Chapter 59

Hearing this, everyone turned to look at Xiaotao.

Feeling the eyes of everyone on him, Xiaotao’s heart sank.

“Xiaotao, wasn’t there a call for Captain Qin a month ago?” A colleague said.

Hearing this, Xiaotao looked as if he suddenly remembered something and said, “Yes, there seems to have been a call for Captain Qin a month ago. I was a bit busy at the time and forgot to forward it. Captain Qin, I’m really sorry.”

Jiang Muning chuckled: “You can say you forgot once, but how can you forget four times, Comrade Xiaotao?”

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiaotao said seriously: “Don’t wrong me, woman. You only called once, how can there be so many times?”

Jiang Muning turned to Qin Muye: “Can we check the records? All incoming calls should have records, right?”

Qin Muye nodded: “Yes.”

As he spoke, Qin Muye looked at the communication officer in the communication room. As soon as the officer received the signal, he was about to speak, but Xiaotao quickly said, “I’m sorry, supervisor, this phone of mine had some problems a few days ago. When I was fiddling with it, I accidentally deleted all the records.”

Xiaotao’s eyes flashed with relief. At the time, he was worried that his actions of intercepting Jiang Muning’s calls would be discovered, so he had prepared for this.

Hearing this, Jiang Muning remained calm and said calmly: “It’s okay if you don’t have call records, I have recordings.”

“Recordings?” Xiaotao’s pupils were filled with shock.

Jiang Muning slowly took a pen-like object from her pocket, a recording pen.

Jiang Heng loved to tinker with inventions. In the modern world, he often tinkered with things, and now here, his skills finally came in handy.

Jiang Muning looked at Xiaotao: “It’s not too late to tell the truth now.”

It was just a small pen, Xiaotao didn’t believe that it could record, so he straightened his back and said: “Woman, I’m innocent. Any conspiracy will be crushed under the iron fist.”

Before Xiaotao could finish his sentence, he saw Jiang Muning press a switch: “Hello, I’m Qin Muye’s wife…”

When Jiang Muning’s voice came out of the small pen, Xiaotao’s eyes were filled with disbelief. What made him even more flustered was that her voice came from the phone.

“Comrade Qin is on a mission these days, he’s not in the army.”

“Comrade hasn’t come back yet…”

As Jiang Muning kept playing back each recording, Xiaotao’s face became extremely ugly, and the initial shock on his face disappeared.

Because Jiang Muning had made a scene at the gate of the military district just now, there were quite a few soldiers who weren’t training at the moment gathered outside the communication room.

Qin Muye clenched his fists tightly. For the past month, he hadn’t received a call from Jiang Muning and had been worrying and imagining all sorts of things. He thought that Jiang Muning had been fooling him all this time and didn’t want him anymore.

It turned out that it wasn’t that she didn’t want him, but that someone was interfering.

“It was you.” Qin Muye’s eyes were fierce, “Comrade Xiaotao, what else do you have to say?”

Xiaotao’s face was pale, and he stammered in panic: “Captain Qin, there’s a misunderstanding. This thing is fake…”

“It’s your voice, how can it be fake? Why don’t we record it live and compare your voice with the one in the recording pen. Whether it’s you or not will be clear as day.” Jiang Muning said calmly.

Seeing her expression, Xiaotao’s legs trembled.

He didn’t expect that Jiang Muning had recorded it.

Because of the commotion, the head of the communication room rushed over: “Captain Qin, what happened?”

Qin Muye’s face was grim, and he said seriously: “Comrade Lin, your communication officer deliberately concealed the calls from my family.”

Head Lin was shocked: “How could this happen? Xiaotao, what’s going on?”

Seeing everyone around watching, Xiaotao wanted to defend himself, otherwise he would be punished.

“Head, I had some family matters these days, so I may have forgotten to forward them…”

“You can forget once, but how can you forget twice, thrice, four times? Your memory is so bad, how are you qualified to be a communication officer?” Jiang Muning said coldly.

Head Lin heard this and said seriously: “Xiaotao, this is your negligence of duty.”

Hearing these two words, Jiang Muning sneered in her heart. Want to reduce his punishment? Not so easy.

Seeing many soldiers outside the window, Jiang Muning said with a serious expression: “Just negligence of duty? Head, if we don’t investigate this matter today, wouldn’t everyone be afraid to provoke your communication officers in the future? If we provoke you, and then in the future, if a military family member calls and you refuse to connect them, wouldn’t that be considered retaliation?”

The soldiers outside the window responded loudly: “Yes, how can that be!”

“If I wasn’t joining the army, but staying at home. My mother-in-law bullies me, and I want to seek help from my husband, but you don’t connect the call, wouldn’t I be living in misery, even being killed by my mother-in-law, and Qin Muye wouldn’t know, wouldn’t you be killing people?”

Jiang Muning said seriously. Listening to her hypothetical situation, Qin Muye’s heart tightened.

“That, that didn’t happen…”

“Even if it didn’t happen before, can you guarantee that it won’t happen in the future? If you directly conceal the calls and don’t severely punish them, who would dare to dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to the army in the future? They might not know if their parents are sick, and their wives’ pleas for help would be kept in the dark.”

Jiang Muning’s words reached everyone’s ears, and the soldiers were filled with righteous indignation: “Yes, we must deal with this seriously!”

“Yes!”

Head Lin was also surprised by the situation and looked at Qin Muye: “Captain Qin, how do you think we should handle this?”

“Comrade Xiaotao’s act of concealing incoming calls has caused a negative impact on the army, and it will also affect the soldiers’ loyalty to the organization. He must be dismissed.” Qin Muye said coldly.

Xiaotao, hearing this, widened his eyes in terror: “Dismissal? No, no.”

“Isn’t this punishment a bit too severe?”

Before Head Lin could finish his sentence, he heard another voice: “Severe? Comrade Xiaotao’s actions are a serious violation of discipline, causing a very bad influence, and he must be dealt with severely.”

Everyone turned their heads to see the political commissar standing with his hands behind his back, frowning.

Seeing the political commissar, Xiaotao’s face turned pale. He felt that he was doomed this time.

“Political commissar.” Head Lin smiled faintly.

Hearing that it was the political commissar, Jiang Muning straightened her back: “Political commissar, I want to speak on behalf of the so-called military family members who haven’t joined the army. What if something happens to us, and they directly intercept our calls, wouldn’t that chill the hearts of the military family members? In the future, who would dare to let their husbands and children join the army?”

The political commissar nodded: “That’s right. He must be dismissed, and before that, take him away and hand him over to the public security bureau.”

Hearing that he was going to be arrested, Xiaotao said anxiously: “No, don’t. Political commissar, Captain, I know I’m wrong. This time, I just lost my mind for a moment and made a mistake unintentionally.”

“Lost your mind? Unintentional mistake? Are you deliberately targeting me?” Jiang Muning spoke at the right time.

Xiaotao looked at her: “Yes, I just think you, a country girl, are not worthy of Captain Qin.”

“You like Qin Muye? You want to break up a military marriage? That’s an even bigger crime!” Jiang Muning continued to ask, following his words.

Xiaotao widened his eyes in shock and blurted out subconsciously: “No, I didn’t want to break up a military marriage, I did it for Dr. Gu!”