At ten o'clock in the morning, just when Xu Jianguo put down his pen and prepared to drink some tea and take a break, Guan Youliang's family far away in Southeast Province was in an uproar.
Guan Youliang's wife is Gu Fengqin, who works in a hospital. When she gets home from her night shift, she would always see her husband washing up in the bathroom as soon as she opened the door.
But the house was unusually quiet this morning, which made her feel a little puzzled, but she didn't care and just thought that her man got up late.
Gu Fengqin changed into slippers and walked towards the bedroom, ready to wake Guan Youliang up.
But when she opened the door, she found that there was no one on the bed.
"Huh? Where did that person go?" Gu Fengqin muttered softly.
At this time, she still did not think of the worst, thinking that her husband might have left early for something. She walked over and opened the curtains, then went to her son and daughter's room to check. Seeing that they were both sleeping soundly, she returned to the bedroom, changed her clothes, and got into bed to catch up on her sleep. After a while, she fell into a deep sleep.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
At nine o'clock in the morning, Gu Fengqin, who was still sleeping, was awakened by a rapid knock on the door. She frowned and sat up from the bed. After tidying up her clothes, she got up and walked quickly to open the door.
At this time, her son and daughter had already gone out, and she was the only one at home. They knew that their father went to work early and their mother needed to catch up on sleep after coming back from the night shift, so they did not say goodbye to Gu Fengqin when they left.
As soon as the door opened, Gu Fengqin saw Guan Youliang's secretary and driver standing outside. Seeing their anxious faces, she asked, "Huh? Xiao Huang, Xiao Xu, why are you two here?"
"Sister-in-law, where is the director?" asked Guan Youliang's secretary Huang Junchao.
"He's not at home. Didn't he go to work?" Gu Fengqin said in surprise.
"No, sister-in-law, I arrived downstairs at 7:30, but I didn't see the director come down. It was almost time to go to work, so I thought he had something urgent to do and went to the office first. But when we got to the office, we found out he didn't go. We waited for a while but still didn't show up. We were worried that something had happened at home, so we hurried over to check." said Xu Kun, Guan Youliang's driver.
"What did you say? Lao Guan didn't go to the company? That's impossible. He wasn't at home when I came back from the night shift this morning!" Gu Fengqin said anxiously when she heard it.
Huang Junchao and Xu Kun frowned when they heard this. After looking at each other, they saw a hint of solemnity in each other's eyes.
In fact, at this time, the two did not think that anything would happen to Guan Youliang. They thought that he had made some mistake and was secretly taken away by the special department. After all, anything could happen at this time.
The reason why they looked so serious was that they and Guan Youliang were in the same boat. Ever since he became the deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee of the Provincial Machinery Administration Bureau, the two of them had been helping their family with many things, and most of them were shady activities.
Whether it was Guan Youliang taking advantage of his position to plunder, or Gu Fengqin using frame-up tactics to become the head nurse in the hospital, or even their son bullying others outside, Huang Junchao and Xu Kun both played important roles in it.
So if Guan Youliang was really secretly taken away for investigation because of these things, then the two of them would definitely not be able to escape. So when they heard Gu Fengqin say that Guan Youliang was not at home, they inevitably became panicked.
However, this was just their speculation, and it was difficult to tell Gu Fengqin directly, so Huang Junchao smiled and said, "It's okay, sister-in-law. The director might have other urgent matters and didn't have time to notify us. So, let's go back to the office and wait. The director might be gone soon. After we see him, we can ask him to call home."
When Gu Fengqin heard this, she felt that what he said made sense. Her husband was the deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee. Perhaps he really had something urgent to do that involved confidentiality, so he left without saying goodbye.
After figuring this out, she said, "Okay, I'll trouble you two then!"
"Okay, sister-in-law, you continue to rest. We will go back to the unit first. If you have any questions, just call the unit." Huang Junchao said, and then he and Xu Kun left Guan Youliang's house together.
After closing the door, Gu Fengqin looked at the watch on her wrist and found that it was just past nine o'clock, so she went back to her room to sleep.
At this time, two street workers were banging on Song Wen's door far away in the government office. The noise attracted the attention of neighbors, who were whispering to each other, not knowing what was going on.
The two men knocked on the door for a long time, but found that there was no movement in the house, so one of them turned around and asked the onlookers if anyone had seen Song Wen.
Some of the enthusiastic elderly people told the two that they had not seen Song Wen since he came home from get off work last night.
Upon hearing the news, the two staff members felt a little uneasy, thinking that something might have happened to Song Wen in the house. If he had an acute illness or something, it would be a big deal.
So one of them said to the other, "No, I'm worried. You stay here and watch while I go to the police station. I hope nothing really happens."
"Okay, then go quickly and come back soon!" the other person nodded.
Just like that, not long after the street worker left, he came back jogging with four public security comrades.
After understanding what happened, a leading police officer walked up and knocked on the door, and introduced himself while knocking, but there was still no sound in the house.
Finally, after a discussion, they decided to break in.
With a loud "bang", the wooden door of Song Wen's house was kicked open by a policeman from the outside, and then four policemen came in one after another.
However, after searching the house, Song Wen was nowhere to be found. The only thing he could tell from the bedding on the bed was that someone had lived here last night, but now there was no sign of him.
Two street workers were waiting outside the door. They successfully made their heartbeats faster through their imaginations, as if something very terrible had happened in the house.
It was not until they heard the police in the house calling them in that the two men swallowed hard and walked in with trepidation.
When they learned that Song Wen was not in the room, the two of them felt relieved, but there was still a hint of embarrassment in their eyes. No one knew what terrible scenes were in their minds when they were outside the door just now.
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