Chapter 70: The Secret Of The Bookshelf Finally Revealed
After all, it involved secrets, so the two from the Neighborhood Committee had no qualification to listen.
What they could hear was the part about Liu Yu’s biological mother being killed by Li Ying.
But Qin Hengzhi waved his hand, and the Factory Director and Secretary over there exchanged a glance and didn’t object.
So Old Hu and Lu Qiaoge stayed here.
Old Hu was an old revolutionary, no problem at all, and Lu Qiaoge also had a pure family background.
The leaders from the Factory Department didn’t avoid the two of them either, and after discussing, Old Jia entered the interrogation room.
He said to Li Ying: “After discussion and decision, we will secretly transfer your three children to a factory in the Northwest. Rest assured, the organization will send people to take care of them until they reach adulthood.”
Li Ying’s excited tears flowed down, and she said choking with sobs: “I believe you. I’m sorry, it was my stupidity and selfishness that caused losses to the country. I admit I am guilty. I used to think it was righteousness over kinship, but I know that was just me deceiving myself to find an excuse.”
Whether Li Ying was sincere or fake, or repenting for the sake of her children, Old Jia and the people outside all listened quietly.
Li Ying paused, then said in a hoarse voice: “A month ago, Master Liu don’t know what wind blew, he insisted on changing the bookshelf at home. Because the design drawing was in the bookshelf, and the bookshelf was made by that local special agent himself. At that time, many people envied me, saying I married a man who was so skilled and so good to me. But who would have thought there was something else inside.
Later I married Master Liu and moved several pieces of furniture to the Liu home. These years there was nothing unusual, and I never touched the things there. But he suddenly said that broken bookshelf looked unlucky and irritating. He even took an axe to chop it up for firewood. Helplessly, I had to sell it to the scrap collection station. The cabinet door was carved with a lotus flower, and the desktop was scratched with ‘study hard every day’…”
Before Old Jia could come out to relay, Qin Hengzhi had already stood up together with Director He.
They wanted to go to the scrap collection station first thing.
Since it was there more than a week ago, even if it was bought, it would be by staff from inside this factory.
This could be checked quickly.
But everyone’s hearts were still gripped together.
People often say not to fear the ten thousand, but the one in ten thousand.
Li Ying said from knowing that secret until the local special agent was poisoned to death by her, she never opened it.
But accidents are too many.
Director He even staggered a bit, and steadied himself with Qin Hengzhi’s support.
Lu Qiaoge suddenly stood up and patted the table.
Immediately, all these people in the observation room turned to look at Lu Qiaoge in unison.
Old Hu was startled and quickly stood up too, staring at Lu Qiaoge with wide eyes, lowering his voice: “What are you doing?”
Deputy Director Lin looked at Lu Qiaoge, his brows tightly furrowed, his expression very displeased.
No matter from which aspect, Lu Qiaoge or even Old Hu had no qualification to sit in this special observation room.
But since Representative Qin, this military personnel, didn’t object, he wouldn’t make a fuss.
After all, with that previous incident, if he drove them out, the leaders would think he was retaliating.
But since they were specially allowed to stay here, they should stay quietly without affecting others’ thinking and actions.
Suddenly standing up and patting the table, what was that about?
It was really a bit too ignorant of heaven and earth.
He said coldly: “Comrade Lu Qiaoge, please don’t make noise, okay?”
Factory Director Hao and Secretary He also looked at Lu Qiaoge who patted the table.
Qin Hengzhi stopped in his tracks, seeing the delight between Lu Qiaoge’s brows, he paused and said warmly: “Comrade Lu, what did you discover?”
Lu Qiaoge didn’t care about Deputy Director Lin’s questioning at all. She waved her hand at Old Hu, then said straightforwardly: “No need to go to the purchasing station. The bookshelf Li Ying mentioned was bought by me. It’s now in my bedroom at home.”
Everyone was shocked: …
This was too coincidental!
Deputy Director Lin: “…”
When they lifted out the bookshelf and opened the mechanism behind it as Li Ying said, a total of five rolls of paper wrapped in waterproof oil paper appeared before everyone’s eyes.
Director He hurriedly stepped forward, and with trembling hands opened one of them.
The heart that had been gripped finally settled.
Fortunately, fortunately, intact and undamaged.
Although the bookshelf was empty now, it was still carried onto the truck by the guards from the research institute.
Qin Hengzhi also left with them.
But before leaving, his eyes carried a smile as he said softly to Lu Qiaoge: “Although it was a lucky hit, you participated in capturing Third Aunt-Grandmother, which led to cracking a major case. Your merit in this is great. The Factory Department will reward you. This time you should be able to buy a bicycle.”
Lu Qiaoge blinked her eyes. Oh, she was penniless. This wasn’t a figure of speech; it was fact.
Lu Qiaoge suddenly felt she was very capable. With not a penny, she could still do her job outstandingly.
Meng Xia looked at her daughter and asked worriedly: “Will there be any issues at school?”
Lu Qiaoge’s eyes held a smile as she hugged Meng Xia’s arm: “Mom, the principal might get some criticism, but it should be no big problem. Our military compound is still very safe.”
It was still the planned economy era now, and population mobility was not frequent or casual.
Wherever you went, you needed a letter of introduction.
And in the military compound, cases of casually trafficking children were almost nonexistent.
Liu Xia and Zhao Xiubo were both handled with the agreement of family relatives, which was why Third Aunt-Grandmother took them.
But Lu Qiaoge still said: “Mom, tomorrow when reporting, Dad and I will send you.”
Meng Xia immediately beamed with joy.
It was afternoon now. After handling the bookshelf matter, Lu Qiaoge ran to the old traditional Chinese medicine doctor’s home and had those spiritual pigeons all fly over, naturally including Grey Pigeon.
As per Grey Pigeon’s request, she petted them one by one, which counted as stroking pigeons. You know, pigeons are not like cats; they’re not that easy to stroke.
Speak of the cat and it arrives. The calico cat meow meow meowed and jumped over, chased away all the pigeons, then burrowed into Lu Qiaoge’s arms.
【Meow meow meow, I saw the factory guards seal up Master Liu’s home at his place.】
Lu Qiaoge stroked its cat head, praised it a bit, greeted Grey Pigeon, and then headed to the Neighborhood Committee.
She still had to go to work, but soon she would have money to buy a bicycle. Happy.
Because Lu Qiaoge had special matters, even being late was no issue.
When she arrived, Director Hu was holding a meeting in the meeting room for these cadres.
It was about how to improve the ideological awareness of certain residents, to avoid making mistakes they shouldn’t.
Nothing that couldn’t be mentioned was brought up.
After the meeting, Lu Qiaoge gave the plan to Old Hu. Old Hu was very satisfied and had her show it to Deputy Director Huang.
The plan didn’t have much content, but it was basically all around the operation of the service station.
Some content Lu Qiaoge had mentioned with Huang Juan, but the warmth security fund was new.
Lu Qiaoge said seriously: “To make the volunteer service station play a greater role, I think setting up a warmth security fund is necessary. Not limited to money, it can also be supplies, done voluntarily, then uniformly managed by the Neighborhood Committee Finance Office.”
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