Chapter 512: Armed Raid 2
If you investigate thoroughly, you may find a lot of flaws, but Liu Zhan hopes that the FBI is focusing on Hu Yakun, and visiting the neighborhood is just a routine thing.
He had to restrain his impulses not to follow them, and when he saw them wandering around his present dwelling, he was anxious to know what they had seen and what they had discussed.
But he forced himself to keep working, only to look up every minute or two and look from far away from this side of the vineyard to see what they were doing.
They went into the room, and the workers were cooking today's lunch, pasta, what did the agents say to them? Did they act so nervous that they showed their flaws? Have they forgotten the instructions Liu Zhan gave him and started talking about their daily topics with great interest?
The agents came out of the room, and Liu Zhan stared at them carefully, trying to decipher their thoughts, but he was too far away to see their faces, and their body language was nothing special.
They began to wander around the hut. Peering at the house from time to time, Liu Zhan didn't know what would make them suspect that this was not just a winery, they had checked the grape juice equipment, the warehouse where the wine was fermented, and the wine that was waiting to be bottled last year.
Did they notice that there were no appliances here, and the agents opened the door to the hall, and would they be talking to the children to Liu Zhan's surprise? Will Ren Lian be angry and scold them for being pigs? Liu Zhan held his breath.
The agents didn't go in, they closed the door.
They found a passer-by, who was chopping wood in the yard, and he looked up, looked at them, and answered the question briefly, and he kept on his work, and perhaps he thought that it would be suspicious to be friendly.
They walked down the stream, looking at the rocks in the shallow water, as if they wanted to step on it, to the other side, but the agents apparently didn't want to get their shoes wet, as they turned around and started walking back.
Eventually, they returned to the vineyard, and Liu Zhan tried to secretly observe their faces, were they sure that there was no suspicion, or did they find a flaw?
John seemed hostile, and Mr. Bill was friendly, but they might just be singing black and white, and John said to Old Luo, "You all have your own cottage to live in, isn't it a little too good to be a temporary shelter?"
Liu Zhan's heart was cold. The question was skeptical, indicating that John didn't believe their rhetoric, and Liu Zhan began to wonder if there was any way to kill the two agents and then walk away.
"yes. Lao Luo said, "Some of us come back every year. He's improvising, and it's not a pre-negotiated line, "Some people live here all year round. Lao Luo is not good at lying. If this state goes on for too long, he'll be in a goof.
John said, "I want a list of all the people here. ”
Liu Zhan's brain started to run at high speed, Lao Luo couldn't write the name that everyone used in the village, that would be a goof, and the agents would insist that he write his real name, but some members of the team had a record with the police, including the hummingbird.
Can Lao Luo react quickly and think of making up a name for everyone? Does he have the courage to do so?
Mr. Beale added: "We also need age and permanent address. His voice was filled with apology.
FK! The situation is deteriorating.
Lao Luo said: "You can ask the company for it." It's all on the company's records. ”
No, they can't ask the company for it.
Mr. Bill said, "I'm sorry, we're going to do it now." ”
Lao Luo looked overwhelmed: "Oh my God, I guess you have to ask them one by one, I definitely don't know everyone's birthday, I'm their foreman, not grandpa." "Liu Zhan's brain is running at high speed, the situation is very dangerous now, he can't let the agents ask everyone, they will always wear a gang of several times.
He made a quick decision, and stepped forward. "Mr. Wang?" As he spoke, he made up a temporary name for Lao Luo, "Maybe I can help." "
Liu Zhan had not deliberately planned beforehand, he temporarily pretended to be an enthusiastic worker, who wanted to help, but was not too smart.
He said to the agents, "I've been here for a few years, and I guess I know everybody, and I know their age. "
For being able to hand over the burden back to Liu Zhan, Lao Luo seemed to be relieved. "Well, you can help them. He said.
"How about we go to the room and talk?" Liu Zhan said to the agents, "If you don't drink, I can make you coffee." ”
Mr. Bill smiled and said, "That's great." ”
Liu Zhan led them through the rows of grapevines to the house.
"We've got some paperwork to do," he explained to the workers, "and you don't have to worry about us, just keep making the fragrant pasta." ”
Mr. Bill handed his notebook to Liu Zhan: "You just write your name, age and address here, right?"
Liu Zhan didn't take the notebook, "Oh, I'm the most ugly person to write." He said blandly, "Sit down, I'll come, you write." I'll make you coffee by the way. He sat on the fire with a pot of water. The agents sat down at the long pine table.
"The foreman is Wang Qiang, who is 42 years old. ”
They didn't have any of them anyway, no one had a record in the phone book, and he hadn't registered in any way.
"What is your permanent address?"
"He lives here, everybody lives here. ”
"I thought you were seasonal workers. ”
"Well, most people will leave and come back in November when the grapes are harvested and juice is extracted, but they're not the kind of people who can afford two houses, so why pay rent somewhere else when they have a place to live in a company?"
"In other words, the permanent address of everyone here is...?"
"New England Town, California, but the address is at the company, where it's safer. ”
John looked rather unhappy and a little confused, which played into Liu Zhan's hands, and people with a quick temperament have no patience to investigate such small contradictions in details.
While pouring them coffee, he made up names for the commune members, and in order to help himself distinguish who the kana corresponded to, he changed the original name, and he didn't count Ren Lian and Shang Ming, because they weren't here, Shang Ming was with his father, and Ren Lian went to pick him up.
John interrupted him: "As far as I know, most of the migrant workers in agriculture in California are Mexicans, or at least Hispanics. ”
"yes, but the people here are different. Liu Zhan echoed, "The company has a good creeping vineyard, I guess, the boss is to bring all the Chinese people together, they arranged a foreman, and then assigned everyone else to our state team, it's not racist, you know, it's just more pragmatic." ”
They seemed to be able to accept this set of rhetoric, and Liu Zhan said it slowly, as long as he could.
As long as the agents stay in the room, they won't make any trouble for him, and if they stay for a long time, get bored, or get impatient, and want to get out of here, that's fine.
While he was talking to the agents, the workers were still cooking, and they didn't say a word, and they were expressionless as they stirred up the soup in the pot, looking cold.
The other was uneasy, glancing at the agents with fear every now and then, but the agents didn't seem to care, perhaps they were used to being feared, or maybe they liked it.
It took Liu Zhan fifteen to twenty minutes to tell them the names and ages of the twenty-six adults in the commune, and as he watched Mr. Bill close his notebook, Liu Zhan said, "Now it's the children's turn, let me think, oh my God, they're growing up so fast, right?"
John muttered in exasperation, "I don't think the child's name needs to be registered." He said.
"Okay. Liu Zhan said calmly, "Do you need to add more coffee?"
"No, thank you. John said to Mr. Bill, "I feel like I'm almost ready to go. ”
Mr. Beale said, "So the owner of the land is the bottling company?"
Liu Zhan felt that this was an opportunity to make up for Lao Luo's mistakes.
"Not exactly. He said, "The company operates the winery here, but I estimate that the land is ZF's. ”
In other words, the lessee on the lease is a bottling company, right?
Liu Zhan hesitated, this kind-faced Mr. Bill asked a very dangerous question, but how to answer it?
The risk of lying was too great, and he found out about it, and he reluctantly said, "Actually, I guess the tenant on the lease is Higgins." ”
He didn't want to tell the F.B.I. the real name of the landowner, whose founder had saved his life in Asia and had saved him again.
"The land was founded many years ago. It was useless for him to hope they got this information, and he didn't know if it would give them a clue.
Mr. Bill wrote down his name, "I think we've already looked it up." He said.
Liu Zhan breathed a sigh of relief, but didn't show it, "Okay, I wish you all the best in your next investigation." He said as he sent them out.
He led them through the vineyards, and they stopped to express their gratitude to Lao Luo for his cooperation.
"Who are you here to arrest?" Lao Luo asked.
"A terrorist organization trying to blackmail the governor of California. Mr. Bill told him.
"Well, I really hope you can catch them. Lao Luo said sincerely.
Eventually, the two agents staggered across the fields, staggering across the uneven ground, and vanished into the woods.
This time it seems to be going well. Lao Luo told Liu Zhan that he seemed very satisfied with his performance.
Make no mistake, you know what.
On Sunday afternoon, Zhu Yuting took her dad to see a new movie at the University Store Theater on the corner of Main Avenue and 18th Street, and to her surprise, she completely forgot about the earthquake case and watched a movie without distraction.
After the show, they had a beer and a sandwich together, and they went to a restaurant that Daddy frequented, which was a popular bar with a TV on the bar and a sign at the door that said we were going to rip off customers.
Daddy finished his cheeseburger, took a sip of Budweiser, and said, "If my life were to be made into a movie, Tom Cruise should play my role." He said.
"Come on. Zhu Yuting said, "There is no policeman in this world who does not think so. ”
"yes, but I even look like Tom Cruise. ”
Zhu Yuting grinned, Daddy has a round face and a lion nose, she said, "I think it's more suitable for Brad Pitt to play you." ”
"Are you my own daughter? Daddy said, but he didn't laugh.
The news began to play on the TV.
When Zhu Yuting saw the picture of the FBI raiding Hu Yakun, she smiled bitterly.
Zhu Wu yelled at her for meddling in the case, and as soon as she walked on her front foot, he adopted her plan.
However, there is no interview about Zhu Wu's victory, and the footage shows that a fence gate has been smashed, and a sign reads, "We do not recognize the jurisdiction of the United States ZF, and the SWAT team wearing body armor is being withdrawn from the scene."
Daddy said, "It feels like they got nothing. ”
This made Zhu Yuting confused, "It's strange. She said, "I feel that Hu Yakun is really suspicious. She was disappointed, her instincts seemed completely wrong.
The anchor said that no one was arrested in this raid.
"They didn't even claim that they had found the evidence. Daddy said, "I'm wondering what's going on." ”
"If you're done eating, we can check it out. Zhu Yuting said.
They left the bar and got into Zhu Yuting's car. She picked up the car phone and dialed Fu Zhiqiang's home phone number.
"Have you heard anything about this raid?" She asked.
"We're deflated. ”
"I think so. ”
"They don't have a computer in their room, so it's hard to imagine that they're going to leave messages online, and none of them even went to college. I doubt they can spell the word seismologist, and there were four women in that group, but none of them matched the characteristics of the two women I was talking about, they were both about fifty years old, and the autonomous group had no problem with the dam, and they were happy with the amount of compensation given by the power company, and they were waiting to move to a new place, and at 2:20 p.m. that Friday, six of the seven male members of the autonomous organization were buying ammunition at the sports weapons shop in town. ”
Zhu Yuting shook her head and said, "Okay, who came up with the bad idea to launch a surprise attack?"
Of course, it was her idea at first, Fu Zhiqiang said: "This morning, at the instruction meeting, Marven said that it was his idea. ”
"It turned out to be a no-brainer, and he must have been ugly. Zhu Yuting frowned, "I don't understand, this seems to be a good clue." ”
"Zhu Wu is going to have a meeting with Mr. Ambanier tomorrow afternoon, and it is estimated that he will go empty-handed. ”
"Ambaniel will be upset. ”