The group arrived outside the Butterfly Garden Ballroom in the south of the city, where Liu Datong and several of his plainclothes men approached.
"Big Head, is he still here?" Ning Zhiheng asked.
"He's still inside. I've inquired. These past few nights, Dai Daguang has been bringing his woman here for dinner and entertainment, and they don't leave until midnight."
He arrived a bit early today and will probably be staying for a long time. He's in private room number six, with two bodyguards guarding the door! Liu Datong is a completely different person now. His abilities and methods are incomparable to what they used to be. He's now known as a detective in the area. He's truly been honed through experience!
Before Ning Zhiheng arrived, he had already thoroughly understood the situation.
"Captain, shall we make our move now?" Wang Shucheng asked.
Ning Zhiheng pondered for a moment, then asked Liu Datong instead of immediately answering Wang Shucheng's question: "According to your investigation, has this Dai Daguang ever stayed in Nanjing without ever leaving?"
Liu Datong was taken aback, thought for a moment and said, "He probably never left. I roughly inquired about his background. He's a local and has been involved in local gangs for a long time. Later, he started a trading company and now he's involved in both the legal and illegal worlds. He's a big shot and a big figure!"
Ning Zhiheng nodded inwardly after hearing this; it seemed that an arrest was necessary. Based on past experience, after identifying a target, surveillance should be conducted for a period of time to ascertain the target's situation as possible while the target was off guard. An arrest would only be carried out if no progress was made.
When the intelligence department arrested Windmill, the leader of the Shadow Spy Group, they monitored him for a full month. In the end, they had no results and their patience ran out before they decided to carry out the arrest.
However, in the end, the windmill died under severe torture in the interrogation department, and nothing was gained.
Based on Ning Zhiheng's experience, if the Japanese spies had undergone special agent training, their will to resist would be more tenacious, and the difficulty of arresting and interrogating them would be far greater than that of the Chinese spies recruited through various means of coercion and enticement!
Since Dai Daguang was a local and had been working and developing his career in Nanjing, he was very likely a subordinate who had been bribed by the Japanese. Once such a person was captured, he would almost always confess under the brutal torture of the interrogation department.
Since that's the case, Ning Zhiheng decided to use Dai Daguang as a breakthrough point and immediately arrest him to get him to talk. He thought that he could get some results!
Meanwhile, in a luxuriously decorated private room in the ballroom, Dai Daguang, the owner of Xinghe Trading Company, was enjoying music, drinking red wine, and whispering to his mistress, Guo Ruxue.
"Old Dai, it's been several days now. Have your men finished their business? I've been staying in a hotel for days. It just doesn't feel right not being in my own house!" Guo Ruxue asked softly.
She knew that Dai Daguang came from a gang and his methods were inevitably underhanded; he would do many things by any means necessary.
This time, they actually asked her to leave the house empty so that her subordinates could do their work more conveniently.
Knowing Dai Daguang's temper and methods, she naturally dared not disobey him. Fortunately, Dai Daguang bought her a lot of gold and silver jewelry as a consolation prize to appease her.
"You're so stingy! The house is there, it's not going anywhere. Haven't I been keeping you company these past few days? I'll pick out two nice cheongsams for you tomorrow!" Dai Daguang laughed and said dismissively, "It's nothing, it'll be fine in a few more days."
Dai Daguang took the search for the family crest seal quite seriously; it was a task assigned to him by Su Yu, the deputy director of the Second Division of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This Su Yu held an important position and wielded real power. When Dai Daguang encountered difficulties in his business, he spent a lot of money to bribe this deputy director so that he could get through it smoothly. After that, Dai Daguang deliberately cultivated a relationship with him, and the two got along well. To put it bluntly, it was a transaction of interests.
Director Su accepted bribes from him and, to some extent, provided him with official assistance. In return, Dai Daguang not only had to offer bribes but also handle shady matters for these high-ranking officials. This is a typical example of collusion between officials and businessmen.
Four days ago, Director Su came to my door and entrusted me with a task. He said that two jade artifacts from his family had been lost and asked me to find them as soon as possible without alerting the police.
This was specially arranged by Director Su, who said that these two jade pieces were extremely precious to him and that he was required to complete the task!
Dai Daguang naturally dared not neglect the matter, so he specifically entrusted it to his most capable bodyguards, the Zuo brothers, Zuo Gang and Zuo Qiang.
Zuo Gang avenged his father by killing his enemies and, with Dai Daguang's help, escaped from his hometown. He then stayed by Dai's side and did a lot for him.
The Zuo siblings were highly skilled and cautious, and had always been his capable assistants. Dai Daguang felt at ease entrusting matters to them.
Besides, this matter is not difficult to handle. According to Director Su's explanation, it is just a simple theft by a habitual thief. I believe that it will not be long before there is a result!
Indeed, that was the case. If it weren't for Cui Er's rickshaw driver neighbor reporting him for the reward, if Liu Datong hadn't paid special attention to the corpse at the North Street garbage dump because of Ning Zhiheng's instructions and immediately opened a case for investigation, and if Ning Zhiheng hadn't been meticulous, made accurate judgments, acted in time, and personally oversaw the arrest, Cui Er would have already fallen into the hands of the Zuo siblings, and the family crest and seal would have been retrieved long ago.
Dai Daguang also estimated that, given the abilities of the Zuo siblings, they should have finished by now.
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