Chapter 4 (7)

  The next day, the whole camp gathered in a small auditorium for a grand political education class, where Instructor Wang Youcai represented Instructor Lu Qiguo to lecture on the core values of revolutionary soldiers. Xiao Hei's pen had run out of ink, and during the break, he came back to fetch a pen. When he opened his drawer, he was stunned - all the things he had written with great effort over the past few days were gone.

  How is this possible? The lock was fine, and when I came back after class, it was gone!

  Xiao Hei immediately ran to Zhao Tielong's office and happened to find both battalion commanders there, so he reported to them that he had lost something important.

  Zhao Tielong asked in surprise: "What important thing did you lose?"

  Xiao Hei said anxiously: "The things I wrote were locked in the drawer before class, and when I came back they were gone."

  Lu Qiguo interrupted and asked: "Did you lose money?"

  Xiao Hei said: "I didn't put any money in it, I just put the things I wrote."

  Lu Qiguo comforted him by saying: "As long as you haven't lost any money, it's nothing..."

  "That thing is more important than money, I locked it up properly, how could it be lost?"

  Zhao Tielong remained in a strange posture, sitting there motionless, and said to Xiao Hei: "Yeah, you locked it up, how could it be lost? Did you misremember where you put it?"

  "There are only two drawers in the desk, how could I have remembered it wrong?"

  Lu Qiguo patted Xiao Hei on the back, "You look again, if you can't find it, that thing was written by you, just write it out again, as long as it's not a financial loss, it's fine."

  Xiao Hei said excitedly: "That's all my property, I demand a report."

  Lu Qiguo looked at Zhao Tielong, who said lightly: "Report it and let the security department investigate." He then dialed the phone number of the security department.

  Defend stock long heard that just lost a few pieces of paper, with busy work as an excuse to politely decline this request, others obviously do not want to bother for these few broken papers.

  Xiao Hei decided to investigate himself, now the most important thing is to find what he wrote. Xiao Hei almost searched every place he could think of and finally found a clue on the rooftop of the building.

  On the rooftop, in an inconspicuous gap, Xiaohuo found a piece of paper, apparently someone had brought this thing here before. Then on the ground, he discovered several cigarette butts, judging from the color, some were old and some were freshly extinguished. Xiaohuo picked up the cigarette butts and examined them carefully for half a day, discovering that each butt had deep teeth marks, clearly indicating that they were smoked by one person, who was in the habit of biting the filter with his teeth while smoking.

  Now, as long as we can find the person who has a habit of biting the cigarette butt while smoking, it's okay.

  Xiao Hei picked up a cigarette butt and put it in his pocket, then went to the service center to buy a pack of good cigarettes. He came back and separately went to find two squad leaders to smoke and chat with, but unexpectedly neither of the two squad leaders smoked. Xiao Hei himself smoked two cigarettes and was choked until tears streamed down his face.

  After the two squad leaders were cleared of suspicion, Xiao Hei went to the room of Wen Shu and Communications Officer Xiao Tong, took out cigarettes for the two of them, but unexpectedly they both said they didn't smoke. Xiao Hei suddenly lost his direction, if it wasn't for the few people in the battalion, then the scope of the investigation would have been expanded.

  Xiao Hei lay disappointed on his bed, pondering where to start from when Xiao Tong, the battalion's communication officer, appeared at the door with a curious expression.

  Xiao Hei lay still and asked Xiao Tong, "Are there any instructions from the squad leader or instructor?"

  The little boy came in and said: "They didn't tell me, I wanted to borrow something from you."

  "What's the matter? Just use it as you like."

  The little boy's eyes were fixed on the cigarettes on the table, "Lend me a cigarette to smoke."

  Xiao Hei suddenly came back to life and quickly sat up. "Didn't you just say you weren't going to smoke?"

  The little kid said with embarrassment: "Just now, the squad leader was there, and I couldn't let him know. If he knew, then the battalion commander and instructor would also know. They don't smoke, so they won't allow us to smoke either. I've already been caught twice, if I get caught again, I'll have to go to the farm for reeducation. I'm a communications officer in the battalion headquarters, that farm is not even a place for humans."

  Xiao Hei pointed at the cigarettes on the table and said, "Go ahead and smoke, I won't tell them."

  "If they see me smoking in the barracks, I'm done for." Little Tong said, taking out a cigarette and saying "thanks" to Xiao Hei before running out the door.

  Xiao Hei followed him out and saw Xiao Tong running upstairs, so he quietly climbed up to the rooftop and indeed saw Xiao Tong indulging in smoking with abandon.

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