Hello, Mr. Major General

He Zhichu stopped, his peach blossom eyes flashed, "Gu Nianzhi, you have a lunch meeting at noon, did you forget?"

Gu Nianzhi looked up in amazement, "I have a lunch meeting, why don't I know? No one notified me?"

"You know now, I'll inform you on the spot, can't it?" He Zhichu's voice was more indifferent than his attitude, "If you have time to think about your professional work, don't think about buying breakfast for others. What are you? People? His wife in the country knows, is your reputation good?—not an errand girl."

Gu Nianzhi pursed her lips. Of course, she was not specifically for running errands, but when He Zhichu talked about Brother Huang's wife, Gu Nianzhi had to be cautious.

She let go of He Zhichu's sleeves, feeling a little flustered, "...Professor He, I have no other meaning. Brother Huang's wife will not misunderstand, right? Just buy a breakfast..."

He Zhichu lowered his eyes, his long black eyelashes covered his peach blossom eyes, "If you only buy breakfast for Xiao Huang? Would you say that others will misunderstand?"

"Huh?" Gu Nianzhi sighed for a long time. He couldn't help thinking that when he was still in C, Mei Xiawen bought her breakfast every day and only bought it for her. Everyone assumed that Mei Xiawen was chasing her. Up.

It seems that this is really misleading.

But she wants to narrow the distance with Brother Huang, buying breakfast is one of the means.

"What should I do? I don't want his wife to misunderstand..." Gu Nianzhi walked forward with a headache and threw He Zhichu in the corridor.

He Zhichu put his hands in the trouser pockets of his black suit trousers, and he couldn't believe that Gu Nianzhi had left alone.

He turned his head and looked at the direction of the speaker’s office, then looked back at the slender figure with the sagging shoulders in front of him as if he had been hit, then looked up at the ceiling of the corridor, and finally strode forward with his fate and caught up with Gu Nian. Zhi's footsteps, stiffly suggested: "You don't want Xiao Huang's wife to misunderstand, you can buy breakfast for others. If you buy it for others, even if his wife knows it, she won't misunderstand.

Gu Nianzhi stopped, and there was joy jumping in her dark eyes, "Yes, yes! Professor He is really experienced, so let's do it. I will buy breakfast for others right away." Then, she went to the small restaurant selling breakfast. go with.

He Zhichu followed behind her, had to cough, and said lightly: "I have no experience, I am talking about human nature. By the way, you are lucky. I will give you a chance. I happened to have no breakfast today. , You buy me a copy too."

Gu Nianzhi turned his head and looked at He Zhichu strangely: "Professor He, don't you never eat breakfast? You only drink red wine... I heard from my classmates."

He Zhichu's eyes instantly condensed, and the roots of his teeth were itching. He sneered: "You are clever again at this time? It's not that you said that you don't eat breakfast will cause stomach pain? Just now I persuaded Xiao Huang, now? Huang's mind is unusual?"

Gu Nianzhi was about to grab the ground with her head. She felt unreasonably unreasonable. She suddenly turned her head and rushed into the small restaurant, "Five more English breakfasts!"

The chef wearing a tall white hat packed five breakfast cartons for her, and slapped a receipt at the cash register: "Seventy-five yuan."

Gu Nianzhi took out his wallet and found sadly that he only had more than fifty dollars in it.

She does not have an American credit card, and she cannot bring a credit card from the China Empire that Huo Shaoheng gave her. She usually takes the money from Zhao Liangze.

Fifty dollars a day of pocket money was originally enough, but she was not enough in such an emergency.

Gu Nianzhi's face flushed red, and he stammered: "I, I, I... can I only have three copies?"

"No. These are all freshly made, don't you want to go to whom?" The black girl at the cash register was arrogant and refused to "return the goods" to her.

"Then I..." Gu Nianzhi turned around and stared at He Zhichu, "Professor He, can you lend me some money?"

He Zhichu was already out of temper by Gu Nianzhi.

Finally, I wanted to eat the breakfast that Gu Nianzhi prepared for me, and finally had to pay for it myself...

He was sullen,

The black girl instantly changed her face, shivering with a smile at He Zhichu, "Thank you Mr. He."

After swiping the card, Gu Nianzhi walked out with He Zhichu with five big breakfast boxes, and handed a breakfast box to He Zhichu, "Professor He, your breakfast."

He Zhichu pursed his lips and took the paper box from her hand. His voice was still sharp: "Not this time, because I asked everyone to eat breakfast. You have to clear your suspicions and you have to buy it again." Turn around and leave after speaking.

Gu Nianzhi curled his lips and returned to the appropriation committee office where he was waiting for the other four breakfast boxes, put them at Mary's desk at the front desk, and blinked at her: "Mary, I invite everyone to have breakfast."

Mary smiled so hard that she happily shared with the few people who came to work today.

One of Gu Nian sat quietly in his small office for a while, then turned on the computer, logged in to his account, and saw if he had anything to do today.

In the appropriation committee's system, there are no appropriations waiting for approval and upload.

She thought for a while, opened the history file, and checked the previously uploaded grant projects.

Thinking of the dates Zhao Liangze told her yesterday, she tentatively retrieved the funding records for the previous three months.

With Zhao Liangze's suggestion already in place, Gu Nianyi found out that two months ago, Congress had indeed allocated a funding to the Navy.

In terms of quantity, the amount is really huge.

It's really interesting.

Gu Nianzhi suddenly understood what He Zhichu meant.

This is indeed the most interesting place in the US Congress.

If you look at the source and flow of that sum of money together, many questions can be easily solved.

Congress approves so many projects every year, even members of Congress themselves sometimes do not know how many.

But not every project is finally implemented.

Only in this appropriation committee can you see which of the many projects approved by Congress each year are real and which are just fish in troubled waters.

In a word, sweaty documents and unspoken words can deceive people, only the flow of cash will not deceive people.

Gu Nianzhi was like discovering the New World, spending the entire morning in his office, concentrating on his previous funding records.

When He Zhichu called, she was taken aback.

After taking the phone, Gu Nianzhi's eyes still did not leave the computer display, "Professor He, what's the matter?"

"The lunch meeting, did you forget?" He Zhichu's cold voice came from the phone.

Gu Nianzhi gave an "Oh" and quickly exited the system, turned off the computer, picked up his small backpack, and walked out of the Appropriation Committee office.

"I'm waiting for you under the steps in front of Capitol Hill." He Zhichu finished speaking and hung up.

One of Gu Nian came out and saw a shiny black Rolls Royce parked on the open space in front of the Capitol Hill steps.

Is this this one?

Gu Nianzhi looked around, only to see this car parked here.

Parking is generally not allowed here.

He Zhichu stuck his head out of the rear seat, "Come here, what are you waiting for?"

Gu Nianzhi hurriedly walked over, opened the car door, and sat in the back seat.

"Drive." He Zhichu gave the driver in front of him.

Gu Nianzhi remembered a joke, saying that anyone driving a Rolls Royce must use a driver, because if you drive yourself, others will think you are a driver...

She lowered her head and smiled, with an uncontrollable look.

He Zhichu smiled when he saw her, and his depression suddenly disappeared, and he smiled slightly.

The car drove to a French restaurant in DC and stopped. He Zhichu took her in.

The two actually entered a private room in this expensive restaurant!

Whether it is high-end or low-end American restaurants, those with private rooms are rare.

Gu Nianzhi sat down happily, and when the waiters were all serving the food, she hadn't seen anyone coming.

"Professor He, isn't it about having a lunch meeting? What about people?" She looked at the door of the private room and asked in confusion.

"Isn't people here?" He Zhichu picked up a knife and fork, sliced ​​a piece of medium steak finely, and topped it with sauce.

Gu Nianzhi understood now, "Just the two of us? How is this called a lunch meeting..." She mumbled open her crab-cake and began to eat slowly.

"Two people can't have a meeting?" He Zhichu didn't look up, took the wine glass and handed it to Gu Nianzhi, "Give me red wine."

Gu Nianzhi hurriedly took a bottle of red wine on the table and poured a shallow bottom of the glass for He Zhichu.

"Today's lunch meeting refers to your recent work. I heard that you often hang around in various offices in the Appropriation Committee?" He Zhichu listed what Gu Nianzhi had done in the past few days.

Gu Nianzhi was sweating profusely, and secretly said that she also had eyeliner by her side...

"I know, I will work hard in the future." She did not talk back to He Zhichu, and admitted her mistake very well. Then, remembering the tip of the iceberg that she had seen from the Appropriation Committee's internal system today, she smiled and said: "I understand Professor He. Meaning."

"What do you mean?"

"You said that the Appropriations Committee is the most useful department of Congress?" Gu Nianzhi poured a light glass of red wine for He Zhichu. "I found out that it is true. It is confirming my idea."

"Oh? Let's listen." He Zhichu didn't expect that Gu Nianzhi would have a clue so quickly, he took a sip of red wine from the wine glass, and looked up at Gu Nianzhi from the edge of the wine glass.

Gu Nianzhi shook his head, "It's not time yet, wait until I have fully figured it out, then I will tell Professor He."

"Alright." He Zhichu wiped his mouth slowly with a napkin, "but remember that it shouldn't be too late, otherwise there will be no birthday gifts."

"Ah?-Oh..." Gu Nianzhi nodded, almost forgetting the incident, "Then Professor He will wait and see!"

...

When He Zhichu and Gu Nianzhi had lunch, Zhao Liangze was on a video call with Huo Shaoheng.

After he reported his work, he hesitated and gritted his teeth and said to Huo Shaoheng: "Huo Shao, I have shown the data to Nianzhi."

Huo Shaoheng's expression did not change at all, but Zhao Liangze suddenly felt cold all over, as if he was suddenly stared at by a bloodthirsty beast.

"Huo Shao..." Zhao Liangze slowly said, his tone trembling: "I...I... did I do something wrong?"

"Ozawa, you know, this person Nianzhi never forgets, you showed her this set of data, can you count on me to say you are right?" Huo Shaoheng was a little unspeakable, he threw the mouse and took out one. The cigarette was lit in front of the computer, and he took a long sip, hiding his face behind the white smoke rising up.

Zhao Liangze lowered his head, did not dare to look at Huo Shaoheng's eyes again, and mumbled: "I, I, I...I just want to find out the truth as soon as possible."

"That shouldn't be shown to her either." Huo Shaoheng changed his hand with a cigarette, holding the mouse in his right hand, and clicking on another file.

There is also a set of data, a set of data on changes in the magnetic field.

This document was created six years ago.

This set of data from six years ago almost overlaps with the data just discovered by Huo Shaoheng and others.

The latitude and longitude coordinates stored in this file six years ago were exactly a block in C City of China Empire.

That day, there was a serious car accident in this area. Huo Shaoheng, who was ordered to protect scientists from collecting field data, rescued a twelve-year-old girl from the car that was burning.

She is Gu Nianzhi.

"The magnetic field change data in the downtown area six years ago is almost exactly the same as the magnetic field change data on the seafloor of the Gulf of Aden six years later. Do you want to read something like this?" Huo Shaoheng held the mouse tightly in his hand, wishing to pinch the mouse. Broken.

"If I'm not mistaken, this kind of overlap of data is definitely not a coincidence. This incident should be related to Nianzhi. Since we can't get started, we might as well let her find it by herself." Zhao Liangze plucked up his courage and looked up at the other end of the video. Huo Shaoheng, "Furthermore, Huo Shao agrees to come to the United States. Isn't it to break the deadlock? Let more people appear?"

To put it bluntly, Gu Nianzhi is now their bait.

How can you stir a pond of spring water if you don't scatter the bait everywhere?

Huo Shaoheng's deep eyes were so dark that he couldn't see the bottom. He was silent for a while, and finally acquiesced to Zhao Liangze's approach: "Remember to report at any time." After speaking, he closed the video and walked to the balcony with a cigarette in his hand, looking outside. The mountains are in awe.

In the middle of the night, the station of the Special Operations Department of City C was completely dark, only the fireworks between his fingers flickered and flickered, just like his fluctuating mind.

...

After Gu Nianzhi had a "lunch meeting", he was sent back to the Capitol by He Zhichu.

He sat in the car and didn’t get down. He tilted his head to her and handed her a credit card, "Take it, I have something to go out these days, not here, you remember to write a report every day and send it to my mailbox, I Will check every day."

"I see, Professor He." Gu Nianzhi's voice was almost frustrated, as she declined He Zhichu's credit card, "Professor He, I can't ask for this card."

But He Zhichu said coldly: "I have graduate students, this is the school fund."

Gu Nianzhi had to take He Chu's credit card and put it back into his small backpack.

With her head down, she returned to the Capitol Building with heavy steps, and went to see Brother Huang first.

Senior Brother Huang saw her coming in and said anxiously, "Where have you been? Are you still eating lunch?"

"Of course I eat, I'm almost starving to death." Gu Nianzhi thought that He Zhichu had just left. No one should know about the "lunch meeting" between her and him.

Brother Huang took her to a small restaurant on Capitol Hill for lunch.

It's lunch time, and there are so many people there.

Gu Nianzhi only needed a portion of vegetable juice, held it in his hand and sat down with Brother Huang in a corner.

Brother Huang stared at her vegetable juice: "...This is your lunch?! No way! No need to save money for brother! Lunch is all bought with a card, and we don't need to pay for it!"

Gu Nianzhi was startled: "Brother Huang, do you have a credit card? Why don't I know?"

He Zhichu just gave her one, and Brother Huang's credit card was obviously already there.

"Uh, Assistant Professor Wen said that there are some problems with your procedures, and she is still negotiating with the bank." Senior Brother Huang hurriedly explained, "The same with mine. Would you like to buy something else?"

This is the second and third shift of the two more in one, including 4300 monthly passes.

O(∩_∩)O~.