The three of them had lunch at a small restaurant in the city, and then drove straight back to the Hongqi factory without lingering in the city.

Upon arriving at the Hongqi factory, the jeep first took Ding Haitao back to the trade union, and then, at Liang Damin's request, drove directly to the guesthouse.

Having received Qiu Jingwen's information, Liang Damin felt he should report it to Shao Jian immediately.

This information was very important to him. He had known Qiu Jingwen for so many years, and now his son Liang Guoping was dating Qiu Jingwen's daughter Qiu Yue. The two families might become in-laws in the future. Naturally, he did not want Qiu Jingwen to be the spy and murderer that Shao Jian suspected. Even if the person he killed was a spy, it was still a crime.

He hoped that Qiu Jingwen would be clean and honest, a good comrade in the revolutionary ranks, and a good cadre of the Red Flag Factory.

It was around 3 p.m. at this moment.

Shao Jian is listening to Wu Dinghuai's report in the investigation team's dedicated office.

The mute's situation is clear: she couldn't possibly be related to spies; she was simply a woman Liu Han needed when he had physical desires.

However, judging from the investigation, Liu Han clearly had a deep affection for the mute man; otherwise, he wouldn't have raised such a large sum of money for the man's medical treatment when he fell ill.

Shao Jian could understand this matter.

In his view, not all spies are cold-blooded animals; they are also flesh-and-blood people, just with different identities and professions, or even different objects of their faith and beliefs. Sometimes it is difficult to judge them as right or wrong.

Decades have passed since liberation. Even spies who have lived as undercover agents still have to live, and they also have emotions and desires, as well as the need to satisfy their physical needs for women. Liu Han's choice of a mute woman as a physical partner may be due to the fact that his identity as a spy would not be easily exposed.

Another point,

Shao Jian analyzed that Liu Han was getting old, and with such a large scar on his face, it wouldn't be easy for him to find an ordinary, normal woman. Furthermore, the mute woman herself said that her first sexual encounter with Liu Han was rape, not consensual. Her subsequent physical relationships with him were entirely due to financial and life-threatening circumstances.

After comprehensively analyzing the mute man's situation, Shao Jian then asked Wu Dinghuai.

"Dinghuai, I asked you to investigate Qiu Jingwen and his wife's recent withdrawals of funds. Any results?"

“Boss, I’ve already checked with the post offices in the nearby towns, but they don’t have any withdrawal data for Qiu Jingwen or Jiang Yuping. I think we should just invite Jiang Yuping and Qiu Jingwen over separately, take out their bankbooks, and we’ll know if they’ve used a large sum of money recently.”

Shao Jian shook his head and smiled:

"It's not that it's impossible, I'm considering other issues."

"Sir, if we can find that a large sum of money has been recently used in the Qiu family's bank account, wouldn't Qiu Jingwen and his wife immediately become suspects?"

"Dinghuai, send someone to the Duliang County Post Office to check the situation. This matter must be settled. If it is not found, go to the city to check again."

Shao Jian felt that if Qiu Jingwen and his wife had withdrawn about three thousand yuan from their savings account, it was most likely related to Liu Han, and his logic and reasoning would then hold true.

Wu Dinghuai agreed to send people to the county and city again to investigate the postal savings statements.

In those days, unlike the later electronic age, where the police could immediately retrieve bank cash inflows and outflows from the bank's computer simply by providing one's identity information, most residents deposited their money into passbooks in the 1970s. At that time, the most commonly used savings account for ordinary people was postal savings, which included both current and fixed-term deposits. This is why Wu Dinghuai could not find Jiang Yuping's savings information in the nearby towns.

Just then, Liang Damin knocked on the door and came in.

After he sat down, he couldn't wait to report on Qiu Jingwen's situation when he first entered the factory after liberation.

After hearing the full report, Shao Jian looked at Liang Damin with surprise.

After a long while, he finally spoke:

"Section Chief Liang, does this mean I was wrong about Qiu Jingwen, and that he couldn't possibly have a problem?"