Chapter 19 Bamboo Seeds ()

Gao Fei put his nose onto a few dishes on the table and took a deep breath.

"It smells so good!" Gao Fei exclaimed loudly.

"My cooking skills are OK, right?" Xia Yue, wearing an apron, walked out of the kitchen with a smile on her face.

"It's not just that, it's so amazing." Gao Fei shook his head and looked very intoxicated: "These few months have really made me enjoy the joy. It seems that the days of making instant noodles have become history."

Xia Yue smiled with a pursed lips, leaned close to Gao Fei and said softly: "With me taking care of you, I will not only let you eat well, but also... I will also feed you."

Gao Fei laughed loudly and raised his hand to slap Xia Yue’s round buttocks: “What a coquettish little chef, bring the meal out quickly, I can’t wait.”

Xia Yue walked into the kitchen happily, carrying an electric rice cooker, and a playful expression appeared on her face: "Guess what rice is here? Well, I guess there is a prize."

"What reward?" Gao Fei looked at Xia Yue's tall chest with malicious intentions: "Unless it is..."

"You are so bad..." Xia Yue twisted her slim waist and felt coquettish, but there was a wave of turbulent waves on her chest.

"Okay, I guess," Gao Fei thought for a while and said, "Well... is it black rice? Buckwheat rice? Thai fragrant rice..." Gao Fei guessed a few randomly.

Xia Yue smiled and shook her head, Gao Fei spread his hands helplessly: "I can't guess."

Xia Yue put the rice cooker on the table and suddenly opened the lid: "Look! Freshly baked bamboo seed rice!"

"Bamboo seed rice? Well, it smells so good!" Gao Fei picked up the bowl and was about to serve the rice. He suddenly felt aroused his heart and raised his head and asked, "Where did the bamboo seeds come from?"

Xia Yue smiled and took the bowl from Gao Fei, and said while serving the rice: "You know we have a hot spring resort hotel in Jinfeng Town. Recently, the bamboo forest in Qinba Mountains has blossomed, and bamboo seeds are everywhere on the ground. You can buy a large bag for just a few dollars. I asked my colleagues in the hotel to bring me 10 kilograms of bamboo seeds, and it was really delicious to steam rice with rice mixed with rice..."

The bamboo forest in Qinba Mountains was indeed blooming! Gao Fei felt nervous. It has been more than half a year! The unsettling things last year have faded in memory day by day, but now they are beginning to recover.

"Is the bamboo in the entire mountainous area blooming?" Gao Fei asked afterwards.

Xia Yue looked at Gao Fei in surprise, but shook her head: "I don't know. My colleagues there said that on the hills around Jinfeng Town, the bamboos all over the mountains were blooming, and I don't know if the bamboos in other parts of Qinba Mountains are the same."

Gao Fei pondered for a moment, but suddenly the sharp ringtone sounded on his phone.

Gao Fei looked at the call, it was Liu Xiao's phone number.

"Is Gao Qiao? I'm Liu Xiao, is it convenient to speak now? I want to tell you something." As soon as Gao Fei pressed the answer button, Liu Xiao said anxiously.

"Yeah, tell me."

"I have a relative living in Huailai Town, Wuling Mountain. Today she called me to ask if anyone in the city bought bamboo seeds. When I asked, I found out that the bamboos there were all blooming and bamboo seeds were everywhere on the ground. I told Song Qinghe about this. He was very anxious when he heard this, suspected that the bamboo forests in the entire western mountainous area had bloomed. However, now we have no more evidence, so I would like to ask you for a favor."

Even the bamboos in Wuling Mountains were blooming! Gao Fei felt nervous and hurriedly said, "What do you want me to do?"

Liu Xiao on the other end of the phone hesitated for a moment and said, "Director Gao, are you convenient now? I and Song Qinghe are in the Sunshine Times Teahouse in Dongcheng District. If you are convenient, can we meet and talk?"

"Okay, I'll come here in 20 minutes." Gao Fei put down his phone, raised his head but saw Xia Yue's concerned eyes.

"Is there something urgent? I'm not having dinner at home?" Xia Yue looked a little uneasy.

Gao Fei nodded, but said, "You go with me. I think you should also listen to this matter."

When Gao Fei took Xia Yue into a private room in the Sunshine Age, he saw Liu Xiao and Song Qinghe smoking anxiously.

"Director Gao, you are here." Liu Xiao twisted out the cigarette butts and stood up to greet him: "Sit, sit."

Gao Fei smiled at Liu and nodded at Song Qinghe, but saw Song Qinghe with fatigue on his face.

"Well, what are you asking me for?" Gao Fei and Liu Xiao were already very familiar with each other and were not very polite.

"Director Gao, that's right. I told you on the phone just now that we are worried that the bamboo forests in the entire western mountainous area have bloomed in full bloom, but without evidence, we cannot conduct a comprehensive investigation of the entire mountainous area. So, I wonder if we can investigate the situation through the police system in the mountainous area, that is, the police stationed in various villages and towns. Due to the urgent situation, we did not go to the Forestry Bureau, the Environmental Protection Bureau and other units. If they wait for their reports and then hold meetings to study, it will be too late to take countermeasures."

Gao Fei nodded. It is very simple to do this by himself. As long as he arranges it through the bureau, the results can be summarized within a few days. Although it is a bit overstepping power, he can't take care of these things now.

"I'll do this tomorrow." Gao Fei sighed and said, "But Qinghe's guess is probably correct. Today, Xia Yue told me that on the hills around Jinfeng Town, Qinba Mountains, bamboo forests all over the mountains were blooming."

Liu Xiao and Song Qinghe looked at each other, and Song Qinghe smiled bitterly, but Liu Xiao's expression was a little strange.

"What's wrong?" Gao Fei looked at Liu Xiao's strange expression.

"I won't go bankrupt now." Liu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and told him about the production of rat killing agents in the next chemical plant with Song Qinghe.

"You guys are very financially savvy. You were actually preparing for today's fortune one year in advance." Gao Fei laughed, paused for a while, but sighed: "I think I'm so ashamed. No department of the government is preparing for the upcoming disaster in the mountains. Instead, you are doing these things personally. By the way, how many rat killing agents have you stocked up now?"

Liu Xiao smiled bitterly and said, "We didn't have much money at first, and although we tried our best to do so, we have barely produced more than 1,000 tons of rat killing agents."

Gao Fei frowned and thought for a while, turned to look at Xia Yue: "How much money do you have? Can you lend them some? Since the divorce, I have no savings."

Liu Xiao was about to stop him, but saw Xia Yue Yanran smiled: "Of course we should participate in such a good investment opportunity. Liu Xiao, I still have 500,000 in the bank, and I will take it out and send it to you tomorrow. Well, I have some rich friends who can borrow hundreds of thousands. Do you want it?"

"Yes! I want! I want as much as I want, and the interest rate for borrowing will be paid at 4 times the national loan." Liu Xiao replied repeatedly, with an excited expression on his face.

"It's not possible to rely on our personal strength alone, we have to look for the government." Song Qinghe looked at Gao Fei and said, "Director Gao, if the situation is verified, the bamboo in the western mountainous areas has indeed bloomed in full bloom. I hope you can find the mayor and ask the municipal government to formulate emergency measures immediately."

Gao Fei nodded and asked, "We are all laymen in countermeasures. I wonder if Professor Lin has any suggestions?"

"Today I have been on the phone with the teacher. The teacher gave three suggestions to the municipal government: First, immediately organize manpower to go to the mountains to collect bamboo seeds, the more the better, and at the same time announce the preferential purchase price for bamboo seeds, mobilizing farmers in mountainous areas; Second, put a large amount of rat killing agents into uninhabited places in the mountains; Third..." Song Qinghe hesitated for a moment and said hesitantly: "The teacher also suggested that the government force mountainous residents to go out to the mountains to take refuge in an emergency."

Gao Fei fell into deep thought. The first and second points should not be difficult to do. Mayor Jiang also expressed his opinion on this last year. However, the third point is very surprising. Force mountain residents to go out to take shelter in urgent need! This is not a small matter. You should know that the population living in mountainous areas and the edges of mountainous areas exceeds 1 million! How to place 1 million people out of the mountainous areas for refuge is a huge problem, and it is even far beyond the capacity of a municipal government. Moreover, after organizing manpower to collect, purchase bamboo seeds, and dispose of a large number of rat killers, is there still a need? But why did Professor Lin propose this? Has he seen that future disasters will far exceed his imagination?

"Director Gao, if the teacher's third suggestion makes you embarrassed, don't mention it with the mayor for the time being." Song Qinghe said: "Now, we must first let the government take action. If we do the first two, we can greatly reduce the degree of the disaster."

Gao Fei nodded. Song Qinghe's proposal was very stable. It was obvious that even Song Qinghe could see that Professor Lin's third suggestion was too unrealistic.
Chapter completed!