Chapter 344: Breaking Through Without Attack
Qin Lie's face was ferocious, his eyes were red, and he looked like he was in a mad state.
Su Nanzhi sneered.
"Qin Lie, you've retired from the army. Did you also leave your reputation behind?"
She patted her somewhat worn notebook and said, "After all, compared to your somewhat new and overly new notebook, this one looks more like something left by my long-dead father, right?"
Qin Lie was stunned. If the two notebooks were not compared together, the notebook he provided would look like it was quite old. But with the comparison, his notebook seemed a little too new.
“That’s what we kept well.”
His face was gloomy, and he looked at the notebook with a blazing look in his eyes, as if he wanted to burn the notebook on the spot.
Su Nanzhi scoffed at his excuse, "Does your family treat this notebook as a family heirloom? It's been there for so many years, and there's not a single crease on it."
A hint of guilt flashed in Qin Lie's eyes, and his face was still showing forced anger.
"After Su Minglang passed away, I, Wuqing, was sorting through his belongings when I stumbled upon this notebook. Thinking Su Minglang was already dead, I kept the notebook and kept it at the bottom of a box."
This explanation can explain why the notebook provided by Qin Lie has a lot of new parts.
Seeing everyone turn away their suspicious eyes, Qin Lie couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, and turned to look at Cao Leshan beside him.
Cao Leshan's eyes just met his, but he immediately looked away.
He was wondering whether it was better to stop at the brink of disaster or to continue down this path.
Qin Lie's heart sank when he saw Cao Leshan's evasive gaze.
At this moment, the public security officer who had been silent all of a sudden spoke up, "We have teachers in the Public Security Bureau who can identify the newness and oldness of paper."
Qin Lie's face turned ashen in an instant.
Su Nanzhi, who was standing by, glanced at him and once again felt puzzled about how much she had admired Qin Lie in the past.
Qin Lie, without his military uniform, is just an ordinary person, an ordinary person with little knowledge and who doesn't know how to improve himself. He doesn't even know that the Public Security Bureau can identify the newness and oldness of paper.
Qin Lie's academic qualifications were considered high among his peers in Qinjia Village. After joining the army, he was promoted from a soldier to deputy battalion commander. The army would have arranged some cultural courses, but due to the influence of the general environment, Qin Lie did not take them seriously.
He felt that connections and force were more important, which led him to not expect that the public security department had already mastered the technology to identify the age of paper.
Although the notebook he brought was from many years ago, the handwriting on it was written recently.
Qin Lie couldn't help feeling a little regretful, and his hatred for Su Nanzhi made him lose his usual calmness.
But before he could come up with a solution, Gu Xizhou's voice suddenly rang out.
"Qin Lie, have I seen the fairy tale book in your hand?"
Although his tone was doubtful, the certainty in his words made Qin Lie feel cold in his heart.
Su Nanzhi looked at Gu Xizhou in some surprise. She originally thought that this was just nonsense made up by Gu Xizhou to clear her suspicion, but after seeing Gu Xizhou's thoughtful expression, she became a little uncertain.
Qin Lie held the fairy tale book in his hand tighter, and his eyes were full of hatred when he looked at Gu Xizhou.
"Captain Gu, in order to excuse that woman Su Nanzhi, are you going to say that you saw me reading this fairy tale?"
Gu Xizhou was not affected by his gaze at all. He just tried hard to recall and finally found the memory of the fairy tale book deep in his memory.
Although he and Qin Lie did not have a good relationship, they joined the army one after the other and participated in many missions together.
Most of these missions were to capture enemy spies and search their hideouts.
A few years ago, when Gu Xizhou was still a platoon leader, he found bundles of foreign books inside a criminal den while searching it.
Among them are books of similar style to the one Qin Lie is holding.
When counting and processing books, there were cases where the quantities did not match.
This kind of thing is not uncommon during missions, but it mostly happens with valuable items.
Because the number of worthless books did not match, the soldier who was counting at the time just thought he had counted the wrong number.
This was originally a trivial matter. Gu Xizhou was still able to remember it because he was a little surprised that there were fairy tale books in the hideout.
But he didn't expect that after so many years, when he was about to forget this memory, Qin Lie would take out the fairy tale book.
"Qin Lie, falsely accusing others of stealing while completing a mission is a completely different matter."
Gu Xizhou's eyes were sharp and he spoke in a deep voice.
Qin Lie's face turned pale. Although he had left the army, the awareness of the army's rules and regulations was ingrained in his bones, making him feel a little uncomfortable for a moment.
But he quickly realized that he had been forced to retire from the army, and Gu Xizhou's warning at this moment was more like a threat and ridicule to him.
"Gu Xizhou, I don't understand what you are saying. I got this fairy tale book from Su Nanzhi. You might as well talk to Su Nanzhi instead of me."
Gu Xizhou frowned and said nothing more. His reminder just now was only out of consideration for Qin Lie, who had been in the army for so many years and had made contributions to the country.
Since Qin Lie refused to acknowledge the facts and continued to make trouble, he naturally wouldn't say a word more.
He turned to the public security officer and said, "Comrade, while you're appraising the two notebooks, you could also appraise this fairy tale book."
“If I remember correctly, the book can’t be more than seven or eight years old.”
Seeing the public security comrade reaching out to him, Qin Lie's face turned grim. He tightly grasped the fairy tale book in his hand, and his eyes were about to spit fire.
"Comrade Qin?"
The public security comrade couldn't help but urge him, and met Qin Lie's bloodshot eyes, and was suddenly frightened.
Qin Lie picked up the fairy tale book in his hand and tore it open, looking like he had gone crazy.
"I'll let you identify it."
"I wonder how you can identify it."
"Haha, Su Nanzhi is just a wolf cub. She should have died with Su Minglang back then."
…
Although Su Nanzhi felt that Qin Lie was different from her previous impression when she saw him for the first time today, she only thought that Qin Lie acted differently because of his leg injury or because he saw her, his enemy.
But when I saw him at this moment, Qin Lie was not different at all, he was clearly crazy.
Although Qin Lie tore the fairy tale book very quickly, the paper material of the fairy tale book was very thick. After Qin Lie tore it in half, he was stopped by everyone before he could tear it in half again.
Everyone had already noticed Qin Lie's contrasting reactions, and his behavior at this moment only confirmed his guilty conscience.
Qin Lie was pressed to the ground by everyone, but his eyes were still staring at Su Nanzhi and Gu Xizhou with hatred.
If his eyes could turn into knives, I'm afraid Su Nanzhi and Gu Xizhou would have been cut into pieces by him.
Although everyone had already determined that Qin Lie's report was slander, they still followed the procedure and checked the two notebooks and the fairy tale book that had most of it torn off but could still be put together.
The fact is just as everyone thought. The paper for the notebooks and fairy tale books provided by Qin Lie is no more than 5 years old.
However, Su Minglang had already died five years ago, so these accusations were naturally refuted.
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