novelraw Chapter 23 Don't make unfounded suspicions, I'm not some enemy agent who gets stabbed!
Chapter 23 Don't make unfounded suspicions, I'm not some enemy agent who gets stabbed!
"Mom, could you first ask Deputy Factory Director Zhang to give me a letter of introduction for a family visit? Just say that Dad's comrade-in-arms' child is getting married and I need to attend the wedding. I'll go there and settle in first; with such a large family like ours, we need a place to stay, right?"
"Are you sure you're okay going out alone, especially so far away?" Tong Jiahui asked worriedly.
"What's wrong with that? My dad taught me martial arts for a reason! I'll be back soon, in five or six days. I'll call Chen Liying when I get there and have her let you know I'm safe!"
"Alright, I'll get you a letter of introduction tomorrow. Be careful!"
After two days of agonizing torture, Fan Dayong and Fan Yaqing were finally released. Sun Xianglan, however, remained detained, with the G Committee's henchmen demanding she reveal the person who wrote her the letter!
Sun Lanxiang had no idea who wrote the letter. She couldn't say, but she was accused of stubbornly resisting and subjected to some torture. Unable to bear it any longer, she had no choice but to confess the identities of several of her lovers.
One of them turned out to be her boss, which caused quite a stir. The boss was the director of logistics at the steel plant, which led to the discovery of the director's embezzlement of public funds.
Sun Xianglan is now trapped. Although there is no evidence to support the claim that she was an enemy agent, her promiscuous relationships and embezzlement are serious offenses, and those people have been arrested and interrogated.
Sun Xianglan was a junior manager in the canteen. She colluded with the director to embezzle funds and was sentenced to five years in prison. She was then sent to a labor reform farm in Northwest China for re-education!
Meanwhile, Fan Dayong was suspended from his post for failing to properly supervise his family members. This was the best outcome he could get, even though the person he had sided with had protected him.
The Fan family is very quiet now. Even Fan Eryong and his two hooligan sons have slunk away like rats and are no longer trying to dart around in front of Tong Jiahui.
At this time, Tong Yuheng had already boarded the train to Liaoning Province. From Yan City to Qingshi County Railway Station where she got off, it was an eleven or twelve-hour journey, and she would arrive before noon the next day after a good night's sleep.
It has to be said that fate is truly amazing. When she got up to go to the toilet at the crack of dawn, she saw Li Chensong, a soldier dressed in a dark blue railway worker's uniform.
He clearly recognized her too, and quickly lowered his head, pretending not to know her. Tong Yuheng immediately understood that he was on a mission!
Then I'll just pretend I don't know him, since we're not close anyway.
Tong Yuheng returned to her carriage without making a sound. Sleeper berths were hard to come by at this time, and she didn't want to suffer, so she asked the ticket seller to pay extra for an upper berth as soon as she boarded the train.
Her consciousness sank into the space to plant and tend the fields, as if she had been busy for a long time. She slept in the bedroom of the space farmhouse for the rest of the night, and although it was only two or three hours, she was completely rested.
She wasn't used to relieving herself in the space, because she felt that his every move was being observed and recorded clearly in the space.
Tong Yuheng thought to himself: If I had just sat in the hard seat, would I have avoided meeting Li Chensong?
He was on duty and even changed into plainclothes to impersonate a train conductor, which means there's something wrong with those two carriages; they're unsafe!
Could there be spies here? Her vigilance and professionalism from her previous life immediately kicked in, and she decided to sneak around the entire train to see if there were any dangerous items or suspicious people worth noting.
It wasn't that she liked to meddle, it was that she didn't trust others. What if Li Chengsong and the others couldn't prevent bad guys from causing trouble? If they blew up the car, wouldn't she be caught in the crossfire?
Tong Yuheng quietly walked from his carriage toward the sleeper berths ahead, carefully listening for any unusual sounds. He checked the toilets, the small duty room, the water tanks, and the luggage racks one by one...
When she reached the third carriage, a train attendant at the door stopped her: "Please go back to your own carriage. You are not allowed to enter or leave this carriage at will."
"Oh, I see!" She had no choice but to go back the way she came. She thought to herself that the person in that carriage must be either a high-ranking official or a very important person.
[Forget it, I'll just head back. If I sense something's wrong, I can just hide in my spatial dimension!]
Just then, Li Chengsong came over. He went to the connection between the two carriages and gestured for her to come over. There were quite a few people there, sitting on the floor, still asleep with their eyes half-closed.
When Tong Yuheng arrived, she saw him quickly open the door to the small duty room and let her in.
After she entered, Li Chengsong also stepped in. In the small space of about one square meter, the two faced each other, and it was difficult to even turn around.
The two were so close that they could hear each other's breathing and heartbeats, making the situation rather awkward.
"Are you on a mission? Did I disturb you?" Tong Yuheng broke the awkward silence first.
"Yes, it's dangerous here. You'd better stay in your compartment and not come out!"
"Are there bad guys? What if someone blows up the car?" Tong Yuheng asked hastily, thinking of the common plot points in movies and television shows of later generations.
"How do you know someone wants to blow up the car?" Li Chengsong's body immediately tensed up.
"I don't know, I'm just guessing. Isn't that how bad guys are? They either drug and kidnap girls, or thieves work together to steal things, or enemy agents carry out sabotage, murder, and bombings..."
Li Chengsong: It was just a guess! Was she telling the truth, or is there something wrong with her?
"No... is there really a bomb on this train? Comrade Li, can I get off at the next stop early?" Tong Yuheng mumbled a few words, but seeing Li Chengsong's increasingly dark face, he stopped talking.
"Comrade Tong Yuheng, where are you going? Why are you on this train? Where is your letter of introduction?" Li Chengsong asked in a row.
"Are you doubting me? Let me tell you, I'm the daughter of a martyr! I was born in the new society, grew up under the red flag, and am a patriotic and Party-loving young woman! Don't make baseless suspicions; I'm not some despicable enemy agent!"
Tong Yuheng regretted it even more. Why did he have to change sleeper cars? If he wanted to, he could have just quietly hidden in the upper bunk and used his spatial dimension to relieve himself. Why did he have to go to the toilet on the train?
"Um, how about I help you search each carriage? I have very good hearing..." In fact, she made a simple metal detector using the materials from the machine shop.
"Are you really that good at hearing? You know how to find bombs?" Li Chengsong became even more suspicious of her.
They received intelligence that enemy agents planned to blow up the train and kill the mechanical experts on board.
This is also a threat to those who want to return to China to contribute to the country's development: disobeying means death! They might come back and not even have a chance to contribute anything before they themselves are turned into a pile of minced meat!
The experts' destination was Shengshi, and they were only halfway there, but they had not yet found the dangerous goods or the desperados who were preparing to carry out the bombing.
What should we do? They've checked the vehicle thoroughly several times since they got on, but they still haven't found anything. Could it be that the information they received was false?