Chapter 8 I lifted the tiles, guess what I saw
The sound of Jiang Zhen going out did not wake the children, but there was an even more violent noise next door, probably because something was broken during the struggle.
Gu Pan rubbed his eyes and ran out and asked, "Uncle, you are not going to fight with my aunt, are you? Let me go in and take a look. If my aunt cries because of you, I will complain to my eldest aunt tomorrow and ask her to beat you."
Gu Liancheng: ...If we go in and find out there’s one person missing, children’s mouths won’t keep any secrets. We can’t let this clever little one in.
"Don't be so clever with that. Don't go in and lie in my bed. Your aunt has the strength to beat me to death, so you don't have to worry about it."
Gu Hui and Jiang Zhao also came out. Jiang Zhao was still too embarrassed to call him dad, so Gu Hui asked, "Uncle, is there a fight next door?"
"Yes, it's cold. You'll get sick if you come out like this. Mind your own business and go back to sleep."
He chased the child back and stuffed him back into the quilt. Gu Liancheng was waiting anxiously in the room. No matter how noisy it was, it had been an hour and why hadn't Jiang Zhen come back yet? He wanted to go out, but was afraid that the children would suddenly get up.
Fortunately, he finally heard a slight sound. He had just opened the door halfway when Jiang Zhen flashed in, wrapped in a ball of cold air.
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Jiang Zhen took off her coat and trousers, wrapped herself in the quilt, and wanted Gu Liancheng to warm her up: "It's late at night, it's really cold outside, please warm me up."
Gu Liancheng had no choice but to say, "You had to stay outside for an hour, and now you're complaining about the cold?"
"Gu Pan was so clever that he poked a hole in the window paper and peeked into the yard. I couldn't get in." Jiang Zhen was very proud: "The kid wanted to compete with me in wits and courage, but he didn't have enough endurance. He went back to bed after just one hour."
Gu Liancheng: ... "She is not fighting with you, she is observing whether I am lying or not."
"What's wrong?"
"Afraid that I would hit you." Gu Liancheng thought it was funny, but then he changed his mind and realized that the children were so worried because they mostly heard and saw men beating women.
Jiang Zhen was happy: "Haha, that's not possible, but Gu Pan is thinking of me, I'm very happy."
This time, Gu Liancheng took the initiative to hold her not-too-cold feet in his arms. Jiang Zhen sighed comfortably, "You're so warm."
Gu Liancheng concealed his blushing face and said, "You have been very powerful since you were young, so you are not afraid of the cold in winter. What did you hear in the past?"
"Not only did I hear it, I also saw it. I ran to the roof and lifted the tiles. Guess what I saw?"
"It's definitely not a good scene." Gu Liancheng was too embarrassed to ask.
Jiang Zhen said with a straight face: "Qi Junshan couldn't do it, but he still insisted on going. The more he couldn't do it, the more he beat An Xiuqing, pinching her until she was almost out of breath. It was only then that Qi Junhai kicked the door in and pulled his eldest brother away."
Gu Liancheng: ...Now that I know this information and need to report it tomorrow, how can I say it out loud? Why not let Jiang Zhen report it?
It is unrealistic to let Jiang Zhen go, unless Jiang Zhen confesses herself. If you ask her directly, she will be like a frightened turtle, shrinking her head and feet and refusing to show her head again. This is the decision made after organizational analysis, and Gu Liancheng can only abide by it.
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"Go to sleep." Jiang Zheng was also very energetic, and he no longer felt cold after covering himself for a while.
"You've been listening for an hour, and you found nothing else?" Gu Liancheng tried to ask for as many details as possible so that he could report tomorrow.
Jiang Zhen waved his hand: "As for that little thing of forced abuse, you are a serious person and you don't want to hear it."
This kind of thing, the person saying it doesn't know what it will do, but the senses of the person listening will be stimulated. No matter how good Gu Liancheng's endurance is, he can't challenge his endurance by holding a pair of slender feet in his arms.
"Okay, there's no need to describe irrelevant things."
"Oh, by the way, after Qi Junshan was taken away by his brother, Ji Fengmei threatened An Xiuqing, saying that I had blinded Qi Junshan's eyes, and asked her to come to my house tomorrow morning to test whether there was any cut on my neck."
Jiang Zhen felt that he had to talk to Gu Liancheng about this matter: "So, Qi Junshan was a bandit, Qi Junhai didn't know, but Ji Fengmei must have known."
This is important information! Gu Liancheng's eyes flashed, and Jiang Zhen took off his coat, revealing his white neck, as smooth as porcelain, from the shallow collar.
Jiang Zhen smiled: "Of course he couldn't hurt me, don't worry."
She thought for a moment and said, "There is one more thing. I analyzed it myself. I didn't want to tell you at first, but since you said 'tell me in advance if you have something to say', then I will tell you in advance. My blind analysis may not be correct."
"You tell me, and I will judge for myself." Gu Liancheng said: "In similar situations in the future, you tell me, and I will only be grateful to you."
"Okay." Jiang Zhen said, "I had already returned, and Gu Pan was hiding in the house picking at the window paper, so I went back to the roof of the Qi family and changed rooms to pick at the tiles. Qi Junshan told his mother that An Xiuqing's father might not be dead, so he decided to marry An Xiuqing back as a hostage to force her father to show up."
"Then Ji Fengmei said it was impossible and complained to her son that he was an extremely selfish and cowardly man who would never stand up for anyone. If he was extremely selfish and cowardly, how could he risk saving your parents? I think if you want to find out, why not check what your parents did back then? Didn't they tell you anything about it when they were alive?"
Gu Liancheng shook his head: "No, I'll ask the relevant departments later. Jiang Zhen, this information is very useful to me, thank you."
"You're welcome." Jiang Zhen smiled happily.
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Because of Gu Pan's cleverness last night, Jiang Zhen heard an extra piece of information that was useful to Gu Liancheng, so she was rewarded with half a salted duck egg for breakfast.
Gu Liancheng was not partial and gave his half to Jiang Tang.
Jiang Tang glanced at Gu Liancheng timidly, and said in a voice as soft as a mosquito: "Thank you, Dad."
Gu Pan said: "Sister, you are uncle's little cotton-padded jacket now. My father said that little cotton-padded jacket is much more caring than stinky son. It treats me better than my brother. You don't have to worry."
Gu Liancheng: "You are the only one who knows the most."
Gu Pan missed his father: "Uncle, when will my father come back? Will he find a new mother for me like you did?"
Gu Liancheng didn’t know. He only knew that his elder brother followed the army across the Yalu River not long after, and later became blind and lost his memory, and lived far away from Fancheng. He was reborn, and he couldn’t let his elder brother end up like that again.
"Oh, you all have started eating." Gu Liancheng's elder sister came over to bring the rolled egg pancakes, breaking the awkwardness of Gu Liancheng being unable to answer.
With the delicious omelette, Gu Pan immediately forgot her worries as a new mother.
Jiang Zhen called out, "Sister, would you like to stay for breakfast?"
"No, I came here to eat. Seeing that you are all fine, I feel relieved. I have to go back to work at the hospital. We are short of staff. But don't worry, the hospital is discussing whether you should stay or leave. Wait until a formal decision is made, otherwise your work will be in vain."
"Okay, I'll listen to you, big sister."
Jiang Zhen felt that there was something he had to tell his elder sister: "Eldest sister, no matter whether the hospital's affairs can be implemented, I will try my best to find something to do, so the housework has been divided among the children. Today's breakfast was made by Jiang Zhao and Gu Hui, the floor was swept by Gu Pan, and the chickens and ducks in the chicken coop in the backyard were fed by Jiang Tang."
Gu Jiaoxia smiled happily: "To tell you the truth, this egg pancake this morning was made by your brother-in-law. As long as you have discussed it with your family, why would I interfere? Just be at ease and take charge of the family."
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Jiang Zhen felt a little proud. He praised and encouraged the four children, and promised that as soon as Gu Liancheng left, he would close the door and take them to play in the space.
After Gu Liancheng's elder sister left, Gu Liancheng took the initiative to wash the dishes. The organization was waiting for his report, so Gu Liancheng didn't dare to delay and said to Jiang Zhen, "I have to go back to the army."
"Will you be back at noon? Or in the evening? If not, ask someone to bring back a letter."
Gu Liancheng smiled bitterly. Jiang Zhen didn't even ask him why he was leaving home the day after his wedding and even left him enough time. He was very grateful, but he also knew that only qualified partners would do this. If they were husband and wife, there would be friction.
"Okay, if I can't come back, I'll ask someone to come back and tell you."
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Not long after Gu Liancheng left, An Xiuqing came over and made some poor excuses, wanting to look at Jiang Zhen's neck, but it was winter and she was wearing too many clothes, so she couldn't see it at all.
After she went back, she made up an excuse and said that she saw: "There was a thin wound, and it healed."
Ji Fengmei promised that as long as this matter was done, she would not let Qi Junshan enter her room.
Ji Fengmei told her eldest son the news: "There is a wound on the neck, it is a person."
Qi Junshan murmured to himself: "I thought there were two people."
Ji Fengmei said: "Although Jiang Zhen has a twin sister, she has been missing for many years. It can't be such a coincidence. You are overthinking it."
Qi Junshan said: "Since it's the same person, there's no need to continue digging. I'm going to go out and ask the brothers who are digging the body to withdraw."
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Gu Liancheng returned to the army. There was a newly established security department here. All the people had expired. Xiao Jianzhou said, "Comrade Qingfeng, please repeat what you said last night to Liancheng and the experts."
Xiao Qingfeng thought about it carefully, not daring to miss any details: "I can't be sure whether my current sister-in-law is the one who bandaged me, but that day, I really saw a mirage, and there was also Jiang Zhen in it, and then the earth shook."
Things that are not confirmed cannot be written into the report. After walking back and forth in the secret meeting room and thinking, Xiao Jianzhou made a decision: "There are several suspicious people who are digging at the core of the earthquake and encouraging the people to say that the earthquake has revealed buried gold ingots. We must arrange for engineers to go there and use the legitimate reason of road construction to dig up the ground first."
Gu Liancheng's heart was shaken. He had to be at the scene, otherwise he wouldn't be able to know what was dug out in the first place.
Gu Liancheng saluted and said, "Political Commissar, I would like to apply to temporarily join the engineering battalion and go dig with us."
"You must go."
Gu Liancheng did not go home at night. He asked someone to take a message back and dug for a whole day and night. Before dawn, under the searchlight, he felt a corpse that was obviously a human body with long hair. It was a female.
With a trembling voice, he asked people to bring more flashlights over: "Here, we found something!"
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