Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

14th Institute, Research Lab.

"Engineer Zhang, it's getting late. Shouldn't you go pick up Zhen Niu Niu?" a middle-aged man said to Zhang Yue, a female engineer who was still buried in her work.

"No rush, let me finish calculating what I have at hand," Zhang Yue's right hand was shaking the handle of a hand-cranked calculator, listening to the ringing sound inside, then shaking it in reverse a few times to continue calculating.

"Engineer Zhang, kindergarten should be closed already," the middle-aged man continued to remind her.

"If it's too late, he'll go back by himself. When I was his age, I was already running all over the mountains looking for sweet potatoes," Zhang Yue continued calculating the data.

"Even if he can go back by himself, he'll be hungry. Engineer Zhang, put down your work for now, even if it's just to go to the cafeteria to get some food for Niu Niu to eat before you come back. You were almost forty when you conceived Niu Niu, and he's been weak since he was in the womb…"

"Alright," Zhang Yue put down her work, looked at her watch, and felt that it was indeed getting late. She quickly ran out, got on her bicycle, and headed straight for the kindergarten.

As expected, the kindergarten was already closed, and just as she was about to go get some food, she saw the teacher on duty.

"Engineer Zhang, what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to pick up Niu Niu. He should have gone back by himself already, right?"

"Engineer Zhang, Niu Niu didn't come to kindergarten today!"

Zhang Yue's face suddenly changed.

Didn't come? Where did the child run off to all day?

Zhang Yue remembered that she was in a hurry this morning, so she rode her bicycle to the kindergarten entrance, put Niu Niu, who was on the front beam seat, down at the entrance, and rushed to work. Niu Niu didn't even go in? Where did he go?

Zhang Yue suddenly became anxious.

"Niu Niu, Niu Niu…" Before long, the entire family compound was filled with voices searching for him. Anyone who was free started looking, but as night fell, they still hadn't found the child.

"Aunt Zhang, any news?" Zhang Yue rode her bicycle, searched everywhere, and happened to run into someone helping with the search. She quickly propped up her left leg to ask.

"We've searched everywhere, but we haven't seen him."

"Could he have been kidnapped by human traffickers?" someone whispered.

*Clang!* The bicycle fell to the ground.

"Niu Niu, my Niu Niu!" Zhang Yue could no longer control her emotions. She squatted on the ground, covered her face with her hands, and large tears streamed from her eyes.

Zhang Yue and her husband were both engineers at the 14th Institute. Her husband had received a new assignment last year and was away on business year-round, so the task of taking care of the child fell on her.

The New Year was coming soon, and her husband would be back soon. How would she explain it when her husband came back!

Just as Zhang Yue was collapsing, someone ran over: "Engineer Zhang, Engineer Zhang, the railway station police station called. They caught a human trafficker at the railway station, and the trafficker confessed that he kidnapped the child from near our 14th Institute!"

"What? I'm going now!" Zhang Yue stood up and went to push her bicycle.

"Engineer Zhang, hurry, get in the car!" At this moment, a driver from the institute drove a 212 over: "The director ordered me to take you there!"

The 212 sped towards the railway station. With a sharp braking sound, the car stopped outside the station police station.

Zhang Yue jumped out of the car and ran inside. Sure enough, she saw Niu Niu sitting on a chair, with several people standing next to him. One of them, a beautiful young woman, was feeding Niu Niu instant noodles.

"Niu Niu, Niu Niu!" Zhang Yue rushed over and hugged her child tightly. At this moment, her eyes welled up again.

Niu Niu also cried out: "Mommy, Mommy, this morning, I just wanted to go find Daddy… Mommy, Niu Niu will never run around again."

He didn't go to kindergarten today because he missed his father. He walked along the road towards the bus stop, thinking he could wait for his father, but he was spotted by human traffickers. Such a lonely child was the best target for human traffickers.

"Comrade, now that you've recognized each other, take the child back. Remember to take good care of your child in the future. This time, we're grateful to Comrade Qin Yang, otherwise, the child would have been taken on the train and left Nanjing, and we would never have found him again."

Comrade Qin Yang?

Zhang Yue looked at Qin Yang, who was smiling: "Did you save Niu Niu?"

Qin Yang nodded: "Comrades in our military industry are all too hardworking. In order to develop advanced weapons, they abandon their families and neglect the care of their children. This time, it was just a coincidence, a small matter, don't take it to heart."

Watching Qin Yang putting on an act, Nie Xiaoqian was incredibly surprised.

The child who was trafficked was actually the child of the expert they were planning to poach! How did President Qin know? Could it be that he arranged for someone to steal Niu Niu in advance, and then he played the good guy?

Based on Qin Yang's style, he was capable of doing such a thing, but Qin Yang didn't have the time! Besides, he had blinded the human trafficker's eyes. Later, at the police station, Qin Yang even kicked and punched the human trafficker, so it definitely wasn't one of their own.

Could it be that Qin Yang was prescient?

Seeing Nie Xiaoqian's questioning gaze, Qin Yang felt incredibly proud. Admire me, right? This is the advantage of a transmigrator!

There were no mobile phones or internet in this era. The Beijing Telegraph Building in Xidan was the only place in the entire capital where you could make long-distance calls, so it was impossible for Qin Yang to arrange all of this in advance. However, he knew that Engineer Zhang's child was lost on this day. Twenty years later, the human trafficker was caught and confessed the details of what happened back then. He left in broad daylight by train. In his previous life, when he was eating with the radar experts, they talked about this incident, and he sighed at the time that military workers were too difficult!

The timing was coincidental, so Qin Yang came to try his luck. After all, even if you knew these things, being able to save Niu Niu just happened to depend on luck, but fortunately, Qin Yang, as a transmigrator, had the protagonist's halo, so how could his luck be bad.

"Us? Are you also in the military industry?"

"Yes," Qin Yang said, "It's so late, you must not have eaten anything yet, right? Let's go to a nearby restaurant to eat something and chat, how about it?"

"I'll treat you!" Zhang Yue nodded quickly. It was only right to treat her benefactors to a meal.