#680 - Chapter 680 I'll Treat You to a Meal
"Sister Li, someone is looking for you outside!"
Just as Li Xiulan was filled with emotion, she suddenly heard someone from the plantation running over to announce.
Someone's looking for me?
Could it be him again?
Li Xiulan's heart stirred.
She put down the farming tools in her hand, washed her hands and feet slightly, and walked towards the entrance of the plantation.
After a while, she arrived at the entrance of the greenhouse and saw a man.
It really was him.
"Gao Qiang, you're here again."
Yes.
The person who came to find Li Xiulan was none other than Gao Qiang of the combat unit!
The man who lost his younger brother and held the important position of interrogator in the base!
"Yes... I just finished some work, so I came to see you... Here... These are some drinks and protein supplements. Please give them to Jiafu."
Gao Qiang said to the woman in front of him with his unique husky voice.
He raised his hands and handed Li Xiulan a bag he was holding.
This man, who seemed very difficult to provoke in the eyes of the base personnel and was feared in the Green Zone, surprisingly didn't show any fierceness at all, but instead seemed a little embarrassed...?
"......"
The latter was silent for a moment.
Li Xiulan was about to decline politely, but Gao Qiang, who was prepared, quickly stopped her with words.
"Jiafu needs these things!"
"She trains too hard, and without sufficient nutrition, her body will collapse!"
Speaking these two sentences, his speech was much smoother, as if he had prepared in advance.
"......"
Li Xiulan was even more silent.
But her hands betrayed what she was thinking, moving a little closer to Gao Qiang.
Indeed.
Jiafu, who was not yet of age, had exhausted all her strength to adapt to the extremely high-intensity training of the external cooperation unit.
This was not the first time Gao Qiang had brought her supplements.
It had been several times in the past few months.
At first, this man who had saved her in that room suddenly appeared and said he wanted to give her some nutritional supplements that her daughter could use, otherwise Jiafu would not be able to withstand that high-intensity training at all.
To be honest.
The first time she accepted Gao Qiang's gift, Li Xiulan was prepared to offer herself.
In this apocalypse.
What else could a woman like her with no skills offer to attract other men besides a not-so-clean appearance?
At least she could tell that Gao Qiang was not interested in Jiafu, otherwise he would have come directly to her daughter instead of looking for her.
But the result was beyond her expectations!
Gao Qiang turned around and left after giving her the things!!
???
Li Xiulan's mind went blank at the time. She, who was prepared to "offer herself", was so shocked by the strong reversal that she didn't know how to react for a moment, and watched Gao Qiang leave like that.
He left...
She waited anxiously for several days with those supplements, but the man did not appear again.
It seemed.
It seemed that he really wasn't giving these supplements for some purpose?
As an ordinary level 3 personnel of the branch base, how could she have the power and qualifications to find Gao Qiang, who lived in the main base and was a core member!?
Without continuing to wait, she later gave all the supplements Gao Qiang had given her to her daughter.
And told Jiafu that these were things that the base had applied for her because they pitied their mother and daughter, and that Sister Zhao Ling had specially applied for her.
As a result, Jiafu became even more admired and grateful to Zhao Ling.
She simply became the number one fan of Zhao Ling, the head of the life unit.
The days that followed passed peacefully, and Jiafu barely managed to persevere in the high-intensity training of the external cooperation unit thanks to the nutritional supplements.
However, a month later.
Gao Qiang came again.
He appeared in front of her again with a bag full of nutritional products.
At that time, Li Xiulan had asked Gao Qiang why he was doing this, and the answer she got was:
"Your daughter needs these things."
It was that simple.
And very real.
Jiafu really needed them.
If she couldn't even eat enough, it would be impossible for her to meet the requirements of those trainings.
For her daughter's sake, Li Xiulan still accepted what Gao Qiang gave her.
She had nothing to repay him with.
Until today.
This seemed to be the fourth time he had come to deliver nutritional supplements, right?
Listening to his special voice, if it had been in peacetime, this kind of voice might have brought him some bad influence.
But now it was the apocalypse, no one cared about these things, everyone cared more about who could bring them safety and food.
Li Xiulan finally reached out and took it.
A faint, almost imperceptible smile appeared on Gao Qiang's face.
It was good that she accepted it.
"Thank you!"
After a thousand words, Li Xiulan could only say these three words to repay Gao Qiang's help.
Gao Qiang nodded almost imperceptibly, as if he had completed his assigned task, and prepared to turn around and leave.
He really didn't intend to ask this mother and daughter to give him anything in return.
He, who had lost his family, held a lot of contribution points and usually didn't like to engage in those fancy entertainment activities.
Except for completing the base's tasks, he basically only stayed in his dormitory to read books or clean the set of screwdrivers his younger brother had left behind.
And also to take care of the fish in the pond of the main base.
Recently, the base had eliminated the New Hope that had invaded, captured many enemies, and also dug out some survivors who were ambushing outside who were not very "friendly" to the Green Zone.
Some of the prisoners were taken to the interrogation department he was in charge of for information collection.
He had just finished the phased work this morning, so he took the time to go to the main base's warehouse to exchange for some nutritional supplements and give them to Li Xiulan.
This was a very common pair of survivors in distress in the apocalypse.
It wasn't very special.
In fact, you could easily find similar mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, and fathers and sons everywhere.
But.
Gao Qiang just wanted to help them.
Maybe it was fate.
People who work hard to live should always be treated kindly.
Especially the night when Jiafu risked her life to find the headquarters for help, and the scene when he found Li Xiulan in that room outside the next day touched him.
He didn't think about what this woman would give him in return.
In his own opinion, it was just an ordinary little thing.
It was that simple.
Without saying anything, Gao Qiang turned around and prepared to leave.
The base had a lot of things going on recently. After completing the interrogation work, he was about to go on a business trip to a more distant place with his captain, Li Bowen.
He heard that they were going to Gannan Province to find something?
Whatever.
Anyway, he would just listen to the captain.
Having annihilated half of his soul, he didn't want to think too much, and just wanted to work for the base with peace of mind.
Just as he turned around and took a few steps, a somewhat urgent voice came from behind.
"That..."
"Thank you very much for helping us!"
"If possible, when I save enough points in the future and apply to the base for some vegetables and grains, I'll cook you a meal to express my gratitude!!"
Li Xiulan looked at the departing Gao Qiang with some anxiety and shouted out these repaying actions that she had thought about before.
As a level 3 personnel, she and Jiafu, after completing the tasks assigned by the base, had the opportunity to obtain a certain number of points if they were rated as excellent, which could be used to exchange for certain ingredients.
Just consider it a small reward for this man!
Gao Qiang turned his head and looked at the expectant Li Xiulan.
A slight loosening appeared on his usually wooden face, revealing a smile that he didn't know whether it could be counted as a smile.
"Okay."
(End of this chapter)
[I'll preview what this book will specifically write about later, there are still many things to write, I haven't left the province yet, there are also various different bases, and officials, and the characteristics of survivors in many places, and foreign forces, and most importantly, since Qin Jin has become so strong, I will arrange for him to reasonably single-handedly brush the apocalypse I created, and blow up all the enemies I don't like!]
