flstandardbreds Chapter 359
Chapter 359
Zhou Shuwan just said it casually, but he didn't expect Meng Mingyue's face to turn red all of a sudden.
Although Meng Mingyue's name is Mingyue, which is a very poetic name, she has actually been in the army for many years and has a courageous and tough character.
So, Zhou Shuwan was very surprised when he saw the other person showing such a shy expression.
He opened his eyes wide and looked at the other person, then he found a clue: "You and Xiao Xiao are..."
Meng Mingyue coughed lightly: "What? We are just ordinary friends and colleagues."
"Tsk! I don't believe it!" Zhou Shuwan said.
Zhou Shuwan deliberately stretched out his voice and winked at Meng Mingyue in an ambiguous way: "Confess and be lenient; resist and be strict! Tell me the truth, how far have you and Xiao Xiao progressed?"
Meng Mingyue was teased by her, and two blushes flew up her face. Her eyes flickered, but she pretended to be calm and took a sip of the orange syrup in the can. She said vaguely: "There is no progress... It's just... Just ordinary friends."
She avoided Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu's curious gazes, lowered her head, and poked the orange segments in the can with a spoon. She poked the orange segments into pieces, but she never put them into her mouth.
Zhou Shuwan saw through her disguise at a glance and joked with a smile: "Ordinary friends? Ordinary friends can live together? Ordinary friends can blush like this? Mingyue, you can fool others, but you can't fool me!"
Meng Mingyue was exposed by her words, so she simply stopped pretending: "Oh, Wanwan, stop making fun of me. Yes, we have a mutual affection. But, the world nowadays..." She hesitated to speak and sighed softly.
Zhou Shuwan understood her concerns. In the end times, survival has become a problem, and romance seems to have become a luxury.
She held Meng Mingyue's hand and said softly, "I understand, Mingyue. But there's no need to be too pessimistic. Life must go on. If you meet the right person, you should cherish them even more. I had the same idea as you at first, but you see, Brother Xiaoyu and I are getting along pretty well now."
The girls were greedy, and Qi Mingyu didn't want to interrupt, so he just sat there quietly.
He smiled and gently held her hand.
Meng Mingyue's eyes swept across the two people's holding hands. She nodded gently, a relieved smile on her face: "Thank you, Wanwan."
She raised her head, her eyes determined. "Neither of us is a coward. Let's try to move forward and see how it goes. The base construction is at a critical juncture right now, and we can't afford to be distracted."
Just as he finished speaking, Aunt Zhang's voice came from the kitchen: "Dinner is ready!"
Aunt Zhang came out with steaming hot meals and greeted everyone with a smile: "Wanwan, Xiaoyu, there are no delicious dishes today, please don't be disgusted."
There were a few simple vegetarian dishes on the table, a plate of fried shredded potatoes, a plate of cold shredded kelp, and a pot of fragrant potato porridge.
Although the dishes are simple, they exude a sense of home warmth.
"This shredded kelp is the kelp you brought. I haven't eaten seafood in a long time. I really miss it!"
Zhou Shuwan asked about Xiao Xiao's sister, saying that she had been following her brother to help and would come back with him later.
Meng Mingyue felt that the food was a bit too simple.
Aunt Zhang has been raising a pair of children, and she is used to being frugal all the time.
So Meng Mingyue didn't say anything to her, but just smiled and said: "You two came to visit specially, we can't just let Aunt Zhang cook, I'll go back to the house and add some dishes!"
"No, that's enough, that's enough..."
But Meng Mingyue turned a deaf ear to Zhou Shuwan's voice, and quickly took out a bag of vacuum-packed braised beef and a can of canned meat from her house.
This counts as two meat dishes.
During the meal, everyone ate and talked, and the topic naturally turned to the construction of the new base.
"Everything is going in the right direction at the base now. Xiao Xiao is busy every day," Aunt Zhang sighed as she put food into Zhou Shuwan's bowl. "It's just that there's too little water. Xiao Xiao is always worried!"
Zhou Shuwan's eyes lit up when he heard this. He put down his chopsticks and said, "We went to the seaside base this time. They have mastered a very advanced seawater purification technology. It is not only highly efficient but also low-cost. I discussed it with Brother Xiao Yu and we think there is a 70% chance that it can also be used to purify inland water sources polluted by floods and acid rain."
"Really?" Meng Mingyue and Aunt Zhang asked in unison, their eyes full of surprise and anticipation.
Zhou Shuwan nodded and recounted in detail what he saw and heard at the beach.
Qi Mingyu also added explanations on the side.
After hearing this, Meng Mingyue excitedly slammed the table and said, "Great! If we can introduce this technology to our base, it will solve a huge problem!"
She looked at Zhou Shuwan and the other person: "You guys came back from your trip with good news."
Today, she and Zhang Jia only handed over the supplies they brought back, the casualties of the convoy, and the subsequent recuperation of the wounded. They had no time to talk about these things.
As they were talking, Xiao Xiao and her sister Xiao Yun pushed the door open and walked in. Seeing Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu, they were surprised: "Wanwan, Xiaoyu, you are back!"
After a brief greeting, Meng Mingyue couldn't wait to tell Xiao Xiao about Zhou Shuwan's proposal. Xiao Xiao agreed with it and immediately said that she and Meng Mingyue would submit these suggestions to the mayor.
Hearing Zhou Shuwan's description of the seaside scene, Xiao Xiao sighed, "It's really unpredictable. We used to worry about the people living on the coast being severely affected by the disaster, but now they are actually living a better life."
"Yes," Aunt Zhang also said, "Who would have thought that the safest place now is actually on the coast!"
Xiao Yun listened with great interest, her eyes full of longing: "Mom, brother, I want to go to the beach in the future too!"
She was young and had been living inland before the apocalypse. After the apocalypse, she just stayed on her own little piece of land and had never been anywhere else.
Now when I hear about the benefits of the seaside, I start to yearn for it again.
"Didn't you hear what your sister Shu Wan said? It's a mess over there! Although there's no shortage of supplies, the internal strife is too intense! You are never allowed to go there again!" Xiao Xiao was still very strict with her sister. With a glare at her, the latter didn't dare to say anything.
Meng Mingyue thought for a moment and said, "The convoy is coming back from the south today, and there are quite a few wounded. Xiao Yun, come with me tomorrow to take care of the wounded."
I hope that after seeing the miserable condition of the wounded, she will give up the idea of going to the beach.
Xiao Yun nodded gloomily.
Xiao Xiao was very interested in seawater purification technology. After dinner, she called Zhou Shuwan, Qi Mingyu and Meng Mingyue to her room. They discussed for a long time before leaving with a sense of unfulfilled desire.
The current situation in J City is that there is groundwater, but only one of the water sources is clean.
If the base is to develop healthily and long-term, it still needs a stable and continuous source of water.
Seawater purification technology can purify all groundwater and make full use of it.