Chapter 95
"Hello, Lu Cheng, Captain Lu, I was just about to call you. I have already found out what you asked me to find out about the Zhang family." A lazy voice sounded on the other end of the phone.
Lu Cheng said, "Well, you can do one more thing for me. Get the handwriting of the Zhang family and some of the Zhang family's relatives and friends."
"Okay, no problem. Do you want to check the handwriting of the report letter?" The other party also remembered that the private report was not accepted, so he guessed that Lu Cheng got the report letter.
Lu Cheng: "Yes."
"By the way, I followed your instructions and arranged for several people to be relocated to Gaoshan'ao Production Brigade. Please ask your sister-in-law's family to take care of them."
Lu Cheng: "What trouble are we talking about?" He lived in Gaoshan'ao Production Brigade for several days, which was enough for him to understand the prestige of Grandpa Lin in Gaoshan'ao Production Brigade. In addition, he was very confident in Grandpa Lin because of his character. Before leaving Gaoshan'ao Production Brigade, he talked to Grandpa Lin privately and asked him to help take care of some of the people who were relocated. Grandpa Lin naturally did not refuse.
"Hahaha..." The person on the other end of the phone laughed, "Brother, we haven't seen each other for several years, but given the current situation, I'm afraid we won't have the chance to see each other in the next few years. We'll have a good meal and drink wine together in the future."
Lu Cheng: "It's a deal."
Then, the other party told Lu Cheng some more about the situation of the Zhang family that he had investigated, and then ended the call. After
the call ended, Lu Cheng thought about what the other party said. The current situation of the Zhang family is not very good. Starting from Grandpa Zhang and Grandma Zhang, they were all sent down to the countryside. Several families in the Zhang family divorced, the men were sent down to the countryside, and the women moved to another place with their children. All the properties of the Zhang family were confiscated.
Lu Cheng was very surprised by this result. The Zhang family was once prosperous. He thought that with the status of the Zhang family, it would not fall to this point. So, was there a traitor in the Zhang family? Or, the opponents of the Zhang family united and divided up all the profits of the Zhang family.
But Lu Cheng didn't care about these. He couldn't feel happy, and he would not add insult to injury. But it is undeniable that he was indifferent to the result of the Zhang family.
"What are you thinking about?" When Political Commissar Qu came with the report, he saw Lu Cheng in deep thought.
"Nothing." Lu Cheng naturally knew that Political Commissar Qu was here, and because he knew who it was, he continued to think about things. "Have you brought the report letter?"
Political Commissar Qu handed him the report letter: "This is it. I can't tell from the handwriting. Do you recognize the handwriting?"
Lu Cheng took the report letter: "This letter should be written by a female comrade."
"Oh?" Political Commissar Qu raised his eyebrows, "You also smell the fragrance coming from this letter?"
"Yes." Lu Cheng said, "I smell the fragrance. Generally speaking, only female comrades have fragrance."
"But this fragrance has been around for a long time, right?" Political Commissar Qu said, "It's a little different from the fragrance of facial oil."
"It's perfume." Lu Cheng said. As he said that, he picked up the envelope and smelled it, "There is fragrance on the letter paper and there is fragrance on the envelope." Logically, the smell of perfume would not last that long, but the other party put the letter paper stained with perfume into the envelope, which was equivalent to sealing the letter paper, so the fragrance stayed for a longer time. In addition, even if the fragrance dissipates later, there is still some aftertaste.
If it were someone else, such as the big guys like Political Commissar Qu, they would have never come into contact with perfume, so it is understandable that they don't know about it. But Lu Cheng is not like that. The Zhang family he was born into was originally a dominant family. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, perfume was something that only aristocratic families and wealthy people played with. Perhaps it was also a symbol of status. His maternal grandfather's family, the Lu family, was a family of scholars, and his maternal grandfather was engaged in diplomacy. Naturally, the Lu family knew about perfume. Even Lu Cheng's aunt now has perfume left over from that year. Even if the shelf life has passed, for people of this era, some things can have no shelf life.
When Lu Cheng said this, Political Commissar Qu remembered the existence of perfume. However: "Come to think of it, I, a rough man, have never smelled perfume. But now that you mention it, I think it's possible. It seems that I have to go to the department store to smell the perfume someday, otherwise I don't know there is such a thing as perfume."
Lu Cheng: "Department stores may not have perfume." The current situation is so serious, it is still unknown whether department stores have perfume. "But my wife has a bottle of perfume in her hand, I can go and smell it. Although the smell of perfume is different, the smell of perfume and facial oil are different, and the smell of this letter paper can be attributed to the smell of perfume."
When Political Commissar Qu heard this, he hurriedly said: "Okay, you go now?"
Lu Cheng said: "Okay." So Lu Cheng went back home and took out Lin Qingqing's bottle of perfume.
Political Commissar Qu was waiting for him at the entrance of the troop, wanting to smell the perfume at the first opportunity. Seeing Lu Cheng coming back, he hurried forward and said, "Let me smell it."
Lu Cheng took out the perfume and said, "Stretch out your hand, I'll spray some on you."
Political Commissar Qu stretched out his hand and said, "Are you so particular about this?"
Lu Cheng didn't say anything and just sprayed some on his hand.
Political Commissar Qu smelled it curiously and said, "I, a rough guy, also... sprayed perfume today. It's quite face-saving to say it out. But this smell is indeed different from the scent of facial oil. This scent is more... stronger and clearer."
How to describe it? After smelling facial oil and perfume, it is easy to distinguish them. The afterscent of facial oil will not spread, but perfume will.
"How is it? Does the smell of this letter paper resemble the smell of perfume?" Lu Cheng asked, hiding the perfume in his pocket. This was the perfume that his wife liked very much, and he couldn't spray it.
"It does resemble it a little bit." But it's not absolute. After all, the two scents are different, and Political Commissar Qu is not sure. "However, regardless of whether it smells like perfume or not, it can be basically confirmed from this scent that this should be a report letter written by a woman." But whether it is a spy or not, that is uncertain.
The two talked for a while, and Political Commissar Qu went back.
Lu Cheng returned to the office and took another look at the report. The handwriting of the report letter did not show anything, and Lu Cheng would not arbitrarily decide whether it was written by a man or a woman, but the fragrance betrayed the person behind the letter. It must be a lesbian.
At least, the person who wrote the letter finally gave it to a woman. After reading the letter, the woman was probably in a good mood, so she sprayed perfume without putting the letter away, and then the letter was stained with perfume.
Who could it be? Lu Cheng decided to wait for his brother to send the handwriting before checking it.
At noon, Lu Cheng went to pick up Lin Qingqing as usual. When Lin Qingqing came out, he noticed that Lu Cheng was in a particularly good mood today, at least he had a smile on his face. Lin Qingqing asked curiously: "Is there any happy event today?"
Lu Cheng said: "Three things, do you want to guess?"
Lin Qingqing said: "No, I don't have any clues this time, I definitely can't guess, just tell me directly."
Lu Cheng chuckled: "The first thing is that because the higher-ups no longer accept anonymous reports, the anonymous report letter that reported me was invalidated, so Political Commissar Qu gave me the report letter."
Hearing this, Lin Qingqing understood: "Did you find clues from the report letter?"
Lu Cheng shook his head: "It's not a clue, because I can't tell anything from the handwriting, but there is a smell of perfume on the letter, so I suspect it's a woman behind the scenes."
Lin Qingqing listened and said: "Nine times out of ten, it's the one who came into the Zhang family later."
She didn't mention any names, but Lu Cheng knew who she was talking about: "I've asked Yu Xin to help. I checked the handwriting of the person there. Yu Xin is my college classmate. When I called Yu Xin today, he told me about the current situation of the Zhang family... This is the second thing. "
Lin Qingqing listened and was more certain that the report letter was written by Zhang Shilin's second wife. However, she was still happy to hear about the current ending of the Zhang family. Her personality was not as stable as Lu Cheng's. Her happy expression was reflected on her face: "Comrade Xu said before that God still has eyes, and I think so too."
Looking at her happy look, Lu Cheng felt very warm in his heart, because he knew that she was caring about him.
Lin Qingqing: "What about the third thing?"
"You used this report letter to report the spies to Political Commissar Qu. After Political Commissar Qu reported it to the higher-ups, it attracted the attention of the leaders. So, after the anonymous report letter was not accepted, many people who were secretly interrogated were also released." Lu Cheng said.
Lin Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief: "This is indeed a good thing, and it also avoided some casualties."
"By the way, Yu Xin also told me something today. Some of our acquaintances have been arranged to be sent down to Gaoshanao." Lin Qingqing knew about what Lu Cheng said before, because Lu Cheng told her.
Lin Qingqing herself also felt that it was good to send some important people to Gaoshanao. With Grandpa Lin secretly taking care of them, she was still very relieved. Grandpa Lin's courage and wisdom were the best among the people she knew. More importantly, he was very low-key.
Yu Xin's handwriting investigation was still very fast. A month later, Lu Cheng received the handwriting. But because there were a lot of handwritings, Lu Cheng couldn't give them to others for comparison, so after dinner, the couple didn't even go for a walk to digest the food, but went straight into the house to compare the handwriting. This made Lu Haici confused, but Lu Haici just thought that mom and dad were preparing to give birth to a little brother or sister.
"Oh my God, so many handwritings, thanks to Comrade Yu Xin to collect them." Lin Qingqing was shocked when she saw the handwriting poured out of the envelope.
Lu Cheng said: "Actually, this is already a small number, because if the Zhang family would give this report letter to someone else to write, then the person who wrote the report letter must be someone he trusts, so only this point can be eliminated."
Lin Qingqing: "Indeed."
So the two began to check the handwriting.
Lin Qingqing: "Look, the word "Shen" on the report letter is the same as the word "Shen" on this handwriting. This handwriting is Xu Mei's handwriting." Xu Mei is the woman Zhang Shilin later married. Lu Cheng:
"Look at this word "Cheng", it is the same as the word "Cheng" on Zhang Shilin's handwriting."
Lin Qingqing: "And this word "Lu", it is the same as the word "Lu" on Zhang Weide's handwriting." Zhang Weide, the son of Zhang Shilin and Xu Mei, is also Lu Cheng's half-brother.
Lu Cheng: "And this word..."
After comparing, the two also understood some things. Lu Cheng said: "It seems that the handwriting on this report letter is copied from the handwriting of many people, so it is similar to the handwriting of so many people. But from this point, we can confirm the identity of the other party."
Lin Qingqing echoed: "Indeed, the handwriting on this report letter is similar to that of the Zhang family. The person who wrote this report letter can easily get the handwriting of the Zhang family, so she must be very familiar with the Zhang family, or she is a member of the Zhang family. And among the Zhang family, the only one who has a grudge against you and wants to report you is probably Xu Mei." If it was someone else in the Zhang family, it should be impossible. After all, Lu Cheng is also the pride of the Zhang family. As long as Lu Cheng is fine, maybe one day, Lu Cheng will be willing to help them. However, Lu Cheng is willing to help them, but he will not help Xu Mei.
So, if someone in the Zhang family would report Lu Cheng, it would definitely be Xu Mei.
Lin Qingqing put away the handwriting: "Then what do you think?"
Lu Cheng lay on the bed, then turned sideways and looked at her: "If I say that I will not let go of those who report me, will you think I am ruthless?" "No.
" Lin Qingqing said, "I like people who clearly distinguish between gratitude and resentment, and I don't like soft buns." If you don't have the ability to deal with the other party, then you can be soft buns. But if you have the ability to deal with the other party, but still don't deal with it, then Lin Qingqing doesn't like this kind of person.
She is a person with a somewhat stubborn personality, just like when her parents settled down in the big city, they wanted to take her over, but that family already had a second sister, and she would rather not be close to her parents than go there.
Lu Cheng smiled softly, then clasped Lin Qingqing's waist and hugged her: "Let me tell you what I'm going to do."
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When something happened to the Zhang family, Xu Mei not only divorced Zhang Shilin, but also published an announcement in the newspaper with her son and daughter to divorce Zhang Shilin. It seems cold and ruthless, but in fact, this is what Xu Mei and Zhang Shilin planned. If Xu Mei did not divorce Zhang Shilin, and her children did not publish an announcement to divorce Zhang Shilin, then they would be demoted, so Xu Mei and Zhang Shilin had this plan. And after the divorce, Zhang Shilin gave Xu Mei enough money so that she could live a worry-free life with her children.
After Xu Mei moved out of the Zhang family, she found a place to live. After Zhang Shilin was demoted, she secretly went to see him off. Looking at Zhang Shilin, she couldn't stop hating Lu Cheng in her heart.
Back then, she came to the Zhang family to live with her sister, and later with the help of Lu Cheng's mother, she was settled down. She had books to read and a job to do. However, she fell in love with Zhang Shilin at first sight. She couldn't restrain her inner feelings, and began to have unexpected encounters with Zhang Shilin. Gradually, Zhang Shilin also had feelings for her. So, Zhang Shilin and Lu Cheng's mother divorced.
At first, her feelings for Lu Cheng's mother were very complicated. She felt apologetic, but also felt proud that she, a country girl, had snatched a man from her, a young lady.
But she didn't know that her sister actually drugged her. Although she was rescued, the baby in her belly was gone. For this reason, she took several years to recuperate before she got pregnant again.
At that time, she wanted to call the police to arrest her sister, but her sister hanged herself. The Zhang family didn't want to make a big deal about it, and felt sorry for Lu Cheng's mother, so they let her go.
In order to show her magnanimity, she had to let it go. Later, Lu Cheng's mother passed away, and she let go of the anger in her heart. But how could she know that in the blink of an eye, Lu Cheng became successful, while the Zhang family fell into poverty...
She knew that Zhang Shimin went to Lu Cheng for help, but Lu Cheng, a heartless man, would rather watch the Zhang family and his father get into trouble than help. In this case, Xu Mei would fulfill his wish and simply send him down together.
Now it has been two months since the letter was sent, and Xu Mei doesn't know what's going on with Lu Cheng, whether he has not been interrogated or has been arrested. But Xu Mei finally felt relieved, and she planned to wait for a while and go to Lu Cheng's troops to inquire in person.
It's not that Xu Mei doesn't want to inquire about Lu Cheng's affairs now, but the distance is really far, otherwise how could she not want to know about Lu Cheng's affairs as soon as possible?
Xu Mei just came back from the vegetable market with a basket. Ever since the Zhang family got into trouble, she has to do all the trivial matters by herself. Now is a sensitive period, and no one dares to hire servants, including Xu Mei. Before she married Zhang Shilin, she was used to doing housework at home, but she has been married to Zhang Shilin for 25 years, and has lived a good life for 25 years. She is used to doing it before, and there is still no problem now. Because she cooked for Zhang Shilin almost every day during the 25 years she was married to him, she wanted Zhang Shilin to get used to her and know her kindness every day.
Xu Mei had just returned from the market, with fresh vegetables and a small piece of meat. As soon as she walked into the alley, people around her started pointing and talking at her.
"Look, look, this cruel woman is back."
"It's her. I heard that her husband was sent down to the countryside, so she divorced him."
"Not only that, I heard that they even published an announcement of their divorce."
"How could there be such a vicious woman?"
"It's really dangerous to live in an alley with a woman like this. What if she does something to us one day?"
Xu Mei has heard a lot of such words these days. Although the capital is very big, it is inevitable that someone will come to inquire about her and it is not difficult to find out their previous identities.
Xu Mei sneered in her heart. These people can only talk nonsense and gossip behind her back. She really wants to move out of this place, but there is no way. Her current identity is sensitive and she can only live in a place like this. She simply couldn't live in a place like the Xiang Family Courtyard where there was less gossip and the people were of higher quality. She had the money given by Zhang Shilin, but she couldn't live in a better place, and she felt aggrieved.
But fortunately, the relationship between Zhang Shilin and the Zhang family was still there. Even though the Zhang family was demoted, no one else was implicated when they were interrogated. Those people were still grateful to the Zhang family, and Xu Mei naturally accepted this gratitude.
However, when Xu Mei walked into the yard with a basket of vegetables, she saw the open door of the house. She was startled, thinking who had come. She hurried into the house. When she saw her son sleeping in the bed, she couldn't help but frowned: "Weide, why are you at home? Didn't you go to work this morning?"
Zhang Weide is 19 years old this year and has not yet married, but he already has a partner. Hearing Xu Mei's voice, he got up from the bed: "The factory has suspended me, saying that someone reported me."
"Report? Don't anonymous reports not accepted now?" Xu Mei's face darkened. Who reported her son?
Zhang Weide said: "I said the same thing, but the leader of the factory said that it was a real-name report, reporting that I accepted bribes and corruption. Mom, my case may be a big deal, what should I do? I have received benefits from others."
When Xu Mei heard her son say this, the best way she could think of was that the person who reported it would regret it, so they had to do the work of the reporter: "Do you know who reported it?"
Zhang Weide said: "I don't know, the leader of the factory didn't tell me."
When Xu Mei heard this, she was furious: "Aren't they afraid that the other party will make false reports?"
Zhang Weide said: "The leaders of the factory said that the other party reported it in real name, and they want to protect the other party, so they cannot reveal the other party's name. As for whether the other party's report is true or false, they will investigate. If the investigation shows that I am wronged, they will expose the other party and hand it over to the public security for handling. But if the investigation finds that my bribery and corruption are true... I will... Mom, what should I do?"
"How come someone reported you for bribery out of the blue?" Xu Mei couldn't figure it out. "Don't worry, Mom will find connections."
Xu Mei said, throwing the vegetable basket to the ground. She didn't even care about the vegetables and hurried outside.
Zhang Weide was able to enter the factory because of his relationship with the Zhang family. The deputy director of the factory had a quota for a worker and gave it to Zhang Weide. Now that Zhang Weide was in trouble, Xu Mei went to see the deputy director.
The deputy director did not want to see Xu Mei. He also knew that Xu Mei came to him because of Zhang Weide's matter, but he was also afraid that Xu Mei would make a fuss at the factory gate, so he had to let someone bring Xu Mei to his office.
In fact, he couldn't figure it out. Before the accident, the Zhang family was the leading family in the capital. Would the Zhang family be short of money? In this case, how could Zhang Weide accept a bribe?
But if someone wronged Zhang Weide, looking at the person who reported it, the deputy director also thought it was impossible. Given Zhang Weide's current situation, how could the person who reported the incident ruin his future because of his reckless report?
Therefore, it could only be that Zhang Weide really did this.
"Hello, Deputy Director. Sorry to bother you." Xu Mei had adjusted her mood before entering the office. She came in with a polite smile.
The deputy director did not laugh, but just said politely: "Comrade Xu, we are also acquaintances, I will not say polite words, I also know what you are here for, and I can't help you with Zhang Weide's matter."
Xu Mei's character is actually very decisive, otherwise she would not have seduced Zhang Shilin that year. After hearing what the deputy director said, she did not say politely and asked directly: "Deputy director, can you tell me who reported Weide?"
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