Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 463 Early Morning
Sure enough, Su Xiaomin's face turned dark in an instant when he saw the steel bar that was supposed to be embedded in the window frame, which could be removed by shaking it up and down and pulling it out with a little force.

"Made!"

He couldn't help but swear, causing several of his subordinates who were in the room to look at him sideways.

They had never seen Deputy Director Su swear. In their hearts, Su Xiaomin had always been very elegant, whether he was the director or after being promoted to deputy director, and always gave people a feeling of being confident.

Su Xiaomin used foul language simply because he was angry.

This steel rod that can be disassembled at any time completely shattered his previous ideas.

After cursing, he turned around and looked around the room. He had just come in in a hurry and had no time to observe. Now he realized that except for the wall connected to the door and the window opposite, there was a row of filing cabinets against the other two walls of this office. It seemed to be an archive room.

"What is this office for?"

"Director Su, this is the archive room where the office keeps personnel files."

Hearing Su Xiaomin's question, Sun Jianan, who was standing at the door and did not come in, hurriedly answered.

Working in the local area is different from working in the army.

Su Xiaomin is the deputy director. His subordinates always address him according to his title. Deputy Director is Deputy Director, and they will never omit a word just to make it sound better.

It’s different in other places. The secondary word will never be used when addressing someone.

Unless the real boss is present, one has to report to him. If the report needs to mention the deputy position, one will say "deputy" or "something". Otherwise, the word "deputy" will be removed.

It seems to have become a default.

Archives room? There shouldn't be people coming into the archives room every day, right?

Su Xiaomin looked down at the ground.

This sight almost made him swear again.

These people in the Steel Research Institute are too idle. They should be so diligent and mop the floor every day.

What's outside the window?
While thinking about it, Su Xiaomin turned around and walked to the window again, and looked out. Like the west side of the building, there was a green belt outside the window with a row of hollies planted.

There is a slight difference: the holly trees over there are a little distance from the building. To facilitate cleaning, there is a little distance between the hollies, so one person can pass through without any problem.

The hollies here are planted very densely and there is almost no distance between them and the building.

There are already investigators outside using flashlights to survey the ground, trying to find possible traces. Some are also shouting for the searchlight from the west to be brought over.

Late at night, even with searchlights and flashlights, it would be difficult to conduct an investigation.

"Go and bring down the data custodian of the confidential room who is temporarily in charge on the third floor."

It was still unknown how long the investigation outside would take to be completed, and Su Xiaomin did not want to meet the leaders of Beijing Iron and Steel General Plant and the Research Institute right now. After thinking about it, he turned around and spoke to a subordinate beside him.

"Yes"

After giving the order, he walked out of the room and saw someone checking the lock on the door, so he asked again.

"How did the door open?"

"Reporting to Deputy Director Su, no traces of picking the lock have been found so far."

Well, the door was opened with a key again.

Su Xiaomin can now basically conclude that the theft of important information was probably committed by someone inside the institute, or at the very least, it was a collusion between insiders and outsiders.

Because it is extremely unlikely for an outsider to get the keys to the door of the confidential room on the third floor, the information room inside, and the archive room on the first floor.

Originally, he judged that the perpetrator should have been hiding in the building after get off work and waited until it was completely dark before taking action.

But now that the railings on the windows of the archive room can be removed at will, he dare not make such a conclusion. The perpetrator may have come in through here, then went to the third floor to commit the theft, and left from here after succeeding.

but……

If so, what was the point of cutting the guardrails outside the west windows on the first floor?
It seems a bit unnecessary!

Su Xiaomin turned his head and looked to the west. There was no one there now. Some people were still investigating outside, and most of them had moved to the archives room.

"Chief Sun, is this archive room under office management?"

"Yes, Chief Su."

"Your institute doesn't have a dedicated personnel department?"

"No, the main factory has a personnel department, and some branches also have personnel departments. The personnel work of our institute is under the office, and two people are assigned to be in charge."

Since there was no power to recruit independently and employees could not be fired easily, the personnel work of units during this period was actually very simple. In addition, due to tight staffing, many units did not set up separate personnel departments.

Beijing Iron and Steel General Plant has a special personnel department, probably because there are too many employees, with more than 10,000 people on duty alone, so it is easier to manage them by separating them out.

The personnel work of many small units is either handled by the office, like a research institute, or by the labor and personnel department, or by the logistics department.

"Go to the conference room and invite the office director over."

Su Xiaomin turned around and made arrangements with another subordinate.

"Yes"

Just after leaving, the man who had gone to the third floor to take the data custodian came over holding the arm of Fang Baoan.

The important information that he was responsible for keeping was lost, and the army personnel were guarding it like a thief. No one paid any attention to it for a long time. Later, although Chen Dayou was temporarily invited into the office, they did not dare to speak because there were still army personnel inside. During this half day, Fang Baoan even wondered whether he would be shot.

Just as he was getting more and more scared, someone suddenly came and wanted to take him away from the office. He was so scared that his legs were so weak that he couldn't stand up.

Seeing that Fang Baoan was being supported over, Su Xiaomin's face flashed with surprise and he asked curiously.

"what 's wrong?"

"Deputy Director Su, he might be too nervous. He can't even stand up."

Hearing the man in front of him being called the deputy director, he knew that he should be the one in charge of investigating the case. Fang Baoan forced an ugly smile on his face.

"Can you stand still or not? If you can't, lean against the wall. Why are you so nervous? Did you steal that information?"

Su Xiaomin smiled and joked, which frightened Fang Baoan so much that he stood up straight without anyone's help, waving his hands in anxiety.

"Boss, it really wasn't me who did this."

"Haha, since you didn't do it, don't be so nervous. Only thieves feel guilty. Come and have a cigarette and relax. When I ask you questions, just answer them truthfully."

"Leader, please ask whatever you want. I will tell you everything I know."

Trembling, he took the cigarette handed to him by Su Xiaomin. Fang Baoan was okay. Although he was extremely nervous, he still knew to light the cigarette for others first after striking the match. He only lit his own cigarette when the match was about to burn his hand.

"Are you feeling better? Can you answer the questions?"

After exhaling the cigarette he had inhaled into his mouth, Su Xiaomin's mood calmed down a little and he asked.

"Hoo...Okay, go ahead and ask."

After taking two deep puffs of his cigarette, Fang Baoan's nervous mood was indeed relieved a little, and he nodded and replied.

"Okay, Comrade Fang Baoan, you have been keeping the lost information, right?"

"No"

"Huh?" Fang Baoan's answer made Su Xiaomin stunned. This answer was a bit beyond his expectations.

Before he could ask, Fang explained, "Boss, this information has always been kept by our director himself, locked in his safe. Sometimes when researchers need it, they get it from him, but they have to hand it back before leaving get off work. It was the day before yesterday, which was September 4th, that I got it."

"Since your director has always been managing it personally, why should it be handed over to you now?" Su Xiaomin felt a little strange.

"Our director has received another important research document. This document contains a lot of information, and his safe can't hold it all. So he handed over the documents that were previously in the safe to me."

Having said this, Fang Baoan stopped and raised his hand to take a puff of cigarette.

Seeing that he seemed to have something to say, Su Xiaomin did not rush to speak, but stood there waiting quietly.

The man surnamed Fang seemed to be using the time he was smoking to organize what he was going to say next. After he exhaled the cigarette, he was ready to continue speaking. But before he opened his mouth, he glanced hesitantly at Sun Jianan who was standing not far away. He moved his mouth but didn't utter a word.

All his actions fell into the eyes of Su Xiaomin, who had been observing him carefully.

He knew that what Fang Baoan said next might offend someone and it would not be convenient for people in the research institute to hear it.

So he raised his arm and put his arm around Fang's shoulders: "Come on, come with me over here."

Fang Baoan obediently followed Su Xiaomin to the stairs, which was about ten meters away from where they had just stood. As long as they spoke in a low voice, they would not have to worry about Sun Jianan, who was standing there without moving, hearing them.

The only person who came with the two of them was the recorder who had been following closely behind Su Xiaomin. He needed to record every question asked by the leader tonight, as well as the answers of the people being questioned.

"Okay, Comrade Fang Baoan, if there is anything you were not able to say just now, please say it. We will keep every word you say confidential for you."

“Thank you, boss. What I want to say is that I didn’t think much about it before, but when the information was lost tonight, I felt that this matter was a bit strange.

Why would the thief know that the information must be kept by me?

Leader, this information has been in our institute for nearly half a year, and has always been kept by our director himself. It was only handed over to me two days ago. Of course, I am not saying that it cannot be handed over to me. I am the custodian of the information, and handing it over to me is actually in compliance with regulations.

What I wonder is why it was stolen right after it was handed over to me.

There is also the issue of the safe. There used to be a safe in the storage room. It was this high and this wide..."

The security guard stretched out his hand and gestured. From what he gestured, it seemed to be bigger than the safe in Chen Dayou's room.

"Last Friday, the combination dial of this safe broke for unknown reasons and the combination dial could not be turned.

Normally, documents and materials at the confidential level and above need to be locked in a safe. Now that the safe is broken, we can only transfer the top secret documents and materials to the safe in our director's office. Due to limited space, the confidential information will be temporarily stored in the filing cabinet.

As for the safe in the storage room with a broken combination lock, the manufacturer had to take it away for repair. We haven’t received any phone call to notify us yet, so it probably hasn’t been repaired yet.

Leader, what I want to express after saying so much is why this theft happened by chance. "

Su Xiaomin understood another layer of meaning in Fang Baoan's words, that is, this man named Fang not only thought that the theft happened by chance, but he also suspected his chief, Chen Dayou, the director of the confidential office.

Indeed, if we sort them by time, first the safe that was used to store confidential documents broke down inexplicably, and then because another safe was too small, some of the documents had to be placed in the filing cabinet, and then the theft occurred within two days.

It's indeed a bit too coincidental. He definitely wouldn't believe that the person who stole the things didn't know what was going on.

But as to whether Chen Dayou was the one who did this, or whether he colluded with others, Su Xiaomin still has doubts about this.

The information had been kept in Chen Dayou's hands for half a year. If he really wanted to get the information, he wouldn't have to steal it at all. It would have been enough for him to copy it bit by bit during such a long time.

As long as the original is not lost, the possibility of this matter being exposed is very small.

Therefore, he felt that it was unlikely that Chen Dayou was the thief. If he was ruled out for the time being, then...

Su Xiaomin looked calmly at the security guard who seemed cautious in front of him.

To be honest, this guy is actually more suspicious than Chen Dayou.

The combination dial of the safe suddenly broke. Su Xiaomin had a smaller safe of this type in his office. He knew that the combination dial was not so easy to break unless it was damaged by human beings.

But Fang Baoan had plenty of time to do the damage, after all, the thing was in his office.

He knew very well that if this safe was broken, the information stored in it would have to be transferred to the safe in the director's office.

However, the safe was small and could not hold everything, so it was necessary to make a trade-off. The security guard was very clear about the storage system room, and the result was exactly as he expected. The confidential information could not be put in it and could only be locked in the file cabinet on his side.

But is this really the case? Su Xiaomin narrowed his eyes.

There is another problem here that he hasn't figured out.

That is, since there is a place to go in and out, why would the perpetrator go to the trouble of destroying the guardrail of the window at the top of the corridor on the first floor?

Is it just to attract their attention, so that they will focus on the outsiders and ignore the possibility of insiders committing the crime?

Another question is, is it possible that other staff members in the confidential room committed the crime?

Also, if it was really the security guard who committed the crime, or if he was in collusion with outsiders, why would he hand the key to the storage room to that person? Wouldn't it be easier to clear his suspicion by letting him just pick the lock?
Questions popped up one after another, making Su Xiaomin feel a little dizzy.

It is almost twelve o'clock in the morning. If he had nothing to do, he would have fallen asleep at this time. He is already in his forties and his energy is not as good as before. He has to rely on smoking and drinking strong tea to stay up late.

Forget it, I should go meet the leaders of Beijing Iron and Steel General Plant and the Research Institute. It’s not good to leave them there.

Thinking of this, he waved to a subordinate and asked him to take Fang Baoan to the third floor and keep him separate from Chen Dayou for a while.

He plans to meet with those leaders.

……

The night passed in a flash.

At six o'clock in the morning on September 7, Li Yancheng was awakened by his internal biological clock.

He gently put his wife's arms and legs wrapped around him onto the bed, then he stood up, put on his slippers, tiptoed out of the bedroom and went down to the first floor.

On the clothes rack in the living room hung two neatly ironed police uniforms, one for each man and one for woman.

After returning last night, Luo Min took out her and her husband's uniforms from the closet and ironed them.

Although she didn't plan to dress up, she didn't want to wear wrinkled clothes to meet her mother-in-law, whom she had never met.

After taking care of his personal hygiene in the bathroom on the first floor, Li Yancheng opened the door and prepared to do some boxing exercises in the yard.

As soon as he stepped out, he saw three dark shadows on the ground out of the corner of his eye, sliding along the wall and walking towards him one after another.

When he looked down, he saw three cats. The leading one was the little orange cat that the third boy from the Zhao family in the front yard gave him twelve years ago.

Now we can’t call it a little orange cat. A twelve-year-old cat is already an old cat. The two following behind it are its children, and they are about five years old.

"Meow……"

Seeing him looking at him, the old orange cat in the lead raised its head and meowed, then ran to his legs and rubbed against them, then ran into the house. The other two followed suit and rubbed against his feet twice, as if they were just doing their job, and then ran away.

Li Yancheng ignored them, picked up a pair of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles hanging on the windowsill, put them on, and walked into the yard to start exercising.

He said that these three cats were his own, but a more accurate statement would be that the cats treated his home as a hotel.

Seeing that they have gone into the house now, they will probably disappear again in a short while. Anyway, he and Luo Min won’t look for them, and the children won’t look for them when they are at home. In a few days, the three cats will come back by themselves.

They will definitely come back when there is someone at home. Sometimes they come to get food, and sometimes they just want to come back home to sleep and eat, and then disappear again after waking up.

But no matter what, I always remember to come back and have a look.

Li Yancheng now pretends that he doesn't have a cat. When the cat comes back and looks hungry, he gives it something to eat. Otherwise, he ignores it like he did just now and lets it do whatever it wants.

Maybe they knew they were dirty, so the three cats didn't get on the sofa after entering the house. They first walked around the living room, and then jumped onto a chair together, curled up there and fell asleep.

After exercising for forty minutes, Li Yancheng was sweating a little. He took out a basin and filled it with water, took off his sweatshirt, revealing his muscular upper body, and wiped it with a towel. At this time, footsteps were heard in the room, and Luo Min also woke up.

(End of this chapter)