Chapter 40: Return
Halfway through Cuiwei Mountain, the four-wheel-drive Beijing Jeep finally couldn't climb. There was a steep mountain road below that required walking with your feet, but Guan Lu dragged two bulky suitcases and couldn't move forward at all. She asked Liu Yanzhi to help carry it. Liu Yanzhi opened the box and flipped through the things inside, all of which were silk materials bought at the Friendship Store, ready-to-wear clothes bought in Hong Kong, magazines and books bought in the United States, etc.
Liu Yanzhi moved the box back to the jeep.
"How many do you mean?" Guan Lu's eyes widened.
"It's too heavy and I can't handle it. I'll just treat it as a fare for someone." Liu Yanzhi clapped his hands and started climbing the mountain.
Guan Lu was reluctant to leave and protested, "This is all my things, but considering the weight, Yiyi still couldn't bear to take a few glances and followed behind.
An hour later, I finally climbed to the top of the mountain. There was nowhere to be seen. No one had moved the place where they buried their money. The big pit remained the same, but the pit was filled with rain and the feces pulled by small animals, which were very dirty.
Guan Lu pointed to the pit and said, "Let's just lie here? You clean it up quickly, otherwise I won't go back."
The sun was sinking and time could not be delayed. Liu Yanzhi didn't talk nonsense. He jumped into the pit and scooped water out with his hands. The gaps in his fingers were always leaking, and the efficiency was not high. Guan Lu gave him a tip: "Use your shoes."
Liu Yan stared at her: "Why don't you use your shoes?"
Guan Lu immediately took off her flat shoes and presented them with both hands, looking proud.
It was indeed faster to scoop water with shoes, but the mud and water at the bottom of the pit could not be cleaned. As the sky began to change color, colorful clouds slowly gathered together to form a vortex state. Even Guan Lu knew that the time was coming, so she didn't care about the sewage at the bottom of the pit and leaped side by side with Liu Yanzhi.
Liu Yanzhi slowly pulled the lid up, and the "tomb" was dark, and the smell of earth hit his nose.
"Do you think they will mess up and send us to other eras?" Guan Lu asked worriedly.
"Don't talk." Liu Yan closed his eyes. He was calm. In fact, he could hear his heartbeat. The fact that he did not kill Samuel made him feel very uneasy. If this resulted in failure, he would be ashamed.
After a long wait, the sky became darker and wind began to blow outside, and then heavy rain was pouring. The raindrops hit the metal cover and jingled, and the dull thunder sounded in the sky. Both of them vaguely felt that the time was coming.
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The jeep of the Provincial Political and Legal Committee was stolen, and the entire Omi Municipal Bureau dispatched to search the city. There were no cameras on the streets these days, and the case was solved by investigation. The public security personnel searched the city and did not find the jeep. It was not until a week later that the report was reported that the car was discovered by a farmer chopping wood halfway up the mountainside of Cuiwei Mountain.
The criminal police team quickly dispatched and found the stolen jeep on the mountain. Police officers from the local police station accompanied the reporter to take the record. This was an honest farmer. The criminal police captain Zhan Shusen saw the flaw in his expression at a glance.
"Where is the thing in the car?" Zhan Shusen asked.
"I... picked it up home." The farmer lowered his head.
There were two suitcases left on the car that were harvested under the farmer's bed. The box handle was tied with luggage tags in English, and the contents were some women's clothes and real silk satin. Zhan Shusen used a knife to cut the box shell and found nothing.
The jeep was driven down the mountain. The criminal police were about to go back with their things when suddenly two police cars came. A group of people in plain clothes jumped out of the car. They were the guys from the Second Department. They showed the warrants of the provincial department leaders and took over the case.
"This is an anti-special case, you can't handle it." The person from the second department patted Zhan Shusen on the shoulder and said.
Zhan Shusen spat on the ground, thinking that I can't do it, you must not do it either.
His insult became a reality. People from the second department searched Cuiwei Mountain without sending any clues. The two British spies from Beijing never appeared again. The time went on, and the case was gone. The files were thrown into the archives and dust was sealed, and no one was interested in it anymore.
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Top of Cuiwei Mountain.
Suddenly, the sound of wind and rain disappeared, and there was silence around it. The cover was slowly lifted open, revealing several familiar faces. After successfully traveling through time, they came back.
It was still pitch black outside, and it seemed that time had not passed too long. The first thing the Party’s patriotism said was to ask if the task had been completed. Liu Yanzhi thought about it and said, “Even if it was completed.”
Dang Maitou's face changed: "What does it mean to be completed? You didn't kill Fox!"
Guan Lu said with a tough bullet: "We successfully persuaded Mr. Fox not to do genetic research, I think there should be no problem."
"Absurd!" The party's patriotic face was distorted, and he left them to report to the old man.
The medical staff helped the two of them out for physical examination. After the task was over, the brigade of troops was withdrawn and returned to the camp. Regardless of success or not, the matter came to an end.
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The next morning, Liu Yanzhi and Guan Lu came to Dang Paiguo's office. At this time, Professor Dang's mood had returned to normal. He sat in a rocking chair with a pipe in his mouth, calm and composed.
"You guys did a good thing," he said, throwing his tablet onto the sofa.
Liu Yanzhi picked up the tablet computer, which was full of English. Although he knew some speaking, his reading was still not smooth enough. He handed it to Guan Lu. Dr. Guan looked at it and laughed: "I'll just say it, we succeeded."
"What's going on? Has Fox become the founder of Microsoft?" Liu Yan asked directly.
"No, he is now a senator in the United States, a storied figure in American politics, known as the president's forecaster. In addition, he is also the largest shareholder of Microsoft, a friend of Bill Gates, an investor of Google, and one of the American billionaires." Guan Lu smiled.
"Samuel Fox has no longer been engaged in biotechnology since he was 22 years old, but Monsanto's information needs to be further confirmed. You must know that history has changed and everything has changed. No matter what, your task has been completed well. Congratulations." Party Patriotic came over and shook hands with the two.
Liu Yan said straight: "That... the time travel subsidy is 300,000."
"Can you get the account right away."
"There is another thing. The era we traveled through time was wrong. Back in 1984, so the funds we carried were destroyed on the spot..." Liu Yanzhi blushed a little. He was not good at lying.
"We will improve this matter of error. As for the funds, you can keep them." The Party smiled patriotic and generously, "When travel expenses are used up, it's all yours."
Liu Yanzhi and Guan Lu looked at each other and smiled.
"Dr. Guan, you also have a time travel subsidy, and the 50,000 US dollars will also be transferred to your card." Dang Paiguo stood up and shook hands with them, "I think you must have a lot to buy, so you won't waste your time."
The two came out of the Party Patriotic Office and got into the car tacitly and headed straight for Cuiwei Mountain. This place had been bought by Antai Group. There were barbed wire on the hillside, and there were also security guards who were strictly guarding it. It was strictly forbidden for idle people to enter and exit. Liu Yanzhi had a lot of talk but it was useless. Finally, he called Party Patriotic to get through.
It is not easy to find a place to bury money. After all, it has been more than 30 years. Guan Lu took the treasure map and measured it for a long time and finally determined the location of the shovel. Liu Yanzhi sweated heavily and dug a big hole. Finally, he encountered something solid, which was a decaying camphor wood box.
Open the camphor wood box, there were rusty iron boxes inside, and the charcoal placed around it turned into black and gray.
"Don't rot." Guan Lu prayed with her hands clasped.
Liu Yanzhi opened the iron box, which was filled with a ball of oil cloth, and the banknotes disappeared.
"Where is the money!" The two looked at each other. They knew about this, and they were inseparable from each other and there was no chance to get money alone. Then there was only one possibility that these money was poached by others. As for whom, they might be a mystery that could never be solved.
He lost a lot of money in vain. Both of them were in a bad mood. They went back in shame. On the way, Guan Lu asked him: "Xiao Liu, how are you going to spend money when you get rich?"
Zhen Yue's figure appeared in Liu Yanzhi's mind and said with a smile: "Buy a house, buy a car, get married."
Guan Lu teased: "Look at you, your saliva is almost flowing out, this is a little bit of excitement."
"Dr. Guan, where are you?" Liu Yanzhi asked back.
"I want to go back to the United States and go to the small town of New Jersey and then visit the Empire State Building. I have an unfulfilled wish." Guan Lu said happily, holding the steering wheel.
At the intersection of Zhuque Street, Guan Lu put Liu Yanzhi down and drove home by herself. She missed her parents.
The small building next to the Rain Alley had long been demolished, and grandfather had passed away. Her parents lived in Binjiang Garden Community. Her father was not an official material and had been engaged in technical work. He was promoted from a technician in an electronics factory to an engineer and chief engineer. Later, he was transferred to a large state-owned enterprise to be a chief engineer and retired in this position. Under the care of his grandfather, his mother had been engaged in administrative and logistics work in the agency unit, and finally retired in the position of the head of accounting in the Finance Department.
Binjiang Garden Community is a high-end river view community, and everyone lives in high-ranking officials and nobles. The security guard knew Guan Lu’s license plate and opened the door and let him go as far as he could. He even greeted him warmly.
Guan Lu also responded politely, parked her car in her parking space, took the key and opened the door and entered the room. The sound of cooking came from the kitchen, it was her father cooking.
"Why did you come back so early today?" Dad said without looking back, "Have you not had a meeting?"
Guan Lu walked over and blindfolded her father's eyes from behind.
"Lulu is back." Dad smiled, "Stop making trouble, Dad is cooking."
Guan Lu pouted: "It's not fun, how did you know it's me?"
Dad said, "Your mom won't do this, who else is besides you?"
Guan Lu smiled and ran back to the living room to turn on the TV. The screen was playing Omi News. An official with a big belly was interviewed by a reporter. The subtitles below said that this fat old man with a fat head is Kang Fei, the chief of the Omi Customs.
"Kang Fei!" Guan Lu's chin almost fell to the ground. In my memory, the handsome young man wearing a white suit, a plaid shirt collar turned out and a color-changing toad mirror turned into this virtue.
Time is a killing knife.
Chapter completed!