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The black hardcover notebook in Wang Jianguo's hand stood out conspicuously in the morning light.

Gao Jianjun's stiff neck gradually hardened.

His eyes were fixed on the plastic cover, and the bloodshot veins in his eyes were fully exposed.

That was Sun Defa's secret account hidden in his hometown.

This is a summary of all the shady underground transactions that have taken place in Hongshi Forest Farm over the past few years.

A layer of dense beads of sweat seeped from Gao Jianjun's forehead.

Lu Qingshan is too ruthless.

The account books were taken away yesterday, and handed over to the police station before dawn today.

This wasn't an attempt to blackmail or negotiate; they were simply trying to destroy him!

The surroundings were unusually quiet.

All that remained was the sound of a few sparrows fluttering on the branches in the backyard.

Li Jianye knelt in the cinder pile beside him, peeked at the notebook, and his face instantly turned ashen.

Gao Jianjun was someone who had been navigating the officialdom for over a decade.

He clenched his back teeth and tasted a faint metallic taste of blood in his mouth.

As long as he doesn't admit it, no one can convict him based on a tattered notebook.

Gao Jianjun raised his voice and pointed his finger at Lu Qingshan's nose.

"Director Wang, who are you trying to fool with that tattered notebook?"

"Lu Qingshan was caught red-handed smuggling state strategic materials, so he had someone forge accounting records to frame him!"

"I am the deputy director of the forest farm; I am a government official!"

"You ignored the stolen goods all over the yard and instead believed the nonsense of a criminal?"

He turned around and yelled at the subdued security officers.

"Comrades are all watching!"

"Public security, procuratorate, and judicial organs require conclusive evidence when investigating cases!"

"Even if you're the police chief, you can't protect this thief who's undermining the country!"

Lu Qingshan sat on a small stool, slowly folded up the paring knife, and put it into his coat pocket.

He didn't even bother to say a word in rebuttal.

Wang Jianguo didn't even lift his eyelids.

He took the black ledger and slapped Gao Jianjun on the shoulder with his backhand.

The blow was extremely powerful, and Gao Jianjun was knocked off balance.

"Show evidence?"

Wang Jianguo's voice wasn't loud, but his enunciation was like a heavy iron weight hitting the ground.

"Gao Jianjun, do you really think you can control everything in Hongshi County?"

Wang Jianguo took a step forward, his leather shoes crunching on the coal slag.

"At 2:17 a.m. last night."

"Two unlicensed Jiefang trucks drove into the yard along the dirt road to the west."

Wang Jianguo raised his hand and pointed to a high slope directly opposite the warehouse gate.

"When this batch of red pine was being unloaded, Lao Li from the Criminal Investigation Brigade and I were on that slope."

"The telescope has a very high magnification. I can count exactly how many holes are in the dog-skin hat that your stevedore is wearing."

Gao Jianjun's mouth, which had just opened, was now completely agape.

He had prepared a whole host of official jargon, arguments, and clichés for framing others.

In the face of Wang Jianguo's words, everything else became a string of nonsense.

The police chief personally led a team to the scene to watch them unload the goods.

Lu Qingshan reported the case to the police overnight and even set up an ambush in the yard!

This group of people came to catch the thief before dawn, which was actually a deliberate act of walking into the line of fire!

A chill ran from the soles of Gao Jianjun's feet straight up to the top of his head.

Li Jianye, kneeling to the side, was in an even worse state, looking as if all his bones had been removed.

With a "thud," Li Jianye collapsed to the ground like a lump of mud.

A foul odor spread down his trouser leg.

He kowtowed desperately on the ground, his forehead hitting the gravel and breaking the skin.

"Director Wang, spare me... Director Wang, spare me!"

"It was all because Director Gao forced me to do it!"

"He was the one who asked Sun Jianguo to arrange for the wood to be delivered; it has nothing to do with me!"

Li Jianye's words were like tearing away the last veil of pretense.

The dozen or so officers in the security department looked at each other in bewilderment.

Sun Jianguo was pinned to the ground by two plainclothes officers and didn't dare utter a sound.

Wang Jianguo snorted coldly and ignored Li Jianye on the ground.

He opened the black curtain in his hand and cleared his throat.

In this abandoned warehouse piled with dozens of cubic meters of precious red pine, Wang Jianguo's voice carried far.

"On March 5th, 30 cubic meters of Grade II red pine were intercepted at the No. 2 timber yard."

"I received 12,000 yuan."

"Gao Jianjun received 6,000, Li Jianye received 3,000, and the rest of the staff received 3,000."

When the numbers were read out, the stevedores in the yard gasped several times.

Twelve thousand yuan.

These days, an ordinary worker can work himself to the bone for a whole month and earn only a little over thirty yuan.

Wang Jianguo turned the page and continued reading.

"On June 3, a defective product scrapping certificate was forged for the premium old materials in Warehouse No. 6."

"They transported the goods to the provincial capital for resale and embezzled 15,000 yuan of public funds."

"July 10th..."

A series of messy accounts.

A series of breathtaking numbers.

Gao Jianjun felt his vision blurring.

He tried desperately to snatch the ledger, but the police officer behind him held his shoulder firmly.

He took a kick to the back of his knee and fell heavily to his knees on the cinder ground.

The excruciating pain in his kneecap was nothing compared to the despair in his heart.

All the money he painstakingly amassed over the years was recorded on these thin sheets of paper.

It's all over.

Wang Jianguo read five or six items, then closed the ledger and stuffed it into his shirt pocket.

He looked down at Gao Jianjun.

"And this pile of wood behind you."

"You think you can get away with it by having someone scrape off the red-hot stamped metal with an axe?"

Wang Jianguo reached out and tapped the nearest thick red pine tree.

"The batch of centrally allocated supplies from the provincial department last month were all timber from key protected areas."

"Before each log was transported down the mountain, Lu Qingshan had his technicians insert anti-counterfeiting steel tags deep into the heart of the tree."

"The machine scans them all, and they're all batch numbers registered with real names."

Wang Jianguo paused, his tone completely flat.

"Reselling national strategic materials in huge amounts."

"In addition, there was the malicious fabrication of evidence and the framing of veterans."

"Gao Jianjun, get ready for two rounds of peanut feast."

This sentence became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Gao Jianjun's facial muscles completely collapsed.

He stared blankly at the coal slag on the ground, his mouth slightly open, emitting meaningless grunts.

Yesterday he was still plotting how to get Lu Qingshan arrested.

Today he became the one who was to be executed.

Wang Jianguo was too lazy to look at this ugly scene anymore.

He raised his hand and waved to the officers around him.

"Take it all!"

"Search them one by one, then take them straight to the station for surprise interrogation!"

The detectives moved swiftly and efficiently.

The sound of handcuffs clicking filled the air.

Li Jianye was dragged out by two men, his feet leaving two water streaks on the ground.

Sun Jianguo was too exhausted to even struggle, and was pushed and shoved towards the police car, looking disheveled.

Gao Jianjun was lifted up like a tattered sack.

As he passed by Lu Qingshan, his lifeless eyes flickered.

Lu Qingshan remained seated on the stool.

He had just lit a cigarette to welcome spring, and the bluish-gray smoke swirled around his fingertips.

"Deputy Director Gao."

Lu Qingshan exhaled a smoke ring, his voice not loud, but every word was clear.

"Once inside, reform yourself properly."

"Don't worry about things outside."

Gao Jianjun let out a gurgling sound like a wild beast on its deathbed, and was then roughly shoved into the back seat of the police car by the criminal police.

The yard of the abandoned factory was quickly cleaned up.

The dozens of cubic meters of red pine that caused the trouble still lay quietly in the center of the warehouse.

Wang Jianguo walked up to Lu Qingshan and patted the coat on his shoulder.

"You're quite composed, kid."

"With such a huge black pot on top, you're still peeling an apple here."

Lu Qingshan stood up and stomped out the cigarette butt on his foot.

"Director Wang's troops arrived with lightning speed, what do I have to worry about?"

"These woodworms have been lurking in the forest for so many years, and we've finally wiped them out in one go."

Wang Jianguo sighed and took out his matchbox from his pocket.

"This case involves quite a few people."

"There's still a lot to do. The people you arranged to keep an eye on Sun Defa's situation will be sent by the bureau to pick him up in a couple of days."

"Alright, see you later."

Wang Jianguo turned and walked toward the jeep parked at the door.

The sirens soon blared on the dirt roads in the western suburbs.

Several police cars lined up, kicking up clouds of dust, and drove towards the county town.

Scarface Liu and a few of his brothers emerged from the back of the factory building.

These men had been peering through the window cracks and saw everything clearly.

The deputy director and head of security of the forest farm were arrested without even making a ripple in front of their own boss.

Scarface Liu rubbed his hands together and came closer.

"Brother Lu, that was so damn satisfying!"

"I was on the edge of my seat just now, afraid that those bastards would do something desperate."

Lu Qingshan didn't reply, but just glanced at the dust rising in the distance.

It is worth noting that.

Suddenly, a series of urgent car horns sounded from the intersection in the distance.

A green Beijing Jeep with a Hongshilin Farm license plate sped along the dirt road.

The wheels suddenly slipped in the ruts at the warehouse entrance.

A screeching sound of brakes rang out.

Before the jeep had even come to a complete stop, the passenger door was suddenly pushed open.

Li Aiguo, the head of the forest farm, jumped off the car in a panic.

One of the buttons on his Zhongshan suit was fastened incorrectly.

He was clutching a thick brown paper bag tightly in his hand.

That was a document he had obtained overnight through his connections, signed by several dispatchers, to prove that Lu Qingshan had absolutely no time to resell timber last night.

Li Aiguo rushed towards the gate, panting heavily.

"stop!"

"Don't move!"

"Let's see who dares to arrest my forestry workers!"

After shouting those two sentences, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

The courtyard was empty.

There were only footprints all over the ground and a few drops of urine left by Li Jianye.

The police cars in the distance had just turned the corner, and their taillights were almost out of sight.

Li Aiguo stood there, stunned, holding the brown paper bag in his hand.

He turned his head and looked at Lu Qingshan, who was leaning against the door frame smoking.

"Qingshan, what's this?"

Li Aiguo swallowed hard and pointed to the police car that had sped away.

"Was that Gao Jianjun being held captive in that car just now...?"

Lu Qingshan dusted off the cigarette ash.

"Director Li is late."

"Deputy Director Gao just admitted to his mistake."

"I went back with Director Wang to assist in the investigation."

Li Aiguo looked at the century-old red pines filling the courtyard, and then at the calm and composed Lu Qingshan.

The stack of documents in his hand that he had used to save his life suddenly seemed superfluous.