Han Kun looked at me seriously, his eyes full of memories, probably remembering how my parents looked when they were alive.
After a while, he said seriously, “You’re right.”
I said, “I can’t expect the evil to go away on its own. No matter what it takes, I’m going to get Moon Jung-jun back.”
Han Kun shook his head, “Your mind is made up, but I’ll tell you what will happen. The Jiang family will go after the Yue family for revenge, and these two families are now the two biggest families in the Jianghu, and once they are enemies, the Jianghu will divide into two gangs and attack each other. The Jianghu alliance is reduced to scrap paper all of a sudden.”
I said, “It’s long gone, as long as they dare to kill someone, I will get the murderer back.”
Han Kun said, “That’s why I said you’re too naive in your thinking. The officials will only turn a blind eye to such things. Why do you think there is a Jianghu Covenant? It’s because the official family can’t do anything about the Jianghu. It’s a bunch of powerless super-groupies, uncontrolled, extra-legal fanatics, so the government had to come up with a way to let the people of Jianghu mind the affairs of Jianghu. If the rivers and lakes were fighting internally, the officials would be happy to enjoy it. Until the Jianghu consumes itself to the point of exhaustion, the government will not step in.”
I was surprised and froze for a moment with my mouth wide open, somewhat unconvinced by Han Kun’s words.
Han Kun said, “These are the things that happened to the Yin family back then.”
“The Yin family is so far apart, and the people involved are all dead, that some things may not necessarily be so.”
Neither Han Kun nor I could convince anyone, I thought Han Kun was too timid and pedantic and Han Kun probably thought I was too naive.
There may be truth in a lot of what Han Kun said, but there was no way I was going to let Yue Zhengjun and Jiang Ming off the hook for that.
Evil does not die on its own; only we can cut off the source of evil with our own hands.
Having said that, I still had Yue Zhengjun’s wanted notice taken down and changed from a wanted notice by the Ministry of Public Security to a secret investigation.
This case was so big that when I was bored I was watching TV in my ward and whenever I turned it on, it was showing this Tong City bombing case.
Mayor Li Liang came to me burnt out, and it looked like the bombing case had taken a lot out of him.
After he had given me a few words of sympathy, a few reporters standing behind him carrying cameras came out.
I immediately understood that the old man looked like he had come to see me, but in fact he was using the opportunity to get me on TV.
I had promised to appear on the show to say a few good words for him, but I never found the opportunity to do so.
In fact, Li Liang is a good mayor, but this person is just too good at saving face.
I immediately turned to the camera and praised Li Liang, saying that thanks to the mayor’s guidance, I was able to escape from the last incident and this one.
The more I listened to Li Liang, the more relieved I was that this interview would definitely save his reputation.
To be honest, his son is so out of the way, I can still help him in this way, is already very much given face.
Because the bombing case was so big, the central government set up an investigation team directly in Tongzhou City.
The head of the investigation team was called Ouyang An, a Sichuanese, dark-looking guy who used to be in the same regiment as me. When I was a soldier in my first year, the regiment organised a competition and the two of us competed in marksmanship, and this guy beat me by 0.5 rings.
This guy was from the reconnaissance company and was quite high quality in all aspects. Later on, instead of going to the Snow Leopard, he went straight to military school.
As soon as he arrived, I knew that the authorities were taking the Tong City case extremely seriously.
After Yuezhengjun’s national wanted notice was reported, it hadn’t been posted everywhere. When I heard what Han Kun had to say, I wanted to revoke the national wanted notice, which was not up to me alone, I needed to say hello to Ouyang An.
After the reporter finished interviewing me, Li Liang still wanted to talk to me more, but Ouyang An was already standing at the door of the ward and knocked on the door.
“Mayor Li, I’m from the Central Special Investigation Team. I’m sorry to ask you to step back, but we’re now going to question Zhang Chao.”
Li Liang went out with his heart in his mouth.
Ouyang An had the door to the ward closed, then pulled a stool for himself and sat down by my bed, after surveying me with a serious face, he said, “Zhang Chao, you’re really filing.”
sh*t, there was no one in the ward anyway, so I didn’t play the hypocritical one with him and said directly, “You come you come, if it was you, you might have broken more than just your leg.”
“Come on, can Tong City be compared to being in Kunlun Mountain back then? You just came over to investigate a small case and made the ground shake, you three companies are really no good.”
We used to be tit-for-tat in the regiment, this guy was the king of soldiers in their reconnaissance company and I was the one and only in our third company, so the two of us were often put together for comparison.
I used to hate him when I was a soldier, because his family was rich and so he was wild, and I heard that this guy had to wear sunscreen every day.
At that time, most of the men in the army were children of ordinary families, and there was no place for men to wear sunscreen.
However, this guy’s grades were very good, not only did he meet the physical fitness standards, but he even met the standards in his cultural classes.
At that time I had no money and was a poor man, so I was very jealous of this kind of young master.
I was jealous of such a young man, but he was also small-minded and always treated me like a rival.
Later I went to the Snow Leopard Brigade and he went to the Central Military Academy, so we lost touch.
When I first came back, I thought the same thing as you, that a small prefecture-level city could be a big deal. Now I’ve been completely slapped in the face, it’s not any more peaceful here than Kunlun Mountain.”
Ouyang An didn’t believe me and sneered, “Well, if you want to save your own honor, I won’t tear you down. Tell me, why do you want to revoke the Moon Zheng Army’s wanted.”
“The matter is complicated to say the least. It’s just that the national wanted notice was withdrawn and we were privately and secretly investigating. He’s involved in a lot of things behind the scenes, and if we make a big show of it, we’ll spook the snake.”
Ouyang An raised his eyebrows and said, “It doesn’t matter. What I’m wondering is how you could be seriously injured by a middle-aged man? I see this Yue Zhengjun, he’s in his fifties, you can’t do it anymore, you can’t even beat a man in his fifties.”
I looked at his funny eyebrows and had only one thing in mind, ignorance is fearlessness.
If he knew the terrifying strength of Yue Zhengjun, he wouldn’t be saying that.
I really don’t know whether it is good or bad to have someone as arrogant as Ouyang An in charge of this matter.
But if he keeps on being in charge, sooner or later he will have to face Yue Zhengjun, and then he will know how ridiculous his words are now.
Ouyang An said: “I will arrange for someone to find Yue Zhengjun. But there’s one thing you should be prepared for, we’ve locked Jiang Ming up for too many days and are going to release him.”
“What? He is suspected of abetting murder and buying murder, how can he be released?”
“That’s all a confession, there’s no evidence.”
I said, “Impossible, there are so many killers, you catch a few, check their account transactions, there must be evidence that Jiang Ming called them for money.”
Ouyang An sneered, “There really isn’t.”
“All the accounts were checked?”
“No, what I’m saying is that the killers, we haven’t caught any of them.”
“How can that be?!” I was dumbfounded.
