Siheyuan: Xu Damao, I want to go to the moon

"Yes, I went to Hong Kong."

Section Chief Xie had revealed the matter of the photos to him before, so Xu Damao couldn't hide it anymore and admitted it openly.

"Look, he admitted it! He left the country without permission, and Li Huaide even gave him a letter of introduction in violation of regulations, so he sneaked to Yangcheng and left the country without permission!"

"He is defecting! Comrade Li Huaide is assisting Xu Damao in defecting!"

Well, they wanted to drag Li Huaide into the water as well, because Li Huaide had always been singing a different tune from Chang Hongjun on the issue of the Red Star Speaker Factory, causing great resistance to his work.

Chang Hongjun seemed to have grasped some important clue. He pointed at Xu Damao and Li Huaide and spoke loudly to everyone.

"Comrade Xu Damao, you know what the crime is for leaving the country without permission, right?"

"Why are you doing this?"

The comrade from the Security Bureau asked in a deep voice. He wanted to understand the whole story. Today, Chang Hongjun and the leaders of the Ministry of Commerce had invited them here to coordinate certain things. The ultimate goal was to get Xu Damao to hand over the design drawings and patents.

But he has his own judgment. If someone really leaves the country without permission or commits a crime abroad, it is not a matter of coordination but a matter of official handling.

Coordinate with your commercial department?

This is absolutely not an excuse to abuse public resources for personal gain!

"My eldest brother-in-law, Lou Yufan, was assisting in the management of the Crescent Kingdom Audio Factory in Hong Kong. He was kidnapped by gang members. I went there to save him." Xu Damao answered truthfully.

"Even if it is to save people, this is not a reason for you to leave the country without permission. You can report it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." The comrade from the National Security Bureau continued in a deep voice.

"Then may I ask this leader, if I report this to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, can they come over and help me rescue my people? How many days will it take?" Xu Damao raised the question.

"This..." For a moment, the comrades from the National Security Bureau didn't know how to answer.

"Let me answer for you. Let's not talk about whether the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the ability to help me rescue people in Hong Kong. Even if we have comrades there, in order to save the eldest son of a ZB family, and this eldest son is currently working for a foreign company, the chance of using the connections and power of our comrades in Hong Kong to send someone to rescue him is zero."

"Is everyone okay with what I said?"

No one answered, but the result was obvious. Who would be responsible for the losses caused by Lou Yufan mobilizing the hidden people over there?

Totally inappropriate.

"And even if we are willing to use our power to rescue him, how long will it take from receiving the news to sending people to rescue him?"

"The other party only gave me three days. It's obvious that they wanted to lure me out. What about the $3 million ransom? Guo Jia can't possibly pay that much."

"What can I do? I can only go by myself."

"This is the Lou family's private matter. As their son-in-law, what's wrong with me going to save my brother-in-law?" Xu Damao asked with his hands spread out.

"But leaving the country without permission is against the law." The comrades from the National Security Bureau could understand, but the law is the law, especially for going to a socialist territory like Hong Kong without permission, that is a serious political problem.

Whatever the reason is, if you want to go just go, what's wrong with that?

"Who said I left the country without permission?" Xu Damao suddenly smiled.

"Ok?"

Everyone was stunned.

Chang Hongjun quickly questioned, "Isn't this leaving the country illegally? Li Huaide gave you a letter of introduction, not a customs clearance document! He gave you the letter of introduction because you wanted to go there to create and collect folk songs, but you sneaked directly into Hong Kong!"

"Isn't this leaving the country without permission?!"

"Who said I smuggled in?" Xu Damao suddenly smiled. Everyone was a little confused. How could they refute this?

"I went through the Yangcheng border inspection station after registering openly." Xu Damao said confidently.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! You don't have customs clearance documents, and the factory does not have the right to issue you customs clearance documents!" Chang Hongjun retorted immediately. He had confirmed this matter with the steel rolling mill. What Xu Damao issued was a letter of introduction, a blank letter of introduction, which was already a violation of regulations.

And there is absolutely no way this thing can be used to pass the level.

"So, it was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that handled it for me, and I reported it there." Xu Damao said easily. Now that he thought about it, Li Mingmei did a great job in reporting to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!

I almost revealed a flaw.

"Wait a moment, I'll call the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask." Since Xu Damao mentioned it, the leader of the National Security Bureau called directly to verify it.

There was a telephone in the room, the old-fashioned dial phone. After a short while, the call was connected and the inquiry was clear.

"Oh, okay, okay, got it."

He put down the phone and explained to everyone: "It has been confirmed that the day before yesterday, the leader of the Crescent Nation, Comrade Li Mingmei, helped Comrade Xu Damao to report it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

"The Yangcheng Border Inspection Station also received a reply that Xu Damao had indeed registered in and out of the inspection station."

The top leaders of the Ministry of Commerce and Chang Hongjun looked at each other in bewilderment - "How could this happen?"

"My eldest brother-in-law was kidnapped. The management of the Xinyue Country Audio Factory was kidnapped. They asked me, the chief designer, to go over and deal with the problem. Is this surprising?" Xu Damao spread his hands and said shamelessly.

The national security comrade then asked: "Then it is not leaving the country without permission, but there is a question I would like Comrade Xu Damao to explain."

"Your entry and exit records were yesterday at 12 noon and 6 pm, but—"

He took out a few photos, which were candid photos of Xu Damao stabbing people with a steel pipe.

"These photo negatives were brought back around 6 o'clock this evening, which means that these photos were taken at the latest in the early hours of yesterday or the night before yesterday—"

"This doesn't match your entry and exit time."

"What's happening here?"

Xu Damao's heart skipped a beat. Isn't this man's observation too meticulous?

So I had to bite the bullet and lie: "Wrong, I passed the checkpoint at 12 noon the day before yesterday. It's very likely that the comrades at the checkpoint got the date wrong."

Everyone was stunned. Is this the only explanation?

Xu Damao took advantage of the moment when everyone was stunned and quickly added: "What else? I will sneak into Hong Kong to save people, then sneak back to Guangzhou, then go through customs to Hong Kong and come back - what do I want?"

Everyone looked at each other, as if what he said made sense. At the moment, it seemed that the only explanation was that the checkpoint had remembered the date incorrectly.

However, since Xu Damao had reported it, the charge of leaving the country without permission was not established.

Comrade Guoan had no choice but to skip this topic: "So, you fought and killed people in Hong Kong, you won't deny it, right?"

This is the issue that they are most concerned about. You are a serious leading cadre of a large company in the mainland, and you went to Hong Kong alone to kill people everywhere. How will your fellow Hong Kong people and the British government view China? Isn't this a serious diplomatic disaster?

I heard that a few British people died?

What exactly do you want to do, Xu Damao?

Even if you can fight, but you go out and mess around like this, which puts us in a passive position!

As a result, Xu Damao still had that confused look on his face, and a look of slight grievance in his eyes.

"I went to Hong Kong and killed people. I killed a lot of people. So what?"

"Have I violated the laws of our country? Has the British government in Hong Kong complained to us or asked us to punish them on its behalf? Is there an extradition treaty between the two countries?"

"Which one did you break? Come on, leaders, explain it to me."

Xu Damao is ready to completely cheat.