Chen He is still dizzy.
What do you mean by "let's just treat him as a police officer"? So what exactly does he do?
He glanced at Li Chu and then at Sun Jianjun with surprise, but after thinking about it, he didn't ask. Instead, he said, "Brother Chu, just ask me anything you want to know. I'll definitely tell you if I know the answer."
"It's about sending people to farms during those years."
Chen He was even more surprised. He looked Sun Jianjun up and down carefully and thought to himself: What's going on? Is this guy here to bring up old grievances?
Li Chu seemed to have read his mind and said with a smile, "Don't overthink it. It's about their case. He just wants to ask you about your family to see if you know anything about it."
Chen He was finally relieved, as long as they weren't bringing up old grievances.
Seeing that his eyes were looking over, Sun Jianjun cleared his throat and began to speak.
"Brother, here's the thing. The people I'm trying to find out about used to be a couple who worked in the laboratory at a chemical plant, they..."
"Wait a minute," Chen He interrupted Sun Jianjun as soon as he heard this.
"Are you talking about a couple where the man's surname is Chang, and he and his wife both studied in England?"
"Yes, yes, that's right. Brother Chen knows about their relationship?"
At this moment, a strange look appeared in Chen He's eyes as he looked at Sun Jianjun. Now he understood why Li Chu had said earlier, "Just treat him as a policeman."
"Hey bro, you're from the security department, right?"
"Uh... how did you guess?"
"Hey, there's definitely something fishy about that couple!"
"Brother Chen, what did you say?" Sun Jianjun stood up abruptly.
Li Chu was also very surprised; it seemed he had found the right person.
"Please sit down, brother... I'll just call you Jianjun too. I won't keep you in suspense any longer, let me tell you slowly."
Chen He picked up the water Zhao Zhijun had just poured for him, took a sip, and then said, "Actually, this matter only came to me. If you ask others, I guarantee no one will know. Back then, it wasn't my team that sent the Chang family to the farm. We were the third team, and the fourth team sent them there."
The reason I know about his family is because the deputy captain of the fourth team is a close friend of mine. He came back and asked me to drink with him, and he told me about it.
When the fourth team went to the Chang family's house, they felt something was wrong. They found several letters written in English. One of their team members had studied English for a while and could understand a little bit of it, but he found that the letters were not academic exchanges or greetings between friends. They were completely incomprehensible and incoherent.
The man reported this discovery to his captain, but his captain was worried that it might cause trouble, so he didn't take it seriously. He figured that having these few letters was enough, and he didn't care what they contained.
Then, when they were sending people over, everything was fine for the first half of the journey because there were other people going to other places and they had a lot of people. But when they were the only family left, strange things started happening. Either Chang's wife disappeared, or his son disappeared.
Especially that time with his son, they searched from the front to the back of the train without finding him, but after a while the child reappeared. When asked where he had been, he wouldn't answer. Later, the deputy captain saw everyone was there and didn't want to cause trouble, so he didn't say anything. That's how they were able to get the person to their destination in Heilongjiang Province smoothly.
As soon as Chen He finished speaking, Sun Jianjun immediately asked, "Brother, do you know where those letters are?"
"I really don't know. Our two teams weren't under the same supervisor back then, and I've never asked where their stuff was handed over."
"Where are those people from Team Four back then?"
Chen He frowned and said hesitantly, "That's what I find strange. As far as I know, the people who went to his house back then have all died one after another in recent years."
"Cough cough," Li Chu couldn't help but cough and said, "Chen He, stop playing tricks and tell me properly, what do you mean by 'one after another'?"
"I didn't explain clearly. According to what the deputy captain of the fourth team told me when we were chatting, I don't know if it's true or not, there were a total of five people who went to the Chang family's house back then: the captain, the deputy captain, the person I just mentioned who knows a little English, and two other team members. From 1970 to 1974, one of these five people died in an accident every year."
"Really?"
"Brother Chu, can I just say something like that?"
"No, why are you paying attention to what's going on with the fourth team?"
"Hey, wasn't it that deputy captain who came to tell me? He said he suspected that the couple surnamed Chang weren't good people, and might even be enemy agents. Otherwise, why would they, along with a few others, have such a coincidence of having an accident every year?"
Oh, I forgot to mention, this vice-captain was the last one to die. Just a few days after he told me this, he was hit by a rotating ceiling fan in his office and had half his head shaved off.
"To be honest, when I heard about this deputy captain, I was terrified. I didn't know if this kind of thing would happen to me. I lived in fear for two or three years before I finally came to my senses."
His words made Li Chu and Sun Jianjun both unconsciously look up at the ceiling fan that was spinning, and then look down at each other.
"Jianjun, congratulations! You've got some work to do now."
Sun Jianjun gave a wry smile, then looked at Chen He and asked, "Brother Chen, could you tell me the names of these people from the fourth team you mentioned?"
"That's no problem, but there are two people whose names I don't know, only their surnames. However, their files should be available in the archives."
He then named the three people he knew, and also mentioned the surnames of two other people.
After writing all of this down in his notebook, Sun Jianjun looked at the notebook and let out a long sigh of relief.
The situation is getting more and more complicated. They have absolutely no leads other than the suspect.
yawenba.
As for what he said at the beginning about blood ties, it's completely pointless to dwell on that now.
"Brother Chen, I have a question for you. Please don't take offense."
“Jianjun, you said we’re all Brother Chu’s brothers, so we’re family. You can ask whatever you want.”
"Why didn't you report it back then when you knew about it?"
"This..." Chen He really didn't know how to answer the question for a moment.
"You're asking all nonsense," Li Chu said.
"Why didn't he report it? Think carefully about when that happened and who he reported it to."
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