Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 185 Three pounds of regret medicine
Song Yongan didn't realize that he had once again come into the attention of the Social Affairs Bureau because of a case that left no traces two years ago.

For the task of collecting confidential project information from the instrument factory, he took a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, he asked Yu Xinmei to seduce the researcher who had access to the overall project.

On the other hand, at the end of last year, he established a relationship with a workshop director of an instrument factory through an acquaintance.

He bought those good cigarettes and good wine to give to the workshop director.

Of course, the reason he gave these things was that he wanted to get a recruitment quota from the workshop director.

His real purpose in approaching the workshop director was to get the impression of his office key so that he could make a copy of the key.

The workshop director did not have anything he needed in his office, but the discarded materials of the confidential project team were stored in the room next to this office.

This office and the room next door were originally a large suite with a door in between.

According to the information Song Yongan obtained, the door was not sealed, but was blocked by a cabinet.

His plan was to enter the room over there through the office here, find some information from the discarded materials and hand it over.

Of course he couldn't understand the contents of the materials, but that didn't stop him from finding those with more content and taking pictures.

Of course, there is really no way out.

This step is taken to prevent Yu Xinmei from failing.

He has already obtained the impression of the key tonight. After he goes back and slowly makes a copy of the key himself, he can take action.

As long as the action is successful, I will have a way out. It would be best if Yu Xinmei can succeed, but even if she fails, there is no need to worry.

He was in a good mood as he rode his bike on the way home.

But at this moment, Li Yancheng's appearance suddenly appeared in his mind again, which made Song Yongan's mood instantly drop again.

He now deeply regretted going to this young man to get an injection in his leg during the day.

His leg looked better now, but his mental illness came back, which was even more painful than when his leg hurt.

At least you can take painkillers to relieve leg pain, but how can you relieve mental illness?

Looking for a woman to relieve it?

Go find Yu Xinmei?
When this thought popped up in his mind, he couldn't help it, but just as he was about to turn the car around, he suddenly remembered that the woman had told him during the day that she would be on night shift at the hospital tonight.

Well! The evil fire that had just sprouted was instantly extinguished by a basin of ice water.

Well, you'd better go home honestly.

Song Yongan smacked his lips helplessly and continued to walk towards home.

The evil fire was put out, but Li Yancheng's appearance kept appearing in his mind, especially those black and bright eyes, as if they could see through everything. Even if he just thought about it, he would feel palpitations now.

He smiled bitterly and shook his head. It is said that if you don't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door. But he had done too many bad things, so he had this reaction.

Can you think of some way to make up for it?

As soon as this idea came up, he immediately rejected it.

You can't do it. The more you do, the more mistakes you will make. Maybe people don't suspect him of anything now, or have even forgotten about him.

But if he dares to hang around in front of others again, he will definitely be remembered.

Therefore, I must never show up in front of this person again.

I also have to remind Yu Xinmei not to appear in front of her old classmate.

He knew the woman's problem. Ever since she was dragged into this situation by him, she had completely let herself go and had lost all her reserve. She especially liked tall and strong-looking men.

Although I have warned her today, there is no guarantee that this woman might be wrong and take the initiative to seduce me, which might bring me into trouble.

What he regretted most now was that he should not have said in front of Li Yancheng today that he and Yu Xinmei were cousins.

It may be difficult to check other people's information, but it is easier to find out what unit they work in than for ordinary people to find a meal of meat.

Ugh……

No matter what, I'd better warn that woman again. Now I have no choice but to go back.

He then turned the bike around and rode towards the instrument factory.

……

March 29th, Saturday, was the third day after Li Xueyi’s “death”.

At around nine o'clock in the morning, Li Yancheng came to the bureau with Lao Xu. After discussing with Deputy Director Zhong for most of the day, he met Hong Dingguo in the interrogation room of the Security Department at five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day.

Since the poisoning incident of Ren Yunyun in early March and two consecutive internal traitor incidents in the Second Department, Hong Dingguo has been removed from his position as director.

He is now sitting on the bench in the bureau, without a specific job and not even belonging to any department. He goes to work in the small meeting room of the Security Department every morning and goes home after get off work.

Of course he had heard about Li Xueyi's affairs. It was no secret in the bureau, but he certainly didn't know the specific details.

On the 26th, the day when Li Xueyi got into trouble, he stayed in the small meeting room of the Security Department and went nowhere. There were many people who could testify for him.

This means that even if there are still doubts about him now, at least Li Xueyi’s “death” has no direct relationship with him.

After Lao Xu reported the confessions he got from re-interrogating those people to the bureau, Director Shen and Director Zhong discussed and decided to use Li Yancheng's special interrogation method on Hong Dingguo.

Want to see if I can get more from him.

For Hong Dingguo, his life now is even more miserable than the first few days of isolation and interrogation.

During those days of isolation and interrogation, he at least knew the reasons, but what does this mean now?
He also knew that the leaders of the bureau would definitely not be able to take care of him now. Li Xueyi alone was enough to give them a headache.

So he has been more low-key in the past few days. He basically never leaves the small conference room at work during the day, and he even avoids going to the toilet if he can.

I was about to get off work today and could rest at home for a day tomorrow, but suddenly I was asked by the security department to come to the interrogation room.

When he walked into the interrogation room and saw Director Zhong and Director Xu of the First Division, he knew that he was going to be interrogated and the content of the interrogation might be related to Li Xueyi.

What puzzled him was why the young doctor from Section 1 was also there.

"Hello, Director Zhong, Director Xu, and Doctor Li."

Be it the previous isolation and investigation or the subsequent inaction, Hong Dingguo had no resistance. He worked in this unit and of course knew the procedures. His only hope now was that things would be over quickly.

"Please sit down, Dingguo." Director Zhong raised his hand and pointed at the chair opposite.

This chair is not a specially made one that can hold a person in place.

Director Zhong thinks it is unnecessary.

"Thank you, Director Zhong."

"Dingguo, you should be able to guess why we asked you to come here, right?"

"I can probably guess that it's about Li Xueyi."

"That's right." Director Zhong nodded, stood up, walked around the table to Hong Dingguo, handed him a cigarette, and helped him light it with a match.

"You and Li Xueyi worked together before liberation, so you should know him better, right?"

"Director Zhong, if we are talking about the entire Beijing city, then we are indeed working together, but if we are divided according to our groups at the time, he and I are not in the same group.

We were divided into many groups at the time, and each group was responsible for different tasks. I cannot elaborate on the specific division of labor unless there is an order from above."

"Have"

Director Zhong turned around, took out a piece of letter paper from the notebook on the table where he had just sat, and handed it to Hong Dingguo.

"This is a letter of approval written by Mr. Wang. Mr. Fang has also signed it. You don't need to say too much. Just talk about some of the work you and Li Xueyi have done that you know about."

Mr. Wang and Mr. Fang were the two old comrades who were holding a meeting in the bureau that night.

He is in charge of a lot of work and is also the immediate superior of the Social Affairs Bureau.

After the meeting that night, Li Yancheng specifically asked Su Xiaotong about Mr. Fang.

Because the old comrade looked at him very strangely at that time, not like a superior looking at a subordinate, but rather like an elder looking at a younger person.

He was quite sure that he did not know this old comrade.

Later, after Su Xiaotong explained it to him, he finally understood that this old comrade was the sworn brother of Luo Yang's father and also Luo Yang's godfather.

He cured Luo Yang's illness, and the old man knew it, so he looked at him that way.

The fact that the Luo family was able to be sent to that factory this time without suffering too much was also the result of the efforts made by this old man behind the scenes.

Otherwise, the Luo family would definitely have to go to the countryside this time. The work that Hong Dingguo was engaged in before liberation was very complicated, and not just anyone could inquire about it. Without orders, he would not tell anyone, but now with this approval, it is different.

Look at the signatures of Mr. Wang and Mr. Fang, as well as the signature of a man named Du Shu.

Seeing this signature, Hong Dingguo smiled and said, "Director Zhong, you even contacted Chief Du."

Du Shu is the comrade who retired from the Social Affairs Bureau due to injury and is now the head of the Security Department of Shishan Gaojing Thermal Power Plant.

"There are not many old comrades from your period left. I will try my best to look for all the ones I can."

The work that Hong Dingguo and his colleagues were doing at the time was extremely dangerous, and indeed not many of them are still alive today.

Director Zhong's words left Hong Dingguo silent. He stared at the reply letter for a while before taking the pen, signing his name on it, and then handing it back together with the reply letter.

"Ask whatever you want to ask. As long as I can remember, I will tell you the truth."

"Dingguo, when did you and Li Xueyi meet?"

"Winter of '46."

"How do you remember it so clearly?"

"Because I was transferred from Tianjin by my superiors in the summer of 1946. Before coming to Beijing, I had been working in the concession of Tianjin. After coming here, I first familiarized myself with the environment of Beijing for a while, and then the first task I took was to cooperate with Li Xueyi."

When Director Zhong heard Hong Dingguo say that he had worked in Jinshi before, he narrowed his eyes.

If this case wasn't so wide-ranging, even he wouldn't have the right to inquire about the secrets of the past.

Speaking of his previous job in Tianjin, Hong Dingguo glanced at Li Yancheng seemingly unintentionally.

"What is the first mission you and Li Xueyi will work on together?"

"We got a piece of information from him and cleared out a guy who specialized in doing dirty work over there."

"Is that person's code name Stone?"

Hong Dingguo looked at Director Zhong in surprise: "You even know this? Did Du Shu tell you? No, he shouldn't know this. He was only responsible for cleaning up the mess for me at the time and didn't know who my target was."

"You don't have to guess." Director Zhong waved his hand and said, "It was revealed by someone among those arrested in the first place."

"They actually knew about this too? Haha, I thought I was being secretive enough, so why didn't they arrest us? Uh... Sorry, Director Zhong, please continue asking."

"Dingguo, how many stones have you cleared in total?"

"two"

Hong Dingguo answered very straightforwardly: "The second stone was cleared two years after the first one. When I received the task, I was wondering why this code name was still passed down? But..."

He paused here, raised his left hand and took a puff of cigarette, his brows furrowed.

"But what?"

"That's right, Director Zhong. The reason why I remember these two stones so clearly is because the status of these two people is quite different from the description in the mission."

"What do you mean by quite a difference?"

"According to the mission, the man codenamed Stone should be the one doing the dirty work over there, but for someone who has never even touched a gun, I really don't know how he can do the dirty work."

"How do you know they haven't touched a gun?"

"Look at your hands." Hong Dingguo stretched out his hand: "You should have calluses on your hands too, the base of your thumb and index finger. You should have used a spear when you were in the army, so you should have calluses on your shoulders. I have them too.

But the two people I cleaned up didn’t have any calluses on their hands or shoulders, and it was obvious that they didn’t touch guns often.”

Looking at the hand that Hong Dingguo stretched out, Director Zhong nodded and continued to ask, "Did Li Xueyi provide you with the information about the other party for these two tasks?"

"The first one was taken from him personally by me, and the second one I don't know if it was him. The information was taken from a certain agreed fixed place."

"Do you know what Li Xueyi did before?"

"I don't know this."

"Have you ever heard of the code name Black Bee? It's like the bee."

"Black Bee?"

This time, Hong Dingguo thought for a longer time.

Seeing that he was thinking, Director Zhong did not interrupt him. He turned around and threw a cigarette to Lao Xu and Li Yancheng, then walked to the table, bent down and asked softly: "Based on what he just said, see if the questions we designed need to be adjusted."

In order to manage the time well and ask as many questions as possible at once, they sorted out the questions they planned to ask together during the day today.

After Hong Dingguo answers this question, I plan to teach him Li Yancheng's special method.

"Yan Cheng and I have just adjusted a few issues." Lao Xu turned the notebook where the issues were recorded over for Director Zhong to review.

Director Zhong looked at it and nodded: "Okay..."

"Director Zhong, I have never heard of this name. I really can't remember it."

Just at this moment, Hong Dingguo, who had been thinking, also spoke. Director Zhong dropped the notebook in his hand and turned around.

"Dingguo, it's not that I don't believe what you said. Now that the case has reached this stage, it has implicated many people. The higher-ups are anxious for us to come up with a final result, and the comrades below are also waiting..."

"Director Zhong, I understand what you are saying. Just tell me how you need my cooperation. As long as it helps the case, I am willing to cooperate unconditionally."

Without waiting for Director Zhong to finish his words, Hong Dingguo expressed his own thoughts.

He also wanted to get this case over with as soon as possible and didn't want it to remain unclear.

"Okay, you should know the truth serum from before, right?" Seeing him say that, Director Zhong no longer hesitated.

"Truth serum?" Hong Dingguo was slightly stunned and turned his gaze to Li Yancheng.

"Doctor Li still dispenses that truth serum?"

He could understand why Lao Xu appeared in the interrogation room, as this case was originally a joint case, but it was strange for a doctor to appear here. However, if he was the one who could dispense truth serum, then it would be normal.

"No, he can't make truth serum, but he has a method that is much more effective than truth serum, but..."

Director Zhong was about to explain the side effects when he suddenly stopped and looked at Hong Dingguo with a strange expression and asked, "Don't you know that Doctor Li has a special interrogation method?"

"Special interrogation method?"

Hong Dingguo shook his head in confusion: "I don't know. I only met Doctor Li once, when Chen Guangyao was poisoned. Isn't he a full-time doctor in the first department?"

Looking at his genuine expression, not to mention Director Zhong, even Li Yancheng and Lao Xu were a little confused.

If Hong Dingguo really didn't know that Li Yancheng had that special interrogation method, then he could completely exclude himself from the circle drawn earlier. In this way, his suspicion could be basically cleared.

"It's like this, Dingguo. The method that Doctor Li uses is much more effective than truth serum, but it has a side effect. The person being interrogated will be weak for half a month afterwards, almost lying in bed and unable to move at all."

"It doesn't matter. I also hope to finish this case quickly." Hong Dingguo did not hesitate at all and also turned his gaze to Li Yancheng.

His look was quite strange, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Not only Li Yancheng noticed it, but Director Zhong and Lao Xu also noticed it.

"Dingguo, what do you want to say?"

"Oh, Director Zhong, the last time I saw Doctor Li, I didn't pay close attention to him because of Chen Guangyao's incident. When I saw Doctor Li again today, I just felt... I felt that he looked familiar, as if I had seen him somewhere before."

At this point, Hong Dingguo frowned and asked, "Doctor Li, are you from Jinshi?"

"I don't know. I was an orphan and was adopted by my grandfather. I have been here since I can remember."

"Did your grandfather adopt you four or five years ago?"

Ok?
"Comrade Hong Dingguo, do you want to say that I am from the Cheng family in Jinshi?"

"Do you know your own background?"

"I don't know. I only know that my last name is Li and my grandfather's name is Li Yuanhe. I'm not interested in anything else."

"But……"

"Alright!" Director Zhong raised his hand and patted Hong Dingguo on the shoulder: "Comrade Li Yancheng's surname is Li, there is no other surname. His files from childhood to adulthood have been carefully investigated and can withstand any scrutiny.

Dingguo, are you ready? Let's start now."

"Oh, I'm ready."

(End of this chapter)