Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 327 New Discovery
call……

After spitting out the cigarette in his mouth, Li Yancheng stood up by supporting his knees.

Whether there was such a woman named Hehua or not, and whether she had been lurking in before 1940, it was impossible to determine it now. It was impossible to believe it simply because Cao Wanquan said so.

Just now he showed the photo of Zhao Guangrun to Cao Wanquan and Xue Baolai respectively, and they both said they had never seen this person.

However, Xue Baolai's vision was indeed better than Cao Wanquan's. He deduced that Zhao Guangrun was a chef based on the photo alone, and he said frankly that when he was accepting an undercover mission, he heard his superior mention that there was a person code-named Chef who was also lurking.

But he had no idea who the chef was, whether he was a man or a woman, or how old he was, and he had never seen this person before.

This time, he did not gain much from asking Xue and Cao, but instead it brought him new confusion. He was a little hesitant about whether to go to Chen Mingzhu again.

If this old woman asked him some new questions, he felt that his head would explode with all these questions.

After sighing, Li Yancheng threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, turned around, opened the door of the bathroom and walked in.

"Well……"

As the needle in his head was removed, Su Xiaotong, who was sleeping, quickly woke up.

An hour of deep sleep drove away the fatigue caused by not sleeping for more than twenty hours, and made his muddled mind clearer. He turned over and sat up, looking full of energy.

"You just can't use this method too often, otherwise it would save a lot of time."

"That's wishful thinking. If you want to die young, you can ask me to try a few more times." Li Yancheng, who was wiping the acupuncture needle, said with a curled lip.

"Forget it. My future is bright. It's better to live a few more years." Su Xiaotong shook his head quickly.

"Hey, did you go and question those two guys just now?"

“I found it, but there are more problems.”

"what's the situation?"

Su Xiaotong had just walked to the door of the inner and outer rooms and was about to go out to get some water to drink. After hearing Li Yancheng's words, he stopped, turned around and asked curiously.

"Cao Wanquan said..."

"Fuck, no way!"

After listening to Li Yancheng's retelling of what the two men said, Su Xiaotong was so surprised that his mouth could hardly close.

“Who knows if it will happen.”

Li Yancheng shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm a little scared to go to the detention center to look for Chen Mingzhu. What if she says something different or more explosive? Haha, who can stand it?"

Su Xiaotong didn't say anything. He turned and walked to the outer room, picked up the thermos and poured himself a glass of water. He drank it all and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. He stood there thinking for a long time, and only spoke after Li Yancheng came out from the inner room after packing up the acupuncture needles.

"We still have to look for it. Knowing more about it, even if it's just a few words, is better than knowing nothing at all.

Whether Lotus is a woman who has been lurking here for a long time, or whether it is the group that was not completely eliminated more than ten years ago and has revived, we must do our best to arrest them all. "

"You're right." Li Yancheng nodded.

"Oh, Xiaotong, I just thought of a question. Sui Donghe's house was robbed. What was the thing sandwiched between the books in his bookcase?"

"How would I know? We didn't find anything on Sui Donghe. We almost dug up Zhao Guangrun's house. We brought back everything we could, but we didn't find anything.

Now that almost all the relevant insiders are dead, I feel that we will not get any answer to this question." Su Xiaotong shook his head helplessly.

This is what makes this case so troublesome. The people involved died too quickly, leaving them with a lot of unsolved mysteries.

"Okay, I'll go to the office to get a letter of introduction and then go to the detention center now."

"Go ahead. I'll go through the previous conversation records and see if there's anything else I can find out."

……

10:00 a.m., Paoju Detention Center
Li Yancheng met Chen Mingzhu accompanied by the detention center director Fan Yigang.

This woman, who was only in her forties and was full of charm a month ago, now has mostly gray hair and her appearance has changed drastically. She looks at least twenty years older than her actual age.

When she was brought into the interrogation room by the guards with handcuffs and shackles on her back and saw that the person interrogating her was Li Yancheng, her expression was dazed for a long time. Only at the urging of the guards did she come to her senses, and with a complicated expression on her face, she walked to the specially made chair and sat down.

"I thought it was someone from the court, but it turned out to be you."

"I came here today because I have something to ask you."

"Ask me? I've explained everything I need to explain."

"It's not about you, it's about something else." Li Yancheng stood up from behind the table, took out the photos of Zhao Guangrun, Guan's mother and son, Cao Wanquan, and Yue Baolai from his pocket, walked to the fence, and put his arm through the gap in the fence.

"Look at these five people. Have you seen them before?"

Because she was fixed on the chair, Chen Mingzhu could only stretch her neck to look at the photos in Li Yancheng's hand. She squinted her eyes for a long time, raised her eyelids and said, "Can you bring the photos to me so I can see them? The light here is not good and I can't see clearly."

Hearing her say this, Li Yancheng gestured to the guard standing behind her. The guard glanced at Director Fan who was sitting behind the table, and seeing that he didn't say anything, he walked over, took the photo, and spread it out on the board in front of Chen Mingzhu so that she could see it more clearly.

After staring at the photos for a long time, Chen Mingzhu slowly shook her head and said, "I probably haven't seen them before. I don't have any impression of them at all."

"Have you ever heard of the code name chef?" Li Yancheng asked casually after taking a few photos and putting them back into his pocket.

"Cook? No."

"Where's the lotus?"

"Lotus?" Just as Chen Mingzhu was about to shake her head, she was obviously stunned for a moment and repeated it uncertainly.

"Lotus? Are you talking about the lotus root? Is that also a code name?"

"That's right"

"I remember that the Lotus Group was eliminated more than ten years ago. Why are you asking this now?"

"Do you know the Lotus Group?"

“I didn’t know about it at first, but I found out after reading it in the newspaper, and then my second brother mentioned it again.

He said that there was a person from the Lotus Group who had received training with him. Fortunately, most of the main members of the Lotus Group were shot dead on the spot during the arrest, otherwise my family might have been implicated at that time. I remember that my family had already made preparations to evacuate in advance. "

Li Yancheng and Su Xiaotong had discussed this matter with Chen Mingzhu in the morning, that most of the main characters were shot dead on the spot. They both agreed that this was probably a deliberate act by Li Xueyi, who was in charge of the arrest team at the time.

The purpose is to bring the exposed group to justice while preserving other hidden groups that have not yet been exposed.

Now combined with what Chen Mingzhu said, it can be basically confirmed that his and Su Xiaotong's judgment is correct.

"Besides the Lotus Group, do you know of anyone else who has used the code name Lotus?"

"I don't know about that. I have no connection with those lurkers. After all, I don't do that."

Ok!

Li Yancheng nodded, turned around and signaled to Director Fan, meaning that Chen Mingzhu could be taken away. Seeing this, Director Fan waved to the guard.

"and many more"

Seeing that she was about to be taken away, Chen Mingzhu hurriedly called out: "Li Yancheng..."

"Ok?"

Li Yancheng, who had already sat back at the table, looked over.

"Since we were relatives for a while and I have never thought of harming you, could you please talk to the leaders here and put Lingling and I in the same cell?

I know that we will definitely be shot for the crime we committed, and my mother and I won't live for many more days. Can we stay together during these last few days?

I swear, I really don't have any other thoughts, I just want to be with my daughter for a few days, please."

During their detention, seeing that they were quite cooperative, Li Yancheng arranged for Chen Mingzhu and her daughter to spend one or two hours together every day.

After being transferred to the detention center, these death row inmates who were doomed to die had no time for exercise, and it was impossible for two death row inmates to be locked up in the same cell. So even though her cell and her daughter's cell were not far from each other, the mother and daughter never saw each other again.

Chen Mingzhu thought a lot in the month after being arrested. What she regretted most was that she did not educate her daughter well since childhood, allowing her to embark on the path of crime.

Imprisoned in the same cell? Li Yancheng still wanted to meet the reasonable demands of these dying people, as long as they were obedient and cooperated and did not do anything wrong.

But this request made him feel a little embarrassed. If it was in the office, he could still make the decision and agree to it, but here...

Just then, Fan Suo next to him spoke.

"It's impossible to lock you up together. The cell for prisoners awaiting death row can only hold four people. If you and your daughter are locked up together, we can only assign two minor prisoners to look after you. These two people will be very tired and won't be able to handle it.

Chen Mingzhu, I can decide that starting from today, you and your daughter can spend two hours together every day to chat. I cannot agree to any more unreasonable requests."

"Thank you government, thank you government, thank you Yancheng, thank you Yancheng"

Fan Suo's words made Chen Mingzhu hurriedly thank him with an excited look on her face.

She knew very well that although Li Yancheng did not speak just now, his hesitation was enough. If he had not hesitated that time, the director of the detention center would never agree to let her meet her daughter for two hours every day.

Even after being taken out of the interrogation room, Chen Mingzhu's voice of gratitude could still be heard.

After watching her being taken out, Li Yancheng turned his head to look at the director of the detention center next to him, took out a cigarette and handed it to him.

"Thank you, Fan Suo. I hope you won't make any mistakes."

"Haha, that's nothing." Director Fan shook his head indifferently, took the cigarette, lit it and continued.

"These prisoners awaiting execution are the most difficult to manage. They know they are going to die, and their mood swings are extremely severe. Yesterday, there was a prisoner awaiting execution who banged his head against the wall when the other three people in the cell were not paying attention.

Luckily, he didn't hit me well the first time and only caused a little bleeding. If he had really killed me, I would have been in trouble. At my age, I won't be able to work for another two years and I should retire. As long as these people don't make trouble for me, I will try my best to meet any reasonable demands that I can meet."

"I hope I won't cause you any trouble."

As they were talking, according to the arrangement just now, after Chen Mingzhu was sent back, Dong Qiuling was brought over.

Because of the length of the chain between the handcuffs and shackles, the person wearing them couldn't straighten their backs when walking. When she walked to the door of the interrogation room with a hunched back and looked inside, she saw that the person interrogating her was Li Yancheng, and a fairly bright smile appeared on her face.

This woman has been relatively cooperative since the day she was arrested, so she hasn't suffered much. Li Yancheng tries his best to meet her requests as long as they are not excessive. She also smiles every time she sees this man, whom she once called brother-in-law.

"Are you here to see me and send me off?"

Dong Qiuling seems to be in a good mood.

"It's not my turn to send you off. I came here today to ask you something."

"What do you want to ask? I don't know much. Can you give me a cigarette first?"

"No problem." Li Yancheng stood up and walked to the fence and handed the cigarette and matches to the guard inside. He watched the guard light the cigarette before asking.

"As for the incident where Chang Shengyuan and others set fire to many places, as far as you know, other than the fact that he was set up by someone while playing cards and wanted to vent his anger, is there any other deeper reason?"

"Other reasons?" Dong Qiuling was stunned for a moment and then shook her head and said, "I really don't know. I haven't heard him mention any other reasons. It should be for revenge.

I said, why do you think of asking this again? He is already dead. Even if there are other reasons, can you still bring his body back and whip it?"

"I definitely won't whip the corpse. There must be other reasons. That's why I'm asking. If you don't know, forget it.

Please help me see if you know these people. "

As a routine, Li Yancheng took out the photos and asked Dong Qiuling to look at them.

But he didn't think this woman could recognize him.

Because of the interrogation after being arrested, she didn't know much about the undercover matters.

Sure enough, after looking carefully for a long time, the result was not beyond his expectations. Dong Qiuling really did not know these people.

but……

"Hey, wait!"

Just as Li Yancheng withdrew his hand and was about to put the photos back into his pocket, Dong Qiuling suddenly shouted.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"That...that young you, let me take another look at you."

Young?
Li Yancheng picked out Guan Weizhen's photo and held it over the fence in front of Dong Qiuling.

At this time, a guard came up from behind, took the photo, and brought it to her so that she could look at it more carefully.

"This guy...is this guy a fool?" After staring at him carefully for a while, Dong Qiuling asked uncertainly.

Li Yancheng's eyes lit up. Could they really know each other?
"Where have you seen him?"

"If I remember correctly, his stupidity seemed to be pretended. I don't know why he pretended to be stupid. I met him with Shengyuan, and it was Shengyuan who told me.

Let me see the round-faced one in those photos again."

Round face?

Li Yancheng was stunned for a moment, then quickly handed in Zhao Guangrun's photo again.

"Yes, that's them."

After putting the two photos together, Dong Qiuling looked at them again and nodded very affirmatively.

"It was probably a week before they set the fire. One day, Shengyuan took me to eat steamed buns on Qianmen Street and we met them.

I remember very clearly that when Shengyuan greeted them, he told the older man that the food here has not tasted as good since your master left."

(End of this chapter)