Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 176 Assassination List (3K)

Fangyan Zhu Lin and his group left Union Medical College and got on the bus.

I also met the old lady who dropped her money yesterday on the bus.

When she saw Fangyan, she took the initiative to greet him, praised him, and said that it was thanks to him that he caught the thief yesterday, and then she said she would give him her seat.

How can a speaker of dialect sit in an elderly person's seat? No need to even speak.

I also feel sad that nowadays there are still elderly people who give up their seats to young people on the bus.

The situation in later generations was completely different.

At this time, the people around him thought that Fangyan was a brave man who was doing something righteous. The young people were willing to give up their seats to him no matter what.

Not only was Fangyan asked to sit down, but his family members who were with him were also arranged to sit down.

There's really no way to refuse that.

He didn't go to the police station to accept the praise, but people still remembered him.

Fangyan felt a little proud.

After sitting down, Zhu Lin discovered that there were two more books and a black wooden box in Fangyan's bag. At first, she thought Fangyan was holding an iron plate.

So I asked him:
“Is this the antique you received today?”

"I didn't collect it. I found it for free." Fangyan answered honestly.

"You can even pick this up?" Zhu Lin said in surprise.

Fang Yan lowered his voice and said:
"It's on the beam of the main hall of our courtyard."

Zhu Lin was slightly surprised. He didn't expect Fang Yan to go to that place.

She took the iron birch box from Fangyan's hand and found it was very heavy.

At this moment, Fangyan has reactivated the mechanism and is in a locked state. It looks like a whole piece of wood no matter how you look at it.

Zhu Lin asked him:
"It's just a piece of wood with no patterns on it. What is it used for?"

"Isn't it a paperweight or a gavel?"

Fang Yan smiled and said:
"Although it's not, but now that you mention it, it does look alike."

"What on earth is that?" Zhu Lin's curiosity was aroused.

Fang Yan said to her:
"It's not convenient to talk about the treasure that protects the house now. Come to my room later and I'll show you the treasure inside."

Zhu Lin rolled his eyes at him and said:

"You are so unruly. There are so many people on the bus... Your words may cause misunderstanding."

"What did I say?" Fang Yan said innocently.

"..."

When I got home, I found that my dad had not come home yet.

Fangyan put everything away and started cooking dinner.

I was going to the wet nurse's house to bring the little girl back.

After dinner was ready, Fang Yan still hadn't seen his father come back, so he had to go to Zhu Lin's house next door to ask his father-in-law.

When I got there, I found that Zhu Lin's father had not returned either.

What's going on? Is the school working overtime?
The dialect was a little puzzled.

Zhu Lin's family was also puzzled. Finally, when Fang Yan and Zhu Lin went downstairs and were planning to go to the school to inquire about the matter, they met Professor Zhu who had returned downstairs.

Zhu Lin asked his old father:

"What happened today? Why are you back so late?"

Professor Zhu still had a half-smoked cigarette in his mouth. He took two deep puffs and said:

"Oh, don't mention it. Last night, a colleague from another department took his wife out on the street and was hit by a car. Today, the school leader stayed with our professor and told us to pay attention to safety. So, he was late for dinner."

Fang Yan didn't expect to get such news, and subconsciously asked:

"Was it done by enemy agents?"

Professor Zhu exhaled a puff of smoke and shook his head:

"I didn't say it clearly. I just said I was hit by a car."

After that, he paused and said:

"But it's 1977 now, there shouldn't be so many enemy agents, right?"

After hearing this, Zhu Lin immediately added:
"That's not necessarily true... You don't know, there are so many enemy agents."

Professor Zhu was startled and asked:

"What happened? Did you see any enemy agents today?"

Zhu Lin waved his hand:
"I'll tell you later when I get back."

"Is this true?" Professor Zhu looked at Fangyan, wanting to know what was going on.

He had already seen that there must be a story behind today's events.

Zhu Lin interrupted him:

"Okay, stop wasting time smoking here. Mom will smell the cigarette smoke on you and start scolding you... Hurry up and go upstairs to eat."

Professor Zhu nodded quickly and said as he took his last puff:
"Okay... last bite, last bite!"

After taking a long puff, Professor Zhu put out the cigarette.

Then, with smoke coming out of his nostrils and mouth, he invited Fang Yan:

"Let's go up and eat together, Fangyan."

Fang Yan looked at the smoking Professor Zhu and declined his offer:

"No, my family is ready. Now that you are back, my dad should be back too."

Professor Zhu nodded and said:
"Yes, Lao Fang came back with me."

Fang Yan said to Zhu Lin:

"Okay, I'll go back first."

"Remember to come over after dinner."

Zhu Lin nodded:
"Yeah, I remember."

……

When he returned home, his father was already waiting for him. After asking around, Fangyan found out that his father knew more details.

And Dad was obviously much more cautious than Professor Zhu. He judged:
"I'm sure it was most likely an enemy spy. Professor Wu's research topic was related to ultra-long-distance cameras. He made a breakthrough some time ago, but just a few days later, he finally had time to go out with his wife, and something went wrong."

"And from the tone of the people at today's meeting, I can tell that this is what I think."

At this point, the old man warned the speaker:
"By the way, Fangyan, you have to be careful too. I saw the list of achievements from your Ministry of Health conference in the newspaper."

"You are one of the eight people singled out."

"I suspect that Mr. Zi Ren's memorial hall will be completed at the end of the month, and some enemy agents are taking advantage of this period to cause trouble."

Fang Yan nodded to his father and said:
"Well, to be honest, we have already met during the day."

"Ah?" Fang Zhenhua was somewhat surprised to hear his son's words.

"Did you encounter an enemy spy?" He couldn't believe it.

Fangyan shook his head and said:

"We didn't encounter him head-on, but something happened that was related to enemy spies."

"What's the matter?" Father Fang Zhenhua asked nervously.

Fang Yan said calmly, "Do you still remember my courtyard?"

Fang Zhenhua nodded.

Fangyan continued:

"The enemy agents entered the villa area of ​​​​the Xiehe experts through the sewer of my courtyard and stole the academic achievements and papers of five experts. Today, the deputy director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau came to the scene in person and summoned several tracking and footprint experts to search for clues at the scene."

"I was listed as a suspect at the time. The dog smelled me and they investigated my information. I was cleared of suspicion in the afternoon..."

Fangyan simply recounted the speech he had made after processing it.

He didn't tell anyone about his help in solving the case. Firstly, to keep it confidential, but also because he felt his parents would be extremely nervous if he told them.

After Fangyan finished speaking and cleared himself of suspicion, his father also breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, the old lady He Huiru also said:

"Yes, I'm telling you, we have sent people to protect the experts in our hospital now."

"It's to prevent the enemy agents from taking action."

Then she asked her husband Fang Zhenhua:

"How is it arranged in your school?"

Fang Zhenhua spread his hands and said:
"No arrangements."

"We just held a meeting and asked all of us to pay attention to safety and not run out for no reason."

The old lady was a little surprised:

"Why didn't you send a few people to protect the safety? It would be good to scare them..."

Fang Zhenhua shook his head:

"With so many professors, it's impossible to arrange bodyguards for every one of them, right?"

"Besides, it's only a thief who steals for a thousand days, so there's no reason to be on guard against thieves for a thousand days."

"In the end, this matter still depends on our public security comrades. We just need to be careful."

After that, the topic turned to Fangyan again. He said:

"Especially the third brother, you'd better carry a few books with you when you go out these days."

"Why are you stuffing the book in your mouth?" Fangyan was a little confused and didn't understand what his father meant.

So the old man picked up a magazine on the coffee table, put it on his belt and put it on his stomach. He knocked on it:
"To prevent someone from plotting against us!"

"Look, there are books stuffed in my body, so a knife can't penetrate it."

Fangyan was speechless and said to his father:

"Wouldn't it be better if I put on some makeup so that people can't recognize me?"

……

Although Fangyan did not adopt his father's suggestion in the end, based on the information he provided, it can be judged that the current situation is not optimistic.

It seems that there are not just one or two enemy spies doing these things, but several people.

Judging from the current situation, I might indeed become their target.

Although he was confident in his skills, he also knew that these people's methods would not necessarily be forceful.

Most likely, they resorted to some shady means.

Fang Yan now hopes that Director Qin and his team, who are on duty, can reap the rewards soon.

Otherwise, even if you are safe, others may not be safe.

……

After dinner, Zhu Lin came to Fangyan's place.

In Fangyan's room, she witnessed with her own eyes Fangyan using the centrifugal force of the bicycle's rear wheel to open the iron birch box.

Then he took out an exquisite golden sword and a vivid jade carving.

This shocked Zhu Lin.

Fang Yan recounted in detail what he had discovered, then took out the two books that Le Miao had given him and found the origin of the sword in them.

Zhu Lin didn't react much to the gold and silver. She was more surprised that something could have been preserved for so long and had never been discovered.

"Besides the secret passage, there is actually this kind of thing in the courtyard?" Zhu Lin now felt that this courtyard was just like the treasure cave in the story.

Fang Yan said to Zhu Lin:

"After we catch the enemy spies, we'll go in and look for other places. Maybe there's something else there."

"These ancient people just loved hiding things."

Fangyan now recalled a news story he had read before traveling through time. During the renovation of Heshen's mansion, later known as Prince Gong's Mansion, in 2008, workers discovered another cellar inside the cellar.

That was the place where Jiaqing’s family had confiscated the property, and there were still a lot of gold and silver cultural relics inside.

Although Shi Heng was not as rich as Heshen, he was also a big shot in the capital at that time. Who knows what he might have left behind.

Hearing the words in the dialect, Zhu Lin smiled and said:

"I still hope that we don't find any underground palaces, secret passages, or treasures. If there are too many, we won't be able to consume them all. If the news gets out, we might not even be able to live here anymore."

"Just this thing, I feel like I can't even do anything."

Fangyan thought about it and felt that what Zhu Lin said made some sense. It was indeed difficult to make a move in this era.

But that may not be the case in the future.

At this time, Zhu Lin put the sword and jade into the box, and then said to Fang Yan:

"But you were the one who found this, so I think you should not do anything with it. Just keep it here to protect your house from now on."

Fang Yan nodded, took the opportunity to hug Zhu Lin and said with a smile:

"Okay, I'll listen to you. We'll keep it in our hands and give it to our son as an heirloom."

When Zhu Lin heard the words "our son", her pretty face instantly turned red.

There were only two of them in the room at the moment.

She looked at Fang Yan shyly, and the two of them looked at each other.

Her eyes moved, and she nodded and replied in a voice as soft as a mosquito:

"As you wish!"

……

At the same time, on the other side of the capital, at the residence of postman Zuo Fugui.

Qin Nong, deputy director of the Municipal Bureau, is directing the search of Zuo Fugui's home.

Just now he had secretly arrested Zuo Fugui who was preparing to transfer the documents.

This time the criminal was caught red-handed.

Even Zuo Fugui’s superior who was in charge of receiving the goods was caught red-handed.

It’s just that this superior obviously doesn’t fit the profile of that young man, so he hasn’t been caught yet.

In addition, in Zuo Fugui's home, in addition to a large number of scientific research materials and documents, there was also an assassination list.

There are more than twenty names in total.

Several of them have been marked with a red cross.

Without exception, they were all scientific researchers who had encountered accidents in various places in the past few days.

At the end of the list, Qin Nong saw a very familiar name.

(End of this chapter)