Sixty years old with the army, the heirless boss loves his fertile wife

Chapter 285 Intention
If she wasn't discovered by someone, there must be a reason, right?

Tang Qiyue was still opening the envelopes, spreading out all the letters inside, and looking through them to make sure what was written on each one.

Zhan Zeye watched this scene from the side and gave the results of his investigation.

"Do you remember when we provided those rings to the old commander a few years ago?"

Tang Qiyue would naturally not forget.

She wouldn't have risked doing that if she hadn't had no other choice.

Now Zhan Zeye tells her, "The appearance of the ring must have caused a stir. Although the old commander tried his best to block the news, there was a traitor in the team!"

Every team has its flaws, and Tang Qiyue could understand that.

"Those people have been investigating and analyzing for years, and they may have been targeting you and me. This is just a test!"

In that case, Tang Qiyue thought it was understandable.

As long as the system isn't exposed, she wouldn't take being targeted seriously.

Besides, she was still on an island.

This is a good opportunity to put aside what I'm doing and give myself a break.

She always felt that these events were related to the extra memories she had.

Fearing that Zhan Zeye would be conflicted if he knew, Tang Qiyue didn't tell him much at all, but just wanted to investigate the results clearly before telling him.

"The old commander will make arrangements, so you don't need to worry. Anyway, they can't come over from the island. But do you want to reply to these letters?"

Although some of them were testing Tang Qiyue, there were also Tang Qiyue's former friends, whom Tang Qiyue genuinely wanted to contact.

No matter how nice the people on the island are, and how many friends I've made, the friends from my student days are irreplaceable.

One of them was Tang Qiyue's best friend from her school days.

She ignored the other people's letters, knowing their information would eventually be investigated; she only replied to one person.

Compared to the subtle probing of others, this friend's letter was truly filled with longing for her and questioning why she had suddenly disappeared after getting married.

The other party also shared her experiences over the years, left her address, and asked Tang Qiyue to definitely reply to her.

He checked the letter he had written several times, and even had Zhan Zeye look at it to make sure there were no problems before letting Zhan Zeye send it out.

What Tang Qiyue didn't expect was that the second letter from the other party brought a very sad thing.

“Her first child died, her husband died, her in-laws all died, and she survived only because she took her child back to her parents’ home to inquire about me!”

After reading the letter, Tang Qiyue felt the impermanence of life.

Zhan Zeye casually took the letter that Tang Qiyue handed him. From the words, it was clear that Tang Qiyue's friend had indeed suffered a tragic fate.

"This shouldn't be man-made!"

Zhan Zeye felt compelled to offer a reminder.

The incident involving Da Bao was deliberately staged, but the ordeal experienced by Tang Qiyue's family was not.

Because although her husband's family also contracted the disease, it wasn't an ordinary disease, but leprosy, which has a particularly high mortality rate.

There is no specific cure for this disease. Once it is discovered, there is almost no choice but to wait for death, or to avoid transmission, all infected people will be isolated.

Some authorities were forced to order the burning of all the sick to prevent further infection. Tang Qiyue, despite having a system, was helpless against this infectious disease, as many infectious diseases in the post-apocalyptic world lacked methods of transmission.

To put it bluntly, the two worlds are still very different in many ways.

Tang Qiyue wrote back a letter, expressing her condolences for the ordeal her classmate's family had suffered, and urging her classmate to cheer up, as she still had children to take care of.

Perhaps it was this exposure to the outside world that made Tang Qiyue realize that she might be too closed off.

She was so focused on developing the island that she had no time to pay attention to anything else.

With the children growing up, she no longer needs to keep an eye on them all the time, which gives her a lot of space to do other things.

"What are you thinking about?"

Zhan Zeye saw that Tang Qiyue was not speaking and assumed that she was upset about her classmate's situation. However, Tang Qiyue expressed that she wanted to go out and take a look.

Zhan Zeye knew the current situation outside and did not agree with her dangerous idea.

"Then I'll go ask the old leader if I can go out for a walk. The island is certainly safe, but I'm not a hothouse flower that doesn't need excessive protection. Besides, I want to know what the country I've worked so hard to build is really like now!"

Perhaps it was her experience in the apocalypse that made Tang Qiyue find it hard to believe the words of those in power; she needed to see for herself.

But she forgot the importance of herself.

Fortunately, the old leader was not an uncommunicative person. He approved Tang Qiyue's request to go out for a walk, but not just any walk. Instead, he gave her an identity: to go to various educated youth settlements for study and research.

This identity is the safest, and it also allows them to get closer to the grassroots people.

Tang Qiyue, who had never been considered a member of the lower class in either of her lives, naturally wouldn't refuse, and she was also curious about the impact of the times on ordinary people.

Zhan Zeye will definitely accompany him.

Zhan Zeye was not the only one traveling with them; Chen Dazhuang and Hu Peng were also present.

They were all core members protecting Tang Qiyue.

With Zhan's mother and Zhan Chunying watching over the child, Tang Qiyue and Zhan Zeye felt at ease. Besides, Tang's mother and Uncle Wang were also there, so Tang Qiyue and Zhan Zeye left by boat together.

After obtaining the letter of introduction from the dock, Tang Qiyue chose to go to the places where the classmates who wrote the letter to her lived.

It wasn't that she valued these classmates so much; she simply went to chat with them, partly to test the waters and partly to see how her old classmates were doing back then.

With the status of research observers, Tang Qiyue and his group were not suspected and were even warmly welcomed.

Tang Qiyue's first stop was the village where her good friend, who had lost most of his relatives, lived.

This was also a settlement for educated youth, but it was located on the Loess Plateau.

This geographical landscape was something Tang Qiyue had never been to before. She looked at the yellow sand flying in the air, and then at the endless yellow sand, and couldn't understand why her classmate who loved beauty would choose this place.

It's hard to find even a few big trees on the hillsides. Soil erosion is severe, and the crops in the fields are half-dead. Even with the hard work of the farmers, the crops still look malnourished.

When Tang Qiyue appeared, her classmate was protecting a child who was being held down and about to be thrown off a cliff.

Tang Qiyue and Zhan Zeye took out their letters of introduction and presented them to the village officials in charge, which saved their unfortunate classmate.

"What happened? Why did they want to kill you?"

Logically speaking, even if someone is truly guilty, the case should be reported to the commune, and the commune should call the police to handle it. Why should the villagers resort to vigilante justice?
Tang Qiyue's doubts caused her classmate to burst into tears.