Chapter 114

Cheng Zheng received the signal from Jian Lu's eyes, but he didn't say anything. He just turned around and looked at Liu Songlin, "Brother Liu, you look very busy. How about I leave first?"

"Hey, Captain Chen, it's rare for you to come here, don't leave in a hurry. These are all college students, the future pillars of our country. How about this, I'll treat you to a meal."

Liu Songlin has always been a warm and generous person, and he didn't even bat an eyelid when inviting such a group of people to dinner.

Jian Lu looked at him and felt that this man was too generous.

When we arrived at the cafeteria of Central Broadcasting Station, Liu Songlin told everyone to help themselves to food and not to be polite. After hearing what he said, everyone went to line up at the window.

Cheng Zheng carried the plate and walked to the cooking window. He looked at the few potatoes and pork ribs left in the serving bowl and thought he could get one last portion. Before he opened his mouth to say anything, he smelled a familiar fragrance.

Jian Lu stood next to him and looked at the man with a smile, "Captain Chen, do you want to order this stewed pork ribs with potatoes?"

Cheng Zheng glanced at her, his expression still serious. Before he could reply, he heard Fu Zongbo's voice getting louder when he saw the cooking. "Hey, there's also a portion of potatoes and pork ribs here! They look delicious!"

Cheng Zheng stood in front of Fu Zongbo and spoke first, "Female comrades have priority. This comrade, you go ahead and hit him."

After saying that, he turned to look at Fu Zongbo, "Student Fu, do you have any objections?"

Fu Zongbo: “…?”

How can I have an opinion? I'm not going to compete with lesbians.

"Thank you." Jian Lu ordered the last serving of braised pork ribs with potatoes as she wished. When she sat down with the plate, there was a seat left between Sun Shangmei and Cheng Zheng.

She sat between the two men, her clothes brushing against Cheng Zheng's military uniform. As soon as she sat down, she seemed to smell the man's fresh breath, mixed with the faint fragrance of clothes washed with soap nuts at home.

Liu Songlin is a man who is good at speaking. He first told a few college students about how he met Captain Chen.

According to him, Chen Zheng came to the capital to visit his wife. Due to family reasons, his wife had not been with the army and had been living alone in the capital with the children. Chen Zheng could only come back to visit her when he was on family leave.

At this point, Jian Lu paused while chewing potatoes. She glanced at the man next to her with her peripheral vision, and then spoke calmly, "It's really not easy to be a military wife. It must be very hard for Captain Chen's wife."

He Qinglai was also very empathetic. It sounded tiring to raise a child alone. He was raised by a widow. "Captain Chen, do you and your wife only see each other once a year?"

Cheng Zheng glanced at Jian Lu's slender fingers holding chopsticks and answered everyone, "Yes, my wife's life is not easy, but she is also a very good person and she even got into college."

"Captain Chen, you and your wife are truly amazing. One is a soldier and the other is a college student. Your whole family is truly outstanding."

Liu Songlin praised the man and talked about the reason why Chen Zheng came to the radio station. According to Captain Chen, he had a conflict with his wife, so the captain came to the radio station alone to ask if he could order a song for the man during the broadcast, a revolutionary song to atone for his mistake.

"Captain Chen, people say that we masters are a bit rough in our minds, but I didn't expect that you still care so much about your wife. Few men can do what you do." Liu Songlin didn't expect that this captain is still a man who revolves around his wife and can even go to the radio station to request a song for his wife.

They do have such a column on their radio channel where songs can be requested, but it is usually the grandparents in the capital who write to request a model opera. For half a month, they requested "Red Lantern" and "I Have So Many Cousins" that they sang for a long time.

This time, when Liu Songlin saw Chen Zheng, a soldier who had no idea where the radio station was, coming, he took the initiative to agree to help. After a few interactions, the two became familiar with each other.

Fu Zongbo had never expected that this military comrade was quite romantic. "Captain Chen, does your wife forgive you?"

Cheng Zheng did not give a direct answer, but only said, "My wife is easy to please."

Just a few words, but Jian Lu's ears felt hot. She couldn't stay there any longer, so she gently hooked her feet and poked to the side, signaling Cheng Zheng to be more restrained.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Zheng did not calm down, and even became more aggressive, "My wife also likes potatoes and pork ribs very much. My classmate, how do you like today's potatoes and pork ribs?"

Jian Lu knew that he was asking himself, do you like it?

Trying hard to suppress the slight smile on her lips, Jian Lu nodded and replied softly, "It's delicious."

"Oh, then I'll cook for my wife when I get home."

Jian Lu didn't look up again, but just ate the food silently, leaving Cheng Zheng with a dark hair. She only complained silently in her heart, "Forget about your cooking skills."

However, it's okay to have a meal occasionally.

The lowered head concealed the slightly upturned corners of the lips.

As Liu Songlin listened, he felt more and more that this military officer was different. He seemed like a man who was dominated by his wife.

After the meal, a few college students walked in front, and he and Captain Chen lagged behind and talked about marriage, but he seemed to be worried.

"Captain Chen, I am a loner, unlike you two, who are a loving couple. You are a captain and a college student, and your life is just fine."

Cheng Zheng sighed, "My wife is good in every way except that she can't control her money. My salary plus the allowance is not enough for her to spend. Every day she either wants to buy braids or vanishing cream. She even bought a washing machine and spent all my annual salary. To be honest, Brother Liu, I had a conflict with her this time because of money."

When Liu Songlin heard that the head of the group was worried about money, his eyes suddenly lit up. "I didn't expect your wife to be such a spendthrift. That's terrible. Head Chen, you have to take care of things. How can you let a spendthrift woman run the household like this?"

"Yes." Jian Lu, who was listening to this man slandering her crazily in front, turned back angrily and glared at Cheng Zheng fiercely when Liu Songlin was not paying attention. "Captain Chen, if this doesn't work out, just leave."

Cheng Zheng looked at Jian Lu and smiled helplessly, his eyes seemed to be filled with deep ocean, "No, that won't do. I can't live without her in my life."

Jian Lu's face flushed. She didn't know what this person was talking about? !

"Brother Liu, we're leaving first. We still have to go to Q University to have a look."

"Okay, take your time." Liu Songlin was now obviously more interested in this soldier. Those students were not valuable enough.

After the college students left, Liu Songlin looked at the military officer with a sad face and thought that he was a good target. "There are other ways to make more money."

"Really?" Cheng Zheng was obviously interested.

"But forget it, you are the team leader, it's not suitable." Liu Songlin seemed embarrassed and waved his hands repeatedly.

Cheng Zheng sighed, "What's inappropriate about it? As long as it doesn't break the law, anything is fine."

Liu Songlin stared at the person opposite him for a moment, and finally spoke, "Okay, come to me tomorrow afternoon and we'll meet."

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Cheng Zheng left the radio station and went straight back to the guesthouse where he was staying. Along the way, he found someone following him, and he could guess that it was Liu Songlin.

He waited in the guesthouse until nightfall, then quietly left through the back door of the guesthouse and walked to Q University. He went straight to the back door of Q University. When he passed a small alley, he suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"Captain Chen?" Jian Lu leaned against the wall, her arms folded across her chest. "Why are you here alone? Where's your poor wife who lives in the capital? Why don't you bring her out to see her?"

Cheng Zheng looked at Jian Lu with a smile on his face, and handed something over to her.

Jian Lu took the mirror from his hand and looked at it, then heard the man's hateful voice, "Here it is, I brought it out, did you see it?"

Jian Lu looked at herself in the mirror: "...Humph!"

......

The two of them strolled in the night, walking on the cold streets of the capital, and Cheng Zheng briefly told Jian Lu about his mission this time.

"I didn't expect to see you there. Luckily you were quick to react and didn't call me directly."

The first time Jian Lu saw Cheng Zheng at the radio station, she immediately guessed what this person was here for. In order to investigate Liu Songlin, she even used a pseudonym to become his target of rebellion.

If you investigate, you will suffer.

"If you slander me outside, be careful or I will judge you when I get home." Jian Lu puffed her cheeks and glared at him again.

Cheng Zheng could only surrender. "Okay, you can judge me as you like after we get home. I will never resist."

It was cold outside. Cheng Zheng held his wife's hand and rubbed it, then put her hand in the pocket of his military coat and scolded her, "You're still wearing a woolen coat when it's cold? Be careful not to catch a cold."

"I'm fine, not cold. Ah-chu~" Jian Lu sneezed, and looking at Cheng Zheng's eyes that said, "Isn't it true?", she said guiltily, "I didn't know it was so cold at night, it's actually fine during the day... Okay, okay, I'll wrap myself up like a dumpling tomorrow."

Cheng Zheng was amused by his wife. He held her hand and sent her back to Xu's house. "Don't contact Liu Songlin. He is a dangerous person. Stay at Xu's house and wait for me to finish my mission and go back together."

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In the following days, Jian Lu no longer worried about Liu Songlin's affairs, and made a special trip to the office run by Gu Yangming and his friends.

The office is not large and is located in an abandoned small building. Fortunately, it has a square layout and good lighting, so it looks quite bright.

There are four rectangular desks with four chairs inside, and on a long table near the window in the innermost room there is a computer!

Jian Lu recognized it at a glance. It should be an old-fashioned computer of this era. She had only seen it in online news before.

Gu Yangming proudly introduced it to the group, "We assembled this with various parts we found ourselves. It took us a long time to put it into use."

These ordinary college students could not afford to buy a computer, so they could only rely on the parts they had collected over the years to assemble a half-dead computer by themselves.

Jian Lu and Sun Shangmei took a few steps closer to look at this big computer. It was a square computer that looked like a TV. The screen was not very big, and the thick yellow body enclosed it.

This is a computer from the early 1980s, and it has a particularly heavy sense of history.

Jian Lu watched Gu Yangming turn on the computer as if she was watching a lively event, and explained the computer enthusiastically and proudly.

As for why it is said to be half-alive and half-dead, it is because while we are talking, it may go on strike and shut down automatically.

Bang!

Gu Yangming slapped the fuselage, then pressed the power button and said with a smile, "It's okay, it just deserves a beating."

Everyone laughed and didn't mind this little episode at all.

"Can I try it?" Jian Lu couldn't wait to touch the computer of this era.

"Okay, come on."

Every part of the computer exudes a sense of historical nostalgia. Jian Lu gently stroked the keyboard, wanting to type a few words skillfully. However, just as she was about to type in pinyin, she suddenly realized something was wrong.

There was no Pinyin input method on computers at that time! There was not even a Wubi input method!

"You want to type? Come on, follow this." He Bainian took out a Chinese character library from the side, on which were the corresponding codes for each Chinese character.

Jian Lu felt overwhelmed when looking at this thick Chinese character library. It would be too strenuous to type a word.

Ten minutes later, she finally typed a line of text with great difficulty, and the document on the old computer screen showed: Jian Lu, visited here in 1980.

After a simple yet difficult experience of using an old-fashioned computer, "tourist" Jian Lu felt a surge of excitement. After all, she finally touched a computer again after many years!

"Student Gu Yangming, the computer you assembled is really amazing. It can even type."

"I'll just use it for what it is." Gu Yangming looked at the computer that could go on strike at any time and said with confidence, "One day, I will produce a computer myself."

As the largest investor among the group, one can imagine how well Jian Lu is treated in the office. Gu Yangming and Song Bainian talked to her endlessly about the future research directions, while He Qinglai occasionally added a detail or two.

As for Fu Zongbo, he was mainly responsible for pouring water for everyone.

Fu Zongbo's technical skills were slightly inferior among the four-person team, but he had a sharp mind. Jian Lu remembered that it was written in the news reports at that time that this person played an important role in the early research and promotion of patented technologies. Unfortunately, his vision was poor, and he got off the train early, missing out on the opportunity to become a billionaire.

After listening to their various research directions, Jian Lu seemed to have seen the prospect of the booming computer industry. She immediately decided to make additional investments. She also expanded their thinking a little by taking advantage of the characteristics of later computers and laptops, which excited everyone.

In response to this, Gu Yangming and others all sighed, "Student Jian Lu, you are so talented."

Jian Lu, who made additional investment, said: "I do have a lot of money to spend."