The Red Era: Living in Seclusion in a Siheyuan as a Boss

Chapter 679 Fellow Disciples!
According to the Fifth Bus Depot, they did indeed purchase 400 grass-green backpacks not long ago, printed with the words "Awarded to the Fifth Bus Depot's Advanced Producers in 1978," and awarded them to more than 300 advanced production workers this year.

The backpack found at the scene was indeed one of the backpacks they purchased.

After learning about the details of the case, the Party Committee of the Fifth Bus Depot attached great importance to it and actively assisted the investigators in screening their subordinate units and bus fleets based on the characteristics of the criminals.

At the same time, they demanded that, after addressing the concerns of the employees, all the backpacks that had already been distributed be collected as soon as possible to see if any problems could be found.

After a day's effort, with the active cooperation of the Party Committee of the Fifth Bus Depot, the investigators recovered more than 200 backpacks, but found no valuable clues.

Moreover, after mobilizing the employees, no one reported the theft or loss of their backpacks.

The incident occurred in Luwan District, but among the employees of Bus Terminal 5 who live in Luwan District, only one person returned the backpack, and the whereabouts of the rest of the backpacks still need to be investigated.

The investigators learned from the Party Committee of the Fifth Bus Depot that a total of five employees of the Fifth Bus Depot, who lived in Luwan District, had received the backpacks as prizes.

Apart from the employee who returned the backpack and has been cleared of suspicion, four other employees have not returned their backpacks.

Therefore, the investigators focused their investigation on the remaining four people.

After investigation, the other three suspects were ruled out.

The last person remaining was Sun He, a young male worker who worked as a ticket seller in the Fifth Bus Team of Chuansha. He lived at No. 15 Gaolan Road, which was very close to the area where the incident occurred, and he lived alone.

Moreover, this person has a criminal record and has been investigated and punished by the public security authorities in the past for theft.

However, he seems to have reformed in recent years, and even received an award this year for his hard work.

At first, the investigators were overjoyed, thinking they had found the suspect.

However, an investigation revealed that...

Sun He was at work on the day of the incident; he had no opportunity to commit the crime.

In addition, his physical characteristics do not match those of criminals.

However, Sun He confirmed that the backpack found at the scene was his prize.

Sun He said he left the prize bag at home and didn't know how it ended up at the crime scene.

However, he was clearly very nervous when he said this, and he spoke haltingly.

This aroused the suspicion of Gu Shen, who had extensive experience in interrogation.

Under Gu Shen's repeated questioning and guidance, Sun He finally confessed to some of the issues.

It turns out that although Sun He didn't commit the crime, he was indeed involved.

Sun He admitted to covering up the crimes of the real murderer, Qi Guolin.

According to Sun He's confession, on the morning of January 25th, Qi Guolin went to Sun He with a bag.

Qi Guolin told Sun He that he had tried to break into the People's Bank of China's Fuxing Middle Road branch on the night of January 24, but failed. He was discovered and fled, stabbing two people with a knife along the way. He also left Sun He's prize backpack at the scene and asked Sun He to find a way to cover for him.

Sun He and Qi Guolin were good friends, and out of loyalty to their brother, he did not refuse.

Qi Guolin's bag contained a blood-stained garment and a triangular scraper. Sun He then locked the bag in the Chuansha motorcade's ticket cabinet.

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Based on the confession provided by Sun He, the task force immediately investigated and clarified the detailed information of the perpetrator, Qi Guolin.

Qi Guolin was 22 years old at the time and worked at the Shanghai Welding Electrode Factory.

This person is lazy and has a complicated social circle.

After obtaining Qi Guolin's photo, the police handed it over to the eyewitnesses at the scene for identification. The eyewitnesses generally said that Qi Guolin's appearance was extremely similar to that of the criminal.

Therefore, the task force split into two groups: one group immediately deployed to arrest Qi Guolin, and the other group went to Chuansha to retrieve the blood-stained clothes and murder weapon.

However, some minor setbacks occurred during the arrest of Qi Guolin.

At 1:15 a.m. on January 26, when the investigators who were lying in ambush near Qi Guolin's house were about to take action, they accidentally startled Qi Guolin.

When they broke down the door and rushed into Qi Guolin's house, they found that Qi Guolin was not at home.

However, when the experienced detective touched the bed, it was still warm, indicating that the person had not gone far and had not jumped out of the window to escape.

Therefore, the investigators immediately conducted a thorough search of Qi Guolin's house, inside and out.

Qi Guolin was eventually captured in a wooden cupboard in the kitchen.

On the spot, Qi Guolin was found to have cash, food coupons, and a triangular scraper he had prepared for self-defense, which he had intended to use to escape.

Meanwhile, the investigators who went to Chuansha successfully retrieved Qi Guolin's blood-stained clothes and murder weapon.

The bloodstains were tested and the blood type matched that of martyrs Wang Yao and Wang Xuedong.

Faced with the evidence, Qi Guolin confessed to his crime of stabbing martyrs Wang Yao and Wang Xuedong to death with a triangular scraper during his escape after failing to break into the bank savings office.

After more than 30 hours of continuous effort, the case was finally solved.

However, Zhang Shenghua and Gu Shen, the head and deputy head of the criminal investigation team in charge of the case, felt no joy at solving the case.

What initially appeared to be an ordinary theft case eventually escalated into a heinous murder that claimed two lives.

Two victims, in the prime of their youth, lost their lives forever because of their act of bravery, leaving behind endless grief and remembrance for their families and the world.

The heinous nature of the case led the two experienced police officers to deep reflection: if the police had intervened earlier, could the tragedy have been avoided?

Professor Gu Shen later analyzed this case in detail for his students on several occasions in his classes at the Public Security University.

Although the case itself is far less complex and difficult to solve than other major cases that Professor Gu has investigated, its educational significance is particularly profound.

Professor Gu was an outstanding representative of the first batch of public security officers in the New Xia Kingdom.

When Xinxia was first established, inspired by his sister, he resolutely devoted himself to the cause of public security.

With his outstanding professional skills and diligent work attitude, he quickly distinguished himself in the public security system.

In the early 1960s, Gu Shen, as an outstanding representative of the Shanghai Public Security System, was honored to attend the annual commendation conference held by the Ministry of Public Security.

It was at this conference that the young Gu Shen had the good fortune to meet Liu Zhiye, then a representative of advanced workers in the national public security system.

The two shared similar interests and hit it off immediately.

After the meeting, the hospitable Liu Zhiye specially invited Gu Shen to visit and exchange ideas with the "Security Department of Hongxing Factory" where he worked and the Public Security Department of DC Branch.

What impressed Gu Shen even more was that at the Liujiazhuang training base, he personally witnessed the security patrol team training camp that Liu Zhiye had meticulously built.

The orderly training scenes and rigorous, professional training subjects all demonstrate this veteran police officer's unwavering dedication to police work and his innovative spirit.

That encounter with Liu Zhiye left an indelible mark on Gu Shen's police career.

Years later, when Gu Shen was teaching Liu Yong, who was both his student and like a nephew, he said with emotion: "To be honest, my acquaintance with your uncle completely changed me."

I never imagined that a colleague of similar age to me could achieve such an extraordinary career.

"This made me feel deeply ashamed, which had made me feel smug."

Compared to Lao Liu, my achievements are utterly insignificant.

It was this experience that allowed me to truly see myself clearly.

“Although I can’t become a polymath like your uncle Liu Zhiye, I have found my own direction—to focus on a certain field and do it to the extreme.”

For decades, Gu Shen has maintained a deep friendship with the brothers Liu Zhiye and Liu Tielin.

As time has passed, Liu Zhiye is no longer the same person he once was, and now holds a very high position.

However, this sincere friendship has never faded in the slightest due to the disparity in their social status.

Liu Zhiye has always valued loyalty and righteousness, which can be seen from his attitude towards those around him.

Whether it was old comrades-in-arms like Ge Shuping, brothers like Yan Jiefang, Zhou Weiguo, and Liu Tielin, or even old friends like He Yuzhu and Xu Damao, he always treated them with the same sincerity.

As the saying goes, "When one attains enlightenment, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven," but in his case, it embodies a rare and precious sentiment of never forgetting one's original aspirations.

Teacher Gu Shen showed special care for Liu Yong, a direct descendant of the Liu family, treating him as his own son and protecting him with utmost tenderness. It is gratifying that, despite coming from the renowned "Liu family of western Beijing," Liu Yong showed none of the arrogance often seen in scions of prominent families.

On the contrary, he always maintained a humble and respectful attitude, adhered to the dignity of teachers, and showed great respect to his teachers.

Such rare qualities made Teacher Gu Shen particularly fond of him, not only imparting all his life experience and knowledge to him, but also regarding him as his successor.

Teacher Gu's high regard for Liu Yong was so great that even his own daughter couldn't help but feel jealous.

Liu Yong has always held his mentor, Gu Shen, who was hailed as a "super detective" and "interrogation expert," in deep respect.

Whenever he encountered a difficult problem or got stuck in a stalemate during the investigation, he would always consult Teacher Gu as soon as possible.

What's amazing is that Teacher Gu often only needs a few words of guidance to enlighten Liu Yong, and those seemingly unsolvable mysteries are easily solved.

This wisdom of simplifying complexity is precisely the unique charm of Gu Shen as a master interrogator.

In the battle of wits, the "Three Musketeers" were forged.

Liu Yong said to Teacher Gu, "Teacher, over the years, you have participated in solving so many major and unusual cases that have shaken Shanghai."

No wonder you, along with General Manager Zhang and General Manager Qiu, created the legend of the '803 Detective Trio'.

Teacher Gu humbly replied, "The title 'Three Musketeers of Detectives' is too much of an honor. It is an affirmation and encouragement of my work from the leaders and colleagues."

I remember back in the early days of reform and opening up, many unprecedented major and bizarre cases occurred in Shanghai during the social transformation period.

That year, I led the team that brought Yu Bing back from Ningcheng after he committed armed robbery and murder.

I also solved Shanghai's first child kidnapping and murder case using a scheme...

Whenever a suspect remained silent and the case reached a dead end, Old Duanmu would take out his pipe, puff out smoke, and say, "Go and fetch Gu Shen for me."

"So the cases I handle are basically 'second-hand' cases. Every time I'm assigned a task, it's a tough nut to crack that others can't crack."

I joked with Old Duanmu, saying, "The bone you gave me may be tough to chew, but the meat around the bone is delicious and flavorful."

"So remember, for us criminal investigators, we can only strengthen, not weaken, our interrogation work in the future."

Liu Yong nodded, indicating that he understood his teacher's meaning and that he would definitely improve the pre-trial work in the Criminal Investigation Department of the Yanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau.

During this trip to Shanghai, Liu Yong not only visited his teacher but also his junior classmate Wang Haijun, whom he hadn't seen in a long time.

Wang Haijun is now the deputy head of the first detachment of the Shanghai Criminal Investigation Corps. He is a low-key person, but his professional skills and character are well-known in the public security industry.

This person likes to practice Sanda (Chinese kickboxing) and loves to play football. When they were under Teacher Gu's tutelage, Liu Yong and Wang Haijun, the two fellow students, were known for their toughness.

From the beginning of his career as a police officer, Qian Haijun has always been a key member of the team who always takes the lead and has unwavering faith.

At the age of 19, Wang Haijun was admitted to the Public Security University. After graduation, he joined the Major Crimes Division of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau as an investigator.

Later, he and Liu Yong studied for a part-time postgraduate degree under Professor Gu.

When Liu Yong was studying under Teacher Gu, he felt that his junior brother Wang Haijun was extremely diligent and eager to learn. When the two were together, he analyzed cases with particular detail and patience.

During this visit, Liu Yong opened Wang Haijun's notebook, which had been filled with records of case analyses over the years.

He has maintained this habit to this day.

Wang Haijun's notebooks have no margins, the text is very small, and there is no gap between the beginning and end of each page.

Whenever discussing a case, Wang Haijun only needed to flip through his notebook, as he remembered more details and more comprehensively than the reports.

Many criminal police officers who have worked with Wang Haijun share the same sentiment: "When faced with difficult and complex cases, when all the clues have run dry and other investigators feel discouraged, Captain Wang always smiles and reassures them – it's okay, let's study it some more. No matter how difficult the case is, it will definitely come to fruition if we persevere."

At the end of January this year, a murder case occurred in Songjiang. The victim was a woman from out of town who had come to Shanghai.

The on-site investigation revealed that the perpetrator entered the premises by "soft entry," and biological traces not belonging to the deceased were left at the scene.

At the case analysis meeting, Wang Haijun, the head of the special task force, deduced that the case was highly likely to have been committed by someone known to the victim.

The victim's pager contact records involved more than 100 people.

Wang Haijun led the investigators to conduct a thorough investigation one by one.

It was almost Chinese New Year, and Wang Haijun often traveled to other places to investigate clues, driving himself back and forth in the same day.

On the sixth day of the investigation, the task force discovered a major suspect. Without hesitation, Wang Haijun drove to Central China Province to find the suspect's parents for biometric comparison, but the result was not a match.

Xiao Ma, a team member involved in the case at the time, told Liu Yong, who was visiting, "Director Liu, we were all very frustrated back then."

I think Captain Wang must be the most disappointed.

But instead, he reassured everyone, "It's alright, let's study it some more, the case will definitely be solved."

Encouraged by Wang Haijun, the task force rallied and continued their investigation.

By meticulously investigating and uncovering the layers of the case, another indirect associate, Wang, came into the focus of the special investigation team.

"Wang had a 103-second phone call with the victim before the incident, and borrowed money from a mutual friend of the victim after the incident."

Wang also arranged to meet a distant relative at Lanzhou Railway Station. "Xiao Ma recalled that after a thorough preliminary investigation, on February 17th of that year, Wang Haijun led a team to Lanzhou and successfully apprehended Wang at the railway station.

"At that time, there were still two days until the Lantern Festival. After 28 days of hard work, this major case that has attracted widespread attention was finally solved."

Over the years as a police officer, from the Major Crimes Unit to the Anti-Organized Crime Unit, and from an ordinary investigator to a leader of the Criminal Investigation Unit, Wang Haijun's responsibilities have become increasingly heavy, but his attitude has remained consistent. In his own words, "I will never change my serious work ethic."

Ten years ago, drug manufacturing and trafficking, smuggling, transnational crime, and other criminal activities began to emerge in the local area, causing a negative impact on social stability.

Wang Haijun joined the Criminal Investigation Corps' "Five Anti-Corruption Squad," becoming the youngest detective in the history of "Criminal Police 803."

In a case involving the sale of "flour," Wang Haijun volunteered to go undercover as a buyer, along with an experienced anti-drug veteran.

Drug trafficking is a serious crime, and once drug traffickers are caught, they are very likely to make desperate and irresponsible decisions.

"The navy personnel disguised as 'henchmen' were taken to a separate room to inspect the goods."

Facing a group of highly wary drug dealers, the slightest slip could expose his identity. He also had to protect his comrades and coordinate with the arrest team from within…” Zhang Shenghua, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department, greatly admired Wang Haijun. “At that time, Haijun was just a ‘rookie’ with only three or four years of police experience. His courage and ability in solving such a major case are truly remarkable.”

Last year, the headquarters' supervisory team came to Shanghai to supervise the special campaign against corruption.

Thousands of tips from various sources converged on Wang Haijun.

He was responsible for arranging, implementing, and reporting on the verification of clues, as well as handling several special cases. "For those few months, he practically lived in the office, and it was common for the office lights to be on until the early hours of the morning." Looking back now, Zhang Shenghua thinks Wang Haijun was incredibly dedicated.

"He's a model worker," Wang Haijun's colleagues all praised him highly. "As a leader, he has absolutely no airs of authority."

He treats everyone in the team like brothers, and he'll definitely take the initiative to help anyone who's in trouble.

“Every time I run into him in the cafeteria or at the elevator, he not only greets me but also encourages me.”

Wang Haijun is a good person; not only his colleagues say so.

Mr. Yang, the gatekeeper at the southeast gate of No. 803 Zhongshan North Road, spoke about Qian Haijun's character.

"As the leader of the detachment, he would always roll down the window and wave to us whenever he drove in or out of the gate."

What made him even more grateful was that when Old Yang's family member fell ill, Wang Haijun somehow got the news and offered to help him.

“He took care of me, a mere security guard. That shows how good he is.”

Many journalists who had dealings with him were also very impressed with him.

The three teams once
The largest medical touting case in the country was cracked. The people involved had complex relationships and their methods were covert.

When some reporters couldn't understand the case during their interviews, "he explained it again and again without the slightest impatience, always with a kind smile on his face."

Wang Haijun felt sympathy and understanding for the victims.

"The case is closed and the matter is settled" is his requirement for the officers handling the case.

"The case must be closed, and the victims' losses must be recovered as much as possible. We cannot let the victims suffer any injustice."

Colleagues said that when investigating a certain case, in addition to bringing the criminals to justice, Wang Haijun also organized several studies to help the victims recover the real estate, vehicles and other property that had been misappropriated.

(End of this chapter)