Chapter 320 Another

"Chief Li"

After waiting for less than a minute, the voice of the attendant came from the other end of the phone.

"Is he here?"

"Chief Li, Mr. Zhao asked for leave on Saturday. His nephew passed away due to the fire early Saturday morning. His nephew's wife and grandson were also injured. He asked for leave to help take care of him in the hospital."

Ask for leave to care for the injured?
Li Yancheng frowned. Liang Qiutao's wife He Juling came from the hospital on Saturday afternoon to give him a handkerchief. This meant that the injury was not serious. Did he, the man's uncle, need to take time off to take care of him?

I thought this in my heart, but I said, "Okay, I got it. I'll contact the hospital. Thank you, Chuncheng."

"You're welcome, Chief Li."

After hanging up the phone, Li Yancheng thought for a while, opened the drawer and took out a telephone directory sent by the post office. He found the phone number of the duty room of Dianhai District Hospital and dialed it.

After a lot of trouble and going back and forth for half an hour, I finally found He Juling.

"Comrade He Juling, I'm a staff member of the Social Affairs Bureau's Action Division 1. My name is Li Yancheng, and I have something I want to ask you."

"Uh...which unit are you from?" The female voice on the other end of the phone sounded a little surprised.

"I'm from the Social Affairs Bureau's Operations Division. What's wrong?"

"Hello... who are you?"

As soon as Li Yancheng finished speaking, a male voice came from the other end of the phone.

"I'm Li Yancheng from the Social Affairs Bureau's Operations Division 1. May I ask who you are?"

"Chief Li? I'm Sun He. When we first got here, we heard that the police had called to look for He Juling, but the police were also in the ward. I thought there was something wrong with the call, so I followed them here. I didn't expect it to be you."

Nowadays, telephones are very noisy and the voices are distorted. If you don’t listen carefully, you really can’t tell who is calling.

"Sun He, it's just right that you're there. Have you met the chef Zhao Guangrun from the Third Department there? He's also Liang Qiutao's uncle."

"Zhao Guangrun? I haven't seen him."

"Ask He Juling if Zhao Guangrun has been taking care of her and the child in the hospital these past two days?"

"I don't think so. I see the child's grandparents are here, and the problem isn't serious. He will be discharged from the hospital today."

Sun He muttered something and turned to look at He Juling beside him.

"Zhao Guangrun has also been taking care of you and the child in the hospital these two days?"

"Who?"

He Juling was stunned by the question.

"Zhao Guangrun, don't you know your husband's uncle?"

"Uh..." He Juling smiled a little embarrassedly: "I only know that his name is Zhao Laosan, I don't really know his real name.

But Section Chief Sun only came over once on Saturday afternoon to deliver food. My parents are here, so I didn’t let him come again. I didn’t see him yesterday either.”

"Okay," Sun He nodded and said into the receiver, "Chief Li, Comrade He Juling said Zhao Guangrun only came over once on Saturday to deliver food and never came again."

"Didn't you go there yesterday?"

Li Yancheng's brows on the other end of the phone furrowed even deeper.

"No, Chief Li, are you looking for Zhao Guangrun?"

"Oh, I just wanted to ask him something. Since he didn't go, forget it. Go ahead and do your work, Chief Sun."

"Row"

After hanging up the phone, Li Yancheng walked back and forth in the office several times, and the inexplicable feeling of uneasiness in his heart became more and more serious.

Turning to the desk again, he reached out and picked up the photo of Xiao Wu on the desk, turned around and walked out of the office.

He planned to go to the third place and have someone take him to Zhao Guangrun's house to look for him. He had a worse and worse feeling about this person.

Walking out of the office, he went straight towards several jeeps parked there.

When these cars are in the yard, the car keys are not removed. Whoever wants to use the car can just drive it. However, if you want to use the car for personal matters, you have to inform the office first. Generally, as long as you are not driving the car out of Beijing, you will be allowed to use it.

"Captain Wang, I'm going to go to the Third Department. Let me know if the leader comes back and asks more."

"Do you want me to send someone with you?"

"It's okay."

Li Yancheng waved at Wang Maofei who came out of the duty room, stepped on the accelerator and drove out of the gate.

Under normal circumstances, they need at least two people to go out and handle cases together, so that they can cooperate with each other in case of emergency.

But he didn't know whether his visit to Zhao Guangrun was a public or private matter.

……

Forty minutes later, led by a detective from the third department, he appeared at the entrance of the alley where Zhao Guangrun lived.

"Chief Li, the fifth house in front is the home of Mr. Zhao. Are you saying that his godson is missing?"

"It's suspected that he's missing. It's hard to say. I'm just asking for a friend to see if he's seen anyone in the past few days."

"That kid didn't learn his lesson. Zhao Laosan asked someone to find him a job, but he didn't work hard and didn't do his job well.

In the end, the factory simply didn’t want him anymore. It wasn’t like they couldn’t find anyone to work for them. Zhao Laosan apologized to them a lot for this.”

"Xiao Wu's father died early, and his mother has always been in poor health. No one at home took care of him, so he grew up like that."

"Chief Li, do you know Xiao Wu?"

"Well, his home is not far from mine. When he was a kid, he ran around in the alleys and often came to our place."

"Here I am. The front door is not locked. He should be home. I'll go knock on the door."

"Knock knock... Zhao... Hey, the door is not locked, he must be at home, Zhao Laosan... Zhao Laosan..."

The detective from the Third Division went up and just raised his hand to hit the door, and it was pushed open. The bolt from the inside was not locked.

After turning around and saying hello, he walked into the courtyard.

Li Yancheng followed behind him and walked in.

There is a screen wall two meters away from the entrance. It is called a screen wall, but it is actually the outer wall of the house in the next yard.

Only by turning left can you see Zhao Guangrun’s courtyard and two small houses, one in the north and one in the west.

The space in the courtyard is very small. There is a bicycle parked next to the pool. If people want to walk past the bicycle to the main door, they have to turn sideways.

"Is this guy not at home? No one answered my calls."

The detective from the third department walked sideways past the bicycle and took another step to the door of the main house facing north and south.

"Zhao Laosan"

As he shouted, he leaned over the window and looked inside.

As soon as he saw it, he stepped back and shouted, "Oh my God... Chief Li, please come here quickly..."

Li Yancheng quickly walked sideways past the bicycle and came to the door of the main house. He didn't even need to lean over the glass to look. A ray of sunlight just shone into the house through the glass on the door of Zhao Guangrun's house and onto the ground.

On the ground, there was a person lying on his side, with his face facing this side. Without even going in, one could tell from the large pool of blood on the ground and the face of the person lying on the ground facing this side that this person was dead and had been dead for quite some time.

No wonder the investigator shouted "Mom!", when he looked over, he saw the man lying on the ground with eyes wide open, which was indeed terrifying at first glance.

"Chief Li, this is Zhao Guangrun, the third Zhao. Please protect the scene here. I will go back and call someone over."

"it is good"

After watching the investigator run out, Li Yancheng turned around and looked inside through the glass on the door.

Another one dies!
He felt like he was going crazy. He had no clue about this case. He only knew that it might be related to a latent organization called Lotus from more than ten years ago. With such a small clue, four people had already died. This did not include other innocent people who were affected by the fire.

If this continues, I don’t know how many people will die.

Ugh……

He sighed and was about to stand up when he suddenly felt the eyes of the man lying on the floor seemed to be...

Where are you looking?

Because he didn't know whether there would be any traces of the murderer left in the house, and he didn't know how to protect himself, Li Yancheng didn't push the door open. He just pressed his face against the glass and looked hard at the direction where the eyes of the corpse on the ground were looking.

That is……

His face was pressed against the glass before he could see a little. It seemed that the direction Zhao Laosan was looking at before he died was his left hand, but it was really impossible to see it since he was standing outside.

We can only wait until someone comes and goes in before we can talk about it.

Ok?
Because his face was pressed against the glass on the door, when he retracted his gaze and was about to stand up straight, he glanced at the door. It seemed that there was something behind the door blocking it?

He stood on tiptoe and put his forehead against the glass, looking hard through the glass behind the door.

It didn't matter what he saw. Li Yancheng's face suddenly changed and he quickly took a step back.

Hemp egg!

There is a pile of explosives behind the door. Judging from their placement, they will explode if the door is pushed.

He just stood on tiptoe and looked down. It seemed like there were quite a lot of things piled up there, but he didn't know how much there was.

Anyway, no matter how many there were, he felt that there should be no problem in blowing him to pieces.

He was somewhat thankful that the detective from the third department and he had not pushed the door, otherwise...

BANG!

His wife became a martyr's widow.

This was the second time he had seen an explosion with his own eyes. Compared to the last time, he had no choice but to jump up.

This time he took a few deep breaths, calmed his racing heart a little, then turned around and walked out.

I'm not going to be stubborn this time, he won't take that thing apart.

When he reached the gate of the courtyard and saw the two wide open wooden doors, he suddenly wanted to kneel down and kowtow to the gods and Buddhas in the sky, whose existence he was not sure whether or not they existed.

Thank goodness the murderer didn't bring the explosives behind the gate, otherwise, haha!
As soon as he walked out, two old men and women came from the west to the east. When they saw him coming out of the yard, the old man immediately asked, "Comrade, who are you looking for?"

"Looking for Zhao Laosan, I work in the same unit as him."

As he spoke, Li Yancheng took out his work ID from his jacket pocket and showed it to the old couple.

"The third brother should be at home. I saw the door was not locked when I passed by it just now."

"At home"

"That's fine." The old man nodded and glanced into the yard, but unfortunately the outer wall of the room blocked his view and he couldn't see anything.

However, the old couple did not stop, but walked straight to the east. After passing two houses, they turned into the second yard from east to west.

After the old couple passed by, Li Yancheng walked down the steps at the door, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit one for himself.

When he struck the match, he realized that his hands were still shaking a little.

After lighting a cigarette, Li Yancheng shook his head with a wry smile. He had been working in this unit for only a week less than a year, and he had already seen explosives twice.

If you keep doing this for another ten or eight years, you won't be targeted by cannons, right?

Before he finished his cigarette, more than a dozen people came running in from the entrance of the east alley, led by Zhang Chuanxiang, the chief of the Third Investigation Section.

The group of people were running panting.

"Chief Zhang, don't rush in. Do you have anyone who can defuse explosives?"

Seeing them coming, Li Yancheng hurriedly stopped them.

"What did you say?"

"There are explosives in that room, just behind the door. I took a look and there are quite a lot of them. I didn't check if there are any other explosives in other places. If you go in again, everyone should be careful.

But I personally think that Section Chief Zhang, you'd better contact the bureau and ask them to send an expert here."

Zhang Chuanxiang and his subordinates were shocked by Li Yancheng's words.

It is obvious that Zhao Laosan's death was not simple.

"Chief Li, can you take me in to see where it is?"

Zhang Chuanxiang calmed himself down.

"Can"

"This yard is small, and there's not enough room for many people to move inside. You guys wait outside first."

Without letting anyone else in, Zhang Chuanxiang followed Li Yancheng into the yard.

Carefully pressing his forehead against the glass on the door, he also saw the pile of explosives.

"There are so many of them. If this goes off, everyone nearby will be doomed."

Zhang Chuanxiang looked much more carefully than Li Yancheng just now.

"Chief Li, thank goodness you looked carefully just now, otherwise..."

Zhang Chuanxiang shook his head and said nothing more.

Just now, when the investigator went back to report to him, he said that he did not enter the house and just leaned on the window to take a look. He also said that the investigator was timid.

Now it seems that being timid is a good thing.

If someone was brave enough to push the door open and walk in, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Chief Zhang, we are all family, so stop being polite. We should hurry up and report to the bureau so they can send experts to see how to dismantle it.

If this thing has a timer, it will be a big trouble."

"Yes, I'll go back to the office now."

Just as he turned around and was about to leave, Zhang Chuanxiang suddenly thought of something and turned around and asked.

"Chief Li, you are looking for Zhao Laosan..."

"Oh, that's right. Doesn't Zhao Guangrun have a godson named Xiao Wu?"

"Yep"

"He seems to be missing. There is a policeman from the local police station next door to my house. He found out that Xiao Wu has a godfather who is the chef of your third office, so he asked me to come and ask if Zhao Guangrun has seen Xiao Wu in the past few days."

"Oh, I see! I thought Zhao Laosan was involved in some case."

Li Yancheng didn't express his suspicion.

After all, Zhao Guangrun had worked in the Third Department for twenty years. If he dared to say that he suspected Zhao Guangrun might be involved in a certain case in the absence of any evidence, Zhang Chuanxiang might turn against him on the spot.

Isn't this clearly saying that there are three things wrong with them?

He has been lurking under someone's nose for twenty years. If the news gets out, he will be laughed to death.

The nature of Zhao Laosan's situation is different from that of Li Xueyi at the beginning.

Li Xueyi had already been lurking in before the liberation. If we want to talk about this, we have to hold the person who conducted the investigation at that time accountable.

(End of this chapter)

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