Chapter 21 Chapter 21 The Liu family falls, the murderer is brought to justice...
Chapter 21
Xu Libai pulled Liu Jiangyang and Hui Yu out of the water every forty seconds. Without waiting for them to take a complete breath, he pushed them into the water again.
After repeating this many times, he finally let go.
Xu Libai stood up, took out a handkerchief from his chest pocket, and slowly wiped each finger clean, facing the horrified looks of Liu Jiangyang and Hui Yu: "How are you, are you all right?"
The tone of his voice didn't sound like he almost took their lives, but rather like he was their savior.
"Brother Li, what do you mean?"
Liu Jiangyang was both scared and angry. If anyone else dared to treat him like this, he would have killed that person long ago.
But facing Xu Libai, he didn't dare.
He knew very well that Minister Liu's promotion this time would depend on Xu's father. The higher Minister Liu climbs, the more unscrupulously he can collect "toys" without having to worry about being caught by the police.
If he angered Xu Libai and Minister Liu lost the ability to protect him, he would definitely be taken to the Public Security Bureau by Qin Ye because of Tang Tianfang's jumping off the railway tracks.
Xu Libai lazily opened his eyes, threw the handkerchief he used to wipe his hands on Liu Jiangyang's face, and smiled: "Liu Jiangyang, don't you think this is fun?"
Liu Jiangyang was stunned by the question: "Brother Li Bo..."
It's fun, of course it's fun.
But the premise is that the person being treated as a "toy" is not him.
Xu Libai raised his index finger and made a silent gesture at his lips: "This is a little secret between the three of us. It cannot be passed on to the ears of a fourth person. Otherwise, I think you know the consequences, Liu Jiangyang."
After saying that, he bent down, picked up the shivering kitten in the cage, and strode out of the alley.
"Liu, Liu Jiangyang..."
Huiyu was so frightened that she didn't dare to say a word.
Now that Xu Libai had left, he rushed over to hug Liu Jiangyang, seeking comfort, his voice filled with pitiful tears: "Liu Jiangyang, who is he? He's so scary..."
Before she could finish her words, Liu Jiangyang pushed her away: "Damn it, you are a jerk who can't do anything for you, and you are so ugly that you are worthy of being my partner?!!"
The more Liu Jiangyang thought about it, the angrier he became.
If Hui Yuyan's cat-like appearance wasn't so ugly, how could he have corrected her over and over again? He was even caught in the act by Xu Libai: "Get lost! Don't bother me again!"
He picked up his camera and brushed the dirt off the lens. Before leaving, he kicked the basin that was blocking his way away, and the water in the basin splashed all over Huiyu.
Hui Yu was instantly drenched like a drowned rat, her lips pouted, and she burst into tears on the spot.
Liu Jiangyang is usually the most polite person, so why did he get angry at her this time? It must be her own problem. It's all her fault. She can't even drown a cat.
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On the other hand, Qin Ye went to the county high school and found Qin Zhaodi in his personal capacity, wanting to find out whether Minister Liu had done anything to her that made her suddenly change her mind.
"Hello, classmate. Could you please call Qin Zhaodi from the third grade for me?"
Qin Ye randomly stopped a girl who was about to enter the school gate. The girl looked up at her, nodded, and ran into the school like a flash.
She waited at the door for a long time. Even Li Quan, who had been back to the police station, came to the school, but Qin Zhaodi still didn't come out.
Qin Ye raised her wrist and looked at the watch awarded to her by the military district.
Nearly twenty minutes had passed since she asked the girls to call Qin Zhaodi, and it looked like Qin Zhaodi would not come out.
She shook her sleeves to cover her watch and said to Li Quan, "Let's go in."
"What's wrong with you, girl? You just reported Liu Jiangyang to us, and then you changed your words. Aren't you making fun of us?"
Li Quan was a little angry. "What if we can't find any other evidence at school? Then we really have to let that bastard Liu Jiangyang go?!"
Qin Ye patted his arm and comforted him: "Don't be anxious, take your time, and you will find a breakthrough."
If they really cannot find any clues in Tang Tianfang's case, they can try a roundabout way and start with the photo of Liu Jiangyang's face before Cao Xiangxiang's death.
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The two showed their public security credentials to the school's gatekeeper and were able to enter the campus smoothly.
After taking only two steps, Qin Ye suddenly saw that the girl she had asked to call Qin Zhaodi was standing not far away, secretly observing her and Li Quan, hesitating and not daring to move forward.
She stopped and waved to the other person, motioning her to come over.
At Qin Ye's call, the girl didn't hesitate any longer and ran forward in two steps: "Public Security Comrade, you are here to investigate Tiantian's suicide by jumping off the tracks, right?"
The girl looked around to make sure no one else was present, and quickly said, "Tiantian is a very good girl. Huiyu and other people from wealthy families always like to bully those of us from poor families. In the past three years, Tiantian has been protecting us."
"I always thought Liu Jiangyang treated her well, that's why she dared to go against Huiyu to protect us. In fact, it's not true at all. One weekend, I accidentally saw Liu Jiangyang kicking Tiantian in the grove behind the school, as if it was because Tiantian didn't listen to him."
The girl spoke faster and faster, fearing that someone would discover that she was talking to the police. "After Liu Jiangyang left, I was wondering whether to help Tiantian, but I saw her get up, take out a pencil and paper with shaking hands, and write something. After she finished writing, she dug out an iron box from under a tree and stuffed the note into the box."
As she spoke, her eyes looked around vigilantly like radar.
When she saw Hui Yu walking in from the school gate, she didn't even bother to say goodbye to Qin Ye and ran away in a panic.
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Li Quan wanted to call the girl and ask her to tell him where the iron box was buried, but Qin Ye raised his hand to stop him.
She followed the direction the girl had just looked and saw Huiyu coming to school. The other person's hair was wet and her white skirt was soaked with water, making her look like a drowned rat.
"Hui Yu, come here."
Qin Ye called Hui Yu, subconsciously feeling that her embarrassment was related to Liu Jiangyang.
When Hui Yu heard her voice, her body froze, but she still stepped forward and greeted her, "Sister Gong'an, why are you still in school?"
Qin Ye didn't respond to Hui Yu's words. He glanced at her and asked, "Tell me, what happened to you?"
"yes--"
Hui Yu was just about to say that Xu Libai pushed her into the basin of water. She also remembered that before Liu Jiangyang left, he specifically told her not to talk nonsense, so she had to keep quiet and lower her head, pretending to be mute.
Qin Ye had no idea what Xu Libai had done. Looking at Hui Yu's reaction and combining it with the clues the girl had just provided, he asked tentatively, "Did Liu Jiangyang attack you?"
"No!"
Hui Yu ignored Liu Jiangyang's vicious curses at her and tried her best to defend him, "He is very polite. He would never hit me even if he is angry!"
Qin Ye could see that Hui Yu had almost been successfully brainwashed by Liu Jiangyang.
It is very likely that Huiyu will be the next girl to commit suicide.
Qin Ye asked calmly: "Hui Yu, do you know what Liu Jiangyang asked Tang Tianfang to do when they were dating?"
Hui Yu rolled her eyes without even thinking: "What else can I do? Go to a restaurant, watch a movie, go to the supply and marketing cooperative. The skirts Tang Tianfang is wearing were all bought by Liu Jiangyang, otherwise, she would have relied on her dumb father, hehe~"
"What a shitty restaurant!"
Li Quan couldn't stand the way Hui Yu looked down on Tang Tianfang between the lines, so he cursed, "You are only a teenager, how can you be so evil? Liu Jiangyang forced Tang Tianfang to steal things and kill animals every day! All of this is your fault!"
If Hui Yu hadn't bullied Tang Tianfang, Tang Tianfang would naturally not have been desperate and chosen to date Liu Jiangyang in an attempt to escape the fate of being bullied.
Tang Tianfang herself probably would not have thought that in her attempt to get rid of the bully, she accidentally fell into the devil's trap and was eventually forced to end her life.
When Hui Yu heard Li Quan scolding her, her brain went into a short pause: "Stealing things, killing animals?"
Of course, Liu Jiangyang also asked her to do these two things.
On the first day she was with Liu Jiangyang, she expressed her dissatisfaction with Tang Tianfang. Liu Jiangyang hugged her and coaxed her, "Baby, aren't you just angry that I took a lot of photos of Tang Tianfang in the past? I promise, I will only take photos of you in the future. If you really mind, you can steal the photos that Tang Tianfang has hidden at home."
Hui Yu didn't think twice and took advantage of the fact that no one was at home to break into Tang Tianfang's room and steal the photos that Liu Jiangyang had taken of Tang Tianfang.
Liu Jiangyang also filmed the scene of her sneaking into Tang's house.
She was a little scared. After all, if someone saw the photos of her stealing things, she would definitely be taken to the police station.
But Liu Jiangyang swore that he would never show the photos to anyone else, and Huiyu was relieved.
And today, Liu Jiangyang asked her to drown the kitten...
Liu Jiangyang said that he knew she liked to bully her classmates. But if you bully your classmates, the police will come to your door, but if you bully animals, the police will not do anything.
She didn't want to fight at first, but Liu Jiangyang got angry and said that she was betraying his feelings and making him sad, so it would be better for them to break up.
Hui Yu then gritted her teeth and decided to drown the kitten as Liu Jiangyang requested. But they didn't expect that Xu Libai would suddenly appear and intervene, almost drowning them like a cat.
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Qin Ye understood from Hui Yu's reaction that Liu Jiangyang must have asked the other party to do the same thing: "If I'm not mistaken, you also did this, and Liu Jiangyang took a photo of you, right?"
Huiyu felt that she had hit the nail on the head and avoided her sight in panic.
"Hui Yu, I advise you to tell the truth."
Qin Ye threatened with a mixture of truth and lies, "Otherwise, we can only ask you to go to the Public Security Bureau again. Your parents should mind it very much, and go to the Public Security Bureau several times to get you back, right?"
Huiyu shuddered as she thought of her parents.
After leaving the police station last night, her parents punished her by making her kneel in the corridor for half the night. He also warned her that if she dared to be caught by the police again, she would be sent directly to her grandfather's home in the village and would never be allowed to return to the county town in her lifetime.
Hui Yu trembled and said, "Liu Jiangyang asked me to go to Tang Tianfang's house to steal the photos."
Qin Ye: "What photo?"
"I, I don't know. I only know that these are the photos Liu Jiangyang took of Tang Tianfang over the past three years. There are two copies of the photos, one for Liu Jiangyang and the other for Tang Tianfang."
Hui Yu swallowed, "The photos were all in a bag. I stole them, but before I had time to open them, Liu Jiangyang took them away."
Hui Yu's words coincided with what Qin Zhaodi had said before.
The photos that Huiyu stole should be the "evidence" that Liu Jiangyang took of Tang Tianfang.
Perhaps at that time, he had already planned to kill Tang Tianfang before letting Huiyu steal the photos. After all, these photos are strong evidence that he instigated Tang Tianfang to commit a crime.
Qin Ye and Li Quan looked at each other and finally understood why they couldn't find the photo that Liu Jiangyang specially gave to Tang Tianfang after searching Tang Tianfang's room.
But it doesn't matter.
With Hui Yu's confession just now, they can take Liu Jiangyang to the Public Security Bureau for interrogation. If we find the iron box that Tang Tianfang hid in the woods, we may find more.
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The bell rang at the county high school, and the school quickly became empty.
Qin Ye and Li Quan went to see Tang Tianfang's teacher and the school principal again, but neither of them could provide any useful clues.
In the eyes of teachers, Tang Tianfang is dull and timid, but she has good academic performance and is well-behaved and does not cause trouble. No one could understand why the little girl suddenly committed suicide.
The principal, on the other hand, had some different memories of Tang Tianfang: "As for Tang Tianfang, I remember her. It was about two weeks ago at noon, and I was not in the office. When I came back, I happened to run into her walking out of my office. When she saw me, she was so scared that she started crying."
The principal felt something was wrong and went into the office, only to find that all the goldfish in the fish tank had been strangled to death by Tang Tianfang.
"The death of the fish is a small matter, but her behavior is wrong!"
The principal clapped his hands fiercely, and spread his palms, quite helpless. "I scolded her severely at the time, and she cried and said that she had no choice but to do it because someone forced her. I asked who it was, but she refused to say anything. But her boyfriend, Minister Liu's son, learned about this and came to apologize to me on her behalf, and even bought me a new goldfish as compensation."
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The clues were almost collected. Qin Ye and Li Quan walked down the steps of the school. Just as they were about to leave, Qin Zhaodi's voice suddenly sounded behind them.
"Sister Qin Ye."
Qin Zhaodi ran down the stairs with her head down, not daring to look Qin Ye in the eye. "Sister Qin Ye, Liu Jiangyang's father sent someone to my house this morning and gave my father one thousand yuan, asking me not to report to the police again."
It was similar to what Qin Ye guessed.
She knew roughly what kind of people Qin Zhaodi's parents were. She was silent for a moment, lowering her eyes to look at Qin Zhaodi who was about to bury her head in the ground: "Zhaodi, if I find a way to get rid of Liu Jiangyang's father, are you still willing to testify for Tang Tianfang?"
Qin Zhaodi slowly raised her head, and Qin Ye could see clearly that her cheeks were swollen and the palm prints on her face were purple.
"I do, Sister Qin Ye."
Qin Zhaodi clenched her fists and said, "If possible, can you take my father away as well?"
Qin Ye raised his hand and gently stroked the wound on Qin Zhaodi's face. Qin Zhaodi shivered in pain.
She felt a little distressed, and took out a dollar from her pocket and handed it to Qin Zhaodi: "Don't worry, your father took the money, and he is also a criminal who is harboring criminals. We will not let him go. Take this money and go to the hospital to buy some medicine to heal the wound on your face."
Qin Zhaodi shook her head and refused to take it, but she also provided a key clue: "Sister Qin Ye, Tiantian told me that she wrote a diary on small pieces of paper and hid it in a place where no one could find it."
Qin Ye remembered the iron box that the girl mentioned at the beginning, and he felt relieved.
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Qin Ye and Li Quan returned to the Public Security Bureau, planning to call for help and go to the woods to dig out the iron box hidden by Tang Tianfang.
A group of police officers were about to leave in a mighty procession when a loud and intimidating shout was heard in the lobby of the Public Security Bureau.
"Qin Ye! Are you the director of this Public Security Bureau, or am I the director of this Public Security Bureau?!"
Director Wu walked out of the office angrily, and behind him was Minister Liu, who had a carefree smile on his face. "Qin Ye, it's obvious that Tang Tianfang committed suicide! The staff at the train station and the driver can testify to this! I declare this case closed."
He waved his hand, dispersing the other police officers in the hall, and continued to say to Qin Ye: "The county town is so busy, who has time to accompany you to dig the forest? ! ! You, Qin Ye, are suspended indefinitely from this moment on."
Just as Li Quan was about to speak up for Qin Ye, Chief Wu's anger shifted to him again: "Li Quan, shut up! If you say one more word, you will be suspended like Qin Ye! Don't forget, you are different from Qin Ye, you are a formal police officer!"
Director Wu was firing on all cylinders, and Minister Liu, seeing this, raised the corners of his lips in satisfaction.
He walked to Qin Ye's side, with a look of contempt on his face: "Qin Ye, I told you long ago that young people should not be too impetuous, otherwise they will not end well. Even though the military district leaders are optimistic about you, you have not yet been transferred to the official police force? You want to use my son to gain merit for yourself? Wait until next life!"
After saying that, he shook hands with Director Wu, thanked him, hummed a little tune, and walked away proudly.
Qin Ye wanted to chase after Minister Liu and beat him up. If he really had nothing to hide, how could he use all means to obstruct her investigation?
She clenched her fists and was about to denounce Director Wu for not being able to distinguish right from wrong and saying he was unfit to be a police officer.
The other party glared at her and said, "Qin Ye, Li Quan, come in with me!"
Qin Ye followed first. She wanted to see how Director Wu planned to "deal with" her.
She and Li Quan walked into the director's office one after the other. Director Wu locked the door himself and walked in front of the two of them. The stern expression on his face disappeared completely.
"Comrade Qin Ye, Comrade Li Quan, I was outside just now and there was nothing I could do."
Director Wu wiped the sweat from his forehead. He had never thought that Tang Tianfang's suicide by jumping off the railway tracks would become so difficult in the end. "There is someone in our bureau who wants to take advantage of Minister Liu. It is very likely that this person told Minister Liu about Qin Zhaodi's report on Liu Jiangyang."
Qin Ye narrowed her eyes and remained silent for a while.
She always thought that it was Director Wu who told Minister Liu about Qin Zhaodi's affairs.
"Little ancestor! Are you doubting me?!"
After all, Director Wu had been in the police force for many years, so he could understand Qin Ye's thoughts. "I admit that I worked hard to get to the position of director, and I was afraid that someone would trip me up and bring me down. But I have never made any mistakes in principle!"
This is being performed in front of Minister Liu today because Minister Liu's power is there. It was easy for the other party to remove him as a bureau chief, let alone dealing with the police officers from two police stations?
Qin Ye saw that Director Wu did not look fake, so he said firmly: "I will investigate this case to the end, even if the bureau fires me. If the county bureau doesn't dare to investigate, I will send the collected evidence to the municipal bureau and provincial bureau. There will always be someone who can suppress Minister Liu."
Li Quan opened his mouth to respond, but was interrupted by Director Wu's wave of his hand: "I know what you want to say. You just want to say that Qin Ye is not afraid of being fired, so you are not afraid either? I didn't say I would fire you!"
Director Wu sighed and continued, "If you want to investigate now, you'd better do it secretly. Aren't you going to dig a box? It's best to do it at night, and it's best to call someone like Lao He, a police officer you can trust."
Qin Ye didn't expect that Director Wu would say such a thing.
Obviously, he and Minister Liu were both cautious and fearful middle-aged leaders, but there seemed to be something completely different about them.
Qin Ye and Li Quan both saw surprise in each other's eyes.
The two men saluted Director Wu, pretended to be dejected, pushed the door and left the director's office.
Director Wu's fake curses echoed throughout the corridor of the Public Security Bureau: "Qin Ye, don't think that just because you solved a few cases, we have to protect you! You are fired now! And you, Li Quan! If you continue to fool around with her, I will still fire you!!!"
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Everyone in the entire department heard Director Wu’s words that Qin Ye was fired.
Zhao, the police officer on duty at the front desk, saw that Qin Ye's uniform had been stripped off, and said with a smile: "Hey, female detective, now you don't have to solve the case, you can concentrate on preparing for the college entrance examination!"
He picked up the teacup and took a sip of hot tea: "In the months after leaving your job, you must not spend all your salary. Don't forget, we made a bet - if you fail the college entrance examination, you have to spend two months' salary to treat our colleagues in the Public Security Bureau... Oh, no, our colleagues in the Public Security Bureau to dinner."
Qin Ye gave him a cold look and left the Public Security Bureau in an angry manner.
As a "fired" public security officer, she can now better carry out her next plan.
She planned to go back to Juexing Village first. On the one hand, she wanted to let Minister Liu relax his vigilance and believe that she was indeed fired; on the other hand, she and Li Quan agreed in the director's office to go to the woods to dig up Tang Tianfang's iron box starting tonight.
Qin Ye went out and thought of the injury on Qin Zhaodi's face. He decided to go to the county hospital first and buy some ointment for her.
The little girl is still in school, and with the injury, she will definitely attract attention and become inferior.
When she walked into the hospital pharmacy, two young nurses were chatting, and they were still talking about Xu Libai.
"That's so strange. I remember Dr. Xu hated cats the most. Why did he suddenly bring a cat to his office today?"
"Ah? Doctor Xu hates cats? I always thought that a gentle and handsome man like him would definitely like small animals very much."
"I can't tell whether he hates cats or what... Last time we worked together, a cat ran into the hospital and he turned pale. When he brought the cat back today, his hands were still shaking."
"Ah, hello comrade!"
One of the nurses noticed Qin Ye's arrival and quickly pushed her companion. The two of them instantly returned to work and asked, "What medicine do you need to buy?"
Qin Ye thought for a moment and said, "Is there anyone who has seen the swelling on his face go down particularly quickly after being beaten?"
The nurse nodded, took out a box of medicine from the medicine cabinet and handed it to her: "This, use three times a day, morning, noon and night, and the swelling will go away in two days. 80 cents."
Qin Ye took out the money and handed it to the other party, then asked: "Excuse me, is Dr. Xu busy now? I have something to ask him."
The two nurses looked at each other, with a knowing smile on their faces: "Comrade, please go find Doctor Xu. He is in the office. But he won't see you unless you are a patient."
Qin Ye thanked him and found Xu Libai's office based on his memory.
In the office, there was a faint sound of a kitten's cry. She knocked on the door, and Xu Libai's voice soon rang out from inside: "Come in."
Xu Libai was eating. When he saw that the person coming was Qin Ye, he quickly put down his chopsticks and said with a smile: "Qin Public Security, why are you here?"
"Doctor Xu, I have something to ask you."
Qin Ye curled up the corners of his lips, with a bit of embarrassment in his smile, "If I submit the indictment materials about Minister Liu, can you send them directly to the superiors?"
Xu Libai pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses to hide the dark light in his eyes.
Qin Ye really understood his hint this morning.
He didn't answer immediately, but a warm smile spread across his face: "I also have a question for you."
Qin Ye half raised his head, met his gaze, and waited patiently for him to ask.
"Qin Gongan, do you like cats?"
A look of confusion flashed across Qin Ye's face.
She originally thought that Xu Libai would ask her what kind of reward she could offer, or whether she knew how risky it was to report Minister Liu. Unexpectedly, he would ask about completely unrelated topics.
But she still nodded and said truthfully: "I like it."
In her previous life, she kept a cat in her apartment to keep her company after she started working.
Later, the cat died of old age. Her colleagues in the bureau kept urging her to get another one, but before she had time to consider the suggestion, she traveled to the present time.
After receiving Qin Ye's answer, Xu Libai pursed his lips and said, "Then, Public Security Qin, are you willing to keep a cat? It's very well behaved and won't make trouble. Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't want to. I will help you submit the report materials you want to submit."
Qin Ye followed his gaze and saw a kitten locked in a cage in the corner of the office.
There were folded clothes under the kitten. It nestled in the clothes and meowed comfortably.
She recognized at a glance that the clothes in the cage were the half-length sweater Xu Libai was wearing when she and he first met.
Obviously, Xu Libai attaches great importance to this kitten.
It’s not that Qin Ye doesn’t want to keep a cat, but it’s obvious that she can’t provide better conditions for raising a cat than Xu Libai: “Are you sure you don’t want to keep the kitten and want to give it to me?”
Xu Libai smiled, his face seemed to turn a little paler, and he said frankly: "I am afraid of cats and can't keep one."
Carrying the cat back to the hospital from those two little scumbags and setting up the cage for it almost exhausted all his energy for the day.
It took him a long time to come out of the pain and finally eat something to fill his stomach.
"Okay, I'll take good care of it then."
Qin Ye picked up the cage on the ground and said to Xu Libai again, "Doctor Xu, I will give you the letter of accusation as soon as possible, please."
Xu Libai nodded slightly: "It's okay, I'm the one who troubled you. Qin Gongan, aren't we friends? You don't have to be polite to me, just call me Libai from now on."
Qin Ye readily said, "Okay, Li Bai. You can call me whatever you want. Well, I'll be leaving first."
Xu Libai walked her to the door, and only returned to his office and closed the door after her back disappeared around the corner of the corridor.
He stood there for a moment, walked to his desk, and dialed a number he was familiar with: "Yu Cheng, I will send you a report in the next two days. The report may affect... that person. Remember, don't let him handle the report."
"Are you serious? Are you really planning to pull him down? That's great! The mountain on our little Xu's back is about to break!"
Listening to the incongruous cheers from the other end of the microphone, Xu Libai curled the corners of his mouth in self-mockery.
He dreamed of defeating the mountain that was suffocating him, but he couldn't do it. He could never do it before, now or in the future.
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Qin Ye handed the ointment to the doorman of the county high school and asked him to pass it on to Qin Zhaodi.
I carried the kitten back to the village. As soon as I arrived at the entrance, I met Qin Zhaodi's mother: "Ye Ye? Why did you come back so early today? You are covered in dust and dirt, and you don't even have your police uniform on?"
Qin Ye adhered to the principle of doing the whole thing, not to mention that Qin Zhaodi's parents had received money from Minister Liu, so he said: "I'm fired, and I'm no longer a police officer."
"Ah? What happened to Ye Ye? Why is she so miserable?"
Qin Zhaodi's mother expressed her concern, but her eyes unconsciously revealed a look of gloating.
Qin Ye was only responsible for the spread of the news of his "dismissal". He was too lazy to deal with the other party, so he said "it's hard to say" and went back home.
Qin Ze was the only one at home now. When he saw her coming back, he immediately dropped the carving tools in his hand and ran up to her: "Hey, sister! Why did you come back so early today? And you brought back a kitten!"
Qin Ye handed the kitten's cage to Qin Ze and said, "Take good care of it. I'm going to catch up on some sleep first."
Qin Ze looks a bit unreliable, but he unexpectedly likes small animals.
Before Qin Ye fell asleep, he vaguely heard Qin Ze pinching his throat and meowing to tease the cat.
When Qin Ye woke up again, Qin Ze was knocking on the door again, calling her to get up for dinner.
Outside the window, it was getting dark. She looked at her watch. It was exactly seven o'clock. There were still two hours before she and Li Quan agreed to go to the grove.
Qin Ye rubbed his eyes and walked into the main room, and found that the food on the table had returned to its original state.
Ever since she started working at the Public Security Bureau and received dozens of kilograms of flour and food coupons as a reward through the system, the Qin family's food has made a qualitative leap at her request.
The pasta we usually eat is made up of two kinds of flour, most of which is made up of white flour; most of the time, we also eat pure white flour.
But today, she took a quick look and found that Qin Guman, Fu Jinfeng and Qin Ze all had cornmeal dumpling soup in their bowls. Only in her bowl was there white noodle dumpling soup.
The family of three, including the kitten in Qin Ze's arms, kept looking up at her, wanting to say something but stopping themselves.
Qin Ye realized that her family must have heard from Qin Zhaodi's mother that she was "fired" from the Public Security Bureau.
"Ye Ye, I didn't touch a single cent of the money you gave me before."
Fu Jinfeng silently pushed a small cloth bag over to her. "Didn't you say before that we could rent a shop in the county town to do business? In my opinion, if you take the money and open a shop in the county town that specializes in helping people investigate cases, it will definitely work."
Qin Ye was extremely surprised.
She had never expected that Ms. Fu Jinfeng would have such an advanced idea. Isn’t the store she mentioned that specializes in investigating cases the detective agency of the future?
Qin Guman echoed: "Yes, you are now a famous female detective in the surrounding area, and you have a bright future."
"Besides, sister, if the Public Security Bureau doesn't want you, can't you still go to work in the textile factory? I remember you said that Sister Wang Yu thanked you for solving the case and left her mother's textile factory quota for you."
Qin Ze gritted his teeth and said, "Let those gossipers in the village see that my sister is very capable! Even without the Public Security Bureau, she can still work as a formal employee in the textile factory!"
Qin Ye listened to everyone racking their brains to find a way to make a living for her. She was amused and touched: "Okay, let's eat. We'll talk about this later."
She knew that the Qin family would not leak the secret, but for the sake of safety, she did not say that her dismissal was false. She only said: "Dad, Mom, you two should cook according to my working standards in the future. Don't cook for me alone like you did today."
Fu Jinfeng and Qin Guman knew that Qin Ye was stubborn and could not be persuaded, so they nodded in agreement.
After dinner, Qin Ye used the excuse of going to the county town to get something and dragged Qin Ze to work as "coolies" together.
Qin Ze was still curious along the way: "Sister, didn't you say you were going to the police station to get something? Why does this road lead to the county high school?"
Qin Ye threw the flashlight to Qin Ze: "Don't ask, just follow me."
Qin Ze grabbed the flashlight and nodded hurriedly.
Why does his sister look like the undercover liaison in the movies? So cool!
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When Qin Ye and Qin Ze came to the woods behind the county high school with flashlights, Li Quan, He Gongan and Hu Xuan had already arrived.
"Oh, Qin Ye, you and Li Quan really kept it a secret from me."
He Gongan complained but smiled, "I was at the county bureau this afternoon and I totally lost face!"
Hu Xuan recalled the scene in the afternoon and couldn't help laughing: "He Gongan thought you were really fired by Director Wu, so he rushed into the office and scolded Director Wu so much that Director Wu's face turned green with anger."
He felt at the time that Public Security He was right to scold him and that Director Wu deserved it.
Just now, when Li Quan called me into the woods, I realized that Qin Ye’s expulsion was a play staged by Director Wu and three others.
Thinking about it this way, Director Wu was really wronged and was scolded for nothing.
Qin Ye smiled sheepishly and bowed to Public Security Officer He in a formal manner: "Thank you Uncle He for speaking up for me. I will treat you to a meal after we catch Liu Jiangyang and solve the case."
Qin Ze listened to the conversation between the few people and finally figured out something: "Sister? You haven't been fired?"
Qin Ye rubbed Qin Ze's head and threw him a shovel for digging: "This news must be kept secret for the time being, otherwise..."
She smiled slightly, and Qin Ze felt a chill running up his spine. He quickly turned around, spotted a tree, and started digging the soil without hesitation, to prove his loyalty to Qin Ye Public Security.
The girl who witnessed Tang Tianfang hiding the box at that time couldn't tell exactly under which tree she buried it, she only remembered the approximate location.
The five people dug for several days in a row, and finally found the iron box that Tang Tianfang had buried in the soil after a week.
The box was locked, with only a small slit at the top for slipping a note through.
Qin Ye and the others were discussing taking the box back to the police station first and then finding someone to find a way to open it.
Qin Ze stared at the lock on the box for a while, then turned his palm up to Qin Ye and said, "Sister, can you lend me your hairpin?"
Qin Ye took off the hairpin and handed it to Qin Ze without thinking. Qin Ze straightened the clip, inserted one end into the lock core, fiddled with it for a few times, and the lock opened with a click.
The four police officers present looked at each other and turned their gazes to Qin Ze.
Qin Ze was anxious in an instant: "Don't look at me?! I haven't done anything illegal, really! Otherwise, I will let my sister beat me every day!"
"Don't worry, I know my brother is not someone who would do bad things."
Qin Ye's smiling words immediately comforted Qin Ze.
He looked proud as he scanned He Gongan, Li Quan and Hu Xuan one by one, as if every pore was showing off that Qin Ye believed in him.
The others were helpless and ignored Qin Ze. They came over to look at the note in the box with Qin Ye.
[On March 5, 198x, Liu Jiangyang asked me to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to steal things again. He said that he liked to take pictures of my panicked expression the most]
[On May 9, 198x, Liu Jiangyang took me to his home and, in front of me, put all my photos into a box and hid it in the secret compartment behind his bed. I took the opportunity to steal a photo, which showed the scene of Cao Xiangxiang committing suicide. 】
[On August 14, 198x, Liu Jiangyang said, I am his most perfect toy and much more fun than Cao Xiangxiang. I begged him to let me go, but he beat me up severely and spread the word in my school that I was two-timing and betraying him.
[On September 23, 198x, Liu Jiangyang had a lot of photos of me doing bad things. Once he exposed them, I might be arrested and taken to the public security bureau. But I don't want to be controlled by him anymore. I'll just go to jail and I'll get out. Dad loves me very much. He will definitely forgive the mistakes I make. I believe I will always be his dear daughter. 】
[On October 17, 198x, Liu Jiangyang knew that I wanted to go to the Public Security Bureau to sue him, and he said, one of me and my father must die. I knew he could do it, and if I didn't choose me, he would definitely kill my dad. Then I'd better die. 】
Every word on the note was tearful, and even He, a police officer with rich experience in handling cases, had tears in his eyes.
Qin Ye put the note back into the box and gave it to He Gongan and Hu Xuan for safekeeping. She looked at Li Quan and said, "Let's go and catch Liu Jiangyang."
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The two men were familiar with the place and knocked on Minister Liu's door again.
It was still Minister Liu who opened the door. When he saw Qin Ye, he was startled at first, then his face showed sarcasm: "Oh, Qin Ye, you are here again. I knew you would not give up."
He picked up a stack of letters of denunciation from the cabinet at the entrance and threw them at Qin Ye and Li Quan without any hesitation: "I intercepted every letter of denunciation you wrote to the city. Do you really think you can take my son away?"
Liu Jiangyang heard the noise, walked out of the bedroom, leaned against the wall, and raised his finger provocatively to greet.
Qin Ye squatted down, picked up her letters of complaint one by one from the ground, and smashed them on Minister Liu's face even harder, and laughed: "Minister Liu, you don't really think that I only wrote these letters of complaint, do you?"
She knew that Minister Liu would not take it lightly.
She wrote several false letters of denunciation and submitted them to the city government in order to attract Minister Liu's attention. The real letter of complaint had already been delivered to the provincial government by someone else, Xu Libai.
Minister Liu was totally unaware of this and thought Qin Ye was threatening him. He sneered, "Even if you write a thousand or ten thousand letters, I will stop you!"
"Oh? Really?"
A heavy voice suddenly sounded in the corridor.
Several soldiers in uniform and holding guns came up, led by Qian Yaguang, who had met Qin Ye a few days ago.
Qian Yaguang shook open the arrest warrant in his hand and said, "Minister Liu, someone reported that you abused your power, shielded your son, and bribed the military district leaders. We need to take you away to assist in the investigation."
When Minister Liu heard this, his face turned pale.
Liu Jiangyang was also caught off guard. He immediately wanted to run back to the bedroom to destroy the evidence that he had not yet collected.
Qin Ye was quick to act. He pushed Minister Liu aside and rushed over to push Liu Jiangyang to the ground. "Liu Jiangyang, our police suspect that you are involved in instigating the murder of Cao Xiangxiang and Tang Tianfang. We want to arrest you and take you back for investigation."
As she spoke, she took out handcuffs and handcuffed Liu Jiangyang's hands behind his back with a click.
At the same time, Li Quan also rushed into Liu Jiangyang's bedroom.
On the dimly lit desk, there was the wooden box described in Tang Tianfang's note. The box, which is more than 40 centimeters deep, is filled with photos, some new and some old. Each one is a snapshot of Tang Tianfang and Cao Xiangxiang doing "bad things".
The top stack of photos includes not only the snapshot of Tang Tianfang jumping onto the tracks, but also the scene of Tang Tianfang being hit by a train.
At the bottom of the photo, there is also half of Liu Jiangyang’s face. This time, he even made a scissors hand gesture to the camera.
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