For Qiao Qingqing, this operation was no different from any previous emergency mission. She did not expect to meet Zheng Tiehui here.
At first, she didn't recognize the other person until his gaze caught her attention.
At that time, she was cleaning arrows. The fleeing cultists were caught one by one by her and other archers, and were tied up and pulled aside by the members of the joint law enforcement cult eradication team. After sensing a strange gaze, she turned her head and saw a middle-aged man with a beard looking at her among a group of cultists who were being forced to walk away.
She didn't recognize him at first glance, but after a few seconds she realized it was Zheng Tiehui.
"Qiao, Qingqing..." Zheng Tiehui slowly read out the name.
Qiao Qingqing watched him being taken away with an unchanged expression.
"Does that guy know you? His eyes are scary." The colleague asked in a low voice, "He kept looking at you. His eyes are really scary, like a wolf."
Qiao Qingqing lowered her eyes and continued to wipe the arrows: "He should be a former neighbor of mine. I didn't expect to see him here."
"Neighbor? You are a public security archer now, and he is involved in a cult. This is how the world is, anything can happen. Someone is calling us over there, Sister Qiao, let's go over there!"
"Please help clean up the few saints over here." said the deputy captain.
All the female members of the team were called over. Qiao Qingqing picked up clothes from the ground and put them on a nearby woman. They all curled up on the ground covered with a layer of clothes. No one knew what kind of drugs they had been fed. They were all unconscious and weak.
"Beast! This cult is so vicious!" A colleague couldn't help but curse out loud.
Suddenly, Qiao Qingqing paused. This woman is - Zheng Liangying?
Her heart felt cold.
After helping Zheng Liangying put on her clothes, she opened her eyes, looked at Qiao Qingqing in a daze, and then fainted again.
On the way back to the office, Qiao Qingqing felt a little heavy.
She has already found out that Zheng Tiehui should be a backbone of the church, so how could Zheng Liangying be the "saint"?
She had thought before that although Zheng Tiehui and Lin Mingyong were the same type of people, they both loved to scheme and power, but Zheng Tiehui was better than Lin Mingyong in that he was responsible for his wife and children. In Lin Mingyong's eyes, family members were divided into "useful" and "useless", and among the useful ones, the "more useful" ones were more in his heart. He would give up the less valuable existence for the "more useful", just like he gave up Yu Manshu and Qiao Songzhi for her.
In the years before the natural disaster, Zheng Tiehui was busy running around and supporting the entire family with his own efforts.
But it has only been a few years. Even if Zheng Tiehui joined a cult in order to pursue his "career", how could he let his daughter become a saint?
Three days later, the deputy captain came to find Qiao Qingqing and said that he needed her help with something.
"The group of cultists we caught a few days ago have been interrogated, and a lot of people have been caught in the past few days, but there is still no clue about the big boss behind it. The Great Saint said she is willing to provide relevant clues and asked to meet you. She wants to talk to you." The deputy captain looked at Qiao Qingqing, "Do you know her?"
Qiao Qingqing was stunned for a moment: "Great Saint? Is it Zheng Liangying?"
"Yes, the Great Saint is called Zheng Liangying."
"I remember that the Great Saint is the boss of the saints in their church, right?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
"Nothing." Qiao Qingqing lowered her eyes, "Then let's meet, I'm willing to help."
When she saw Zheng Liangying again, Qiao Qingqing had mixed feelings. Zheng Tiehui from Room 802 next door was capable and calculating, Mrs. Zheng was proud, and Zheng Liangdong had a weird and gloomy personality. She actually didn't have much impression of Zheng Liangying.
"You wanted to see me, here I am," she said.
In the solitary detention room, Zheng Liangying sat with her knees hugged. She raised her head and smiled faintly, "Qiao Qingqing, it really is you. I thought I saw it wrong that day. Sit down. I'm locked up and won't hurt you."
Qiao Qingqing shook her head: "You won't hurt me, tell me what you want to talk to me about."
Zheng Liangying didn't say anything, but just kept looking at her, as if she saw a long-lost memory through her, with a dazed and sad expression. Qiao Qingqing was looked at by her quietly, without asking any questions.
Finally, Zheng Liangying sighed: "Please do me a favor. My mother and my brother's urns are in the Beishan Cemetery. Please go and pay my respects to them once. Once is enough." Then she closed her eyes.
Qiao Qingqing believed that as long as Zheng Liangying put forward such a simple request, the case handler would definitely be willing to do it. She didn't know why Zheng Liangying specifically asked her to do it. Zheng Liangying closed her eyes and obviously didn't want to talk to her anymore. She stood up and walked out.
After talking with the person in charge, Qiao Qingqing was sent back to her original unit.
She would have to wait until her turn to go to worship.
The incident between Zheng Tiehui and his daughter made Qiao Qingqing once again deeply realize how unpredictable life is.
Seven days later, the deputy captain informed Qiao Qingqing that Zheng Liangying had escaped. After she became a witness, she provided a lot of useful confidential information. The backers of their sect had official personnel with high internal rank. The top leaders began to investigate, causing unrest in a small area. But at this moment, Zheng Liangying escaped without warning. The staff interrogated Zheng Liangying's father Zheng Tiehui. Zheng Tiehui looked crazy and laughed non-stop: "You have been deceived, haha! You are worthy of being my daughter, worthy of being my daughter, Zheng Tiehui!"
The head of the investigation team was livid. After further investigation and digging for clues, it turned out that Zheng Liangying was the leader of this cult. So was the list she handed over wrong? Was there someone else who was the real supporter behind the scenes?
"What they mean is that you should submit a report as well. Don't worry, you are from our unit. You were under surveillance the entire time you met her. You haven't visited the Beishan Cemetery to pay respect to her, so you are not responsible for this matter."
Qiao Qingqing suppressed many questions and asked, "Do I still need to go to Beishan Cemetery in the future?"
The deputy captain shook his head. "It's best not to go. Zheng Liangying's request to you is obviously to deceive people and make the investigation team think that she has come back to the right path. You are her former neighbor. She asked you to go to the grave. The investigation team used this to judge her sincerity... I didn't expect it to be a trap. She used this to lower the investigation team's vigilance against her. It will not benefit you to be associated with this matter. Don't go."
"good."
The report was easily written and submitted, but Qiao Qingqing was still upset. She had never expected that Zheng Liangying was the real leader behind the identity of the Great Saint. She had no idea how Zheng Liangying had embarked on such a path of no return. Later, she heard that Zheng Liangying had not been arrested, but the previously arrested believers had been transferred to the Procuratorate.
"The results are out. Several key members have been sentenced to death, and the others have been sentenced to labor, either to mining or to land reclamation." The deputy captain told them. Knowing Qiao Qingqing's relationship with Zheng Tiehui, he also mentioned to her: "Zheng Tiehui has been sentenced to death and will probably be sentenced at the end of the month with the other death row prisoners."
Qiao Qingqing seemed to still recall the scene in the Huacheng Jinyuan Community when Zheng Tiehui, wearing the armband of the volunteer team leader, was working in the building with great enthusiasm.
"Okay, I understand."
Seeing her indifference, the deputy captain was convinced that Qiao Qingqing and Zheng Tiehui were indeed neighbors with an ordinary relationship. He did not even frown when he heard that the other party was sentenced to death.
When it was her turn to go home on leave, Qiao Qingqing went to Pingshan Community to meet up with Shao Shengan. In just such a short distance, she was robbed twice.
Suddenly, she heard a loud bang. Looking up, she saw red flames gushing out in the east in the distance, dyeing half the sky red in a few seconds.
The pedestrians cried out in shock and everyone looked up in that direction, including the robber that Qiao Qingqing was holding.
The robber rolled his eyes and tried to sneak away, but Qiao Qingqing lowered her head and hit him hard on the head.
"Ah! Big sister! Why did you hit me? I'm already injured! Don't be so cruel!"
"Behave yourself." Qiao Qingqing continued to tie him up and drag him away.
After handing over the robbers to Shao Shengan's security team, Qiao Qingqing waited for Shao Shengan at the door.
Soon Shao Shengan ran out in a hurry: "Qingqing! Have you been waiting for a long time? Why don't you come in?" He held Qiao Qingqing's hand.
"It's okay. There's a light at the door, it's safe. Haven't you packed your things yet?" Qiao Qingqing looked behind him.
Shao Shengan looked sad: "One of my teammates died in the line of duty, and the team held a memorial service. Come in with me and sit in my dormitory. I'll come and clean up after that."
He led Qiao Qingqing in and placed her in his dormitory.
After Shao Shengan left, Qiao Qingqing looked around her husband's dormitory. It was a four-person room with two messy beds and two neater ones, one of which was Shengan's bed. She picked up the clothes that had been dried on the bed and folded them up. She saw Shao Shengan's emergency backpack stuffed under the bed and dragged it out to check if it needed to be replenished.
Twenty minutes later Shao Shengan came back with three other colleagues.
"Hey, this is my sister-in-law? Hello, sister-in-law!"
"You are Sheng An's wife? I heard that you are very good at using a bow and crossbow. Sheng An said that he learned it from you. Is that true?"
"Would you like some water, sis?"
The colleagues were very enthusiastic and Qiao Qingqing responded politely.
"Thank you, I don't want water."
The youngest, Chen Qiang, looked at Qiao Qingqing curiously and said shyly, "Sister, you are so pretty. No wonder Brother Sheng An always secretly looks at your photos."
Shao Shengan patted his shoulder gently and said, "Go make your bed. We will go back to the new community together later."
"I have packed most of your things, you can pack the rest yourself," said Qiao Qingqing.
"Okay." Shao Shengan took out a box from the suitcase, "You can play with it, and we'll set off after I pack my things."
The box looked very ordinary. Qiao Qingqing opened the lid and saw a jade bracelet inside.
"That's Brother Sheng An's bonus!" Chen Qiang stuffed clothes into the suitcase and took the time to introduce them. "There are several bonuses. Brother Sheng An picked this one and said he would give it to your sister!"
Qiao Qingqing smiled and looked at Shao Shengan.
Shao Shengan looked helpless, but Chen Qiang was a chattering and lively person. Feeling Qiao Qingqing's gaze, he looked over a little embarrassedly: "That's it, wear it if you like it, put it away if you don't like it."
To put away naturally means to receive into the space and let the space absorb it.
"I like it." Qiao Qingqing put on the jade bracelet, it fit perfectly.
Shao Shengan's eyes were full of smiles, and he lowered his head to continue packing his luggage.
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