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Chapter 37 Apologies: If apologies were useful, what would be the point of laws?

An Ning suspected that someone was deliberately trying to frame her; the security officer named Qu Zhiming clearly harbored hostility towards her.

She had never met the other party, so it was easy to guess who was behind it without even thinking.

However, Anning did not expect that they would go so far.

This is in the military!

They arrested her here without any reason and locked her up for more than twelve hours without any regard for her needs, not even letting her drink a drop of water.

It wasn't until the afternoon of the following day, when she was so weak that her chest was pressed against her back, that someone came to see her.

No, it's interrogating her.

The person who entered was a man in his early thirties, accompanied by a recorder.

The man, carrying a teacup, entered without even glancing at An Ning, and immediately sat down in a chair, looking at the documents in his hand.

Then he asked, "Name?"

An Ning stared at him intently: "What crime have I committed that you haven't revealed a single detail before starting to interrogate me? Let's not even talk about the fact that I'm a military wife; my parents died in the line of duty and were honored by the government. Is this how you treat the descendants of heroes?"

The man looked up at her and asked, "You don't know?"

Anning countered, "Should I know?"

The man flipped through the documents in his hand again, looking puzzled. "You've been reported. We invited you here to understand the situation."

"You brought me here with soldiers pointing guns at me, and you called it 'please.' Now you've locked me up here all night, and you're interrogating me like a criminal, and you call that 'getting the situation'?"

The man was not angered by An Ning's words, but calmly said, "This matter is very serious, and we must deal with it seriously."

"Fine, at least you have to tell me why I was reported, right?"

"Since you don't know, then I..."

The interrogation room door was suddenly pushed open, and Li Bowen, whom An Ning had just met the night before, walked in.

"Commander Li." The interrogating man immediately stood up. "I didn't know you came here..."

"Bastard thing!"

Before he could finish speaking, Li Bowen interrupted him, slamming a document onto the interrogation table.

"Is this how your security department operates? After receiving a report, you don't even investigate the basic facts, and you just send people with guns to the military dependents' area to arrest people? Do you know how much impact this will have?"

In the morning, he brought the entrenching tool modified by Shen Anning to the meeting and shared Anning's ideas on modifications that he was unable to make. The senior generals of the military region unanimously agreed that this shovel would provide more convenience for the soldiers and urged him to get the design drawings as soon as possible so that the military factory could produce the finished product.

He then spent all his time working on the materials. If Song Wenyuan hadn't called and asked him to help find Shen Anning's location, he would never have imagined that after just one day, their hero would be suspected of being a spy, "invited" into the security department at gunpoint, and locked up for an entire night!

"Open your eyes and look at what that is! I'm telling you, your security department will bear all the consequences of this!"

After Li Bowen finished his tirade, he calmed down and looked at An Ning with a kind expression: "Comrade Shen An Ning, I apologize. This was a mistake in our unit's procedures."

An Ning shook her head: "Commander Li, you've helped me before, and I don't like to be petty. But I was arrested and detained in front of so many military families for no reason, and I still don't know what happened. If I just walk out like this, what will those military families think of me? Can I continue to live here until my husband returns from his mission?"

Li Bowen's expression became complicated when An Ning mentioned Song Wenyuan.

For the sake of the country and the people, his capable subordinate has been working tirelessly for the country since getting married, and has not returned home for six years.

Even when his wife came looking for him, he dared not acknowledge her.

During his long service, the only two requests he made were for his wife, who was a woman who had only recently arrived and was about to contribute to the country.

But he... sigh!

Thinking of this, Li Bowen said solemnly, "Comrade Anning, please believe me, believe in the organization, we will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation!"

An Ning had a generally good impression of her superior, Song Wenyuan. Although her misfortune today was likely caused by his good intentions, who would have thought that Wang Xiuying would be among these family members?

Since the other party has said so, she doesn't mind giving them face.

"it is good."

Li Bowen smiled: "Yan Fei, when you take Comrade An Ning back, you must explain this matter clearly to the others."

"Yes!"

While Li Bowen was speaking to An Ning, the interrogator shakily picked up the document that had been slammed on the table. The document had the words "Draft of the Fleet Engineer's Shovel Improvement Plan" written on it.

After seeing those words clearly, the interrogator's hand trembled, causing the document to fall back onto the table.

When he was preparing to interrogate Shen Anning, he naturally knew why Shen Anning had been reported as a spy.

Creating advanced toy airplanes is secondary; the most important thing is that shovel that can be used in the military.

Their own entrenching tools were not as convenient as the ones Shen Anning had modified, and they were under strict control, making them inaccessible to ordinary people. So where did Shen Anning's ideas come from?

Someone gave them an answer—more advanced ideas from abroad.

Therefore, they held a highly suspicious attitude towards Shen Anning's identity, which led them to decide to interrogate her in such a strict manner, and even used psychological tactics.

However, the document in front of him told him that the shovel that Shen Anning had modified had already been handed over to the army.

If she really was a spy, would she have shared this kind of information?

Obviously impossible.

Then everything they had done to her before would have been in vain, and they had wronged an outstanding young woman who had made significant contributions to the country's important military supplies.

"Commander...Commander, we were wrong. We'll go apologize to Comrade Anning right away!" The interrogator bravely admitted his mistake.

But Li Bowen had no intention of taking it easy.

This matter has already had a huge impact on Shen Anning, and may even affect Song Wenyuan, who has not yet returned. How could he let it end like this?

"If apologies were enough, what would be the point of procedures? What would be the point of laws?" Li Bowen slammed his fist on the table. "This matter must be thoroughly investigated! Did the whistleblower harbor ill intentions towards this military spouse who made outstanding contributions to the army? Who was in charge of the irregularities that led to her being brought here? Who was it that kept a meritorious soldier locked up in the interrogation room for almost a whole day? Find out their motives!"

The interrogator could only nod in response.

God knows, he was just following orders from his superiors to carry out a mission, this matter really had nothing to do with him!

Thinking of the person who went through illegal procedures, caused this huge trouble, and even gave him a bad impression in front of the military leaders, he almost cursed his ancestors for eighteen generations in his heart.

Li Bowen was not one to talk the talk but walk the walk; after he left, he left his other orderly behind.

He was to make sure the security department strictly carried out Li Bowen's orders!

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