In the summer of 2008, a torrential rain caused the water level of the Yang River to soar, and several tributaries of the Yang River also flooded, and the river poured into the surrounding cities through which it flowed, including the Yangcheng City, which was passed by the Yang River, and its area and damage were the most serious among all towns. In addition to the flooding of people's houses and fields, the hundreds of garment and luggage processing factories around Yangcheng City are the most important disaster areas. The raw materials, semi-finished products and finished products that were piled up in the warehouse were all soaked into a pile of waste products by the floodwaters; All kinds of machinery and equipment on the production line were also damaged to varying degrees under the flood; Processing plants were forced to shut down for up to a week, and the direct and indirect economic losses were difficult to estimate.

A catastrophe has made governments at all levels in the province learn from the pain and begin a profound reflection and review. After the raging floodwaters receded, all levels of government, from the provincial government to the local level, were carefully investigating the cause of the river's flooding. Eventually, they concluded that sediment deposition, dredging of the river channel due to dredging, and rising river beds were the main causes of the flooding. As a result, governments at all levels have started to carry out river dredging and water system clean-up work in the rivers under their jurisdiction.

One day in October, Liu Pancheng suddenly received a call from an unfamiliar number. He stared at the LCD screen on his phone for a long time, and finally pressed the green answer button.

"Team Liu, no, Secretary Liu, I haven't been in touch for a long time, can you still hear who I am?" An enthusiastic male voice came from the other end of the phone.

Liu Pancheng felt that this voice was very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it for a while, so he had to remain silent.

"Didn't Secretary Liu remember me so soon? I don't remember me! The other party suddenly sighed with a teasing tone, "Hey! People go to tea and cool, the world is hot and cold! ”

It was this emotion that instantly evoked Liu Pancheng's memory.

Deputy Director Qu...... Ah, no, I should call you Boss Qu by now! ”

"What's the boss? It's a wage earner. Deputy Director Qu spoke unabashedly and looked very heroic, "However, you still call my name Qu Hengyuan." ”

"When did Boss Qu learn to be humble?" Liu Pancheng rarely used a slightly playful tone and teased Qu Hengyuan, "Running errands for your own factory is also a part-time job?" ”

"Isn't it? The factory is not in my name, so why am I not a part-time worker? Qu Hengyuan did not shy away from being frank and straightforward.

"How do you have my phone number?" After the politeness was over, Liu Pancheng changed his words and asked very suspiciously.

"Where else can you get it? Your beloved disciple! Qu Hengyuan said frankly quickly.

"Are you still in touch with Wang Kui?"

Liu Pancheng was slightly surprised, and there was some incredulity. I think the two had contact for a while when they were investigating the robbery of a cash truck. The picture of the two getting along with each other is still hovering in Liu Pancheng's mind, and the memory is still fresh and unforgettable. In that experience of working together, which was not harmonious or even a little incompatible, the two of them often quarreled over trivial things, and the sky was thunderous, one fiercer than the other, and they fought like black-eyed chickens. How come these two people were able to coexist peacefully as soon as the case was over, and even kept in touch for the past few years? Could it be that this is the so-called "don't fight, don't know each other", "heroes cherish heroes"?

"Hmm!" Qu Hengyuan simply responded without explaining too much, "Secretary Liu, have you noticed a big news recently?" ”

"You're referring to a car picked up in the Yang River?"

This news has occupied the headlines of major news media in Yangcheng City in the past two days, and even TV stations have been reporting it one after another, and it is really difficult not to know.

"Wang Kui didn't tell you anything?"

As soon as he left the public security organ, Qu Hengyuan even changed his name, he used to have a surname and a position, and now he calls him by his first name and surname. However, he was as polite and respectful as ever to Liu Pancheng.

Qu Hengyuan's playful tone in his words instantly made the sensitive and suspicious Liu Pancheng focused.

"He's busy in the main team, and we haven't been in touch for a long time." Liu Pancheng replied calmly.

This is the truth, since the series of murders ten years ago finally ended with an inconclusible unsolved case, the life trajectories of Liu Pancheng, Wang Kui and even Qu Hengyuan have undergone major changes.

Liu Pancheng did not succeed Deputy Director Ma as deputy director of the Yangcheng Public Security Bureau, but after remaining in the position of captain of the criminal investigation detachment for a period of time, he was transferred to the post of director of the Legislative Affairs Office of the sub-bureau in the summer of the second year after the case was discovered.

In those years, with the in-depth popularization of legal education, the people's awareness of the legal system has been continuously strengthened, and complaints against the misconduct of the public security organs in the process of law enforcement have also increased day by day. Penalties for traffic violations, public security detention, and even the investigation of criminal cases will be protested by some people. To this end, the Yangcheng City Public Security Bureau, in accordance with the instructions of the higher-level departments, has set up a new department to be responsible for accepting all kinds of administrative litigation cases. This is the origin of the Legislative Affairs Office. Liu Pancheng served as the director of the Legislative Affairs Office for five years, and then he was transferred to the Municipal Legal Committee as the deputy secretary.

It stands to reason that the cash truck robbery ten years ago has not been solved, and for Wang Kui, who is in charge of the case, his career will definitely be affected. However, for some reason, Captain Sun seemed to have a particularly good impression of Wang Kui, and he was transferred to the Criminal Investigation Corps in the spring of the following year, and he was still placed in the serious crime team he was most familiar with. Over the years in the Criminal Investigation Corps, he has lived up to expectations, performed well, made many meritorious achievements, and has been constantly promoted, and is now the deputy head of the Criminal Investigation Corps, and has become an equal level with Liu Pancheng.

As for Qu Hengyuan, not long after the case was announced to be over, he resigned. His wife's family was well-to-do and ran a garment trading company with her own factory and production line. The company was run by his father-in-law, and the factory was left to his only daughter. In those years, the company's performance was booming, the orders of the factory were also increasing day by day, the production line was increasing one by one, and the scale of the plant was also doubled. In the past few years, his small life has been much more comfortable and moisturized than when he was a policeman. Not only did the whole person gain a lot of weight, but even his stomach protruded.

"Oh, that's it! Then you must not know that the car salvaged from the Yanghe River is a white Jinbei van, right? ”

When Liu Pancheng heard this, his body was shocked.

Qu Heng saw that the other party did not react, so he continued: "Then you shouldn't know that there is a corpse in this car, right?" ”

Qu Hengyuan's words were like a thunderbolt, causing Liu Pancheng's head to "buzz".

Liu Pancheng really didn't know what Qu Hengyuan said, because the water area where the incident occurred was at the junction of Yangcheng City and another city downstream, which was closer to that city in terms of geographical location, so after the vehicle was salvaged, it was handed over to the other party's public security organs to deal with.

"How do you know? Are the sources reliable? Liu Pancheng, who gradually sobered up his mind, asked suspiciously.

"The source is absolutely reliable." Qu Hengyuan replied with an oath, "If you don't believe it, you can call Wang Kui." As far as I know, the corps has intervened. Wang Kui is in charge of the serious crime team, and it is impossible for the local authorities not to report such a major situation as the discovery of a corpse, and he should have more accurate information there. ”