The granary guards were divided into two shifts: day and night. The day shift consisted of sitting in the guardhouse, questioning visitors and then calling the person they were looking for. At night, they patrolled the warehouse, preventing theft and fire. The job seemed easy, but the responsibility was great.

The highest leader of the grain depot is the director. In this unit, the director is the boss and has the power to manage everything. This is different from other units.

The security guard on duty today was an old man in his fifties. Seeing how arrogant he was, Lao Cui could only flatter him first and then offer him a cigarette. He only got down to business after the old man was satisfied with his flattery.

This old man was quite the crowd pleaser. He took a liking to Lao Cui and started calling him "brother." He told him everything he knew. He knew everything about the people at the grain depot, even when their director's parents died and where they were buried. When Lao Cui asked about the recent unusual nighttime activity, he said he hadn't noticed anything on his shift; it was pretty quiet.

Lao Cui's men were not idle while he was interrogating the guard. They got all the data on the grain warehouse's inflow and outflow, and they matched the actual inventory. There was no problem on the books.

The director of the grain depot was found in his office. He was a fat, bald old man named Zhang. When he was brought in, his forehead was covered in sweat and he was rubbing his hands nervously. He vividly expressed his fear of seeing the police after doing something wrong. Old Cui took one look and concluded that there was definitely something wrong with this fat guy's behavior.

Director Zhang was taken to an unused office in the grain depot with a table and chairs. Lao Cui asked him to sit and talk. Before the interrogation began, Director Zhang knelt before Lao Cui and confessed directly.

Lao Cui told him to get up quickly and sit down to talk. Director Zhang wiped the sweat from his forehead and cautiously explained that last week, several masked men came to his house, held a knife, and forced him to come to the office with them. They found an excuse to send the gatekeeper away, and then he was knocked unconscious. When he woke up and saw daylight, he lay on the wooden bed in the guardhouse. He checked the warehouse and found that the number of grain sacks was not missing. He thought it was nothing serious, so he didn't report it.

Director Zhang's words were full of loopholes, and Lao Cui didn't believe them. The masked men had kidnapped you and brought you to the granary. Did you take any grain? You're kidding me!

This kind of slick person is actually quite easy to deal with. He sent people to the granary to check the sacks of grain. After a while, his subordinates came to report. Lao Cui slammed the table in anger. The grain at the bottom of the pile was replaced with sand. It was so fucking hateful.

Seeing he could no longer hide the truth, Director Zhang began to cry again, claiming he'd been threatened with kidnapping his son if he didn't switch the food. He had no choice but to secretly switch the food, figuring it wouldn't be discovered at the bottom. Lao Cui responsibly told him he'd be shot. Director Zhang peed himself so hard he collapsed to the ground, his urine stain spreading far away. Lao Cui glanced at the stain before leaving and sighed. The urine bubble was quite large.

It still needed to be verified how much grain was lost in the granary. Lao Cui went to the director's office and called the county magistrate to report what he had found. The county magistrate did not dare to delay, so he hung up the phone and picked it up again to call the provincial government directly.

The loss of grain was a serious matter, affecting the hunger of the people of the entire county, so he dared not delay. Even if the grain in the warehouse was found in the tunnel, the matter still had to be reported, which would be a dereliction of duty during his tenure.

Lao Cui called the bureau again and asked for two teams from the civil affairs team to help verify the missing grain. They didn't trust anyone at the grain depot anymore, so they preferred to rely on their own people.