Chapter 115 "Unloading"
The old barracks were completely renovated in just seven days.
These past few days, Su Meng has been constantly shuttling between her home, the old military camp, and the research institute.
Meanwhile, she assembled a diesel engine in the space using parts that had been "smuggled" in from the Zhoushan Shipyard.
Although it cannot achieve the performance of the improved version, it is much better than the one reported by the Shanghai Machinery Research Institute.
With the small steel bars and wooden boards that I secretly collected during this period, I assembled a double-drum threshing machine by hand in just a few days.
But when she saw the piles of wheat after threshing, she was faced with another problem.
What's the point of having so much food in this space?
If it cannot be used for the benefit of the people, it is just a pile of garbage, like fruits and vegetables in the field that cannot be harvested in time.
When the factory was being built, Commander Tang and Director Jiang granted Su Meng special privileges, allowing her to freely enter and leave the research institute as long as it did not interfere with her research.
That night, it was dark and windy, and all was quiet.
Su Meng quietly slipped out through a crack in the door.
She headed towards the research institute's cafeteria, a place she knew best.
After leaving behind ten bags of wheat, five bags of sweet potatoes, and a large pile of fruits and vegetables, he wanted to go to the camp canteen.
But upon seeing the soldiers patrolling in the shadows, his heart pounded, and he dared not move forward.
They had no choice but to return to the family quarters to "unload the goods".
But some families had soldiers serving in the military at home, and she would wake them up as soon as she got close.
Fortunately, the darkness provided cover, and she managed to hide in the space in time.
In this way, almost half of the families in the military dependents' area received her "gifts"—wheat, sweet potatoes, and seasonal fruits and vegetables.
But when I got to the last row of houses closest to the back of the mountain, I saw a figure walk past the houses in that row and head down to the foot of the mountain.
Who could be going to the back mountain so late?
Is someone getting up at 3 a.m. trying to solve something?
Su Meng followed them out of curiosity.
"...Investing in a factory? What does that have to do with you?" The female voice sounded very familiar.
Before Su Meng could think of anything, she heard a man's voice from the darkness, "Go and find out who invested in this?"
The woman seemed displeased and moved back, saying, "These are confidential matters; they are not something I can access."
Besides, we haven't needed to stay in touch for a long time. Let's go!
After saying that, she turned and took a few steps.
The man, who had been hiding in the shadows, scoffed, "Ha! No need to contact him?"
"If you want a good life, you'd better help us this time, otherwise your glorious deeds will be reported in tomorrow's newspaper."
The moving figure stopped, stood still for more than a minute, and asked in a gruff voice, "I heard it was invested by the Cheng family. Why don't you go find Cheng Wangshu?"
The man sneered, "I need Su Meng's recent report. Bring it to me."
"dream!"
Do you want to be disgraced and condemned by everyone?
The woman gritted her teeth and said, "This is the last time! Otherwise, we'll all go to hell together."
Seeing that the two had reached an agreement and were about to leave, Su Mengmao watched helplessly from the darkness as the woman entered the family quarters.
She then followed the man.
The man was very cautious.
He stood there for almost two minutes before entering the forest.
Su Meng: "......"
This person doesn't follow the usual path.
He seems to be very familiar with the mountains and forests.
He moved through the darkness as if it were flat ground.
All that could be heard was his breathing and the rustling of the branches bouncing back.
Su Meng was not familiar with the terrain of the back mountain.
She used the space as cover, and he almost discovered her several times in just ten meters.
He turned around and hissed, "Who is it? Come out."
Immediately afterwards, the sound of a gun being cocked was heard.
Su Meng threw a pebble at him disdainfully, betting that the thief who wanted to steal her report wouldn't dare to fire.
In the darkness, the sound of pebbles hitting the ground could be heard.
The man, carrying a gun, approached her step by step.
Her shoes crunched and creaked on the withered branches and leaves, sounding as if they were pounding on her heart.
With each rustling of falling leaves and withered branches, her heart trembled.
Nerves are on edge, scalp is tingling.
She timidly slipped into the space.
Before dawn, the mountain forest was so dark that you couldn't even see an arm's length.
The man sometimes held his breath, and sometimes made heavy breathing sounds, which, combined with his footsteps that were sometimes light and sometimes heavy, gave him the appearance of a mountain spirit.
That's terrifying!
Even though there was a spatial barrier between them, Su Meng gripped her pistol tightly with nervousness, her palms sweating profusely.
Even with his teeth biting down hard on his lips, he couldn't help but fight back and forth.
She slumped to the ground, looked at the approaching shadowy figure, and pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out.
The man groaned and rolled over on the spot.
Then, after a series of rustling sounds from the branches, he disappeared completely.
Su Meng hesitated whether to chase after them when she heard the camp's alarm.
Immediately afterwards, countless lights came on, illuminating the camp as if it were daytime.
Gunshots jolted people awake from their sleep, prematurely ushering in the daytime.
Su Meng heard the sound of orderly footsteps and saw figures surging towards the mountains and forests.
She quickly headed in another direction out of the forest and disappeared into space as she entered the residential area.
But it was precisely her act of disappearing into the space that perfectly evaded that person's pursuit.
The man covered his wound and waited for four or five minutes, but Su Meng didn't come out. He glanced anxiously at the soldiers who were about to surround him, and then went back into the forest with practiced ease.
Su Meng had a wonderful sleep in the space.
Hearing voices not far away, he pretended to run, with a towel around his neck, running along the vegetable garden, drenched in sweat.
"Little Su, you're here to exercise again!" Su Xiaoman greeted from afar.
Su Meng ran over with a smile and immediately apologized for not going on a business trip without telling anyone about the last time they agreed to go to the back mountain. "I'm sorry, Sister Xiaoman."
"I had something come up last time and left in a hurry..."
It wasn't intentional that I broke my promise, but I genuinely didn't think to leave her a message.
Su Xiaoman waved her hand magnanimously, "Ahem! It's nothing. Work comes first, I understand!"
As she spoke, she leaned closer mysteriously, "There was shooting on the back hill this morning, were you here to watch the excitement too?"
Su Meng shook her head, "No!"
She didn't want to talk about the back mountain, but instead looked at the thriving vegetables in the field with surprise, "Sister Xiaoman, you are a real expert at farming! Look how well your vegetables are growing."
Su Xiaoman proudly raised her head, "That's right! To be honest, I've been tending to the fields since I was old enough to understand things. As long as I cultivate carefully, there's nothing I can't do well."
But compared to the vegetables the mysterious person delivered last night, sigh! They're far inferior.
Su Meng was secretly delighted; those were vegetables from her spatial dimension, so they were definitely different from those outside.
Su Meng smiled and listened as Su Xiaoman kept praising the vegetables she had given her.
Several military wives in the nearby vegetable garden were also talking about the food they received from a mysterious person last night.
"Oh dear! I think it's the gods taking pity on us. My family is really on the verge of starvation. I was planning to go for a walk in the mountains today, but then I heard gunshots."
Oh dear! We were all prepared to go hungry, but then we received food.
Thank God! Thank the gods!
"I think it's a gift from the gods; the steamed buns made with it are even more fragrant."
"Sister-in-law Tian, are you really willing to eat this? Aren't you afraid it's a sugar-coated bullet from enemy agents? I'm afraid of poisoning, so no one in my family has eaten it."
"If you're too scared to eat it, just send it to my house. I'm not afraid of poison."
"Yes! My family isn't worried either. I'll go to your house and help you take it when I get back. It won't be in your way."
"Go away! It's mine in my house, and I'd eat it even if none of you got poisoned."
The whispers among the group quickly escalated into a loud argument.
Su Meng watched the spectacle with curiosity, "They're really interesting!"
Su Xiaoman lowered her head and swung the hoe a few times, then glanced at the people with a light laugh, "Every family is poor, so even if it's poisonous, they'll find a way to eat it."
"Hey! A couple of years ago we even ate clay, why would we be afraid of poisonous grain?"
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