"Is there anything you can't say to County Magistrate Qiao?" Ma Yuanxiang saw the conflicting look on Qiao Liang's face.
"Yes, because I promised your husband." Qiao Liang said simply.
"What did you promise him?" Ma Yuanxiang looked confused.
"Promise him not to tell you." Qiao Liang said.
"What on earth did you talk about, why don't you tell me?" Ma Yuanxiang became more and more strange and looked at Qiao Liang in confusion.
Qiao Liang was confused again, should he say it or not? As a man, he should keep his promise to others, but Qiao Liang was extremely curious about what Wang Anfu wanted to say in the end, guessing that it should be related to iron ore. If so, he What is more important is to know what Wang Anfu is going to say in the end. In this case, he should tell Ma Yuanxiang, because as Wang Anfu's wife, no one knows Wang Anfu better than Ma Yuanxiang. Telling Ma Yuanxiang the truth may make Ma Yuanxiang pass the last word Wang Anfu said. I guessed some clues.
"County Magistrate Qiao, let's drink first." Ma Yuanxiang said suddenly, taking the initiative to raise the glass and toast Qiao Liang.
"Okay, let's have a drink." Qiao Liang nodded, glanced at Ma Yuanxiang, and said, "You don't want to get me drunk first and then get words out of me, do you?"
"County Magistrate Qiao thinks too much. I can't drink enough." Ma Yuanxiang smiled bitterly, "I will definitely fall down before I can get Magistrate Qiao drunk."
Qiao Liang smiled and hesitated again in his heart, thinking, Wang Anfu, Wang Anfu, it's not that I broke my promise, but that you left too fast and too suddenly in the end. No one knows what you were going to say in the end. I miss you. It should support my current decision.
Thinking like this, Qiao Liang said: "Okay, let me tell you what your husband and I talked about alone that night."
"Really?" Ma Yuanxiang's eyes lit up.
"Actually, that night, your husband and I were talking alone about iron ore. Your husband wanted to make a deal with me." Qiao Liang looked at Ma Yuanxiang.
"What deal?" Ma Yuanxiang asked eagerly.
"Your husband said that he has evidence of illegal iron ore in his hand. He wants to trade this with me, but I have to pay him. He wants 300,000 yuan, and then he will give him the illegal evidence of iron ore in his hand. Give it all to me." Qiao Liang said.
"How could this happen?" Ma Yuanxiang was dumbfounded and murmured, "How could Anfu do this? You are the benefactor of our family. He can just give it to you if he has evidence. How can he use this to ask you for money? He is so undeserving."
Ma Yuanxiang shed tears as she spoke: "County Magistrate Qiao, I'm sorry. I apologize to you on Anfu's behalf."
"You don't have to apologize. In fact, your husband is right to do what he did. On the contrary, I respect him very much. He is a good man. He does this all for you." Qiao Liang looked at Ma Yuanxiang, "Your husband told me the truth. He said he had no choice. He didn't want you to be trapped in debt for the rest of your life, and he didn't want to see you living so hard, so he wanted a sum of money to help you pay off your debt."
"Even if his intentions are good, he can't do this. You have done a great favor to our family, how can he ask you for money." Ma Yuanxiang cried and shook his head.
"Every code is a code. It's okay for him to ask for reward. As long as the evidence he has is valuable, there's nothing wrong with him asking for money." Qiao Liang said.
Ma Yuanxiang's eyes turned red and she said nothing. She still felt that what her husband did was wrong.
"Okay, let's not worry about the right or wrong of this matter. The most urgent thing is to first find out what your husband was going to say before he left." Qiao Liang looked at Ma Yuanxiang, "Now I have told you the truth. Think about it carefully. , see if you can figure out what your husband wanted to say in the end."
Ma Yuanxiang frowned upon hearing this. According to what Qiao Liang said, if her husband and Qiao Liang were talking about the iron ore, then what her husband wanted to tell her before leaving was still related to the iron ore?
After thinking for a long time, Ma Yuanxiang's eyes suddenly lit up: "Does my husband want to tell me where he hid the illegal evidence of the iron mine?"
"Then think about it quickly, what did his last word mean?" Qiao Liang also became excited.
"He said gui, did he mean the cabinet? He wanted to tell me that he put the evidence in the cabinet?" Ma Yuanxiang said excitedly.
"It's possible." Qiao Liang's eyes lit up.
"When I go back after dinner, I will immediately look through the cabinets at home." Ma Yuanxiang said.
After the two of them said this, they no longer wanted to eat. After a brief meal, Qiao Liang sent Ma Yuanxiang home and followed Ma Yuanxiang upstairs.
Although Ma Yuanxiang's house is not big, it has a lot of cabinets. The first thing Ma Yuanxiang thought of was the cabinets, bedside tables, wardrobes, and bookcases in the bedroom. There were a lot of cabinets in a small bedroom. After Ma Yuanxiang entered the house,
He started to rummage through the boxes and cabinets, and Qiao Liang stood aside to help.
He searched from the closet to the bedside table, then to the bookcase, but found nothing in the end. Ma Yuanxiang had a disappointed look on his face: "Did we guess wrong?"
"Don't worry, the search is not over yet, take your time." Qiao Liang comforted.
As he said this, Qiao Liang felt disappointed in his heart. He couldn't find any cabinets in the room. Could it be that they had made a mistake?
After more than an hour of rummaging from inside to outside the house, Qiao Liang and Ma Yuanxiang finally sat on the sofa with disappointed faces.
"It seems we made a mistake." Ma Yuanxiang said disappointedly.
"Maybe we didn't guess the meaning correctly." Qiao Liang frowned, and his intuition told him that what Wang Anfu wanted to say before leaving was still related to iron ore, otherwise the other party would not have hurriedly said that he wanted to see him before he fell into coma.
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The two were silent for a while, and Qiao Liang saw that it was getting late, so he stood up and said: I'm going back first, you can think about it here, if you think of anything, we can call you later."
"Okay." Ma Yuanxiang nodded, stood up and looked at Qiao Liang, "County Magistrate Qiao, don't worry, if my husband really left any evidence, I will try my best to find it. You have been a great kindness to our family. I
I also want to be able to help you."
"It's the best you can find. If you can't find it, don't embarrass yourself. Don't talk about your kindness all the time. Your problem happened to happen to me. I'll do my best to help. It's nothing." Qiao Liang
road.
Ma Yuanxiang responded in a low voice, but she always thought of Qiao Liang's kindness in her heart. What was easy for Qiao Liang was a lifelong kindness to herself.
After leaving Ma Yuanxiang's residence, Qiao Liang returned to the dormitory in the county compound. He was inevitably a little depressed. He didn't want to show his emotions too much to Ma Yuanxiang, but he was actually very disappointed in his heart.
A night of silence.
The next day, Qiao Liang came to the office, thinking about the accident yesterday evening, and called He Qingqing over.
"Director He, I remember you said you have friends at the police station, right?" Qiao Liang asked.
"Well, yes, County Magistrate Qiao, what's wrong?" He Qingqing looked at Qiao Liang.
"Then go and ask, in the traffic accident that occurred on Liangnan Road yesterday evening, was the owner of the car involved caught?" Qiao Liang said.
"Why would County Magistrate Qiao care about traffic accidents?" He Qingqing asked curiously.
"Because I was there last night, and that bastard driver hit someone and ran away right under my nose. I originally chased him to stop him, but was blocked by a truck." Qiao Liang was quite annoyed, "But I actually wrote down the license plate number."
"So that's what happened." He Qingqing suddenly realized.
He Qingqing quickly called her best friend at the police station. Although the other party was not in the traffic police brigade, they were all in the same system. It was easy to inquire about something. It didn't take long for the other party to give He Qingqing feedback.
"County Magistrate Qiao, the traffic accident you mentioned seems to have some validity." He Qingqing said to Qiao Liang somewhat mysteriously.
"What?" Qiao Liang was stunned.
"My best friend said that there seems to be no case filed for this hit-and-run accident, and it seems that it can't be settled," He Qingqing said.
"What did you say?" Qiao Liang stood up and looked at He Qingqing, "Is the news you heard true?"
"Yes, that's what I heard." He Qingqing nodded affirmatively.
"It is simply unreasonable that such a hit-and-run accident should be ignored?" Qiao Liang was very angry. Suddenly, Qiao Liang's heart moved. The car that caused the accident was overbearing. In a poor place like Liangbei, how could it be driven like this? Not many people are domineering. Does the owner of the car that caused the accident have any special status?
Thinking of this, Qiao Liang said to He Qingqing: "Go and find out who the owner of this license plate number belongs to." Qiao Liang told He Qingqing the license plate number he remembered last night.
He Qingqing agreed and went out. About ten minutes later, He Qingqing came over again: "County Magistrate Qiao, I found out that this license plate number is in the name of the iron mine."
"Iron mine?" Qiao Liang was stunned. Damn, it's iron mine again.
"County Magistrate Qiao, this can explain it. The owner of the car that caused the accident may be someone from the iron mine, so the matter will be settled in the end." He Qingqing said.
"What happened to the iron mine? Are the people in the iron mine above the law?" Qiao Liang said angrily.
"Hey, what's wrong? Why is my brother so angry?" At this time, Zhou Zhilong's voice came from outside the door.
Qiao Liang saw Zhou Zhilong and smiled: "Brother, where have you been these two days? I haven't seen you anywhere."
"Don't mention it. We are working hard. We went to the province to ask for funds and went to the bureau for two days. Alas, it is not easy to ask for money." Zhou Zhilong shook his head and smiled.
Qiao Liang nodded and said to He Qingqing: "Director He, you go ahead and do your work first. We must hurry up on the matter of returning farmland to grassland in pastoral areas."
"Okay, I've been keeping an eye on this matter personally." He Qingqing said.
After He Qingqing left, Zhou Zhilong asked again, "Brother, why did you lose your temper just now?"
"It has something to do with the iron mine." Qiao Liang briefly explained the accident yesterday evening with an angry look on his face, "The people in this iron mine are so lawless. Do they still have any regard for the law?"
"Haha, I don't need to be so angry. In Liangbei County, the people working in the iron mines are really superior to others." Zhou Zhilong said with a smile.
"No, I have to take care of this matter to the end." Qiao Liang said angrily.
"Brother, do you really want to take care of it?" Zhou Zhilong looked at Qiao Liang with an inexplicable look in his eyes.
