SRTT Chapter 61.3

She had nothing to say to Cheng Jikuan and was about to leave when Cheng Jikuan suddenly asked, “How was your trip to the beach this time?”

Ruan Ning said: “It’s pretty good. I got a lot of good things.”

She lowered her voice and took out a small cloth bag from her backpack: “There are dried shrimp in it. For your snack.”

Cheng Jikuan clenched the cloth bag with his fingers, lowered his head, and said nothing.

Ruan Ning then said, “It’s alright. I went to see Sister Lingxia. We haven’t seen each other for a long time. I also found new exercise books for the two children.”

Cheng Jikuan hummed: “She must have a lot to say to you. Be careful when you go back home at night.”

Ruan Ning smiled at him, thinking that this taciturn guy couldn’t even utter three sentences.

“Goodbye.”

Knowing that Cheng Jili was safe, Ruan Ning relaxed completely and hummed a song as she went to give warmth to the two children.

The look on the two children’s faces when they saw her was, you devil.

Ruan Ning chatted with Wang Lingxia casually for a while.

Wang Lingxia suddenly said: “You just came back and you don’t know yet that the Heihai Command Center has set a strategy to send out an ocean-going fleet to search for food on the sea.”

“They have issued a recruitment notice. If you join the fleet, you can get 2 catties of compressed biscuits every day.”

She lowered her voice and said, “And the Heihai Command Center is preparing to build New Hope Base.”

“For those who join the fleet, their families can enter the base first.”

Ruan Ning’s eyes widened; “New Hope Base?”

“Yes.” Wang Lingxia said.

“It is said that the base has already selected a site and will recruit a large number of talents when the time comes.”

“Think about it carefully whether you want to join the base, and if you want to join, what talents do you have.”

“It is inconvenient for us to always live in the disaster relief camp. If there is a chance, we will definitely find a way to enter the base.”

Ruan Ning nodded: “Then, I’ll go back and think about it. I’ll ask my parents for their opinions.”

Wang Lingxia smiled: “Okay.”

The two of them chatted for a while, and then Ruan Ning went to see Wen Mei and gave her half a month’s supply of compressed biscuits.

Wen Mei also talked about recruiting crew members and the base, but she knew more details and said that few people signed up now.

“Everyone thinks it must be very dangerous to go out to sea now, otherwise, how could there be two catties of compressed biscuits? That’s the money to buy your life.”

Although what Wen Mei said was unpleasant, going out to sea was indeed dangerous.

In addition to unpredictable disasters, there were also ‘pirate’ robberies.

Of course, if you could go out to sea earlier than others, the situation would be different.

Ruan Ning said: “Is there anything else?”

Wen Mei thought for a moment and said, “A very strange man came to see Cheng Jikuan. Is this something else?”

Ruan Ning narrowed her eyes: “What strange man? With a broken hand?”

Wen Mei said: “I don’t remember him, but he had an unshaven beard and was dirty. He was wearing a big coat even in such hot weather.”

Ruan Ning frowned.

Wen Mei said: “He only came once. I don’t know what the two of them talked about. Anyway, there is such a thing.”

The sign of a broken hand should be very obvious, so Chu Dingfeng would definitely find a way to hide it.

However, he couldn’t possibly look for Cheng Jikuan. This person was more likely an old acquaintance of Cheng Jikuan who wanted to extort money from him.

Ruan Ning asked: “Besides these, is there anything else strange?”

Wen Mei shook her head.

Ruan Ning said that she understood, said goodbye to Wen Mei, and left the air-raid shelter.

When she walked to the door, she found something on the ground.

The air-raid shelter used kerosene lamps and the candlelight was dim.

Ruan Ning walked over and found that it was a compressed biscuit. She picked up the packaging bag inexplicably, thinking that this person was so kind-hearted that he could even drop food.

 

 

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