Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 11 Ulterior motives
"Comrade Li Yancheng, as far as we know, when he led the team to take you away to investigate the Chen family's affairs just after the Chinese New Year this year, he did not use those messy methods on you, is that right?"

"Yes." Li Yancheng was a little confused by the question. He really couldn't figure out how this question could be related to Cui Haiyang's death.

"why?"

"Ah? What...why?" Li Yancheng was completely confused.

"Why didn't he use those methods on you?"

"This... How can I know this? No, Comrade Zhang, what exactly do you want to know from me? Please tell me clearly. As long as I know something, I will tell you everything I know."

Li Yancheng could see that these two people did not come here to investigate Cui Haiyang’s murder case, but had other intentions.

The two policemen looked at each other, and the one named Li, who had been silent, smiled and waved his hand.

"Comrade Li Yancheng, please don't misunderstand. We have no intention of digging up old issues. The matters that Cui Haiyang was previously responsible for investigating are not our responsibility. The reason we ask this is just to see if we can find some clues from the matters he handled."

Even though he explained it this way, Li Yancheng was still very skeptical in his heart. But since others said so, he couldn't ask any more questions and could only nod and cooperate.

"You asked me why Cui Haiyang didn't use those messy methods on me. I can't tell you the specific reason, but he mentioned a person in front of me at that time. It was a leader of our army when I was still in the army. He retired two years earlier than me. I heard that he was the deputy director of your Dianhai Committee. His name was Zhuang Dongwen."

Upon hearing this name, the expression on the face of the policeman surnamed Zhang instantly became unnatural. The policeman surnamed Li, who was originally recording with his head down, paused, raised his head and looked at Li Yancheng in surprise.

"Director Zhuang was your leader in the army?"

"Yes, I'm in the Logistics Hospital. Director Zhuang is the director of our Logistics Department and is our direct supervisor."

Li Yancheng sighed silently in his heart and decided to just go for it.

It sounds like they have a close relationship, but in fact it is not certain whether Director Zhuang knows him. After all, logistics work is very busy, and their hospital is just a unit under the Logistics Department, and there is a deputy director in charge.

Moreover, even if the leaders came to the hospital, they would go to see the dean. He was just a small doctor in the hospital. During the years he served in the army, he had only met Director Zhuang a few times.

But other people didn't know this. After he pulled the tiger skin like this, the attitude of the two policemen towards him immediately became much better. The following questioning was more like a formality. After asking a few more questions casually, they went to find Director Liu of the health center.

Standing at the door of the clinic, Li Yancheng watched the two of them walk into Director Liu's office and clinic, and frowned deeply.

"They're leaving?"

Hearing the noise here, Zhou Guotao walked out of the next clinic, saw Li Yancheng standing alone at the door, and walked over to ask.

"I went to Dean Liu's office. By the way, Brother Zhou, they may ask you more questions later."

"What are you asking me?" Zhou Guotao felt a little strange.

"As for my whereabouts, just tell me what you know."

"Yancheng, what happened?"

"It's not a big deal, actually. It's just that after my ex-wife's family left Beijing at the beginning of the year, the team leader who led the team to come to me to inquire about the situation was killed a few days ago."

Hearing this, Zhou Guotao opened his mouth slightly and his eyes widened.

Although things seem a bit chaotic outside now, this kind of murder case is still rare, especially for ordinary people. "Then... is that person dead?"

"Well, it's precisely because of his death that the police came to investigate all those who had conflicts with that person, and I... am one of them."

"But...we have been here for a long time, and you haven't been back for a while."

"Yes, that's what I said, but people always have to find someone to verify whether what I said is true or not."

"Oh," Zhou Guotao nodded in sudden realization, "I understand, Yan Cheng. If they ask me later, I will tell them the truth."

"Well, it has nothing to do with me."

"Tsk tsk, how much hatred must one have to kill someone?"

"Who knows?"

Li Yancheng didn't have so many feelings. Cui Haiyang had dealt with a lot of troubles in the past year or so. It was possible that one of the victims was feeling aggrieved. If the police could launch an investigation in that direction, they must have discovered something.

In fact, what he thought just now was correct. The public security investigation did seem to have ulterior motives.

They must also investigate Cui Haiyang's death, but at the same time, another incident involving his death is the current focus of the public security investigation.

This matter is still highly confidential and not many people know about it.

……

This incident did not have any impact on Li Yancheng's medical life. After the police who came to investigate left after finding out the truth, he returned to the same working and living state as before.

But now he has an additional task to learn Chinese medicine. He doesn’t really want to learn it, but he wants others to think that he is studying it seriously.

The days passed one by one, and the first snow after the beginning of winter in the 18th year of the founding of the People's Republic of China finally arrived in the last few days of December.

Auspicious snow means a good harvest. For farmers who depend on the weather for their livelihood, snow is a good thing, just don't let it turn into a disaster.

The first snow fell for two days in a row, and although it was not heavy, the town's unpaved streets had become muddy.

He went to the store to buy two boxes of cigarettes, walking with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The short distance of only a hundred meters made Li Yancheng grimaced. The road was so bad that even if it was just a layer of slag, it wouldn't be as muddy as it was now.

When they were still about forty or fifty meters away from the health center, they saw two girls standing at the gate. He had good eyesight and recognized one of them at a glance. She was Duan Fengjuan, the third daughter of Director Duan, to whom he had delivered food coupons the next day after he came home last time.

What was she doing here? Seeing the two of them standing on tiptoe at the door and looking at him, it was not difficult to guess that they were here to look for him.

Li Yancheng's mind was full of question marks.

Although they were neighbors and familiar with each other, he was seven years older than her after all, and because of the difference in gender, they didn't get very close. When they met at home, they would just say hello at most. If her brother Duan Zhengyang came, it would be the same.

But no matter what, when you are out and about, neighbors like them are very familiar with each other. If a girl comes to you and has difficulties, you must help her.

Thinking of this, he quickened his pace.

(End of this chapter)