I said, “Old man, I’m afraid this really won’t work. If I can, Xia Gehuai can do even better. At best I can be a brigadier, it’s impossible for me to be a direct chief, I’m too young, not senior enough, I don’t have the experience of having solved a major case, and the procedure is not in line with the rules.”
“You are different from Xia Gehuai, he graduated from the dynamic police school into the police force, seniority is indeed not enough, a trainee police, within six months rocketed up, became a sub-captain, such a speed was investigated by the inspector just jacked down, not involved in other, in fact, someone has sold a face to you. But you are different, you are the captain of the snow leopard a*sault team, you have a wealth of combat experience, you retired from the army could have been the army transfer, but considering your family background, at that time, everyone acquiesced to you do not need the army to arrange work. The military and police are not separate, and it’s not like you were the first to transfer from the army to the police.”
“Old man, I know you’re protective of your shortcomings, but you also have to consider the actual situation. It’s fine for me to change careers, but to change careers directly to become a chief is too much.”
“I don’t see any problem with you!” The old man said stubbornly.
This old man has been getting more and more protective lately, and he has the illusion of looking at me as if I were his own son and how good he is.
“Well, what about experience in handling cases? The inspector has a tight grip on this area, and Xia Gehuai was jerked off because he had no experience in major cases.”
“Hahahahaha, you finally got to the point, does the gun trafficking case count as a major case?”
I rubbed my face and cursed in my heart, this old man was deliberately trying to trick me into taking the bait.
“Old man, you’re using this to entice me to continue to help you with the gun trafficking case, aren’t you? You’re a real thief.”
The old man was not ashamed but proud of himself and laughed, “You’ve done a good job on the gun trafficking case, we’ve investigated Jiang Yunqing in depth and his background is very interesting. The former head of one of the nine great clans of Jianghu ……”
“Once?”
“That’s right, he used to be the head of the Jiang family, but he suddenly retired from the jianghu seventeen years ago and traveled around, and only recently returned.”
Seventeen years ago, wasn’t that the year of my parents’ accident?
“Then why did he suddenly retire?”
“I’m not sure about that, there are many rumours in the jianghu about why he retired, but it involves a secret period in the jianghu, I only know that it probably has something to do with the Ji family. This man is involved in a gun trafficking case, and then the case is no longer a simple crime. As you know, there are quite a few strange people in the jianghu, and there is an unwritten rule between our official family and the jianghu. When things are not outrageous, we do not interfere with the affairs of the Jianghu, and the rivers and lakes have their grudges. But likewise, the jianghu is not allowed to profit from crime, such as shooting flower children, and then there was a family surnamed Yin who used to make a living from a*sa*sination, and was later exterminated by the jianghu.”
I was aware of the Yin family, but I had never heard of this pact between the Jianghu and the official family.
“Then, wouldn’t that make them extra-legal?”
“It’s not that simple, Jianghu has existed for thousands of years, and the rules of Jianghu have been there for thousands of years, how easy would it be to change the rules of this gang? So many clans and sects, so many strange people, how much they can do, like Jiang Yunqing and Yue Manshan, you’ve seen all these. Such people, if we were to fight them hard, would it be possible? Even if they were afraid of planes and cannons, how much would we have to pay to deal with these people? It would be better to unite all the forces that can be united ……”
I knew very well that what the old man said was absurd, in this present society there is a group of people who can kill people who are not considered to have broken the law, merely that they cannot profit from their crimes, he that they are already above the law.
But at the same time, I also understand very well that the old man’s words are right, because only those who have seen Jiang Yunqing and Yue Manshan strike with their own eyes will know what it means to be terrifyingly strong.
I would never be naive enough to fight hard against such people, that would simply be taking my life as a child’s play.
The old man added, “Decades ago, the policy we set down was to use the other to control the other. The Jiang Hu inner circle is not ironclad, and using a position of Jiang Hu alliance leader will allow them to check and balance each other. You have been involved with Jianghu recently, so you must have heard of Ge Lei.”
I asked, “Ge Lao?”
The old man said heatedly, “That’s right, when Marshal Ge was around, the Jianghu was under his control until the time when Marshal Ge was about to die, when the Jianghu began to be in turmoil, but he used a suicide note to stabilize the Jianghu for decades.”
It was like I had been struck by a bolt of lightning, this Elder Ge, the one who had left a suicide note in the thoughtless mountain.
Since the old man knew about Ge Lao, there was no way he didn’t know about my mother; he knew my file and who my parents were, but he had never mentioned it to me.
“Old man, let me ask you something, do you know that my mother is Ji Yanran?”
The old man was still quite proud of himself, but when he heard my poor tone, he realised he had let slip his tongue.
“Well ……”
“You know whose kid I am and you haven’t mentioned my mother to me once?”
Holy f*cking sh*t, first Han Kun and then the old man, the two people I trusted the most, and yet they never mentioned anything about the thing I cared most about – my parents.
“Just wait, give me a chance to explain. It’s not my intention not to tell you about your parents, I do know that your mother is Ji Yanran. Moreover, there was this layer of consideration when you were chosen to join the Snow Leopards. Chao, this is what it means from above ……”
“Old man, I’m not three years old anymore, is my family’s business so great that I have to bother the leaders above to instruct you not to tell me? And why exactly am I not allowed to be told?”
“Before retiring, do you know who your mother is?”
“Nonsense, of course I know, my mother’s name is Ji Yanran and my father’s name is Zhang Jun ……”
“No, I mean, did you know that your mother was the eldest lady of the Ji family of the nine great families and your father was a great disciple of the Thousand Clans? You don’t know anything, and you don’t know how your parents died, let alone what happened to your grandfather’s family. So you spent four years in the Snow Leopard in peace, what if I had told you at the very beginning, would you have stayed?”
“Then you can’t keep it from me just because of that, my parents were murdered, shouldn’t I avenge them?”
The old man was simply being forceful, can’t it be that if my parents are gone, they’re gone, and I just treat it like a fart and don’t ask anything?
It was so hard for me. Han Kun had tried everything to keep me from investigating my parents, but I didn’t expect that Snow Leopard, whom I had taken as my last resort, would also hide so much from me.
