Back to the prime of life

Chapter 88 Fermentation
While Lu Changge was scrambling for water, Xu Weiguo had already reached the downstairs of Building 1 of the Municipal Government.

He stopped here, and if he went any further, he would have to be led by someone.

Not long after, another car came to the door. After seeing the license plate number clearly, he hurried in.

A man wearing large brown glasses came out. When he saw him, he asked, "Do you understand the situation?"

"Yes, I've already checked with the district environmental protection bureau, and it's probably a blue-green algae outbreak. I've also learned that residents in Lelang, Xihua, and Jiujiang districts are experiencing water odor. With such a large scale, it's certain there's something wrong with the water source at the water plant. So, based solely on inference, we can conclude it's a blue-green algae outbreak."

"Are you sure?" The man stopped and stared at him.

Xu Weiguo was a higher-ranking official, and this was an emergency, so he was worried, but he had to nod, "OK."

This information did not come from Lu Changge, he asked it himself.

The leader couldn't help but sigh and began to question, "After the province issued the special action plan this year, I remember the bureau also held a special work deployment meeting. Did you follow up and supervise the work after the meeting?"

Xu Weiguo didn't dare to say much. In fact, this leader was absent from that deployment meeting, but it was not easy for him to say such things at this time.

"We definitely did follow up and supervise."

"How did you do that? Did you go and check it yourself, or did you make a phone call from the office?"

"I did, but maybe I didn't look very carefully."

Xu Weiguo didn't dare to slow down, and even his brain didn't dare to stop working. He already felt that the corridor he was walking along with the leader was simply the longest road in the world.

"If you didn't look at it, then you didn't look at it carefully. Where are the materials?"

The leader was asking him, and also asking another middle-aged bald man who had been following him. That man was the office director, and Xu Weiguo was also very familiar with him.

"It's too urgent... I'll get the previous one first."

There really is no time to prepare.

Everyone got up from bed in the middle of the night after receiving the call, and then the phone kept ringing, so the junior staff could only ask the staff to quickly get everything they could use.

"What's the point of the above? You want me to report to the city leaders empty-handed?!"

Xu Weiguo didn't actually have one; everything he wrote was handwritten. "Boss, I have the basic situation and data in my computer, but I didn't have time to integrate them, so I wrote a little from memory. But I feel that the city leaders are not concerned about the old issues right now and must be looking for solutions. On the way here, I came up with two principles and 2 specific measures. Shouldn't they be sufficient for this emergency?"

What he pulled out were two pages of yellowed paper torn from an ordinary notebook, very rough. Unlike the usual materials, the title, text, and pictures were all clear, but there was nothing he could do.

The leader sighed. After all, the situation was too urgent and there was really nothing he could do. At least Director Xu had given him something.

Then he went in with this.

Xu Weiguo and the bald man were waiting outside. After about twenty minutes, the black wooden door suddenly opened.

Their leader came out and waved, "Director Xu, come in."

"it is good!"

As the two of them intertwined, the leader instructed, "The two pieces of paper have been taken away by the leader. Now I want to call on you to report. Don't be nervous."

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the other side.

Lu Changge had already arrived at the school gate in Lao Cheng's car.

The security guard on duty at night was different from the previous one. I don’t know if he had changed shifts, but this person suddenly came over and stopped Cheng Yongyi’s car.

Seeing this, Lu Changge immediately got out of the car and told them both, "You all sit down."

Zuo Shuya tilted her head while sitting in the car. She saw Lu Changge get off and walk to the side with the security guard. Seeing that they were casually talking to each other, the security guard immediately laughed. What surprised her even more was that the two of them were actually arm in arm.

There were cars on the road outside the door, and the noise was so loud that they couldn't hear what was said over there. Anyway, they just watched Lu Changge and the security guard pat each other on the shoulders, and then they went back to the car and sat down.

"Okay, he'll open the door right away."

"What did you talk to him about? Why did he let us go?" Zuo Shuya was really curious. She always felt that Lu Changge could come up with something new.

Cheng Yongyi was also quite puzzled, "Do you know him?"

"He knows nothing, but he knows me."

"Boasting is my exclusive privilege, can you please stop snatching it away?"

Lu Changge explained, "I'm not exaggerating. I'm not famous in school, but I'm quite famous here at the gate. This guy has only been here for half a month and hasn't seen me, but he has heard of me."

"Really?" Cheng Yongyi turned his head and asked in an incredible tone.

"Watch the road."

Ahead on the road, there are obviously more students tonight than usual.

"It seems that many people know the situation." "Let's go to the garage." Lu Changge said calmly.

In the garage, Li Ming and Qin Jun were using the back seats of their bicycles to fetch water. They had originally been moving the water, but after seeing Yin Anyan and An Yihuan use this method, they were inspired and learned it as well.

Although only two boxes can be placed at a time and one person has to support it from behind, it saves effort and allows you to walk faster on the road.

Soon, a car drove up to the door and Lu Changge and three others got out.

"How is it? How much did you get?" Lu Changge asked.

Li Ming led him inside. At the back of the garage, there was a pitiful row of two layers of bottles. "They're all here. There are 12 boxes in total. They're all 350ml bottles."

"We originally wanted to buy more, but suddenly there were more people and the store was emptied out," said Qin Jun.

"Okay. Now, including ours, there are 23 boxes in total, and there are 8 large barrels."

After a simple calculation, there are 13 people in their two dormitories plus Zuo Shuya.

Qin Jun’s girlfriend Cui Lanxia and Tang Huaicheng’s future girlfriend An Min, that’s 15 of them.

That means each person gets an average of one and a half boxes, one box contains 24 bottles, and each person gets half a barrel of bottled water.

Lu Changge calculated in his mind that if it was just to meet the drinking requirement, it should be basically enough, but if washing vegetables and taking a bath were included, it would be hard to say.

"Why is there another box of 7-Up?" Zuo Shuya found this next to the pile of mineral water.

At this time, Hui Chuankun scratched his head and said, "I couldn't squeeze in where the water was being grabbed, so I just thought, since I can drink it anyway, I brought it here."

"Haha." Everyone laughed.

Lu Changge was also amused. Hui Chuankun, who usually kept quiet, could actually do such a thing.

What happens next is relatively simple.

Everyone helped to move all the water to where Zuo Shuya lived. There was no shelter here, and if the door was open, passers-by could see it.

Lu Changge agreed with them not to tell anyone else about the water. If Cui Lanxia and An Min needed it, they could come and get it on their own.

In addition, because the drinking water is unhealthy, I definitely can't eat outside and can only come to Zuo Shuya's house to cook.

As for the rest, don’t get involved in what’s happening on the campus forum or in the school. It will be fine after these few days anyway.

After the discussion, they went back to sleep.

In fact, although they were supposed to be sleeping, no one except Lu Changge could sleep at all. They all started checking their phones.

They started discussing it in the middle of the night, saying, "It broke out on the school forum! Several dormitories know about it."

"Ouch~~!!"

The dormitory building was still in turmoil. Someone in the building opposite was screaming like a monkey. No one knew what emotion it was, but it was a weird cry.

The next day, voices also appeared on the Internet, and some clickbait headlines began to use sensational words such as "millions of people are worried about water supply."

Lu Changge also started receiving calls early in the morning, and they were from Zuo Shuya.

Everyone was having a headache, including her. She came up and asked, "Changge, how am I going to cook for so many people today?"

"It's simple. I'll buy some frozen food later, like dumplings, wontons, and noodles. I can just put them in a pot of water and cook them all the time. When they're done, I can make soup with the dumplings. It saves water, effort, and hassle."

"Hey, Old Lu," Qin Jun called him again. "Something's really happened! The official announcement has been made! Come down quickly and take a look."

"Let me see, let me see." Cheng Yongyi, who was brushing his teeth, quickly came over. But after just two glances, he felt something was wrong. "Measure one, emergency water diversion... Measure six, artificial rainfall. Holy shit. Old Lu, isn't this what you mentioned in the car yesterday?"

Lu Changge covered his head with the quilt and lay down in surrender, "Can you guys please not call me at the same time?"

Jingle Bell!Jingle Bell!
Cheng Yongyi's phone rang again.

"Hey?"

"what?!"

Lu Changge turned his head, he had a bad feeling.

"Don't worry, don't worry, we'll go there now." Cheng Yongyi threw his toothbrush and said, "Old Lu, Ai Mai is vomiting and has a stomachache. Let's go to the orchid garden!"

Lu Changge was not found for this matter, but Cheng Yongyi just called him because everyone was really used to it and thought he could get things done.

"Stomachache?" Lu Changge stopped complaining when it came to other people's health and immediately started to move. "Why?"

Cheng Yongyi said quickly, "I don't know the details. Yihuan said they suspected it was caused by the beef noodles that Ai Mai ate alone outside yesterday. Isn't there something wrong with the water?"

If you think about it this way, it's not just a simple stomach upset, you need to go to the hospital to get it checked out.

(End of this chapter)