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With this in mind, Ye Min went home and saw Meng Cheng in the kitchen. She said, "I have something to tell you."

Meng Cheng was serving the last dish. Hearing this, he put down the spatula and plate, turned to look at Ye Min, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"It's very important." Ye Min said, then changed her mind when she saw the food was ready. "Forget it, let's talk about this after dinner."

Meng Cheng asked doubtfully, "Can't you tell me now?"

"Yes, but it's more complicated, requires a longer time, and may affect your appetite."

Meng Cheng's eyebrows wrinkled slightly. He had noticed that Ye Min had been hiding something from him since An An was born. Ye Min said that this matter was more complicated. He thought that what she was going to say might be something that had been hidden from him, but it affected his appetite... He couldn't think of it.

But he respected Ye Min's opinion, picked up the spatula again and said, "Okay, let's talk after we finish eating."

After a day's rest, Ye Min didn't eat absent-mindedly like he did yesterday. He just looked up at An An's head from time to time, hoping to get more information.

Obviously, the results were disappointing.

The audience on the bullet screen had already discussed the content of the new extra episode several times yesterday. All the details had been revealed, and they had no way of knowing more information.

Moreover, the audience is different from her who is in the game. Although they all wanted to know the cause of Meng Cheng's death before yesterday, the audience focused on the cause of death, while Ye Min focused on breaking the game.

After the author updated the extra chapter, the mystery in the minds of the audience on the barrage screen has been solved. They no longer care who the educated youth surnamed Tian is, nor do they think about what the educated youth surnamed Tian who pretended to be a pregnant woman did in the end.

Today, the audience wants to know whether Ye Min is reborn and whether she can change Meng Cheng's fate. They only care about the result and don't care about the details.

Ye Min had no way of asking the audience on the screen for details. She had done experiments before. Although when An An was there, everything she said could be heard by the audience, it did not include secrets related to the plot that had not yet happened.

For example, if she asked the viewers on the barrage when she died, this sentence would be automatically filtered, just like when she was being intimate with Meng Cheng at night, the content would be mosaiced.

Ye Min saw from the bullet screen more than once that the audience speculated on the frequency of their intimacy and the duration of each time because of the mosaics.

At first Ye Min blushed, until she accidentally discovered that if she exposed her arms when sleeping, the screen in the live broadcast room would be blurred. So she simply put the quilt under her arms when sleeping in all seasons except winter.

The screen remained black all night, leaving the viewers to guess.

Having said that, although Ye Min felt that their subsequent conversation would involve plots that had not yet happened and that what they said might be blocked, she was not sure whether the fact that she could see the barrage would be tolerated.

Deep down, she doesn't want the audience to know that she can see the barrage. She is in a lower position and seeing the barrage is her only advantage. If this point is revealed, she will easily fall into passivity.

Moreover, she still didn't know what the barrage was. If she could see that the barrage was a so-called "bug" that needed to be fixed, why had no one come to deal with this "bug" for so long?

Of course, it was a good thing for Ye Min that no one dealt with her. She just wanted to live her own life and didn't want to be dealt with. Because of this, she thought that some things should be kept secret.

So after dinner, Ye Min asked Meng Zheng to take his sister to play next door.

During the New Year holidays, the brother and sister had been having a bit of wild fun. When they heard they could go out, they ran away without saying a word.

After they left, Meng Cheng did not rush to clear the table, but asked: "What do you want to talk about?"

While eating, Ye Min thought about the wording in her mind, and thought about what to say first and what to say later. Her ideas were very clear, but when it came time to speak, she still didn't know where to start.

Seeing her open her mouth several times and then fall silent again, Meng Cheng stood up and made her a cup of honey water, handed it to her and comforted her, "It's okay, if you don't know how to start, just think about it slowly, we are not in a hurry."

Hearing what he said, Ye Min couldn't hold back any longer, her eyes turned red and she said, "You're going to get into trouble!"

Meng Cheng never expected that Ye Min would say something like this. He was stunned for a moment before asking, "What will happen to me?"

Once you get started, the rest will be easier.

But at this moment, Ye Min completely forgot the original plan. He started talking about this matter from the moment he saw the bullet screen for the first time, and directly said: "There is a group of spies lurking in Donghe County, or possibly in the surrounding counties and cities. They plan to create an incident in early May - to blow up the Donghe County Bus Station! But this is actually..."

"etc."

Meng Cheng interrupted Ye Min and asked sternly, "How did you know there were spies lurking, and how did you know they were planning to organize an operation in early May?"

Ye Min unconsciously clenched the enamel cup in her hand, pursed her lips and said, "If I say that the bullet screen told me, would you believe it?"

"Bullet screen?" Meng Cheng's expression became even more confused. "What is that?"

Because of his question, Ye Min remembered to explain the origin of the bullet screen from the beginning and asked, "Do you still remember Li Wenxiu?"

"Of course I remember, when you were in the hospital after giving birth to An An, she wanted to switch the baby," Meng Cheng frowned, "She is also a spy."

"Yes, she is also a spy. I wonder if she has any connection with this group of people." Ye Min asked distractedly, "Are you sure you have rooted out all the people who were involved with Li Wenxiu at that time?"

Meng Cheng explained: "We arrested all those we could find, but even if they were all spies, they had different connections and might not know each other. Moreover, Yunnan Province borders many countries, so it is relatively easy for foreign forces to infiltrate. Different spies may belong to different forces, and there will be no intersection."

Ye Min said "oh" and brought the topic back to the topic: "I told you at the time that I realized something was wrong because I noticed someone was peeping outside and that there was drug in the water."

"Um."

Even though the incident happened nearly two years ago, Meng Cheng still feels scared when he thinks about it, so he still remembers clearly what Ye Min said about how he captured Li Wenxiu.

Meng Cheng had never suspected that Ye Min lied to him before, but now, after hearing the meaning behind her words, he couldn't help but ask, "Is there something else?"

"Yes." Ye Min smiled bitterly. "I wasn't well at the time, and I had to get up at night to feed An An. Even during the day, I was groggy. How could I easily notice someone snooping? The same goes for the drugs. Although the drugs Li Wenxiu gave me had a smell, it was not strong and the amount was small. If you didn't smell it carefully, you wouldn't be able to smell it at all."

But if she hadn't been prepared, why would she have carefully smelled the water to see if there was any strange smell?

Meng Cheng said in a dry voice: "Then how did you find out that Li Wenxiu and his wife were plotting something bad?"

"Because I saw the bullet screen above An An's head."

Ye Min wanted to explain what the barrage was in simple terms, but as she was speaking she found that she couldn't be concise. To explain the barrage, she had to mention the plot simulation, and to mention the plot simulation, she had to mention the original work and the truth of this world.

Meng Cheng knew every word of these, but when they were put together, it was like listening to a foreign language, and it was difficult to understand. However, he did not doubt the truth of Ye Min's words, and clenched his fists several times while she was talking.

If Li Wenxiu had not died, he would have certainly not cared about gender and would have beaten her up severely.

At the same time, he also tried to extract the message: "So what you mean is that the world we live in is a book, and An An is the heroine, so..."

"right."

Meng Cheng asked in confusion: "Then why was it you who saw the bullet screen?"

"I don't know either. Maybe it's because of the bond between mother and daughter, or maybe God saw how miserable our family was and showed mercy," Ye Min paused and continued to guess, "It's also possible that in the original novel, my soul didn't dissipate after my death, and I've been watching Zheng Zheng and An An, and now that I know the truth, I feel too much resentment."

After hearing Ye Min's final guess, Meng Cheng raised his hands and pulled her into his arms, hugging her tightly: "No matter how the original novel plot develops, at least we are together as a family for the rest of our lives."

"Yeah." Ye Min nodded and looked up at him again, "Do you believe what I say?"

"I can't help but believe it."

If Li Wenxiu succeeded in the substitution, the original plots that Ye Min described would very likely happen, but... He lowered his head and asked, "Was it happening to me this year?"

"Yes, it was the action in May. Those criminals organized the bombing of the bus station. On the surface, it was to create chaos, but in reality their target was the soldiers who were coming to rescue them."

"Rescue troops?"

"Yes, I saw on the bullet screen that when you and Captain Wang led the team to the bus station, those people had already controlled the people in the bus station and blocked the front and back doors. After you arrived, those people proposed to exchange one soldier for one hostage and double the number of cadres."

Meng Cheng's expression gradually turned cold: "We agreed to the exchange."

This is not a question, but more like an answer.

Ye Min held back her tears and nodded: "You agreed to the exchange."

Meng Cheng held Ye Min's hand and said, "I am sorry for you and the two children."

When Ye Min thought of despair last night, she did feel a little resentful towards Meng Cheng, but after she came to her senses, she could understand why he stood up.

She held his hand and said, "I don't blame you for whatever choice you made in the original book. I just hope you can live safely in this life."

Meng Cheng finally understood why Ye Min lost control of her emotions last night and asked him to change his job. He also knew that Ye Min said this to support him to stay.

Because only by staying can he have a chance to save Captain Wang, who died with him in his previous life, as well as the casualties that might be caused by his absence in this life.

In a situation where the enemy is in the light and we are in the dark, he has a chance to save everyone.

Meng Cheng was deeply moved and couldn't help but hug Ye Min tightly, while solemnly swearing: "I promise you, I will survive!"

Ye Min responded, came out of his arms, picked up the enamel cup that had just been placed on the coffee table, drank a sip of water, and prepared to continue telling him the details of the action in May.

But before she could even open her mouth, she heard him ask, "In the original novel...how old were you?"

"I don't know," Ye Min shook his head. "I only know that he died in the early 1980s. I don't know the exact year, but it was a summer."

Ye Min was born in 1947, so she is not yet 27 years old. Even if she is 10 years old, she will only be 37. Meng Cheng gritted his teeth and asked, "What happened?"

The bullet screen incident had already been discussed, and there was nothing else to hide. Ye Min replied, "An accident happened after get off work that evening."

"What accident?"

Although it was also her in the original novel, Ye Min could not use "I" as the subject to answer this question, so she said: "In the original novel, I worked overtime one night, and on the way home I ran into a drunkard, and was killed during the argument."

Meng Cheng's facial muscles tensed up instantly, and at the same time he suddenly realized: "So that's why you asked me to learn martial arts?"

Ye Min admitted frankly: "Well, I want to live."

"I will survive, too." Meng Cheng held Ye Min's hand, took a deep breath and said, "Once this matter is over, I will apply for a career change."

Meng Cheng looked directly into Ye Min's eyes and whispered, "Not only do I want to survive the mission in May, I also want to see Zheng Zheng grow up safely, and I want to grow old with you."

He is 28 years old this year and has spent more than a third of his life in military academy and the army.

The military academy helped him grow, and the army gave him a career. He never regretted becoming a soldier, and he always kept in mind his responsibilities as a soldier, putting his motherland and people first.

Over the years, he has experienced life and death countless times, suffered injuries, shed blood, and in the original book, he even died on the job.

He has no regrets in choosing to leave now.

Meng Cheng didn't expect him to make such a sudden decision, and his expression showed surprise: "You... there's no need. In the original book, it happened to you in May, so you should be fine if you can just avoid it."

"But as long as I stay here and avoid this danger, I will face the next one. I don't want you to live in fear anymore, and I don't want to leave you and two children behind like in the original book." He didn't want Ye Min to encounter the same thing as in the original book again.

Even in this life, she has the ability to protect herself.

In front of his family, Meng Cheng is indeed not as serious and cold as he is outside, but he is not a person who is keen on expressing his feelings. He has not said many sweet words to Ye Min in all these years of marriage.

Perhaps that’s why the seriousness with which he spoke these words was so touching.

Ye Min held his hand and said solemnly: "No matter what decision you make, I support you."

After reaching a consensus on the future direction, Ye Min and Meng Cheng had a good discussion about the details of the action in May revealed on the screen.

After listening to this, Meng Cheng quickly summed up the key point: "So this educated youth surnamed Tian is the breakthrough point."

"Yes." Ye Min said worriedly, "I have calculated in my mind that there are at least five or six thousand educated youth in Donghe County. Without knowing her specific name or which commune she worked in, looking for her is like looking for a needle in a haystack."

But Meng Cheng didn't think this was a problem: "I'll go to the county tomorrow and ask Lao Zhao about the person in charge of the Youth Educated Office to see if I can get the list of youth educated there."

Ye Min suddenly understood something: "Yes! All the educated youths who go to the countryside have to go through the educated youth office. As long as we can get the list, we can compare them one by one and narrow down the scope quickly. But these should be important information, right? You don't even know the educated youth class teacher, will he be willing to give you the list?"

"I don't know him, but Lao Zhao is a local and has worked in the police station for many years. He must know the director of the Youth Educated Office. Even if he refuses to give us the full list, it should be OK to ask him for the list of the Youth Educated with the surname Tian in the name of looking for someone."

Meng Cheng is a man with a plan for success. Since he said so, he must be confident in his heart. Ye Min no longer worried and said, "Okay."

…

The next morning after breakfast, Meng Cheng went out with his things. When he arrived at the county town, he went straight to the Public Security Bureau’s family compound.

There were also people guarding the Public Security Bureau's family compound, and the management was quite strict. When they saw Meng Cheng in military uniform, although they were polite to him, they still registered him according to the rules and then went inside to call for help.

Not long after, Zhao Zhenghua came out.

Zhao Zhenghua was promoted two years ago because he followed Li Wenxiu's lead and caught a small spy group. Now he is the deputy director of the police station and is in high spirits.

But his attitude towards Meng Cheng did not change, and he could even say that he became more enthusiastic. After all, he initially followed Li Wenxiu's case because Meng Cheng reminded him that something was wrong with Li Wenxiu.

When Zhao Zhenghua learned that Meng Cheng wanted to ask the director of the Youth Educated Office to help him find someone, he took the job without hesitation and said, "Don't worry, I'm very familiar with the director of the Youth Educated Office. It's just a matter of finding someone. It's very simple!"

Then he asked Meng Cheng if he was in a hurry: "If you are not in a hurry, have lunch at home and I will take you to Director Hu's house in the afternoon. If you are in a hurry, you can go there now."

"The person I'm looking for is a distant relative of my wife. She's still waiting for my news at home." The implication is that she is anxious.

Zhao Zhenghua was smart and understood immediately. He smiled and said, "Okay, let's go over there now."

The home of the director of the Youth League Office was not far away. The two of them walked out of the family compound, walked east for seven or eight minutes, and then turned a few corners to arrive.

There are many government agencies and leaders in the county, and Director Hu is not high-ranking among them. But the Youth Educated Office is quite special. After all, who's children don't go to the countryside these days?

Because of this, many people come to Director Hu's home to give gifts during the Chinese New Year.

When Meng Cheng and his friends arrived, Director Hu was already entertaining the guests.

However, Zhao Zhenghua was not an unknown person, especially since the area where Director Hu lived was under the jurisdiction of the police station where Zhao Zhenghua worked, so Director Hu was very happy to greet him.

Although Meng Cheng is not from an official unit, his rank in the army is not low, so there is definitely no harm in having a good relationship with him.

Therefore, after they arrived, Director Hu quickly sent away the previous guests, welcomed them into the living room, and quickly asked his wife to pour tea.

After the tea came, Zhao Zhenghua got straight to the point: "Old Hu, let me be honest with you. I brought Captain Meng here today because I want your help with something."

"What's our relationship? If you have any problem, come to me and I will definitely help!" Director Hu said proudly, then changed the subject and said, "But you also know that I am just the director of the Youth Educated Office, and there is a limit to what I can do to help."

Zhao Zhenghua said quickly: "Don't worry, we just want to ask you to help us find an educated youth who has been sent to work in the countryside in Donghe County."

It was easy to find someone, and Director Hu breathed a sigh of relief: "No problem, who are you looking for? What's his last name? Do you know where he went to join the queue?"

Zhao Zhenghua didn't ask these questions and just looked up at Meng Cheng.

Meng Cheng replied: "This man's surname is Tian, ​​and I don't know his name very well. I don't know where he went to work in the countryside, but I know he came to Donghe County."

Director Hu's eyebrows gradually frowned: "I don't know anything about this...it's not easy to find!"

Zhao Zhenghua also looked puzzled, and asked Meng Cheng in a low voice: "Didn't you say that he was a relative of your wife?"

Meng Cheng explained, "She is a relative, yes, but the relationship is very distant. My wife only met her once when she was a child. This time, she was asked by the elders in the family to find her."

Zhao Zhenghua was not so easy to fool, and said, "Even if the elders asked you to help find someone, you should have the name, right?"

"The elders in the family do know what her previous name was, but that name wasn't very good, so she changed it before she went to the countryside."

When they heard him say that the name was not very good, Zhao Zhenghua and Director Hu understood that the person's name was probably more petty bourgeois, such as Anna and Susie, which sounded like foreign names.

When you have a good relationship with Lao Su, there is nothing wrong with calling him by such a foreign name, and it can even be said to be a trend. But after the big movement, calling him by this name is not appropriate anymore, as it is easy to be labeled, especially by those who have a bad background.

In order to avoid trouble, many people have changed their names in recent years.

Director Hu asked: "Did the elders in your wife's family ask her what name she changed to?"

"There's no place to ask. Her family background is not good. Her ancestors were capitalists. After the Great Movement, her parents were overthrown. They died one after another in the past few years, and the two sides lost contact."

Meng Cheng sighed and said, "She went to the countryside far away, and the elders in my daughter-in-law's family were out of reach. And you know the situation in the past few years, it was not easy to get along with her. It was not until this year that the elders in the family became unwell and remembered that the child lived with us, so they wanted us to help look for her and find out how she was doing."

Meng Cheng's explanation was reasonable, but Director Hu still felt embarrassed: "There is too little information, and it is difficult to find."

If he knew the name, even if he was not sure where the location was, he could just tell his subordinates after work and they would be able to quickly find the other party's brigade.

But there is nothing here. He can't ask his men to take the list and ask everyone in Meng Cheng's family one by one, right? That would be too much trouble! Would his men still want to work?

Guessing what Director Hu was thinking, Meng Cheng said, "Actually, my wife and I both know that it's not easy to find someone, and we've thought about going from brigade to brigade to look for him. But we don't even know if there's anyone with the surname Tian in any brigade, and if we go and ask directly, we might be treated as suspicious, so we wanted to ask you for help to see if you can get a list. It doesn't have to be too precise, just include the educated youth with the surname Tian who went to the countryside in recent years, and we'll slowly look for the person with the list."

Director Hu's expression eased a little. Although it was quite troublesome to compile such a list, he was the leader and all he needed to do was give instructions. He didn't need to do it himself.

Moreover, it was just a rough list, so he didn't need to arrange people to confirm each one one by one. This saved him a lot of time than he expected, and also avoided complaints from his subordinates.

Besides, he had given the names of the people, so no matter whether he could find the person in the end, Meng Cheng would definitely accept his favor. Although Director Hu was not from the army, he knew that a person who could become a battalion commander in his twenties was not an ordinary person, and he had great potential in the future.

Although they are not a system, more friends mean more paths.

He only agreed in his heart, but on his face, Director Hu still made a reluctant expression: "Then... I'll have my people sort it out when we go back to work on the seventh day of the New Year."

Although Meng Cheng felt that the sooner this matter was done, the better, he also knew that his relationship with Director Hu was not close enough to allow the other party to work overtime to help him, so it would be good if he could arrange for him to go to work on the seventh day of the New Year.

Meng Cheng thanked him repeatedly as he thought about it: "Then I'll come to you on the evening of the eighth day of the first lunar month to get the list." It takes time to organize the information, and he can't set a time too hard, but he can't delay it too long either. In case Director Hu forgets about this, he can come on the eighth day of the first lunar month to remind him in time to avoid delaying too long.

Director Hu didn't think much about it and agreed immediately: "No problem."