"It seems like a long story."

"Then I'll start from the beginning in chronological order, so as not to mess up later. I don't think you know exactly what our father did in the army, because I didn't know before. I only know what institute they are in, and they are different institutes. At that time, we were all troops, of all natures, there were cantonments, elite independent divisions, and ordinary local troops, which were mixed with cantonments, and those who wore military uniforms and did not wear military uniforms were called troops, and ordinary people couldn't understand them at all. In particular, some of the personnel of some research institutes wear military uniforms and some do not, and it is even more difficult for outsiders to distinguish what nature they belong to. Our father worked in such an ordinary research institute, and in fact, as I later learned, at least neither of them worked as ordinary as it seemed. ”

"My parents said that your father was engaged in animal husbandry research, and I was right when I said veterinarians." I interjected.

"On the surface, it may be, my father majored in bioengineering from a prestigious university as an undergraduate, and then he studied in a related major in Baoyan and entered a military school. At that time, graduates of ordinary colleges and universities could still apply for graduate studies in military academies, but now they can't. At that time, there was a shortage of biotechnology talents, and you believe that he studied the most cutting-edge technology for so many years, and finally went deep into the desert just to engage in research to improve livestock production? Unless the professional ability is too poor, it is possible to serve that bowl of rice. As for your father, military school is about information, right? ”

"My father said he specialized in information research."

Jiang He nodded and continued: "The professional name of the military academy is roughly understood, and the actual meaning must be far from the civilian major, and the information research may be intelligence analysis or code breaking. The two of them didn't have much to do with each other originally, but it was only when my father needed to turn to your father for help for a research that the two became close friends. ”

The next narrative is a bit confusing because I keep asking questions and discussing, so I sorted out what she meant, and it's roughly as follows.

The whole thing started when Jiang Feng got an encrypted information, and he didn't have to guess to know that it must be something in his professional direction. At that time, there were no USB flash drives, and the data was stored on several 5.25-inch floppy disks. The data was encrypted and he couldn't decipher it, so he turned to my father for help.

Both of them had just graduated and worked at that time, and they were both enthusiastic about getting results, and both of them felt that this information was extremely valuable. At that time, the conditions were very poor, and the computer of the institute 286 was already advanced in China, so Jiang Feng first used the unit computer to sort out the data on paper, and then handed it over to my father to decrypt, which was actually a lot of work.

After the decryption was successful, Jiang Feng sorted out a project based on the information and reported it to the institute, but it was not approved. Jiang Feng did not give up, and after a period of time, he sorted out three or four topics according to the follow-up deciphered materials, and reported them in different ways, but they were all rejected, and the institute thought that the research direction was ridiculously wrong, and the theoretical support was weak and had no practical value, so he refused to approve the project.

But the two of them refused to give up and continued to decipher and sort out the information. According to Jiang's mother, they often discussed together at that time, but they were very careful about confidentiality. Although I felt that they were mysterious, I didn't think it was strange, and it was impossible for me to deliberately want to understand, after all, the work in the army was not something that could be inquired about casually. At that time, they had been in a relationship for a while and got married soon after. My parents got married a year later.

After all, any valuable research is inseparable from experimental verification in the end, so Jiang Feng slowly carried out some experiments based on this, and the progress should be very smooth. Biochemical tests have always been expensive, and their experiments consumed a lot of high-priced reagents from research institutes, and they were eventually discovered.

Jiang Feng made up a set of nonsense, took the initiative to admit that he was in a hurry to produce results in his work, and carried out planned experiments in advance many times without authorization, maybe he didn't want to make a big fuss and be labeled as poor management by his superiors, anyway, he finally got through the confusion under that kind of management system, and the institute only gave Jiang Feng a warning. At that time, Jiang's mother believed his explanation as much as Suori, and did not even link this punishment to their research at home. My father was unscathed because he was not implicated.

The two of them didn't suffer a big loss, and they were even bolder. A large number of tests must still be done, and the test equipment can continue to be used secretly, but the reagents must be brought by themselves, and it seems that they have their own set of methods, and there have been no problems in the subsequent tests anyway. According to Jiang He's later experience in treatment, it is inferred that the cost of those trials must be huge, and where this huge amount of money came from is also a key question, but it is still a mystery.

Human nature is weak, especially easy to be conceited, so it is impossible to be on guard all the time, especially at home. They may think that Jiang's mother can't understand this, and after a long time, Jiang's mother still summed up their research from their sporadic conversations related to genes, and it doesn't matter if it is a human or an animal, at that time, the word gene was very cutting-edge in China, and very few people knew about it, and Jiang Feng was originally engaged in related majors, and Jiang's mother still didn't care too much.

Two years after the study was carried out, a large number of animal experiments were carried out. At that time, our house in Xinjiang was an old-fashioned Soviet-style dormitory building, and each house had a firewood room, and in the sixties and seventies many of the firewood rooms had cellars dug inside to store vegetables for the winter, and after the nineties they were gradually abandoned. At that time, the two of them renovated the Jiang family's cellar and raised a lot of test animals in it, and from then on, Jiang's mother became more suspicious of them.

Mother Jiang didn't take much effort to learn from the side that the two of them had no official cooperation project at all, not only Jiang Feng lied, but the honest Lou Anguo also lied, and Mother Jiang began to pay special attention to what they did from then on, and Jiang Feng's vigilance also increased greatly, and she didn't let Mother Jiang contact his experiment at all.

Because of Jiang Feng's attitude, Jiang's mother further began to suspect that what they were doing might not be legal. However, because of the cluelessness and lack of reason, this suspicion did not translate into any practical action, but took the initiative to keep his mouth shut so as not to lead to trouble.

At that time, information was closed and imagination was limited, and Jiang's mother thought that they were fooling around for fame and fortune, and because my father had a strict personality, she felt that she would not play too out of line.

Jiang Feng strengthened the door of the firewood room from the inside, and he couldn't see it from the outside, and he replaced the entrance of the cellar with an iron cover, not to mention that the lock on it couldn't be opened by Mother Jiang, even if it was opened, she didn't have the strength to lift the lid. Jiang Feng's explanation is that his test equipment is very valuable and must be anti-theft.

Jiang Feng has also done more than a year before and after the experiment, and the two of them often look happy and look quite successful. They would take regular photographs to document the experiments, and there were no digital cameras at the time, and they would make their own photos for confidentiality, which gave my mother a chance.

Jiang's mother is very good at photography, Jiang Feng's camera is being given to him by Jiang's mother, Jiang Feng originally knew how to take pictures and could print black and white photos, but the color photo processing technology was taught by Jiang's mother.

Jiang Feng should take five photos a day, exactly one roll a week, his camera is always in the cellar laboratory and not taken home, only on Sunday evening to bring the film back, after the meal to develop out, and then lock the washed out photos in the cellar again. The study at home is also his washing room, and the color film processing needs to be at a constant temperature, and the technology is much more complicated than black and white.

Jiang's mother prepared a roll of film of the same brand in advance, first took pictures against the white wall in low light, and then exposed it in low light, and when Jiang Feng came back for dinner on Sunday, he smoothly repacked his film. Jiang Feng rinsed out a roll of vague things, thinking that he had accidentally exposed or bought waste film, so he could only consider himself unlucky. Jiang's mother was very thoughtful and did not fully expose in strong light, because Jiang Feng would not be exposed to strong light when taking pictures in the cellar, which would make him suspicious.

After the meal, Jiang Feng went in to dry, and came out after a while, Jiang's mother ignored a detail, Jiang Feng used 24 sheets of film, and Jiang's mother took it for granted that the most common 36 at that time, and directly wore it. Jiang Feng didn't care either, but invited Jiang's mother to print together, changing the previous mysterious style. Jiang Feng said that his experiment was three control groups, one photo each day, and 24 photos a week were just right, but he didn't expect to not only save money but also prevent thieves at critical moments.

The photos are full of monkeys, and there are numbers on the monkey cages, and it seems that there are really three of them. Jiang's mother was surprised, she always thought that there were white mice in the cellar, but she didn't expect that there were three monkeys in such a cramped space.

The photo is nothing special, the three monkeys are very peaceful, and there is no such thing as an imaginary wound. Jiang's mother couldn't understand what the value of what he was doing, Jiang Feng smiled silently, and finally said half-jokingly: "If I want, I can win a Lasker Prize, a Nobel Prize or something at any time." ”

Of course, Jiang's mother won't take it seriously, she doesn't understand the purpose of his time to do this, Jiang Feng was really in a good mood that day, and after a while, he actually said: "I just want to find a way to benefit the people." ”

A week later they disposed of the test animals and emptied the cellar.

"Did they finish the experiment or did they give up halfway?" I was puzzled by their behavior.

"It should have been done with animal testing, and they cleaned up without leaving any traces, and since then the two of them have been like no one, and even a little idle. My mother was already very disgusted with their work at the time, but now that they are over, she is relieved and slowly puts these things behind. ”

"At that time, our parents were in their thirties, and my father was three years older than Lou's father. My mother went to the hospital at least three or four times for check-ups, and also took my father to have a check-up, and he was fine, but he just couldn't get pregnant. So my father suggested IVF, and my mother, who was past the best age to have children, agreed, and for the sake of secrecy, they went to Urumqi for the operation. ”

"I'm afraid it's not just for secrecy, we can't do this kind of surgery in that small place, my second aunt is in the hospital, and the hospital can't even be rated as a top three."

Jiang He nodded and continued: "You know almost everything about the situation later, our parents are almost pregnant. Then we were born, and the next few years were normal, and my fathers were still in and out of work, and there was nothing special until the night when my father was leaving. Maybe it's because they're going to separate, the two mothers said some nostalgic things together, and naturally talked about the hardships of having children back then, and Lou's mother said inadvertently, it was really painful to do test tubes back then. My mom knew at that moment that you were also IVF, but she pretended not to hear. ”

As soon as I heard it, I exploded: "What did you say? Am I also IVF? How I didn't know! ”