My spy diary

Chapter 499 Newspaper
Zhang Yi carefully observed the environment inside the house. He saw half a bottle of red wine, two wine glasses, a tea cup and a stack of banknotes on the coffee table. Apart from that, there was nothing valuable. After observing for a while, he locked his eyes on another room next to the bedroom, which seemed to be a study.

He was just about to move towards the study when suddenly, he heard a noise in the bedroom. Zhang Yi immediately dodged and hid behind the curtains.

Soon, the bedroom door opened.

Zhang Yi, who was hiding behind the curtains, saw through the gap in the curtains that Kong San came out wrapped in a bathrobe, panting heavily as he walked. He walked to the sofa, picked up a teacup and drank it all in one gulp.

Seeing that his back was facing the curtains, Zhang Yi gently pulled open the curtains. Just as he was about to walk out and take action, the phone suddenly rang.

Kong San walked over and picked up the phone: "Hello, Director Yang? What's up so late? What did you say? You didn't receive the money? How is that possible? Okay, I'll ask right away."

"Damn it, what the hell is Gao Xiaobao doing?" After hanging up the phone, Kong Xiaobao was stunned for a few seconds, put his hands on his hips and cursed, then picked up the phone again.

At this time, he seemed to sense something and turned back subconsciously. As soon as he turned his head, a coat fell from the sky and covered his head, and then a big hand grabbed his throat, and then he felt his neck stiffen, shaky, and completely lost consciousness.

Zhang Yi caught him and slowly put him on the ground. Then he took a deep breath and slowly walked towards the study.

But before he had taken a few steps, a charming voice suddenly came from the half-closed bedroom: "Mr. Kong? Where is he?"

Zhang Yi tried hard to suppress his heartbeat and said in a pinched voice: "Wait for me for a moment, I'm going to the bathroom."

"Okay, I'll wait for you."

Zhang Yi said nothing more. He glanced at his watch and thought, "Five minutes is enough."

Then, he came to the door of the study quietly.

I turned the door handle and it was locked.

This did not pose a problem for Zhang Yi. He took out a thin wire from his pocket, inserted it into the lock core and poked it, and the lock opened.

He pushed the door open, locked it, turned on the light, and the room was bright.

He opened several drawers and found that most of them were empty. Only the last one contained a few stacks of banknotes. Zhang Yi thought about it but did not move.

Then, continue searching for the safe inside the room.

Soon, Zhang Yi discovered an oil painting hanging on the wall next to the bookshelf. He touched the edge of the painting and found it spotless. It was obvious that someone wiped it frequently. He tried to take the painting down, and found that there was indeed a safe behind the frame.

This was a very ordinary safe. Zhang Yi took out tweezers and a screwdriver from his pocket, poked it a few times, and with a "click", the door of the safe opened.

But the result disappointed Zhang Yi. Apart from a Rolex watch, some French francs, US dollar bills and a dozen gold bars, he found nothing else.

Zhang Yi was about to leave, but felt reluctant. He flipped through the banknotes and suddenly found a black notebook underneath.

He took out the notebook thoughtfully and opened it. It was filled with names, numbers, time and place. After looking at it carefully, he realized that this was clearly the account book of Kong San sending money to the Kong family.

Zhang Yi thought about it, wrapped his notebook, watch, cash and gold bars in his coat, took them all away, and finally closed the safe.

Before leaving, he thought for a moment, put the stacks of banknotes in the drawer into his pocket, then took out the fingerprints he had prepared in advance and rubbed them on the table.

When he opened his eyes again, Kong San found himself lying on the bed, with the beauty he brought home last night leaning beside him, sleeping soundly.

He was stunned for a while before he remembered that he was knocked unconscious. How could he be sleeping in bed now? Was he dreaming?
The great fear made his scalp numb. He rolled over, grabbed the woman's hair, and asked fiercely with a fierce look in his eyes: "How did I get to the bed?"

The woman looked at him fearfully. "Mr. Kong, I waited for you for a long time, but you didn't come back, so I went out to look for you. I found you sleeping on the floor, and I couldn't wake you up. I guessed you were drunk, so I had to drag you to the bed with great effort."

"Really?"

"real."

"You didn't see anyone?"

"Who?" The woman looked suspicious.

Kong San stared at her for a few seconds and felt something was wrong. He kicked the woman aside, opened the bedside table, took out a pistol, and bravely searched the room. Finding no one, he hurried to the study.

After opening the door, he went straight to the drawer, pulled it open, and saw that it was empty. His face suddenly changed and he quickly turned around to open the safe.

Kong San opened the safe anxiously and couldn't help but take a breath, his face changing from gloomy to bright.

Half an hour later, Kong San's trusted men all rushed to the villa.

These people were sleeping soundly in the middle of the night when they were suddenly awakened by a phone call. Kong San was urging them on the phone. They didn't know what had happened and ran over in a panic.

Their clothes were neat, but their faces showed that they were all sleepy. Some of them had not had time to wash their faces and even had eye boogers in the corners of their eyes.

As soon as they arrived, Kong San asked them bluntly, "Has anyone seen Gao Xiaobao?"

Several people looked at each other and said they didn't see it.

"Mr. Kong, what happened?"

Kong San frowned and sighed, and recounted what happened tonight with great difficulty. After listening to it, several people's faces turned pale with horror, and even those who were still sleepy had their sleepiness gone at this moment.

Suddenly, someone asked, "Who did it? How dare you dare to do such a thing?"

"I don't know. I just saw a black shadow and was knocked unconscious by a knife." At this moment, Kong San no longer cared about his face and chose to tell the truth.

"Mr. Kong, why didn't you call the police? This was a blatant home robbery, and you are a legitimate victim."

"You can't call the police." Kong San refused flatly. After a long silence, he sighed and said, "In addition to cash and gold bars, the man also took something from my safe."

"What is it?" several people asked in unison. They had all seen the safe in the study, but they always turned their backs to it to avoid suspicion. They had no idea what was inside. Kong San never opened the safe in front of anyone.

Kong San swallowed his saliva, pursed his lips and said, "A notebook."

"What happened to the notebook?"

Kong San sighed again, stared at them for a while, and then slowly said: "You also know that my family business is not mine. Uncle Xiang and some other people also have a share. I make money for everyone, and many times I have no choice. Therefore, all the expenses in the business are fake accounts. I have recorded the real expenses in my notebook."

When several people heard this, their faces changed drastically.

One of them thought for a moment and asked cautiously: "Mr. Kong, did you also write down the money given to those officials in your notebook?" Kong San agreed.

Another person stole a glance at his face and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Kong, does Mr. Kong know about this?"

"Of course I don't know." Kong San looked at him warily, and said in a stern tone, "Don't go out and talk nonsense."

Several people hurriedly swore an oath, promising not to tell anyone even if they were struck by lightning.

Kong San nodded and said in a gentle tone, "Recently, the Military Control Commission found the black market in the bombing case. You must have heard about it. I can't help it. I made this account book to leave a way out if something goes wrong one day. It's not only for myself, but also for you.

Think about it, if something happens to one of us, will Mr. Kong and the officials protect us? They will only try to distance themselves from us, or even kill us to silence us. But with the account book, it’s different. We are all in the same boat. If something happens, they will do their best to rescue us.”

Several people nodded. With that said, there was nothing wrong with Kong San getting the account book, but he just didn't want the account book to be stolen.

One of them thought for a moment and suggested, "Mr. Kong, why don't you tell Mr. Kong about this first and ask him to send a few capable people to help us find the person? Otherwise, we will have to rely on our own strength..."

"Absolutely not!" Kong San interrupted him sharply, "If Mr. Kong knows about the account book, we're doomed."

"Well, then how do we get our things back? Now we don't even know who did it."

Kong San was silent for a while. After a while, he looked at the others and asked, "Do you think Gao Xiaobao might have done this?"

"No way? Even if he had the intention, he wouldn't be able to do it. Mr. Kong, this guy easily bypassed the bodyguards, knocked you out without making a sound, and opened the safe. This is definitely not something an ordinary person could do."

"what do you mean?"

"Mr. Kong, you just said that the Military Intelligence Bureau found the black market in the bombing case. Could it be that they can't do anything to us openly, but secretly..."

"Is it possible?" Kong San's face became even uglier. He took a deep breath, calmed down his emotions, and calmed himself down. After thinking for a while, he said:

"This bastard is very professional. No matter if he is from the Military Control Commission or a gangster, I will skin him alive if I catch him. You guys go find a way. While looking for Gao Xiaobao, this bastard, you can also call on the gangsters and send out spies to find him as soon as possible. Whoever can do this well will be rewarded handsomely."

".yes."

The night grew deeper and the study in Zhang Yi's house was dark.

Holding a pair of tweezers in his hand, he picked up a wet photo from the developer in the dim light, and then carefully clamped it on a rope.

The rope was already hung with photos he had just developed, all of which were taken from the account books he got from Kong San's family.

He looked at it carefully with a magnifying glass. In addition to Kong's name, there were also some heavyweights from the police station, the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Military Bureau of Investigation, and the municipal government. Once this thing was thrown out, there would be an earthquake in the officialdom of the entire mountain city.

Zhang Yi smiled and was very satisfied with his photography works.

"Knock, knock, knock--" Just as he was admiring the work, there was a knock on the door.

Zhang Yi came out of the study, without saying a word, and waited quietly in the living room with a pistol in hand.

After a while, there was another knock on the door, "Knock!" After a while, there were three consecutive "Knock knock knock!".

Zhang Yi breathed a sigh of relief. It was Zheng Huhe who came. Seeing that he looked tired, Zhang Yi hurriedly welcomed him into the study.

It was a secret discussion, so I won’t talk about it anymore.

The next morning, Zhang Yi came to the bureau headquarters as usual. Passing by an office, he saw several plainclothes officers gathered together and talking about something mysteriously, so he stopped and asked:

"It's so lively, what are you talking about?"

"Director, you don't know yet, do you?" A plainclothes officer said gloatingly, "It's Kong San."

It turned out that this morning, a "horrifying" piece of news came out from somewhere, saying that there was a man named Kong Xiaobao under the command of Kong San, the "white glove" of the Confucius school. He was so bold that he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Kong San. Now his whereabouts are unknown and he is estimated to have escaped long ago.

Everyone who heard the news was gloating. Kong San had relied on the Kong family's reputation and had always been arrogant and brutal. He deserved this disaster.

But it's only 100,000 yuan, Kong San is rich, so he won't spend too much money.

So everyone just treated this news as a piece of fun after dinner and didn't take it seriously.

But then another shocking news came - last night some bandits sneaked into Kong San's house and openly robbed it, leaving Kong San's house empty-handed.

It is said that the bandits were well-known "male and female thieves" on the street. The woman first used her beauty to make the owner faint, and then when the owner was asleep, she opened the door and let her accomplices in, working together from inside and outside.
"The male and female thieves?" Zhang Yi laughed dumbly, glanced at his watch, and thought to himself, "Today's newspaper should be delivered soon."

In a magnificent villa at Zaozinan Ya in Guanyinyan, today's newspapers were placed on the living room table. One of them was the "Xinhua Daily", which prominently published the photos of the account books taken by Zhang Yi last night.

From the study upstairs, there were sounds of angry smashing of things.

Mr. Kong, who was always gentle and polite, yelled hysterically: "Get out - get out -!"

In Dai Chunfeng's office, the phone also kept ringing. Just now, the Kong family, the Ministry of Finance, and the attendant's office called one after another, as if urging Dai Chunfeng to die, and they were all angry at him.

Dai Chunfeng attacked Mao Qiwu and Adjutant Jia again.

Boss Dai was naturally happy to see the Kong family make a fool of themselves, but how could he be happy when several high-ranking members of the Military Control Commission were on the list exposed in the newspaper?

What gave him the most headache was the newspaper itself.

The Guo Party had extremely strict control over news and public opinion, but only the "Xinhua Daily" was not restricted. Because it dared to report the truth, its sales increased greatly, and it became popular in the mountain city and was sold throughout the country.

"A storm is brewing!" Boss Dai understood that once this incident happened, not to mention how the old man would punish Kong and those corrupt officials, the newspaper incident would be enough to make him furious. The Military Control Commission, the Central Control Commission, and the Military Police Headquarters would be the first to be affected and would all be in trouble.

"Let the Red Party investigate thoroughly, and you see, Yang Zaixing is among them. One bad rat spoils the whole bunch, and now our Military Control Commission has become a star!" This is what happened. After Kong San sent Kong Xiaobao to give money to Yang Zaixing yesterday, he recorded the account in his notebook, and Zhang Yi also took a photo of it.

Dai Chunfeng threw the newspaper to Mao Qiwu, "Where did the Red Party get such detailed information? How come there are photos and they are published in the newspaper?"

"Commander, I just found out about this too. The question now is how to deal with the old man's questioning."

"Call Yang Zaixing over to me first."

(End of this chapter)