HPDBC Chapter 1700 Wang Haitao Infiltrates Yong'an
Chapter 1700 Wang Haitao Infiltrates Yong'an
Chapter 1700 Wang Haitao Infiltrates Yong'an
Zhao Jun frowned upon hearing Chen Weiyi's words.
The whole family is gone. Did they flee to escape punishment?
If that's the case, then it's going to be troublesome.
These days, ID cards are practically useless. They're not registered under real names, they're not connected to the internet, and most importantly, nobody checks them anywhere.
This family doesn't need to travel far; they just go across Lingnan to some village of ruffians, and it's hard to find them there.
"Director Chen, so what brings you here..." Zhao Jun began, glancing around, and asked, "Is there anything we can do for you?"
"Team Leader Zhao." At this moment, Liu Guodong, an expert from the provincial capital, asked Zhao Jun, "We've come to ask where you met Wang Haitao?"
“It’s in Beiqidaban.” Zhao Jun said the location, but the others looked blank. Zhao Jun quickly explained, “That’s the old logging area of our forest farm. If you need anything, Captain Liu, I can take you there.”
“That’s how it is, Team Leader Zhao.” Chen Weiyi picked up the conversation and said to Zhao Jun, “Captain Liu said that your encounter with Wang Haitao today must have been a coincidence.”
“A coincidence?” Zhao Jun didn’t quite understand, then he heard Chen Weiyi continue, “He didn’t tell you at the time that he was going home. I think he must have lied.”
"Lying?" Zhao Jun still didn't understand Chen Weiyi's meaning. At this moment, Liu Guodong spoke up and said, "Team Leader Zhao, we can now basically confirm that the murderer who killed Xu Changming, Song Laowai, and Wang Jiusheng is this Wang Haitao."
“Yes.” Zhao Jun nodded, and Liu Guodong continued, “We’re talking about Wang Haitao. He killed Xu Changming and Song Laowai on March 25th. Today is the 30th.”
As he spoke, Liu Guodong spread his hands outwards and asked, "Where can he stay during these next few days?"
Hearing Liu Guodong's words, Zhao Jun blinked twice, looked at Liu Guodong, and said, "A shack?"
Liu Guodong nodded twice, indicating his agreement with Zhao Jun's answer, and then said, "I haven't dealt with Wang Haitao. But I can tell he's a very meticulous person. Look, he sent Hu the Cripple to your house to sell weasel pelts, and Hu the Cripple disappeared as soon as he left. There was no one in Hu the Cripple's shack in the North Third Squad either, which shows that they did their research and thought things through carefully."
“I understand what you mean, Captain Liu,” Zhao Jun said. “You mean he’s been at the North Seventh Class these days. He just happened to run into us today, so he said he wanted to go home?”
"Yes!" Liu Guodong nodded heavily, then said to Zhao Jun, "You arranged for a car to bring him back. He went to the mourning tent to make a stop, and then asked his brother why his wife and children hadn't come over."
As luck would have it, his brother said that the child had an epileptic seizure that morning, and his wife had taken the child home. After hearing what his brother said, Wang Haitao said he would go home, drop off his things, and go check on the child. If possible, he would bring his wife and child, since it was the old man who had passed away.
His brother, hearing this, sent him home. He never returned. When we went to his house, it was empty.
"Oh dear." Zhao Jun sighed upon hearing this, then asked Liu Guodong, "Captain Liu, I understand why you've come."
As he spoke, Zhao Jun gestured towards the courtyard and called to the group, "Director Chen, Captain Liu, let's talk inside, let's not stay outside."
Zhao Jun knew that Chen Weiyi and Liu Guodong had come to find out about the situation of the mountain dog's hut in the North Seventh Class.
Previously, Zhao Jun had sent Liu Hanshan to guide them to Hu the Cripple's shack. Coupled with Zhao Jun's nicknames, "Tiger General" and "Little Zhao the Cannon," Chen Weiyi and the others all believed Zhao Jun was a big shot in the mountains, someone who knew everything.
Zhao Jun had been hunting in both his previous and current lives, and knew some of the local mountain dogs. But in his previous life, it was already 90 years before he started developing a dog gang to hunt in the mountains.
Hunting was banned a few years later, and then Zhao Jun went abroad to develop his career. There was no way he would recognize all the wild dogs in the mountains.
He had seen this cripple in his past life, back after hunting was banned.
Similarly, Zhao Jun really didn't know who was running a shack in the North Seventh Class.
But he didn't know that his family might know. So, Zhao Jun brought Liu Guodong and the other three into his own courtyard.
Chen Weiyi and Liu Guodong entered the Zhao family compound, and their eyes were immediately overwhelmed with sights.
These days, houses in rural and forest areas have large courtyards, with front and back yards that can be measured in miles.
However, they had never seen such a grand and well-organized courtyard.
Upon entering the gate, one sees red brick warehouses on both sides of the gate, built against the courtyard wall.
A red brick path leads to the front of the house, with vegetable gardens on both sides, each surrounded by a low red brick wall.
The four followed Zhao Jun into the house. As soon as they entered, they saw Wang Meilan, Ma Ling, Jin Xiaomei, Zhao Ling, Yang Yufeng, Xu Chunyan, and Xie Sunshi busily working in the spacious outer room.
Upon seeing guests arrive, Wang Meilan quickly put down her work and helped Zhao Jun greet them.
The business of collecting hides at home has been running smoothly these past few days, and there's always a thermos filled with tea.
The tea mugs were washed and placed upside down on a large enamel plate after each use. When guests arrived, Zhao Youcai, as the nominal head of the household, personally set up the table in the east hut and invited Chen Weiyi and the other three to sit down.
As Zhao Jun had expected, the four men's purpose in coming was exactly the same. When they asked about Shan Gouzi from the North Seventh Class, Zhao Youcai shook his head, indicating that he did not know him.
Having anticipated this, Zhao Jun summoned Xing San, Wang Qiang, and Zhang Yuanmin. The three of them also stated that they had no acquaintances in the Beiqi Daban area.
Just as Zhao Jun was having a problem, Li Baoyu, who was leaning against the door, suddenly said to Zhao Jun, "Brother, it's not difficult to find someone to build a shack over there."
Li Baoyu's refined and scholarly words startled Chen Weiyi and the other three. Zhao Jun looked up, nudged Li Baoyu with his chin, and asked, "Baoyu, what do you say we do?"
Li Baoyu was quite helpless about Zhao Jun's lack of cooperation, but he also knew that his brother was not very educated, so he immediately said, "We may not know him, but someone else does!"
"Who is it?" Zhao Jun pressed, and Li Baoyu laughed, "Wang Debao and Qin Futian!"
"Oh my!" Hearing Li Baoyu's words, not only Zhao Jun, but also Chen Weiyi and the other three were surprised.
That's for sure. Wang and Qin have been patrolling the forest in Beiqi Daban for more than a day or two. How could they not know where people are building shacks?
At this moment, Chen Weiyi and Liu Guodong both looked at Zhao Jun, and Zhao Jun said without hesitation, "Director Chen, Captain Liu, why don't we leave now, go to Yonglitun to pick them up, and then we'll go to Beiqidaban."
"Team Leader Zhao, it's great that you can come with us." Chen Weiyi and the other three stood up as they spoke. Chen Weiyi said to Zhao Jun, "Everyone says you're an expert in mountain running. You're familiar with this mountain area. If we need to chase or find someone, you'll have to lead us."
Upon hearing Chen Weiyi say that Zhao Jun was an expert at mountain running, Zhao Youcai glared at him with his small eyes full of dissatisfaction.
However, in front of outsiders, Zhao Youcai always presented himself as a loving father to Zhao Jun. Seeing everyone getting up, Zhao Youcai also hurriedly put down his teacup and stood up from the solid wood sofa, saying, "Let's eat before we leave. It's getting late, we need to have dinner."
"No, Master Zhao," Chen Weiyi politely declined. "We're leaving now. If we're hungry, we'll just have some dry food in the car to tide us over."
After saying that, the four of them walked out. Zhao Jun lagged behind the four and said that he needed to change his clothes, so he asked Zhao Youcai to see Chen Weiyi and the other three out.
"Son!" Hearing that Zhao Jun was leaving again, Wang Meilan said with great concern, "Won't you be eating at home again?"
These past few days, Zhao Jun has often not eaten dinner at home, and when he goes into the mountains, he doesn't return until very late. Wang Meilan and Ma Ling are very distressed about this.
"Sigh." Zhao Jun sighed upon hearing this and said, "Alright, Mom, let's catch that guy quickly."
After saying that, Zhao Jun walked towards the west house, and Ma Ling hurriedly followed.
After Zhao Jun got married, things changed. Almost no one else ever entered his and Ma Ling's bedroom.
At this time, Li Baoyu and the others stayed outside. Li Baoyu took the initiative to say to Wang Meilan, "Auntie, don't worry, I'll go with my brother."
As soon as Li Baoyu finished speaking, Zhang Yuanmin also declared, "I'll go too!"
"Brother Zhang, you should just give up." Li Baoyu glanced at Zhang Yuanmin and laughed, "If you go, things might not go well, and we'll have to take care of you."
"What do you mean you're taking care of me?" Zhang Yuanmin glared at Li Baoyu and said, "If my brother really runs into trouble, wouldn't I be the one to give him advice? Can you handle that?"
“Why can’t I?” Li Baoyu retorted, “Just now, when we asked who could find the shacks in Beiqi Daban, wasn’t that my suggestion to find those two forest rangers? You were the one who came up with the idea, so why didn’t you say anything?”
"I..." Zhang Yuanmin was speechless, while the people around him watched the two arguing with great interest.
Seeing that Zhang Yuanmin was speechless after being questioned, Li Baoyu laughed and said, "I've been studying military books at home whenever I have free time lately, and I've really benefited a lot from it!"
During their trip to Hebei, Li Ruhai and Zhang Yuanmin stole the show.
Upon returning to Yong'an, Xie Chen once again performed extraordinary feats in the treasure hunt. As a result, only Li Baoyu accomplished nothing and was treated as a laborer.
Unwilling to accept defeat, Li Baoyu picked up the Thirty-Six Stratagems he had borrowed from Zhang Yuanmin and read it several times, believing that he had grasped the true essence of military strategy.
"Hey, big brother." Recently, Li Tongyun had been trying to win over Li Baoyu to fight against Li Ruhai, so she praised Li Baoyu at this moment, saying, "Didn't my brother Jun say yesterday that he recently discovered your inner talents and wisdom?"
"Haha..." Li Baoyu smiled smugly upon hearing this, then glanced at Zhang Yuanmin and said, "Me? I should be called Zhuge Baoyu."
"You..." Zhang Yuanmin was about to say something when he heard Xie Chen say, "Brother Li, you can't just change the surname."
Everyone burst into laughter upon hearing this. Li Baoyu raised his hand and flung it at Xie Chen, saying, "What do you know? This is a nickname, what do you mean by changing your surname!"
"Exactly!" Jin Xiaomei, who was also free, praised her eldest son with a smile, saying, "Xiaojun said that our Baoyu analyzed that bad guy very well, and then he ran away quickly. It's just that we don't have anyone at the police station, otherwise we could send Baoyu to work as a policeman."
"Wait a minute, Mom." Suddenly, Li Ruhai stopped Jin Xiaomei, then counted on his fingers and said, "My brother is smart, and he runs fast..."
At this point, Li Ruhai looked up at Li Baoyu and said, "Brother, you should call him Zhuge Mengxi."
"Hahaha..." The laughter almost lifted the roof off. Li Baoyu let out a strange cry and lunged at Li Ruhai.
Li Ruhai darted to the side and flashed behind Zhao Jinhui, using Zhao Jinhui's large body to evade Li Baoyu's pursuit.
"What are you laughing at?" At this moment, Zhao Jun came out from the inner room. He had changed out of his forestry worker's clothes and put on the gray cloth jacket that Wang Meilan had sewn for him. There were two large pockets on each side of the front of the jacket, and all four pockets were bulging, as if they were filled with something.
"elder brother!"
"brother!"
"Brother Jun!"
Seeing Zhao Jun come out, Li Baoyu, Zhang Yuanmin, Xie Chen and the others all stood up, wanting to go with Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun knew what they meant, so he raised his hand and said to them, "It's not a good job, so don't add anyone else. You guys stay home and take care of the house; that's better than anything else."
Before the thugs were apprehended, Zhao Jun remained anxious; otherwise, he wouldn't have volunteered to go with Chen Weiyi and the others. At that moment, Zhao Jun was determined to bring Wang Haitao to justice as soon as possible.
“Brother, if you’re not going to take them, take me!” Li Baoyu volunteered again, saying, “Brother Zhang and Xiaochen both have to look after the house. My family has my father and Ruhai. I’ll go with you.”
Hearing Li Baoyu's words, Zhao Jun glanced at him and then said, "Take your gun and come with me!"
Li Baoyu was overjoyed upon hearing this, and quickly picked up the semi-automatic rifle and followed Zhao Jun outside.
With Li Baoyu and Zhao Jun traveling together, everyone felt much more at ease.
After being seen off by everyone, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu drove their jeep straight to Yonglitun.
After arriving at Yonglitun, they asked around for information about Qin Futian and Wang Debao's homes.
Wang Debao's house was nearby, so the two jeeps drove straight there, found Wang Debao, and asked him about the situation of the mountain dog in the shed of Beiqi Daban.
“Over there in Beiqi, there’s a shack and a dugout.” Wang Debao said, “The one who built the shack is Liu Guangzhi from Changling; the old man who dug the dugout is surnamed Duan, but I don’t know his name.”
"Master Wang." At this moment, Zhao Jun broke up the conversation and asked Wang Debao, "When we forest rangers get tired and thirsty while patrolling the forest, do we rest at their shacks or dugouts?"
“Hmm…” Wang Debao shook his head and said, “Liu Guangzhi is a good guy. We always go to his shack to stand. Old Duan is no good. He’s on the other side of the road, so no one can get into his dugout.”
After hearing Wang Debao's words, Zhao Jun looked at Liu Guodong. Liu Guodong and Zhao Jun exchanged a glance, and then Liu Guodong asked Wang Debao, "Master Wang, can you find that old master Duan's dugout?"
“Sure,” Wang Debao said. “He wouldn’t let us in, but we always passed over his place and could see his shack.”
"Then you'll have to go through all that trouble," Liu Guodong said. "Take me there and have a look."
Upon hearing this, Wang Debao did not immediately agree, but instead turned to look at Zhao Jun.
"Master Wang, how about I trouble you with this trip?" Zhao Jun said to Wang Debao with a smile, "Come with me in my car, and I'll bring you back when I'm done."
When the leader spoke up, and this leader was wealthy and generous, Wang Debao agreed without hesitation.
And so, Wang Debao led the way in Zhao Jun's jeep, followed by the police station's jeep. The two vehicles, one after the other, left Yongli Village and entered the mountainous area, heading north.
……
As the sun sets, the small train that commutes to the forest farm travels down the mountain, its whistle getting closer and closer to the village.
At this time, smoke rose from every household's chimney, and dim lights shone from the outer rooms.
As the workers went home and ate, there were hardly any people out and about in the village anymore.
Under the cover of darkness, Wang Haitao, who had disappeared in Yongli Village, suddenly reappeared outside Yong'an Village.
The case will definitely be closed by tomorrow night.
(End of this chapter)