Chapter 5 deals with partners

1

I slept groggily this night, and when I woke up, it was already half past eight in the morning, and I saw that the phone was still on, and there was a text message from Yun Ximing on it: I'm downstairs, I'll come out when I'm ready.

I opened the curtains, and sure enough, I saw his white cayenne parked downstairs, and I don't know how long I had been waiting. hurriedly finished washing, hastily curled his long hair into a bud, and went out.

"How long have you waited?" Sitting in the passenger seat, I asked him as I fastened my seatbelt.

Yun Ximing raised his hand and looked at his watch, "It's almost two hours." ”

"Two hours? Then why didn't you call me? ”

"I don't want to argue with you." Yun Ximing said as he opened the drawer in front of my passenger seat, took out a McDonald's breakfast and handed it to me. "I didn't have time to make it for you in the morning, so I'll eat this first."

"Alright, Miss Ben will be fine." With that, I unceremoniously took it and began to munch on the burger.

Yun Ximing looked at my eating appearance and shook his head helplessly. "I didn't even have a word of gratitude when I received the handsome guy's love breakfast, you are really my Tai Sui."

I ignored him and just got my head down and got rid of the burgers. There is nothing to say all the way, today is the weekend, Shanghai at eight o'clock, there are not too many cars on the road, the traffic is smooth all the way, we searched for the address left by Vice Minister Zhou yesterday. I had barely finished my burger and arrived at the place, where Cayenne stopped in front of a tube building from the '80s. Yun Ximing and I got out of the car, looked at the building in front of us, and checked the address again, yes, this is here, but we still don't believe it. Is the Ministry of Security financially strained? Rented a place like this.

The tube building is the product of the tense housing distribution system of Chinese enterprises and institutions in the seventies and eighties of the last century, and is composed of a long corridor connecting many single rooms with the same pattern and area, and the bathroom and kitchen are all shared, because the two ends of the long corridor are ventilated, like a tube, so it is called "tube building".

Recently, Shanghai has been prevalent in demolitions, and it is a miracle that this tube building can still stand in the old city. However, the outer wall of this tube building is covered with slogans, and the red word "demolition" is written everywhere, I am afraid that there are nail households who refuse to go, I thought so in my heart, and walked to the gate of Yunxi Ming Dynasty.

The gate of this tube building is on both sides of the building, at the end of the long corridor, Yun Ximing and I went around to the side, and saw that the location of the gate was a common code door in modern houses, and the brand new code door looked out of place with the dilapidated old building. There was a middle-aged man smoking at the door, and I recognized it at a glance as the scarred face who came with Vice Minister Zhou yesterday. When he saw me and Yun Ximing coming over, he walked to the door and pressed a string of passwords, I noticed that the password was very long, not the password downstairs of an ordinary residential building, he seemed to be waiting for us.

Sure enough, when we opened the gate, he whispered, "Go straight up to the third floor, the first room." ”

Scarface didn't follow us, and Yun Ximing and I made it all the way to the third floor. I observed this tube building, there are only three floors in total, it has obviously been renovated and renovated, it looks very clean, each room is equipped with security doors, and the stairs are also paved with marble, I kind of understand, the dilapidated appearance of the old building that is about to be demolished is simply a disguise, this should be the office of the Ministry of Security in Shanghai, but I don't know why, the air is filled with a smell of disinfectant water.

We went up to the third floor, and there was a sign on the door of the first room that said "Office Zhou Yun". Yun Ximing went up and knocked on the door, there was no movement inside, the door was hidden, and a crack opened when he touched it. There was no one in the office, and we walked in.

This office is too clean and simple, with a desk, an office chair, two old-fashioned leather sofas, and a coffee table. There was a pile of documents on the table, and I could tell that it was a copy of the personnel information that Vice Minister Zhou had given me yesterday. I took out my mobile phone and wanted to call my grandmother, but I found that there was no signal on my mobile phone, and I remembered that this was the office of the Ministry of Security, and special precautions must have been taken. I flipped through the materials on the table, and I slept so drowsy last night that I didn't have time to look at them carefully. The information is basically the top people selected from various provinces to be stationed in the Ministry of Security, and I looked all the way and saw a familiar name - Lu Yuzhe. OK, I've found the person I'm looking for.

As soon as there was a knock on the door, Vice Minister Zhou walked in, holding a tea tray in his hand.

"I guess you're almost there, so I went to make a pot of tea, you see the time is just right."

Vice Minister Zhou beckoned us to sit down and began to make tea for us, Yun Ximing and I, two post-80s generations, were still a little uncomfortable receiving such courtesy.

The fragrance of tea spread in the house, and the three of them drank tea, and Vice Minister Zhou began to explain the work plan to us.

2

"Don't hide it, this archaeological work has had a bad impact on the local area, and the number of archaeological workers who have been affected is very large, and the central government attaches great importance to this case, so I invite you two to come, hoping to get your assistance in the exploration of ancient tombs. Of course, this event is very dangerous, and I won't force it if you two have concerns. "Vice Minister Zhou said this very sincerely, I looked at Yun Ximing, he didn't have any expression, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

I thought for a moment and nodded, indicating that I had no problem. Vice Minister Zhou looked at Yun Ximing again.

"As long as she's okay, I'm fine." Yun Ximing said.

Vice Minister Zhou smiled and continued: "This time, our Ministry of Security hopes to set up an advisory team to lead the police officers of the Ministry of Security to go to the underground chamber of the ancient tomb again, hoping to figure out the following situation. I wonder if there is a suitable candidate for the two of you? Vice Minister Zhou patted the pile of personnel information as he spoke.

I pulled out Lu Yuzhe's information, "I want this person." ”

"No problem." Vice Minister Zhou agreed without thinking about it.

"I still want one more person, and his information is not in it." I continue to make conditions.

"Who is it?"

"Uncle Scarface watching the door downstairs."

Unexpectedly, when I heard this person, Vice Minister Zhou looked embarrassed, "I'm afraid you have to convince him yourself, and it depends on his own wishes." ”

"Okay." I smiled yes, got up and walked out.

After about fifteen minutes, I was back in the office, Scarface following me. When he saw Vice Minister Zhou, he simply nodded and said, "I'll go with them." ”

Vice Minister Zhou looked at me with a surprised look on his face, didn't say anything, just nodded. I have my own reasons for taking a fancy to Uncle Scarface, he looks fierce, but his eyes are sharp, which shows that he is very thoughtful. There is not much expression on his face, and the scars all over his body are all battle-hardened. We need to have an experienced and level-headed old soldier, a soldier who has been on the battlefield for a long time, and is often prone to make subconsciously correct decisions when faced with life and death. On top of that, the outside of Scarface's two hands is covered with thick calluses, indicating that he is good at using cold weapons such as daggers in both hands.

3

Vice Minister Zhou raised Lu Yuzhe's information, "This comrade came to report two days later. ”

I would like to say a few words about Lu Yuzhe, this guy is also my hair child, but he is more familiar with me, because his family lives next door to my house in the old house in Beijing.

Lu Yuzhe is one year older than me, 24 years old, 180 tall, 180 weight, and is considered a fat man. Lu Yuzhe's grandfather and father are both soldiers, so Lu Yuzhe has been determined to be a glorious People's Liberation Army since he was a child. But this guy was very timid when he was young, and he was often bullied and asked me to fight for him. When I was a child, Lu Yuzhe said the funniest sentence: "Yin Yin, when you grow into a beautiful white swan in the future, I will be a toad to protect you." It made me cry and laugh, how could anyone say that they were toads.

But don't look at this guy's skills, but he is particularly obsessed with guns and explosives, and with his special skills, he really let him infiltrate the People's Liberation Army and become a gunsmith.

Yun Ximing and Lu Yuzhe can also be regarded as acquaintances, and Yun Ximing is reluctant to choose Dazhe into the advisory group for me. Maybe because Dazhe is my male best friend, Yun Ximing is always a little hostile to him, the two of them look at each other unpleasantly, Yun Ximing calls Dazhe "dead fat", Dazhe calls him "Brother Gongzi", I have a headache when I think of this.

The rest of the story was relatively simple, we made a rough schedule and gathered in the tube building two days later for an all-staff meeting. In the past two days, we went back to prepare our own necessary items, and Vice Minister Zhou and Scarface were responsible for preparing the necessary tools. After all, archaeology is a scientific research project, which is much more upright than tomb robbing, and with the strong support of the state, many equipment and utensils are quite convenient to prepare.

After leaving the tube building, Yun Ximing sent me back to the shop and left, maybe he was still angry with me about Dazhe's entry into the group. I'm not in the mood to think about his problems, I have a trickier thing to deal with, which is to call my grandmother.