The sergeant's wife's cousin was a rather shrewd-looking man.
In the countryside, where people were simple and straightforward, anyone a little too foolish would be taken advantage of every day.
Actually, city dwellers often misunderstood the countryside. They always thought that rural areas, unlike cities filled with lights and revelry, ought to be much simpler.
But that was not the case. The boundary markers in old Mr. Kesima's fields were always blown into other people's fields, occasionally allowing him to seize their land and crops. That alone showed that the countryside was not a place of simple folk.
Precisely because material life was poor and sources of income were limited, people would not be simple, whether they were protecting their own property or trying to obtain benefits from elsewhere!
The sergeant's cousin was exactly like that. On the surface, he looked honest and thickheaded, but if you watched his eyes, you could see his shrewdness and cunning.
After meeting Lin Qi, the sergeant's wife's cousin left. He took a few people with him aboard a cruise ship bound for Lehmer.
He accepted the job Mr. Truman gave him.
Sometimes, you knew there was a pit of fire in front of you, but you had no choice except to jump in, because you had already run out of options.
Moving forward, the flames in the pit might scorch your body, but as long as you could get across, you would see a vast new world.
But moving backward—or stopping where you were—meant certain death.
If Lehmer's president and the People's Aid Party stopped cooperating with the Federal Government's measures and wanted to turn toward the Peng Joe People, Lin Qi would help them choose the right direction.
In the face of a war that would certainly affect the entire world, did