message was sent, but there has been no response so far.

Han Xixi's heart became increasingly tense.

Her pregnancy is almost three months old. In the past two weeks, her morning sickness has improved significantly and she hasn't vomited for many days.

But today, as she listened to the rapid and monotonous sound of rain outside the window, she felt indescribably irritated all over.

Finally, her stomach suddenly churned, causing her to retch on the spot.

"oops!"

When Liang Tian heard the noise, she quickly threw down her phone, jumped up from the sofa, picked up the trash can and rushed to her sister.

After stroking Han Xixi's back for a long time, he helped her sit down on the sofa.

He poured her another glass of warm water.

Under her cousin's order, Xixi drank the glass of water with great reluctance, and her stomach felt much better.

At this moment, the phone made a "ding dong" sound, which was the sound of a new WeChat message.

Xixi's eyes lit up immediately, and she quickly picked up her phone and opened the screen. After a short yet long moment, she saw the familiar avatar.

"call……"

She let out a long sigh of relief, and a bright smile appeared on her face.

Liang Tian was watching this scene from the side, and her head was immediately filled with question marks.

She was holding a water cup in her hand and there was a trash can at her feet. Her whole body showed an attitude of dedication and readiness.

But I didn't expect that my elder sister didn't even look at me. She was covered in pink bubbles and hid in the room to have a love affair with her husband.

"Oh, women in love are really unreliable!"

Liang Tian was secretly complaining in her heart.

in the room.

Han Xixi had just finished reading the WeChat message from her husband when the phone rang.

"Hello~" She quickly answered.

"Why aren't you asleep yet so late?" Lin Xiao asked on the other end of the phone.

"I can't sleep...I'm worried about you..."

Before Han Xixi answered the phone, she was thinking about how she should try not to show her worry and vulnerability, but she didn't expect that as soon as she heard Lin Xiao's voice, all her psychological defenses collapsed instantly, and her voice even sounded a little tearful.

Lin Xiao hurriedly said a few words to comfort him.

Xixi also quickly returned to normal and asked with a smile: "Where are you now? At work?"

Lin Xiao said: "No, I was in the village. I just followed the village director to patrol along the river bank, so I didn't see your WeChat."

Han Xixi said hurriedly: "Oh... I was worried about you, so I couldn't help but send you a message. Don't worry about it. Just reply when you have time. It doesn't matter if you don't have time. I know you are very busy..."

His voice got lower and lower, and he spoke in a cautious tone. It was obvious that he felt it was very immature to send messages to disturb others at such a critical time of flood prevention.

However, Lin Xiao understood his wife's feelings.

I was pregnant, and my parents and husband were not around. Luckily, I had a younger sister at home with me, otherwise I don’t know how worried I would be.

He is actually very busy.

But I still called my wife back a few minutes before the scheduling meeting to save her from worrying about me.

The two chatted for a few more words.

Han Xixi sensibly hung up the phone and told him to go to bed early.

The two said good night in a restrained manner.

Lin Xiao put away his phone, looked at the time and saw that it was almost ten o'clock. He hurried back to the only meeting room of the village committee to prepare for the second scheduling meeting of the night.

The meeting notice was sent half an hour ago.

Because all the team members had gone to the village, they held the meeting directly via video with the village director.

Lin Xiao walked in on time.

I thought the meeting had already started, but the large screen of the video system was empty. I could only see the banner logo of "Chaobai Town Flood Control and Drought Relief Command" in the camera, but there was no one at the huge conference table.

"What's going on? Didn't we have a scheduling meeting at 10 o'clock? Why is there no one here?"

Lin Xiao asked doubtfully.

The village director was also confused: "I don't know, I just came here two minutes ago, and that's what the video shows, there's no one!"

Lin Xiao asked: "The time has been changed? That can't be possible, there was no notification!"

The village chief shook his head.

Lin Xiao was puzzled, but he always felt that something was wrong.

Just as he was about to open his phone to check the WeChat group, Deputy Mayor Tu Hui suddenly called. The abrupt ringtone scared Lin Xiao in the impatient rainy night.

He was stunned for three seconds before swiping to answer the call.

"Hey, Brother Hui..."

"Lin Xiao, where are you?" A hurried voice came, trembling with some forbearance and suppression.

"In the village... What's wrong? What happened?"

Lin Xiao realized something was wrong and asked anxiously.

Then there was silence for a second on the other end of the line, and then a trembling voice came over:
"Qin Zhen...something happened!!"

(End of this chapter)