"You guys should get some sleep! We'll be there before dark."
The sun became a bit dazzling at noon, so Wan Li took out a pair of sunglasses from the locker, put them on, and told us.
We didn't find a place to have lunch, so Wan Li dug out three packs of compressed biscuits from the car, and each of us ate one pack.
After Chujiu finished eating, he said that it was nothing special except that it was too hard to bite, and it was not full at all. Wanli threw a kettle to Chujiu and asked Chujiu to drink some water before talking.
Then Chujiu held his stomach and said that he was going to explode. Wan Li laughed and said that they sometimes perform missions in the wild and eat this thing for a month.
I leaned back on my seat, not feeling sleepy at all. My mind couldn't help but start thinking about the letter left by my grandfather again.
Grandpa will spend five years doing some things, which are related to the Qin family. The letter said that the sons of the Qin family are destined to be mediocre and the fate of the Qin family. Grandpa's master asked their generation to help the department, and
Not allowed to join officially.
They have almost rested, who are they referring to? Is it just my grandfather and Chujiu’s grandfather, or are there other people?
The letter that my grandfather left for me should have been left at home or sent to school. However, it was handed over to me from a mysterious soldier.
Under what circumstances, at this time and place, left a letter in the so-called department.
Everything is unknown, and the more I think about it, the more headaches I get. It feels like there is no obvious connection between all the things, but deep down there is a strong feeling that these things must be inseparably connected. The only difference is one,
An opportunity for all things to come to light.
This opportunity should be related to people and things. The only thing I can think of is the department.
I thought about hexagrams many times, even if I could calculate the slightest clues. In the end, I resisted this thought. The first day my grandpa taught me fortune telling, he told me to remember "counting others and not counting oneself". I didn't dare to take it lightly.
I tried, but I was afraid of involving my grandfather who was about to turn 70.
"Brother Wanli, can you tell me something about the department?"
I thought Wan Li would still answer "No comment", but unexpectedly he just remained silent for a while and then said to me: "You don't need me to tell you this, you will know it when you get there. Since you asked about it, I will tell you
Let me tell you."
The specific office address of the department is in the capital, located in a factory park near Tianjin. The name disclosed to the public is: Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control Research Institute, and insiders refer to it as: Environmental Protection Department.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the Environmental Protection Bureau is mainly responsible for guiding and coordinating the resolution of major environmental problems in various places, departments, and across regions and river basins; investigating and handling major environmental pollution accidents and ecological damage incidents.
Our environmental protection department is a bit special. The entire department does not even have a sprinkler truck. Instead, it has some military armored vehicles and military transport vehicles. All vehicles have special license plates, and the local traffic control department does not have the authority to query the information.
The office building where the department is located has thousands of employees, all of whom are engaged in R&D and production. Most of these employees are from the capital. They are willing to travel so far by car every day to work because this is a military industrial enterprise and the wages are much better.
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On the top floor of this office building with thousands of people, there is an inconspicuous office. The door of this office has no number.
The office is not big, it is a suite. There is a set of desks, chairs and a sofa for guests outside. The inside room is equipped with a bed for resting. There are only two telephones and a computer on the desk.
There are only three staff members in the entire office, the minister, secretary and driver. Among them, the secretary and driver are replaced every five years. No matter whether they are doing well or not, they must be replaced.
When Wan Li said this, he stopped and turned to look at me. The jeep was driving on a rugged mountain road. There was a foot-high stone on the road a few meters in front, which seemed to have fallen from the mountain next to it.
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Wan Li turned around and looked at me. The car showed no sign of slowing down at all. Seeing that the car was about to hit a rock, I pointed to the window in front and my mouth started to knot: "Be careful!"
Wan Li did not look back. When the car was about to hit a rock, I grabbed the armrest on the car door with one arm to protect Chu Jiu. I only felt the car shake for a while, and then continued to drive smoothly.
Wan Li didn't even look at the road conditions, he just turned the steering wheel casually, and the car perfectly avoided the rocks on the road.
"I am that driver and have been with the department for three years."
When Wan Li said this, there was reluctance in his tone. But after listening to his words, I became even more confused. The department mentioned in the grandfather's letter only has three people? Only three people can work for the country?
"Brother Wanli, I still don't understand. Can the department you mentioned be more detailed?"
I sat upright, leaning my head forward, lying on the back of the seat in front of me, waiting for Wan Li to continue telling me about the department.
"I actually didn't want to leave the army at the time, especially since I could only be a driver after I came out."
"and after?"
"Later, I saw the leader of our regiment standing respectfully next to the minister, shouting like an old leader. The minister told me that he only loaned me five years, and I can return to the army after five years."
"What now?"
"Now, I don't know now, I don't want to go back to the army anymore, but there are still two years left, and I have to leave the department, hey."
Wan Li sighed and continued to talk to me about department matters. He said these things were not originally his responsibility to tell me.
When Wan Li first joined the department, he felt unbalanced. He joined the army to protect his family and country, but now he was accompanied by an old man who stayed in the office 24 hours a day, reading documents, and didn't talk much.
Not long afterward, the department signed a confidentiality agreement with him, which stipulated that he could only use the code name Wan Li. Wan Li felt strange that he had to sign a confidentiality agreement when he came to work as a driver in a factory.
Until one day, another red phone on the minister's desk rang. The minister said: "It's time to go to Inner Mongolia!"
Wan Li was about to walk through the door of the office when the minister called to him and pointed to the bedroom of the office.
It turned out that there was a mystery hidden behind the bookshelf in the bedroom. After the minister moved a few books, the bookshelf made a mechanical sound and moved to both sides, revealing an elevator.
The elevator went directly to the dedicated parking lot in the basement. The minister pointed to one of the armored vehicles, and Wan Li was stunned when he saw it.
Even in the army, this kind of armored vehicle is looked up to from thousands of miles away. How many times have I imagined that one day I can get close to this vehicle and take a look.
The minister smiled and opened the door and sat in the passenger seat. Wan Li got into the car with excitement and found that the armored car had no back seat because there were various weapons placed behind the driver's seat.