Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 259 Clues?

"Didn't you know Guan Xiaofeng before she came to the project team?"

"I can only say that I know her, but I can't say that I know her personally. After all, our instrument factory is a subsidiary of the research institute. Although I can't say that I know everyone in the institute, I have heard of her. What's more, she has a stupid son, who is quite famous.

After joining the project team, since we were not in the same group and were not familiar with each other, we would just nod when we met.

but……"

When he said this, Huai'an suddenly frowned and stopped.

Wang Maofei didn't urge him, but lit another cigarette for himself and waited patiently.

"But maybe because Guan Xiaofeng and Haiping live in the same unit, they seem to be quite close, and when they chat together and sometimes mention that woman, Haiping's words always give people an ambiguous feeling.

This is just my feeling, I can't explain the specific situation. Guan Xiaofeng is a widow, it's not easy to put a accusation on her head. Everyone knows that they sometimes go to and from get off work together."

As soon as he finished saying this, Huai An realized something was wrong and asked curiously, "Why are you asking Guan Xiaofeng?"

It seemed strange that he was not sleeping in the middle of the night and suddenly came to ask about a widow.

"We think there should be other people like you in the project team. We are investigating. We will check all the people in the project team."

"Uh... didn't Master Cao tell us everything?"

"I feel like there's more, maybe he doesn't even know about it."

Wang Maofei didn't tell Shi Huaian that you guys are just bait. He was worried that this guy would be provoked to the point of banging his head against the wall again, or even go crazy, which would be troublesome.

"If you want to talk about others, I don't know, but Guan Xiaofeng is unlikely to be one of them. She is just a widow with a stupid son."

"Who knows? We have to investigate every one of us. Shi Huaian, you were dragged in by Wei Haiping. Do you hate him?"

"Well, it's not a question of whether I hate him or not. We are all adults and we have to be responsible for our own choices. It's just that I have harmed my wife, children, and parents, which makes me feel very regretful.

When I heard that Haiping had jumped off the building that morning, I knew he was doomed. Unfortunately, I don’t have his courage, otherwise I would have ended it all.”

This detention room is not underground, but it also has no windows. There is only an air vent at a high place, from which you can see whether it is day or night outside, whether it is sunny or cloudy, and you can even see the stars at night.

At this moment, Shi Huaian squinted his eyes and looked at the air vent, as if he wanted to see his parents, wife and children through it.

"Shi Huaian"

After a brief pause, Wang Maofei spoke to interrupt Shi Huaian's thoughts.

"We have never found out how Wei Haiping ended up like this, nor how he got together with Cao Wanquan. I wonder if you can provide any clues in this regard?"

"I'm really sorry, your colleague has asked me this question before, and I really don't know."

Shi Huaian shook his head, took the cigarette butt in his hand, which was almost burnt out, pinched it between the nails of his index finger and thumb, took another puff, and then threw it outside the iron fence reluctantly.

From the look of him, you wouldn't have guessed he'd only started smoking a week ago.

Although he didn't hear what he wanted to hear, Wang Maofei didn't feel disappointed. Huai'an had been interrogated countless times in this week, and all the questions that should be asked had already been asked. It seemed that there was nothing more that could be squeezed out of him.

"Okay, in that case, you can take a rest."

"Captain Wang"

Seeing that Wang Maofei had already reached the door, Shi Huaian suddenly grabbed the iron fence with both hands and shouted.

"what happened?"

"I... Do you know how my parents, wife and children are doing these days?"

"To be honest, it's not nice. You were supposed to be their pride, but you... Your wife's eyes are almost blind from crying. She said she should have been stricter with you and shouldn't have let you play cards. She took all the blame on herself."

"Woooooooo..."

This was the second time Shi Huaian cried after being caught. The first time he cried because he was afraid.

Grabbing the iron railings with both hands, he slowly knelt there, his crying filled with regret.

Wang Maofei shook his head and was about to step out of the detention room when he was stopped by Shi Huaian again.

"Captain Wang, I suddenly remembered something. I wonder if it can help your case."

"Oh, go ahead." Wang Maofei's eyes lit up and he quickly turned around and walked back.

Shi Huaian knelt there without getting up, but raised his arms and wiped his tears with his clothes.

“I remember this happened about three years ago, when I hadn’t yet started working for Cao Wanquan at the photo studio.

I was going out to play cards around 8pm that night, but my wife wouldn't let me go and even had a few words with me."

No wonder I suddenly remembered this matter while I was crying. It turned out that it was because my wife stopped me.

Wang Maofei nodded in his heart.

"Because my wife wouldn't let me go out, and even said that if I dared to go out she would go back to her parents' home and would not care about anything else, I was upset and ran to the roof of our building.

The building we live in is right in front of Wei Haiping's house. Standing on the roof of our building, we can just see his house.

As soon as I reached the rooftop, I saw two men standing in front of the window of Wei Haiping's living room, talking about something. The curtains were drawn at the time, so I couldn't see who the other man was. I could only see that the man was half a head taller than Wei Haiping.

After I took a quick look, I was about to turn around and find a place to sit down when I saw the tall man raised his hand and slap Haiping.

Although Haiping was beaten, judging from the shadow, he seemed to be nodding to the man continuously, as if he was apologizing or explaining something.

I was a little curious, so I squatted on the edge of the roof and watched. I also wanted to see who ran to Haiping's house to beat him, and why he didn't fight back.

After a few minutes, the man seemed to have left Haiping's house. I could hear the sound of a door closing and someone going downstairs. From the coughing sound that came from that time, it sounded like a middle-aged man's voice.

I could vaguely see someone going downstairs from the rooftop on my side, but after this person walked to the corner of the second floor and went down to the first floor, I never saw him come out.

Just when I was wondering who this person was, the light in Guan Xiaofeng's house on the first floor came on, then quickly went out. Then another person walked out from the stairwell. It was a man, and judging by his figure, he should be the one who beat Wei Haiping just now.

My eyesight is not very good and it was dark at that time. Although there was a light at the entrance of the staircase, I still couldn't see the man's appearance clearly. I was curious, so I got up and chased after him.

When I ran to the gate of our family compound, I happened to see Deputy Director Li talking to a man. Judging from his figure, he looked like the man I wanted to chase, so I walked around and took a look. Then I found out that the man was Director Xue from our research institute. "

"Director Xue?"

Wang Maofei was stunned when he heard this. He tried to recall for a long time but couldn't remember who Director Xue was.

"Your research institute has a director named Xue? Why don't I remember? I remember there's no one named Xue on the roster."

"I'm not sure about that, but I'm sure that man is Xue Baolai, deputy director of the research institute. I saw him in the factory a month ago. Everyone calls him Director Xue."

???

Wang Maofei was really confused now. They had thoroughly investigated all the cadres and staff in the research institute, but now a deputy director who they didn't even know suddenly appeared. This was a joke.

But no matter what, this person must be investigated. Just as he was about to leave, he remembered something, took out a cigarette, lit it and handed it to Shi Huaian.

"Shi Huaian, do you know what the relationship is between this Director Xue you mentioned and Wei Haiping?"

"I don't know the details, I just know they knew each other before, it seems that they knew each other when Wei Haiping was at the bearing factory."

"So what you said earlier, that he went downstairs and didn't come out, but the lights in Guan Xiaofeng's house were on, did you mean that he went to Guan Xiaofeng's house?"

"Captain Wang, I don't just want to say that he went to Guan Xiaofeng's house, I also want to say that he had the key to Guan's house, because no one was at Guan's house at the time."

"How do you know that no one is at Guan's house?"

"One reason was that the lights in her house were off, and the other was that Guan Xiaofeng and her team were working overtime that night. When I chased her out, I saw her stupid son just walking forward from the backyard, and he hadn't even reached the top of the building yet."

"Clap"

Wang Maofei reached out and patted Shi Huaian's hand which was holding the iron railing.

"Shi Huaian, I will report what you said truthfully. If it is ultimately proven that the clues you provided helped us solve the case, we will explain this to the court, and your performance will definitely be taken into consideration when sentencing you in the future.

If you want to save your life, take advantage of these few days to think carefully and see if you can remember anything. The more things you tell us that we don't know, the greater your chances of saving your life."

After saying this, Wang Maofei ignored Shi Huaian, who started crying again after hearing his words, and turned around and quickly walked out of the detention room.

He had to call the Security Department immediately and ask them to investigate what happened to Xue Baolai. Why did they manage to bypass a living person after so many investigations? Deputy Director Liu of the Security Department was now in charge of the project team. He had already connected the internal line in the project team's office this afternoon.

Deputy Director Liu, who had no intention of going home during this period, was living in the office. He was woken up by a phone call in the middle of the night, but there was no expression of displeasure on his face.

"I am Liu Guangming."

"Director Liu, I'm Wang Maofei from Team 2 of the First Division. I'm really sorry to bother you in the middle of the night. I just found a clue that I have to verify."

"Comrade Mao Fei, you're welcome. Tell me what you want to verify."

"I just talked to Shi Huaian, and he told me that there is a deputy director named Xue Baolai in the research institute, but I don't remember anyone like him.

I just looked through the list of research institute personnel we have here, and I really didn't find this name. Could you check the list over there to see if we didn't do our job well and missed the registration?"

"Wait a moment, the list is right next to me, let me take a look."

The content of the phone call made Deputy Director Liu frown deeply. He didn't believe that the people in the First Department could be so careless as to miss registering a person, and he also had no impression that there was such a deputy director in the scientific research institute.

There are a total of one director, six deputy directors and seven directors in the research institute. There is indeed no one with the surname Xue. He has talked to each of them personally. He also went through the list from beginning to end and found only two people with the surname Xue, all of them women.

I turned back and went through it again to make sure I didn't miss anything.

"Comrade Mao Fei, there is no deputy director named Xue registered here. So, if Shi Huaian can say this, then it must be true. I will arrange for someone to check and see how it happened. How could someone be missed? I haven't heard anyone from the research institute mention it."

"By the way, Director Liu, Shi Huaian also met Deputy Director Xue at the factory a month ago."

"A month ago? OK, I get it. Wait for my call."

"Yes, thank you, Director Liu."

"It doesn't matter. It's all for the case."

After hanging up the phone, Deputy Director Liu started to get dressed. After he walked out of the office, he was about to call someone, but after thinking it over, he walked out by himself, greeted the attendant at the door, and walked to the single dormitory of the instrument factory while smoking.

A part of this place has been temporarily separated and allocated to the project team.

He came here to find Fu Boren, the chief engineer of the project team.

When Fu Boren was awakened by a knock on the door, he looked at Deputy Director Liu outside and said with dissatisfaction: "Director Liu, can't we talk about it tomorrow? Why do you have to wake me up in the middle of the night?"

"I'm so sorry, Chief Engineer Fu, I have a question I must ask you."

Don't hit a smiling person. Looking at the smiling Deputy Director Liu, Chief Engineer Fu nodded helplessly: "What's the matter? Why are you so anxious?"

"Does your research institute have a deputy director named Xue?"

"Deputy Director surnamed Xue? No... uh... Is the person you are talking about called Xue Baolai?"

"That's right"

Deputy Director Liu nodded, and couldn't help feeling surprised. If there really was such a person, then why wasn't he on the list?
"I can't say whether this person is the deputy director of our institute. He is just a figurehead here. His file has not been transferred here, and his salary is not paid by our institute. He doesn't work here on weekdays. Let's put it this way, we don't even have an office for him.

Director Liu, how come you suddenly remembered to ask him? "

"Chief Engineer Fu, does that mean this person is not on your personnel roster?"

"Of course not. The roster is compiled based on personnel files. His file is not here, so his name is definitely not on it."

"Which department sent him here as a figurehead?"

"It could be some other department or committee."

I rub!

"Isn't Director Chen sent by that committee? Why are there so many sent to your side?"

“I don’t know about that. I only know that when I was introduced, I was told that I was here to work as a temporary official. I have always been in the project team and don’t go to the institute often, so I don’t know much about the twists and turns here.

But I heard that he was transferred ten days ago. I don’t know where exactly he was transferred to. You should ask Director Chen.”

Transferred? Ten days ago?
"Thank you, Chief Engineer Fu. Sorry to bother you."

"You're welcome, you're welcome. Are you alright, Director Liu?"

"It's okay, please rest. I'm really sorry."

"Well, you're doing this for work, and for the safety of our project team. I should be the one to apologize. If you were allowed to move in earlier, maybe there wouldn't be so many problems."

At this point, Deputy Director Liu recalled what Director Xu from the First Division had said to him over the phone. He suspected that the resistance of the research institute and the project team against them was deliberately instigated by someone behind the scenes.

Since this has been mentioned, he asked casually: "Chief Engineer Fu, I am just asking a casual question, please don't mind it."

"It's okay, you say."

“Why did your project team resist our entry?”

"Uh..." This question made Chief Engineer Fu a little embarrassed. He hesitated for a while before saying, "Well, it has come to this point today. Actually, it doesn't matter what I say. It was Director Chen who said that you, the Social Affairs Bureau, don't treat us as your own people. No matter who you meet, you treat us like thieves.

You want to join the project team because you think we will definitely sell out secrets, and that you will definitely interfere with our work after you come in, etc.

That was about it. At that time, he was the deputy director, not yet the director of the committee."

Director Chen, Chen Changrong.

"Okay, thank you, Chief Engineer Fu."

"Haha, Director Liu, what I just said came out of my mouth and entered your ears. I will not admit it after I turn around."

"Don't worry, Chief Engineer Fu, I understand."

"Goodbye"

"Goodbye"

Watching Chief Engineer Fu turn around, go into the house and close the door, Deputy Director Liu let out a sigh of relief.

We gained a lot tonight, one is Xue Baolai and the other is Chen Changrong.

Which of you has a problem? Or do both of you have a problem?

Thinking again that they all belonged to that committee, Deputy Director Liu frowned deeply again.

But soon he smiled and shook his head. Why think so much? They were only responsible for investigating the case and arresting people. As for whether there were other things behind it, let the leaders figure it out.

Let the first department investigate Xue Baolai first. As for Chen Changrong, there is definitely no problem with him on the surface. He has been investigated several times.

"Jingle Bell"

“I am Wang Maofei”

"Comrade Mao Fei, I am Liu Guangming"

"Director Liu, Xue Baolai..."

"There is indeed such a person, but the reason why he was missed has little to do with us. This person is a temporary official in the research institute, arranged by the committee. His file has not been sent, so he is not on the personnel list.

No one in the research institute has mentioned him because although Xue Baolai is on a temporary basis at the research institute, he rarely comes to work here, and there is no office assigned to him. It is also said that he was transferred ten days ago, but it is not clear where he was transferred to. "

call……

Wang Maofei, who was on the phone, breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that it wasn't a work mistake, otherwise no one could take the blame.

"Thank you, Director Liu. You've worked so hard. I'll report this to our director right away and we'll investigate him tomorrow."

"Well, you're welcome. If you need us to do anything, just let your director know."

"Yes, Director Liu, I will hang up now and not disturb your rest."

"it is good"

After hanging up the phone, Wang Maofei walked out of the office and ran to the front yard without delay. He wanted to tell the director about this clue right away.

He was worried that if an urgent task came up tomorrow morning and he was delayed again, he would be in trouble.

(End of this chapter)