Siheyuan: Struggle in the Red Era

Yard No. 95 is now at the top of the list.

Four consecutive time travelers have pushed Courtyard 95 to the forefront.

Especially the appearance of "Fang Daming" made the relevant units begin to study how to detect and control the rebellious time travelers as quickly as possible.

After discussion and research, Wu Zhi was ordered to spend a large amount of money to exchange for the only energy detector, which was prepared to be installed in the courtyard.

For the sake of confidentiality, this energy detector was decided to be placed in the basement of Zhou Kangzhan's home, a place that is just able to monitor the entire yard.

In order to prevent the people in Yard No. 95 and those who monitor this yard from discovering the secret, the entire basement excavation started from the east wing of the next yard, the house adjacent to Zhou Kangzhan's house.

Digging the basement was not a difficult action, and it could be done without being noticed by other people. When the equipment was finally installed and the experiment began, everyone discovered a big problem.

Lin Baoyan was speechless: "Is that energy detector very powerful and consumes a lot of electricity? As soon as it was turned on, the whole yard was cut off from power?"

Wu Zhi nodded depressedly: "I really didn't know that the annual power generation was so low in the city of Beijing at that time, with electricity shortage. When I received the task, I focused on the function and cost performance of the instrument. When I bought it, I never thought about checking its power and whether the circuit at that time could bear it."

Since he came to this world, especially after being recruited, the places he has been in are either deep in the mountains and forests where there is no electricity, or in various important institutions with power supply. He never thought that there would be such a thing as power outage.

"Yes, when we bought electrical appliances back then, we didn't need to consider voltage issues. We just looked at the functions, energy consumption, and price. When we were satisfied, we could place an order. When did we need to consider power and whether the line could withstand it?"

Lin Baoyan sympathized for a second, then asked, "Did all the circuits in Yard 95 get repaired later?"

"It's not just Yard 95, the entire block is under repair," Wu Zhi said depressedly. "We've opened so many factories in the past few years, and the city's electricity demand has always been in short supply. The power plant has been expanded twice to barely meet the electricity demand. As a result, as soon as I turned on this instrument, the entire block was cut off. What do you think is going on?"

"Ah, the entire block." Nanluoguxiang is not small. It is not a small project to overhaul the entire block and replace old electrical wires and switches. The cost is definitely not small.

However, this instrument should have been tested after purchase. How come there was no problem during the test?

Wu Zhi rolled his eyes: "How can this be compared? How could there be a power shortage at the testing site?"

Lin Baoyan nodded. Indeed, the environment at the testing site and the application site is different.

By the time the power plant expanded its capacity and the instrument was put into normal testing, it was already the end of July this year. However, within just half a month, the instrument captured a huge energy burst. The location of the explosion was the home of the newly moved-in technical secondary school student in the west room of the hall not far from the Zhou family's house.

Wu Zhi gloated: "The energy that erupted was too great, and the higher-ups didn't dare to act rashly. I was not there at the time, so we decided to observe first. If there were any unusual movements, we would send special forces to arrest the people. As a result, the observation revealed a problem."

Lin Baoyan said: "What kind of mess is this? What did this technical secondary school student do to ruin your worldview?"

Wu Zhi shook his head: "This Lao Wu is probably an old hand. He has no intention of helping Sha Zhu escape from the sea of ​​suffering, nor does he have any hobby of collecting beauties. He probably just wants to make money so that he can become a rich man in the future."

"After he came, he often stole glances at Qin Huairu and He Sanmei, and occasionally drooled over them, but he only looked at them and didn't do anything excessive. He was also very friendly with the residents in the courtyard, didn't cause any trouble, and was very quiet. So, the higher-ups were a little relieved. But it turned out that they were relieved too early."

"He probably has a planting space, the kind that plants a crop every few days. Isn't there a drought this year? Although preparations have been made long ago, in order to prepare for the next two years, the grain put on the market is still a bit scarce. The proportion of fine grains supplied by the grain book has decreased, which has caused the prices of various fine grains in the pigeon market and the black market to rise a lot."

"This old man planned to make money by reselling fine grains. He used the same old tricks. He found an empty yard, agreed on a price and quantity with people, and let them take it. It is said that he was cautious the first time and only traded 1 ton, but the second time, he may not have noticed any danger, so he increased the transaction volume and traded a full tons."

Lin Baoyan frowned: "He sold so much food at once. Thirty tons, even if it is packed in 100-jin bags, there are 300 large bags. With such a large amount, two or three cars can transport it. But now there are many more cars on our roads, but they are all company cars, and they are all numbered. If you have some clues, you can find out the movement route of the vehicle and the person behind it."

"If he didn't use a car, how many vehicles would he need to transport such a large amount? He couldn't hide his whereabouts. However, he has space, so he won't be discovered when transporting. But not being discovered is a big problem."

"Yes, Lao Wu has completely forgotten that this is not seventy years from now. The movement of large amounts of materials cannot be hidden at all."

Wu Zhi sighed: "Before our people could clean up his mess, the people he was trading with followed him and discovered his secret."

Lin Baoyan stopped talking. She was secretly glad that she was not greedy and cautious enough and did not resell food. Otherwise, if she resold food and was the child of an enemy spy, her small body would not be able to withstand the debuffs.

"In order to protect Lao Wu's secret, the higher-ups raided the black market and caught several enemy spies."

"He has really created a big mess. Why does it feel like there are enemy spies everywhere now?"

"Do you know how many enemy spies there were in the city right after liberation?" Wu Zhi was not surprised. "There were nearly 10,000 identified by the public security department alone. If you add the number that was not identified, you can imagine the situation."

Lin Baoyan opened her mouth wide: "Impossible, how can there be so many."

"How can there be so many?" Wu Zhi didn't want to explain this any further, so he turned the topic back to Lao Wu: "These are not the worst. The worst thing is that the food he sold has problems."

"There's a problem with food? What's the problem?" Lin Baoyan's face turned serious.

As the first traverser with space for planting, her alert antenna went up when she heard about the food problem.

Wu Zhi lowered his eyes. "The food he sells is no different from ordinary food in terms of appearance and ingredients. However, after eating it, the feeling of fullness lasts much shorter than normal food."

Lin Baoyan was confused: "What's going on? Is there something wrong with his space?"