Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 306 The Black Hand Appears
Li Zhengxi lives in a large tenement house. He just returned to China at the beginning of this year. He is not married yet, but he already has a girlfriend.

He has an older brother and an older sister, both of whom are married and have their own houses. He lives here with his parents, and the living environment at home is quite spacious.

After dinner, he and the middle-aged man moved a small stool and sat at the gate of the courtyard.

Because there were strangers around him, the neighbors passing by would just say hello and leave, and no one would stay and disturb them while they were talking.

After listening to Li Zhengxi's description of yesterday's conversation, the middle-aged man lowered his head and remained silent for a while.

"Zhengxi, I think the people from the Social Affairs Bureau will ask you to investigate Sui Donghe's situation later."

"I know," Li Zhengxi nodded.

"I told them that I have a good relationship with Donghe, and it seems a bit unusual that he came so far to see me on the evening of the 15th."

"That's right. Just because you might be the last person Sui Donghe came into contact with before his death, people from the Social Affairs Bureau will inevitably come to look for you frequently.

So you must keep calm and cooperate when necessary, but if they come to you more than three times, you must express your dissatisfaction appropriately.

You need to strike a good balance between letting them see your impatience, but you still have to cooperate and never confront those people.

The people from Qiu Tao's Social Affairs Bureau will definitely look for him many times. You two, who have returned from abroad and are still working in Beijing and have a good relationship with Sui Donghe, are the ones.

But the situation should be better on his side, as the people in the Social Affairs Bureau don't dare to offend the leaders of the Science and Technology Commission too much.

So it’s mainly on your side.”

"If not, can I complain to the person in charge of our project? The project we are working on now is for the military."

Li Zhengxi expressed his plan.

Facing the people from the Social Affairs Bureau, he felt very scared, after all, they knew their own business.

“No, no, no,” the middle-aged man waved his hands hurriedly. “I was just about to tell you this. This is why I was a little surprised when you said that the person who came to talk to you was from the Social Affairs Bureau.

The person in charge of the security of your project is the brother of a deputy director of the first division. You tell your leader, and your leader just talks to the troops, but they are brothers, what do you think will happen? "

Li Zhengxi opened his mouth in surprise. He really didn't know there was such a relationship here.

"I see."

"Well, you just need to cooperate and express your dissatisfaction appropriately."

"Okay, Brother Zhao, I'll remember what you said. I have some doubts here and I hope you can help me answer them."

When saying this, Li Zhengxi looked a little uneasy, but he always felt uneasy until things were clear.

"Are you trying to ask me why I didn't persuade Sui Donghe earlier even though I knew he was so high-profile, and instead let things get to this point?"

The middle-aged man knew what Li Zhengxi wanted to ask, so he just pointed it out.

"Yes, I don't believe you don't know that Sui Donghe's high profile will definitely attract the attention of the supervisory department."

"Haha, Zhengxi, if I tell you that I was the one who reported Sui Donghe this time, what would you think?"

"you……"

The middle-aged man's words almost made Li Zhengxi's eyes pop out of their sockets and fall to the ground.

Looking at the half-smile on the middle-aged man's face, he pulled the corners of his mouth reluctantly.

"Brother Zhao, stop joking."

"I'm not kidding you." The middle-aged man smiled and shook his head. He reached out to take out a cigarette and threw it to Li Zhengxi. After lighting it for himself, he continued speaking with a calm face.

"The fact is that I personally reported Sui Donghe."

"Why...why? Why are you doing this?" Li Zhengxi's face turned extremely ugly.

"Because I need him to get those people's attention."

Looking at the middle-aged man's nonchalant expression, Li Zhengxi felt a chill in his heart.

The chill made him shiver unconsciously.

At this moment he suddenly realized that what he was doing now was nothing more than courting disaster.

He also completely forgot that before getting rid of Sui Donghe, the man opposite him, whom he called Brother Zhao, had discussed it with him, and he nodded in agreement for his own safety.

Seeing that Li Zhengxi's face turned as ugly as if he had eaten a dead rat, the middle-aged man grinned silently and spoke in a low voice.

"Brother Zhengxi, what we are doing is putting our heads on the line. Did you not persuade Sui Donghe, or did I not persuade him? Or did Qiu Tao not persuade him?
Who hadn't told him to be more low-key? This was in China, and if he spent money like that, people would definitely notice him, but did he listen? When he went to restaurants, he had to smoke cigarettes with filters.

He spends money lavishly without considering whether his salary can support such spending. He is courting death."

"But it's not your turn to report him. We are brothers after all."

The middle-aged man despised Li Zhengxi in his heart. Damn it, when I told you to kill him, you didn't hesitate at all. Now you tell me you are a brother and you are playing the cat crying rat game.

If you weren't still useful to me, I would send you down for free and continue to be his brother.

Although he was thinking about it in his mind, he still explained it out loud.

"You're wrong, brother. If I report him, at least we know how far things have progressed. If I don't report him and let him continue like that, do you think the people in the inspection team will keep an eye on him?"

Li Zhengxi opened his mouth and was about to speak, but the middle-aged man didn't give him a chance to speak and continued, "They will definitely target him, and they will do it without anyone noticing.

Tell me, if he is captured quietly one day, what should we do? Should we bury him with him? "

Funeral?

This word made Li Zhengxi swallow back all the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

Seeing that he seemed to have figured out the key point, the middle-aged man smiled, patted his shoulder, and then stood up.

"Okay Zhengxi, I'm going to go in and say hello to your parents and then I should leave."

After saying that, he walked towards the large courtyard where the Li family lived.

Li Zhengxi came to his senses and hurriedly got up and followed.

……

At the same time, the lights were still on in the office building of the Third Operation Division of the Social Affairs Bureau in Yangchao District, which was externally registered as the Fifth Security Division of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

"Jingle Bell……"

Zhang Chuanxiang was in the office carefully looking through the conversation records he had retrieved from a place in the afternoon. When he heard the phone ring, he reached out and answered the phone without even raising his head.

“I am Zhang Chuanxiang”

"Jingle Bell"

Ok?
Only then did he realize that it was the outside phone that was ringing. He hurriedly stretched out his left hand to grab the receiver of the phone, and put the receiver back on the phone with his right hand.

"Hello, I'm Zhang Chuanxiang."

"Chief Zhang, it's me, Wan Changwei from the Municipal Public Security Bureau's Forensic Medicine Office."

After hearing the person on the other end of the phone introduce himself, Zhang Chuanxiang suddenly became alert.

"Hello, Doctor Wan, have you found out the cause of Sui Donghe's death?"

"Yes, the results from the laboratory are out. Sui Donghe died of potassium cyanide poisoning. He was injected with potassium cyanide liquid into his body with a syringe. The needle hole was at the back of his head.

If the hair had not been shaved, the pinhole would not have been found. It took several of us a few hours to search the body with a magnifying glass, and we finally accomplished our mission."

The content on the phone made Zhang Chuanxiang frown, and at the same time he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Well, now the last glimmer of hope has completely disappeared, and all that’s left is to roll up our sleeves and work hard.

"Thank you, Doctor Wan. Thank you for your hard work."

"You're welcome. It's my duty, Chief Zhang. I'll have someone send you the official report and the test results tomorrow morning."

"it is good"

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Chuanxiang sat there with a frown, thinking carefully.

As of today, Sui Donghe has been dead for four days, and the investigation into him has not been going smoothly.

At least until now they have not figured out where Sui Donghe's money came from.

I just saw a conversation record submitted by someone named Li Zhengxi, in which Sui Donghe said that he made some money by selling some small things to the foreigners in charge of reception in his spare time.

This is one direction for investigation.

However, Zhang Chuanxiang personally thinks that this is unlikely. If Sui Donghe's money really came from this way, even if other stakeholders find out that he has been targeted by the supervision team, they are worried that he will reveal this interest line after being arrested, which will affect other people's wealth.

Then we can just get rid of him. There is no need to take huge risks and go to his house to take away a lot of things.

After questioning the girl Sui Donghe was dating, it was found that at least an Enicar all-steel waterproof watch and about 100 yuan in cash were missing from her home.

In addition, after they took over the case from the Commerce Supervision Group in the early morning of the 16th, when they investigated the room where Sui Donghe was robbed, they found that based on the dust in the bookcase, two books inside had been moved.

Someone must have taken something from the two books, but we don't know what it was. We also don't know whether Sui Donghe took it himself or the person who came to steal it took it away.

If Sui Donghe took it himself, then it’s nothing. But if it was taken by the person who stole things that night, then it means that this person must be very familiar with the deceased.

In other words, the person who ordered him to come was particularly familiar with the deceased.

Because from the traces of dust on the bookcase, it seems that the person who took the things did not touch any other place at all. Instead, he went directly to the book where the things were placed and took away what he needed from it.

It would be impossible to be so accurate if it wasn't the deceased himself or someone who was particularly familiar with the matter.

After all, Sui Donghe's girlfriend, who often came to this room, didn't even know if there was anything hidden in the book.

The person who came to steal things probably targeted the things in the book, and as for the watch and the hundred yuan or so, they probably just took them away.

Zhang Chuanxiang let out a light breath, stretched his neck, stood up and walked towards the office door. He wanted to report the current situation to his leader.

……

It was around nine o'clock in the evening on the Dragon Boat Festival, in an alley in Yangchao District.

After leaving Li Zhengxi, the middle-aged man Brother Zhao rode his bicycle through the alleys and lanes for more than an hour before he arrived at his doorstep.

As soon as I turned into the alley, I saw a few neighbors who had not yet rested and were sitting under the street lights chatting.

"The third brother is back!" "He's back, why don't you take a rest?"

"I'm getting ready to go home. By the way, Third Brother, your nephew seems to have come here before eight o'clock and hasn't left yet."

When the middle-aged man heard from the neighbors that his nephew was coming, he stopped dead in his tracks.

"Look at my memory. I made an appointment to have someone come over to pick up something, but I completely forgot about it. You guys can chat while I hurry back."

What is he here for?
After waving goodbye to the neighbors at the entrance of the alley, the middle-aged man pushed his bicycle home, and this question popped up in his mind.

When he walked into his own small courtyard, which could not even be called a courtyard, pushed open the door and saw the scene inside, his face turned ashen.

The reason why the small courtyard where he lives is not called a courtyard is because it is too small. A bicycle cannot be turned around inside. You can only push it in and back it out.

The good thing is that this is his own private house. Although the two rooms together are less than 40 square meters, once the gate is closed, it becomes his own little world.

Why did the scene in the room make his face turn livid?
It was because of the young man who had collapsed to the ground, because of the pool of blood that had begun to coagulate under the young man's body, and more importantly, because of the instigator of all this, another young man who was sitting nearby as if nothing had happened, leisurely smoking and flipping through a newspaper that was from an unknown date.

Seeing the middle-aged man pushing the door open, the young man sitting there put down the newspaper in his hand and a bright smile appeared on his face.

"Uncle is back."

The bright smile on the young man's face made the middle-aged man's already gloomy face turn even darker.

He almost lost control of his temper and rushed over to give the young man a punch in the face.

He took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, then pointed at the body on the ground and said sinisterly, "Liang Qiutao, I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation."

That’s right, the young man sitting there with a smile on his face was Liang Qiutao, who had entered Li Yancheng’s sight and worked in the Project Approval Office.

"If you want to explain it simply, look at what this is."

Liang Qiutao still had a smile on his face. He reached out and tapped the table in front of him twice with his right index finger.

As he moved, the middle-aged man's eyes fell on the table, where there was a watch.

"Watch, what's wrong?"

"My dear uncle, you'd better come closer and take a closer look."

The middle-aged man frowned slightly, stepped over the corpse on the ground, walked to the table and picked up the watch.

"This... this... this is the Inage from Suidong River? How could it be..."

Before he could finish his words, the middle-aged man had already reacted. He turned his head to look at the corpse on the ground, then turned back to look at Liang Qiutao.

"He took this watch out of Sui Donghe's house?"

"Uncle, I don't know how many Enicar watches there are in Beijing, but I'm sure the people in the Social Affairs Bureau must have known that Sui Donghe lost one. Tell me, if a watch like this suddenly appeared on the market now, would they track it down?"

The middle-aged man's face was no longer blue, but had turned pitch black, and he was covered in cold sweat.

Liang Qiutao was right. If they dared to show up, the people from the Social Affairs Bureau would definitely trace them back.

He sat down on the chair in front of the table in a daze, and didn't say a word for a long time.

"Uncle, Xiao Wu has been staying at your place these days, didn't you notice?" Liang Qiutao reached out, picked up the cigarette on the table and lit one for himself.

Facing Liang Qiutao's question, the middle-aged man shook his head with some annoyance and shame: "Xiao Wu has always been very obedient. I told him to just take the letter and the money in the book, and don't touch other things. I thought he would be the same as before, so I didn't care anymore.

I didn't expect this guy... Alas... It's my fault, I trusted him too much."

"Now is not the time to reflect, uncle, haven't you heard them mention what was missing from Sui Donghe's house these past two days?

There is another very important point, can you confirm whether Xiao Wu has been out of the house in the past two days?"

"He definitely hasn't left the house. I can be sure of that." The middle-aged man said with certainty.

“As for the Sui Donghe case, I don’t know what happened in the first and second divisions. The people in the third division basically didn’t discuss the case in the cafeteria. They were eating in the front and I was in the back kitchen. Even if they said anything, I couldn’t hear it.

If I keep running forward, someone might get suspicious."

This middle-aged man, called Brother Zhao by Li Zhengxi and Lao San by the neighbors, is the cook of the Third Office. He has been working here since the establishment of the Third Operations Office of the Beijing Social Affairs Bureau.

It was also because of this that he knew that Su Xiaotong from the First Division and the head of the military security department who was currently responsible for the security issues of the project team where Li Zhengxi was located were brothers.

After staying for a long time, you can learn a lot about many things without having to ask specifically.

In order to better hide himself, this middle-aged man never takes the initiative to inquire about anything.

The fact that he has not been exposed for so many years is closely related to his cautious character.

But what he didn't expect was that this time he almost fell into the hands of the apprentice he had trained himself.

Seeing that he was so sure, Liang Qiutao nodded.

“As long as you can be sure that Xiao Wu has not gone out since he came back on the night of the 15th, which means that the watch has never been seen outside, the problem is not serious.

Does anyone know that there is another person living here?"

"No, when Xiao Wu came here on the 15th, it was almost twelve o'clock. No one would have seen him."

"That's easy, now you just need to find a way to properly dispose of the body and this watch.

Let’s not talk about this anymore. Did you go to Li Zhengxi to ask for clarification today?”

"I found out, but it's a little strange that the person who went to talk to him was from the first department."

"First department? Didn't your case come from the third department?" Liang Qiutao frowned.

"I don't know what's going on." The middle-aged man shook his head and continued.

“On the way back just now, I thought of a possibility, that is, the three places are short of staff, so I found one place to help.

Only half of the usual number of people were at the kitchen this afternoon, and the logistics department came over to say that starting tomorrow we only need to cook for 100 people."

"What are the others doing?"

"He should be on a business trip. I guess he went to investigate Sui Donghe's contacts."

"Have they still not figured out how Sui Donghe died?"

"Qiu Tao, what you're asking is nonsense. How could I possibly know that?"

After saying that, the middle-aged man looked at the time and found that it was almost ten o'clock, so he said: "Okay, it's so late, you should go back quickly, I'll take you out.

Don't come to my side these days if you have nothing to do.

I packed up some clothes for you to take away. Just now when I came back and walked to the entrance of the alley, the neighbors said you were here, so I casually said you were here to pick up something. "

"Okay, remember to clean this up."

"You don't have to worry about that."

……

Ten minutes later, after seeing Liang Qiutao off, the middle-aged man returned home. Looking at the corpse on the ground, he sighed deeply, and a look of sadness appeared on his face.

Xiao Wu, whose full name is Zhao Guowu, was rescued by him when he was visiting the ghost market eight years ago. The child was only eleven years old at that time.

The middle-aged man had never been married because he was injured while performing a mission when he was young. He saved Xiao Wu just out of convenience.

Seeing that the child was pitiful and smart, he adopted him as his son and raised him secretly.

The two did not live together. Although Xiao Wu's parents died early, they left him a house.

This kind of foster relationship between the two people has not been deliberately publicized, but many people know about it.

It was Xiao Wu who broke into Sui Donghe's house on the night of the 15th.

The reason why he stayed at his place for the past two days was because that guy sprained his ankle when he was climbing over the wall after stealing something that night. In order to make it easier to take care of him, he let him stay here. He didn't expect that this stay would result in them being separated forever.

The middle-aged man squatted beside the corpse and watched quietly, recalling the various situations in which the two had interacted over the years, and a tear rolled down the corner of his eye.

After a long time, he sighed again and stood up, holding his knees.

"Liang Qiutao..."

After standing up, the middle-aged man whispered the name, with a fierce light flashing in his eyes.

How could he not know about the watch that Xiao Wu Shun brought back? He was the one who asked Shun to bring it back.

He did this because he had bought the watch from the Trust Store two months ago and he still had the ticket.

When I bought this watch, the price was not high, only sixty dollars, because the case was broken and there were no hands.

Normally, after receiving this kind of watch, the trust store will repair it before selling it, and the price can be higher.

He was able to buy it at a low price because he knew the manager of the store.

After buying it, he spent more than ten dollars to repair it, but it was taken away by Sui Donghe just a few days after he wore it.

This time he asked Xiao Wu to steal it back because he was worried that the watch might be traced back to him.

But unexpectedly, he killed his godson.

After standing up, the middle-aged man lit a cigarette for himself and his eyes fell on Xiao Wu's body again.

"Don't worry, kid. Godfather swears that he will let Liang Qiutao go down to accompany you. This day won't last long."

No matter how angry he was, the most important thing at the moment was how to deal with the corpse.

Also, should I report the case?

Should he go and report the case, or wait for others to notice that Xiao Wu is missing and then report it?

These are all issues that he must consider carefully.

That bastard left him such a mess and walked away. How should he deal with the rest?
That adopted nephew was bound to die and be buried with his godson, but he didn't want to die with him, so he had to come up with a foolproof plan to clear himself from this and not let anyone have the slightest suspicion of him.

Otherwise, the two consecutive cases were inextricably linked to him. He believed that even if he had worked in three places for twenty years, he would still be listed as the number one suspect by those people.

While smoking, the middle-aged man fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)