At 8 pm on December 18, a private room at the Zhongjiang Holiday Hotel.

A table was filled with colorful dishes, Gao Fei, Xia Yue, Lin Yusen, and Song Qinghe sat around the table. Liu Xiao, who had just been discharged from the hospital, sat down first. He was the host and guest of the dinner today. Several friends gathered together to welcome Liu Xiao, who had escaped from death.

Gao Fei picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "Liu Xiao, this dinner is nominally we welcome you, but in fact it can also be regarded as a thank-you wine from our Zhongjiang Police Department. If it weren't for you, our command center would have fallen a lot - so many people were sent to the mountainous areas to search for a group of people in Kunshan, but was attacked by a group of rats, killing more than 100 military and police officers, and even the shadow of the suspect was not found. It was up to the information you risked your life to provide that we killed the main culprit of the Kunshan gang. Thank you - I'll do it first!"

Gao Fei picked up the wine glass and was about to drink it. Liu Xiao hurriedly grabbed Gao Fei's hand:

"Gaoji, don't, don't do this. Isn't you impatient for me when you do this? After all, you saved my life. I'm not grateful for your kindness - why don't I have a drink of 3 drinks first?"

Liu Xiao grabbed the bottle and wanted to pour wine into his glass - Gao Fei stopped him.

"Liu Xiao, you can't say that," Gao Fei waved his hand: "You were not obliged to join the mountain search army. I asked you to go, but you helped us a lot. Don't mention any life-saving grace in the future!"

The two of them were in stalemate for a while, and Xia Yue burst out laughing: "If you fight like this, we can't eat any more. Let's do this, I suggest that we have a drink together and get together for everyone so rare."

Lin Yusen and Song Qinghe both applauded. So everyone had a drink.

After putting down the wine glass, Song Qinghe smiled and said, "Liu Xiao, let me tell you a good news. Your reward order has been released - the command center will remember you once! How about it, you must treat me, kid."

Liu Xiao was stunned, Gao Fei patted his shoulder: "You come to the command center at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Governor Qin will read out your commendation order in the conference room. All core members of the command center will attend this meeting. Uh, you also know that your meritorious service involves some very sensitive content, and the commendation order will not be published in the newspaper."

"If you don't make it, you won't make it. I don't care," Liu Xiao grinned, stretched out his chopsticks and picked up a piece of beef and put it in his mouth for a long time: "I have long seen these things outside of my body after so many things, and fame and fortune cannot be eaten as food. When I was on the old pine tree in the mountains, my biggest wish was to have a few biscuits to eat!"

Gao Fei smiled slightly and said, "Although the commendation order is not made public, Governor Qin entrusted Mayor Li to say hello to your newspaper leaders, saying that you have made great contributions and asked the newspaper to consider giving you appropriate rewards."

"Is that right?" Liu Xiao was excited and quickly swallowed the beef in his mouth, saying hurriedly: "I don't want rewards, I don't lack money to spend - let the newspaper directly promote me to an official. Well, our newspaper deputy editor-in-chief D is about to resign. If the newspaper can bring me to this position in an extraordinary way, I believe that with my ability, Zhongjiang Evening News can be pushed to a new height soon..."

Liu Xiao was about to whisper and blew down, but suddenly he found that everyone on the table was looking at him with a smile. He felt a little strange and asked, "What's wrong with you? They all have weird expressions?"

Xia Yue pursed her lips and smiled: "Look at your face that is so mysterious to the public. What else did you say just now - you have taken fame and fortune indifferently!"

Everyone laughed, but Liu Xiao calmly picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth, chewing it and said, "What's wrong with the official fan? My wish is to put a burden on me in the organization. What does it mean to say - the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility."

Everyone burst into laughter again. Xia Yue covered her chest and couldn't stand up straight. She pointed at Liu Xiao and said while laughing: "Liu Xiao, I just realized now that you are not only very thick-skinned, but also have an absurdly strong nerve - no wonder even the Kunshan gang was in your hands, I have seen it."

Liu smiled and said, "Sister Xia, if you think I'm good, please introduce me to a girlfriend. I heard that there are many beauties in your Holiday Hotel Group."

"Go and go," Xia Yuecui said: "You don't have a girlfriend? Why do I find so many flowers in your ward? I'm afraid more than one girl will send you flowers, right?"

After a few rounds of drinking, several people became a little drunk.

"None of the people here are outsiders. Let me tell you something," Liu Xiao put down his wine glass and said with a look on his face: "You are all members of the command center. Do you know that rumors in Zhongjiang City are flying everywhere now?"

"Rumor?" Song Qinghe was a little puzzled: "You just came out of the hospital, how could you know the rumors on the market?"

Liu Xiao grinned: "Even if I live in the hospital, there are fewer people coming to see me? Maybe others know that I have something to do with the command center, so everyone is asking me for news."

"News? What news?" Song Qinghe asked.

"What else can it be," Liu Xiao curled his lips and said, "Of course it's news about the plague."

"Plague!" Song Qinghe's eyes were filled with shock: "How did outside know about this?"

"How many days do you think this kind of thing can be hidden? Foreign media are almost quarreling!" Liu smiled and said, "The people in Zhongjiang City are not fools. The command center has done so many actions. Anyone with discerning eyes can tell at a glance that there is something wrong here! Why are there several buildings on Renmin Road becoming quarantined areas? Why do all sick people now have to undergo blood tests? There are also doubts from overseas media - these are all combined, who can't guess at all?"

Lin Yusen sighed and said, "Xiao Liu makes sense. Now we need to control the spread of the plague on the one hand and block the news on the other hand. There are already conflicts between the two, which makes the news not blocked, and they are tied up again to control the spread of the plague... Alas."

"What blockade news? You're not hiding the bell!" Liu Xiao relied on his drunkenness and said carelessly: "I think Governor Qin is too timid and lacks courage. He has been the commander of this command center for half a month, but he has not done anything... I told me that the leadership of the command center will have to be replaced sooner or later, otherwise something will happen or something big will happen!"

Song Qinghe looked at Liu Xiao in surprise - he is worthy of being a reporter. Although he drank a lot of alcohol, his mind was still quick-witted. From the perspective of an outsider, he could see some core issues very clearly. Yesterday, the teacher made similar suggestions at the command center meeting, and today he actually put them forward.

"Okay, okay, don't say these meaningless complaints," Gao Fei waved his hand and reminded Liu Xiao: "You kid will be careful when you go to the command center tomorrow. You should be careful when you should say anything and don't say anything you shouldn't say. I'll teach you."

"Don't worry, Director Gao," Liu Xiao pointed to his head with his finger and said in a breath of alcohol: "I haven't had water in my head yet? When I talk to people, I want to say that I am the second, but no one here dares to say that I am the first! Otherwise, how could I fool Kunshan?" Liu Xiao shook his head and exclaimed: "Classic! Absolutely classic. I just regret that there was no recorder recording the dialogue at that time. If it was really recorded and then played through the radio, I wonder how many beauties were crying and shouting to marry me!"

Everyone laughed, and Xia Yue cursed: "Look at your virtue!" Gao Fei looked at Liu Xiao with admiration - he is now more and more fond of this lively and cheerful young man.

"Tell everyone another secret," Liu Xiao suddenly lowered his voice and said with a smile: "Our chemical factory has been doing a great job recently. I asked on the phone yesterday that the chemical factory will at least make this amount this month--" Liu Xiao stretched out his hand and danced: "5 million! You're rich!"

The private room suddenly became quiet, and everyone's expressions were a little awkward.

Liu Xiao slapped his head and said with a smirk: "Look at my broken mouth, I whine and moaned after I poured two taels of yellow soup. This kind of thing should have made a fortune in silence."

Song Qinghe coughed, looked at Lin Yusen's face and said, "Liu Xiao, I have to make it clear to you. At that time, my teacher and I invested in this chemical factory in a completely public opinion! We absolutely have no intention of making money from the national crisis!"

Liu Xiao nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at the rice: "I know I know that we have raised rat killers for the command center in advance and brought out our lives for everyone."

Lin Yusen sighed and said, "Liu Xiao, you should sell the chemical factory in a while. After all, we are all members of the command center. If we continue to do it, the impact will be bad."

Liu Xiao stubbornly pushed back: "Why do you need to sell it out when you are doing well? We took such a big risk to buy this factory in the early stage, and now we start to sell it when there is profit? There is no such reason in the world!"

Gao Fei waved his hand and said, "Liu Xiao, you really listened to Professor Lin this time - you sold the chemical factory after a while. Don't be anxious, listen to me first - why is the chemical factory making money now? It is because other factories in China cannot keep up with the production at present, so the production of this factory has taken the lead. After a while, when other chemical factories keep up with the production, the profit of this rat killer will fall, so the profit of this factory is the highest during this period, and it is worthy of our initial investment. If we continue to do it, the profit is not high and the impact is not good. Therefore, it is justified to close when the production is good."

Liu Xiao thought about it and said helplessly: "Okay, since everyone says that, I sold this factory before the Spring Festival, alas," and then slapped himself: "You are so whining and humming, and you have lost your way to make money!"

Everyone laughed.

Lin Yusen said while laughing: "I have been very heavy recently. I didn't expect that having a meal with Xiao Liu today will make my mood much more relaxed. It seems that we should all gather more when we have time in the future."

"Yes! We should get together more," Liu Xiao took it and said with a smile: "What can I do if I think about so many troubles? I can't live a life? When I was on the old pine trees in the mountains, I was too lazy to even think about life and death. I used various tricks to make Kunshan like a big horse monkey. What happened later? I slept in the hospital for a few days, and now I am a hero again!"

"It is you who have this vitality." Lin Yusen sighed.

Gao Fei was inspired by Lin Yusen's feelings - Governor Qin gave a death order to himself and Director Zhang Yuesheng of the Provincial Department at yesterday's meeting. He had to find all 30 passengers in the same car as Li Xiaochuan within 24 hours. The 24 hours passed quickly. Even though Zhang Yuesheng and Gao Fei used his strength to find only 14 people. Gao Fei knew very well that this kind of investigation was a physical job, and there was no shortcut at all. It was up to a large amount of manpower and countless visits to find one or two valuable clues. But the anxious Governor Qin ignored these things at all. Today

In the afternoon, he criticized Zhang Yuesheng and Gao Fei. Although Gao Fei could understand Governor Qin's situation very well - the headache was not solved yet. Yesterday, Zhongjiang City Propaganda Minister Zhang Jie stabbed a hornet's nest at a press conference and was ordered to suspend his post for inspection by Mayor Li. However, his mood was also ruined by this scolding. Tonight he could take time to have dinner with Liu Xiao and the others, and he also wanted to adjust his mood and relax his tense head for ten days. Now he has drunk and laughed. When he thinks of a big deal in the game, he can't sit still.

Gao Fei stood up and said, "Let's just do it today. There are still many things in the bureau. You can eat slowly, and I'll leave first."

After saying that, he nodded to everyone and walked out of the room with Xia Yue.

Song Qinghe looked at Gao Feixia Yue's back and sighed: "Gao, it's really hard. Look at his face - like a person in his thirties? His eyes are bags and wrinkles are coming out."

Lin Yusen was silent. Since the establishment of the rat prevention command center, all members have been working hard. However, the results are very low. The tragedy of rat groups attacking humans one after another. The command center has no effective means to deal with the rat groups. Now it is a very difficult thing to plague, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that the situation is getting worse! The plague may break out on a large scale at any time, and the rat groups will also attack more villages, towns and even cities. In the future, more people will die. Human beings are paying the price for their predatory development of nature for dozens or hundreds of years! This is not just the responsibility of politicians and officials, the crazy indulgence of lustful men and women, the rapidly expanding population, the crazy intake of short-term interests, the wanton trampling on ecological balance, people only care about safeguarding their desires and rights, which has led to retribution from nature. Whether it is a rat group or a plague, it is just a tool for nature to retaliate against humans.
Chapter completed!