Break out of the courtyard

My brother-in-law, Chang Sheng, was transferred from the railway police to the municipal bureau through his connection with the bureau chief.

Based on what Chang Sheng just said, Zhang Heping was basically certain that this was a continuation of the struggle between the director and deputy director over Chang Sheng's position as deputy section chief.

Although Chang Sheng has already taken up the position of deputy director of the household registration office, he has not yet secured his position, and outsiders may still have the opportunity to remove him.

For example, the death of He Yuzhu!

The deaths of Hu Baye's gang in Nanguan Hutong, as well as the deaths of those two old thugs, were indeed related to Zhang Heping.

Zhang Heping never expected that Section Chief Geng would include him as a suspect based on only a few clues back then.

Unfortunately, Zhang Heping not only did not commit any more crimes in the capital, but also left the capital to go to the countryside, thus not giving Lao Geng, who was then the director of the police station, a chance.

Therefore, Section Chief Geng had no evidence to prove that Zhang Heping had killed Hu Baye and his men!

Similarly, he had no evidence to prove that He Yuzhu's death was related to Zhang Heping.

The whole commotion they caused tonight was nothing more than Chang Sheng taking Section Chief Geng's position, the head of the administrative team standing up for him, and even dragging in the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation, all to set a trap for Chang Sheng, this "outsider," in order to test whether Zhang Heping would feel guilty.

Zhang Heping had only killed a few thugs with ill intentions; why would he feel guilty?
Moreover, that happened more than twenty years ago.

During this period, how many people died at Zhang Heping's hands?

Besides, when Zhang Heping's father, Lao Zhang, his father-in-law, Tang Ming, and the people around him, such as Lao Hua, Lao Li, Lao Zheng, Uncle Zhuang, Lao Yang, the old company commander, and Lao Zhao, had fought, which one of them hadn't killed someone?

Playing psychological warfare with Zhang Heping is no match for those guys who've been living in peace for too long!

This is only possible because it's in the capital. If it were Hong Kong Island, Zhang Heping could have sent someone that very night to teach the whole family how to behave themselves.

The next day, Zhang Heping got up for his morning exercise as usual.

After breakfast, Zhang Heping took a car to attend a meeting.

At yesterday's seminar on the introduction of Soviet-made heavy industrial equipment, those whose import projects had been rejected by Zhang Heping finally reached a consensus to have a comprehensive survey of the domestic industry be conducted, led by higher authorities!

Today's meeting is a discussion on Shouyuan Pharmaceuticals.

The higher-ups definitely want the technology related to the Longevity Elixir.

Only by mastering the production technology of Shouyuan medicine can one achieve freedom in medication use and thus avoid being controlled by Zhang Heping!

Of course, if Zhang Heping was unwilling to give it up, most of the higher-ups had no choice but to settle for second best and control the distribution of the longevity potion.

The fact that Zhang Heping gave the Longevity 120 medicine to five senior experts, including Qian Lao, and even asked them to work for him, is something that some people above actually wanted to restrict.

However, so far no one has come forward to oppose Zhang Heping's use of drugs on Qian Lao and others!

Because a single dose of Lifespan 120 potion costs as much as 120 billion RMB!

They didn't have the money to object, and they couldn't arrange free injections of the Longevity 120 drug for Qian Lao and the other five senior experts without having to work for Zhang Heping.

That's why we have this seminar on longevity medicine today.

Unfortunately, just like the previous two days, Zhang Heping rejected all the assumptions and ideas of the participants.

"Advisor Zhang!" An elderly man in a military overcoat spoke up from beside the podium: "I heard that a man named He Yuzhu died under the bridge in front of your house, and the criminal investigation team suspects it was murder!"

Zhang Heping sat on the left side of the middle of the podium. If he wanted to see the old man next to him, he would have to lean forward and turn his head to see him.

But Zhang Heping has a sensory ability, so he knows who is speaking without even looking.

He didn't want to bring this up, but he didn't want to discuss the longevity potion with the people present, so he continued, "Old Feng, what you're trying to say is that the criminal investigation team suspects I killed that idiot Zhu the night before last!"

what's the situation!
Most of the attendees were stunned; Consultant Zhang had actually been labeled a suspect by the Criminal Investigation Team!
"The night before last..." Old Hua, sitting on the right side of the middle seat, clearly hearing this for the first time, turned to Old Feng beside him and asked seriously:

"Old Feng, what have you heard? Tell me, and let's see who dares to wrong Consultant Zhang!"

Hua Lao said this with full confidence.

Because he was worried that something might happen to Zhang Heping's parents and family, he had placed plainclothes officers to guard the area around Zhang's compound.

Those plainclothes officers could be just passersby, street vendors, or even new residents who have moved in from nearby.

In Hua Lao’s opinion, he should first find out what happened with the Criminal Investigation Brigade, and then go and ask those plainclothes officers what was going on!

The ensuing conversation strayed far from the topic of today's meeting.

Zhang Heping originally thought that since Elder Hua already knew about this matter, he didn't need to concern himself with it anymore.

Who would have thought that when he returned home from the meeting, he would find a police car parked in front of his house.

When he returned home, he found four police officers, two men and two women, sitting at his two dining tables, taking statements from Chang Wen and Zhang Feng respectively.

"What's going on?" Zhang Heping asked with a gloomy face, looking at his brother-in-law Chang Sheng, who was standing to the side.

Chang Sheng was also very annoyed at this moment, and said coldly, "The criminal investigation captain sent these four recent college graduates to take statements and ask about what happened the night before last and yesterday morning."

The bodyguard captain, who hadn't accompanied Zhang Heping to the meeting today, looked awkwardly at the second wife, Chen Shuting, as Zhang Heping frowned at him.

Chen Shuting naturally understood the pleading look from the bodyguard captain, and ignoring the four young police officers who had just graduated and started working, she said directly, "Honey, I'm the one who told them to let the people in."

"Furthermore, I have informed the Peace Law Firm that they are ready to send a team of lawyers to sue them for defamation at any time!"

Zhang Heping didn't respond, but stared at the four young policemen with a dark expression.

If this were on Hong Kong Island, without the Governor's intervention, even if the Commissioner of Police led a team to take a statement, no one could even get into the Cheung family's house!

However, this is the capital city. Although Zhang Heping has the resources and connections to act recklessly, he will pay a heavy price afterward!

Judging from the current situation, if he wants to quickly quell this matter, he will probably have to pay at least 10 doses of Lifespan 120 potion.

Of course, he wasn't without other options, such as suspending investment in the mainland.

The Peace Group's investments in mainland China are all funded according to the progress of the projects.

Once Zhang Heping orders a complete halt to investment in the mainland, all projects across the country, including highways, power, telecommunications, military, and real estate, will have to stop!

The total amount of money involved in those projects is over 100 billion US dollars, which is more than 800 billion RMB.

After these projects started, they revitalized countless factories in the mainland and provided employment for a large number of unemployed people and migrant workers. However, Zhang Heping did not engage in the kind of scheme that would harm the enemy by a great deal while also damaging himself by a great deal.

Even when one of the young male police officers asked him to give a statement, he did not refuse!
After taking Zhang Heping's statement and seeing him sign and fingerprint it, the young male police officer who led the team secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The next second, he stood up and bowed slightly to Zhang Heping, saying, "Advisor Zhang, thank you and your family for your support of our investigation. We still have a few more statements to take, so we won't disturb your rest any longer!"

"You're doing this to maintain social order, which is understandable!" Zhang Heping said calmly. "Also, go back and tell your superiors that I wish their entire family a long and healthy life!"

The four young policemen were stunned for a moment, not understanding what Zhang Heping meant by his last words, "May you live a long and healthy life."

At this moment, living to a ripe old age is still a good blessing.

But for Zhang Heping, it had become a curse of a short life.

Although the young male police officer leading the team didn't understand, he silently repeated the words in his mind several times to reinforce the impression so he could tell their captain when he got back.

Because of the statement, the Zhang family didn't even cook dinner. They simply called the Capital Hotel and asked them to deliver food.

Zhang Heping still didn't tell Hua Lao and Director Wang about the statement.

The moment Zhang Heping chose to lower his stance and cooperate with the statement taking, he decided not to give the criminal investigation team the Lifespan 120 potion.

For this purpose, Zhang Heping specifically instructed his brother-in-law Chang Sheng to draft a list of personnel in the criminal investigation series, especially their ID numbers.

Since Zhang Heping had helped set up the household registration system and ID card recognition system in mainland China, it was very convenient for him to check someone's household registration information by ID card number; he just couldn't do it openly.

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After taking statements from the Zhang family, the four young police officers did not go to other people's homes to take statements, but drove straight back to the municipal police station.

When they returned to the Criminal Investigation Brigade, they found the bureau chief in their office, yelling and cursing at the brigade leader.

Judging from the bureau chief's furious expression, if he were given a gun right now, he might just kill the captain in front of him.

"Where have you four been?" The bureau chief frowned and stared at the four young men who had just entered. He had interviewed these four people before and knew that they were college graduates who had been assigned here this year.

"I called you guys earlier, why didn't any of you answer?" Section Chief Geng, noticing a wink from the captain, quickly stepped in to save the day. "Were you looking up information in the archives again? Get out of the way!"

These four young policemen weren't stupid. They sensed that something was wrong in the office and, after hearing Section Chief Geng's hint that they should deliberately cover up their trip to the Zhang family to take a statement, they decided to take the opportunity to step aside.

"Stop!" The bureau chief, being a shrewd old fox, immediately realized something was amiss.

Based on his years of experience in handling cases, he knew that these people were covering something up.

You should know that when he was cursing the head of the criminal investigation team, no one present dared to make a sound.

However, when he asked where the four young men had gone, Old Geng jumped out from the side!
He received a report from his subordinates that the Criminal Investigation Brigade had set up an investigation team based on Lao Geng's various suspicions about Zhang Heping.

The bureau chief thought of the investigation team, and then saw the young male police officer in the lead put the leather bag he was carrying behind his back, and immediately had a bad feeling.

"Give it to me!" The bureau chief didn't ask what was in the leather bag; he simply ordered the other party to hand it over.

Among the department heads who came with the bureau chief, a middle-aged man with glasses heard this and immediately stepped forward to take the leather bag from the young policeman.

The bureau chief continued to stare at the four young men whose eyes were darting around, and simply said to the middle-aged man with glasses, "Open it."

Then, the middle-aged man with glasses pulled out three notebooks of special paper for taking statements from his leather bag.

The middle-aged man with glasses only glanced at the contents of the statement on the front before quickly flipping to the statements on the back.

"Oh no!" The middle-aged man with glasses held an open transcript, pursed his lips, swallowed hard, and then handed the transcript to the bureau chief with some difficulty. "Chief, this matter is probably going to be difficult to handle!"

When the bureau chief saw the three large characters "Zhang Heping" clearly written in the column for the person being questioned on the record, the veins on the bureau chief's forehead involuntarily bulged.

For a moment, he really wanted to shoot those two troublemakers dead.

However, this is a workplace, not a battlefield!
He had just cursed at the head of the criminal investigation team, which was already very irrational. If he were to curse again now because of Zhang Heping's statement, it would hinder a fair investigation and attract the attention of the Party Secretary.

The bureau chief took the three transcripts but didn't even glance at them before putting them back in the brown paper bag.

"Did you get any answers?" The chief walked up to the young male police officer who had just brought in the statement, handed him the bound brown paper bag, and asked, "Is Consultant Zhang angry?"

The young male police officer subconsciously looked at their captain, only to see the other man nod slightly.

Seeing this, the young policeman took back the brown paper bag and replied, "Consultant Zhang wasn't angry; he was very cooperative with our investigation."

"Furthermore, we made new discoveries by interviewing Consultant Zhang's family."

"On the evening of December 27, He Yuzhu lingered on Yinding Bridge. It turned out that he wanted to ask Consultant Zhang to treat the sequelae of his stroke, which was the hand tremors and weakness shown in his most recent discharge medical record."

"Advisor Zhang said he holds grudges and would never repay He Yuzhu with kindness, so he had the bodyguards chase him away."

"According to the statements of the two bodyguards who chased them away..."

"Stop!" the bureau chief interrupted. "What else did Consultant Zhang say?"

"Most of what Consultant Zhang said is in this transcript; what I said may not be complete." The young male police officer glanced at the brown paper bag in his hand, then looked up again and said:

"Oh, by the way, Consultant Zhang asked me to pass on a message to the leader: he wishes your whole family a long and healthy life!"

Nima!

The veins on the bureau chief's forehead were throbbing; he was furious!
In order to get a longevity potion for his old man, he abused his power to transfer Chang Sheng over and forcefully promoted him to the position of deputy director of the household registration office.

Now look what's happened! If we wish his whole family a long life, will his family only be able to use the longevity potion with its severe side effects from now on?

At the World Internet Forum, Zhang Heping explained the advantages and disadvantages of the Longevity 100 potion very clearly. Unless it's a necessity due to reaching a certain age, normal people will wait to use a better new Longevity potion.

As for the price of the new Longevity Elixir, we can only hope that Zhang Heping can develop a Longevity Elixir that can be mass-produced, thereby reducing the price of a single dose.

Or, like those who have already been injected with the Lifespan 120 drug, they could first establish a relationship with Zhang Heping.

As far as he knew, only his family and one other family had managed to establish a slight connection with Zhang Heping through job transfers involving members of the Zhang family.

Although this relationship was fragile, Chang Sheng had told him that Zhang Heping had agreed to give him a lifespan 120 dose of medicine.

In his view, everything is difficult at the beginning. With this good start, and with Chang Sheng working under him, they can strengthen their family's relationship with the Zhang family in various ways and plan for the future longevity potion.

However, the relationships he had painstakingly built up over several months were completely destroyed by these guys!
The criminal investigation captain, who had just received a severe reprimand, also realized the seriousness of the problem! (End of Chapter)