Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 495 Running away
At 8:30 in the morning on September 12, 1980, Li Yancheng, accompanied by Deputy Director Zhang of the Beijing Municipal Organization Department and Ji Chunfeng, the leader of the Organization Department, came to the Municipal Public Security Bureau and first met with Director Gao of the Municipal Bureau.

Then at nine o'clock, they went to the conference room of the Municipal Bureau to attend a meeting of deputy division-level and above cadres in the city's public security system.

Because of his work, Li Yancheng often deals with people in the public security system, especially those in charge of front-line work in various district and county bureaus, and they all know each other.

But when they saw the familiar young face who came with the leaders and sat on the stage, many people still felt dazed.

It was really that face that looked too young. Among those who could sit in the conference room today, there were less than a handful of people of his age.

This "similar" refers to those who are five years older than him. There is no one who is the same age or younger than him except Jin Zhihai.

"Zhi Hai, I haven't seen this guy for a while... He should be called Director Li now. I haven't seen him for a while. Why do I feel like he hasn't changed much over the years?"

Sitting next to Jin Zhihai was Lu Fangyang, the former team leader of the First Group of the Second Criminal Investigation Division, who had been transferred to the Yangchao Branch as director two years ago.

He hadn't seen Li Yancheng for almost two years. When he saw him today, he was surprised to find that this guy seemed to have not changed at all from two years ago. How come this guy's appearance never ages?
With doubts in his mind, he turned his head to look at Jin Zhihai beside him. He knew that his former subordinate, now the deputy chief of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Municipal Bureau, was a childhood friend of the same age as Deputy Director Li. But judging from their appearance alone, people would believe that they were ten years apart in age.

Jin Zhihai grinned and said softly, "Director Lu, don't you know that our new Director Li is also a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine?"

"I know, but what does the Chinese medicine doctor have to do with him not getting old?" After hearing this, Lu Fangyang, who had already turned his head to look at the stage, quickly turned his head to glance at the person next to him, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

"I have never seen anything like this in other Chinese medicine doctors."

"That may be because they are not good enough. Our Director Li has a prescription that is said to delay aging after taking it. It seems to also be able to protect the skin or something. I don't understand it either, but it seems to be quite effective anyway."

What Jin Zhihai said was definitely conservative. He has the most say on whether the medicine is effective or not because his wife has been taking it.

Xing Lihua was born in 1943 and is 37 years old this year. Since she started taking the medicine ten years ago, her age seems to have been frozen at that year. There has been almost no change in the past ten years. Her skin condition has become particularly good, and she looks as if her skin is as delicate as a baby's.

Of course Li Yancheng prescribed medicine for his childhood friend, but Jin Zhihai never took it. He felt that as a man, it was enough to be manly. Why did he need to have such good skin and look so young?

Although he is not like farmers who face the loess and back to the sky every day and age quickly in the wind and sun, due to the nature of his work, he often stays up late and rushes to various crime scenes. Under such working conditions, he and Xing Lihua standing together now do not look like a couple at all. If things continue like this, in less than ten years, if they go out on the street together again, others may think they are father and daughter, not a couple.

So now Jin Zhihai also plans to take the medicine. He doesn't want to be disliked by his wife in the future.

However, Li Yancheng told him that he would prescribe new medicine for him when he had more time, as the previous prescription was no longer suitable for him now.

"Is there such a medicine?" A look of surprise flashed across Lu Fangyang's face.

"Um"

"You've never eaten it?"

"I didn't eat, but my wife was eating. Actually, my wife looked fine after eating. You may not have seen his wife very often." Jin Zhihai gestured towards the stage.

"His wife is thirty years old and already a mother of two children, but she looks like a girl in her early twenties."

"Tsk tsk... What kind of family is this!" Lu Fangyang sighed with emotion and did not continue the topic. Instead, he asked in a low voice: "Zhi Hai, what's the current situation of the case you are handling?"

Ten years ago, he was still in the Second Criminal Investigation Division. After the victim of the last case in the series voluntarily reported the case, several more victims were found through investigation and interviews. Subsequently, the Second Criminal Investigation Division did a lot of work with the cooperation of the Dianhai Branch, investigating a total of tens of thousands of people, but still found nothing.

Later the case had to be put on hold because they had to deal with various cases every day and it was impossible for them to devote their energy for a long time to a case without any clues.

Even though he had been transferred out of the Second Division for two years, this case was still a thorn in Lu Fangyang's heart, especially after hearing about the August 28th case and the September 2nd case that followed, this thorn made him feel even more painful.

In the past few days, he also arranged for the police stations under the Yangchao Branch to conduct investigations and visits within their jurisdictions in accordance with the cooperation notice issued by the Municipal Bureau, requiring that no household or person be missed.

But considering that all the cases are concentrated in Dianhai, the criminal is most likely from Dianhai. Yangchao has done a lot of investigation work but has not found anything.

"There is no substantial progress." When the case was mentioned, Jin Zhihai's face darkened, but he immediately perked up and said, "But I thought of another possibility the night before yesterday, and I communicated with Director Chang Huarong of the headquarters yesterday morning. He needs to do a few experiments to verify my guess.

If my guess comes true, then the direction of subsequent investigations will probably have to be adjusted.”

"Oh? What guess?" Lu Fangyang suddenly became interested and asked curiously.

"It's like this. The night before yesterday, when I was walking home, I passed by a road construction site and I saw..."

Next, Jin Zhihai told Lu Fangyang about the idea that suddenly popped into his head that night. After telling him what he had thought of, he said, "Yesterday morning, Yan Cheng also called Director Chang, and he..."

What Li Yancheng came up with after his wife reminded him was basically the same as what Jin Zhihai came up with after he saw the road being built. They both used external equipment to leave identical, lifelike footprints.

Whether it can be done or not still needs to be confirmed by footprint identification expert Chang Huarong after conducting experiments.

Jin Zhihai also planned to have a good chat with Li Yancheng after the meeting.

After hearing his words, Lu Fangyang frowned and thought carefully for a while, then hesitantly asked: "Zhi Hai, do you think it's possible? If he is really a disabled person and can't move around easily, how can we expect him to force it?"

"Director Lu, you are prejudiced against disabled people."

"Hey, hey, hey, let's just stick to the facts. Don't accuse me of anything."

"Haha, Director Lu, I can only say that people are different. I don't really know what disabled people with prosthetic legs look like, mainly because I haven't paid attention to them.

But there was a man living in Meishan East Hutong where I used to live who was missing an arm, his right arm, and it had been about 20 years. He later trained his left hand to be very flexible. Missing an arm must have been inconvenient in life, but through acquired efforts, he tried his best to eliminate that inconvenience and enabled himself to basically live independently even with only one arm.

I am not saying this to say that this case was definitely committed by this kind of person, but I just want to show that people are particularly persevering.

But to be honest, I don't quite agree that the footprints left at the crime scene were left by the prosthetic leg. As I said before, regardless of whether the prosthetic leg has been worn out in the past ten years and whether it will leave the same marks as ten years ago, it is impossible for the person using the prosthetic leg to remain unchanged.

Director Lu, you should also be very clear that many external factors can change a person's footprints."

"That's right." Lu Fangyang nodded gently: "I also agree with what you said that the person deliberately left the footprints with some kind of tool, but Zhihai, this brings the question back to the original question."

"What do you mean?"

"Look, why did he leave footprints on purpose?"

"Divert our attention and the direction of our investigation." "Does that mean this person is relatively familiar with our investigation methods? At the very least, he knows that we can find people through footprints."

"right"

"What kind of person do you think can understand this?"

“Uh…” Jin Zhihai was slightly startled and opened his mouth but no sound came out.

Yes, what kind of person can know so much about the police's methods of investigating cases and come up with such a way to interfere with the investigation?

Either they have been dealt with before and know something, or...

This era was different from decades later, when people mainly relied on newspapers, radio, and word of mouth for information.

No matter which one it is, it will not tell you how the police handle the case.

Some people may know that fingerprints and footprints left at the scene can help the police solve cases, but few people know how the police rely on these two things to solve cases.

Not to mention that they also knew how to use fake footprints to interfere with the investigation of the case. No matter how you look at it, it seems like the case was done by someone who is very familiar with the public security investigation process.

Or to put it more bluntly, just say it was an inside job.

Ever since the August 28 incident, this idea has been floating in the mind of every member of the task force. After approval by the city bureau leaders, all police officers in the city, including security officers from the police stations, submitted a statement of their whereabouts on August 28, including the two days before and after, and required two or more witnesses, who could not be relatives, and could not testify against each other.

More than ten days have passed, and everything that needed to be checked has been checked, and no obvious abnormalities have been found.

The scope of the investigation also covers retired police officers and security departments of various enterprises and institutions, and the self-inspection work has not yet been completed.

This kind of self-examination is quite offensive, but it is very necessary.

Now that Lu Fangyang mentioned this again, Jin Zhihai smiled bitterly: "Director Lu, didn't you also write a statement of whereabouts? In order to investigate this case, I almost offended all the police officers in our Jing City."

"Haha..." Lu Fangyang grinned and smiled silently, then raised his hand and patted Jin Zhihai's leg: "There's nothing we can do, this is our job, but it doesn't matter, here..."

He raised his chin and gestured to the stage: "Your childhood friend is here now. With him here, he will definitely support your work. If nothing unexpected happens, he will soon become the deputy leader of the task force and will shoulder all the responsibilities. Just go ahead and do it boldly."

In cases like this where a special task force is set up, the director is usually the team leader to show the importance of the case, but the actual work of the task force is done by the person in charge of criminal investigation.

Li Yancheng is now the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation work and also serves as the chief of the Criminal Investigation Corps. It is inevitable that he will be in charge of the task force in the future.

During this period of time, the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation was transferred, and because his successor had not arrived, there had been no handover of work. Several directors of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Municipal Bureau were jumping up and down, and people were in panic. A lot of the actual work of the task force was done by Jin Zhihai, so he was said to have offended people.

Things are different now. The Criminal Investigation Corps has been established and several criminal investigation departments have been abolished. The captain and political commissar are now in place. If the sky falls, there will always be tall people to hold it up. He, the deputy captain, can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Just when Jin Zhihai was about to say something, applause suddenly broke out in the conference room. He looked closely and found that the leader of the city's organization department had finished reading the appointment documents, and had talked about Li Yancheng's resume and the organization's expectations for his future work.

Li Yancheng's resume is relatively simple. After graduating from secondary technical school, he joined the army. After demobilization, he entered the First Hospital of Chengdong District. Next, he went to the Public Security Hospital for further studies while being seconded by the Beijing Social Affairs Bureau. Then he was officially transferred to the Operations Division 1 of the Beijing Social Affairs Bureau.

He has served as the director of the health room of the First Operation Division, deputy section chief and section chief of the pre-trial section, deputy director and director of the Archives Office of the Municipal Social Affairs Bureau, and deputy secretary-general of the General Office of the Social Affairs Bureau Headquarters. He is also a specially hired interrogation expert by the Social Affairs Bureau and the public security system, and an interrogation expert designated for employment by the court and the Supervisory Commission system.

His resume did not include the fact that he was also a specially appointed expert in the Health Care Group of the Health Care Bureau, nor did it record that he was also the actual head of the cancer research project team of the General Hospital of the Armed Forces.

His achievements and awards over the years were also read out. Even though many people in the audience knew Li Yancheng, they were still shocked by the honors he had won over the years.

My goodness, if I wear all the medals on my chest, there won’t be enough space.

After the head of the city's organization department finished his speech, Deputy Director Zhang from the city's organization department also spoke a few words of encouragement. Then the people from the Public Security Headquarters and Director Gao spoke a few words. Finally, it was Li Yancheng himself who spoke about his determination and his outlook for future work. With the end of his speech, today's conference also came to an end.

After the conference ended and after seeing off the leaders from the city and headquarters, the bureau team members held another small meeting, mainly to reconfirm the responsibilities of the team members. In fact, it was just to introduce Li Yancheng to everyone so that he could get familiar with them.

Although he often helped the Municipal Bureau to interrogate criminals, he was only familiar with the deputy director who had been transferred, Director Gao, Executive Deputy Director Dai, and Deputy Director Chang who was in charge of public security. He had never even met the other non-frontline deputy directors and team members.

After the meeting, Director Liu from the office personally took him to his office on the third floor of the office building.

After entering the office, Li Yancheng felt a little shocked.

"Director Liu, this...is this a bit excessive?"

This office was really too big. His office at the Social Affairs Bureau headquarters was nearly 20 square meters, which was more than enough. But what about this office? Although he hadn't seen how big the bedroom in the suite was, the office area and reception area alone were at least 30 square meters, and there was also a huge desk.

Each level has corresponding regulations on the size of offices and housing it uses, and this office obviously exceeds the standards.

Relatively speaking, the higher you go, the more you comply with regulations. For example, the office used by Li Yancheng in the Social Affairs Bureau complies with regulations.

The further down you go, the more superficial this regulation becomes. By the time you reach the county and even township levels, section chiefs have their own offices, some bigger than others. This kind of situation would simply not happen at the higher levels.

When he worked at the Social Affairs Bureau headquarters, how could a section-level cadre have his own office? He had to share a large office with other section staff. At best, the desk would be placed in a better location, with good ventilation and sunlight. But if one wanted to use an office alone, one had to become a department leader, not even a deputy department leader. One had to share an office with other cadres of the same level.

"Don't worry, Director Li. We have ample office space. The offices of the other deputy directors are the same size as the one you are using. Only the director's is slightly larger."

After hearing Director Liu's explanation, Li Yancheng said nothing more. Since the offices used by the other deputy directors were all this big, it was impossible for him to ask for a smaller one.

If he really dared to do that, what would the others do? Would they change with him? It was necessary to occasionally be with Guang Tongchen on some non-principled matters.

Seeing that he didn't say anything and instead looked around, Director Liu continued, "Director Li, please see if there is anything else you are not satisfied with. I will ask them to rearrange it according to your requirements immediately."

"No need." Li Yancheng waved his hand: "This is already very good."

"Huh..." Director Liu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. As the office director, he was the steward of the entire situation. Although he was also a member of the team, he was very clear about his position, which was to provide good service, especially to serve Director Gao, Director Dai and the person in front of him.

No, in fact, after knowing that Li Yancheng was going to be transferred here, and it was clearly at the director-general level, Director Liu had already raised his importance to above that of the senior directors.

He is only fifty this year and still has some years before retirement. He is also thinking about whether he can get promoted to a higher level before retirement, so that his post-retirement benefits will be completely different.

(End of this chapter)