Almost every time Qiao Lu suffers a loss, she eats too honestly.

During the immigration inspection, a visa officer took her passport and looked at it for a long time, then called her boss, and as soon as the two of them were combined, they politely invited her to a small dark room.

After studying abroad for so many years, there are also several classmates around me who have entered the small black house, they are either sensitive in identity or occupation, but most of them are not in danger. Qiao Lu felt that she was ordinary, and she didn't know how to be invited here.

After the routine questioning, a beer belly investigator asked: "Just now, we received information from the police that you are suspected of stealing the scientific research results of the laboratory, and it is necessary for us to investigate you." You cannot leave the country until the investigation is clear. ”

Qiao Lu was too speechless, but was laughed at angrily: "Crazy! Ridiculous! I have never heard such a ridiculous report! Oh my God, I haven't even revised my own paper! How can I have time to steal information?"

Beer belly thought of her reaction, and said: "According to our investigation, you are a member of the Communist Party, and your younger brother has been serving in the army since graduating from the military academy, and he is a rather mysterious unit. ”

Qiao Lu did not shy away from it, but also replied cautiously: "Yes, so I know almost nothing about his profession." ”

"And how do you usually get in touch?"

"Write a letter. ”

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the two investigators immediately became intriguing.

Qiao Lu was vaguely aware of it, and as soon as she was not paying attention, she dug a pit and jumped down first.

She knew that the situation was not good, but she knew that if she was in a hurry to explain, it would be even more troublesome. So, she was not in a hurry or impatient, and quietly waited for the other party to ask questions. In this game, she must remain calm.

The brown-haired lady across from him really asked, "Can your letter be sent to his unit? Do you know his address?"

"How is it possible?" Qiao Lu took a sip of water and calmed down: "Every time I send a letter to my home, my parents often send him a package, and when they send a package, they will send him my letter together. ”

Beer belly lit the table and asked with a smile: "Now that communication is so advanced, why do you have to use such a troublesome way to communicate?

"You misunderstood, we email or use chat software more often than we write letters. But handwritten letters are warmer, you know, so I occasionally send him handwritten letters. ”

When most people are surveyed, when they talk about these contents, they must be very eager to say - you can check my email at will, or check my QQ, and you will understand when you see it, I am innocent, and I have never revealed any information about intelligence to my brother.

However, Qiao Lu didn't do this, and after she finished speaking, she stared at each other quietly, waiting for them to ask questions. That calm and unhurried momentum made the other party cramped, and he didn't know how to ask for a while.

Qiao Lu smiled slightly and asked, "Then I can ask, who reported me for stealing the scientific research results of the research laboratory?"

"We have to keep this a secret. ”

"Then may I ask what kind of information I stole from me? If I can't even tell you this, then I'll have to question your judicial department. ”

Qiao Lu didn't turn her face, and she didn't even raise her voice, but that righteousness that was neither humble nor arrogant made others dare not underestimate it. The two on the other side glanced at each other, and finally the beer belly spoke: "Specifically, we have to ask the police ......"

"No, I'll help you remember. Qiao Lu put her arms on the table and said with a smile: "Our laboratory is very large, and there are many branches in it, some people study synthetic chemistry, some people study materials and energy, some people study catalysis, and some people study chemical ethics...... According to your intelligence control skills, you should know what I'm researching, and what kind of intelligence I'm stealing, right?"

The expressions of the two on the other side became more and more solemn, as if they were not interrogating Qiao Lu, but being interrogated by this Chinese girl.

"You still don't know?" Qiao Lu propped himself up and said, "Then let me tell you, my recent research is on the synthesis of organic sulfides, is this consistent with the information you have?"

Brunette hurriedly glanced at the information, and asked Beer Belly to help her confirm. The terminology in the field of chemistry is too difficult, and it is not clearly written in the materials. Halfway through, the brown hair went out to make a phone call, and Qiao Lu looked at the time anxiously, there were only twenty minutes left before boarding.

When the brown hair came back, he said, "We've verified, and although we don't know what your specific research field is, it's indeed a synthesis direction." Moreover, the intelligence you stole is also related to this. ”

This kind of ambiguous answer made Qiao Lu laugh "poof", but this laughter made the two people opposite extremely unhappy.

"I guess you only understood the word 'synthetic', called someone to confirm, and took someone away, didn't you?"

The brown-haired face was already very ugly, Qiao Lu restrained his smile and said angrily: "Then let me tell you, I only published two or three papers on 'synthesis' in collaboration with my colleagues, and my research direction is obviously 'catalysis', from college to now, my main direction is catalysis in the nano field." You don't even know this, so you detain me here, and you say that I stole information! I asked to call the lab, I asked to speak to my boss, and I don't believe he would report me. If it were someone from our lab, then I would not hesitate to sue them for false accusations!"

She had been unusually calm since just now, but now she was finally excited, which made the two investigators even more embarrassed. They didn't continue to ask, but they didn't let her go immediately, but went out to discuss countermeasures.

Qiao Lu chased after him fearlessly, and said: "I still have to call the consulate, I want to tell them that an innocent Chinese student has been detained at the airport!

"Miss Qiao Lu, it shouldn't be necessary, this matter doesn't have to be so troublesome. ”

There was a loud roar of the plane taking off in the distance, and Qiao Lu looked at the time, it happened to be her flight.

It only took a second for the tears to burst, Qiao Lu bit her lip and covered her face, but when she raised her head, she became more resolute: "No, I have to come forward with the consulate to solve it, and you have to apologize to me." Even if I am killed here by you, or if I choose to commit suicide, I will never compromise. ”

A thin Chinese girl has become their biggest nightmare, and as a last resort, they have to let Qiao Lu call. At that time, the consulate had not yet worked, and after waiting for a while, Qiao Lu got through the phone. The person who answered the phone said that he would get in touch with the Education Department as soon as possible, so that Qiao Lu could restrain her emotions and try to avoid conflicts.

It took another two or three hours for the two secretaries of the consulate to arrive. After learning the whole story, Beer Belly said, "We got in touch with her lab, and the professor said that she was a very honest person and would not do anything like that. We were ready to let us go, but she insisted on asking the consulate to come forward. I'm sorry, but this is a misunderstanding, and I'm sorry for you. ”

The face is expressionless, and even the sentence "I'm sorry" is routine and generally has no temperature.

Qiao Lu was completely enraged, she turned around a few times, and kept rubbing her hair before she restrained her roar. When she was quiet, everyone saw what a sad and desperate face she had after her face was full of tears.

She pointed outside and complained word by word: "My plane flew away, I can't go home!"

The two people opposite were still untouched, and "indifference" was written all over their bodies.

After a while, she raised her head and cried: "I have been waiting for a whole year and a half to go home this time, I am going to Beijing to meet my brother, he is waiting for me to go home with me; I promised my sister that I would set off firecrackers with her and go back to my hometown with my family." Do you know what that means? Because of your nonsense, all the promises have come to naught!"

Qiao Lu was still crying bitterly, it was hard to imagine that just a few hours ago, she was still calmly talking about the crowd. Among the two secretaries, the older one basically didn't speak, while the younger one closed the manual and said calmly: "It is true that many international students come to study abroad to learn advanced technology, but we believe that the vast majority of international students are very honest, like Qiao Lu, it is not her own achievement, she will never move the slightest thought." If you are worried, you should investigate all international students in cutting-edge disciplines to see if they are suspected of stealing information. ”

Beer belly sighed: "We also received a report before investigating, otherwise it would not be so time-consuming and laborious." ”

Mr. Liang, the young secretary, pushed his glasses and said, "This is your job, we can understand it, and if necessary, we will cooperate." But we don't want misunderstandings like today's to happen again. Qiao Lu is going home for the Spring Festival, which is like Christmas, and it is our most important festival. This is the first time in several years that she has been reunited with her family, and we sincerely hope that you can coordinate her to catch the fastest flight back. ”

As soon as the diplomat came forward, the matter was settled. Qiao Lu wiped away her tears and expressed her gratitude to the two secretaries. Teacher Liang was quite pity, but more admiration: "Classmate Qiao Lu, this is what we should do, you don't have to be too polite." In the international student circle, you are a veritable academic god. We've heard of your name for a long time. Let's go home for the New Year first, and talk about the rest after the Spring Festival. ”

Qiao Lu thanked the two diplomats again and watched the two diplomats leave. She waited a long time at the airport before she was told that she could take the plane back on the evening of the 12th Beijing time.

During the long waiting time, she wondered a lot, who had reported her? According to her understanding, it was unlikely that it could be her supervisor, although there was some friction between them, but she still had a lot of work to do, and the professor would not kill her; she was a colleague in the laboratory? she was calm and calm, she had no close friends, but she never had a grudge against anyone. But people's hearts are unpredictable, what if it was really her colleague who maliciously reported it?

She also made another assumption, that is, no one reported it at all, and it was purely the immigration bureau or the investigation bureau or something that troubled her. After all, her research direction is indeed very cutting-edge, and the United States was reluctant to let go of Chinese scientists back then, and it is the same now. But she laughed at herself, how could she compare herself to those scientists?

The Americans in the laboratory often told her half-seriously and half-jokingly that it was so good to stay in the United States, and that she was not a public student anyway, so she would stay in the United States in the future!

Every time she heard something like this, Qiao Lu laughed. She didn't know the gap between the two countries, but she never forgot that when she was desperate because of studying abroad, the high-ranking leader in a certain office building in Beijing wrote a guarantee for her to study abroad. Let her come back to serve the motherland after completing her studies.

She often thinks that when she is this year, if she mentions "serving the motherland", she will definitely be ridiculed by others! But no matter how many years have passed, no matter whether she has received funding from the state again, Qiao Lu will never forget this trust and expectation, and will never forget it.

There is also a possibility that she learned about it after several years. If she is weak and cannot withstand intimidation, the investigator will use some tricks to blackmail her and threaten her (such as contacting the school, not giving her a diploma or something). After being held hostage, he told her that as long as she gave some information about her brother, she could leave. If she is really cowardly and unassertive, it is easy for her to passively betray military secrets and become a spy passively. This trick is the most vicious. Thinking about it carefully, Qiao Nan had just completed a mission at that time, would it have stimulated the sensitive nerves of some countries in some aspects? Fortunately, Qiao Lu had no handle to grasp, and she was a strong and strong girl, not afraid, uncompromising, and changed from passive to active, thus avoiding going astray.

Of course, these speculations were inconclusive, at least in those days, she left the little black house without danger. After the ticket was confirmed, she remembered to contact her brother. According to the original plan, they were going to take the train back to Hong Kong City on the night of the 12th, and he must have died of fear if he hadn't been contacted for so long.

Her mobile phone had been turned off a long time ago, and she finally got on QQ, and suddenly saw several messages from her brother: "Sister, I probably guessed what trouble you are in." I'm trying to find a way to contact my classmates in the United States to see who can go over and help you, don't panic. ”

"In addition, I thought about returning the train ticket first, booking a ticket for tomorrow noon, as long as I can rush back on Chinese New Year's Eve night, it will be fine." So don't worry, I'll take care of everything when you get home. After the matter is resolved on your side, give me a reply first, and my parents are also very anxious. ”

Qiao Lu cried and laughed again - it's good that my brother has grown up! Not only does he have one more person to care about him, but he can also solve problems for himself, and he doesn't have to worry about anything.

Qiao Lu wiped away her tears and replied, "It's all settled, don't read it." I'll see you tomorrow at noon, and we'll go home together. ”

However, the long-awaited return home of the siblings ended up in vain. Qiao Lu thought about it countless times, because her brother went on a mission, the two changed their tickets several times, and finally got together, but when she left, she was detained at the airport and missed the time to go home again. These things, in the vast universe and space, are not even a speck of dust, but why can they make the lives of several people set off turbulent waves?

Countless carelessness, countless insignificance, but created countless eternity, and also involved countless people in the torrent of fate. So, are those accidents accidental or fate?