The train driver in the courtyard

“Sunday’s method was wrong; he wasn’t aiming to kill anyone.”

Li Aiguo always felt that Zhou Risheng's pinching motion was peculiar, but Li Aiguo didn't know much about this kind of action and couldn't be sure at the moment.

But there's no rush. Some team members have already set up their rifles. If Zhou Risheng really intends to kill someone, then all that awaits him is a peanut.

This period of time is complicated.

It only took about ten seconds.

The old cat picked up the binoculars again.

Deputy Section Chief Zhou suddenly let go of his hand.

He held Jiang Chunyue in his arms.

What's even more unbelievable is that Jiang Chunyue, after catching her breath and coughing, said, "Are you even a man?"

"You wretched woman! I'll teach you a lesson today."

Deputy Section Chief Zhou's last line of defense was breached once again. He grabbed a carefully trimmed strip of paper and lashed out with it.

Seeing this, Old Cat realized what the two were doing.

"Tsk tsk, these young people nowadays..."

Section Chief Qin's face also turned ugly. If Li Aiguo hadn't stopped him, he would have made a serious mistake.

Old Cat felt somewhat relieved that he hadn't brought any female team members today. He took off his headphones and said, "Aiguo, you take charge of recording."

He simply couldn't accept those two people's hobbies.

Li Aiguo listened to the strange sounds coming from his headphones, but his expression didn't change at all.

As a seasoned viewer who has seen countless films, the scene inside the house is nothing special.

The pen tip glides rapidly across the paper.

This record-keeping work is also very simple.

All you need to do is write the character "啪".

Five minutes later, the room fell silent.

"It's over there!"

Li Aiguo perked up and reminded Lao Mao, who then quickly put on his headphones.

Inside the room, Jiang Chunyue rolled her eyes at Deputy Section Chief Zhou, somewhat dissatisfied.

"Your health is getting worse and worse. Remember to go to the vegetable market near the East Gate tomorrow and buy a bull penis. I'll stew it for you. Remember, it has to be fresh."

Deputy Section Chief Zhou looked a little embarrassed and said awkwardly, "I just had something on my mind. I wasn't like this before, you know that."

At this point, Deputy Section Chief Zhou's expression turned serious. He changed his clothes, applied medicine to Jiang Chunyue, and then put on his own clothes.

He jumped out of bed, opened the window to look out, and seeing that no one was outside, he closed the window again and returned to the bedside.

Jiang Chunyue's eyes lit up when she saw his actions, and she sat up: "Old Zhou, you succeeded? Where are those confidential blueprints? Give them to me right now!"

"I was just about to talk to you about this, Chun Yue. You asked me to copy those blueprints, you don't mean you're planning to take them overseas, do you?"

A buzzing sound came from the earpiece. It's common for birdwatching devices to be interfered with. Li Aiguo quickly adjusted the antenna direction, and the noise disappeared.

He continued taking notes in his notebook.

Jiang Chunyue: Lao Zhou, what nonsense are you talking about? I don't know anyone overseas, and I don't have any connections.

Deputy Section Chief Zhou: You think I don't know that you often receive letters from the south? Are they being forwarded by your father through someone?

Jiang Chunyue: You're spying on me?

Deputy Section Chief Zhou: Surveillance? Do you know that for so many years, I've lived in constant fear, afraid that your identity would be discovered? And you still dare to communicate with them? Are you trying to kill me?

Jiang Chunyue: I don't care, you just don't trust me. Zhou Risheng, you bastard, I gave you my body. If it weren't for me back then, you would have been shot by the military police. How dare you spy on me?

Then the buzzing sound started again, and you could vaguely hear "slap slap" sounds. This was probably not playing around, but Jiang Chunyue hitting Zhou Risheng.

Seeing that things were getting chaotic over there and there was no useful information, Li Aiguo wrote a note and handed it to Lao Mao: "Get Jiang Chunyue's file over here."

Old Cat handed the note to a man in a Zhongshan suit. Preparations had been made outside, and soon a file was delivered into the minibus.

The old cat opened it and placed it in front of Li Aiguo.

According to archival records, Jiang Chunyue was from Northeast China. Her parents passed away before the liberation. She used to work in a library in Northeast China. After marrying Deputy Section Chief Zhou, she resigned from her job.

When Deputy Section Chief Zhou was transferred to the Changxindian Locomotive Factory, he brought her with him.

Jiang Chunyue's father was named Jiang Shen. He was a worker in Dalian. Because the incident involved things before the liberation, the records were very vague.

The only factory I worked at was called Fufang Yarn Factory, which was the predecessor of the later Dalian Textile Factory.

After we finished looking at this, there was already some movement over there.

Deputy Section Chief Zhou was beaten and admitted his mistake to Jiang Chunyue, but he said that he did not intentionally monitor Jiang Chunyue.

“I’m doing this for our own good. You know, the investigations are getting more and more rigorous now, and those old things could be brought up again at any time.”

"Sun Risheng, do you still want to stay here?"

"You want me to go overseas? No, no, no, I won't go. I finally got to be the deputy section chief."

“Sun Risheng, don’t you understand? Technicians like you are never valued.” Jiang Chunyue took out a cigarette from the drawer, sat cross-legged on the bed, and took a few puffs.

Zhou Risheng wanted to persuade her not to smoke, but he didn't dare to say it and could only hand her an ashtray.

Jiang Chunyue flicked her cigarette ash and continued, "Old Zhou, the contributions you've made over the years are enough to qualify you for a leadership position. Those people clearly don't trust you. Why not take this opportunity to take the blueprints overseas? I guarantee you'll receive preferential treatment there."

"Was that letter really sent by your father or our father? How is he doing over there?"

“My father is now the head of a research institute. He promised me that if I can bring the confidential technology here over, he will arrange for me to be in charge and give us a large sum of money.”

"You really trust him that much? He abandoned you back then."

“He is my father, he would never lie to me. He was forced to do what happened back then.”

A brief silence fell over the room. Li Aiguo wrote on the paper, "Zhou Risheng is hesitating." Zhou Risheng spoke again, "So you used the pretense of helping me get revenge to get me to copy the blueprints, thinking of causing trouble for those people at the Qianmen Locomotive Depot. You actually planned this all along?!"

Zhou Risheng's voice was filled with anger, grievance, and resentment.

He only wanted to cause some trouble for the people at the Qianmen Locomotive Depot, but he never expected things to develop to this extent.

“I didn’t want to do it this way either, but you were too foolish. I advised you before that we should take the blueprints from the Dalian Institute and try to get there, but you refused.”

"Actually, the higher-ups have treated us quite well. They haven't investigated our past actions, and they've given us the same stipends as the professors."

"Where are the officials? The reason they won't let you become an official is because they don't trust you."

This Sunday, Sheng remained silent for almost two minutes before finally saying, "...Sigh...Wife, I'll listen to you."

Hearing this, Old Cat clicked his tongue twice: "Human greed is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant."

Li Aiguo had learned about what happened back then. The technicians from the Dalian institute were actually assistants and students of the "Little Notebook" expert, and they had helped the "Little Notebook" with transportation a lot back then.

Although they didn't carry guns, the harm they caused was no less than that caused by those small notebooks.

After liberation, past mistakes were forgiven, and even the old archives were sealed away.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible for Zhou Risheng to be transferred to the locomotive factory as deputy section chief.

If Li Aiguo had even the slightest sympathy for Zhou Risheng, it has now completely vanished.

The pen tip fell heavily.

A drop of black was painted on Sunday's name.

*****
At Jiang Chunyue's urging, Zhou Risheng decided to leave with the blueprints.

However, he had no idea how to proceed.

“Right now, all the places are checking travel permits and letters of introduction. Even if we leave the capital, we can’t get to the little book.”

"Don't worry, I've already made plans. Does your locomotive factory have any business trips planned recently?" Jiang Chunyue put her arms around Zhou Risheng's neck and whispered in his ear.

"There is one. Several locomotives at the Yangcheng Railway Bureau have experienced the same malfunction. The factory suspects it's a design flaw and is planning to send someone to investigate. You mean, we should go to Yangcheng first and then figure out a way to get there?"

"You're not completely stupid, are you? But where are those blueprints? Where did you hide them?"

"Inside the factory."

"Bring him back quickly. I'll pack my valuables and come with you on this business trip."

"Okay, I'll take action tomorrow."

As Zhou Risheng gazed at Jiang Chunyue's beautiful face, a flame of desire reignited in his heart.

"Honey, I've had enough rest."

Upon hearing this, Li Aiguo put down his headphones, stood up, and said, "We'll take action tomorrow morning."

The results are now clear: Zhou Risheng did indeed steal the confidential blueprints, and Jiang Chunyue is likely connected to the notebook.

Old Cat felt a little regretful, as these two people didn't seem to have any connection with the "Professor's" friends.

But it doesn't matter. As long as that person dares to take action, he will definitely not escape the eyes of the weather station.

It was already close to 8 p.m., but the minibus did not leave in order to implement 24-hour monitoring.

After handing over the monitoring work to the monitoring team, Li Aiguo rode his motorcycle home.

My sister-in-law hasn't left yet; she's holding little Dongfang and swaying him around inside the house.

Upon seeing Li Aiguo return, the eldest sister-in-law said somewhat dejectedly, "This child is nothing like the eldest and second eldest sons; he's too much of a troublemaker."

When Xiao Hongsheng and Xiao Mingwei were little, they were both very well-behaved. At night, as long as they lay in bed, drank their milk, and were patted a couple of times, they would fall asleep.

Little Dongfang, however, is a night-crying child. A couple of days ago, Aunt Liu called out to him at the door as usual, but it didn't help.

"Sister-in-law, thank you for your hard work, give it to me." Li Aiguo reached out and took Xiao Dongfang, resting the child's head on his shoulder and supporting his bottom with his hand. The child was very comfortable and smiled.

Li Aiguo is now considered a super dad.

"Then I'll go back now. Remember, my little sister is still in her postpartum period and can't touch cold water." The sister-in-law was also thinking about her family and didn't stay long before standing up to leave.

After taking two steps, she stopped and looked at Li Aiguo: "Brother-in-law, I heard from Dad that Xingyi has been quite busy lately and hasn't even had time to come home. Has he received some important mission?"

"I guess so." Of course, Li Aiguo couldn't tell his sister-in-law that his second brother was currently squatting in the detention room drinking thin soup.

"If there's a chance, give us some tasks too, like our Xingjia."

The older sister-in-law was a little envious. If Chen Xingjia had also worked at the locomotive factory back then, Xingjia would be the one who has made progress now.

Upon hearing this, Li Aiguo smiled but did not respond.

After his sister-in-law left, Li Aiguo found that Xiao Dongfang had fallen asleep without him noticing, so he carried him to the inner room.

Chen Xueru seemed to be asleep as well, with a towel on her forehead, just like a typical new mother.

"You're back?" Chen Xueru, who was a light sleeper, was startled awake and took the child from her and placed him beside her.

"You go back to sleep, I'm going to read for a while."

Li Aiguo kissed Chen Xueru on the cheek and walked into the study next door.

The case has been basically solved now. Once the people are arrested, mass production of the oil tanker train can be put on the agenda.

Section Chief Xu from the State Farm General Farm will arrive at the Qianmen Locomotive Depot in two days, and Li Aiguo needs to hurry up and design the oil pumping unit for the double-headed donkey.

As the basic equipment for oil extraction, the oil pumping unit has undergone numerous improvements over the years.

Based on the philosophy of creating the best, Li Aiguo chose the addition of connecting components and sliding rod design to effectively prevent the gap at the connection between the walking beam and the donkey head from widening.

The rear end of the pump adopts a variable angle self-yielding mechanism to optimize the movement trajectory to meet the needs of medium and large-sized pumping units.

It can be said that once the double-donkey head design was manufactured, it would not require any further improvements for the next few decades.

Under the dim light, lines appeared one after another on the draft paper.

(End of this chapter)