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

Chapter 406 We've completely lost face!

It was almost time to leave work.

Sun Yue returned dejectedly with a few men. After getting out of the car, he didn't even dare to enter the detachment's gate.

Yao Weihua was smoking in the yard when he saw that he looked dejected, so he went up to him and offered him a cigarette.

"Captain Sun, what's wrong?"

"It's okay."

Sun Yue took the cigarette, and Yao Weihua lit it for him with a lighter: "Didn't find the gun?"

He took a drag of his cigarette and mumbled, "That bastard is definitely lying. We need to keep interrogating him. He must be hiding it somewhere."

Yao Weihua's eyes flashed with a sharp light: "Could it be that this suspect is deliberately playing a trick on you?"

Sun Yue froze: "No way?"

"Ha ha……"

Yao Weihua burst out laughing, tears welling up in his eyes: "Did you guys have someone turn over all the land in his hometown?"

Sun Yue frowned: "Yes, we even used excavators, and we've been busy all day, but we haven't found a single bullet."

"Haha, cough cough..." Yao Weihua couldn't stop laughing.

Sun Yue retorted, "What are you laughing at?"

"...Let me catch my breath."

Yao Weihua put his arm around Sun Yue's shoulder. Sun Yue's clothes were covered in mud, and his shoes were covered in a thick layer of mud.

"Are the parents of this suspect surnamed Xu quite old?"

"So what..."

Before Sun Yue could finish speaking, he suddenly realized something, his eyes narrowed, and he threw the cigarette butt in his hand hard on the ground.

"Fuck your mother, that son of a bitch!"

Yao Weihua made no attempt to hide his mockery: "They're just playing you guys for a fool. They said they hid a gun in their field so you'd help their parents plow the land, you idiots... Haha, why don't you use your asses to think about it? Haha..."

Sun Yue's face was ashen as he led a few men into the brigade building, moving as fast as the wind.

Before long, Sun Yue's roar could be heard coming from the direction of the interrogation room in the lobby on the first floor.

Yao Weihua clutched his stomach and returned to the Third Brigade office, still laughing uncontrollably.

He leaned against the door frame and laughed at Yang Jinwen inside, "Haha... Captain Yang, you guessed right. That idiot Sun Yue turned the suspect's house upside down. Holy crap, I've never seen such a moron before."

Cai Ting and Maozi were stunned, while Feng Xiaocai's eyes widened: "No way? How many acres of land were turned over?"

Yao Weihua waved his hands, panting, "I don't know, you guys wait here, I'll go ask around, haha..."

Soon, the news reached everyone in the Qincheng Detachment. Sun Yue, the deputy captain of the Second Brigade, went to the suspect's hometown to search for the gun based on the suspect's confession.

In his eagerness to find the gun, Sun Yue mobilized the local police station and hired two excavators to dig up all ten acres of land belonging to the suspect.

When Wu Kai heard about this, he called Shen Wenzhu to his office and slammed his fist on the table in a fit of rage.

"What have you done? Didn't you verify the suspect's confession? How could you make such a fool of yourself?! Now everyone knows what your Second Brigade did! Aren't you ashamed? Aren't you ashamed?"

Shen Wenzhu was also quite angry, her face flushed, and she said, "Chief Wu, this is my fault. I didn't notice that the suspect was lying during the interrogation."

Wu Kai pointed at her: "Tell me, what should we do with Sun Yue?"

"Review?"

"Written".

"it is good."

"anything else?"

"I also bear some responsibility."

"None of your business." Wu Kai waved his hand forcefully: "Well, he likes cleaning toilets, doesn't he? Let him clean the detachment's toilets for a week."

Shen Wenzhu hesitated and asked, "Which floor should I wash?"

"First floor!"

"clear."

Besides Wu Kai and Shen Wenzhu, Lu Ruixiang was also there. He spoke very sincerely: "Since the suspect has made this statement, we can't help but verify it."

Actually, this isn't Sun Yue's fault; anyone else would have done the same.

"That's true." Wu Kai nodded and asked, "What's the suspect's name?"

Shen Wenzhu replied, "His surname is Xu, and his name is Xu Liang."

"This guy's quick-witted. What's his educational background? Did he admit to lying?"

"High school education, quite cunning."

Before I went upstairs, I had just interrogated him. He said he couldn't escape it, that he couldn't avoid several years in prison, that his parents were getting old, and that he was an only child, so he lied because he was worried about them being burdened, thinking of us..."

At this point, Shen Wenzhu paused, then sighed and continued, "We were thinking of helping his parents plow the land so they could plant winter wheat."

Wu Kai could no longer hold back. He had been stubbornly holding back, but upon hearing these words, he suddenly lost control of his emotions.

"Haha..." he suddenly burst out laughing.

He tried hard to suppress it, but he just couldn't bring himself to smile.

Shen Wenzhu turned her head away tacitly, not wanting to see her leader lose her composure.

To her surprise, the moment her gaze met Lu Ruixiang's, the two of them burst into laughter, their faces contorted in pain.

"Ha ha……"

"Ha ha……"

What was supposed to be a serious critique meeting simply couldn't continue.

Wu Kai held onto the table with both hands, trying to sit up straight in the chair, but he just couldn't straighten his back.

He coughed a few times and waved his hand: "That idiot Sun Yue, he absolutely has to write a self-criticism. How is he going to get along with the team after this?"

Lu Ruixiang nodded: "It's nothing serious. Xiao Sun is a good comrade."

Wu Kai pointed at Shen Wenzhu: "Continue the interrogation, and find the gun for me."

"Okay." Shen Wenzhu nodded, left the office, and shook her head in disappointment, wanting to laugh again.

Upon arriving at the interrogation room on the first floor, Sun Yue's roars grew louder and louder.

"You motherfucker, I'll ask you one more time, where did you hide the gun?"

The suspect, named Xu Liang, with his hands handcuffed, innocently said, "Officer, as I just said, I threw it into the septic tank in my hometown."

"You're still lying. Do you think I won't dare to hit you?"

"This time I'm not lying, who would dare keep this thing?"

Sun Yue stared intently into his eyes, about to speak, when Shen Wenzhu came in and pushed him aside.

"Xu Liang, you'd better tell the truth. If you don't, you should think carefully. This will have very serious consequences for your parents' lives!"

"I know." Xu Liang nodded, his eyes deep.

"I'll ask you one last time, where is the gun hidden?"

"Septic tank".

"Fine, I'll believe you one more time. If you dare to lie this time, when the wheat grows in your fields next year, I'll have all the cattle and sheep in the village eat it, leaving your parents with no harvest."

Hearing this, Sun Yue raised an eyebrow: "Exactly, eat them all!"

Just as Yang Jinwen and Yao Weihua were about to leave work, they saw Shen Wenzhu leading the Second Brigade out of the interrogation room in a flurry of activity.

Yao Weihua quickly grabbed Sun Yue's arm: "Where are we going again?"

"Get out!" Sun Yue cursed.

"This time, the gun won't be hidden in his sugarcane field, will it?"

"You guessed right." Shen Wenzhu glanced at Yao Weihua.

Yao Weihua shrank back and stopped talking. After the others left, he started laughing again: "That kid surnamed Xu is really smart."

Cai Ting nodded: "She's quick-witted."

Yao Weihua asked, "Where are we going after get off work? Want to grab a bite to eat together?"

Maozi quickly shook her head: "Yuxin and I are having hot pot at our dorm tonight. If you want to eat, you can come too."

"Sure," Yao Weihua said. "Captain Yang, do you want to come along?"

Cai Ting laughed and said, "Why don't Captain Yang and Forensic Doctor Wen go back to their upscale neighborhood and enjoy a candlelight dinner? Why do they have to eat hot pot with us?"

Yang Jinwen smiled and said, "Let's do it another day. Forensic Doctor Wen is still working overtime. I'll wait for her in the car. You guys go ahead."

He looked up at the sky: "Looks like it's going to rain tonight."

"Okay, Captain Yang, see you tomorrow." Feng Xiaocai greeted him and then walked towards his red car.

Cat immediately called out, "Hey Xiao Cai, wanna come to our dorm for hot pot? I can buy some lamb."

Feng Xiaocai turned around, smiled sweetly, and waved her hand: "Thank you, but no need, I have something to do tonight."

Yao Weihua laughed and said, "It's definitely a blind date. Cat Brother, you have no chance."

Cai Ting shook her head disdainfully: "Of course there's no chance. He can go buy some mutton and see if he speaks human language. How stingy is he?"

Cat blushed and said, "Lamb is quite expensive."

"Love is more valuable? I've never heard of that?" Yao Weihua patted his shoulder and said to Cai Ting, "Right, Sister Cai?"

"Get lost!" Cai Ting knew he was provoking her, so she didn't give him a friendly look.

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It rained at nine o'clock that evening, just as expected.

Xingye District Traffic Police Brigade.

Under the dim yellow light of the pillar lamp in front of the gate, a blue and white motorcycle drove into the yard. A police light was mounted on the back of the motorcycle, with a glaring red flashing at the top.

After the motorcycle was parked in the shed, Gao Jie kicked down the support frame with his left foot, and the young man wearing a raincoat on the back seat jumped off the motorcycle.

"Captain Gao, it's so late, did the canteen leave any food for us?"

"Boil some water. I have two packets of instant noodles in my drawer. I'll make do with that."

"Alright." The young man ran towards the brigade's office.

After getting out of the car, Gao Jie stepped into the yard, glanced at the gloomy sky, and thought that winter rain was the most annoying thing, let alone rain mixed with snow.

He took off his military green raincoat, held it in his hand, and vigorously shook off the water.
Gao Jie did not return to his office first, but went to the duty room to fill in the time of his return from the police call.

The person on duty was Old Zhang, who was about to retire from the brigade. He was wearing a military overcoat, arms crossed, and sniffling.

"Old Gao, is it snowing outside?"

Gao Jie picked up the pen on the table, wrote down the time, and shook his head: "It didn't snow, it was sleet."

"See? It'll be snowing in the next day or two, the first snow of 1999. It's freezing cold. Will we still have to call out emergency calls in the middle of the night?"

"not sure."

"or……"

Old Zhang extended his right hand, half-fisted, and raised it towards his lips: "Want a drink?"

Gao Jie shook his head: "You're on duty, I advise you not to drink. If the captain finds out when you hand over your shift tomorrow morning, that would be terrible."

"Okay, I'm going to take a nap then."

Old Zhang leaned back in his chair, watching Gao Jie walk toward his office. He muttered to himself, "No wonder he was kicked out by the leaders of the Criminal Investigation Detachment. He's so rigid and inflexible, what's so great about him? And he even started lecturing me."

After saying that, he took out a bottle of bulk liquor from his pocket, unscrewed the cap, and took a comfortable sip.

Gao Jie's footsteps echoed in the quiet corridor.

The walls on both sides were painted green at the bottom and white on top, while the office doors were painted yellow, though the paint had become mottled.

Gao Jie walked to the end, turned a corner, went out of the brigade's duty room, and came to the inner courtyard. In the courtyard were the office buildings of several squadrons, and the office of his own squadron was on the first floor.

His black leather shoes kicked up the drizzling raindrops on the ground.

Just as I reached the office door, a figure suddenly appeared from the side.

Gao Jie caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye. Just as he was about to turn around, the figure moved over very quickly, and he felt something stick-like suddenly pressed against his back.

(End of this chapter)