Chapter 279
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At this moment, the most important thing was to know who the spy was. Yi Hongxing was not afraid to bow to Yuanbao: "I really can't guess. Yuanbao, tell me, who did you find?"
Yuan Bao said with a bit of pride: "This person must have thought she was hiding well. If it weren't for my sharp eyes, you would have missed her!"
"Wow, you're so awesome. So who is it?" Yi Hongxing asked approvingly.
"It's the cleaning lady in our school!" Yuanbao said immediately.
Yi Hongxing recalled the few times he had picked up Yuanbao, but he had no memory of the aunt. He could only ask curiously, "Why are you so sure that the cleaning lady is a spy?"
"Because she has the same scent as my mother!" Yuanbao said, "It smells like pine and cypress, but there are some differences, so the fragrance is clear and long-lasting! My mother taught me all this before, and I remember it clearly!"
Yi Hongxing couldn't help but ask, "Your mother? Are you talking about Ms. He?"
Yuan Bao nodded: "That's her! You know she's from a wealthy family! The perfume she uses is very expensive, how could a school toilet cleaner possibly use it?"
"So you think this aunt is either a spy or..."
"Or maybe she picked up this perfume!" Yuan Bao continued, "I know that's a possibility, but Auntie seems to have other suspicious points."
"What's the doubt? Can you explain it all at once, Yuanbao?"
"Isn't that what I'm saying? Why are you in such a hurry?" Yuan Bao glanced at Yi Hongxing before continuing, "That auntie definitely understands foreign languages. I took the foreign language dialogues you wrote for me to school, and the paper blew over to the auntie. She picked it up and gave it back to me. I noticed she glanced at the contents a few times. Since I'm much shorter than her, I could clearly see she was reading the contents, not just taking a quick glance because she didn't understand. Then I even smelled her fragrance!"
"Maybe she's undergoing labor reform?"
"I asked the teachers and classmates! She was assigned this job because her husband was a firefighter who saved the country's valuable assets. They wanted to visit the hero's family, but they discovered his parents had died of illness at home, and his children had been separated or died in the war. Only his wife was left at home, so they assigned her this job. Since she's not in good health and can't handle heavy labor, they arranged for her to sweep the floor at our school! If she could read and write, she would definitely be given some easy office work!"
Hearing the news Yuanbao had inquired about, Yi Hongxing was shocked: "If she is really a spy, then the family of the fire-fighting hero..."
Having said this, Yi Hongxing realized that Yuanbao was still there and stopped talking.
Yuanbao accepted it naturally.
He went on: "Just think about it, you know, right? If you're a little luckier, and your family members really died of illness or were separated, and someone just stole their identities, then the lost children might still be alive. But if they were silenced by spies, then they would die with regrets."
Even as he said this, the adult-like Yuan Bao still tried to comfort Yi Hongxing: "If this is to silence the witness, it would be too difficult to avoid being caught. I still think it's just an identity theft."
Yi Hongxing immediately looked relieved and said with a smile, "Then you have done a great service."
Yuanbao's eyes were shining, which reminded Yi Hongxing of another little star. He thought inappropriately in his heart: My poor sister, I heard that there is not enough water over there to wash her hair and take a bath. I wonder if she has grown lice because of the dirt and blackness.
Yi Hongxing thought about this for only a moment, then told Yuanbao: "Then I'll go and report it on your behalf. You stay home and take good care of your brother."
"He's crawling and running everywhere! I can't watch him!" Yuanbao complained.
"It's okay!" Yi Hongxing comforted him, "Your aunt asked her uncle-in-law to bring me the blueprints for a child guardrail. We've asked a carpenter to arrange one for your brother. He's currently sealed in a small cubicle and can't get out for now. Please watch over him and make sure he doesn't do anything dangerous. Just keep him watered."
After hearing this, Yuanbao reluctantly agreed.
As soon as Yi Hongxing went out, he looked for his former leader, the current Minister of Security.
If he found a spy in his school, Yi Hongxing would report it to the university security department without hesitation. However, he found an external spy and was not sure whether it was a spy. Considering the convenience, Yi Hongxing decided to go through the "back door" and directly find his old leader to assign him someone who could be responsible for the work.
The leader who witnessed the things that Wild Boar and Han Xing had to say was working overtime in the office. When he heard that Yi Hongxing was looking for him, he couldn't help but have a headache.
The person reporting immediately asked, "Leader, are you feeling unwell? Do you want to go to the hospital?"
"No thanks!" The leader waved his hand. "I just get a headache from the stress of hearing the name Yi Hongxing."
Thinking back to the past, how many times had I cleaned up this guy's butt? I always felt like he was up to no good.
Having said that, the leader still had someone bring Yi Hongxing into his reception room.
"Old leader." Yi Hongxing greeted.
"You are a kid who never comes to visit me for no reason. What's the matter? Tell me."
Yi Hongxing grinned, "My goddaughter discovered a spy, so she came to report it to you right away."
"Your goddaughter? How old is she?" the leader asked curiously.
"He's eight years old this year! He's amazing, number one in the school!" Yi Hongxing said proudly, "Just like Han Xing back then!"
The leader's son was in the same grade as Yi Hanxing back then, and had always served as a foil to Yi Hanxing. Although he was two years older, his grades were often 20% or even more than half lower than Yi Hanxing's. Every time the leader learned of Yi Hongxing's grades, he would resist the urge to hit him back when Yi Hongxing showed off, and would go home and beat the child. Now, hearing Yi Hongxing's words, he thought of his own grandson, who was also seven or eight years old, but dared to come home with a test paper with a combined score of just 100 in two subjects: Damn it! How could he be shown off by this brat again!
It is said that good men don’t have good wives and bad men marry beautiful women. The leader thought: It is true that good families don’t have good children, and children from weird families are less of a worry!
Suppressing his jealousy towards Yi Hongxing, the leader changed the subject and asked, "Didn't they say they found a spy? Tell us in detail what happened?"
Yi Hongxing explained to his leader what Yuanbao had discovered.
After listening to Yuanbao's analysis, the leader asked the secretary at the door to call two people over: "My old subordinate here has reported a situation. You all listen to it and find out if the other party is a spy. If so, find her superiors and subordinates as soon as possible."
Having said that, the leader introduced the two parties.
After shaking hands with the other party, Yi Hanxing said goodbye to his leader and went to the other party's office to explain the situation.
"Based on your analysis, there's definitely something fishy about this guy," the person in charge said. "He can't read, but he can understand foreign languages. This spy is truly incredibly patient."
"And the most important thing is, what kind of information can she get from cleaning the elementary school?" Yi Hongxing said, "I suspect she is a carrier pigeon." It is responsible for transmitting information between the two parties.
The person in charge agreed with Yi Hongxing's analysis: "So there is a high possibility that there is a big fish behind this person."
Just at this time, the interrogation results of Fengqin and Hua Jiuchun at the base where Yi Hanxing was located were also sent to Beijing. The person in charge thought: Maybe I can catch my beloved son?
You should always have dreams, what if they come true?
After observing the cleaning lady going in and out, the person in charge decisively arrested her.
At the beginning, the person in charge thought that finding the beloved son was just a dream, but he didn't expect to find a breakthrough in the aunt.
"You said you knew Ai Zi's situation?" asked the person in charge.
"I know." The cleaning lady said firmly, "If I tell you, should I be allowed to do something good to atone for my crime?"
"This is meritorious service, and while it certainly can offset the crime, it can only mitigate the severity of the sentence. You can't completely avoid a sentence, that's impossible," the official explained. "But we can report your meritorious service to the court. Even if you're sentenced to labor reform, we'll try to find you someone who can work a sewing machine in a factory, rather than on a farm somewhere."
After hearing this condition, the cleaning lady was not very satisfied, but she also knew that the current Workers and Peasants Party was different from the previous Three People's Party.
There was no room for bargaining. Things like getting a gold belt for murder and arson, or becoming an official by surrendering as a bandit were all out of the question in the Workers' and Peasants' Party. Generally, merits were counted, but crimes were also taken into account. So even though the cleaning lady was not very satisfied with the conditions, she still spit it out after seeing the person in charge firmly say that this was the maximum.
"Actually, Aiko isn't a very powerful commander here," the cleaning lady said frankly. "She oversees people who have used their beauty to please men or who have risen to important positions through marriage or relationships. We actually look down on them, but she does have a lot of valuable intelligence, so headquarters values her quite a bit."
As soon as these words were spoken, the person in charge was shocked. The fact that the cleaning lady could say this about Aizi meant that her rank was not much lower than Aizi's. This was a big fish!
Despite this, the person in charge suppressed his inner excitement and asked step by step, "So who is Aizi?"
"Aizi isn't a person, but a name," Auntie replied. "In the beginning, Aizi was known as the Flower of the Empire, a highly skilled and renowned spy. But even the Flower of the Empire grows old and dies, and by then, Aizi's reputation was already well-known. The General, taking the situation into consideration, bestowed the name Aizi upon the most outstanding members of the Red Agency. This is probably the Aizi you know. In fact, she died a long time ago. I don't know Aizi's specific public identity, but I can provide you with some information about her."
After hearing this, the person in charge realized that they had been looking in the wrong direction all along.
"So which batch is the newest Aizi from now? When did she get the title? How old is she?"
"It was late in the war, probably around '43 or '44," Auntie said. "She should have been fourteen or fifteen then, seventeen or eighteen at the most. If she was older, she would have had her own name. So, she's only in her twenties now, early thirties at the most."
"Do you know what she's doing now?"
"I'm not sure, but she only has calluses on her right middle finger. She must be an office worker," the cleaning lady said. "It's impossible for her to do rough labor in a factory."
"How can we tell her apart? Can you describe her appearance?"
"I really don't know. We've seen her full face, but I've heard she's pretty and looks innocent and harmless," the cleaning lady said. "And she looks young, so she might have lied about her age, making it a few years younger. So you can focus on checking young people."
"One more question, is Aiko a boy or a girl?"
The cleaning lady laughed: "Do you think that with the tradition of the Great Japanese Empire, would there be Japanese men willing to join an institution like the Red Bureau? The men there are all Chinese and Koreans. As for the gender of Aiko... How can the flower of the empire be Chinese?
Chinese or Koreans?"
The person in charge understood what the cleaning lady meant and hurried out to report the information to his superior. After learning about it, his superior decided to notify the base immediately and sent a telegram to the research base that day.
After reporting the incident, the person in charge returned to the interrogation room and asked Auntie, "Is there anything else you need to tell us?"
Auntie played dumb: "What else can I say? I've made it all clear, haven't I?"
"You were understating your love for me just now. I don't think you're much worse than me, are you?" The person in charge laughed. "If that's all you know, then you're wasting your talent."
The aunt knew she was exposed, but she didn't care. She was hiding it because she wanted to negotiate better terms. So she asked, "Before I answer your question, can you answer me a question instead?"
Hearing this, the person in charge agreed straightforwardly: "If you have any questions, just ask, and I will answer any that I can."
Upon hearing this, the aunt asked, "I thought my disguise was perfect. I even pretended to be an illiterate middle-aged woman and went to clean the toilets at school. How did you recognize me?"
Hearing this, the person in charge asked: "Before answering your question, I would like to ask you, how did you get this identity?"
"I bought it." said the aunt.
"Bought it?!" The person in charge was shocked.
"Yes, the wife of your fire hero has indeed lost her parents-in-law and children. She didn't have much affection for the man to begin with, so she wanted to remarry. I bought her identity, and she remarried to a mountain village with no household registration."
After the cleaning lady finished speaking, she asked, "I have already answered you, so you should tell me too, right?"
The person in charge replied: "Because you smell like high-end perfume."
"High-end perfume?" asked the cleaning lady.
"It's the one with pine and cypress scent. It's said to be only available in foreign countries and it's very expensive!" The person in charge forgot what brand it was for a moment.
The cleaning lady didn't care about the brand anymore. After hearing this, she immediately understood why she was exposed. She couldn't help but grit her teeth and said, "I'm going to kill that show-off sooner or later."
"You mean the male spy you gave away?"
"Who else could it be other than him! If I hadn't been in contact with him for more than ten minutes, how could I have gotten that scent from him?"
Not to mention how angry the cleaning lady was, Yi Hanxing and others were all surprised after receiving the news from Beijing.
"So what Hua Jiuchun said might be true? Aizi is in our base?" After all, in order to do a good job in research and computing, in the absence of research talents and returned overseas students before the founding of the People's Republic of China, everyone brought in a lot of university graduates.
They work as computer laborers while studying graduate school content to cultivate the country's subsequent scientific research capabilities, so more than half of the people in the base are young people in their twenties.
If the beloved sons of this generation are only in their twenties, then the scope of investigation that needs to be carried out is really huge.
"Originally, we were already dealing with a lot of women in their thirties and forties, but thankfully, our main work is outside, so we have enough time to investigate. There aren't many female researchers in their thirties and forties within our base, but now that we've expanded that to include women in their twenties, at least one-fifth of our base will have to be investigated. That's a lot of work."
"We have to investigate it quickly," the old professor said. "We can't let a single bad apple spoil the whole bunch."
Everyone knew the importance of this matter, but with so many people, it took several days to go through the resumes and further screen for suspicious points.
"We can't do this," the old professor said. "If Aizi is at our base, she'll probably know we've captured Fengqin and Hua Jiuchun, and she'll definitely be more cautious. We'll never find anyone if we just search around like a headless fly."
"Then..." Yi Hanxing asked, "Or should we use this information to deceive Hua Jiuchun?" Yi Hanxing asked.
"If he wanted to tell us, he would have already said it. Since he didn't say it, either he was determined to see us get bit by a venomous snake when we were least prepared, or he wasn't very clear about Ai Zi's appearance and identity." The staff member was hopeless: "So, there's probably no point in looking for Hua Jiuchun."
The old professor thought about this situation for a while, and the next day he told Yi Hanxing and the staff, "I've overcome the difficulties of our design. Theoretically, this work is feasible. We are now going to start the laboratory verification phase. As long as the verification is successful, we can prove that this theory is feasible and can be applied to missile production!"
After hearing what the old professor said, Yi Hanxing and the staff looked at each other, wanting to believe such good news, but also unable to believe it.
"This is a small step for you, but a big step for China's missiles." Yi Hanxing sighed.
The old professor couldn't help but glance at Yi Hanxing and pointed at the staff. "It's fine if he didn't know about the progress and was deceived, but how come you were deceived too? At my rate of progress, if I can break through the bottleneck tonight, can I come up with a theoretical framework without three days and three nights of seclusion?"
Yi Hanxing: Aren’t I a genius? Different from us ordinary people?
The two were overjoyed, only to hear the old professor say, "Just spread a little bit of information out there, so the spy will mistakenly believe we've truly overcome the difficulties and plan to start laboratory production. She'll definitely be tempted to take action!"
That’s right! Yi Hanxing thought, after all, who would have thought that the old professor was lying?
Although I am lying, the old professor
I still came up with a decent theoretical model: "This is the draft I made before. I rejected it because it is not feasible. However, this loophole is very difficult to find. It will take them at least ten days or half a month to find the problem if I try to fool the young people.
Yi Hanxing confirmed the old professor's statement: "At least I shouldn't be able to tell for a while.
Hearing this, the old professor couldn't help laughing: "I have been working on this for a long time, and I almost thought it was right. Isn't it easy to fool you?
With the old professor's advice and full support, after the old professor excitedly announced the good news to everyone, everyone in the base quickly believed that the old professor had come up with the theoretical framework.
"Why do we say that an old man in the family is like a treasure?" Someone immediately boasted: "At the critical moment, the veteran still needs to take action, one is worth two!"
"The professor is awesome!" a young man whistled loudly.
Some people also whispered to the people around them, "This genius is worthy of being a genius. Even at his age, he is still a genius. Our theory is so difficult! He actually came up with it in a flash of inspiration!"
“You have to know that there are thousands of people in this world who have been hit on the head by apples, but only one person has discovered the law of gravity.
Because the old professor spread this news, the cafeteria even announced that they would add extra meals: "Today we will make a portion of all the dishes in the dugout for everyone!
As the whole world celebrated, everyone was smiling like a flower. At this time, some people looked very happy on the surface, but they felt like ants were crawling around in their hearts.
How could it be possible? The Chinese were the sick men of East Asia, so how could they have so quickly developed atomic bombs and missiles that even the Japanese Empire, despite pouring vast sums of money, couldn't? Could it be that the Chinese were truly destined to succeed? Because they were the suzerain of ancient Japan, did the dragon veins still favor them?
Aizi suppressed the urge to scream and kept telling herself that this was just one side of the story. Who knew whether it was true or not? Besides, it hadn't been tested in the laboratory yet and it would probably be found to be unworkable soon.
Thinking of this, Aizi immediately calmed down and told himself not to lose his composure.
Just because Aizi has a strong psychological quality doesn't mean that others do too. In order to contact the outside world, there are obviously more than just Hua Jiuchun and Aizi spies here, so some people panicked.
The panicked man seized the opportunity and asked his beloved son, who was alone, when no one was around: "The Chinese have already developed these things. Is there any point in us hiding?"
"Nonsense! They haven't succeeded yet! We have plenty of opportunities to destroy it!" Aiko scolded quickly.
Using a refractor to spy on Aizi and the soldier talking secretly from a distance, Yi Hanxing still couldn't believe it: "This little sister in my work group is actually Aizi?
"Although she is lively, spoiled, picky about food, loves to dress up, likes to act like a spoiled child, and pays attention to the handsome guys in the base all day long, but is she a spy? Yi Hanxing just feels that Ai Zi's personality is too successful. She is so high-profile, but is she really hiding something under the spotlight?
Hearing Yi Hanxing's incredulous words, the staff knew they shouldn't have done so, but they couldn't help but say, "Your behavior reminds me of the incredulous expressions of those officers from the Three People's Party when your third brother's identity was exposed.
"They asked a very similar question back then." The staff member couldn't help but laugh as he recalled it: "I remember your brother's good friend, Staff Officer Han, said, 'Although Tian Guangqian is usually stingy, likes to play cards, likes to use luxury goods, is conceited and loves to dress up, was a gigolo for a long time, and likes to write erotic novels, but he is a member of the Workers and Peasants Party?'
Yi Hanxing: What kind of boomerang is this? ! !
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