Chapter 117

Capital Military Region Intelligence Department.

Cheng Zheng and his comrades from the Capital Military Region stood in the corridor. It was evening and their long shadows were stretched out to the door of the interrogation room.

"This guy is very stubborn and won't admit it no matter what." Chief Zhao of the Capital Military Region Intelligence Department spat. Ever since Cheng Zheng contacted his side in the name of the 625th Unit, the two sides have been working together to catch this subversive spy in one fell swoop.

Cheng Zheng had been lying in ambush beside Liu Songlin for a long time and finally gained his trust. Once the fox's tail was exposed, it could not be hidden again.

"I'll go and take a look."

Cheng Zheng was wearing military boots, and every time he stepped on the ground, there was a crushing sound. When Liu Songlin heard this sound, his heart unconsciously tensed up.

"Captain Chen or Captain Cheng?" Liu Songlin remained expressionless at this time.

"It's not important." Cheng Zheng pulled out a chair and sat across from him. Looking at this plain-looking middle-aged man who would not attract anyone's attention if thrown into the crowd, he could only sigh that this man was indeed a good candidate for subversion. However, it was impossible for a man not to capsize. "No matter who it is, he can still catch you."

"Were you targeting me from the beginning?" Liu Songlin regretted asking the question, which was undoubtedly tantamount to admitting defeat.

"Tell the truth about your past ten years of contacting various people with ulterior motives, trying to incite rebellion, and leaking important national secrets. If you confess, you may even have a chance to make amends."

There must be someone behind Liu Songlin.

"Heh." Liu Songlin sneered, and his face wrinkled instantly. "Captain Cheng, I don't understand what you are talking about. I just want you to reveal some information about your troops. Can this be called instigation? You can't arrest people without evidence."

Liu Songlin felt that he had not revealed too many clues. At most, he was just trying to get some information about Cheng Zheng's troops. There was no more evidence to prove that he had instigated others to defect.

Seeing the person opposite him looking like a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water, Cheng Zheng smiled and said coldly, "Then the radio band 6.395 every Monday, the radio channel 3.142 every Tuesday, and the radio channel 4.196 every Wednesday...Do you want me to continue?"

"You?!" Liu Songlin's pupils suddenly dilated, his body leaned forward, and his facial muscles twitched, as if he couldn't believe what he heard, "How could you..."

Cheng Zheng stared at him with a hawk-like gaze, sharp as a cold blade, "You and Qian Hongzhuo rely on the news conveyed by the radio channel every Tuesday, don't you?"

Liu Songlin never expected that this person actually discovered such a covert method, and with a light touch of his lips, his mind was working wildly, trying to make a final explanation for himself, but he heard Cheng Zheng's words that completely crushed him.

"Qian Hongzhuo has been arrested and confessed everything."

Liu Songlin leaned back with a thud, paralyzed in the chair, and the light on his face instantly disappeared.

Cheng Zheng came out of the interrogation room and saw Chief Zhao nodding at him and handing him a piece of paper. "This is the list of the other fifteen people he instigated to defect."

Section Chief Zhao quickly flipped through Liu Songlin's confession and said, "What a bastard! He only did things to sell out the country for glory!"

According to Liu Songlin, he was turned over by a spy airdropped by the G Party 20 years ago, and he has been working for the G Party ever since, with a considerable monthly reward. Later, when the G Party declined, he was taken over by the M Country, and the ownership changed for a while. He was doing the same work of turning over and leaking confidential intelligence, but the object of his information changed.

He has always been secretive and has strong anti-detection capabilities. After contacting Qian Hongzhuo last year, he shifted his focus to the coastal defense line and conveyed his mission to Qian Hongzhuo through radio broadcasts. Similarly, Qian Hongzhuo used his wife Wang Jin's name to communicate with relatives and hide the real confidential content in the family's letters. Liu Songlin deciphered the corresponding Chinese character library for translation and sorting, thereby obtaining naval intelligence.

To this end, Liu Songlin will provide Qian Hongzhuo with a high reward. At the same time, he will also provide him with opportunities for promotion and meritorious service through some border forces of Country M.

After all, the confidential information a chief of staff has access to is very different from that a deputy brigade commander or even a higher-level position can obtain.

However, he never thought until he was arrested that the man who had made Qian Hongzhuo strive for the position of deputy brigade commander of the new special operations brigade would reveal his flaws during the exercise, thus triggering a series of suspicions.

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Crescent Island 625th Unit.

In the interrogation room, Qian Hongzhuo faced the head of the intelligence department and defended himself, claiming that he had never done anything to let down the troops or the organization.

However, the troops who had been secretly investigating Qian Hongzhuo for more than half a year would not let him get away with it.

"You and Liu Songlin in the capital communicated through the radio. What else can you say?"

With a sharp shout, Qian Hongzhuo was like a puppet with his soul taken away, and he could no longer speak.

In the family compound, there was a lot of noise about the Chief of Staff Qian Hongzhuo of the Second Regiment of the Sixth Brigade being taken away for investigation. In addition, Wang Jin was also taken away, which made people even more suspicious about what the couple had done.

Wang Jin was released after a week of investigation. She was passively involved in the spy operation of selling confidential information of the army. Without knowing it, she sent letters to relatives and friends in the north. The content of each letter was misled by Qian Hongzhuo and mixed with the information he needed to provide to Liu Songlin.

Even so, her personal freedom was still restricted by the army and she needed to undergo a long-term investigation until she was completely cleared of suspicion.

Not only Wang Jin, but also Wang Jin's parents, Qian Hongzhuo's father-in-law and mother-in-law, were investigated. After a long interrogation, it was determined that they were not involved, and then they were released.

However, after this incident, Wang Qiang's future promotion path became full of difficulties.

"Dad, I don't believe it. How could Hong Zhuo be the one who betrayed the country and the army? There must be a misunderstanding here!" After returning home, Wang Jin pestered her father and asked him to find a way to save her husband.

Bang!

Wang Qiang could no longer tolerate this girl who could not tell right from wrong. "Qian Hongzhuo has ruined our family to such an extent, and you still want me to help him? You want to kill me and your mother, don't you?"

"I'm not...I..."

"He uses you to pass information to the secret agents. This means he doesn't care about your life or death. If something goes wrong, once you can't clear your suspicion, you will be arrested and go to jail! Do you still think he treats you well?"

Wang's father's words were like a sharp knife, cutting into Wang Jin's heart again and again.

"How could Hong Zhuo treat me like this?" she muttered to herself, still unable to believe it.

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There was a lot of discussion in the family compound, and the sisters-in-law who were knitting sweaters at Cheng's house talked about Wang Jin as if they were crazy.

"I passed by the Wang family's gate that day and heard crying and wailing inside."

"I wonder what Qian Hongzhuo has done wrong? Our old Liang said it's confidential and can't be made public, but I'm so curious."

A chief of staff was arrested, and what was even more terrifying was that the entire Wang family was investigated, and even the soldiers who had a close relationship with Chief of Staff Qian were investigated and questioned. It was indeed difficult to keep such a big thing secret.

Everyone was talking at once, and their curiosity grew more and more.

Jian Lu was sitting in the crowd, knitting a woolen scarf for Shuang Shuang. The reward the little girl wanted this year was a yellow scarf. Jian Lu didn't plan to go to the department store to buy it, so she planned to give her her mother's brand heart-shaped scarf.

Shuangshuang is busy with her hands, knitting a ball of wool for her mother. Although she is small, she has a lot to do.

Listening to the adults talking about important things, I couldn't help but join in, "That must be a bad thing."

The adults were stunned for a moment, then they laughed, "Shuangshuang is right, it must be a bad thing anyway!"

"That's right. There's nothing wrong with that."

Jian Lu knitted a yellow scarf for Shuangshuang and let the little girl try it on. The soft and comfortable wool scarf wrapped around the neck was both beautiful and comfortable.

They are so in love.

"Mom, I love it so much, I'm going to wear it all winter."

"Okay, don't pick it before you go to bed tonight." Jian Lu teased the lady.

“If you don’t want to pick it, then don’t pick it!” Shuangshuang was reluctant to pick it down, it was so beautiful.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law." Liang Haisheng's voice came from outside the Cheng family's yard. He had just returned from the army and came to report the news first, "Old Cheng is back."

Jian Lu, who had a premonition that Cheng Zheng would be back soon, was still pleasantly surprised and immediately stood up to greet him. Even faster than her were the girls Shuangshuang, who trotted directly to Uncle Liang and peered behind him.

"Uncle Liang, where is my father?" Why is there no one here?

Liang Haisheng saw Shuangshuang looking up at him and rubbed her head. "Your father has some work in the army. I guess he will be back soon. Let me tell you first."

"Okay, thank you, Political Commissar Liang." Jian Lu saw Liang Haisheng off, her heart pounding. Cheng Zheng was finally back. If he hadn't come back, he would have missed the New Year.

"Mom, Mom, let's go pick up Dad." Shuangshuang hadn't seen her father for more than a month. She missed him so much that she wanted to fly to the military gate and wait for him immediately.

"Okay, put on your quilt and we'll go together."

The mother and daughter were wearing the same red cotton jackets, one was wearing a beige scarf and the other was wearing a yellow scarf. They walked towards the troops hand in hand.

Aunt Wang was talking at her old sister's house at the moment, so Jian Lu didn't go over to her.

The two men set out from their home and headed for the troops under the stars. As they walked on the bluestone road, their feet made a thumping sound as they ran.

"Be careful, don't fall."

"No, I'm a very steady runner."

They both ran to the gate of the military unit first. Jian Lu waited beside with the child. She was not prepared to go in and disturb Cheng Zheng's work. She just waited for the man to come out of the military unit.

"Mom, do you think Dad will come back with an unshaven beard this time?"

Shuangshuang hasn't even met anyone yet, but she's already started to "dislike" her dad.

"That shouldn't happen. When you see your father, take a good look at him."

"good!"

The winter wind was biting. Although not as strong as the strong winds in the north, it was not pleasant either. Jian Lu opened her cotton jacket and wrapped the two children in it to shield them from the cold wind.

"Are you cold?"

Shuangshuang breathed out and shook her head in her mother's arms, "It's not cold."

Jian Lu touched the young lady's forehead and was about to say something when she heard footsteps, familiar crisp and steady footsteps. She was already very familiar with the sound of Cheng Zheng's walking and could distinguish it even with her eyes closed.

"Look who's here?" Jian Lu patted the lady's back.

"dad!"

Cheng Zheng, who had been away from home for a month and a half, returned to the army from the capital. He had just made a work report, but the moment he stepped out of the army gate, he heard a clear and pleasant voice of "Dad".

In the blink of an eye, Shuangshuang appeared beside him like a fluttering butterfly.

"Dad, you're finally back! I missed you so much!" She hugged her father's thighs, turned back to look at her mother, and spoke for her, "Mom misses you too!"

Cheng Zheng embraced his concubine, picked up the child, and looked at his wife who was two meters away. The moonlight was like water, shining on Jian Lu, like a vivid painting of a beauty.

But he was able to walk into the painting, hold Jian Lu's hand, and say, "Let's go home."