msmithbooks Chapter 166 She wrote him a letter!
Chapter 166 She wrote him a letter!
Cheng Zheng exchanged a glance with the investigator in the middle. As their eyes met, he calmly said, "She didn't tell me in person; she told me in a letter."
"What about the letter?"
"It's lost." Cheng Zheng remained calm, his aura still powerful.
When Zhao Tiemei anonymously wrote the whistleblower letter, she also submitted the letter written by Lin Shuyao. The envelope had been opened, so the investigators couldn't determine whether Cheng Zheng had read the letter. Under Cheng Zheng's powerful aura, they momentarily forgot that they could have simply asked him to repeat the contents of the letter to prove whether he had read it or not.
Cheng Zheng immediately deduced from the other party's reaction that he had guessed correctly!
Lin Shuyao didn't just run away without giving any explanation; she wrote him a letter!
And this letter should be in the investigator's hands now!
He instantly understood everything.
The anonymous person who reported her must have seen the letter Lin Shuyao left for him, or rather, deliberately peeked at it, discovered that she was impersonating someone else, and then reported her, even labeling her an enemy spy.
Cheng Zheng was well aware of the situation and became increasingly calm and composed as he calmly faced the scrutiny of the three investigators opposite him.
The room fell silent for a few seconds. The investigator in the middle stared straight at Cheng Zheng and spoke again:
"Comrade Cheng Zheng, since you say the comrade impersonating Shen Qing has confessed to you, why did she run away? If she's not an enemy agent and has nothing to hide, why would she run away? Besides, you and she have already submitted your marriage application. As her fiancé, you can't rule out the possibility that you're protecting her, or even colluding with her. How are you going to prove your innocence?"
Cheng Zheng remained calm and his thoughts were clear: "She left for personal reasons. She felt I couldn't accept her impersonating someone else. The evidence you currently have only proves she impersonated someone else, but it doesn't prove she's an enemy agent, so there's no possibility I'm complicit. Otherwise, I wouldn't be sitting here accepting your investigation; wouldn't it be better if I left with her?"
"Besides, my family has impeccable revolutionary credentials. I was born under the red flag and grew up in the spring breeze. I received education from the organization, and my heart is filled with the country and the people. How could I be easily corrupted by enemy agents?"
With his family background and his own abilities, Cheng Jia was already at the top of the pyramid. He had no need to rely on enemy intelligence organizations and was indeed not among their target group for defection. The middle-aged investigator placed his hands on the table, thought for a moment, and still remained skeptical of Lin Shuyao.
"Comrade Cheng Zheng, I thought you were very aware of this. A woman, a beautiful woman, impersonating someone else to enter the car factory, working in such an important department as the technical department, and even dating you, it's hard not to suspect her motives."
He paused, leaning forward slightly: "She might have already transmitted the stolen information overseas, and foreign spies already know the progress of our car development. Moreover, in her translation work, she may have deliberately omitted or altered some key data, causing the project to be delayed."
Cheng Zheng's expression remained unchanged, and his tone was even more forceful than the other party's: "The project's progress is delayed because the Soviet experts did not intend to actually hand over the car manufacturing technology to us; that is the main reason. You suspect that Comrade Lin Shuyao tampered with the translation process, so why don't you hand over the translated documents to the Soviet translators for verification and see if she tampered with them?"
He stared intently at the other man and continued, "There's another point. If she really wanted to sabotage things, why did she participate in the Soviet experts' culinary competition in the first place? The experts were already preparing to return home; she was the one who insisted on keeping them there. Many people in the factory know about this. If she were a spy, her goal would definitely be to hinder the development of domestically produced cars, not to provide assistance!"
"In addition, I have crucial evidence that proves my fiancée is not an enemy agent, but this evidence is classified and I cannot show it to you here. You can go back and ask your superiors for instructions."
The implication is that you are all too low-ranking and not qualified.
The evidence he cited was the technical blueprints left behind by Lin Shuyao. With those blueprints, domestically produced cars could be manufactured without further guidance from Soviet experts.
But he can't take this out now.
Bringing it out now might temporarily clear his name, but the practice of discarding someone after they've served their purpose is nothing new, and he doesn't trust such people.
After hearing that he had more crucial evidence, the members of the investigation team exchanged glances. Finally, the one in the middle spoke up: "Okay, we will report back to our superiors truthfully when we get back. That concludes today's questioning. We will notify you as soon as we need your cooperation in any further investigations."