Through Gu Zhiyuan's explanation, Xu Ningyan finally understood the whole story.
Gu Zhiyuan must be from some undisclosed organization in Beijing.
Their organization discovered that messages from within China were being sent abroad through special channels.
Following the clues, it was discovered that most of the leaked information concerned military parts in Jingshan County and Project A03.
In order to find out who leaked the information and the channel through which the information was transmitted, Gu Zhiyuan and Sun Zhou's team were dispatched to Jingshan County.
Sun Zhou and his team first went to Jingshan County to investigate. After some investigation, they found that the internal relationships of the machinery factory in Jingshan County were complicated, making it very difficult to enter the factory without alerting the enemy.
Gu Zhiyuan then suggested that they first seize the black market territory as a breakthrough point. They took over the black market in Jingshan County, and with the help of the abilities of each of Sun Zhou's families, the black market flourished and gained a firm foothold in Jingshan County.
As for Gu Zhiyuan, it would be inappropriate for him to suddenly disappear for an extended period of time without any apparent reason, given his family circumstances.
Moreover, there were people targeting him all along, so he decided to play along and cooperate with his superiors. He originally wanted to go to the countryside as an educated youth, but because of someone's sabotage, he was labeled a "black five categories" element, and his "going to the countryside" became a "sent-down youth" assignment.
Fortunately, he knew that his grandfather had a subordinate who was the director of the Red Star Commune. He asked someone to pass on a message to the director of the Red Star Commune, asking him to take care of him a little, mainly to not restrict his movements.
Director Zhang of the Red Star Commune was quite helpful. Out of consideration for his past relationship with Gu Zhiyuan's grandfather, he not only arranged for him to join a brigade with fewer troubles, but also specifically instructed the brigade leader and the branch secretary to take good care of Gu Zhiyuan.
The rest is history.
Needless to say, Xu Ningyan could guess from the context that the Lu family had probably leaked those secrets, and Meng Ruyi was the one who leaked them.
Otherwise, Lu Xing and Sun Chunmei would only be sent to a farm in the Northwest for reform, while Lu Kai and Meng Ruyi would be taken back to the capital.
If we think about it further, then in the so-called previous life, which was the life when the original owner Xu Siya married Lu Kai, did Lu Kai and Meng Ruyi also leak state secrets?
Was Lu Kai's later rise to become the richest man in the provincial capital also related to his collusion with foreign forces?
If Gu Zhiyuan had investigated the Lu family in his previous life, why didn't he find them in this life?
Xu Ningyan recalled the time when Gu Zhiyuan was surrounded and injured. If she hadn't suddenly appeared, Gu Zhiyuan would probably have had an accident during that attack, and would have been seriously injured and had to retreat to the capital halfway.
As mentioned in the book, Lu Kai later wanted to expand his career in Beijing and urgently needed a certain technology.
The technology was in Gu Zhiyuan's hands. After going to the capital, he returned dejected and dared not set foot in the capital again. This was probably because Gu Zhiyuan suspected the Lu family.
Perhaps because of the passage of time, much of the substantial evidence has been lost, so Gu Zhiyuan was unable to convict the Lu family.
The Lu family's successful transformation, with its machinery factories and heavy manufacturing businesses involving people's livelihoods and having a significant impact, has made the country somewhat hesitant to act against them.
After returning from Beijing, Lu Kai kept a much lower profile and later handed over the group company to Lu Bo and Lu Tao.
Lu Bo and Lu Tao are nominally the sons of Lu Kai's elder brother, and Lu Zheng is a soldier. As the sons of soldiers, they are of impeccable lineage, so the country probably turns a blind eye to it.
After all, at that time, the Lu family's annual tax revenue supported tens of thousands of people. Unless there were major problems, they wouldn't easily touch such a behemoth, for fear of negative consequences.
The more Xu Ningyan thought about it, the more convinced she became that it was true.
The look in her eyes as she looked at Gu Zhiyuan was indescribable.
So, by all accounts, my arrival, with its butterfly effect, not only saved Gu Zhiyuan by accident, but also exposed the Lu family ahead of time.
That's wonderful news!
I wonder if Xu Siya from her past life ever realized something was wrong!
Unfortunately, no one but Xu Siya from her past life will ever know the answer.
After Gu Zhiyuan explained why he came to Jingshan County, he saw Xu Ningyan standing there, her eyes shifting unpredictably, and he couldn't help but feel a little flustered.
Could it be that the little girl feels she hasn't explained things clearly? Or does she not trust herself?
Gu Zhiyuan's eyes flickered. There was indeed something he hadn't made clear, but it wasn't something he wanted to hide from Xu Ningyan; rather, it was a selfish reason of his own.
I'm afraid that Xu Ningyan will be scared and back down after hearing about his complicated family situation.
However, looking at Xu Ningyan's expression, he felt uncertain. He gritted his teeth, knowing that since he had already decided to take Xu Ningyan back to the capital, the truth would eventually come out once they arrived.
There's no point in hiding it; it's better to be honest now.
Taking a deep breath, Gu Zhiyuan spoke with the resignation of a hero lamenting his loss, "There's one more thing I didn't mention—"
Xu Ningyan blinked, came to her senses, and wondered if there was anything else she hadn't said.
Gu Zhiyuan had already spilled the beans, revealing everything completely.
Gu Zhiyuan's family situation is complicated, but it is also quite common among the high-ranking officials in Beijing. However, none of them are as disgusting as the Gu family.
Gu Zhiyuan's biological father, Gu Yong, is now the commander of a military sub-district in Beijing, holding a high position of power.
He was a countryman who married early and had two sons. By chance, he joined the army and fought in battles across the country, accumulating many merits and rising from a lowly soldier to the commander of an independent regiment.
Then comes the common and clichéd plot of that era: Gu Yong was wounded on the battlefield and sent to a rear hospital for treatment.
The attending physician was Gu Zhiyuan's biological mother, Jiang Yuan.
Jiang Yuan was a rare female battlefield doctor at the time. She was young and beautiful, and many high-ranking military officers took a liking to her.
Gu Yong was saved by Jiang Yuan, so he naturally admired her.
However, Gu Yong was slightly better than the others in that, although he admired Jiang Yuan, he knew that he had a wife and children back in his hometown, so he only dared to keep it to himself.
Later, when things improved, he sent people back to his hometown to inquire about his family.
The result was not good. When the people sent there arrived at Gu Yong's hometown, they found that the entire village had been razed to the ground. After making inquiries, they learned that it had been bombed by enemy bombs several times.
The villagers were either dead or had fled, and their whereabouts were long unknown.
The people sent over inquired about the Gu family's situation and found that someone in the know said that Gu Yong had gone to join the army and had not been heard from since, and the Gu family thought he was dead.
Gu Yong's parents came up with a plan: they had Gu Yong's wife, Fang Dani, find a son-in-law to live with them at home to help with chores and support their two children.
She promised that when the Gu family's two children were a little older, she would give birth to one for him.
However, the village was later bombed and razed to the ground, and the Gu family disappeared without a trace. They are probably either dead or wandered to other places.
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