Chapter 14: The Buddha of Guanwai
The torture technique understood at this time, Yuan Zhenba's ancestor, that is, Liu Dongyun, did not publicize it after discovering the secret of the Jiacuo Palace, perhaps because of lack of time, he could not stay in the Jiacuo Hall for a long time, so he had to come out, and after coming out, he did not tear up the map drawn by Xing Renju, nor did he re-mark, let alone write clearly the existence of the three caves of jade, silver and medicine in the Jiacuo Palace.
Maybe it's because heroes cherish heroes, maybe it's because the cargo chasers have their own selfishness, Liu Dongyun continued the bureau that Xing Renju laid down back then, just imagine, if he remarked the location, then whether it was the weasel or the Heyumen, he would have found the Jiacuo Hall a long time ago.
And now, when Yuan Zhenba actually said that there was another Buddha Chen Taidong who knew about the Jiacuo Palace, he subconsciously glanced around the camp he was in, and asked: "So, in the past few decades, there are at least several batches of people who have gone to find the Jiacuo Fort and the Jiacuo Palace?" Chen Taidong is also one of them? β
Yuan Zhenba didn't answer directly, but said, "Chen Taidong is the only one who can be as famous as your master Zheng Cangqiong in the three eastern provinces. β
Of course, the criminal art is no stranger to the name Chen Taidong, which is also the name he has heard his master Zheng Cangqiong mention most frequently in the past few decades, a genius name, a man who only became a cargo chaser in his thirties, but became famous in the three eastern provinces in a short period of time!
The reason why this person has a nickname called "Guanwai Buddha" is that in addition to the fact that he is a lay disciple of Shaolin Temple, more importantly, in the rumors of the rivers and lakes, he is a great benevolent person, and he is also known as Chen Dashan. All the money he earned went to help the needy.
But the torture technique was in Zheng Cangqiong, and he heard another statement - he hid a knife in his smile and a sword in his mouth.
After hearing Zheng Cangqiong's evaluation of Chen Taidong for the first time, he asked strangely: "Isn't this person just a smiling tiger, a hypocrite?" β
"No!" Zheng Cangqiong immediately denied it, "That's just relative, to those who are afraid of him, he is the Yaksha, and relatively, he is the Buddha." β
The torture technique was a little confused, so I had to look at the master and shake his head to show that he didn't understand.
Zheng Cangqiong said: "A cute and docile cat, when it provokes the eyes, will also become a crazy beast. β
When Xingshu recalled this, he asked, "If I'm not mistaken, Chen Taidong is in prison now." β
Yuan Zhenbadao: "That's right, he is indeed in prison, as far as I know, he was imprisoned voluntarily......"
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Early the next morning, Heilongjiang Fenghuangshan Prison, playground outside No. 3 prison area.
Fu Mingwei, dressed in a police uniform, stood under the high wall of the playground and smoked a cigarette, but his eyes did not look at the connecting passage between the playground and the prison area, but kept looking at the armed police patrolling the high wall.
Not long after, Chen Taidong, who had a flat head but white hair, appeared slowly at the junction of the passage, talking to the prison guard who sent him, smiling, the prison guard was also full of smiles, and then pointed to Fu Mingwei's direction and said something, then closed the barbed wire door at the junction, stood inside and waited with his hands behind his back.
It seems that Chen Taidong has a good relationship with the prison guards here. Fu Mingwei thought while carefully observing, when Chen Taidong turned around and walked towards him slowly, he also found from his uncoordinated movements that his legs should have been injured, although he recovered his original walking function after treatment, but his legs would appear uncoordinated when he walked, obviously unable to walk too fast, let alone run.
Although Chen Taidong's hair is all white, his body is very strong, unlike some other elderly people, who are either too thin to be human-shaped, or very fat and uncoordinated.
"It seems that Mr. Chen's body is very strong and healthy." Fu Mingwei smiled and stretched out his hand, "Hello, my name is Fu Mingwei." β
Chen Taidong smiled and shook Fu Mingwei's hand, Fu Mingwei noticed that his hand was very warm, indicating that he was really healthy, and his mood was also very peaceful, his palms were not sweaty, and he was neither looking forward to this meeting, nor nervous, and seemed very calm.
Chen Taidong said: "Officer Fu, I don't need to introduce myself, if you can find me, you must have checked my file, of course, the record in the file is only a small part, as for other things in my past, it should be told to you by some of my peers, to tell you a joke, they should have been recruited by you." β
Fu Mingwei grinned and said, "Old Mr. Chen is so humorous, it is rare to be so optimistic in prison." β
Chen Taidong looked around before he said, "Prison shouldn't be a place of despair, it should be a place that gives people hope and rebirth, isn't it?" Despair should be the place of execution. β
Fu Mingwei shook his head: "No, what makes people desperate is not the execution ground, but what they did to send themselves to the execution ground." β
Chen Taidong nodded vigorously: "Sure enough, it is the policeman in charge of the investigation of cultural relics and antiques, and he speaks with a sense of philosophy." β
Fu Mingwei couldn't help but be stunned, because their newly established department was not listed, and the outside world didn't know about it, let alone Chen Taidong who was in prison.
Chen Taidong looked at Fu Mingwei's expression and said with a smile: "It seems that I guessed correctly." β
Fu Mingwei asked, "You guess?" β
Chen Taidong said: "You admit it." β
Fu Mingwei smiled, and then he realized that it was just a temptation for Chen Taidong to speculate in his mind.
"For so many years, you are the first person to name and look for me Chen Taidong, of course, I have to admit that I have also learned about a series of changes that have happened outside from relevant channels, and after you saw me, you are respectful and polite to me, from which I can draw two conjectures......" Chen Taidong raised two fingers, "First, you are the head or second-in-command of a newly established department, this department should be aimed at the detection of cases related to cultural relics and antiques, and the department should belong to the pilot unit; Second, you came to me in the hope that I could come forward to help you and use my professional knowledge to help you solve some difficult cases. β
Chen Taidong's words made Fu Mingwei a little surprised, the old man in front of him was really as Murong Bai and Bai Zhusheng said, he was an extremely smart guy, but his performance naturally reminded Fu Mingwei of another person, that is, torture.
Chen Taidong saw that Fu Mingwei kept looking at him and didn't answer, so he asked, "I guessed wrong?" β
"*Not far from ten." Fu Mingwei nodded, "I just remembered one person just now." β
Chen Taidong smiled: "Zheng Cangqiong? After Fu Mingwei was a little surprised, Chen Taidong seemed to remember something again, and changed his words, "No, you don't have a chance to meet Zheng Cangqiong." β
Fu Mingwei asked puzzledly, "Why?" β
Chen Taidong said: "Because you have the opportunity to know me, it's entirely because I'm in prison, otherwise, you and I won't know each other, that's the reason, so, what you just remembered should be Zheng Cangqiong's apprentice, a young man called Torture, it seems that you and him don't just know each other, maybe you are still friends, but Torture can't be the kind of person you want, so you can only find me in the end." β
After Chen Taidong finished speaking, without waiting for Fu Mingwei to speak again, he then said, "You want to ask why, right?" Because in this line of work in the three eastern provinces, the only one who is closest to me in terms of acting and thinking is Zheng Cangqiong, since Zheng Cangqiong has no possibility of knowing you, then only the apprentice he trained with his own hands is left. β
Fu Mingwei didn't know what to say, just nodded silently, but there was another thought in his heart besides admiration, just when this thought just appeared in his mind, Chen Taidong suddenly approached and asked in a low voice: "Officer Fu, how do you feel about me now?" Or are you afraid? β
Fu Mingwei was taken aback by Chen Taidong, he almost took a step back, but he still stopped, and subconsciously replied: "Both." β
Chen Taidong smiled: "Officer Fu, I cooperate with you, but you heard clearly, it is cooperation with you, only you, that is to say, if other people in your department ask me any questions, I can refuse to answer, even if your superior asks me." β
Fu Mingwei shook his head slightly: "Why?" β
Chen Taidong said: "Do you want to ask why I want to cooperate with you, or do you want to ask why I only cooperate with you?" β
Fu Mingwei took a deep breath, and his mind suddenly became a little messy: "Why do you want to cooperate with me?" β
Chen Taidong said: "Because you are like a child, don't get me wrong, I didn't say that you are naΓ―ve and immature, but because, I don't have children, but I hope there is, and I also hope that my son will be a policeman." β
At this moment, Fu Mingwei suddenly felt that he was really like a three-year-old child in front of Chen Taidong, to put it nicely, that is, his thinking rhythm was completely dragged by this person, to put it mildly, he was completely controlled by Chen Taidong during the previous period of time, from beginning to end, he had no other thoughts in his mind except "why", which was quite terrible for a policeman, not to mention, he was also facing a detainee who had three months and five days to complete his sentence.
Chen Taidong stopped talking, as if deliberately giving Fu Mingwei time to calm down and think.
After a long time, Fu Mingwei said: "Our department hired you as a consultant, it is an appointment, paid, not unpaid, the time is tentatively set at three months and five days, just the rest of your sentence, these three months are considered an assessment period, we will determine according to the situation that after the assessment period is reached, whether you are asked to stay, once you stay in office, the labor contract will be formally signed, and you will also enjoy the relevant allowances, of course, within these three months, if you deliberately obstruct and sabotage our relevant actions, we will ask the procuratorate to arrest you again for trial. β
After hearing this, Chen Taidong smiled and said, "Do I have a choice?" β
Fu Mingwei said: "Yes, you can choose not to do it, but if you choose to do it, then the conditions I just said will not have to be chosen, as far as I am concerned, those conditions are already very good." β
Chen Taidong said: "Doesn't that mean that you don't have a choice?" It doesn't matter, I feel like I should go out anyway, I promise you, let's go through the formalities, time waits for no one. β
Fu Mingwei has already prepared the relevant procedures, because it is a special case, so before he came, his application and a series of things were all the way to the green light, plus Chen Taidong himself is not a repeat offender, and he has always pleaded guilty with an excellent attitude, even if there was a brawl in prison, but after the investigation, it was found that people caused trouble first, and he was forced to resist later, but he started a little harder.
Of course, the weirdest thing is that in the last fight, Chen Taidong was one-on-five, and the average age of the five people on the other side was 27 years old.
Therefore, don't look at Chen Taidong's inconvenient legs and feet, in terms of fist and foot kung fu, at least 5 to 8 young people are unable to get close.
Therefore, before Fu Mingwei typed out the application, he also specially asked his superiors to be his deputy, and this person was Wu Zhinan.
Fu Mingwei's decision made Dong Guozhi incomprehensible, in terms of handling cases, Wu Zhinan's head is not smarter than Fu Mingwei? And this person used to go toe-to-toe with Fu Mingwei in most things, and asking him to be his deputy is equivalent to putting him on an equal footing with someone at the level of Dong Guo, can he be willing? Even if he has to obey orders, he will definitely be emotionally involved in his future work.
But Fu Mingwei told him after reading Chen Taidong's information: "Chen Taidong's fist and foot kung fu must be above you and me, the two of us have no problem dealing with ordinary criminals or something, but against people like him, it can be said that there is nothing to be done, since you know that you are powerless, why don't you ask for help?" Do you want to hold it up? β
After listening to Dong Guoyi, Wu Zhinan's weak scholar appearance appeared in his mind, and asked: "Team Fu, does Brother Nan still know kung fu?" β
Fu Mingwei laughed: "In the first few years before you officially became a policeman, he was the champion of the fighting competition held by the provincial department every year, and he won the championship easily, and he also represented my country in the international police fighting competition held in Hamburg that year, don't you know these things?" Didn't do your research? β
Dong Guozhi shook his head with a look of disbelief, Fu Mingwei smiled: "I don't need to lie to you, you go and ask the old qualified policemen, you know it, and when we were trained, he was also among the best in physical fitness and fighting." β
Dong Guozhi nodded: "What does Team Fu mean, let him come and stare at Chen Taidong?" β
"Yes." Fu Mingwei nodded and looked at Chen Taidong's file, "It's better to be cautious in everything." β
Fu Mingwei led Chen Taidong through a series of formalities, collected his personal belongings, and then took him from the prison to the business car waiting outside.
When Fu Mingwei opened the car door, Chen Taidong saw Wu Zhinan sitting inside, holding a folder and looking carefully, wearing glasses and polite. Wu Zhinan moved inside, letting Chen Taidong get into the car, and at the same time stretched out his hand with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Chen, my name is Wu Zhinan, and I am Officer Fu Mingwei's assistant. β
Speaking of this, Wu Zhinan deliberately looked sideways at Fu Mingwei and smiled fiercely, obviously he was very dissatisfied with the title of "assistant", but he was helpless.
Chen Taidong smiled and shook hands, then looked at Dong Guozhi in the driver's seat in front of him, Fu Mingwei sat in the passenger seat and introduced: "This is Dong Guozhi, and he is also my assistant, but he is a novice, Wu Zhinan is an old policeman like me, and before he was transferred, he was also the captain of the criminal police team." β
In fact, Wu Zhinan is only the vice captain, Fu Mingwei deliberately said this to save face for him and let him not have too many negative emotions, so as not to affect the normal work in the future.
Chen Taidong sat there, just laughing, without saying a word, after Dong Guozhi started the car and drove for a distance, Chen Taidong asked Wu Zhinan next to him in a low voice: "Officer Wu, don't you need to be blindfolded?" β
Wu Zhinan lowered his head and continued to look at the file: "If you want, you can cover it yourself, anyway, I don't mind." β
Dong Guozhi in front couldn't help laughing, while Fu Mingwei was listening carefully to the conversation between the two.
The file in Wu Zhinan's hand is the flow chart of the entire case of Heyu Group, in fact, the things in it basically belong to the things that will be handed over to the media in the future, and they are deliberately taken out to test Chen Taidong, of course, this is also Wu Zhinan's idea.
"Shengfeng's age is probably about the same as me, he should be younger than me, in addition to being the chairman of the Heyu Group, he is also the owner of the Heyu Gate." Chen Taidong looked at the front of the car and began to talk to himself, and after he finished speaking, Fu Mingwei turned to look at him, and Wu Zhinan also closed the file and turned his head to look at him.
Wu Zhinan glanced at Fu Mingwei, and then asked Chen Taidong: "You just said Heyumen?" What is that? β
Chen Taidong frowned slightly, but there was a smile on his face: "It seems that you really don't know anything, and you haven't even entered the door." β
Fu Mingwei said: "Mr. Chen, we are listening. β
"Now that I'm in this car, I'm also abandoning my past identity, and I have no scruples." Chen Taidong sat upright and took a deep breath, "You should know that before 1840, it was considered ancient China, and in ancient Chinese culture, in addition to calligraphy and painting, there were astronomy and geography, mathematics, military, medicine, agriculture, architecture, machinery, etc., but these are all subdivided, and they are on the surface, we call them positive culture, and about feng shui numerology and so on, the feudal superstitions that are now considered can be collectively referred to as different cultures, and the industry related to antique jade belongs to positive culture or different cultures?" There are different opinions, because this industry is all-encompassing, including all the branches I mentioned before, and there are many strange things, so I personally think that the industry I used to be in is between the positive culture and the other culture, and there is a big gap between the two, a huge space that is conducive to the survival and continuation of this industry. β
Chen Taidong's words made Fu Mingwei and the three of them half-convinced, as if they understood, but they didn't seem to understand, but after listening to it, they all nodded involuntarily.
Chen Taidong said: "Let me give you an example, take the Heyumen mentioned earlier, Heyumen was born from the Tieyimen, and the Tieyimen was born from the Maoshan faction, the Maoshan faction is recorded in the positive culture, but the iron-clad gate is denied in the positive culture, only exists in different cultures, so that the changes from generation to generation, to Heyumen, Heyumen is a positive culture or a product of different cultures?" I can't evaluate, this organization used to be a Jianghu sect, but it was good at researching, making jade, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Heyumen almost disappeared, almost disappeared, and after he recovered again, New China promulgated the "Instructions on the Suppression of Counter-Revolutionary Activities", which clearly excluded the previous from the suppression of counter-revolutionary activities. Huidaomen' is also listed in the scope of the attack, so the former Heyumen no longer exists, like a cicada hidden underground, until after the reform and opening up, the image of the company reappeared in front of everyone's eyes, from the former Heyumen to the Heyu Group! β
When Chen Taidong said this, Fu Mingwei, Wu Zhinan and Dong Guozhi understood what he meant - Chen Taidong wanted to tell them that although the organizations or individuals in this industry are undoubtedly other people and organizations on the surface, they actually have a deep historical background, so the way of handling cases should also be changed, and they should be distinguished from other criminal and commercial cases.
Subsequently, Fu Mingwei asked in a strange way: "Mr. Chen, do you know the weasel?" β
Chen Taidong smiled: "I didn't know it originally, but before you came, a friend called me and told me about the Weasel and said, maybe the police will come to me, guess who this friend is?" β