Chapter 11: The Dilemma

On the commercial street opposite Platinum Han, the lights are the same. A few people dressed in prosecutor's uniforms walked down the street, making the fun-seekers walk around. The "uniforms" looked for license plates along the road and stopped in front of an inconspicuous van. The van is covered with privacy film, so you can't see the inside of the car from the outside. The lead "uniform" unceremoniously knocked on the window. In the middle of the night, the car window rolled down, revealing Cao Chuang's impatient face. The criminal police in the car were all wearing civilian clothes and were monitoring.

Cao Chuang looked at the visitor and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

One person showed his ID: "Procuratorate's." An Xin is not there? ”

Cao Chuang didn't say anything, and he knew that there was nothing good at first glance. An Xin, who was sitting in the corner, replied sullenly: "I am." ”

The person from the procuratorate nodded: "Someone reported that you abused your power, retaliated against, and disrupted the market order." We ask for your cooperation in the investigation. ”

Cao Chuang glared: "What about?" ”

"If you have any opinions, let your director reflect them."

An Xin said: "I'm on a mission, and I'll talk about it later." ”

"I'm sorry, we're on a mission too, and if you don't cooperate, we're going to enforce it."

Cao Chuang got angry: "You try to move one?!" ”

An Xin immediately stopped Cao Chuang: "Master, making trouble will affect your actions, I'll go with them." ”

Cao Chuang suppressed the fire and didn't say a word, An Xin got out of the car, and followed the people from the procuratorate in full view.

In the living room of Meng Dehai's house, Comrade Meng was holding back his anger and talking on the phone. "Leader, isn't that okay? With a few words of chasing after the wind and shadows, he came to arrest our policeman, who was on a mission at the time! ”

"Are you here to ask the guilt?" The middle-aged man's voice on the phone was deep and magnetic.

Meng Dehai walked back and forth in the room. "No, I mean you can say hello and we'll get someone there sometime. Isn't it just cooperating with the investigation? The body is not afraid of crooked shadows. ”

There was a pause on the phone: "Old Meng, I didn't arrest this person." ”

Meng Dehai was also stunned for a moment: "Who is that?" ”

The other party was silent for a moment and said, "Old Meng, I'll tell you the truth...... There are big leaders who personally name and supervise the handling of the work at the Standing Committee, what can I do? ”

"Which leader?" Silence was chosen on the phone.

Meng Dehai asked again: "Is it Vice Mayor Zhao or Secretary Jiao?" ”

"Don't ask! I advise you not to wade into this troubled water, next year you will be promoted to the Political and Legal Committee, don't add to the blockage of yourself. The voice on the phone was serious.

Meng Dehai was stunned: "Has it been discussed in the organization?" ”

"In terms of seniority, is there anything more suitable besides you? It's not too early, I'll talk about it tomorrow. After saying that, the other party hung up the phone.

Meng Dehai took the microphone in a daze, listening to the busy sound coming from inside. Meng Yu didn't know when to stand in front of him.

Meng Yu looked at Meng Dehai and said, "An Neng broke his eyebrows and bent his waist to deal with the powerful, which made me unhappy." ”

Meng Dehai took a look: "You eavesdropped on my phone call again!" ”

Meng Yu grimaced, turned around and left.

Meng Dehai looked at his daughter's back and shouted, "Itchy again, right?" Follow me yin and yang! ”

In the playground, roller coasters tumble and sprinkle strings of screams and laughter. An Xin sat lonely on the bench. Meng Yu walked over with two cones, stuffed one in his hand, and sat beside him.

"Don't worry, you're going to be fine."

"How do you know?"

"My dad, that stupid old man, has been calling for your business. I overheard, and many people testified to you, and you have no problem enforcing the law. The procuratorate did not find any empirical evidence, and finally it should criticize it in an internal circular, and write an examination. ”

"How nice it would have been for you to call me earlier? It's still selling such a big pass! ”

Meng Yu said: "An Xin, look at me, answer me seriously, do you love me?" ”

An Xin nodded. Meng Yu glared, An Xin cleared her throat: "I love you." ”

"An Xin, I love you too. I love you so much more than you love me. For my sake, don't you go to the police, okay? You can't catch the bad guys, and your dad and my dad have dedicated their lives to Jinghai. But has Jinghai gotten better? Even if you take your whole life again, how much better can Jinghai become? ”

"How do you know if you don't try? Do you just sit idly by? ”

Meng Yu said angrily: "Aren't you just standing by now? They put you off duty for reflection! ”

An Xin was silent. The sound of the mobile phone rang at the right time, breaking the embarrassment. An Xin's face changed when she looked at the message sent on her phone.

"I ...... There is a new situation. ”

Meng Yu's eyes were red: "I called you out today to tell you that my vacation is over, and I am going back to Beijing soon." ”

An Xin was silent for a while and asked, "Have you booked your ticket?" ”

Meng Yu looked at An Xin: "Do you think I'm going to talk about booking tickets?" Then he nodded and said helplessly: "It's booked, and I'll leave the day after tomorrow." ”

An Xin originally wanted to say something, but the words came to her lips, but in the end, she became: "I'll send you." Trust me, I'll go. He then looked around and said, "Wait a minute, I'll make a phone call first." ”

Meng Yu looked at his back, his face full of grievances.

Xu Jiang meditated on the sofa in the villa and played with a lighter. He never thought that Gao Qiqiang, who killed his son, was actually a fishmonger selling fish in the vegetable market. The emotions of anger and shame made him make a decision: Gao Qiqiang and the Tang family brothers, he will not let go of any of them. And the best way to retaliate against them is to be like Huang Cuicui...... Thinking of this, Xu Jiang assigned a new task to the crazy donkey: to sell all the organs that Tang Xiaohu could sell.

In the ruined cottages on the other side of the suburbs, Gao Qiqiang followed Tang Xiaolong to find a place to hold Tang Xiaohu in a scene of slaughter.

"Are you sure Xiaohu is being held here by them?" Gao Qiqiang looked at the earthen house in front of him.

Xiaolong nodded desperately: "Can't be wrong." ”

"How many people are watching him?"

"There should be just one." Xiaolong replied.

Gao Qiqiang checked the steel pipe in his hand: "Your brother is my brother." Walk! ”

The two of them copied the guy and tiptoed outside the single-family house. Gao Qiqiang put his ear to the door and didn't hear any movement. He sighed and kicked the door open. In the corner of the room was a bed of rotten cotton wool, as well as boxes of instant noodles, wine bottles, and bones that had been eaten, but there was not half a figure in sight.

Gao Qiqiang breathed a sigh of relief: "Gone?" ”

At this time, the little dragon behind him quietly took out a thin rope from behind and strangled Gao Qiqiang's neck violently. Gao Qiqiang was caught off guard, rolled his eyes and couldn't scream. Tang Xiaolong didn't let go no matter how Gao Qiqiang struggled. The two rolled in the cramped cottage. Gao Qiqiang used his last strength to slam Tang Xiaolong into the earthen wall behind him. Tang Xiaolong riveted his strength and didn't dare to relax. Again and again, two strong bodies slammed into the earthen wall. The earthen wall could not bear it anymore and finally collapsed. A cloud of dust rose, and half of the house collapsed with the collapse of the load-bearing walls. Smoke and rubble engulfed both men.

In the middle of the night, a man got up from the rubble, clutching his neck and panting. Gao Qiqiang coughed for a long time, and finally eased up. His eyes were red, and he picked up the rafters on the ground to smash Tang Xiaolong. Tang Xiaolong was lying in the ruins, his face and forehead were covered with blood. He looked at Gao Qiqiang's aloft rafters, guilty and desperate, and closed his eyes.

Gao Qiqiang shouted: "Why do you want to hurt Lao Tzu?!" ”

Xiaolong's muscles burst out and roared, "It's all your fault!" What are you doing to kill Xu Lei?! Put the lives of both of our brothers on the line! ”

Gao Qiqiang understood seven or eight points, and the rafters in his hand also drooped. "Xu Jiang asked you to come?"

"Xiaohu let him catch it! He told me to exchange you for it, or else I would cut my brother into pieces and give them back. ”

"Does he know about me?"

"You're thinking about yourself!"

Gao Qiqiang dragged Tang Xiaolong up from the ground and slapped his face hard. "Tang Xiaolong, you sober me up! Even if he hands me over, he still wants the lives of the three of us. I'm saving us all right now! ”

Tang Xiaolong looked at him in a daze, not as excited as Fang Cai.

Gao Qiqiang roared: "Say! Does he know who I am?! ”

Xiaolong shook his head: "Xu Jiang only knows that we killed Xu Lei, and he doesn't know who you are." ”

Gao Qiqiang let go of Xiaolong: "Okay, he doesn't know, there is still a way to do this." ”

"What can be done? Do you think he won't be able to find you if I don't say it? There are many people in the family, how can we fight? ”

"Then do you think he'll let you go if he listens to him?"

Xiaolong's heart was already empty, and he was poked by Gao Qiqiang, and he was about to cry. The mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang, it was Xu Jiang.

"Turn on hands-free."

Xiaolong shuddered and turned on the hands-free. "How's it going?" Xu Jiang's voice came.

Gao Qiqiang used the shape of his mouth to remind him of "Little Tiger".

Xiaolong nodded knowingly: "Can you let me meet Xiaohu first?" ”

He smiled on the phone: "Are you qualified to negotiate terms with me?" ”

"Give me some more time."

"Another week for you. If you don't, I'll do it myself. The phone hung up.

Gao Qiqiang seemed to comfort Xiaolong, and like self-comfort: "A week, it's time, it's good to sum up." ”

Tang Xiaohu was locked in a basement at the moment. He was chained to his feet and his locks were handcuffed to radiators. Asako walked down, carrying a boxed lunch in her hand. Xiaohu had reached the critical point of madness, and said fearfully: "Don't come here!" ”

Mazi held up the lunch box and showed him: "I'm just delivering food." ”

Xiaohu swallowed his saliva: "Brother, it's okay, let me go, I'll give you money!" ”

Mazi opened the lunch box and said, "If I let you go, my life will be gone, what's the use of asking for money." ”

"That'...... You secretly help me get a word out. My name is Tang Xiaohu, my family lives in Jiuchang Street, my brother is Tang Xiaolong, you inquire about the vegetable market, you know us......" Xiaohu begged.

Mazi rolled her eyes and secretly remembered this information.

Late at night, the Information Department of the Public Security Bureau was still busy with work, and the computer screen was playing road surveillance video.

An Xin recorded the license plate on the paper while watching.

Li Xiang came in with a few boxes of video tapes and said, "This is the surveillance video of the nearby national highway toll booth on the day of Xu Lei's death. ”

"Put it here, I'll take a look."

"You are committing a crime against the wind, and you have made it clear that you don't take the opinions of the above seriously."

An Xin didn't look back. "I didn't do anything, I still have an opinion on punishing me."

Li Xiang sighed: "This is also something that can't be helped, tell me who stabbed you in the back?" ”

An Xin smiled instead: "This shows that we are in the right direction, the more we stop and prevent us from checking, the more it means that there is a problem with Xu Jiang." How could I not be there at such a critical time? ”

"I'm afraid that the procuratorate will know about it, and you will be unlucky again."

"I didn't check Bai Jinhan, I checked Xu Lei Lightning Fish, I can't care about it, right?"

Li Xiang couldn't laugh or cry, hesitated for a moment, and turned on a computer next to him.

An Xin glanced at him: "Why don't you sleep again?" ”

"How can you finish watching so many videos, I'll help you."

"Big brother, this is what I do to kill time, and your side is the main thing! Let's go, don't waste time here! ”

Late at night, seeing off the last group of guests, Gao Qisheng opened the cash register, picked out the big bills, hid them in his personal pockets, left only the change, locked the counter, and then came alone to a small auto parts store and knocked on the window.

"Have you arrived for the parts I want?"

A man's voice came from inside the window: "It's here." ”

Gao Qisheng paid and took the parts from the window.

When he got home, Gao Qisheng quietly opened the door, dragged out a large iron box from under the bed in the dark, and put it on the desk. A model in the tin box was already half assembled, and Gao Qisheng fiddled with it, filling in the newly brought parts.

Soon, a rudimentary homemade firing pistol was put together.