Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 683 Calculation
After finishing his cigarette while standing outside, he turned and walked into another interrogation room, which was separated from the previous one by a room. The person being interrogated here was Zheng Tian, ​​the first person arrested by the Yangchao District Branch who had a bullet found in his pocket. He was also the younger brother of Zheng Yang, one of the "Four Great Kings".

“Uncle Police Officer, I really don’t know much about my brother. He basically never takes me with him when he does things. Like last week when they went to rob someone, saying it was to test Zhang Shun. If you hadn’t told me about that, I wouldn’t have known anything about it.”

As soon as he pushed open the door, Zheng Tian's voice reached his ears.

Hearing the door being pushed open, the three interrogators turned around and stood up after recognizing who it was.

"Mr. Jin..."

"Okay, sit down, and continue."

Jin Zhihai nodded, raised his hand and pressed it down, then turned to look at Zheng Tian, ​​who was looking at him.

Zheng Tian didn't know what position Mr. Jin held, but judging from the attitude of the three people who were interrogating him, the person who had just come in must be a leader.

Seeing Jin Zhihai's somewhat frightening gaze, Zheng Tian unconsciously swallowed.

"You just said you don't know anything about your brother's situation?"

"Uh...yes...yes"

“But your brother Zheng Yang didn’t say that.”

"No...not possible."

Jin Zhihai's words made Zheng Tian's expression change instantly.

That's it. This clearly shows that he is not as innocent as he appears.

Jin Zhihai was able to expose this guy's weakness so quickly by catching him completely off guard. That's how interrogation work is sometimes; suddenly changing the interrogation style can have unexpected effects.

Of course, this approach is only suitable for naive youngsters like Zheng Tian. If it were a seasoned veteran here, he would probably remain unmoved no matter how you changed it.

Seeing that Zheng Tian's expression changed, Jin Zhihai didn't say anything more to him. He just smiled faintly, turned around, walked to the table where the interrogators were sitting, and tapped the table.

"The rest is up to you."

"Yes"

After giving his instructions, he left the interrogation room as quickly as he had come in. Zheng Tian sat there watching the door slowly close, his face growing increasingly grim.

As the door closed, his previously tense body suddenly collapsed, his face showing utter dejection.

……

At the Municipal Bureau, after arriving in the morning, Li Yancheng instructed the office to convene a director's office meeting. He first reported on the part of the meeting held yesterday in the city regarding their bureau, and then arranged the key tasks for the next period of time.

As soon as he returned to his office after the meeting, one of the three telephones on his desk rang.

"Hello, this is Li Yancheng."

"Yan Cheng, it's me."

Hearing the familiar voice on the phone, Li Yancheng raised an eyebrow and teased with a smile, "Oh ho, Boss Luo, how come you, such a busy man, have time to call me today?"

The call was from Luo Yang, who works in that economic zone in the south.

When he was first transferred there in 1980, he was just an ordinary deputy leader in the economic zone. Because he was not in the leadership team, he was ranked very low.

Thanks to his outstanding achievements in attracting investment in recent years, he was promoted last year to the position of First Deputy Director of the Economic Zone Organization Department and Executive Deputy Director of the District Government, making him the de facto third-in-command of the Economic Zone.

The rise in political status has led to a busier workload, and the family was unable to return home for the Chinese New Year this year.

For this, the old lady of the Luo family often gave the old man the cold shoulder.

The eldest son's family is stationed in the military in the Northwest, and they are rarely seen throughout the year. The second son is currently in the South and is too busy to come back. Fortunately, both daughters are still around.

But seeing that her son-in-law was on the rise, she feared that he would eventually have to go to other provinces and cities to gain experience, so the old lady couldn't help but sigh.

As people get older, what they want most is to be surrounded by their children and grandchildren and enjoy the joys of family life. But what happened to her house? It was torn to pieces. How could the old lady not be furious?

Before the Lunar New Year, Li Yancheng went to the Southern Province Social Bureau to assist in investigating a case on official business. During this time, he took some time to visit the Economic Zone and met with Luo Yang and his wife.

Because everyone was busy with work, this was only the second time the two of them had spoken since they met in January of this year.

"Don't even mention me. You've got a big event going on over there for National Day this year, you're probably the one who's busy. I heard there's also a case where a few guns went missing. How are you going to sleep at night?"

"Wow, that's spread far and wide! You heard about it over there?"

"You don't know that a scholar can know everything under the heavens without leaving his home."

Luo Yang wasn't exaggerating when he said he was a scholar; he was a genuine, long-established university graduate from Qingdao University.

"Alright, you're really getting worked up over me now that I'm saying you're fat. What's up? Tell me, I'm busy here."

"I know you're busy, so I'll keep it short. I don't know if you've heard of Yang Aimin, but his father used to work under our father. He was transferred to the Southern Province this March to serve as the executive vice president."

“I know his old man, but I don’t know this Yang Aimin. Just tell me what’s going on.”

"It's like this, Da Cheng. I don't know when Yang Aimin ran off to Beijing. He called me this morning asking for your contact information, saying he needed to talk to you about something. When I asked him what it was, he was being mysterious and wouldn't tell me, only saying it was good news."

As you know, his father is now my boss, so I couldn't refuse. I gave him your office phone number. If he contacts you again, you'll have to figure out how to handle it.

This guy is definitely asking you for a favor. Whether you can help him or not is up to you; don't worry about me, I'm not that close to him.

"If we're not familiar, why would you give him my number?" Li Yancheng thought he was being sarcastic and asked with a smile.

"Well, it's like this. You know what happened to our old man in Shanghai back then. Although Yang Aimin's father wasn't a high-ranking official, he always stood firmly on our old man's side in various situations, and he suffered quite a bit because of it."

"Given this connection, if he asks for my help, as long as it's not illegal, irregular, or against regulations, I should help him if I can. Besides, it's just asking for your contact number; I simply can't refuse. But regarding you specifically, don't overthink it. Just do what you need to do. Even if he brings up the past, you and Xiaomin weren't married back then, so you don't need to repay the old man's debt," Luo Yang explained.

Only then did Li Yancheng realize that his brother-in-law was serious.

"Okay, I understand now that you put it that way."

"Alright, Dacheng, I know you've been busy with work lately and have a lot on your shoulders. Even though you're a doctor yourself, you still need to take care of your health. You're over forty, which means you're considered young and strong among cadres, but you're not actually that young anymore."

"Hehe, thank you. Are Yiqing and the baby doing well?"

"It's all good, but I keep saying I want to go back. We'll see, if possible, we'll go back for the National Day holiday."

"it is good"

Both were busy with work and didn't exchange many pleasantries. They finished what they needed to say and hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Li Yancheng pondered the Yang Aimin that Luo Yang had mentioned on the phone, but he really had no recollection of this person.

It is said that Yang Aimin's father worked under Luo Lao for a very short time. He was Luo Lao's subordinate when he was in Shanghai, and they didn't have much of a relationship before.

Yang Aimin's father never held any position in Beijing, and this transfer to work in the south is his last stop.

What does this guy surnamed Yang want with me?
A big question mark popped into Li Yancheng's mind, but he quickly put it out of his mind and started thinking about the work at hand.

At the same time, in a guest room at the Beijing Hotel, two middle-aged men who looked to be in their thirties or forties sat facing each other on separate single sofas, one of them on the phone.

On another three-seater sofa sat two girls in their early twenties, dressed in light clothing, huddled together, giggling and whispering something.

At that moment, the man who was on the phone put down the receiver, and another man who had been watching immediately asked him a question as soon as he saw him hang up.

"Young Master Yang, how is it?"

The moment he opened his mouth, he spoke fluent Southern Mandarin.

Upon hearing the man speak, the two girls who were talking immediately shut their mouths.

The man called Young Master Yang didn't rush to say anything. Instead, he reached for a cigarette from the coffee table, lit it, and only spoke after exhaling the smoke he had inhaled.

"The information you found out is basically correct. That courtyard has indeed been taken over by a guy named Zhu Yongyang and Cheng Jianwen, the young master of the Cheng family. It is said that they plan to open a restaurant in that courtyard. They have already found a chef and even specially invited people from Hong Kong to train the waiters."

"Mr. Fang, if this really doesn't work out, could we look at another one? There are plenty of those traditional courtyard houses around here. Why don't you take a look at something else?"

The person speaking was Yang Aimin, whom Luo Yang had just mentioned. The middle-aged man sitting opposite him was a Hong Kong businessman who had invested in and built a hotel and two factories in the Southern Economic Zone. The hotel was under construction, and the factories had been in operation for over a year.

Beijing is the political and cultural center of China. Anyone who wants to achieve something will want to come here to build connections.

This boss, surnamed Fang, had the same idea and even put it into action.

His plan was to invest in Beijing. After looking around, he finally decided to invest in a hotel. However, unlike buying land and building from scratch in the economic zone, he didn't want to do that here. Firstly, it was too slow, secondly, the investment was too large, and finally, he wanted to build a hotel with some unique features.

What kind of hotels are unique? Hotels built in traditional courtyard houses seem like a good option.

However, even a typical courtyard house with three courtyards is still a bit small. After making inquiries, he finally set his sights on the courtyard house built by Li Yancheng in Ya'er Hutong.

The super-large courtyard house, spanning over 20,000 square meters, was built according to the regulations of a prince's mansion from the late Qing Dynasty. It couldn't be more suitable for this Mr. Fang.

However, the courtyard had already been rented by Cheng Jianwen and Zhu Yongyang. He didn't know who Zhu Yongyang was, only that he was a local from Beijing and quite famous in the underworld. That seemed to be all.

As for the other boss, he didn't take this Zhu guy seriously, but he dared not mess with the Cheng family.

Although he was also a billionaire, he was still no match for the behemoth that was the Cheng family. If the Cheng family sneezed, he might go bankrupt.

So he returned to Hong Kong Island and made an appointment with the Cheng Group to meet Cheng Jianwen.

His thought was that since the young master of the Cheng family had rented that courtyard, he must be planning something. In that case, why not mention his plan to this young master of the Cheng family and see if they could cooperate?

If a cooperation can be reached, he can also hitch a ride on the Cheng family's big ship, and even a little bit of money leaking from their fingers will be enough to make him rich.

His idea was good, but Cheng Jianwen was not someone anyone could meet whenever they wanted. He soon received a reply from the Cheng Group that General Manager Cheng's appointments for the next three months were fully booked.

He knew perfectly well that this was just an excuse; no one would make an appointment for a month later, let alone three months later.

But their reply made him realize that it was impossible for him to see Cheng Jianwen.

He could only return to his factory in the economic zone to see if he could think of any other solutions.

Here, he unexpectedly met Yang Aimin, who was strolling around the economic zone with nothing to do. The two met in March when the old man from the Yang family had just arrived.

With a "nothing to lose" mentality, Mr. Fang told Yang Aimin about his plan to invest in a hotel in Beijing, and also mentioned that he had his eye on a super-large courtyard house by Houhai Lake.

He didn't hide anything and told Yang Aimin all the information he had found out about the courtyard, promising a substantial "brokerage fee" if he could help him get the courtyard.

When Yang Aimin heard that the owner of the courtyard was Li Yancheng, he actually decided not to get involved anymore. His old man was quite powerful, but it depended on who he was compared to.

That man, barely in his forties, was already at the same level as his father, and was also the director of the Public Security Bureau in the important city of Beijing. In addition, he was the youngest son-in-law of the Luo family. He was very self-aware and knew very well that he had no say in front of him, so he did not intend to respond to this Mr. Fang.

But when he heard about the "agency fee," he immediately became uneasy.

Well, it's been six years since the reform and opening up began, and the benefits of this path are still not very clear to the general public, but the importance of money has become apparent.

Especially after some tickets were cancelled this year, people suddenly found that they didn't have enough money.

In the past, you needed coupons to buy things, and money was useless without coupons, which helped everyone save money. But now you don't need coupons to buy some things, which seems convenient, but the excuse for saving money is gone, and the little money in your hand just flows out like water.

It was only then that many people realized that the small amount of salary they received each month was nothing at all.

(End of this chapter)