Siheyuan: I eat melons while doing scientific research

Chapter 1114: Feeling Lucky
Just after he took two steps, a comrade came up and whispered in Gao Zhendong's ear: "Leader, today is not a good day."

Gao Zhendong took a look and saw that it was the comrade in the back room.

Looking further ahead, I could vaguely see figures moving around in the backyard. It seemed that although Liu Haizhong had been captured, some work at their home was still going on.

No wonder the crying and shouting sounded in the backyard instead of in the house. It turned out that the work was not finished yet and the people in their family could not go home yet.

Gao Zhendong didn't care. To some extent, Liu Haizhong's family was like "If you are not from the same family, you will not marry into the same family."

He had no intention of increasing the workload of his comrades, so he nodded, turned around and walked towards his home. Xie Jianye was arresting people and blocking the way in the back room, and there were abnormally many people in the back room. Gao Zhendong probably guessed what was going on.

Hey, this old guy Liu Haizhong actually has the courage to do such a thing.

Gao Zhendong shook his head and went home to eat. He hadn't eaten the melon yet, but he still had to eat.

As soon as I entered the house, Lou Xiao'e had already prepared the meal. She was teasing the two children with a sweet smile while waiting for Gao Zhendong to come home.

His wife and children were all warm, the food and wine were still warm, and melodious music was coming from the tape recorder. Gao Zhendong was a little dazed for a moment.

I don't know if this music is from a tape or radio...

Radio? Gao Zhendong seemed to remember something.

To be honest, Gao Zhendong, who had a full meal but didn't eat any melons, didn't sleep well that night. Curiosity killed the cat.

The next morning, as soon as Gao Zhendong arrived at the office, he called Xie Jianye to come over.

No, I'm going to eat this melon today, I say! No one can stop me.

When Xie Jianye saw Gao Zhendong, he was happy. He knew that Gao Zhendong called him to ask about Liu Haizhong.

"You don't need to ask. Let me tell you the situation first and then you can ask." Xie Jianye said with a smile.

Well, comrades are really thoughtful. Gao Zhendong happily made two cups of tea. This is a long story, and the tea must have been served.

"...This is roughly what we know now. Liu Haizhong wanted to be an official very badly, and because he had helped a Russian before, he was fooled by the Russian. He thought we had to listen to the Russian, so he worked hard to help the Russian. What's more, although the Russian couldn't actually give him an official position, he did give him a lot of money..."

Gao Zhendong laughed when he heard this. Xie Jianye didn't know this as well as he did. He knew that the Lubyanka of the Russians was actually very different from the evil image of the Russians in the Citibank movies that only cheated their own people. They were really willing to give money to their own people. At least they would give it as soon as they said they would. If they said the money would be deposited in your account, it would really be in your account. If something happened to you and you couldn't withdraw it, your descendants could.

Of course, there is no need to give it to comrade like Lonsdale, who is the kind of person who is quite happy to pay into the Lubyanka.

Compared with the Citibank Langley Center's frequent blackmail of informants, or even directly killing informants, this can be considered a promise. The Citibank's 2500 million Citibank dollars informant fee for arresting the president of a certain country is a famous muddled account. If it were really given to you, how would Commissioner Smith eat?
As for the Russians' desire to find an official position for Liu Haizhong, it is a bit unrealistic.

"Thanks to his relationship with the Russians, Liu Haizhong actually served as a patrol captain in the factory security department for a period of time, but that was it. The Russians actually had no influence on us. You should also remember that he was the captain."

Gao Zhendong nodded: "I remember, but later on, my son was fired because he insulted the orphan of a worker who died in the line of duty."

"Yes, yes, we were all there. But I don't know what's going on in this old guy's head. He believes such things. For the captain, he even gave up the salary of a seventh-level blacksmith. He must be crazy about becoming an official." Xie Jianye said with a smile.

Gao Zhendong had a mysterious smile on his face: "It's hard to say about this matter. Maybe he already has some other ideas."

Xie Jianye was a little confused. What did Gao Zhendong mean by this? "You mean?"

He knew that Gao Zhendong's brain, observation and analytical abilities were top-notch. Could it be that he discovered something?
"I mean, his desire to be an official is just an appearance. In fact, he wants to be an official for other purposes?" Gao Zhendong said with a smile.

"What did you find?" Xie Jianye immediately took it seriously.

Gao Zhendong said: "At Liu Haizhong's house, I found something very interesting..."

At about the same time, Liu Hai, who was being interrogated, looked depressed.

At this moment, he regretted that he shouldn't have gone to such trouble to get on board the Russians' ship just for a little extra money. Although this extra money was very tempting, it put him on a path of no return. "Liu Haizhong, do you have anything else to say?"

The hair in his bangs, which originally looked a bit like a traitor’s hair, now looked even more like a traitor’s hair. He had a depressed expression and dodged his gaze: “No more, I’ve said everything I can say.”

He knew that he had no way of denying the fact that the Russians recruited him, ever since the interrogator revealed a little about the arrested subordinate. He just hoped that making extra money would not affect his main job.

After all, we still have some sympathy with the Russians in the north, so this matter may not be punishable by death.

"Think about it carefully. Have you confessed everything? I warn you, if we find out the truth, the nature of the matter will change." Our comrade warned him seriously.

"I know, I know, I've confessed everything."

At this time, a staff member walked in from outside the interrogation room and handed a piece of paper to the presiding judge. The presiding judge took a look at it and indicated that he understood.

The staff member turned to leave, and just as the door closed, the chief judge slammed the table: "Liu Haizhong! Don't be so optimistic! You are resisting stubbornly! How much else do you have to confess?"

The sudden movement and loud noise frightened the hairs on his bangs, but he still said timidly, "Comrade, I have confessed everything. It is really gone."

"Gone? Then let me remind you! What's the matter with that West Hans radio in your home?!!!" the chief judge shouted.

A radio made in West Ham? ! ! They even noticed this? It's over, it's all over!

Liu Haizhong's psychological defenses suddenly collapsed at this moment. He didn't expect that the secret he had hidden for most of his life would be discovered.

At this time, Xie Jianye was asking Gao Zhendong with a shocked look on his face.

"Zhendong, you only took a quick glance at their door back then and could tell that it was a West Hans radio? Your eyesight and memory are amazing!"

Gao Zhendong smiled and said, "It's mainly because that radio is so special. I'm an electronics expert, so I know a little bit about this..."

In fact, this was the accumulation of his previous life. As a veteran garbage collector, he even had some knowledge of some very niche categories, and antique radios were one of them.

That year, he took a casual glance at the door of Liu Haizhong and found that the radio in the main room of Liu Haizhong was unusual.

It was a Nordmende radio made by West Hans Bremen, model should be Othello 55 or similar!
"...This model of radio was produced in 1955. We didn't import anything from West Hans in those days. Even if we did, it would be difficult for an ordinary seventh-level blacksmith to buy it. The price of this thing is as high as 430 Hans Marks. This amount of money is very difficult for a seventh-level blacksmith with a family to support. Moreover, whether or not you can buy it is not a matter of money."

430 marks, calculated at the exchange rate, was about 110 Citibank dollars, or two ounces of gold! Of course, according to the less rigorous exchange rate, it was about 250 yuan, but this was nominal, because our exchanges with West Ham were extremely limited at that time, and the exchange rate was just a saying.

Even if calculated at 250 yuan, it is still very difficult for a level blacksmith with a family to support.

Not to mention that this thing was actually nowhere to be found in the country at that time!
So the Nordmende Othello 55 radio in Liu Hai must have a questionable origin!
Considering that he listened to his beloved radio every day, ostensibly to learn about national policies, there must have been something fishy going on.

"Isn't he afraid of being discovered? Can't he just get a domestic radio?" Xie Jianye was still a little puzzled. This was something that could be seen as problematic at a glance.

Gao Zhendong laughed, even with a bit of complacency, because he had discovered this with his most primitive ability: "With the environment of the courtyard, who do you think can find it? He hasn't been discovered for so many years, right? His wife and son stared at him and listened to the radio every day, but they didn't notice it, right?"

This is true. Liu Haizhong was not discovered until after the 80s. This shows that this thing is too unconventional for ordinary people in the Siheyuan, and no one would have thought of it at all.

At this point, Gao Zhendong added: "As for why he wanted to use this radio, maybe it was because he needed the radio's reception quality. At that time, the radios we produced ourselves could not compare with this one in any way. He needed a good radio to listen to the orders sent to him."

It is very simple to send a not-too-complicated message to the secret agent. You just need to send the cipher code directly on the radio station. It is a very old but very effective method, which is basically impossible to defend against. This kind of one-way communication also makes it impossible to catch the person receiving the message.

Even in the 4st century, people who play with the radio can still often hear something like "Please copy the following unit...", followed by a string of unit codes and numbers in groups of four. It is for this reason that those numbers are ciphertext.

When we held the foreign trade fair last year, people from Danggui Province used this method to notify the secret agents to take action.

Considering the distance between the radio station and the receiver, the radio must naturally be of good quality. After all, the enemy cannot set up a radio station on our territory.

(End of this chapter)