The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 174: Listening to the Crickets Chirping but Still Not Planting Crops
Liu Hua is very open-minded about these so-called romantic affairs. Some things on the Internet are much more excessive than this, especially some Western things in the news reports, such as the gathering of a certain island and a certain celebrity. Those are the things that shatter people's worldviews.

Li Huaide chuckled: "I don't have any other shortcomings, just two, one is that I have a disease, and the other is that I am greedy."

"You still call this having no flaws?" Liu Hua shook his head speechlessly: "With just these two flaws, once they erupt, they'll be enough to kill you."

"Don't worry about that. I know my limits. It's definitely not as outrageous as the rumors say." Li Huaide said confidently, "And I've thought of a way. I'll have people spread the rumors themselves. The more outrageous the better. This way, no one will believe it, and I'll be safe."

Liu Hua gave a thumbs up. It seemed that Li Huaide was an educated man, and had read a lot of history books. There were many treacherous ministers in history. When they were faced with impeachment, they would take the initiative to use this method and let their own people impeach themselves. The more outrageous the better. In the end, it would become so outrageous that no one would believe it, and then they would be safe.

Liu Hua suddenly thought, why are only the treacherous ministers using this method? It turns out that Li Huaide is not a good person either.

After resting for two days, Liu Hua started to work on the design of the new rolling mill. He did the same thing as before. He did not design it first, but went to the workshop to inspect it first.

In the past, his understanding of rolling mills was limited to how to repair them, and this little knowledge was not enough to design a new rolling mill.

Liu Hua asked Li Huade to stop the oldest and most dilapidated rolling mill and take a full set of tools to inspect the workshop.

As soon as the workers in the workshop saw this situation, they knew that the factory was preparing to start work on the rolling mill, and it would probably not take long before they could operate the new machine.

Whenever the word "new" is mentioned, people are generally in a happy mood. These workers have already fallen into a dream of using new machines, making great contributions to the factory and thus getting promoted and getting a raise.

After about three or four days of trouble, Liu Hua came to work on Tuesday morning and felt something was wrong as soon as he opened his desk drawer.

Yesterday, there was a box of matches in the corner of the top document in his drawer. Today, the box of matches was no longer in its original place, and the front and back were wrong. You know, Liu Hua's memory is now quite terrifying. He can remember everything he sees. He can remember clearly what the drawer looked like yesterday.

If the match was accidentally changed in position, it should have fallen next to the document, but now it is in the middle of the document, which is obviously not caused by vibration.

Liu Hua suddenly had a lot of thoughts. In the office, everyone was familiar with each other, and everyone knew that Liu Hua's drawer contained a lot of design drawings, and they were locked, so no one touched them at all.

Since it wasn't someone in the office who touched it, it can basically be confirmed that it was touched by an outsider. A word is about to come out.

Liu Hua took Ma Yushan out of the office and said, "Someone opened my drawer yesterday."

Ma Yushan frowned and said, "Who opened it? No one in our office has ever touched your drawer."

"I don't know." Liu Hua shook his head: "Now I think of one thing, maybe someone wants to steal something."

Ma Yushan smiled and said, "What do you have in your drawer? You can put a few packs of cigarettes and some tea leaves in there. Who would steal this?"

"The cigarettes and tea leaves are untouched."

Ma Yushan's face immediately fell: "That thing moved, it can't be your design drawings, right?"

"Someone has indeed moved my drawings." Liu Hua nodded. "But recently my drawer is filled with some unfinished drawings. There's nothing wrong with them. The key is who wants to find what."

"Enemy agent?"

Liu Hua said without comment: "In the past two years, our steel mill has achieved a lot. For example, the converter is the most advanced in the world." Ma Yushan quickly picked up the key: "The converter drawings are in the safe in the back room."

"Go and see."

The two men came to the safe, and Liu Hua carefully observed and checked. There were no signs of prying on the surface. He opened the safe and found that the order of the documents inside was the same as he remembered.

"The safe should not have been touched."

Liu Hua walked to the door of the inner room again. The lock on this door was also very strong and difficult to open, but Liu Hua keenly noticed that there were some barely detectable new scratches on the table.

Liu Hua pointed at the scratch and said, "There is a mark here. I don't know if it was caused by the key."

Ma Yushan thought for a moment and said, "The fact that your drawer was opened is already worthy of attention. This matter must be taken seriously. Let's go and report it to the factory director."

The two people came to Li Huaide's office and told him about this matter. Li Huaide became anxious.

"This is the enemy trying to steal secrets."

Ma Yushan nodded: "There is no way to confirm it now, but we must pay attention to it. No one can be sure."

Li Huaide nodded: "Leave this matter to me, you all should proceed as usual, do what you normally do, and do what you do today, and pretend that you didn't notice anything."

Li Huaide thought for a moment and said, "Hua Zi, I'll ask the security department to find some elite soldiers to secretly protect you on your way to and from get off work. You'd better bring a gun with you, in case they can't rescue you in time."

"I have them." Liu Hua said with a smile, "I have two. I will carry them with me tomorrow."

Li Huaide nodded and said, "Okay, go ahead. I'll report this to the higher-ups."

After Liu Hua and Ma Yushan left the office, Li Huaide picked up the phone on the table and dialed: "Dad, Engineer Liu found that his drawer was secretly moved."

"Did you succeed?"

It’s that simple to talk to someone who understands. Li Huaide’s father-in-law is an old soldier and he grasped the key points at the first time.

"There is nothing important in Engineer Liu's drawer at the moment." Li Huaide reported truthfully: "All important documents are in the safe in the technical department's room. There is also a very solid door outside. They found some relatively new scratches on the door, but they are not sure if it was caused by their own keys accidentally."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then Li Huaide's father-in-law continued, "Let your security department do a good job of protecting Engineer Liu. I'll let the professional department investigate the specific situation. You should be tight inside and loose outside."

On the way back to the office, Ma Yushan asked, "What are you going to do today?"

"We still have to do what we have to do," Liu Hua said with a smile, "We can't stop growing crops just because the crickets are chirping. We still have to continue designing the new rolling mill."

Ma Yushan nodded: "I have to think of a way to move the things in the safe out. It's too dangerous to keep them in that room. I can't bear this responsibility."

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