I had very mixed feelings as I listened to Shagwai tell me all this, with the feeling that the lion was showing off in a bunny girl costume, which was awkward and odd.
After some local investigation, Xia Gehuai felt that it was not quite right for the three top brass of the Yun family to leave Lanjiang County at the same time, and that it might be related to Jiang Ming.
These three people left Lanjiang County in their own car and went to Ningcheng.
The Yunyapai people could not tell what these three people were doing in Ningcheng, so Xia Gehuai went to Ningcheng again and tried to get the local public security police to cooperate with him in his investigation, but he was in a suspended state and had no way to issue a joint law enforcement certificate, so the matter had to be left unresolved.
The first thing you need to do is to get back to the city and let me investigate.
But the night before Xia Gehuai was due to leave Ningcheng, a man found him.
“This man claimed to be the Yun family’s driver, and he said he had something important to tell me. I told him to say something over the phone, but he said he had to say it in person. It was as if he was afraid there was a wiretap on the phone.”
“If his phone was bugged, then this call with you would have been heard a long time ago. It sounds more like a trap to trick you into.”
Xia Gehuai said, “That’s what I thought. Baldy said he’d go first for me because Baldy hasn’t shown up, so I don’t think anyone else knows he’s moving with me. And as you know, Baldy is much better at it than I am. We arranged to meet in a hotel room. That was the problem, when Baldy went there, the driver was already dead in the room.”
“What?”
“And here’s the trouble, when Baldy got there he was sprayed with drugs and knocked out, and when he woke up he was pressing a bloody knife. Now he’s under the control of the police in Ningcheng. The police in Ningcheng say that from the evidence at the scene, Baldy is a strong suspect.”
This was greatly unexpected.
I hurriedly said, “I’ll go over there tomorrow.”
But I was more worried about whether the man had been killed by Baldy or not.
Although this sounded like a trap, what had happened while Baldy was in the room was anyone’s guess.
Xia Gehuai said, “You have to come over, but not to save Baldy. If I screw up such a little thing, then I don’t need to be a cop, it’s ridiculous to be played like a donkey by criminals. In fact, before Baldy went, I found the auntie at the hotel and spent a small amount of money to recruit her and get her to put a lighter on the bed for me.”
“A pinhole camera?”
“Yeah. The aunt was pretty unprincipled, you’ll have to reimburse me for that, it cost me most of my salary. So, I have the footage to prove that Baldy was knocked out as soon as he walked in the door, and then someone carried the driver’s body in, and then after that the police came when Baldy woke up.”
When he said that, I understood what he was up to.
I said, “In that case, there must be something wrong with the person who framed Baldy.”
“Right. I later investigated the identity of this deceased man and his name was Zhao Qiyu. This man was indeed the Yun family’s driver before, but two months ago, he suddenly quit. No one from the Yunya Sect has seen him since then.”
I mused, “Zhao Qiyu was most likely silenced.”
“I think maybe this driver knew something that he shouldn’t have and the Yun family took control of this driver. Then it just so happened that I came to investigate the Yunya Sect, and they tried to use the knife to get rid of me as well. But they didn’t expect that Baldy came with me and that I got the video.”
“It’s possible. I’ll come over tomorrow, so you stay safe and don’t conduct any more investigations.”
“Do I have to bail Baldy out today?”
I said, “Contact Zhao Zichen first. Baldy is the man we borrowed from Zhao Zichen, and we can’t pay back the man we borrowed from the Red Lantern Society, so we have to say hello to Zhao Zichen anyway.”
After hanging up Xia Gehuai’s phone, I went downstairs on my crutches, and by this time everyone’s meeting had not yet finished.
“Captain!”
Their eyes lit up when they saw me coming down, and a few people who had just looked embarrassed and were speculating about what had happened to me relaxed at this time.
I felt guilty that the bond between the snow leopards was strong and that I had made them worry about me.
I shot up and said, “Let’s stop this meeting for a while, I have something urgent to inform everyone.”
Then I told everyone about Xia Gehuai and Baldy.
After listening, everyone felt that there was something very wrong, it was a very obvious bureau. The person who set up the trap was very problematic, why did he have to set up Xia Ge Huai.
Xia Ge Huai had absolutely no grudge against Jianghu, he represented me.
Then, to put it bluntly, someone wanted to borrow Xia Ge Huai to give me a warning to stay out of my business.
“Captain, then we’ll go to Ningcheng tomorrow. I think this is very related to the gun trafficking case, and it’s likely that this driver sent the three leaders of the Yun family to Ningcheng on an errand for Jiang Ming. The driver was controlled after he saw something he shouldn’t have seen, just as Xia Ge Huai came to investigate, so they found a way to frame Xia Ge Huai, botched it up and fell guy to baldy.”
This analysis by the fox made sense to some.
But I shook my head and said, “There is some truth to it, and overall it should be right, this driver is 80% controlled by the Yun family. Because after the driver disappeared, the Yun family didn’t call the police, and even the driver’s family didn’t call the police. In a disappearance case like this, if no one calls the police, then it’s basically certain that the closest person is the killer. But you left out the most important series, it was two months before they went to Ningcheng, why did it take two months before they killed the driver?”
Fox said, “Probably just didn’t find the opportunity and didn’t think of what to do with it.”
“You’re taking it too much for granted. Criminals don’t think like that. This driver would have found a way to get rid of it when he was caught. It’s a lot of trouble to keep a big live person, and there’s no purpose in dragging it out, they couldn’t have figured two months ago that I would send Shaggy Wai over, so why would they wait two months?”
The crowd looked at each other, and all at once there was no sound.
Chu Xiaoxiao whispered, “Could it be that it’s, like, useful to keep it?”
“Trying to ask something out of his mouth.” Old Li said.
I said, “That’s quite possible. So here’s the next question, why kill him again? There was only one possibility, the desired item had already been gotten. Otherwise there would be absolutely no need to set up such a complicated bureau to victimise a suspended cop who was completely on the edge of an investigation.”
Cai Xiaobing whispered, “The captain is right. What does this driver have that would make someone keep him alive for two months to investigate?”
“That’s the crux of the matter.”
