Tao Qiu Demonstrates His Ability (Continued)

Families with young children suffer even more. The children are both sensible and insensible; they don't have the nerve to go to other people's houses for meals, but they still expect their parents to cook the same dishes.

The parents replied coldly, "I don't know how to cook. Why don't you just go beg for food at his house?"

Child. "..."

Me? These unreliable parents.

The next day, Tao Qiu and Lou Yu didn't go out; they stayed home with the children to rest.

Lou Yu is starting work tomorrow, and Tao Qiu also has to go to the planting area to plant the new batch of fruits and vegetables she promised to Lou Quan. So, they should take advantage of the free time today to rest and recharge.

In the afternoon, Huo Lan and Liu Qi'an came to play with the children and also told Tao Qiu and Lou Yu about what happened that day.

Huo Lan: "What you said yesterday, Captain, has all been spread. When my colleagues saw me today, they were all asking if the child was really yours. I just said what you told us to say."

Lou Yu never intended to hide the fact that the three children were his and Tao Qiu's biological offspring. However, it's rare for a man to give birth, and if you chase after someone to tell them the truth, they're more likely to disbelieve you.

The onlookers all believed that the information they gathered was more reliable, so Lou Yu simply followed suit.

Lou Yu told his teammates that if anyone inquired, they should tell them that Tao Qiu was able to have children because of her special physical condition, Yongkang Base had acknowledged, and that there had been similar cases before the great disaster.

And they've had tests done to confirm that the three children are their biological offspring.

In fact, anyone who has seen the family of five would not doubt the blood relationship between the child and the parents. What shocked the onlookers was the fact that the man gave birth to the child.

However, they lived in a magical era where humanity had fallen from its pedestal, and the plants and animals they once ruled had become the sharp blades that could reap their lives.

The whole world is overrun by mutated monsters, so it's not so hard to accept that a human man can have children, and not even because of mutation.

The reason for the surprise is mainly because the quantity is too small.

Liu Qi'an said with a wicked smile, "Those who said the captain was a stepfather and took the opportunity to slander you before, now their faces are probably slapped hard."

He's right. After Lou Yu's "biological son?" remark spread widely yesterday, those who already disliked Lou Yu for various reasons and took this opportunity to insult and mock him initially argued that it was impossible and that Lou Yu was just making things up to save face.

However, they cannot deny the fact that the children look like Lou Yu. In addition, today, Lou Yu's teammates and some insiders from the base explained to Lou Yu and Tao Qiu that Tao Qiu could have children and that Lou Yu is the child's biological father. These two things have basically been settled.

Those people's faces stung from the slaps. They had actually believed it to be true, but because of their arrogance, they refused to admit they were wrong, so they continued to brainwash themselves, clarifying that the news was false and that what they said was right.

However, they also knew that their thoughts were not normal, and they dared not speak ill of Lou Yu and his group in public anymore, for fear of being beaten to a pulp by righteous people.

In conclusion, public opinion is still on Lou Yu's side.

The next morning after breakfast, Lou Yu was on his way to work, and he drove Tao Qiu and the kids to the planting area.

Tao Qiu got his driver's license in his previous life, but he died before he could even drive a few times after leaving driving school. So many years have passed, and since he's not familiar with the roads around the base, he really doesn't dare to drive on the road and can only ask Lou Yu to pick him up and drop him off.

The kids came along to see what was going on; both dads have to work, and they can't just leave them home alone.

It was rush hour, and small groups of employees were walking leisurely or hurriedly into the planting area. Lou Yu found a place to park and took the three children out of the back seat.

Lou Yu's original plan was to send Tao Qiu and the child inside, and then leave once Tao Qiu had become more familiar with the place.

But just as they took two steps toward the gate, a figure jogged toward them.

He was Lou Quan's adjutant.

The adjutant said with a smile, "Captain Lou, bringing your sweetheart to work?"

Lou Yu in surprise, "What are you doing here??"

The adjutant chuckled, "Not just me, the commander and the others are here too. It's Mr. Tao's first day on the job, and we were worried he might not be adjusting well, so we came to cheer him on."

Lou Yu naturally understood that this was the adjutant's joke; Lou Quan probably wanted to witness Tao Qiu's supernatural abilities firsthand.

"Since you've all skipped work, you shouldn't mind taking me along, right?" Lou Quan was there, Lou Yu didn't feel comfortable leaving Tao Qiu alone to face him.

"Alright." Lou Quan had already guessed that things would turn out this way. Before the adjutant came out to pick up the man, he had instructed him that if Lou Yu wanted to stay, he should agree.

The adjutant led them inside.

The combination of two handsome men and three children was enough to make even those who didn't know Lou Yu before guess their identities upon seeing the group. These past few days, gossip about Lou Yu and Tao Qiu had been rampant in the base.

The lower-ranking employees in the planting area had not yet received any news that Tao Qiu would be coming to work there, let alone know that he had special abilities.

Everyone was very curious to see him here.

"What are Lou Yu doing bringing his girlfriend to the planting area?"

"Could it be that you're trying to use connections to get him a job?"

Working in the planting area is highly sought after throughout the entire Yong'an Base.

"The person who came out to pick them up... I've seen him a few times before. He's the commander's adjutant. Sometimes his attitude reflects the commander's attitude. His attentiveness to that Tao Qiu can't just be because he knows Lou Yu, can it?"

"Could there be another story behind this?"

"Wait, the commander's adjutant is here? Could the commander be here too?"

"Hiss... Alright, alright, stop talking nonsense, or the walls might be overhearing."

Both are handsome men with the surname Lou, and both previously claimed to be single. Lou Yu, both openly and secretly, and quite a few have pursued him. Although he is a superhuman, people respect him but are not afraid of him.

Because everyone in the base knows Lou Yu's good temper; as long as you don't cross his bottom line, he is always gentle and polite to people.

Lou Quan, on the other hand, usually appears to be a smiling and easygoing person, but very few people in the entire base dare to have any improper thoughts about him. This is not because he holds a high position or great power, but because everyone is afraid of him from the bottom of their hearts.

Lou Quan arrived at the Yong'an Base several years earlier than Lou Yu. When he was parachuted into the position of commander, the base was impoverished and weak, and the various factions entrenched within refused to cooperate with their superiors and exploited their subordinates to the bone.

It could be said that Lou Quan was a commander without any troops once he arrived at the Yong'an Base. If he didn't curry favor with these local forces, he wouldn't be able to manage the base, and he might even have a hard time keeping his life.

Some thought he would compromise with these forces, while others thought he would first feign compliance, then eliminate them one by one, slowly bringing the base under his control.

Those forces also thought the same way, and even planned to erode Lou Quan and make this commander their puppet.

But no one expected that Lou Quan would take such swift and decisive action upon arrival, sweeping away all forces from top to bottom, drawing blood and eliminating them completely in less than a year, except for a few families in the Central Base.

Their methods were cold-blooded and cruel, yet effective.

Rumor has it that someone asked Lou Quan why he would resort to such methods to seize power.

Lou Quan spoke calmly, as if he weren't the one with hundreds of lives on his hands. He said, "I came to Yong'an Base to improve its management, not to play house with those trash."

During that time, everyone at the Yong'an Base called him "Jade-Faced Shura".

Several years later, under his leadership, the base's overall strength improved dramatically. He never harmed any ordinary people and maintained a humble and tolerant attitude towards others. Gradually, no one called him that anymore.

However, people still subconsciously respected and feared him. When they gathered in front of him to protest over issues of borrowing grain and grain shortages, they only asked him for an explanation and never had the idea of overthrowing him.

Besides gratitude for his contributions over the years, one important reason is that the public's underlying feeling towards him is ultimately fear.

I heard that he's most likely in the planting area right now, and he seems to value Tao Qiu quite a bit. So those who were sour, resentful, or had doubts all kept quiet.

Even if Lou Quan heard their gossip, he might not punish them, but the mere fear of offending him was enough to scare people half to death.

Lou Quan was unaware that his reputation was surprisingly effective at silencing gossip. He and several trusted subordinates waited in the fields specially prepared for Tao Qiu, while several leaders of the planting area stood behind him with smiles on their faces, making solemn promises to him.

"Commander, please rest assured, this place is extremely secure and exclusively for Mr. Tao. Ordinary employees don't even have permission to enter. We will also need to apply to Mr. Tao before we can enter. There's no need to worry about Mr. Tao being disturbed."

"The house next door is already fully renovated. Mr. Tao can move in immediately with just his bags. He can also rest there when he's tired from farming. We'll send someone to clean it regularly."

"I heard Mr. Tao has three children. We've installed a playhouse inside, so when Mr. Tao is busy, the children will have a place to play."

After Tao Qiu's letter was delivered to Lou Quan, before even finalizing the cooperation with the Yongkang Base, immediately instructed his subordinates to create a comfortable working environment for Tao Qiu as quickly as possible.

He never even considered that his deal with Tao Qiu would fall through. Even if Tao Qiu changed his mind at the last minute, he would do everything he could to make the deal happen.

The day before Tao Qiu and the children arrived at the Yong'an Base, Tao Qiu's "vegetable garden" had already been completed, without even Lou Yu knowing about it.