Siheyuan: Struggle in the Red Era

Lin Baoyan was now certain that Huang Xiaolan's neighbor's brother was most likely being targeted.

As a college student, he will do his graduation internship in Shijingshan. In the future, he will most likely work in the Ministry of Industry. He is definitely a backbone of the industry and has a bright future. However, if he is really instigated to defect or is caught with evidence, he will be a huge threat to the country in the future.

She was anxious, but still listened carefully to Huang Xiaolan's gossip about her neighbors, hoping to hear something unusual, but also hoping to hear just ordinary news.

Fortunately, the following gossip was all about family matters, and nothing as special as that of the neighbor's brother. Lin Baoyan felt relieved and felt that this city was not full of spies.

When school was over, she quickly said goodbye to her classmates and ran home.

While anxiously waiting for Zhou Kangzhan to come back, he quickly prepared dinner.

As soon as it was burned, Zhou Kangzhan brought in a lot of honeycomb coal with his men.

"I've bought all the coal for this month. Don't come out. The coal dust is really dirty. Be careful not to touch it."

Lin Baoyan obediently went back to pour water and let it dry, and prepared a washbasin, clean water, soap and towel. Then she watched Zhou Kangzhan and another person carry all the honeycomb coals in one batch at a time and pile them up at the base of the wall.

After Zhou Kangzhan sent the people away, Lin Baoyan quickly brought out the washbasin: "Hurry up and wash your hands, the meal is ready."

After Zhou Kangzhan washed his hands, he entered the house and saw that the table was already filled with bowls of rice.

After they finished their meal, Lin Baoyan said, "Brother, my deskmate gossiped about a neighbor's brother again today. He said that the neighbor's brother interned in Shijingshan in the second half of last year and will most likely be assigned to the Ministry of Industry after graduation. However, during the Chinese New Year, this person often went out with the school's foreign teachers to attend dances, the kind where men and women dance together."

Zhou Kangzhan sat up straight. He listened to Lin Baoyan's words quietly before he said, "Don't worry about this matter. Now listen to the gossip about your deskmate and record it all."

Lin Baoyan nodded and said, "I wrote them all down today. But I don't think the others are anything special, this is the strangest one."

"You'd better not record with this mentality. It is very likely that some ordinary little things are not ordinary." Zhou Kangzhan said: "Every piece of information is valuable, it just depends on how it is used."

Lin Baoyan took out a workbook from her schoolbag and handed it to Zhou Kangzhan, saying, "Okay, I'll write down everything I hear next time."

In the next few days, Lin Baoyan still listened carefully to Huang Xiaolan's gossip during breaks, but after more than a week, she didn't hear anything valuable.

That’s right, how could there be so many abnormal events that Huang Xiaolan could know about and spread.

One day in mid-October, Huang Xiaolan came to school limping with red and swollen eyes. Lin Baoyan saw her and asked her worriedly if something had happened, but Huang Xiaolan firmly denied it and just said that she had accidentally fallen.

During the break, the students who didn't want to go out gathered around Huang Xiaolan and called her, "Huang Xiaolan, tell me about your uncle's neighbor's sister-in-law today. Was her sister-in-law forced by her in-laws to give a dowry to her brother-in-law?"

Huang Xiaolan stood up suddenly, waved her hands wildly and said, "No, I don't know, it's not me who said it, I didn't say anything."

Lin Baoyan noticed something was wrong and quickly stood up and said, "Okay, Huang Xiaolan is not feeling well today, so I won't tell you any jokes. Let's just do what we need to do."

After that, he went up and pulled Huang Xiaolan and said, "Come on, I want to go to the bathroom, come with me."

Huang Xiaolan nodded quickly and said, "Let's go, let's go, I want to go too, let's go quickly."

"What a spoiler! I want to hear the rest of the story."

"That's right, why don't you say anything?"

After hearing this, Huang Xiaolan immediately limped out quickly, forcing Lin Baoyan to jog after her.

After leaving the classroom for a distance, Huang Xiaolan slowed down her pace. Lin Baoyan quickly pulled her back and said, "Huang Xiaolan, what's wrong with you today? Did something happen?"

Huang Xiaolan stopped, turned around and sniffed.

"If you feel uncomfortable, you can tell me. Don't worry, we have been classmates for so long. You know that I never tell tales to others."

Huang Xiaolan held Lin Baoyan's hand tightly, and after a moment's hesitation, she said, "My neighbor was taken away by the police last night. They said his relative had committed a crime, and he was implicated in the case."

Lin Baoyan asked curiously, "Your neighbor was arrested by the police, why are you so anxious? It has nothing to do with your family."

Huang Xiaolan stamped her feet, and she didn't know what she was talking about. She grinned for a long time before pulling Lin Baoyan and saying, "Anyway, this matter is very serious. My mother said," she stopped halfway through, turned around twice, and finally stamped her feet and said, "It's okay, let's go back."

Lin Baoyan was confused, but she respected Huang Xiaolan's choice. Since she didn't want to say it, then she wouldn't say it.

From that day on, Huang Xiaolan no longer talked about the gossip she knew during breaks. At first, her classmates pestered her to continue, but for some reason, she firmly refused. When she couldn't stand being pestered anymore, she pulled Lin Baoyan out, which made many classmates dislike Lin Baoyan.

Later, Zhou Kangzhan solved the mystery for her: "The chef was related to a spy case. We had never been able to find out how a batch of candidate drugs stolen from the pharmaceutical factory were stolen. After hearing what you said about the chef stealing supplies from the cafeteria, we focused on interrogating the chef and found that after he was caught with this handle, he was forced to assist the enemy spies in transporting these stolen candidate drugs."

This batch of candidate drugs is related to some new drugs for overseas market. This new drug is related to the country's export and foreign exchange earning business and cannot be lost. After the theft, after multiple investigations, the route of the theft could not be found. It was the news from Lin Baoyan that reminded Zhou Kangzhan, and then the clues were found. All the stolen drugs were recovered yesterday.

"Is your deskmate no longer spreading the gossip she knows around?" Zhou Kangzhan asked.

"Well, she hasn't said anything in the past few days. Has she been warned? Where is her neighbor brother?"

"It's hard to talk about her neighbor's brother, and you shouldn't mention it outside. We discussed her hobby of gossiping with her parents through the workplace of your classmate's parents. Maybe her parents also communicated with her after returning home." Zhou Kangzhan explained to Lin Baoyan seriously.

Lin Baoyan's eyes widened. She went to her parents' workplace and asked her parents' leader to discuss her hobby of gossiping with her parents. My goodness, wasn't this asking her parents to go back and give her a loving education?

No wonder Huang Xiaolan was limping that day and her eyes were swollen into slits. It seemed that she was educated by her parents' love.

"However, you won't be able to hear other gossips in the future. Maybe there is some useful information in it." Lin Baoyan said regretfully.

"Don't worry, it won't be missed." Zhou Kangzhan smiled.