Chapter 15: Winter Nights

[15] Winter night

It was ten o'clock in the night when the chat with the chairman ended, and Xiaoqiang got up to say goodbye.

The northern capital on a winter night is elegant and cangsang, although it is not as brilliant as the lights of later generations, but it is full of leisure and tranquility. At this time, it was late at ten o'clock, and the streets were quiet, and occasionally lights came out of people's homes, lighting up the city, but urging pedestrians to speed up the pace of going home. The black car stopped at the entrance of the alley, and Xiaoqiang got out of the car and walked straight home. Approaching the door, I was about to knock on the door, but I saw that the door was hidden, and it turned out that Dongzi and Yu Feng had left the door for themselves. Pushing the door in, I saw that the living room light in Yu Feng's east wing was still on, and the dim light was warm in this winter night, a kind of warmth that went straight to the heart. Xiao Qiang suddenly felt the urge to push the door into it and say that I was back.

Unconsciously, Xiao Qiang's footsteps seemed to be a little disobedient to the eaves of the east wing, and he stood there like this, looking at the shadow projected on the curtain, dumbfounded. I don't know how long I stood like this, I suddenly felt a chill on my body, Xiao Qiang sighed softly, and when he turned around to walk away, he heard a voice from the house, which was Yu Feng's magnetic and soft voice,

"Dongzi, did you say Cao Xiaoqiang will come back tonight?"

"I don't know, Doctor Yu, if you're sleepy, go to sleep, I'll go back to the house and wait by myself, I can't wait for the chief, I can't sleep well."

"It's okay, I haven't finished this sole yet, I'll sleep later."

"Doctor Yu, you are so beautiful, just like our chief, you are like a foreign student, exuding a foreign atmosphere, especially that."

"Hehe, you little devil has such a sweet mouth, which one?"

"I can't say it, it's the super senior one, anyway, it's different from me and those individuals in our village, and it looks like a cultured leader."

"Giggles" Yu Feng laughed.

"I'm a big leader, I'm an intern doctor who just graduated from medical school, and in the hospital, I'm the youngest doctor, and everyone is older than me."

"You can't say that, isn't our chief just not very old, but you see, even the chairman has to meet him and listen to his report, how honorable, our head is a specially educated person at first glance!"

"Hmph, petty-bourgeois sentiment, you see that he usually doesn't wear military uniforms, he dresses up in a foreign style all the time, with a suit and tie and leather shoes."

"Doctor Yu, don't you want to say that I chief, my head is from the intelligence department, I came back for a long time from a mission last time, and when I came back, I was called by the chairman to report to work, I must be doing something big, maybe I went into the enemy's internal reconnaissance intelligence, Doctor Yu, you said, this is amazing, it must be what kind of work is needed to dress up like this." Dongzi's voice was raised first and then suppressed, full of admiration for Xiaoqiang, and he maintained Xiaoqiang's image very much.

When Xiaoqiang heard this, he couldn't help but grin silently, thinking that he was too unpopular to listen to the wall like this, so he quickly crept to the gate of the courtyard and said loudly, "I'm back."

The door of the east chamber opened, and Dongzi quickly ran out and said happily: "Chief, you are back, have you eaten?" I left you the rice, all in the pot, and it was hot as soon as it was steamed. ”

"Eaten, eaten with the chairman. xiexie, you even saved food for me. Xiaoqiang was very moved, Dongzi knew how to take care of people as a teenager and a half-year-old, and when he was as old as him, he still didn't know anything and couldn't do anything, so he relied on his parents to take care of himself.

"Chief! Have you met the chairman? Dongzi's eyes were about to erupt with Venus at this time, and his face was full of happiness, as if he had seen the chairman himself.

"Well, why are you so excited, the chairman is the same person as us, who should eat and drink, except for the different division of labor, all of us are the same in the strict sense." Xiaoqiang is showing off his cool shamelessness.

"Why is it the same? Why? Oh, chief, you're amazing. Chief, are you sleeping now? Or do you want to complete the task given by the chairman? Dongzi's body twisted like candy and clinged to Xiaoqiang in a circle.

"You have too much imagination, the chairman didn't send any tasks, just to talk to me about the implementation of the work. Also, you're talking too much, where are you thinking so much, go get me a bottle of hot water. Xiao Qiang commanded.

"Yes," Dongzi responded and ran towards the kitchen.

"Doctor Yu, you haven't slept so late." Xiaoqiang greeted Yu Feng with a serious face, a little struggling in his heart, a little hesitant, a little tormented, and a faint expectation.

"Well, I'd like to check you before you go to sleep." Yu Feng said hesitantly. But she felt a little uneasy in her heart, she felt that something was wrong with her, but she couldn't say what was wrong, she didn't feel this way before. Is it because this person has just met the chairman? Or is it because of Premier Zhou's instructions? Or is it because of his calmness? Yu Feng shook his head, and said in his heart what he was thinking. came close and followed Xiaoqiang into the living room of the main room of the north house.

Xiao Qiang turned on the table lamp on the small round table next to the sofa and stretched out his hand to Yu Feng. "Doctor Yu, please take the pulse."

Yu Feng's face turned red, but it flashed, and he continued to work with that serious expression.

Xiao Qiang looked at Yu Feng's white and greasy neck that was exposed from the neckline behind him slightly, coiled up the neck under his hair, a few strands of fine short hair were softly attached to the snow-white neck, and the ears that were a little red from the cold had a sense of transparency. I didn't feel that my heart was like an ape, and my mind was rippling.

"In the past two days, the temperature in the northern capital has dropped sharply, and Dr. Yu wants to catch a cold, so I will tell Dongzi to burn all the stoves in the house and connect the chimneys.

"Well, it's been cold lately." Yu Feng replied.

At this time, Dongzi brought the water bottle in, "Chief, you wipe your face first, I boiled water on the stove, and I will call you to burn your feet later." With that, he went out.

The two sat side by side on the sofa, no one spoke, and after half a ring, Yu Feng took his hand back from Xiao Qiang's wrist and said: "The pulse is still stable, but it is not solid, and there is still a bit of a false fire, we must pay attention to nutrition and rest, and for the time being, we will recuperate according to the food supplement prescription I set before." What do you think? ”

"I listen to you." Xiaoqiang said.

The two looked at each other, and after a long time, they separated again.

Xiao Qiangxin said that this is a bit restrictive, and he has to find a topic to talk about. "That...... Yu Feng: Where are you from? Xiaoqiang found a topic.

"I am a native of Beiping, and after the fall of Beiping in 38, I fled to Jiefang District with my family, my parents are both doctors, and I also studied medicine. What about you? Counselor Cao, where are you from? Yu Feng turned around and asked.

Xiaoqiang had no choice but to say according to the identity given by Minister Li: "My ancestral home is Naitong, my parents were killed in revolutionary work, and I later joined the work, that's it, there is nothing to say." And don't call me Counselor Cao in the future, just call me Cao Xiaoqiang, if you don't dislike it, call me Xiaoqiang. ”

Yu Feng saw that he began to hesitate, and said in his heart, "It seems that this is his sadness, why should I ask him, he is worried." Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a little guilty in my heart. She diverted the topic and said, "Then I will call you Cao Xiaoqiang in the future." But he secretly said in his heart: "You are my patient, and I should call you Cao Xiaoqiang." ”

"Well, there is no need to be polite between comrades." Xiaoqiang smiled and nodded, got up and poured water to wash his face by the basin shelf.

"Cao Xiaoqiang, what do you do? Does Chairman Weishenme want to see you? After getting acquainted with each other, Yu Feng's curiosity soared, and he said the question he had been holding back for a long time. After saying it, I felt inappropriate, and I didn't ask what I shouldn't ask was explained by the previous leader. So he hurriedly added: "If it's a secret, don't tell it, I don't want to make a mistake." ”

"Hehe, it's not so mysterious, I'm from the Ministry of Intelligence, of course, I do intelligence work. The Chairman saw me because my work was more important to the country, and that's it. ”

Yu Feng felt very envious of Xiaoqiang in his heart, seeing that he was not a few years older than himself, he could make such a big contribution at work, when would he be able to stand alone like him, become the attending doctor, and treat many patients in many wards. Just thinking about it, Dongzi had already fetched water to wash his feet.

"You go to bed early, I'll go back." Yu Feng hurriedly ran out of the door.

Xiaoqiang lay on the bed after washing his feet and drying them, and Ren Dongzi helped him bring out the footwashing water and close the door. Xiaoqiang looked at the ceiling, churning in his heart, he is not too young, and it is time to get married, but this era is not my home. But you say no, it's just that every time I stay in this era, it's like going home, my heart is warm, everyone here makes me feel close, the chairman, the prime minister, and Nie Shuai are all amiable without a frame, and the colleagues around me are all conscientious and serious to do their best for the country.

Isn't it bad here? Am I nostalgic here, a nostalgia for dreams? Thinking about it like this, Xiaoqiang fell asleep in a daze.

At this time, a building in the northwest of Beijing is brightly lit, all kinds of books are neatly arranged on brand new shelves that have been produced for less than a week, and a large number of books are packed in wooden boxes and stacked in the warehouse upstairs. On the long table next to the bookshelf, more than a dozen men and women sat there nervously busy. According to the instructions they were given, all the books were to be sorted and numbered in the shortest possible time, and the numbered books were immediately sent to another room in the building, where the books were sorted by secret experts according to their importance. In the rooms on the top floor, the most important Quadruple A books are being quickly read and corrected, all temporal representations of future generations are removed, and all books are reviewed by three different teams to ensure that nothing is lost. Approved books will be sent to a makeshift printing plant next to the building for urgent typesetting and printing.

All the staff members of this secret project were determined after a rigorous organizational review. After taking an oath of secrecy, all the owners and their families were told to move into the vicinity of the former Beiping Garrison Building. It is surrounded by the garrison of the troops, and with such security measures, not even a fly can fly into the building and its outbuildings. Since the beginning of today's mission, we have been working in three shifts 24 hours a day.

The printed books will be sent to a secret library for research by national researchers who have access to them. In the museum's multimedia gallery, instructional videos are being shown and selected personnel are being trained to acquire the knowledge and methods of operating these advanced machines in a short period of time.

All these participants in the 491 project were told that the later construction would be carried out in the mountains of the southwest, and once the construction was completed, they would be relocated as a whole, and to join the project, they would have to be isolated from the world and be prepared to struggle for a lifetime, and only with the consent of individuals and their families could they be absorbed into the work of this first top-secret project since the founding of the country.

Although these revolutionary sons and daughters came from all over the world, they all shared a common dream -- the rise of China. At the same time, I am determined to devote all my youth to this dream. After the selection and elimination of the organization, repeated review and identification, and finally established the first phase of the staff list.

People here are immersed in the sea of books, amazed by the technology and knowledge from the future, and at the same time try to digest and absorb them as quickly as possible, and write and revise them.

At this time, in a courtyard in the eastern suburbs, there were three mysterious figures sitting in a dark hut, under the dim oil lamp, the room was full of smoke, and the white porcelain ashtray had been smoked yellow and black.

"Recently, we have received a new batch of trucks, which have never been seen before. According to observations, the weight capacity of these huge trucks is very strong, even American trucks I have never seen such a large one, I suspect that it is the latest model imported from the Soviet Union, there are dozens of vehicles. I've looked these up recently. One of the obese men said.

"My downline found that a young man may be a secret high-ranking CCP cadre, and I suspect that he may have something to do with the newly built well-guarded warehouse in the south of the city, and this person lives in a high-ranking CCP cadre concentration area and cannot be approached for the time being. My men saw him go to the warehouse with a large number of soldiers, and here is a picture of him, and the bastard with dysentery doesn't know very well. I have already instructed to go down, and the next step is to try to send someone to find out the details of him. The other little man with a fierce glint in his eyes said.

The middle-aged man in the green robe who looked like the leader frowned, raised his right hand into a fist in front of his mouth, and said softly:

"I recently received information that the CCP is engaged in a secret jihua, and a group of activists from universities and factories and mines have been screened to participate. But they were too strict to continue the intelligence work. These two lines of yours are very important, keep an eye on them, and report them immediately if you find anything. ”

After a pause, he said again: "The funds from the boss have been remitted, don't worry about the money, the previous jihua is the top priority, and there must be no mistakes." ”

The three of them continued the secret meeting until the middle of the night was over, and the fat man and the little man left the stronghold, leaving the middle-aged man in the green robe who was not good-looking, blew out the oil lamp and locked the door of the hut. After entering the north room and locking the door carefully, I moved a stool and put it on the bed, stepped on it, took off a transmitter and codebook from the ceiling of the bedroom, and began to work. For a moment, the mysterious radio waves that had appeared repeatedly once again wandered over the thousand-year-old capital like a ghost.