Just a partnership

The village chief squatted back in the corner, next to Zhou Huaiyue who was reading a book.

I don’t know if he had experience or just didn’t take it seriously. When he was taken away, Zhou Huaiyue even asked the police if he could take a book with him to read.

The leading policeman glanced at the paintings on the wall and after thinking for three seconds, he let him get into the police car with a copy of Xu Wei's painting album.

"You little brat, you still have the mind to read books, aren't you afraid that we won't be able to go back?" The village chief raised his elbow and bumped Zhou Huaiyue who was sitting on the ground.

Being knocked to one side, Zhou Huaiyue turned his body helplessly, glared at the village chief, and sneered: "No one in my family is afraid of the dark."

If you don't have any bad thoughts in your heart, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door at midnight. Anyway, it wasn't the first time he had experienced such slander and defamation, so he was particularly open-minded and even had the energy to tease the village chief.

"Get lost." The village chief stood up with a sullen face and lightly kicked Zhou Huaiyue with the edge of his Liberation shoes.

Shen Rushan stood up and leaned over the iron railing to look outside. He then sneaked up to the village chief and asked, "Village chief, is Caifeng really afraid of the dark?"

Da Wa was a brave man to begin with, and with so many people around, not only was he not scared by the police, he even thought what the village chief had just said was quite funny.

"That vicious woman is not afraid of ghosts, but is afraid of the dark!" The village chief curled his lips and muttered.

The colorful phoenix girl is fierce and famous, and everyone knows her.

One year, the village chief had a headache. His brain shrank and his cerebellum exploded. He was groggy and couldn't sleep. He felt so uncomfortable that he wanted to bang his head against the wall. Cai Fengniang got a folk remedy from the barefoot doctor. She went to the wild grave to catch scorpions in the middle of the night and soaked them in white wine.

I used scorpion wine to rub the village chief's temples, and his headache was completely cured, and he never had it again.

"Village chief, who do you think did this?" Shen Tiancheng knew that the consultant was speaking to Shen Tiannan.

When my younger sister said she wanted to sue Wang Jianxin, Shen Tiancheng voted in favor, while Shen Tiannan voted against it. He opposed it not because of Shen's father's words of forgiving others, but because he was afraid of Wang Jianxin's revenge.

If you encounter a mad dog that bites, the best thing to do is to stay away from it, not to bite back.

"Wang Jianxin!" Zhou Huaiyue closed the book angrily, recalling the resentful look of someone that day, and wished he could eat him. Because he was close to the Shen family, he was also listed as a target for attack. Haha, it was really an honor.

"Village chief, he was the one who reported my stall, right? My little sister is right, the harm will last for a thousand years, and we can't let this kind of person go." Shen Tiancheng's words reminded the third brother Shen Tiannan of his little sister who cried bitterly that night.

She wiped her tears and said, "Dad, if you don't resist when he bullies you, you won't get the peace you want. You will only be bullied more fiercely. Because he knows that bullying me is low-cost, low-risk, and high-profit, and he will get addicted. He wants to keep trampling me under his feet."

The truth of the world is so cruel: the harder you are to deal with, the more others respect you; the more you tolerate and compromise, the more others will bully you.

Being kind does not mean being weak. One should be a kind person with a sharp edge. Be strong when facing the strong and weak when facing the weak. Be kind when facing the good and be evil when facing the evil. You must turn your face when it is time to do so that people can see your bottom line.

Zhou Huaiyue stared coldly at the village chief whose expression became increasingly ugly. He had advised Jiaojiao not to worry, but now he was slapped in the face.

Putting down the book in his hand, he suddenly jumped up from the ground, walked up to the village chief with great momentum, and said in a cold voice: "If you still protect Wang Jianxin, if Jiaojiao encounters any danger, I will not let you go!"

On the second day of digging Rehmannia, he specially called the village chief aside and told him about seeing Wang Jianxin. The village chief assured him in person that Wang Jianxin would not dare to do that.

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The village chief was startled by him, and it took him two seconds to react. He jumped up and patted Zhou Huaiyue on the forehead, "How dare you threaten me! I have experienced many storms, and it is not your turn to worry about it. I know my limits."

"Once something is said, it cannot be taken back! Old man! I saved your life, don't let me down." Zhou Huaiyue was two heads taller than the village chief. He looked down at his sparse head and brought up the old matter again.

"Hmph! If you're not angry with me, I don't need your rescue!" When the village chief was about to kick him again, Zhou Huaiyue hugged his legs and lifted them up violently, causing the old man to cry out in pain.

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The three people with the surname Shen had three big question marks on their heads.

The two brothers did not express their opinions, but the master was very angry. The village chief was quite impressed by Zhou Zhiqing's tricks. There was something weird about both things.

…

In the middle of the night, when several people were dozing off, the door of the interrogation room was pushed open with a bang. A policeman in uniform with bloodshot eyes struck the iron bars with his baton, making a sharp and piercing sound. Seeing that everyone was awakened, he shouted loudly: "Wake up, everyone. Whoever's name is called, come out and be questioned."

The first person to be called away was Shen Tiannan.

He sat under a particularly bright light, staring at the two people opposite him. One was the policeman who led the team, and the other was wearing a white shirt, black pants, and leather shoes, like a small leader.

Shen Tiannan swallowed nervously.

"You said that you didn't sell food, but medicinal herbs? Who did you sell them to? Where did you sell them to? How much did you sell?" asked the leading policeman.

"It was sold to Mr. Cui Wenhao in the county town, and then to Zhongyuan Pharmaceutical Factory. We sold 1,100 kilograms." Thanks to Shen Tiannan's carefulness, he asked the fat boss to sign his full name and stamp his name on the silver and goods transfer slip.

The policeman recorded his answer and then asked, "How much did you sell for? How was the bill divided?"

"Not including the deposit, we earned a total of 5,000 yuan. We paid 190 yuan as labor fees to 15 people, and there was 4,810 yuan left, which we didn't divide." To be precise, they were arrested before they had the chance to divide the money. They had planned to discuss the profit-sharing ratio with Jiaojiao that day.

"How much do you plan to give to Zhou Huaiyue? He is an important person to you, right?" The young leader suddenly asked, his tone unfriendly and directed at Master Zhou.

Shen Tiannan's heart skipped a beat. How should he answer? It seemed like two questions, but in fact it was one question. If Zhou Huaiyue took the bigger share, he would be the most important, and the younger sister could move back. If Zhou took the smaller share, he would not be that important, and the younger sister would have to move forward.

"It depends on how much he wants. The knowledge of medicinal materials in his head is the most important." Shen Tiannan threw the question out and calmly straightened his collar.

"This account book shows the income and expenditure of your buying and selling of medicinal materials. There is an advance of 200 yuan from Zhou Huaiyue. What did he use it for?" The young leader continued to ask questions about Master Zhou, which made Shen Tiannan's heart ring with alarm.

Does Zhou Huaiyue have some big problem? Why does it feel like the investigation is mainly focused on him?

"He bought a second-hand bicycle and used the rest of the money to buy things for painting." Shen Tiannan answered truthfully.

"What is the relationship between him and your sister Shen Roujiao?" Finally, he asked this question. Shen Tiannan's scalp tingled. They were a master-disciple relationship. Zhou Huaiyue taught her to identify medicinal herbs, helped her to go to the purchasing station, delivered goods for her every week, and promised to pay someone to help with the prosecution...and his younger sister seemed to have only bought some small things and given some food.

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What Zhou Huaiyue did was far beyond the scope of a master. Could it be that he likes my little sister?

Are they in love?

No, no, Zhou Huaiyue has a big problem and will drag my little sister down.

"It's just a cooperative relationship, digging herbs together." Shen Tiannan hurriedly clarified their obviously unequal master-disciple relationship.

Afterwards, the leading police officer asked some more questions about Shen Rushan and the village chief. When Shen Tiannan returned to the interrogation room, Zhou Huaiyue had already been taken away.

The strong sense of insecurity made him afraid that there was indeed something wrong with this educated youth.

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Inside the Public Security Bureau Director’s office.

On the wall at the entrance, there is a large propaganda poster. In the center of the picture is a policeman wearing a white police uniform and a white police hat. He glares at the criminals and waves his hand downward, writing ten big words: Crack down on criminal activities severely.

It is stern, intimidating and oppressive, making people feel nervous unconsciously.

Zhou Huaiyue was sitting on a red sofa with wooden legs and cloth by the window. His face was full of indifference and alienation, which was out of tune with the surrounding environment.

The military green desk lamp on the director's desk was shining white light, illuminating the old black telephone next to it. Behind the desk sat a gentle man wearing gold-rimmed glasses. He had two pens in his shirt pocket and another in his hand. His eyes stayed on Zhou Huaiyue's face for a long time before he asked, "Who is Zhou Chuzhuo to you?"

Zhou Huaiyue, who had originally looked relaxed, suddenly sat up straight with a fierce look in his eyes, "What happened to him?"

The three words "Zhou Chuzhuo" had not appeared in his life for a long time, ever since that year, when they were paraded through the streets with signs hanging on their necks, and people along the way threw rotten vegetable leaves and stones at them...

"You don't seem to be qualified to ask?" The gentleman with gold-rimmed glasses spoke with a sense of oppression, looking like someone who is not easy to mess with.

"He is my father! I am his son! If you have any problems, just come to me. I, Zhou Huaiyue, am not afraid of being framed, attacked, or retaliated. Just don't implicate others." He was emotional. From the capital to the remote countryside, he deliberately kept a distance from everyone. He just didn't want, didn't want, and didn't want to let others suffer because of him, because of them, father and son.

"What? Are those people in the Shen family important to you?" When a gentleman speaks harshly, it sounds particularly scary and full of threats.

"It doesn't matter! He's just innocent." Zhou Huaiyue clenched his fists with veins bulging, and said through his back teeth.

"Really? It seems that the one named Shen Roujiao has had a lot of contact with you. She pretended to be your disciple and made a lot of money by using you." The man pulled down his glasses, his eyes not passing through the lenses, but looking directly at Zhou Huaiyue, as if he wanted to see the expression on his face more clearly.

"I didn't take advantage of her. I did it voluntarily. Don't make things difficult for her. From now on, I won't know them." The veins on Zhou Huaiyue's neck were throbbing. He found that every time he spoke a word, his heart felt like it was cut open by a knife, soaking with blood, but he couldn't stop.

The person whose eyes light up every time he talks about making money has long been engraved in his heart, beating with his whole being.

Now, I have to cut it out completely, and the pain is clear and distinct.

"You are truly selfless!" His glasses were pushed up again. He politely put the pen in his pocket, stood up, and as he walked past Zhou Huaiyue, he said in a stiff tone, "You, Zhou Huaiyue, get up and come with us!"

Sven Glasses pushed open the door, and two police officers stood at attention and saluted: "Hello, Secretary Wu!"

"Take the guy behind you into the car!" He casually pointed at the person following him, and the police officers immediately stood on Zhou Huaiyue's left and right.

"Don't touch me, I can walk by myself." Zhou Huaiyue angrily blocked the hands that were trying to clamp him and said coldly.