Chapter 22: So Noisy

◎See clearly, he is not a policeman◎

the next day.

The Serious Crime Unit invited Zhao Qingyun to the Public Security Bureau, and employees of the Tianranju Hotel were also brought there for identification.

As soon as they saw Zhao Qingyun's narrowed eyes and intimidating face, and then observed his behavior, their eyes widened and they all said in unison: "It's him!"

It turned out that Weng Pingfang’s secret lover was actually Zhao Qingyun.

After it was confirmed that Zhao Qingyun was the man who had a secret meeting with Weng Pingfang in the hotel, the Public Security Bureau quickly arrested him. Upon receiving this news, the entire provincial party committee was in an uproar.

"Secretary Zhao was taken away by the Public Security Bureau!"

"What happened? An economic case or a criminal case?"

"The city police came to arrest people without even saying hello. This is outrageous!"

"It's definitely not a good thing. Didn't you see? The one who took the lead in arresting people is Xu Heimian from the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Municipal Bureau! This is definitely a criminal case, and it might even be a murder case!"

When Wei Meihua, who was playing mahjong with her friends, received the news, she pushed her cards aside and rushed home. After making a few phone calls with trembling hands, she ran to the Municipal Public Security Bureau with her bag in hand.

As soon as we entered the office hall of Xing City Public Security Bureau, Wei Meihua acted like a government official’s wife.

"Where is your director? Why did you enter the provincial party committee without permission to arrest people? What is wrong with Deputy Secretary-General Zhao Qingyun that you directly issued an arrest warrant without even saying hello?!"

Zhao Qingyun's identity was special, and the leaders of the Municipal Bureau attached great importance to her. Before the arrest, they reported the case to the Provincial Party Committee and the Discipline Inspection Commission, and promised to treat her as a guest of honor until there was solid evidence. Now that Wei Meihua had arrived, the bureau leaders had no choice but to have someone take her to the serious crime unit, with Xu Songling in charge of receiving and explaining the situation.

As soon as Wei Meihua saw Xu Songling, she became furious and threw her expensive brand-name bag onto his desk: "Is this revenge? Is this revenge? How did Zhao Qingyun offend you that you have to humiliate him like this!"

Xu Songling patiently pointed to the chair beside the table and said, "Ms. Wei, please take a seat. Zhao Qingyun is suspected of a murder case. We are following the procedures. There is no such thing as revenge."

The chairs in the Municipal Bureau were the simplest wooden chairs. Wei Meihua glanced at them with disdain, but her feet hurt from wearing high heels for so long, so she had to sit down reluctantly.

She had a preconceived idea and didn't believe Xu Songling's words at all: "How could Zhao Qingyun kill someone? He is a deputy director-level cadre of the provincial party committee. After the new year, he will have the hope of being promoted to director-level. He is young and promising, and has a bright future. It is impossible for him to do something that will affect his future. You must have arrested the wrong person!"

Xu Songling frowned: "At present, Zhao Qingyun is only a suspect. We have to wait for the details..."

Before he finished speaking, a voice came from the corridor: "Zhao Xiangwan, you are our lucky general. If you hadn't asked Ji Zhao to draw the portrait, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack to find Weng Pingfang's lover in Xing City with a population of nearly 5 million. Now that the suspect has been locked, should we meet with other teams? See if we can find new clues from Weng Pingfang's colleagues and family members."

When Wei Meihua heard the three words "Zhao Xiangwan", she was shocked, jumped up from her chair, turned around and stared at the door.

Zhu Feipeng, He Mingyu and Zhao Xiangwan walked into the office together.

Zhu Feipeng raised his eyebrows when he saw Wei Meihua, and looked at Xu Songling sympathetically. It was obvious that this woman was not someone who was easy to deal with. Captain Xu must have a headache dealing with her, right?

He Mingyu recognized Wei Meihua and subconsciously turned her head to glance at Zhao Xiangwan.

Zhao Xiangwan was not surprised at all when he saw Wei Meihua appear in the office. He calmly met her angry gaze.

After the sudden change, Wei Meihua had no place to vent her anger. She didn't know why, but when she saw Zhao Xiangwan's face that looked very similar to Zhao Qingyun, her emotions surged up like a pent-up flood.

Wei Meihua stepped forward quickly, pushed He Mingyu aside, stood in front of Zhao Xiangwan, and asked a series of questions hastily and angrily: "Why are you here? What does this have to do with you? Why do they say you are a lucky general? Although we have done something that makes you unhappy, it is still you..."

After a pause, Wei Meihua finally regained her senses and did not reveal the fact that Zhao Xiangwan was her biological daughter. She asked evasively, "What do you mean by letting someone arrest him like this?"

Seeing her getting angry at Zhao Xiangwan without any reason, Zhu Feipeng's eyebrows were knitted into a line. He pointed at Zhao Xiangwan's shoulder badge and said, "Look carefully at this lady. She is just a trainee police officer. How can she command the police to arrest people?"

Wei Meihua had no idea what the shoulder straps meant. In her opinion, it didn't matter whether it was an internship or a compilation, as long as Zhao Xiangwan was standing in this office, he was in cahoots with the police who arrested Zhao Qingyun!

She finally figured it out. Although Zhao Xiangwan was her biological daughter, they were born incompatible. Nothing good would happen when they saw her. When she met Zhao Xiangwan at the Four Seasons Hotel and heard Zhao Chenyang say that they grew up together, Wei Meihua realized that Zhao Xiangwan was her biological daughter.

Zhao Xiangwan was treated as a guest of honor by Ji Jinmao, which made Zhao Qingyun very unhappy. He returned home angry and severely criticized Zhao Chenyang. He also contacted Zhao Erfu and Qian Shufen. After finding out the truth, he remained silent for a long time.

Just as he was about to take action, the provincial government issued an investigation mission, and Zhao Qingyun had to focus on his work. Just when he had some free time, Zhao Qingyun was taken to the Public Security Bureau for investigation, and Zhao Xiangwan was also in the serious crime team!

Thinking of this, Wei Meihua stretched out her hand and tried to grab Zhao Xiangwan's arm. Zhao Xiangwan took a half step back and Wei Meihua's hand missed.

Wei Meihua was anxious and angry, and she yelled, "Qingyun and I called Zhaojiagou to find out the situation. We planned to take you to our side to make up for the hardship we suffered before, but we didn't expect you to turn against us so cruelly! How could you have the heart to arrest him and even slander him as a murder suspect?"

[You, a debt collector, should not have been born. When you appeared, Chen Yang started crying, the Xu family had opinions about me, Qing Yun was arrested, and the family was constantly suffering from bad luck. You are a jinx! ]

Wei Meihua's gnashing teeth enlarged in front of Zhao Xiangwan's eyes, and the curses in her heart entered her mind. Zhao Xiangwan stood still and looked into her eyes.

"If he kills someone, the law will punish him." It is not Zhao Xiangwan or anyone else's turn to slander him.

Wei Meihua heard her keep saying "he" and had no attachment or respect for her biological father. She was so angry that her heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys ached and she shouted, "Qingyun didn't kill anyone. He couldn't have killed anyone! It must be you who is causing trouble, you debt collector!"

Wei Meihua's targeting and cursing of Zhao Xiangwan made everyone in the Serious Case Unit angry. Xu Songling slammed the table and said, "If you keep arguing, get out of the office!"

There was a hint of wariness in the eyes of Zhu Feipeng and others when they looked at Wei Meihua.

Being excluded by a group of people was not a good feeling. Wei Meihua's arrogance subsided, but she still insisted: "What are you doing? Staring at me with such big eyes, do you want bigger eyes? It was Director Peng who asked me to come here. As Zhao Qingyun's family member, I have the right to understand the situation."

Xu Songling was an insider and had long been dissatisfied with Wei Meihua and Zhao Qingyun. Seeing Wei Meihua venting her anger on Zhao Xiangwan, he shouted, "Comrade Wei Meihua, this is the Public Security Bureau, not a place for you to mess around!"

Ji Zhao, who had been sitting in a corner with his back to the door, quietly painting, suddenly raised his head.

Without any warning, he threw his right hand back and a sharpened pencil flew out from his fingertips and pierced directly into Wei Meihua's eyebrow.

Wei Meihua only felt a flash before her eyes, and subconsciously turned her head to the side. The tip of the pencil scratched her cheek, leaving a thin blood mark.

With a scream of "Ah——" a slight pain came. Wei Meihua raised her hand to touch her cheek. The sticky touch and the faint smell of blood scared the beauty-loving Wei Meihua out of her wits.

[So noisy! ]

Ji Zhao's impatient voice echoed in Zhao Xiangwan's mind.

The skylark, which had been squatting obediently on the branch, was now picking up a thin dry branch with its beak and throwing it down angrily.

I don’t know why, but when Zhao Xiangwan saw this angry skylark, his mood suddenly improved.

Wei Meihua screamed: "My face! My face! The police are taking action——"

Zhu Feipeng pointed at Ji Zhao who was sitting in the corner with a gloating look on his face: "Look carefully, he is not a policeman."

Feeling that Zhao Xiangwan's mood had improved, Ji Zhao slowly turned her head, her beautiful eyes flashing with a bright light.

When Ji Zhao's nearly perfect face appeared before her eyes, Wei Meihua's curse words were stuck in her throat. Ji Zhao! Ji Jinmao's only son, a talented painter, how could he be here!

Thinking that Ji Jinmao was a well-known protector, and that Zhao Qingyun was trying to persuade Ji Jinmao to invest, even Xu's Construction Company had to deliberately please Ji Jinmao, so Wei Meihua did not dare to argue with Ji Zhao.

It was so suffocating! Wei Meihua felt her chest begin to ache and her facial expression became extremely stiff.

Xu Songling raised his hand and looked at his watch: "It's time for dinner, you guys go eat first, and bring me some pork trotter rice."

When they talked about eating, the policemen in the room drooled at the thought of the superb cooking skills of the two new chefs in the bureau. They left quickly and cleanly, leaving Wei Meihua standing there in a daze, looking at Ji Zhao who followed Zhao Xiangwan obediently. She didn't know how to describe this feeling.

Xu Songling briefly introduced the case with a cold face, and Wei Meihua's expression became more and more ugly.

"What? Zhao Qingyun had been having an affair with a waitress at the Left Bank Cafe for two years, and he met her at a hotel in the north of the city almost every weekend? Now that this bitch is dead, you suspect he killed her?!"

Wei Meihua was on the verge of collapse.

She and Zhao Qingyun knew each other since childhood and had gone through countless ups and downs before they got together. She finally had two children and her life was getting better and better, but he actually had another woman?

Impossible! Wei Meihua's first reaction was that the police were lying.

Xu Songling said in a businesslike manner: "This is the current situation. The waiter at the hotel where the incident occurred has identified Zhao Qingyun as the man who had been secretly meeting with Weng Pingfang in the past two years. As for what Zhao Qingyun did at the time of the incident and whether he killed anyone, these are still under investigation. So... I'm sorry, we can't let him go back."

Wei Meihua felt her soul floating in the air. She could not hear a word Xu Songling said.

Zhao Qingyun cheated on his wife? Murdered someone?

She has been addicted to mahjong in recent years. She plays mahjong outside three or four days a week, especially on weekends. The weekend games start at 5pm and last until 1pm when she gets home. When she gets home, Zhao Qingyun has already gone to bed. How could she know that he would be fooling around with Weng Pingfang outside?

He managed his time very well. After get off work, he would have dinner and socialize with his colleagues, meet his mistress from 8 to 11 p.m., and then go home to take a shower and sleep. On weekends, his parents would take their son Chengzu over, leaving Chenyang alone at home.

Chen Yang never told her that Zhao Qingyun came home very late. He didn't know whether she really didn't know or was covering up for him.

What a secret! No one knew about it.

If someone hadn't died, no one would have known that Zhao Qingyun had a lover outside.

Wei Meihua sat in the chair in a daze, her face pale. After a long while, she murmured to herself, "Oh, amazing, Zhao Qingyun, you really deserve me..."

Xu Songling said: "The Bureau has reported the specific situation to the provincial party committee leaders, and the provincial party committee responded that it will conduct a thorough investigation. If you must meet Zhao Qingyun, I can arrange it now."

Wei Meihua lowered her head, clasped her hands together, and slightly hooked her right index finger, rubbing the thumb nail continuously, making a slight squeaking sound.

After struggling for ten minutes, Wei Meihua suddenly looked up at the fluorescent tube above her head and laughed: "Yes, of course not. I want to see what he has to say when he sees me after doing such a shameless thing!"