"Ladies, shall I make some noodles for you?"

In the shabby and messy fishing shed, the solar light bulb glowed with a soft yellow light; the fishy smell was particularly pungent.

Bearded Lu Beifang was at that moment, holding a set of noodles, placing it into the boiling pot on the stove.

In front of him, five beautiful women, cold and hungry, their pretty faces showed residual shock, and their clothes are old and ragged.

They were each tightly hugging their shivering bodies, like injured hedgehogs, snuggling close to the burning fire, listening to Beifang's words, and nodding vigorously.

...

Recently, Lu Beifang felt particularly surreal.

A month ago, he had returned from military to civilian work and had applied for a post in the office of the Lu Valley County Government. However, during the interview, someone had pulled strings, changing his rank from top three to fifth, just causing him to be eliminated.

Beifang, whose ancestors for generations were farmers, had to choose a different position. In the end, he was assigned to work in the Qingfeng Township water supply station.

Because of this job, Beifang’s girlfriend, Miao Xin, proposed to break up.

Miao Xin was a music teacher at the second elementary school in Lu Valley County town, and her father, Miao Changyan, was the Deputy Director of the County Tobacco Bureau.

Upon learning that Beifang was assigned to work in the Qingfeng Township water supply station, he encouraged his daughter to break up.

Pressured by her father, coupled with the relentless pursuit of herself by the Township Left Yanfeng, the son of the County Party Standing Committee and Executive Deputy County Chief Left Qiu, Miao Xin made up her mind to break up.

One day, she brought Left Yanfeng with her to break up with Lu Beifang.

Watching the girlfriend, whom he had loved in school and being away due to military service for three years, wanting to break up, Lu Beifang could not help shedding tears.

He looked at Miao Xin in immense pain, repeatedly asking, "Miao Xin, why? Why do we need to part ways?"

Miao Xin looked at him, her words cold and emotionless, "Lu Beifang, I'm at an age where a piece of candy can't sweeten an entire day. Can we be realistic? Look at your current job; it has no prospects! I can't suffer with you my entire life!"

Lu Beifang snorted through his nose, his gaze slowly turning towards Zuo Yanfeng, who was in his luxurious Mercedes on the roadside, and then he asked Miao Xin again: "You say I have no future? Haha, I get it, does he have a bright future? He can give you everything you desire, right?!"

Miao Xin didn't respond.

"Oh, it's about to rain, your girlfriend is leaving with someone else, can you stop it?"

Sitting in the car, Zuo Yanfeng, seeing Lu Beifang glaring at him, provocatively raised his middle finger.

This upset Lu Beifang.

He clenched his fists and "Bang", he shattered the glass of Zuo Yanfeng's car.

Then, he dragged Zuo Yanfeng out and started punching him, bloodying his face, until he begged for mercy on his knees.

The outcome of this episode was that Lu Beifang got detained for three days and had to pay thirty thousand yuan as a penalty. Obviously, Miao Xin broke up with him.

If it hadn't been for the Deputy Director of the Public Security Bureau, Yi Weinan, who was from the same hometown as Lu Beifang and knew about his significant contributions in the military, using his influence to plead for mercy. The Standing Member of the County Party Committee and the Executive Deputy County Chief, Zuo Qiu, wouldn't have let him off easily. Not only would he have caused trouble for him and taken away his job, but most likely would have also forced him out of Lvgu County and pressed charges against him.

Upon release from detention, Lu Beifang reported to the Qinfeng Township water management station.

The small courtyard of the water management station was old, the walls mottled, the rooms simple, and quite desolate.

There were a total of nine people in the Qinfeng Township water management station, one chief and two deputy chiefs, as well as two clerks.

The rest five were reservoir administrators.

Although Lu Beifang was disheartened by the environment, he had no choice!

He lived in Yiyang town, Green Valley county, over forty kilometers from Qingfeng village. It was unrealistic to travel to and from work every day.

After making a sound to the deputy director in charge of internal affairs, Lu Beifang set up a portable bed in the firewood shed behind the plumbing department's kitchen, which served as his dormitory.

However, the very first night, Lu Beifang caused trouble.

Chen Zhengde, the director of the plumbing department, was a local from Qingfeng village, living on the east side of the street. As an influential person in the village, he could not conspicuously indulge in a dalliance.

Therefore, his office became the best place for him to meet his mistress.

On Lu Beifang's first night, he saw the revenue collector of the plumbing department, Shen Huixin, with her hips swaying and bag in hand, hurriedly entering the director's office on the second floor of the plumbing department.

After a while, strange noises started to come from upstairs. Lu Beifang couldn't stand it anymore and hit the door frame on the first floor hard with a wooden stick.

...

The next day, Chen Zhengde, who was extremely annoyed at his good time being ruined, discussed with his two deputy directors first thing in the morning and decided to send Lu Beifang to be the manager of the Fengtian Reservoir, more than twenty kilometers away from the village.

The reason was simple. It was now winter, and the water level was shallow. The water in the reservoir needed to be strictly managed, and the villagers were no longer allowed to drain it.

At the same time, the Qingfeng village government had used poverty alleviation funds to raise fish in the reservoir for the year, and these were about to be caught and stored. The bold villagers could no longer be allowed to fish them away.

Although Lu Beifang knew this was Chen Zhengde's malicious plan.

But he was already extremely disgusted with the environment of the plumbing department, and if Chen Zhengde could let out a pig-killing scream for the first time, there would certainly be a second time, and many more times.

If he could escape from this environment, it would be pretty good.

The Fengtian Reservoir is about twenty miles away from Qingfeng Village. There is only one shabby fishing hut on the dam, mainly used to store feed and provide a place for the reservoir patrollers to cook and sleep.

After being led to the fishing hut by Deputy Director Ruan Feng, Lu Beifang realized how crude and harsh the environment was.

However, his work was exceedingly simple—daily reservoir patrol.

After working for two days, Lu Beifang managed to persuade some ten groups of fishing enthusiasts to leave while spending the time fishing as well.

On the evening of the third day, as Lu Beifang put away his fishing rod, holding a carp he just caught and walking towards the fishing hut along the reservoir, there was a sudden loud bang. An SUV unexpectedly lost control on the countryside road next to the reservoir base, knocked down the reservoir’s protective wall, and plunged into the reservoir, which was seven or eight meters deep.

There was an accident!

Without thinking twice, Lu Beifang dropped his fishing gear, sprinted a hundred meters to the site of the accident and dove into the water.

He took a deep breath and quickly located the submerged car!

However, under seven or eight meters of water, the water pressure was immense and Lu Beifang could not open the car door.

Without any other options, Lu Beifang held his breath once again, diving to the bottom of the reservoir where he found a sharp rock. Bracing himself, he smashed the car window with a few sturdy hits, dragging out five beauties from the car.

Among them, three girls passed out due to prolonged lack of air and choking on water.

Lu Beifang managed to rescue them in the nick of time thanks to the first aid knowledge he had learned during his military service.

At this point, although the sunset still lingered in the sky, some coldness had begun to permeate the atmosphere. The water of the reservoir was bone-chilling, especially in the late winter.

Everyone wanted to call for help, but their mobile phones were waterlogged and couldn't be switched on.

The five beauties were all wet, shivering uncontrollably.

With no other option, Lu Beifang had to carry the girls back to the fisherman's shed where he lived. He gathered firewood and made a large fire, then gave them several pieces of his ragged clothes for them to change into.

Next, he boiled a pot of water and made some noodles for the girls to slurp down, warming up their bodies...

This led to the conversation at the beginning.

Before long, the noodles were ready.

As Lu Beifang, the rough man, held a large porcelain bowl to serve the warmed-up girls the noodles, the girls, who had just undergone a great calamity and were now reborn, regained their senses. Some of them, holding the fragrant noodles, couldn't help but tear up.

Fate is sometimes so unpredictable.

Lu Beifang had no idea that the people he had just saved were the daughters of the mayor, the Party's Organization Department leader, the head of the Finance Bureau, the Public Security Bureau chief, and the head of the Transportation Bureau in Huyang City!

It was from this moment that Lu Beifang, who had returned home from the military, experienced a breakup, failed in a covert selection process, and was marginalized, embarked on a tumultuous journey of counterattacking in the officialdom.

What he never expected was that, among these girls, one would end up becoming his wife...