Natural Disaster Strikes: From Joining the Rescue Team

Chapter 968: Pei Family Entanglement

War trauma.

Sitting in the sightseeing car, Gu Sheng lit a cigarette and thought about this word silently. Some of his teammates who retired earlier also left for this reason. This also explains why Colonel Chigu mocked Lieutenant Billy mercilessly when he was accused of carelessness at work.

We should treat Billy and the others as normal people, which will help them recover sooner.

Gu Shengwen had never thought about this before. Through Lieutenant Billy's story, he once again learned about the structure of the Life Eternal Investment Company from Major Chigu.

Not everyone could have imagined building a snow supply point into an underground base to accommodate survivors from around the world, and not everyone dared to think of it.

What kind of vision and courage does a person need to make such a decision and gain the support of 147 countries?

Gu Sheng's admiration for Yue Feng, which had already risen from the bottom of his heart, soared, and he admired Yue Feng even more as the rocket took off.

But he wouldn't give in to Ye Lin. Only after he fell in love with Ye Lin did he know what kind of girl was worth loving. He loved her truly and deeply.

Admiration and unwillingness were tangled in Gu Sheng's heart, until he suddenly remembered that Yue Feng was still in mourning period, and he couldn't help but sigh helplessly.

He is still on the road, serving on a rescue vehicle.

Yue Feng is in the period of mourning.

It was impossible for the two of them to have any negotiations on Ye Lin's behalf now, so it would be a bit redundant to think about not letting anything go.

He still just admired the "respected president and base commander" for now. Anyway, he would not give up Ye Lin.

Thinking of this, his emotions seemed to return to the previous entanglement, but at this time Gu Sheng had no way to continue to be entangled. The sightseeing bus stopped in the passage. There was a door at the place where he got off the bus. He had arrived at his stop.

Gu Sheng then realized that something seemed to be wrong. He was there when everyone was arranged to check into the room for 1,200 people in the morning. The familiar feeling in his memory seemed to say that this was not the door. This was not a room for 1,200 people, but a completely unfamiliar place.

The door opened, and Lao Gu stood inside the door with a happy face, smiling and said, "Young man, your social activities are over."

He turned around and called out to Gu Ma: "Your capable son is back."

Gu Sheng laughed: "Dad, don't make such jokes. Be careful that others may hear us and laugh at us."

Mother Gu also came out to greet him with a bright look on her face: "Xiaosheng, this is not a joke, this is the truth from your father."

He turned around and said unhappily to the sofa: "There is still a son who is useless here. He always causes troubles."

Gu Yi, who was sitting on the sofa, laughed and came over: "Mom, don't say that to me. Just forget about me and just look at my brother."

He cupped his hands to Gu Sheng and said flatteringly, "Brother, you see my parents don't want to recognize me anymore. I can only ask you to take Xiao Pei and me in, otherwise we will have no place to stay tonight."

Gu Sheng walked in with his family, sat down on the sofa, glanced around the luxurious room, and smiled at Lao Gu: "Dad, I really drank too much today and forgot that you asked me to come and see the room during the day. If you hadn't opened the door, I would have stood outside and hadn't remembered where this was."

Old Gu was in high spirits: "Isn't this place nice? It was originally prepared for the Yue family, and then Yue Feng projected that there would be a share for our family as well." He squinted his eyes, which had not opened since he saw his eldest son, and now he squinted even more: "My son, you earned all this."

Gu Sheng smiled and said, "Dad, to be honest, we are the ones who benefit from this. This place is not something I can earn."

Old Gu still looked relieved: "I understand, Dad, I understand in my heart, I understand very well."

Gu Sheng looked at Gu Yi and said, "Since our whole family has a share here, Xiaoyi and Xiaopei, you can also come and live here."

Gu Sheng jumped up and cheered, but was given a stern look by Gu's mother.

Mr. Gu: "But you need to explain to me first, why do you have no place to stay? Aren't there rooms arranged for you?"

Lao Gu's face darkened first, "Don't mention it. When I got off the bus, I followed Lao Yue closely, and followed here to take advantage of the situation. When I asked your mother to come over, I didn't expect to be watched by Xiaoyi. The smallest sightseeing car is not small. He followed us hiding under the chair at the back. I even asked Lao Yue about this. I said that there must be some confidential places at the No. 3 supply point. What if we didn't pay attention when we were in the car and someone hid in the car and followed us? Lao Yue said that was impossible. He said that only those who are allowed can get on the bus with us. I think that's right. Yue Feng said that the Queen voted that our whole family can stay here. Even if Xiaoyi is not hiding honestly, he is still a member of our family. So he followed us, and when he knew we were staying here tonight, he insisted on moving in."

Mother Gu rolled her eyes at Gu Yi again: "This is what your brother earned through hard work. It's fine for us as parents to enjoy it, but who do you think you are to want to live here?"

Gu Yi raised his hands and cried out, "God, I swear to God, if I had no other choice, I would not have come to take advantage of my brother. Brother, you don't need me to tell you what kind of people those bad people in Pei Ying's family are. They often act in the car. At first, they spread the rumor that Xiao Pei had a cooperative relationship with the Life Never Ends Investment Company, and the rescue vehicle brought everyone along when it came to pick up the partners and their families. Recently, they directly said that it was the entire Pei family that cooperated with this company, and that everyone in the rescue vehicle should be grateful to them. Without them, everyone in the vehicle would have died in the snow a long time ago."

Gu Sheng said calmly: "No one will believe what cannot stand up to scrutiny. Even if someone is deceived for a while, it won't last long. Ask Zuo Hui, does he believe it? Ask Deputy Director Liao, does he believe it? Ask Wu Xi and Mo Bai who followed us out to rescue, do they believe it? The people in the car were rescued by the Pei family. Has anyone we rescued from other districts seen anyone from the Pei family at the rescue site?"

Gu Yi: "Others may believe it or not, but someone in their family wants to keep blowing it, and has been annoying the people around them. Now they are thinking about getting protective clothing. Isn't it known in the car about the 10,000 sets of protective clothing? The Pei family is in the rescue vehicle. Xiao Pei and I live in the tow truck and can't see each other every day, but their family has annoying ways. They contacted Xiao Pei through the in-car communication a few days ago and asked her to help the Pei family get protective clothing. Today, seeing that the supply point is so big and so good, their family is collectively inflated. The old man of the Pei family followed Xiao Pei and said when we were eating and when we returned to the room, he said, brother, their family has always asked to stay with us. Xiao Pei and I live in a large room with a couple's bed, and their family can also live in with couples, old and young, and we can't even hide in the bed next door. We are so annoyed that we really can't live here. I came out to talk to my father, and I happened to see that you have a ready-made room here."

He stood up and pointed to Gu Sheng happily: "Brother, this is the layout of the presidential suite. We can live in the worker's room. Please, brother, let us move in. Otherwise, we are afraid that they will open the bed curtains and talk to us in the middle of the night. Don't disbelieve it. The protective suit is very touching. The Pei family can really make it."

Mother Gu listened to the reason again and was still angry. She scolded Gu Yi: "I really don't know why you chose Xiao Pei. At that time, I said Pei Ying was a good child, but her family was too noisy. Since you two started dating, we have seen a lot of cold eyes from the Pei family, and you also caused your brother to give up the right to operate the company."

She sneered, "To this day, I still don't believe that if the company is handed over to your brother, it will be any worse than Xiao Pei's."

Mr. Gu advised her, "Okay, Mom, Xiao Pei does have a talent for finance, and we have discussed this marriage. Besides, it's not Xiao Yi who is pursuing Xiao Pei, it's Xiao Pei who is pursuing Xiao Yi."

Gu Ma smiled at him and said, "But people who are like gold will always shine. When the snowstorm comes, everyone in the city will praise you, and everyone in the rescue vehicle will praise you."

Gu Sheng quickly smiled and said, "Pause, Mom, I said when I came in that we are lucky to be able to live here."

After hearing this, Old Gu asked Gu Yi again: "Xiao Yi, if you followed here secretly, you would know whose family is the most important in the whole car during the day, right? It is not convenient for me to verify it in front of Old Yue, but it is obvious that the six rescue vehicles are mainly picking up Yue Feng's family, and we are all the ones who got in the car because of our privilege."

He said with disdain: "Pei family? What are you talking about!"

Then he spread out his hands again: "I saw it during the meal. Yue Feng is a middle-level manager of the Lifeless Investment Company. It's such a big company, made up of 147 countries, and he is a middle-level manager, which is equivalent to the mayor of a country. Maybe not as high as the director of a department like mine, but probably about the same."

Gu Yi stuck out his tongue and said, "Yeah, he is not a shareholder but a manager? This is not about money but about ability. This is amazing."

Suddenly I thought: "Brother, did you know this a long time ago?"

Gu Sheng thought to himself, what management personnel, what middle-level and senior-level personnel, he is higher-level than the senior-level personnel, the founding president of the Life Eternal Investment Company. Judging from some information in the live broadcast, he is also the base director with real power.

Facing his brother's silly question, Gu Sheng just smiled and said nothing for a while, then said calmly: "Well, I know."

Gu Yi: "Ha, brother, why didn't you tell me? Let me remind your brother so that I can be more polite to him earlier."

Lao Gu gave him a slap: "Can you say that? Can you casually say something as confidential as this?"

Gu Yi held his head and said pitifully: "Brother, please help me, I have been beaten, let us live here."

Mother Gu got angry again: "It's time for you to learn how to do things. You are so old and you can't even deal with your own Yue family. What are you going to do in the future? Will you be bullied by the Pei family all the time? Your brother was already a special forces soldier at your age, and he worked hard on the battlefield without telling the family." Gu Sheng let his family chatter. He used the communicator to contact Feng Zhang: "You live in the same room with my brother. Help me see if there is anyone else on my brother's bed?"

Feng Zhang: "Do you want to project?"

Mr. Gu: "One-way, if it's convenient for you."

The projection unfolded, revealing a small room within a room.

The details are as follows: Refer to the room with 600 bunk beds where Guo Xianli lives, which can accommodate 1,200 people. There are also 600 bunk beds here, but each bunk bed is wrapped into a room, forming a duplex with two floors.

When you walk into the room, the first thing you see is a duplex two-story building, with the outside built with board walls.

When you push open the door on the first floor, you first see an open space of about one meter, then you see the bed inside, and above it there is a layer of board wall as the ceiling, which is also the floor of the second floor.

To go to the second floor, you have to go up the stairs next to the door on the first floor. There is also an open space of about one meter and a bed.

The bathroom in the entire room is shared by everyone, just like other rooms, only the sleeping area is different.

Because there is an extra layer of wall outside the bed, privacy is protected to a certain extent. Gu Yi said that their beds might be opened by someone in the middle of the night. This is a very exaggerated statement. In fact, if the doors of the rooms on the first and second floors are closed, someone who wants to come over has to knock on the door first.

This type of room is suitable for couples or families of three with children. It is also suitable for Guo Xianli to stay here with her children and her mother-in-law.

The reason why they were not arranged to stay in the house was that, firstly, Guo Xianli's child was an infant and it would be convenient to take care of them together by staying in the same room with other mothers and babies; secondly, Guo Xianli also had two nephews, and as long as conditions allowed, she would not let the two underage children live separately.

Guo Xianli praised the people in the rescue vehicle highly. Although the probability that all the more than 12 million people were good people was a little unlikely, Guo Xianli was absolutely willing to trust everyone in the rescue vehicle. Even if she handed her nephews over, she would hand them over to the staff and arrange them next to the beds that the staff could trust.

However, in the spirit of avoiding separation if possible, and since the two boys of the Qiu family were both minors, there was no need to be too cautious about staying in the mother-and-child room, so no couple's room was arranged for the mother and children.

Come to think of it, a couple's room is actually a bit troublesome, and it takes up more space than a room with bunk beds, and consumes more materials.

In fact, it would be better for the men to sleep together in one room and the women in another. This way, the entire supply point No. 3 would only need rooms with bunk beds, which would be much simpler and more economical.

Such rooms are not prepared for couples in the rescue vehicle. The rescue vehicle itself is a single room where couples can be as intimate as they like. If the man is assigned one room and the woman is assigned another when they arrive at the supply point, they may feel the freshness of a short separation and the excitement of finally being able to separate after a long period of friction.

The couple's room at supply point No. 3 is mainly designed to accommodate a large number of snow survivors. After all, its maximum goal is to accommodate survivors from all over the world.

The snow survivors are trembling with fear when they arrive in the new environment. Separating them from their family and marital relationships at this time will only lead to new panic.

If a couple or a family of three who are snow survivors come here, living together as a family is the best comfort, the best psychological treatment, and the best arrangement until they have completely let go of their worries.

The rescue vehicle does not stop here, and there must be a couple's room. Now the rescue vehicle is parked here, and there are many couples among the people getting off the vehicle, so it is natural to use the couple's room, so that couples and families of three can stay in this kind of bed with privacy protection.

When I was arranging it in the morning, I was well-liked by everyone and received a lot of praise.

The place where the projection was now turned on was the room assigned to Gu Yi and Pei Ying. There was an open space of about one meter outside the bed, and a table was placed next to the head of the bed.

Because there were no chairs and the one-meter space was full of people, two old men were sitting on the bed and talking to Pei Ying who was standing.

Their smiles were so friendly that water seemed to drip out of them: "Xiaoying, logically speaking, it is you who signed the cooperation contract with Life Everlasting Investment Company, so it is not unreasonable for our Pei family to ask for a few sets of protective clothing."

Pei Ying also smiled, but explained: "But my name is signed on the Gu Family Group documents under Gu Yi's name. Besides, my eldest brother Gu Sheng is the captain of the rescue vehicle. This is recognized by the other company. You should go to my eldest brother for the protective clothing. He has the final say."

Seeing this, Gu Sheng turned around and asked Gu Yi: "Why didn't they come to me and talk to me?"

Gu Yi couldn't help laughing: "Brother, you are not easy to talk to. When we were still here, you came back from rescue and they talked to you in the city. You said that there were not enough protective suits, so they never contacted you again."

Mr. Gu: "What I asked is why they didn't contact me again, and when we talked in the urban area, they didn't express that they wanted protective clothing."

Gu Yi laughed even harder: "Brother, when we were in the city, they didn't dare to ask you for protective clothing. They were afraid that you would arrange people from the Pei family as rescue team members. They would scare a few of them."

Mother Gu glared at her younger son and said angrily to her older son, "When they were in the city, their family was very good at spreading rumors. When people asked if their family had a share of the rescue vehicle, Old Pei, the one sitting on the left of Pei Ying and Gu Yi's bed, wasn't that Pei Ying's grandfather? He said that their family didn't know about the Life Eternal Investment Company at all, and that if something happened in such a heavy snowstorm, it would have nothing to do with the Pei family."

Old Gu also said, "Young man, the Pei family saw a large number of people coming back from outside. The weather conditions were such that the people who came were either sick or frostbitten. They also spread the word that there was not much food in the city. You brought back too many people, and sooner or later the city would be empty."

Gu Sheng raised his eyebrows: "So you were afraid of being a rescue team member at that time, afraid that the snowstorm would be too strong and you wouldn't be able to come back? He asked me a few questions about the protective clothing, and I was completely relieved after knowing a little."

Gu Yi smiled and nodded: "Everyone else got on the car, and they had to get on the car too. Everything was good in the car, so they started to spread one after another, saying everywhere that without the Pei family's contribution, there would be no rescue car. Then they found that the rescue team members were valued everywhere in the car, and more importantly..."

He was overjoyed: "I just heard that Lifelong Investment Company is paying salaries."

Gu's mother couldn't bear it anymore and patted him, asking Gu Yi to be more restrained. Gu Yi changed his posture and continued laughing. Gu's mother had to roll her eyes at him, but Gu Yi ignored her again and continued laughing.

"Brother, I told Xiao Pei that your family is really good at stealing money, and Xiao Pei admitted that it was outrageous, haha."

Gu Sheng said hello to Feng Zhang, turned off the projector, and smoked in a trance.

Seeing this, Old Gu thought his eldest son was in trouble, and hurriedly said, "Young man, you originally have 7,000 rescue team members, so you can divide 7,000 sets. There are still 3,000 sets of team members, you can't choose the wrong person."

Gu Sheng said, "Dad, I was planning to hold a meeting with the train captains tomorrow to discuss this matter, but now we can have a small family meeting first. You, Mom, and Xiaoyi can all express your opinions."

Old Gu came over, and Gu Ma and Gu Yi also came closer: "What do you think of the protective clothing? Of course, they are for qualified people."

Gu Sheng smiled slightly: "I think the opposite. There are still 3,000 sets that I want to give to those who are not qualified."

Old Gu, Gu's mother, and Gu Yi were stunned, and their eyes seemed to ask why.

Gu Sheng said: "The cold wind brought in by the plane today, and the words the little girl said when Chief Fang came out, have been ringing in my ears. The car is like this now. Everyone is too comfortable. Many people have forgotten that it is windy and snowy outside. People can no longer survive on the surface. We actually live in a cruel environment, but are protected by the car. I thought about giving some of the 3,000 sets of protective clothing to each car, training new qualified team members as soon as possible, and leaving a few hundred sets for the people who complain the most in the car, so that they can go outside to see the wind and snow, and go to the rescue site to see how cruel it is on the ground."

At this point, he smiled confidently at Gu Yi and said, "Just go and pick up Pei Ying. If the Pei family keeps pestering you, just promise them that you will speak for them on the issue of protective clothing. Anyway, if I were to judge the outcome of this matter, the Pei family might be the first group to take off the protective clothing after putting it on."

Gu Yi jumped up and cheered, "My brother is so awesome!"

Having said that, he left in a flash.

When he went out, he saw the sightseeing bus that brought Gu Yi back was still there. He jumped on it and called out the number of the couple's room. The sightseeing bus actually moved and carried the happy Gu Yi away.

See you tomorrow