“Pick up Zhang Chao and go to my office and talk about it.”
Yang Zhen said as he looked around for a moment.
Yue Man Gong nodded, he understood Yang Zhen’s approach, there were a lot of people and ears here, and matters in the jianghu were not supposed to be publicised.
It was noon when I was raised from my cell because of some formalities. I was lying on the bunk and patting my stomach in boredom, and soon there was the sound of a policeman’s key jiggling on his waist.
The three men in the same cell as me began to whisper and guess, “Who’s being arraigned this time?”
Before going to court, these men would be locked up in the guardhouse for a while, a difficult time because they didn’t know how many years they were going to be sentenced to and had to wait for a long time, not even knowing when the trial would start.
So some people, after they have been locked up for a while, hate to wish they were tried immediately, the sooner the better, so they are excited to hear the footsteps of the police.
I glanced over and laughed, “Don’t look, they’re here for me.”
“Looking for you?”
These guys were upset, but they didn’t dare to say it to me in person, so they had to mutter in private, “Don’t you dream, you’ve only been locked up for a few days, it’s not your turn to be arraigned.”
I continued, “I didn’t say I was an arraignment.”
“Then what do you expect?”
Another man muttered in a low voice, “He probably expects to be acquitted.” The other two men echoed and burst out laughing.
Just as they finished laughing, the police came up to us and opened the metal door. The three of them looked at each other and finally looked at me.
“Zhang Chao.”
I walked out with a smile on my face and the three men’s jaws dropped.
“Let’s go.” The cop said to me.
“I can go straight out now, can’t I.” I asked.
The cop was not nice, but admitted it straight away, “That’s right, you can just leave.”
I looked back at the three men who were already looking dumbfounded, “See, I was right.”
Then I left.
Bureau Yang and Moon Full Bow and Liu Hao were all waiting for me in the office, and as soon as I appeared, Bureau Yang stood up, “Team Zhang, please have a seat.”
I hurriedly shook his hand, “Bureau Yang, that’s too much of a compliment, I’m just a retired soldier, I’m not a team member anymore. If you don’t mind, just call me Xiao Zhang.”
“You are the former captain of the Snow Leopard Brigade, and now you are also our advisor. But since we’re familiar, I won’t be formal and call you Xiao Zhang. Xiao Zhang, I’ve called you here today because I have something more important to discuss with you.”
Bureau Yang’s tone was strange, and I began to feel that something was wrong when I saw that Yue Man Gong also had an unpleasant look on his face.
“Not to ask about Bureau Zhou and Zheng Peng?”
“Zhou has been arrested and the follow-up interrogation is underway, but there’s something more serious going on right now, Xiao Yue, you tell me.”
If I let Yue Man Gong say it, then it must be a jianghu matter, my heart thumped, there were always rules to follow and laws to go by outside the jianghu, but jianghu matters were absurd and unruly, with few rules to follow.
I asked with trepidation, “What’s wrong?”
Yue Man Gong sighed, “Just now, a man came disguised as Liu Hao and almost killed Zhou Ran. I saved Zhou Ran, but this man was ……”
“Who was it?” I was nervous.
Moon Man Bow said, “Yun Gui Dust, Yun Gui Hai’s brother.”
I sucked in a breath of cold air: “You killed a jianghu?”
“That’s right. Yun Guichen dressed up as Zheng Peng and came over to steal the dossier of this Binjiang Haino case, when he wanted to kill Zhou Ran, I was in a rush ……”
“What about the person? Is he dead?”
“Sent to the hospital, but in very bad condition,”
“You’re a real piece of work.” I couldn’t help but sigh, “It’s happened, there’s no point in discussing anything else now, we must find a way now to keep the impact of this to a minimum.”
My mind flew around and I said, “It would be best if people survived, but if they don’t, this is an outright trap. This Yun Guichen, I’m afraid, is a false flag offered over by the other side. Maybe he himself doesn’t know that he came here on this trip just to get himself killed, and by killing him, you’ve just given them a chance to wage war against the Moon Family or the Thousand Clans.”
Yue Man Gong had a gloomy face, and although Liu Hao did not know anything about the Jianghu, he had realised the seriousness of the matter when he heard this.
I asked Yang Zhen, “Director Yang, this is a matter for your Ningcheng precinct, can you help in any way?”
Director Yang shook his head seriously, “I’m afraid I can’t, I’ve applied to the top several times to intervene in the jianghu disputes in Ningcheng’s jurisdiction, but the top refused to grant permission, explicitly telling me not to intervene in any jianghu incidents. The biggest expectation now is that Yun Guichen will survive.”
Yue Man Gong sighed, “It’s all my fault for being too impulsive.”
“That’s not true, they just want such an outcast, even if you didn’t kill Yun Guichen today, they will still find a way to provoke the other disciples under your Thousand Sects to kill Yun Guichen. Let’s wait and see what happens, if I’m right, soon Yun Guihai will come to you, don’t worry, I can guess how they want to stir up the muddy waters in the Jianghu, but don’t worry, I still have a moment of really big chess in my hands.”
Yue Man Gong asked, “What is it?”
“You’ve forgotten, the Thoughtless Mountain.”
Yang Bureau said, “Thoughtless Mountain?”
I said, “It’s a painting, and no matter what the current situation in Jianghu is, as long as this painting is still in my hands, at least the power to appoint the alliance leader is still in my hands. If Jiang Ming wants to be the alliance leader of the jianghu, he will have to consider the role of the Thoughtless Mountain unless he destroys this painting, otherwise he will be working against the officials.”
When I said that, Yue Man Gong felt better, but Yue Man Gong still said, “Jiang Ming is a tricky man, we must be careful.”
We had discussed some other details and both kept agreeing that the cloud-returning dust incident was definitely a set-up by Jiang Ming.
Yue Man Gong said that the two brothers, Yun Gui Chen and Yun Gui Hai, were superficially on good terms, but in fact Yun Gui Chen had been jealous of his elder brother’s wealth in business and had said a lot of unpleasant things about Yun Gui Hai in the clan council, making it so that although Yun Gui Hai was the head of the Yunya Sect, he had no status at all, and now it was Yun Zong who was really in charge of the Yunya Sect.
These two brothers look like they are of one mind, but in fact, they have been separated from each other for a long time. Maybe it is really taking advantage of this opportunity that Yun Guihai got rid of Yun Guichen.
“Yang Bureau, it’s not good ……”
We really said halfway, someone outside without knocking, directly barged in, the moon full bow nervously stood up, saw barged in is a panting police officer.
“What’s the matter? In such a hurry?”
“Zheng, Zheng Peng has woken up.”
“What’s wrong with him waking up?”
“He, he said that Bureau Zhou, oh no, Zhou Jianguo was going to kill his parents.”
“What?”
Zhao Meilan wandered around the dock, the man who picked her up had already advised both sides, “Sister Zhao, get on the boat first, your son will be here soon, he’s on the other boat.”
“I want to be on the same boat as my son.” Zhao Meilan insisted.
The boat captain said anxiously, “You are very patient, get on the boat quickly, or I won’t care about you, wait here by yourself, soon the marine police will be inspecting, it will be too late if we don’t leave now.”
As soon as she got on board, a strange smile appeared on the boss’s face and he turned his head towards the C*ckpit, while telling the people around him, “Keep an eye on this woman, later, directly ……”
He said, making a wiping motion of the neck.
The ship’s boss was in a good mood because the person who told him to get Zhao Meilan killed had given him 200,000 in advance.
Killing someone like Zhao Meilan on the high seas would be easier than snapping off a booger; throw it into the sea and the fish would soon have eaten the body clean and couldn’t even find it if they wanted to.
Humming a little tune, the ship’s captain ran up to the C*ckpit, and just outside the cabin he saw a man already sitting in the driver’s seat.
“Damn little brat, who told you to sit in my seat? Get the f*ck down, can you drive this boat?! No, who the hell are you?”
Zhao Zichen smiled and turned around, pointing his gun at the boat boss who turned and tried to run, “So I’ll introduce myself? My name is Zhao, I’m a doctor, and now what about coming over here specifically to stop you from killing people.”
The boat boss, who had been running boats for years, had grown an explanation of tendon meat, he saw that Zhao Zichen was much thinner than he was, so he couldn’t help but be less scared, and in his heart he doubted whether Zhao Zichen’s gun was real.
The perennial boat runner had a lot of guts, and he slowly moved backwards because there was a fire axe behind the door, and he might not lose if he picked up the axe and wrestled with this grandson for a while.
He had just moved back a few steps when Zhao Zichen laughed and said, “And the one behind you, let me introduce you to him as well.
Before the boat boss could react, Xia Gehuai had already taken an arrow step and pinned the boat boss against the wall in advance, before he could resist, the handcuffs cuffed him and everything happened in just ten seconds.
“Let go of me! Brothers, back up!” The boat boss was really panicking this time, especially as the man in front of him, surnamed Zhao, made him feel particularly frightened, and he called out to the boatmen to come up and help.
But none of the boatmen came up.
After a while, instead, a flat-head, whom he did not know, ran up and said to Zhao Zichen in a very naive manner, “Master, the men are all under control.”
Zhao Zichen clapped his hands, “Great work, I’ll report back to Zhang Chao, who should have released them, I’ll call Yue Man Gong.”
When Yue Man Gong received Zhao Zichen’s call, his expression was quite complicated, and after looking at it for a while, he even threw the whole phone over.
“Old Zhao, did it work?”
“Not what you expected, the black police would definitely kill Zheng Peng’s whole family to silence them, he really did have his eyes on Zheng Peng’s parents as well, but it’s fine, the people have been saved by us.”
I let out a long sigh, “That’s good, these two are also important witnesses.”
“I only managed to save one, Zheng Yun didn’t come.” Zhao Zichen said. “Only Zhao Meilan showed up.”
I frowned, “I’ll have someone go find it.”
