"He didn't give me any face at all. He said if I had something to do, I should go directly to him, and if not, I shouldn't waste his time."
Liu Zheng sat on the sofa, poured himself a cup of tea, blew on it, and then repeated what Du Wanzhe had just said to Sun Dahai.
"Hmph, how arrogant!"
Sun Dahai slammed his hand on the table in anger. He hadn't expected that his kind invitation would be met with such a lack of respect. He snorted coldly and said...
"Calm down. I don't think that Du Wanzhe is a match for Sun Yue at all. When he can't hold on any longer, we'll lend a hand, and he'll have to behave himself."
Seeing Sun Dahai's angry expression, Liu Zheng came up with a good idea and said it to him.
"Never mind, the patrol team is coming to the police station soon. You better watch your temper lately. If you get into trouble, even I can't protect you."
Sun Dahai waved his hand, his head aching from thinking about these things. Then he remembered something and instructed Liu Zheng.
"What are the inspection team here for?"
When Liu Zheng heard that people from higher up had come to the police station, he asked Sun Dahai in confusion.
"I don't know about this either. Just be careful. There's a high chance of a reshuffle, but that's beyond our control."
Looking into Liu Zheng's eyes, Sun Dahai thought for a moment but decided not to tell the truth. He was still not completely at ease about Liu Zheng.
"No problem, I understand."
Liu Zheng could tell that Sun Dahai was hiding something from him, but he didn't say anything and just nodded.
“You better be serious this time. The patrol team has probably overheard something, otherwise they wouldn’t have come to the police station.”
Seeing Liu Zheng's nonchalant attitude, Sun Dahai patted Liu Zheng on the back of the head and said.
"knew."
Liu Zheng, who had been hit, really wanted to retaliate, but because of Sun Dahai's status, he held back and said to Sun Dahai with a smile.
"The position of deputy captain of the criminal investigation team has been vacant for a while, and the bureau has been asking me to recommend a candidate."
Sun Dahai sipped his tea, looking somewhat troubled, and said to Liu Zheng.
"Hey, Captain, this deputy captain position must be filled by an experienced veteran police officer, someone who can read people's expressions. It can't be like that Du Wanzhe, otherwise it will be difficult for anyone to manage the section chief. We also need to find someone who is obedient."
Upon hearing Sun Dahai mention the vice-captain, Liu Zheng realized that the main reason he had followed Sun Dahai was for this vice-captain; otherwise, who would be willing to go against Sun Yue with Sun Dahai? He quickly smiled and said to Sun Dahai...
“Look at you. Originally, your biggest competitor was Sun Yue. As the captain, I couldn’t favor either of them. But now, Sun Yue has become the head of the interrogation department, and I’ve directly recommended you for the vice-captain position.”
Seeing Liu Zheng's smiling face, Sun Dahai said to him with a smile.
“Great! Sun Yue is the acting section chief and also the team leader of the criminal investigation team. So I’m considered his superior here.”
Hearing Sun Dahai report his name, he felt happy. All his hard work had paid off. The thought of Sun Yue being his subordinate made him inexplicably happy.
"Alright, go back and get ready. Just wait for our notification."
Seeing Liu Zheng's happy expression, Sun Dahai quickly stopped him and said something to him.
"Okay, from now on I will definitely follow the captain's lead!"
Liu Zheng knew that this was because of Sun Dahai; otherwise, it would not have been so easy for him to become the vice captain. He quickly clasped his hands in greeting to Sun Dahai.
"Okay, go and get busy."
Hearing Liu Zheng's words, Sun Dahai felt his efforts hadn't been in vain and nodded in satisfaction.
As Liu Zheng left the office, the smile on his face vanished. Liu Zheng was not one to be manipulated by others. He had long known that Sun Dahai approached him to use him, but wasn't agreeing to it also a form of exploitation?
"Hmph, just you wait and see!"
Inside the interrogation section chief's office, Sun Yue was looking at the flowers on the windowsill. She felt that her master must have had a deeper meaning in giving them to her. She reached out to pick them up and study them.
Ring ring ring!
Hello!
Hearing the phone ring, Sun Yue withdrew her hand, answered the call, and asked the person on the other end.
"Are you Sun Yue?"
A deep voice came from the other end of the phone, asking Sun Yue.
"You called me, don't you know who I am?"
Sun Yue looked at the incoming phone number, realized she didn't recognize it, and then smiled and asked the caller a question.
"Haha, then guess who I am? And why I'm calling you."
After listening to Sun Yue's words, the person on the other end of the phone wasn't angry at all. Instead, they smiled and asked Sun Yue.
Why should I guess?
Hearing the other person ask him to guess his identity, Sun Yue asked them with some confusion.
"If you guess right, there will be a reward."
The person on the other end of the phone, hearing that Sun Yue was still wary, laughed and said something to her.
"I knew who you were from your very first words."
Sun Yue laughed as she spoke into the phone about this little trick.
"Then I'd really like to know, how did you know my identity?"
Hearing Sun Yue's confident tone, the person on the other end of the phone was somewhat surprised, since he hadn't revealed his identity. He asked Sun Yue curiously.
"I've had a smooth journey these past few days. Even when I made trouble, someone cleaned up my mess. At first, I thought it was because the bureau chief gave me preferential treatment, but I was wrong. Today, I'm sitting in the position of section chief, which is not something the bureau chief can easily do. Even if he could, he wouldn't abandon his principles for me. So it must be someone higher up who opened a back door for me. Am I right?"
Hearing that the other party wanted to hear her analysis, Sun Yue recounted her unusual behavior over the past few days. When she was halfway through her story, the other party went silent. Thinking that the other party had hung up, she asked the person on the other end of the line.
"Ahem, that's right! Go on, you haven't said who I am yet."
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, followed by a couple of coughs before the speaker continued speaking to Sun Yue.
“Your identities are easy to guess. I don’t know anyone up there, and I’m not a pawn in the power struggles between those big families. I heard that the inspection team is here to make some changes, so I guess you must be one of them?”
Sun Yue then analyzed the situation and asked the person on the other end of the phone.
"Hahaha, I knew I hadn't chosen the wrong person."
The person on the other end of the phone didn't say anything, just laughed and talked to themselves.
"Looks like I was right. I wonder what you want from me?"
Although she didn't hear a definite answer, she heard the other person start to laugh, confirming that her analysis was correct. But thinking about this, Sun Yue was still confused and asked the person on the other end of the phone in bewilderment.
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