Chapter 37 Panic

"Bang!" The Prime Minister threw a piece of material on the table and said angrily: "What's the point of this rat-proof command center? Well? No major leaders of the province and city showed up at such an important press conference! Let a municipal government propaganda minister preside over it! It's ridiculous!"

Director Huang from the Prime Minister's Office tiptoed to the Prime Minister's desk and glanced at the materials on the table. The materials were internal references sent back by the National News Agency's foreign correspondents. The title of internal references was eye-catching: Foreign media have criticized the local governments of the Tang Dynasty to conceal the epidemic!

The Prime Minister walked around the room for a few times, but could not calm his anger: "How did the Zhongjiang City Propaganda Minister come up? Is there anyone who answered the media reporter's questions like this? Incompetent!"

"Deputy Premier Zhang Huaiyu is in the capital," Director Huang asked tentatively: "He is the commander of the rat prevention command center. How about calling him to ask about the situation?"

"He is still in the capital?" The Prime Minister snorted in his nose and asked, "Why haven't he, the commander, gone to Zhongjiang City yet?"

"He reported to you in early December," Director Huang reminded carefully: "At that time, he said that the coal mine incident in Xishan Province had not been handled yet, and he would not be able to arrive in Zhongjiang City at the earliest at the end of this month. Therefore, the daily affairs of the early rat prevention command center are temporarily responsible for Governor Qin Haichuan."

"The coal mine incident in Xishan is of course very important, but the rats in Zhongjiang City are even more serious! The rats have eaten more than 2,000 people, and now there are plague patients! The person in charge of the work is still a provincial-level cadre - it's a joke!" The Prime Minister was obviously very dissatisfied. After a while, he gave instructions to Director Huang:

"Call Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Huaiyu, well, and Minister Tian of the Ministry of Health, please come to my office immediately. I want to listen to the special report on rat damage and plague situation in person!"

Director Huang went out, and the Prime Minister frowned after sitting at his desk. It was obvious that the harm caused by the rat disease in Zhongjiang City has become increasingly serious. It used to attack pedestrians in the wild, but later it was overturning the train, and now it has begun to attack villages on a large scale! The emergence of plague patients gave the Prime Minister an unknown premonition. After pondering for a moment, the Prime Minister secretly made up his mind: Zhongjiang City’s rat prevention command center should strengthen its leadership as soon as possible. The specifications of the command center must be improved! Zhang Huaiyu must immediately arrive in Zhongjiang City to preside over the work!

At 10 pm on December 17, Villa No. 2 in Zhongjiang Civil Servant Community

"Don't ask me why," Mayor Li waved to his family irritably: "Anyway, you just need to do what I said."

"You have to give us a reason," Mayor Li's wife Wang Lian muttered in dissatisfaction: "We asked us to ask for a long leave from the unit, and we also packed our luggage and stayed in another place for a few months, and asked Xiaoyue to bring all her granddaughters with me - is this a travel or a moving house?"

Mayor Li Yue, daughter of Mayor Li, also helped her mother: "Yes, it's almost the end of the year, and I've been so lucky that I've been taking the bonus for the whole year. In addition, Hanhan finally got used to the life of kindergarten. Now he doesn't cry or make trouble when he goes to kindergarten. If he takes leave again, it will be difficult to adjust in the future."

Slap! Mayor Li slapped the table and shouted sternly: "What? You don't listen to my words now?"

"Okay, okay, can't we listen?" Wang Lian gave her a wink at her daughter and responded: "I'll go to the unit to ask for leave tomorrow, so it's OK."

But his daughter didn't buy her mother's account at all, so she turned her back on the spot: "It doesn't matter if I go to take a long vacation. At worst, I don't want the year-end bonus, but Xu Huafeng is not good. He was just promoted to the director of the bureau. If he takes a long vacation, wouldn't it ruin his future?"

"No!" Mayor Li was very tough: "Xu Huafeng must go to the unit to ask for leave immediately. If he can't ask for leave, he will be suspended from his salary. This time he must go out with you. I don't want you and your wife to separate for a long time!"

"Live apart for a long time?" Li Yue widened her eyes: "Dad, what happened? Why do we have to be separated for a long time if Ah Feng doesn't leave?"

Mayor Li sighed. He thought for a while and finally gritted his teeth and said, "To be honest, Zhongjiang City has had patients with pneumoplague. This disease is very serious and is transmitted through the air. It is not only difficult to control and there is no special medicine to treat it. So once it is infected, the mortality rate is 100%! If this pneumoplague breaks out on a large scale, the central government will definitely block the entire Zhongjiang City. By then, you can't even leave - you can only sit at home and wait for death! Do you understand? This is a matter of life and death!"

Li Yue opened her mouth wide in fear, and Wang Lian grabbed Mayor Li's shoulder: "Old Li, let's go together."

Mayor Li shook his head: "I can't leave. I am the acting mayor and a member of the command center. I can't leave no matter what. Now I can only let you leave first and have to leave quietly. Otherwise, if the news spreads, it will have a very bad impact on me." Mayor Li patted his wife's well-maintained palm and said comfortingly: "Don't worry, even if the pneumococcal plague breaks out, I'm not in danger."

Wang Lian rubbed her hands and turned around the house for a few times. After stopping, she said to her daughter urgently: "Call Huafeng immediately and ask him to come here now. Let's discuss the matter of taking leave. I will book a plane ticket to P City tomorrow!"

"You can't take a plane!" Mayor Li waved his hand, his eyes faintly and unfathomable: "There are records when taking a plane. My opinion is that it is best not to let others know your whereabouts. Even when you arrive in P City, you should find a house to live in a low-key manner. I will notify you any changes in the situation."

Li Yue took out her cell phone and started calling her husband Xu Huafeng. Wang Lian collapsed on the sofa and sighed repeatedly: "After Li, you are also the mayor. Now, we have not paid much attention to you, the mayor, and our whole family has to hide from each other because of your identity as mayor. What's that?"

Mayor Li smiled bitterly.

At 8:10 am on the 18th, Yanghe Kindergarten

Zhang Xiaohua carefully wiped the floor with a mop. She got up at 7 o'clock and had been working for more than an hour. Yanghe Kindergarten is a 4-story building. Zhang Xiaohua was quick to deal with and had wiped the floor of the 3-story in more than an hour.

Zhang Xiaohua straightened her waist and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her right hand. A group of children ran over her cheerfully. Zhang Xiaohua looked at the group of happy children with a smile, but she felt in her heart: These children in the city are so happy. They eat recipes configured by professional nutritionists, and the courses they learn are carefully designed by early education experts. Look at the size and reaction of these children, I don’t know how many times better than those of rural children of the same age!

Zhang Xiaohua suddenly felt her throat itchy and she coughed violently. She opened her mouth and spit thin foam on the ground.

"Xiao Zhang, have you caught a cold?" At some point, Director Huang had already walked to her and looked at the phlegm on the ground with some disgust.

"No, my throat is a little itchy." Zhang Xiaohua explained, picked up the mop in her hand and quietly wiped off the phlegm and foam on the ground.

"Be careful of your health," Director Huang thought for a while, and then reminded him: "If you are sick, you must go to the infirmary to see a doctor in time. This is a kindergarten. If it is transmitted to the child, it will be awesome."

"Yeah." Zhang Xiaohua silently walked up the 4th floor with a mop, went to the infirmary for a few coughs? She was not so cute yet! Also, if the kindergarten knew that she was sick, she would definitely arrange for a few days to rest, and then she would have no salary for several days - the kindergarten would definitely not let these children bear the risk of even being infected by a cold!

Zhang Xiaohua was washing the mop in the pool. She suddenly felt dizzy and her chest was stuffy. She started coughing again, and she hurriedly covered her mouth with her hands. Although this made her face flushed, the sound of coughing did not come out. In this way, she kept coughing, spitting thin phlegm and foam on the ground, and quickly wiped off the phlegm and foam with the mop.

Hold on, wipe the floor of this floor and you can go back and rest! Zhang Xiaohua gritted her teeth and rubbed the floor desperately while reminding herself.

Laodong Road, Zhongjiang City.

A group of policemen rushed into a small teahouse quickly.

"Police! Everyone stays in place!" The police officer in charge shouted in a muffled voice.

There were three tables of people playing mahjong in the teahouse, and they raised their heads when they heard the shouts. Everyone was stunned immediately - they had never seen the police dress like this! The group of policemen in front of them were wearing standard police uniforms, but everyone wore a big mask on their mouths, protective glasses on their eyes, and white gloves on their hands.

"You... are really police?" a man stuttered.

The police officer in charge snorted coldly, took out his ID and shook it. Now everyone saw clearly that the policeman in front of him was an officer of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Municipal Police Bureau.

"Who is Song Dacheng?" the police officer asked loudly.

A bald middle-aged man stood up in surprise: "I... is it, what's the matter?"

"Did you arrive in Zhongjiang City, Yunyang City, Guihai Province on the morning of the 16th?" the police officer asked coldly.

"Yes, what's wrong?" Song Dacheng looked at the police officer with a confused look on his face.

"There is a case, we need your assistance in investigating it." The police officer waved his hand and the two policemen stood behind Song Dacheng: "Please come with us."

"What... the case?" Song Dacheng asked unwillingly.

"You will know when you go." The police officer said coldly, and the two policemen dragged Song Dacheng out of the room.

Everyone in the teahouse breathed a sigh of relief, but everyone immediately felt something was wrong - Song Dacheng had already left the teahouse, and most of the police officers standing in the teahouse had no intention of leaving, and the police officer in the leading position looked at everyone coldly.

"Police officer, we just play some little mahjong and have some entertainment, absolutely no gambling." A man stammered.

"Did you say gamble in the bureau?" the police officer snorted coldly and waved his hand: "Everyone will come back to the bureau to assist in the investigation!"

Everyone in the teahouse opened their mouths wide - Tangtang Police Department dispatched so many policemen to a small teahouse to catch gamblers? And it was a small gambling that was not even up to the public security regulations! This is too incredible!

"We haven't broken the law, why should we go to the police station?" A man protested loudly: "I want to sue you!"

The police officer waved his hand, and the two policemen rushed over, twisted the man's arm and dragged it out.

With this precedent, the rest of the teahouse surrendered, and 10 men and women stood up obediently on the three tables and walked out of the teahouse under the surveillance of the police.

After walking out of the teahouse, everyone was stunned. A large truck was parked outside the teahouse. Several policemen were escorting the people who left the teahouse first to climb into the truck's cargo compartment.

Is this a fucking assistance in the investigation or a prisoner parade? Several men jumped up and angrily protested against the police's abuse of power and brutally enforcing the law. However, the police did not explain at all, and almost forced 12 men and women to climb onto the truck.

The police officer in charge watched as the 12 men and women got on the truck before getting into a police car in front of the truck.

"How many are you?" The police officer in charge asked a policeman beside him as soon as he entered the car.

"Song Dacheng is the seventh passenger." The policeman around him sighed: "There are only these 7 people, we have sent 123 people to the quarantine area. If we find all 30 passengers, we will not involve hundreds of people in the quarantine area."

"All 1,000 people have to be sent!" The police officer in charge snorted coldly.
Chapter completed!