Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 301 New Goals

The elder brother had confessed everything, and the younger brother didn't use any special interrogation methods. He just spilled the beans from a bamboo tube and told them everything about how the two brothers conspired and how they carried it out.

Although the case was solved, all the police officers felt heavy in their hearts.

The greed and evil side of human nature were vividly displayed in this case.

All the police officers involved in the investigation felt a chill in their hearts.

Even those veteran comrades who had experienced many battles remained silent after learning who the murderer was and his motive.

Li Yancheng was also in a heavy mood, and his brows were furrowed when he drove out of Tong County.

But he has a wife, a godson, and Ningning, the little happy pill, by his side, and they don't know the details of the case or its outcome.

With their jokes in the car, he soon returned to normal.

Just when they arrived home at around eight o'clock in the evening, a new conspiracy against an important project of the Pharmaceutical Research Institute in the west district was slowly revealing its mysterious veil.

The temperature in Beijing in mid-June was already quite high, and there were still many people taking a walk outside to enjoy the cool air after 8 o'clock in the evening.

Two men in their twenties were squatting on the side of the road chatting about something. They looked no different from those people who went out for a walk and enjoyed the cool air.

"Zhengxi, you have now successfully entered the confidential project team. How is it? Can you get access to key research projects?"

The man named Zhengxi wore black-framed glasses. After hearing the question from the man next to him, he shook his head helplessly and said, "Now I only know that the research direction of the project team is Chinese medicine. I can only help out in the team and cooperate with the test. I can't get involved in the core project for the time being."

"You are an international student, but they only let you help?"

After hearing what the man with glasses said, the other man turned his head with surprise.

"Haha, Donghe, in this project team, the identity of an international student is not very useful. Didn't I say that the research direction of the project team is traditional Chinese medicine?

I just came back from studying in Eastern Europe, and I didn’t major in Chinese medicine. I was able to join the project team to help with the tests because I took the initiative to ask the director, otherwise I might not even be able to get in.”

The man called Donghe frowned tightly.

"This won't work, Zhengxi. If you keep helping out like this, and can't get in touch with the core project and get specific information, how can we complete our mission?"

"I know, this project team was established not long ago, and the research has just started. Please give me some time."

"You will definitely get some time. As you said, the research has just begun and there will definitely not be any research results in a short time, so there is no rush.

The key issue now is to figure out what the project team is going to study. If it is a useless project, you don’t need to waste your time on it.”

"You're right!" The man with glasses nodded. "Let me think of a solution. Let's first figure out what the research project is about."

"Well, thank you for your hard work, brother!" The man called Donghe reached out and patted the man with glasses on the back twice.

"If you need money, or if you see any leaders in your institute who like imported gadgets, just ask. I'm working as a translator in the business department now, so it's relatively easy for me to get some of those things."

"I know. I will definitely tell you if I need you. Donghe, will there be any problem if we contact each other frequently in the future?"

"Don't worry about it. We both studied abroad in the same place. Although we were not in the same batch, we were classmates for a year. It's normal for us to keep in close contact.

It would be abnormal if we didn’t contact each other after returning home.”

"Okay," the man with glasses nodded and stood up with his hands on his knees.

"Okay Donghe, go back. I'll tell you as soon as I get any news."

"Well, you pay attention. I've been keeping an eye on it. No matter whether it's my side or yours, as long as one of us succeeds, we two brothers will enjoy endless wealth and glory in the future."

"Don't worry, I know."

"Okay, then I'll go first." Donghe raised his hand and waved twice, then turned and walked towards the east. The smile on his face suddenly disappeared the moment he turned around, and was replaced by a deep frown.

The man with glasses named Zhengxi frowned slightly as he watched him turn and leave.

The man with glasses did not move. He just stood there and watched the man who had just called him a brother gradually walk away until he could no longer see his figure. Then he turned and walked towards the west.

The man named Donghe, who had already walked away, was now recalling the conversation as he walked.

He was somewhat puzzled as to why Li Zhengxi had lied to him.

The reason why he knew he was cheated was because he asked someone and found out that Li Zhengxi was currently in the project team named after a number, and was specifically in charge of the laboratory affairs.

He didn't believe that Li Zhengxi was responsible for the laboratory work in the project team, so how could he not know what the project team specifically did?
If he knew, why didn't he tell me?
Does he want to bypass me and contact them directly so that he can reap all the benefits in the future?

This is not right. What he wants now is just a name for what kind of research the project team is going to do, not specific research results right away.

He could understand that the project team kept the secret as a whole, but what he couldn't understand was why Li Zhengxi kept it secret from him.

After thinking it over, he felt that his previous consideration was more reliable. That guy must want to contact the other side directly without him, so that he could keep all the benefits in the future.

What he thought was absolutely correct. Li Zhengxi was planning to contact the agent in China directly without him.

Wrong, it's not planning, but already contacted with the agent.

The reason why Li Zhengxi did this was very simple. Sui Donghe was too greedy. He even dared to embezzle the activity funds that the agent entrusted him to hand over to this side without even mentioning it.

Ever since he learned about this, he has been wary of Sui Donghe.

He didn't know about it before, and he only asked for activity funds when he met Sui Donghe.

Sui Donghe was not generous in giving money every time, giving twenty or thirty, or thirty or fifty dollars.

He didn't say anything, thinking that it was inconvenient for the agent to exchange foreign currency into Chinese currency.

What he didn't expect was that the agent came to him last week on his own initiative. What surprised him even more was that this agent turned out to be a classmate of Sui Donghe who went to study in Eastern Europe in the same year.

He also knew this guy because they had a year-long crossover period abroad.

It's just that we didn't interact much at that time.

Only after contacting the agent in person did he find out that Sui Donghe had secretly kept the funds for his own activities that the organization had asked him to transfer.

The reason why the agent took the risk to contact him in person was that he discovered that the people from the Supervisory Commission seemed to have set their sights on Sui Donghe.

The reason why Sui Donghe was targeted by the Supervisory Commission was entirely his own fault.

He went to restaurants every other day and always ordered meat when he ate. He smoked good-quality cigarettes with filters. However, his salary was not enough to support his expenses, so he was reported by someone with ulterior motives.

After several days of investigation, the staff of the Supervisory Commission has decided to take action.

The fool Sui Donghe is still clueless.

Less than 500 meters west, Li Zhengxi arrived at the entrance of the alley where he lived, where a few neighbors were sitting and chatting.

When the neighbors saw him coming, some called him an intellectual, some called him a college student, and some simply called him an international student.

He responded with a smile no matter what others called him, and then squatted beside them and started chatting with them.

But before squatting down, he glanced at a middle-aged man who was sitting on a bicycle on the side of the road and lighting a cigarette, and nodded to the middle-aged man imperceptibly.

After lighting the cigarette, the middle-aged man, with the cigarette in his mouth, got on his bicycle and rode away to the east.

……

Twenty minutes later, a woman's scream rang out in a shadowy area on the west side of Andingmennei Street, breaking the tranquility of the early summer night.

Ten minutes later, the police from the local police station who received the alarm arrived.

The deputy director on duty who led the team asked the onlookers to step back twenty meters and asked his men to maintain order. He turned and walked to the man who was sitting in the corner in the shadow.

He first put his hand under the man's nose for a while, and after confirming that he was no longer breathing, he felt in the man's trouser pocket and took out a work ID from his pocket.

After taking out his work ID, he stood up and walked to the side of the road, looking at the open work ID in his hand under the street light.

"Sui Donghe, 26 years old, Chinese translator at the Foreign Trade Department of the Commerce Department?"

The deputy director was startled by the work unit on the work ID. He hurriedly walked to the body, squatted down, turned on the flashlight in his hand, put the work ID next to the body's head, and looked at it carefully, comparing it with the photo on the work ID.

After confirming that the photo on the work permit was indeed of the body, the deputy director sighed and closed the work permit.

The branch's criminal investigation department is now very busy.

Ok?
He suddenly felt that something seemed wrong and shone the flashlight towards the corpse again.

Huh? Why is the corpse's face so red? Is its hands red too?
He stretched out his hand and pulled up the shirt sleeve on the corpse's arm. He saw that not only the face and back of the hands of the corpse were red, but also the skin on the arms.

What's going on? What's wrong with you?
After looking for a long time with the flashlight, he didn't find any blood on the body.

He even lifted up the head of the corpse and examined it carefully, but did not find any wounds.

This...could it be that he really died here suddenly due to illness?
He used the flashlight to look at the ground next to the body again. Before they arrived, they saw quite a few people approaching the body. Even if there were any traces nearby, they had now been completely covered up.

Just when the deputy director was wondering, two jeeps drove over from afar.

Hearing the sound of a car approaching, the deputy director stood up and walked to the side of the road.

The two jeeps that drove over were from the Criminal Investigation Division of the West City Branch.

"Hey, Chief Zheng, you are on duty today."

"Lao Pang, what's going on?"

"We just received a call from the public saying that someone was found dead here."

Deputy Director Pang pointed toward the shadow in the corner.

He raised his chin and pointed to the other side, "The woman who found the body was the one who passed by here and noticed someone sitting on the ground in the corner. She went over to take a look and was terrified. The man next to her was the one who went to the police station to report it."

Following the direction indicated by Deputy Director Pang, Chief Zheng of the Criminal Investigation Section of the West City Branch turned his head and looked.

There happened to be a shadow in the corner, so I couldn't see clearly.

"Did you see, Lao Pang, how did that person die?"

"It's a bit strange. The skin of the body is red, and there is no blood or obvious wounds on the body."

Ok?
Section Chief Zheng was slightly stunned and said in surprise: "Could he have died of illness?"

“It’s hard to say. I didn’t look under the clothes. If I just looked at the surface, I didn’t find anything abnormal except that the skin was red.

Oh, this is the person’s work ID, the foreign language translation for the business department.”

Deputy Director Pang handed over the work permit in his hand.

Section Chief Zheng grinned.

Business mouth!
He hated dealing with people from these ministries the most. Not only were there too many troubles, but they all looked down on others.

He now only hoped that this foreign language translator had died of illness. Then he could just notify the relatives to come and take the body away. It would be simple and convenient.

"Thanks, Lao Pang."

"You're welcome. I'll lead the team to maintain order. Call me if you need anything."

"it is good"

Section Chief Zheng turned around and waved to call over several of his subordinates who had come with him. He assigned them tasks, and then he walked to the corpse in the corner with a flashlight.

After having the body laid flat from a sitting position, he gave it a rough examination and found that it was indeed as Deputy Director Pang had said. He did not find anything abnormal as far as he could see, except for the strange redness of the skin.

"Xiao Zhao"

"arrive"

"This is the deceased's work ID. Use it to cover up other parts of the photo and let the onlookers take a look at the photo to see if anyone has seen him."

"Yes"

……

There was no progress in the visit and inquiries nearby. Only an older man said that he saw the deceased coming from the south, but he could not specify where in the south he was.

This is the junction of the four districts of Chengdong, Chengxi, Wenchong and Wuxuan. This man has now died in their territory, but no one knows where he came from or where he lives. We only know his workplace.

Section Chief Zheng raised his hand and scratched his head with a headache.

Just at this moment, the corpse transporter from the funeral home arrived. The city bureau's forensic autopsy room was located in the funeral home.

Now that he has encountered a case of death with unknown cause, he has no good solution.

All we can do is to have the body pulled over first and wait for the city's forensic doctor to be free to examine it and find out how the person died.

As for what he can do, it is to contact the deceased's unit after returning, and then contact the deceased's family through the unit, and then see what the situation is.

What Chief Zheng didn't expect was that at 11 o'clock that night, the case took a turn for the better.

When the deputy director of the Foreign Trade Department where the deceased worked came over, he brought the staff from their unit's supervisory group and took the case away directly.

This also made Section Chief Zheng realize that this case was not a simple one and the deceased definitely did not die of illness.

But it’s good that the case has been transferred away, and he doesn’t have to worry about it anymore.

He no longer had a headache, and his headache shifted to the heads of his comrades in the supervision group.

Through the peripheral investigations in the past few days, the staff of the supervision team have obtained a lot of information. They originally planned to interview Sui Donghe after work tomorrow morning.

But who would have thought that something would happen tonight.

Originally, they only knew that Sui Donghe spent money lavishly and his expenditures did not match his income, so they suspected that he was secretly reselling something when he came into contact with foreigners at work.

Now it seems that their thinking was a little simple. The problem here should be very serious. Sui Donghe's death was most likely a premeditated act of silencing.

If that was the case, then what on earth was he involved in?

Greed? Move? Ask for it?
The staff of the Commerce Supervision Group held a heated discussion in the conference room.

Sui Donghe was just a translator who enjoyed the treatment of a full-time section chief and had no real job. Even if he wanted to, he couldn't do that.

So that means asking for it?

But even if I ask for it, I won't be silenced.

Just as everyone was discussing, the people who went to search Sui Donghe's house came back.

Sui Donghe is still single now. He just came back from studying abroad last year. He is currently dating a girl and is said to be planning to get married by the end of the year.

His parents live in Yangchao District, and he lives alone in the east of the city. The house he lives in is a single room allocated to him when he returned to work at the company last year.

After all, they are international students and are considered talents, so the company should of course take better care of them.

The house he lived in was on the first floor of a three-story building.

This three-story building was originally the office building of a department under the Ministry of Commerce. After the department moved into the compound last year, this office building located outside became vacant and was simply allocated to comrades who had no housing.

The people sent by the supervision team to search Sui Donghe's home did not bring back good news.

They arrived a step too late, and Sui Donghe's house had already been turned upside down.

They found nothing of value in the room, not even a penny.

When asked the neighbor living next door, he said that he heard some noise next door about ten minutes before they left, but he thought it was Sui Donghe returning, so he didn't pay much attention and continued to sleep.

When the head of the inspection team heard this, he immediately realized that the problem here was very serious. Now it was not just that Sui Donghe might be suspected of violating regulations and disciplines, but that this guy might be doing something illegal.

Otherwise this situation would not have happened.

Immediately, the head of the inspection team asked everyone to stand by while he went to report the current situation to the leader.

It seems that this case is no longer something they can continue to investigate.

That night, the Sui Donghe death case was transferred as a whole to the Social Affairs Bureau's Operations Division 3.

Operations Division 3 is responsible for handling confidential cases involving various ministries and commissions.

Although no confidential information has been found about Sui Donghe so far, all signs indicate that his death was not simple.

He had just died inexplicably on the roadside in the west of the city, and right after that his home was visited. It was very obvious that this was an organized and premeditated incident.

(End of this chapter)