The Pentium Era - South to North

Zheng Huihong helped them install the camera and headphones. Zhang Chen and Xiao Zhao tried it. Except that the picture was a bit like slow motion, it was still clear. Zheng Huihong said, this is the damn Internet speed.

Zhang Chen asked Zheng Huihong, how is your company?

Zheng Huihong said that she was extremely busy, but the company's business was developing rapidly.

What about Teacher Ma?

"There is a new Taiwanese who switched jobs from a large company. Now I follow him every day and talk about venture capital." Zheng Huihong said.

"Venture investment? What do you mean?" Zhang Chen asked.

"I don't know very well. I don't care much about those things. It probably means that if you have nothing, I will give you a sum of money, and the money will probably be blown away by the wind."

Zheng Huihong said, Zhang Chen laughed, and he found that Zheng Huihong seemed to speak louder now. Although she was still chattering, there was already a smell of wind and fire in her voice.

"Do you and Lao Wan use MSN every day now?" Zhang Chen asked.

"No, he can't read English and said he can't use it. We use Oicq." Zheng Huihong said.

Zhang Chen remembered that Lin Shuwan had said that this was developed by the Chinese and was similar to MSN. Zhang Chen wanted to install one. Before he could say anything, Zheng Huihong said, I will install one for you soon.

The application for registration was quickly completed. Zheng Huihong wrote five numbers on a sticky note and said to Zhang Chen: "Mr. Zhang, this is your OICQ number, 52579. Remember it."

"Why remember it?" Zhang Chen asked curiously.

"If you go outside or go to an Internet cafe, you can use it if you have anything to do. Some Internet cafe machines have Oicq installed. If not, you can take the next step. By the way, everyone in the company can install this. This is Chinese. , it is more convenient for internal use within the company, but it is a pity..."

"What's a pity?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Americans are too arrogant. In fact, MSN has been around since 1995. Until now, there is no Chinese version. If it had a Chinese version, Oicq would probably not have anything to do with it. They probably didn't expect that the Chinese would do the same thing." Americans are actually very stupid in many cases," Zheng Huihong said.

Zhang Chen compared MSN and Oicq. In terms of interface, he felt that MSN was more beautiful and Oicq was a bit rough.

"What does roughness have to do with it, as long as it is easy to use." Zheng Huihong agreed with Zhang Chen, but she thought.

Zheng Huihong looked at her watch and said, "Okay, Mr. Zhang, I have to go to work. Call me if you need anything."

"The second-rate guy isn't here today, so I'll send you there."

"No, no, I came here on a bicycle and I have to ride back." Zheng Huihong said and left.

Zhang Chen was just about to say that my car could fit a bicycle, but then he thought that his car had been driven away by a second-hand car. However, Xiao Zhao's trunk could also be loaded, but the lid couldn't be closed, as long as it was not seen by the police.

Zhang Chen walked out of the door and wanted to get the key from Xiao Zhao. Seeing that Zheng Huihong had disappeared, Zhang Chen shook his head and walked back.

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It has been two weeks, and Meng Ping has not received a call from Lao Cha. He called Lao Zhu, and Lao Zhu also said that he had not contacted him.

"It's normal. This person is always like this. The dragon sees the beginning but not the end." Lao Zhu said.

When Meng Ping thought that Lao Cha might have other arrangements and that the matter had already passed, Lao Cha suddenly called him again and told him that he had arrived in Nanjing and was still staying in Room 1107 of the Jinling Hotel. Please invite Meng Ping. past.

Meng Ping's office is in the building opposite. It has just been renovated and he has already moved in. Unlike Liu Ligan, he does not have a noble wife to take care of him. He is on the top floor of the building, giving He has reserved more than 800 square meters. From here, he can overlook half of Nanjing. The other half is on the other side of the building and he cannot see it.

When the office decoration was completed and he was about to move in, he called Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan and invited them to come for tea. Meng Ping told them that although it was not cold at high places, there were floor-to-ceiling glass and air conditioning. The scenery is infinitely beautiful, a little too good, come and share it.

Zhang Chen happened to have an American client who couldn't come. After hearing Meng Ping's words, Liu Ligan cursed viciously, "Go away, don't go!"

Meng Ping laughed. He knew that Liu Ligan originally wanted to put his office on the top floor of the center of Hangzhou, but his wife stopped him and moved it to a ruined temple. Now he can only use it, and he is on the third floor. A former president of Zhejiang University worked in the office, and in the yard there was a big camphor tree where C Duxiu peed on to comfort himself.

Letting him see the scenery here was indeed too exciting for him.

Meng Ping immediately went downstairs and rushed to the Jinling Hotel opposite.

He arrived at the door of 1107 and rang the doorbell. It was Lao Cha who opened the door for him. Just as the two of them entered and sat down, the doorbell rang again. Lao Meng walked over and opened the door. A woman in her thirties came in. , looks very capable, wearing a navy blue two-way shirt on the upper body and a pair of grass green military trousers on the lower body, which seems to reveal her true identity.

She was stunned for a moment when she saw Meng Ping, and Lao Cha said, this is the Lao Meng I introduced to you.

Then he told Lao Meng: "She is Xiao Ning, Tranquil Ning, and she is also a member of our working group."

Lao Meng and Xiao Ning shook hands, and the three of them sat down.

"How is it?" Lao Cha asked Xiao Ning.

"I found the person, but it was more troublesome. He was a lonely old man with a very strange temper. He hardly interacted with the people around him and had no close friends. It turned out that there were two old colleagues from the factory who occasionally interacted with each other. Unfortunately, those two people All passed away.”

Xiao Ning said and handed a file bag to Lao Cha. Lao Cha opened it and took a look. Lao Meng glanced at the top of the file and saw a stack of photos. The photos seemed to all show the same old man. At first glance, the photo was taken secretly from a distance with a telephoto lens.

After checking the information, the old man gave them to Meng Ping. Only then did Meng Ping see clearly the old man in the photo. He was thin, of medium build, with a crew cut, white hair, a slightly aquiline nose, and a tight mouth. Meng Ping felt that the old man with this appearance was not an easy person to talk to, as he was from the same family as his old man.

"Is this Li Gancong?" Meng Ping asked Lao Cha.

Lao Cha nodded.

Meng Ping flipped through the information below. The first page was the household registration information pulled from the police station. The children's column was empty, indicating that there were no children. The father's column was also empty, and the mother's column said Chen Yuzhen.

Li Gancong was originally an employee of Nanjing 924 Factory. Meng Ping knew that this factory was also called Nanjing Xinlian Machinery Factory. It was originally a military factory. Later, the army was converted into civilians. The Bole refrigerator produced in the 1980s was once popular.

In the following material, Li Gancong admitted that Li Liejun was his father, but emphasized that he had never seen his father since he was sensible, and his mother had never told him that his father was Li Liejun.

When Meng Ping saw it, the investigator asked, "We know that Li Liejun returned to his hometown of Wuning in 1937 and lived there for a while. How come you haven't seen him?"

Li Gancong said, even if he returned to Wuning, I had never seen him. He had left me and my mother for many years at that time, but he still returned to Wuning with his wife and children. How could he meet us?

Another investigator asked, since you said you had never met your father and your mother never told you that your father was Li Liejun, how did you know about the father-son relationship between him and you?

Li Gancong said that he also knew it from comrades like you who were transferred abroad. Someone came to investigate in the past five years. They told me that my father was Li Liejun. They also told me that my father was not a reactionary and advocated resistance to Japan. , also said that when my father passed away in Chongqing, some patriots went to express condolences in person.

Meng Ping looked at it and felt his scalp numb. It seemed that this matter was becoming more difficult. In such a high-pressure environment, Li Gancong had to hide the fact that he had met his father, and now he had to pry open an old man in his seventies. His mouth is even more difficult. For him, he is not even afraid of the threat of death, so what else is he afraid of?

"Have you considered finding a breakthrough from his former factory colleagues?" Lao Cha asked Xiao Ning.

Xiao Ning shook his head and said, "This factory has stopped production now. The people we can find have no impression of this person at all. When they entered the factory, he had already retired. People of similar age to him , most of them have passed away, and even the two who have survived have been bedridden for a long time and are delirious. He is the strongest one."

Lao Cha looked at Meng Ping and sighed: "This is even more urgent."

Meng Ping nodded.

"By the way, Xiao Ning, where is the neighborhood committee? Have you ever done any work?" Lao Cha asked.

"I've already tried it, but I only dared to try it quietly. It's the same, with almost no contact. I came to the door several times, but they didn't even want to open the door." Xiao Ning said.

"Is there any routine in his daily life?" Meng Ping asked, "Where does he often go?"

"My life is very regular. Every morning from 6:30 to 7:30, I go to Bailuzhou Park. I don't walk the birds, play chess, or exercise. I basically don't have any acquaintances. I just walk around and look around on my way home. I passed by the market, bought some food, and then basically didn’t go out for the whole day," Xiao Ning said.

"Have you touched the place where he lives?" Lao Cha asked.

Xiao Ning nodded: "We went in twice while he was out for more than an hour. They were all comrades with rich experience. We looked at every corner and found nothing."

Meng Ping thought for a while, and he said to Lao Cha, "Well, Lao Cha, I will go to Bailuzhou Park tomorrow to see what the situation is, and then see if there is a breakthrough."

Lao Cha said yes, but you should pay attention to hiding yourself so as not to be discovered by him. If this arouses his alertness, it will be difficult to approach him again.

Meng Ping said yes, I will pay attention.