Chapter 7: Investigations

When I returned to my brother's house, I felt that something was wrong.

I thought to myself, how could the government install surveillance on the wall of a supermarket, even if the road was temporarily installed back then, but the temporary monitoring should have been removed after the road was repaired, and it couldn't be so temporary.

How you think, how you feel wrong, there must be something wrong here.

Of course, I can't trust the supermarket owner, who knows, he's making up stories with me. And even if what he said was true, there would be something else hidden in it.

You know, for this kind of petty traders, there is no way to distinguish the authenticity of government officials. As long as they wear a uniform and say that they are government workers, they don't need to show any proof at all to bluff these people into being stunned. What's more, if they are still given some money in the end, saying that it is compensation from the government, these people will not doubt their identity.

After thinking about it, I feel that I still have to investigate this matter, and I can't be sloppy, after all, this monitoring has been installed in the supermarket for several years, and there is no big article in it.

Sitting at my brother's house, I made more than a dozen phone calls in a row. I called several public relations personnel in the company who were in contact with the Chengde government.

These people were carefully selected by the senior brothers to be in charge of the government's public relations work, and they were very clear about the policies and decrees of the Chengde government, and they even knew more about politics than some officials.

I told them what they were going to do, and I divided them into three groups, each with three different tasks.

The first team asked them to go to various government departments to check which unit the monitoring of the supermarket on the opposite side belonged to? In the second group, I asked them to help me find out what year the road in front of the elder brother's house was rebuilt, and what unit took over the project, the more detailed the better. The third team is mainly responsible for asking them to check the street lamp circuit diagram of this street, and it is best to get a copy, but it is really impossible to get it, and it is okay to find the units and people who installed the street lights back then.

I asked them to find out the results in three days, and even if they didn't, the mission would be over in three days. Of course, if the first team finds out which unit is monitoring, then the second and third teams do not need to check again.

The progress of the first and second groups was much faster than I expected, and it didn't take me three days at all, and they all arrived at the senior brother's house in the evening of the next day.

The results of the first team were as I expected, they found nothing, they searched all the government departments, and none of them knew which department had installed the surveillance, and they said that, in their experience, it would not have been installed by the government department.

The second group brought me a large ledger, which of course was photocopied, and it was full of information about the road.

I opened it and looked at it, and I remember this ledger in detail enough, from the sixties to the present day, all the records of the road construction of this road are here, and there are some unclear places, and they have also made notes with a ballpoint pen. This is a record not only of the companies that built the roads, but also of the bidding process. And a list of personnel is also attached. They said that this is the list of workers who have built this road in recent years, of course only in recent years, and there is no record of personnel information before that.

It was only on the night of the third day that the third group came to see me, and they also brought back a ledger and a rough drawing of the roadmap, but the ledger was handwritten, apparently written by themselves.

They also found the records of street lamp replacement and the list of staff in recent years. However, they said that the records here are not comprehensive, because the unit that manages the street lights changed to a new office building a year ago, and many of the materials are no longer available, so they can only visit them one by one and rely on the memories of those staff members to find these. The contact numbers of the persons they visited were also recorded.

Although the third group came back late, I was still very satisfied, after all, they were visiting one by one, and this work was much more difficult than the first two groups, and it seemed that they also suffered a lot to get this account.

Seeing how hard they worked, I invited them to the hotel for a meal in the evening, and arranged a bath for them to rest and rest.

During the meal, they were chatting, and I noticed a person, a man named Lao Wu.

This man was a small foreman who repaired a street lamp, but they couldn't find him. One of them complained that if they could find this person, they would have learned more. But this person is so mysterious that no worker knows his real name, only that his name is Lao Wu, and no one has his contact information.

And when they visited the workers, one of the workers told them, saying that this old five, the person is very strange, the project is about to be completed, but the fifth child is gone, and he has not received that month's salary, and he has not even asked for a month's salary for a month and a half at the beginning of the company, and the person left.

Although I didn't express any opinion when I listened to them chat, I already noticed that there was something wrong with this old five.

You know, what is the most important thing for workers? That's the salary, and the person is giving up the salary, and it's two and a half months, what does it mean?

Either this old fifth has a purpose, and the money is not important to him at all. Either he was killed before he could make the capital, of course, this possibility is there, but I believe he has a purpose.

Because it is important that none of the people he works with know his full name, only that his name is Lao Wu, which proves that he is not willing to let others know his real name. For an ordinary worker, what can he do if he lets others know his name? It's not a big deal at all, which is enough to show that this old fifth is not an ordinary worker.

After eating with them, I sent them to the bath, settled the bill in advance, gave them some money, and let them enjoy themselves here, while I drove back to my brother's house.

Long Jiu moved back upstairs tonight, still living in the room opposite me. When I got back to my room, I took the things that the second and third groups had brought back and rearranged them.

The ledger of road construction is too cumbersome, not to mention the age, and even a small pit was made up in which place on which day, it is clearly marked, and it is also indicated who participated in the work.

I simply gave up some information, and tore down the records before 99 years, I think there was no monitoring equipment in that era, and even if there was a price at the time, it was quite expensive, and the supermarket owner said that it was only installed when the road was built in recent years, so I don't think that information is valuable.

After giving up a large part of the information, the job was much easier, and it didn't take me half an hour to roughly read the road repair information of the road at the gate in recent years.

After reading the ledger of the road repair, I roughly understood that the road in front of the elder brother's house was overhauled three years ago, and the next overhaul was seven years ago, so I think the supermarket surveillance camera should have been installed during the road repair three years ago.

Next, I focused on the details of the road construction three years ago. From bidding to construction, I watched every link very carefully.

When I saw the last part of the project, I finally made a surprising discovery.