Zhou Yan left the cave in a good mood, but this good mood only lasted for less than ten minutes before it was shattered by the news he heard.
Gangzi and the others were caught!
The reason they were arrested was because someone among the injured passengers last night said they saw them with bandits?
Not only them, but he himself was blacklisted by the county police. The county police were said to have already set off for Zhoujia Village. The strangest thing was that this matter didn't seem to have reached the garrison troops?
"Given Gangzi's abilities, even if he was caught the moment he got off the bus, he wouldn't have failed to pass on the message." Zhou Yan pondered, "Did someone intercept his message, or did something go wrong with the garrison? If the garrison and the public security officers were colluding, then the matter of Zhoujia Village..."
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Zhou Yan stood on the street in the county town, his appearance changed. So, even if he was standing on the street at this moment, no one would associate him with the handsome man described as a "suspected bandit" in the big-character posters posted on the street.
People in the county town came and went and passed by him, but he was completely immersed in his own world.
He felt that Gangzi and the others' arrest must have something to do with him.
It has to do with his identity.
After all, even if Qiantang was the workshop director of the largest bearing factory in the city, he did not have the ability to command the public security in the county, let alone the garrison.
But why?
Why did these people not only convict him in one night, but also put up big-character posters, as if they couldn't wait to convict him?
And if he was mistaken for the leader of the bandits, given the current situation, it would seem "excusable" even if someone shot him dead on the spot.
"Is there someone who doesn't want me to go back to the Zhou family?"
"I am the only son of the Zhou family?"
"..." Zhou Yan guessed many possibilities, but he couldn't figure out why those people did this. Even a blind man could see that there were no young people in the situation at that time.
Are the other passengers all mute?
Or were they bribed or threatened?
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Zhou Yan left the streets of the county town and went to the Public Security Bureau first, but he didn't find Gangzi and his group there. He didn't even see the bandits from last night.
Where are the people?
He quickly wandered around the county town, and to his surprise, he finally found eleven people in the army. It seemed that someone was protecting them, but at the same time, their freedom was restricted.
"Monkey, what do you think is going on?" Eleven people were detained in the family compound, separated by gender.
Monkey was silent for a while before he said, "I think they are targeting Brother Zhou. Someone wants to kill our company commander."
"Kill!" Hu Zi, Xiao Chun and others looked frightened.
"Why? What did Brother Zhou do wrong?"
Gangzi narrowed his eyes and said, "Since yesterday at noon, we have been being plotted against. The battalion commander stationed here has also been replaced. Monkey's guess may be correct, but why?"
Yes, why? Before he retired, Brother Zhou was just a company commander.
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Zhou Yan confirmed that Gangzi and the others were safe and withdrew. He wandered around the basement for a while and overheard a message: the garrison in Luohe Town had a new brigade commander at 7 a.m. that morning. The commander's former confidant had been urgently transferred out in the middle of the night.
"Is it really related to me?" Zhou Yan felt complicated.
What made him feel even more complicated was that the people who were transferred at the same time included a regimental commander and two battalion commanders he was familiar with.
"Are you trying to completely cut off my escape route? Trapping me here to death?"
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After leaving the camp, Zhou Yan rushed to the county hospital without stopping. He wanted to check on the passengers from last night. However, after searching around, he found out that the passengers from last night had only been bandaged at the county hospital before being sent to the city.
Of the four elderly people taken away by the bandits, two are missing along with their four children. The old woman and her granddaughter were seriously injured and are in a coma.
The old man's grandson was fine, but the old man was shot in the shoulder. Fortunately, the bullet missed his heart.
"...Dad, don't worry. We have money now." Zhou Yan was lucky when he went there. The old man who had been shot had just woken up. His daughter, with a joyful face, brought him chicken soup and whispered in his ear, "Someone gave us 500 yuan, saying it's compensation from the higher-ups. You can rest and recover."
"Five hundred? That's so much?"
"OK."
"Why? Were the bandits caught?"
"The bandit leader hasn't been caught yet, but the others have. By the way, Dad, if someone asks you if you saw a few young men among the bandits, just nod."
A little boy? The old man looked puzzled, but soon understood from his daughter's blinking eyes.
"Who are those people?"
"I don't know, but just say this. When this matter is over, your eldest grandson will be able to be arranged to work in the cotton mill."
"……good."
"Dad, just agree to it. We are just ordinary people. We will not get involved in the affairs of the higher-ups."
"...Yeah. Don't worry."
Zhou Yan took a deep breath, turned and left.
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On the old lady's side, the other party's children were quarreling, also over jobs in the cotton mill. It seemed that someone had promised a lot of benefits to these people.
Zhou Yan felt sad, but just as he was about to turn around, he bumped into a panicked woman with her head covered.
"Bang--" a tin can fell to the ground.
The woman hurried to pick it up, then glanced at Zhou Yan and ran out quickly.
Zhou Yan was about to leave immediately, but he heard some patients in the hospital talking: "What a sin! Why are we suddenly not allowed to buy milk powder?"
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