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Chapter 155 A Chaotic New Year's Eve! (Second Update!)
When Suleimania heard Sherikov say that as long as he didn't panic, there wouldn't be a big problem, he shrank back slightly, then immediately echoed:
"General Sherikov is right. As long as we don't panic, the rest won't be a problem."

After speaking, realizing that no one else had echoed her, Suleimania gave an awkward smile and then turned to look at Hassan:
"Instructor Hassan, do your intelligence personnel have any new intelligence to share?"

Hassan spread his hands, making a helpless expression:

"There is no new information at the moment. Actually, it doesn't matter whether there is new information or not. We all know that America is the mastermind behind all of this."

"The problem is, America's fist is there, so even if we know, it's useless."

As he spoke, Hassan turned to Sherikov and asked, "General Sherikov, am I right?"

"Ha!" Sherikov chuckled softly, turning to look at President THAAD:

"President THAAD, I am conveying our views to you on behalf of Moscow."

"It's only the early stages of chaos. The Kurdish forces supported by America haven't made any progress yet, and they can only operate in the cities in the northeast right now."

"This chaos in Damascus is a result of their attempts to distract us and force us to choose between two options."

“If we choose to drag our feet on resolving the Damascus issue, then the Kurdish forces supported by America will be able to move freely in northeastern Syria.”

"Therefore, the Damascus issue cannot be delayed."

We must act swiftly and decisively!

After speaking with THAAD, he turned to look at Air Force Commander Salois:
"General Saloi, the Syrian Air Force, is Syria's last trump card."

"The Americans will definitely try to sabotage it, and your mission is to protect the air force."

"Especially after the bombing begins, you must be careful."

After giving instructions to the two men, Sherikov turned to the others, nodded, and continued with a serious expression:

"Ladies and gentlemen, the lesson of Iraq is right there. A country that has lost its sovereignty is not a good thing for any of us. So, even if your interests are conflicting, we should unite now."

"Similarly, Moscow also told me that if Damascus is beyond saving, then we will have no choice but to evacuate."

After leaving those words, Sherikov walked out of the makeshift command center and disappeared down the corridor.

The few people who remained looked at each other, and finally, they all turned their attention to President THAAD.

Stared at by a group of people, Sader instinctively closed his eyes, trying to escape, but he quickly opened them again and looked at the people present, saying:
"I will let the police handle the Damascus issue."

The moment those words were uttered, the others gasped in shock.

Subsequently, Hassan, the Iranian representative, also made up an excuse and left the October Palace.

With the outsiders gone, all that's left are Syrians themselves.

Saloi closed the door behind him and locked it, then approached Sade and looked at him seriously, asking:

"Mr. President, we will definitely persevere, won't we?"

"Definitely, we will definitely persevere!" Sad clenched his fist and responded forcefully to Saloi's words.

However, his effort was a bit weak, making the statement seem rather weak.

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the people present changed slightly, but they did not actually show it. After discussing for a few more minutes, they dispersed.

Saloi's home is also in the Maliki district. As soon as he got home, his wife and children surrounded him.

After ruffling each child's hair into a messy, disheveled style, Saloi stood up, hugged his wife, and then whispered:

"Take the children to England; it's safe there."

His wife was not coy; after listening to Saloi's explanation, she turned around and went to pack her luggage.

She didn't pack much luggage, mainly just some precious jewelry and cash. She took all the children, big and small, with her, kissed Saloi, and then disappeared into the night under the escort of her guards.

After watching his wife and children disappear, Saloi returned to the bedroom and took a cell phone from under the bed.

I entered a number on the SMS page, then edited a message and sent it.

[Transfer $200 million to the previous account. After the transfer, I'll tell you the exact time and location of tomorrow's Russian Air Force attack!]

…………

Bang bang bang!
A sudden knock on the door startled Lin Yi awake. He lay in bed with his eyes open for a while, asking himself three fundamental questions about life before finally remembering where he was.

After hesitating for a while, he kicked off the blanket, reluctantly got up, and reluctantly opened the door.

Outside the door, Ji Shuangshuang carried a thermos in her left hand and some pickled vegetables in her right:

"It's already 12 o'clock, why aren't you up yet?"

"It's only 12 o'clock!" Lin Yi turned around and glanced at the time on the wall.

12 points.

That's a pretty good number.

Ji Shuangshuang pushed Lin Yi aside, placed the thermos on the table, and opened it. Inside was a pot of soft, well-cooked rice and millet porridge.

The next second, the thermos and pickled vegetables were casually pushed in front of Lin Yi:
"Eat something first to tide you over."

Lin Yi took the thermos and spoon, and with some pickled vegetables, began to gulp down the millet porridge.

While eating, he said, "Speaking of which, you finally have a day off, why are you up so early?"

Upon hearing this, Ji Shuangshuang rolled her eyes, took out her phone, and opened the calendar:

"Brother, you are my brother!"

"Today is the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, the last day of 2009. After today, there will never be another 2009."

"Also, the cafeteria is closed today, and so are the restaurants outside."

"Cao Bin and the others have also run outside!"

"The two of us will either cook for ourselves or eat out at restaurants."

"Tell me, what can I do if I don't get up early?"

These words made Lin Yi, who was drinking porridge, pause in his actions. He turned around blankly and asked, "What do you mean Cao Bin and the others ran away?"

At her desk, Ji Shuangshuang sighed and rubbed her forehead, saying with her eyes closed:
“Cao Bin came to see you early this morning and said they were going to explore Suzhou and would be having their New Year’s Eve dinner out tonight, and wouldn’t be coming back.”

"Twenty people, all dressed in suits and ties, with slicked-back hair and powdered faces."

"I felt so angry when I saw them that I wanted to strangle them to death!"

"We agreed yesterday that we would all cook and eat together tonight, but they ran away!"

Ji Shuangshuang said the last sentence through gritted teeth.

Lin Yi naturally understood why she was gritting her teeth. In their previous life, during their more than ten years of marriage, their biggest arguments weren't about the company.

It's not about who cooks and who washes the dishes.

Both of them are lazy; neither wants to cook, and both just want to wash the dishes.

Later, when we had children, we taught them to cook at a young age.

My child is older now and has started boarding school.

The world has begun its cycle again.

Cao Bin and his large group of people are not going home. Since they want to have New Year's Eve dinner during the Spring Festival, someone will naturally step forward to cook. They can just help with washing dishes and vegetables and eat and drink for free.

Now the potentially diligent people have left.

Only two lazy dogs are left.

People will die.

After finishing his porridge, Lin Yi carried the thermos in his hand, walked over to Ji Shuangshuang, and patted her on the shoulder:

"Does the cafeteria have food?"

"Have!"

"Do you have chicken, duck, fish, and meat?"

"Have!"

"Let's go then. We can't let ourselves die from holding our pee. Let's each cook two dishes and make do for today." Half an hour later, Lin Yi and Ji Shuangshuang, who had tidied themselves up, appeared in the cafeteria together.

Because people have to go back to work on the third day of the Lunar New Year, while most farmers' markets don't open until the fourth or fifth day.

Therefore, the cafeteria purchased a batch of vegetables and meat in advance and put them in the refrigerator.

Lin Yi opened the refrigerator and looked at its full contents of vegetables and meat. He turned around.

"What to eat?"

"I want to eat Mapo Tofu, Spicy Chicken, Wensi Tofu, and Crystal Cake..."

Ji Shuangshuang's small mouth rattled off a whole bunch of dishes.

Lin Yi looked at the full freezer and held up a few fingers:

"Steamed prawns, steamed egg custard, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, Mapo tofu that's not quite Mapo, stir-fried beef with greens, stir-fried romaine lettuce, and a zucchini soup. I don't know how to make the other dishes that require skill."

"This is my best dish."

"Eat?"

Hearing him recite the names of the dishes, Ji Shuangshuang visibly breathed a sigh of relief:

"I'll wash the dishes!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the girl slapped her forehead, revealing an expression as if she had just woken up from a dream:

"Um... these dishes are so vegetarian, isn't it inappropriate to use them for ancestral worship?"

Lin Yi wanted to curse, but the words stuck in his throat.

It's our own property, we can't criticize it yet.

You should get a license before you start criticizing.

Forcibly suppressing the turmoil in his heart, Lin Yi took out his phone and, despite the exorbitant data charges, began searching online for how to cook meat dishes.

Less than 30 minutes later, my phone suddenly received a text message.

Your phone credit is low, please top up immediately!

Upon seeing this text message, Lin Yi nearly smashed his phone.

But then he remembered that the phone was his own, so he forcibly stuffed it back into his pocket and went to the refrigerator to try out the dish he had just learned to make.

He chopped vegetables vigorously on the cutting board, while Ji Shuangshuang stood beside him with her hands on her hips, offering her expert critiques:
"The zucchini slices should be cut thinner so that the shreds look better."

"The tomatoes for scrambled eggs with tomatoes should be sliced ​​thinly, and the eggs should be cooked first before adding the tomatoes, otherwise it will just be tomato and egg drop soup."

"Steamed prawns need to be made with live prawns, while these frozen prawns need to be deep-fried..."

"When stir-frying vegetables with beef, you should add more chili peppers and pickled peppers to make the flavor more complex!"

"That's not how you stir-fry romaine lettuce. You have to sauté the garlic first, and then you can add the romaine lettuce..."

"Is this how you caramelize sugar? I think the color of yours is a bit off..."

At this moment, Lin Yi felt like he was one of the two bull demons guarding Tang Sanzang, played by Law Kar-ying, in A Chinese Odyssey.

And Ji Shuangshuang is the Tang Monk.

That incessantly chattering Tang Sanzang!
He talks so much!
"Shut up! If you keep nagging, you can cook the dishes yourself!" With that, Ji Shuangshuang immediately shut up, turned around and picked up a few plates, two bowls, and two pairs of chopsticks, and pretended to wash them by the sink.

This washing session lasted for more than an hour.

The water was flowing rapidly, and she was constantly scrubbing the plate with a loofah. If it weren't ceramic, it would probably have been crushed long ago.

Lazy dog!

A few minutes later, the last dish was cooked.

At this moment, Ji Shuangshuang transformed into a diligent person, shuttling between the kitchen and the hall, delivering dishes to the makeshift altar.

As soon as Lin Yi came out of the kitchen, she immediately handed him the incense and candles:

"Remember to pay respects to your ancestors!"

The ancestors were seated at one table, while Lin Yi and Ji Shuangshuang sat at another table, ensuring that neither side disturbed the other.

After taking a couple of bites of rice, Ji Shuangshuang suddenly put down her bowl and asked in a low voice:

"Want a drink? I can have a couple with you today!"

"I'm not drinking! I'm still hungover from yesterday."

"Oh!" Ji Shuangshuang gave a soft "oh," then reached for the dishes on the table with her chopsticks. After taking a couple of bites, she began to comment again:

"The eggs in this scrambled eggs with tomatoes were a little overcooked; they would have been better if they were a little softer."

"This steamed egg custard... should have a little salt added, and it's not smooth enough."

"This stir-fried beef with greens is good, but the chili peppers are a bit too spicy. You shouldn't have put in so much."

"This zucchini dish is a little too oily. If it had less oil, it would be perfect."

The sounds of wind and rain were all perfectly balanced, and with each comment, Lin Yi's blood pressure rose a notch.

In the end, he simply ignored the person on the other side, acting as if that person didn't exist.

He picked up the bowl and began ruthlessly shoveling rice into his mouth.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, it's time for the fireworks display, which everyone, young and old, looks forward to during the Spring Festival.

Lin Yi moved the fireworks he had purchased in advance out of the warehouse and placed them on the open ground in front of the office building. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and sat down on the ground in a very casual manner.

last year……

No, it must have been many years ago.

Back then, my parents were still alive, and during the Lunar New Year, we would go back to the neighborhood where I had lived since I was a child.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, the familiar faces in the neighborhood would bring the fireworks they had bought to the open space in the neighborhood, and the adults would light the more dangerous ones together.

The children were nearby, holding safer toys, weaving around the adults and playing hide-and-seek.

In the blink of an eye, I was the only one left lighting the fireworks.

When it got a little dark, Lin Yi took out a lighter and lit the fireworks.

Bang bang bang!
Fireworks shot into the sky one by one, then exploded into dazzling displays of light.

Amidst the dazzling fireworks, Ji Shuangshuang watched them, slowly resting her head on Lin Yi's shoulder, and then asked in a gentle voice:

"Brother, how about hiring two accountants next year?"

"Didn't I tell you to recruit him yourself?"

"I simply don't have time to write job postings!"

"Then you'll have to suffer for it yourself!"

"Can you bear to see a beautiful woman like me suffer?"

"How heartless! Only useless people think about getting by all day!"

"You have such a heart of stone!"

"I think you should graduate and go out and explore the market."

"No way! Only a fool would go!"

The two were bickering under the fireworks when Lin Yi's phone rang.

I took out my phone and found it was an unfamiliar number.

He intended to hang up, but as his finger touched the hang-up button, he inexplicably clicked to answer again.

The next second, Ahmed's voice came through the phone:
"Mr. Lin, I will arrive at Zanwu Airport at around 3 a.m., could you please pick me up?"

(End of this chapter)