The next day, early in the morning.

"Trees are erected in front of the door, and loose trees are inserted at the mouth of the alleys", whether in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or the Northern Federation, this saying is widely spread, the so-called general trend of the world will be divided for a long time, although the two sides of the north and the south are now tense, each other has a stinky face that does not get along with each other, but in the final analysis, it is the same root and the same origin, the same lineage, 1,200 years of Shang Dynasty, has already made this point into the marrow.

In front of the red brick building of the Ningpu Public Security Bureau, there is a century-old tree.

In order to avoid this tree, on the basis of the original design, the red brick building was specially moved back seven or eight meters to make room for the tree.

It's not superstition, it's just out of a kind of respect for tradition and old things, when Gao Zhihuai put forward this idea, he solicited opinions widely within the Public Security Bureau, and the bureau unanimously agreed to approve this avoidance.

Approaching work time, a group of men and women in black uniforms and wearing blue-collar badges gathered around this century-old tree with a lot of stories, tilted their heads, and pointed at a dark blue cloth bag hanging from the tree.

This cloth bag appeared without warning, just hung there quietly, many people passed by this tree, but they couldn't find this cloth bag, or Xu Zishu's eyes were sharp, she hurriedly told the leaders and colleagues in the red brick building about it, and now everyone is gathered under the hundred-year-old tree.

I don't know who is so bold to dare to hang such an unknown origin and unknown content on this extremely symbolic century-old tree, in front of the red brick building of the Public Security Bureau.

A group of people wearing the uniform of the Unified Public Security Bureau gathered in one place, and on this administrative street where they came and went in a hurry, it caused a lot of waves, maybe the Public Security Bureau usually accumulated too much power, or maybe everyone swept the snow in front of the door, until the director Gao Zhihuai arrived, the crowd under the tree was still all black uniforms, blue collar badges, and there was no color.

No one dared to come over and join in the excitement of the security bureau.

Gao Zhihuai and Lu Yuedong met on the way to work, they are both leaders of the bureau, they have a meeting on weekdays, discuss something or something, they will inevitably get together, look up and don't look down, since they meet, they naturally come together.

Just now, Gao Zhihuai, as the director of the bureau, also enlightened and comforted Lu Yuedong, asking him not to compete with Li Qing and do some senseless battles of will.

"They are all comrades and comrades-in-arms in the trenches, why do you have to divide them, it's not you who win, or I win you, so incompatible, he Li Qing wants to make trouble, just let him make trouble, me and you, do our own work, it's enough."

Lu Yuedong, there was no expression on his face, what Gao Zhihuai said, he nodded and agreed, and from time to time he had to echo two sentences, judging from his performance, it seemed that he had really learned a lesson, and he also listened to Gao Zhihuai's words, very modestly.

Although the "127" case was turned upside down by Li Qing, for Lu Yuedong, in addition to the fact that his prestige in the bureau has plummeted and the weight of his words is not as heavy as before, the impact on him in essence is not as great as imagined.

After all, Lu Yuedong is still sitting in the position of the first deputy director, still in charge of the most important department in the bureau, criminal investigation, nominally, he is still the number two person in the bureau, after Zheng Yongwen subdued the law, Li Qing did not chase him anymore, and even did not use this overwhelming prestige to expand his territory of influence in the bureau as Lu Yuedong thought.

Later, when he secretly supported Luo Xi, it was like a dragonfly in the water, and after causing a ripple in the pool of water in the bureau, there was no follow-up movement, and even turned a blind eye to the initiative of public security, the only department in the bureau that could break hands with the criminal investigation.

And these are just great opportunities to win the hearts of the people and hold power.

Didn't Li Qinghui know that he had accepted a bribe from Zheng Yongwen? If Lu Yuedong really thinks so, then he can't go all the way to the position of the first deputy director, then Li Qing clearly has the evidence of his corruption and bribery, but he doesn't expose it, he brakes the car in time, and the point stops.

I even heard that on the day of the fire in Puhua's apartment, the secretary of the county magistrate Ma had looked for Li Qing, and the intention of the solicitation was self-evident, but this Li Qing did not give any face, turned around and left, and hung the little secretary of the county magistrate Ma in place, his face was not wonderful.

So for Li Qing, Lu Yuedong only feels a little confused and can't see through it now.

Before this, if he said that he would not be able to see through a twenty-year-old young man, then Lu Yuedong would definitely scoff at it.

This Li Qing, sometimes he doesn't give an inch, he has to fight for the height and the short, and it can even be said that he doesn't know the height of the sky, but sometimes, he is light and light, showing a look of "benefiting all things without fighting", which makes people really can't figure out his true thoughts.

Another example is Gao Zhihuai, in fact, Lu Yuedong sometimes doesn't understand this high bureau, first of all, the strange attitude on the "127" case, all the propositions put forward by Li Qing, the high bureau is unconditionally unconditionally supported, the "127" case is closed, and Wen Conglong, Yuan Ye and others are the murderers, this is also something he has done, he said that he will overturn it, isn't this his own face?

Gao Ju's approach is not just to take the initiative to put his face over, but it is equivalent to directly grabbing Li Qing's hand to slap his face.

Moreover, in terms of the attitude towards himself and Li Qing afterwards, if he Lu Yuedong sat in the position of the high bureau, he would definitely be happy to see two of his subordinates biting each other and fighting each other, in this situation, what the number one leader has to do is to be a "peacemaker" and achieve balance, but now Gao Zhihuai still seems to be quite dependent on himself, and he doesn't mean to mention Li Qing at all.

Two aspects, one is that Gao Zhihuai talked to him, plus the exchange on the road just now, in the past few days, the number of conversations between the two has reached four times, the frequency is so high, it is absolutely unprecedented, and the other is that up to now, Gao Zhihuai has not made any adjustments to the division of power and duties in the bureau, and even, it seems that he has no intention of making adjustments.

If the former is still Lu Yuedong's subjective assumption, then the latter is the objective fact in front of him.

"High Bureau, Land Bureau."

"The high game is good, the land game is good."

In a greeting, the crowd started from the outermost circle and gradually separated.

Gao Zhihuai and Lu Yuedong walked along this road to the hundred-year-old tree.

"What's going on?"

Gao Zhihuai looked at the cloth bag on the tree, and for some reason, an inexplicable uneasiness suddenly surged in his heart, which was like a storm, raging over his heart, almost out of control.

Xu Zishu, who was the first discoverer, immediately stepped forward, saluted first, and then reported the discovery of the cloth bag as it was.

"This cloth bag is shady, my colleagues and I didn't dare to move, thinking that we would make a decision when you came, the director."

Hearing this somewhat mysterious statement, Lu Yuedong frowned, and wanted to open his mouth to reprimand, but suddenly thought of something, and swallowed what he originally wanted to say.

Last night, the news that Gu Bingchang was killed in the Rongguang nightclub had already reached his ears, and he heard that he was still beheaded, the bloody scene and the madness of the murderer could not be concealed in a word.

It can't be so coincidental, right?

Lu Yuedong glanced to the side, and saw that Gao Zhihuai also had a solemn expression, obviously thinking of something, don't look at this Gao Ju who is usually tepid, but without a little of his own connections and two brushes, how can he sit in the position of director.

It stands to reason that for this kind of major case, the Public Security Bureau should have dispatched personnel to the scene overnight last night to maintain order, but until now, there has been no movement from the Public Security Bureau, and behind this, there may not be Gao Zhihuai's meaning.

Even, it is a wordless tacit understanding reached by the leaders of the bureau and even the county.

At this moment, Gao Zhihuai only felt that there was a thousand catties of boulder pressing on his heart, sullen, and unspeakably uncomfortable, but now that so many people and so many pairs of eyes were looking at him, as the director of the bureau, he had to make an idea.

After a moment of silence, Gao Zhihuai slowly spoke, "Take it off." ”

The leader had an order, and he immediately carried it out, and after a while, Section Chief Tang of public security trotted all the way over with a long pole and personally forked the cloth bag from the tree.

"Open it and take a look." Gao Zhihuai ordered again, and Lu Yuedong on the side opened his mouth to say something, but was swept away by Gao Zhihuai's eyes, and swallowed the words back with interest.

"Director, why don't you go in......" Tang Jichuan held the cloth bag, only feeling that it was heavier than he imagined, and his back was cold, as if there was a yin wind blowing.

"Open! What's so unseemly. Gao Zhihuai's voice sank, and his words were full of irresistible meaning.

"Yes!"

Under everyone's gaze, the strips of cloth were dismantled layer by layer.

At the moment when he saw the contents of the cloth bag, Tang Jichuan, who was in charge of holding the cloth bag, only felt a cool breath that rushed directly to his head from his heels.

That's a bloody human head!

Gu Bingchang's head!

Dead and blind, the pair of eyes full of unwillingness, staring directly at Gao Zhihuai, seemed to be asking him for an explanation!

The audience was silent, that is, a group of professionally trained police bureau cadres, in the face of this situation, they could barely restrain themselves and endure not screaming.

"Director ......" Tang Jichuan looked ahead, trying not to look at the head in his hand, his voice was trembling, it was not easy for him to survive until now, and he was an ordinary person, but I was afraid that he would have thrown this head aside.

Gao Zhihuai took a deep breath, held back his anger, and said, "Give this thing to Lao Lu, and the criminal investigation will file a case immediately!" Do it now! ”

After speaking, he turned his head suddenly, looked at Xu Zishu, and said in a deep voice:

"Tell Li Qing to come to my office!"