Chapter 320: There’s Indeed Something Wrong
In the afternoon, Director Zhou from the Foreign Trade Section called Lu Qiaoge and told her that Zhen Xi and his father had arrived smoothly at the Baihe Mountain Sanatorium all the way.
He said they needed to wait two days, as they were now brewing the medicine and could not be disturbed.
So, Zhen Xi and Chairman Zhen stayed at the Baihe Mountain Sanatorium.
The relevant departments had arranged everything inside and out.
The place they stayed was another house.
It was not far from where Old Gu stayed, but there were guards in between.
It was said that Chairman Zhen was very satisfied with this arrangement.
Director Zhou mentioned the handicrafts matter to Lu Qiaoge, and both sides confirmed it would not delay the construction period.
But before hanging up, he said to Lu Qiaoge: “When Representative Qin has time, you two come to my home. Your Chu Aunt has always wanted to meet you, and we can have a meal together.”
Director Zhou rarely invited people to his home for dinner.
Lu Qiaoge knew what was good for her and did not decline, but said familiarly: “When he comes back, I’ll ask him when he has time.”
Director Zhou happily hung up the phone.
At that moment, Wei Xia came to the Neighborhood Committee.
Seeing Lu Qiaoge there seemed to give her a backbone, her eyes lit up, she walked over quickly, then took out several pieces of paper from her pocket and handed them to Lu Qiaoge, saying softly: “These are what I could remember these past few days. Though not all of them, it’s pretty much everything.”
Lu Qiaoge told Wei Xia to sit down and rest, while she opened the paper and scanned it quickly.
Halfway through, Lu Qiaoge suddenly had a flash of insight.
She remembered that in this era, some detectives liked to set up ambushes in our key border defense cities and places like military factories.
They would collect local mountains, rivers, geography, mineral distributions, as well as airport and factory layouts, make them into design drawings, and pass them out.
It was said that in the Northwest, there were the most ambushing detectives in the fifties and sixties.
But Jiangcheng, this city, was equally important.
So it was not surprising to have ambushing detectives here.
The current question was, how were the design drawings passed out?
Lu Qiaoge still needed information from Xiao Cangcang.
These past few days, Xiao Cangcang had not gained much at Director Guo’s home.
The Guo family was a very normal family.
Dual-income household, with two children, he went to work and got off work every day, sometimes buying vegetables on the way.
Xiao Cangcang, along with Rat Big and Rat Two, had turned his home upside down, but found nothing suspicious.
Last night, Lu Qiaoge simply had Xiao Cangcang take Rat Big and Rat Two to Director Guo’s office.
She didn’t know if they could find anything now.
Lu Qiaoge tried calling out to Xiao Cangcang in her mind.
Unexpectedly, a dozen seconds later, Xiao Cangcang flew over.
Xiao Cangcang’s speed seemed to have improved again.
【Little Master, Little Master, I was just about to come report to you.】
It and its master truly had a telepathic connection.
Lu Qiaoge: “What did you discover?”
【Rat Big and Rat Two found a very small camera and film in Director Guo’s office.】
【Little Master, I also found a notebook with many strange numbers written in it, with maps drawn inside and some odd symbols.】
Lu Qiaoge frowned slightly. Sure enough, this Director Guo had a problem.
【Little Master, there was also a box under the floorboards in Director Guo’s office, and there was something inside the box, but we don’t know what it was.】
Lu Qiaoge asked Xiao Cangcang in her mind: “Do you still remember what the thing in the box looked like? Describe it to me.”
Xiao Cangcang had excellent memory.
It had drilled in through the gap, then described what it saw to Lu Qiaoge.
Lu Qiaoge narrowed her eyes. How did it look a bit like a transmitter from this era?
If it really was a transmitter, Director Guo had too much courage to dare hide such a thing in the office.
But thinking carefully, placing it in the office was actually safer than at home.
After all, that was Director Guo’s personal office.
Lu Qiaoge was not too shocked by what Xiao Cangcang discovered.
Because the things he did were already full of oddities everywhere.
Lu Qiaoge asked again: “These past few days, was there anything unusual in his emotions?”
Xiao Cangcang thought: 【He didn’t talk to himself, but when he was alone, his face was always gloomy.】
Right, Little Master, one more thing. These past few days, Du Wanqing did not go see Director Guo.
Du Wanqing had been arguing with Jiang Chusheng every day over the disciplinary action.
Lu Qiaoge nodded and told Xiao Cangcang and the others to keep watching Director Guo.
She also sent the three sparrows to watch Du Wanqing’s home.
The place where Grey Pigeon stayed was not far from Wei Xia’s home.
These past few days, it had been watching Wei Xia.
Grey Pigeon came yesterday and said it found nothing strange.
Instead, that little girl Qiqi told her mom that she wanted to study hard and, when grown up, become someone like Little Lu Sister, to help people in need.
Wei Xia had cried then.
After hearing it, Lu Qiaoge felt delighted inside. She thought she had set a correct example for Qiqi.
Moreover, Lu Qiaoge felt that if Wei Xia had such wits, she wouldn’t have been tricked by Jiang Chusheng into divorcing.
Lu Qiaoge continued reading downward and soon finished.
Sure enough, Wei Xia had accidentally stumbled upon Director Guo’s secret. Though Wei Xia was unaware and still hadn’t realized it to this day, Director Guo felt guilty as a thief, worried that Wei Xia would speak out, but it wasn’t convenient to kill her to silence her, so he schemed to get her dismissed. He probably also felt that Wei Xia was nothing much, rootless, baseless, powerless, with no one to speak for her or stand up for her, so dismissal was fine, and she could only swallow this mute loss.
The dismissal procedure had no issues.
Wei Xia had indeed, as Director Guo predicted, swallowed this mute loss and had no courage to live on.
Lu Qiaoge believed that if Aunt Han hadn’t gone to Director Hu, and the Neighborhood Committee hadn’t intervened, Wei Xia would either have gone mad or been gone.
So Director Guo’s methods were very clever.
Killing without a sound or trace.
Lu Qiaoge said to Wei Xia: “This information of yours is very important. I’ll take you to see Director Hu.”
By the way, Lu Qiaoge called Sister Qiao and Cadre Liu. Shao Le happened to be at the doorway, so she had him come into Director Hu’s office too.
After closing the office door, Wei Xia felt somewhat uneasy. She hadn’t seen anything unusual in this information. Was she too stupid?
Both directors of the Neighborhood Committee were present.
Director Hu glanced at Lu Qiaoge. This little girl had made such a setup, so she must have discovered something very important.
Lu Qiaoge gave the several pieces of paper Wei Xia wrote to Director Hu and Deputy Director Huang, letting them pass them around to read.
Without them puzzling over what it meant or doing any question-and-answer.
Lu Qiaoge pointed directly to the content on one of the papers and told everyone: “Look here. In the afternoon around three, Wei Xia took a pair of leather shoes to find Director Guo. The soles of this pair of shoes looked the same as others on the outside, but the inner heights were different.
Wei Xia also told him that from the punched holes, the leather thickness on both sides had issues, seeming to have been processed a second time. Even if not noticeable on close inspection, she had a good feel for thickness and dimensions, one side was 8, the other about Wei Xia also said this was the second pair she had discovered.
Director Guo took the problematic shoes then and said they were flawed leather shoes, probably the team leader had made a mistake. An hour later, he and the team leader collected the leather shoes. At the time, he didn’t say the quality was substandard, and the acceptance procedure was the same as usual.”
Everyone looked at Lu Qiaoge, so what did this prove?
