Chapter 22: The Word “Carry” Is Insulting

“I used to love eating candy when I was little,” Gu Huaizhi said, “but my old man was so annoying. Every time he saw me eating candy, he would nag me. He’d say, ‘Look at so-and-so, they’re more like a little girl.’ So I rarely ate it.”

Ye Qinglan chuckled at his words.

After finishing the candy, Zhang Yang and the others returned.

They brought two people with them, holding ropes. “Brother, comrade, let’s tie them up and carry them. The village car is ahead, they’ll take us to the city.”

“Okay.”

It has to be said that these few people were very cautious. They had to tie up their enemies even after disarming them.

Before leaving, Ye Qinglan habitually scanned the surrounding hundred meters, afraid of missing something.

They walked for twenty minutes and saw the tractor. There were two villagers on the tractor.

Zhang Yang had already negotiated with them, so they directly carried the people onto the car.

When they were two or three miles from the military district, they gave the tractor driver 15 yuan and let him leave. It was already four in the morning.

The few of them carried Wei Han towards the military district.

At the entrance of the military district, Gu Huaizhi threw Wei Han to the ground, “You carry him in, we have something to do.”

Wei Han was awakened by the fall, and he heard these words.

He was very unhappy, “Can you guys be a little respectful towards your opponent? The word ‘carry’ is insulting.”

“Alright, see you later.”

Gu Huaizhi and the others left.

Ye Qinglan then looked down at Wei Han and said, “You should be grateful that we didn’t carry you like a princess. You’re asking for too much.”

Wei Han: “I knew you were not simple.”

“You are a nation of etiquette, you wouldn’t torture me, right?”

“During the interrogation, I want you to interrogate me. If it were anyone else, I wouldn’t say a word.”

“…”

Ye Qinglan glanced at him, his pain tolerance was amazing. His hands and feet were disarmed, but he was still so noisy!

“You should just faint.”

“No—”

His protest was ineffective, he was already knocked unconscious.

Ye Qinglan then carried Wei Han to the gate.

She handed her bag to the guard, “Help me contact Building 19. Tell them that person with code number 197******690 is back, use the name Qin Yu. Tell them I caught someone.”

Building 19 was very special in the entire military district. It was said that the people inside used code names to address each other, and some said they used numbers. It was unclear exactly how it worked. Anyway, the ID cards and names used at the entrance were number codes, and they would be checked again near Building 19, going through several checks before they could enter. Although she didn’t have her ID card, she knew the code number, so she had to contact them.

“Okay.”

After checking her bag, the guard picked up the phone.

After a while, the other party told her to wait there.

Ten minutes later, two cars drove to the gate. She glanced at the car in front, unexpectedly, Minister Bai also came out. The driver was his secretary, Ying Qiu. It sounded like a female comrade, but actually, he was a thin male comrade. He looked to be in his forties, younger than Old Bai, who was almost fifty.

Old Bai was also thin, tall and slender, with a scholarly air. He was much younger than Commander Xie and the others.

She carried Wei Han forward and said with a smile, “Why are you still in your office at this time? You came out to pick me up, making me a little intimidated.”

“You have the nerve to say that? You didn’t come back from the Southern Military District, and you don’t have any ID, how could I not come out to pick you up?” Fortunately, Old Bai didn’t like rolling his eyes, otherwise, he would have rolled his eyes to the sky.

Ye Qinglan said, “I can explain this. When I left, they said they would introduce me to a few partners when I got back. I was really annoyed, and I had so much stuff with me, so I just came back. I still need to contact them and ask them to send my things and the ID cards I left with them.”

She couldn’t bring her real ID and those things to Xiangcheng, so she left them in the South when she left.

“Alright. Who did you catch?”

“It should be a Y-country spy. I saw him at the Xiangcheng Science and Technology Conference. I don’t know why he came to Beijing. I met him on the train, and I caught him with Xiao Gu and the others.”

“Throw the person into the back car, you get in the front.”

“Okay.”

As soon as she got in the car, she took off her wig and glasses. When her hand touched her face, she paused. Because of Wei Han and Gu Huaizhi’s interruption, she hadn’t removed the mask beforehand. Now, Old Bai was probably going to discover it.

Just as she was thinking this, she turned her head and saw Old Bai looking at her with a smile.

He had noticed at first glance that this girl’s makeup was different from others.

“Would you mind turning your head?” she said.

Old Bai: “…”

He actually turned his head.

Ying Qiu glanced at her and asked with a smile, “Should I turn too?”

“I don’t mind you turning, but I’m afraid you’ll crash the car into a tree.”

Ying Qiu smiled.

Ye Qinglan took a pill from the leg of her glasses, threw it into the water bottle, then patted her face, lowered her head and tore off the mask, revealing her original bright and somewhat heroic face.

“There.”

Old Bai finally turned his head, pointing at her with his hand.

A few minutes later, they arrived in front of Building 19.

After two rounds of checks, Ye Qinglan, Old Bai, and Ying Qiu went to the fourth floor together. They entered the room, and she began to take things out continuously.

Old Bai’s eyebrows twitched, “What kind of junk is this?”

“Junk? I think it’s pretty good. I snatched it from the Country A spy. Look at this lock-picking kit, it’s so small, but the tools are so complete.”

Old Bai didn’t know what to say. He looked at the leather belt gun on the table for a while and said with a sigh, “Xiao Qing, our technology is lagging behind, but we have plenty of these gadgets. You don’t need to snatch them from others every time. It looks pitiful. Didn’t you take anything from the South when you left? Didn’t you find anyone to get you things in Xiangcheng?”

He put the leather belt gun back on the table and said, “Only this tape recorder and camera are decent.”

“I did. You’re talking about the leather belt gun, right? I didn’t snatch it. The Country A spy gave it to me before he died.”

Ying Qiu burst out laughing. Qingniao was quite interesting, she liked to keep an eye on those tools from other countries. As long as she had the chance, she would snatch them.

Old Bai: “…”

This “gift” was probably not the same as the “gift” he thought.

Ye Qinglan took out a mail booklet from a pile of things, tore open the layers of stamps pasted on both sides, revealing sheets of white paper.

This was only part of it.

Old Bai immediately told Ying Qiu to get the developer.

There was still some in her bag. Her bag looked like a black hard canvas bag, but it was actually a bag within a bag, stacked together.

“I’m going to the bathroom.”

When she came back from the bathroom, she was holding documents and a floppy disk.

“This is the rest of the information. The floppy disk is what I got from the Country A guy. You’ve heard about what happened in Xiangcheng recently, right? The scientist who died was killed by that Country A guy. He was unlucky, he was hiding in the bathroom and I ran into him. I thought, he’s already under my nose, I can’t just ignore him. He hid this thing in the wall crack, it should be important.”

Old Bai took it and looked at it for a few moments.

He couldn’t help but laugh, “You had a thrilling trip, and your luck is pretty good too. Ying Qiu, take this thing and let them have a look.”