wind in the dark night

Chapter 320 Buying money for life
Two o'clock in the afternoon.

Office of the Chief of Criminal Division.

Qi Chaozong sipped his tea.

Sheriff Wang Xin pushed the door open.

Qi Chaozong asked: "Is the matter settled?"

"It's done."

Wang Xin hesitated for a moment: "Brother-in-law, the Youth Chess Club..."

Qi Chaozong looked helpless: "I say, are you Wang family members all out of your minds? Didn't I tell you that you are not allowed to call me brother-in-law in the police department, you have to call me by my position? Why can't you remember? Wang Liansheng is like this, and you are like this too!"

Wang Xin said: "I think, it's just the two of us, there's no one else..."

Qi Chaozong said coldly: "It won't work without others. It's a matter of habit. Do you know how Wang Liansheng died? It was because he couldn't tell the difference between a man and a woman. He died of stupidity!"

"……I was wrong."

Wang Xin didn't dare to argue.

Qi Chaozong's tone softened a little: "It's good that you admit your mistakes. You are smarter than Wang Liansheng. Follow me and work hard. Pay more attention to business. We are all family. I will not treat you unfairly."

"Thank you... Chief."

"Tell me, what happened to the chess club?"

"I saw Daping."

"Who is Ohira?"

"From the Secret Service Department."

"From the Special Agents Department..."

Qi Chaozong frowned.

Wang Xin said: "That guy was sneaking around the chess club..."

Qi Chaozong asked: "Did he see you?"

Wang Xin said: "It's okay if he sees me. He may not even know me... Why should I worry? Is he here to attack the chess club?"

Qi Chaozong's face was solemn: "It's possible... You should immediately notify the chess club and suspend shipments from today."

Wang Xin agreed and left in a hurry.

Qi Chaozong picked up the phone.

……

At this time, in the captain's office of the Special Agent Department's operations team, Qi Yue was sorting out documents.

Gao Kejian pushed the door open.

Qi Yue stood up: "Section Chief..."

The phone rang.

Gao Kejian signaled Qi Yue to answer the phone.

Qi Yue picked up the phone: "Hello?"

On the other end of the line, it was Qi Chaozong's voice: "Captain Qi, are you busy? Haha, nothing much... I heard you moved?"

Qi Yue said: "We just moved in a few days ago."

Qi Chaozong said: "No one told me about this incident. I just went to the archives department and heard Lao Han mention it. Then I found out that you moved... You two live in the same courtyard, right?"

Qi Yue smiled and said, "Not only one courtyard, he lives on the first floor, and I live on the second floor."

"When I'm free someday, I'll go to your house to get to know you. It will be convenient for me to find you later. Oh, that's it for now. I have something to do here. We can talk when we meet."

"Ok."

Qi Yue hung up the phone.

Gao Kejian asked: "Who's calling?"

"Chief Qi, he heard that I moved and said he wanted to visit my house."

Qi Yue answered truthfully.

Gao Kejian sneered: "Qi Chaozong is a man who never gets up early without profit. How could he not know that you are moving? Humph, he has ulterior motives."

Qi Yue brewed a cup of tea, placed it next to Gao Kejian, and said, "Has ulterior motives? I don't think so. I haven't offended him."

Gao Kejian said, "Wang Liansheng is dead, and he brought in a brother-in-law who keeps going to the Youth Chess Club every now and then. There are rumors that Qi Chaozong is involved in illegal smuggling business, and the chess club is the trading place. I am investigating this matter. I guess he has noticed something and is looking for you to sound out the truth."

"Oh, that's what happened..."

Qi Yue also sat down.

Gao Kejian said: "I know all of Qi Chaozong's tricks, but for the sake of our past friendship, I just pretended I didn't know... Recently, he has become more and more outrageous."

Qi Yue said: "Chief Qi has a wide network of contacts. There is almost no one in the provincial government that he doesn't know. And I heard that Mrs. Qi and the wife of the provincial governor often play cards together and have a very close relationship."

Gao Kejian's eyes flickered. "A very close relationship? Who told you that?"

Qi Yue said, "When I was in the Criminal Division, Wang Liansheng said this himself. Chief, it's okay for me to say something and offend Qi Chaozong, but I'm afraid Wei Shengzhang is also involved. If he really finds out something, it will be a bad ending..." "Yes, I understand."

Gao Kejian frowned.

Qi Yue's claim that Mrs. Qi and the wife of the provincial governor had a close relationship was pure fabrication. He was just trying to boost the reputation of Qi Chaozong.

Qi Chaozong was obsessed with money and dared to sell medicines to the Kuomintang guerrillas. Just for this reason, helping him is equivalent to helping the war of resistance.

"Actually, I don't care about Qi Chaozong's mess, but I still have to do what I should do in my position..."

Gao Kejian took a sip of tea and changed the subject: "Let's not talk about this anymore. Let him do as he pleases. By the way, has Zheng Yuxin contacted you?"

Qi Yue said: "I have contacted him."

"How did he say?"

"He's willing to pay for his life."

"Humph, using money to buy life, what a big mouth... How much can he give?"

Gao Kejian didn't have high expectations.

The Zheng family is just an ordinary family. Zheng Yuxin has been a policeman for several years and may be able to come up with some real money, but not much.

Qi Yue said: "Ten gold bars..."

Gao Kejian expected this and said calmly, "Ten gold bars are indeed a lot, but it's still a little short of buying two lives."

Qi Yue said: "In addition to ten gold bars, there is also the Nine Dragon Cup passed down from my ancestors."

"Nine Dragon Cup?"

Gao Kejian was surprised.

Qi Yue said: "It is said that this was Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial wine cup. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, it was lost to the people and finally acquired by the Zheng family."

Gao Kejian was half-believing and half-doubting: "How could he be willing to take out such a valuable item?"

Qi Yue said: "Zheng Yuxin's parents died early, and the two brothers had a deep relationship. He told me that he would be willing to lose everything as long as he could save his brother."

Gao Kejian nodded: "For the sake of the Kowloon Cup, let him go."

Qi Yue said: "Given Zheng Yumin's crime, we have to find a reason to justify his release. As for Section Chief Ranchuan..."

"After investigation, it was found that Zheng Yumin and Liu Shufen were actually coerced by the rebels. After being arrested, they actively cooperated with the investigation. Considering that they are first-time offenders and have not caused serious consequences, they can be released on bail pending trial."

Gao Kejian read the case closing report, which had been drafted long ago, in a serious tone, and instructed: "After you get the things, you don't have to give them to me. Just deposit them directly into Citibank like last time."

Qi Yue thought for a moment and said, "Wouldn't you like to verify the authenticity of the Nine Dragon Cup?"

Gao Kejian smiled slightly: "No need. Zheng Yuxin doesn't have the guts to lie to me. If I can release him today, I can catch him tomorrow!"

……

evening.

Dujuan's home.

Dujuan was changing into pajamas in the bedroom.

Xiaoyu pushed the door open and said respectfully, "Miss, Mr. Qi is here."

Du Juan said, "I see...Xiaoyu, go to the market and buy some preserved eggs and some fresh pork tenderloin. We'll make preserved egg and lean meat porridge tomorrow morning. The money is in the drawer of the dresser, take it yourself."

Xiaoyu agreed, took the money and left.

Du Juan changed into her pajamas, looked in the mirror, and then came to the living room and said to Qi Yue, who was sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper, "Have you eaten?"

Qi Yue said: "I have eaten."

Du Juan pushed the snack box over and said, "Shanghai snacks, try them."

Qi Yue said: "Gao Kejian told me that Kitahara Masao was not dead at all, and he had been sent to Xinjing to recover from his injuries a long time ago. The one about the hospital was fake."

Du Juan sighed, "I guessed it was a trap, but I still fell for it. Oh, those people were sent by Lao Qiu, but they were not from the Military Control Commission. They were from an organization called the Iron Blood Group."

"Iron Blood Group?"

"A group of young students spontaneously formed a resistance organization, imitating the Pingjin Iron Blood Assassination Group. Old Qiu's idea is very simple. Send them, regardless of success or failure, the Military Control Commission will not suffer any losses."

Qi Yue was silent for a moment: "There were five people in total, four of them died, and the one who escaped by chance was caught sooner or later."

Du Juan said: "Old Qiu has no choice. Whether Beiyuan is dead or alive, the headquarters is pressing hard and asking Binjiang Station to make arrangements as soon as possible."

Qi Yue said: "This afternoon, Gao Kejian released the two people who were arrested. One is Zheng Yumin and the other is Liu Shufen. On the surface, Gao Kejian accepted bribes from the Zheng family, but I always feel that things are not that simple."

"You think it's a trap?"

"Hard to say."

"Wait for Lao Qiu to come back, and I'll discuss it with him."

“He’s not in Riverside?”

"I went to Shenyang to pick up the special envoy."

(End of this chapter)