Chapter 695: Earthquake is happening soon
Afternoon.
Dong Xuebing looks at the time and its lunch break.
An Office Department staff knocked on the door and entered Dong Xuebingâs office to deliver a document. Dong Xuebing said to him. âHelp me get Director Zhou to come to my office.â
âYes.â That staff left.
A while later, Zhou Yanru knocked and entered Dong Xuebingâs office. âDirector, are you looking for me?â
Dong Xuebing looked at Zhou Yanru and laughed. âWhatâs wrong? You look listless.â
Zhou Yanru forced a smile. âIâm fine. I am not feeling well.â
âThen you should take care of your health.â
âYes. I appreciate your concern.â
Dong Xuebing knows the reason why Zhou Yanru becomes like this. She has nothing to do. It might be fine for someone with no ambitions. But itâs torture for someone ambitious like Dong Xuebing. He needs to get results, but thereâs no work to do, and he doesnât want to spend the rest of his life like this. He can tell Zhou Yanru is also an ambitious person. Thatâs why he felt apologetic towards her for causing this situation. He had implicated everyone in the Subdistrict Office and caused Guang Ming Subdistrict to be âblacklisted.â
Dong Xuebing is determined to change the situation as it is no longer about him. He created this mess, and he needs to be responsible for it. He must lead Guang Ming Subdistrict to achieve something great, or he will disappoint himself, his subordinates, and the residences.
Dong Xuebing looked at Zhou Yanru with determination. âYou should take a break if you are not feeling well. I asked you to ask you about our Subdistrictâs internal e-newspaper. I remember we have something like this.â
Zhou Yanru is puzzled. âInternal e-newspaper?â
âDonât we have it?â Dong Xuebing asked. âI overheard about this from some staff.â
Guang Ming Subdistrict doesnât have many staffs, and itâs not directly under the City Government. It is also not an important department, and they canât have their e-newspaper.
Zhou Yanru thought for a while and realized what Dong Xuebing was referring to. âAre you talking about our Subdistrict Officeâs website bulletin?â
âWhere is it? Let me see.â
Zhou Yanru walked over to Dong Xuebingâs PC and opened their Subdistrict Officeâs website. âThis is our Subdistrictâs website which was set up last year. Two of our Work Party Office staff are in charge of updating our Subdistrict Officeâs latest news for internal circulation. You can also call this our internal newspaper.â The siteâs header states Guang Ming Subdistrict, and it looks like any other government website.
This is what Dong Xuebing is looking for. The site has all the announcements from the various Subdistrict departments and neighborhood committees. Most of the news is positive news and seldom has negative ones. But this is not enough for him. âDoes this e-newsletter have printed copies?â
âYes.â Zhou Yanru doesnât know why Dong Xuebing wants to look at this. âThis newsletter is updated once a week on average, and it will be pasted on the noticeboard at our Service Lobby. Sometimes it will be updated once every three days, and sometimes every two weeks.
Yes. This is it.
Dong Xuebing reply immediately. âPrint an extra copy and deliver it to my office from now on.â
âNo problem.â Zhou Yanru smiled. âI will inform them when I get back.â
Dong Xuebing nodded. âOh, tell those people in charge of the website to publish a new copy of it within these two days and bring it to my office before office hours.â He looked at his desk and opened the first drawer on his right. He will place his cigarettes and lighters in it, and itâs empty most of the time. âHere. Tell them to place it in this drawer when they deliver it.â
Zhou Yanru was puzzled, but she still nodded. âOk.â
Dong Xuebing asked Zhou Yanru to return to work after giving her the instructions.
It was lunchtime, but Dong Xuebing did not go downstairs for lunch. He touched the drawer on his right and thought about his instructions to Zhou Yanru.
There should not be any problems, and Dong Xuebing believes Zhou Yanru will take his words seriously.
The next issueâŠ. The nextâs next issueâŠ. The issue after thatâŠ. All these issues should appear in this drawer. Alright. Letâs start.
Dong Xuebing cleared his mind and took a deep breath.
He focused on that drawer a few moments later and gently placed his hand on it.
FORWARD.
FORWARD is activated, and Dong Xuebing can feel his remaining time getting lesser.
Dong Xuebing is taking a huge gamble this time. He will use up all the time he saved over the past few weeks, hoping to find an opportunity to break the stalemate.
Ten minutes passed.
Thirty minutes passed.
Dong Xuebing sat in his office without moving. He looks frozen in place with one hand on the drawer. Suddenly, he felt FORWARD was deactivated. He must have used up all his remaining time. One minute of FORWARD is equivalent to one day, and he should have pushed forward the time to more than one month.
Itâs time to see the results.
This must not go wrong.
Dong Xuebing pulled open the empty drawer nervously.
A copy of the printed e-newspaper is in the drawer.
Success!
It worked!
Dong Xuebing glanced at the header and the date on the top right corner.
This is more than one month later copy!
Dong Xuebing is overjoyed. He crossed his legs and looked at the headlines with anticipation. But his excitement was gone when he saw the headline, and he almost fell off his chair.
Damn!
Are you joking with me?!
Dong Xuebing felt he damn unlucky. The bold red headline states the earthquake in Fen Zhou City is amended to 8.0 on the Richter scale!
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