The Life of a Son-in-Law in a Courtyard House

Chapter 620 Director Hou Agreed

Director Hou was surprised: "What? How did you suddenly come up with this idea?"

Why did I decide to go there myself?

I know about your Uncle Chu's situation. Back then, the order was urgent. His team received an urgent order to reach a certain high ground within 24 hours to carry out a sniping mission.

In order to arrive ahead of time, they took mountain paths along steep cliffs, and thirteen of them slid down the cliffs during the night.

However, in order to complete their mission on time, they failed to provide timely rescue.

We can only keep moving forward.

After the war, the recovery team searched several times but only found the bodies of eight martyrs.

The other five can't be found anywhere, including you, Uncle Chu.

According to regulations, those who were not killed on the battlefield or killed in a bombing, but were on the march and whose bodies were not found, can only be declared missing and cannot be included in the list of fallen martyrs.

Perhaps, I mean perhaps, Dalinzi, don't be upset if you hear this, maybe they were captured because they were injured after falling off a cliff.

They went to Island 4V.

Because his name was not on the prisoner exchange list.

In total, about 21,000 to 22,000 of us were captured.

Only six to seven thousand people chose to return.

More than 14,000 people went to the island, and several hundred others went to other neutral countries.

This is a situation.

However, there is another possibility: the victim might fall off a cliff, die, and have their body eaten by wild animals.

There were no relics, no remains.

All of these are possible.

Even if you go, you might not find anything, really.

Is it necessary to go there in person?

Yang Dalin stood up straight and said firmly, "Director Hou, I must go."

My uncle has been out of contact for years, though the military hasn't said anything.

Only one missing person was reported.

But my aunt has been the subject of a lot of gossip from her colleagues and neighbors.

My aunt was worried that my sister Yan and my younger sister Xiaoning would be bullied at school again, so she changed their surnames to the same as Aunt Qi's.

I feel I have to go there about this. I've heard my aunt say that my Uncle Chu has a stubborn temper and would never be taken prisoner. He'd rather die than be taken prisoner.

I trust my aunt, and I'm thinking of finding my uncle and bringing him back.

This fulfilled my aunt's wish.

Even if he were captured, it's not impossible for him not to come back. He has a wife and children here; there's no reason for him to abandon his wife and children to go to a brothel.

I hope Director Hou can put in a good word for me and let me go there.

Director Hou was deeply moved when he heard that Qi Yulan had even changed her daughter's surname.

He knew all too well how difficult it was for a woman to raise two children all these years.

If it weren't for Uncle Chu joining the army early, Aunt Qi wouldn't have been given a job in the neighborhood not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Then it will be even more difficult for Qi Yulan to raise two children.

Director Hou paced back and forth in his office a few times: "Have you decided? Do you want to go?"

"Yeah, I want to go."

"What if we come up empty-handed?"

"If we find nothing, we find nothing. But if we can find some remains, even if there is no evidence, I will bring them back. When the technology is advanced enough to verify relatives through remains, we can verify them again."

I hope Director Hou will also raise this issue with the higher-ups.

The remains of those unknown martyrs can be handled in this way.

Yang Dalin was referring to DNA paternity testing technology.

It may not have been invented yet, and it seems that it will be introduced to our country in the future for the purpose of solving cases.

The price was very high at first.

Yang Dalin, who watched "I Am a Criminal Investigator," knows that when the police first started using this technology, it cost 10,000 to 20,000 yuan per session, which was very expensive.

It only became cheaper after the technology matured and a large number of skilled personnel were trained.

Director Hou was naturally unaware of this technology.

But he knew Yang Dalin was right; with the development of science, sooner or later technology would be able to identify those nameless martyrs.

He is a person who respects science.

After all, his department uses a lot of existing high technology.

If he's stubborn and inflexible, he won't be able to hold onto his position as department head.

"Okay, I promise you, I will mention it to the higher-ups, and I believe no one will stop you."

You should start learning a foreign language.

As you said, we'll arrange a time for you to go around May Day. The weather will be nice then, neither too hot nor too cold.

Otherwise, if we go now, the soil in the mountains will be frozen and it will be very difficult to dig.

It's almost time. I'll arrange for you to meet your Uncle Chu's former comrades.

Those foreign languages you just mentioned, our Beijing Foreign Studies University has teachers. I'll get you a temporary student ID, so you can go and study on your own whenever you have free time after work.

However, it seems there aren't any Korean language teachers there yet. Wait a couple of days, and I'll find you a Korean military officer or teacher in Beijing.

Let him teach you.

Is it okay?

"Okay, thank you, Director Hou."

"Alright, there's no need for you to be so polite, but I have to remind you."

Keep it a secret before you go. I think you shouldn't tell your family before you go.

If things don't turn out well, you should pretend you don't know for the time being.

Do you understand what I mean?

"I understand, I get it."

"Alright, if you have nothing else to say, get lost."

"Okay, Director Hou, that's all. I'll be going now."

After saying that, Yang Dalin picked up his bag and was about to leave.

Director Hou stopped him: "Wait, what's wrong? You've got the job done, but you're not leaving the wine you brought for me in your bag? You want to take it back with you?"

Have you no shame?

"Hehe, I thought Director Hou didn't drink."

"I don't drink much, but I've heard your Minister Teng and Minister Duan, as well as the fathers of your friends from the military compound, mention your tiger bone wine. They say it's very effective."

Can I let you bring it in and then take it back?

Leave it to me.

Yang Dalin chuckled awkwardly, took out two bottles of tiger bone wine from his satchel, and added, "Drink only a little at a time, just two qian (a unit of weight) is enough. By the way, Director Hou, would you like some tiger penis wine?"

"Get lost! I only get to go home three days a month, what do I need it for?"

Just as Yang Dalin reached the door, a voice, much softer than before, came from behind him: "Um, well, I'll have Gao Xiaohu go back with you later, and he can bring two bottles too."

It can still be useful occasionally.

Yang Dalin naturally heard this and almost burst out laughing. Old Hou is still a bit too thin-skinned.

But he also replied loudly, "Understood, Director Hou."

Yang Dalin had just left Director Hou's office when he didn't rush to leave, because he needed Gao Xiaohu to escort him out.

I can't just wander around aimlessly.

There were two guards outside Director Hou's door, and one of them quickly brought Gao Xiaohu over.

Gao Xiaohu handed him a certificate: "Here, take a look. It's all done. The photo is on, and it's stamped with an official seal."

Keep this document close to your body.

It is not necessary to show it to the public easily.

In special circumstances, you may fire first at anyone who threatens your life.

Just call the number on your ID afterwards.

"Understood, Brother Tiger."