Qiao Liang calmed down and looked at Fang Xiaoya and Lu Qian: "No, it's nothing."
"It's nothing. What are you doing? Who are you texting with?" Lu Qian asked.
"I..." Qiao Liang had an idea, "My buddy Lao San sent me a message. He and a group of people drove into Tibet and encountered a mountain collapse..."
"Ah!" This time it was Fang Xiaoya and Lu Qian's turn to shout.
Qiao Liang continued: "It was the collapse of the mountain that cut off the flow of the Jinsha River, forming a barrier lake, which flooded National Highway 318, and their way into Tibet was blocked."
"Is the third child okay?" Fang Xiaoya asked anxiously.
"It's okay. They stopped traveling and are working as volunteers to help resettle the affected people."
Fang Xiaoya breathed a sigh of relief and blamed Qiao Liang again: "You are so startled that you scared me."
Lu Qian asked: "Who is the third child?"
"I am a college classmate of Qiao Liang and Qiao Liang's best friend." Fang Xiaoya said.
"What does this guy do?" Lu Qian asked again.
"This..." Fang Xiaoya hesitated, "Self-employed."
"What do you do as a self-employed person?" Lu Qian broke the casserole and asked.
Fang Xiaoya didn't know what to say for a moment. She glanced at Qiao Liang, who said happily: "I'm a private detective."
"Hey, this is a good job, your buddy and I are half the same class." Lu Qian was happy.
"He is incomparable to you. You can handle cases openly. He is an underground party." Qiao Liang said.
"I'll get to know your buddy later when I have time." Lu Qian suddenly realized that the clues she had obtained from Qiao Liang about Fang Zhengtai's case seemed to be related to the third child.
"No problem." Qiao Liang nodded absently, thinking about Xu Honggang, then looked down at his phone and continued chatting with Xu Honggang, "Mr. Xu, what happened?"
"I don't know what happened. I won't find out until we talk tomorrow." Xu Honggang replied.
Qiao Liang couldn't help but feel uneasy: "This happened so suddenly."
"It's quite sudden. I only told you this matter. You don't want to tell anyone, including Xiaoya. When you return to Jiangzhou, just pretend you don't know anything." Xu Honggang warned.
"Okay, Minister Xu, I won't tell anyone."
"Also, pay close attention to the movements in Jiangzhou tomorrow. If you find anything unusual, tell me at any time. Don't call. Send me a message."
"OK."
Qiao Liang put away his cell phone, feeling very uneasy. The Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection suddenly recalled Xu Honggang from Beijing for a talk. Something must have happened. What on earth did Xu Honggang commit?
Qiao Liang thought about it and felt that it shouldn't be a serious matter, otherwise Xu Honggang would not have returned to Huangyuan on his own. People from the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection should have escorted him back.
But even if it's not serious, it's almost certainly not a good thing. These days, what cadres at all levels fear most is being interviewed by the Discipline Inspection Commission.
For Xu Honggang, who was at the peak of his career, any bad thing might have a negative impact on his career.
And once Xu Honggang's official career is blocked, he, as a person around him, will naturally be at a disadvantage.
Qiao Liang's mood suddenly became bad. He was worried, uneasy, and even a little afraid.
At this time, Qiao Liang couldn't imagine what would happen to Xu Honggang. He was kept in the dark, let alone himself.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, when we arrived at the Songbei project construction site, Fang Xiaoya wanted to stay at the construction site to handle some matters, so Lu Qian drove away with Qiao Liang.
"Go back to Jiangzhou directly?" Qiao Liang asked Lu Qian.
Lu Qian didn't answer. She took out her cell phone and started dialing. After dialing, she pressed speakerphone.
Then the call was connected, and a man's voice said: "Hello, Director Lu."
The speaker was the director of the Songbei Public Security Bureau whom I met yesterday at the reservoir.
"What happened to the case yesterday?" Lu Qian asked while driving.
"Report to Bureau Lu. According to on-site investigation and forensic identification, the identity of the deceased has been determined. He is the boss of a construction company in Jiangzhou, named Jin Tao. He came to Songbei Reservoir for fishing on weekends and stayed at a resort hotel by the reservoir.
His identity document was found in the hotel room. At the same time, according to the results of the forensic autopsy, the deceased drank a lot of alcohol before drowning... Based on the above situation, we and the Ning detachment both determined that the deceased should have drunk too much and accidentally fell into the water.
Drown."
Lu Qian frowned: "Where is the Ning detachment?"
"After the preliminary conclusion of the case, the Ning detachment just returned to Jiangzhou in the afternoon." the director replied.
"Is this how you plan to close the case?" Lu Qian continued to frown.
The director hesitated for a moment: "It seems that the case can be closed like this. After all, no clues have been found to prove homicide. All the investigation results point to the current judgment."
"Are there any cameras near where the deceased fell into the water?"
"No."
"Were there any other fishermen around the deceased before he fell into the water?"
"No, it's cold now, and there are very few people coming to the reservoir to fish this season."
"Okay, let's do this for now." Lu Qian hung up the phone and turned to look at Qiao Liang.
"What are you looking at me for?" Qiao Liang asked.
"What do you think about this?"
"I..." Qiao Liang pondered for a moment, "Let's go to the reservoir again."
Lu Qian understood what Qiao Liang meant. Like himself, he felt that Jin Tao's death would not be so simple, but since the person handling the case said so, he had no other clues and could not forcefully change the director's statement.
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Lu Qian drove to Songbei Reservoir. It was dusk and the reservoir was deserted.
Lu Qian stopped the car where she saw Jin Tao's body yesterday, got out with Qiao Liang, looked around and looked at the waterside.
"Jin Tao should have fallen into the water here." Lu Qian pointed down.
Qiao Liang looked in the direction of Lu Qian's finger and was silent in thought.
At this time, an old man drove a group of sheep past here. Seeing Lu Qian and Qiao Liang standing here, he kindly said: "Young man, the water here is very deep. A big boss from Jiangzhou just drowned. You must be careful."
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Qiao Liang's heart moved and he nodded to the old man: "Uncle, how do you know that the deceased is the big boss of Jiangzhou?"
"He often comes here to fish. When I pass here with my sheep, I often see him. When he came to fish in the past, there were luxury cars with Jiangzhou license plates parked next to him, and there were a few bald or tattooed people around him. I don't know why.
This time I came alone." The old man said.
"Oh?" Qiao Liang's heart moved again, "Uncle, how do you know he came alone?"
"On the day of his accident, I came back from herding sheep and passed by here. I happened to see him. He was sitting on the shore fishing alone."
"Are you sure there is no one around him?" Qiao Liang asked, taking out a cigarette and handing it to the old man.
The old man lit up his cigarette and took two puffs, then thought for a moment: "He was indeed alone at the time, but after I drove the sheep there, an unlicensed car drove over. I looked back and saw that the car was parked at the place where he was fishing.
Come down, two people got off the car and walked over. They seemed to be familiar with each other and even said hello."
"Then what?" Lu Qian's eyes lit up.
"Then..." the old man took another puff of cigarette, "then I drove the sheep away. When we were approaching the entrance of our village, the unbranded car passed me again and headed towards Jiangzhou."
"Uncle, did you see clearly what the two people who got out of the car looked like?" Lu Qian asked next.
