You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 327 Driving a Tiger to Devour a Wolf! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Xiama Town, brick factory outside the town.

A huge mourning tent was erected in an open space, with its back to the large chimney inside the brick factory.

The mourning tent was adorned with a couplet: "Father's passing brings sorrow to my heart," and "The son's teachings will be remembered forever." The horizontal inscription read: "His voice and appearance will live on forever."

White wreaths were piled up from the doorway to the muddy road outside; the funeral was grand and solemn.

Dozens of large round tables were set up in the open space. Several hundred people came to mourn, some standing and eating melon seeds, and others sitting at the tables, waiting for the meal to begin.

Under the nearby woods, three stoves were built with bricks, and mutton was stewing in a large iron pot, with the mutton soup boiling and emitting gentle steam.

Another large pot held a steamer over a meter tall, while the remaining pot was used for stir-frying. The cook was busy preparing the food inside with a spatula as big as a shovel.

In the southwest region, rural banquets always involve steaming food, which is a high-standard banquet. Moreover, the chefs are specially hired, with more than a dozen people helping out.

Fishmongers, chicken pluckers, vegetable washers, cold dish servers...

The scene was lively and impressive.

The band that the host invited was particularly refreshing.

The band has five members: one plays the accordion, one plays the saxophone, one plays the suona, and of course, there is a male singer who wears a suit and a raincoat as the lead singer.

The song being sung is the Russian ballet "Troika".

"The Volga River is covered by ice and snow, and troikas run on the frozen river. Someone is singing a melancholy song. The singer is the troika driver. Young man, why are you so sad? Why do you hang your head? Who has made you so heartbroken..."

Just then, several people dressed in black came over to the counter where the bills were being processed.

A thug stood behind the stage, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, and asked, "Where are you from?"

"With Blackie."

"Blackie?" The other person clearly didn't know this name.

"Hei Ge and Qiao Song Ge are sworn brothers, didn't you know?"

"I don't know."

"You just started hanging out with Brother Qiao Song?"

"Uh……"

"You have no sense of propriety." The other person ignored him and took out a white bag to hand to the person keeping the accounts.

"Just remember my older brother's name."

What's your older brother's name?

"Chai Tao, Brother Tao."

"it is good."

Maozi, a man of five or six, dusted off the dust from his sleeves and led Yao Weihua, Qi Bin, and Cai Ting into the mourning hall.

The space inside the mourning hall was quite large, and Maozi immediately spotted a mahogany coffin placed in front of the hall.

As he was examining the place closely, the person standing in front of the door grabbed him.

"Thank you for coming to mourn my father."

After the other party finished speaking, he and his family members bowed slightly.

Maozi and Yao Weihua immediately lowered their heads as well.

The man was young, dressed in a black suit, with half-rimmed glasses on his nose, trying to appear very refined.

Before coming, Maozi and the others learned that the Shi family had three siblings. The eldest sister was married to the deputy mayor of Shangma Town, and the second brother was Shi Qiaosong. In addition to owning a brick factory in Shangma Town, he also owned a construction company in Dayan City. His business was quite large and involved many people.

The family members who led the thank-you ceremony were the third son, Shi Qiaobo, who was the manager of his older brother Shi Qiaosong's construction company. He was a smooth and cunning person.

The original plan was for someone from the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Dayan City to come, but they took one look at Shi Qiaobo.

Damn it, we know each other, and we're not just acquainted, we're very close.

Why? Because once, during a construction project, Shi Qiaobai's construction team unearthed a large Qin Dynasty tomb with many burial objects inside, which immediately sparked a frenzy of looting. Gao Feng led the criminal investigation team to handle this matter.

At the time, Shi Qiaobo's construction team even went against them, refusing to hand over the antiques to be buried with them.

Why didn't Yang Jinwen come? Because An'nan City and Dayan City are adjacent, and his appearance is too conspicuous; others may have seen his face in the news and newspapers.

Right now, he and the criminal police officers from Dayan City were lying in ambush on the outskirts, waiting for Maozi to find evidence so they could come in and arrest him.

It has been confirmed that Shi Qiaosong and Shi Qiaobo are members of the triads, but due to the short time available, concrete evidence cannot be collected. Therefore, they can only arrest them first and then interrogate them.

The criminal investigation team of Dayan City was very confident that as long as the person was brought to the interrogation room, they could get information out of him by using a dog-eat-dog approach. The problem was that arresting someone required a reason.

Two days ago, Yu Dagou sold the body of a young girl to Shi Qiaosong. Where is this body now?
They're either inside the coffin or in a tomb that's already been dug.

The Criminal Investigation Detachment of Dayan City has already sent people to check. The tomb has been dug by an excavator, and they are just waiting to carry the coffin to the burial site this afternoon.

The pit was empty, without a single person in sight, so the girl's body was probably in the coffin.

The task of Maozi and his group was to confirm this fact.

How do we determine that?
You can't open someone's coffin to look inside. If you wait until after burial to dig up the grave, Shi Qiaosong might not be able to accept the responsibility. If you forcibly open the coffin and there's nothing inside, it will be difficult to handle the situation afterwards.

At this moment, Maozi responded to Shi Qiaobo and said, "Brother Tao couldn't come by himself, so he asked me to offer incense to the old man."

"please."

Shi Qiaobo, unsuspecting, had three incense sticks lit and handed them to the cat.

Cat stepped forward, glanced at the photo in front of the mourning hall, and then looked more closely at the mahogany coffin.

The coffin was clearly custom-made, a size larger than those bought in town, and nails were nailed along the edges, indicating it was ready for burial.

Maozi reluctantly bowed three times, said "Please accept my condolences," and then led Yao Weihua and the others outside to find a table in the distance to sit down.

"Old Yao, do you see a problem?"

Yao Weihua looked around and, seeing no one approaching, whispered, "I think there's a high chance the body is in the coffin."

Cat agreed wholeheartedly: "Right, I think so too."

"So I support you in prying open the coffin." Cai Ting picked up a handful of sunflower seeds and cracked them open, then nodded: "Brother Cat, whether we can catch them or not depends on you."

Qi Bin laughed and said, "Captain Yang entrusted such an important matter to you, so it's all up to you to perform. Brother Cat, you must carry forward Captain Yang's fearless spirit."

"Yarn".

Cat rolled his eyes: "Didn't you see a bunch of thugs standing in front of the door? If I dared to go there, I'd be beaten to death immediately."

Yao Weihua said, "Don't you have a gun? What are you afraid of?"

Cai Ting: "That's right, hurry up and finish this so we can go back. Captain He is urging us to hurry up. Cat Brother, don't embarrass your master."

Cat coughed twice: "Everyone, I'm from the countryside, don't lie to me, seriously, what should we do?"

"Let's just leave it at that." Yao Weihua said while smoking, "The criminal investigation team of Dayan City is very cunning. It's not good to let us do this. I'm thinking of letting them handle it themselves since it's not our case."

Cat said with difficulty, "This is because our Captain Yang strongly requested the arrest, and everyone in Dayan City originally did not want to act so quickly."

If we back down now, wouldn't that be a slap in the face to Captain Yang? Anyway, I dare not say that.

“Then I’ll go talk to Captain Yang.”

Cat didn't expect Yao Weihua to actually quit. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket, found a signal, and dialed the number.

"Hey? Captain Yang, we've checked this place. The coffin is already sealed shut, so we can't pry it open. I'm thinking, maybe we should just let this go, since it's not our case anyway."

"..."

"Hello? Captain Yang, can you hear me clearly?"

"Say it louder, say it again."

Yao Weihua was puzzled. He walked into the woods and shouted into the phone, "Captain Yang, what I mean is, how about we just quit and not get ourselves into any trouble when we get back?"

After he finished speaking, he heard Yang Jinwen cough once on the phone: "I understand, that's all for now."

Yao Weihua was completely baffled. After hearing the other party hang up the phone, he shrugged and walked back to the table to sit down.

Cat immediately asked, "What did Captain Yang say?"

"He told me to say it aloud once, then said okay and hung up the phone."

Cai Ting frowned: "What does this mean?"

Yao Weihua shook his head: "Never mind, let's eat first and see how things go."

Maozi asked, "Will the white envelopes we gave as gifts be reimbursed by the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Dayan City or by our city bureau?"

Yao Weihua laughed and said, "Guess?"

"Five hundred yuan!" Cat said with heartache. "That's a month's salary. If they don't reimburse me, it's like they're trying to kill me!"

Qi Bin blinked: "Wait, when did you get a raise? Wasn't it just over four hundred before? Our salaries are different?"

"Last time I went on a business trip, I was reimbursed for 100 yuan."

"Oh." Qi Bin said sullenly, somewhat disbelieving.

As the group was chatting, they saw a group of idle people walk around the wall behind the open space, heading towards the mourning tent with an air of indifference.

When the group of people in front of the mourning tent saw the group of thugs, several of their underlings immediately ran into the mourning hall. Then, Shi Qiaobo led his men out and went to meet them menacingly.

"Hou San, what the hell are you trying to do?"

The thug named Hou San wore a large gold chain around his neck, and there were more than thirty people standing behind him, holding sticks.

"Shi Qiaobo, where's your brother?"

What do you want with my brother?

"You don't know what your brother did?"

"I don't know, what do you want?"

Shi Qiaobo walked over and glared at him fiercely: "Let me tell you, my dad is being buried today, so you better get out of here!"

"Get the hell out of here! Your brother slept with my brother's sister, had a child with her, and now he doesn't even acknowledge her and her child."

Not to mention, you two brothers have been acting arrogantly and domineeringly in Xiama Town, encroaching on the land next to People's Square, extorting money and even beating people. The people of Xiama Town will not let this go.

Brothers, let's fight this evildoer and bring justice to the people of Xiama Town! Let's take them down!

As they spoke, the large group of people immediately started fighting. Hou San's men were all armed and had the advantage, so they began to smash and destroy things.

Hou San, hiding in the crowd, pointed at the band when the music stopped and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Don't stop the music! Sing me a song, 'Where is the Road Ahead?'"

"You carry the load, I lead the horse, welcoming the sunrise and seeing off the sunset. We smooth out the bumpy roads, and after overcoming hardships, we set off again, again, la la."

While they were singing, dozens of people were chasing each other, beating each other, with shouts and curses filling the air.

Tables and chairs were overturned, and some people resisted with wreaths. When someone hit them with a stick, the chrysanthemum petals were scattered everywhere in the wind.

Hou San encouraged his men: "Brothers, charge into the mourning hall! I'll make sure Shi Qiaosong's father dies with his eyes wide open in disgrace! Those bastards who harmed people!"

Maozi, Yao Weihua, Cai Ting, and Qi Bin each grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds and hid in the woods.

Yao Weihua pondered, "This sudden turn of events seems a bit strange to me. The leader is shouting about eliminating violence and upholding justice, and standing up for the people. Why does that sound so familiar?"

"How could it not sound familiar? That's what Director Yang said during our meeting. Look, all these people are rushing into the mourning hall." Maozi was also puzzled.

Cai Ting looked around and quickly nudged their shoulders: "Look over there."

Several people turned to look and saw Yang Jinwen and a few people from the Dayan Criminal Police Detachment standing in the crowd of onlookers. He had his arms crossed, his eyes slightly narrowed, watching the chaotic scene with great interest.

Hou San led a few people, working as they went, and headed straight for the redwood coffin placed in the center of the mourning hall.

The band, hiding in the distance, played their music louder and louder.

"La...la...through spring, autumn, winter, and summer, through countless joys and sorrows. Where does the road lead? The road is under your feet."

　I've secured an extra chapter for the monthly pass! I'd like to ask if it's one extra chapter per day, or three chapters at once? I need to stockpile chapters. Thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)