Liangbi didn't really need to worry about Yi Shui, what he should be worried about was Rachel: she was more aggressive, less easy to deal with, and already knew what was going on, and at the moment—at night in San Diego—was mentioning it to Qin Lang and Elizabeth at the scene of a concert that they both found boring. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"One of Yi Shui's uncles was arrested by the local government in China."

She didn't see the expected reaction. Qin Lang and Elizabeth were indeed a little surprised, but not because Yi Shui's uncle would be arrested by the local government in China, but because he still had an uncle.

Regardless of Yi Shui or Rachel, they never mentioned such a person...... Or so many people.

If Yi Shui has more than one uncle.

Their reaction was like a denunciation, which made Rachel uncomfortable, but it wasn't her fault. "Don't look at me like that, I know what you're thinking." She complained, "Before today, I knew as much about Yi Shui's relatives as you do. He never mentioned any of them. ”

"You're married to a guy and you don't know what his relatives are?" Elizabeth couldn't help but laugh.

Then she couldn't laugh anymore. "Do you know what relatives Qin has, Elizabeth?"

Rachel's counterattack was swift and ferocious, and Elizabeth was powerless to turn her head and pretend she was listening to the music.

But everyone knows where her attention is.

Qin Lang's eyebrows raised, and then asked, "What's wrong?" ”

What he meant was why Yi Shui's uncle was arrested by the local government - he didn't care why Yi Shui never mentioned his uncle, maybe he didn't know he had another uncle either, maybe he just forgot, this is usually the case in those long serialized novels, mostly because the author decided to add a character on the spur of the moment - anyway, this is Yi Shui's own business, family problems, and he can only solve it himself.

Rachel understood what he meant.

"Yi Shui's uncle sent a telegram through a telegraph system run by the Chinese government, asking Yi Shui to give him 1,000 rifles and 100,000 rounds of ammunition." She sighed. The content of the telegram was not a problem, and that request was not worth mentioning for her and Yi Shui. The problem is the telegram itself. "It's in plaintext."

"Based on the current situation in China, this does not seem to be a particularly serious problem." Qin Lang meant, "The sale of guns in most areas has been carried out openly. ”

"Unfortunately, he joined an anti-government organization called the Brotherhood of the Railways, or something else, and led one of its regional branches." Rachel touched his forehead and seemed to have a headache, "I think he was targeted by government agents a long time ago. ”

Comrade Baolu will? It took Qin Lang a moment to realize what it meant to "protect the Brotherhood of Railroads". From his own point of view, he found this to be a very interesting thing: according to the history he knew, the Baolu movement in Sichuan should have been initiated by a man named Pu Dianjun, and there was no important person surnamed Yi.

It doesn't seem to be.

However, this may explain why Yi Shui's uncle was arrested.

"What are you going to do with it?" Qin Lang then asked.

"What else can I do?" Rachel didn't hide her annoyance, "Just this morning, I called the Chinese consul in Los Angeles to lodge a strong protest with him, and said that Yi Shui and I would closely monitor the progress of this matter. ”

She was angry, even though it wasn't like the reaction she was supposed to have, Yi Shui's uncle was just a nominal relative of hers, she hadn't even heard him mentioned before today, and was still essentially a stranger, so that she wouldn't be angry about what had happened to her, but the person who told her the news was Yi Shui's father - and of course her father, in the legal sense - that her entire morning had been ruined.

Rachel was reluctant to see Yi Anping, on the one hand, a man whom she had to call her father would remind her of her own father, and then she would be reminded of many very unpleasant past events that made her extremely unhappy, and on the other hand, Yi Anping was no different from most Chinese parents, who were impatient to marry when their children were single, and once they got married, they would urge them to make a child with the same urgency, if this request could not be met, These parents will spend their days whispering to their children's ears like a buzzing fly that can't be chased away or swatted......

But Rachel still doesn't plan to have a child, and he or she will undoubtedly be an obstacle to her career, a decision that causes her relationship with Yi Anping to become increasingly strained: while Yi Shui also doesn't plan to have a child (which is true), Yi Anping apparently thinks she should take full responsibility.

This is also a kind of torture for an old-fashioned and stubborn old man: he has to put up with a disobedient daughter-in-law, and he can't find a little wife for his son as he did in China.

It's just for these reasons that every meeting between Rachel and Yi Anping ends up in a heated argument - even if his original intention was to hope that she would find a way to get Yi Shui's uncle out of prison, it turned out to be the same.

He was angry. So is Rachel.

So she decisively took the most drastic means that could be taken at the moment, and someone had to pay for it. Rachel was confident that the consul would understand her and that he would be able to convey her meaning to the Chinese government unambiguously, and that the Chinese government would handle the rest of the issues well.

Qin Lang and Elizabeth agreed with her. They agreed that as long as Yi Shui's uncle was still alive, getting him out of prison would be a trivial matter, and it was even possible that the central bureaucrats who heard the news had already gotten him out before Rachel's protest reached Beijing.

So there's no need to worry too much.

"Relax, Rachel." Elizabeth turned her head back and reassured, "You don't need to be angry about a little thing. ”

"I'm not mad at that." Rachel had to admit that there were some things she couldn't solve, "What gave me a headache was family problems, and I had a very bad premonition that once Yi Shui's uncle knew that what happened to him was because of our railroad plan, Yi Shui and I were afraid that we would have to face a very serious family crisis." ”

Qin Lang pretended to have a sad expression and nodded slowly. "I can understand that."

Everybody understands what he means - schadenfreude, what else can there be? Elizabeth glared at him and continued to comfort Rachel: "That's what they're all about, to cause you endless trouble, and when you need them, they'll all disappear without a trace." She snorted, "Relative! ”

She is not targeting Yi Shui's relatives. What she means is that all relatives are bastards.

Rachel shook his head, reminding her of the fact that "Elizabeth, we're relatives too. ”

"I know, dear." Elizabeth stared at her, smiling like a fox, "If you can help me convince my careful-eyed husband to lift the ban on my study of nerve agents, I will admit that I am wrong." ”

Rachel gave a "don't you think" look in return. "I'd rather admit you're right."

"Rachel!" Elizabeth screamed angrily, but it didn't make any sense - Qin Lang and Rachel had reached an agreement a long time ago that she must not be allowed to continue researching nerve agents. Elizabeth has a never-ending craze for chemical weapons of mass destruction, and sooner or later, her research will go into areas where current security measures can't protect her, and then die as a result.

And it's peacetime...... At least most countries are in a peaceful environment, there are no large-scale wars, there is not much demand, and the production and storage of poison gas in large quantities is not only dangerous, but also a serious economic burden, and no normal commercial company would do such a stupid thing.

The problem is that Elizabeth is not the manager of the Umbrella group, does not have to think about those complex issues, and therefore only wants to be an avid chemical weapons expert.

She was very dissatisfied with Qin Lang and Rachel's decision.

"You can't limit my ......"

"We've talked about it over and over again, Elizabeth." Qin Lang interrupted her and announced in an irrefutable tone, "You should research real pesticides. I recently noticed a compound that was overlooked in the past, bis-p-chloro[benzene]trichloroethane, and I hope to see your results soon. ”

Bis-p-chloro[phenyl]trichloroethane? Elizabeth was stunned for a moment, then remembered that it was an Austrian chemist Omar? Zeidler synthesized an organochlorine compound in 1874 - but Zeidler did not find it useful.

She stared at Qin Lang. "You think it can be used as a pesticide?"

"That's exactly what I want to know." Qin Lang didn't give her a clear answer, of course, just to make her still have a little interest in that compound.

He didn't need her to confirm its use.

Bis-p-chloro[phenyl]trichloroethane, or DDT, most people living in the second half of the 20th century should have heard of this insecticide that was once widely used, some know that it is banned in almost every country except India and North Korea, a small number know that the World Health Organization has reactivated DDT in 2004 to curb the spread of mosquito-borne infectious diseases such as malaria and dengue fever in underdeveloped countries, and a very small number of people believe that the ban on DDT has led to many people's - There may be 20 million deaths - from malaria and dengue fever.

Both environmentalists and anti-environmentalists can find evidence in their favor, but Qin Lang doesn't care about these inconsequential issues. According to him, there is no essential difference between the use and prohibition of DDT, it is both business. In fact, one conspiracy theory is that it was the capital group that pushed for the ban on DDT, because it had no patent protection, was easy to produce in large quantities, was inexpensive, and at the same time worked so well that a new generation of more profitable pesticides would be extremely difficult to replace it, and would eventually have to resort to coercion to kick it out of the market.

This view may or may not be true, it's just that Qin Lang believes that the capital group can do this kind of thing, and he will do it himself. The point is not what the capital group has done, but the commercial value of DDT, which is effective, difficult to replace, and can bring profits that far exceed poison gas.

Even, if he moves fast enough, he has a chance to control most of the market: if the trajectory of history had not changed, it would not have been until 1939 that DDT could be finally confirmed as a pesticide, and time was on his side.

It would be good business.

Qin Lang was very satisfied with his new arrangement. This was what he had just thought, a sudden thought, as sudden as Yi Shui having an uncle. But Elizabeth should have accepted it, DDT was still a highly toxic substance capable of satisfying her needs.

He was in a very happy mood. At this moment, a guard walked up to the side and handed him a folded piece of paper. "Sir, telegram from Peking, highest priority."

Qin Lang took the piece of paper, motioned for the guard to leave, and then opened it.

The telegram was sent by Tao Chengzhang.

"What's the matter?" Both Rachel and Elizabeth noticed, both wondering what it was about.

"It's a little problem, it has nothing to do with Yi Shui's uncle." Qin Lang refolded the telegram and put it in his pocket. Tao Chengzhang told him that Zhang Shao had wondered if Wang Zhen or the League would be able to get gas shells. He remembered that Liangbi had asked the question, and the answer was clear, and there was no need for them to worry about it.

What they should be worried about is the League's plans.

The gas shells were undoubtedly just a deliberate spread of smoke, a decoy that convinced Liang Bi and Zhang Shao that the Alliance's target was the Emperor, prompting them to take the wrong action and give it a chance to attack the real target.

So, the right question is, who is he?

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DDT's Chinese name actually contains illegal characters, and I'm really sorry for Lily (this sentence seems to reveal something...... (To be continued.) )