The next day at lunchtime, Ding Qiunan whispered mysteriously to her husband sitting opposite her, "I asked Xiaoyu, do you know where her friend lives?"
"Jingshan?"
"wrong"
"That must be Haidian."
"Tch, this is boring!"
Li Chu smiled and said, "Since you've asked me like that, how could I not guess?"
"Hmph~" Ding Qiunan wrinkled her nose at him, took a bite of food, and then said, "Her friend's family works in the district materials bureau, but I didn't ask any more questions."
"Are both of you from the Bureau of Supplies?"
"OK."
"Alright, I'll talk to Brother Meng later and have them investigate. We'll leave the rest to us."
"Huh? We don't need to worry about it anymore?" Ding Qiunan stopped eating, her face full of disappointment.
"No, what do you want to do? Do you still want us to investigate?"
"Of course, I'm the one who discovered this clue."
Li Chu suddenly put down the chopsticks in his hand and reached out to touch his wife's forehead.
What are you doing?
"I think you might have a fever, but you don't. Why are you talking nonsense?"
"Hmph! Li Chu, let me tell you, from now until you go to bed tonight, don't expect me to pay any attention to you!"
"Why not tomorrow?"
"Cough cough cough..." Ding Qiunan, who had just taken a bite of food, almost spat it out when he was asked that question.
"Li Chu!"
Is the key point time? Shouldn't you be starting to comfort me right now?
Seeing his wife's face turn red from choking, he quickly put his hands together and said, "I'm sorry, honey, I was wrong!"
Ding Qiunan rolled her eyes at him without saying a word, and continued eating.
Seeing this, Li Chu didn't dare to show off anymore. He lowered his head and ate his meal obediently until he finished eating and returned to his office.
Once she was held in her man's arms, she immediately became as docile as a kitten, and she had long forgotten about his words about ignoring her before going to bed.
After finishing his follow-up examination of an old leader in the afternoon, Li Chu hurriedly asked Tian Jun to take him to Zhang Meng.
As he got out of the car in the city bureau compound, Zhang Meng happened to come out of the office building, seemingly about to leave.
"Hey, Xiao Chu, what brings you here again today?"
"Are you going out? Are you in a hurry?" Li Chu didn't answer his question, but asked instead.
"Go to the Jingshan branch for a meeting. If you have something to say, just say it."
"I have a clue."
"What clue?" Zhang Meng suddenly became incredibly excited.
"How about this, I won't take up any more of your time. I'll take you to Jingshan in my car, and we can talk on the way. You can have your car follow behind."
"If you can give me a ride, that would be perfect. I don't have a car right now; all the cars in our bureau have been dispatched. I was planning to take the bus."
Li Chu then noticed that the huge municipal bureau parking lot now only had two large trucks parked there.
"Let's go then, get in the car."
"Tian Jun, you know the Jingshan Branch, right?"
"I know, boss."
"Okay, let's go there."
After telling Tian Jun his destination, Li Chu turned to Zhang Meng and said, "After I left your place last night, I've been thinking about what kind of people need to carry an umbrella."
Later, I unintentionally remembered something a friend had mentioned in a previous conversation.
He didn't mention that Ding Qiunan was chatting with others; it's not nice to talk about such things all the time.
"That's the situation. You can send someone to investigate it discreetly."
"Don't you know this guy's name?"
"I really don't know, but the couple both work at the Bureau of Supplies. I don't think there are many in their bureau. If we check one by one, we'll eventually find them."
He thought for a moment about Qian Xiaoyu's age and added, "She should be around forty years old."
Zhang Meng breathed a slight sigh of relief. Having an age range made things a little easier; otherwise, a bureau would need quite a few people, including cadres and workers, and they would have to conduct investigations covertly, making the workload considerable.
Furthermore, since this is only a suspicion and there is no substantial evidence, it is impossible to mobilize a large number of people.
"No matter what the outcome, thank you, Xiao Chu. If it really is this side, I will put in a good word for you."
"Don't say that. I don't care about you. We're brothers. I'm worried about your health. And until this case is over, my nephew can't go home. His son cries for his dad every day."
Zhang Meng raised his hand and patted Li Chu's hand, which was placed beside him, without saying anything more.
Yes, we're brothers, there's no need to say anything more, we all understand each other.
The car quickly arrived at its destination, at the entrance of the branch office. After Zhang Meng got out of the car, he turned around and said, "After the case is over, let's have a couple of drinks together, brothers."
"Alright, if it's below the level of Fenjiu, don't bother me."
Zhang Meng almost spat in his face. "You're so stupid! How can my salary compare to yours? I won't even drink Fenjiu if it's less than yours."
He slammed the car door shut and drove off without looking back.
"Hey, this guy, I kindly brought you here, and you still slammed my car door," Li Chu muttered irritably from inside the car.
Tian Jun sat in the front, barely managing to suppress his laughter; the leader's words were so sarcastic.
"Let's go, we'll make it back to the hospital just in time for get off work."
"Old Zhang, you're something else. You've been away from the army for so long, and you still managed to find a leader's car to send you here."
At the entrance of the branch office, Zhang Meng, who was about to go in, was stopped by a voice from behind.
The person who stopped him was Deputy Director Guo from their municipal bureau, who had left a little earlier and arrived by bus.
"What leader? Just one of my brothers. He went to the bureau to see me about something and brought me here on the way."
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Deputy Director Guo chuckled and the two walked into the branch office together.
However, his heart was far from calm at the moment.
Zhang Meng's background was clear to the high-ranking officials in their municipal bureau. Others might not have noticed anything special about the car, but he, who was in charge of vehicles, knew immediately from the license plate that it was a vehicle from the General Logistics Department.
Among the entire logistics department, only about a dozen or twenty people could ride in the cars.
Moreover, he saw it clearly just now; there were people sitting in the back of the car, and Zhang Meng got out from the back.
This guy's methods are pretty unconventional! He can be on friendly terms with people of his caliber; it seems we need to reassess our relationship with him.
And so, one lost in thought, the other pondering what Li Chu had told him in the car, the two walked into the conference room.
The meeting room was filled with smoke. If a non-smoker walked in, he would be in tears within a minute. The female police officers who were attending the meeting would have been driven out by the smoke long ago.
We can't stop these people from smoking; they're all just getting by with cigarettes and strong tea.
Director Qin of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, who was sitting in the front row, kept tossing cigarettes to the people who had already arrived.
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