I Got Rich in Period Fiction-Chapter 69 - Is He Having a Seizure or Has His Brain

Chapter 69: Chapter 69: Is He Having a Seizure or Has His Brain Been Struck by Lightning?

Chapter 69 -69: Is He Having a Seizure or Has His Brain Been Struck by Lightning?

Although Mr. Qian wore a raincoat, his pant legs were all covered in mud.

Captain Gu was someone he recognized.

To tell the truth, Mr. Qian had worked in the commune for over thirty years and knew all the team leaders of each brigade and squad.

Captain Gu was no exception.

The workforce for reclaiming the wasteland was drawn from various brigades. Shangpo Village, due to its proximity to large expanses of wasteland, had the Erdaowa Village brigade chief directly assign them a mission to carve out some of the wasteland, in addition to the usual labor, by having him lead a few people to expedite the task.

But who would have expected him to actually go off and kidnap the children of base scientists?

Was he out of his mind or had his brain been struck by lightning?

Not just Vice Director Qian, but also Erdaowa Village’s brigade chief had a grim expression.

Elder Gai hung her head low, looking completely disheveled with half of her hair burnt off, and her son lay motionless on a wooden bed next to her.

Elder Gai remained silent.

When Vice Director Qian asked questions, she only cried out, claiming she had been wronged.

Director Lin sneered.

In his jurisdiction, there was no mouth he couldn’t pry open.

His thoughts were much more complex than Mr. Qian had imagined.

The base boiler room was situated in a secluded area, especially outside the perimeter wall where a pile of coal slag was discarded, a place beyond the safety zone. Previously, some villagers would come here to collect coal slag, but as the number of people increased, it became chaotic. Hence, before the year ended, the base had already banned these villagers from coming here.

After all, it was a scientific research base.

But undeniably, due to its remote location, it indeed was a blind spot for the security division.

It had been a long time since any villagers went there.

He had become somewhat lax about the security of that area. This was his negligence, and he planned to discuss it with Old Wei after this matter was resolved.

However, since He Xiuyu hadn’t arrived, the full details of the situation weren’t clear yet.

Director Lin observed Elder Gai without showing any emotion while he awaited He Xiuyu’s arrival.

Meanwhile, a security guard drove in to inform He Xiuyu that the villagers of Shangpo Village were already under custody and were being interrogated one by one.

There were no casualties, but two families’ homes had been burned down, one of them belonging to a Gu family member who was Shangpo Village’s small team leader. Some villagers testified they saw him and Elder Gai bringing back two children on a horse-drawn cart that afternoon.

He Xiuyu instructed the security guard to pass a message to Director Lin, emphasizing a thorough interrogation of the Gu mother and son.

After the security guard left in the rain, Xiao Hu began to speak eloquently.

Originally, Xiao Hu was waiting in the duty room, but he couldn’t sit still. He had come to the base to play with Rongrong, as she hadn’t returned to the family quarters for several days, and he had saved up several marbles to give her.

He slipped out of the duty room, taking cookies and candies with him.

He actually didn’t know where Rongrong was.

But as he reached the base of the Big White Building, he suddenly heard the sound of tapping on glass.

Looking up, he saw He Xuerong standing in front of the second to last window on the top floor.

So, he sneaked into the third floor.

At the office door, he found a key on the floor.

Xiao Hu didn’t know who had dropped the key, but after standing for a little while, he picked it up and tentatively inserted it into the main door’s lock.

This lock wasn’t an Iron General; everyone called it a hidden lock.

He had accompanied his father to the base once and learned how to open such door locks.

Then, he entered He Xiuyu’s office and took Rongrong out to play.

Not daring to exit through the main door for fear of getting caught, he sneaked out through a side door.

He had also previously collected coal slag with a group of village children near the coal pile.

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So, he had taken Rongrong over the wall and jumped into the coal slag heap.

Then a cart came from afar, and an old lady got off asking where the main gate of the base was.

He showed them, but as soon as he turned around, his nose caught a pungent smell, and then he passed out.

When he woke up, he was in that rundown room.

Later, he was beaten by that man.

Xiao Hu’s memory stopped there.

Choking up, he knelt before He Xiuyu, “Uncle He, it’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have taken Rongrong out to play without your permission, and I should have been wary of strangers. I’m sorry. Also, the key—my father told me that found items should be turned in. I shouldn’t have used it to open your office. Uncle He, please forgive me. I won’t dare to do it again…”

At this moment, everyone was sitting in the east room.

All were listening to Xiao Hu narrate the incident.

Then came the critical point.

The key?

He Xiuyu frowned deeply, his office key, how did it end up on the ground?

“Xiao Hu, where is that key now?”

“I put it back on the ground after I opened the door.”

He Xiuyu pondered.

There was an almost thorough search, both inside and outside his office, including the corners of the corridors, but that so-called key wasn’t found anywhere.

So how did this key appear?

And how did it disappear?

Qiao Qingyu’s eyes rolled a few times.

She felt it was time to bring up the matter of the base’s spy; this was the best opportunity, or else the chance might be missed forever.

But before that, she needed a perfect and reasonable explanation for all her actions.

Suddenly, the room fell into dead silence.

Sister-in-law Li looked uneasily at He Xiuyu.

She had been negligent, leading to Xiao Hu causing such a big disaster.

Thankfully, he was rescued; how could she live if they hadn’t found him?

Her gaze then fell on Qiao Qingyu, and a thought struck her. Ever since Qiao Qingyu had changed for the better, she realized Qiao Qingyu was like a lucky star. First, she had made her earn so much money, then she also saved Xiao Hu and Rongrong.

Meanwhile, Qiao Qingyu had organized her thoughts, aware that He Xiuyu would still need to visit Shangpo Village soon.

She started from her cycling from Xiaxi Commune, encountering the cart halfway, brushing past it and seeing a pair of small red leather shoes under the blanket, all the way until she had followed them to Shangpo Village and entered the house to find Xiao Hu bound and lying on the ground.

While Rongrong, frightened, crouched in the corner, she had broken the spine of the man who attacked her.

Afterward, while holding both children and trying to run out, seven or eight people rushed in and trapped her in the kitchen.

Rongrong threw a kerosene bottle at Captain Gu, who had hit her.

It missed, and the kerosene spilled over the hay.

At that moment, she took out matches just to scare them, saying they were explosives, and threw them as she rushed out of the kitchen door with the children.

She wanted to take the chaos as a chance to run to the yard for help.

But little did she expect, throwing those two boxes of matches would cause an explosion, igniting the house, turning it into a sea of flames.

At this point, Qiao Qingyu placed two packs of matches she had taken out of her space on the table.

One opened pack still had eight boxes left, and the other was unopened.

Qiao Qingyu pushed the matches towards He Xiuyu’s side, her expression very serious, “Although I don’t know much about scientific theories, I know matches are not hand grenades. How could they explode just by being thrown on the ground?”

Her voice paused, “So, I think there must be something wrong with these matches. I’m turning over all eighteen boxes to you, and I hope you treat this matter seriously!”